skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like writing systems and scripts especially obscure or ancients ones. It never even dawned on me to think of my local region as I did ancient Egypt, Greece, Italy etc.

I was talking to a friend he is Mi'Kmaq here in Canada we call the people here First Nations in the USA it's Native American. He said that the Mi'Kmaq had an old writing system. I checked into it and it predates any contact with Europeans and is one of the very few writing systems by native peoples here. It's called suckerfish writing or suckerfish script the name inspired by the tracks the fish makes in sand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%EA%9E%8Ckmaw_hieroglyphic_w...
<moleman>I call EfNet a server.</moleman>
I miss when Snopes was about this sort of thing. It still is, but you have to find it amongst a lot of noise.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tree-octopus/
This is some weird data harvesting operation. There is no phone.
- I didn't want Twitter to fail. I wanted it to improve.

- I didn't want Elon Musk to fail. I wanted him to show us an innovative bold vision and excel at it.

- After seeing Elon Musk run Twitter for 9 months, I believe in a universe that makes sense, Twitter must fail. Spectacularly. Hence I want Elon Musk's Twitter to fail to confirm the universe makes sense.

I wonder how does that figure into your question and worldview.

Do you think a company that fired 80% of its employees haphazardly and then threatens to sue anyone who hires them, which owes billions in salaries, rent, bills, where the CEO makes controversial often bigoted remarks frequently, where rash decisions towards harsh censorship are attempted regularly (and currently Threads search/trends are censored, which is illegal in EU), where careless changes are made and reverted within days leaving users confused, where borderline fraud is used to promote and market subscription revenue etc. ...do you think such a company should fail? Or should it thrive?

I think it should fail. And I think it's failing. Twitter is losing billions per annum right now, and Musk can't stop the leak he opened after 9 months of stupidity. But at this scale failing is slower than we're used to and it takes a few years.
Maybe removing the word "in" from this headline would be more apt.
Isn't the mechanism for the talc -> {ovarian cancer, mesothelioma} connection much clearer and stronger though? That talc co-occurs with asbestos, which is known to be highly carcinogenic and to cause the types of cancers being encountered here. The asbestos fibers were also (allegedly) found in laboratory analysis of samples of the commercial talc powder product.
So you dont pay for any of it and then complain this is what they have to do to get views and clicks. Chicken meet egg, egg meet chicken, pot meet kettle.
0% chance this ships in November 2023.
I never said it had to be shared. Just that I think it incredibly likely that if a Naval sensor did detect the event, it would have been identified in short order. Potentially not definitively as an implosion, but that the Navy could have rapidly pinpointed the event in the data.

I am not qualified to state what was the appropriate timeline to give a public response nor it if should have been made.
Right... but I don't see how that means that it doesn't fall to the bitter lesson.

The bitter lesson is not saying that the model will always relearn the same representation as the one that has been useful to humans in the past, merely that the model will learn a better representation for the task at hand than the one hand-coded by humans.

If the model could easily learn the representation useful to humans, then it will fall to the bitter lesson because at minimum the model could easily follow our path (it's just an affine transformation to learn) and more probably will learn very different (& better) representations for itself.
In the UK it’s much worse than normal for rural areas due to chronic underfunding of social services and healthcare.

There’s too many factors to go into but the most pressing issue is that there aren’t enough care home beds available to discharge elderly patients so there’s not enough beds available in hospitals. Ambulances often have to wait long times before they can unload a patient at the hospital which ties them up - at one point ambulances had to wait over an hour on one out of ten trips nationally (thats just the stat the NHS keeps, they often wait for much longer than an hour).

Combined with population growth significantly outpacing growth in NHS budget and staffing, it’s created a perfect storm of shite.
It's just an expression of irritation towards people who contribute nothing of value to the discussion about the content of the article. "oh no I see ads on your site it sucks!" Erm, okay? Who cares? Install an ad blocker if it bothers you so much. It's faster than typing a comment on hn for greater pay off.
Please make use of the search feature, since this submission adds no further value over the exact same link submitted 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36665189

Pedantically, it also wasn't a "stale pipeline," as one can read in their own description:

> Terraform itself protects against applying a stale plan, but in this case we are creating a fresh plan + apply after each merge. The problem is not a stale plan, but rather performing a plan + apply a non-current commit.
The other comparable setups:

NvChad: https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad

AstroNvim: https://github.com/AstroNvim/AstroNvim

LunarVim: https://github.com/LunarVim/LunarVim

Never got into any of these, but I love that they showcase what's possible.
It can certainly replace _some_ pickup trucks in the same way that there is overlap between a motorcycle and bicycle for _some_ purposes.

I would happily buy a kei truck, but something like an older Toyota Tacoma is my best bet right now.
Starting to see more use of JSON Schemas in my job and can't help but think ... "we had something for this previously".
I've had similar experiences in the last few days, and it never used to make those kinds of mistakes. It could hallucinate, but it never changed topics randomly or misunderstood prompts.

I haven't checked the API side, but I hope this reduction of capabilities is only happening on the ChatGPT Plus side of things.

It's upsetting. It's like the ChatGPT 4 we had a month ago never existed. Now it can't reason itself out of a paper bag.
The portion sizes in America are astronomical for everything, including for dessert items that can be served in smaller sizes. I order the "kid" size ice cream everywhere I go and tell them to cut it in half because even the kid size is ridiculously more than it needs to be. Besides the portion sizes, every ice cream shop has the same trite flavors that are mass recycled on a seasonal basis, and very few places try to make anything in store or try different flavors. I still enjoy icream cream though, now and again, I just wish it would become more of an experience again as opposed to something to do if nothing better is on the calendar.
Not really an illness in that case.

People were cooped up for months in their homes, and angry at police for enforcing lockdowns and treating them like children. All this pent-up resentment at police needed an outlet.

Right wingers went out and protested against lockdowns and mask mandates.

While left wingers went out and protested the killing of an unarmed Black man on TV.

People needed to let loose and both sides were angry at police. (Usually right wingers support the police — except when they enforce laws they don’t like, or push around people on the Bundy ranch etc.)

In China, things were much more authoritarian (Australia was in second place, probably). But in USA people are used to FREEDOM!
In fact I see this block in my .irssi/config:

servers = (
...
{ address = "irc.efnet.net"; chatnet = "EFNet"; port = "6667"; },
...
);
You are correct. Orthogonal to the PR process is incompetence of management being unable to identify key stakeholders and communicating the urgency and importance.

It should have been some VP realizes how important this is. Gets the security folks, testing folks, Senior devs, team manager in a room and task them at figuring how how to solve this very specific problem before it impacts a layoff.

I didn’t really understand the difference between good and bad management until I had multiple different managers and VPs over a decade at different companies.

The difference between good and great is night and day once you witness an exemplary communicator who can get the right people together and give them focus.
Fair question.

Doesn't take very much planning, my kit is set up for grab and go, and the beauty of living on a long but thin island is I'm driving anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours at most to reach the mountains where the deer are, so I can get a hunt in by driving up after work, and be back early afternoon, or sometimes just by setting my alarm for 3:30am and still be back in time to make a coffee before stand-up.

But I'd especially love the moon phase on my watch because the number of times my ADHD arse has gotten excited about weather conducive to deer movement and headed off into the hills without checking the moon is too many to count, and cellphone coverage is largely nil once you hit the front ranges.

Moon-rise/moon-set are good to know for other phases, as it gives you an idea of when the red deer (generally browsers in the forest, but they come out onto the grassy river flats after the spring flush, and onto the tops from late summer onwards) are likely to move from/to their bush cover to the feeding grounds around those times. If the shooting light overlaps with the rise or set of the Moon, there's a window of opportunity.

But yeah, it's a niche use-case.

(Re: conducive weather - a good nor'west rain/windstorm for a couple of days will see them very eager to feed as they tend to stay put in thermal cover during shithouse weather, and a clear cold frosty night after a few days of a cold southerly weather pattern (cold air, clouds, rain/snow) means you'll often find them heading to clearings that catch the early morning sun, and they're a lot easier to spot then. While they're very good at standing still to avoid detection, their condensing breath in the cold air isn't, and the lateral lighting at that time of morning makes the movement of the cloud even easier to see in binos)
Apropos of anything else, J&J's handling of this has been despicable. Creating an entity specifically to pick up all of the related liabilities, picking up those liabilities and then (exact count may be wrong, but it's very close) literally filing for bankruptcy within the space of three days.

The Texas two-step, as it's called.

> In 2021, the company spun off its liabilities into a new entity called LTL Management under a strategy called the “Texas two-step.” That legal but controversial approach allows a solvent parent company to protect its assets by creating a subsidiary to hold its liabilities — and then having the new company declare bankruptcy, as LTL did just days after incorporating. Critics complain it’s an abuse of the bankruptcy system and allows companies facing massive litigation to dodge corporate responsibility.

> The Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia dismissed the bankruptcy filing in January, finding LTL was not in financial distress and had “no valid bankruptcy purpose.”

> But hours after that case was formally dismissed in April, LTL filed for bankruptcy protection again, this time with a higher settlement proposal of $8.9 billion.

The fact that this is legal is such a mockery of consumer protection law.
On one hand, I agree with you.

On the other hand, it's common sense for a photography-and-video oriented social media site to support tablets, and yet there's still no iPad Instagram app! (Although there is a minimal browser version.) From that perspective it would not surprise me if they end up staying app-only, as weird as that seems.
This is straight out of the playbook though, find out if people would actually spend money on it.

What they don't say to do , is give an actual ship date and outright lie about the timeframe.
Just do the small fixes in a different commit and do a multi-commit PR.
Social contagion is an absolutely crazy phenomenon.
And there's enough improbable animals out there it doesn't sound crazy. Shrimps that live in the desert, crabs that live on land, frogs which live in trees, lobsters and mussels and shrimps and jellyfish that live in fresh waters.
> Your data will be backed up, your backups will be restorable

Well, usually...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13620622

Pretty sure I've read similar stories more recently. Probably still better odds of successful restore with RDS than with a home-rolled setup.

But there's no substitute for verifying backups.
The stories of the shipwrecks have been coming up a lot lately because of the OceanGate expedition incident. The sad thing about the majority of these stories is that, although the ships may not have been prevented from their own doom, the lives aboard these ships were very capable of being saved.

If only there were enough lifeboats, if only the crew was more properly trained, if only the passengers took it more seriously and realized that even though these ships were built to float on water and take them across oceans, that these machines are still made of iron and steel and can be destroyed, especially by mother nature. It took thousands of lives being lost to get the proper regulations in place to ensure that minimal lives are lost. Then you look at one of the most modern shipwrecks of today.. the ones beyond the year 2000 and you see... disaster can still happen and it is often due to some type of neglect or arrogance. In other words, the ships were built to do their jobs, but the people who are operating them can still make mistakes that cost lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_maritime_disasters_in_...
I find that any IDE-type setup in vim causes vim to lose the most important thing, speed. If your movements slow down because of too many plugins, the experience is far worse than in a normal non-modal IDE.
Thanks, that sounds good. Looks like I can't edit the title for this any more now though.

I'll email the HN mods and ask them if they can do it. :)
>Micro-USB charger

In 2023?

>32GB of storage, 2GB of ram

2GB of RAM? I am sure even a strip down Android wont run smooth with 2GB.

>6.5" 720 x 1600 pixel display

If your phone aren't used for content consumption. WHY do you want a 6.5" MASSIVE display? Should't it be small? The Res suggest this is a 225PPI screen. Is it OLED or LCD? Because on a OLED 225PPI is really low due to sub pixel alignment.

Lack of Browser? Serious?

And If this had Whatsapp on it, you could at least sell it to potential ~3B user outside of USA. But without it, it is a no-go.
> In 1978, 918 people committed suicide at Jonestown

Almost certainly not; somewhat more than that died related to the cult on the day in question, but many of them, including at the compound, were murdered either outright (as occurred in the mass killing/assassination used deliberately by Jones to justify the call to suicide as the only option for his followers, painting a picture that they would otherwise be killed for their association with the act, an idea that had been carefully prepped by extensive prior indoctrination into the idea that they were targeted), or coerced into taking the poison.

But closed coercive authoritarian cults are a separate phenomenon than any that would explain the “dancing plague”.
Also there’s the ever popular ergot/mushroom conjectures for such phenomena. I think it’s a bit overused but probably partly true part of the time.
It might be good to double the price of your per-seat plan as you are likely going to cater to that customer even more and give them priority.
Sorry I didn't realize aerodrome would not be common term for anyone familiar with flying. Here's the Transport Canada (federal government) page and definition about it:

"Aerodrome: Any area of land, water (including the frozen surface thereof) or other supporting surface used or designed, prepared, equipped or set apart for use either in whole or in part for the arrival, departure, movement or servicing of aircraft and includes any buildings, installations and equipment situated thereon or associated therewith."

https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/publications/aviation-land-...
This isn't even the start of the problem. Most of Asimov's work in this area is having fun poking holes in the 3 (or more) laws.

Only someone who didn't read ~any of it and didn't think about it much would think that the 3 laws should be used uncritically.
These are still really useful in Jest/Playwright tests when you don't have an easy CSS selector or ID/class to choose from. XPath is super powerful, especially for dynamic pages/apps where the DOM isn't necessarily predictable but the relative positions of items (like a card in a list) are.
Any bored billionaires here or NGOs willing to finance a suit?
Then it simply should not have a password. If everyone who can access it is benign by definition, simply remove the access control.

Having a password implies that it provides some meaningful security. A bad lock is worse than no lock, because it will lead people to put the instrument in inappropriate places.
I dislike posts like these. They feel cheap. Also, big fan of Kagi and FastGPT so this feels a bit of a shorty thing to do to them.
> Your brain is about 3 regular bottles of water worth of mass... is so far from being consequential to the universe

And yet how much is one thinking and perceiving brain worth compared to 26 sextillion unthinking stars and 100X as many dead planets? I would say it’s priceless by comparison. The rarest gem worthy of a lot of “stress” to cherish and preserve, although personally I’m quite sanguine!
it's common knowledge that holistic health and
environmental circumstances play a major role in
whether or not an infection manifests as disease

I'm understanding the linked article thusly: Dubos wasn't disputing the facts of germ theory, as his provocative choice of titles may have suggested. He was wondering if we should pursue a host-centric approach rather than a germ-centric approach to medicine.

It is perhaps roughly comparable to (for example) you and I both agreeing that UX and backend engineering are important, but disagreeing which of them should be the primary lens through which we tackle the software development process.

In the end though, yeah, "germ theory vs. host theory" is probably kind of a moot point in 2023. Early application germ theory was basically, "how do we kill germs?" whereas I think that the last XX years of medicine have been more about the holistic interaction of germ and host.

I do not work in the medical field so I would obviously welcome more knowledgeable feedback.
> which was more abstract and less directly-commercializable

Related acecdote: Charles Townes described that after the invention of the maser, he had to make a case for Bell Labs to patent it, against some resistance. As he described it, the eventual winning phrase was: "Well, it could be used for telecomunication".
A bit off-topic, but I wonder how much Copilot/GPT cuts into the market share of editors like vim and emacs. I used emacs for the past few years, but I recently switched (back) to vscode because the Copilot integration is really good. There are a lot GPT integraton packages for other editors, but they don't come close to the deeper integration that vscode has. And of course, vscode will probably get priority treatment from Microsoft.

At this point, this is (somewhat unfortunately, I really like vim and emacs) a big selling point for vscode.
That's fair. I apologize for my tone.
> You've missed the point. The fact is, most of the US does support healthcare. That doesn't matter to the legislators. They have lobbyists convincing them to fight against any public option, they don't want to piss off their backers, or their club.

I'm not denying there's a disconnect between what americans say they want in surveys, and what legislators actually do. I am skeptical that this purely a post 1997 phenomena, as like your theory would suggest. I suspect this disconnect existed well before 1997. The oldest survey I could find on this topic was was this[1], which showed public support for federally provided healthcare at 64%. Sure, it only dates back to 2000, but barring some major national event, it's hard believe why public opinion u-turn in the years prior. Furthermore, most developed countries had public healthcare way before this. UK and France implemented public healthcare shortly after ww2. Canada had public healthcare by 1984. This wasn't something that was on the cusp of getting implemented, and the pharma industry shot it down after 1997. Public healthcare clearly wasn't something that was going to be implemented in the 90s or in the 2000s, with pharma intervention or not.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/FT_17...
Twitch is only barely viable because it does not pay a penny to the copyright holders of the games streamed on Twitch, and if those rights are handled properly, it would be a completely unsustainable business. There is a notion that streamers can promote their games by streaming them, but there is no basis for this at all. I have seen many times where streamers flock to a game that has become popular, and when the popularity of that game wanes, they move on to other games en masse. In other words, the presence of streamers only hurts the game's bottom line. Funding streamers is as silly as advertising on 4ch, so to speak.
"I always considered that size and speed were important for amateurs. But in the modern context, there's only three parameters that matter: power, power, and power."

--Chuck Moore

https://youtu.be/0PclgBd6_Zs?t=389
When you say “our model”, are you using a custom LLM for completions vs OpenAI or other LLM vendor?
OK, but this is not futurism.
What is this speed you speak of? I developed in vim for a decade, then eMacs for another decade, before finally moving to VS Code. I’ve never been as productive with vim/eMacs as I am with Code, or Visual Studio proper / XCode when I have cause to sue them.
With multimodal vocal-LLMs we’ll be able to prompt any kind of personality to the singer.

“You are a castrato who sailed with Black Beard and survived the holocaust with a degree in Klingon studies from Oxbridge…”
I'm confused - are you missing a zero?

The F150's towing capacity appears to be 5,000 to 14,000 pounds (random source: https://veteransfordtampa.com/ford-f-150-towing-capacity). You could tow a 1,300 pounds trailer with a regular car, e.g. the 2023 Ioniq 5 has 2,300 pounds of towing capacity.
A Saudi firm tapped a gusher of water in drought-stricken Arizona
“…it's easier to discuss whether it will increase consumer choice, or make entering and competing in markets easier for new companies.“

But then you also need to discuss the government power structures you need to put in place to create and implement that regulation. And when you look out ten, twenty years how that power structure will be twisted and abused.

Government always offers the same deal: grant government more power and they will solve problem X. But over time the people wielding that power change from people interested in problem X into people interested in the power. And the power is never contained to problem X.
Has anyone actually made and used one of those tests to show GPT getting worse “in the wild”?

(According to OpenAI’s own GPT4 experiments, guardrails make the AI dumber. But nobody seems to have a concrete question showing the GPT newer version responding worse than GPT older. There were a few candidates in an OpenAI forum but those turned out to just be “model makes the dumb choice X% of the time” and others got the correct output in the newer version.)