skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are not reading that right. We are not executing them in the literal sense but people's lives are being ruined.

I didn’t suggest that my reading was that they are being executed in the literal sense. I was saying that my reading was that what’s happening to scientists is only a little bit better than literal execution—and because I found that reading so surprising, I asked if that was correct.

> One of the bits that made it into the guidelines is that if there are multiple explanations for a comment that you're supposed to go with the stronger one. You seem to have picked the wrong interpretation on purpose. Please don't do that.

Seems to me there’s a bit of hypocrisy going on here. I literally asked if my reading of it was correct. For you to say that I purposely picked a wrong interpretation (though I’m not sure your explanation suggests that my actual interpretation was wrong) would seem to mean that you think my question was insincere—that I wasn’t actually wanting to know if my interpretation of it was correct. That’s fine, but you had the choice of believing I was being sincere or that I was being insincere. Did you pick the “stronger”?

And to be clear, I’m generally on your side with regard to your overall point. The trend over the last decade or more of people attacking scientists who dare find results that conflict with their politics makes me furious.
cf. Flavin 2023: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/a...

Among other things:

> The beer in these accounts was graded with the nomenclature typical of the period. Historians generally identify three main strengths of beer in accounts and brewing instructions: ‘strong beer’, perhaps with a particular seasonal association like ‘October’ or ‘March’; ‘ordinary’ or ‘household’ beer; and ‘small’ beer. Within these categories, there was variation in quality and strength, and a tendency for types to overlap. Names also varied over time. While such issues make estimating the relative amounts of each type produced difficult, there are indications that ordinary beer was the most consumed overall, particularly by the working classes. This is confirmed by the Irish accounts. At Dublin Castle, household production focused on two kinds, strong and ordinary, of which far more was drunk of the latter. In the yearly account for 1574, only 13 per cent of beer consumed was strong. Other years showed similar values.
‘Attenzione, Pickpocket ’ a TikTok Star Watches Out for Tourists in Italy
The only thing I look at with amazon is how you'd break it up?

I think its obvious that Amazon is a company with an market position allowing it to exercise unreasonable control over its markets.
Under Fuchsia, the system wears a headset to operate you!
> people talking/singing in a language I even partially understand to be highly disruptive

That's readily addressed:

Luritja: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSJmwEZhLp8

Djambarrpuynu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lmZXAdSMQI

Kuanua: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdvNFKL8h2U

If you're looking for patterned music to keep the world at bay you might look to composers like Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Wim Mertens, etc.

eg:

Music for 18 Musicians - Steve Reich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXJWO2FQ16c
^ this is typical for US founding engineer
> An equally important question to ask is, who is ultimately allowed to control their living environment, i.e. their land, house, and property?

Society is. This is literally the basis of society--we reach consensus (in some fashion, even consensus is dictated), and abide by the laws.

There's this weird attitude in the united states, something along the lines of, "well this property is mine, ergo, i can do whatever the hell i want with it." It's weird because it's actually unfounded. Maybe more true in rural areas. The use of land has always been governed. And the more humans that are nearby, the more governance and consideration of your neighbours there must be.

I actually hold no opinion on the 'correct' way to govern land use, other than to point out that maybe the reason it's hard to change the character of the city is because it was done so intentionally.

Thankfully we have a way to get progressive permitting done with you having to perform your civic duties on a tuesday afternoon! it's called voting. And perhaps if there's not enough votes to install leaders with progressive permitting views, then perhaps it is not a prevalent view.

edit: Fascinating I'm getting downvoted, I wish people would explain other than 'I don't like the words you're saying'.
The article talks quite a bit about this.
Well there’s alcoholic and functional alcoholic. There are actually functional heroin users too, but it’s taboo to mention it because one hit and you’re dead according to the media.
Don't forget the biggest corporate takeover of them all: HTML, which is now effectively owned by Apple, Google, and Microsoft via WHATWG and their web browser dominance.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36854114 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862494
Sure, no problem :)

I work in research, so I understand that it is very important to keep in mind the limits imposed by nature itself. Heck, I had more than one argument with idiot bosses who wanted to break the laws of physics or maths...
No doubt the project generated some interesting research and was pushing the boundaries, but its an explanation as to how a smart speaker OS could take 400 developers.
The reason is pretty obvious and doesn't require any kind of conspiracy.

Nuclear can be done safely, we know this, because every single time there has been an accident it's because an operator did something wrong.
The problem is that nobody has yet designed a reactor that a sufficiently amoral operator could not make unsafe. Even if you have completely automatic and passive safety features, a bad operator could disable them if a false positive happens even once and costs them money.

For this reason nuclear has a LOT of regulation and red tape. It has far more than any other kind of energy, because even though the risk of accident is low the outcome of an accident is worse than any other kind of energy except hydro. Hydro has fewer things that can go wrong that are cheaper to check however, so regulations there tend to not be as expensive.
Thanks so much for joining this conversation, I’m a big fan of your work! Years before I joined any social network, the Remote Lounge already had me thinking about online sharing, consent, and the future of the web.

I’d really like To know how your experience working on The Remote Lounge affected the way you viewed the rise of Web 2.0 and the way we share our lives online.
Thats any era, honestly.

While I think we might have too much choice now, I think moving back to a 1600 level of choice (and inequality spread) would make me miserable personally. Also, I like not dying at 35 (am over 35 now).
This is actually run my computer, with a fedora-silverblue based image but my CLI is running alpine images.

So I made a little kit so anyone can do this on any linux so you can try all the cool stuff in there without the downsides of running a less popular configuration on the bare metal.

And since it's Alpine it's always a fast download vs. a heavier container.

https://github.com/ublue-os/boxkit
> how you'd break it up?

For starters, separate AWS from retail/logistics. (There is something loosely analogous to dumping in a high-margin business entering a low-margin trade.)
If it's anything like my child's school district, the point of these devices has nothing to do with learning computing, they're for access to google docs/slides/classroom for homework. For some students it's their only tool for online research.

They're centrally managed by the school district's IT department, and I imagine if they are unable to be serviced it may be difficult to keep them managed for both school and software policy reasons.
Umm, the epicenter of wild chicken biodiversity is not within modern or historic Indian borders, as far as the science can tell. It is in Myanmar, well beyond the range of direct subcontinental rule (excepting perhaps the British period). What exactly are you arguing? It is unclear from your statements.
The best way would be to learn to farm them. There's a reason there are more chickens on planet Earth than there are alligators or wombats. And it's very much the opposite of "leaving the chickens alone".
My only suggestion would be to make it obvious that you need to preview before you can download the PDF. I thought it was broken.

Even just a tooltip would help
As someone who doesn't follow superconductors, what sorts of things about life/engineering/society would change, how dramatic would it be, and more importantly: which stocks would you pick :)
“Quantum” Doesn't Solve Anything for Cybersecurity
This right here is the real truth of the matter. We didn't have to give up a ton of comfort (if we'd taken this seriously enough decades ago when we should have), although now that we've put it off as long as we have, we're all gonna give up a ton of comforts before it's over, and there's no avoiding it now. This is the result of us allowing our "leaders" (and their corporate owners) to run rampant doing as they please for far too long, and it's now likely much too late to avoid the worst possible outcome. I have zero faith that humanity will try to "go out with some dignity".
You left out Prime Shipping. There is nothing comparable to Prime Shipping.
coughlong term waste storage and cleanupcough
It leads to straightedge and bad music. …and violence/fighting somehow too.
Beijing area wise is actually mostly rural, just a bit are dense suburbs and then of course anything inside the fifth ring road that we actually consider core Beijing. Think of Beijing as being a small state that consists of multiple counties, most of which are either mountains or farms.

Chongqing is even more rural with a bunch of small cities dispersed throughout, it isn’t really a single city with 39 million people.

Anyways. If someone has figured out self driving cars for chaotic (core) Beijing traffic, I don’t think any other city would pose that technology any problems.
I found a Wikipedia article about the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_computing

Turns out that some research groups have already built superconducting CPU, albeit tiny ones.
> They were all separate, and that seems crazy and inefficient.

From an organizational-design perspective: That's the whole point.

Decentralization means they can all move more quickly — each team can cater to the needs of its local customers. In moving quickly and solving local problems, they end up repeating some work. That's the price of velocity. Good local leaders should counter-balance this by creating informal forums for idea exchange and cross-pollination.

Sadly, overly-ambitious office-politicians see this happening, flag it as "inefficient," and roll the headcount up into a centralized team. Centralization puts an end to all the local ideas and excitement, instead routing it through a centralized committee that "plans" and "decides" which customers are worthy of how much innovation.

In a way, this is the pendulum of life at a big company. But in another way... this pursuit of "efficiency" sure seems like it explains a lot of why Google moves so slowly.
hmmm. This is what you are talking about.
https://youtu.be/TlD12QObooc?t=420
does this matter at all to customers? i assumed fucscia is just some IP/vendor lock in play but I might just be cynical since i dont know the details
God if AI could solve the problem of having to talk to customers for your startup, that would be amazing.
Ask HN: Which is your favorite blog post of all time?
Nothing insane. Its insane to expect a specific company to change its policies for your preferences.

The way it is now some companies are remote others are not. They have different benefits. But what you want to do is strong arm everybody to do it your way.

Some of us don’t want to work remote and don’t want to deal with those who do work remote.

The way it is now allows me to work at companies that don’t offer remote and for you to work at companies that do offer remote.

People demanding remote work by force with unions are basically the lady who wanes to apply Safeway and target coupons at Walmart.
If you didn't know, pasteurization is a specific process of preserving food by heating it to a certain temperature. Not sure if there's a good substitute for that word in the way you're using it though (technically alcohol is distilled, but it's not distilled water like one would normally think of it. it's not really "purified" either. hmm)
+1 for read-only access
I suppose that checks out. It slows digestion, so among some it slows it too much. I wonder what the mechanism is for it to keep going. I would have expected a rebound.
The 7b parameter one so not one of the larger ones
DCL to my eyes at least clearly inherited some ideas from TOPS-20.

cmd for all of its braindead nature is surprisingly usable for complex tasks though. I have to use it often, tbh.
Gin was a particular problem in 18th-century London: https://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item105855.html plus https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/article/36/5/401/233726 for some societal context (gin was cheaper and the economy was shit).
In the end I bought a Hermes Baby typewriter and got a tactile writing experience.
Chromebooks are mostly cheap laptops with unusual keyboards, and can run ChromeOS Flex if you open them up to remove the write protect screw and enable uefi booting (might need/want to update the uefi partition in the firmware, too)
>difference between a character and a glyph and a rune

What is the difference?
This specific drug was actually lauded on here a few months ago by a happy user who said it helped him with other cravings unrelated to food
I couldn't disagree with you more. That employees must work (yes, this is work by your own admission) outside working hours is at the very least ironic. It's an insidious form of exploitation.

Team building happens by relying on each other while doing your actual jobs. That is the extent of a relationship needed among colleagues in a professional context.
Those who think fucsia is just a smart speaker OS does not understand the full picture. It's research on a future OS which can run anywhere
“These drugs” referred to the class of drugs, GLP1s, which have been around for much longer. Victoza was approved in 2010 (liraglutide) and Byetta in 2005. It’s clickbait because it’s trying desperately to paint a narrative that these drugs were rushed to market and that they’re unsafe.

The narrative plays well to the general public because it’s a weight loss drug, which is seen as vain/ non-virtuous (even though it is, indeed, healthier to live life at a more modest BMI than most the population currently has).

If this were not clickbait they would be focused on breaking a new story, but there’s no story to be had, just “out of the millions of people who have taken this drug, we were able to find 2 that are less than shining examples of wellness”.
I don't know how Amazon employees could refute anything like this with confidence.

There is no way of knowing whether a small NDA-gagged analytics team exists inside Amazon that is constantly feeding the C-suit fresh data about competitors and investment opportunities based on AWS data.
Thats where I'd go first - but I think it's also worthwhile to break the shopping side of the business up to, into amazon eCommerce platform, amazon the seller of goods, Amazon logistics, and amazon fulfillment services as well - that would still leave a bag of leftover parts and businesses.
That seems like a restrictive binary. Are there not other entities which generate text? What if a gorilla uses ASL that is transcribed? ELIZA could generate text, after a fashion, as a precursor to LLM. It seems like there's a number of automated processes that could take data and generate text, sort of, like weather reports, no?

So I think the only thing a mythical detector could determine would be LLM, or non-LLM, and let us take it from there. But detectors are bunk; I've had first-hand experience with that.
Ya, I don’t see Amazon getting out of unemployment in this case. But they can fire at will employees, even if their unemployment premiums will go up as a result, they don’t have to worry about lawsuits otherwise. It still sucks for the employee being dismissed even if they qualify for unemployment.
ah shit, I should have looked up if beer itself is pasteurized. So-and-so Pasteur himself invented the process for beer and ale specifically (albeit around 1870, so before then I would be right)
and grocery/fresh food delivery.

and then maybe put the streaming services and media production into it's own entity.

you could even split kindle+audible out, too.
> head of such an agency can be given authority to act without consulting congress

No, they can't. Congress isn't sovereign, but it isn't bound by any prior Congress. You could create an exception to parliamentary procedure for the agency, like we do for e.g. CBO, a legislative agency, but it wouldn't be able to actually do anything.

> the same manner that the current FTC does not need to ask for presidential approval

The FTC was created as an independent agency by the FTCA of 1914. A law passed by the Congress and signed by the President. It exercises Article II powers freely and limited Article I rule-making powers delegated to it by the Congress.

When the FTC takes executive action, it does so as an independent agency. When it invokes its rule-making authority, it's subject to all manner of checks and balances, from the President through the courts all the way to the Congress. Inverting that makes the agency useless. It would have rule-making authority similar to the Congress (i.e. subject to full passage and Presidential veto) but none of the executive powers.

I'll admit, this is one of the more creative ways of de-fanging an unpopular agency that I've seen. (I still can't tell if it's parody criticism of Chevron.)
What about talking with somebody else about wanting to have sex with the teacher, even the whole class?

I'm asking on purpose to figure out where the line is
Raised by alcoholics during the Mad Men days so in reaction I never drank at all. My parents didn’t set a great example. I spent many an hour with a bag of library books outside bars while they boozed it up.

But I often think about the framers of the Constitution drinking vast quantities that fateful, blistering summer of 1787: http://johnjayhomestead.org/wp-content/uploads/In-the-Cups-o...

They were, and remain, literally some of the most functional human beings in history.

Fascinates me to see these two extremes in behavior.
Americans flocking to areas at high risk of fires, floods and extreme heat
With the benefit of hindsight, if the standard was done over again either a lot of unnecessary difficulties mentioned in this article should be avoided or the standard split in two. It is arguably too ambitious, too inefficient, and too unrealistic for a number of these things to be handled as recommended in all contexts. There are many examples - in operating system kernels and system programming in general, to name two.

To start with, alternative representations for the same visibly identical character should have been excluded. In the base standard all supported characters should be precomposed - no modifiers. The article points out the difficulties in something as simple (and as security critical) as determining whether two strings refer to the same visibly identical characters.

A character set that does not make that trivial is not suitable for general use in system programming or for security critical identifiers (unfortunately). It massively complicates programming in many programming languages as well, and even UTF-32 is not sufficient to remedy the problem, as the article well notes.

The inability to handle and process any arbitrary string of bytes in a universal character set is a serious problem as well. The world is complicated, and the inability to pass through incorrectly coded data, alternatively coded data, and general binary data is a major limitation with serious consequences. System code such as device drivers or filesystems typically can't deal with inefficiencies or limitations like that.

In addition, there probably should be two types of uppercase and lowercase conversions, a simple, predictable one for system programming, and a more complex one that deals with considerations in languages that do not follow the normal rules.

String collation should be done at two levels as well, a simple code point level suitable for such things as prefix matches on database indexes, and a more complex variation for applications where linguistically sensitive collation is critical.

In general trying to solve all the higher end use cases in a large body of software that do not need to deal with them, should not need to deal with them, or cannot deal with them is impractical and has exacerbated the common string processing issues we see today. A lightweight standard - perhaps a subset or profile of Unicode that supported arbitrary binary data as opaque codepoints - could be helpful in a lot of contexts.
In contrast what is your top of funnel strategy for social proof?

What would a fair review site look like?
Which are all local to their country, or depending on the point of view within close borders of their country. I wouldn't say it's the same situation.
Computer use has health side effects

Sun

Air

Cars

Electricity

Lack of universal healthcare

Industrial Development

Politicians

Life is the leading cause of death
> If you go to an interview with Goldman Sachs and mention that you are an expert in TA

The key point is that if you were a consistent expert in TA you don't need to interview anywhere. You can be a billionaire trading from home.
The concept is predicated upon the ability to create rational symbolic strings in your own mind. This of course is different from the non-symbolic instinctive desire to cry if one is hungry.

It's when these behaviors persist into adulthood, while also being amplified by the advertising industry who understands all this - and which is profoundly emotionally manipulative - that it becomes a problem.

Funny, doesn't the tech industry today get most of its money from advertising? That would explain some things.
TETRA Radio Code Encryption Has a Backdoor
Because the story is about one specific tuna, Amelia?
Oh god yes. Also, our transit agency has a driver shortage so there are less buses in the road, and their schedules are erratic, making people rely on cars more often. It is even worse than before the pandemic at this point.
What’s the best alternative for those adspend $$ in your view?
Framing Floors and Stairs with Larry Haun [video]
The trouble with the shown videos is that with a limited perspective, they do look a lot like the sort of single-camera trick that a lot of "free energy" device videos use - e.g. [1]

Fortunately if we're dealing with a real effect, this will be easily replicated and proven. But with the fixed perspective of a video, you can create a large number of apparent effects that look real in the constraints of the video format.

The biggest point in favor is that there's full reproduction instructions. I am eagerly waiting someone to try and pull this together separately.

Where I get hung up is, it's an extraordinary, world-changing claim. The standard of proof is very high (and while I could get access to a kiln, I can't get access to high pressure vacuum vessel on short notice).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnOo8jwCEJM
This what they said about Google. Google would be evil monopoly that no one can compete in Search and Ad business. An AI startup disrupted Google Search marker and made them panic and Google is falling apart in other areas as well by themselves.

So no one is too big to fail or compete.
Then how have humans ever accomplished anything?