skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you. No mention of prosecutions in that article. Perhaps many of the people who were in charge are no longer alive, but perhaps some still there. There's no mention of it that I see.
Isn't this it? https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-...
Re superconductor, asked my old Princeton buddy, now a materials prof at NYU
I've actually experienced this. I was diagnosed bipolar after a rather severe psychotic break. Up to that point I had defined my life as being a terrible person striving to become better.

Medication very quickly showed me I was not a terrible person, but that I was suffering severely from mania and even more dangerous paranoia.

As I stabilized, everything that defined me was stripped away, leaving an empty husk. I very quickly realized as traumatic at this was, it was a start to healing and an enormous opportunity. During that process, I got to choose who I would become.

Now, a few years later, I'm happy with who I am and plan to keep improving. Medication has allowed me to sit down and focus on creative things instead of being overwhelmed and scared all the time.
What's the "A?"
yeah, I thought about mentioning that it's kind of rude to lock that data behind AWS or Azure accounts, but realistically no one can be surprised that Big Cloud Providers want people to use more big cloud services

There's nothing stopping either AWS or Azure from granting `s3:Get` and `s3:List` on those buckets to enable unauthenticated reads, if they were thus interested
Reminds me of the book How to Make Yourself Miserable by Greenburg and Jacobs.

They don't care why you want to be miserable, ("Perhaps you thought of spraying Black Flag on your father's Cheerios."), they just tell you how.
But the fear of revolution might make the surviving oligarchs in neighbouring polities think twice.

'Pour encourager les autres', and all that.
This is true, but as in many areas, power laws apply. The vast majority of research has very low impact and mostly serves fulfilling publication quotas. There is likely plenty of scientific fraud happening in lower tier publications as well, but no one notices because no one cares.
Is the "Lab Leak Cover-up" still considered a conspiracy theory or has than been moved over to the "actually... it's true" category now? I can't keep track of all of this.
> As far as opioids and meth go, making them illegal has been an abject failure

Because the emphasis has been on punishment not on treatment as a health problem. They have to be illegal if you want to be able to involuntarily hospitalize the users. Dealers of the addictive drugs should be punished (if they're not users and thus not addicted - if they're dealer/users they need to go through treatment first, punishment later if they continue to deal).

If you live in the PDX area I don't need to tell you that our current system which relies on voluntarily submitting to treatment isn't working. Yes, mental illness plays a part, but in many cases it's tough to tell which came first: the mental illness or the drug use - the drug use makes the mental illness worse and the mental illness often leads to more drug use.
Technically, “non-human” bodies and technology that can “turn us into a charcoal briquette” precisely describes Laika of Sputnik II fame.

We also did have flying saucers in the 50s, but they kind of sucked compared to helicopters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar
Simply put, republicans.
That proves nothing though. US Government data is so siloed it’s possible Snowden would not have access to UFO info even if he had access to essentially everything the NSA had access to.
Rational decisions demand access to all necessary information. Thus one might ask if the impairment described is restricted purely to bumblebees? Do we know? What is it that's so special about bumblebees as against other organisms such that they would be immune to 'just a chemical'?
Search placement ads stay with search. Ads people can put on their own page go with the new company that is broken off.
Was this person tortured? "Details emerge about restrained jail inmate who went 32 hours without food". https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-inmate-handcuff...

Should the people involved be prosecuted for torture?

To be clear, I think it is a clear violation of their 8th amendment right.

Here's a lawsuit where the jail wasn't providing enough food. https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Lawsuit-says-jail-s... . The class action lawsuit is settled, at https://dailygazette.com/2020/07/23/montgomery-county-agrees... . The county denies any wrongdoing.

Even if you think it was torture, I wonder if the prisoners did. The complaint at https://clearinghouse-umich-production.s3.amazonaws.com/medi... says "A more abusive and inhumane environment is difficult to imagine" but does not use the word torture.

Or, from https://interrogatingjustice.org/prisons/historic-winter-sto... :

> More than 1,000 women in one medical prison endured days without heat. Temperatures inside FMC Carswell the facility dropped to 50 degrees. The prison is the only medical facility for women in the entire country, and it houses prisoners with severe health problems. To make matters worse, staff failed to properly secure water supplies, leading to a water shortage inside the jail. Ahead of the storm, correctional officers did not repair damaged heating systems or secure a generator to make sure essential medical equipment had power. Though the prison never officially lost power, prisoners struggled in the extreme temperatures.

Were they being tortured?

Or, "The Big Chill - I had never been locked up before. No one told me that prison would be so cold." https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/11/29/the-big-chill .

Are those prisoners being tortured? Or is this part of the "pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in, or incidental to, lawful sanctions" the United Nations Convention Against Torture specifically excludes?

I found https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/1998/feb/15/cold-cell-v... saying "The court noted that "cold temperatures need not imminently threaten inmates' health to violate the eighth amendment. Thus, Dixon's claim that his cell was so cold he could not write a letter or do legal work, was sufficient, without more, for eighth amendment purposes."

This sounds like a cold cell can be a violation of the 8th amendment, even without involving torture or extreme health problems.

That's why I don't want to say that this short description of the events of 1700s is enough to conclude it was likely also torture.
> allowing for children to be taken based on political ideals

Could you clarify this?
No, corruption arises when people lose faith in the system and its rules. Using harsh punishments doesn't work, if some people can pull strings with acquaintances to get themselves out of trouble. A system where every infraction has a minor punishment can work without corruption, if everyone believes everyone else will act honestly.
A copywriter swindled victims out of $200M by pretending to be a psychic
A lot of what is known about the T-U design is because of some clever social engineering.

I think I've only ever seen one quantitative book that deals with the minutiae of a nuclear bomb (in a book about explosives, will link it)
Code is law. The issuer of tokens backing rwas should be able to figure this out and reissue.
Any advice for mobile gpus? I'm interested in getting a laptop (preferably in the portable category). Obviously it's not going to be in 4090 territory, that's a tradeoff I'm willing to make.
Sure; for one thing, there is no biological concept of race. So we should only be talking about ethnicity and cultures, and not about "race" at all, as it isn't a term with meaning.
Delivered almost 3 releases ago.
Some companies saw this issue by providing a read only client. The users can open files that they created but are not able to modify them without a subscription.

By the way, if you are on Apple ecosystem, I recently tried the newly included Apple tool, Freeform, and found it to be surprisingly capable.
I'm really excited about this. Gnome already fits my needs nicely, but the changes this article suggests would make the experience even smoother. A lot of the comments here seem to be from people who don't prefer Gnome in the first place.
And their resurgence with AI and Google’s web integrity thing

The web is just TV3.0, reserved for acceptable political and commercial content now. Eh I’m done with that; switching off to all of it. Will stick to internet for job and not use it on my personal desktop, just phone.

Copyright rent seekers can do something useful for humanity or stick to making it about “the art” and perform local theatre
Staying ahead of the AMD vulnerability known as “Zenbleed”
Any policy that doesn't include raising the cost of driving might as well be useless. And I bet the vast majority of people don't want that.
Yes, it's now been released
macOS manages both apps and windows. A lot of the things it does do make sense if you follow the original paradigm from the ground up. Unfortunately, most platforms copying ideas from macOS only do so from the surface, and the effect usually ends up half-assed.

Want a good idea to copy?

Ctrl-C in the terminal should copy text when something is selected, and send interrupt otherwise. In the macOS Terminal, you can rebind Copy from Cmd-C to Ctrl-C; when you do so, this is what happens. I will pledge my unending loyalty to the first terminal emulator on X11/Wayland that can implement this - I've tried over a dozen and none of them do.
It is your opinion that your filters and methods for discerning truth or value are correct. But you think they are the method. We disagree about the methods obviously.

Because we disagree you think there's something wrong with my critical thinking and that I'm unaware of biases. But are you aware of your own?

Typically what we criticize in others is what we fear about ourselves.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.16570
Trump would have done so. It would have been impossible for him to keep a secret. His need to stroke his own ego wouldn’t allow it.

When Trump ended his term without once mentioning aliens, that’s when I was certain all of this was hogwash.

Are there maybe very advanced aircraft out there we should be aware of? Certainly. But it’s definitely not aliens without hard af evidence.
Captcha providers can't rely exclusively on mouse movement because of accessibility considerations, and it seems pretty easy to emulate human-like keyboard interaction. Emulating realistic mouse movement is more difficult but probably doable too.
> US Government data is so siloed

The classified stuff wasn’t really that siloed. He had access to everything CIA, DIA, NSA, etc. He talked about this in his book. Searching for evidence of aliens was one of the first things he did when he got access.
Right, like what would be their motivation for exclusively interacting with governments rather than, say, landing in Times Square?

I guess a counter thought would be that they haven't actually tried to interact with anyone at all, maybe only observe, but the armed forces/governments are the only element of our species with the ability to detect and retrieve them when they make mistakes.
> Cloud deployment and CI/CD and networking and all that stuff absolutely matter, and must be done right to avoid a world of pain, but often it's largely a one-time setup

In my experience, this is not true. At any large company with thousands of engineers hammering the CI/CD/development thingys, a CI/CD failure is an incident unto itself. And it often requires A LOT of maintenance.

And you can't just offload it to gitlab or whatver because you WILL need to build abstractions over it.

What I have found particularly infuriating is large companies with billions of dollars in revenue choose to completely ignore the productivity decline that comes from poor CI/CD, and then demand faster work from engineers who are hamstrung by poor infrastructure.
I thought Matt Walker did a lot of research on caffeine + sleep. He runs the sleep lab at UC Berkeley and published "Why We Sleep".
If you look at the 2013 design of the ARC fusion reactor concept (a high field tokamak), most of the mass of the reactor is the steel structure needed to resist the JxB forces from the magnets. This will be needed even if the magnets are made of room temperature resublimated unobtainium.
https://archive.is/0OFLF
It does affect bots creating social media content.
Bad Apple Font
You seem to be getting the IPCC confused with your neighbourhood church.
> because the biggest segments of society that want impossible-to-censor are also the worst.

This is not true, this is slander. Child pornographers use whatever is available to them. Censors, however, spend all of their time trying to associate people who wish to speak, listen, and associate freely with child pornographers.
The article talks about how you can start building a relatively small online presence that can give you a leg up in job interviews. It doesn't say that any kind of online presence will do that.

To offer an extreme example, if someone were to put up a website that advocates for child cannibalism, and then didn't get a tech job as a result, I don't think it'd be credible for them to say that their website refutes this article's point.

As an aside, your comment that any work environment that might object to your views must be "sterile" is yet another piece of supporting evidence for why you might have trouble finding a job.
No, this is just "doing your own thing in a way that doesn't affect anyone else, and allows you to gather data to cite when designing the standard."
I think saying that SpaceX is somehow "containing" the nutty stuff in a way that Twitter is not isn't all that accurate.

SpaceX does tons of nutty stuff, some of it turns out to be good, and that's how they have their 10+ year technology lead on most of the world. In the early days this was stuff like using shears to roughly trim an engine bell in the field.

Nowadays it's stuff like attempting to catch rockets with giant arms to avoid putting landing legs on them, stacking satellites held together with a simple bar and just spinning to release, replacing the concrete underneath the launch pad with a giant water cooled steel plate to deal with the effect of the engine exhaust and so on.

SpaceX as an organization encourages some amount of nutty creativity since, especially in aerospace, a lot of dumb sounding but potentially good ideas tend to get shot down because the old guys are used to doing things a certain way.
What you say is true but now they do have some competition from SpaceX. If we make other companies that can compete with Boeing we can at least have price competition which is really the only thing that is needed.

Boeing though has so many government contracts that are used so often for other projects you can’t shut down so you are correct.
Those designs aren’t even modern though are they? Plus there’s a whole host of logistics and operations knowledge at scale around nuclear weapons that are highly classified and not known.
No. From what I’ve gathered was trained on human anatomy, but not straight up porn. What they tried for 2.0/2.1 was way too overdone, to the point where if I prompted “princess Zelda,” the generation would only look mildly like her. Presumably they just didn’t have many images of people in the training. 1.5 and SDXL both work fine of that front.

Fine tuners will quickly take it further, if that’s what you’re after.
It's pretty obvious what to make of it. The guy is an attention seeking nut, and it's a huge waste of time.
>That link is about users. You're misapplying its lesson if you're using it to justify not answering a developer's development question.

Why do you think "users" is an inaccurate description of the role question askers have on a developer Q&A board?

Put another way - when was the last time you used a development tool, or a library, or some other resource, and sat down to read the full documentation of it? I would posit that that's very rare as an activity, even for developers who need to develop a deep understanding of what they're using.

It's much more common to learn by doing, and the limit of that learning is very often what the developer can't do. Answers which easily enable developers to do something are overwhelmingly likely to lead to developers doing that thing - much in the same way that a long page of library documentation which gives an example is likely to lead to developers repeating that example, even if at the end of the docs, there's a little caveat saying that you shouldn't follow the example for so-and-so reason.

>If some newbie makes a mistake, that's their responsibility (and a learning experience for them).

But is it a good experience? Sure, maybe they'll learn that they always have to read the whole answer before they use any part of it. But we sensibly have abandoned this no-guardrails approach to teaching in almost every arena where it's been used, because it's not really suited to the way people do things in real life - and in real life, people often end up affecting others with their mistakes.

Does junior developer who learns how to glue SQL strings together in their favourite programming language, and makes the "small mistake" of not learning anything about SQL injection in the process, benefit from the learning experience when they cause a data leak? Do their customers? Or should the learning resources they access maybe use the pedagogical tools available to make sure those kinds of mistakes are really hard to make, even if it occasionally inconveniences a seasoned pro?
It's extremely unlikely that Edward Snowden had access to "almost everything classified".
One of the worst aspects of specialization of the workforce (hard skills) has been the complete lack of focus on developing management and leadership (soft skills).
Is there a place to read more about this claim that Snowden had access to "almost everything classified"?
I think you're wrong because I stream on Twitch using Linux.
I see a therapy chatbot in your child's future...
If they did reverse engineer these UFOs, they must have kept it very secret from the NASA SLS team, and EVERYONE at Boeing. If they secretly gave it all to spaceX then maybe we get a _slightly_ compelling argument…
Yes you're right, there are very talented companies, but that's actually what the OP has been saying... These companies exist because of the language. No language is perfect but Solidity is very imperfect to say the least

These challenges are very interesting https://ethernaut.openzeppelin.com/. The thing is, almost none of these hacks could be possible, if Solidity would be better
> outside of very strict circumstances or court orders.

Which is why I'm saying the highly addictive drugs need to be illegal - a court can then order treatment.
Many people from the government and from the military are putting their reputation and career (and maybe safety) on the line to bring these informations to the public.

Let’s at least recognize that before automatically casting doubt.
It feels like it is. We even have jokes like the ballmer peak
I think this is a very minor downside of this style of construction.

Another aspect is that repairability of the frame isn’t as important as preventing injury to the occupants.

You know what’s more expensive than a totaled $18,500 vehicle? Hospital bills.
> and you all were quiet as a mouse as well, with HN actively defending Apple Safari monopoly with this feature enabled

Citation? To be sure, there was not universal outrage over Safari's attestation implementation, but out of curiosity I looked up the only thread I was aware of, in part because I couldn't remember what my reaction was at the time. That thread was a year ago and the overwhelming sentiment of the comments section is critical: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31751203

Here were my comments at the time:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752980

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31753257

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752431

They're less forceful than they are now with Google, partially because I know more now about how attestation works than I did over a year ago, and partially because (as some people have also pointed out) Chrome's implementation is straightforwardly more dangerous than Apple's is.

But HN "actively defending" Safari? That's not the impression I get from the overall comment section and it's definitely not what I personally was doing. There are a lot of people in these comments calling Apple's implementation DRM. So I'm a little skeptical of the "nobody on HN cared about this with Safari" narrative that has sprung up; from what I can see media coverage was fairly positive, but people on HN were rightly critical. I'm not sure the facts match the narrative: Safari was criticized for this.

It's a fair critique that there wasn't a coordinated attempt to outright stop Apple, but I would once again remind everyone that attestation in Chrome is way more dangerous than attestation in iOS. The market matters, that's not context that can be ignored. So it's not really all that weird to me that people are more willing to react more strongly to abusive behavior in Chrome.
Even a personal "drone" flying saucer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiller_VZ-1_Pawnee
Given Snowden and the discord kid maybe it's not
I'm actually a big fan of firefly. It has a different kind of style from the others, presumably due to its training dataset?
> I know plenty of church going Catholics who are happy to talk about gay marriage, animal rights, and abortion, and they aren't conversations that anyone is going to call "progressive"

I grew up as a Roman Catholic & studied it's history, including the schism from the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church centralized it's authority to the head of the Church of Rome (the Pope) while the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church kept the more decentralized governance structure of synods of churches & the founding theology from the Council of Nicaea commissioned by Emperor Constantine in AD 325.

The Roman Catholic Church is an Imperial Church, founded by the Council of Nicaea during the reign of Constantine that later consolidated influence to a single prominent urban area...Rome. The Roman Catholic Church "innovated" it's theology over ~1700 years while the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church strove to stay true to the original theology.

With that being said, I would consider the Roman Catholic Church to have urban imperial tenancies & was among the major centers of power from it's founding, through the middle ages, to current times.

Also note that "progressive" is a comparative term of progression...meaning it is compared against current norms. As the norms change, the definition of "progressive" changes. A large institution such as the Roman Catholic Church has inertia & will usually not be at the vanguard of the current form "progressive" ideology. There are elements of vanguard progressivism within the Roman Catholic Church, but that is counterbalanced by others in the institution.
It depends, better comparison would be the test drive where you acquire your license (sry, can't find the word, not a native speaker).

Since it's about exams, right?
I'd say, at school tolerance is appropriate, but at university deliberate and definite cheating justifies at least being recorded like a triple-fail at that particular exam IMO. Which in Europe, AfAIK would mean being "expelled" from your main course if it's a mandatory exam.

Not sure if all the details are right but I am all for harsh penalties for certain kinds or cheating in high-stakes situations.

With "high stakes", I particularly mean things like university exams or scientifc publications, not every violation of the ethical and/or formal rule sets of society in general.

Another example would be a physician who was caught doing something that intentionally and significantly violates the rule set for physicians, endangering his patients: it's not negligience, it's malicious.