skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please provide the ToS segments that are not allowing you to express your political opinions. Feel free to provide said political opinions as well. I am open to your opinion, but not without examples.
I'm afraid to ask but… what would the McDonald's Rapture be? and McDonald's Original Sin for that matter. plus, McDonald's Salvation seems pretty straightforward to me…

regardless, the Church of McDonald's, for all of their other shortcomings as a Church, doesn't seem to fit the profile of "doom cult", so I'm not too concerned about them.
arxiv preprint discussed in the piece: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05532
OEMs only tell authorized mechanics what the codes mean. Most cars have the basic standardized OBD-II codes, and an additional much-more-useful set of codes/diagnostics that are proprietary.
This has been the case for years. You weren’t allowed to bid on any search terms related to Shopify on Google Ads. Lots of Partners did though.
That's pretty cool. The general curiosity is mutual.

I see you had to create a new account though... If it's okay to ask, what happened to the last one?
If you don't think your org is working on important problems, why are you working there and not elsewhere?

You need a job, I get it. Why are you applying to jobs you don't think are important?
Aren't social media posts a large driver of actions? Weren't they used very intentionally to misinform people on this issue? I believe social media (along with traditional media) is a large part of why we ended up where we did, with a large number of people still claiming this issue is a hoax when it very clearly is not.
And yet, the twitter files proved that was exactly what was happening, and at the behest of the US government itself.
The fact Guanaco 33B is at 65% with Vicuna 13B at 70.43% immediately makes these results non-sensical from my own experience with them.
Heck from my experience Guanaco 33B is better then Vicuna 33B!

Not to mention GPT4 at 95% and ChatGPT at 89% - I use chatgpt(3.5turbo)/gpt4 daily for work, and I rarely ever bother with 3.5turbo because of how unreliable it's answers are compared to gpt4.

So whatever this is effectively measuring is useless for comparing these models, especially across work types.
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This has been in discussion for like 10 years, long before brexit and the pandemic even. It’s just only coming to fruition now.
I have acquaintances who spout stuff like "all Christians should be killed" (would mean at least a dozen of my friends getting killed :) ) and openly go like "guys, have you thought that if we just started killing rich people, the world would become a better place and we wouldn't even have to kill all that many people". One person who was both trans and a furry complained about how people considered their existence a political matter and how that was sad. Two weeks later and they were (completely unsurprisingly) wishing for a communist revolution.

Which, as we all know, are peaceful affairs where people's freaking lives definitely aren't a political matter.

Somehow the mods of the place are ok with that but if I dissented from their politics I'd be considered less than human pretty much then and there.
If it's confirmed, people will be investigating improving the process for manufacturing LK-99 almost immediately and have some success, as well as looking into similar materials with different doping etc. It's likely that there would be at least some that also exhibit RTP superconductivity, though it's also likely they would share many of LK-99's weaknesses. Though that's all getting ahead of ourselves...
Raindrop.io seems to be better these days, plus Pinboard posts stuff like this... https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1628462667559239680
That’s implementation details, in my opinion. I reach into my pocket and talk to AI.
The sane thing to do would be to discount fingerprint evidence in any judicial (and other) proceeding.

It just doesn’t mean much when everyone has a copy of everyone else’s.
The round trip idea is unlikely to work well unless you're willing to wait awhile as the cruise ships are repositioning to handle specific seasons (e.g. Northern Europe in the summer, the Caribbean in the winter).

The exception is the Queen Mary II, which is an ocean liner that still does regular trans-Atlantics.
>> Aren't we all supposed to be friendly allies?

We are allies -- but it is not a symmetric alliance.
The difference is that there's a lot of historical precedent against what you described, so we can reasonably expect the outcome of such an idea. Could explain why it's not in vogue, though it does appear more and more popular among the young.
I guess nonposix shells are not fun since there are so few of them. Or maybe it's just me that posix shell has poor ergonomics?
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"Dont hypothesize over anything that cannot be immediatly tested otherwise it isnt science" -rcouf1z4gsc
It's strategic. Smart people are used to being praised for being smart and hate to look stupid, to the point that it becomes a reflex. It's easy for a cynical actor to frustrate and steal the time of smart people by knowingly asserting counterfactuals or adopting a posture of ignorance. Consider all those influencers and e-celebs whose profits depend on keeping their audience annoyed and in a constant state of outrage. People get addicted to that feeling and pay to be regularly provided with it.
Assuming you mean "Big Bang" in the sense of the beginning of the universe, not necessarily.

>doesn't the fact that the Big Bang happened imply that there was some kind of state-change: from Big Bang is not happening to Big Bang is happening

Language is incredibly bad at describing this because we did not develop it when such a concept as "outside of time" existed. The word "happened" is misleading you I think. If we define "something that happened" as an event with a before and after then the Big Bang did not, by that definition, "happen".

I've had it explained to me that asking "What happened before the big bang?" is akin to asking "What's north of the north pole?"
The Infowars guy is spreading propaganda that Democrats are killing children and drinking blood. That is a very thin veneer over actual Nazi propaganda.

I don't know if I have ever heard of a video with many views openly calling for genocide, but one can certainly spot those calls in the comments of those sources. That shit is coming from somewhere not far removed.
I have no use for it, but it is very neat and I love it!
Almost all the big companies you mentioned were founded 50+ years ago. When it comes to tech, yeah you can cite Spotify, but against the US big techs it's kind of cute that this is the EU's calling card. Ornikar? GitPod? Please. For each of those we could list 100, if not 1000 more successful American startups.

It's a cold, hard fact that the US has had much more successful businesses recently, particularly in tech.
This is a pretty interesting, rather unusual, and wise comment. Thank you :)
What we plan to remove in KDE Plasma 6
I was hoping to see some examples here.

My understanding on why Rails is falling a bit out of favor is that it presumes a webserver? You can get a lot of mileage with a static asset based frontend.
Years ago, I realized that blockchain tech is a solution in search of a problem, because the whole internet money thing hasn't worked out. It might turn into an asset class at some point, but it's hard for me to understand what it represents (aside from lots of math that does lots of nothing). Real estate and commodities are tangible things, and stock and bonds represent real things, too, but I'm struggling to see what Bitcoin, etc. are. Maybe something akin to forex, but forex never had the hype crypto did.
Before we can rule out quantum effects, we need to understand that nematode at least. It's quite possible that the discrete computing model is completely unfit for simulating intelligence - a possibility that many scientists are afraid to consider.
As long as it's the same when US citizens go to Europe I'm cool with this. If not, they should make it so.
Ya, those are fair points. It would be neat to charge the EVs on the ferry ride but that'd probably be a bunch of energy or weight in order to implement.
Wasn’t it also in New York where an on-duty cop watched a guy get stabbed on the subway from a few feet away and actively chose to do nothing without punishment?
No you're not. All that's required to be a naturalized US citizen is to be physically born in the U.S. Or to be born to U.S. citizen parents. They also do not do biometrics for driver's licenses. A bad, 4 year old driver license photo from the local dmv is quite different than having an international database containing irrevocable details about your physiology.

Among many lessons in history are the degree to which such details have been abused by those in power.
what is an average opinion? it is the sum of opinions which disagree with the result
The infrastructure page* says,

> at the present time it is possible — but quite unlikely — that a hardware failure would result in the Tarsnap service becoming unavailable until a new EC2 instance can be launched and the Tarsnap server code can be restarted ... So far such an outage has never occurred

I read the postmortem as that a hardware failure did cause it to be unavailable and the code could not be restarted, a new server had to be built.

If that is correct, as well as writing up learning (as Jacques mentions) this page could be updated with outage information -- or even info on changes to reduce risk of repetition.

For what it's worth, one outage of a single day in fifteen years is impressive. If my ballpark math is correct, that's 99.992% uptime, ie four nines.

* http://www.tarsnap.com/infrastructure.html
There are two maps like that and both cover short time periods, so they don't confirm any long term patterns.
Yeah this process caught me off guard during a recent repair. In my mind, the model was "Insurance company will pay what the repairs cost." How it actually works is "Insurance company will give you the cash to cover what they believe the repairs cost. If it costs more, they'll cover the difference. You are free to do anything you want with the money."

Walking away with leftover cash in your pocket is a normal and above-board part of the process if you can do the repair more cheaply/by yourself/don't get it fixed; it's not fraud.
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No one person will decide. The “market” will decide. The strong will be relieved and the weak will suffer. To get relief the weak should become strong. Unfortunately, suffering will make them weaker.

Are the currently strong going to keep the weak down, will the weak destroy the strong, will power be distributed to minimize the number of weak at the expense of the strong, or will something else entirely happen? My bet is that the strong have quite a lot longer to go getting stronger before the weak can enact meaningful change.

Also worth noting are that there is a large gap between, for example, the American weak and the global weak. The global weak will suffer more and have less avenues to enact change. Americans have the luxury of climate “debate” while Indonesia (not even a super poor country) moves its capital and while others suffer.

EDIT: To be clear, I think this situation is absolutely horrible. Based on how countries have been acting for the last couple decades though, I'm not expecting things to get better before they get much worse.
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> The question always is if we can even do something about the climate now or if we should spend the energy and resources into preparing for a potentially inevitable future.

It's usually easier to stop doing something than to deal with the consequences of doing something.

> Humans have always been champions of handling change. Why should this be different?

Humans have never faced this kind of change. It will be different because it's not just a different temperatures, it's the collapse of the ecosystem which we rely on for food.
Unfortunately, while as a Canadian I am sympathetic to your point about the obnoxiousness of US passport / border entry controls... it's not just a symmetrical tit-for-tat, as the EU has also imposed this stuff on Canadians.

In the past a passport was sufficient on both ends, as far as I understand it. Now Canadians will have to do this same thing.
If a one brick thick straight wall can't stand, then you don't have a wall you have a pile of bricks. It's pointless to consider the impractical case.
I like X and have had a good experience with X and negative information about X that conflicts with my personal experience with X may be called into question. I may even feel compelled to share my personal experience so that other people can have the same positive experience I have had.
Falsifying scientific research involving hundreds of millions of dollars is serious crime too, and yet the president of Stanford and researchers at Duke are where they are.

I have no idea what goes on at META or any other public company. I just know people have repeatedly underestimated the odds of misrepresentation in the past.
Ugh this sensationalized trash reduces the trust of the public in the science.

The reality of weather should not be reduced down to politics, yet here we are. Living in idiocracy.

We're in a strong el nino at the moment and it's not even the worst one in the last 50 years.
Ok, that's hilarious :) so many words that say absolutely nothing.
Ugh, when I was doing my PhD work we were studying creativity in an experiment, and we needed an assessment for how creative different solutions were, and trying to get inter-rater reliability on this quite simple thing was just agonizing.

I wound up abandoning the experiment because getting enough reliability would have required screwing down the standards so tightly that it would have ruined the underlying point of the thing.
If everyone involved can pivot easily enough, I'm sure it was probably a useful exercise in figuring out how to alleviate subpar product design, and getting a software project off the ground.
> lighting alone is a huge sector for unrealized power savings, in all categories.

Do you have some sources I can read about this? I find it hard to believe that large consumers of light haven't already switched to LEDs given the financial incentive to do so, and on the consumer side, the transition has already been made in most of the world that has lighting.
I would do $14 for a month's worth of access, and while I'm outside of those months, the data is read-only. This would let me spend ~$50/year for me to check in 2-3 times and make necessary adjustments to my financial plan.

When I'm outside those times, being able to do drive-by reviews of the data and/or show other people the plan that I've created (for validation/sharing the joy, etc.) sounds ideal.
It just looks like they had it easy. Or you know, knew things better.

(Added the likeliness just for this case btw)
> Ok, so what's the actionable take here?

The unthinkable yet true thing is that there isn't anything we can do to reverse or cure the situation. Best we can do is try to adapt. We're far past the tipping points. Ever heard of Collapse with a capital C?
The author set up a business in what they knew was a gray area. 6 months later the ToS were updated to explicitly ban what they were doing, and they got an email that pretty clearly implied that they would need to make major changes but wouldn't be shut down right away, but the author chose to interpret silence as authorization to keep scaling. About 8 months later Shopify's COO told them explicitly that Shopify didn't want them to keep operating, and the author used a technical detail of the way they phrased the ToS to justify continuing to scale.

At that point I lost all sympathy for the author. The COO of the company you've built your product on told you that they don't want you to keep running your business. At that point they shouldn't have to keep playing whack-a-mole with loopholes in the ToS, and the fact that they did does not speak well of the author or their company.
I’m surprised at all the comments focusing on the negative here.

I found the story inspiring: they bootstrapped a business, grew revenue, hired some people, and grew revenue further.

The founder created value and captured some of that value. The fact that the business can no longer acquire new customers is sad, but it’s only a small part of the story.

The founder’s 6 year journey is probably more interesting than what most people did at work over the past 6 years.
It's not erring on the side of the absolute best state. The EPA-rated miles represent a standardized mix of highway and city miles.

The best state would be over 600 miles [1].

It's erring on the side of consistency, as it's also representing the battery's state of charge. It would only serve to confuse users to try and guess whether the current trip is a highway or city drive, will end in the next minute or two hours from now, which way the wind will be blowing and whether or not you're driving uphill, etc. It'd just be a useless guess, instead of an at least consistent one.

If you tell it where you're going, it already gives you a great estimate, as it doe stake into account all of those factors.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/29/17405906/tesla-model-3-hy...
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You don’t get to pay the money and go away. The contempt proceeding would be used to compel him to obey.

I agree that billionaires generally enjoy a different tier of the legal system, but consider that if the House moves forward with contempt, they have to see it through. He has to obey, or be thrown in jail until he does. Because the alternative is that the House demonstrates that it does not enjoy legitimacy. Everyone will begin ignoring House subpoenas because, hey, the House doesn't enforce them. I'm pretty sure there's a few Trump-world people who tried this and it didn't go well for them?
> Now that you write about the median user being a junior with trivial needs, i realize, i barely visit SO anymore. Not sure when that happened. I used to be a power-consumer on SO. I don‘t think i have even visited SO this year at all.

Google algorithm changes have absolutely curbstomped SO visibility, probably due to third-party sites mirroring their content and making it appear to be a linkfarm to google.

It's funny how even as tech users, google is "the internet" and if something disappears off google, it's gone. Even just pushing a site down a ways in results will massively reduce the amount of traffic, even for us technical users.

There have been a lot of "monkeypatches" from users working around it, like adding "reddit" or site:reddit.com or other hints, but fundamentally google result quality has been significantly declining for 10+ years now and it's getting to the point where it no longer surfaces desirable content anymore.
> I worry that this may signal the end of the current era of explosive growth in software (both in terms of tech and money)

It's interesting that you're worried about this. I'm hoping for this. I think that the explosive growth we've seen has not been good for software, the industry, or our customers. I yearn for a return to a saner pace, where quality is valued more highly than it has been.
If only Zuck focused his attention and resources on the democratic process beyond censorship of false and misleading information...
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The difference is that there's a lot of historical precedent against what you described, so we can reasonably expect the outcome of such an idea.

Whereas we have exactly zero historical precedent to know whether or not climate change will even be a 'net plus'.

(I do know that organ redistribution would definitely be a net plus, though. We kill one person, we save the lives of N people, the calculus seems to add up to me...)
"I haven't seen any Antisemitism at all but white people are indeed being genocided," is a pretty hot take.
3. And Cyprus. Visiting US requires an embassy appointment for interview that costs 120USD or more now. Takes up to 2 weeks so quick trips are out of the question.
Would put slight caution around asking it anything more than "what should I read next about this?"

For whatever reason*, it is particularly bad at discussing philosophy I find. When I was grading philosophy 101, I would have probably given it a passing grade against the overall curve, but that's about it. Philosophy is a discipline of careful, sometimes jargoney, and always very couched assertions that can be easily misunderstood and appropriated. This is probably its greatest weakness, and in many ways this weakness is the progenitor of philosophy itself in the Western world, with Plato at the start (i.e. with the figure of the sophist, the paradox of a false wisdom).

- Maybe one reason: there is a huge amount of, lets say, "armchair philosophy" on the internet, compared to other disciplines. Many blogposts and tiny manifestos of people really excited by some out of context quote from Spinoza or whatever. And you start to really feel this part of the dataset when you ask about philosophy. Many strange takes and misunderstandings.
The original wording wasn't "doesn't want me to", it was "shouldn't be allowed to", the first of which is the same as any opinion we might have - there are lots of things I wouldn't want to be the case. "Shouldn't be allowed to" implies use of force and active action against the thing.
These makes Congress look like such a clown show. Like Fox News doesn't coordinate with conservatives?

It's complete grandstanding, and nothing more. Complete waste of time.

Regarding YouTube promoting right wing content mentioned in other comments, I haven't seen that. I watch science and space, maker and tech shows, along with live music. I have never seen what the commenters are complaining about. I get the same recommendations over and over again, which is a bit annoying. Maybe because I ignore most of the algo recommendations I'm missing something.
Elon Musk seizes X account from guy who owned it
I have noticed that if I learn how to play a song I really really like I don't feel the same about the song afterward - some of the magic is lost.
The road to Brave 1.0 (2019)
Sure, but isn't it up to EPA to fix their testing methodology to get better estimates? Why do we expect car makers to do that?
No, you argued that it has happened before, which does not imply that the fact that it is happening now is not anthropogenic this time -- which it obviously is.

If you can do work now to make "the planet getting very hot and messed up everyone's lives" take thousands of extra years, during which time it is more livable, why would you not? Obviously you would balance this against other economic and policy concerns, which everyone is, and it comes out way ahead because warming is very bad for everyone.

"It has happened in the past, therefore turn your brain off and tell everyone else to stop thinking also." is not a "realistic" approach, it's a delusional one. It doesn't involve a realistic model of the present or the future. It's profoundly unconcerned with any sort of causal model of reality that makes predictions about the future and therefore analyzes what we ought to do based on their expected outcomes.