skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>and the reporter, without evidence, also implied

This is not an accurate characterization. The author reviewed the speaker's slides, interviewed students in the lecture, and consulted with her professional network; the reporter's investigation yielded no evidence of censure-worthy content or propensity for political rants.

> We don't have any facts that would support the narrative that the government encouraged the censure or the investigation in any way.

This is not an accurate characterization. The reporter has provided information from the university's spokespeople that Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham was the one who first contacted the university's governmental relations office as well as Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. Patrick then contacted the chair of the University of Texas System’s board.

The board responded to Patrick, within 2 hours of the end of the lecture, quote: "Joy Alonzo has been placed on administrative leave pending investigation re firing her. shud [sic] be finished by end of week."

> Of course I'd change my opinion if more information comes to light.

You're not even engaging with the facts as they stand.

Occam's razor would suggest this isn't done arbitrarily. The simplest explanation for the set of facts before us is that the one student complained to mommy, who complained to the school in conjunction with Patrick. The school immediately kowtowed to this political pressure and made motions to punish the person they complained about, without any diligence whatsoever. Now that everyone is complaining, they aren't releasing the details of their censure because there aren't any.
> I can see you haven't done any of jobs like that ever in your life. "Social stigma", lmao, that shit smells

I haven't, but I didn't say that shit didn't smell. My point was that one component of why some jobs are worse than others is social stigma. Working at a fish monger or in a butchers shop stinks, and you probably get way less PPE than a sewer cleaner would. But butchers and fishmongers have less social stigma.

> It's delusional to think every job that's undesirable but necessary could be automated and that it would be cheaper than ye olde good material compensation for doing something hard/unpleasant.

The fallacy here is that it _needs_ to be cheaper. Sewer cleaning is valuable. If it requires more investment to automate so that we have enough supply to meet the demand, so be it. The only reason we haven't already automated this smelly job is because it's easier to turn a profit if you just pay people peanuts. If profit is no longer motivating, you can make vastly different decisions.
App Store was never a totally level playing field either. Amazon Prime Video got a discount on App Store fees[0]. FaceBook[1] and Uber[2] did things for which they got a slap on the wrist. If a less-important developer did that, they would have been banned from the App Store forever.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/30/21348108/apple-amazon-pri...

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-b...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/23/15399438/apple-uber-app-s...
OP, don't you mean "Most people" rather than "Few people" in the first paragraph?
Someone who isn't me is getting in touch with a computer science librarian at a top 10 university about this paper. I'll update here with whatever I (don't) learn.
If you have the choice between a cassette copy, to which people were already used to, and no copy, people would choose the cassette copy.

CDs made the source better because the sound was better than the sound of original cassettes.
“Both papers present similar measurements”

I’m not a physicist expert of superconductors, although I’ve followed quite closely that field since the ‘90s.
But if the measurements are similar and correct and if the video of lk-99 levitating above a magnet demonstrating the Meissner effect is not fake, I don’t really have an alternative explanation to account for all of that.
I guess that we’ll see what happens in the next week or two.
This is too high stakes to take longer than that for a so easily reproducible experiment.
What data leaves my iPhone?
That's not the argument I am making, I'm saying if you leave the balance sheet alone it will shrink. We don't need anyone to step in and sop anything up. I'm not opining on - nor do I really care - about future growth of the balance sheet.

Generally speaking increases in the size of the balance sheet represent flows into the economy of money. Static balance sheets, or ones that roll off over time, have little to no impact.
> Backups will also be easier: a simple rsync call will do, no need to call the specific mysql command anymore (of course it's automated but that's one less thing that can fail, less moving parts)

Technically, that's incorrect way of doing it; practically it rarely fails (as writes are usually much rarer in many cases SQLite is used, especially if you backup in the middle of the night, and format itself is pretty resilient), but you should be doing one of methods here:

https://www.sqlite.org/backup.html
sorry, thought others might also be curious since LLMs are notorious for hallucinating but fared well here.

unfortunately, cannot delete because of our comments. :(
Amazon draws in thousands to try out its AI service
I guess that's true. In my defense, your argument, and the implication that half of Israelis are just being overly "heated" and if they understood things better they would realize that the current process will leave them with a government whose checks and balances are comparable to the UK or New Zealand, is really dumb.

Like, so dumb that ideally you'd read my restatement above and have an epiphany about how dumb what you said was, and familiarize yourself with the facts. A guy can dream.
If you’re not one of the AI owners by then you’ll be screwed. Capitalism has no need for people it can’t eventually wring some value out of so it’ll just be a slow attrition of the have-nots until there are only haves.
No, it just means that the material conducts electricity without losing almost any energy through heat at that critical temperature. Heat itself is a process of energy transfer (heat itself is not energy which many people fail to recognize if they haven't studied thermodynamics thoroughly).
Steve eventually got his revenge: https://web.archive.org/web/20170615060422/https://www.apple...
I agree that extending trusted platform trust all the way up into web APIs is gross — it would be fine if the TPA club was wide open to anyone building their own OS, but that clearly will never happen and only the corporate-aligned cabal will ever be trusted, and all the free/open OSs will never be allowed to join.

But… is there scope for the attestor in WEI to be a third party site that does a super fancy “click on all the stop lights / stairs / boats” captcha, and then repurposes that captcha result for every other site? That doesn’t sound like an awful service to add to the web. It would mean each individual site no longer had to do their own captcha.

(Probably impossible without third party cookies. But then that kind of implies that if WEI does make it possible then it could be shown to provide a tracking service equivalent to third party cookies? Again, gross.)
My suggestion then is to scale down the surface area so it is a single landing page, hire someone to code that page up, and split test that against your "ugly" equivalent. I would bet that it's not the aesthetics, it might be the messaging or targeting or value prop - but all you see are the aesthetics and WYSIATI.
That's on Apple for not supporting WebM in Safari.
The problem with code monkeys is they have low social IQs. So business guys will just keep exploiting them.
I have never been able to realize the alleged ergonomic gains of containers. Ever. It always adds more friction to actually getting something initially stood up, prototyped, and deployed.

I'm guessing it may be one of these things where it only starts to make sense after something has matured enough to warrant being replicated en-masse in a data-center environment.

Then again, I tend to live in a world where I'm testing the ever-loving crap out of everything; and all that instrumentation has to go somewhere!
This is not a tech forum. I bet the tech posts are less than 50%.

How many times have you seen a post when the submitted article was scorned for not using accurate terminologies?
"During the 1980s" was removed from the title.

Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the Music Industry Waged War on the Cassette Tape During the 1980s, and Punk Bands Fought Back
How are those companies insulated from the same economic pressures that caused the big tech layoffs?

Maybe rising borrowing costs will be slower to affect consumer discretionary companies, but they will, arguably more than monopolistic big tech. Boeing is an exception because of government contracts.
Indeed, the energy cost of machine-washing glass bottles is surely an order of magnitude less than that of recycling the broken glass into new bottles. However, I don't think you can replicate that with aluminium cans. They preserve their contents better than glass bottles do, so glass bottles can't necessarily replace them. The seal of aluminium cans also breaks when they're opened, so you can't directly wash and reuse the cans.
Which is not how wordpress install is set up to work, because of both webhost and wordpress developers incompetence
Does this add impedances to the OSM street segments?
Gives the Qanon crazies on the right wing something a bit safer to chew on.
Using ublock origin I’ve started to see adds on chrome. If I click back and then forward, it skips the ads. This occurs only at the start of videos afaict.
the spammers are quite capable of buying several hundred old phones with valid attestation certificates to pump out crap
Meta to Charge Cloud Providers for AI Tech That It Said Was Free
The mere $2000 stimulus checks are nothing.

It was the billions in PPP loans that lots of people used fraudulently, including our own politicians. On top of that, it was decided they didnt need to be paid back, so people go to keep all the fancy cars, electronics and real estate they bought with it.
> the GNOME fullscreen mode mentioned in the blog post is identical

after being given a macbook pro for work, i can't stop thinking that gnome developers/designers people are just people that didn't manage to get hired by Apple, and just keep copying mac os over and over again.
The fourth amendment, of course, also applies to private actors when they become essentially agents of the state, by taking in a role traditionally within the purview of the state, so long as the state knows of the activity, more or less. If you would like a more accurate definition, you can search for “state actor doctrine” and you will find some cases about railroads drug testing employees and parcel carriers searching packages for contraband.
Or perhaps the metrics are more engineered than we realize? It is the more parsimonious explanation.
Sorry you've kind of lost me. Islam has a god and heaven as a fundamental part doesn't it? The argument is not that there's no Christian God, it's that there are no gods of any kind and the preposition of humanity to make up mythological religions for various reasons. All religions fall into this argument.
Could be Armageddon. Maybe they want a new vacation home and they are prepping the battlefield and doing some recon.
Note that we're talking primitive societies, not industrial, nor even agricultural.
That was the point of Starlink.

If the only capability is incredibly expensive and highly reliable, no demand that only works under cheaper and relaxed reliability exists.

Luckily, the market's caught up pretty quickly.
I didn't use the term "grid scale storage", I used the terms "short term storage" and "long term storage". Which were you asking about?

Short term storage is batteries.

I called long term storage "expensive" and implied that it's the 3rd step so into the future, so that opens up the options for nascent tech.

Note that you don't need much of a slope to do pumped hydro. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power...
> What do you do until then?

Sure, but you iterate. We decided as a society that Polio was awful enough that we wanted to eradicate it. If we freed up enough effort that is currently wasted on chasing profits, we could eventually get to solving problems like "shit stinks and it sucks having to clean it".
Will AI replace software engineers in the near future?
New TNS Weekly Survey Wants to Know What You Think: Generative AI has wedged itself into our workflow. Is it a threat, a useful tool, or accelerated ignorance building the latest giant ball of mud—only faster?
I have seen bags labeled as being made from recycled plastic but I don't think I've ever seen one saying it is recyclable. They are not the same thing and my trash hauler at least specifically says to not recycle plastic bags.
Wait, what? The fourth amendment only applies to tangible property?

Unless I am missing something really obvious, this is deeply mistaken. I would be very interested, for example, on your take on Carpenter v. US.
I saw an unidentified object once, gave me a really cold feeling and scared the stuffing out of my wife. For about a minute we were really wondering what the hell this thing could be:

https://imgur.com/gallery/5aOM5me
> Landfill isn't demonised. It just happens to be the worst option for most stuff.

This would be what to expand on. Without this, you have no foundation for the rest of your comment. I'll happily listen to why landfills are bad, I don't care about a bunch of motives and associations that rely on your audience already agreeing with you that landfills are bad to have any relevance.

That's how propaganda works. It often leads by assuming the question, skips right past it into invective and speculation about the opponents' evil motives and associations; then when the audience asks about the question you skipped, it turns to speculation about the audience's evil motives and associations.

Landfill isn't demonized, it's just bad! I'm not going to tell you why, though, I'm going to talk about the character of the people who disagree with me.
I don't understand why big corporations find it so hard to see that the real potential in AI is usually in augmenting, not _replacing_, human labor

Imagine how useful tools like that can be if they just had a human review process. That added step in the process not only improves the quality of the final data but provides important feedback to improve the tool itself
>Cheaper to whom? Better to whom?

The consumer at least. Probably the producer as well but I don't know as I'm not one.

Regarding your other paragraphs, you seem very bitter. Try therapy.
> Apps and frameworks should work with the lowest-common denominator of SQL.

Pointless limitation that will make your app slower and SQL code worse.

> I get physically ill when I walk into yet another Rails shop to find that they have used every cool feature of Postgres and as a result, the CI must spin up a huge postgres instance and multiple plugins just to run a single unit test. Ugh.

shrug. We (not rails shop) just create temporary database, pass it to CI test, remove after. Picking database because your CI is done badly is like one of the worst ways to decide on architecture
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. You iterate, as with everything.
Well, if you're currently writing one unit test, and want to test that test...
How would this make climate change easier to deal with? Because it would make everything that much more efficient? I'm honestly trying to understand the implications.
> The same goes for using T5-XXL

Is this still true in 2023? Sure, back in the dark ages it seemed like a 860M model is just about the limit for a regular consumer, but I don't see why we wouldn't be able to use quantized encoders; and even 30B LLMs run okay on Macbooks now.
> Imagine this...China loves to see us spend more and more on "defense", while they plan and execute things such as "The New Silk Road." While we're droning the fuck out of the Middle East, China is making friends in Africa.

if your conspiracy that the US is run by self-serving idiots then I don't know what to tell you
> And tragically, I don't remember this ever being reported in the US at the time.

It was reported. It's just those facts didn't get in the way of portraying her as a vapid attention-seeker.
All 4 of my children, in various stages of degreedness, have told me they have no hope of ever owning a home of their own like they were able to grow up in.
The DNS records for that domain are hijacked on two German ISPs' resolvers I tested, yikes. Google and Cloudflare resolvers resolve it just fine however.

canna.to. 0 IN CNAME notice.cuii.info.
notice.cuii.info. 34953 IN A 167.233.14.14
it's wechat. you really need it in china. it's practically impossible to stay in touch with most people if you don't have it. a phone that can't run wechat is pretty useless.
Descendance into the underworld occurs when the goal becomes to embrace the highest negative score as it will put the comment at the bottom extreme of the thread and neither get lost in the middle nor marked at the top of the groupthink. If down votes were to serve the purpose of hiding less useful comments, then it would be more appropriate to style the comments with colors associated with a light/dark theme and not mess with chronological order, but that would likely set off the anti-gay crowd. As an aside, the temperature is more constant further from searing gazes. Just don't get flagged as that calls the terminator hounds.
Just deleted: https://github.com/continuedev/continue/commit/eba2f57a6462f...

Neither were doing anything, we simply forgot to `npm uninstall` after (a while ago) playing around to decide which service to use. Thanks for pointing it out.
> you didn't show anything related to the dual definition of racism you claim I've given

You didn't respond to the questions in my comment [1]. No matter. Let's take this one.

Are "tribal impulses along racial lines" equivalent to believing "one racial group is inferior to or superior to another racial group in any way?" If not, wouldn't discussion be clearer if we used different terms for them?

> you are currently in denial that you have tribal impulses along racial lines

I never disputed this point? (Not the denial. I dispute that.) But implicit associations that manifest subconsciously part--this is the first time it's coming up directly. I understood that as settled psychology.

What I'm challenging is putting those implicit biases under the same word we use to describe those who intentionally and consciously believe their race is superior to others', and act on that belief.

The muddling is good for drama. Bad for actually discussing ideas. Exhibit A: this thread.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36885608
Genuine question from someone on the outside watching all of this: then who are these things for? Apparently not me, nor GP, nor my mum and dad. Are we waiting until the Smart People sort out all of these complex details to make this stuff accessible for regular people?
> Overlapping windows can get messy quickly

Yeah dude... that's one reason why the Minimize button exists on Windows, MacOS and KDE etc for so long. When you see some feature exists for this long on this many good desktop environments, you know it's too important to...say...been removed (from default setting)?

Also on the same note, Taskbar (or Dock on MacOS) is also important... It's so important that on SOME desktop environment that don't support such feature, one of it's most popular plugin is designed to restore the functionality so the users can actually enjoy the DE instead of fighting it.
Generally the broad concept I work with is “community ownership of the means of production”. What this means is that you are part owner in a cooperative of cooperatives that owns the machinery you depend upon for your well being. Of course your community trades with others and you and everyone have free choice to vote how you please and contribute as you desire. There is no “enforcement” that prevents you from accumulating more wealth but most of what you rely on is borrowed from a “things library” where you are permitted to use it indefinitely but not sell or destroy it, and in times of need the community may request that you return some items you are not using.

More broadly I would say that many people believe the current system actually does not serve people well. We have a very small portion of the society that owns the means of production and 99 percent of the population have to deal with the dictums of those owners with very little say in how production is allocated. This leads to a world where the output is heavily slanted towards the ownership class while everyone else is fighting for scraps. A world with community ownership of the means of production would mean MUCH more wealth for the average person, so concerns over resource allocation would be less of a concern.

The point anyway is that in the current system I certainly don’t get to decide what my “level” is beyond trying to work hard, but in a community ownership model I would have much more say.

As you have said we have been trying different value systems for thousands of years. No reason to believe attempts to improve the system should not continue.
This article doesn’t make clear the most important part of the scandal: the letters contained information that was unique to the recipient, to allow them to believe that maybe the psychic was legit. They didn’t use standard, mass copywriting techniques; they leveraged newspapers and, later, consumer information databases to share info about people that no “stranger” should have known.

I think it was this level of effort to deceive about their abilities, as well as the clear evidence that Maria did not write the letters or engage with the received items, that sunk any claim that people ‘knew’ what they were buying into.
USD doesn't have smart contract abilities so yes you are correct about trusting a third party to exchange crypto to USD. You could use a stablecoin but that requires you to trust the stable coin backing.
Does QAing Dishwasher firmware sound fun to you ?

Even if you imagine software development to be generally fun, even the mundane, the rest of the workflow can be God awful boring. While Communism is a cool idea , it never works since you need incentives to motivate people.
So the thing to remember is that in POSIX shell (and BASH, etc.) all for loops are for-each loops. If you wanted to loop over integers, you might write `for i in $(seq 10); do echo $i; done`, but that just turns into `for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do echo $i; done` when it runs. So this one just iterates over "s", "u", and "b" instead.
> policy experts assumed China would become more liberal

No one actually thinks that, it's just the line they use to justify themselves to the public. Like how Saudi Arabia has been promising amazing "reforms" for the better part of a decade.
The weight of WordPress is a bummer. On the other hand, it usually covers any use-case, even those you don't know yet, while still remaining usable by non-technical people, which is quite a feat.
It's a combination of things. Tax cuts juicing an already hot economy, economic stimulus attempting to minimize the effect of a temporary pandemic, former executive fighting against interest rate increases. However this is a very US centric view.

It's also important to remember inflation is a global phenomenon. US policy might have outsized effect, but it is certainly not the whole story. Global gas prices hit decade-long highs last year, after massive lows during the pandemic. We had to somewhat jumpstart the global economy, and recover from slowdowns during that time as well.