skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are mixing up Virigin Galactic and Virgin Orbit. One is suborbital tourism, the other is sat launch. VO is bankroupt. VG has raised so much money from clueless investors that they are not quite bankroupt yet.
My favorite Sinead moment was her UFC 189 walkout song for Conor McGregor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKvBV-xVbmI

still gives me goosebumps
American famines existed long after the year 1800. You ever heard of the Dust Bowl? The Grapes of Wrath?
> The condition system was reported on in 1983’s Signaling and Handling Conditions.

Symbolics had the New Error System in 1983. Which was inspired by the condition system of Multics.
Aren’t growth and carbon capture practically the same thing?
ChatGPT Plus for tedious coding stuff and sometimes throw in user instructions/error messages and ask it to give me ten alternatives, and see if it can do better. I also use it to give me a starting place/draft for personal correspondence. I find working from a draft and "fixing it" far easier than a blank sheet of paper.

I have plans to use LLMs to help me create a document format converter (XML to XML via XSLT), but unfortunately most of them don't support enough tokens to take in both the starting document's format and also detailed instructions on what to do. So I am very token capped on that project currently (and also GPT-4 requests-per-hour capped, least of all because I need to break my tasks apart). I've tried converting the starting XML to a series of xpaths, but then the LLM loses a lot of context and the result is ultimately less-good.

I'd like to give LLaMA-2 a play for my conversion project, but haven't had the time, and don't ultimately know enough to know if token limits are a technical limitation or a financial limitation for the services (i.e. can I give it unlimited tokens if I don't care how long it takes to complete?). Plus getting it up and running locally isn't exactly turn-key right now.

I tried Bing and Bard too; both support some web integrations which is nice, and you can generate some [bad] picture content, but they're both worse than ChatGPT for minimalist chat with Bing being too much nonsense/irrelevant Bing-service-spam (and often cuts you off) and Bard just being worse than GPT-3.5 let alone GPT-4.
A right wing, especially a "far" right wing, government would have mass deportations, stop immigration, promote nationalist ideology, and not allow let alone themselves push things such as pride and other left wing social values.

There doesn't exist any single example of this in the Anglo-sphere, nor the UK itself.
I always wondered why the vision models don't seem to be following the whole "scale up as much as possible" mantra that has defined the language models of the past few years (to the same extent). Even 3.5 billion parameters is absolutely nothing compared to the likes of GPT-3, 3.5, 4, or even the larger open-source language models (e.g. LLaMA-65B). Is it just an engineering challenge that no one has stepped up for yet? Is it a matter of finding enough training data for the scaling up to make sense?
Not at all. Fundamentally, trading is a positive sum game.

Actual market research directs resources to the most productive companies, helping them grow more quickly and generate positive aggregate value.

Essentially, it's a way to add intelligence and information to the companies that represent the market, to make them more profitable. Specifically, it allows newcomers to grow more quickly if they're more efficent than legacy companies, meaning it's more difficult for the legacy companies to create moats.

Without trading, we might still have IBM at the top of the tech industry, with a massively inefficent organization, low worker salaries and enough market power to keep the competition away, since without a market, startups would need to cover ALL investments using organic profits.

But that's mostly true for medium-long term trading. Short term trading is mostly about speed and finding information or clues faster than anyone else. That part probably generates less net value than it consumes.
It's fixed price as long as it is fixed price territory. Extras are billable by the hour..
a big thing for me was being exposed to different cultures and lifestyles

And connecting the dots: “of course Bob’s not going to hell for <insert thing here>, what else are my sacred books wrong about“
ty! What's yours?
Comments are not core parts of content.

What this is taking about is closer to Wikipedia. And vandalism is a real thing there, so portion of topics is moderated.
Community notes disappear, but as I understand it, it's not so simple as "group a downvoted the note away." Because members of a group are likely to agree with one another, the algorithm means they their ability to affect the note will be very low. Also, those who tend to vote up low quality notes will also have their ability to affect outcomes throttled. The inner workings of algorithm is pretty interesting.

From what I've seen personally, bad notes only tend to make it through early and for a short duration. Once someone retweets with more credible information that wasn't well understood at first, the note isn't able to survive.
Plus, The Winnowing: We don't listen to most music from decades ago. We don't listen to most hits from decades ago. The Winnowing removes most works, in every medium, from the popular consciousness, leaving only the consensus favorites, also known as the canon.

Here's an example: "The Ballad Of The Green Berets" by SSG Barry Sadler was number one for five weeks in 1966, tied with "California Dreamin'" by The Mamas And The Papas. That song is effectively gone now. It's no longer remembered. It didn't make the canon, because The Winnowing got to it, so now it isn't part of The Sixties as a consensus mass memory. "California Dreamin'" which was objectively just as popular by the metric of the charts, however, is pretty well remembered and is, therefore, part of the canon.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kj9qv6rmG8

Newer music hasn't gone through The Winnowing. More of the chaff is still remembered. Therefore, it all looks worse.
There's really no technical reason why imagery like that couldn't be contributed, and IIRC Google does use municipally-owned imagery in its products. A single city might not be a big enough source for them to bother, I don't know, but I know particularly in Europe I have seen copyright notices for national and regional governments when looking at imagery.

Though there are a lot of sources for satellite imagery right now; Google may not be that hard-up for new stuff. I suspect the commercial vendors they work with probably image the entire CONUS area every 12 months or so.

The imagery that would seem to be more in-demand would be the aerial photos used at very high zoom levels. I'm not a geospatial expert but I think these images are combined with some sort of LIDAR or multi-spectrum imagery to have height maps in tandem with the visuals. That strikes me as pretty expensive to obtain.
It is a very good example though.... It's a horrendous site, but freedom of speech doesn't only apply to people I like or accept. Censorship always starts with the weakest and most hated target, then moves onto the less controversial ones.
> find myself moving increasingly to the right since starting to work from home ~5 years ago.

why?
>It will actually be very positive for the web overall and you'll see the benefits soon enough.

What might those benefits be? Not being snarky here, but AFAICT the only folks who gain any benefit seem to be Google and their customers (advertisers).

What am I missing here?
I hope OP checks out “Yes, you can cure Maladaptive Daydreaming” - https://wildminds.ning.com/m/discussion?id=4661400%3ATopic%3...

Some things that have helped a close friend get in the groove of staying present and reduce the frequency and duration of daydreaming: trying to meditate, focusing on the breath to stay present, making an effort to notice when they’re daydreaming and politely telling themselves things to the effect of “come back, the real world is here, not there”, and actively pursuing something interesting (because it’s hard to say no to an addiction unless there’s an engaging substitute).
One question to UK fellas: is it me or the UK is becoming some sort of a surveillance state right in front of us just like china?
US conducted ‘multi-decade’ secret UFO program, ex-intelligence official says
Well, after the current hearing those non-friendly nations will understand a lot more about the nation's intellectual capabilities and breathe a huge sigh of relief.
It's better than full screen, but it's not real maximised. In particular if you drag the right edge of the screen it will resize the window rather than moving the scrollbar.

Honestly Windows has basically nailed window management (earning its name I guess). Mac is much worse and Gnome is a little worse.
> The whole sequential history narrative, the Standard Model, is totally blinkered from its NW european perspective.

It’s not blinkered if it’s a model of northwestern European history.

> England, France, Germany and whatnot.... These were never civilisations. They were, for short periods ruled by Rome. They had some elements of civilisation, but for brief periods with limited reach. It was never culturally rooted or widespread. They were barbarian societies, and continued to be barbarian societies. Writing doesn't "disappear" in europe, it never really existed.

This is misleading if not entirely false.

* Germany was never meaningfully conquered or ruled by Rome.

* The land we call France today was conquered by Julius Caesar by 40 BC. The Romans called it Gaul. Gaul remained within the Roman Republic and Empire for centuries. During that period, Gaul had a large and growing population of Roman citizens. Three emperors were born there. And eventually, by 212 AD, Roman citizenship was extended to everyone living within the borders of the empire. It wasn’t until the fifth century until Rome finally lost control of Gaul, which was conquered by Germanic barbarians. One of those tribes was called the Franks, hence the name “France”. But by that point, it had been part of Roman civilization for 500 years.

* The Roman province of Brittania—modern day England and Wales—was conquered in 43 AD after decades of invasions dating back to Julius Caesar. It remained part of the Roman Empire until 410–in other words, it was part of Roman civilization for almost 400 years. It was also subject to the 212 decree granting Roman citizenship to all inhabitants. Even as late as the early to mid 500’s, we have British writers such as Gildas who still considered themselves and their fellow Britons to be Roman citizens. Like France, England was conquered by tribes of Germanic barbarians, one of which (in this case, the Angles) gave the country its modern name. But even after this point, Britonnic culture persisted in the Welsh frontier.

> Urban civilisation is new to NW europe. 200-500 years old.

Paris was founded in the first century as the Roman city of Lutetia. It persisted as a Roman city until the fifth century, when it was renamed to Paris and used as the capital of the Merovingian kingdom. It has remained a major city ever since—not for 200-500 years, but for nearly 2000.
People regularly vote because "gas went up". It's not just Republicans. Unfortunately the party that says "climate change is a hoax and you don't have to change" is always going to win over the one that says "we have to conserve and you have to live less luxuriously in order for us to make it."

I live in a liberal area. Hardly any Trump voters here. Getting people to drive slightly less or even allowing a bike lane to allow other people to drive slightly less is viewed as the apocalypse.
What compels a person to move right in America these days? The Republican party is fiscally irresponsible and only knows how to play identity politics. Watching as a foreigner it's clear the Dems are a bad joke but the Republicans are actively hateful against large swaths of their own country
I'm probably in the minority here, but I like that behavior
Actually, absent a full chain-of-trust from boot, which I believe Android/iOS do provide, and possibly the proprietary desktop environments can provide, it should be possible to fake the "I'm a legitimate browser" exchange. Which is what the 1% that care will do. But it sucks to have to go to deep underground "crack" type stuff where before there was an open web. Not to mention the risk of getting hit by the banhammer if detected.
They're also vastly different projects. Phantom Express was very much experimental; Starliner wasn't supposed to be. Part of the selling point for Boeing was "this is mundane stuff we already know how to do".
Authors urge AI companies to pay them for using their work – video [3:51s]
featuring the worst analogy i have heard in my life
Is there a way to override this linker setting only for your local install? Ie i don't want to change production code or binaries, but it would be nice to have faster builds
[dupe]

Earlier conversation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36855773
I have a hard time understanding how anyone would think they would actually get away with doing something like this.

Every physicist in this field would pick the paper apart (probably more so due to the history of the subject matter) and in the end it would not be reproducible.

And it would be a result that most labs looking into this would try to reproduce.
Quad9 is European and European courts have ruled against them in a similar case earlier.
> not possibly ever accept user comments or submissions, or could not ever risk having users sending links to one another. Those all proved to be false

Funny thing is that this part is most often the cause of a data breach when looking at majority of pentesting reports.

One thing is to expose something to few ppl you know and another thing is a possibility to send things to millions of ppl that are constantly abused like Twitter or Youtube.
But then google will integrate HDCP into this mess, forcing us to have a camera pointed at a monitor :P
I don't like this at all, especially in a world where we are finding out so many top scientists lied or fabricated data in their research.
The PRESIDENT of Stanford just resigned!

It's clear we cannot trust the institutional powers to self-regulate and do the right thing.
Wake up. Quick.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/suella-braver...
Fantastic post exploring the physical environmental differences of city vs rural as cause, not correlation, of different political viewpoints
I'm usually not bold enough to publicly say I'm vegan either, but come on, the person you're replying to clearly cares and has more of a spine than either of us. What would you prefer - we just don't talk about it ever, and let everyone act like the current atrocities we're committing don't exist?
Check out the History Channel's schedule today. Not a cherry-picked day, just a normal schedule for them: https://www.history.com/schedule

That's four hours of aliens nonsense, four hours of drug themed history documentaries (probably the same target demographic as the aliens stuff.) An hour of christian prophesy and preaching, 12 hours of reality TV, and some infomercials to make up the difference.

Is it any wonder that an ostensibly serious man such as a military commander thinks that the History Channel is trash? I'd be concerned if he didn't.
"Becoming"? It's been happening for 20 years now.
Meanwhile the EU food safety regulator is okay to continue using it.

https://www.politico.eu/article/glyphosate-is-safe-to-use-in...
The [flagged] marker only shows up after flags exceed a certain threshold, but flags can affect a post's ranking before that.
There are words much more devastating than "asshole" to aptly and fairly describe people like you who carry the water for child abusers.
If the ADHD symptoms are caused by real, ongoing abuse by someone with say NPD - treating it as an executive function disorder will leave them stuck in a terrible situation, albeit with slightly less dysfunction.

I’ve seen people get more functional - then be immediately attacked by said NPD person (indirectly) through gaslighting and sabotage, which of course put them back where they were. ‘The meds stopped working’.

Or maybe it was the meds stopped working - except for what I saw going on, at least.
Can Nature Lie?
We build power electronics and our machines also have lots of software in them. People that only work in software have no idea what a difference a software bug is compared to a hardware bug. Things we can solve in software means someone remotes into the machine and goes home to their family at the end of the day. Hardware problems usually means the engineer goes home packs a bag, gets a plane ticket, is away from the family for a week and hopefully we figured out remotely, correctly what the real issue is. I did two transatlantic flights this year because there was an issue with a >$5 component on a circuit board.
I remember watching an interview to Jorge Luis Borges (can't remember which one, neither if it was in English or Spanish) in which he said something similar.

He argued that he preferred 19th century literature because back then it wasn't (as much as in the 20th century) about becoming famous or rich as an author.
Why store raw events for 21 days in an S3 buckets when you could hash all IDs cryptographically in-memory before they're persisted to any disk?
Authentication of personhood does not require individual identification.

I guess "authentication of unique personhood" would though.
I seriously have never seen this used ever. But it sounds like you are talking about children using it, which I hadn't considered (I was already an adult in the 1990s).
The slow speed of the judicial system is not conducive to "innocent until proven guilty", since lots of people are in limbo at any given time.

A slow judicial system drives up the cost of the innocent getting a good legal defense. It also delays consideration of new evidence that can exonerate the innocent that have been convicted.

The 6th Amendment to the US Constitution recognizes the need for judicial speed, even if court cases have effectively gutted that amendment (like the 4th with civil asset forfeiture).
I don't think the general public wanted offshore wind to be delayed by two years under the previous administration [1], but that's what they got. I don't think the broader public really wanted tariffs on solar panels, but that's what they got [2]. You are right that the public isn't up for major personal sacrifice, but this stuff is qualitatively different: even sensible actions that don't impose burdens on the public are being maliciously blocked.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/21/us/offshore-wind-delays-infla...
[2] https://www.seia.org/sites/default/files/2019-12/SEIA-Sectio...
Semantic Video Understanding
In 2022?
This hit me hard. The first of her songs I ever knew, and still my favorite, was "Troy" and I was just thinking of it this morning. Then an hour later someone tweeted that she had died. Probably going to be sad all day.
You can't "solve" addiction, but you can manage it better than we do today.

Addiction is a health issue, not a criminal issue. It should also be noted that the War on Drugs was never about "protecting people" -- it was a tool to oppress the people (people of color, counter culture (anti-war)).

We've collectively agreed that it's ok to allow dangerous and addictive drugs (alcohol and tobacco). We need to stop being hypocritical about that.

The answer to the problem:

1. Legalize all drugs
2. Tax them
3. Regulate them
4. Educate and assist in minimizing the risks.
5. Treat addicts in a medical context rather than a criminal one.

There are challenges in doing this, but they're way better options than the current approach.
Definitely lost any respect I had for her here.
Remember 1984, written by Englishman George Orwell? It's worth remembering that in part that was a commentary on British society, through a future lens.

When the UK does things which remind of you that, it isn't a coincidence. To be clear I'm not saying "this is literally 1984" or anything like that, I'm just trying to explain how "surveillance state" and "UK" have a LOT of known history.
"Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the tranquillity of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, are celebrated with a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the fifth, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are, of course, those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well, certainly, there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable. But again, truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. They were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic, you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night, I sought to end that silence. Last night, I destroyed the Old Bailey to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago, a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words; they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me, one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot."
I don't think the district court of Hamburg cares much about which US politicians these websites pay off.
Shopify Editions: /Imagine
I'm sure the oligarchs in charge are fully aware.
It seems to me that this is a plausible next stage of AI interface design. They're currently as crudely integrated into our workflows as teletype terminals or punch cards were into business workflows at the dawn of computing: tolerable only because of the power that lay beyond.

That refined pretty well but ultimately got blown out of the water by desktop skeuomorphism once the underlying platform could support it. Now they're completely integrated via smartphone, but that's getting ahead of ourselves here.

Whoever can push beyond a refinement on "tab complete" or "chat with a minor god" interfaces will win big like Apple and Microsoft did.
Yeah, that was definitely a subjective toss-in. It's an EV with quite a bit of torque, so I think it qualifies. I know owners that believe it qualifies. I haven't yet seen one in a rally, which I think is the true qualifier, but I don't follow rallies close enough outside of the fiction of the Forza Horizon series.
Event Notifications in Value-Adding Networks