skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the prison still gets to set the policy, no? Like how many minutes people can call, and what they can charge?

"Nobody should profit off of prison, period" is very simplistic: the electricity company makes a profit; the store selling bread, sausages, milk, potatoes, and whatnot makes a profit; the supplier selling books makes a profit; AT&T will make a profit from the phone lines regardless, just as they make a profit off phone lines to offices, etc. etc.

The problem isn't private companies: it's the prison officials. How much of that revenue goes back to the prison? A substantial amount I bet. That's why they do it; that a private company is involved isn't all that important. Yes, it's exploitive and counter-productive, but few seem to care as prisons are for evil people who deserve to be assraped on a daily basis anyway, and anything more than bread & water is a luxury.

This fully fits with the general attitude that exists in the US towards criminals. This is a country that puts 9-year olds in full leg and arm shackles for stealing bubble gum[1] (putting a kid like that in court is already dubious), and there are plenty of examples ranging from the existence of the "innocence project" to all the drug tests for employment, etc. etc. What is wrong with you people?

[1]: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/courts-shackle-...
but they aren't the best, thats why it's weird.
It is, like you said, conjecture. The best we can say is that it _usually_ provides responses that are _consistent_ with responses coming from an intelligence with an internal world model. That doesn't mean that's the only way to get those responses, nor does it mean that this is necessarily what's happening in this case.

So saying things like "the model has come to the conclusion that" or "smarter than", or "learns to be deceptive", I think that's premature at best. I'm not yet convinced that there's sufficient evidence to show appreciable internal state and logical processes. There's so, so many examples where what looks like legit understanding breaks down with the slightest tweak to the prompt, and it goes from looking like a savant to someone high on just a tremendous amount of LSD.

If there was an internal world model that just wasn't correct, I would expect to see its incorrect answers be at least logically consistent, but instead it looks way, way more like the trick just doesn't work for this case.

So to get back to the original point, this is MS trying to leverage this trick to do a task that requires actual logical reasoning, factual evaluation, and internal world state, and we're just not there. (I hesitate to use the word "yet", because there's still a lot of not-yet-conclusive discussion around whether current LLM techniques will ever get us "there." Colour me tentatively pessimistic in the meantime. =) )
I've bought 2 apple products, my wife has bought 1.

iPad: Failed after a year, no replacement (we can 'upgrade') - it technically works but shuts down 3 or 4 minutes after boot.

mac Mini: Hard disk failed. Out of warranty, so bought a cheap SSD and gave it to the kids (they prefer something that plays modern games).

iPod: Old, yes, taken out of the drawer for a road trip but dead as a doornail.

Admittedly, not tried an iPhone.
But Apple, Google and co do the same thing themselves. Here's an example from Android:

Mom gets a new Android phone.

The phone asks if she wants to back up pictures she takes (it even used a weird word in my native language that I had never heard before).

She selects yes.

A few months later Google tells her to upgrade her subscription plan for Google Drive, because her Drive space is full. If she doesn't upgrade then scary things will happen!! (They said she wouldn't receive emails anymore.)

So she comes to me with it. It's an annoying process to delete the photos, especially when you're trying to make sure it only deletes it on Drive and not locally.

A week later she comes to me and says her drive space is full again, because the phone will keep pestering her to turn on cloud backups.

I have no faith that Apple doesn't pull some similar types of tricks. People who don't handle computing devices well will fall for all of these prompts about this and that. The alternative is that they never update their phone and don't understand why things don't work anymore.
You have to be very careful here. The payments are a problem. Maybe obtain a concurrent part-time H-1B through your company.
I have been using sllim (note: I am the author) which allows me to easily parallelize the network requests to speed up agents.

It is only helpful with distributed chains (like tree of thoughts) and doesn't help with sequential chains.

link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36913492
except you need a new set of cable adapters for each new phone

they just remove more and more stuff
Quite recently on ACOUP appeared an button to switch the color scheme (the circle with flame emoji in the lower left corner). Somewhat ironically for me (who mostly reads it on iPhone) the button itself is somewhat distracting while I'm perfectly fine with the original dark color scheme.
Is there a privacy focussed Chrome fork out there that looks like Chrome? I love the UI and dislike the alternatives with their IMHO rather unpleasant theming.
Here is a loom video to help you see the value addition: https://www.loom.com/share/86ae62849f874a2da255911e2d5db762?...
> a place called Cnoc na h-Earde. I’m not going to try and say it

I doubt there are any sounds in there that an English speaker would find difficult.
No book has done more to convince me that we are modern day wizards ala Clarke's Third Law.

The beginning chapters that work through relays and logic gates make this leap to how we create memory and do logic that made me realize we are, quite literally, harnessing electricity (think: mana) to etch arcane runes (circuitry) that perform feats that are effectively magic.

This must be why I like reading books that have software developers as magicians (see: Off to be the Wizard).

I struggled with the chapter on combinatorics but the book is amazing and I love the illustrations.
Play is the Trojan Horse for getting the organism to learn the principles of reality.
Peacock has “Channels” which I appreciate.

Except the channel is usually a single TV series with the channel looping through all seasons/episodes.

Great for creating background noise from reruns of shows you’ve already watched.
Note that a lot of people can agree that newer music is crap but wildly disagree about when the good music was made. Just in this thread you can see some claim good music was made until 1985, some say it was until the 90’s some say it was until the last decade. There is no consensus at all, which indicate it is not an objective change in quality.
Consider that they're selling a pocket supercomputer. A 386 PC in the early 90's (already second tier to the first 486's) would sell for over $3000, which is $7000 today. Our contemporary expectation that consumer electronics must be rock bottom cheap is a little warped by globalism. This from someone who won't pay more than $300 for something that is easily lost or damaged.
wrong url :(
> It's likely that you already have Python installed and can use it to start a HTTP server.

# run this in your project directory
python -m SimpleHTTPServer

This is python2, for python3 it's:

python -m http.server
Very interesting stories. I like reading about how hard it is to get in. Same on Reddit but for my home country. Thank you for doing the AMA.
> And now I am on this boring phone no longer passionate about phones anymore.

Oh man, I could not relate more to this. With how hard it has become to run rooted, for the first time in well over a decade I'm running stock Android with no root. It used to be so exciting! A computer in my pocket! But more and more Apple's (awful IMHO) vision of the phone as an "appliance" rather than a general purpose computer is becoming true, and it's depressing. I don't even really care about specs anymore, cause I can't do much with that horsepower anyway.

I haven't gotten to the point of giving Apple any money yet, and probably won't as the Pixel A is affordable and does everything I need, but I miss the good old days so much. I've been hearing people say I should try GrapheneOS, maybe it's time to finally try it.
That article is out of date now, FSD works on highways.

Meanwhile I've found 0 evidence of any member of the public who owns a Mercedes using Drive Pilot 2 years after it was announced.

I'm sure if FSD ever kills anyone it will be headline news. It is weird there's no NHTSA webpage about the results of their investigations though.
You can still have code/design reviews by other stakeholders. It just means that if something is really high priority for you but not for them you can just do it yourself.

I've had to wait weeks for one-line changes because somebody else had to do them.
I meant, which versions are you explicitly comparing and saying are equivalent.
Comdb2 is very heavily used inside Bloomberg; outside not so much.
When I was using darknet markets there were people you could mail cash to and then they would send you crypto.

My understanding is Monero is private. So you could also just buy it from a regular exchange. Maybe it has replaced the whole mail people cash thing. Never looked in to it or used it though.
> It doesn't quite show static the way the website does, but it's also not exactly what I'd call "near instantaneous."

I think that effect might be exaggerated because he's tuning across several channels in one turn (e.g. https://youtu.be/ahtRI-_A1j8?t=88) and those channels would be full of static. The device he's showing apparently spaces out its transmissions 4 channels apart.

What I meant by "near instantaneous" was that the delays were short enough that I don't recall registering them as "I'm waiting for this," and when started I using digital TVs I registered the channel-switch speed as a noticeable and annoying regression.

I guess my point is the simulation has a digitally-slow pause with static, which seems like anachronism with a coat of retro-colored paint. I may have overstated things, because I mainly watched TV after the dial era (and the 90s were definitely after the dial era).
What is wild to me is how many of the commercials I nearly instantly recognized, or at least have some partial recollection of. Pocahontas movie promos like mad. Bac-O Bacon bits. That car commercial with the 'Dooby-dooby-doo' part of Sinatra's Strangers in the Night. That fancy sounding 1992 Acura commercial with the classical music.

Maybe it's just weird confirmation bias but I felt like as soon as some of them start airing I'm like "yep... I remember seeing this." Whereas I don't feel that about much of the shows or newscasts. Maybe just shows how impressionable repetitive advertisements are on young minds.
I used to go out of my way to take encrypted iTunes backups because it restored app state perfectly.

After some iOS release though, every app started doing "new phone, who dis" regardless of the restoration strategy, so I stopped wasting my time.
> Even a green card holder can be denied re-entry on the basis that they 'abandoned their residency.'

I don't believe CBP is allowed to deny a green card holder entry on this basis if you provide any evidence that amounts to a colorable claim of being an LPR, such as a physical green card. They are allowed to pressure you to officially give up your status by convincing you to sign an I-407, but you have the right to decline that and insist on being let into the country because you believe you did not abandon your residency. In turn, CBP could choose to refer you to an immigration judge, but this would still involve letting you in.

If they do want to bother with the referral, CBP would take the physical green card, give you alternate proof of status, give you a Notice To Appear for removal proceedings before an immigration judge, and let you in with all the same rights as any other green card holder on a tentative basis. Yes, the immigration judge would still revoke permanent residency if you are found to have abandoned your residency, but you have the chance to involve your immigration lawyer and argue your case before the immigration courts. And there might be a long wait before you even get the court date in the first place.

I am not a lawyer or other immigration professional and am speaking generally here based on general information. If you think you might be in a situation where this would happen to you, consult an actual professional for proper legal advice applicable to your case.
I think you and GP are agreeing. GP says that they want to return to that initial form of copyright because they do not agree with how World Police US is operating.
If you're interested in lectures I can recommend The Peloponnesian War by Kenneth Harl published by The Great Courses (also available on Audible). It's one of the best lecture series I've listened to in any subject.

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/peloponnesian-war
Of course! That’s also practically what most middle class folks with kids are in all day every day. Upper middle class too.

If not that well off, it’s usually worse.

And near as I can tell, that barely keeps their head above water, if that.
"Discussing with emotion" is an euphemism for "saying things that you would not normally say unless you were thrown off kilter by your reaction to what you had just read."
Good advice. The L-1 is oftentimes the best - and only - option to work in the U.S. and it's still easy for qualified applicants.
Not when you consider that modern phones are also our cameras, satellite navigation systems, calendars, mobile hotspots, mobile browsers, handheld gaming devices, music players, video players, and more.

Personally, I think they’re a heck of a bargain for what they do.
The primary purpose of prisons is to keep criminals out of the streets and physically unable to re-offend. Punishment and/or rehabilitation are at most distant secondary considerations.
> Yes, I don't care about getting updates. If they're important to you, that's fair.

Hardware devices with embedded software couldn't get updates (or was a difficult job so didn't happen) until somewhat recently. It is unfortunate that the ability to do updates is used as a crutch to ship faulty software that then needs updates. A phone shouldn't ever need an update in its lifetime if it was properly built in the first place.

I only recently stopped using my Motorola cellphone from 2005 (only because they decommissioned the towers). It never received any update in 17 years. It also never needed any.

I would like to buy devices with that level of quality today.
wei is a very bad idea, it will incite violence
I set out to try a wide variety of local 'mom and pop' pizza restaurants and I quickly realized that all of them used the same supplier. In fact most of them even use the same sauce recipe.
Very interesting but out of my wheelhouse.
I haven't found any shoes that address my foot issues. Even if I did I'm sure they would cost 5x the price of regular shoes and would provide almost no improvement.

Are there some kind of objective metrics on how modern shoes are better than shoes from 10 years ago? Are they objectively more durable? Is the shape somehow better for your feet? Because I haven't felt any of it. For me it's just like other clothing: change for the sake of change.
Hallucinations are defined as “Perception of visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, or gustatory experiences without an external stimulus and with a compelling sense of their reality, usually resulting from a mental disorder or as a response to a drug.”

That doesn’t sound like what AI/LLMs are doing, at all. There is no mental disorder or drugs causing then to output what we would consider to be false information. The machine is not perceiving anything without an external stimulus. Everything they generate is from the stimulus we have given it.
At least in older (parts of) cities:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_sewer
Do you have any advice for Canadian founders who's TN grace period has ended and are leaving the US to immediately return as a visitor? I'm not paying myself yet, so no employee contract/job offer. Will the border officers be upset at the fact that I'm returning as a visitor right after the TN grace period has ended? Any documents I could prepare to make it easier? Thanks!
The zettelkasten site and forum: https://zettelkasten.de

The book "How to build a second brain" by Tiago Forte.

Andy Matuschak's site: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes

The Garden movement (it is the motivation)

How to take smart notes by Ahrens

And a lot of research and trying stuff. Now, I outline stuff while I'm reading (the good books) explaining stuff as I would to another person. Then I do a synthesis by grouping related stuff together, adding them to previous notes and creating new ones. Then I link these groups together, as everything is related, and you can find the links if you're curious enough.
The only way to prevent all crime is 24/7 surveillance combined with constant control and no free will, but any reasonable person would find that unreasonable. That aside, a significant number of people sharing CP aren't smart enough to use an encrypted platform anyway.
You leave out Lean Software Development (2003-, there are several works from the same authors), which is fairly directly about applying/adapting Lean manufacturing to software development. (And is situated within the Agile space, but a lot more focussed on the meta-level process of controlling/adapting process than most Agile work, which often focusses on specific process that worked specific places, and gets easily bent to support the kind of adaopting canned process that is anathema to the Manifesto.)
Morocco 1904, an AI-colored photo essay
You definitely should get fact-specific advice from an immigration attorney. Is she looking to live in the U.S. permanently or just work here when there's work?
I'm sure most people who are employed make money from their employment but they're also not running a business which has "costs", "revenue" and, hopefully, "profit". They enter a contract with such a business which will treat the individual's salary as a "cost" which lessens the "profit" from the "revenue".
Interesting it's open-source but they don't seem to highlight it on their home page, I had to search for their Github page to find it https://github.com/tremorlabs/tremor

Then when I came back to the home page and searched for "license", I confirmed it says "Apache-2.0 license" in light-grey, small font in the middle of the page.
Teenagers can work almost anywhere in the US. There are special rules restricting how much they can work, and under what conditions, but there aren't any states that outright ban teenagers from any kind of paid work.
Hyundai Owner Rebadges Their Car as a Ford to Deter Thieves
I'd be interested to see an AI which would - consciously enough, from our point of view - work towards reduction of that consumption.
I guess but probably no more than the number of Samsung users who think they’re making some sort of anti-Apple statement.
Someone _please_ put Super Mario Brothers Crossover on this website so I can play it again!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros._Crossover
>IT has been requiring a 4 year degree (or equivalent experience) plus two years worth of work experience since the 1980's when I started my career.

This is not true. Associates degrees in IT that lead directly into jobs were common when I was in high school in the 2000s. Even as late as 2019, I knew people working entry-level positions that were working towards their associates degrees. Around 2015, I knew someone who was hired and essentially paid to study for their A+ and Network+ certificates. These people may have been somewhat lucky, then, but it's impossible today.

>In 1987 I bought a condo for $55K at 7.5% interest and thought I got a steal because I was buying for cheaper than rent. I just looked up on Zillow and that property today is $163,200. That represents an average annual percentage increase of 5.46%. According to Google, IT salaries have increased an average of 3.8% per year every year since 1987.

n=1. Median home prices were $100k in 1987 and peaked at 5x that in 2022.[1] Currently sitting at 4x. So, on balance, the situation is substantially worse.

>But that needs to be tempered against interest rates being so much lower now than they were during the 80's and 90's.

You might want to check interest rates YTD.[2]

I agree on colleges.

I would also look at food. The cost of eggs has about tripled since 1987.[3] Income has not.

I am being critical about this because it seems that you're one of my many seniors who don't understand the magnitude of the hardship young people face today, compared to what older Americans contended with. I hope that this helps you to understand.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS

[2] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/30-year-mortgage-...

[3] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/egg-prices-a...
As if to prove this, the other day I saw some clown with a multi-year account chastising dang, as if he was a self-appointed moderator!

Great work, mods.
> with power to do fixes.

the implication here is that those powers of the judicial system will always be used to do fixes in your favour. but if that optimism was shared by everyone, blockchains would have never been invented in the first place.
Interesting you didn't name the two brands that are true, non-Chinese flagship Android: Pixel and Samsung.

If you want true software freedom on a phone, there is GrapheneOS on Pixel. I think Samsung is the better UI of the two, but if my Samsung breaks I think I'll go pixel and go graphene.
Yes, I've seen delays, even significant one, although - unless there's some controlled technology at issue - I've also seen the visas issued eventually.
I paid not-that-much-less for a laptop I use to write code, and spend less time on it than I do deriving value from my phone?
Right, the criminal industrial complex is a problem, just not private prisons... they are, I just mean insofar as being a significant factor today.

We're happy to send people to public prisons, and they're not that many private ones.
You’re right, few people care about how long the phone will be supported.

What they do want is an inexpensive phone that still runs the latest software. Because Apple models are supported so long, people can buy used, old iPhones that still run the latest software.

Others trade in their phones often because they always want the new shiny. Because Apple models are supported so long, the used phone they trade in has more value, allowing them to fork over less cash for the latest Pro phone.

These are the sort of factors that drive Apple’s market share up.
So, not killing dwm suckless?

(sorry, dwm (X11) having served me well for years, I had to make that joke).
I guess, "help" here means "work towards achieving something desirable". Unless, of course, you think any and all kinds of capitalism regulations can't be defined so that they could be desirable...
People still deserve credit or blame for their actions even if some percentage within their demographic will do more than them and some percentage will end up in jail. (Whether you deserve any credit for making money is another question...)
I have autism but not persstent depressive disorder and this random stranger wants to wish you well with handling it because it sounds difficult. I've nearly gone insane with my OCD (people with autism are at more risk of having OCD) and our mental health can be hard to handle with disorders.
You might want to read the page you linked

"you can give up guaranteed safety in exchange for greater performance "