skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CDC Finds Coronavirus and Other Infectious Agents in Unlicensed California Lab
Missed opportunity of showing an animation of the frames used.
EV are heavier but more efficent because electric motors are more efficent.
> aussi Rapides et Confortables que les Automobiles

"As quick and comfortable as cars"

Yeah. Sure. About the "comfortable" part by looking at that picture about 99% of all the cars on earth want to have a word with you. That's plain bullshit.
This is the classic problem of education having to balance expression and practice. Bringing a gun to a swordfight is effective but if you're in a kendo class it's not especially helpful. Such is the effect of kritik within policy debate. People should learn kritik, I even agree with much of it, but you also want to learn how to argue actual topics. And especially as someone who often agrees with kritik, I would rather the kids exercise that skill here where it doesn't matter, than in the real world with real impacts.
Ask HN: As a tech worker, have you worked a “low-skill” job outside of tech?
This is really a question for people who have several years experience in a "low-skill", non-tech position (retail, service, manual labor, etc.) as well as several years experience in what is considered a "tech company" these days (start-up origin, VC-funded, software or electronics-focused). Can you talk about your experiences in each? How do they compare?
I doubt. I've found the "proof" the butterfly remembers very dubious. A lot of modern studies are very low quality. Has anyone reproduced it? No. I doubt they will.
I worked for a company who interviewed someone who turned out to be a habitual scammer.

He somehow managed to know enough technical information to get past a phone screen, and in the in-person interview claimed to be the second coming of Christ. When he didn't get hired, he sued for religious discrimination.

Fortunately, all communications with and about him were entirely professional and didn't include a reference to his claim, so (iirc) the case was tossed in short order.

That being said, you don't need to do anything to get sued- you just need to have something worth suing for.
You get a knock on your door and upon answering it you see a public service officer standing on the other side of the threshold...

we are sorry to inform you that your wife has been DELETED
Some days when I am mad at the world I would want to work the help desk at a place like this and just destroy people.
They bring credibility to stuff they just read on twitter.
you might be missing a key piece of my particular scenario, and it’s that the thing I’m reading from your clipboard is something I put there from my website. The only thing that’s being exposed is something akin to path variable.

The purpose of which is navigating to a particular part of the app on its first ever launch.

If universal links worked on the first install none of this theoretical discussion would be necessary.
But that's not the format for UK licence plates at all!

They are XX11 XXX. The initial 2 letters are the region and the following 2 numbers are the year. The second half of the year is the number plus 50. So, eg 2022 car might be HA22 ABC or HA72 ABC.

Edit: I said UK licence plates but that's not strictly accurate. Northern Ireland has a different system.
Didn't some guy kill himself because his side chick AI chat bot told him too. Leaving behind a wife and kids?
It's all for ritual purposes.
Cool, thanks for responding about one. I’d rather not have to worry about how to fit our double stroller, pack n play and bags in our sedan.
Society used to give good advice, that for 90% of the population would be the things that would make them happy or at least content. We got so caught up, thinking about the minority of people for whom that lifestyle wasn’t a good fit that we abandoned giving advice to anybody and left everybody to make their own choices with no guidance or reinforcement. And indeed, for the last 50 years, we’ve demonized the traditional choices.

As they say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Are people happier now and more content now that they have a lot more choice than they were 50 years ago?

Luckily at the individual level, there is an easy solution: listen to your mom and marry someone who listens to their mom and raise your kids to listen to their mom. Everyone else can have their choice.
I had a bouncer (with push notifications!), but I was in the minority.
Evidently some passengers fail to find the humour in every situation:

>> Stop tweeting crap like this and get me mine and my families luggage. Useless airline

https://twitter.com/maximus_mass/status/1684167578820677632
If 1 man is non-exclusively dating 2 women, that balances out the numbers. It could also be half exclusive couples, and the other half 1:4 ratio.
Gzip beats BERT? Part 2: dataset issues, improved speed, and results
they're dating the same men.
An enthymeme is like saying "giving everyone free health care would be socialism!", and leaving out the unstated premise that socialism is bad. It's surprising how much garbage can be shoveled into an argument if it's anchored on one premise the audience believes without evidence.
You seem to want to write this off like we're all small children and have no ability to rational thought. You can be under questioning by congress while under oath and receive a question that would require revealing of sensitive information. At that point, you can lie like a small child, or inform the congressional panel that the conversation is approaching sensitive material and in order for questioning to continue, it would have to be done in a private session.

Please, don't treat me like I'm an imbecile. That's congress' job

Edit: also, that's such a shit parenting job. take the opportunity, and tell your significant other that it's not time for cookies and it'll spoil your dinner. there's no reason to lie about it. you have a teachable moment, and you've chosen to teach that it is okay to lie rather than something more valuable.
That was a great tangent. Were you able to ride him at a gallop like that? How did you hold on? Were you seated closer to the neck or directly over the back?
I also agree most orgs don’t execute information management well. Knowing chat isn’t a good place for that doesn’t mean they know anything else!
"Figures lie, and liars figure" was a popular statement of my grandfather's.

This statement ultimately means that statistics can be made to state anything a creative mathematician can make them state.

Figures by themselves are unreliable, such as the 'poll' cited in this blog.
Because "Abstract" is too abstract of a concept, and "Executive Summary" is too long and presumes the audience.

It's one of these ideas that are universally useful, but get a different name in each context.
The idea that Hyperloop had any impact at all on public transit is just nonsense.

It had literally zero impact on California High-Speed Rail.
You seem to be very confused on how society actually works. From the day you are born you are being 'shamed into not doing particular things and doing others. You just blindly accept the ones you've been sold.
Show HN: We made a text-based combat game powered by GPT 4
The initial idea for the game came during the final day of Game AI school in Cambridge. There, we had a Jam where we explored the idea of using LLMs as a game engine for fights. We then built a full web version in just a week.
There is no need to register or pay to play. Test it out!
Good.

This country has been in desperate need of revolutionaries for far too long.

Respecting the structures and rules of polite society let the Climate Change "Debate" feed denialism that's literally burning the world down around these kids right now.

They're going to need to make some radical moves quickly once they get to positions of influence, and it's heartening to know that they're preparing for that.
i've been playing with gpt4all for localhost running chatbots, its amazing at how capable it is at such an early state. local LLMs 2 (to say nothing of say 5+) years from now will be much more refined, its early generative AI days.

This will all be quite interesting.
I used to see Jim Koch at those events and he’d be pretty lit up.
1 in 4 Americans said they'd prefer to talking to an AI chatbot over a human therapist.
https://www.tebra.com/blog/research-perceptions-of-ai-in-hea...
What did you do instead? Apparently you came up with something even better
On the topic of using C++ for scripting, and related to the discussion of CERN's ROOT/Cling, I am developing a Clojure dialect on C++/LLVM called jank: https://jank-lang.org/

jank is a true Clojure, meaning you get interactive, REPL-based development (thanks to Cling) and a whole stdlib of persistent, immutable data structures (thanks to immer) and functions to transform them. But it's also C++, so you can write inline C++ within your jank source, and interpolate jank expressions within that. You can link with existing native code using LLVM and you can embed jank into your existing native projects to use for scripting.

jank is pre-alpha, right now, and I've only been showing it to Clojure devs so far, but there's a huge audience of C++ devs which may be interested in introducing Clojure to their native code.
Yeah because they had committed to it, the act was stillborn and everyone knew it.
it's always pretty easy to farm karma by restating a popular opinion, cracking a joke, or dunking on the target de jour

Interestingly, my most upvoted recent comment was one stating a position that was opposed to ~all of the existing comments on a thread.
Why do the debate organisers tolerate this? If the debate is X versus Y, why allow someone to say we should really be discussing Z? Imagine this in any other competitive arena like sport where during a match some team starts playing another sport entirely. There's nothing wrong with debating critical theory but not if that's not what's being debated. It should be an automatic fail, just as it would be if you're supposed to debating in a certain language and you refuse to do so. This just seems like deliberate sabotage/propaganda masquerading as sincere communication. As much fault lies with the organisers as with those who wish to deliberately pervert the debate.
When I worked as a VMS sysadmin full restore checks were one of the things I insisted on doing, sure, it used up a morning every couple of weeks, and tied up one of our microvaxes, but it was worth it.

Especially three months after I finished being sysadmin and moved to development, and they had a disk failure.

me: 'so you have backups?'

the replacement: 'sure, but they didn't restore'

me: 'what's the last good backup you have?'

tr: 'august, the last one you did'

me: 'welp'

tr's boss: 'guess £390,000 for third party disk recovery is our only option...'
I think a big part of it is the economy.
“Kids are doing something differently from how we used to do it” is always a red flag for me.

The fact that traditional high school debate produced leaders such as Nixon, Pelosi, and Larry Summers is not the ringing endorsement of the process that the author seems to think.

I think this a compelling argument: “minimum wage is an irrelevant debate in a country where basic necessities such as housing, healthcare, and education are increasingly out of reach. Structural reforms are needed, not minor adjustments to regulations that often go ignored.”

If people don’t think that’s compelling, I’d love to hear that argument! But the author’s complaint is framed as “kids today are doing it wrong” and it doesn’t really counter the points the kids are making.
> Just give them huge tax breaks for having 4+ kids. The trend would reverse in 9 months.

Hungary has already tried this and it doesn't work.

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

> "The Second Orbán Government made saving the nation from the demographic abyss a key aspect and therefore has introduced generous breaks for large families and greatly increased social benefits for all families. Those with three or more children pay virtually no taxes."

S.Korea is trying regular cash payouts: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/12/south-korea-splashe...

Evidently much more is required. Or it could be that the problem isn't solely financial. In heavily urbanized countries, most people apparently prefer easy modern entertainments to the rigors and stresses of parenting.
8-18 months according to the USCIS website.

I also forgot to mention that you have to wait 91 days from your last entry before filing the I485 to bypass the single-intention of TN.
Right, so then we are back to that cost being recovered from ratepayers.
Galton, Ehrlich, Buck: An exploding generational bomb
It’s still open source. The only new limitation is that you can’t monetize the model itself, which is fine. They have to make money.

You can still:

+ use it for personal use

+ use it as part of a commercial project

+ sell a hosted service of <v1.0

You cannot:

+ wrap an API around the library (v1.0+) and sell that, without a license from HF.

This is less restrictive in practice than some of the extreme Open Source copyleft licenses. It’s fine.
Sounds more difficult to implement than battery storage to keep the heating pumps running at night (given that we already have all that working well).
They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media Without Consent Is Immoral
What? AI training material contains hundreds of gigabytes of text about the human experience and emotions.
Reminds me of Bruce sterling’s holy fire a bit
Plenty of room at the top [how software can drive computer performance] [pdf]
Your role in life is to be an ideal worker for for the state / capital. We no longer need you to produce new workers and be distracted by that responsibility, we have enough workers for our needs and will shift them across borders if necessary. Just spend your life working for us and distract yourself with the massive variety of vices available to you.
> It's an implementation detail.

It's an implementation detail of CPython. Which is by far the most common Python interpreter. And it limits parallelisation via threads in Python, a language that otherwise natively supports threading.

So yes, it IS a needless limitation.
This question can't really be answered without knowing the location. The differences can be significant.
"Improving people's ability to competitively argue for things they don't believe in seems a hilariously bad idea."

Why? One consequence might be to improve your ability to steelman an argument with which you disagree.
Maybe you can convince a therapist to use the AI with you and fill some gaps? I wouldn’t be surprised if this type of hybrid approach would be useful in some situations.
I have mixed feelings about all this.

Obviously, the intelligence agencies are thwarting the spirit of the law requiring warrants by buying data hoovered up by big data.

But I was always told growing up not to share things on the internet I don't want everyone to know. I feel like you kind of deserve having your data hoovered up by the government if you share that data publicly on social media, but personal responsibility doesn't appear to be a contributing factor in this discussion for some reason.

That's not the only source of data, obviously, but there are a lot of people on HN who think blocking ads is piracy. To those people, I present this exact problem, because they should have seen it coming. Adtech is amoral and unethical, and ways of life that rely upon it should collapse. No mercy, I don't care, find a better business model or live on the street.
Except that doesn’t make sense. Malls were teen hangouts for 2 decades and thrived. What killed our mall was that all the anchor stores were getting killed by Walmart and target.
As a a rightie who had to write in Arabic with a fountain pen, I really do understand, though there are some inks that make this easier.
Weird replies. It is obvious the women are dating men over 30.
I did "solve the problem". I use Slack and Discord to talk to the cohorts who used to be on IRC.

Your behavior in this thread is really strange. Discord's a fine tool. So is Slack. I have nothing to fix, and my posts in this thread have been explaining why for me they're fit for purpose when IRC isn't. Why would I "do something about" a situation that isn't a problem for me?
You can run 13B locally and it will do just fine.
Apple’s Parental Controls Are Broken
> Logging isn't a "fancy" feature and telling people to just run an always-on logging service on top doesn't cut it.

If you want a full conversation history then use something like email/listservs. IRC is for real-time chat. We already have a plethora of async options.
Panama Papers? Although that's about financial shenanigans rather than Political.

But I still think the leaker was wise to remain anonymous.
they're dating other women, the same men, and more willing to consider an interaction a relationship than the partner is.

those are the consensus of possibilities established the last time those stats were posted, in several other forums.
"Purpose" and "fitness" change over time, while IRC has not. And proportionally speaking, nobody is. Companies use Slack and Teams, while gamers, friend groups, and a nontrivial amount of open source projects use Discord.
When the Eye of Sauron gazes upon you, by nature of the gaze you are under suspicion. Depending what is found while the gaze is upon you might decide if you are guilty or not. However, you cannot be ruled out as a terrorist until you've been under that gaze. By falsifying your data just means that the gaze will be much more intense because you're clearly behaving in the manner of someone guilty. It takes time to determine if that guilty looking behavior is because of guilty actions or just some nerd trying to corrupt the data. Either way, you are behaving like a subversive, so you'll just be remembered for that for future investigations.
Japanese web design certainly isn’t tidy or elegant
Like unreasonably low speed limits, the purpose of legislation like this isn't to be enforceable against everyone. It's to be enforceable against anyone.
This is close to home-brewed kefir.
Then you should ask these men/women yourself and see. I did ask a while ago some of my younger friends why they aren’t dating, listing several reasons but I believe the answer to your question is feminine hypergamy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergamy

If you don’t want to ask directly or know no one ask, just give a glimpse on dating issues in platforms like tiktok and you can quickly draw a conclusion about that.
I have no issue with people using shame in order to encourage people into making better decisions.
What does this have to do with my point, I clearly said they would industrialize
If a developer of a 300 million dollar project can’t afford $5000 to get in line for $30-$50k study to determine the requirements for a 1-50 million dollar interconnection, odds are that developer’s project is going nowhere with them anyway
Retweets have been renamed to ‘Reposts.’
- Get a netbook, even the libretto would work with a wired conn/pcmpcia/wifi-wpa2 would work with a custom current-ish kernel such as Hyperbola GNU/Linux once you strip linux-libre of all the unneded junk.

- Connect kbtin or tintinplusplus to cs.netsville.com

- type in "help"

Congrats, you got a recursive retrofuturist experience.

Also, if you use slrn/lynx/links/irssi/gopher/gemini software/networks, you already are in the retro cyberpunk dream.

Finally: gopher://midnight.pub or gemini://midnight.pub .
Best viewed under sacc or bombadillo.
Oh, are we back on the lab leak theory?
The ; got included in the yubikey-agent URL: https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent

Thanks for those pointers!
Right, that is the one I was thinking about. Thanks!
Yes databases and persisted data are an even bigger problem -- it's not enough to "reboot the Internet", you would also have to migrate all the data it stores to a different format!

I started using the terminology "interior vs. exterior" for these issues, and I find it pretty helpful - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/06/ysh-design.html

e.g. type systems are interior, network protocols and persisted data are exterior.

SWEs tend to reason about the interior; SREs tend to reason about the exterior. Every problem a SRE deals with has passed type checks.

I see many fallacies where programmers want to think about the interior ONLY. They want the type system to ensure correctness. But that can be taken too far -- there are some things the interior view can't (or doesn't currently) handle, like mixed versions of binaries, schema migrations, etc.

The key point with databases is that your schema is LITERALLY dynamic -- it lives in a process outside your program, outside your type system (unless your program consists entirely of stored procedures, etc.)

Of course most people have some kind of synchronization or ORM (with varying degrees of success). But the point is that the exterior reality is the thing that matters; the interior is just a guide. "When models and reality collide, reality wins"

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On the other hand, I think there can be more static tools in the future -- if they are built to understand more of the system; if they're not so parochially limited to a single process.

But I think these issues are never going away -- quite the contrary they will increase, because software tends to get more heterogeneous as it gets bigger. It's tempting to think that someday there's going to be a "unified platform" that solves it all, but I think the trend is actually the opposite.

The other issue is that while type systems can get better, they're mostly applicable when you control both sides of the wire.

Most orgs writing software do not control both sides of the wire -- they are reusing services like Google Maps or Stripe. In the last 10 years it seems like every org is now relying on 50 different third party integrations (which btw makes the web super slow ...)

As I mentioned in the previous comment, even if you can somehow go into the repo of Google Maps or Stripe, download their schema, and compile it into your binary, that STILL doesn't give you any guarantees.

They can upgrade or roll back their binaries whenever. They might switch from free-form JSON to JSON schema to Swagger, etc. You don't control that decision.

The people on the other side of the wire may have started using protobufs 10 years ago, and don't feel like switching to whatever you think is great right now. There's a lot of heterogeneity across time too, not just across different tech right now.

So fundamentally the problems are with "the world" the type system is modeling, not about or within the type system itself!
Most cities in the US are structurally set up only for cars, with everything spread so far out that it makes things like buses impractical and a last resort.

The bus in these areas is almost only used by very poor people, homeless, elderly, students. This is especially true if you are someone who lives outside of the core downtown area.
> Significant changes to energy/fuel usage and transport/travel

Nothing significant have happened yet.

> war on farming that nobody voted for set to cut food production

No one wants to reduce food production. We just need to do more of what is sustainable and avoid doing the things that are not.

> the biggest risk from climate change is crop failure and famine

And with deforestation and soil depletion our farming practices are one of the biggest culprits of that.

> conspiracy theories

Yep, let our politicians solve the problem ... but don't change a thing!
While I'm happy to see optional GIL approved and happening,

I also suspect that the GIL has saved us from debugging reentrant and/or dangerously concurrent code for years, and I salute the GIL for forcing us to build Arrow for IPC in Python, in particular.

Someday, URI attributes in CPython docstrings might specify which functions are constant time, non re-entrant, functions.

Reentrancy (computing):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reentrancy_(computing)

Global Interpreter Lock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_interpreter_lock
Who is going to raise a baby with the mind of an adult?