skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the government can criminalize some speech and you don't seem to have an issue with it where it's obviously pro-social to do so.

I don’t think I believe this. You’ll need to explain a bit more why I do.

The best I can come up with is “photos are speech, no different than books or pamphlets. “Intellectual property” and pornography are already regulated and there’s no difference between that and other forms of speech. Taking a nude photo without the subject’s consent is speech and forcing someone to have their photo taken nude is speech. If you can’t take nude photographs of children, you don’t have free speech.” I’d have a problem with this argument but could agree with where it’s coming from.

I think what highlights the difference between “speech” and child pornography, for me, is best captured by loliporn and generative AI. I vehemently disagree with the depiction of minors in pornography. But, assuming the artist didn’t use actual child pornography as a reference (including in training the AI), I consider the content generated by those methods to be “speech.” I’d defend your right to produce and distribute it no matter how much I disagree with it. It was never about the “speech” part of the photo.

After reading your response, I’m left feeling like you missed the point of what I said. But maybe I originally missed yours?

I’m sorry for offending you. I assume your profession is law specializing in free speech. It must be exhausting having to engage with the general public on how they feel they feel they should be governed. You’re making me realize I treat my banker the same way, I try to understand (and I have opinions on) the financial instruments I put my savings into before I make the investment.

You must feel like an IT help desk clerk whose constantly burdened by users.

If you’d like me to withdraw from this conversation because I’m not worthy of having it with you, I’m okay with that.

I’ll leave with my general sentiment about your original Motte. I vehemently disagree with pro-genocide propaganda but I’ll defend an American’s right to post and read it.
I don't know how to make ambient temperature superconductors.
Pentagon is investigating compromise in Air Force communications: Report
> On the other hand, smashing up some proverbial deck chairs...is an acceptable way of making people acutely aware that the ship is, in fact, sinking.

That seems to err on the side of intentional damage. I don't know how to evaluate destructive protests. I suppose some suicides are clear protests, but I don't think all suicides are, and someone really shouldn't drag others into a mess they made.

> You should try posing that question to the kind of person that works to restrict safe access to it.

Well I'm not that kind of person, and I was referring to a child that was already born.

> What you'll get is a reminder that a great deal of our society doesn't really understand "cause and effect" -- and are completely willing to drag down everyone else through completely socially sanctioned acts, such as political participation.

Perhaps, but that's neither here nor there. Malice, ignorance, and whatnot are serious problems, but their prevalence doesn't justify drunk driving and the like.
Diseases of aging
Except that most cyclists I know (me included) would be too scared to use one.
Isn't <Ctrl-o> more useful in general?
It is like playing the lottery or slot machine. You just keep trying one more time to see if you can hit the jackpot.
Where to Find a $4-an-Hour Math Tutor with a PhD? Overseas
What are you talking about?

The reason they still do so is because the majority of voters aren’t too bothered by it.
Better graphics than the original dwarf fortress lol.
Rust's lazy iterators don't cache the results, to be iterated over again. It allows the optimiser to inline all calls and end up with a loop that doesn't need bounds checks, which is why they can be faster than C-style loops over arrays.
I’m going to ignore this article on Waugh’s literary output to let you know that I love this wonderful city.
The world's hardest problems are generally uninteresting because they aren't problems you personally can do anything about without years of training.

"What is the highest-impact problem you are capable of solving?"

^^ I think this question is more powerful and much more difficult.

Learning your limits is incredibly hard. You have to border between optimism and pessimism -- between ego and humility.

After you understand your capabilities, follow your curiosity to find great problems. I think the discovery of good problems is itself the important trait. If you rely upon others to tell you which problems are important, you will spin directionless without understanding the underlying principles.
Las Vegas approves 68 miles of underground transportation tunnels
"What does it mean to be human?"

We are about to see machines surpass human performance at every conceivable task.

I therefore consider the problem of understanding what humans are at the fundamental, existential level (besides second-class machines) to be the deepest and most important problem of today.

And I suspect it will be the only problem left for the humans of tomorrow.
What does it mean to "solve human greed"?
It doesn't make much sense for developers to spend time adding features that users cannot use.
Despite its weak points, Clojure is still an excellent lisp for getting things done. For long running programs that live on the server, and especially for multithreaded/asynchronous workloads, I find it far better to work with than other lisps.
LLM context window limitation.
Does this show on the car's display or is it limited to showing on the phone's screen?
It is extremely rare that actionable, reproducible information comes out of the patent process. In general, they provide as little information as possible in order to satisfy the office, which is extremely overworked and (by design) rubber stamps everything that has basically the correct headings and formatting and isn't too similar to an existing patent.
> Sum types by themselves do nothing to force handling of errors,

If you have Haskell experience, then have you ever wondered how it is considered "null safe" and does not throw null pointer exceptions? Perhaps it is because optional "Maybe" types (the simplest form of error) must be explicitly unpacked? Yes, Haskell, being an old language without a sound type system, permits "fromJust" and its exceptions (a side effect) are not tracked like other effects. But despite this, are you seriously claiming that sum types "do nothing" to achieve this null safety?

If you want to understand the full proving power of sum types, I do not suggest Rust or Haskell as a model example. Coq, Agda, Idris or ATS will be better examples.
So write a blog post about how London is hell and post it here...
Isn't that what everyone who writes on the internet does with every tweet, toot, blog post, vlog, podcast, short, reel, and comment?
Also the "cuisine" filters for restaurants appears to be completely irrelevant. You will still get results for Chinese restaurants even though you have selected "Pizza".
+ Ecological collapse
Sure they could? That's a common way people get rich off of patents; make a product which uses your new innovation, sell that product, use the patent to prevent everyone else from using the innovation to make competing products.

I believe that's more or less the history of e-ink, among other things.
Not to "recent line". To "line before latest jump".

This is in section 10 of chapter 3 of the :help user-manual. That's like… day 1 material. Not worthy of HN, IMO.
You're getting unfair downvotes. Are you English or something else?

One of the perks of living in England as a foreigner is you avoid the extreme class stratification that is English society or are at least given a pass.

And yes, to certain circles saying you live in a flat is akin to admitting you're poor. This along with your accent also identifies your class.

I avoided this by calling my flat an apartment though I lived in New Cross near Deptford which is definitely "low class" or as I liked to say, " gentrifying.".
Technically I don’t think it’s resold, as google hasn’t bought the data from anyone. But I think what the author meant is that Google also uses the data for ads, etc and then sells it.
Tangential question from a German: You said "when my lease is up". What does this mean? The way I know it is, if you want to move to a different apartment, you just cancel your current lease. There's a period of notice, usually something like three months, so you would choose the start of the new lease so that it slightly overlaps with the old lease for the purpose of doing the actual move. Is it different in the US?
>This place: Money in, nothing out.

Well, it has to disappear somewhere, doesn't it? Otherwise why would they need to print more?

I mean, that's how it works, right?
I like Jitsi. What I've mainly used with most people is Google Meet in a browser and I'm not sure what they promise -- which is the main reason I was vague about which alternative at the start of this thread. It shouldn't hurt to list your preferences in preference order when setting up a call.

Google seems more trustworthy than Zoom by a considerable margin, even though I don't treat them as wholly aligned with me, and centralization is a vulnerability.
Govts included. Govt can use the data as long as a company will sell it to them without laws considering it to be warrantless spying.
The London job market is great for the UK, excellent within Europe, and stupendous by global standards. You'll find top jobs in tech, media, fashion, finance, academia, almost any professional field there is.
https://archive.is/R8dAn
Microsoft Signing Key Stolen by Chinese
Yet another reason why you should handle these scenarios on your own rather than hoping clients/users will.
In London I find that very hard to believe unless you were associating with some exceptionally rich people. The average flat prices was over £500K (most expensive is being sold for £175 million: https://onehidepark.uk/) and house was £800K. There's similar expensive ranges for rentals.
Why doesn't Java (or other languages) support a fixed length decimal by default? Granted Java has BigDecimal, but why isn't there a basic type for this?

For business and accounting systems, this seems like an obvious choice.
Do you mean flipping the magnet over? If you scroll down he did that.
Non-exploitative business models.
Today 10 years ago I got a Firefox OS phone
If this material is real. And the mechanism producing it and materials like it could be understood starting process now would give head start on discovering materials that are like it.

It is pretty big pot to get part of if you discover way to refine the process, or find adjacent material with similar or better characteristics.
IMHO, physicist, especially theoretical physicist, must be able to create a physical model of something, to confirm that their mathematical models are somewhat connected to reality. WTF is «wave of probability»? WTF is «bending of space-time»? These things are possible in dream-land physics only.
I'm working on a middle-tier solution for this gap -- I call it Nimbus, but basically the idea is to provide managed services at low cost cloud prices.

There's no reason someone should have to run a service like Chatwoot themselves, the software is so good that it's mostly set & forget for most small use cases.

That's where I come in. Unfortunately I don't have ChatWoot yet, but I have (and use) Umami for page view tracking extensively on my own projects now, with Nimbus[1]. The dogfood tastes decent so far.

[1]: https://nimbusws.com/managed/umami/
Currently BOTH is being used - peer review is the first pass, reproduction the second.

Peer review might (or might not) weed out a few papers before they ever get to being reproduced - and that a paper "passed" peer review often means very little. (In some journals more, in some less).

You can't replace peer review with peer replication. Reviewers often do volunteer work - supporting their field and the journal by checking submissions just for any grave errors/mistakes. They often spend just 10 to 15 minutes per submission - for hundreds of submissions. It's not realistic to ask those reviewers to do a full replication attempt for hundreds of submissions.

So any attempt to "replace" review with replication, would end up basically removing review altogether, without increasing the amount of replication attempts being made.
Richard Hamming gave a very influential lecture called “You and your research” — there are a few versions of it online and it’s been discussed here a few times before.

He poses the same question in pretty much the same way, “why aren’t you working on the most important questions in your field?”

I would say that what he defines as “important” is along the lines of “what will be the most influential?” - the sorts of things that bring Nobel prizes and glory.

But no one can tell you what is important: it depends on your own values; it’s a question you have to ask yourself.
Keeping the benefits of possibly the most significant breakthrough in fundamental research this century out of the hands of humanity for 20 years. You find it hard to see that as something negative?
Transit looks like a nice app. I assume it's based on the open data initiatives in places where it works (France etc.). There's similar iniatives in many places now (Japan has one as well) and I'm pretty much rooting for more of those.

You're still left patchworking all these apps, switching from one another at every point and assembling everything in notes by yourself. It's super nice it can be done at all, but I'd also pay for an app that has it all in one place if it wasn't free.

To note, the c) part is not just public transport but anything from private bus network/taxi/private bike networks/just walk. While Maps deals with that decently, I'd agree it would be way too much too ask from a free transit app.
The two I’ve seen is 1. a company needs it and doesn’t care so they just make a huge investment in the tooling that they open source or 2. someone with a lot of free time/independently wealthy just puts their head down and goes at it.
You're missing the context of Canadian administrative law.

As other commenters have noted, "Governor in Council" means the federal Cabinet, but more importantly than that "regulations made by the Governor in Council" is a magic phrase that allows published, regulatory rulemaking. This works in much the same way as when the US Congress passes a bill that authorizes the EPA to regulate air pollution.

This system generally gives greater grants of regulatory authority than the US system. Since Canada has a Westminster form of government based on partial unification of the executive and legislative branches, the executive (Prime Minister / Cabinet) is assumed to always be operating with the confidence of Parliament. (If that isn't the case, Parliament can turf the Prime Minister and by extension Cabinet.) The net result is that while the US has ingrained hostility between legislators and regulatory rulemakers, the situation in Canada is more one of cooperation and delegation.

Your concern about "you can always say that this newspaper [etc]" is textually founded, but an important rule in Canadian administrative law is that regulatory grants must be exercised 'reasonably', compatibly with both the text and intended purpose of the legislation.

A designation made (or not made) under 27(1) would be subject to judicial review if the denied business so wishes, giving courts the opportunity to weigh in. An arbitrary regulatory ruling made on thin grounds would not survive its day in court.
According to Wikipedia, Q Centre was founded in 2008. LK-99 is called LK-99 because it was discovered in 1999, but they stopped working on it for the bigger chunk of the 21st century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-99#Compound_name
This might be helpful: https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/
Why? If it helps people it should be good. Why bother posting something on the public web if not to help people.

Sure a large org is receiving some ancillary benefit, but do you feel the same hostility for people working at [large corp] using what you worked on to help them at work?

I honestly don't understand the hostility towards llms using public data
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You’re kind of all over the place here.

The Avignon papacy lasted from 1309-1376. The “Year without a summer” was 1816. The French Revolution was 1789.

Your source on Inuits landing in Scotland seems to conclude that it either didn’t happen or was possibly the result of European kidnapping.

I guess I’m not sure what your point is.
AB, SK and MB are conservative with high rates of Trump flags.

And nice lies dude. They all have over double the national average!

Don’t use Fraser institute for sources. They are a far right “think” tank. If they posted it, it’s a lie or misrepresentation.
OT but I'm always fascinated by forums like this with seemingly a lot of activity but zero information anywhere what it's about. It's like a private club. I often need to resort to the meta tags in order to get an idea:

<meta name="description" content="A popular forum celebrating geek culture and creativity. Home to all genres of original and fan fiction, plus lively discussions about everything nerdy." />
A guide for aliens: how to interpret the messages sent from Pioneer and Voyager
>So yes, in a world with patents, private entities would still engage in research, but what would they gain from disclosing the details of their process?

They might not gain, but the people working for them would certainly gain from moving to other employers who needed their "expertise".
If you want to work in a diverse environment go work in London. It wouldn't surprise me if 50% of your colleagues weren't born in the UK, let alone London.
It would be nice to see some actual research backing a claim like this.
I'm not sure I know _anyone_ (who doesn't live with their parents) in London who doesn't either live in a flat or lives in a house with flatmates. And that includes doctors, CTOs, and lots of software engineers.
Aaand it's gone. :D (Not me.)
Is it possible in the 21st century to have a city where artists all know to gather and make art together? I guess today the closest thing would be college towns? Or perhaps these cities still exist and I'm just not aware of them.
> What it means is that the overall structure of the system is sufficiently clear with proper separation of concerns and modular boundaries to begin implementation. The design is "exact" at a high level but the details would be worked out iteratively. Top-down design and Bottom-up implementation.

With a complex enough problem, that doesn't work as well as you imply.

The architecture that you come up with initially gets compromised by practical considerations. Which is the reason why re-implementations (often caused by changing languages for unrelated reasons) often result in substantially smaller code sizes because the second time around, the architecture is informed by the experience of implementation.
I would take a different approach than many other problems here.

- Healing damaged relationships in your life.

- Addressing unresolved internal traumas and fully integrating them.

- Replacing addictive and avoidant behaviours and taking care of the problems in your life head on.

I don't have "the answer" to any of these, obviously, but they are certainly big and important.
There is a manual? I thought vim was tough through verbal anecdotes from generation to generation
One Model lands $41M to bring data science-powered insights to HR
Tearing down the political circus, big government and achieving a pocket of anarchism powered by free, unconstrained trade.

Green, sustainable, plentiful energy. Turning trash into products.

Achieve greater and more harmonious integration of technology and nature.

Fostering small decentralised groups, communities, instead of large institutions, companies, projects. Doing more research on how small groups of people behave, as opposed to what sociology has been doing for the past 75 years.

Making technology work for us. Dedicating 40 hours a week for 50 years to full time employment, for the privilege of hiding from the rain, is a level of slavery most people are happy to defend.

Declaring the current computing stack as bankrupt and unsustainable and explore novel ways of expanding human intellect through technology. The current code-compile-run model was already ancient in the 1970s. We have reached a local maxima, time to try something different.

--

These are the things I care about, and not enough time nor connections to make a significant dent to any of them, just yet. Happy to chat about any of this with other restless souls.
That's because when people talk about free markets, they're really only talking about guns, school, oil drilling, banking and insurance. And not really the laws that will remove barriers to entry to the markets but the regulations that will exploit other groups like consumers, the effects of the environment, and labor.
I agree that my life doesnt get as affected due to the current privilege I hold, I had riots happening 500 yards away from my house and got spooked.

I think FAANG/FAANG like in europe or liberal US states remain the only options. Will be looking to up my skills according to this.
You lack imagination if the only way people can achieve something is through the one specific economic system
I never got around to formally describe it, but I had this idea how we could formalize these concepts like readability or programming effort.

We can think of each function (those make up our program) as a channel in information theory - input values are input symbols and output values are output symbols. Our "not understanding" of what the function does is modeled as the noisiness of the channel, so the higher the understanding, the higher the information gain between inputs and outputs of the function.

But I never got around to compose the channels and their associated entropies, which would be the goal of this formalization.
You can email them at HN@ycombinator.com and get your comments deleted.
This is likely just one member of a family of related compounds that exhibit the similar properties. I am unsure how broad the patent is, but I suspect there will be a race to find other members of this family of related compounds. Some may be easier/cheaper to synthesize or have more stability/longevity. Some members of the family may even have larger rangers where they exhibit SC.
> But that's not true, and people know it.

Based on what I've seen? They're good enough to be interesting, more so than GPT-2.

They don't need to be amazing from day one to be a foundation for replacing the status-quo.

> CEOs of big corporations just call the ministers directly and tell them to get in line, or else.

I roll to disbelieve (that it works, not that CEOs attempt it); that sounds like conspiracy theory to me.
Except I find OrganicMaps to have an even worse version of the problems of Google Maps for the exact reason you say it's good. I mostly don't care about all of the "interesting buildings". I care about the one interesting building that I'm trying to get to. Often, I literally cannot get it to show me the business I care about because it's the ground-floor coffee shop in a 10-story office building, and it would rather try to have 40 tiny pins for every legal firm and startup crammed onto the building than show me the ground-floor option that 95% of people would probably want.

I get it - they have no information about me. They maybe don't even have a way to understand or even guess which one I may care about, but in a city with any amount of density you need some fairly strong heuristics on what pins you're showing to filter out the valid businesses that you're unlikely to care about.