skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scorpius is right up there at the top of the list, I agree with that.

But I think that Londo Molari beats Scorpius as a villain because we see every step of his journey from a minor government official in a position that is regarded as a joke back home, his first grasp at real power, his gradually rising self esteem, his surprise and disgust at the bombing of Narn, his attempts to undo his mistakes without losing his new position and the respect of his peers back home, etc, etc. All of this happens gradually across the five seasons of the show.

With Scorpius we only get a single episode detailing his backstory, and he probably customized that heavily to appeal specifically to John. He does stick to his stated goals and motivation even after he loses his power base, so there was at least some truth to it, but it is still a lot thinner.
I didn't mention that it was 'easy', only 'nicer'. I wasn't clear that I was comparing it to a what a state prison would be. I also didn't mean to insinuate that prison is easy or nice, only that my belief is that white-collar crimes (especially ones were lots of money is involved) tend to get the guilty party into a federal prison that will treat them better. Of course, this is all relative. I'd rather not go to any prison, however if there was a choice or ability to influence the decision, I'd prefer a "nicer" federal prison, especially one of the ones listed as the best prisons to go to.

I do believe a lot of people would trade a federal prison sentence if they were able to steal millions and were able to get it afterwards. Of course, the prison sentence to how much money was made will vary per individual.

Some quick links from google on the best federal prisons where it mentions there are "nicer" federal prisons.

[1] https://federalcriminaldefenseattorney.com/best-federal-pris...
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2012/01/19/The-Best-Places-to-Go-to-Pri...
[3] https://www.forbes.com/2009/07/13/best-prisons-cushiest-mado...
Thankfully the demand for printers is fading. This will of course cause printer mfrs to double down on their lockdowns ("Sorry, your toner is too old so you'll have to go out and buy new a new cartridge"). But its their anti-consumer practices that drive people not to print.

My kiddo bought a new printer in 2015 because he had to print something for high school and the toner cartridge was empty. It was cheaper to buy a whole replacement brother with the starter cartridge than to just get a cartridge (and it was delivered for free within the a couple of hours!). I still have it, still use it once in a while, and it's still on that same starter cartridge and maybe the same ream of paper. Two more kids have finished high school using it...hardly at all.

In the past year I can remember two printer jobs, each a single page.
I liked the movie and the first season or so of the show.

It didn't keep me long past that. Writing was mediocre at best. I gave Atlantis a few episodes and completely failed to discover why anyone was watching it.
TypeChat-like things might provide the interface control for future context driven architectures, being some type of catalysis. Using the self-reflective modeling is a form of contextual insight.
The people that promote climate doom want their genes to propagate with abundance of resources, and are trying to convince the rest of the world to stop having kids.
> I don't know or remember the details of the DMCA, but does it not require the copy protection to be of some reasonable effectiveness (e.g. reasonable cryptography)?

No. "Effective" is defined in section 1201 as meaning that the technological measure prevents copying "during the normal course of its operation" -- i.e., the "happy path" of the code prevents unauthorized copying. No matter how trivially the code may be broken, breaking it is a felony. A simple bit of JavaScript embedded in a page that prevents right clicks (to download images) would be an "effective technological measure" under the DMCA. If you put up a web page showing how to get around this with Chrome developer tools, you are "trafficking in circumvention tools" and can be found civilly/criminally liable under the DMCA.

Note that there are Library of Congress exceptions for circumventing, but not for trafficking. So you can figure out how to, say, rip DVDs yourself if doing so falls under a LoC exemption. But if you then turn around and publish how to do it, you are still in violation of the DMCA.
There's an exception to almost everything. Intel was a famous exception on cubicles for upper management; the CEO had a cubicle just like normal employees (except the CEO's was bigger and not accessible from the aisle of course). The CEO also didn't have his own special floor, special bathroom, special elevator, etc.
I wonder if it’s the engineering roles drying up or the amount of spammy recruiters has decreased.

Anecdotally, I know a number of recruiters (some were even good ones) that got cut in recent years.
Using GPT3.5/4 in our language learning app and people seem to enjoy it. [1]

Tried Llama2 and it definitely doesn’t even come close for what we’re doing. Would absolutely need fine tuning.

Maybe customers don’t enjoy chat bots for customer support, but there are a million other uses for these models. I, for example, LOVE github copilot.

1. https://squidgies.app
I like to imagine that, as in Ender's Game, the top-ranked player is unknowingly allocating memory for some critical infrastructure somewhere.
I can get any outer ring to register depending on how fast I scroll. I think it's OLED schmearing.
The Dance of Śiva
And yet, it's not the first or last project to choose to build a base SDK in Rust and provide bindings on top. And an effort being taken by a company quickly trying to iterate, build a polished product, and bring revenue in on the edges.

And you can already look at various projects and see the positive impacts.

I'd elaborate on why, but we've all heard it a thousand times and the folks that don't want to believe anything they hear about Rust still won't hear it.
It makes no economic sense to Apple to replace components on a robot-soldered board. Not a scam, just the realities of manufacturing. Almost everything we buy has the same issue. Consumers prefer paying less. AppleCare available too.

I’ve had auto mechanics try to scam me. Never Apple. John Deere isn’t selling common consumer products. Pretty bad comparisons. Try comparing to Samsung or Lenovo or Microsoft (Surface).
To conserve the environment, the power system needs to decarbonize, and that means solar needs to be built somewhere. No matter where it's built, solar will take up land, so we ought to build it in the places where the sun makes it most effective.

People supporting development of clean energy don't necessarily believe these areas are empty: they think that the best way to preserve the environment is to use that land to generate power and eliminate some portion of fossil fuel emissions.

There is a crapload of desert in the U.S. West. The tortoises need to live somewhere, but it is hard to me to imagine the harm to the tortoises of solar development is worse than the detriment to all ecosystems from CO2 emissions.
>they came up with the amazing solution of using your health and wellness budget to buy noise cancelling headphones.
>Most full of bullshit company I’ve ever worked for.

At least they bought you NC headphones; that's a LOT more than I can say about most companies. And the fact that you had a "health and wellness" budget at all.
Kids needing colouring pages are the sole reason I have a new Brother laser.
That man was not very wise to begin with. I wonder what else he needs to learn about _in prod_.
> neither fair nor easy to accept but internalizing it now may save some pain later.

that's a bit of a defeatist attitude though.

I expect a better retirement than the current generation of retirees right now, and i expect to achieve that by purchasing as many assets as possible, while earning as much as possible, before i retire. Of course, one does not know what the future holds - so the method i am using may turn out fruitless.
That may be the best description of the show, ever. My fondest memories of it were how detailed the online analyses of each episode were as they aired. All of the speculation, references to previous clues - everything was dissected. And JMS was right in the only fray most of the time, teasing and clarifying and explaining, but never spoiling what was coming up. It was the golden age of Internet synergy with a show, not just trolling and shitposting.
Apple won’t fix that kind of thing. They don’t have the facilities or people and it wouldn’t make economic sense to them. But you can find independent repair shops. I had that exact problem on an MBA and found a guy in Bangkok who just does Apple repairs. $15.
There is no clear answer. It's debatable among experts.

The grandparent post seems to believe that the issue is algorithmic complexity and programming aptitude. Personally, I think that all the major LLMs are using the same basic transformer architecture with relatively minor differences in code.

GPT is trained on more data with more parameters than any open source model. The size does matter, far more than the software does. In my experience with data science, the best programmers in the world can only do so much if they are operating with 1/10th the scale of data. That applies to any problem.
Spotlight on Sig ContribEx – Kubernetes
Maybe. Or just consumers repeatedly choosing price and convenience and immediacy over quality or long-term considerations.
> what's your evidence that asylum systems aren't being abused by fraud?

So what are we talking about here?

What's your evidence that aspartame doesn't cause cancer? What's your evidence that God doesn't exist? What's your evidence that X doesn't cause Y?

See, the problem isn't that there are asylum seekers who abuse the system.

Nobody disagrees with you.

It's the extraordinary claim that it's a current and massive phenomenon (A) that is causeing big trouble (B) and that it's not being worked on (C), and that AfD has a solution for it (D) that no other party has (E).

Remember, extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence. Here, we have claims A, B, C, D, and E that each need extraordinary evidence.

We have zero data, and the problem is long gone. Should we spend resources, time and money into investigating a phantom problem that probably doesn't exist?

20% say yes.

I think it's phenomenal that a party can divert attention from actual, real problems into decoy problems and blow them out of proportion to gain power.

That's the actual danger to democracy we're talking about.
Essentially all these “modern” things steal the idea from 2 old things: Unix and APL/K. Except the taste is not nearly as good.
Not to be too aloof, but why should we care too much about if the desert tortoise stands to win or lose if we’re doing what’s necessary to save our civilization?
https://mashgpt.com/entertainment

https://mashgpt.com/sports

https://mashgpt.com/business

https://mashgpt.com/technology

https://mashgpt.com/science

For me, all the above URLs resulted in;

Not Found

The requested URL was not found on the server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.
The hacking part is that LLM’s are going to be used in things like customer service online bots.
There are legal agreements backing the separation of company data from other parties. This is what's important to big corps.
Much of the article is about this, about how environmental protection has historically required conservation and resisting development, but now environmental protection requires developing clean energy (and urban housing) as quickly as possible
It makes no economic sense to Apple to replace components because it's more profitable to sell an entire part. The proof is in those parts being repairable for far less from third parties (when Apple does not needlessly lock the part down or when third parties have discovered a workaround).
I don't know the details of life in NZ, but I live in a highly desirable part of Manhattan and make just north of $150k. I eat out all the time, travel often, and ultimately feel very few financial constraints (aside from not saving as much as I'd like). What in NZ is driving up costs so high that $150k can't sustain a single individual in a nice urban apartment?
> That's not "Desktop Linux has a Firefox problem", that's "Desktop Linux has a problem". hardware acceleration was always a pain to get working in linux

Media players like mpv supported VA-API for video acceleration for many years and that just worked for me without any issues on all my computers.

It is clearly a Firefox issue that it did not support API that was supported by many Linux-native software.
I've been in this exact situation before in a storage expansion.

With enough 22TB spinning drives nowadays you can get in to a scenario where, with the new data being written into the array and the expansion process going on at the same time the rebuild essentially will never complete.
This is especially true with lower end CPU servers and without dedicated RAID cards.

It is dangerous because the rebuild stresses the drive which makes a failure more likely, and a failure during the rebuild process is not great, on top of that you've got a months long ETA...

No fun
I once made the mistake of buying into a certain library before vetting it. Pretty much a rookie mistake.
Now I verify I can do the thing I want to use a particular library or tool for, in a separate throwaway minimal verifiable project, before integrating into whatever main thing I need it for. Fail fast in a sense.
They messed up and either ran out of disk space or had an array fail. Everything in that statement reads like they are trying to frame a critical production failure as a glitch that occurred during maintenance. This wasn’t about a routine storage expansion. It was an emergency caused by some operational screwup and the only way to fix it is to rebuild the array with new disks.
It’s funny you mention that NZ expats are ending up in Australia. You would think this article would suggest they have a problem with brain drain in NZ and should solve it by local companies raising pay to keep talent at home.

But alas, the solution to brain drain is to import labor from somewhere with lower standards, accelerating the brain drain if anything as it suppresses local incomes.

To your last note - immigrants increase supply which is fine when measured, as it is in places like Australia with brutally restrictive immigration policy and remoteness that makes refugees unlikely. But as supply grows then demand shrinks and if you’re importing supply at the same rate as demand then wages are flat and if faster then wages drop.

Immigrants can increase the wealth of all yes, but they can also decrease the wealth of most at the benefit of the few when run rampant. But again, Australia is incredibly restrictive with immigration (they literally put many people on an island pending review) so it’s not currently what the CEO in this article is saying. He’s saying more and faster.
You made a really good point. I don't mean to delve into whether this burden is entirely fair for all, but rather I'm pointing out the fact that this burden can be imposed due to 1) The US being a global hegemon and 2) The extent to which slavery is woven into the cultural narrative of the country, to the point where on one end it's assumed become almost a poignant/macabre element of pop culture that spans well beyond its abolishment. This imposed burden is evident even in the form "antiracism" with regards to a collective pronouncement of guilt [1].

Maybe I could have done better in making my point if I had said:

The Western world, in particular the United States, bears [a greater] burden [in respect to] their relationship with slavery [because it is] more well-documented and its effects are paid more attention to than other parts of the world.

I'm not sure if "more well-documented" is a good phrase grammatically either but that's besides the point right now. My intention was to point out that a burden can be established against the US more so than other nations when the legacy of slavery is discussed. But my perspective is biased as an American myself, so maybe this isn't the case elsewhere. Either way, the fact of the matter is that to this day slavery remains a blight on American history. The conundrum is that, as I made note of, who doesn't have a history with slavery? The two points that I brought up were an attempt to address why this blight is so much discussed in the US at the expense of other regions.

[1]: A concept that I find regressive, for the same concern that I feel you show when you say, "Where does that leave the culture, practices, efforts and lineage of the people in the USA that were against [slavery] at every stage?" In that it engenders a sort of "self-flagellatory" performance that call upon entire nations and peoples to take a part in it. My initial concern over Stealing from the Saracens was that it possessed qualities such at this. But as I engage in different threads here and think more about it, that likely isn't the case with this book, hopefully.
Whats to stop me from playing a video full screen while I have a screen recorder? There are plenty of sites out there that can already convert youtube to mp3s
I do not understand why Microsoft still does not offer something similar to macOS’s Preview app.
This is a neat project from Microsoft

I've been building https://gasbyai.com, a beautiful chat UI that support self-hosted, with ChatGPT plugins, extract content from pdf/url. GasbyAI supports Azure, OpenAI, and custom API endpoints in case you want to run with your own models
For the sake of kicking off discussion: is the notion of <important or good thing> is a human right an overused or ineffective way of advocating for something?
Forget inflation data. Companies are not doing raises and a lot are not doing bonuses. Is anyone honestly saying they spend less now than a few years ago? Would love to hear the back story.
Come on Stanford Daily, you can do and have done better than this.

> Bankman-Fried’s breach of bail conditions may cause his [bail guarantors] to forfeit the collateral they put forward

That's not how it works. The bail is to ensure you show up -- and SBF showed up and was tossed in jail to await trial. The bond is terminated; he won't get out unless the court agrees on another one (very unlikely) or he is found not guilty of all charges (ditto).

> New court filings allege that Bankman and Fried were themselves improperly enriched, and exclusive Daily reporting shows that Bankman continues to serve in official capacities at the school.

It's hardly exclusive as these points (e.g. the houses) had been printed in the newspapers at the time of their sons' arrest. And as tenured faculty there is no reason beyond shame that they should not continue to work. Probably they need the income.

If only Stanford had a law school where the author of this piece could go ask about this before writing...
Which cloud server do you use for your backups for the $1/mo in added costs?
I find a lot of engineers I work with don’t understand on_mount. You shouldn’t have duplicate logic in on_mount—if you do, that code should be in a module. You only have the logic once, but you may call the function twice (though you don’t have to).

All your auth logic (and any other bits you need to set while starting up request state) should be a function in a module somewhere that returns expected values. Then, you just care to set these values to Conn and Socket assigns appropriately, keeping in mind that Conns and Sockets aren’t the same—when you have one, you don’t have the other. Thus, on_mount to the rescue:

1. Use Plug pipeline(s) to call your module function to compute and add bits to Conn.assigns (and you can add those values to the session to avoid computing again, if you’d like).

2. Use on_mount to assign_new:

2a. assign_new pulls from Conn.assigns by key for the dead render while you have a Conn.

2b. The fallback function gets that value again when you no longer have a Conn (recompute or pull from session if already there).

Your actual logic should only exist in one place. And there are easy strategies you can use to avoid expensive computations if necessary.

[Edit]: Not suggesting you don’t understand it, just to be clear. I’ve just experienced a lot of coworkers fighting against, abusing, and misunderstanding Conns, Sockets, and assigns.
No, it's not a human right. I think the only argument you need here is that tax payer funded research needs to be publicly available.

If someone wants to do private research and sell the results to people via journals, then they should be free to do so.
“Human rights” has become such a loaded term. You arent entitled to know everything. And if you’re specifically talking about academic publications the term “knowledge” is wrong because it includes a lot more than that.
There is no city in America where a single individual cannot afford a comfortable lifestyle in a nice neighborhood on a $150k salary. is this not true in most of Europe? I feel like most of my European friends make well south of $150k and do just fine.
Held Together
That's not how carbon credits are supposed to work, but I can totally believe they got corrupted somewhere.
I just went and checked it out. The first story: No Overtime at the Boner Factory

Interestingly enough, it’s not even about the OP. They do seem to love their clickbait, attention-grabbing sound bites though.

>Worst of all, a former employee had come forward with claims that Charney “kept her as his personal ‘sex slave’ for a period of eight months.”

> A journalist visited, and he jerked off in front of her—“eight or so times.” Employees accused him of sexual assault. Flannery recalls an astonishing staff meeting at which Charney dropped his pants and railed against “PC bullshit” in a pair of pink briefs.

As in - eight strokes? Or this happened on eight different occasions? And why pink underwear?

Honestly, this entire story seems greatly exaggerated, and it appears to be their “style”.
Look up "parallel construction".
There was this one game called True Crime: New York City which didn’t work on Dolphin because they used a bunch of non standard things also also because the game is so broken on native hardware that figuring out what is an issue with Dolphin and what is an issue with the game was an actual concern. https://www.pcgamesn.com/emulation/dolphin-games-true-crime-...
> Given that none of these are growing more abundant (except perhaps labor, depending how hard you squint)

While that sounds obvious, it’s not necessarily true. Empirically the real price of many commodities has come down, even in the face of growing population.

https://www.aier.org/article/review-of-superabundance-by-mar...
Missed my point. I'm not commenting on that; I'm commenting on how the quoted part leads with some bizarre reference to 'affection for the land' over the real reason which is the endangered species.
> The police aren't the government

Not in the ridiculous "party controlling parliament" sense, no. But they are absolutely the enforcement arm of the state, which is more on point.
The landowner usually lives a hundred kms away from there.

They leave some guy behind who is supposed to watch, but guess who was late/sick/whatever that night?