skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ATC being the company, its procedures, operating with limited staff, etc. Not the controller.
This brings back memories of EFNET #warez in the mid early ‘90s. It was invite only of course.
Worse, if the money is dirty, it might give prosecutors a reason to start investigating your campaign. Many federal prosecutors are more than eager to make their name in the Justice Department by taking down a prominent public figure.
I see the author’s point. His friend’s suicide affected him greatly. However I think this is somewhat a selfish point of view. His friend based on his description sounds like they were truly suffering, and he is upset about how that made him feel.

I don’t know, maybe im reading it the wrong way.
SerAIel killer...?
Does looping over the vocabulary add much overhead to the tok/s? I imagine they're just checking if the input is in a set, and usually there's only ~30k tokens. That's somewhat intensive, but inference on the neural net feels like it'd take longer.
I think an NFL lineup would be significantly less intimidating with their lungs full of helium. It's a pretty funny thing to imagine. (referring to the effect of helium on voices)
> 52 technical articles a week

I think GP wrote "a year", not a week.
Given the substance of your comment, you're not actually complaining about "Godwin's Law", as stated, but about "slippery slopes". And your point is good in the abstract, but in practice this slope is actually extremely slippery.

Canada has legalized medically assisted euthanasia, and we've already had cases of homeless people and chronically ill people seeking medical death due to hopelessness. We've had a government employee recommend assisted suicide to a military veteran who was just looking for a disability accommodation.

This is absolutely a case of "small steps that lead to dystopia", and we've witnessed these steps over the past few years. Economic and social conditions for specific demographics have become awful, and rather than trying to remedy those conditions, we're offering assisted suicide as an answer.
Yes, because somebody might innovate an education model where administrative salaries are 90% of the cost but students learn well, and earn well. An 8% cap would close off such avenues for progress.

In general (going back to basic cybernetics/control theory), it’s better to regulate outcomes (what you actually want) rather than inputs, unless you’re sure you have the correct model of the system. So it’s much better to make collages share the risk, rather than the government footing the risk and instituting regulations and processes.
Yes, but you’re just reiterating the basic Luddite argument, and taking IMO a blinkered perspective by looking at it from the perspective of a single firm rather than the economy as a whole. Often, increasing labor productivity in a given category actually increases the total quantity of such labor demanded in the economy due to the Jevons effect. If you increase output per worker by 10x, sometimes the product becomes cheap enough that the quantity demanded goes up by 100x and the economy ends up needing 10x as many workers. (Numbers for purpose of illustration of course.)

In other words, sure, there’s a limiting factor in terms of how much software the world actually wants, but the more software we can produce per programmer, the cheaper software gets and the more software the world wants. There is still eventually a limit here, but it is a lot farther away than it looks.
OP bought a 2nd hand product with expired warranty. Retailer sold it as new is a fraud by Amazon not Dell.
This might be true if everyone everywhere had good clean wall power. But since they don't, light bulbs, even LED bulbs, continue to be be a consumable object. The early claims of 50,000 hours never happened. They're down to claiming 10,000 hours and even this is only if you have perfect power. LED bulbs, at least in my apartment, actually last a shorter amount of time than halogen bulbs.

At least halogens and incandescents were just a bit of glass and some wire. LED bulbs all have a circuit board with many components. If they're taking the place of incandescent and still being a consumable item it might be worse for the environment in the long run. At least incandescents using lots of power puts all the CO2 production in centralized locations that can be mitigated. LEDs environmental footprint is much more distributed.

I'm not against LEDs light bulbs. I replaced almost all of mine with LEDs (though I have a stockpile of halogens for some uses). But they're certainly not going to change the world. Light bulbs remain consumable items.
> An LED bulb provides the same amount of light as an incandescent while using 90 percent less electricity

It’s a nice idea, pretty cool to light the entire house for pennies an hour.

> and lasting 25 times longer

I refuse to believe it. It may be possible but in practice even “quality” LED bulbs have either awful QC, intentionally engineered obsolescence, or both.

About a year ago I replaced every bulb in my house with upper end Phillips LED bulbs, probably 50 or more of them.

20% of them have already failed.
While not in the same league as those tubs, when we first signed up for Fresh Amazon was using frozen Amazon-branded bottled water to keep the groceries cold. They switched to insulated bags a couple weeks later though, but we had plenty of free bottled water for a bit.

I was just thinking this weekend about that in fact: was wondering who’s idea it was and if they got recognition for the idea or not.
For consumables, sure. But a monitor should last 8 years minimum.
Isn't there another study that says that adults with hearing issues have a higher chance at dementia.

And yet another with adults who spend more time isolated?

Almost as if the issue might be isolation due to a diminishing amount of sensory input from external sources.
Ah apologies then, my knowledge of US politics is fairly surface based. I usually associate the oil and co. lobbyists with the conservative government, and they don’t have the best record in terms of natural conservation (I understand they do the same with the liberal side as well). I guess, that’s a bad habit.
It was the best of times. Period.

Was like the Matrix before you knew what it was about.

Was when kids and nerds were a decade ahead of the rule followers.

Was total freedom.
Do they have the space? From what I've read, the Internet Archive is huge.
EvitaDB: Fast E-Commerce Database
Indeed. I was waiting for the twist where the article would point out how thoroughly dystopian a society that refused to even let people leave it would be, but I guess that part remains implicit.
That would have been an impressive career whether she was trans or not.
What are characteristics of a "hallucinatory idea-space"? If you're enforcing the model outputting a closing bracket instead of a random string of numbers, that seems like a win for JSON formatting.
Thank you! I was amazed when I submitted this that it hadn’t already been posted.
I don't like Dell as a company, but I've owned XPS laptops for years and haven't been able to find something I like better. The only real problem I have with it seems to be a Windows problem that other laptops also have (modern standby). My other complaint was with Waves MaxxAudio, but it hasn't bothered me on my latest XPS the way it did on the older ones. Not sure if that problem is fixed or if I just got in some sort of lucky configuration that made it go away.
I enjoyed Red Alert a lot but it still wasn’t nearly as good as StarCraft. It comes down to how each unit type felt more unique, and how much each individual unit mattered. The three totally unique sides helped a lot as well.
Information is power, as they say.
> Light bulbs remain consumable items.

And worse, they cost ten to twenty times as much as comparable incandescent bulbs, and they honestly don’t even last as long..
By the way, can I also trademark the letter "I"? Everyone using "I" will have to get my approval first. Everyone who wants to own a letter should hurry, they are just a few left.
You also don’t have to deal with the sketchy mess of commingling. Every time I think of buying from Amazon, I’ll force myself to see if there are 3rd party sellers for the product using Amazon warehouses. If there are, I buy elsewhere regardless of the price difference and shipping speed. Walmart is no better because they also commingle.

Eventually, I’ll just say F it and get rid of Prime. Two day shipping is gone for a lot of items anyways. 5 days of wait is better than constance vigilance to prevent getting garbage from 3rd party sellers
That's because Amazon sold a used monitor as new.
Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains
Go to Twitter and click on a link going to any url on "NYTimes.com" or "threads.net" and you'll see about a ~5 second delay before t.co forwards you to the right address.

Twitter won't ban domains they don't like but will waste your time if you visit them.

I've been tracking the NYT delay ever since it was added (8/4, roughly noon Pacific time), and the delay is so consistent it's obviously deliberate.
I hung out in #Altrock
Lend with Care.
Do you know how qubits are physically implemented? Like, what is a qubit made of and how does it reify computation?
> I'm not aware of being able to revoke permission to charge a card for a particular merchant with banks

You should be able to dispute any charge on your card. If you can't then you need to change banks.
https://archive.is/IxTCc
How about a emergency code/fob that allows rescues force to open the driver door and simply drives the car away?
Is ChatGPT 4 significantly better than 3.5? Because I am seeing it make basic, common sense errors that a person would never make. Things like, “Only give me results that fit this certain criteria.” Or “remove any results that are about X.” It repeatedly does the same mistakes over and over again, even after I point them out. This is in addition to just getting basic facts wrong.

And that’s not even mentioning the constant milquetoast disclaimer it has to give at the end of each answer - again, which it refuses to stop saying, even when I explicitly tell it to stop.

At this point I wouldn’t trust it to make me a cup of coffee, so I am a bit baffled by these threads. I have primarily found it to be useful when you’re using it as “text calculator” to reformat text, add commas to CSVs, etc. and even then it takes a lot of trial and error.
> the CO2 they capture won't be used for extracting fossil fuels

This is important because those attempts are something of a farce designed to qualify for super-ironic tax-credits: They're often using CO2 that was already underground rather than pulling it from the atmosphere which is where we have the problematic surplus. Then they're maybe-kinda re-burying it by using it to pressurize other wells and push oil around, or "Enhanced Oil Recovery."

https://www.iea.org/commentaries/can-co2-eor-really-provide-...
Hope they don't cut their little tram system. I wish more places would use that idea.
Great ideas tend to be obvious in hindsight.
The tire story was the result of Nordstrom's absorbing a local department store chain in Alaska. They weren't just taking in a product Nordstroms doesn't stock.

The dumb version of the story was good PR at first and was disseminated among the staff but contributed to unreasonable customer expectations.
I needed to hear this. Thank you.
you could maybe show some testing? if that's true, then it should be measurable
For those unaware, Tiberium is the unit from Command and Conquer, while Money is the unit from Red Alert.

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I've become strong-casual (1000 Elo) in Age of Empires 2 by the way. Juggling Wood, Food, Gold and Stone has far more strategic depth than just Starcraft's Minerals + Gas.

Age of Empires 2 has less micro: in particular, there's no such thing as "spells" like Psi Storm. Furthermore, all units move much, much slower. Yes, Hera and Viper (trading for #1 and #2 spots in the world) both still clicks at 400 APM when fights start, but this is far away from Starcraft's insane 800 APM professionals (short-term burst of course, I think everyone has a long-term average of 300 APM).

AoE2 has a high-skill ceiling for APM still, but strategic implications are far more important compared to Starcraft due to the slower speeds in AoE2. Cavalry in Age of Empires is the fastest unit, but Cavalry feel slower than Protoss Brood-War Carriers IMO.

And then infantry crawl, and siege units and elephants (ie: Battering Rams) are extremely slow.

With such slow movement, its far more important to decide that "moving out is a good idea", there's not as much APM dedicated to crazy things like Muta-micro, Vulture-micro (vulture / mine / siege tank pushes). It also means that there's more time to think about the implications of your attacks (while IMO, most Starcraft matches feel like they're won or lost by a well placed Psi Storm or other such micro-trick, like a good Lurker-dodge, a well placed Baneling, Scourge or whatnot).

AoE2 still has Monk micro, Siege attack-grounds, and arrow dodging as far as micro-tricks go. So its not a dearth of micro, but its very much refreshing compared to the Psi Storm / Siege Tank / Mine pushes of insane APM that a typical Starcraft BW match has.

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AoE2 still has two very "swinging" situations. Monk conversions swing the game extremely, and Onagers basically shoot a Psi-storm like area-of-effect high-damage siege shot every 5 seconds or so.

In both cases, a game can be won or lost in a matter of seconds (much like how one good Psi-storm can turn the tide of the entire match). But both Monks and Onagers are the slowest units in the game, and both are weak vs the cheapest Scout Cavalry (Onagers have minimum HP, while Monks take longer to convert scouts while Scouts deal extra damage vs Monks).

So... if you scout out the opponent and keep track of these incredibly powerful units, then everything's pretty much predictable and less "surprising" than Starcraft. And that's a good thing IMO.
https://archive.is/9htr5
Robotaxi breakdowns cause mayhem in San Francisco days after expansion vote
Another instance, and a nice site:

https://www.reellifewisdom.com/proactive_i_ve_always_believe...
Remember when people were excoriating Google AMP for encouraging walled gardens? If true, this seems in so much worse faith than that.
> Basically, just STEM, nursing, radiology, etc.

So "Basically, STEM or STEM-adjacent"? (depending how consider nursing)

> The expected value of the degree

To society or the individual? Calculated how?

> If you want an art school history major, you need a real loan.

So only rich people are allowed to be educated in the humanities unless you're willing to get what will be a very expensive and likely cost-prohibitive private loan? This seems like a step backwards.

> A healthy medium might be to allow federal loans to continue for only programs with an expected value in four years that exceeds that of the degree program cost plus loan interest plus double the cost of living

So basically only engineers? This wouldn't apply to anyone getting a graduate degree or even most other professions. A mathematician from MIT entering academia wouldn't meet this calculation. Neither would almost all physicians, even if you ignore years spent in residency, unless they're moving somewhere with a very low COL.

Respectfully, as someone with a humanities undergraduate and two graduate STEM degrees, I find your proposition incredibly shortsighted and fails to consider the individual and societal value of non-STEM degrees beyond direct salary.

I would argue my undergraduate degree has provided me far more value, financial and otherwise, than either of my other degrees.
For sure, that's a good reason for using the uncensored fine-tuned versions. There are other good reasons too like expanded context size, codegen, and story writing/rp. Just be careful of extraordinary benchmarks.

Btw, have you tried changing the default Llama 2 chat prompt? Meta tried to fine-tune it so that if you remove the safety part from the prompt, safety won't be applied[1]. Not sure how well it works myself, but worth a shot I guess

[1] can be found in the Llama 2 paper
https://archive.is/HxDGF
Did the author consider the fact that his friend was living in their own, personal dystopia?
Also that bank means you have a wing tilted up and a wing tilted down, increasing the vertical height of the plane at a time you’re trying to increase vertical separation.

Doing both reeks to me of a solution in search of a problem that’s going to end up the target of some later NTSB report when you hit some weird edge case where the dynamics and dimensions of the two planes aren’t fully accounted for.
Aviation’s Crazy, Mixed Up Units of Measure
Yup. You'll have to include regulating what an administrator is. And what their duties are. And so on.
That's because there was a very good reason for that Covid "nonsense" as you put it: reducing infection rates and keeping healthcare systems from collapsing. If you disagree with that, then I'm sorry you aren't living in reality and believe in idiotic conspiracy theories and microchips in vaccines and the like.

(That said, there really was some real nonsense, such as certain dumb countries that penalized people for going on bicycle rides in rural areas by themselves.)

There's no good-for-society reason behind throttling video download speeds.
> I think it is helpful to communication to resist changes to language

Your opinion is wrong. The most widely spoken languages, in every historical period, are the most adaptable. Adaptability is the single most important factor in a language's ability to survive, in a useful/usable/used state, and always has been.
https://archive.is/EvD9A
I trying to decide between Kotlin and Java 21. Please suggest me the advantages of Kotlin over Java 21.
Is it only me or is it the same for others that it's harder to read from paper (book or magazine or newspaper) under LED comparing to incandescent or halogen?
https://archive.is/cMiC8
i mean, you can stop visiting the site, no? just leave, bro. it's not that hard. there are other means to connect to people.
This author is a ghoul who would rather Frances have lived trapped in neverending pain than have exercised the tiniest degree of autonomy, just for the sake of his half-baked aesthetic preferences. I'd rather have a worst enemy than a "friend" like this.
The speed at which enshitification is being unleashed surprises me each and every day.
> it rejects all that I hold sacred and true:

* that the preservation of human life is our highest moral ideal;

* that a principal purpose of government is as a protector of life;

* that those who fight to stay alive in the face of terminal disease are powerful uplifters of the human experience.

This is deranged or juvenile. Seeking to celebrate the suffering of others to satisfy moral whims. Hard to tell which.
Test yourself, they link to their site from their profile and it's definitely delayed.

https://twitter.com/nytimes
Another great reason to get off Xitter.
Undefined behavior means the compiler will rewrite your program in ways that do not follow from the meaning of the source code. This means things like conditions and guards just disappearing, code being reordered in ways that don't make sense, and so on. All of the safety guarantees of Rust go out the window once UB is triggered, because everything goes out the window. Which is why Rust is designed so that safe code can't trigger UB. But unsafe code still has to worry about it.
https://archive.is/2XA93
In my area, they didn’t leave the tubs behind. What they did instead was mess up my order in my favor. Say I ordered one set of Starbucks bottled coffee. That would transform into 10 sets of Starbucks coffee where I wasn’t charged
Intel originally named it "IA-32e" to try to make it sound it was just a small extension on the 32bit x86 architecture whereas the Itanium IA-64 architecture was the future.
You can both stop using the site as a user and still call out the awful stuff they do.
Fines should be at least 100% of _revenue_ from these activities to actually punish the business. At the very least 100% of _profit_ from the activity. Anything less is cost of doing business since it's by definition a net profit.
Tried a few links myself; the pattern seems to hold
Just say you want slavery back so we can ignore you. Servants? Their vote going to the landowning head of the family? Crazy town.
Yup. It's super-easy to test and, yes, any nytimes.com link takes exactly a five-second count to open.
Probably it's due to a non-continuous spectre, however LEDs specs are known to promise it, somehow.
https://archive.is/UbNie
TIL that shuffling decks have cameras and USB ports.
> Yet, the vast majority of people need the news

Yet, this is not an "either/or" situation. You can generalize and cite a source. However, for some reason you choose to ignore this simple fact. Instead, you're essentially saying "kids these days don't understand what journalism is; summarizing sells, but we do it poorly because we're human, so get over it". Absolutely useless.

Actually, people here on hn can summarize better 4 times out of 5, and that's the reason I've mostly stopped following links and read comments instead - there are too many lies in journalism, even if unintentional (and I believe it mostly isn’t).
I am struggling to see your point. Are you trying to say that "GPLers" are supposed to stop using GPL because of popularity and strict terms?
A good test might include a bunch of domains. And checking the timing on each. Could we demonstrate the delay is on t.co and not on NYT?
Have a look at "Quantum Computing: Fundamentals, Implementations and Applications
" by Bhat et al. from 2022 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9783210

It's kind of a crappy paper and the explanations are mediocre at best, but it provides a decent survey of the main physical implementations in language that is simple to follow.
can confirm from europe. shouldn’t this be illegal in america?
Thoughts on [Turning] 29
I mean, that's not _too_ different from the way Discord "officially" sells user data in the shadows.
A tangential question...

If someone is suffering from an incurable mental illness, and they want to commit suicide to absolve themselves from the pain and suffering, should we just be like "Ok, go do it" and be totally fine with it?

I don't know the answer, but my inkling is that is not the position that I would take.

Does that make me selfish?
You can interact with them, in the original paper, at least.
Huh weird. I’ve been all led since like 2015 and I’ve had one bulb fail. I think I have around a hundred bulbs. All automated with home assistant. A few even on dimmers (though never dimmed).
You're right! Which is why making Twitter's product worse when there are active competitors taking big bites out of their business seems... dumb?
I can confirm. NYT shows a five-second redirect delay: "wget https://t.co/4fs609qwWt". It redirects to gov.uk immediately: "wget https://t.co/iigzas6QBx"
Not using particularly privacy-hostile platforms is the actual best kind of security.
Not worse. They are both as evil as it gets. Typical: take public resource and use it for an exclusive profit.

What happened to net neutrality? Could it applied for this case?
updated title: "Trump Indicted Over Effort To Reverse Georgia Loss"
This sounds very similar to Apache Airflow. How would you compare them?