skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The U.S. Constitution is a document that forms the basis of governance and at its heart is an anti-democratic sentiment. The writers of Constitution did not want a monarch or a democratic nation. They wanted power in more hands than occurred in England but not too many more hands.

What we have today, 200+ years later, is a system in which North Dakota’s 800,000 residents get 2 senators and 1 representative and Washington, D.C.’s residents get none. A representative from California represents around 50% more people than one from North Dakota. There are major structural power imbalances in the U.S. that someday will have to be dealt with.

We have crazy things like one senator preventing hundreds of people from being promoted in the Military. The system needs a rewrite (along with the rules of the Senate).
I used to feel the same when I thought dreams were utterly meaningless, then I had a series of undeniably meaningful dreams and I became not only interested but proactively curious (ie have you seen this character in other dreams? Was anything important happening in your life when this dream happened? How did this event in the dream make you feel, if anything?).

So now I have a question for you: what is your personal stance on dreams?
Extinction is what happens to a species when all of its members look and act the same. Adaptation is the only alternative to extinction in the long run.
I think someone did some monero focused client and relay implementation. Go on and create your own nostr eth implementation. Maybe even try to submit a NIP for this.
Always enjoyed the energy Buffet seemed to emanate. A redneck surfer boy.
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In New York, sure. In Salisbury? I'm not even sure the fire engines are equipped for that kind of activity, and I'm almost certain the fire service isn't prepared for the liability.
Except updating in place is almost never what is actually happens outside of RAM - there are usually various layers of Copy on Write happening anyway. So unless your database (or the high-churn subset) cleanly fits in RAM I would generally expect that the significance of any time saved is debatable. Denying yourself the possibility of adding transactions later down the line is a huge risk in most situations.
Have you ever used a cell phone the same way blind people do?

Do you think the washers and dryers have brail on them? Do you think cash is easier for blind people?
They aren’t useless because they support file idempotency.

Let’s say “important while almost entirely useless” and call it a day?
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I love having to explain the purpose of the electoral college to both ignorant Americans whose civics teachers failed them and blissfully ignorant foreigners who don't understand the nuances of America's representative democracy.

During the framing of the constitution, sparsely populated states didn't want to be run rampshod by heavily populated states. The framers made the electoral college system to reduce the impact of populous states and raise the impact of less populous states so everyone gets an equal voice. Without it, you would get heavily populated states like New York and California dictating policy for the rest of the country.

America isn't nor was it ever a democracy but a republic. If and when the country abolishes the electoral college is when America balkanizes.

In short, it is by design. Think of it as affirmative action for less populous states.
One significant problem with making your hardware dependent on an app is that if you are a washing machine company, you probably don't make mobile apps. So, you hire a contractor. They design an app without any expertise in the product or the domain, and program it on the cheap. It is trash. Later, the contractor goes out of business and you give the code to another contractor. They notice that the code is garbage, and not even garbage that somebody there made. Feature work is impossible, the app languishes. 1.5 stars in the app store. Every time there's an iOS update, people can't do their laundry for a couple weeks, until the one programmer working half time on the app can push an update. Later, you (the washing machine company) decide to sunset that product line, which means there's no updates to the app. iOS changes, the app stops working altogether, everybody has to buy a new washing machine.

I've been that contractor, which is why I will never be the owner of an appliance that requires an app to function.
> running either Apple's or Google's proprietary OS

And specifically a non-rooted, locked bootloader, remotely attested version. Running your own code on your own device is suspicious behavior you know! This is already somewhat the case with banking apps, but luckily it's usually possible to hide root for now

And, yes, I get there are legitimate worries about malware and that does kind of solve them, but we've managed with desktop web banking (though not if Google's proposal succeeds). AFAIK most financial scams are executed by social engineering. 2FA (which is now mandated in the EU) is a more effective protection than locking down one endpoint

Barclay's was doing 2FA via an offline code generator (looks like a calculator) where you put in your card and entered a PIN since what feels like at least 10 years ago. I know most users would prefer mobile 2FA, but I wish they'd kept that as an option, whereas AFAIK they're phasing it out

In any case, de facto saying "you must pay dues to either Apple or Google to bank on the go" is quite bad for free competition
So in other words:

People are tricked into thinking something improbable is more probable than it really is by coupling it with a separate, highly probable thing.

At first I thought this was just an obvious statistics thing, but it is psychological. You are distracted by the probable part of the combination and unless you think intentionally, are prone to make a mistake in how you perceive the combined probability.
Yeah this is completely broken judging from my experience. Often GPT would get the answer wrong and the site would claim that it was correct.
even if he's the second coming of jesus

If you asked Jon Blow if he is the second coming of jesus, he would probably go on a rant about how jesus didn't know anything and how much better he is. Then he would ban anyone from his twitch stream that asked if he at least liked some the miracles jesus performed.

Jon Blow is very smart and I even think Jai is a great looking language that solves a lot of problems and is well designed.

He is not a good person to proliferate a language though. He doesn't like what other people do in general, let alone what they would do with his language.
>I'm still surprised by how bad our "transformative" healthcare remains

You're comparing it to itself and surprised that it doesn't look exceptional in comparison. But in 1800, 46% of people in the US died before the age of six.
Gerrymandering probably doesn't affect outcomes much.[0] I know gerrymandering seems wrong, but every shape for an equal-population electoral district is more or less arbitrary, and some will inevitably be biased in favor of one party over another at the time it's drawn.

[0]https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its-probably-not-possib...
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Almost every animal has a simpler, easier life than the average human.

Penguins have a far easier life than the fish they eat. I feel sorry for the small fish; everyone is after them; big fish, sea gulls, octopuses, pelicans, penguins, dolphins, seals, humans... What creature on this earth does not eat herring or sardines? Humans even started feeding their ground up bones to chickens and other farm animals (who would otherwise not eat them)! Give the sardines a break!
Really enjoyed the article! Your tenacity was impressive.
My mind is not boggled, I guess. Gerrymandering exists because the government in the US exists to maintain the status quo. So if you are elected as a member of some political party, it's your mandate to do anything you can to ensure that you stay in office, or if that's not allowed because of term limits, that your clone stays in office. There is an additional power dynamic; states control congressional districts, so if you want to be noticed by senpai (and get the support from your party to have their job when they get bored or too seizure-ridden to continue in their role), it's your job to make sure they win their election by a landslide. Hence, gerrymandering.

I think the way out of this mess is to generate districts algorithmically with well-defined fair constraints. (Minimize perimeter, basically.) But I worry that those setting the constraints will find a set of constraints that codifies gerrymandering.

In the end, I'm not sure how much it matters. I feel like the House of Representatives has pretty much no actual power. At the end of the day, the Senate has to approve everything, and we gerrymandered that 200 years ago. (We could fix that by adding DC, Puerto Rico, and Guam as states, split California into North/South, split Texas into East/West, etc. It will never happen, though, because the goal of Congress is to never change anything, and they already have a nice 50/50 split that assures that.)
Yes, but IMHO we could have frozen them (same as the ASCII control codes) and not made the problem worse by adding more.

And I say this as an emoji user on my keitai back in the 90s.
Yes it sort of plays on “parts” as an ambiguous quantity. To the reader, they may assume parts to be “the entire north” rather than “half a culdesac”
The quiz asks how likely GPT-4 is to solve a given question correctly, and the user has to enter their guess as a number between 0 and 1 (a probability). However, the site then doesn’t provide the actual probability of GPT-4 providing a correct answer, to compare the guess against. This is, presumably, because there’s no practical way to determine that probablity with much precision. Also, in practice “correct” isn’t always black and white, e.g. there’s “not wrong but also not completely right”.

So I’m a bit confused about the whole premise.
You can buy a Honda Civic and rip out the head unit. But yeah, infotainment screen is nice for the first week but is good as useless.
It's not 2010. Back in the days this type of error (as well as speed regulator not disengaging...) happened often in low-quality cars. Nowadays, it seems like even 'luxury' cars are low-quality, and Tesla, for better or for worse, started the trend.
London’s plan to charge drivers of polluting cars sparks protests
And yet even if successful it'll be more Disneyland than an actual real living European city. Sleeping Beauty's Castle instead of Schloss Neuschwanstein.

North American elites have always wanted the status and style of their former colonial superiors. Just with their own detached libertarian spin on it, without all the annoying social obligations and community and tiresome history and 'authenticity'.

Here you won't need a year of compulsory community service or high taxes to get access; just need a degree from Stanford and the ability to make some really compelling PowerPoint presentations.

Every time we'd go down to the Googleplex for work, my friend and I would make jokes about the movie Elyssium. But this is taking it to the next level.
What's the opposite of pro? Con. What's the opposite of progress?
> How do those scenes and characters relate to what’s going on in a person’s life

I started writing down super-brief summaries of parts of my dreams on a near daily basis a while back.

There are absolutely clear connections between things I've seen, heard or experienced recently and things which show up in dreams. One curious aspect of this is that there's often a delay of at least several days between the actual event and when something like it shows up in a dream, usually after I've stopped consciously thinking about it.
I prefer predictable zoom. Because this will make it's way in desktop apps and having a bigger monitor will not give me more screenspace.
I’m in NYC right this second at the US Tennis Open. You can order Uber WAV - Wheelchair Accessibility Vehicle.

If you choose to use much less convenient taxis instead of an Uber because of a refusal to use cellphones that’s on you.

> despite the fact that iPhones are a minority of devices out there and in most places they are luxury devices

iPhones are big a minority in the US - where the college is located.

And Google not having accessibility options as good as the iPhone sounds like someone needs to be suing Google under the ADA.

But do you really think blind people are not buying devices that actually work for them?
Isn’t the 12V battery responsible for that? It sounds like the driver lost that somehow, not the main battery.
Mine has 128 gb already, so I make liberal use of it and it's rare to have it use more than 32 of that. Some games can use quite a bit and I'd imagine that in a 1tb world there would be a lot more preloading options. But mostly the ram gets used by the Linux kernel as a file cache. With 1 tb I would expect a lot of read operations to be super fast after they are cached. It might make rebooting less desirable cause the system will run slower at first until everything is cached.
Basically the "if I use fancy words, I sound smart to those who don't actually comprehend the words' meanings"
"One or two windmills" aren't going to replace an 8 GW nuclear power plant, and by the time you could "grow from there" you'd have had enough time to build a nuclear plant. Which, you know, still works even when the wind isn't blowing.

Are you familiar with the expression "hope is not a plan"?
Sounds like a meaningless, ill defined question given that the USA is not a monarchy. And given that a compromise bill was passed, so there was some progress.
The easiest solution to this would be a "relocatable frame" type that forces the compiler to throw an error if it would otherwise have to spill an internal pointer at a suspension point.
In any case, update in place will mean at least half as many CoW operations. Many databases have (or, at least, had) the ability to manage block storage directly without the need for a filesystem. If transactions can be supported only for some operations while others can be transactionless, you can speed up the operations that won't need them.
how is it installed (flatpak or similar?)
All of these bullshit "growth & engagement" operations often have to meet the real-world and dial down the user-hostility in certain markets where it just won't fly. This explains why the web UI is there and why it ultimately worked - it's made to serve markets where high-end smartphone penetration is low or where bandwidth constraints wouldn't allow people to download the app.

Uber has the same at https://m.uber.com - it actually appears to work well for my Western European location despite everyone here being used to the app, however it still shows artifacts of its primary target markets such as the option to pay in cash (not something we do in my location, and the app does not offer that as an option).
This is correct. I experience hypnogogic and -pompic hallucinations, and the same technique works to experience them more vividly and for extended periods of time.
Not to mention the stochastic nature of these models, so while it apparently failed once, the page does not tell us anything about how it would perform on a given task in the limit of many many trials.
Your anecdote contradicts the study discussed in that article. Given the nature of your argument, this sounds like a great time to exit this exchange.
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This is by design and is why America is a coast to Coast empire and not a small collection of states.

When that changes, the republic ends.

As for a senator blocking military promotions, that's a different matter entirely.
What will we do? Run local LLMs. Train and fine tune LLMs. Play games full of AI NPCs. Run private local AI home assistants.

AI is the biggest driver for power at the endpoint since when 3D games came out. (I remember when Quake drove an entire generation to upgrade their PCs.)

Or you could just use ClosedAI APIs and all that will lead to…
> A human in a car can and will often move within seconds.

Literally the situation in the article has a human-operated car that was blocking the ambulance. There were 3 cars, 2x automated and one human-controlled.

I suspect the human-controlled one did not move in seconds or they wouldn't be talking about delays being a factor in this tragic loss of life. The fact that you didn't pick that up is what makes me think the article is a hit piece.
They might not have had such flat bed tow trucks. They aren’t super common outside d cities.
Or maybe people changed how they voted? People who didn’t vote in 2016 voted in 2020, thus changing how that county voted.

Is that not the point of voting?
Plus reporting which laundry machines are in use, and paying for their use, are two different things, so an app could show you which machines are available, but the machines still let you pay with coins.

The GPs argument is similar to how full anti-user lockdown of devices is justified for some minor security benefit that could have been achieved without said lockdown.
Yeah, had the same impression. The whole "fallacy" seems to be based on presenting the question in a misleading way. If the options had been:

A) Linda is a bank teller and is also active in the feminist movement

B) Linda is a bank teller, whether or not she is active in the feminist movement

then I think more people would have realized that B contains A and is not a separate choice from a.

The second point is that the criterion "linda is a bank teller" is actually superfluous, because there is no choice "linda is not a bank teller" and the probability is the same in all choices. At the same time, this is the only criterion for choice B.

So if you factor out the "bank teller" term, the question becomes:

Assume Linda had a history of social activism and is now a bank teller, which is more probable?

A) Linda is active in the feminist movement

B) Linda exists, I guess?

So if presented unambiguously, the question actually becomes meaningless.
A core reason why racism and sexism and stereotypes are wrong is that they steal away someone’s individuality. Even if it’s true that that on average female surgeons are better than male surgeons, people are individuals and it’s morally wrong to strip away their individuality and just judge them based on their gender. Surely their are bad and good female and male surgeons and dividing people into boxes this way is a terrible way to live life.
But it's a process, and one that presumably consumes quite large amounts of energy. Doesn't sound like a simple byproduct to me.
Remember in 2020 after the election Bill Barr said there was no evidence of election fraud that could affect the outcome of the election? Well, there were apparently cases being referred to the FBI at the time that went nowhere and the public was left in the dark about them.

For example, in Muskegon, MI we only just recently learned that an election worker turned in approximately 8,000-10,000 fraudulent voter registrations to the city clerk and nothing was done about it. [0]

> According to the police reports, a woman who said she worked for a Tennessee-based voter registration company called GBI Strategies dropped off an unusually large batch of 8,000 to 10,000 voter registration applications in Muskegon, a traditional Democratic stronghold that had roughly 28,500 registered voters eligible for the 2020 election, including about 11,200 who voted.

Now this article says this story was reported on local Michigan TV news. But did you hear about it? I sure didn't. It took someone filing a FOIA request regarding the police report to even find out what happened here. And it turns out that this case was eventually referred to the FBI and it has been crickets since. This election worker and group to my knowledge has gone uncharged.

But my real question is how many more cases like this are there out there? This article says this is an example of the "system working" because this election fraud attempt was caught, but sweeping a case like this under the rug is not how I would define "Working". Is it possible there are cases that were successful in getting ballots through? Would we ever hope to hear about such cases? Given how the authorities in Michigan handled a case where they successfully prevented election fraud, I highly doubt it.

[0]: https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/muskegon-fake-v...
A Crisis of Confidence in the Standard Model of Cosmology
Like, say, astrology? Should that be banned?

No one put you, or anyone, in charge of deciding which information is "dangerous".
My son had a near-identical experience at Uni in the UK, except for 'pod' substitute smartcard.

For some reason, the laundry app would not run without crashing on his phone.

The Uni could provide a loadable smartcard for the machines - but they had run out. The machines did not work with regular credit/debit cards or NFC phones.

Result: For several weeks, son has to haul laundry on the bus to an off-campus launderette.
The app 'fountains in italy' is pretty cool and has saved me on a couple of trips there. Especially locating a fountain on a bridge(!) at Lake Garda...i was stood almost next to it, it was hidden by the people walking past.
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Douglas Lenat is a prominent figure in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). As the CEO of Cycorp, and the principal architect behind the Cyc project. His contributions to AI and knowledge representation are foundational and have spanned several decades.
Did it update the firmware over Bluetooth? Up until Android 11, Android required fine location permission to perform Bluetooth scans[1] because knowledge of nearby devices can be used to derive location.

[1] https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/blue...
Wow, this hits hard. I became a fan because my father-in-law was a big fan. I was amazed at the business side of the artist. The way he basically turned a single hit album from 1977 into a life-long career and a giant enterprise delivering a lifestyle or vacation message to help millions of us let go of the everyday.
EVs can’t be towed with a winch style tow truck, at least without frying them. A flat bed tow truck is required (also recommended for many newer ICEs).
They let a talented writer with a well-defined voice, Tony Gilroy, be the showrunner for Andor. It's so weird that they did that, but that's why it's good. It was not part of the Disney swamp, or at least it was on the fringes of it rather than neck deep. I assume Ahsoka is, though.
I'm not saying things haven't changed, I take issue with these words: "anyone... anything... dishonest".

That kind of sweeping derogatory generalization makes a great hot take, but isn't high in intellectual honesty or curiosity. There are plenty of reasons besides dishonesty why someone may not think to mention that a specific method of election fraud is less feasible than it once was, and accusing them all of dishonesty is over the top.
Sucks. 76 doesn’t even seem that old really, it’s like a young senior age. Plenty of people often live 10 or even 20 years longer, often without being a billionaire too.
Neither Google nor Microsoft operate a secure messaging platform that matters (email, yes, but email security is a lost cause), unlike WhatsApp (and Facebook Messenger), iMessage, Telegram or Signal. I'm not giving Google & Microsoft a pass, they're just irrelevant for the discussion at hand.
Perhaps the dream is just pressing the buttons that make you think you are looking at a fully realised magazine article.
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