skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's inevitable that automation will have it's fatalities.

We can claim it's not robots killing people; it's people killing people because they decided to use the robot.

That's specious. We have something resembling a free market world. Anybody 'deciding' to not use automation (or AI or whatever) will be outcompeted by folks using the cheaper alternative. The playing field inevitably will become robot and AI dominated.

Make all the regulations we want; money will force the issue. As long as they don't egregiously slaughter people they will win.

Like slavery and indentured servitude before, and removal of indigenous populations, and exploitation of natural resources. The tragedy of the commons or something similar, where you have to join the throng or be outcompeted and your efforts extinguished. Only efficient market competitors can possibly survive.

All the rest is philosophy (sophistry?)
He knew he would get reelected though, it was more about publicity for the cause than principal.
> A free economy is full of over and under production also

Not nearly to the same degree, especially if you take into account various distortionary government policies.
"every generation does not need to learn the ravages of war."

Would not be so sure of that. I suspect the "great generation" has a lot better understanding about the value of peace than more recent generations.
time.apple.com (17.253.14.253) is returning the wrong date and time
Hey HN.

Is this just me? I was doing some late night hacking on a System 6 NTP client I'm working on, and I couldn't figure this out, until I looked at the tcpdump log and observed the date coming in wrong from Apple's timeserver. I can reproduce this with `ntpdate` and the SerenityOS `ntpquery` as well, so it can't be my code.

I always get this same reference timestamp back: 3889764561.575988850 (2023-04-06T10:09:21Z)
Are those files as 'always keep offline'? If not, the backup process might not trigger a download.
> As a generality, "unsafe voyage" is a reasonable thing to outlaw. Morons will need search & rescue on the CG's taxpayer-supplied dime, then maybe need medical care at public expense, too.

Of all the stupid things regular people can do to add strain/cost to the united states' social systems, "unsafe voyage" seems pretty low on the list, both in cost and frequency. I'd guess that injuries as a result of accidental gun discharge and/or fireworks easily 10x-100x yearly spend on search and rescue.

> Plus too-trusting friends & family who are along for the ride on their SS Davey Jones, collisions with other boats, cleaning up the wreckage and oil slicks, etc., etc.

I am not arguing that unsafe voyage is a bad idea. I am arguing that it's out of character for this country to ban a specific bad idea due to safety.
the page links to this github repo at the bottom: https://github.com/losvedir/ephemeral2
Edit: link to my previous comment with a list of papers from the last time a similar thread was posted for those interested.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37018392

This was a busy summer for developmental biology, full disclosure that I am an author on one of these papers and my thesis work is in embryo models/early development. The Hanna group was unfortunately scooped by some unethical behavior but their model is superior to the other one in Nature by Zernicka-Goetz.
You got trolled. You're engaging with a troll. You've given the troll what they want. They won't go away, and you cannot wish them to go away. You only have control over yourself and - in this case - how much you choose to engage with a troll.

This isn't new btw, it's as old as the internet, probably much older (think Diogenes).
Chinese are "invading" the European market because they executed better not because of recent fluctuations in gas prices, which is indeed by and large quite irrelevant to this problem.
The Portrayal of Early Manned Spaceflight in Hidden Figures: A Critique [pdf]
> a copy of all source code, build tools, and final binaries must be supplied in an offline format (maybe a Blu-ray Disc or a few?) to the Library of Congress to store, duplicate, and preserve as needed

Dude, I just want my turtle to move around on the screen. Now I have to ship Blu-rays to Congress?
Mystery of the Missing Skin Tone
This GitHub link is at the bottom of the page - https://github.com/losvedir/ephemeral2
That would effectively force most free software into the public domain?
Depositing assets is one thing, but the real change would be to deposit sources as well. Say, a book... if it got typeset on a computer, then the full files and fonts have to be deposited as well.
“Maroon 5” delenda est
It would be neat if Windows 3.x could get open sourced, both the NT and non-NT versions.

There's probably a business argument that they're far enough removed from Windows 11 to not be a threat to Microsoft's sale of Windows 11.
I don't think anarchism is realistic in any long term sense. Someone will always come around and consolidate power by forming(and forcing people into) a government.
I've got an AMD Cape Verde GPU, and it also works flawlessly as long as you allow non-free firmware.
No seigniorage at all in the system?
The funny thing is that a video or article about the journo giving him a sexual favor would actually have been more easily digestible than this 9,500 word pile of crap.
> Capitalism will make people stop working and be less productive? If anything we worry about the opposite problem.

Well, unemployment is kind of a requirement of capitalism. You can't have the labor force calling the shots, it eats into profits. From the article:

> There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find employment; an “army of unemployed” almost always exists.

He's being generous here, it's not just that an "army of the unemployed" almost always exists, it's a goal. Captains of industry in the current low-unemployment environment have been saying the quiet part out loud, that we need to increase unemployment. There's generally a target of 5% unemployment, which means capitalism has built-in waste.
If you all are in the office for the same three days a week (Tu-Th) then you aren't saving anything on real estate costs- you still need to have desks for everyone in the company at the same time. The only way you save on real estate costs is allowing flexibility on which days you come in, such that some people are in Mon-Wed and some are in MWF and some are in TuThFri etc. Then you can share desks and save money on real estate, because five people can share three desks. But then every meeting will still have people working from home that day, and so you will be in the office but on Zoom to your regular coworkers.

So the two goals are incompatible: saving costs on real estate necessarily means spreading people's WFH days out such that no more than 60% of the company is in the office on any given day, but then you don't really get the 'easy to talk to people, have meetings and build culture' effects that RTO is supposed to kick off.
India launches a spacecraft to study the sun after landing on the moon
Some instances of "had" can be elided without loss of meaning.

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

Kind of like that that can be similarly strange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_that_is_is_that_that_is_n...
Yeah, sorry for the ambiguity. I italicized it try to indicate that they're actually saying the word, but I don't write it myself.
Would you be open to giving a talk on the topic?
UMBA[1] goes back to 1987

There's probably a continuous history in the united states as farriers have continued making horse shoes for a very long time.

[1] https://www.umba-forge.com/history
> I've managed to make it is just a thinly veiled propaganda piece that tries to make OpenAI, the team, and their product out to be some kind of equivalent to a modern day messiah

I don't agree at all. The article itself is giving a pretty neutral overview of the company and what the company believe to be the case, for sure.

It is OpenAI who thinks that skynet is going to be created, and that they need to be the gatekeepers in charge of it.

But, for all the people who are not in a literal cult, it is very useful to know that this is what they believe.

It is important to know this, because it gives significant insight as to what they are going to do in the future. That being that they are going to lobby congress to destroy the open source AI movement that is currently on track to destroy OpenAIs mote.

And they want to do this all because of some nonsense about skynet.

I can understand why this might come off as bias. But I really recommend that you reread the article, but come at it from the perspective of "The writer is describing what the people at OpenAI believe, not what the author believes".

Because if you do that, you will quickly understand how the depth of the problem that we have here, which people who are basically in a psuedo cult are in positions of power at significant tech companies and are lobbying congress to stop everyone else from competing against them.

You shouldn't read this and think that the author is biased.

Instead you should come out of reading this article horrified at the nonsense that major people at major tech companies actually believe, and the fact that they are doing something about it. (IE lobby congress in this case and attempting to destroy the open source AI movement)
> The downside to immediately stopping burning fossil fuels are huge including disrupting the global economy, life critical heating/cooling in cold/warm climates and basically modern life globally.

That's why I said that's not an option. Stopping fossil fuels would be the same as stopping the car instantaneously - it would be a brand new car crash.
Have you submitted a proposal to the Rust team about this? It would be interesting to read.
This is one of the primary contributors to the decision, not only the free time/etc. contribute to the higher retention but also the sense of beloning, and friendships that are made in workplaces.
Also, https://file.pizza/
It's going to depend on who you are around. Among Catholics, for example, its very common to explicitly distinguish between Young Earth Creationism (YEC) and Old Earth Creationism (OEC) since both positions are considered permissible theological opinions. I try to never use "creationism" unqualified since all Christians and many/most (all?) other religious groups are going to believe in some view about the creation of the universe by some entity or being, the specific way in which that happened will be disputed but ultimately "creation" is universal in that regard.
Yeah, basically it needs to be Turing complete but it falls short. Then why not just give us Lua or some real programming language. There is no real need for a cryptic single line syntax.
SO this totally popped into my brain - there was a PHP script you could add to your site called Crisc - https://web.archive.org/web/20021010104130/http://biomatic.o...
It showed your IP and you could send a message to the other visitors on the site - I was blown away at the time I saw this.
What Is Utility Writing?
And I question how much terror stopping traffic generates, generally more just irritation.
Yeah, proprietary modem firmware written by amateurs who do stuff like system("echo %s > /dev/ttyGS0", msg_var) to write to devices is not rock stable. Who would have thought.

Nightlies are unstable by definition, btw. It's some autogenerated build nobody normally tests.
why are people so mean to those who want to be teenage mums

funny you should say that, i just had a similar argument over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37391008

to expand on what you say: there is no outgroup. there can't be an outgroup. we are all part of a community and we need to learn to get along with everyone in that community. even criminals. they need of course be appropriately punished and maybe put under surveillance to protect others, but they also need a chance at rehabilitation, and that can't happen if we place them in an outgroup. the same goes for everyone else who we think is harmful to others. we need to work with these people, and help them find their place.

what bothers me most is when groups who claim that they want to build a new society then go and exclude people they don't like or that don't like them. that was the trouble with communism for example. a social philosophy that wants to reach everyone must be able to integrate people that reject the philosophy itself. if it can't then it is not suitable for any community to adopt.

i am not sure if my trail of thought here makes sense, but the conclusion seems to be that any general social philosophy must be built on tolerance and openness and work to eliminate discrimination. anything else will result in tyranny against those that don't fit in.

or to put it differently, if we allow for anyone to be excluded from a community, that means we allow for someone to be socially isolated, which is a punishment that noone should have to suffer permanently.
Think about this one for a minute - if companies paid for this type of stuff, they would expect to have a say on exactly where you live. Not "you need to be within driving distance of the office" but more like "you need to rent next door to the office". Yes, there are very good reasons the cost of commuting is left in employee hands to decide.
18 days ago someone dug up the patent on this thread and suggested it was essentially mud:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37193096
Value being subjective and fluid is exactly what makes modern society function. I may value having lots of children. You may value not having lots of children. Expecting there to be an objective universal value on everything is a fool's errand.

I trade my time at work to sit at a comfy desk and type for money, and that is work. And I will negotiate for more time and money so that I may spend more time lifting heavy things at a gym. Funnily enough that is leisure and it costs me money. It is in the asymmetry of needs that we create excess value by working for each other taking care of the things they do not want to do for themselves.

Labor theory makes no sense in how people actually choose to go about their lives. Which is why modern economics is so focused on how to just maximise as much generic utility out of a market. And it is usually Marxists who are actually the most obsessed about counting up the little green slips of paper that don't mean anything.

You reference Hegel, but it is specifically his idea that progress is inevitable. Which is exactly why I reject Marx. Marx believed that making functioning plans was useless since progress was inevitable once unleashed. But Marx was a leech who counted on his friends for his subsistence and others to actually test his ideas. Progress is only made by intentional and planned efforts to deal with problems rather than just criticize and shake your fist at society.
Pretty much any McDonalds I’ve been to in Central Europe has a charge on each condiment pack.
Generally it's about limited, numerically, rescue resources that might then be unable to respond to a more serious eventm
Not your personal project, this idea was pitched solely for corporations who develop software. In my mind, this would most benefit video game preservation which is currently in a state of disarray. It would also protect corporations from themselves, as there have been multiple instances of high-profile retro games having their source code completely lost when they come back for a remaster.

A big example of this is Square Enix which lost the source code for multiple games, including (infamously) Final Fantasy 7. The remaster was a reverse-engineering project. They were also rumored to have lost Final Fantasy 8 though this was later shown incorrect. (And, in addition to that, they lost all of Kingdom Hearts 1). And that's just the mistakes we know of. (There's also Konami losing Silent Hill...)
Your definition an d his are the same. Private ownership of resources or capital = I can freely trade my stuff with others for other stuff.
Complaints about the new GitHub feed
This is a pretty low effort comment by me, but what is a backup solution you can’t verify really worth? GNU tar has —compare. In some ways we are inundated by amazing advances in tech, in other ways… not so much.
FedNow offers all the advantages of a CBDC for those who need it while deftly sidestepping the right wing alarmism and outrage by making it optional.

Regressives can still write paper checks. Drug traffickers and luxury real estate developers can still sell/money launder to unidentified individuals using cash.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/thomasfrank/secret-mone...
> Library of Congress

I suppose the US is the only country in the world, and if I release software in Europe, I've got to ship it across the pond...
Norway rolls back EV incentives while boosting walking and cycling (2022)
The entire Tory party shouldn't be allowed anywhere near making laws...
You'd have to get a separate license from TII to host the models for commercial use.
Situations change, I can see how in the 70s and 80s this may have been an argument to keep the cold war "cold". But as the Russians have shown, there is no longer any need to handle them with care. Their armed forces are diminished to the point they can't successfully roll tanks over their own border and get a strategic win.

All they have left is the nuclear threat, which only protects existing borders (even for Putin holding Ukrainian territory is not worth having Moscow turned to glass by the return strike).

There is nothing to be gained by acknowledging the Russian expansionist "cultural imperative" in policy making now. Ensure the ex-Soviet states that want to join NATO and the world will be a safer place.
Isn't Windows itself far enough removed to not be a threat to Microsoft's bottom line these days? Wouldn't be surprised to see modern Windows going open-source or at least source-available in the coming decade.
meh, "shit" isn't even profane anymore https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/books/review/nine-nasty-w...
Here a defense of the Coast Guard's actions.

Oceanic trade generates great economic value and requires seafarers. Seafaring is inherently dangerous, but the rate of death of seafarers is much less than it would be if it weren't for coast guards, one of whose main functions is rescuing seafarers in distress. This rescuing function is expensive, so one of the rules of the sea that the countries of the world have agreed on is to make it illegal to do anything that puts too great an economic stress on the rescuing function. It is OK with me.

Try to mount a poorly-planned and poorly-funded journey to the South Pole and the same thing will happen to you if they catch you--for the same reason.
Feels weirdly incomplete without any mention of this, even if "ostensibly on grounds of Prussian provocation" isn't really wrong, apparently leadership on both sides was in a state of preferring war over peace (please insert an appropriate amount of expletives while reading!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ems_Dispatch
I’m getting second hand embarrassment watching you try win an argument you lost decisively 3 replies ago.

Your comment: “Huawei hardware cannot be legally distributed or sold by US companies.”

You were dead wrong. Just admit it, it’s not personal.

“Does the fact that I bought it from an US website, mean that Sony is effectively selling this gadget in the US? Of course not, that's ridiculous.”

You can’t be this naive. This is 2023 not 2001. Sanctioned companies selling through distributors has been around since sanctions. US laws have explicit rules around this and companies facilitating are themselves subject to sanctions.
I wonder if someone can do some back-of-the-envelope maths to figure out how much energy (calories) he would need to burn to cross the Atlantic, and therefore how much food he would need. I suspect his voyage isn't possible, even in calm weather, because the amount of energy required increases the amount of food required, which increases the weight, which increases the amount of food... a rocket liftoff problem with no solution.
If you are a puzzle person you might like Return of the Obra Dinn.

There isnt really anything like Disco though. Just 'if you like x you might like y.'
What if you buy a second phone that you always leave at home?
Bingo.

Society is not okay with that.
MOE models are trained all at once, they're not simply ensembling already trained models. Also data quality and quantity matter considerably, and how OpenAI gets their data is not public
this is really cool and I think it feel like how show HN should be instead of marketing ploy for other orgs pushing their product.
I think the only correct way to handle failures is to have a single file called ONE_DRIVE_RESTORE_FAILURES.txt at the restore destination root, and in it list the path to every file that failed to download, one path per line. Much harder to miss than individual files with conspicuous names.
I sent Molly an email when I was a kid with a few questions about one of her HTML books. To my surprise, she sent over signed copies of a few of her books and wrote about me on her blog, something about inspiring the next generation.

Well, 20 years later and actively coding for a living, count me as having been inspired - Thank you Molly!!
This. A decade+ ago I made a Jesus-riding-dinosaurs type joke around a friend I’d known for years. He called me out on it. I knew he was from TX, homeschooled, and a devout 2A supporter, but for some reason I was floored when he said he believed in Creationism and I was wrong. I struggled reconciling that with him being a well educated Bay Area tech worker. A short time later I watched a train wreck on Facebook where a college friend (rigorous engineering school), who had an aptitude for maths and physics, become a Flat Earther.

After that I stopped assuming anything about what others are likely to believe. The past decade has proven that, unfortunately, to be a wise decision.
I wonder how long it will take for plastics to become biodegradable. Sort of like how wood was around for millions of years before microorganisms could break it down, maybe the landfills of today will create the equivalent of coal deposits millions of years from now.
This restriction also comes on top (like July) of the recent kaspersky/Russian govt hack (called operation triangulation by kasp) where it is alleged that kaspersky's enterprise network was hacked after someone hacked their workers' iPhones and they puvoted to the enterprise network after the workers connected their iPhones to the work wifi.

It's not a hard breadcrumb trail to follow and i am also aghast at so many HN posters pontificating so strongly about nonsense
#2 may work for old software, but how can this work for contemporary, which even for "on premise" use receives frequent patches and updates? And becomes really tough with modern "cloud" (in broad meaning) software, which is tied to a lot of infrastructure.

And yes, I share the goal! I however don't see a practical way.
I'm fairly sure the concept of synthesis is much older as well, the wiki page is enlightening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_technology_(electronic_a... It mentions VODER, a Bell Labs invention, an electromechanical speech synthesis thingy that later evolved into the VOCODER, used a lot in early electronic music.
Would this allow them to study the rejuvenation events that occur during embryogenesis? I'm talking about the epigenetic resets that occur at some point after egg & sperm unit.
This is also why we need unions.
How long before those screens start to play targeted ads and the data is shared across your devices, but you’ll get a discount on the msrp
What's old is new: torrent. ;)
> "My goal is to not only raise money for homeless people, raise money for the Coast Guard, raise money for the police department, raise money for the fire department," he told WOFL-TV in Orlando in 2021.

> "They are in public service, they do it for safety, and they help other people."