skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
playing devil's advocate here for a moment : having that 'army' would eventually be useful if say you knew an exposé was on the way because they may become an exploitable market once the mainstream throws you to the wayside over the allegations.

the 'army' can be fed some insider-flavored tripe : "THEY are using this to get me.", "Of course this comes out when i'm trying to expose the truth", etc etc.

So, in other words, the 'army' isn't directly useful against the allegations necessarily, but as a fall cushion once those allegations and possible criminal charges land and alienate the rest of the 'normal' public from you.

Alex Jones/Sandy Hook comes to mind. In some warped sense, the criminal allegations and justice pursuit towards Alex Jones with regards to his comments regarding the Sandy Hook shootings cemented him as a 'victim of the system' for a lot of his adherents; much to the dismay of everyone else.
Are big tech layoffs coming back?
I'm wondering if mass layoffs are coming back. It's clear the market has recovered, but entered a semi stable state.

What indicators do you look at? What's the sentiment around your workplace?
The slave-owners were slave-owners because they had military control over the slaves. (Most of the time, anyway; some slave revolts were successful.)

It is not clear how long humans will retain control over AIs.
I do not recall commenting on that topic at all.
bonus fact: multicast was still being done via broadcast in some switches ~10y ago, also extremely dumb :P
Drivers side too. Would have been a bad one.
To be useful models must accurately represent some aspect of reality, Reptiles don’t represent the brain of our common assessor particularly well. So this model is just wildly wrong without any predictive power.

Compare the giant spheres used by snakes, bird, frog etc to process visual information and try and map that to a rodent, bat, or human. Hint you’re not going to be able to locate an obvious sphere because the fundamental morphology is just different. You can say we both have areas of the brain devoted to processing vision but so do fruit flies.
Habits can cut the risk of depression in half, a new study finds
Does not work on Android.
>Actually, I'd feel better if someone could convince me I'm completely unfounded here.

Unfortunately, your skepticism is not unfounded. Those in the industry conclude the same. Take, for instance, the editor in chief of The Lancet:

>The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Exactly, and look what happened to Usenet. People abused the commons and we lost it to spam. Unmoderated networks always fall to bad actors.

I'm building a p2p social network and struggling hard with how to balance company needs, community needs, and individual freedom. A free-for-all leads to a tyranny of structurelessness in which the loudest and pushiest form a defacto leadership that doesn't represent the will of the majority. On the flip side, overly restrictive rules stifle expression and cause resentment. These are hard questions and there is no one answer, except that unmoderated networks always suck eventually, so the question is one of line drawing and compromise.
I'm so glad to finally see this! Thanks for posting it. In the absence of this, the name-squatting package you reference has exploited the confusion for the author's benefit, while providing sup-optimal advice to Go newbies.
Can you confirm they want to do that though?

I was suspicious that they are stupid enough to think that this cannibalizing Macbook sales is a valid reason to gimp it like they do the iPad.

However, this tech (AR/VR) is much much bigger than traditional computing and is going to replace the aforementioned and more.

So I sincerely hope that I can do development, pull up a terminal, an so on within the device. That's going to be extremely important I think to use this as a remote working machine (which was my hope for years).
Singapore is a counterexample to the grandparent post. It's very much a "heterogenous" culture, if the word "heterogenous" has any meaning at all, with four (!) official languages and a lot of immigration. It could not be described as "chaotic" or "disorderly."

The unsubtle explanation from someone who is not a huge Singapore fan (or from someone who is?) might be that this is simply the power of well-engineered, highly authoritarian government. But it's certainly not about choosing homogeneity or eschewing immigration.
You must not be familiar with laws like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...
Well, I'd say covid did a commendable job, but honestly humans (and organisms in general) keep falling sick and dying. It takes a lot of things to go right for a nominal life, and one wrong thing to make it all wrong.
That’s not a problem by itself.

You can represent 0.3 as 0.300000…0004, which rounds to 0.3 again in the end.

But you need to reason about the number and nature of intermediate operations, which is tricky, since errors usually accumulate and don’t always cancel out.
The tires themselves are pretty inert, it's the constant road friction tearing off tiny little pieces of it and spewing it intot he air that's the problem. I wouldn't worry about using tires as building material.
Is this a common way to fix problems in language syntax? It seems unintuitive to me. Now you need to know what version is declared in one file to understand behavior in another file. I understand they want to fix this but I did not know this way was allowed.
Maybe reality is more nuanced than the binary choice you’re asking it to be reduced to.

e.g. Musk’s companies have done great things in the areas of EVs, batteries, and (most of all) space launches.

…and…

Some of his public-facing behaviour (especially on Twitter) is disturbing, and may be described as ‘alt-right’.

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(It’s also disturbing that this has to be spelt out; yet here we are.)
I didn't mean 99% living off 1%; I mean 100% of the society living off slave labor and only around 1% doing any real work. The slaves didn't count as people back then, similar to the robots in these discussions.

In ancient Sparta, for instance, it's estimated that there were 5-10 slaves for every Spartan. That means no Spartan had to work.
>Sentient buildings weird me out.

Courts are not buildings, sentient or otherwise. A court can exist without even a single brick or piece of stone being around.

You're also making this about Brand when in fact this is a discussion at a higher level of abstraction.
Or reddit. Or email. Maybe we should cut his power just to be sure he isn't maybe grooming some 16 year olds.
I took it as a way to intentionally misdirect the reader and then subvert their expectations. In other words, a joke.
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Apparently they did, it was just talk, the law didn't actually change.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-un...
Plenty. They were certainly more accurate than social media rumour on it.

I'm also not convinced that consent is quite as complex as commercial aviation...
The first point cannot bother you after you've correctly realized your second point. The more empathy you have for your future-self or your peers, the clearer it becomes.
> But the thing is, a majority of people on Earth are Youtube users, so what the heck does that even mean?

This is an interesting question; why hasn’t anyone verified that these women are YouTube users?

Since we have established that “ecosystem” is a word that means “app developers” and not a broad term that could be interpreted to mean the general environment in which YouTube does business with advertisers and users, this means that YouTube is acting in defense of its users.

Furthermore this announcement gets even more confusing as punching someone in a bar is not something that can faithfully or objectively be separated from (alleged) rape by any community standards or legal bodies, YouTube is in even further hot water here
Clearly you don't have children.
People would buy it because Apple. I sincerely hope Apple isn't this dumb though.

Luckily LG and Meta and Samsung and Google are not playing around and will force Apple's hand with the AVP or overtake Apple entirely.
Depends. Those macroplastics haven't degraded yet.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64889284

Oceans littered with 171 trillion plastic pieces

The concentration of plastics in the oceans has increased from 16 trillion pieces in 2005, data suggests.

It could nearly triple by 2040 if no action is taken, scientists warn.

https://www.seaspiracy.org/facts

150 milion tons of plastic in the sea, 1 garbage truck every minute, 46% of plastic in the pacific garbage patch is fishing nets
sure, but one does not get clicks for telling people that "the current thing" is nuanced.
They didn't

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-un...
that's an incredibly concise way to put the phenomenon, thanks for wording it so well.

there should probably be a name for it.
This is such a common thing for people to say I have to wonder if it's propaganda from big corporations. The idea that core tenets of our civilisation are invalid because "it's a private company" is insane. These principles are based on practicalities, not technicalities.
I have no idea what you're on about. The Founders of the US absolutely intended the press to be the last counterbalance on government overreach. It's literally why it's the First Amendment. Getting bogged down by terminology is perfect HN pedantry. Well done, sir!
Romance novels are books that anyone can read. The defining feature of Romance is a Happily Ever After; the conflict(s) are resolved and the world is put right again. There's are otherwise few limits, as far as I understand it, and some exceptions I'd still call Romance. A Court of Thorns and Roses (by Maas), for example, is a series with ongoing conflicts across the books. I can count on standalone Romance novels resolving without much uncertainty, at least not in the short term.

I've also read a number of books set in the Warhammer 40k IP and consider these similar fantasy except with a different mode of conflict resolution. If "Romance" is feminine by nature, I venture to consider the books in the Black Library to be "Masculine Romance", with an emphasis on getting what is desired through power over others rather than through power over oneself.
You wouldn't happen to have a link handy about that vertical axis perception thing would you, I l'm super curious about it.
The article contains a caveat that tailpipe emissions only recently were reduced below tire emissions, and even then only in some places.

Also, EV’s produce much less brake dust, and the article doesn’t compare that decrease to the 20% increase in tire dust.

Anyway, this mathematical bound holds in the absolute worst case for EV’s. If tailpipe emissions used to be 51% of the problem and brakes were zero, then switching entirely to EVs would leave us with 60% as much particulate emission as we had before.

It’s likely much lower than 60% of course.
USA doesn't need hypersonic missiles because we're pretty confident we can pierce Chinese missile defenses with F35 or other such weapons.

China needs hypersonic because US AEGIS Cruisers are the best anti-air defense in the world, so China needs the best missile in the world to threaten them (As well as the Supercarriers that they protect).

It makes no sense for USA to build hypersonic, because none of our foes are building a missile shield comparable to AEGIS. Its the whole "Unbreakable shield / irresistible spear" paradox. If no one else has an unbreakable shield, there's no point making an irresistible spear.
"No hello" implies that people shouldn't be friendly at all, and comes across as rude.

The concept simply needs a more descriptive name to be accepted. It's not about not saying hello. It's about including the actual request in the first message, usually after the hello.
>YouTube was popular and had very little moderation.

Emphasis on the AND. There is some correlation between Youtube's popularity and the lack of moderation but that isn't what made them popular.

I do agree on the advertiser's demanding moderation and I honestly don't blame them. If I made a product and I'm paying good money for advertising. I wouldn't want my products to be even remotely associated with anything that might promote controversy AND lower sales. Emphasis on the AND. The companies job is to make money and if that means embracing censorship or decrying it then they'll do it. Hell, they'll even do both at the same time. Advertisers are a leech on society and I hate that I'm defending them. But they pay the bills so....

That doesn't mean that vast majority of users don't want moderation. Every "free-speech" alternative to an already existing platform that I've visited has been complete shit. Filled with nutjobs that couldn't play nice with the normal folk.
That's... kinda the point. It's why many (including me) think the most likely scenario is that we are the only technological civilization in our galaxy.

There are lots of natural objections to this statement (eg civilizations that "hide") and a lot of these has gone into these explanations for the Fermi Paradox. It can be shown that such a structure has massive benefits, the biggest of which is energy (which is our ultimate limiting factor). If there's 1 other civilization in our galaxy then we can't really guess what they'll do. If there are 1000 civilizatiions then what are the chances that none of them go this route, given if there's even one there's a reasonable chance we could detect it? It starts to stretch credulity.
You enjoy the noise of cars rolling next to you when you are dining on a terrace? You like to listen to their sweet lullaby when you are reading on your balcony? That's... interesting, I guess?

We are not talking about freedom, we are talking about entitlement. You are not entitled to free parking on the side of streets, nor to be able to drive on every single street, nor to do so at a high speed, nor to be as noisy as you want to be. Other people have needs too. People need space to walk, they need space to bike, and in many cases this space has to be taken from space that was previously dedicated to cars, because that's all there is. It's only fair.

In any case, no one is forcing you to live in a city. Live wherever you want. But many people like them, and people who like cities tend to like them even more when there are fewer cars (not zero -- fewer). If you don't like it, that's fine. Stay in your paradise, and stay out of ours (or park at the bus station).
I think you need to give tasks that enable it to lookup and process specific documents. I am not sure they designed it for data mining tasks. And it’s probably not as smart as
GPT4 which might break it down into steps like “search for possible flight confirmations” and “validate results”.
Indeed. Seeing this on the front page is a good reminder I’ve been on this site far too long.
No, in my view Youtube can not do whatever they like with this kind of thing, at least as far as my potential outrage is concerned. If Youtube gives a false reason (to me as well as others) about the reason for demonetising someone then I have a problem with that.

When some content is banned from Youtube, it's got positives and negatives. Like when Alex Jones was banned, I was annoyed that I could no longer watch Alex Jones on Youtube if I ever wanted to, but more than that glad that he'd never appear in my autoplay or recommended videos. While I think there is some truth that YouTube can do as it likes, people talking about what their rules are, complaining about them, lobbying Youtube even, is all fair too. A fair complaint would be that the user does not get enough control over what gets recommended. If enough people are talking about that issue, it could motivate Youtube or a competitor to provide that kind of control, as it would be a signal that it would attract an audience to that platform and keep them engaged if recommendation control was a major concern of theirs.

Also, in some circumstances I could be quite annoyed with Youtube for not demonetising or banning some content. It could be something I don't want to watch personally, or more likely something I feel disgusted by such as Elsagate type scandals where the 'protect the children' type argument or instinct in my opinion or feelings override free speech concerns.

People criticising what Youtube does and talking about what a video hosting website would ideally do helps to create the conceptual foundations for the ideal video hosting website, and which Youtube and anyone else who reads the comments can use.

Also, discussing how such a system works produces what would be considered 'prior art' when it comes to patents.
People like curation, not censorship. Big difference.
Modern auction based ad platforms are much less economically sensitive to the pressure of advertiser ethics than traditional ad platforms like cable TV.

If one advertiser pulls out for ethical reasons their placement goes to the next bidder at an infinitesimally smaller price. And at the back of the line there’s always a game developer willing to pay a couple of dollars per install.

This is why the Facebook ad boycotts were so ineffective. Especially compared to the impact of the Twitter ad boycott - with Twitter having never developed a modern auction based platform.
Nothing was changed. The government just trotted out a nobody to make a statement that basically said "we won't do it until we think it can be done"; the sensationalist media thought they had got their U-turn, ran a few headlines, and moved on.

The bill just passed as it was.

The British establishment is occasionally infuriating.
That seems to be contradicted by the article
Search for "soil testing". There should be local companies doing it, as it's a standard procedure when planning new buildings.

(You can't build a new school or playground on polluted ground, for example.)
You cannot say with a straight face that predicting 20 million users, getting only 1 million, is "a good prediction".
How would the API do that without more overhead than the check that GP is suggesting?
I don't think they're sensational. They appear to be based off "these levels/values are okay, these are uncomfortable and beyond this is bad". The graph shows that in a way. But I'm not a biologist and don't know what "Genetic - Bisophere Integrity" means.
There's a reason I quit the grind and started a company that creates and serves food to people directly. There's a tangible benefit that you can see instantly in people - they smile and are happy to exchange money for something that they enjoy.

Haven't seen a lobbyist or an investment banker put a smile on anyone that isn't already fabulously wealthy.
The struggle to deter mining in a little-known biodiversity sanctuary in Brazil
I don’t know many people that would prefer the later, since being locked in a cage also comes with losing your job, a horrible accusation proven true (or admitted to) in court and a public criminal record.

Losing your income and being publicly shamed sucks, but you still can rely on close friends and family, a public safety net and lawsuits (if you’ve been defamed or illegally fired), while enjoying sunshine, fresh air and freedom of movement.
Whoosh. You went clean over my head, anyway.
More than 1/5 of HIV transmissions are heterosexual in the US. Additionally, prep requires quarterly testing to monitor any potential issues you mentioned (Which are pretty rare), and they also run an STD panel.

Just having a quarterly panel would be a huge boon to anyone with more than one partner. Normalizing prep for anyone who thinks they might need it would be a major step forward.
the mistake you are making is to expect that it is only going to be the mothers who stay at home instead of any parent. it definitely should be possible for one parent to stay at home. but it should not matter if it is the mother or the father.
Nah, it was caused by his kid turning trans.
I’ve literally never seen data-driven business decisions that weren’t using fatally flawed datasets or methods so bad that you’d be a fool to believe you were getting anything but gibberish out of them, except in trivial cases.

You quickly learn not to be the guy pointing out the problem that means we’ll need several people and months or years to gather and analyze data that would allow them to (maybe) support or disprove their conclusion, though. Nobody wants to hear it… because they don’t actually care, they just want to present themselves as doing data-driven decision making, for reasons of ego or for (personal, or company) marketing. It’s all gut feelings and big personalities pushing companies this way and that, once you cut through the pretend-science shit.

“Yeah, that graph looks great (soul dies a little) let’s do it”
Completely unrelated to the point you’re making, but the phrase is “booby trap”; I believe it originates from pranks played on younger schoolboys in 1600s England (the etymology of booby being the Spanish “bobo”).
+1, I was confused by these misspellings as well. Otherwise awesome work.
> controlling essentially public services.

Youtube is not and never was a "public service". It's their platform and they are free to do with it as they want, with very little exception. It's not any different than a mom and pop store having a "No shirt, No shoes, No service" sign and enforcing that. It's their store, it's private property, it's their rules.
Laser engraving is usually raster scan, and most laser cutters can do both line cutting and raster scanning.
And DDT, and mercury thermometers, and Teflon, and the list goes on...

It's a fundamental fact: introducing anything new to an environment disrupts the status quo. In a living environment, that means health problems for living things. You either stop creating synthetic materials or you have unforeseen consequences. You can mandate more research and more rigorous standards, but that has diminishing returns. Some things will slip past.
the money/power/fame are the drivers, the social media platforms open up the search for those things to a much wider audience while espousing the importance.

that is to say : social media isn't innocent, but it's a co-factor in the larger human-dominating infinite search for power and fame.
Don't use them commercial features if you don't be want to pay for them. And don't download the Enterprise Oracle JRE from the Oracle website if you don't want to use them commercial features. We all should read terms&conditions more carefully.
We have heard your concerns. Rest assured, a pack of wild crocodiles will be available for delivery if you wish. Although I must say it is weird to wish for natural predators to be released in one's own home.

Oh what’s that? Ah, you don’t want the natural predators in your home? You are just wishing that other people be eaten? It’s funny how everyone is always willing to sacrifice humans. As long as the humans being sacrificed are not they themselves.
Phoney decoupling strategy: US and China
They didn't dispute that, they suggested a line of logic for the behaviour. It being a reply to your comment doesn't automatically mean it's an attempt to prove your comment wrong.
Yeah, I understand that the last name is commonly used except by someone you're very close to.

The Park/Moon thing really threw me. Are either ever a given name? As it made no sense that the name wasn't on the jersey. Maybe I was just mistaken and the player was on the bench.
You can get fired from a job that is 100% of your income. In many places/occupations, for no reason at all.
I just knew those cartographers were a sketchy bunch. But did any of you listen to me?

/joke
Sometimes you just need to gather all the young'uns around the campfire and regale them with the tales of old, like The 500-Mile Email, or The Story of Mel.