skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Courts already have processes in place to challenge evidence; I’m not worried about them.

The problem with deepfakes is the instant amplification they’ll get from media and well-intentioned responses from people of good faith.

So there will be the deepfake of (insert your favorite politician) saying something unsavory and it’ll be taken at face value and a bunch of people will cancel their social media and bank accounts and protest in front of their houses etc etc.

The solution is super simple but unpalatable in today’s culture - waiting periods.

What if corporations were required by law to wait 30 days after a public spectacle before taking action? This would provide time for the victim to defend themselves and the truth to come out.

Similarly I have always thought that passing laws in the heat of the moment results in people’s rights being tramples. What if legislators were required to wait one year before passing laws in response to a public event of some sort? This would give time for passions to cool and alternatives to be considered and impacts to be weighed.

But this is all a pipe dream, let’s just cancel them immediately like we do now.
Maybe they are only so big because their anti-competitive behaviors have kept alternatives from taking their users. I'd love to be able to stop giving amazon as much money as I do, and I know a lot of people who feel this way.
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Why do we want to break down PET? Why not just re-use it?
You'd want a Beeb emulator for that not an Arc; some work has been done on the Beeb emulator for that (although not sure what's still around). There was a fun meeting of the Chamelion project that came out of Uni Leeds many years ago when they were doing exactly that and a bunch of BBC people around.
well, there is an entire article highlighting each of their reasons if you are so inclined
That's true. It's about scale and ease of access. You had to be part of some group. Now you can get the latest news about how the yab is part of the plandemic 24/7 from your buddies on the internet.

The fascism part is interesting. I think we're wholly unprepared to deal with it because we've forgotten about all the fascists at home during that time (assuming you're talking about the US). I doubt as many people know about the American Bund and Nazi rallies in Madison Square Garden as they do about D Day.
> I think the toughest ethical situations arise when ChatGPT can give you a perfect answer to your homework problem. Is it unethical for a student to use ChatGPT in this case? Does superficially rewriting the answer to put it in your own words make it ethical? Is it appropriate for professors to give out A's to the students who cut and paste from GPT4, while giving lower grades to students who don't realize that such a tool is available, or who won't pay $20/month for the best homework tool?

How are any of these tough ethical situations? The obvious answers are "yes", "no", and "that's moot." (Moot because the ethical onus is on the student, not the professor. It's not the professor's fault that the student is benefiting from unethical behavior.)
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> We don't choose our preferences

As a doxastic voluntarist, I reject this notion entirely.
Sony almost certainly has more marketshare of the console market than Amazon does of anything. The numbers that came out for sales of XBox were... sobering for how badly Microsoft is throwing cash to stay in the game.
Lufthansa says green fuel would eat up half German electricity
As soon as a coin the the coffer rings carbon dioxide from the air springs!
> and is trivial to install

The average person/studen can't install a llama 2 model (70 billion parameter) that can compete with ChatGPT-4 (the paid version), considering most students have notebooks, and lack top tier GPUs. Most would have to go to a "free" cloud providers.

ChatGPT-3.5 is also free, and compares favorably against the lower parameter llama 2 models. But, llama 1, lower parameter/heavily quantized llama 2, and ChatGPT-3.5, are not practically comparable to ChatGPT-4, for most tasks [1]. I haven't found a use for those, in this sort of context, except for increasing my blood pressure, with the time wasted being my justification for paying $.70/day.

[1] https://www.promptengineering.org/how-does-llama-2-compare-t....
It has been possible for quite some time. I remember a few years ago, Google Translate offered a offline translation option (for a specific language pair) on my Android that required a couple hundred of MBs of download.
Why would you suggest 1password on any other shitty proprietary crap. Use Bitwarden, its Open Source you can self host it inside the company if you want ... and if they every do something (shady) you do not like you can switch to a fork that will instantly pop up as soon as that happens.
You're probably contagious before symptom onset.
Methane has roughly 25x the warming power as CO2, but burning 1kg of methane only produces a bit over 2kg of CO2
Your replies make a lot of sense, and it's an interesting contrast with some of the other negative experiences in the comments.

Can you think of anything in particular that you did that helped you get ahead of any of these "out of your control" type disruptions that seem to derail and upend other peoples careers? I don't want to talk about dumb luck... maybe it's soft skills?

Or maybe it was it just dumb luck? Being in good places at the right time consistently in your career? I want to believe there's more than that but also sometimes life is unexplainable and that's also a valid but unfulfilling answer to these kinds of broadly too-vague questions.

I am trying to move past the knee-jerk resentment I feel for folks that have been successful. I want to understand what they have done differently from myself so I can try to better align myself with people and society.

Really appreciate the comments, thanks
Too opinionated ? I'd be interested in examples of that.
Corresponds with the advent of agriculture and early civilization. No doubt rulers had more offspring than peasants, as did successful conquerors.
Or put differently, 8-10 thousand years ago, the number of men reproducing dropped significantly. That makes sense to me given that this is the period in human history where society begins to form into agrarian communities [1]. The beginnings of social stratification would likely impact reproductive trends.

Saying that the development of society caused more sexual competition among men isn’t crazy. This study basically uses Y-chromosomal tracing to support that point.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_prehistory#cite_no...
Agreed. The point being that the students should be capable of basic inference.
The measure of these services shouldn't be if you can sell a new product and make money.

It should be that you can sell a cheaper, better version of an Amazon basics product and overtake it.

If there is literally no way to do that... Amazon is clearly a market manipulator.
Is there a point to your statement? The existence or non-existence of free will has no discernable effect on reality (see the "philosophical zombies" thought experiment).
https://archive.is/yNXtS
Then you are in the minority unfortunately. Just look at music - you can buy DRM-free music online without problems, but people still prefer to pay for Spotify...
Where does the fine go? Seems to be a great recipe.
Sounds like your CEO is a piece of shit. Luckily not all companies operate this way and being directly involved in my company's net zero initiative I know we investigate every single carbon offset we purchase and its rarely the cheapest option. In some cases it's a little frustrating when you see things like "this offset is we won't cut down a forest in Alaska for the next 10 years" as that is piss poor, but there needs to be better regulations and oversight...and the government doesn't care because they are getting their piece of the pie too.
It is not if you cannot prove that the price that the customer pays is now higher.

Apple for example copies apps and makes them available as default in iOS. Companies go bankrupt because of it, but it is not monopolistic.

Of course all these are because of the strict legal definitions we have. In spirit I agree with you.
Why don’t Americans eat mutton?
How much of the Patriot Act was patriotic?

The US government does this sort of thing all the time.
For any parents reading this and wondering if their kid is affected, I highly recommend reading up on PANS and PANDAS.

Watching our happy, healthy kid change before our eyes with sudden-onset OCD, vocal and motor tics, terrible mood lability and sleep issues, and other strange symptoms like handwriting regression was heartbreaking.

His doctor suggested it was Tourette’s and I happened to notice that his symptoms included a dry vocal “cough” and insisted on him being tested for strep, which he had. We got the antibiotic and it went away. That cycle happened 2 times until the 3rd time, the symptoms persisted and he no longer had strep. That lead me to discover PANDAS and we then began getting him treated for that.

If you’ve noticed similar changes in your kids, definitely read up on it and find a doctor who understands the link and is willing to explore treatment options with you.
I'd be all for a boycott in your example, but not in the case of Unity... as a purchaser of games. As a developer, you'd better believe I'd be looking hard at Godot / Defold / Unreal... or turning off the Unity ads in my products. I don't think Unity's intended pricing change is morally equivalent to child labor.
I wish we could make this more well-defined because this is every company ever entering a new market supported by their existing business. If you actually outlawed all of it it would kill every medium or larger business (which isn't to say I'm not opposed to outlawing it) because that's just the game. The business that has to take on funding and pay interest will struggle against the conglomerate with a war chest larger than your TAM.

Amazon has some shitty practices but I expect a lot of pushback in this lawsuit as a bunch of other companies see a target on their back for stuff they've been doing for longer than Amazon's been around.
Where does one find this TVM implementation you mention?
Not all of it, it has about a second before and after that are not skippable. All I do is spam clicks during those damn dice-rolls.
We’re coming full circle
Once a company tries sth like this there's no point going back. They will fuck you up again the moment people stop watching every step their make.
If they did, whether it'd be something of concern would be a function of the grocery stores market size and capture.

If Walmart, for instance, were to start creating Walmart-branded everything after in-store product trials by small companies, that'd be a concern.
Brought this to mind:

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/10/1054428108/burning-wood-pelle...
When putting multiple containers together docker-compose will handle setting up the networking and hostname lookup so that the services can communicate with static names and ports.

Among other things.
Walmart has been doing that for decades. And they probably were not the first. It is not a novel strategy.
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Yeah that sounds about right. I just wish i went right to the implant personally. The risks associated with it breaking, combined with the cost of essentially doing it twice...it all feels so pointless now.
Yes, and Red Hat has metrics and explanations showing why Go is not exactly ideal here.

And yet I am surprised they chose C as a replacement... hence my question above!
But assembly _is_ outdated, at least for the purpose of authoring large community software projects.
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Closest to non-junk that I know might be buying allowances out from EU emissions trading system. And even that I am not quite sure.
Guess I'll give the article another shot then. I immediately closed the page because it looked like this: https://i.imgur.com/W69BSiP.png

EDIT: never mind. They broke Reader Mode. I give up.
If you want to advocate wealth distribution fine, do it openly and honestly, not under the guise of a "climate crisis"

Of course most people understand wealth distribution is generally bad, and leads to terrible outcomes and rarely actually fairly and equitably distributes any wealth that is why it is almost universally rejected by the masses when tried.

wealth distribution is normally simply a method to impose authoritarian governance on a population while claiming to be a social good, so more or less wealth distribution is the same scam as Carbon Offsets.
I should've learned already to not rely on Google for anything other than paid for and search. Fool me twice...
It's easier (read more reliable) to manipulate bytecode or other internal representation than the source.
Fertility rates going down, divorce rates going up, and young people finding it harder to navigate dating and relationships. To the latter point, soon most new relationships will start through dating apps, and these have their share of problems too. These are some of the things that I think make finding companionship and building families harder.
>it's not even clear that real numbers are real,

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_number

> whether and how it would physically possible for a real-number based quantity to be present in a finite space

If you have a continuous function between two points in space then you need Real numbers.
To add: the heron-marked blade is used pretty well in other ways as well.

For context for the unfamiliar readers perusing this thread: heron marks indicate a blade master — a titled earned by defeating one in single combat or by undergoing a rigorous training process over years. Rand is a farm boy given such a blade by his dad when he sets out on his journey, and he is surprised when he learns his father was a blade master because he was just a simple farmer that served in a war 20 years beforehand to satisfy his own desire for adventure.

Rand feels he does not deserve to carry the sword but does it to honor his father. Even though he trains quite a bit, it is more a crash course than a proper pedagogy. He kills a blade master at one point but there are no witnesses so by tradition he feels he can’t claim the title. He carries this imposter syndrome across many of the books and obsesses over training with the sword. This continues until he is maimed in a way that hinders his ability to fight with the blade and, at roughly the same time a character points out that it doesn’t matter if anyone saw him defeat the blade master, he earned the title and should feel confident about it.

In a lot of ways, this arc is a microcosm for his internal conflict about being the Dragon Reborn (the chosen hero of prophecy). He goes from not believing he could possibly be the Dragon, to obsessively trying to prepare himself mentally for his final confrontation with evil (he repeatedly says he must make himself as hard as steel), to eventually realizing that his own perception of what makes a Dragon / blade master is immature — both are just a men, with their own strengths and weaknesses even though they have dedicated their life to a purpose.
The title and site reward those who'd click through on the original rather than the bland substitute.
37.8 seems low, I suspect the "shipped goods" percentage is higher.
And nuked affiliate sites that promoted Amazon links primarily, wild.
Based only on the trailer, there's an upcoming Switch game, Unicorn Overlord, that looks like a reincarnation of Heroes of Might and Magic. Slightly more than Into The Breach.
Ancient religion and philosophy taught that habits influence desires far more strongly than desires influence habits.

It is possible to want different desires (if you disagree, ask any recovering drug addict). So even conflicting desires can exist simultaneously on multiple planes of consciousness.

A powerful way to change your desires to be what you want them to be is to change your habits.
Wouldn't any largest online discourse location be the biggest outlet of disinformation?
Walmart has done that, for decades. They have tons of their own brand in their stores selling for cheaper next to the more brand name items. Equate, Mainstay, etc. In fact, everyone does it. Target, Costco, CVS, Walgreens, etc. It is basic price discrimination / segmentation strategy.
The complaint [0] has 32 pages detailing Amazon's durable monopoly power in two relevant markets, so your claim that it lacks a monopoly might do with somewhat more of a counterargument than you've presented.

[0] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.32...
> I think GPT4 and the like spell the end of homework and that is a good thing.

In my kids' case it hasn't mean the end of homework, rather it created a new policy that only authorized devices (school supplied Chromebooks) can be used while in school. Completing schoolwork on your own device even outside of school hours is also frowned upon.

They say the change is about "network management" but parents and students both know the real reason.
It includes hledger support I believe.
The correlation between faith and prosperity
what makes you think that this is something I doubt? I can accept it happens and still be creeped out by it all the same.
The translation is very nice. Hopefully they add more languages soon! Been waiting on a feature like this for some time. There are addons but they've been finicky for me.
The only way I can see it being true is diluting the egg with water to turn it more 'liquid', do you see another point to this debate?
The FTC is bringing a lot of cases, not just the few big ones like this that make headlines. The DOJ also brings antitrust cases.

See:

* FTC: https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings

* DOJ: https://www.justice.gov/atr/antitrust-case-filings
Complicated solutions are, well, complicated. How do you know that doing x results in less net emissions? Action x is, very likely, part of a graph that starts at one point on the globe and spreads all over. Is it possible to honestly tally emission effects?

What about the "side effect" of economic growth?

If company Y produces vehicles that emit CO2, and CO2-emitting vehicles are taxed, company Y will transition to electric vehicles which, for the sake of exposition, let's really believe don't produce CO2. But now company Y can contribute to economic growth, for example by selling trucks that can transport more goods at no "environmental cost", other than the environmental cost of the goods themselves (e.g., imagine the trucks are transporting coal, meat, or people), the cost of making and maintaining the roads, etc.

Generally, if GDP grows a factor of z in a certain time-period and CO2 emissions are reduced by a factor of w per unit of GDP in the same period, then as long as z / w > 1, CO2 emissions increase.

In my opinion, the best solution for Earth is to reduce GDP units while also trying to reduce CO2 emissions per GDP units. The best solution for people is to keep economic growth unchecked. Since the two things are incompatible, Earth and people should part ways.
> We love our cheap goods, cheap-ish energy and ability to change presidents and prime ministers.

I'm not saying I don't agree, but this is almost identical to arguments made prior to WW1.
In my opinion, Amazon needs to be split into at least 4 independent entities:

- Online marketplace
- Consumer products
- Internet infrastructure
- Delivery logistics

Similar to the three-tier distribution system for beer in most states (a brewer cannot be a wholesaler or a retailer). This makes it easier for smaller players can compete with the big ones on quality at least, if not price or recognition.

(Edit: format)
Writer nets $100M for its enterprise-focused generative AI platform
Lets hope this doesnt become a secret trial like the google one.
Say, if hardware checked that RET transfers control to a place that's immediately preceded by a CALL instruction, would that help?
> You cannot control what you feel, but you can control your actions.

I'll respond in a way that I hope is clear and relatively objective. This will take the form of an "if-then" claim nested within another "if-then" claim.

IF a person

(1) accepts philosophical materialism, but
(2) remains agnostic as to quantum effects at macro scale

THEN then the following response follows logically:

It depends what you mean by "you". If you (a) mean that "you" consists of the body, including the brain; and (b) you recognize there is a physiological difference between _non-volitional_ and _volitional_ choices; then (c) yes, loosely speaking, "you" can control your volitional actions.

If you think carefully, you will recognize the above assumptions also mean:

- a person's surrounding context plays an essential role in shaping the kinds of actions that are available.

- there are no causes other than material ones (such as a soul)

You may notice I didn't use the phrase "free will" above. That is very much intentional. Even if you are a philosopher, that word is nearly impossible to use in a way with a definition that a group of people can agree on.

See also: "Volition and Action in the Human Brain: Processes, Pathologies, and Reasons" by Itzhak Fried, Patrick Haggard, ... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5678016/
We've discussed engine support for stack walking for application-level GC within linear memory, but there hasn't been a clear win (at least in my mind) over just using a shadow stack, which doesn't require walking frames, just scanning a memory segment. Opening up the contents of executing stack frames imposes a ton of constraints on the engine and complexity (e.g. engine now has to maintain mappings, support frame modification, etc), that have implications for basically all execution tiers. It doesn't seem like the right tradeoff to me.

I've implemented a shadow stack for Virgil, so I am aware of how much it sucks. But that doesn't suck as bad as coming up with a stack walking protocol and then modifying every Wasm engine in existence to support that.
> post-iOS change

What is the iOS change you’re referring to?
So is Podman, if you are to believe Red Hat's marketing on it.
Probably true. But then feels like it's one or two tweaks away.
wow - go read up on oversubscription; you might get a better idea about how networks work. The idea that any provider has 100% back end capacity for the full bandwidth of every node connection is beyond laughable.
Grocery stores sell generic foods, but they put them on the same shelf as the name brand stuff.

They don't hide the original products in a darkened corner of the back room where no customer can see them. They don't shove their generic into your hand every time you reach for a name brand. Amazon can hide the real products from search, or push it to the bottom of results, while putting their own products at the top of search results even when you search for the brand by name.
And ISPs are treating it like it's the law in the whole country: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/17/att-will-count-hbo-max-towar...

> The change will extend beyond California, since, AT&T said, “the Internet does not recognize state borders.”
this is awesome, congrats on an amazingly useful release!

for those that haven't used ollama, being able to specify how a model behaves via a "modelfile" is pretty darned awesome. I have a chef, a bartender, and a programmer that I use, personally.