skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also in dry air evaporation cooling is very effective, so sweating gets rid of a lot of the heat before it can build up in your body
>The UK government has just stopped off-shore wind turbine growth for the next decade

surely the power companies can just build them if wind is so cheap
Because if you do own a phone then it becomes your property and the manufacturer shouldn't be allowed to invade the privacy of your data on your phone, but CS is free to play, it's not your property, it's Valve's property, and Valve is allowed to allow or ban whoever they want on it, you don't have a constitutional right to be allowed to paly CS without Valve's permission.
RLHF isn't used to teach the model what it knows, it's used to teach the model how to follow instructions

Before RLHF instruct tuning the models could only complete sentences

Technically they still complete sentences, but now they have a strong association for a format where a question is followed by an answer
AI Images Detectors Are Being Used to Discredit the Real Horrors of War
Why do you think SBF would not do something stupid?
> The dream of a web where the server simply sent data, and the client chose how to display it, is totally dead

When did you have such a web?

The web used to be completely server side, so you could only receive formatted HTML/CSS/JS and you would need to scrape this page to get information.

Today you have (or can have) APIs and some sites are cleanly server/client. It is much, much, much better than it was if you want to consume data. At least there is a framework for that (not always available), as opposed to before when there was none.
One of the best training sources I had as a manager of technical people for 30+ years was something called “Situational Leadership". The concept is that there is no sigle way to manage people. That you would manage someone with low shills and high motivation differently than someone with high skills and low motivation. The main thing I learned over the years that helped me be a good manager was empowerment. Empowering people provides a sense of ownership while instilling trust.
They write them in advance for prominent figures, but Glück remained fairly little known even after her Nobel win.
Date Based Lightweight Persistent Scheduler for Node.js
> Good things to wonder is why America got shared access to all financial transactions of European citizens but the opposite is not true.

A lot of things are unequal between US and Europe. Eg., US bearing most of the cost of Europe's defense.
consider the hypothesis that some things in this world might not be about you
It's not quite the same thing, but similar.

In money laundering you're introducing dirty money into a legal looking business. You pretend that you washed more shirts or cars than you truly did, for instance. You pay tax, and from the outside it looks like you have a fully legit, profitable business.

On BTC, all transactions are public and traceable. You see Alice pay Bob $50. You see Carol pay Dave $25. You see Eve pay Dave $25. A mixer is an intermediary that makes it less obvious who's dealing with who. Everyone puts money into the pool, the mixer at some points sends payments to the destinations, and it becomes harder to tell who's transacting with who.

A mixer can take extra steps to confuse things further, like delaying payments and doing everything in chunks of say $5 at random delays, and rounding amounts, so it's harder to tell from the outside how many transactions there were, and to correlate an input of an odd amount of $123.45 with an equal output.

Some mixers offer swapping for freshly mined coins for a higher fee.

Unlike laundering, it doesn't really make a transaction look legit. You see Alice send $50 to a mixer, but it's harder to tell who it was truly for.
Because humans aren't programmable either. As soon as you try to impose a complex program on a human, i.e. a set of high level instructions, you'll face a lot of complexity and end up with a process that's pretty far from what we call programming. Just think about whether you can program a programmer, or UI designer, etc.

Sure, you can program a human to do menial tasks and they can do it with acceptable accuracy but even that may require a lot of trial and error. ("Oh, but you said I should do this and that and never mentioned that in this special case I should do that other thing." Or, probably more relevant: "yes, you told me to do this and that but this situation looked different, so I solved it in another way I thought was better.")
Is this really what we want? Is this really going to work? What will be the consequences? Have they been discussed?

2030-2049 all remaining airports close all shipping declines to zero, no flying for 2050, and after electric planes may fly.

https://i.imgur.com/hLJAqGQ.png
The Swiss trip planner now completely ignores DB trains for trips within Switzerland. They don't want to disappoint their customers.
> Web designers want their websites to look a certain way right down to the pixel

I’d say we’re actually further away from that than we’ve ever been. I’m old enough to remember <table> based designs, “best viewed at 800x600” etc etc. These days we have responsive design, adaptive color palettes for dark mode and accessibility, flags for users the prefer more contrast, reduced motion, etc etc etc.

User preference time display is interesting but I don’t think it’s realistic. My preferences can be universally applied without context.
This is the main reason that direct democracy is a better system: you can lobby all you want, but it ain't going to happen unless the people want it too.
Man, if you work in defense, pretend you didn't even see that URL.

Back in the day, three gigs ago - when this stuff was full on the boil - bunch of people got insta-fired for just clicking on news stories about Snowden. It was insane how fast it happened. Click -> Bathroom -> boxes+guards+parkinglot. I mean, granted, leadership does[1] precious little other than looking for new ways to get rid of as many heads as possible, but it was still impressive.

[1] Not counting the "Instant VPs" hired on from procurement offices, which is where virtually all new business comes from. Seriously, guys, just can the entire BD division and let the double dippers sell corner offices to their old pals.
It's nothing new for the EU. They tried to pass software patents through a meeting of agricultural ministers. The polish delegation saved us that time but later the industrials got their wish anyway.
How Patrick Stewart Made the Jump to Warp Speed
"In his fond memoir “Making It So,” the actor traces the path from the working class to the Shakespearean stage to “Star Trek” superstardom."
I think it worth noting briefly that almost everything discussed in TFA concerns bandwidth (network, disk, other I/O, CPU) and not latency. That's understandable, because performance for a lot of people is about bandwidth. But there are some of us for whom bandwidth definitely takes a back seat, and you need a different set of tools for tuning latency in Linux.
i'm "underdotting" anything that has a tooltip (simple css style). most buttons have a tooltip with a sentence explaining what it does/how it works.
but this is in webapps that people use relatively intensively, so they can get used to this. it's better than desktop apps that often have no indication that hovering will show a tooltip.
One of my greatest treasures as a young computer nerd was a bare 386(I think) chip that I received after sending away for it via an Intel ad I found in Byte magazine. I just had to cut out part of the page and mail it in. Several months later I get a package back with the naked processor glued to stiff card along with a low powered magnifying glass to scope it out with.

I really wish I still had that thing.
Not really relevant. Let’s say the authors modify the study as you suggest and use sodium chloride as the active ingredient. Now let’s say no difference is observed between the placebo group and the test group. Does that mean sodium is effective or ineffective? You can’t say without having a true control group to compare against. You’re basically saying “I would be more ok with this study if it was totally useless.”
We're all quite busy rioting about other things, because the US funded and supplied an actual genocide nearby. As bad as this is, it's a side show, and probably won't do much.
It is for me. And there is nothing important on my phone so it is not a huge concern.
And why do we have to accept that phones just turn into garbage after a few years? Even my old 2009 laptop* still runs an up-to-date OS but my 2016 phone is obsolete after 2-3 years?

* but I have to admit that the hardware is quite slow
They are not building more autobahn!!! Autobahn is not green enough. The infrastructure is falling apart.

A tunnel in Munich takes from idea to building at least 40 years. 8 miles of regional train extension takes 3 decades (building start date not known yet). Funny thing is that most of the track is already available. That’s the new real Germany. Not the one we knew from the movies.
Don't forget sanctioned individuals. This payment method must be looking appealing for Russian oligarchs right now.
It absolutely is applicable to places like Ukraine, and hopefully will be applied there when the time comes. In Ukraine it is not yet obvious who will win - not only each side thinks they have the advantage, but pretty much most outside observers agree that it's still undecided.

Think about other similar large wars: France surrendered in ww2. Later Germany did as well. Each of those failed to turn into a decade long blood bath. Then Vietnam - US left, the south lost, and Americans are now moving there for retirement.
Their last albums are not only different from their first album, they are different from their mid period. Personally, my interest wanes after Magical Mystery Tour because one can’t hear the drugs any more, and it was the psychedelic element which made that, Revolver and Sgt. Pepper so great for my ears.
Not to mention, it is a lot easier to program a function formatting the text to exact dates than writing a function that estimates how long ago it was.
I would go even further: I would remove these rounded, relative timestamps altogether.

iOS mail app really irritates me with this: whenever I open it, it tells me "Updated just now". Then I pull to refresh, and suddenly there are unread emails I received 2 hours ago. Just tell me the damn time when you did the update.
I mean if we are going to nitpick. Last Tuesday etc would be even better. Then past a week give the dates. If possible with day name instead of nr
I believe this represents roughly what people want, which is that in the future you can hold the makers of gadgets financially accountable for security issues. The "problem" with open source is that you can also hold people accountable who are regularly being paid for open source work. But I believe it needs to be that way, or else what would stop a Chinese gadget maker from turning the buggy parts of their firmware open source to circumvent the new law?
Microsoft is using blockchain technologies to manufacturer Xboxes more efficiently and reduce overhead.
I really hoped the entire collection of documents would have been disseminated by now.

Surely it's been long enough that anything in them that might compromise the security of undercover people or irrelevant personal information or whatever could have been redacted.

It's so frustrating.
> It's a lot easier to do something than it is to stop people from doing something. Usually to prevent actions you need total control or strong incentives.

True. And because of this, you need to increase the incentives for your side: create a website that lists all politicians that are in favour of the dubious law by their individual names. Use a wording for these politicians that is not punishable by libel, but near to it. Even after such a law becomes passed, make sure that the politicians who voted in favour of it will spend the rest of their lives deeply regretting their decision in sorrow so that hardly any future politician will dare to vote for similar laws.

Summarizingly: do everything in your power that the reputation of *every* politician who voted in favour of the law becomes *destroyed* in important segments of the society.
Ask HN: How did you escape homelessness?
I have multiple degrees, I don't use hard drugs.

I lost my job during COVID. My family pulled all support, leading me to be evicted due to nonpayment of rent.

Flash forward, the folks I got tenure, internships, and jobs have not connected me with work.

I lowered my standards and applied to things like dishwasher with no luck.

I feel harassed, and exhausted my savings on a Bellingcat certification and verifying my eligibility for Italian citienship.

Is that what I should do... emigrate back where I came from?

I'm currently in a hotel that lacks basic anemities like a functioning shower, paid monthly by family who demand I "get a job" but don't help in that matter... when the medical advice I was given was to cut ties.

This is complicated by things like being an activist but... I was a feminist. I was a hacker. I was kind to people. My heart is broken, and not in a romantic way -- they took advantage of me, always one offer at a time, forcing me back to have guns pointed at me and abuse hurled.

Anyways, how did you escape this? Are there specific nonprofits in states other than PA?

Did you speak to an embassy?

How do I avoid a situation where I get as upset as I am right now and do something extreme?

Everyone I met in this predicament, it was due to severe mental illness (like, schitzophrenia, etc) or a severe substance abuse issue.

I took years off from drinking, and am perfectly capable of having just one Guiness socially.

I struglle, some days, to contain my anxiety, because I'm literally homeless and I am that way because I wouldn't tolerate bad behaviors -- we removed some politicans, arrested others.

It feels like I'm nudged down a dark path, and I wanted to ask for help -- someone posted a link ages ago for jobs for people with depression...

They told me in grad school you're not depressed per se... you have C-PTSD... a series of events.

I'm capable of controlling it, but... it requires not being reliant on handouts, or I have to make bad decisions like "eat a big breakfast of meats I found in a charity fridge, let my blood sugar drop having too much caffeine so I can wait til dinnertime to eat again because I can't afford to buy food in the place that's nice enough to give me hot water if I sit in the corner"

Are folks willing to help? Or am I just a signal in the noise to be discarded when I'm no longer useful? I've never killed or raped anyone. I'm not a monster.

Why won't anyone help me?
I'm surprised that there seems to be no way to configure gitg to always show full datetimes.
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governments are elected in EU and the EU Parliament vets the candidates.

If that's the main objection, the POTUS is not elected by the people, is it undemocratic?
The federal reserve's plans to hike interest rates were never, at any point, a secret.
That's a pretty low level response. Pavlov demonstrated that you can do this for a specific outcome. Yes, humans can be conditioned to exhibit some desired results but not any desired result. Also, conditioning is teaching, not programming. Programming is defining a set of steps/conditions, and then transferring it onto the target system which will interpret and then execute on the program.

Yes, you could say that repetition is part of the transfer, but that wouldn't be too useful, it would just conflate teaching/training with programming.
> does anyone pay $90 a month to use it?

Some do apparently
With Apple and Google doing custom chips, I don't think that matters as much as people think anymore. Surely, a lot of functionality that used to be done in software is now done on chip. A generic benchmark isn't going to capture that.
> PROFESSIONAL EMAIL SHOULDN’T COST SO MUCH

It's fine on mobile but not on my pc screen. Using Firefox on the pc and Chrome on mobile so it might just be a browser thing.
It's not so much stopscanningme as it is dontstartscanningme :) But totally agree.

However I doubt this will help. The relevant politicians have already been paid off.
I like to call this:

victory of the executive branch

EU should be more lightweight a kind of European (United) Nations.
What’s with the repeated use of ‘please’ in these prompts?

Have they tested and determined that including it improves the output?

How much politeness is necessary in order to get the computer to do as we ask?

Or are these prompts written by basilisk cultists?
If the EU worked like a normal parliamentary government then parliament would have the right to initiate legislation. And it would be able to nominate whoever it wished for president of the commission as long as there was a parliamentary majority. The EU has confederal aspects that don't really work in the ways normal modern democracies work.
Comcast squeezing 2Gbps internet speeds through decades-old coaxial cables
I recently came across this conumdrum myself when developing a live streaming web app[1]. The app formats a DateTime using a fuzzy relative duration[2] which displays "1 minute ago", "2 days ago", "yesterday", etc...

I also concur with the author of the post saying "ago" is not enough. So the app has been updated to display:

fuzzy relative duration
hour:minute:second period timezone
full_day_name abbreviated_month_name day_number

I had to write a bit of logic[3] since new items only arrive on weekdays so when viewed on the weekend, new items do not say "23 hours ago" and instead say "yesterday".

[1] https://live.last10k.com

[2] https://hexdocs.pm/timex/Timex.html#from_now/3

[3] https://github.com/hbcondo/last10k_liveview/blob/main/lib/la...
Rocket League is an extremely twitchy game, especially in 1s. Several of the best 1s players in the world were playing from KSA for years on well over 100 ping. They were winning tournaments without a single loss against players on single-digit ping.
Because that IDE is compiling the code behind the scenes... (Usually somewhere on a spectrum between literally just using the real compiler, or failing spectacularly to match it.)
The top 3 causes of death by vehicle accident in USA are [0]:

- DUI

- speeding

- distraction

In other words all human errors. Machines don’t drink, shouldn’t speed if programmed correctly, and are never distracted fiddling with their radio controls or looking down at their phones. So if they are at least as good as a human driver in general (obeying traffic laws, not hitting obstructions, etc.), they will be safer than a human driver in these areas that really matter.

What do you care more about—that there is somebody specific to blame for an accident or that there are less human deaths?

0: https://www.idrivesafely.com/defensive-driving/trending/most...
and many other sources you can find
> The court deemed the likes as endorsements of a crime

Can’t even flip a bit anymore
Funny, just recently I was thinking about this since I have not heard about anything new regarding this in ages. Chemists call this an Island of stability.

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

But claiming, with very limited data, that this asteroid consists of ultraheavy, unknown elements of the periodic table violates Occams razor. I predict he is wrong.
If there genuinely is a simple solution to prompt injection that's been eluding us all for 13 months I cannot wait to learn what it is!
Imho, the in/out emails limitation is far more constraining than the amount of adresses I can use - thus "unlimited" is quite misleading.
Have to say, if you like to do bare metal SQL, using the nice features of Postgres, working with this lib is a total Joy!

No “fancy” and bleeding abstractions like something like Prisma, not convoluted type annotations like other TS libs, no, just plain SQL statements in the best JavaScript way of doing it.

I discovered learning to do Postgres a couple years ago, after getting sick of trying to hack Prisma, tried out several others, and after a couple minutes using this, i knew I wasn’t going back.
The coins are fungible, right? So the notion of a “a coin” doesn’t even make sense to me — they’re just numbers in a database.

Let’s say we send 1 clean BTC to address A and 1 dirty BTC also to address A.

Are both those coins now tainted?

If we then send 1 BTC from address A to address B, and 1 BTC from address A to address C, who has the dirty coin? Is it B, C, both, neither?
It could go either way. I get the impression that SBF is extremely intelligent but perhaps in a way where he is naive to failure and shoots from the hip a lot.
And yet people will load a megabyte of JavaScript just to create a date picker that looks nice while you need about 20 characters to get a bugfree one in HTML: <input type="date">

Everything you described is nice, but in the end it’s still up to the developer to support it and especially to choose its behavior. I can technically use “when reduced motion, html {animation: shake 1s infinity}”

My idea of “user agent” is Safari’s Reader Mode.
I don't think its an architecture (on the high level; there are probably architecture details like the specifics of the tokenizer that need adaptation in a straightforward way) problem, I think its a training/dataset generation/labelling problem.

That is, I think it is both simple and incredibly expensive/arduous, because the masses of free data to train models on doesn't come with a command-space/untrusted-input-space dichotomy, that’s something you have to impose onto the training data, with appropriately differentiated completions.

(On top of the fact that it likely requires de novo model training, which is itself expensive.)
I absolutely hate that recent versions of Outlook (at least in a Mac) shows “yesterday” in the date field in emails. I get hundreds of dates per day, show me the bloody time too! And this is not configurable!

“Yesterday” is barely any shorter than the date in “yyyy/mm/dd hh:mi:ss”.
Can You Hide a Child's Face from A.I.?
Stratospheric aerosol injection is one of the proposed approaches https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/07/05/sun-blockers-us-sc...
Unfortunately arguments like that don't make much political sense since those capabilities already exists. It isn't technical measures that protect rights but laws. A government could be draconian without surveillance technology. This sort of argument mainly appeals to technologist trying to deal with that they are making bank off private information.

Snowden's "turnkey tyranny"-argument is okay but requires specific knowledge and imagines things that haven't happened which therefor is open to interpretation.

I think the only real way to prevent something like this is to provide an alternative but that is also unlikely since it implies responsibility which the tech industry doesn't like.
If you search Crystal on HN, there are a few user who are happy with it. Unfortunately most of them are only using it for personal projects.
That's not what X did that's illegal. They illegally fired workers for coordinating. That, illegally, suppresses unionization by suppressing all forms of coordinated action. Workers have a right to collective action, and to organize.
Mixers exchange coins without using the blockchain so you can't trace them.

As a simple example of how this is possible: imagine you and I both have 0.1 BTC. We could simply swap wallets which would exchange tokens but that wouldn't be represented on the blockchain at all.
> did something once unthinkable: I left the laptop at home and took my iPad.

Leave them both at home. You’ll be surprised how freeing it is.

I like to think of it as privilege. At one point it was privilege and cool to have a portable computer at all, now (and for a long time) it’s privilege to travel without any.