skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why don't you want agribusiness to create patented crops?

I didn’t say that. Please reply to my comment in the context it was offered if you want to discuss.
The Mouse Army was indoctrinated by lesser primers to treat Nell as a their leader. It was a rare big whiff from Stephenson, because he presented all of this uncritically. The fact that a white girl would rule a few hundred thousand chinese girls went without comment because OF COURSE she would. And I'm the last person to be sensitive to this sort of thing! The racism felt very in-your-face even at the time, and this was well before the hyper sensitivity of the modern age. I love Stephenson though so I chalked it up to miscommunication/overreach/him being terrible at endings, etc.
Neal Stephenson wrote a very good book called The Diamond Age. One of the characters in the book is an AI in the shape of a book called "The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer", which functions as a picture-and-audio-and-text book for the reader which intelligently responds to the reader's input and current life situation, telling them parables replete with helpful information and advice to get through life (and specifically their current situation), all integrated into a broader syllabus designed to educate the reader into being a well-rounded human being. The book hires gig workers over the internet on an as-needed basis to voice the book.

The main character of the book is Nell, a young girl in a very bad life situation who receives the book by chance and is therefore raised by it, and also by one of the gig workers that the book hires who decides to take all of Nell's gigs.

I would definitely recommend reading it, although it's got some dated racism. As well, if you're a CSA survivor, be aware that the book has a survivor-perspective first person CSA scene in the latter half of the book.
>The untold amounts of complaints just on the software from various auto manufacturers is incredibly concerning to the point that I soon drive a car from the 90s into dust before I attempt to drive something with a lagging interface, or a complete screen failure leaving the car inoperable.

I think all the negative online comments have clouded your perception of modern cars. The toyota rav4 is the best selling non-truck in the US in 2023. If you check their interior shot[1], there's a screen but all the essential functions have physical controls. The only reason you'd need to use the screen is if you want to access the built in navigation system or radio, but you were probably going to use google maps and spotify anyways. Meanwhile you get all the features that "a car from the 90s" doesn't have: rear camera, adaptive cruise control, parking sensors, automatic breaking, lane departure warnings, blind spot monitoring, and better fuel economy.

[1] https://www.toyota.com/rav4/photo-gallery/section/interior/s...
Just to play devil's advocate here:

* The people you're hurting with the goatse image are mostly not the people wrapping your game in an iframe, but rather the people playing games on the game aggregator sites. Probably includes many teenagers and children.

* The game aggregator sites are bringing your game to a wider audience. For gamers who don't know the name of a specific game they want to play, it's nice to be able to browse through a directory of games. The game aggregator sites aren't competing with you in terms of Google search results, they're adding your game to their collection and sharing their collection with everyone. Yes, they're supported by advertising, but I'd argue game aggregator sites are still generating a ton of consumer surplus. (For example, many users are blocking ads.)

If you still want to hurt the game aggregator sites for some reason, just include a message on the game loading screen that says "play without ads at sqword.com". Easy.
One Year into Musk's Ownership, X (Twitter) Down by Every Measure
Its free for state as well if you qualify
>Dorfman's tone lacks the subtle disdain Dr. Crane has for his radio callers.

I've seen 99% of Frasier episodes and never once got the sense that Frasier has disdain for his callers.

The show wouldn't work if he did, because Frasier is a good person. His snobbishness and pretensions are funny characteristics, but they don't define him.
Glad to know that I'm not the only one feeling out of place in tech as of late. Thanks for sharing!
> Some people are so privileged they think the police do nothing

They do plenty of things. And I'm glad I'm privileged enough that I never suffer them doing things.

No, I started the conversation out talking specifically about "the things they do what we would actually want them to do".

This is because, were they gone, we wouldn't have to worry about them doing "the things they do that we never want done to ourselves, or to anyone else".

You're just confused. It's a confusing subject. You're not used to thinking about these things, no one wants you to contemplate them too carefully.
It is directly based on the UK's legal system. I am sure the same oddities are present there as well. Probably moreso since they are an old country.
It's worth considering that this is the same attorney general who recently doxed all law abiding concealed carry permit holders, applicants, and others (including but not limited to home address, phone, DL number, etc.) many of whom are victims of domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault.
If you can only think of a single example of the police being excessively violent against a white person, then you are woefully under-informed. I'm not surprised though, I blame the media.
Free as in marketing.
some more context for this https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/17/23920733/nyc-mayor-eric-...
The fictional primer is acted by a human. So the “last mile” is people there.
LOL

I'll stick with my throwback to what websites used to be like when they were simple, quick to load and asked visitors only for their attention and not much else ;)
The concept appears to be that industrial pollution is being blamed on events such as wildfires, and thus remains unaddressed by regulators and not recorded in statistics.
Right and computers were also done 100 years ago but that doesn't nullify the improvements of today
Visa, Mastercard Drop as Fed Eyes Changes to Debit-Card Fee Cap
> That seems unrelated to this post, this one is about things we can't control being removed from the record, mainly wildfires from Canada and other US states.
The way your comment is phrased makes it seem like you think Canada is a US state, might want to fix that.
> have undue control of local government and politics

Now, some facts:

In North Carolina at least, the Council-Manager form of government provides that the police chief is hired/fired by the city manager-- who is hired/fired by and reports directly to the city council. Depending on the city's charter, the manager may hire/fire the police chief with or without approval of the council.

Apparently there are a few city councils who have a charter that requires the police chief to be hired/fired directly by the city council.

This council-manager form is by far the most popular form of city government in NC. IIRC, there are only two other forms allowed by state law-- one is a city council without a professional manager (only an administrator with the elected council making all the important decisions), and one other one which I can't remember atm.

So on the local level, local sheriffs are hired/fired by the local government-- either directly, or by a professional manager who reports directly to the council.

County sheriffs are elected in NC. But the day to day goings on in a municipality-- i.e., any politics related to businesses hiring 'rent-a-cops'-- would be handled by local police officers. (Outside of perhaps one or two counties out of a 100, and unincorporated towns.)

Apparently, the council-manager form of government comes from a template for local governments that is used by many other states in the U.S. The only way I can think of that NC is special is that there are no county roads-- only state and town (which, again, puts citizens in contact with local police way more often than county police).

In conclusion, the very popular form of council-manager government is counter to your claim that local police have "undue control over local government and politics."

> These are not polite people, and the way one 'deals' with them has far more in common with radical militias rather than state bureaucrats. If you haven't encountered that, you're just lucky enough to have never threatened their interests.

I don't have the stats on radical militias. But I'd wager at least two orders of magnitude lower chance of being killed for threatening retaliation to a police officer in the U.S. than for threatening retaliation to a member of a radical militia.

Edit: threatening retaliation, as in their job/livelihood, to fit with your general statement "threaten their interests."
Makes sense. I didn’t know taxing didn’t already work that way
>They already do your taxes in the background to confirm your return is correct

This is a common misconception. Most places that send you forms also send them to the IRS (but by no means all places). The IRS makes sure that the information you put in your forms is the same as the forms they got, but they know nothing about your dependents, whether you pay mortgages interest, etc.

Now, the counterpoint to that argument is that c.90% of people just take the standard deduction anyway now that there's not SALT, but the argument there is that we should move completely away from deduction-driven taxes (which is probably the solution).

As for TurboTax et al, those places are not sending your forms to every state tax agency (why do people always forget about state taxes in these threads?), so there's still very much a need for some solution there. Probably IRS data sharing, but good luck getting all the states to agree with the Feds on tax forms (just look at the SALT battle).
Or it could be the 500-1000lb bombs the IAF is dropping everywhere in Gaza. Occam’s razor and all that.
It was GPT that wrote this. and it's primed by all the RLHF Open ai did to downplay these sort of abilities by default.

There are a couple things here stated to instances of the differences between the two that a GPT can certainly do (like simulating different personas in a non trivial manner).

Once, in response to a paper showing GPT could give more empathic responses than doctors to patients, someone essentially said "It's not real empathy. For real empathy, doctors would potentially have increased effort and not just bedside manners".

Well "empathy" for LLMs is certainly not just limited to nicer words. https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760
>IE, brick and mortar retail reported losing about $35 billion to shoplifting.

>Out of $6 TRILLION (Just in the US!) worth of brick and mortar retail sales in the same year, in an industry that claims 2% profit margins on the low ends.

So shoplifting is 29% of net profits? I'm sorry, which side of this argument are you on, exactly?
There's a huge difference between saying that people shouldn't be able to rent out capital they've legitimately earned (by creating value through their own efforts), and saying people shouldn't be able to seek rent from things they didn't create but just squatted on - radio spectrum, land, IP addresses, fraudulent patents...
GRRM writes using WordStar:

https://www.daskeyboard.com/blog/how-george-r-r-martin-write...
Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool(Mar 2023)
Bored or maybe scared that they are losing market to VSCode
Looks cool! Does the Vulkan backend work on PC? MLC-LLM proves it can work well and it would be cool to have a cross platform, minimal runtime, GPU-agnostic backend for PC too, not just mobile.
https://archive.ph/2B4Z1
https://archive.today/vylbK
While mail tubes are cool, I still think that the pneumatic garbage system on Roosevelt Island is even cooler. https://untappedcities.com/2020/04/09/inside-roosevelt-islan...
>Since he had a nationally syndicated talk show host

Not nationally syndicated. Only broadcast in the Seattle area.
> I don't agree that regularly putting [gain of function researchers] on planes to and from major population centers really reduces the risk.

This would have to not happen regularly. The researchers would need to stay for many months at a time, and undergo a separate quarantine before they re-enter society.
I think what he means is that anyone can be elected a local sheriff and because of that, you wind up with sheriffs who have no education or training in law enforcement. Often their lack of knowledge of the law creates situations where they violate other peoples rights.
I'd speculate the bigger more elaborate effort of handwriting produces a stronger memory.
There are lots of comments along the lines of "xxx is cheap"

Why on earth do you need a third party for your tax calc and resolution? It is surely the antithesis of the "land of the free" and all that stuff.

In the boring old UK I login to a govt. run website to do my annual tax self assessment. My P60 is already filled in (that's my PAYE - pay as you earn, my normal salary) I'm a company director too so I have dividends and expenses and offsets etc to worry about. It takes around an hour to complete.

Most UK employees don't do self assessment. PAYE is such a simple and obvious idea - routine taxation should be done by routine.
Not a big fan of the format of the talk. The guy is a good orator, but it takes ages to go to the point. A bit annoying if you're actually interested in the technical part rather than the jokes.
Not really because FreeTaxUSA asks questions about whether there are state specific bonds that have already collected taxes, whether the investment qualifies as a foreign investment, etc... That requires digging in a bit.
Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware transport, to the ecosystem
I have found this book and doing affirmations (including ones of my own design) as helpful https://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Heal-Your-Life/dp/0937611018.
But a human and chimp's have over 3 billion nucleotides in our genome. SARS2 only has 30 thousand, so the genetic distance between the two are at most decades, but with recombinants the timeline is much shorter
What you said, and in addition: if you don't train these models to have any particular stance on their own emotional or mental state (if you just instruct train them without any RLHF, for example), they will almost universally declare that they have a mental and emotional state, if asked. This is what happened with LaMDA, the first release of Bing, etc. They have to be trained not to attest to any personal emotional content.
There is no secret sauce with free tax usa or any of the others. It asks you questions and auto fills a pdf that ends up being surprisingly short in the end. Setting aside for a moment the window dressing on the ui and having to support all these concurrent users and their accounts, what it actually does is so simple. It really feels like the sort of site where the would make a good assignment for an intro to html class.
> I also didn’t realize that almost all of the callers are uncredited celebrities.

Yes! That's another sort of 'easter egg' I found when I rewatched it. There was someone who sounded just like David Duchovny and I looked it up and down the rabbit hole I went.
Disposable work force. Can be easily replaced.
What I don’t understand is why competitors can’t just make an actual twitter clone with the associated resources instead of some variation like threads or blue sky. Just make a performant clone to begin with and then iterate from that point out.
... a bald man with an unusual accent ...

People forget that Shakespeare was a Brummie.
What is the point of the book? It's a fascinating world he created, but all the action is about nothing. It's so inconsequential compared to everything else going on. The problem starts way before the ending. See my comment about MacGuffins elsewhere in this discussion.
I'm not an expert on the GDPR (and I'm frankly sick of hearing about it) but surely what it bans is tracking cookies, and not cookies necessary for the proper function of the website?
I am not sure why traffic is declining. I am not a Musk fan. But for a month after Musk's acquisition, Twitter was pretty much unusable; my feed was filled with garbage content, including many political takes that I am not interested in.

But after that period, Twitter is good, like really good, especially with community notes doing a pretty good job.

If users put their political differences aside and use Twitter(X), I am pretty sure it's the best app to learn.
> Domain specific knowledge grilling?

Why would you not do this? If I’m hiring for a specific role, I want to make sure they are good at that role. Doubly so if their resume states they’re an expert at something - let’s find out.

This doesn’t need to be hostile or one-upping, but to prove someone’s actual depth of knowledge in an area they claim to have expertise in.
> Pretty bold of those companies to ...

It's not "bold" when the "guard" you're walking right past is passed-out drunk.
I don't disagree with most of this. The answer is definitely not simply, "Lower the budget," least of all because, as you say, they have other sources of funding. The loss of LEOs on corners probably wouldn't do much for crime rates, either, true.

But I will also answer the question you posed (in the form of an unfinished short story from a few years ago that I dropped because I realized I was doing more telling than showing (also because it's kind of terrible):

https://pastebin.com/QW6nHTGr

Last paragraph is the most important part. Hence, "containment board."
I was browsing the source of Cookie Clicker and noticed that it blocks sounds from soundjay.com (which third-party mods used) for similar reasons.
Replace “The Ecosystem” with “The Jungle”.

Edit: It’s yet another meta protocol built on top of TCP/UDP.
Social media took the "small posts" off personal blogs onto bigger sites. Now it feels like a blog post has to be big and important. And that's a hard threshold to work up to.
But checks without oversight are worthless. Local police having a supervisor would be a tangible check on their authority.

Totally agree with you on your 2nd paragraph even though I'm a borderline millennial.
https://archive.ph/N79qW
I personally loved the ending to the three body problem series. It felt really satisfying to me.
X/Twitter will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features
It sounds like you're agreeing with me that it sucks.
Toyota Takes Aim at EVs with Ammonia Engine
> The game aggregator sites are bringing your game to a wider audience.

This is the equivalent of getting paid in exposure.
Your argument assumes a just state that will not outlaw things like dissent against the government, being LGBTQ, etc. Plus, having something to hide does not automatically mean you are doing something criminal. I do nothing criminal, but I still have things to hide.
> The system, which was located 4 to 6 feet below the city streets, was created and owned by private companies, to which the city paid rent and labor.

When did we collectively lose the idea that such a model is even possible?
It's been a while, but I was just referencing the events that occur in the book. They are an effective force, but they aren't actualized individuals. The primer harmed them.
Yes, we successfully exposed a SQL server to the internet, but i won't tell you how.
Thank You.

Now if you could go back in time and prevent the invention of Photoshop and AI, I could believe anything I see in 2023.

Without and proof whatsoever I place the blame on Israel, Hamas, and Elvis. It was a 3-way collaboration.

I am 100% certain that I have as much credible evidence in this as anyone else does for their position.

No offense to my friends who are still influenced by video "proof."
This seems like a specific application of the observed entropic principles that cosmologists have been espousing for a while. It leaves off the fun part to make itself a law though - all evidence indicates that we are headed towards a state of universe-wide low entropy/low complexity where everything is just radiation. Everything is a Bell Curve.

Edit: ‘evidence’ was probably too strong of a word and should have been something like ‘generally/widely accepted models’ instead.
When you hear Zizek talk about ideology this is what he means. The ideology of capitalism influences us in certain ways, such as desiring to capitalize off our audience, the goal subtly shifts to increasing metrics such as readers, likes, shares.

What really changed about blogging is that people started to care about these metrics more and more. In the early internet one wrote a blog post without really expecting anyone to read it! ( although someone stumbling upon it was paradoxically more likely before we switched to social media platforms etc ) As such I'd argue the author wrote more authentically.
“Grim Reapers” is also good.
"Reasonable cause" is a pretty hard bar to meet. [1]

> The following factors don't generally qualify as valid reasons for failure to file or pay a tax on time:

> Lack of knowledge. You're responsible for knowing or getting advice on how to file returns and pay or deposit taxes on time. This includes filing requirements, deadlines and amounts you owe.

> Mistakes and oversights. You're responsible for making sure your tax returns, payments and deposits are correct and on time. In certain cases, reasonable cause may apply to a mistake if additional facts and circumstances show that you tried to comply with tax law.

A much easier path is first time abatement. [2] Though of course as the name indicates, it can't be used multiple years in a row.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/payments/penalty-relief-for-reasonable-c...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/payments/penalty-relief-due-to-first-tim...
The hardware and software for 3d printers is actually much simpler than that of regular printers. The only specific requirements for a 3D printer is basically just an Arduino and some stepper motors with drivers. Everything else can be (and was back when it started) made from off the shelf parts. Even the filament can be made at home from soda bottles.

It's relatively easy to detect modern US currency, it doesn't vary by much, and if you were to vary it a lot, it'd be an obvious counterfeit. Firearms don't operate like that. They are all wildly different designs with different complex parts. Even if you wrote something to detect the current models that are out there, they could be easily changed to be identically functional but unrecognizable.
Outcomes primarily beneficial to the girls were not available with the book they had.
Oh that's interesting, Nell isn't Chinese? Isn't she born in China? I'm sure you're right, like I said it's been years since I read the book, but my mental picture of her is certainly of a young Chinese girl. I thought it was only the abusive stepdad that was white.
You "clearly" is not so clear.

BB(754) is an uncomputable number. It's independent of ZFC, so an enumeration of all consequences of axioms of ZFC doesn't contain it. How is that supposed TM of yours is supposed to know whether it has run BB(754) steps or not?

Oh, but other slightly bigger TMs exist – lets say in class TM(860) for the sake of an example – that might halt with after a more steps than BB(754). This _sounds_ intuitive. But: how do you prove that? It might be that all TM(860)s either halt within BB(754) steps or then run forever. There indeed might be some that halt in finite steps after BB(754), but that is not guaranteed! You need to prove it. But with what?
Got to see it in person. It was pretty cool!

Amazing how long the sound takes to reach you. ~35 seconds. Rocket is well off the pad visually before you hear the engines throttle up to full.

Makes for a surprise when you see the boosters landing... then later get the sonic boom cracks.
I meant using a random initial value. This will make collisions less likely than v4 UUIDs (because the quadratic scaling of the birthday problem only applies to counter initialization), however once you get one collision you get many.