skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that something that actually happened, or are you talking about a theoretical case? It wouldn't surprise me if a Microsoft salesperson would do something like that, but still
2014 would be prior to most of the features mentioned in this article (parts pairing) and not the subject of your article (kill switches). The article does tell us that:

* iPhones are very commonly stolen

* Android devices introduced a similar kill switch in 2014

> Samsung introduced to kill switch for its Galaxy S5 in April, so it will be sometime until its effects can be evaluated
After reading your story, the image at the bottom stands out. I never thought about the fact that you can’t really trust that what is returned to you is the same as what they took. No telling if they added any malware to those drives intentionally or not.
I read the third book of the Zelazny's Amber series before I read the second, back when the series was new. I didn't do it on purpose, but I wasn't careful to avoid the risk either.

That was the first time in my life I read three novels the same day. It was 2 days before qualifying exams for my PhD. 1 day beforehand I was going to cram, but the day before that I wanted to clear my brain.
So, if as a young child I've learnt to behave emotionally in order to participate in society, my emotions are ... not even "not real" but "not mine"? I mean, we can argue realness, but surely I'm still the one having them.

This feels like a "free will" debate, where if we can explain how a decision was made, that deprives the person of their agency. The model being trained to respond emotionally is why it is getting emotional itself.
I'm also looking for the best AI communities. Thanks you asked.
Works for other things too, like art or religion.
Can you imagine how many horrific crashes there would be if everyday drivers were allowed to fly their cars.

Road rage taken to the sky
>if you open up any Rails application, it looks basically the same in structure whether it is the biggest Rails app there is or a new one

I've never worked with Rails, but this sounds amazing. One of the things I really hate about the Node.js ecosystem is that there are no clear conventions, the structure is always different even when the same framework is used. It's a mess. The exception is probably Next.js but it's more frontend-y.
Not the person you replied to, but there's some evidence that Galileo's persecution was due to a personal spat between him and Pope Urban, and the latter's insecurities, rather than philosophical differences.

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair#Historians_and_...

Also, reflecting on your other example (Damore) there are plenty of situations where it's possible to disagree and be offended.
Ryan did so much for the rails community and all because of the joy for RoR.

Unfortunately iirc Ryan suffered a burnout and had a lengthy break. I hope all that is better now.
/CUDA knowledge doesn’t port to JAX and vice-versa./

These are completely orthogonal? Jax can execute on GPU, TPU, or CPU pretty seamlessly, by design.
Seems like everyone who disagrees with you is wrong.
Absolutely.

I'm just saying it's not fair to say they were industrial abrasives before debeers marketing came along.
Looking at the front page, I think the lack of comments is partly caused by Thanksgiving week and a lot of US people not being at their desk.
The irony that you definitely typed this on a device that was partially or fully made in inhumane conditions by people below the poverty line.
I'm bearish on LLMs not because they're not helpful; they are. I'm doing theoretical physics, and gpt-4 is useful multiple times daily. It didn't replace Google or something, but it is a useful additional tool. It just does not feel like "90B valuation without profit" useful or "multiple unicorns doing more or less the same" useful.

Of course, gpt-5/6/7 can become more valuable to end-users, but that's the second reason I'm bearish. LLMs are powered by exponential growth, and no exponential growth is infinite. We are already using a significant part of all existing data, and going up more than 1-2 orders of magnitude in either data or compute feels unlikely unless there is some breakthrough. Breakthroughs are hard to predict, but they are generally rare, and likely there won't be one soon.
A pentagram and a sparkly star are not the same thing. Is this an example of underfitting?
why just yt? There are many more sites doing this
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a propos Borges and copyright also this

Pablo Katchadjian was charged with plagiarism, although most experts agree that he did not

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/10/jorge-luis-bor...

Argentinean court however found him guilty, probably they have stricter Intellectual property views as to the rights of creators than American however.

https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/literature/borges-ship-unju...
> Android -- a cost center. No viable business model. Maybe Samsung would fork AOSP for their phones.

The Android company could simply get paid licensing fees for its OS and extras like Microsoft? Or maybe AOSP would instead continue as a intercompany project somewhat similar to Linux (the kernel).

> Cloud -- has to run at a loss in the immediate future to capture marketshare

That's dumping and I don't think it should be allowed so routinely anyway.

> Email -- nobody pays for email. Get ready for a much smaller mailbox and ads targeted by email contents. Get "sponsored" emails in your feed.

So, if people care they can pay for the paid service.

> YouTube -- was a separate company before

Was it profitable through? I see Alphabet published revenue numbers but I didn't find profit numbers. So maybe it would be hit by costcutting like limiting video length in some cases.

> Maps -- will become a free tourist map, may have to pay to unlock any zone except your home.

OpenStreetMaps exists, so an independent Google Maps company would have to compete with that.

> Search -- if it can sell ads independently, could be a viable business.

It's the starting and most profitable part that paid for all the rest, no? How it could not be viable.

> Advertising -- all the other units need advertising to survive. This could be a clearinghouse

But is the profit in the clearinghouse part or the selling ad space part? I'm guessing both.
Take it out of her finger
My least favorite version of this is when non-technical leadership skips a level or two and talks to junior technical staff rather than the senior or leadership technical staff who have enough experience to know to ask clarifying questions, establish a timeline, expected outputs, etc. It's something I've seen often at various campaign and political tech organizations.
That's like saying that Mac Lisp still works because you can put soldering iron to work and resurrect on of the two remaining Lambdas in existence.

The whole point of what I said is that it doesn't work on modern systems. If you emulate old systems where it worked, then it's a nobrainer that it will work. Like, what are you even trying to prove with this?
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no. the car addiction has fueled the urban/rural divide, made us lazy, helped cause urban sprawl, destroyed public transportation (even in big cities) and has also helped our society become hopelessly addicted to fossil fuels.

I'll take my own two feet or a bicycle, thanks. Cars have tremendous value and utility but the automobile lobby has killed a lot of progress in this country too.
To be fair I've never heard anyone claim that 100% prevention is even possible.

Even the most ardent libertarian at most believes that maybe 90% of the population can be 'protected' by various, non-govermental, systems to a sufficient degree, but there will always be some fraction, in this case tumeric eaters, that slowly get lead poisoned regardless.
There are already enough people on Earth, such that our civilization is very unsustainable. Consider adopting existing children if you actually care for the environment.
While ads suck and I think this is a shitty move by YouTube, I I find it hard to argue against a company that runs on ads not having a legitimate interest in making sure that they are being able to display them on their own website.

I think you could even make a good argument that YouTube MUST take appropriate measures to ensure that they display ads that have been paid for. To count impressions so they are able to bill their clients they need to do more or less the same things required to detect ad blocking.
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But they have (a lot of) EU users, and they gather PII from those users (such as email, or in some cases username == first name or full name ; and profile description can contain PII ; they probably also get our IP) so they still must abide by GDPR.

If you have EU users you can't hide behind "well *my* country says you can take PII and not charge VAT and not provide refunds, and I don't care about 3D Secure or DSP2 when I charge EU credit cards etc etc."

You have to either comply with the law to get those users and customers, or withdraw from there.

It seems logical that as a citizen of [insert country] I should be able to rely on my own country's protections against [insert risk] whether the third party is from my own land or not.
Negative mindset
Can you name a major positive political change that wasn't lead by somebody who cared passionately about something for decades?

Do you similarly right off Nelson Mandela because he was ranting about the same injustice for multiple decades?
I had the Maxis game El-fish, and the part of the game where you'd breed fish was almost unplayable on a 486SX because the SX lacked a math coprocessor. I wanted a math coprocessor, but as a kid in pre-internet times, I had no clue how to get one.

Maybe I'll try playing in dosbox and see what I was missing out on.
given the current political environment i think we should protect and promote old textbooks as much as possible. they’re lean, devoid of ceremony, makes no assumptions about race/gender/political orientation/socioeconomic status of the students as they work their way through the foundations of the subject. for a modern example of mumble jumble junk, with so much presuppositions about your intelligence, see the rust book[0]. it’s a tough book to study because it wastes so many words saying nothing at all. many people have used it yet rust lifetimes and borrow checker semantics is as arcane and elusive as the holy grail.

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/
> Want to be a bounty beggar? It's dead simple, you just use tools like Qualys' SSL Labs, dmarcian or Scott Helme's Security Headers, among others. Easy point and shoot magic and you don't need to have any idea whatsoever what you're doing

You've described 90% of our cybersecurity department.
There are excellent textbooks on Classical Mechanics, probably because it's a crystal clear subject and you can give a detailed account of the essentials in a single volume without handwaving. Of course everything can be improved, but it also can be muddled. If it works think twice before fixing it. Kind of what happens with Rudin and introductory Real Analysis.

On the other hand, there's for instance Optics where you basically have to condense an encyclopaedia and there's always prettier pictures. Or Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics etc that can be taught in different ways depending on the curriculum.

There definitely should be pedagogical considerations in higher education, that's lacking because it's usually an afterthought. And it also should be very clear to people getting into higher education that at some later point pedagogy must end and you have to be capable of working your way through the material.
> You're delighted at the students that have passed your IQ test. There is generally very little care given to the 70%+ of students that aren't making the cut.

That's because happy students are all alike, but every unhappy student is unhappy in their own way. It's just not feasible to care in depth about why any one of the 70%+ is not learning effectively. They're probably missing some prior topic that's effectively a prereq for the class, but that's something that should be addressed by the student themselves.
I mean, to be honest, horse riders probably said the same thing about motor vehicles
One word: Fertilizer.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

I think there is a correlation between joking and being difficult to reason with, but the causality between them might not be the one you assume.

It appears to me that one of the reasons why people laugh is to release some internal tension. The tension comes from the cognitive dissonance with conflicting thoughts that they have.

The alternative would be to not release the tension but to seeing that you hold these contradictory thoughts and enduring the pain that you must be wrong, because you hold contradictory thoughts, in other words, admitting there is something for you to learn.

But that would require you to become more conscious about your conflicts. The joking is the less conscious, automatic option. And when you are not being conscious, but you automatically take the route of joking, you do not have the ability to choose between being more conscious or less conscious.
Please don't make that "improvement". This presentation is, and signals, real content instead of content mill.

Perhaps feature a selected tag nav above your content, for ability to jump into a topic net faster, more scannable with better discrimination of content to dive into versus continue scanning past. That shows the depth of content, and someone can bookmark a tag or set of tags to get what the post above is asking for.

Keep the DF style home page content for those who have a bookmark to your site and read what's new, or an RSS feed to your site. (Though RSS can work different from home page, of course, and should remain long form regardless.)
> Self-service tills are good for when you've only got a very few items to purchase and rather than stand in a long line of a staffed checkout, you can just use that instead.

Reaction I: Back in the day, many stores had staffed "Express" checkout lanes for that. Or, they actually cared about keeping the lines short.

Reaction II: Judging by some long lines I've seen recently - to use the self-service tills - businesses are starting to optimize away the speed advantage of self-service tills.
I was at Walmart recently, and I went to the human checkout line. The lady at the register asked me, with a little bit of an edge, why I didn't use the self check out.

I told her very politely that I don't support self check out, because the more of those Walmart has the less they needed her. I said that I support her having a job, not the self check out machines. She had no response.

Maybe employees are happy with self check out, but I think it's rotten, and it takes away jobs that can and should be done by humans. Maybe have a few of them, but seeing the machines rapidly multiply at Walmart, Target, Safeway, and others is deeply disappointing.
You can, if you know it exists, which you don't.

I am asking once more:

If you don't have Google play, where do you sell your android app?
Loved this part:
"""They did it to Iain Banks, too, and apparently at a con he tore out the offending page and ate it."""
If we're going to make law that they must not under-count, lets also make law that they must not over-count.

In fact, given that their interest is in higher count, the argument that "they must count correctly to avoid under-counting" doesn't make any sense.
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The translators pick a fitting dialect of the target language, I think.
I just found this by accident on LinkedIn. No affiliation whatsoever from my part. Looks interesting. Does anyone know about quality?

They describe themsleves as "Discover the best tools for developers: A free weekly email digest of the best tools for developers."
- "two-person protest"

Those are self-promoting filmmakers, not protestors.

edit: The OP article is a submarine movie promotion, and not subtle about it. That ersatz protest was clearly staged for this article—it's "protesting" a basically empty room, and the photography credit is the author of the OP news story/film promotion.
> OP is about reports that BBC refuses to make any legal promises and talk only vaguely about cooperating with owners, when it would be so easy for them to simply publicly promise to not prosecute material stole before, say, 1990.

I'm not sure I buy the article's premise that this is the main issue to be honest. My understanding is that the main problem is simply that some of the people involved just want a bunch of money, and the BBC finds it very hard to countenance why they should pay someone for stuff stolen from them, especially at not very realistic valuations.
I also dislike how they’re reactionary in nature and therefore are satisfied with an inferior process. I’d rather protect the market from lead rather than wait and hope they notice the harm it’s causing and decide to stop buying the product.
she already is for bone density and joint pain, but hasn't done much for the pain until she added gelatine
I agree. For reference, by irrational I mean that it goes against a utilitarian calculation as proposed by the linked article. I don’t mean that it’s “dumb” or lacking any reasoning.
Yeah, not really a fan. Youtube can attempt to ads. I can attempt to block those ads (and have succeeded without interruption so far lol). No need to get the govt involved.
One of my biggest mistakes as a dev was not really learning Rails until 2015.

I just didn’t know how much faster building web apps could be.
I also have the same phone because the Sony flagship would be more expensive. It might be worth it for the added features though.
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You have to start somewhere. If you take down something as big as YT the small cockroaches will be gone the next second.
Looks like current incarnation is Stewart platform lookalike optical setup for all axes[1]. I misspoke in a different comment: Mine was older SpaceBall 5000 model, and it was more like two joysticks joined at the stem.

1: https://www.fictiv.com/teardowns/spacenavigator-3d-mouse-tea...
I feel like every chatgpt thread needs every comment to be prepended with 3.5 or 4. It's incredibly difficult to tell when someone is having a bad time with 3.5, which has many known limitations, or 4 which tends to be more better at problem solving (though still makes dumb mistakes).

I think the "GPT is amazing" vs "GPT is useless" debate is just going to get more confusing as more versions are released.
> if those are bad or clickbaity titles, they probably could just not be upvoted much

I am an active /new page lurker. You'd be surprised by the number of times I've seen clickbaity titles getting upvoted and making it to the front page.

Sure the clickbaity titles had good content too, otherwise they wouldn't get upvoted again and again. But when there are two posts with equally good content, the one with clickbaity title gets the needed votes soon enough to get into the front page and the other one keeps languishing at /new. It's sad but that's what I see happening again and again at /new.

I try to offset the unfairness by voting for the non-clickbaity interesting posts but adding one vote to a post that nobody else is voting for does not make any meaningful difference.
"I'm not limited by any actual knowledge here" is an excellent way of putting it and I shall endeavour to remember it next time I'm in such a situation.

Poor though my memory is, it happens often enough that I have a decent chance.
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> to live in housing intended for the most vulnerable

My understanding of the UK system is pretty limited, but I don't think it works that way.

That is, I thought the UK prioritizes housing assignment for the most vulnerable, but once you are in you are a secure tenant and - baring breaking your tenancy agreement - can stay there for the rest of your life, and even pass that tenancy on to a family member.

There is nothing in the law that say you must leave if you make too much, and I thought Thatcher pushed the idea that council housing should be transferred to the residents, as a way to promote home ownership. Isn't that why the UK has the Right to Buy for council housing?

If council housing were indeed only for the most vulnerable, why promote the idea that if you make enough money you can remove housing stock and force the council to build new housing?

Would you feel better if Dempsey buys out his council housing?

> which is a strange for position for someone of the left.

Why is that strange? I am on the left. Everyone should have access to basic housing as a secure tenant, no matter how much they make, just like everyone should have access to a government funded public library, health care, and education.

£70k/year salary does not sound like all that much to uproot, especially if you are friends with your neighbors, your kids love the local school, your parents live nearby, etc. Social ties are one reason you should not get kicked out of your housing simply because you exceed a certain income threshold.
I seriously doubt any regular person can tell the difference between diamond and moissanite, or even cubic zirconia. Of course it's bad policy to lie to your wife-to-be but technically I feel safe saying you could buy any of these and still claim it's a diamond - at least until they decide to pawn it but by that time it's also less important for your relationship I guess.
> I'd assume that it's at least almost complete, as the article states that there have been test viewings.

Some of the reporting today is suggesting that the film is a lot closer to being completed than previously reported, so fair enough if so.

But for what it's worth it is very common for test viewings to include extremely unfinished animated work, including pencil storyboards with some voice acting over it.
I have. And I have already identified that it can generate, unwittingly, code or string values that break things or cause code injection if you don't treat its outputs as "untrustworthy" and just run them as SQL/insert to DB/display to user.

Also, it is very likely that a further GPT model might behave, with non-malicious prompt, like a malicious actor, simply because such an fairly-unlikely event is almost guaranteed at the kinds of scales we are talking (100MM weekly active users is a lot of rolls of the dice).
It was already covered in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38210226 . IMHO this case makes no sense at all.
Pistachio is a desert tree. They must be doing something wrong, if they need that much water.
pure thought is the ultimate step !
> Theaters mostly don’t get a cut on these films. WB gets all the box office and the theater makes money on concessions.

That's absolutely not true, especially internationally.