skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you tried entering vague and contradicting requirements into GPT-4? It's actually really great at exactly this.
Okay, so now it sounds like you prefer the defaults of Gnome over those of KDE, while resenting the more sophisticated configuration options offered by KDE.

I've never really understood the complaint 'there's too many configuration options', at least in software where you don't need to touch any of those configuration options for a reasonable out-of-the-box experience.

If your problem with KDE is, in fact, that a vanilla stock install doesn't align with your personal UI preferences, while also bemoaning that there's too many ways to adjust the UI, then the problem might not be with KDE.
If you specifically target Ghostscript, you do get alpha blending as an extension though, right?
Being successful at business (and in this case: some of his businesses; I wouldn't call the Boring Company successful and Twitter is too early to call) and being a good person are two very different things.

It's very possible to admire his accomplishments while not liking him as a person.
Sure there’s something for everyone but 20 years ago people sat in front of cable tv ad infinitum.
Free speech is just the best thing ever.
They make off-road Segways, lol. Just don't be like this guy, who bought the company and then drove one off a cliff... https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39377851
I really like a lot of what John and Hank green have done with their fame recently, funding healthcare for low income companies and publicly calling out drug companies when they screw extremely poor people over
Launched, yes. Successfully? Debatable. It did clear the tower at least.
I don't agree with that. It's at its root a cultural issue. People need a realignment of values so that being outside or amongst others is a better use of their time than the status quo. From that perhaps a rebalance of work and life will result but I don't think starting there would move the needle much.
I don't even understand what the "AI" means in "narrow" AI.

Why is a compiler at Level 0 rather than Level 5?
Can you please not post in the flamewar style? It's quite against the site guidelines:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You can make your substantive points without that, so if you'd please do so instead, we'd be grateful.
Learning facts cherry-picked by the algorithm to promote engagement is not the same as being informed.
I feel like you have it backwards. You're saying that democratic involvement would make these issues cause celebres. But celebrities in many cases already have the power to make a cause a cause celebre. That's part of what being a celebrity and using your name & fame is. We already live in the world you describe.

I'm proposing here a thought experiment where, rather than letting the public arena and media suss out how to play the story, let the cause go on indefinitely, the public gets a direct vote.

My actual hope was the opposite of what you say: rather than leaving the media cycle around celebrities rumble on indefinitely, there'd be some discrete feedback events, checkin points where we can decide whether this de-facto cause celebre is - to borrow from a magazine - wired tired or expired. My hope was democracy might take power back from the 4th estate & celebrities.
How many stores have you visited recently that have turnstiles? You've probably been in more that are using a variation of this tech.

There are a few companies offering it as a commercial product, and yes there are people that want to buy it. The value is not just knowing how many people are in a store, but where they are going, what they are spending their time looking at.
For sure. I was just curious.
Tiktok is funded by the CCP. Fines are no issue at that point.
Starship without Booster has had many successful suborbital tests, but with Booster only 1 attempt. Much of that attempt was successful but it did have critical issues and they had to remotely blow it up, which also initially failed.

If this gets to orbit or close enough, that will be considered the first successful real launch.
At least PDF libray you can update to include new functionality under a new version, but you can't just out of blue change the JS behaviour of undefined being rendered. It would definitely break something without warning.
And just how do you think they deliver the bulk of their advertising?!?
OK explain to me why I have to book a campsite 6 months in advance
So it’s Friday, not the weekend !
Oh, so someone else can tell me what is good for me. Great idea!
When I was a new manager I used to try to help people, it rarely works. If they really are a PITA they should be told to fix their behavior and if it doesn't get better you can fire them without remorse.
I didn't find that anyone stuck around BW for the money. The money was good but the caliber of folks that could get jobs there could get good offers elsewhere.

People had appetite to engage this way.
It is not.

As a simplified analogy, the title is saying "we identified this lock on the cells", while actually the "lock" has been known for a long time and what they identified was a possible "key" that might fit, but they haven't actually done it yet.
Having the test achieve its goals would be good but this is still a prototype and just one in a series that will be tested to destruction. The big deal is that the process of developing this launch system is moving again.
If there’s a majority who support this then they should just self-regulate and go on their merry way.

This is always about imposing one’s beliefs on others. “Social harmony” is intentionally vague. Everyone will imagine their own meaning of that and be inclined to think, “yeah that’s something I’m on board with.”
The civil court will give you an order. You still have to get it enforced.
At every point in history, people thought that they could describe the brain using whatever advanced technology they had.

<https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati...>
Keytruda (pembrolizumab) has been an incredible breakthrough for many cancers. CAR-T therapies have been amazing for non-solid cancers. I personally am hoping to hold on until mRNA cancer vaccines are available via clinical trial (bit more about that towards the bottom of this: https://jakeseliger.com/2023/09/09/life-swallowing-tasting-a...), and there have been incredible early results with them.

Cancer treatments are improving, but with agonizing slowness due to FDA intransigence: https://jakeseliger.com/2023/07/22/i-am-dying-of-squamous-ce....
> Why should he be?

Because this seems like an honest mistake made by an academic who probably isn't used to the pressure of being a witness in a massive antitrust trial? It doesn't seem like he intentionally used his place on the stand to leak information that he knew he shouldn't or anything like that. But there's a good chance that mistake just made him an enemy in the form of a trillion dollar mega-corp, and I don't think it's unreasonable for some legal protections to be extended to him for it.
I'm not sure where you live, but try googling about the terms "free camping" or "dispersed camping" for your area. There are lots of natural areas (edit: in a lot of places) where you don't need a special permit to pitch your tent.
There's a lot on info/tooling on AWS' open data site as well for exploring these datasets:

https://registry.opendata.aws/maxar-open-data/
A long food chain is a good food chain.
Yeah there's definitely give and take and now is a great time to discuss such things and have that conversation. Especially as there's many factors involved here and it's not strictly the living at home vs not variable. Guaranteed counfounder for the outcomes you're looking at. But I will mention one "drawback", is I notice a tendency for people of these cultures to be less independent. Which is rather unsurprising just given the circumstances but also is related to the larger cultural aspect of tighter knit families (which has benefits and drawbacks too!). College and early post college is a big learning time for many Americans as they learn to be independent. But also in this time it is far less common to see parents move in with their children (long term or temporarily) to help with such things like adapting to your own place, new city, or starting a family, whereas such things are more common among the cultures you reference. Boy there's a lot to unpack here and I think we only scratched the surface. Definitely not saying one is better than the other but rather that there's a lot more at play here.
Oh... I thought it was just adding 3 more instances of drone usage to last year's total before I realized it actually meant the usage was multiplied by three.

(I am not a native English speaker)
I don't know what's going on with Nepal, but I noticed a sudden influx of specifically Nepalese migrant workers in East Europe. It's odd given how small that country is, and also because the area they visit for work is not that great itself. How bad can it be in Nepal then?!?
Is there not some categorical difference between a purposefully-built system, which given enough time and effort and expertise and constraints, we can engineer to be effectively secure, and a stochastically-trained black box?
As I understand it, they can't do launches over the weekend, as that requires closing the beach, which they don't have permission to do.

... Which makes the two backup dates very confusing. A very quick Google didn't turn up the actual rules on Starbase launches over the weekend, though, so I might be crazy.
TikTok is a Chinese company, how is that an instance of Western Values being pushed?
So the US for almost all of the world. YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Disney, Hulu, Netflix, HBO, Twitter, Apple, Spotify,...

Every time this happens it's always "but it's bad when this multinational corporation I associate with China does it." Like come on, if you're worried about the Chinese government exerting authority over companies that operate in China TikTok has got to be the bottom barrel of your list.

The CCP has got to be so proud that their relative secrecy has got the rest of the world quaking in their boots about how much power they wield and giving them nigh omnipotence of any person or entity that comes in contact with them.
plausible, but also i think a highly paid skilled person will do a lot worse if not allowed to test their code, run a compiler or linter, or consult the reference manual, so gpt-4 can get a lot more effective at this even without getting any smarter
Related ongoing thread:

Discouraging the use of web application firewalls - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38255004 - Nov 2023 (125 comments)
I'm planning on making a very long drive to see this. Is there a viewing area? I realize it's a Big Falcon Rocket and will be probably be heard from anywhere but is there a designated spot? How close can we get?
Related ongoing thread:

We've learned nothing from the SolarWinds hack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38255923 - Nov 2023 (74 comments)
> The only way the haters could say anything against him with any sway at this point is becoming more successful than him.

Do you believe that financial and business success is the only measure of merit?

By most accounts, Putin and the Saudi royals command even more wealth than Musk does, are they worthy of still more praise?

This is just one person's opinion, but I'm pretty sure we've got a developing Howard Hughes situation on our hands. He's only 52 so it's going to get a lot worse.
You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
Idea Man
> If the profits from AI (or robots) replacing Job X were distributed among the people who used to do Job X, I don't think anyone would mind.

Why on Earth would you expect something so unjust and unfair? Do you expect to pay a tax to former travel agents when you buy a plane ticket online? Do you pay to descendants of calculators (as in profession — the humans who did manual calculations) every time you use a modern computer?
It was a success according to the expectations set before the launch
LOL. Apple are just as guilty as every other player of being a gross globalist corporation.
We must first distinguish between can't and won't. Those who cannot leave the house, and those who will not leave. I claim that we have an uptick in the latter camp.

By his early 20s, and frankly sooner, a healthy human being wants to have his own life. He doesn't want to live on his parents' dime. Healthy parents also don't want their children in the nest anymore either, and it is their duty to, proverbially speaking, kick them out. What "leaving the nest" means in a given culture may vary (the article in question seems to be talking about the US), but in any healthy culture, there exists the same basic psychological emancipation from parental dependence, an emancipation willingly embraced or imposed by necessity. Loving parenting is a process of progressively removing training wheels and clipping tethers. The goal is to lead someone to becoming a man or a woman: in short, an adult. This means truthful and honest feedback instead of deceitful complements or excuses, upping the challenge, and being increasingly and accordingly demanding, so that by the time someone does leave the nest, the significance of the transition is largely in the symbolic act, not a change in responsibility they can't handle. Parents and adult children should be able to relate to one another as adults. If that's not happening, something is wrong.

In short, we have a problem with Peter Pan syndrome. An infantile, therapeutic culture of narcissistic self-indulgence makes this very easy. Mental illness is to be expected.
Don't ever believe them: I was taking Pascal, and had just switched from a Prime computer to a PC for a large program. I had to finish some major part over the weekend, so I went to my brothers house. He had a co-processor, and Turbo-87 was hell of faster, so back at school, I snuck into the physics lab w/ 8087s and programmed there. When I got my own machine a few years later, I went out of my way to get a 8087 turbo. Lotus 1-2-3 and Turbo pascal ran amazingly fast. Six years later I got a hand me down 33Mhz 386. Upgraded the ram, the processor to 40Mhz, and got the co-processor. (ITT 87-II) again, with the math co processor, amazing speed. Finally got a hand me down 486 to replace the 386, and KaChing! It was not a 486 it was a Pentium Over drive w/ co-processor. Got into AutoCAD at that time, and ... people in the lab were complaining that there were no co-processors. I could not tell them that it ran much faster on my machine at home because they would know where I got the software.
2012 Samsung Series 9 here, going strong with Debian Stable! I might end up ditching it for something with an OLED screen, but I am sure it will still be running fine.
I've had this exact same experience, the emails are fake but its pretty hard to tell if you aren't savvy. I've also had an anti-scam where someone legit sent me $200 saying it was a mistake and it was for someone else (I have a common seeming email address) and they needed it back because it was for their grandmothers funeral. I said that this sounds like a scam and to contact me in a month to make sure the transfer isn't reversed. I never heard from them again but the $200 stayed in my account.
>the problem is that investors want not one, but say 10.

Investors wouldn't want 10 if prices were stagnant because there was plenty of supply.

>first link in google says there are 144M housing units in US. Is it not enough for 350M population?

If housing isn't where people are, then no there isn't enough. About half the US population lives metropolitan areas.
Sort of.

Having run high 3nd X CAD modeling applications on SGI, for example, browser stuff seems clunky and anything really performant seems to load executables locally.

That said, yes! Browsers act a lot like X servers do.

What I am getting at here is not entirely a technical problem.

Most computers offered a single user, eventually multi tasking graphical environment.

The computers running a well implemented X window system offered multi user graphical computing. It could and often was run as a single user graphical environment too.

X had everything compartmentalized, and that allowed a sysadmin to set the computing up any way that made sense.

Once, just for fun, I had one machine serving up fonts, another doing window management, yet another serving the graphics to the user, another one sharing files to another one running the application!

5 machines all contributing to any number of graphical users, and in my toy, fun case, that was two users. One user was me, and I was using an sgi, and the other Windows 2000. Was kind of fun to see their face as the familiar application looked the same on his windows box as it did on IRIX

Two clicks on an icon, or a command given and "the application" happened on whatever machine was serving up graphics.
Show HN: A GPT to make you fatter
Find all the restaurants you see on TV shows like Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
No but money and success in business aren't the only things that matter in life. Though I guess in America they are.

I would consider musk a good businessman and I admire SpaceX in particular but I wouldn't consider him a role model in life.

Though I'm what right-wing America would consider "a snowflake" :) YMMV of course.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38249134.
If starship succeeds, it will be because of the hundreds of smart people who work there, despite Mr “bring my sink to work”.
I just had my T420 die on me the other day. It simply will not power on. I do have some spare parts but I think I'll finally cave in and buy a new laptop.
I do use them on my OSS work (https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/tree/master/pub...) since I've started migrating away from React to VanillaJS. The app itself is a file manager for every possible file transfer protocol there is (FTP, SFTP, S3, NFS, SAMBA, ....) and is used by many thousands of people
>There's no fundamental reason to think it's impossible

There is, although we don't have a formal proof of it yet. Current LLMs are essentially Turning complete, in that they can be used to simulate any arbitrary Turing machine. This makes it impossible to prove an LLM will never output a certain statement for any possible input. The only way around this would be making a "non-Turing-complete" LLM variant, but it would necessarily be less powerful, much as non-Turing-complete programming languages are less powerful and only used for specialised tasks like build systems.
absolutely. pavement is just everywhere. loads and loads of endless pavement in front of every freakin store, whether it's needed or not. It's disgusting and dipressing to be locked in a concrete jungle.
> If the majority of the country feels this way, why should you push your Western Values on them.

While social permissiveness is distinctly a phenomenon of the west, I wouldn’t characterize “western values” by that single phase. For most of the history of the American Republic, it was taken for granted the government could regulate morality as an aspect of the public welfare. Regulation of businesses believed to be morally harmful, such as strip clubs and pornographic magazines, was deemed within the scope of government power into the mid-20th century, until anti-democratic Supreme Court decisions interpreted constitutional provisions in ways that would have shocked the people who wrote them.
Yes, but for that there would have to be no fraud. You can't know your error rate without having some known errors. Otherwise you may well be simply blind to the fraud that you do have but are not aware of.

That fraud by itself is not beneficial goes without saying.
> Level 2 "Competent level" is basically AGI (capable of actually replacing many humans in real world tasks).

I still find that a weird definition for two reasons:

1. All the narrow systems already have replaced humans in many real-word tasks.

2. I'm dubious there is much difference between a level 2 and level 4 general AI. And outperforming a % of humans seems like an odd metric, given that humans have diverse skill sets. A more sane metric would be Nth percentile for M% of tasks human workers perform in 2023.
China using largest known online disinformation operation to harass Americans
UK petrol station group EG to buy Tesla ultra-fast chargers
Everyday astronaut has a video discussing the layout of the area and which parts are closed during launch.

https://youtu.be/aWvHrih-Juk?si=rXff0jL4ln3CY14_
I mean, it is pretty cut and dry..
This is a gross misunderstanding on multiple fronts.

For starters, Kevin Murphy is an external expert witness and not on the payroll of Google. During trials like this, it is expected to hire outside expert witnesses to testify why party X’s thing is “good actually” and why party Y got it wrong.

So Mr. Murphy will be fine.

Secondly, witnesses, expert or otherwise, are indeed compelled to answer questions when on the stand. It would otherwise be quite useless to put them on the stand in the first place.

What happens in cases like this, however, is that there are parts that occur only in front of the judge and the two parties for confidentiality reasons and parts that happen in public for everyone in the gallery to hear.

It’s the job of the lawyers to pay attention to the questions asked to ensure that questions that could lead to answers with confidential information are answered behind closed doors. Witnesses aren’t expected to keep track of this when answering questions unless explicitly briefed by the court to save specific topics for the confidential part of the cross/direct examination.

So the ones that screwed up are the lawyers, perhaps the court, but not the expert witness.
I'm not so sure. Atlassian software comes to mind as a counter-example.
I believe I meant to link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ZlibNGTransition instead
Yes, until civil war.

I dunno if TikTok should be banned, but Nepal motives are truthful.
That's the whole problem with all these definitions: they are rooted in very imprecise terms whose meaning seems to depend on the beholder of the prose.
Only a true Pynchon fan would harbor that degree of resentment.
Can we please stop pretending China, as a national entity, is doing anything at all with TikTok USA?

It is absurd and not worthy of a board like this. I'm sure many you know people that work at TikTok? This just isn't happening, at all.

The sum total of what China is doing with TikTok is restricting what people in China see, which is what China is worried about.
By design. It was specifically noted in a lot of the internal presentations and such leading up to launch that one of the goals with Zelle was shifting the nexus of liability away from the banks.