skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that isn't going to happen.

It's interesting though how racism establishes itself by being anything but itself. And then, afterwards everybody wonders how it could have happened again.

Let me take a stab at this in a way that it is somewhat balanced: I've grown up in Amsterdam, born in a time when there were hardly any immigrants and then wave after wave of them came by. What keeps me grounded is that I've been an immigrant myself. First to Poland, then to Canada, then to Romania and with long stretches in other countries in between. But I'm not brown and I'm not religious so I don't come across as strange or off-putting. I dress like everybody else does, I try to speak the language and adapt to whatever culture I join because I don't want to stand out and I'd rather be treated like a native.

But a person-of-colour immigrating into a country that is nominally 'white' doesn't really have that option. From a mile away the 'locals' can tell that person is different in some way. And if they are religious in a different way that counts much heavier against them than my atheism ever will simply because they're not aware of it (assuming they are religious themselves).

Depending on how the person responds to it this can have all kinds of effects, but the main response is the one the locals have to the non-white, possibly religious in a different way than they are foreigner. They are not going to openly tell this person they're not welcome and that they are afraid of them and don't trust them (see your question above). But what they will do is:

- disadvantage that person and their children

- talk about them in a negative way behind their backs

- blame them for everything that is wrong with their society (housing, welfare, whatever)

- harass them, but only when nobody is looking

And so mutual resentment builds. The kids find that they and their parents are not being treated fair, still want to live the good life and before you know it you have another criminal. Or not, but then there is someone who feels that the whole of society is out to get them.

This is why the West and immigration have not worked out well so far: equal chances don't exist and the locals tend to believe that immigrants are there to do the dirty work and be kept in their place. Amazingly one of the right-wing parties in NL now has a woman and an immigrant (Turkish/Kurdish) as the party leader. To the great abhorrence of many former VVD voters, who are now likely going to move to the PVV, the even more rightwing anti-immigrant party. NL may well have its Trump moment soon.
Stop Burying the Lede: On Telling the Story of OpenStreetMap
A recap of presentation from OSM's State of the Map Europe 2023
Because despite a sudden popularity of viewing white people as sub-human or non-human, they are in fact human, and this made that remark explicitly sexist and racist.
1.) its not often said that crime deterrence is a factor of severity of punishment * probability of being caught. It’s often said that crime deterrence is a complex issue and that probability of being caught seems to be vastly more powerful than the severity of punishment, for some reason.

2.) It’s still prison. You’re still locked up. Even people from poor countries want to be free.
You say you've identified specific types of immigrants that are incompatible with western liberal values. Who are they and how do you know?
Great experiment and not hard to extend. Hofstadter makes the point that recursion is the key to consciousness/self-consciousness in Gödel, Escher, Bach on page 709: “Strange Loops as the Crux of Consciousness”.

And we humans have the perfect circuitry for this in the form of the massive thalamo-cortico-thalamic loops that modulates sensory-motor attention and affective state, and perhaps by time-base modulation or spike timing, rather than by mere spike count integration.

Ray Guillery also discusses this loop in his book: Brain as A Tool.
they're not paid to tweet anymore since the boycott and exploring new venues
Hacker News has an API for a while now (I used it years ago around 2018), based on this post since 2014.

Announcement https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/hacker-news-api

API https://github.com/HackerNews/API
Tbh, I always thought the whole stuff about 'intelligence' was just marketing garbage. There are no really good rigorous descriptions of intelligence, so asking if a product exhibits intelligence is basically nonsense. There are two questions about LLMs that are good, though:

1. Are they useful?

2. Are they going to become more useful in the forseeable future?

On 1, I would say, maybe? Like, somewhere between Microsoft Word and Excel? On 2, I would say, sure - an 'AGI' would be tremendously useful. But it's also tremendously unlikely to grow somehow out of the current state of the art. People disagree on that point, but I don't think there are even compelling reasons to believe that LLMs can evolve beyond their current status as bullshit generators.
This is xenophobic BS. Same point was recently made by many Greek far-right chaps, only to find out that the most wanted gang leader was actually Greek (read: EU passport holder). So "illegal immigration" is not the main issue here.

[1] https://greekreporter.com/2023/10/03/greek-man-gang-war-swed...
Ah yes, Elon who famously keeps all his promises without needing a court order.
Because freedom of religious persecution is enshrined in a large number of core laws simply because we have already seen what can happen if you don't have that kind of provision.
Having lived in both India and far North in the USA, I'd take half-hour time zones over daylight savings (switches) every time.

Shifting time-zones increases car accidents by about 6-16% for the entire week (studies vary). Just that is a massive enough impact on safety and productivity to discourage the switch. At a personal level, leaving work at 5.30-ish with it being pitch black outside, is among the most depressing things in the world. Even more wasteful is that the average American wakes up at 7.20am. So, they don't gain any daylight but lose an entire hour.

I'm not usually the type to make such accusations, so I apologize in advance for sounding culture-warry. But, switching-time zones is "white person thing". Large percent of the Chinese, Indian & the Middle Eastern population live above the 25th parallel (Florida) and large populations of Korea & Japan live north of the Bay Area without daylight-switching.

Permanent daylight time with later sunrise would be a huge win.
Oh man, I haven't teared up that heavily in a while. That has to be one of the saddest sounds I've ever heard.
Just because he acted like a goofball, doesn't mean that everyone needs to.

Plus, the other board members supported him, so decent blame to go around for this embarrassment.
Yea must have been a joke or an actual ignorant tourist. When I was there it seemed the less well off areas tended to be extremely cut off from the rest of Stockholm too.

I made an actual effort to go to Tensta when I was there (it's hard to find good Levantine food in the US) and it definetly felt dislocated. Very much like a purposely created ghetto. Like Visitation Valley and Bayview in San Francisco.
A Tour of the Tektronix Ceramic CRT "Catacombs"
Hahaha, I used the quotes because I hate it too. That was failed sarcasm:)
> We cant imagine why US that has multiple time-zones already in a single country

Are you aware the contiguous United States is three times larger than India? Alaska alone is half the size of India and not at the same longitude as the lower 48. Hawaii is even farther west than most of Alaska. The easternmost point in the US is 66 degrees west. The westernmost is 179 degrees west. That’s nearly a third of the globe and I'm not even including territories.

> Why can't they, for instance, simply declare that school/offices open at 10am instead of 9am for six designated months every year instead of imposing this adjustment on the entire world.

Is this a serious comment? Europe doesn’t have a central government. The most recent attempt to establish one was extremely unpopular and famously stopped in 1945.

Why should foreign schools and businesses change their hours to accommodate you? A more obvious solution would be to just stop observing DST but that’s not something that will happen unilaterally and will be an especially hard sell at extreme latitudes.

If you want to do business internationally you have to deal with timezones. India isn’t unique in that inconvenience.
TinyLlama at 2T of 3T
I think some clarification of the Profit Participation Units owned by leadership in OpenAI is sorely needed. I'm fully expecting some sleight of hand that Altman has no traditional ownership "equity", but plenty of PPU that means he has shares of the profits, the $ portion of equity, and 1/6 the board, the ownership part of equity.
You should be very skeptical of anyone that claims they have 100% test coverage.

Only under very rare circumstances is 100% test coverage is even possible, let alone done. Typically when people say coverage they mean "code line coverage", as opposed to the more useful "code path coverage". Since it's combinatorially expensive to enumerate all possible code paths, you rarely see 100% code path coverage in a production system. You might see it for testing vary narrow ADTs, for example; booleans or floats. But you'll almost never see it for black boxes which take more than one simply defined input doing cheap work.
How I watch the served content in my browser isn’t covered in the terms of service, nor is there valid legal precedent for that. It’s my right to turn down the volume or fast-forward at any time, by any means. If YT doesn’t like that for fear of losing money, then they shouldn’t serve free videos at all. Or they can thwart ad blockers. Their being under the same company as the most used browser gives them plenty of monopoly power to control the flow of ad blocker extensions, and turns out they’re exercising that power. And I haven’t argued against any of that. My sole point is that there’s nothing inherently wrong with people skipping ad viewing by manual or automatic means. Being bad for YouTube doesn’t mean it’s bad or wrong for anyone else. I don’t expect free anything, but I do have a right to consume the “free” content they offer however I like.
wow, the pile-on is real tonight.

I suggested that GrapheneOS stopped enumerating potential ways to attack Matrix rooms on Twitter if they actually wanted to discourage attacks.

Meanwhile, that issue has not remotely been abandoned, and has continued to be worked on in private (given the risk it might have security impact) - although as it's a rare edge case without a known security impact, it's competing with a lot of the other work we do to support Matrix, hence slow progress; especially with highly constrained funding.
The speed limiter is geofenced.
> I have zero worries about my safety.

Ah nice. I guess there's no problem then.
> Passion vs greed.

What's there to be passionate about in a doomed business? Where is OpenAI going to get compute from? What work are they going to get done if everybody else follows Altman?
Isn't this just how life on Earth works tho?

>Of all species that have existed on Earth, 99.9 percent are now extinct.
Check out Modded Minecraft Expert Modpacks like "Create: Above & Beyond", "Project Ozone", "Nomifactory" and so on.
If you really believe in the ideology and believe that the continuation of openai is dangerous--shutting down the company completely should be an option you consider
I think the idea is that your hypermedia api and data api are not the same thing and the general shape of your data api should not be based on the needs of your front end.
Recently went to get a vaccine shot. Making talk with the pharmacist she let the mask slip, working conditions are horrible. The problem with supply and demand is like everything from economics[1] it acts as if only money is important. And discounts things like being able to hold up psychologically. When your pharmacists are at the breaking point where they're going to up and quit at the first opportunity because they can't stand the job anymore, your system is sick indeed.

[1] First rule of economics, humans are robots obsessed with money.
Assertive people don't run around explaining themselves.
>Neither Hungary nor Slovakia are great places to live by most metrics

Huh? What's wrong with living in Slovakia?

You're making it sound like Slovakia is Botswana, Saudi Arabia or something when it's one of the safest and developed countries in the world, unless you opinion of Slovakia comes from the famous Bratislava scene from the movie Eurotrip.
I stay in that area with friends whenever I visit. It’s completely fine.
*Uh, you have a nonprofit board firing a CEO at a board meeting that doesn't even sound like was properly noticed. Was the board president even given time to attend?*

I think it's reasonable to assume that even a controversial board checked with their lawyer and did what was legally required. Especially as nobody involved seems to be claiming otherwise.
The OPTIONS response already describes which methods are available for an endpoint in the Allow header. Including a list of available types in a new header would be a pretty natural extension. (Content-Type isn't available because it's defined to only contain a single media type.)
How hard on your end does the task of making the chatbot converse naturally look? Specifically I'm thinking about interruptions, if it's talking too long I would like to be able to start talking and interrupt it like in a normal conversation, or if I'm saying something it could quickly interject something. Once you've got the extremely high speed, theoretically faster than real time, you can start doing that stuff right?

There is another thing remaining after that for fully natural conversation, which is making the AI context aware like a human would be. Basically giving it eyes so it can see your face and judge body language to know if it's talking too long and needs to be more brief, the same way a human talks.
> He is instrumental in the research but he shouldn't be running the business.

To push back on this a bit. If two yet unknown people, "an Altman" and "an Ilya", both applied to YC to start a company that builds and sells AI models, guess who would get funded. Not the guy who can't build AI models.

I find it bizarre that the guy who can build is suddenly the villain-nerd who can't be trusted, and the salesman is the hero, in this community.
Sweden murder rate over time, it trends down until the mid 2010s: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SWE/sweden/murder-homi...
the good thing about miniDisc is that its relatively easy to get the tracks back off it again. like if you wanted to share a disc with a friend, they could copy the tracks onto their computer using webminidisc or some other software. all the software is a bit old and janky but it's quicker than having to copy a tape!
Ask this about Ukrainians and then ask the same about Muslims and you have a discussion, well, kinda like the one in this thread.
The last few days, my region (De westhoek in Flanders, Belgium) had serious troubles with flooding. A politician on the news complained how she took measures, but climate change came faster than expected.

This level of idiocy creeped me out. Climate change has been known since the 1970's. Everybody with half a braincell knows the IPCC reports are underestimating things badly, even if they were correct we were going in for a rough ride, political investments are below what these reports require from us, and the small amount of money spent is badly mismanaged.

I can't blame her alone personally. She's a child of her political generation. But that generation has only seen good times and is completely incapable of doing anything in a crisis. They'll keep going trough the same old motions, and feel very sorry for us when disaster inevitably strikes.

Unfortunately, the average voter agrees with her. 'Eco realism' is the preferred course, and even the Belgian green parties care more about integration than climate.
> But in recent years it has achieved notoriety as the hometown of one of Sweden’s most deadly gangs and its notorious leader Rawa Majid, “the Kurdish Fox”, who fled to Turkey in 2018 after a number of drug and violence-related convictions.

> Much of the recent violence is due to a major split in the Foxtrot drug gang, say police. Majid, who was raised in Uppsala by Iraqi parents, is believed to have fallen out with his former right-hand man Ismail Abdo, or “Strawberry”, who also moved to Turkey.

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"Is there a lot of crime in Sweden?"

"Ja we have a lot of crime. Ours are named Kurdish Fox and Strawberry."

"Can't the police do something about them?"

"Oh they don't live here any more."
The timezone thing in Python that bit me was when I needed to parse a time string. Googling told me Python had strptime and it would do what I wanted. So I found it in the Python docs and used it.

What I failed to notice was that Python has two strptime functions, one in time and one in datetime, and they are not the same. I was losing timezone information that was in my time strings, and when I wrote a test program to just test timezone parsing I happened to pick the other strptime and everything worked fine, which left me quite confused.
I live in western Washington. In the past couple of years I met some Ukrainians - for home related remodeling, help wit cleaning and cooking. I can tell you none of these people will go back to Ukraine. Their kids are already in public schools learning English and integrating in the society.
Can we use more precise language please
And how sure are you he doesn't have any Profit Participating Units? The primary compensation given to OpenAI employees.
I disagree. I bought a plug in hybrid in August. It's my first ever car. I am 56 years old.

All my life to date, my primary vehicles have been bicycles or, for a few years in my 20s, motorcycles.

A vehicle means a machine that carries people or cargo. Some definitions include an engine, but that would disqualify railway carriages, for instance, or horse-drawn carts, which I submit are indubitably vehicles.

A bicycle is a vehicle, and an electric bike is 100% a vehicle by any definition.

The headline could be better written as:

"Electric vehicles are transforming road transportation, but they aren't the vehicles you expected."
Yeah how can you launder money with ATMs, all the cash in and out is accounted for in the system.

They are scam but not for money laundering. Just scam.
Hey, sorry I don't easily see replies unless I click threads. Anyways, feel free to let me know if you want to discuss more off hn.

My thought with the original Twitter link above was that most of that is fake data, which for actual surveillance wouldn't help much. MMP data is way more likely to be the real deal. MMPs provide this data to most ad networks and MMPs via postbacks of ALL installs (not just the ones related to the ads shown).
I was around for the gold master of AOL 5.0 (Kilimanjaro). After the release we were pulled into a conference room to get on a call with Steve Case. You don't want to get on a call with the CEO immediately after a launch. It turns out our execs were installing 5.0 and then... couldn't get online. It hung with the modem init. As the person in charge of the QA lab I pulled all of our test run data. Couldn't duplicate on any of the dozens of machines. Sr. devs were running debuggers. Didn't see anything on their machines. We went into the office of our highest-level exec and borrowed his laptop.

Winmodem. Dev hooked up a debugger and found the issue. There was a bug in the soft modem driver. Hot fix was released, but it was too late for the pressed CDs. Luckily it was an edge case on high-end laptops. That were issued to all of our execs with the buggy driver.

Good times.
Can you give 1 example where the solution you suggest has worked in the long term? i.e.: my population pyramid is broken, I am going to replace the base of the pyramid with foreigners.

I do not have a problem with that idea, but bringing people from territories where marrying your 1st cousin is legal is a bad idea with bad consequences: lower IQ, expensive health conditions, bad temperament (and hence crime), etc.
Maybe? I was never in Saigon when the Hard Rock Cafe was around. That said, D3 has an amazing arts and culture scene. Lots of hip cafes, art shows, and popups. Plus, because of the large Viet Kieu community back in California, a lot of cultural interchange occurs between the two.
The tests in the codebase I currently work in is a mocking nightmare. It feels like somebody learned about c++ interface classes and gmock for the first time when the codebase was first being put together and went completely bananas. There are almost no classes which don't inherit from a pure interface.

Two of the main drawbacks to this are

- Classes which have only a single implementation inherit from an interface just so they can be mocked. We often only need polymorphism for testing, but not at runtime. This not only makes the code slower (minor concern, often) but more importantly much more difficult to follow.

- The tests rely heavily on implementation details. The typically assertion is NOT on the input/output behavior of some method. Rather, it's on asserting that various mocked dependencies got called at certain times within the method under test. This heavily couples the tests to the implementation and makes refactoring a pain.

- We have no tests which tests multiple classes together that aren't at the scale of of system wide, end-to-end tests. So when we DI class Bar into class Foo, we use a mock and don't actually test that Bar and Foo work well together.

Personally, I think the code base would be in much better shape if we completely banned gmock.
The point is its ridiculous to be wading in all this arbitrary nonsense. Why the heck else would Jefferson have been growing poppies at Monticello if he didn't intend for people to be able to grow and possess opium. Thats some 20th century bullshit after they screwed the pooch with alcohol prohibition TWICE, no?
As an old guy, I find that perspective genuinely useful. Thank you.
While we don’t know the whole story, I don’t think Sam is innocent in this matter. It seems likely that this was a recurring disagreement, and perhaps this was simply a step too far where the board had to act. When you fire somebody, typically you don’t give them a heads up.
Cassettes were perfect for 8 bit micros. They were a bit slow, but cheap and somewhat reliable.

Ten year old me bought a metre of stereo cable and two male audio jacks so I could copy tapes using my dad's 3-in-1 and my tape player.

You could get 7-minutes-a-side tapes that allowed one game on each side.
Because a lot of the staff is there for the high compensation and they view the mission as an inconvenience
Immigrants are rarely much of a crime problem. First and second generation descendants on the other hand... there really aren't any simple solutions, at least not as long as we agree that an individual cannot be punished for a statistic about their future descendants.
Also, wage theft is one of the most common things that happens to restaurant workers, because a lot of employers try to avoid making up the difference.
I've heard about Screeps which is close to what you describe: https://screeps.com/
I think that’s called playing the game.
It also made your PC slow and crappy in general and they didn't work with real OSes. And they would often fail or crap out when you were doing something else (most windows was still DOS based and not fully multitasking back in those days) Yuck. Bottom of the barrel stuff.
Does any other cloud provider have the extra compute necessary to run ChatGPT just lying around?

With the current shortage of hardware, it's not as simple as "scaling up" if the resources literally don't exist.
There are extra fees when buying things that aren't stamps. If USPS.gov isn't the right website, I'd like to know what is.