skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's already happening unfortunately. Voice print in call centers is pretty much omniscient, knowing your identity, age, gender, mood, etc. on a call. They do it in the name of "security", naturally. But nobody ever asked your permission other than to use the "your call may be recorded for training purposes" blanket one. (Training purposes? How convenient that models are also "trained"?) Anonymity and privacy can be eliminated tomorrow technologically. The only thing holding that back is some laziness and inertia. There is no serious pushback. You want to solve AI risk, there is one right here, but because there's an unchecked human at one end of a powerful machine, no one pays attention.
The automated security provided a false sense of security but it turned out to be very vulnerable to a multi-pronged and carefully timed attack on a Jewish holiday. With careful planning, and a pretence of not being interested in attacking (and even providing Israel with intelligence on PIJ commanders for assassination in recent times, working with Israel who provided increased work permits for Gazans to work in Israel recently), Hamas pulled the wool over Israel's eyes
Not sure what you mean. They have to have this stuff on each Starship anyways. And they need to learn how to build that stuff. Its already built into the next Starship. And that ship (in fact the next 4) have no other reason to exist other then testing these things.

The ship is the payload. The testing is inside of the tanks of the ship. Moving fuel around inside the ship. There is no extra expensive payload in addition to the ship.
Just explaining what 'singularity' means. Thanks for slanging me for no reason! Always raised the level of conversation.
They may not have the license for English subtitles in Japan similar to how outside of Japan you can't get Japanese subtitles on Japanese TV shows because of licensing.
Strangely, it runs buttery smooth in my Samsung S21.
> Anyway, your argument is that it's Israel's job to manage the country next door. That would make sense only in a non-two-state reality where Israel is legally responsible and controls the relevant areas. You can't run elections in areas you don't control. But Israel hasn't controlled the Strip since 2005...

Israel had military and, far more critically, economic control. They could at any time have worked towards a two party system or one of the other proposals - except that the people in power were committed to not doing that.

Just as Israel can’t solve this unilaterally, neither can anyone in Palestine. The Israeli right chose to prop Hamas up for years, but they could have tried to work with anyone else. What we’re seeing right now is what happens when two groups of corrupt hardliners see a profit in preventing compromise.
I'm old enough to remember trying to get IRQs and DMAs set, and trying to figure out whether I should use Tandy or EGA mode.
Uh... How big was their database? Did I miss it? I don't think they said.
Ask HN: When is a duplicate submission not a duplicate submission?
Hi,

I wonder if you could explain the HN behaviour I describe at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38608546

I'm the author of that submission and the blog post it points to. I submitted this item immediately after publishing the blog post I had written. Nobody could have, or did, submitted it earlier. Anyway, it didn't generate much interest on HN.

Later that same day somebody else submitted it and that time it hit new and got some good interest. Cool!

Q1: how could the other person post the same link I had already posted? I thought duplicates were prevented?

A further day later and my original post has a more recent submission date. And as it gains interest it is marked as a dupe.

Q2: Why is this original submission of mine now showing a more recent date? Is that because somebody submitted a duplicate that was caught?

Thanks!
So very true. Thats why i, for private things, never bother with domain names, signed certs, and use non standard ports.
All of the above are huge lawn signs for "target".

This of course drives all sorts of chrome browsers and mitm stuff bonkers.

So the next time someone asks why you dont want to buy into the dns/cert route, tell them this.
Inb4, i know the whole subsequent argument chain, nevertheless, this reduces the activity. yes, yes it does.
I've long wondered if it might make sense if I ever write something substantial that I want to open source to license most of the individual functions under a permissive license such as BSD, but license the program as a whole as a collective work or compilation under something more restrictive like GPL.

The idea is that if someone finds that I've got a nice sort function or a nifty argument parser that they would find useful I'm happy for them to copy it no strings attached, but I don't want someone just taking my whole program and making a closed fork of it.
Thank you for the feedback. I give a detailed description here https://github.com/ndavd/ncube#but-what-am-i-actually-visual.... This basically was inspired by the famous GIF of the tesseract. As I mentioned in the url above, it's an impossible task to visualize in its entirety something with a dimension higher than 3. But we can take a look at its shadow and see how it behaves when rotating along a certain plane. If you have some idea on how to build on it please feel free to share or even create a discussion for it on the repository. I opened discussions earlier today just for that.
> If you’ve already got Outlook or Teams on your device, then I don’t think you’re any worse off.

I have neither installed. Nor do I have any other Microsoft or Google applications.
This is a result of the union negotiations with the WGA, which demanded and won that all streamers disclose exactly this. Expect to see this for every other streaming service imminently.

https://www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign/what-we-won

> Streaming data transparency: Companies agree to provide the Guild the total number of hours streamed, both domestically and internationally, of self-produced high budget streaming programs (e.g., a Netflix original series). Aggregated information can be shared.
Those people (like most people who talk AGI) live in a world far "above the metal." They, like the rationalist bloggers, live in a "software world," far above the constraints of physical reality. This causes an understandable blind spot: the understanding that computers are, fundamentally, physical machines.

It's quite easy to imagine that you could conjure superintelligence when you are conjuring a pod of 8 quadrillion transistors in a single shell script. The illusion breaks down when you get closer to the physical reality. Reality is that those transistors are made of real materials, with real impurities, that have to be broken down and painstakingly physically, electrically, chemically, debugged, in the world below the 1's and 0's abstraction.

The commonality that both sides of this silly debate share is that neither really deals with entities at the layer below abstract software (or essays). To them, the perfect world of software is fundamental reality (they spend all of their time there!), and any crystal prism that can be constructed in software can be constructed in reality.

Of course, such prisms are instantly shattered when they come into contact with the real world: an impurity in the wafer, a static shock on the PCB before installation, a flood in the datacenter. This software stuff is fragile by default, it actually takes a tremendous amount of active work in the physical reality to conjure it into existence. I can do something that no language model can do, and is showing no signs of being able to do any time soon: drive a car to the datacenter, turn the door handle, and unplug the rack.
Blood Falls
Not a telescope, but this is the best video I've seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dePmzxejd8
I think it was lots of parallel development - some mid-to-late 3G phones had carrier hand-rolled Wi-Fi calling, some had femtocell support instead, LTE was to be just faster packet-only Internet mode for 3G, became its own thing too late which necessitated CSFB, and then Wi-Fi calling became reimplemented as part of standard, etc.
That's a good idea and others have suggested it.

I'm significantly annoyed at being forced to use Microsoft software on my personal device for work at my own cost though.
Where it does matter they put a femtocell which is about as complicated as a wifi AP.
I've got a question for you. When you say that Israeli Arabs are represented and citizens, why do you ignore the residents of Gaza and the West Bank, who are subject to Israeli military rule and/or blockade and have no representation in the government.

Palestinians have been made stateless by Israel, but if they are functionally subject to Israeli apartheid and martial law within their "own borders" then sovereignty is a fiction is it not?
This was only from January to June in 2023.

The S3 of Narcos Mexico was released in 2021 and it wasn't very good compared to the S1 and S2.
> Destroying Israel is different from killing Jews

Israel exists because of the much-repeated global pogroms against Jews. The Mizrahi Jews fled Yemen, Morocco, and other Muslim countries because of antisemitic persecution. Beta Israel fled the Mengistu regime in Ethiopia, which threatened a Jewish genocide. Those Jews had that option because of the existence of Israel, a country located in the ancestral homeland of the Jews.

I sincerely believe that fighting for the destruction of Israel is akin to antisemitism. Because what will happen when the next round of Pogroms and genocides roll around? It's been happening for thousands of years, and as recently as the 70s. Jews need a safe country.
I'm vaguely aware that radon testing is one of the things you should do when buying a house, but it's never really come up as an actual problem for anyone I know. My indoor air sensor claims that my apartment averages 0.6 (pCi/l), so it's very far from being an issue.
> as soon as the acceleration stops... the tank will contain a chaotic mixture of floating gas and liquid

The traditional solution is to replace acceleration/gravity with surface tension, using various types of Propellant Management Devices (PMDs).[0][1]

When last we saw our heroes, the stated plan was to solve the problem with milli-g acceleration via small thrusters.[2] That was 2017, but so far there's been no indication this part of the plan has changed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propellant_management_device

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=Propellant+management+device...

[2] https://youtu.be/S5V7R_se1Xc?t=2872
Thank you for the explanation. I'm also an Apple fan and would not leave the App Store easily, however I am unhappy that I am forever unable to do so.

I think rulings against these companies are warranted, but I want an end game where iPhone is closer to Android's best aspects, not where Android drops them to mimic iPhone's. Google could easily stop being as "anti-competitive" by not releasing another public update of Android again, launching a new "Pixel Play Store" available on Pixel, and putting all of their effort into this platform going forward. The world would be a worse place for this, and Google would likely make more services revenue. I have a feeling developers would abandon the other manufacturer's platforms in a microsecond. If Google's not allowed to have influence over the default search/apps installed on 3rd party android phones made by Samsung/HTC, why would Google even bother with the business? They only ran it to get more mobile search users into Google Search IMO.

I'm sure Google deserves to get smacked for the worst of their behavior but Apple walking away (for now) without a scratch is sending a stark message, at least to my eyes. You say Apple's time with this behavior is limited, and I can only hope you're right. Being positive, hopefully down the line, this case can be used as a wedge to peel Apple's grip open.
Oh yeah, “it’s complicated”

One thing is for sure though, they keep doing it. To this day Israeli settlers, aided by the IDF, keep stealing Palestinian land and resources

Israel probably wishes they would just disappear so it would stop being so complicated
The US has an early warning radar in the Negev not too far from Gaza aimed at Iran.
I think you’re off by several orders of magnitude there
And Splinter Cell (2002) had curtains that moved around you as you passed under them. Many games had individual features that were innovative physics-wise, but I still think HL2 and Doom 3 were the big mind blowing ones, both for me personally and the media coverage at the time.
i guess you could comply by leaving the apache 2 license in there but then not say which files it applies to, but then you'd be licensing the whole work under the apache 2 license

i don't think you can comply by just removing the apache 2 license

you're right about 'jeez' and i've removed it
Nobody proposed landing a Saturn V. The Apollo lunar base proposal called for a shelter based on the existing Lunar Module[1], along with an extended CSM and LM Taxi hardware derived from the basic Apollo program.

1. http://www.astronautix.com/a/apollolmshelter.html
So is driving. You're exceedingly unlikely to be in a mortal accident driving. Those rates plummet further if you don't drink.
“In service” and “production” are synonymous in this case.
To be precise, the US does have life+70 for works published after 1978. The rest of the world went that route and the US begrudgingly followed, but the works published before the switchover date are grandfathered into the old system. The US copyright regime is a real rats' nest of complexity, see https://guides.library.cornell.edu/copyright/publicdomain
Continuing on from the sibling comment about the 0 second...

So behind all the top-level interfaces was layer under layer of support. Some of that software had been designed for wildly different situations. Every so often, the inconsistencies caused fatal accidents. Despite the romance of spaceflight, the most common accidents were simply caused by ancient, misused programs finally getting their revenge.

“We should rewrite it all,” said Pham.

“It’s been done,” said Sura, not looking up. She was preparing to go off-Watch, and had spent the last four days trying to root a problem out of the coldsleep automation.

“It’s been tried,” corrected Bret, just back from the freezers. “But even the top levels of fleet system code are enormous. You and a thousand of your friends would have to work for a century or so to reproduce it.” Trinli grinned evilly. “And guess what—even if you did, by the time you finished, you’d have your own set of inconsistencies. And you still wouldn’t be consistent with all the applications that might be needed now and then.”

Sura gave up on her debugging for the moment. “The word for all this is ‘mature programming environment.’ Basically, when hardware performance has been pushed to its final limit Basically, when hardware performance has been pushed to its final limit, and programmers have had several centuries to code, you reach a point where there is far more significant code than can be rationalized. The best you can do is understand the overall layering, and know how to search for the oddball tool that may come in handy—take the situation I have here.” She waved at the dependency chart she had been working on. “We are low on working fluid for the coffins. Like a million other things, there was none for sale on dear old Canberra. Well, the obvious thing is to move the coffins near the aft hull, and cool by direct radiation. We don’t have the proper equipment to support this—so lately, I’ve been doing my share of archeology. It seems that five hundred years ago, a similar thing happened after an in-system war at Torma. They hacked together a temperature maintenance package that is precisely what we need.”

“Almost precisely.” Bret was grinning again. “With some minor revisions.”

“Yes, which I’ve almost completed.”
I'm similar. The ability to socialize and party at-will eclipsed my desire to game.
The idea that every nation needs a state (and every state exists to serve one nation) is part of the absurdity! It's what got us into this mess in the first place—the Jews needed a state of their own because the rest of us couldn't stand to let them make their home near us.

The problem of intergenerational refugees will not be solved by carving out a new state and shipping everyone back there.
Theoretical math is one thing, capital and hardware requirements are very different. You need people willing to do the research, money to pay them, and a mountain of hardware.

If you are concerned with at least putting on a show of risk management you need expensive lawyers, a large PR budget, and teams working on safety and ethics to at least act like it matters. If you actually are concerned with risks you need time to first consider what you do upon successfully developing an AGI. How would you recognize it? Does it have rights? Would turning it off be murder? More importantly, how do you ensure that it doesn't escape controls you put in place, if that possible at all?
And US is 6.1% Your point?
There are definitely still Current Thing's though - Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, Squid Games. They'll come and go. There's also the 'in-joke' kind of references from more niche shows that can form a stronger connection than the big thing of the day.
it's a tradeoff

I'm disgusting for "people having power over other people", you're disgusting for the graveyard of dead people due to the status quo system.
>Israel had military and, far more critically, economic control. They could at any time have worked towards a two party system or one of the other proposals - except that the people in power were committed to not doing that.

I don't understand what are you suggesting given that Israel didn't control the Strip (no military control), and that Hamas doesn't care for the economy?

>The Israeli right chose to prop Hamas up for years

True, but again remember the alternative was having a war like this one. Granted, cheaper than this one since Hamas was less powerful, but still a lot more deaths compared to what was the norm.
I'm doing spreadsheets right now. If it needs to be dynamic and you don't want to use scripts but rather plain Excel formulas w/o the fancy functions introduced with excel 2010, it's pure programming with a limited syntax:)
Each hired person carries massively more potential cost to the employer, due to the employer being unable to do much if the employee does things like watch porn on their work equipment, sabotage the company’s tech infrastructure before leaving, or just plainly suck at their job. That extra potential cost has to be paid from somewhere, which is typically coming from the total compensation, which translates to lower factual pay.

Kind of like how working in software dev as a contractor typically nets you more raw money than working in a comparable role doing a similar job for someone else. However, as a contractor you are responsible for paying for things like health insurance yourself. As a hired employee, you will typically have those things provided to you by your employer, but you will get paid less in raw money, because those things get priced into your salary (sidenote: which your employer probably has a discount rate for anyway, so even if it was paid out to you in cash and you paid your own insurance, you would have had net less money, so it is kind of a comparative win-win for both sides here).

For me personally as an employee, I would rather my employer be able to fire me for watching porn on my work equipment or be able to go after me for intentionally sabotaging company’s infra. Because I do not plan on doing either of those things, so just having that extra money in exchange for not being able to do those things unpunished is the easy choice, personally.
Where's the 2023 thread?
> I found the silence on HN around these events deafening when the Oct 7th attacks first happened (before Israeli retaliation.

Tech Twitter is where the debate is at. I've been very surprised by some of the takes, to the say the least: Racist, fascist, supremacist undertones in all their glory, tweeted / retweeted ad nauseum (this one, for example, retweeted by Garry Tan https://twitter.com/antoniogm/status/1733687649414869349)
It was rhetorical device to make light that flying is not risk free, particularly landings and takeoffs after V1.
Found an article that's unfortunately ad-heavy that explains the strategies used in more detail for the technical layperson:

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/new-gpt-4-prompt-techniq...
> insubstantial and emotional

I see you didn't take Econ 101.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
Agreed. While my dad is still alive, he has all the textbook ailments from being a lifelong smoker / drinker. His quality of life is shit. His legs are swollen red tree stumps, skin is splotchy and very thin/prone to bruising/bleeding, overweight, can't walk more than a few feet without getting winded, who knows what's internal, but he spent 6 months in the hospital with a mrsa infection. Brain function is also clearly diminished. I love him a lot, but there is no way that I want to end up anything like him.

Just looking at him, it was easy for me to stop drinking entirely. It is poison.
For anyone else wondering “why they’ve decided to do this”—

This is an outcome of the WGA strike negotiations. Now writers (and actors, and anyone else) can use this information to better negotiate their worth with studios, rather than it being 1-sided. All other streaming services should be following suit soon.

https://www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign/what-we-won

> Streaming data transparency: Companies agree to provide the Guild the total number of hours streamed, both domestically and internationally, of self-produced high budget streaming programs (e.g., a Netflix original series). Aggregated information can be shared.
Both are bad. Tobacco is a poisonous plant which we consume because some of the effects of the poison are considered good. Inhaling smoke is also bad for you. There's a lot of plants which will have undesirable effects if you chew on their leaves, but in most cases they don't also have desirable effects so no one does it.
That’s extremely interesting I had no idea! Thank you.
That’s true. Stuck in the middle are lots of innocent Israeli and Palestinian civilians.
I definitely remember using that one a lot. I also remember being frustrated at how small the "recent bookmarks" list was, especially considering that it didn't have a "only show one bookmark per folder" option. I've lost more bookmarks due to this issue than I can count.
Waiting for the PainStation Portable.
They even cancelled Shadow and Bone.

S2 is at position 32 with 192M hours viewed.
It's impossible to describe Gaza 2005-2022 as indefinite subjugation. Quite the opposite. It could have become Singapore if not for Hamas.
It was our internet that broke.
I understand the Big Bang Theory appeal, it's a turn your brain off show for humorless people.

However Suits is insufferable to watch.
You are making a lot of sense to me. Thanks for the link to that essay, too.

The point about programming-language nonambiguity is a good one. After I started using ChatGPT a year ago, it took me a while to realize that I didn’t have to be careful about my spelling, capitalization, punctuation, etc. It turned out to be good at interpreting the intention of sloppily written prompts. And it never pointed out or complained about my mistakes, either—another difference from humans.
Your scare quotes are super condescending, but yes, it truly is notoriously complicated. Thousands of books have been written on it, and millions of hours have been spent debating it. Denying that Jews have any legitimate claim to land in the Levant is partisan and false, and it pours fuel on the fire. The only possible lasting solution will acknowledge that both Jews and Palestinians have a rightful claim to (and a need for) a state.
Congrats to you for kicking a really nasty habit. Seriously. Best thing you could do to lessen the effects as you age.