skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government should cover the losses of the investors.

Various agencies are constantly missing FOIA deadlines, and often the only way to get them to actually do the jobs they are legally required to do is to sue them in court, asking for both the information and to have court costs covered.
There's a chance it'll get impounded if you get pulled over or something and a cop checks your (lack of) insurance. I imagine that's a rare scenario for Floridians; otherwise the rate would approach 0%.

Everybody (ex. [1]) seems to point to IRC [2] but they seem to say around 20% and I think the actual study is paywalled.

Whats really interesting is it sounds like in Florida you insure yourself and if you receive an injury then you file a claim against your own insurance who then pays you. As opposed to receiving a payment from the person who hit you.

> [1] Instead of mandating BI insurance, Florida requires drivers to purchase personal injury protection (PIP) insurance and property damage insurance. An injured driver is often limited to making a claim against his or her own PIP coverage. The coverage pays 80% of medical bills and 60% of lost wages, up to $10,000.

[1]: https://www.rite4justice.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-uni...
[2]: https://insurance-research.org/
Plot v. Content, as Johnstone put it in Impro. The plot’s a sequence of things happening that connect back to earlier events and elements (without the latter, it’s not a plot, it’s just… stuff happening) that has a plain beginning, middle, and end, the flow of which most people can sense—he relates that children can usually tell when a story being made up on the fly is “over” and doesn’t demand to continue.

“Content” is theme and message. You don’t necessarily need narrative to have it, but it tends to exist in narrative also.

Johnstone advises, when writing or improvising, to worry about the plot, and that the content can take care of itself—it’ll just be there, like magic, when you look back on what you’ve created. Putting “content” first can weaken the narrative, and make one less creative, and anyway the content doesn’t need help to appear.

Of course, his advice is also explicitly for beginners, and he repeatedly mentions as an aside that of course one may take a more active hand in guiding these sorts of things as one gets good enough at the basic techniques that they become effortless.
That was because HN got its public start in Feb 2007 and pg wanted to look at users who had joined in the first year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38779197
Shinjuku station has also changed dramatically from all the construction over the last 10 or so years. I lived in Shinjuku (the ward; I was actually a few stations north on the Oedo line) in 2009/2010; was back there a few weeks ago and it was unrecognizeable. Right now, the whole area over by the Yodobashi Camera, and where they used to have the night bus pickup is all walled off under active construction (if they haven't finished already).
the dollar as the reserve currency already has a serious impact on the US (ie. the big upside is that it allows the US to borrow for very cheap, but the nasty downside is keeping the purchasing power of the USD artificially high, which is not great for the non-finance sectors of the US, not great for people who work in those sectors, and double-plus-not-great for US exports [which are not the dollar itself]), basically it's the "natural resource curse" again

that said, dedollarization is unlikely even in the mid-term https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/threats-to-the-dollar-are-just...
No, they were much cheaper in the 70s and 80s!
Barbie was a shallow representation of the multiple generations of various feminist ideals and discussion points. Only 2nd wave feminism gets any actual discussion, though there's a mild discussion to point out that today's kids are on the 4th wave and have different ideas.

The thing is that most people just agree with 2nd wave Feminism, as its the type that was well regarded and well pushed from the 1950s onwards. So Barbie plays it safe, pushes the older, well-agreed messaging and doesn't stray too far from the guard-rails.

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Like, after watching Barbie, is anyone actually ready to discuss if sex-work / prostitution is pro-Feminisim or anti-Feminism? Erm... no. It avoided any sketchy issue or anything remotely controversial.

Is sex-work pro-Feminism because women can decide how to act for themselves and use their innate femininity to gain power over males?

Or is sex-work anti-Feminism because males who enjoy sexual material can turn into malicious actors who play into bad stereotypes and harmful myths? (And thus the females who partake in it are subject to male-gaze or something, its been a while since I've read feminist writing)

Nothing wrong with that mind you. Barbie was designed to just be enjoyable, but it is a watered down discussion. But the minute real-world issues show up, you're hopelessly unprepared if you've only reached the surface-level that Barbie-movie brought you to.

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Hell, even just the 4th wave feminist child vs 2nd wave feminist mother dynamic in Barbie is so... short and shallow. The movie just leaves off without much debate, or exploration of the contradictory viewpoints. The only conclusion at the end is the younger generation might find Barbie fun if we play with them together, which is... absolutely avoiding the deeper issues and debates brought up in the movie.

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Oppenheimer on the other hand... gives you far more capability to discuss the pros-and-cons of the 1940s / 1950s politics of nuclear weapons. Its very deep on the subject.
> sudden bad performance

nvim is great, and I use it as my daily driver, but bear in mind nearly everything in a modern config is controlled by Lua, which is one of the worst-performing languages on the planet today. "Sudden bad performance" is still a thing in the neovim world.
I deny them my essence.
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I don't have a comment on your hypothetical, but this case seems to go far beyond that. If you read the actual filing at the bottom of the linked page, NYT provides examples where ChatGPT recited exact multi-paragraph sections of their articles and tried to pass it off as its own words. Plainly reproducing a work is pretty much the only situation where "is this copyright violation?" isn't really in flux. It's not dissimilar to selling PDFs of copywritten books.

If NYT were fully rellying on the argument that training a model in wordcraft using their materials is always copyright violation, or only had short quotes to point to, the philosophical debate you're trying to have would be more relevant.
I stumbled upon this article in the latest edition of the 'Java Performance Tuning Newsletter'. Relatively recently, I also published a blog article [1] diving into all aspects of JVM memory, including native memory profiling.

[1]: https://serce.me/posts/01-02-2023-jvm-field-guide-memory.
It's worth mentioning the quality for fan-made edits can be, and often are, remarkably high. The only version of Obi-Wan I've seen is a fan edit by Kai Patterson (Obi-Wan Kenobi: The Patterson Cut [1]), which condensed the whole series into one 2.5h long episode/film.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obi-Wan_Kenobi:_The_Patterson_...
It wouldn’t, but ‘fair use’ is doing a lot of work in that rhetorical. Seems like a court would be a proper place to define what is and isn’t.

Tbh I’m mostly curious about whether this settles out of court or whether it goes through the system and sets a precedent.
There are different levels of secret. I would never leak a normal company secret. But a national security secret is a different story.
> don't use words to describe groups just because everybody else does

What? Arriving on shared definition of terms carries enormous cultural benefits. The world is vastly more complex than language, so language will always fall short.

> have enough respect to know what you're talking about

Who decides this? How is one supposed to know this?

> or consult those who do

Taken with the prior statement, this seems very similar to an abusive relationship. This kind of consultation would require enormous amounts of trust. How does one know if a person is trustworthy?

> harmful stereotypes

Who decides if a stereotype is harmful? I'm not sure how to act on this in a way that's not susceptible to being abused.

> what category of people you're really talking about

This is pretty good advice, but again shared cultural definitions are extremely powerful and valuable, so it will likely be in adequate.
In imperative programming, you write statements which change the state of the system.

When you go to debug a method, you need to be able to recreate the state of the system in order see how the method misbehaves.

But a function always has the same output given the same input. It doesn't matter how big the function gets or how many other functions it calls. So if f(1, "foo", 47) throws an exception on a prod server, you can run exactly that function locally and watch it throw the same exception.

Now someone might come along and change f's source code so that it mutates something, or reads from something which can be mutated. And they might call f 'mostly functional'. But it no longer returns the same output for the same input. f(1, "foo", 47) may or may not equal f(1, "foo", 47), so you're back to debugging methods, not functions.

A method being 'mostly-functional' is like 'int i' being 'mostly-const'.
Believe me, publishers have enough trouble keeping writers employed. If they could give them a larger cut or do some kind of revenue share, most editors and GMs would love to (and many do).
> But he seems less concerned about the truthfulness of the contents of the vessel.

It puzzles me when people say such things. We don't have a truth meter [1]; how are we supposed to decide what's true vs. false? By definition, there's zero consensus on any contentious topic. Should we pick one view and impose it? Whose would that be? Should I impose my own? Even if I thought I knew the truth about everything (and I am very far from feeling that way), I can tell you how well that would go over: everyone would hate it.

There's another level too: are we supposed to ban people for being wrong? Being wrong is part of finding out the truth; it's part of being curious. No one makes it to the truth in a single jump, nor on their own. Obviously people need the freedom to be wrong about things.

And another level: HN is about intellectual curiosity and interesting conversation. Interesting conversation is not always a pure sequence of true statements. Curiosity wants to figure out the truth, of course—but optimizing for curiosity [2] is not the same thing as optimizing for truth. The latter would mean excluding speculation, for example. That would be much less interesting!

When someone wants the mods to decide what is true and moderate by that, I can't fathom what they mean, unless they just want moderators to support whatever they agree with and ban whatever they disagree with. No one would put it that crudely, but no one has explained what else is being advocated. One need only consider this for a little while at the general level (i.e. the level of the entire community) to realize how it could never work.

The very people making this point about the "contents of the vessel" would be at each other's throats if one asked them to declare what the truth actually is, since the first thing they'd discover is they have wildly differing views of it. That's why this point can only be made, or agreed with, in the abstract. The moment you cross into claiming any specific truth about a contentious topic, others will immediately protest that it is not a truth at all and that the opposite is true.

Figuring out the truth is a social process—it happens by discourse, communication, exchange. This is everyone's job together, not some special power of the admins. The admins' job is to facilitate that process. This does not involve declaring what the truth is and imposing it on those who disagree, any more than it's a referee's job to decide which net the ball or the puck should go into.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
You must have been a very early user, this was published in 1984 —

"At the outset of a project involving two or more programmers: Do assign a member of the team to be the version manager. … The responsibilities of the version manager consist of collecting and cataloging code files submitted by all members of the team, periodically building a new system image incorporating all submitted code files, and releasing the image for use by the team. The version manager stores the current release and all code files for that release in a central place, allowing team members read access, and disallowing write access for anyone except the version manager." (page 500)

1984 "Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment"

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/TheInteractivePr...

Without a defined software development process, that everyone habitually uses, we can usually make "a tangled mess of code" with any programming language.
There's a difference, she's savvy, brave, tough and clever. As she should.

But she doesn't solo the whole Imperial Army while the rest are just sidekicks. She has her strengths, Hand and Luke have theirs.
And here I was just under the impression it allowed me to reach zen.
Which is all irrelevant, because neither is dispatchable: you get what you get when they're able to produce it.
Not the original poster, but to me it usually refers to a language that is expressive and high-level but usually not fast or efficient enough to implement the actual heavy lifting. It seems fair to call Python a scripting language. This is not a derogatory term, rather it actually describes a great way to build software and explains Python's success.
For cmrx64 is a jolly good fellow, for cmrx64 is a jolly good fellow...
Well the Three Mile Island accident was in 1979, so I imagine that created a lot of resistance to continued construction across the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident
But I don't think we'll get any better vaccine soon the medical community appears to be too stubborn for this to happen.

I'm not arguing that vaccines can't or shouldn't be much better. Just that they actually were considerably good if we take everything we should into account.
> It was much harder to spray apartment complexes with hundreds of units and treating for roaches in every single unit was prohibitively expensive (or my boss was a cheapskate, I don’t know)

I lived in an apartment with ~300 units and they sprayed in the units at least once a year. Not sure what they were spraying (they said it was pet safe).

But if you’re the exterminator, why would your boss being a cheapskate have to do with it? Wouldn’t they be the one being paid?
You should probably not do that, but as coder543 says in another comment, there are reasons why even that is preferable to not having TOTP.
And assuming you enforce multi-factor authentication to access your vault, it is sort of transitively multiple factors (except for security vulnerabilities affecting the vault).

It’s not ideal, individual accounts seems like the only reasonable solution for legal and auditing reasons, but at least it’s possible to conveniently share users with 2FA enabled if you need to.
I not thought about the hardware and servers, I thought about the controller because the article was about that controller. Did the not took them even back when the shut Stadia down. Like seriously they could just open source the controller both soft and hardware instead the put stupid restrictions on a failed product.
Since when has stock based compensation ever cause misaligned incentives or negative externalities? :D
That'd be great!! I'd love it for their models to be open-sourced and replaced by a community effort, like WikiAI or whatever.
No the secondary effects would be people no longer having to pay for art. Including corporations like Spotify and Netflix.

Artists would still make art but would have to either have patronage or find an alternative income source to make a living.
Can you realistically overbuild solar and wind in a way that works in winter? Here's Terence Eden in the UK, and his graph of rooftop solar[1] showing peak around 400kWh/month in summer and trough around 50kWh/month in darkest December - that's a difference of ~8x which might be possible...

But that's averaged over the month, what about a run of December days with heavy cloud cover, misty foggy atmosphere, still air, maybe some Icelandic volcano soot in the atmosphere, what's the worst we'd have to plan for, and how much overprovisioning would that take?

[1] https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/02/solar-update/
Some people claim AGI will. If you believe in the heights of “singularity” talk, we should expect some pretty fundamental changes to the basics of our lives.

Not sure how much stock I put in that, though.
My experience as well. The more dependencies I remove, the fewer problems I have. It is a massive productivity boost.

Having said that, there are libraries there are high value/cost. So I keep those. But the dirty reality is that most libraries are pretty bad.
> projection that human world marketed energy consumption will increase by a factor of 1000× within a century may be correct

We currently produce about 2% [1] of the Earth’s insolation, or 6% of that which hits land. So you’re talking factors of 16 to 50, which at 2% growth means 140 years to the former. Again, assuming perfect efficiency and no clouds, et cetera.

If we assume 50% efficiency (still with no clouds) and covering half of all the Earth’s land in solar panels, we have about 70 years. It’s ludicrous to assume we won’t see diminishing marginal returns in a quarter of that time.

[1] 26 936 TWh [a] / (340 W/sqm [b] x 510mm sqkm x 1000 x 365 days x 24 hours)

[a] https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-2026113/v1/1dff0a...

[b] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_energy_budget
I don’t see ton of value of playing around with prompts until you get the desired output.

I feel most of AI “engineering” goes to this. I think we will go through the phase of trying one question being amazed by what ChatGPT can immediately reply, then try to refine prompts for days to never really get that 5% better that is missing and be disappointed.
"Did Trump Invoke the Insurrection act?"

asked and answered at

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/insurrection-act-trump/

Conclusion of TFA: "Mostly false."
Debezium (a platform for change data capture) supports CloudEvents as one format [1] for emitting data change events to Kafka, etc. Judging by interactions with users, there seems to be some interest in this, but it's not huge.

[1] https://debezium.io/documentation/reference/stable/integrati...
The Nil-Coalescing Operator they add is actually redundant.

Instead of their new fancy syntax:

print(message ?? "The message was nil.")

The idiomatic way would be:

print(message or "The message was nil.")

The or operator works just fine. (Edit: Note that this works because empty strings, lists and the number 0 are all truthy in Lua)

Generally not a big fan of adding additional syntax and operators for minimal gain.

I feel like most changes are nice to have but not really worth the disadvantage of not being able to use LuaJIT.

Honestly, the most interesting goal for me is is having a beefier Python-style standard library. Now, if we had that together with LuaJIT levels of performance that would be an absolute Python killer.

The only actual problem with Lua (that can't be fixed without forking) is that new variables are global by default but you can cope with that. Just have your linter check that you are always using the "local" keyword. Couldn't find if Pluto is fixing that.

Edit: Oh they provide a "let" alias for "local", case in point, little changes with not much value.
Shameless politicized spitballing.
It really doesn't. What we care about to avoid blackouts is something like the minimum output, rather than the average.
Also "Piet", an image-based one: https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html

(No idea if it's related to these other three)
I like the tidbit about how <IMG> came to be:

Date: Thu, 25 Feb 93 21:09:02 -0800
From: Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Subject: proposed new tag: IMG

I'd like to propose a new, optional HTML tag:

IMG

Required argument is SRC="url".

...

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.ht...

The same www-talk mailing list also included emails from Tim Berners-Lee and Guido van Rossum:

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/
One could argue the same about alternatives to Safari, and yet Chrome has proven to be more secure than Safari (based on Pwn2Own results).
For those keen on exploring visual programming with children, I recommend visiting the following websites:

- MakeCode for micro:bit [1]
- MakeCode Arcade[2]

[1] https://makecode.microbit.org
[2] https://arcade.makecode.com
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Do you really think they're losing subscribers to ChatGPT...? Is there a single real person that thinks, "Oh, I don't need to pay the NYT anymore, I can just wait for the next OpenAI update six months from now and it'll summarize all the news for me"?
> Can I use PyTorch or JAX comfortably in Julia?

There is https://github.com/rejuvyesh/PyCallChainRules.jl which makes this possible. But using some of the native Julia ML libraries that others have mentioned is preferable.
I love the improvement implied by "continue to improve" in the face of all evidence that shows fission is a uniquely impractical source of energy that has done nothing but get more and more expensive.