skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everybody saw this coming, even (especially?) the people who were campaigning for Brexit. The UK had negotiated itself all sorts of special perks as an EU member (keeping the pound, etc), and decided to throw it all away because..?

Possibly the only ones who didn’t see it coming are the people who voted for Brexit. I’m sure the North is just booming after Brexit /s

David Cameron’s legacy is Brexit and that thing with the pig. It’s what he deserves.
There is an oral name-brand formulation of semaglutide. If the peptide people can reproduce that, it should not (need to) involve needles. The company GP is talking about only sells an injectable formulation, though.
Paying directly from my bank account is free. Why would I pay for that?
An Artist in Residence on A.I.'s Territory
My robots.txt bans Google from indexing the vast majority of my site. Doing my part to free up Google's limited crawling resources.
It's the same as with your opinion about the sideloading. The case of tractors shows more clearly how ridiculous it is to give up the control of your devices to a corporation.
Technically true, but effectively irrelevant
Spain confirms nuclear power phase-out, extends renewable projects deadlines
I have a friend with an MG4 and it's great value. The interior is spartan (seems to be the primary way electric cars save money!) but it's not that much more expensive than an equivalent petrol car - definitely cheaper when you factor fuel costs.

The UK government recently pushed back banning ICE car sales by 5 years, but I checked the adoption curves in Scandinavia (who are a few years ahead of most of the world) and basically it doesn't matter because by 2030 (the original target) almost all car sales in the UK will be electric anyway, irrespective of a ban.
In arid climates, heavily-used roads end up with oily residue on them, and then the first little bit of rain basically makes the road into Spy Hunter[1] oil slicks. The road actually gets less slippery after the first 30 minutes of rain, as the oils get rinsed off.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_Hunter
Presumably the "brogrammer" will still be the one feeding data into the model and stitching together the code it produces, vetting it, and deploying it because it is going to be massively more effective to have him do it vs the manager whose area of expertise is managing people and finance.

This will drastically increase the total output of all the "brogrammers" maybe even enough to replace some of the spagetti code out there with more reliable work.
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Assuming semi-recent bash(1), you can also get away with something like

while read -r line; do printf '%(%F %T %s)T %s\n' "-1" "${line}"; done

as the right-hand side/reader of a shell pipe for most of what ts(1) offers. ("-1" makes the embedded strftime(3) format string assume the current time as its input).
The reason to seek additional convictions is to prevent some future reversal of a single charge letting the convict free to damage the public even more.
Interesting. I just logged into facebook and my feed is spam, and my notifications are basically a chronological feed of my closest connections.
Scientific American needs to look in a mirror.

There was a time when they gave meaningful direction to young readers.

Albert G. Ingalls, "The Back Yard Astronomer."
Martin Gardner, "Mathematical Games"
C. L. Stong. "The Amateur Scientist"

After Stongs death, SciAm displayed a halfhearted attempt to keep a few back pages, but around 2000 they dumped the whole idea of citizen science.

Despite the launch of a nationwide "Maker Movement" SciAm's new management couldn't understand why anyone would care. Today, the publication has made itself irrelevant.

This generation has found a new outlet for DIY science and it is called YouTube. Maybe you should check it out. You might learn something.

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I’ve generally found ex girlfriends don’t want you back after you dumped her.

I suspect this will also be true for the UK and Europe.
Is it not source-available rather than open-source?
> AI developers will most likely rely on a Fair Use defense.

Probably. The question for the courts to decide, then, is how much use is considered fair use.
Britons keep voting against their own best interests & expect anyone to sympathize. FFS look at who they voted for as their last four prime ministers!
You do a lot of scare quotes. Do you have any suggestions on how things could be different? You need batch jobs because the scheduler has to wait for resources to be available. It's kinda like Tetris in processor/time space. (In fact, that's my personal "proof" that workload scheduling is NP-complete: it's isomorphic to Tetris.)

And what's wrong with shell scripts? It's a lingua franca, generally accepted across scientific disciplines, cluster vendors, workload managers, .... Considering the complexity of some setups (copy data to node-local file systems; run multiple programs, post-process results, ... ) I don't see how you could set up things other than in some scripting language. And then unix shell scripts are not the worst idea.

Debugging failures: yeah. Too many levels where something can go wrong, and it can be a pain to debug. Still, your average cluster processes a few million jobs in its lifetime. If more than a microscopic portion of that would fail, computing centers would need way more personnel than they have.
Do kids like the stories?
That's sort of tangential though. A game can have user interface problems and still be fun. A game can be outdated and still be fun.

I would argue the age of a game is entirely orthogonal to whether it is possible to still enjoy playing it.

Will EVERYONE enjoy playing it? Probably not. But some people do. And that's enough to give projects like ScummVM a valuable purpose.
It's not superior in any way. I have both an Android phone (Samsung) and an iPhone. Android rules except in one aspect - battery life.
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This is a bummer! But it highlights more of an unfortunate reality we all have to deal with when buying digital goods online - always need to get a backup right away when possible, since no platform lasts forever.
We are all buyers in the top 1-5% of Incomes in the US.

If it is increasingly unaffordable for high earners like us, then there is something fundamentally wrong.

And let's be honest, a sub-35k EV is a solved problem. BYD and similar companies sells in Australia, NZ, Central Europe, and Japan at a similar price point.
Yes, we don't know the exact number yet, but he's 31 and it'll be at least 50 years.
They can neither confirm nor deny whether it is true.
Yeah for sure, even more argument that Americans, wealthy and poor, want inexpensive EVs.
Developing a free platform for portfolios, equity research and AI solutions
While it‘s still pretty early we gained traction through our free and large financial toolbox.

Especially value investors and Palmy members who dislike financial data paywalls already profit from it.

During next year we will likely launch custom AI models (no gpt-wrapping) trained on high quality resources. We also ensure to set up an UI framework such as tailwind to make it competitive and introduce it to the market.

Here is one of the latest tools, a custom screener shared with hackernews in read mode:

• https://palmy-investing.com/assets/screener/premium/uuid=eb8...

Hope someone like it here. Would love to read some feedback here.

Best Mika
I hope this is true for videos as well, in practice.

I’m worried the anti-circumvention clauses of the DMCA (in the US) or restoring / colorizing / denoising / modifying the original will be used as a loophole.

For instance, Disney+ likes to censor and otherwise mutilate content. If the rip comes from them, will they successfully argue copyright infringement on old works?
> The problem is that generating this structured data from absolutely massive amounts of unstructured data involves a truly colossal amount of engineering work

Isn't this kind of obsolete in 2023 with LLMs?

Sure, AI is currently slow, and very expensive, but eventually the idea of needing to query a massive unstructured data source is something that will go the way of the dodo bird when you have a technology that can magically turn unstructured data into structured data quite efficiently. And in that case, when your data is properly structured, there are database technologies that are 1000x more efficient than all of these MapReduce-esque solutions for BI.
Indeed, build up the complexity from smaller, verifiable code components.
Yeah. They’re not getting to keep the pound next time around.
Agreed!
The gap is getting smaller, I can imagine feature parity in another few years. Some fellow nerds doing that kind of stuff in $$$-EDA say it isn't exactly smooth sailing in those EDAs - regular crashes and so on.
Yeah, I get that it can feel "off," but practically I'd actually much prefer that we focus the money theft conversation on money theft and the campaign reform conversation on campaign reform.

I.e. the fraud isn't made worse by the fact it was turned into donations and, likewise, campaign donations of that sort aren't less troublesome when they're made with legitimately-earned money.
Big Layoff at Duolingo
My flippancy aside: lectures weren't directly related to the tutorial system at Oxford, so it was unclear the benefit of going to centralised lectures was over just studying the source material. It was pretty universal to do just that, and ignore the lectures.
The renewables business faces a make-or-break moment
By some definitions, yes. Utilities though are usually paid based on usage whereas many luxury services are paid ahead of time and regardless of use.
Woah this is really moving the goalposts and is pretty disingenuous. When I responded to your prompt about GPT being bad at reproducing copyrighted material with a counter example where it appears to in fact be good at it, you tell me that I must reproduce a specific image as easily as “clicking download image.”

Not what I was arguing and you’re not going to win many arguments with anyone who is paying attending by coming out of left field with only tangentially related demands.
A BMW built in e.g. Slovakia or Spain is still considered a German car. That's the model they use - build local factories everywhere across the world, including places like Brazil and South Africa where they assemble cars at a large scale.
No particular surprise there, although 2000 Britons also seems like a pretty small sample size.

A question for the Britons on HN: have you perceived any discernible benefits to Brexit? My outsider’s (American) perception is that it has been pretty uniformly negative.
The UK does not vote for prime ministers; none are elected. Voting regions vote for MPs, and MPs collectively choose their leader.

A large part of why the last leaders of both major parties have been populists, out of keeping with UK history, is because parties let their own private memberships play significant roles in choosing their leader -- this has handed the choice of PM from directly elected MPs to profoundly unelected party members.

The only reason the current PM is sane is because the ruling party decided to ignore the members this time, having seen how basically incompetent their members have become.
The U6 unemployment rate that counts discouraged workers is way down from the peak of pandemic and back to previous values. All the unemployment numbers are at historically low values.

Large numbers of people who left workforce for pandemic have come back.
It's a figure of speech. We don't know the exact sentence but we know it will be a very long time. You didn't think "life + cancer" was literal, did you?
I'd rather just directly raycast against a nicely compressed hierarchical representation than create horrendous amounts of triangle geometry and rasterise that. The code would be absolutely tiny, and not mostly a bunch of calls into someone else's code.

But, you know, gotta do the OpenGL / DirectX / whatever vanilla API thing... that's what graphics programming is, isn't it...
You don't vote for a PM in the UK - you vote for a party, that is free to change their PM while in power.
At first glance, this just seems like an adjacency list, am I missing something?
Plenty of people sympathize with the Palestinians even after they voted for Hamas
I have seen an Internet Historian video before. I just googled "Internet Historian" and a cancellation style reddit post was the third result.
I even mentioned that I only did a quick google; I encourage you to do your own research here and form your own opinion on this.
I have heard of Jontron but I am not familiar nor have I read anything about that.
Keeping the pound showed it was never going to work.

Nothing says ‘commitment’ like “Sure let’s get married but I want separate bank accounts”.
small sample size, but yes! I've tried it on my son, and had some friends also try it out with kids of various ages. Being able to to turn whatever idea is in their head right that instant into a story seems to be the real hit.

Some feedback I've received from other parents is they wish there was more than one image to help keep the listener a little more engaged. Been tinkering with this but it is challenging to get a consistent series of images.
depends on the item. Socks are valuable and ensure better health. A copy of Breaking Bad isn't really anything anyone is entitled to watch for free. A car is essential but a Ferrari isn't. Computing is essential but not everyone wants nor needs the highest end hardware with the newest graphics card.

Luxuries are just that. And what makes this conversation so muddy online is how so many people seem to do this because they desire luxuries, not because they need a texbook to gather knowledge, nor some gray market luxuries like an old game that isn't sold and was never even available in your native language (possibly requiring a fan patch to translate for them).

People want the best, latest, and greatest, for free right now, and some flimsy justification to rationalize them as a good person for pirating it. It just feels entitled.
Nitpick: the UK doesn't vote for a Prime Minister. Since the last election, there have been 3 Prime Ministers, so you could argue that 2 of them are "unelected".
Can you produce links to and specific passages from the NYT articles that make him out to be a victim?
We're at ~1/10th your scale but query speed is a major concern due to (rightfully) impatient clients when it comes to data viz. Unless you're using BQ tables as input for high throughput compute, I'd focus on optimizing your BI tool or creating analysis tables that would prevent end-user slowdown.

Ex: Recently created a big table (by materializing fact/dimension table joins and COALESCE operations) solely for analysis purposes. It sits "outside" our normal data warehouse setup mentally, but we can still maintain data quality/lineage as it exists inside dbt. Allowed us to do away with Tableau fixed calculations and cut load/group by times for end users ~95%.
If you don't need those benefits it doesn't really matter.
Kudos to Victor for assembling such a wonderful resource!

While I am not acquainted with him personally, I did my doctoral work at UT Austin the the 1990's and had the privilege of working with the resources (Cray Y-MP, IBM SP/2 Winterhawk, and mostly on Lonestar, a host name which pointed to a Cray T3E at the time) maintained by TACC (one of my Ph.D. committee members is still on staff!) to complete my work (TACC was called HPCC and/or CHPC if I recall the acronyms correctly).

Back then, it was incumbent on the programmer to parallelize their code (in my case, using MPI on the Cray T3E in the UNICOS environment) and have some understanding of the hardware, if only because the field was still emergent and problems were solved by reading the gray Cray ring-binder and whichever copies of Gropp et al. we had on-hand. That and having a very knowledgeable contact as mentioned above :) of course helped...
I'm fairly confident all of Bankman-Fraud's donations went to the wealthy and well-connected.
> The government, and any authority, should be mistrusted. Period.

I mostly agree with that but we're talking about a response (mine) to a post, by someone who's communicating from the interior of an LEA.

His narrative could be propaganda or false or curated by agenda or unhelpfully incomplete or meaningfully representative. We don't know which of those it is. We do know that communication outside of PR channels is useful, even if we have to heavily qualify it.

And valuable info sometimes comes out of informal channels. We're not gaining anything by crapping on it here.

Past that, we risk nothing by assuming good faith of the OP's post - even if our good faith turns out to be misapplied. No judicial precedence is in play. No hearts are swayed to dark sides. No mass readership is being fed a pregurgitated conclusion. No agenda needles get budged.

In this place and at this time: We are safe letting one LEO-adjacent individual feel - well maybe not welcome but at least a lower level of mob noise. We don't have to put their haunches up by pushing back with everything we have.
From rough memory the Louvre tries that "we took a photo of it, so its a new copyright" bullshit with the Mona Lisa.

Wonder if a French court will clarify the matter at some point, like this UK court did?
Surely there's a meaningful question about copying and distributing content verbatim, which GPT has been shown to do.
While ground and water pollution are bad, air pollution is critical. Let's worry about reducing air pollution now and worry about ground and water pollution secondarily.
Yes and let's call the generated output what is: bullshit.

Now add https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law
Excellent idea! Then you can produce ten times as many essays with one-tenth the length!
> The lack of information is the point. In a Western democracy...

...people aren't really used to leaving their bubble and searching for information at the source, especially when the source is a foreign culture/language/platform.

Are you sure that "lack of information" isn't just a skill issue here?
UK should just rejoin the EU. Wonder what that will take? Another referendum or vote within UK?

Then EU needs to accept their membership again?
Yes, it should be a little scary and most people should probably not be taking exogenous growth hormone.
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> I hope this is true for videos as well, in practice.

Videos and music is different from photos because members of production team get individual copyrights.
Those games are infinitely better than anything I could find in the app store, and the whole collection was (is?) $50.
Thus proving (again) that there are very real limits to democracy in current western societies; that democracy is not hardened against populist demagogues...

All the possible fixes i can think of aren't really palatable: mandatory critical thinking training for voters (not egalitarian), strict long term accountability measures for politicians (chilling effect; can be weaponized by opponents)...

Ugh.
> Now imagine LLMs trained on early 20th century newspapers, books and letters. Do you think it would be good at generating code or hip copy for homepage of your next startup?

Not sure about the rest of the world, but at least for US content I don't think any company would publish that LLM.

That's like 40 years before the civil rights movement, and right about the time of the Tulsa massacre.

It's right around when women got the right to vote.

Trying to get it to not say anything horrible under modern standards seems fraught with issues. I don't know if it would even understand something like "don't be racist", given the context it was trained on.
i’d disagree here solely because whether brexit has failed or not is empirically measurable. we don’t have to defer to public/majority opinion for whom what ‘failure’ represents might be different from one person to the other. so let’s see some data that strongly suggests that brexit has and continues to fail.

disclaimer: i’m not british and so whether brexit succeeds or not isn’t in my interest. but i’d like to read/study better report than an opinion poll as i strongly believe that failure or success here is scientifically determinable.
OTA updates would require not only 5y simulation testing (dine in 5 days w the right computing power) but would also not be applied all at the same time, in order to get flaws in time before full fleet deployment.
In pure math, the challenge was always to express your ideas as concisely as possible. The problem was that sometimes it takes five or ten pages to explain things properly!
Britons don’t vote in prime ministers. The last time Britain voted a plurality (not majority) Boris Johnson was PM. Since then Liz Truss was put in as unelected leader, then removed, then Rishi Sunak was put in.

The last time the country voted for a new prime minister in an election (and by that I mean they voted for a majority of MPs) was 1997. Before that was 1979 with Thatcher.

Major was appointed in 1990, Brown was appointed in 2007, Cameron came to power with coalition dealing, but at least had a plurality, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak all appointed by their party membership at most.
Well the norm definitely makes sense, mostly because if you do that then other countries won't want to extradite folks to you. But I'm curious if that's actually a right. For example, you could imagine that you extradite the guy for fraud then find evidence that he also committed murder.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

New theory claims to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38526877 - Dec 2023 (196 comments)
UK had special conditions and various exceptions while it was part of the EU. If they would like to rejoin (and doubt that would happen soon, the polls show there are at least some people thinking it was good, and lots of undecided ones) the rest of the EU would not want to give them the same special conditions.

Maybe after one generation things will change but for some time I think not much will change on this topic.
Thats good for steady baseload but actually a problem since our demand is quite variable and spinning up and down Nuclear is hard.
Maybe OP can burn any science fiction books they find in billionaires houses?
No. You vote in a representative who may wear a rosette at a time but has no obligation to stay wearing that rosette.
A bunch of small fish got a bunch of even smaller fish to vote to reduce the size of the pond so they could all look so much bigger.
After 13 years of austerity the 2010s are a lost decade for the Uk and Brexit is just the cherry on top of a shit sundae.
I'm sure that's a factor, but I'm talking about the lack of official statements. Maybe there have been such statements and I don't know about it – in which case, someone can hopefully link to a report of one of the statements.
Sadly, the developer never updated them for compatibility with 64-bit-only versions of iOS (iOS 11+).
GrapheneOS is no harder to install or use than LineageOS. If anything, it is easier, since the documentation is far better and almost always applicable to all supported devices.
> [Britons beleave Brexit] has hampered government attempts to control immigration

I'm not very well versed in UK politics but what's the narrative behind this? In what way do Britons believe Brexit has made controlling immigration harder? While the ways it has hurt trade and the economy in general are obvious to me (both on the factual level and what I presume Britons believe) I have a hard time imagining what they could possibly think on this subject.
I'm not sure it is as nefarious as you make it out to be. Had the trial proceeded I'm not sure it would have implicated any politicians (his donations are public knowledge already). This may be a 'slight' leniency given that his guilty verdict will land him in prison for decades. Having another trial on a semi-related charge to run up the 'score' in terms of the number of years in prison is unnecessary. Isn't this also following the terms of extradition from the Bahamas?