skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder about the historical trends in these types of zones. Presumably they didn't exist prior to the industrial revolution?
Not OP but here you go https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/ contains links to research.
Why would they redesign the hardware? Can't they just switch the feature off with software until they work out a deal?
And I think it's a good idea. Take HTTP for example. It is much more than its protocol. Freeing it from those details means that what is valid today:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com

Could have the same semantics in any format:

{
"method": "GET",
"version": "1.1",
"headers": [{"name": "Host", "value": "example.com"}]
}

Of course a server accepting the former won't be able to communicate with the latter, but that's just an implementation detail that Willow does not want to commit to at this stage, and does not make it any less complete. Just a bit impractical.
Here are the changes: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cancer_Alley&diff...
Cant he just switch to ai or crypto as all modern criminals do? Lander ip or pump coins.
I like Obsidian too, but the one thing it really can't do that Notion does well is collaboration. And surprisingly I haven't seen any good plugins that solve this problem (to be fair it's not an easy problem).
Unless you are looking narrowly at nuke counts, Russia is not a great power. It's economy is propped up by oil and gas, and that's in question going forward, it is inefficient and outside of primary products it doesn't produce much of anything anyone wants. Its military has been exposed as a paper tiger and even the nukes can't be guaranteed to work these days.

China has the economic and manufacturing clout and is building up its military, but outside of the 'Global South' and various needy countries it has little soft power.

The US has stumbled somewhat mostly due to the overreaction to 9/11 and Bush's disastrous presidency, followed by the overcorrection of the Obama and Biden presidencies. But it still has the biggest and most powerful military, and NATO has been shocked out of its long complacency.

What the US has going for it is the possibility of renewal and reinvention, that is its strength and its enduring power. The US will keep on innovating, hopefully also in the political realm, and will retain global leadership. That's assuming that the Trump led Republican nihilist suicide cult doesn't destroy it first.
What is bottom posting? Like the ordering of replies?
Also "strings but moreso". e.g. in TCL and bash everything is actually a string even if you can contextually treat it like an integer.
When a human has done the same thing many times they tend to try to generalize and take shortcuts. And make tools. Perhaps I missed something but I haven't seen a neural net do that.
Its the Signal to Noise Ratio problem. AI generated spam is easier than ever to create and harder to algorithmicly detect. This results in a rapid increase in the volume of webspam.
I'm not even Conservative (I happily live in a Communist country) but worked as a lawyer in a previous life. Your arguments do not hold water.

[1] Citizen's United has benefitted Democrats more than republicans: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/democrats-use...

[2] The second amendment is a constitutional right. A textualist right wing Supreme Court would outlaw any restriction or regulation on firearms whatsoever. That would be entirely consitutional.

[3] There is no contradiction to the logic you describe. There is constitutional right to keep and bear arms. There is no constitutional right to an abortion. Even the supporters of the outcomes of Roe vs Wade admit it was a lousy opinion (e.g. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/justice-ruth-bader-ginsbur...).

If you want to create the right to an abortion, pass a law. If you want to repeal or modify the second amendment, persuade your fellow citizens to pass a constitutional amendment. An actual, activist right wing court could find most of the federal government unconstitutional, using the same logic Alito used in Roe vs Wade.

There are something like 3000 regulations on firearms in the US which the court has found to be consitutional which is debatable. Most of the Federal goverment, especially regulatory agencies are probably unconstitutional. Social security is probably unconstitutional, as it should be relegated to the states. RICO laws are unconstitutional.

If you create rights by judicial fiat, don't be surprised when they are removed by judicical fiat.
In retrospect, I should've been more aggressive and risk taking with life decisions in my early teens and early twenties. Now with two small kids and a mortgage, I no longer have the flexibility to take massive risks.

All the risky moves that I made so far in life ended up being ok. Stressful, terrifying, but I always came out ok somehow.

Couple of examples:

- Moved to a lesser developed country at 19 to be with a girl.

- Bought two homes at the same time, was broke for a while.

- Moved back to my home country & bought a house in a crazy market.

- Joined a startup as the third employee.
google maps is another example, it used to give me great paths but these days I feel that it is trying to kill me somewhat. I've switched to OSMAND which is a FOSS map app built over open street maps, and it is amazing how much better it is in terms of navigation. Search has a little left to be desired, but it thrashes google in actual navigation. It feels a lot more like what google maps was as opposed to what it has become. Voice recognition has become way less reliable as well.

I think you might be right about the experimentation though, because now google maps often gives me a "why didn't you do as I told you, was the path you ended up taking better?" style questionnaires afterwards.
> I don't know what the average is supposed to be, but I think 6/60 (10%), is a wee bit high.

The going estimate is that Americans have a 40% chance of getting cancer in their lifetimes [1] so it really depends on the age distribution of the sample. For an older group, 10% might not be that high.

[1] https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/statistics
> government can't force anything

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pathway-for-zero-emission...

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/wa-adopts-zero-emi...

https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/california-moves-accelerate-100-...
Reducing boilerplate isnt really trying to solve that problem. Barrier to entry here can also be read as “making shaders less scary for newbies”
Still bugs me FreeBSD replaced Beastie, the reasoning always seemed silly to me. I'm hoping they'll go back to him on the next refresh (which is long overdue IMO).
For me Haskell, point free functions, and lenses are a happy medium :)
I was fascinated with BEEP for a few days in like 2005 or so. Never found anything particular to use it for though. But I was reminded of it by the discussion of the Willow Protocol that's also ongoing. Not because the two protocols have much in common per-se, but just the "meta" aspect where BEEP is less a protocol you use "out of the box" but a protocol for building application level protocols.

The Wikipedia summary may explain the general gist of it better than the beepcore page itself:

Profiles, channels and a framing mechanism are used in BEEP to exchange different kinds of messages. Only content type and encoding are defaulted by the specification leaving the full flexibility of using a binary or textual format open to the protocol designer. Profiles define the functionality of the protocol and the message syntax and semantics. Channels are full-duplex pipes connected to a particular profile. Messages sent through different channels are independent from each other (asynchronous). Multiple channels can use the same profile through one connection.
It's a little odd to talk about "historical" Houthi trends since the founder of the movement was young enough to have almost certainly seen Die Hard. The Houthi movement was created to replicate the Iranian Revolution on the Arabian Peninsula, and borrows its slogal from Iran, including "Death to Israel, a Curse On The Jews". One of the very first things the Houthis did after taking over their stronghold of Sada'ah was to eject the remaining Yemeni Jewish residents. Houthi antipathy towards Israel isn't an elaborate geopolitical issue; they are foundationally an anti-semitic movement.

Moving a step away from facts towards analysis: the Houthis are widely considered to be an arm of the IRGC (the IRGC counts them in their "axis of resistance"). The Houthi/Saudi war seems to have been instigated in large part by Iran, whose long term conflict with Saudi Arabia is probably the most salient in MENA.

It probably doesn't make much sense to talk about what set of concessions would get the Houthis to stop; they've attacked ships indiscriminately, and have been doing so long before October 7.
Being a YouTuber has always been an absolute shit career, citation: literally every YouTuber I've ever heard speak on the subject thinks that. It's shit for work/life balance, it's shit for stress, your "boss" is nothing but a confluence of automated things that break fucking constantly and make your job harder for no benefit on your part, and if you do have good ideas, it's highly likely some jackoff with a business degree is going to copy your idea, do it with a better thumbnail and post it to a larger audience and crush you in the algorithm.

All that to say: I don't think they had inside knowledge. YouTubers quit constantly for very good reasons, most of them are just all the benign ways that YouTube makes itself worse just, all the fucking time. And the site stays around because any serious competitors to YouTube are immediately flooded with low quality, low effort, offensive, or just stolen content that YouTube used to host before that creator was banned. That's what you get when you make an alternative to YouTube: Naturally, the first people in line to sign up are the ones who were too toxic for YouTube, which is a pretty high bar.
The article got updated since you copied this, it's now:

> The ChatGPT maker is developing tools with the US Defense Department on open-source cybersecurity software — collaborating with DARPA for its AI Cyber Challenge announced last year — and has had initial talks with the US government about methods to assist with preventing veteran suicide, Anna Makanju, the company’s vice president of global affairs, said in an interview at Bloomberg House at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday.

So they're working with the Defense Department because it's a DARPA competition that ultimately benefits the Department of Veteran Affairs.

This headline may need a change dang.
The issue is they are charging a 27% fee on top of any third-party payments for any apps linking to an external payment gateway.

So technically they comply with the ruling(s) around the world but in a way that it makes zero sense for any app developer to change their payment model since they are paying 30% in payment fees anyway.
The parent makes the mistake, to assume an adversarial relationship between an mp3 download from a torrent and the musician. Or an adversarial relationship between training an A.I. statistical engine to a painter and reproducing the style.

That's not correct. We are now increasing the capabilities of everyone creative, to achieve much more, almost free and instantly. The painter now, will have a 100 million film studio on his fingertips to create movies. The musician will be able make a high quality album, just from his snoring.

One usual misconception is that talent is not important anymore. That's certainly not true. Talent is not going anywhere. People not so talented can get some results which are ok or good enough, but talented people can create magnificent art, without even trying.

Also "tab completing Rust code 70% of the time" is breadcrumbs. I am working in making, Rust specifically, 100% code generated.
I really like the illustrations
Why are you funding over half a million just for college?
> We would be able to address between 1/3 to 1/2 of all atoms in the universe with IPv6.

There are around 10^38 IPv6 addresses and 10^80 atoms in the observable universe. It's not even close.
You might be asked to write about it, yes, though I don't recall one that insisted on it at the moment.

For example, the University of Nevada, Reno's Physics PhD application gives the following as one of the writing prompts to consider to address admissions criteria:

"Describe experiences and activities that demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion."
> even putting "hacked accounts" up for sale isn't illegal

IANAL, but isn't it kind of a weird Catch-22, where if weren't illegal, it could be prosecuted as some sort of fraud?
I'm wondering why I'd care either way.
Getting Lossless Compression Adopted for Rigorous LLM Benchmarking
The increasing recognition that "Language Modeling Is Compression" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.10668.pdf has not yet been accompanied by recognition that lossless compression is the most principled unsupervised loss function for world models in general, including foundation language models in particular.

Take, for instance, the unprincipled definition of "parameter count" not only in the LLM scaling law literature, but the Zoo of what statisticians called "Information Criteria for Model Selection". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_selection#Criteria

The reductio ad absurdum of "parameter count" is arithmetic coding where an entire dataset can be encoded as a single "parameter" of arbitrary precision.

By contrast, the algorithmic bit of information (whether part of an executable instruction or program literal) is an unambiguous quantity up to the choice of instruction set. If you want to quibble about that instruction set choice, take it up with John Tromp https://tromp.github.io/cl/cl.html because what I'm about to propose obviates that along with a lot of other "arguments".

Since any executable archive of any kind of data can serve as a model of the world generating that data, it follows that any executable archive of any text corpus can serve as a language model with a rigorous "parameter count". Therefore, a procedure which runs LLM benchmarks against any such executable archive as a language model, contributes a uniquely rigorous data point to the literature on LLM scaling laws.

So, what I'm proposing is that authors of lossless compression algorithms consider adding a command-line option that, at the end of decompression, saves the state of the decompression process in a file that can be read back in and executed as a language model -- with the full understanding that these language models will perform very poorly on the vast majority of LLM benchmarks. The point is not to produce high quality language models. The point is to increase rigor in the research community by providing some initial data points that exemplify the approach.
"100 people died but 99 were from natural causes. Give no attention to that one that wasn't natural."
Sometimes Software Is Done, or Why Hugo Why
So much control that you could get industry quality level OSes for free or by the cost of the CD's:

-FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux with slackware CD's...

This is like getting avionics industry manuals and hardware for free and with a press of a button you could get a self-assembled UFO with an antigravity field by half the price of a car.
Hi Meta, WhatsApp with Privacy?
> The “supported” spouse in most cases (especially if there are children) is performing significant amounts of unpaid labor.

What if they don't? That isn't actually part of the deal legally speaking, they can just refuse to lift a finger to no consequence.

It's a lot easier to get rid of a layabout when you aren't married. If you get married you probably increase the probability they get lazy beacuse now you've limited your options and they know it.
Love econtalk, but I find Russ's interview style more engaging. He definitely does his research and bends over backwards to explore viewpoints different from his own, but it's much more conversational, rather than rapid fire.
UBI is great! But taking away artists' livelihoods and justifying it with an uncertain promise of UBI years or (far more likely) decades in the future is (hypothetically) a particularly malignant example of putting the cart before the horse.

My observation of the vast majority of people who think intellectual property law is moral anathema to some idealized notion of "freedom" is that they either know nothing about making art themselves, or at the very least they are dilettantes who don't rely on it for any substantial portion of their livelihood. And, as it turns out, the latter group very rarely produce anything of note. Why is that? Because making interesting art is hard—just making art the average person would be willing to spend more than a second or two thinking about is hard enough, let alone art they'd be willing to pay for. It's hard, and it takes time and incredible effort and focus.

By taking (in whatever sense) an artist's work for less than it's worth, you're damaging their ability to extract value from their time investment in art, and so forcing them to choose between their artistic endeavors and other profitless aspects of their lives (e.g. their families). Even if you think that's your right (which I absolutely, categorically disagree with), your theft will have a very real effect of stunting young artists' development and reducing their output, and therefore cultural impact, in aggregate.

The sort of (frankly) idiots who think AI art is "giving power back to the people", or whatever, probably don't care about that because they don't understand art, or its impact on people and culture, at all. All I can say to them is that they have an incredibly juvenile outlook on the whole subject, and that instead of whining about artists gatekeeping art they should spend $10 on a pad of paper and a box of pencils, or $0 on a Google Doc, and go make some fucking art for themselves. Nobody's stopping them, and if they put in enough work maybe they'll start to understand some things.

Or, if you think UBI fixes everything, go ahead and start sending out checks (with a robust guarantee that they will keep coming). I'm sure that will change the tenor of the conversation.
Yeah, but if your sweater were shocking you every so often that wouldn't be fun.

This would probably feel more like touching one of those electric fly swatters, it's have some kick.
google has fallen fully and completely to the corporate rot, so you may be holding out a long time.
> http://upspin.com/

That does not go anywhere.
I would expect that mining, leather-producing and dye-producing areas may very well have seen similar types of toxic waste leading to negative health outcomes even before large scale industrialization. And the areas downstream.

Here's an example of a mine that has had toxic runoff likely for millenia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Tinto_(river) at least partly due to human mining activity. I would expect that people living downstream of the mine would have negative health outcomes, possibly without being aware.
I think it's only the "Share availability" functionality. You can drag times you are available, then it copies text to your clipboard like this, plus a booking link:

Would 30 min during any of these times (all in PST) work for you?

- Tomorrow Thu Jan 18, 3-5:45 PM

- Fri Jan 19, 12:15-5:45 PM

- Sat Jan 20, 8 AM - 5:45 PM

You can just let me know or confirm here: [link]

What's nice is that you can also change the time zone so the other person sees the suggestions in their time zone.

I don't think you can just do a generic scheduling link like Calendly, you have to pick the times first.
My understanding is that that's technically true, but not what they mean here.

The idea behind 1.5C is that that's (supposedly, and probably given what we've observed in 2022-2023) the point at which natural feedback loops kick in and climate change becomes non-linear. So for example, 1.3C is better than 1.4C is better than 1.5C. But if you cross 1.5C, you might get decreased albedo from glaciers melting, or increased methane emissions for permafrost. The result might be that you can't actually have a state with 1.8C in warming, because once you cross 1.5 you trigger natural feedback loops which bake in an extra 1C of warming. Total climate change jumps straight from 1.5C to 2.5C, because once you cross 1.5C it's not just us warming the planet anymore.

It's still better to have 1.8C of emissions than 1.9C than 2.0, but the difference in actual temperatures might be 4.8C vs 4.9C vs 5.0, while if we could've just stayed under 1.5C we could've stayed under 1.5.
Now we're getting more tangential, but for years, Ansible releases were named for Van Halen songs (see old Changelog here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v1.8.4/CHANGELOG.md)
The comment above mentions "brute force" incorrectly. It's fundamentally impossible to brute force googol combinations...
> Want to look like a pro in email? Plain text, bottom posted, trimmed.

Top posted + interleaved quoting, ya' filthy animals.
Right, I think we’d be having a very different conversation if products of AI could not be sold (what’s taken for free must be given for free and free for others to use as they see fit). Companies will fight this tooth and nail though because that flushes any prospective profit produced by firing humans down the drain.
If NYC and SF are the only cities you consider “major” then sure. Just speaking from my own experience, for less than 1M you can get a lovely home in a nice neighborhood in Dallas (actually in the city).
[1] It benefited the rich and powerful is what you mean. The fact that donations went more toward Democrats than Republicans doesn't change that. So rich people are trying to control the center left side of politics...this isn't news.

[2] The interpretation of the 2nd Amendment is a modern construct, it became in vogue during the 1980s and 1990s when the NRA and gun manufacturers aligned in right wing politics. The individual right to bear arms in all circumstances didn't exist until then.

[3] There is definitely a contradiction in preventing states from regulating gun control rights (preventing the killing of other people) and enabling states to regulate abortion for the purported purpose of preventing the killing of other people.
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My 2 year old absolutely loves this book. A great thing to keep in the toilet for bathroom training!

She loves the lights and how the buttons change their function. An expensive book but a great gift!
Speak Friend and Enter – Do people use movie passwords? (2018)
Personally I think that anyone who believes that they're going to die before climate change kicks them in the nuts are in for an almighty shock (unless you're 80).

My prediction is that we have at best 10 years of anything resembling BAU before systematic failure.

https://medium.com/@smokingtyger/the-crisis-report-27-4e7e9f...

Happy reading.
How do they differ from vector clocks? Just a different implementation of the same thing maybe? Either way, distributed filesystems definitely have the same general concept.
I've asked ChatGpt to do simple sysadmin stuff but half of the time it just made up new commands. I'm not sure how this will work with making systems more secure.