skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think about this topic regularly, the question of how responsible a person should be for the unintentional effects of their actions.

In general society agrees that people are responsible for unintentional effects to their actions when they're obvious and predictable, such as involuntary manslaughter for killing someone while driving drunk. A reasonable person should understand the risk of that and take it into account before deciding to drive after having a number of drinks.

Where it gets more complicated and divisive is when the unintentional effects become less obvious or easily attributable.

I feel there are lots of behaviors that we're able to show empirically have negative impacts on the world yet aren't immediately obvious or unavoidably attributable, and because they're not intuitably, at-first-glance attributable there begin to be people who dismiss them despite empirical evidence proving their cause. Things like chemical dumping into rivers as an externality of an industrial process causing health impacts to surrounding communities come to mind as an example.

Where it gets even fuzzier is when impacts are social and diffuse.

A place I see a lot of discussion related to this topic is in the comedy world. You regularly see people criticize comedians for their jokes being harmful or hurtful. In my opinion these criticisms are sometimes accurate, and sometimes are inaccurate due to mistaking the topic of a joke as being the butt of it (a good example highlighting the difference I feel is Shane Gillis' jokes about autism from his standup https://youtu.be/ly14Pr2RLys, vs him calling out Andrew Shultz for jokes on the same topic but done in a derogatory manner: https://youtu.be/ENpTQ6ws3P8?t=954).

The general retort from comedians to people criticizing them is that "The intent of the joke isn't bad, it's all about the intent." I feel this is partially true, but it completely ignores the potential unintended consequences of the things they say, and the potential responsibility people have for the them.

I think this area and ones like it, involving the question of to what degree people with cultural influence should be held accountable for the unintentional impacts of their influence is really interesting and complex. I don't have much more to say beyond that I find it interesting and nuanced.
New 'stamping' chipmaking technique uses 90% less power than EUV
The three points that saved one million lives
Is there any complicated no-nonsense GUI for Neovim that transcends the GarbageUI of the terminals and, for example, allows you to have advanced keybinds to invoke various vim actions (like enter insert mode on tap I and exit it on hold I or modtap J+I)?
I've done these calculations, particularly after putting an 11.6Kw solar array on our last house, which was in St. Petersburg, FL, one of the sunniest places in the US.

We sold the house after having the system for ~6.5 years, but we were tracking for a 9 year ROI. My cost was ~$23K out of pocket at the time, with power bills of $500-$800/mo., depending on time of year. I think our average daily consumption was 69Kwh, and the system produced the majority of that most days.

Assuming an average power bill of $600/mo., $23K would cover roughly 3 years of power bills. However, if the money was invested in a decent-ish portfolio, it would be earning some interest along the way, which could stretch what it covers to 5+ years. Anyway, when I did all the math, the solar panels never really made money, but what they did was smooth out our monthly expenses and gave some hedge against rate increases.

The new house is the same general area, and our use is about the same, but going to wait to see if solar takes a bigger decrease in cost before doing another array. It's mostly maintenance-free, but I did not output decline when the panels got dirty, and one panel died about 1 year after installation (and by then the installer company had gone out of business).
This is true, but they are also designed with a maximum deflection for a worst case head-on crash.

Typical one-rail guard rails should not deflect more than 2-4ft, while the cable style you see in interstate medians are designed for something like 5-12 ft.

For those comparing this (EVs) to trucks, the difference is center of gravity. Even if a rail is only designed for a given weight, much effort went into containing trucks and other high center of gravity vehicles. The rail catches the vehicle and holds it down, redirecting excess energy into the ground. (Its why cable-styled rails have a gap below the top cable. Others have similar features.)

But what they are not designed for is excess weight with a low center of gravity, where the excess energy just blows through the rail and can't easily be redirected in a more safe direction.
All Cops Are Broadcasting
https://youtu.be/8KhbJ4pqcOY
The potential for this video was good, to be interesting.
But the video quality is very bad, especially having short sequences, in fast speed and with bad framing, and the speaker voice is unbearable in recording in my opinion. sadly...
Imagine all those millions of $$$ GPU of cloud credits for training, only to overlook this bug
Bester and Lem are amazing in their different ways, and it's tragic that both aren't better known.

I wouldn't put one over the other, but I think Bester gets the call because his view was classic mid-century US, and was an obvious influence on Cyberpunk.

Lem had a different more subtle aesthetic.
The Zen Guide to Routing Security Policy [pdf]
The subtitle of the article is "HAVE WE ALREADY HIT PEAK AI?"

(I keep the caps because they had it.)

If we're talking about the peak of inflated expectations before we get to the Trough of Disillusionment, I think we might be close. I think the article over-indexes on a small set of data points but at the same time, I also don't hear the conflation of LLM and AGI nearly as much in the last month.
If only they improved the customer experience. Half the issue with European domiciled companies is the fixation on regulation where it wont even apply to customers in the first place, especially outside the EU.

It started out nicely but over the years its almost impossible to use the service now, and not just the service the UI is difficult.

Its sad to say but if you're going to try use a provider for SMS pick another one.
Prism: Ruby 3.3's new error-tolerant parser
Why does denoising require global information? Shouldn't it be mostly local? I would expect individual pixels to have very little global information and a lot of information from neighboring pixels, and nothing of a local scale from other areas of the image. Isn't this the case?
These rules mainly encourage imports of oil from counties with less strict regulations, who are often less reliable partners as we have seen in recent times. Somehow farming is important enough to require protectionism (despite having large greenhouse gas emissions) but not energy.
Maybe I’m seeing things with more nuance, but to me what I’m reading in many of these articles is that EV’s are still new, and there are challenges to solve, which is true.

The weight of the average vehicle is increasing because of Trucks, SUVs and EVs. EVs are the new thing though.
Somewhat agree but sometimes there is need to change/filter the data that goes into making the chart which is only realized after plotting it. Combining data and the figures into one "pipeline" makes it easy to iterate especially with exploratory data analysis.
Regardless, this comment made me think about my general workflow which is usually combined. Appreciate this comment.
I love astro, coincidentally enough we just enabled astro deployments on our platform engine https://opsmaru.com/docs/application/astro/static/

Our docs is also built with Astro starlight.
It doesn't, but outsourcing isn't a thing that happens in this area of focus, especially at a national laboratory.
Maybe if we just re-made the original and changed the business model it would be good again.

This has already been done --- see DuckDuckGo.

The problem is not ads --- it's privacy invasion (aka "personalized ads") and advertisers who respond to concept.

DuckDuckGo shows ads --- "context sensitive" ads --- you know, ads that are related to what you search for and might actually be helpful. Not something you did last week or last month that may no longer apply.

"Personalized ads" are one of the dumbest ideas ever --- virtually guaranteed to waste a lot of people's time and squander mental and electronic bandwidth. And yet Google makes billions --- because advertisers are stupid and lazy enough to literally turn over most of their ad budget to them.

We need to upend the idea the idea that, "No one ever got fired for using Google" --- and the only way to do that on a personal level is to stop using Google.

We need more ordinary people to grasp and respond to the idea that "Google" is just another word for "privacy invasion".
As someone who makes plots every now and then with breaks of several months in between, I have found the ggplot syntax surprisingly intuitive and easy to remember even after a long break. Importantly, the basic syntax can be used to compose quite complicated graphs, although it does have its limits.

It's also quite nice to be able to use the same interface in both R and Python, although it is obvious that it was originally developed for R.
Fprime – A flight software and embedded systems framework by NASA
Tesla sued for allegedly mishandling hazardous waste in California for years
Ink and Switch is a research lab working on computers aiding creative people
FYI, link inside the article harvey4harvard.com now redirects to some scammy ruzzian game/gambling website.
"Your teeth look good, have you made any diet changes?" - Dentist
"Yeah, I don't eat poppy seed bagels anymore, don't want to lose my job. Oh, and no novacaine, same reason. Just get started until I pass out from the pain."

C'mon.
Yes. Heavily.

Even in cases such as manual work it doesn’t have a directly proportional correlation, since people get tired.
How about liboqs from OpenQuantumSafe? It includes an implementation of most PQC primitives proposed to date:

https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs
when AI winter came, how they gonna repurpose these dedicated hardwares?
A truly damn small Linux is the xwoaf rebuild project 4.0 https://pupngo.dk/xwinflpy/xwoaf_rebuild.html

>The forth version of xwoaf-rebuild is containing a lot of applications contained in only two binaries: busybox and mcb_xawplus. You get xcalc, xcalendar, xfilemanager, xminesweep, chimera, xed, xsetroot, xcmd, xinit, menu, jwm, desklaunch, rxvt, xtet42, torsmo, djpeg, xban2, text2pdf, Xvesa, xsnap, xmessage, xvl, xtmix, pupslock, xautolock and minimp3 via mcb_xawplus. And you get ash, basename, bunzip2, busybox, bzcat, cat, chgrp, chmod,
chown, chroot, clear, cp, cut, date, dd, df, dirname, dmesg, du,
echo, env, extlinux, false, fdisk, fgrep, find, free, getty, grep,
gunzip, gzip, halt, head, hostname, id, ifconfig, init, insmod,
kill, killall, klogd, ln, loadkmap, logger, login, losetup, ls,
lsmod, lzmacat, mesg, mkdir, mke2fs, mkfs.ext2, mkfs.ext3, mknod,
mkswap, mount, mv, nslookup, openvt, passwd, ping, poweroff, pr,
ps, pwd, readlink, reboot, reset, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route, sed,
sh, sleep, sort, swapoff, swapon, sync, syslogd, tail, tar, test,
top, touch, tr, true, tty, udhcpc, umount, uname, uncompress,
unlzma, unzip, uptime, wc, which, whoami, yes, zcat
via busybox. On top you get extensive help system, install scripts, mount scripts, configure scripts etc.

2.1mb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8or3ehc5YDo

Only 2.2.26 kernel tho so that's very dated
Universal Music Group Pulls Songs from TikTok
Yeah, saw that too, but it's quoted at $4-5B and 7-10 years
Gary Poupon?
Top Harvard Medical School Neuroscientist Accused of Research Misconduct
Watch Me Lose My Job on TikTok
https://archive.is/SM918
The big issue with Magic (for me) is planning how to spend all my mana, calculating which cards to play in which order, and then--I forget. The entire thinking dissipates into thin air!

This after taking 15 minutes for a turn really convinced me I need to train my brain to handle stacks and to memorize the cards.

Even a spreadsheet where I can input mana pool and current hand (click, click, click to select), which generates what can be done (maximal allocation) would be neat (for non-tournament play).
Unexpectedly?

The whole point of publishing an idea or art piece is to influence people. Sure, some people will misinterpret it, but it should be pretty obvious that if you make a heroically brilliant protagonist dismissive of an opioid addiction that some people are going to think that's cool, especially if you're portraying that on TV. That's why Burgess wrote:

> I should not have written the book because of this danger of misinterpretation...

Kubrick's film (disclaimer: I've only read the book, I've never seen the movie) has apparently made this problem worse for Burgess. Similarly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes was a deeply flawed protagonist, which readers of his books would see, but I believe that the way the character was portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. in the recent film/series adaptations similarly disguised those flaws and had a strong potential for some misinterpretation and more negative impacts.
You're right. 50 MB used to be big back then.

I remember my rig back in around 2002 had only 96 MB of RAM. I used to get the best out of it using Puppy and Slax distros.
MSFT up 60% in 1Y.
One would assume you viewed it
Ignoring oil reserves would be a silly way of storing value, as it is an asset that requires years of work to access and is thus is extremely illiquid. Even then, once production wells are completed, the value trickles out slowly over time, limiting its usefulness. If you actually want a strategic store of value, you would pump the oil, sell it, and store the proceeds in liquid assets, where the sum total of the value extracted is available instantly.

Further, there is no shortage of oil reserves globally, so the "save it for later" argument makes little sense.
noob here. how does it know that the word description embedding matches with the image embedding? how does it know the color red is in that image?
Oh! Reminds me of my favorite Sci-Fi ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Time_(novel)
As a buyer I would value an existing solar/battery system, especially one with actual generation data, thus would pay more
Working at an interactive museum design firm in the mid 90's we had freelancer named Claudio who insisted we buy Company of Science and Art's After Effects.

I believe the only payment terms we could work out was a Money Order or Cashier's check. The software was very expensive and he required a loaded Mac probably had Daystar Cards in it...
> "There is no difference at all between the original data and copies of it, they are exactly the same. In fact, there is no such thing as an "original" piece of data, they are indistinguishable from one another."

Sometimes there is a difference. Sometimes the copy is better than the original (in that the copy frequently has had anti-consumer garbage like DRM removed).
> Kubrick’s version was a failure because he missed the most important part and the last few pages of the book.

The American version of the book doesn't have the final chapter, and was the basis for Kubrick's film. He was aware of the final chapter but never considered using it, as he didn't agree with Burgess and thought it didn't make sense (this was also the opinion of the American editor who had the final chapter removed).

The movie does include the Ludovico technique and all the themes about free will and goodness vs the choice of goodness, it just leaves out the very unrealistic ending where Alex reforms.

I think the film is a masterpiece and the book's original ending is unrealistic nonsense. I hardly think it's the "most important part".
My inverter is 3.6KW and can put out 4KW to the home. There is a normal limit for 3.6 in the UK for max export unless you do a more complex DNO99 application so that is the typical values. Above that you pull from the grid for the excess. I can run the oven (1.5KW) and kettle (2KW) but not a hair drier in addition. You change your behaviour a little with these solutions, you put the washing and dishwasher on when you have excess power or do them at night when it's cheap,you wait for the kettle to finish before hair drying. But the price isn't really driven by these rare combined events anyway, they don't matter in the grand scheme of things as most of your needs get met by the inverter and batteries.
EVs account for 1% of vehicles, and only 7.6% of new cars. If trucks haven’t been a major issue at 20% of the vehicle population, making a big deal out of EVs seems a bit overblown.

https://www.edmunds.com/electric-car/articles/percentage-of-...

Does this also mean they don’t care about semi trucks going through guardrails? Semi trucks account for 10% of highway miles traveled, which is also more than EVs.

https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/nat_freigh...
Honestly at his age he should just get back into piracy doing the same thing.

He doesn't have that long to live and it'd take forever to get caught again. No doubt he has learned how to better cover his tracks.
Is anyone actively working on new models that take these (and the issue raised in the link) into account?
Open Language Models (OLMos) and the LLM Landscape
Some part of governmental debt is held by the central bank. So the interest that the government pays on this debt goes back to the government because the central bank somewhat belongs to the government too.
i think using assistive tools like chatgpt are helpful _after_ you put in the work to learn the fundamentals. tools like this can be a crutch that inhibits your ability to think bigger and expand your horizons.i would also recommend learning how to use search engines more effectively to avoid being supplied only one "side" of an answer. stackoverflow is a great example of this; i've found that the second or third answer is (somehow) usually the best one.

that said, i dont use gpt or llm's, so take my opinion for the two milli-cents that its worth!
Elon Musk makes moves to shift Tesla to be incorporated in Texas
Precedent for this exists. [1] US Supreme Court ruled that completely virtual images are okay, but those derived using innocent real images of children would still be illegal.

So the AI images likely are as well because the training set would contain innocent child images that helped generate them.

Training data may also unknowingly contain actual child porn. If so then any naked/sex images derive partially from child porn. And many jurisdictions have "strict liability" laws...

Find one single illegal image in the training set and the entire model would be tainted. And how many may have slipped through human review? [2]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201109024622/https://www.nytim...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/02/ai-chatbo...
It is no different than any other hard measurement. What is the best heart rate for you, as an example?

In many, it is more a directional check. 100% is likely not to give you 100% confidence. But, 0% will make everyone less confident. And if you have two teams, one at 50% and one at 80%, it is probably safe to assume that the testing culture is better for the 80% team.

And why branch coverage, as opposed to path coverage? Largely because you hit the easy to measure things before you worry about the hard to measure ones.
What happens if you combine Superman + Incredible Hulk?
See also: https://github.com/mhagger/git-imerge
Looks like someone is writing a blog post on HN instead of liking to a blog post from HN...
Fastly Moving to BoringSSL
A book is not about some apology patchup line tacked onto the end. It's about everything between the covers.

It was about disaffected youth acting out immorally because they were not given a functioning moral code? And that's what the movie showed.
I’m gonna hard disagree with you here. Having read the novel and seen the movie, Kubrick was 100% right to leave the last chapter out.

With the last chapter intact, the story is no longer about Alex. It’s about some hypothetical futuristic society where ultraviolence is the norm and is just considered to be some coming of age rite of passage, that you eventually grow out of. It takes the violence in the story and makes it mundane and pedestrian, to the point where we have to come up with insane torturous methods like the Ludivico Technique, just as we prescribe kids Ritalin or Adderall, only we would do so just to attempt to keep things under control. It’s a story that is, frankly, ridiculous in its hyperbole, to the point that it bears little resemblance to anything but science fiction.

Kubrick and Burgess’s American editor were absolutely right to leave off the last chapter, thereby transforming the novel into the portrait of an irredeemable sociopath. A sociopath who has been enabled to a far greater extent by a simultaneously far more lenient and vindictive society than our own, yes, but therein lies the warning. While we want to redeem those criminals who are victims of circumstance, what happens when we take it too far?

By apologizing for Alex as a victim of society and circumstance, who only owes his psychopathic tendencies to said circumstances, Burgess’s novel falls flat as a criticism of society at Large (get it?)

Don’t get me wrong—I greatly enjoyed the novel, and recommend it to anyone who liked the movie. But I honestly believe the last chapter would have been best left unwritten.
I like Fluxbox, it's really simple and doesn't get in your way.
idk examples like these make it seem like big LLM is going to significantly lock out junior engineers from tech while also giving a single company way more power over the web than ever before before
I strongly disagree, having read the book and seen the movie.

The “point” of the book is irrelevant; chapter 21 is disconnected from the main text, set at some remove from the events in the previous chapters, and utterly banal. It’s an extended internal monologue of the most boring sort where the author states his moral.

But the best works of literature, in my opinion, transcend simple morality tales and touch something a bit more universal and hard to define in language. If your point can be summarized in a short essay, all you’ve done is illustrate an essay at length. “This novel could’ve been an email.”

What is captivating about _Clockwork_ is precisely its depiction of violence, its almost sympathetic glorification of the id. The protagonist’s unapologetic thirst for violence is what makes the novel (and movie) interesting. It’s reminding us that violence and aggression are part of the human condition, and part of the reader, too: you may recoil, but you also identify with Alex — it’s a first person account so that’s natural.

The last chapter ruins it though with petty moralizing. The voice of Alex the psychopath is far better than that of Burgess the moralist, and the novel is better for having its terminal essay removed.
Are you looking to build just a minimal kernel or also a minimal distribution? (Which is what I happened to be thinking about last night :)) In the latter case, do you know any good resources about that topic?
If the answer was "the NSA is operating quantum cryptanalysis in production and ECDH should be considered completely broken", then anyone who knew this and told you would be in enormous trouble.

It seems unlikely that that's the case, but still, the question is sort of unanswerable. For now it's not known to be a threat, but how much paranoia you have over its potential is subjective.
To me it was character development. His whole persona is this independent persona - his genius puts him above normal people, rules, and his team is merely there to execute his ideas and bounce ideas off of (like his ball).

Despite all of that, he has crippling pain and a painkiller addiction that he’s utterly dependent on. It brings him back down to earth.