skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Foreign investors have snatched back nearly 90% (!!!) of the money they put into Chinese stocks this year (2023)

So, they left in China 10% of the money that they sent to China? I'm still not seeing how this equates to a net decrease... 10% > 0%.
It's only 'corrupt' though, if there was any expectation that the resources of the state were to be controlled by anyone but the ultimate leader. Therefore, the view of whether a given absolute leader is corrupt or not depends more on the society's expectations of them than it depends on their actions. A monarch in an absolute monarchy can never be considered corrupt, even if widely seen as wicked.
This is my experience as well, but it’s usually not those promoted above their capability but those who were passed over and then grow resentful that end up causing the issue. An otherwise competent, but now bitter, middle aged guy on the third shift (or otherwise with less supervision than usual) who is going through a divorce or some other major life stress is the scenario I see most often. They fall behind, they come in to catch up, they have to leave unexpectedly for a family medical crisis, they fall further behind, and so on and so on and before you know it, a perfectly rational person is doing stuff like half-assing the QA checks and it seems almost normal.

But you’re right. It’s not the black belts you have to watch out for it, it’s the browns.
> Incorrect.

lol, called it.

> All powers that the Federal government has are explicitly granted in the Constitution.

This is just incorrect. As I said, caselaw and legislation grant rights not explicitly in the constitution.

That's just a fact, and I'm not really interested in debating it or any various fringe theories of how some people think things ought to work, anymore than I have an interest in debating Pangaea existed or that the sky during daylight generally appears blue to humans.

Take care.
> Airports are funded through my tax dollars

Not really, or at least not in the same sense/degree as stuff like highways and roads. For example, my nearest major airport boasts:

> Airports are supported by the users of the airport and the fees, rents, or leases in place with airlines, tenants, and travelers. The bottom line for local taxpayers is “if you don’t use the airport, you’re not paying for the airport.”

-- https://www.portseattle.org/blog/who-pays-sea-airport
If you tax land properly, it doesn't matter who's the owner of the estate as long as the state can reach them or start a process to claw back the estate for nonpayment of taxes.
Based on your observations then, you would recommend someone trade a GPT Subscription for a Gemini Ultra subscription? Or keep both? Or?
> AWS and they do this with other projects

Probably a nod to the ElasticSearch licensing debacle.
The Federalist Society, a political entity to alter the judicial branch, picked Neil Gorsuch while grooming many other federal judges who are then put in place by politicians. If you were put in place by activists, doesn’t that make you an activist judge?
TSA Pre and GE are a pretty good deal if you travel a lot or even some. Probably not worth it for the flight once or twice a year. I travel less than I used to and I keep that but closed the window on a fairly expensive status upgrade from my airline last night. I can always do an upgrade a la carte but probably isn't worth it if I don't fly much.
Per the article, both sides are providing the kids rehabilitation.

One man’s ‘reeducation camp’ is another man’s ‘rehabilitation and psychological counselling’.

> According to Kuleba, Save Ukraine has rescued 232 children. The nongovernmental organization counts the United Nations and USAID among its funders. It runs rehabilitation centers for children displaced by war, providing education, housing, and psychological support.
His book 'The kindness of women' helps to fill in a lot of the biographical context behind 'Empire of the Sun' and many of his other works.
You're comparing a democratic government's lawful actions to your silly demands on the internet?
One of the few times that a premium experience for the better off improves the experience for the lesser well off. As opposed to credit cards, with their rewards for those who can afford them, resulting in raised prices for people who can only pay in cash. As someone who uses pre-check, I love this outcome.

Keep in mind pre-check isn't just about line times (though there are plenty of times it's drastically different). You also don't have to unpack your stuff, or take off your shoes, or go through the mm wave scanners. The funniest part is that that's still the standard experience in many other countries: with pre-check, we're paying for a "downgrade" in security theater!
Chinese Bitcoin Miners Find a New Crypto Haven in Ethiopia
"This explains why low-cost power has largely dictated where miners put much of their equipment in the past few years: First in China, then in places like Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and northern Sweden, and most recently Texas. What those places have in common is relatively cheap energy.

The reliance on abundant power is also a major vulnerability because it can put miners in competition for electricity with factories and households, exposing them to political backlash"
Yeah pretty disappointing, i asked it to summarize one of my papers and it hallucinated so many mistakes it was even worse than ChatGPT 3.5
I was curious, so I googled…

- “The government grounds aircraft or reroutes flights to keep students from getting distracted during the biggest test of their lives.”

- “ On the streets Thursday morning, you could hear more sirens than usual, because anyone running late to the competitive exam can call for a free police escort to rush them straight to the test site.”

- “Success is defined narrowly. Get a high score on the Suneung to get into a high-ranked school. Go to a good school to get hired at a South Korean chaebol — the term for a mighty mega-conglomerate, like Samsung. They power the Korean economy.”

Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/11/12/455708201/...
No, they're charging money openly for it now. It's long been possible to skip ahead of the queues at Disney by paying for it, it was just hidden for most people, since it required that you booked expensive suites at their on-property hotels. If you did that, you could magically get a lot more fast passes than everyone else.
Because in modern day the only reason to take that action is to manipulate votes.
Dialectic with ChatGPT4: Transcendental Properties of Language > Algorithms
Philosophy has been stymied by too many people treating the discipline as subjective reader-response criticism. This has alienated the more rigorous types who are interested in language. They have hijacked the conversation and made it about automatic, axiomatic, algorithmic, closed systems. This is stupid. Any undergrad who studies logic knows this cannot lead to the completeness that commerce expects from LLMs. Here is original, cybernetic philosophy that emerged from a dialogue with ChatGPT-4.
Ifixit did a great job figuring this out: https://www.ifixit.com/News/90409/vision-pro-teardown-part-2...

> the lit area totals 3660 px by 3200 px

> The Vision Pro comes in at a stunning 3,386 PPI

Though PPD (pixels per degree) is really what you want to measure here:

> With a rough measurement of 100° FOV (Field of View), we estimate the Vision Pro to have an average of 34 PD. In comparison, a 65″ 4K TV viewed 6.5 feet away is 95 average PPD

Valve index is ~14 PPD and Quest 3 is ~25 PPD as per https://vr-compare.com
The concern here is the whole thing about trickle-down Reaganomics, the concern with this is the enshittification of things that are public services.

The TSA for the longest time was something that everyone dealt with, from the overworked mom from the projects to George Clooney. But now, those with disposable income can pay to bypass the inconvenience. (EDIT: sorry, posted this before I saw your edit about the TSA part).

Granted, that's how a business works. The entire point of a business is to trade money for convenience. However, when that "business" is something that we deem as "core" or part of everyday American life, it rubs many people the wrong way.

Take, for example, the new charge for drivers driving into NYC at specific times. For the wealthy, it's whatever, $15 is pocket change. But for many people who may not have access to public transportation, $15 could be the difference between having lunch or dinner that day.

To me, we've gotten to the point where businesses that have become a core aspect of daily American life are going to have to begin pressuring us to either tolerate being second-class citizens or begin paying to continue to live our lives the way we used to with minimal disruption.
Russian state modus operandi is the "Firehose of Falsehood" to sow division to achieve their aims. Post 2014 we've seen a deterioration in open communication channels into blatant falsehoods amplified by Russia's Internet Research Agency.

But sure, keep that same energy for the NYT softball interviewing Hitler to get his opinion on what Jews are doing wrong and why Poland started it. I'm sure most of the sub 100 IQ simpletons around you won't get swayed and vote to stay out of it, or worse, sow their own hate, no siree.
This is different. This is a backend for rustc that emits CLR instead of LLVM IR.

Iron* were full .NET implementation of those runtimes. It had things like using .Net (C#) types to implement Iron* types (e.g. implement ruby's Hash with C#'s Dictionary).

This is actually why none of these Iron* things took off: they were often slower than official implementations.
While this looks more secure than the original, I don't think modern operating systems should be investing resources into making privilege escalation easier for users to do. Considering UAC already exists it's not like the additon of sudo is much worse to include so overall it may be better, but I feel investing resources to get rid of the need of users needing to elevate things would be time better spent.
Isn't by definition being wealthy a way of cutting the line even if most of the times the line is a metaphorical one?

If you're wealthy you don't live by the same rules as everybody else.
One concern is that measures, out of the box, have issues in 3+ dimensions. Concretely due to paradoxes such as Banach-Tarski, that arise from the Zermelo Fraenkel (ZF) + Axiom of Choice (AC) = ZFC axiomatic formulation for set theory.

Since things need to conserve in pyhsics, one has to account for this issue and doing so is harder than it may seem as AC is part of the "fabric" of most mathematics which, at large, chooses to ignore the problem.
that is the media narrative but not at all what happened.

Google's 'don't be evil' grad-school-style culture had fallen apart by the late 2010's because there are tons of people who will just rest and vest.

So strong ML researchers basically were creating massive value but much of it was going to rest&vest salaries. OAI basically came along and said - hey, we don't have rest & vesters, do you want to make $1m+/yr? And most of the top google researchers said yes.
How do these trusts, LLCs, etc. work for inheritance? Can I bypass inheritance issues by, say, putting my house in a trust and making my kid one of the "owners" of the trust? Then when I pass away, s/he gets control of the trust and thus own the house?
I don't like dongles. It's another piece. It plugs into the same place the charger does.
Now that Bard is Gemini, it's going to be impossible to find any information on the Gemini protocol/Gemini clients/Gemini sites. It's not very nice for Google to use the same name.
It's probably easier to disable PWAs than to add the necessary APIs (probably most importantly: the ability to add new app icons on demand). If only Safari can "install" an app, the EU no doubt has an opinion about that.

Interestingly, Android has the same problem. Non-Chrome browsers can add PWA shortcuts through widgets, but they can't add items to the app drawer like Chrome can. I wonder how the EU will look at Google in this regard.

Another issue: Apple's implementation of web notifications requires websites sending notifications to be installed as a PWA. I wonder what happens to these applications now.
> Doctor's offices and schools are notorious for using the caller ID "blocked." I let them hit voicemail.

My doctor's office won't leave messages, and appears to have about 20 minutes a day where they pick up the phone, so, if I don't pick up when they call, then I can't talk to them. (I know, I know, get a new doctor. But this is my third try to find a specialist who's willing to go beyond "here are some easy suggestions that you've already told me don't apply to you," and there are only so many battles that I can pick before I just run out of specialists entirely.)
Does this outlaw the Google thing that makes restaurant reservations for you?
> We know that octopuses and many other animals are intelligent. We don't know for certain if anything nonhuman is sentient.

You are mixing up terms. All animals are sentient. Not all animals are intelligent. Only very few animals appear to be sapient. Octopuses are certainly one of the few animals that appear to be beyond a reasonable doubt.
Not sure if you're referring to the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull that shut down air travel, but that was a VEI 4 eruption, and there have been more recent VEI 4 eruptions (the most recent, according to this, was the Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba eruption in 2021) and so it doesn't show.
That doesn't avoid this worsening of iTunes.

At best it merely avoids some users caring.
surprised to see trader joe's exposes prices via graphql: https://github.com/cmoog/traderjoes/blob/54588336f3b7a4ce23c...

one of the few notable production gql users?
> The interesting takeaway is this: For all of the different roles that yaml_string_t takes on, it turns out there is an abstraction in the Rust standard library that matches each use case precisely. At all points in the libyaml source code where strings are used, the use case maps directly to one of the several many ways of dealing with strings in Rust. Phew

Reminder! Our forefathers knew and loved ownership concepts, but lacked to tools to do anything but mentally map them. We stand on the shoulders of giants.
Land is a scarce and valuable commodity that should be divided amongst the community to maximize its benefit for everyone, typically through taxation.

If you want the most valuable land, you should be operating enterprises that provide values high enough to pay for the land.
After many years trying to reduce my phone usage, I think the best way is to install a MMORPG such as wow classic or similar. I barely touch my phone now.
There is nuance, but yes. It doesn't avoid taxes except in certain edge cases; it is a more efficient form of probate. The target of the assets is the "beneficiary."

https://smartasset.com/estate-planning/how-to-avoid-estate-t...

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/estate-planning...
This is misleading. The river has personhood according to a municipality with a population of ~7000.

The Canadian legal system has made no such recognition.
> In 2021, the Innu Council of Ekuanitshit and the regional municipal council of Minganie passed sister resolutions, granting the Magpie River the landmark right of legal personhood

Maybe i'm missing something, but surely this would require an act of either the provincial or federal legislature. Surely this is way outside of the powers of a municipal council.
Tell HN: Google Removes Number of Results
Looks like they removed it again. From a quick google search they have removed it before in 2022 and added it back
That’s fair, though given the stark UI cue / cost difference, I’m not surprised when I overhear in a random cafe or bar: “yeah but what did ChatGPT Four say?”

In any event, it seems that the image of a Decepticon ready for battle on your behalf has a lot more traction than the image of a quaint singer/priest/poet always there with a verbal shot in the arm when the going is tough.
You want to find out where someone lives? Head over to zabasearch.com and search away!
At every ski resort I've been to, you pay for the lift pass granting access to the ski lifts. The only thing stopping you from slogging uphill on foot and skiing down for free is gravity.
WhatsApp backups are now starting to count against your Drive storage quota
ODROID M1S SBC - Hardware Analysis and Commentary (2023)
Deep Abandoned Mine in Finland to Be Turned into a Giant Gravity Battery
Corruption is a symptom of Pakistan's deeper systematic problems, not the cause. Whole books have been written about this. Unless you define corruption = anything bad that someone with power does.

It's also apparent that whenever democratic forces have been allowed to fix public systems in some small amount, corruption has gone down, or the system has become much more pleasant and efficient for the public to use.
100%

If the number isn’t in my contacts, it goes to voicemail.

I used to answer calls from local numbers, but I’ve started getting spam calls with my local area code now.
> Smarter then dogs.

Certainly not. I'm not sure why this myth keeps propagating.
Putting Microsoft in the UAC prompt is indeed weird. It should be the info of the target binary. This feature sounds a bit rushed, and it's early preview, maybe they fix it by the final release.
After using Spotify for over a decade I moved to Qobuz, mostly on principle. Most of my library was transferred.

The one thing I miss is the recommendations, especially as I like music that isn’t very mainstream. It might be that Spotify’s algorithm is better than Qobuz, or it has a huge amount more data.
No phone for 3 years now. I am so much happier. Every excuse you have in your brain right now is moot because we survived the 90s, and with probably higher attention spans.
I answer the phone and don't say anything.

Humans will typically ask if anyone is there, robots will either start their pre-recorded bullshit or hang up.
Here's another one.

This is a classic logic puzzle - usually about ducks.

There are two pineapples in front of a pineapple, two pineapples behind a pineapple and a pineapple in the middle. How many pineapples are there?

When you use ducks, Gemini can do it, when you use pineapples it cannot and thinks there are 5 instead of 3.

ChatGPT 3.5 and 4 can do it.

The even funnier thing is if you then say to gemini, hey - would the answer be the same if it was ducks? it says NO then there would be 3 ducks and explains why.

Then if you say, but wouldn't the same logic apply to pineapples? It says 'oh yeah!'.

Anyone saying I am just playing with a silly thing, I say no - this is testing reasoning ability and understanding which is the number one thing I want.

ChatGPT appears to have a more generalised ability to reason whereas Gemini is only reciting its training data.
Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media: My front-row seat to a catastrophe
Unfortunately, even though it is said to be a "generalization" of these things, mathematical measure theory has nothing to do with physical units of measure or dimensional analysis.
I think everyone knew about the Disney World and ski resorts doing this. If you pay an outrageous amount you can get a $70 burger with Mickey Mouse on it and skip all the lines. The airports however, THAT is shitty and should be borderline illegal.
Tigris: Globally Distributed S3-Compatible Object Storage
Apple is also refusing comments.

Jen Simmons - Safaris "open web advocate" is also silent. Her social media is spammed with this issue.
I like the design of this site, but honestly these are things just not worth worrying about.
Helpful?

> Here, disinformation refers to false, inaccurate or misleading information designed, presented and promoted intentionally to cause public harm or make a profit.

Is campaigning on lies a form of profit? You might win. These hypocrites really dare to present this as novel? Lying in politics?

What’s really the practical difference between this ostensibly oh-so clearly demarcated “disinformation” and less outright other-information? The difference is having a discourse fog which makes it practically impossible to conclude anything without sinking into a quagmire of rhetoric.

Here’s a “Beijing” statement, hypothetical:

> We the people of China

Ah! the eggheads exclaim. Propaganda! Clear disinformation since China is an authoritarian state (sorry, regime)—it can’t be a state “of the people”.

Here’s a “Washington” statement:

> The President does not suffer symptoms of senility

What is this? This is twenty different articles and op-eds back and forth on this topic:

- Well he went to the doctor 15 years ago and he said he was fine

- My good friend Joe Biden would never become demented—he would rather [redacted]

- I respect the President but it’s time for some young blood in leadership

- As a close aide to the President, blah blah

- He might not seem as sharp as 12 years ago but [diversion tactic]

Isn’t it amazing—you cannot peddle outright disinformation if you are sufficiently powerful, almost by definition; there is always some clown who will bat for you. And the result? A discourse fog. No one is a liar. No one is peddling “disinformation for profit.”

In conclusion: what we do are varying levels of information. But what these foreign forces do (because they are not here to defend themselves, and anyone who defends them (or just has a nuanced point of view) is just <regime>-puppet anyway) is disinformation because they clearly are X while they claim to be Y.
Apple has very little ML talent. They're basically resting on their laurels in the phone market.
I haven't seen High and Low[0] in decades, but the way Toshiro Mifune answers the phone is burned into my brain.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_and_Low_(1963_film)
> They can clearly learn, but seem much less intelligent than other animals that we commonly eat,They can clearly learn, but seem much less intelligent than other animals that we commonly eat,

What?

You think an octopus is less intelligent than a cow, chicken or fish? Really?
I'm not sure I can begin to answer that question given the immune system's complexity... How many percent smarter does your frontal lobe's top left corner make you?
> It's probably easier to disable PWAs than to add the necessary APIs

Apple is not a resource-constrained company. None of these decisions have to be made in terms of developer time etc., because they're being amortized over so many users that the cost is negligible. It's only a question of what they choose to do.
Checkout Shawn Willsey:s youtube channel, a geology professor. He's been covering the whole thing starting from last fall.

Excellent videos, explains what is going on and makes you excited for geology.

Here's his live stream from the start of this eruption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DwU32IkzZI
I mean, that's what I'm doing. I stopped buying apple stuff about 20 years ago. My phones are Android, which I'm not exactly thrilled with, but consider to be the lesser of the evils.

But let's be real, a smart phone is practically a requirement to participate in modern society, and there are two options. iOS and Android. "Opting out" is becoming increasingly hypothetical.
There is literally one happening right now: https://www.youtube.com/live/LmqYgnsmSSA?si=b9jBEFDLE7QHry2_
I think the question may have been more about method of updating.

I know the USGS websites have great API support, and I imagine the NASA solar flare reporting does as well, so I expect most of this is automatic.

The ones going to Wikipedia articles must be done by hand, so those will stop being updated when Neal gets bored of updating.
yes, although gpt-4 has been finetuned on this one
It can't be disproved, but there could be some things that are possible. For one thing if the simulation isn't perfect, it might be possible for there to be leaks. Think of things like Rowhammer or VMs that are not perfectly isolated. If we can somehow model the certain aspects of the simulation, we could possibly make predictions or learn new things about our 'physics'.