skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We aren’t very serious about enforcing our laws, especially when kids are involved.

In the US we lock more of our citizens behind bars than any other nation on Earth.
Conviction for even a minor offense can make it extremely difficult to get employment or housing. People rarely get a clean slate after serving their time and even an arrest record without a conviction can haunt you. Nearly all other developed countries have abolished capitol punishment. We haven't gone a single year since 1981 without an execution.

The pendulum has already swung too far towards punishment and law enforcement, to the point that abuses by police and our mass incarceration problem are a total embarrassment for a country that tries to call itself "the land of the free" with a straight face.

There's little doubt that many of the people arrested in the US would do better with some compassion than they would with harsher punishment. This is especially true for literal children. One example where compassion is the better option would be treating addiction instead of punishing drug addicts. That would save billions in tax dollars, reduce crime, and help the addict to recover their lives and remove several barriers that could prevent them from getting work and being productive members of society. If we'd done that decades ago instead of feeding US citizens to the prison industrial complex we'd be so much better off as a nation today.

There's a risk for over-correcting, but there's also a massive amount of space between "do nothing" and our usual method today which amounts to "torture then never forgive" or "torture then kill" so there's plenty of opportunity to find some improvements.
> Entrenched views from decades of marketing by the fossil industry, I guess.

Not just regular marketing but specifically cultivating particular political parties and making it a tribal loyalty test. I think of my grandfather as an example: he switched to CFLs and LED bulbs earlier in the century because as a child of the Depression he’s totally on board with saving money, but last summer he made some anti-EV comments because as a long-time Republican voter people he trusted had claimed that they were a left-wing conspiracy (this is moot for him since he can’t drive any more). I doubt they ever mentioned oil directly but the money was there behind the scenes getting to that point.
> Amazon spokesperson Alisa Carroll said a malfunction caused the camera to take photos.

edit: carriage returns
edit2: "hidden"

How to deny that the hidden camera is a problem without directly addressing the fact that there's a hidden camera in the break room.

Talking about this as a software mistake or anything other than "there's a hidden camera in the break room" is a failure.
Furthermore, each individual human has not been optimized for solo survival, we have (generally speaking) been optimized for group survival in which mix of behavioral traits/strategies is beneficial to the group. Individuals with traits that would be suboptimal if they were out there on their own can sometimes provide a great deal of value to the group under the right circumstances.

Even if little Jane ADHD taxes resources more than other group members on the average year, perhaps her unique behavioral traits open the possibility of saving the entire group from starvation during an atypical hunting/foraging year.
> It's a bit more like 'possession is 9/10 of the law'.

Common mistake. The original saying was "Possession is nine points of the law". Over time it's been bastardized to "nine-tenths".
I don’t find him insufferable but I also haven’t paid much attention to him.

From what I gather of other people’s comments, they are often bothered by his apparently pervasive discussion of himself and his life.

I’ve never met the man, but the few interviews I’ve see or read about him I thought were pretty interesting.
is this the moment to call the guy in the datacenter to apply the bucket of water on the rack?
Instead of technical/computational solutions, maybe there's a low tech cage/shell that can be put around it so anyone can't just plug in?
Gemma, Mistral, I feel like Rip van Winkle, asleep for 20 years only to wake up and find the whole tech world changed.
Scientists say they can use AI to solve a key problem in nuclear fusion energy
No problem. I will just try again later. I am having this bookmarked.
Thanks for making this anyway. A friend of mine suffers from anxiety and I want to get to know his perspective better.
A telling example from the Remix docs [0]. It is an elegant layer over native APIs.

> This is a Fetch Request instance. You can read the MDN docs to see all of its properties.

Compare this to Next's app router equivalent of fetching the request headers [1]:

> The headers function allows you to read the HTTP incoming request headers from a Server Component.

[0] - https://remix.run/docs/en/main/route/loader#request

[1] - https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/functions/headers
> I don't think there's anything more guaranteed to turn a 12 or 13 year old into a lifelong criminal than what I think you're implying by "real correction in behaviour"; aka a multi-year prison sentence.

Society had better correct that problem quickly or those two 12/13 year old kids are going to have ruined their lives by the time they turn 18. Something drastic has to be done, a slap on the wrist and sending them back to their parents isn't sufficient. Right now we fail on both sides of the pendulum, maybe its time to rethink things.

I do think Europe does deal better with this. Even in France, they have a fairly aggressive/intolerant police force, but a real correction focus once arrests/convictions have occurred.
Can anyone who has used Remix comment on the API stability?

AFAIK it’s built by the same folks as React-Router, and I have a distrust of that project because of the tendency to make large breaking changes in order to make things “better” according to some criteria. I’ve been through a few RR upgrades that required a lot of extra work because we were using some previously supported pattern that then disappeared. I like the look of Remix but I don’t want to get trapped in that kind of situation again.
Yeah, that’s what the NSA has said forever - but it turns out that all encryption has that human factor.

Imagine I’m planning something malicious. If I literally do anything other than talk about it, there’s going to be evidence, and that evidence won’t be encrypted.

Plus, crack-proof encryption existed at least back to Roman times - simply because making a secure code was fairly easy and we didn’t have codebreakers. We managed.
the standard disclaimer for fraud
I like the idea! Im getting an error tho:/

Side note: Im tired of everybody being anxious, Im an immigrant to the states and I’ve noticed that most of my friends who are anxious are born and raised there. While the opposite is far from true despite poverty, uncertainty, looming war & a future with no positive outlook for the country.

I often struggle to emphasize cause I don’t see value of overthinking/discussing every little thought that comes to our head. Im struggling more with this recently because my partner has been diagnosed with “OCD thinking “ after just 3 therapy sessions and is even considering medication.

I thought everybody overthinks, we just need to learn not to give every thought importance/attention and try to avoid triggers ie: self diagnosing.

If my rant is not suitable here, then I’ll delete my comment. I would appreciate any help however.
We know a lot of people will behave in bad ways. We don't have to assume anything. We have thousands of years of experience. Under every possible form of ethical and religious setting imaginable.

And then what does this have to do with the Western society? There's no stealing in East? Or anywhere on this planet? At this time or any other? And you think religious morals are better for a society than secular laws? Like we haven't already tried that and don't know how it goes. And what the hell does any of this have to do with some pretty stupid movies?
It would be trivial to hard wire a kill switch to your fuel pump and have it hidden somewhere so no matter what thief’s can’t drive off with your car. Much cheaper and more secure as cars can be stolen from parking garages.
The reason the rule of law exists at the scale it does is precisely because what you describe, has not shown to create functional long term societies that are resilient to exogenous threats.

The rule of law is literally humanity’s best attempt so far to explicitly codify human desires into a common set of descriptions.

This is why the UN exists and the LON before it etc…
Chinese companies are raising militias like it's the 1970s
Yep and it split the ecosystem / documentation / dev efforts / codebase.

Should've been a different product.
> How can he do that?

Because the Supreme Court ruled that the executive branch is allowed to cancel student loans, just "not that many all at once".

How many is too many? They didn't say.
Feel free, my contact information is in my profile. "Back to school" in this case would, usually, mean law school, at least in the U.S. My sense is it is not uncommon for there to be a gap between undergraduate and law school. Depending on your interests and background, there are, potentially, paths for working with / around patents (some mentioned in this branch) that would not require going back to school.
> Cars are insecure on purpose because people accidentally lock their keys inside all the time

Can't remember the last time I've had a car that would let me lock the keys inside. Even the low tech ones won't let me lock the doors from inside the car unless the doors are closed. The slightly more advanced ones (which is most, these days) honk the horn when the keys are left inside the car, and unlock the doors.
In Germany, we have the Verbraucherschutz as a low-level institution to handle such claims. They can and do consolidate such reports and can file lawsuits if there is evidence of systemic misbehavior.
Thanks, I've added that to the blog post.
But that's the thing: I wasn't looking for this, and even having found it, I won't bother looking at "the competition". In my mind I don't even see "missing features" because I have zero awareness of what features could be.

I'll be honest, would I pay for it? Probably not, because I already pay Spotify. But I did look you up on LinkedIn earlier today, so as a calling card it works.

And, judging by the parent comment, you clearly have a knack for marketing it, which tends to be the differentiating factor...
It _can_ work, but _won't_ for most real world workloads

Beyond the runtime limitations, it is poorly designed and requires you to effectively write a router when the rest of the system has automatic routing assembly
> If your adversary knows your capabilities, even vague details, they can usually extrapolate the specifics close enough to defeat them, physics is like that.

This is not generally true. Further, the existence of satellites can't be readily hidden, anyone with a telescope can see that they are up there.

> Also if you know your adversary has a capability you’re very likely to try to replicate it.

It's not a problem if other nations replicate this capability. Indeed it would likely be good for the US if they did - the more confident a country is in their defenses the less they need to rely on pre-emptive offense. It's also worth noting that the US generally lags behind in hypersonic weapons as they're not really useful to US strategy, so adversaries pursuing anti-hypersonic capabilities would really just be wasting resources.

> Like this announcement is probably a response to the public discourse by the US of Russian antisatellite space nukes which they are developing and denying.

Definitely not. For starters this program has been in the works for years, and the launch was scheduled months ago. Further, it seems a little silly to advertise that you're pouring resources into satellites right after disclosing that your adversary is working on a weapon to destroy satellites.

> The adversary not knowing at all what you have and having to imagine your capabilities can be a bigger deterrent.

If you are confident they will overestimate your capabilities.

> It could be a negotiation tactic (we’ll not develop this if you don’t develop that), a threat (we’ll develop this faster if you don’t stop), or internal politics (we’re doing stuff that will be potent against Russia too) or many other things.

Or it could be a routine announcement as is typical for missile defense systems. Sure there could be some ulterior motive, but there is absolutely no reason to believe that to be the case.
They have to make sure you’re receiving the most cutting edge chiding lectures when you make naughty and problematic requests.
I think you have a great point, but I still subtly disagree. One thing free market dynamics have not established is proper responsibilities for failing to build stuff to specification.

Tools are simply tools, and tools like Flipper Zero are fundamentally usable in legal scenarios.

Other tools like cars come with locks that advertise providing some level of security: if cars fail to meet that, it is manufacturers' responsibility for the theft (nobody would claim that if a truck came by and simply towed the car away).

Now, neither the buyers have effective means to choose secure products themselves (it requires deep knowledge or possibly open protocola and source code for cars), nor do the manufacturers worry enough about it. When markwt does not make things happen, you make it happen with legislation.
I actually laughed out loud at "I didn't know Wolfram was even available in short form."

That said, I too have read a lot of his work (yes, even A New Kind of Science). I came away very impressed but lacking the right kind of framing to make the best of it (which is, I suspect, what most people who actually make the effort will feel).
> 2 separate machines that need to cooperate

It's just a simple display cable like HDMI. Not really a lot of cooperation needed.

> Also hand waving about "new codecs" doesn't hold any weight

Fair, but trying to watch a streaming service on a smart TV and being told "This device will not support X service after Y date" has happened.

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/these-old-devices-are-about-t...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Hulu/comments/xvaqqm/this_device_no...

https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D54P00006zSxAMSA0/sm...
Kraken the Code: How to Build a Talking Avatar
We joked with my colleague that this post about real-time text-to-speech lipsync of his was either born too late because Sora is here to rule the industry or too early because his solution is tailored better than Sora for the specific task. Anyway, it's an ironic coincidence that he finished writing it before OpenAI released their video monster
"Who the fuck cares, get back to your goddamn work!"
Notation, or semantics?

Mathematica has no notation, and that's the worst thing about it.

Mathematics has M-Expressions, like S-Expressions, which are extremely powerfully and human-like for reasoning in multiple logical (not geometric) dimensions (using Lisp-style macro expansion)
Agreed, it really is a paperwork issue. Just have transport and shipping companies require proof of ownership prior to accepting the car, and these thefts will evaporate overnight. Without a channel to market, it eliminates the incentive for thieves to steal your car in the first place.

It's not a tech problem, rather a legislative one. Too bad it won't fly because the current govt. has made it a habit of treating every issue as a wedge issue.
I like the idea in theory, but I'm not sure if it's practical. There's no such thing as a secure system, there are only systems with no known security issues -- a vehicle that has no known security issues one day, is one discovery away from being completely open the next day. So, it would be hard to legislate the security of a system.

The solution might be to incentivize a quick resolution. For example, if a security issue is found with a vehicle, there could be laws that govern how quickly a fix needs to be available, how it's made available, and how far back it goes in model years. I would suggest that the severity of the issue (life threatening | theft | inconvenience) and the number of vehicles affected, should dictate how much time they have to resolve it.
Reggaeton Be Gone: detect reggaeton with ML and send packets to disable speakers
This is the answer. My work tablets are android based and taking pictures isn't supposed to be part of the workflow, but sometimes by using random button presses, you can accidentially bring up the camera/gallery (its supposed to be locked out, but our IT dept didn't do a good job of totally locking it out).
We did. Until the 1950s. We gave the states so much power under a confederacy the government didn't work and we had to go back to the drawing board to make a new constitution.

Things weren't regulated for a long time, and that's why there were literal snake-oil salesmen blowing literal smoke up your ass while their 10 year old kids worked 7 days a week. It was only around the 1900s that we really started regulating things -- and for good reason.
Cmd+F "aggrandize"

Only 2 instances so far?!
I'm not sure it's afraid but more the resources required to make it successful.

Bandwidth isn't cheap, storage is a bucket load and than moderation & copyright. Let alone any other issues.
This is somewhat off-topic, but does Wolfram have a degenerative muscle illness? He puts his right hand down at around 30 minutes, and then doesn't move it again for hours. That and his unmoving legs are strikingly reminiscent of a friend who had MS.
One of these problems is far easier to solve than the other.
Meanwhile, someone backs into the taillight on my truck in the parking lot of the local Kroger, and they have zero surveillance footage showing it, despite giving them a date and a 40 minute window of shopping based on my receipt timestamp. sigh
I disagree, coding and RAG performance is all that matters to me. I'm not using an LLM to learn basic facts I already know.
I've never seen that functionality in JetBrains, which has been my main driver for years. I hope it's there
One of the reasons I refuse to get an IQ test is because I don't want to feel too dumb to attempt things or too smart to attempt things.
Hi, great idea! I'm also receiving an error. but given it works, I could see myself bookmarking the site before texting my friend lol
I'm not Bryan, obviously, but part of the answer here is that 100 servers running at 100% capacity is an absolute upper bound, but most of the time you're nowhere near that. Most of the time few things are at full capacity, which means that you can multiplex your physical hardware resources to increase utilization efficiency.
I heavily doubt you can “fix the culture” in a short period of time, especially when it’s causing problems right here and right now. And frankly speaking, I don’t think society finds it acceptable, it’s just not that easy to prevent it unless you start putting draconian measures and hardcore surveillance with enforcement. and even that isn’t really that easy especially in huge countries like US and Canada.
it seems that Japanese culture and the business culture specifically is particularly suited to the precision and repeatability required to produce chips. I'm surprised that they ever got behind, but I suppose there are a lot of factors at play.
https://archive.is/jwEfK
In my experience, like incel women, it's an inability to accept a deep internal wound related to women/reality due to prior bad experiences, poor coping behavior, etc. There is almost always a degree of PTSD involved.

Women incels tend to do the same blame game/projection as male incels (and there are a lot of both), but it looks different - less violence/outright language attacks, more avoidance altogether and subtle manipulation.
Did he really say that? My quick search didn’t turn anything up.
people commit crimes with: cars, money, public transit, restaurants, food, bathrooms, roads, … why don’t we get rid of all that?

we don’t remove all rights to privacy for people in their homes because criminals use homes too. tech should be no different
A post that predates CSS.
Its not a bug, its a choice. I remember this happened just after a big terrorist/insane person shooter attack. There was a graphic video from the shooting circulating on YT and instead of removing this clip and filtering uploads YT/Google decided to break search instead.

It might have been Christchurch mosque shooting videos.
Or instead of immediately lunching into your misanthropic fantasy you could simply click through to notice that it’s a publication that ‘Sahan Journal is a nonprofit digital newsroom dedicated to reporting for immigrants and communities of color in Minnesota’ but I guess ‘people be woke’ is much easier and pointless discourse ruining comment to throw out.
blah blah (which I did in 1988) blah blah (which I completed in 1992).

He has no collaborators. He gives no credit to others. He just relentlessly names things after himself, takes singular credit for everything, and name-drops other famous scientists he bumped into.

I genuinely find the wolfram physics project interesting, but the behavior of wolfram himself sets off all my bullshit alarms.

I suspect that it will be someone else that will take these ideas over the finish line. He seems completely oblivious to the fact that his behavior makes it harder to take the ideas seriously.

My gateway to the ideas was Jonathan Gorard. Check out his videos if you are curious, they are much more accessible than Wolfram's own content.
Just skimmed the paper (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202305298).

In section 3.1 cycle life did not really convince me. Eyeballing the chart, on cycle 200, just 82.5% of the capacity remained.
Sadly, no mention of ststemd-nspawn. Image management is manual, but it's otherwise a very powerful alternative.
> has not shown to create functional long term societies that are resilient to exogenous threats.

I don't think I agree with this. If anything, it seems more like the reverse: societies have been less-and-less willing to enforce assimilation and a certain set of society-wide cultural behaviors, and therefore they "fall back" to the rule of law as described by you.
> ~5000 word mini-essay that I wrote

Delete. Ain't nobody got time for that. OP needs to learn to summarize. I'm sure if I sent him a 5000 word rant he'd delete it too.
> The breakroom in question has two other cameras present: a security camera on the ceiling and another security camera attached to a self-checkout kiosk employees use when buying food, Canaday said. Employees are aware of both security cameras, which are clearly visible and expected, Canaday said.

The problem isn't that there's a camera in the breakroom, it's that the camera malfunctioned and took pictures that no one expected.
> I don't know if there is a term for it, or if a philosopher/etc. has written about this phenomenon, but: a noticeable trend to me is what I'll call "the replacement of ethical expectations with specific, written down laws."

> Rather than expecting a human being to behave in certain ways intrinsically (i.e., normative ethics) we tend to assume they will behave in the worst way possible, and then pass laws to supposedly prevent that behavior from manifesting.

Imo, this is part of a long-running de-individualisation process imo, in reverse, the 'making people governable' process. One writes rules that cohere with reality, more or less. Then one encourages others to refer to the laws rather to conscience. This enables what I call the 'externalisation of morality' as someone is now deferential to some set of laws that can and are changed to confer advantage to whoever is paying for the rules. (Eg the work done via paid lobbyists.)

In this case, I assume it is easier, cheaper for car companies to 'illegalise' a tool, rather than take responsibility for their fragile product.
Well if incompetence is cheaper to implement, out come the lawyers to erase whatever perceived savings there were.