skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given they claimed to be hunters, not officials, I'm fairly sure you're not right (though I'm not a US lawyer).

To give a simile example to show why I think this: if someone calls me up and says "I don't like a person and wish I never had to see them again, please shoot them dead" vs. them calling me saying "I don't like a person and wish I never had to see them again" and me thinking on my own and shooting them dead - either way, I'm choosing to do something illegal, and I haven't been asked to do it by anyone I have reason to believe has the authority to let me legally murder someone. My shooting the person would, rightly, be illegal and not entrapment even if the person pretending to be my friend on the phone actually was a police officer.
Houston: A better approach to workflow orchestration
Yeah, my Garmin (an Instinct 2 Solar) has ruined me for other smartwatches. I appreciate not having to think about charging it in the summer and only monthly in the winter. I appreciate the reliability of an always-on screen rather than one that usually turns on when I turn my wrist. I appreciate the consistency of buttons that I have learned by feel rather than fiddly touch/voice controls that usually work the way I want.

I'd consider upgrading it someday so that I don't need to bring a phone for podcasts or ad-hoc navigation, but only if those do not come at the expense of battery life, always-on screen, and physical buttons.

(Edit: I'm glad other devices with different tradeoffs exist for different kinds of people though!)
Use them to buy data on the legislators who won’t vote to ban the practice. Release said data publicly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act

https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/dodging-the-thought-poli...
I'm not arguing that laws should be ignored as long as the outcome justifies it. I'm asking why this is illegal to begin with.

This seems more like "Help, I'm hungry. Will you turn on the kitchen light so I can find the pasta I bought?"
What percentage of their revenue comes from those?

I think your last sentence says it all.

Elon Musk isn't a flamethrower salesman. These are flamethrowers.
Team America: World Police - Montage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFrMLRQIT_k
it's relatively loudly sanctioning them.
Pension funds. European pensions are run as insurances and/or financed via taxes. Thus, there is no investment capital from pensions. The U.S. is quite the opposite, and that fact alone probably explains > 60% of the gap in VC financing.
> But at the current state of things people draw the line somewhere fictional and blame fast fashion while wearing fast fashion.

Indeed. Part of the problem is that nobody wants to spend money, so cheap clothes seem like a good bargain. We just don’t see the real cost because we have really poor estimates for how long these clothes will last.

That’s typically something that needs to be solved by regulation as the people by themselves won’t turn away.

> There is literally no number I can find that would even suggest that H&M or Adidas are doing less bad to the environment.

Definitely! Now, there are differences at the edges, like old-school retailers using less harmful transport modes than plane and contributing to local communities through their physical presence (jobs and taxes). But yes, the core issue is the same.

> This won't change the market to the better.

Yes, people are getting squeezed and disposable income is not improving. Blaming them for buying cheap stuff so they have some money to do something nice is counterproductive and reeks of elitism.
Most failures of windows I've seen are the glass falling off the track or the track getting physically jammed or out of alignment. There's a good chance whatever failure you had a hand crank wouldn't have prevented it.

Even when its like "the motor burned out", well what caused the motor to burn out? The lift was way out of alignment and would have been dang hard to turn by hand, and probably would have just broken the gearing.
instead there will be a reduction during slackest times.

Wendy’s said that its digital menu boards “could allow us to change the menu offerings at different times of day and offer discounts and value offers to our customers more easily, particularly in the slower times of day.”

it wont go in the front door so lets try the back alley.
So in France, it's complicated because we have a very selective system and different system for certain majors like engineering. For engineering, you need to do a 2 years preparatory class (heavily focused on mathematics and physics) and after that you can sit in a ranked examination for the engineering schools of your choosing. Only the x highest ranked students can get admitted to the school. Those examinations tend to be hard and scored such that it's impossible to score 100%. For the highest ranking engineering schools (polytechnique, ENS, mines, sup telecom), only 5% of students trying to pass the exam get admitted. It's significantly harder to get admitted to public engineering schools with this exam compared to private ones.

From the stats I could find, there's a drop out rate of around 20% between the first year and second year. Then 85% success rate in getting in an engineering school.

Once they are in an engineering school, the drop out rate is very low (both for private and public schools).

There are some engineering school that include the preparatory classes (we call that integrated prepa, an example is the National Institute of Applied Sciences INSA my alma mater) during the first 2 years, in that case the drop out rate is around 20% during the first 2 years and then less than 1% after that.

For both type of preparatory classes (integrated or not), students who drop out change major to something else and get to transfer credits to their new major.

For medicines, it's different. Until 2020 everyone could do the first year of medicine but only 20% would go on to the second year. Students were allowed to redo it once and then had to change major. There are no private medicine cursus in France. This has now changed and I'm not familiar with the new system.

With majors like liberal arts, etc... University is free and the drop out rate seems to be almost 60%. So yes, for majors with easy admission and free tuition (very little skin in the game) drop out rates are high.

But for highly selective programs where admission is difficult, there's very little drop out once students actually get in.
You can really only laugh when companies like OpenAI say they're working on this problem, and them working on this problem is a tedious opt-out form that you need to fill out for each and every piece of work they may or may not have ingested, and no they won't be retraining the model. It's obvious they are acting in bad faith to anyone with a brain.
The Amazon rain Forrest has also become much drier due to climate change.
Often claimed, never backed up with links.
What's ambiguous about this law?
This seems to be what happens when your police run out of actual crime: Do whatever it takes to find more. If you have to walk this close up to the "entrapment" line just to find someone you can arrest, are you really providing the public with a valuable service? I wonder what taxpayers think about this. I think whether it's tEcHnIcAlLy entrapment or not is not really the issue--the issue is bored cops scraping the bottom of the barrel.
A being legal and B being legal doesn't imply using A to do B is legal.
Personally, I feel it would be a much smaller problem if Tumblr had an internal AI thing going on. What users REALLY don't like is that they have confided a post with one website, and that website just shared that post with a third-party because if opens up infinite possibilities.

If Tumblr can take your post and give it to OpenAI, they can take your post and give it to anyone, and that's the problem. Because for users, what they post is "between them and Tumblr" and not anybody else.

I'll even say more. Artists don't care if you scrape their art to make AI generated art with it. Because when this happens, it's "between artists and scrapers" and not anybody else, so it's fine. What they do care about is when people post that AI generated art on the internet, or publish it professionally, or do basically anything with it.

In other words, there's a sense of privacy when there is only two parties involved, no matter what is going on, but the instant a third party gets into the system, the first party will freak out, because then you lose that sense of privacy.
So, "by one who would not have perpetrated it except for the trickery, persuasion or fraud of the officer or state agent" means that if they do something that they would have done because of the trickery, persuasion or fraud of someone who is not the officer or state agent, it's not entrapment. For instance, if an undercover cop threatens you to commit some crime at the gun point, it's not an entrapment since if he was not a cop, you'd probably do it anyhow. Is that how we read this? Really?
You really don't get how the human emotion plays into this, huh?

Happy to break it down.

iOS user installs your service's app. Android user wants to then install one-click Google Play Store, feels like a second-class citizen if they're instead directed to find a URL to log in, forced to create their own bookmark....

By focusing marketing on the App Store, and "Apps", which led to those goofy badges (App Store, Play Store, now Samsung/Amazon App Store sometimes), Apple made native apps "the thing". If you don't have those badges on your site or in your ad, you're not signaling you're "real".

But it's just a social trend, at the end of the day.

We can make the app's functionality the same, or better, wherever we want. Even in Safari gulp.
No, it wasn't entrapment. This defendant advertises recovery-by-drone as a service. He wasn't compelled to do something he wouldn't otherwise do - he was "hired" to perform an illegal task that he was previously known to offer.
Android 14 Surges in Market Share since start of 2024
Wickard v. Filburn

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Long history here of bad judicial decisions
Reminds me a lot of David Spivak’s “ologs”, down to the example of how dollars are a vector space
Yes, it is partially algorithmic, but it's primarily because this is a brand new generation of content creators and streamers. The audience for streamers like t3.gg and Primeagen primarily consist of relatively new developers seeking knowledge and entertainment, as well as seasoned developers seeking infotainment. It's not solely the information being conveyed that attracts viewers; rather, it's the holistic experience of live streaming on platforms like Twitch and YouTube, complete with humor and entertainment value. While these streamers do provide some valuable content – for instance, Primeagen's insightful series on Neovim configuration greatly assisted me during my transition to Neovim – it's important to recognize the significant contribution of production quality and entertainment value. The most successful streamers are not necessarily those with the best information, but rather those capable of delivering a comprehensive package, maintaining a regular streaming schedule, and so forth. However, if their content consistently lacks quality or spreads misinformation, their viewership would likely diminish. Conversely, it's also untrue that viewership is solely determined by the quality of information provided; you could be the most knowledgeable person, but if you suck at streaming, if you have a dry personality, etc. you likely won't get this level of view. The streamers who do well invest considerable effort into their streams, including editing and other production elements. So, comparing them to individuals like Crockford doesn't make much sense as this medium offers a unique platform for content delivery that was previously unavailable.

All that being said, there's thankfully some more niche YouTubers, or whatever you want to call them, who don't put much work into the stream per se, but their teaching and information is so good and valuable within their domain that they have decent viewership. People like Jon Gjengset who has far less subscribers both because a) he's covering more nich topics, e.g. 1.5 hour streams in depth on Rust language concepts and b) he just streams very plainly. People love his content, but it's a smaller pool and he's not going to get the hundreds of thousands of subs that t3.gg or Primeagen get.
So Alt-right supporters who he wasn’t directly affiliated with and even went lengths to publicly denounced.

He was banned from Twitter for not even saying anything, that’s what you’re telling me.
That's the entirety of my point. ccTLDs being the only way to get "nice" domain names that don't end in .com is a global snafu.
It's a running joke that Wolfram is a jobs program for math PhD's. The difference isn't necessarily technical, but the sheer amount of labor that has gone into adding more edge cases and niche use cases. Sympy is great but like most open source, it's created by volunteer maintainers supported by donations.

I imagine the difference is even bigger in things like solving ODE's/PDE's.
The mud on those shoes at the end man. Still impressive footage!
This is dynamically unstable; Any miniscule imperfection ends up being magnified by the forces involved. The angular momentum of the system is conserved, but resonances build chaotically and are likely to eventually concentrate enough in a smaller body to throw it off past escape velocity.

Spaced-out resonant triplets of bodies in the same plane are often dynamically stable - an imperfect ratio is damped by various orbital forces until it approximates a perfect ratio.
On the tree style tabs part, I wish Firefox had better hooks for vertical tab extensions (like TST) to use than the multipurpose sidebar. I’ve not once used the sidebar for anything but vertical tabs and it’s a nuisance to have to hide the unnecessarily huge sidebar header with usercss. Letting approved addons hide the default tab strip would be nice too.

It’s not like vertical tabs are that strange of a feature at this point… Vivaldi, Edge, and Orion have them built in and they’re the only option in Arc. I understand why Mozilla might not want to have to deal with maintaining a full vertical tabs feature themselves but at least give extension authors the tools they need.
The article indicates part of the problem was the lighting on the drone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlighting is widely illegal. He most certainly would've known this; it's clear from https://www.instagram.com/wingydroneservices/ they're at least close to the hunting world.
The only viable alternatives [to Big Tech AI] are Elon, startups and open source
If you shop in a chain store, they generally ask for your email and phone number usually in exchange for discounts. Giving them this information opts you into their email and sometimes text spam lists meaning several messages a day, some of which might include relevant information about a sale or discount you're interested in.

The end result is that people stop looking at their email because it's mostly marketing spam and they miss genuinely important emails.
I haven’t been keeping tabs, but this seems very much like RIP / Achilioptas version of the Johnson Lindenstrauss lemma.

Perhaps the rest of the JL lemma promise applies as well - compressing the number of parameters by a few orders of magnitude as well.
Reaction: "That's your story, eh? Okay - if you can describe and find that corpse, then I won't arrest you."
Nothing in the article says the drone operator was a hunter
no. 3nm for reference has minimum sizes of roughly 25nm
The Org – Contact the Right Person
It seems like the AI space is slowly coming back around to the old Thinking Machines CM-1 architecture. It's not too often in computing where you see ideas a full 40 years ahead of their time make it into production.
Neither humans nor aliens created it, obviously.
Up to a point, yes. It's all psychological games really. But consumers at least know the not-to-exceed price walking in the door, which is not true with surge pricing, where they only know the will-exceed price.
If you don't know: deer freeze if you shine a bright light at them. Hunting with a spotlight at night is unsporting, so there are laws against using a light at night at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlighting
Vyxal: A code-golfing language experience
Thanks, I'll have a look
impressive growth, already at 7.5% market share
The whole "this is done with your consent" thing these scumbags always trot out is such a farce.

I'll give an example - I'm in CA, which means I'm supposed to be able to opt-out. After digging around the Peacock mobile app trying to figure out why it was charging me despite not ever remembering signing up for it (probably some dumb dark pattern), and I noticed a few menus deep in settings was "opt-out" check box, which was really confusing looking. I clicked on it, and get a big screen of legal jargon and a big green "agree" button. To someone who doesn't scroll all the way down they might think they're opting out - but no, it gets worse.

There are 2 hidden fields way down, and ANOTHER opt-out toggle that's unchecked (of course). You toggle that on, you're good right?

No. That button does nothing. If you read the text you must click the link BELOW that button to submit an "opt-out request." After several screens and asking for way too much information, you finally get to where you want to be - only for peacock to tell you "someone will be reaching out to you via email to confirm", which I'm sure if I don't respond in a timely manner will opt me right the fuck back in (if I'm even opted out yet, it's not clear from the UI).

It's dystopian, and likely criminal.
Interesting. Use case is so that there is some code exercising this path.

While the algorithm is cool, of course, the code itself is quite straightforward as it is. An interesting thing I didn’t know is that the kernel code avoids recursion (this one has a depth parameter to prevent recursion past some point).

I can see why this was picked as a candidate. Straightforward implementation. Good test suite. Self-contained and not a moving target.

Lots of the code is using the coefficients array against the framecontext but I don’t know how to enforce the bounds invariant that the two are the same. For the fixed size arrays I could see how it’s done, but otherwise it seems like the bounds checker will trigger. But I’m reading on my phone so maybe that’s just a misread.

Not a big performance hit even if it does. But perhaps it doesn’t, and I’d be curious why.
Was the drone operator offering a drone hunting service or just a dude with a drone that they called?
Unfortunately I always found it quite slow compared to Mathematica
How about "waike"?
tl;dr version: "We floated a trial balloon and people hate the idea of surge pricing. We're shelving it (for now)".
This would never work!

Seriously though, the hole I am trying to plug here is remedy.

Where is the individual remedy against someone who takes my data for
their own profit? Sure I can get an official body to act for me,
impose fines etc. But if, at near zero cost, I can force them to
delete it - no exceptions - that's a powerful response. I'm probably
mistaken but right now I don't see that to hand despite the fancy
wording about data "belonging to the subject".
Is it not possible that they decide to add something as configurable that is currently allowed everywhere? As an analogy, when Apple decided to make the ID of a user opt-in.
this is great! i think you could make it as pleasant as a typical rush-hour trip on the city bus: louder and more dangerous, but with less people, and perhaps roughly as comfortable, at least if you have the kind of rush hour where you are frequently in danger of fainting from the heat
Yeah I think the main issue with PHEVs is essentially that people don’t charge them / do the majority of their kilometers / miles on the ICE engine :). See https://theicct.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/real-world-ph...
https://archive.is/RfRRt

Articles a bit light.

References release here: https://www.klarna.com/international/press/klarna-ai-assista...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39536545 (5 Hours ago, 110 comments)
> On March 23, 2020, Wellington House partially caught on fire amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Police say that at least one small explosion took place inside the abandoned semi-detached houses. Only two days later, the same building caught fire once again.

You can't make this up... Jesus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_J._Lamb
Yeah, sure. Just writing "Google can" is misleading though.
Machine Learning is a type of ai.

>If the military had said "statistical inference using modern Big Data methods"

If this is what I saw the military use I would be upset at the blatant attempt at being misleading. In my mind I would convert it back to AI. It's equivalent to saying "I didn't drive drunk, I got here using carnot-like cycles after injesting social communication enhancing drugs".
I'm surprised it took only around 2-ish minutes from somewhere above the clouds to on the ground.
> How it works exactly I don't know

The idea is pretty simple. You can build a list of known facts based on control flow, explicit __builtin_assumes, and undefined behavior relations. For example, if you've got this code:

if (x < N) {
// In this block, we know that x < N
} else {
// ... and in this block we know that x >= N!
}

And on top of that, we can do some basic algebra. If we know that x < N and N < 5, then we can infer that x < 5. So if we see a comparison x < 5, we can then rewrite that to true.

> and apparently it's so complex that it requires over 9000 lines of C++ to express

The two main reasons for that is that a) there is a lot of rules covering cases like "we know the result of count_leading_zeroes can be no more than the number of bits in an integer" and so forth, and b) this is doing a lot more logic than just tracking integer comparisons: there's tracking known-bits of integers, maximum possible value, floating-point comparisons, pointer object references.
The key contributing factor is slash and burn for farming like activities. Your point is more of a long term consequence. The forest is not burning naturally...
They've become vermin in suburban PA. I once counted a dozen of deer on my 1/4 acre property just grazing. During dead-deer season (early spring and late fall) I can easily count a half dozen dead deer on my morning drop off routine (about 14 mi round trip).

I want to slowly convert my lawn to produce vegetables and fruit, but what's the point? The deer will eat the whole plant unless its very toxic to them.

They have no fear of man, like wild deer would. On account of their unnaturally high density [1] they carry nasty diseases for us, other animals and themselves.

Heck, Ive seen dead deer on the part of the interstate that cuts through the city.

[1] suburban deer have no predators (except cars), unnaturally vast lawns to graze on and idiots feeding them (why??)
Ah yes, include "Open Source" as a fig leaf to cover up your fulminating rage over market regulations.
Especially if the universe really is a dark forest. Although, if you wanted to stay undetected, why would you advertise your solar system like this?
… which just serves to reinforce the point that the interview becomes a rehearsed dog and pony show where interviewer asks contrived questions that are compiled and put into an “interview prep course” shilled on Linked In, and interviewee “references notes” they prepared from said course on how to best answer said questions. All done while claiming to look for “genuine insight”.