skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having lived there for several years I didn't find the state some ever-present aspect of life - but it doesn't seem particularly relevant

Your line of reasoning seems fine, but it basically applies to any "other". If some European decides what goes viral, he is going to subject poor stupid american viewers to their nefarious European biases - and those biases may harm our society!

Furthermore the biases of US based company executives may harm our society as well. I'll grant you that they may be less inclined, but gosh, rage bait and selling sweets to children does make them a whole lot of money.

So the logic isn't wrong, but it seems to be applied selectively in cases that just happen to benefit large American tech companies - who are incapable of providing US consumers a product that's nearly as good as Tiktok

Maybe biases in algorithms need to addressed.. But that should be done in a thoughtful unbiased holistic that applied equally to everyone - instead of this embarrassing kneejerk "the commies are taking over" kind of way
Let’s ban AIPAC first.
Interesting, what language do you code?
For the same reason you can’t import dirty, used farm equipment.
> we have serious challenges to face

Who will ensure the information is accurate? Why would we trust them (which is also a form of information).

Should all information (false, true, and everything in between) have equal cost in production and distribution? How do we update information?

Price as well as cost are tools to shape (for better AND worse) how we can prioritize information or decide how it should flow. There are countless examples of information that we as a civilization probably don’t want everyone to have easy access to. Also you as a private individual…

Freedom: would we force everyone who has some information to make it freely available and prohibit them from charging? Don’t get me wrong, I think there’s some information that should be much freer than it is today (looking at you, scientific community), but overriding people’s freedom to choose what information they make freely available and what they charge for strikes me as unjust.
The dude tried to create a new species which could potentially become invasive.

Look at what kudzu is doing to the South or invasive Asian carp are doing to midwest waterways to get a sense of why that is an absolutely batshit insane thing to do and why it should be massively illegal. Invasive species are like biological weapons of massive destruction. Their potential blast radius is damn near infinite.
Ellen Chisa describing Dark when she was with them:

https://youtu.be/FHC_ipuIbmk

The vision seemed to be something like Render.com (abstracted infra) plus a new language plus a new IDE.
Thermos? I think you read the wrong article. Next you'll tell us how wework is related or ubiome.
I find it really interesting how being against a ban is the "freedom" argument when the person who is most responsible for championing this ban is the whole Palantir gang led by Keith Rabois's partner.
> Could you help me understand how that isn't censorship

Censorship bans the speech. If we were censoring Bytedance, we’d block TikTok.com.

This is more in the vein of “you can’t advertise your brothel at the elementary school.” You can still advertise your brothel. The distribution and amplification is just being regulated.
You'll notice no one is even bothering to comment why this isn't true, they're just downvoting and flagging anyone pointing this out.
I agree. That's the sad part. I want super-intelligence to sound intelligent and not artificially brought down to our level. :-)
The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Vox claim censorship. Is there something more credible, maybe AIPAC themselves publicly backing the TikTok ban, or some strong correlation between AIPAC contributions and House votes on the bill?
In addition to going all-in as partisans in a war, darklang is going "all in on AI": https://blog.darklang.com/gpt/

The project is doomed.
"Meta or not to Meta" programming in Ruby
Recently I wrote about refactor Rails helper from static to dynamic rendering. Final refactor uses metaprogramming such as 'method_missing".

A reader responds to my post with an insightful perspective that champions clarity over conciseness. It's a classic debate in software development.
Metaprogramming vs. Explicit Code in Rails Refactoring.
Join the conversation and share your views.
Maybe give them a “Robocop Directive 4 [HIDDEN]” that prevents significant actions…?
GFS = Great Faulty System as I like to call it. For 10-day regional weather, ECMWF is king. The problem will always be resolution though. For example here in the Pacific Northwest, the ECMWF can't distinguish our dynamic terrain very well (surface level vs 500-1000ft hilltops for example).

This website allows you to select which weather model you want to use: https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?fh=loop&dpdt=&mc=&r...
There's a GDC talk about this from the devs themselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibe1JBF5i5Y
There is nothing the EU can do to stop big tech from doing business in the EU unless it wants to spark a trade war between itself and the US.

The EU is completely and utterly dependent on US technology and protection, so the measures it take can only go so far.
The arguments I can think of for why you wouldn't support restricting social media owned by foreign adversaries:

* You don't believe social media companies can become literal or de facto extensions of the countries they are located in.

* You don't believe social media can influence people's beliefs and behaviors.

* You believe the above, but think a government cannot (or should not) regulate companies operating in its jurisdiction for those aforementioned purposes.

* You believe the above, but don't think that it amounts to a serious risk, even theoretically.

* You don't care about any of that, you just like the product.

* You don't care about any of that, you oppose the bill on ideological grounds other than the legislative scope, or civil liberties issues. For example (but not limited to) purely partisan reasons.

* You have issues with the specific provisions or wording of this bill, which override your general agreement that something like it may be legitimate and desirable.

Am I missing any? None are convincing me, personally, except maybe the last one, and I am guessing most people who oppose it have not done a line-by-line parsing of the text of the bill either.
Under the existing DST system (1 hour difference from Standard Time) they currently go to school (wait, children in school in the summer?) 3 hours after sun up but that's not seen as a problem?
Ridiculous bill. Maniacs are running everything these days only based on wild populism. Freedoms are over in America. Time to move to Saudi or some shit.
Snarky complaints are cheap. What are you proposing exactly? Should people donate their capital to businesses and expect nothing in return? Should all businesses continue operating forever?
This article talks a lot about Nigel being better than AI. Is that true? It seems that with a quarter million words and a fairly limited search space a bot would pretty easily be able to find the best word for any play. It might get a bit more complicated if you are also planning for future moves but it still seems like a bot should be able to out-play the best humans pretty easily.

Don't get me wrong, Nigel's skills are hugely impressive. But I feel this AI talk was more pandering to the current hype than and actual claim that he was better than a computer solver.
> 217 vaccinations

that's wild.
Anyone who lives in an environment is a potential victim if you go about creating or introducing a new species that becomes invasive.
Who killed someone and only got 10 years? What were the circumstances? What nuance are you leaving out of this comment?
People in the US just want Healthcare. When can we have a unanimous vote on that?
Similiar to the killer bee scare of the 80s/90s
Tangential: anyone remember WordPerfect on DOS, and how you could switch between WYSIWYG mode and "markup" mode, where you could delete style markers?

The more things change...
The charges have little to do with merely creating a hybrid. The release notes multiple violations of state, Federal, and international law, including document forgery and importing an endangered species.
> That they simply regurgitate opinions to fit into a certain role and aren't actually utilizing intelligence when making decisions.

Today I realised there's a superficial similarity between mode collapse and confirmation bias. Anyone know if it's just superficial, or if there's a deeper connection?

> Why not simply use an IQ test? The various multimodal systems coming down the pipe will either improve on taking IQ tests, or stall. If they improve, then they gain more intelligence. If they stall, then they aren't truly intelligent. Just glorified goal to action mappers.

It's unclear how useful IQ tests are; there are entirely functional human communities whose members on average perform as badly on some IQ tests as people who need a full-time caretaker because they lack them mental capacity to get dressed or prepare breakfast without assistance. Change the test, those communities suddenly look smart and it's us who look dumb.

The tests have been improved since then, but we've also got problems in the opposite direction — all of the informal measures of intelligence I had growing up are skills where existing AI is now somewhere between a good student[0] (law, medicine, advanced maths, programming) and wildly superhuman (chess skill, languages spoken, arithmetic[1]).

[0] emphasis on "student": you wouldn't want to be treated or represented by a fresh graduate if you could afford better, would you? Nevertheless, if someone told you they had a law degree and a medical degree, this would be considered a sign they were very smart.

[1] when computers were new, they were called "electronic brains"… or rather, when digital computers were new, as the name "computer" was taken from a job that used to be performed by humans.
The title suddenly reminded me of this beautiful story [1] I read more than a decade ago, where spondylus plays a key role:

> [I]t was a sense of morbid attraction that led me to Diane Ackerman's newest book One Hundred Names for Love, in which she documents the stroke and subsequent language deficit suffered by her husband, novelist Paul West.

> [...]

> Oddly, it was often the most obscure words that were easiest to recover. He struggled with words like blanket or bed, or his wife's name Diane, words that you would think over time should have seeped into his genes. Nevertheless, he could recruit words like postillion or tardigrades to get an idea across.

> [...]

> At times, his speech sent even his verbally-endowed spouse scrambling for a dictionary. When trying to ask her whether she'd received a check as payment for some work done, he resorted to the word spondulicks, which prompted the following exchange:

>> "What's a spondulick?"

>> "Money."

>> "Really? Truly? Spondulicks?" In my mind's eye, I pictured a spastic duck.

>> "Yes," he said emphatically.

>> "Spondulicks?"

>> "Spondulicks. It's British."

>> Surely he was pulling my leg. I breezed into the library to look it up in an etymological dictionary, where I found this entry:

>> 1856, Amer.Eng. slang, "money, cash," of unknown origin, said to be from Gk. spondylikos, from spondylos, a seashell used as currency (the Gk. word means lit. "vertebra"). Used by Mark Twain and O.Henry and adopted into British English, where it survives despite having died in Amer.Eng.

Over time, West recovers:

> The intimate wordplay between West and Ackerman also eventually resumed, with West fashioning novel terms of endearment as gifts to his wife. The offerings were delightful. Deprived of the usual routes to language, and along with them, the common clichés that many of us struggle to shed, West bestowed on his wife exquisite pet names such as: My Little Bucket of Hair; Commendatore de le Pavane Mistletoe; Dark-Eyed Junco, My Little Bunko; Diligent Apostle of Classic Stanzas. And at one point, the man uttered what has to be the most searingly romantic sentence ever uttered in history, by anyone, in any language:

> "You are the hapax legomenon of my life."

[1]: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3697
Why the House voted to ban TikTok and what could come next
I may have misread, but you can s/PWA/Third party app/g my comment and it applies all the same.
Link to the original charging document - https://dailymontanan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/schubar...
This is really an incredibly narrow use-case in the modern world. It's very easy to ignore a phone call nowadays if you're busy. Avoiding global times just to gain an incredibly inaccurate estimate of when someone might be busy is not a very compelling argument.
There’s an entire segment of the legislature that tries to claw back bones tossed for the common person every day they show up to work. So many things can be fixed with a pen stroke, not just taxes. We already have a universal healthcare system, for example, you only get to use it if you live to 65 though (and ironically join the most costly age pool to insure).
It feels like they are after the modern equivalent of the 18th amendment.
175 stars, first commit 14 days ago, no real docs or other activity outside HN.

No acknowledgement of predecessors or collaborators - or license?

And now, as I finish typing this comment, stars up to 189.
To solve the housing crisis you have to build up like the Soviets and Chinese have. They housed a lot of people, quickly.

It’s really not difficult; just takes some brave people to change the zoning laws and rethink some of the building codes combined with financing it.
Hi thanks for trying it out! We don't automatically pull in the repos you allow access to. If you go through the configuration on the left side of the screen you should be able to add that repo.

Specifically, in the "Repo to index" section, if you click the dropdown on the right side you should see the repo you have added.

Hopefully that helps but let us know if you're still having issues!
after that faked google gemini AI video from awhile back, I've got a healthy dose of skepticism about these next-gen demos. obviously they've done a lot though, kudos.
Thanks for pointing this out, seriously. As a white european guy, I'd probably never have thought of this issue, that's an important reminder about our biases
They kind of threw in the kitchen sink on this one, and they admit it:

Platforms
The iso image again [Ed.: after a while of it not] includes binaries for all platforms. For the last several years, some binary sets had been pruned, but this year, we are not creating a physical DVD as a user group benefit, so may as well include everything again. Also, even a maximimally-pruned image is too large to fit on a single-layer DVD, so no benefit for the 2024 volunteer burners. More info.

Source: https://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html
It's basically a WYSIWYG markdown editor, which while useful, is hardly a fully fledged "Google Docs alternative." There's no way to print, save these documents to a PDF, insert an image, center or align text, or adjust font face, color or size. I think a more appropriate description would be "collaborative pastebin."
> As a user, I cannot recommend iPhone to my older relatives if there is a way to run arbitrary code beyond Safari’s JS sandbox. Simple as that.

This is a false dichotomy made in bad faith. You can have open computers and security for those who you wish to infantilize. Chromebooks for example have physical write protect screw inside to do exactly this: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Remove+the+Write+Protect+Screw/...

I fully expect the company that engineered the Vision Pro to come up with something like this if they wanted to. But they choose to spread FUD to continue collecting rent on the appstore instead.
I think a good UI demonstrates a simple internal model, which the user has in mind, and uses necessary controls to affect that model. To make that model for the application - the one which would be not too simple and not too complex, close to obvious in learning, so little documentation is needed, and convenient controls to work with - not too many of them, not too few - is a tricky problem, "beginner vs. expert" conflict of assumptions is a part of it. AI could help with making a good approximation of such a model with controls.
Seems fairly written to me.
I even lived in a house with a redwood frame in Hawaii. It was great for resisting termites.
What are the technical merits of Guix compared to Nix?
Also, what's the situation with unfree packages? And package availability in general?
But not like the UK and US social housing / projects. They need to be in master planned, well thought out and connected communities.
What about ByteDance’s freedom of expression?
It’s the way it is due to lobbying by Intuit and friends, and Republicans wanting the process to be annoying.

You may be correct that it causes fear, but the above is the intent behind the state of things.
So they refund is 1.5 yrs but threaten audit for seven? And that's not a fear-base paradigm?
I'm not fully convinced it would be an actual problem.

So what if my Friday workday spans two dates? Wouldn't "Friday" just be my local day, which spans March 14-15? I feel people like the author would be intentionally making things difficult by referring to local days and absolute dates by the same names without making efforts to differentiate. In reality, language adapts rapidly for convenience in most cases.
Sure it's a simple model. But the burden of proof lies with the person claiming that free trade needs to be bilateral. That's not some inherent property of it, or something immediately obvious. A basic look at it past "It's not faaiiiiiir" actually shows quite the opposite
But he did set the mission and goals for bluesky, thus determining it's long-term direction. Personally, I think it's the wrong direction in terms of what's best for society. Source - I was one of the first members in the private bluesky group he and Parag set up.
My first proper use case is to ban any kind of "lorem ipsum" from my designs. I can populate every field quickly with relevant data and content, which helps for communication.

But I haven't seen really impactful tools yet. Some UI generators that can at best replicate UI kits you can buy for $20. Maybe with time you'll be able to have good kits for a fraction of that? It won't disrupt the field tho.

The real value of UX/UI is before the generation, when you gather the requirements and lay out your flows. A copilot-style assistant might make sense here, providing you with context, references and relevant data.
Reposting the CS-2 teardown in case anyone missed it. The thermal and electrical engineering is absolutely nuts:

https://vimeo.com/853557623

https://web.archive.org/web/20230812020202/https://www.youtu...

(Vimeo/Archive because the original video was taken down from YouTube)
The problem here with highly capable agents is that it's not predictable and controllable in the point of designer's view. That might work for certain types of games, but many cases designers want to have a certain degree of control on their games.
What evidence do you have to support this belief?
> the Cochrane review did indeed show that masks are largely ineffective (and cloth masks, completely so) at stopping viral transmission - the link is right there in the article to which you've linked.

That's actually not what it showed. That bit of misinformation is probably best addressed in another article (https://www.acsh.org/news/2023/03/14/do-masks-prevent-covid-...)

Here's the most important part:

Many commentators have claimed that a recently updated Cochrane review shows that ‘masks don’t work,’ which is an inaccurate and misleading interpretation,” Karla Soares-Weiser, the editor in chief of the Cochrane Library, said in a statement.

“The review examined whether interventions to promote mask wearing help to slow the spread of respiratory viruses,” Soares-Weiser said, adding, “Given the limitations in the primary evidence, the review is not able to address the question of whether mask wearing itself reduces people’s risk of contracting or spreading respiratory viruses.”

She said that “this wording was open to misinterpretation, for which we apologize,” and that Cochrane would revise the summary.

Soares-Weiser also said, though, that one of the lead authors of the review even more seriously misinterpreted its finding on masks by saying in an interview that it proved “there is just no evidence that they make any difference.” In fact, Soares-Weiser said, “that statement is not an accurate representation of what the review found.”
That indicates real increased risk, though, compared to someone who drives in places where animals are less likely to be in the road.

Insurers aren't trying to determine how good of a driver you are (conditional probability of you being in a collision given conditions). They're trying to determine how likely it is that you're going to be involved in a collision that results in a claim (unconditional probability of you being in a collision). If you frequently drive through deer infested forests, it seems reasonable that your insurer is going to expect more claims compared to someone who doesn't do that.

It's similar to how driving late at night results in higher premiums. You can be the same good driver at night and during the day, but if you're frequently driving at 3 a.m., you're a higher risk.
I remember in the 2010's when several popular forums swore that they never stored plain-text passwords, but then sent out emails to their users once they were hacked that their passwords have likely been compromised
> Maybe our medical professionals should be wearing PPPS[1] at all times, hmm?

I'll bite your fallacy.

Scabies are prevented by avoiding direct skin-on-skin contact. Wearing latex gloves is already effective, as is routinely changing clothing and bedding.

Is any of this something you feel is outlandish for a health professional working on hospitals and retirement homes?
They can be problematic, but for many they are just a convenient excuse to spend time with friends in a voice chat. It's not really more or less of a time waster than most other group activities.

Now playing alone for the dopamine rush of successfully grinding repetitive tasks: yeah, that's a bit of a time waster. Maybe therapeutic for some, and definitely not the most harmful way to spend time and get validation, but also a bit pointless. But I would argue that if you play an MMORPG alone you're doing it wrong. If you don't have friends at least get engaged in a guild and spend countless hours improving real-life social and leadership skills.
we will always allow the CLI to stand alone for a local developer or CI runner. the service side of Flox is for those who want a faster performance, easy sharing, or eventually enterprise control. so while the CLI can use the closed service it's purely optional (and will always be optional)
You musta missed the hint in the name. United...STATES. smh
So, on Reddit, there's the problem that if you're interested in railroad trains, you have r/trains and r/trains2 and r/bettertrains and r/onlytrains due to differing moderation policies and clique drama, with plenty of duplication (and Reddit crossposts are always disconnected conversations).

My understanding of Bluesky is that the equivalent would be a ‘feed’ tracking #trains filtered by some union or intersection of moderation teams. Is that correct?
Modern airplanes should be compared to what is possible in modern times with modern safety standards. If you want an objective measure then compare the Boeing Max planes to their Airbus equivalent: the A320neo.

The A320 neo has had zero fatalities. This is an objective measure that Boeing should be compared against.

AFAIK there have also been zero manufacturing defects at the scale of missing bolts on a door panel.
How related is a youtube video in Czech showing up in your preferred videos with Apple store's first search being a scam