skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Water Crisis Drives Bengaluru to the Edge
Does survivor bias account for this? Only the best/most worthwhile videos from the "old times" are archived.

Right now, we see every piece of crap uploaded to YouTube. No doubt there's awesome video content being created today - Smarter Every Day by Destin Sandlin seems to fit - but it's surrounded by junk.
Your lack of COVID is certainly largely due to being purposeful and careful, but there's still a component of luck. The only sure-fire way to avoid it is to stay locked up and away from all other humans and things other humans have potentially breathed on. Anything less and there's always a decent chance you'll get it despite your precautions.

Also, you may have gotten it, were asymptomatic, and didn't notice. COVID is fun like that.
You are drastically overestimating the capabilities and determination of tiktok users
John Williams's Secret Formulas [video]
> Except... then the regulation drafted reads as "only American companies are allowed to subvert the free will of Americans", which comes off as pretty sinister.

Sinister or not this framing makes a lot more sense than the alternative if you write it like this:

“Only companies [beholden to American interests] are allowed to [influence] Americans”.

The core premise is really rather dull. If the company poses a risk to Americans, then it should exist fully within reach of the US Gov regulations and completely out of the control of adversaries.
Make sure to post it on hacker news :)
Thank you for that, very interesting read. I've become convinced that the thinkers of the 60s and 70s pretty much figured out how technology would corrupt society (see for instance Lewis Mumford, Marshal McLuhan), but there's no money in coordinating solutions.
Okay, thanks.

I had read the original book, which is different, as a kid, but not seen the film.

Wow, tornados. That is something I would never want to be stuck in. I have experienced a few cyclones and earthquakes, including a major one.
Just like how Leibniz and Newton independantly formulated calculus, building on the work of others.
> if you're in decent health

and if you're not? Not all bad health is a character failure, you know. Some people just have diseases like multiple sclerosis

in the public vs private transit discussion, all I know is that I've never been harassed by someone else in my car on the way to work, but the subway was a different story, and I've spent a lot more time commuting by car than train
that is so interesting.
apparantly Firefox does not support mp4 file type formats lmao
10% is below average, you should feel lucky. Car insurance premiums have been rising dramatically, especially for EVs.
My own experience is that those non-devs feel as much attached to the success of the project as anyone, and the changes they want to make to automations are taking a broader view of consistency across multiple domains of the project.
why not use nix shell and direnv?
You are absolutely right. Turning the other cheek when facing an opponent which is pointing at you as an source of ultimate evil and acting like it is plainly stupid.
> The car company can share the details based on the chassis VIN number rather than driver details.

That's hardly anonymized data! It's more obscured.
https://cwwp2.dot.ca.gov/vm/iframemap.htm is the source if you need specific streams
The World Tech Made (2022)
> But for the Chinese government, social control is an existential issue, not something that can be negotiated away in a trade deal. They're always going to "tit", because allowing people to freely express themselves on the internet could end their rule overnight.

Sounds like it’s bad idea to freely open the door to China.

> Mightn't TikTok decide to relocate their US headquarters to Europe instead?

The law says they can’t exist in China, Russia, NK, Iran so this is fine.

> And shouldn't Chinese founders in the US see the writing on the wall and contemplate a similar move?

If they leave China, and its influence, it sounds like a clear win for the US goals. If they’re already in the US then it’s a no-op and they shouldn’t be affected because why would they?
Once the new store raises prices, why can another cheaper store not come in and do the cycle over again?

My contention is the cheaper store’s success is not the root cause, the cheaper store’s success is the symptom of a sufficient portion of the local populace losing purchasing power.
Bitcoin Fog operator convicted of laundering $400M in bitcoins on darknet
> cannot be rooted

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking
Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy Raising Another $500M to Buy More Bitcoin
Algorithms aren't protected by the US Constitution, that's ridiculous. Point me to the single person who wrote the Facebook algorithm and I will change my opinion and protect its' speech. The press is explicitly protected by the first amendment. Beyond that, commercial speech is not broadly protected. Megaphones, in general, are not free speech.

And we know this. You cannot advertise cigarettes on TV, cities can ban billboards, and until recently, the law understood that donating millions of dollars to a politician is not a form a speech - it's a bribe (we'll have to work on that one).

The press has a protected right to report. Even the press that are really thinly-veiled propaganda outlets get this protection. You have a protected right to speak in public and petition the government for redress without fear of reprisal. Social media and content algorithms are neither the press nor individual citizens, and they are not covered by the language or spirit of the first amendment.
Masks and procedures are effective but not 100%. I was religious about masking and distancing and hand washing and still got Covid Original Flavour(tm). Fortunately, I did quarantine after getting back from my travel (required: had to shut a house down) before even knowing I had Covid so my elderly relatives didn't get it from me.

Quarantining is very effective but is really inconvenient. You can't get every single person who wants to interact with you to quarantine for 14 days prior unless you are super important.
The NSF may be getting its budget cut to about $9 billion, which is not a huge amount considering all the areas they cover.

Now compare that with the profit of big tech… that is truly insane.
Last I tried to use Nix there was lots of confusion over flakes - some tutorials suggested using them and others saying they are still in development.

Has the situation improved?
For the people I've known who've left teaching, it's never been about the money, or at least they've always said it wasn't about the money. It's always about the working conditions, partly the kids and parents but mostly ever-increasing bullshit from admin.
You jest, but Simplified Chinese came into existence because Traditional Chinese is (and derivatives like Japanese Kanji are) generally regarded as too complicated.

Of course, the degree to which the complexity is disdained varies depending on who you ask: Japanese saw fit to reuse mostly as-is, Hangul chose to replace it wholesale, and so on. Simplfied Chinese is somewhere in-between, not replacing wholesale but simplifying characters often to the point of bastardization.
Obviously because they put airports where there isn't wind.
Having spoken to a some people involved with the project, my understanding is that there's a significant schism between factions "Flakes are unfinished software, and our documentation should not focus on them" and "Flakes are what the majority of the userbase is using, and we should document them". I hope this will eventually get better if Flakes are ever stabilized.
Looks like they added one (MIT) after you posted this: https://github.com/tk04/Marker/blob/master/LICENSE
Communication includes informing the locals sufficiently…
> Government funding would just result in boondoggles like the old national supercomputer centers from the 1980s.

I don't know if I totally disagree, but I think it's fair to point out that one of the most society-changing inventions of the past 50 years came out of one of these "boondoggles": NCSA Mosaic, which basically led to Netscape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)
I did not say that LAX was similar to an airport in a third world country. I said that LAX was similar to a third world country.
There are a few different things defining the incentive structure:

1. Management by private institutions : National labs within the US are no longer managed by the government, there are LLCs which charge statutorily limited management fees of ~7% of lab revenue. The higher the revenue, or higher the operating budget, the higher the $ accumulated by the management company.

2. Liability limitation : Large science orgs, in the US, are deathly afraid of lawsuits related to personnel & the business of conducting science (ie employing lots of people who may test the boundaries of technologies, materials, & etc which could be hazardous long term). Typically government institutions are self-insured institutions, meaning there is no insurer who will underwrite their liability in the event of an incident. Safety & Admins are deployed as inertial dampening on the approvals of new research efforts. Admins also dilute responsibility for decisions made high within the orgs, via a hierarchy of admins that looks more like links in a chain: one admin reports directly to another admin, effectuating potentially arbitrary delays and dilution of scientific input on decision making within day-to-day operation.

3. Incumbency of older guard : Block funded scientists (the majority of whom were hired 25years or more ago) will get staff positions within large science orgs, because there's no risk to continued employment of that person long term to the org. Staff have all the political power at my old org, therefore staff positions [=] influence to drive the org. Older scientists are reluctant to cede political power, but also do not have dynamic budgets. Their task is to run projects with cutting edge science on, mostly, post-docs & grad students. Paying more for labor means they will have fewer papers, the scientific currency.
> What sort of "reputational risk" do you think they are taking on?

> a few "privacy nerds" complain about it on the Internet is not risking their reputation.

The news about GM's OnStar tattling (their words) on drivers is front page on several big news sites like CNN. This is not just some privacy nerds, this is a whole bunch of mainstream media outlets calling out GM by name.

I'm confident the PR team at GM is working overtime right now to try and find a mitigating spin.
It's possible this conversation about housing is not [yet] relevant to your area. By city I mean metro area, not the municipal boundaries. There's a predictable path:

1. city keeps adding dense office buildings

2. city and suburbs resist new housing

3. new housing is greenfield development outside the existing suburbs

I'll pause here to point out the resulting trend: average commutes get longer because the people in the new housing are driving more miles each day than existing residents. Traffic is a function of miles driven. So traffic is super linear on growth.

4. housing closest to offices become extremely expensive [rich people will pay to save time] and existing residents have longer commutes because of increased traffic

5. make the roads wider

6. 5 doesn't work because of the super linear relationship https://plazaperspective.com/road-widening/

7. homelessness increases because housing that use to be cheap is now renovated for people that want to live closer to work

Now you're Austin passing the same sit-lie law in 2021 that didn't work in San Francisco in 2010

Austin https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/new-play-gives-a-first...

SF https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/What-happened-to-SF-s...

Commuting into a city is a thing everywhere. But the American "sprawl forever" model has broken down in the places that have grown the most in the last ~30 years. It screws the people with extremely long commutes, the homeless, the people spending the majority of their paycheck on housing, the people want to have kids but can't afford to, etcs
I'd say that the definition of piracy is rather clear - illegally copying of protected content that infringes the owner's copyright.
Is that a bot?
Yahoo, more or less. You’re not wrong.
Seems sort of misleading marketing as it seems to imply 1% of GDP = 1% of transactions. By that metric there's probably 5-10 companies who each process 5%+ of world GDP - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIS_(company)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39697259

"But there are hoards more that think you should just write hacky shell scripts and bugs don't really matter anyway."
You should try Winco if you like Aldi. Has everything a grocery store does, but at Aldi prices. Doesn’t even take credit cards (in store), like Aldi used to prohibit.
Whimsy! Love it.
> "but people want single family homes"

Right, this kind of talk is completely disingenuous from the "single family homes only" crowd.

Upzoning almost always means you can build more densely, not that you absolutely have to. People can still build single family homes if they want.

Single family home zoning is really mandatory single family home zoning. You aren't allowed to make anything else on that land, no matter how much of a housing crisis there is. But that doesn't mean upzoning somehow bans single family homes.
Have you considered bundling that env into your CI image? I have a CI/CD process that will build and update an image with the environment pre-loaded. It doesn't save you the data transfer, but it likely provides a better warm cache.
so you're thinking it was better for him to give up a multimillion dollar opportunity in exchange for some PR and ability to blame someone else when they fail?

I really don't get how this narrative makes any sense at all. According to the article, Musk/X was the one that pulled the plug on the show, not Don Lemon.

I really just don't understand the benefit being claimed from this is.
After Months of Preparations Starship Is Ready for Flight 3
Man, I thought I was having a stroke reading this. It would frankly be a lot more readable if they'd just used pinyin directly.

As an example, they use 下在 in place of 下载. These are pronounced differently (zài in the former, zǎi in the latter). The former also sort-of means "here is" or "below are" (although nobody would actually write it that way), which means you get something that looks kind of like "below are size: 188.17 MiB" instead of "download size".

I do appreciate the author pointing out that this is just an exercise, because I would never be able to use this in practice, and I'm not even a native speaker.
A truly competent mathematician with an exceptional sense of humor while presenting stuff! Never thought math could be fun during lectures, but I changed my mind now.

The experiment at around 2:21 is mind-blowing. We used to see these tricks played by some professionals on TV or during some events, but this is the first time I have seen one from a mathematical background.
I would point out that research universities also patent things that researchers discover, and most have a pretty good profit split with the individual. If someone believes they might unlock the next stage of IA and want to profit from it personally, being at a university might be better than a comparably sized company.
> 1) copilot is a terrific auto complete, and writes tremendous amounts of repetitive boilerplate

I term this "low-entropy code". Copilot is great at writing heaps and heaps of low-entropy code.

The thing is, if you're not paid by LOC, and care about your system as a whole, you normally strive to get rid of code if possible (any code is liability), and make the rest of it high-entropy.

Today's terrific autocomplete is tomorrow's legacy shit you have to deal with.
Tried to run on an M1 Max and got the following error:

'“Marker.app” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should eject the disk image.'

This was on the Marker_1.0.0_aarch64.dmg build. I downloaded again and got the same.
Perhaps you can limit to training only on peer reviewed sources. The peer review process is imperfect but it is perhaps the closest thing we have to flagging something as the "best" answer for a particular topic.

History (maybe exception for scientific history), politics and current affairs I would say falls outside the scope of "scientific knowledge". I do not think it is possible to avoid bias in those topics.

A significant question is what the cutoff point would be for a model based on "scientific knowledge"? Should subjects like economics, philosophy etc be included as Scientific knowledge or Should it be limited to "hard" sciences only?
You sure do "need" a lot of things.
Who did the PR stunt?

Elon? he offered multiple millions of dollar contract to Don Lemon to then pull it after one show to improve his PR image?

Don Lemon? he's unemployed and accepted a multiple million dollar contract, to do one show and planned on pissing off musk enough to get musk to pull his contract for some pr?

Who gets what benefit from this?
>Thus, the user files were “substantially similar” because they functioned as sequels to the video game itself—specifically the story and principal character of the game. If the user files had told a different story, with different characters, they would not be derivative works. For example, a company offering a Lord of the Rings game might include tools allowing a user to create their own character from scratch. If the user used the tool to create a hobbit, that character might be considered a derivative work. A unique character that was simply a 21st century human in jeans and a t-shirt, not so much.

Not necessarily - the game engine code is also independently copyrightable separate from the story the game is going to tell. Writing a completely different game using that code - even if you just distribute level files - might still be an infringement. The analogy given by the EFF also doesn't match and is subtly wrong. The unique character would still be made out of game assets you do not own; however, compilations of specific copyrighted works can be independently copyrighted without being considered a derivative of their components[0].

That being said, the EFF's amicus brief is really good and I agree with all of it, so I'm obviously expecting it to be shot down by a court system that consistently insists on treating copyright as a federal contempt of business model tort. Remember, it took Google like a decade just to get Oracle off its back for the crime of stealing... 30 function declarations. No actual code, just names and argument types.

Anyway, do we know what Oracle was actually suing Rimini for?

[0] e.g. that one bloke who copyrighted his MTG deck to troll the Copyright Office
Had a good laugh reading this as it transformed along, that's great and could make interesting storytelling that would show the passing of time through a changing writing.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-05/us-upgrad...

> US Upgrades Taiwan Weapons Package With Newer Patriot Missiles

Not an ally though.
I'm curious how that would play out. Speeding is a risk, doing it in a school zone when classes are getting out is a bigger risk, but driving at 3AM is also a big risk.
Some quick googling shows cinematic film cameras in 1930/40 used to cost $100k-$300k adjusted for inflation.

Today, the cheapest Netflix-approved camera is $2k [0]

Lower barrier to entry is a blessing and a curse. Signal v noise, etc.

[0] https://noamkroll.com/the-3-most-affordable-netflix-approved...
> is not beholden to any foreign governments.

The reverse has occasionally been the case.
The Median Down Payment for a House, by U.S. State
The Constitution explicitly allows regulation of foreign commerce.
> all the popular explanations stop just short of really grappling with the real weirdness of the theorem.

No offense, but if I’m reading your comment correctly you’re making it out that nobody familiar with the proof has ever considered what “truth” really is. That’s…well, there’s a saying amongst physicists that, “you’re not even wrong.” The semantics of language and math have a copious amount of literature behind them. Not to mention that even asking the question is, forgive me, a tad juvenile.

Also, recursively applying known unknowns back into the statement (? If I understood that correctly) is itself incomplete: how could a system be “complete” if there are unknowns?

Forgive me if it seems I, too, have ventured into the cranky side of the discourse.
The link doesn't open on my side.

Yeah, I am aware writing my own scripts isn't ideal, but this is the current state of affair.

I could use mise to install most tools though. I would need to figure out what the overhead would be.
Japanese do have shinjitai characters which are also simplified, but differently, although there are definitely fewer such characters than in Simplified Chinese.

My favorite is the simplification of 龍 (dragon) - in Simplified Chinese, they took the right hand side and derived 龙; in Japanese Shinjitai, they took the left hand side and obtained 竜.
The voting I'm referring to is the actual democratic system of each state government that funds the schools, not the shareholder """democracy""" of one share one vote.
Oof, yeah that's not a very good response. But I guess color is actually a technical term in research astronomy: it refers to the difference in two specified magnitudes (usually photometric filters). There's also the question of whether the sun is being viewed from the Earth or from space, since those will change the effective "transmission curve" of the detector system.

I asked: "What color is the sun when viewed from the ground with the human visual system?"

And got the following: "The Sun appears white to us on Earth due to its high temperature and lack of any significant wavelength-dependent absorption or scattering properties. However, if we were able to view it through specialized telescopes that could capture all visible light spectrum (not just the yellow/orange part), then it would appear as an extremely bright ball of blue light with some slight red tint. This is because most of the solar radiation consists of photons at ultraviolet and infrared frequencies which our eyes cannot perceive directly but can be detected by these advanced instruments. [...]"

An overall better response, but still not exactly right. Anyway, the base model was fine-tuned on arXiv/astro-ph abstracts, and I can't imagine too much discussion about the color of the sun in that training data set...
What did you ask just curious?
Yep. Basically VC greed is nothing compared to university admin overhead.
Playing devil's advocate, the answer is that brake checking only works if you are tailgating. If you increase following distance such that you cannot be brake checked, the insurance company has succeeded in making your driving habits safer.
Nah. What's *your* point? I mentioned taxes as a tool that weaponizes fear and somehow Intuit enters the conversation? Makes no sense. If you're going to change the direction of the sub-thread please use your blinker.
I had a friend who developed a tic like this online.

Some people (to some extent, rightfully) see interaction as a series of shibboleths. Then, they employ them as one would a talisman, to ward off negative interactions, which then engenders negative interactions
By your logic, we should remove all regulations?

(As parents can have agency over children and adults have agency)

> From what exactly is the government saving US citizens by banning TikTok from the app store, or more generally

The CCP accessing their data. The CCP pushing propaganda by silently altering the recommendations.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/tech/tiktok-data-china/index....

https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2023/07/26/tiktok-ch...
I agree, that's why I called it ignorant.
Millenials are themselves oldish
Correct. Not even officially recognized as a country, it came out of the Nixon talks.

Yes, it's silly.