skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like I said, it's not clear to me what exactly established journals have been doing "better" historically than a preprint server could. You say they are better at "being a journal" -- OK. They are established, well connected (to science communities, industry, journalism, funding agencies, etc.) and have been maintaining a reputation for a long time, usually much longer than preprint servers exist. That's basically prestige, which isn't nothing (I didn't claim prestige is nothing). However, this doesn't demonstrate journals do anything relevant to the advancement of science fundamentally better right now.

What I "have" is that

1. It's not obvious that a journal is fundamentally better at organizing unpaid voluntary reviewers compared to a preprint server.

2. Scientific publishing has insanely high profit margins. How come? My theory is that they are selling prestige first and foremost, i.e., a luxury good, (to scientists, universities and funding agencies simultaneously) and purchasing decisions there are made by people who are spending public money, not their own. Both of these points (luxury good, public spending) seem like strong contributors to high margins. The public is paying for the research and for access to articles, while journals nowadays on first glance seem to only provide a little bit of web hosting, a little bit of reviewer coordination and a little bit of manuscript editing.

3. It's not obvious that the submission and peer review systems we have now (in journals) is worth the time and effort. The role of peer review is misrepresented in journalism and the expectations are not met. If one could separate publication ("preprint") on one side, and, on the other side, review and "being featured by important outlets or institutions", authors could save a lot of time time (that could be used for more research). Others would have access to interesting results earlier and be able to build on top of them. Next, in a separate process some institution could select important works, scrutinize and review them, perhaps paying experts to do so, and perhaps replicate where appropriate.

The issue with this is that academics need the prestige provided by journals for career advancement, universities need the prestige to justify their spending to funding agencies and politicians, and funding agencies likewise need the prestige to justify their spending to politicians. The "replication crisis" and the like indicate that this prestige is overvalued. The hope is, economically speaking, that the market for "academic prestige" can either be disrupted, or the price the public has to pay can be lowered "through competition". It's interesting what that might look like. Preprint servers, open data and more direct science communication seem like steps in the right direction.
I wanted to connect my Nintendo Switch to the hotel wifi, but the captive portal wouldn't load on it. So I just spoofed my Switch MAC on my laptop, got thru the captive portal, reverted everything, and I was able to happily play Diablo 3 :)
You’re off by about a factor of ten.

Global electricity production is about 30 PWh per year and wholesale electricity costs are about $100 / MWh around the world. That’s about $3T. (Numbers are rough, don’t get pedantic)
but maybe that feeling of 'looking for truth' is just what happens when you're doing pattern matching on the text embeddings?
At least the effects are small compared to poultry farming. Slightly less milk production and reduced feed intake for cattle; they survive.

“Unlike affected poultry, I foresee there will be no need to depopulate dairy herds […]USDA confirmed that there is no threat to human health and milk and dairy products remain safe to consume. Pasteurization (high heat treatment) kills harmful microbes and pathogens in milk, including the influenza virus,"
You cannot make that final claim because there are plenty of alternative scenarios never tried that could have allowed Apple to be successful by other means. Also, your 90s era anecdote is mostly meaningless today, certainly not demonstrative that licensing couldn't work, just that Apple failed to make it work with their one potentially poor attempt 30 years ago.
I agree that the policy of suspending licenses seems counterproductive, but in many cases these deadbeats are working off the books for cash so there are no official "wages" to garnish.
Interesting.

May I ask how many tasks you were managing with Pueue and what your usecase was?

I also thought about using alternative formats such as CBOR, but choosing a human-readable format like JSON made debugging and such a lot easier.

If there's a good usecase for it, I might consider switching to a more compact format.
Learning the greatest common divisor: explaining transformer predictions
Doesn't one company own almost all the dating apps in the US? That seems... potentially problematic.
That is a lazy take used to justify the actions of bad people.
> The point isn’t “nuclear makes states more authoritarian” the point is “adopting tech X will make it societies more Y”.

I think you accidentally wrote the opposite of what you thought. If you substitute X with "nuclear power plants" and Y with "authoritarian", then your second statement is synonymous with your first statement.

Regardless, your initial point was neither; that's the thing I was responding to. Specifically:

> I’ve said in comments here on HN before that one of the issues with nuclear is that it requires a powerful state to protect it, whereas solar does not.

My argument was that all advanced technologies require a powerful state to protect. Like computers. We already have such a state, and it is not authoritarian. Democracy is not incompatible with having a powerful state. The fact that the US won WW2 is a testament to that.

But let's address your new contention: the existence of nuclear power plants in a country makes it more likely that that country would slide into authoritarianism. That works with a toy model of a state being completely without regulations. We don't live in such a toy model. The US, and the Western countries, have lots of regulatory bodies, and they work well. In the case of the nuclear power plants, that regulatory body is the NRC in the US. The idea that people can steal plutonium from nuclear waste in the US is ludicrous. The idea that you can't safeguard the nuclear waste, or the nuclear power plants themselves is a complete rejection of reality. Both in the US and in the UK, France and so many other countries.

Let's talk than Russia. Russia has become a full fledged totalitarian regime. Russia also has numerous nuclear power plants. Were the power plants the cause, or one of the causes, of Russia becoming undemocratic? Of course, identifying cause-and-effect relationships is notoriously difficult, even on a philosophical level. But one can't escape but notice that while most industries in Russia are owned by oligarchs, the civilian nuclear industry (Rosatom) is not.

So, I find that the evidence that nuclear power plants lead to a weakening of democracy is flimsy at best.
MMT is old wine in a new bottle, a tale as old as money itself. "Purchasing" stuff from people with worthless or arbitrarily debased units of currency is like stealing. The government threat of violence does not make these digital or paper "assets" any more real.

>The point is not to print too much!

It may be possible for this to continue an indefinite amount of time, just like counterfeiting. It is almost exactly state-sponsored counterfeiting.

>But to be fair you should see how bad it is inside fortune 500s and boy some of those start ups are an embarrassment.

This waste is greatly exacerbated by artificial credit bubbles created by MMT shysters. They even got academia thinking this is a good idea, probably by paying them off in freshly printed notes.

>Don’t call for the “private sector is great and should take over every branch of government” shtick.

I would never suggest such a thing. But letting the state spend theoretically unlimited money, and thus pick winners and losers in a "free market" is just bad policy.
If you had the option to use whatever you want, and you're already sacrificing not using a text editor, why would you use parquet instead of the myriad of choices.
The inertia around CSV in the finance industry is incredibly strong, and let’s just say some of the biggest industry players aren’t exactly reknowned for their cutting-edge practices when it comes to data interchange formats.
Fingerprint is so insecure. So exposing your credentials unencrypted (except for winter) all the time? I mean you wouldn't even store your private keys unencrypted in the ssh dir... so don't get me started on FaceID!

What an easy attack vector. A finger is probably the easiest body part to snatch.

(Which i was actually scared of, in case i ever accidentally got top secret files on my drive and some three letter gang was after me).
I personally don’t think there is lot of evidence to support this theory? If ChatGPT 5 requires more power to run, it will get more power to run.
The article mistakenly called the CEO of Redis "Redis Trollope" instead of "Rowan Trollope" and I found this quite amusing.
In a POSIX shell, I actually prefer to use the bell character for IFS.

while IFS="$(printf \\a)" read -r field1 field2...
do ...
done

This works just as well as anything outside the range of printing characters.

Getting records that contain newlines would be a bit trickier.
If you take away the licence of someone who is ALREADY not paying their debt, what has changed in that respect?
No but as others are arguing in this thread, “power is fungible” etc etc, “it’s not up to you to decide where the energy goes”. Double standards in my opinion.
I'd also add that the instructions were (paraphrased to show the absurdity of them)

1. create a plaintext ZIP
2. completely overwrite the file created in #1 with an encrypted ZIP

so if you followed the instructions, one of the steps was utterly pointless, too.
So, there's a wiki which explains many of the usecases.

I specifically didn't want to further bloat the README, as it's already super long as it is.
I can't spoil the weather tomorrow (it's a major plot point) but I can tell you that fortune has been tweaked to favor the bold by an additional 10%, just for tomorrow.

Laundry service is complimentary, but our records show that you haven't registered your home. Would you like to register your home address at this time?
"API requests will only get cheaper"

You've somehow missed all the "enshitification" processes Cory Doctorow and others have been documenting?

"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification."

OpenAI (et al.) are all deeply in the "First, they are good to their users" stage of their business plan, but they WILL. NOT. STAY. THERE. Whatever product relying on OpenAI you can offer/build/grow into a business, sooner or later you're going to be squeezed for every cent in profit, in the same way as companies who were convinced Facebook was a great alternative to running their own web presence are these days - having to pay to ensure content that people who've like and subscribed to their pages end up seeing anything they post.

Your $20 subscription is not even close to covering electricity costs - never mind covering capitalisation costs for $1.6 billion data centres with another $1.6 billion dollars worth of GPUs to put in them. (Think about it. Even if that 3.2 billion dollar datacenter was funded borrowing at only 1% - you'd need over 130,000 paying subscribers at $20/month just to cover the interest on the loans.)
> and hopefully a more general prohibition on kids having them at all

sounds like one to me :)
The constant attempts/threats/path toward removing landlines can be quite troubling. I know rants are discouraged. So, please don't read the below as overly ranty; it's just an attempt to detail and characterize some concerns, really.

If power or internet goes out, wired VOIP phones won't work. Both the power and the internet have way worse reliability than the copper wire telephone where I live in a top 1% part of California.

If cell phone service goes out (or if cell phone batteries get exhausted and can't be recharged), then mobile phones won't work.

A landline is a very, very reasonable "emergency line" or even "regular line". The data and power connection to it will not be unexpectedly severed, for the most part.

I can very easily imagine an "extended outage" for whatever reason of power, internet, and/or mobile phone service, take your pick. In any of these cases, I would expect to basically be able to use the landline phone to call a relative, friend or co-worker pretty much anywhere in the world. Ok, maybe some disasters take out copper wire telephones, or maybe sometimes copper wire telephones have issues (rare but possible), but this is still a pretty good backup/emergency/constant connection.

If you really have got your sh* together, you have a landline, IMO.

There is a copper contact running all the way to some box, and to some substation, which has utility-managed diesel backup generators and switching and all that jazz. I don't care if it's digital and so forth behind the scenes. It's managed! It works from their system to mine, end of story.

We have a residential elevator. It has a phone line for emergencies, like if you get stuck in the elevator by yourself. That goes to a copper wire telephone wire. I do NOT want to rely on the unreliable California power utility to not have a scheduled or unscheduled outage, causing the elevator fail, and also shutting off power to a cable box powering some VOIP service. Really?

Sure, I could add backup batteries. Sure, I could add automatic diesel power generators. But, the phone company already has those! Do I need a secondary and/or tertiary ISP as backup as well, and somehow join them together? (Some will say, "yes, of course".)

What are they going to do next, ban standard incandescent light bulbs? Oh, wait, they already did that! Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison must be spinning in their graves!

I get the idea is to cut costs or something, but I think this is a safety issue, no?

If we can't have real light bulbs, and we can't have real telephones lines, is there a name for that? We used to have more or less "additive" technologies. A new one would go add to the list of available technologies, not really fully replacing any. Just adding to the list of what you can readily have/do. But this concept of "removing" solid technologies for arguably "worse" ones--I think it's not merely enshittification. This seems like a whole 'nother branch of weird.

Maybe there's some state that will reverse some of this stuff; one can hope, can't one?

If you use one or more copper lines: what is your plan for the post-telephone-line world, if it comes to it?
You are even better at analyzing me than GPT-4.
The purpose of the lawsuit was to intimidate all those who dare to criticise him. It was never going to work and Musk knew that because his army of legal reps would have told him that. But the intimidation will still make others think twice about criticizing him.
Finite Set Theory in Python
The grill is really the main character.
And have you studied anything into modern mining yourself? Mines are starting to convert fleets into self driving trucks. Capabilities like image/video recognition that LLMs can do improve their identification and alert systems.

Modern AI is a whole lot more than just shitting out spam on the internet.
.. don't forget refusing to engage with any press and automating a pooh emoji as an autoreply
>"AI could do this", but could it? Because it's not just "can it do it", but "can it do it as reliably and cheaply"?

Yes and also yes, ResNet was released in 2015, VGG in 2014, since then we have developed powerful models that can process a frame in a few ms even on a Raspberry Pi.
I had this exact kit! It was a little before my time, but I found it second hand at a garage sale. The kid who had it before me had drawn some of his own designs in the instruction booklet. Pretty cool to see it again.
Pennsylvania and alcohol on the other hand…
> Sophisticated buyers

... as in, himself?
I have mixed feelings. I agree with you regarding the "Child support suspensions." But most of these categories seem like non-crazy (can't quite go so far as "reasonable") attempts to enforce laws relating to responsible operation of a vehicle. I think it's helpful to point that out, since the article at least facially makes it sound like this is about purely private debt.

Your point still stands about these being debt traps though. But in many cases they're downstream from some other payment that the government requires, like registration fees, or the requirement to hold a private auto insurance policy. Maybe we should worry about these in the first instance and not just the license-revocation rules designed to enforce them.

What if we just didn't have a registration fee? Or maybe we should socialize auto insurance so the poor aren't priced out of driving in the first place?
How is adding 10-20 lines, depending on how many structures you're creating, and then re-running a generation tool (or simply just running a build command again depending on your build configuration) time consuming? I've written OpenAPI-first services both at Big Tech for services handling crazy amounts of RPS and at tiny seed startups where we release the API and literally nobody uses it but our app. Sure I've run up against the occasional sharp edge/incompatibility with some form of nested structure and the generator we used but it was usually a minor diversion and represented 20-30 min of wasted time for the occasional badly-behaving endpoint.

I'm even writing a side project now where I'm defining the API using OpenAPI and then running a generator for the echo Go framework to generate the actual API endpoints. It takes just a few minutes to create a new API.
> Or the actual British library report

Which contains near zero technical detail. No mention of vendors, or software used, or hardware used, or the attack type, or vulnerability IDs, or much of anything, really. It's 18 pages, and only pages 6-9 are really about what happened. Much of the rest is generic boilerplate, including a copy of their mission statement.
Tim Apple moment.
CSV is very durable. If I want it read in 20 years, csv is the way to go until it’s just too big to matter.

Of course there are better formats. But for many use cases friends encourage friends to export to CSV.
I'm no lawyer, but the 2 angles I see are failure to provide agreed services (that were paid for!), and double billing.

Not having recourse for being deplatformed sucks, but for the rest, take the Internet out of the equation and it's a bog-standard contract dispute between companies, that the law is well-equipped to handle.
> But the other problem is the "not now" button, because it's what the large majority of users will click

Yeah, because not now, dammit. I am not ready to choose the browser, I have no clue. Geezus, give me an option if you really insist on me to have options but don’t FORCE me to make my mind up when I’m not ready, right there on the spot. How do I even know if this is the best choice I am about to make? Just imagine that every time someone taps “not now” they simply say “I don’t care”. Why do I need to feel the breath of a bureaucrat on my neck when settling up my phone? Just because the bureaucrat had some beef with Apple I’m now forced to make some possibly uneducated decisions. Does your 70 year old mother or 3rd uncle knows which browser is the best and the implications of making the choice are?

Go and sort out more pressing matters. Leave my walled garden alone.
> ...adding in a second factor such as fido u2f provides unique passwords per domain...

Properly using a password manager provides unique passwords per domain too.
The font could definitely use some technical tweaking for issues like that -- the kerning on "qu" also stands out as a problem.

It looks like this is the author's first attempt at making a font, though, and by that standard it's pretty good!
You're wrong again. Not everything is marketable, and even if it is you have no right to steal it. Why should a business owner have to gradually give up ownership of his creation just to satisfy some arbitrary tax invented to make poor people feel better about being poor, or feed some arbitrary government apparatus? That's what any wealth tax is, especially when applied to business. Wealth in and of itself should not be taxed, only transactions and fixed assets that need state protection. And the taxes should be carefully measured so as to not penalize people for being successful.
Do we have any ballpark figure of what a single sora video costs to make?
Most museums in London are free. It's wonderful. Decide to go on a whim, and stay for 5 minutes or 5 hours.

It works better than anything I've ever seen at a park or museum in the US.
I saw the picture of them folded down. They are still a good 20 feet higher than the deck.

So they can clear bridges.
oh boy. here's where it breaks

- supporting "" (single)

- Supporting newlines in "", oops, now you can't getline() and instead need to getdelim()

- Supporting comments # (why is this even a thing)

- Supporting multiple "" in a field

- Escaping " with "" or \"

- length based csv, so all fields are seekable.

It's a mess, which one's your csv?
Hell with the Lid Taken Off
What other representations of "start/current/end" do you know of? Both versions just use 3 pointers. I am not aware of specific instructions on any architecture that would impact the direction the heap grows. They essentially boil down to adds, subtracts, and and's.
I also like that Preview can display CSV
> but at the same time decreeing those same things "privileges, not rights" so that they can deny them with minimum oversight.

Can we apply the same “it’s a privilege, not a right” logic to big corporate licenses, like spectrum?
Not sure why you're being downvoted. But you're totally right. We hum and haw about Tik Tok - but we don't generally give them any information other than our scrolling (behavioural data). Dating apps have a ton more detailed information on individuals (dating preferences, age, specific geographic locations). But I suppose IAC (Barry Diller) and MTCH are US-owned.
Wouldn't it have been more effective for him to have just closed it on day one? Why leave it around for years, and have 75% of the users still there? That's being pretty incompetent at destroying it.
> any vehicle they are found operating or in possession of regardless of who owns it should be shredded and recycled with the scrap value going to a fund to compensate victims.

Assuming you take the vehicle, you should sell it as-is if possible, it will likely provide more value than shredding it. Even if you have to sell it to a dismantler, the parts are probably more valuable before you shred them.

It certainly doesn't seem fair for the government to take a car from an owner if its use was unauthorized, but if you want to do it for authorized use vehicles, then you should seek to get a reasonable sale and the funds should go towards a specific debt incured by the user; if the vehicle sells for more than those debts (less cost of sale), the balance should be returned to the owner. Same as if it were a house foreclosure or an abandoned car.
>>> USDA reports that affected dairy cows do not appear to be transmitting the virus to other cattle within the same herd.

Familiar words to announce the start of a pandemic.
This is a lazy take on morality. Neumann enriched himself from wealthy, supposedly sophisticated investors. So sad. He took (not stole, took) from the rich (which they willingly handed over), gave to himself, and walks around free with no criminal prosecution to speak of.

We might disagree on what constitutes “bad people.”
And “do you have a header row”? And null/nil/nul/blank specification/expectation?
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