skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The government is our tool for regulating society when self regulation fails. It may be a blunt instrument and a last resort. Yet there is a place for it. We cannot entirely outsource all boundaries to individuals and private institutions.

I don't know who "our" refers to here, but if humans are evolving into "the internet", or however you want to think of this creature which is emerging over the course of this century (and appears wont to accelerate over the next few centuries), then I don't think the state is "ours". We can't just cover our eyes when presented with the proclivity of the internet not to tolerate the state.

> I agree it would be ideal if the Internet could be as opt-in and benign as you suggest. Though I'm not even sure such an architecture is possible. How do you drive down the cost of listening and filtering to near zero whilst still allowing the desired signal?

Cryptography.

> And even if it were possible, consider that we do rely on governments to regulate the limited radio spectrum that we all have to share. Otherwise it wouldn't be an option to opt in to. The signal would be drown out by whomever has the strongest transmitters.

...really? Do you really believe that the state is a force for coordination and openness in radio?

The only bands which reliably continue to have these characteristics are the amateur bands, which have been defended by users for decades against constant encroachment by a state which, if it had its druthers, would've sold these bands to AT&T a long time ago.

My sense is that, if the government thought we weren't watching, they'd simply cancel the amateur radio license program. It is people standing to be counted (by taking the test) that keeps these bands viable _despite_ the FCC, not the other way around.
The demise of Twitter: how a 'utopian vision' became a 'toxic mess'
If everyone that wants to scam Google just says they have whatever audience pays best, that should result in lots of slots for that audience. Somehow that should tank the price, right?

Then, ban pages that change their audience too often.
> You won't even see 10% of the bugs lurking in your game without releasing it to a wider audience, no matter how long you worked on it or how good your QA process is (that's what Steam's Early Access is for after all).

Just because they like to say that doesn't mean it's true. I've had access to see the list of known issues considered "critical" around release time for a few games. They know the bug exists, they just want to release it more than they want to fix it.

> But even if your game code is perfect and completely bug free, there are so many weird PC configs and buggy drivers in the wild that your game will crash for some users.

Which in no way invalidates the point that most modern games are absolutely unplayable for most users at release.

Oh yeah, and also that's why beta testing exists
Here in Norway I just have to look it over on our IRS' own site (so no selling of private data to god knows how many unknown third parties), add a couple of items they don't get automatically, like a private loan, and click save. Less than 10 minutes.

For years the big hassle was that housing loans only got put on one of us, but since we're both paying on the loan, the loan and deductions should be split as well. So that had to be manually calculated and corrected on each of our declarations.

However last year they fixed that. Now they get the split from the property ownership registry and distribute the loan and deductions according to that. For most people they pay similar to their ownership, typically 50/50, so no need to change that anymore.

Our IRS' has a quite good internal development team[1], rather than relying on contractors for everything. Their digital solutions has been several steps ahead most other agencies.

[1]: https://www.skatteetaten.no/nn/itjobb/ledige-stillinger/
Ah right that's why no games existed two decades ago.
If you get to live on a long enough timescale to see it
> "perfect"

> perfect

See the difference?
So... taze him and then cosh him instead?
Indeed. Seeing the downvotes, it seems many people misunderstood your comment.
What kind of peer pressure did you experience to get an iphone? This doesn't seem to exist in my circles.
> 4-5 times during 100-150 hours of gameplay

Great, thanks for proving my point! If you had played CP at release, how many times would it have crashed?

Do you really think it would have taken them another 12 years to get to the point they're at now if they hadn't released it 4 years ago? SMH
Google has a monopoly though. Multiple monopolies even.

If Google had competition in the ads space, this would be less of an issue, as the author could pick an advertiser that works for their website, rather than contorting their website for google
> Even alcohol makes the risks of giving midazolam increase significantly.

It's either that or he bleeds to death.

The only contraindications for midazolam in my protocols are:

(1) Hypotension (See below for ET bucking) (2) Known hypersensitivity to midazolam
We Sometimes Disappear into Ourselves
> since what they know about many individuals is incomplete

No, for most individuals it is complete. Most people don’t own stocks directly (only an estimated 21% do)[1], and the ones who don’t are not probable to deal with complexly taxable transactions as the norm.

[1] https://www.axios.com/2023/10/18/percentage-americans-own-st...
It seems like we'd be better off eliminating some of those privileges and otherwise generally constraining the overall behavior of corporations, rather than scrutinizing the individuals comprising the corporations while otherwise assuming the emergent results are otherwise desirable by construction.
The point is the requirement to keep those records is onerous.
Beauty of Kamakura
even craigslist free still sees tremendous traffic
Though, thinking more about it, stealing queens seems... unlikely. It takes a lot of work to find a queen! Even if she's marked you still have to open the hive and pull out and examine some number of frames. If it's a big hive (say, "two deeps" and several "supers", that could be fifteen minutes if you're very good at it, or an hour if you're not. And you'd be very vulnerable to getting caught while doing it. If the queen is not marked then it takes that much more skill to find her, and you might have to look at every frame. So queen theft gangs seem unlikely to me.
It is professional negligence to abandon a patient with altered mental status.
Previous versions Android were nothing like T-Mobile’s G1. It was more like if Nokia made a BlackBerry device.

Just something else I was thinking about with Android. I love the Android OS but Google’s implementation is far and away the best version and while you could technically run Android with just the bare necessities and without google apps, it may as well be unusable. So, google has “technically” made it available without their services but the juice isn’t worth the squeeze to get it working how you want it.
Yes, the USA is significantly under-policed compared to other OECD countries. Defund the police? How about multiplying by ten.
> it's a great technology when supervised, it is probably safer to drive FSD + human than just human alone

No, because FSD + human is very difficult to maintain for any length of time. That's because if the FSD is reasonably ok in non-challenging situations, it is human nature to start paying less and less attention.

That's what the article talks about, crashes where the human had plenty of time to react but didn't. The fact that they didn't tells us they were not paying attention.

We can (and yes, should) blame those humans for not paying attention, but at the same time we (society, and laws) need to recognize that human nature is what it is, so asking a person to be 100% attentive and ready to react when they get used to not having to do anything is not a realistic expectation.
Indeed it does not.

But that also doesn't mean this legal mitigation is either useful or worthwhile.
Malware writers who are compiling a kernel and have the power to install and execute it? When would that be useful?
I'm not smart enough to invent a rainbow cannon that shoots wellness beams.

Perhaps you are.
If the margins are high enough, then it's optimal to overproduce and then sell to everyone who will buy at a certain price point. If discounts will reduce your ability to sell the same brand in the future at that price point, it can be financially optimal to destroy it instead.

THIS IS INTENTIONAL.
are things able to restrain someone without sedating them nonexistent now?
They prayed to God that they could adapt to nature. Today people have no faith to turn to, and the system they are in is an artifical maze meant to keep them distracted. There's no hope in the modern scenario.
It's funny how water cooler conversations always involve at least one member of the legal team.
Even worse: individual states are on a campaign (nationally) to ban ranked-choice voting [1] among their constituencies (e.g. Tennessee recently did so, to prevent a Memphis-area jurisdiction from implementing fairer voting).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
Can't they just not drop the decoder part of the transformer architecture if they need some additional processing on the prompt?
The real reason container systems like Docker became so popular.
The case you're referencing has nothing to do with how the password is provided and rather with the fact that the existence of the evidence was a foregone conclusion.

(Of course, if it was really a foregone conclusion then the question remains why they needed access to that evidence)
https://toehider.bandcamp.com/track/died-of-dancing
Could humans alter the moon's orbit significantly with current technology? (2016)
Previously, they were American (owned by Ford)
Home sensor network based on ESP8266s that collects data from around the house and sends it to my Raspberry Pi.
> Just pay up for a Professional license and save your time and nerves.

What on earth. This is stockholm syndrome in a nutshell.
> I think switching to ephemeral messaging apps specifically in response to antitrust investigation is evidence of mens rea that you’re in an illicit conspiracy.

This theory assumes that the company believes the justice system is infallible.

Suppose you're engaged in an illicit conspiracy and you find out there is an investigation. You'd want to stop writing things down that could prove your crimes, because you're guilty.

Suppose you're not engaged in an illicit conspiracy and you find out there is an investigation. You'd want to stop writing things down that could be taken out of context in a malicious prosecution, because you're being investigated even though you're innocent, perhaps because of lobbying by your competitors who have it in for you, maybe because the prosecutor wants to run for office, but certainly for no good reason and therefore evidently for a bad reason.

Since the expected behavior is the same in both cases, it provides no evidence of which case it is.
A reader has done exactly that and reports pretty confidently that the CD-ROM subsystem firmware is not Windows, and appears to be mostly hand-written assembly and probably by Hitachi. Unsurprising considering their prominent role in the CD-ROM industry.

It is true that the later Sega Dreamcast could run Windows CE, although the Saturn, as far as I can tell, never could. Windows CE had barely been started when the Saturn came out, so it doesn't seem realistic that there had been a plan in the Saturn era to put CE on it. If I had to speculate (and I do) I think that perhaps the Sega-Microsoft partnership for the Saturn didn't work out, perhaps due to the failure of WinPad or Pegasus, but did start the relationship that lead to CE support on the Dreamcast.
Truely yes, but I don't think it helps any more.

The problem with most of the fast fashion is that the clothes don't last very long, at only a handful of uses, so its only cheaper if you need lots of different outfits. If you are hanging on by a thread, then you need cheap outfits that last for as long as possible.
I think we just identified the problem: people who are homeless would really benefit from being able to make food, but they can't plug in a stove no matter the cost.
That's essentially the thesis of Hirschman's treatise on Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty
This is where 'not corporate endorsed but tolerated' wsl2 is awesome, everything inside the vm is not scanned or slowed down by all the security crap.
Oh. Sorry to hear that.
So many of these examples are simply forgetting that LLMs experience the world through a 1-dimensional stream of tokens, while we experience those same tokens in 2 dimensions.

Try this: represent all those ASCII representations of games with the letter Q replacing the newline, to properly convert the encoding into a representation approximating what LLMs "see" (not a table, but a stream interspersed with Qs at a regular interval). Pretty hard right?

> LLMs cannot reset their own context

If you have a model hooked up to something agentic, I don't see why it couldn't perform context manipulation on itself or even selective realtime finetuning. Think you'll need info for the long haul, kick off some finetuning. Think you'd rather have one page of documentation in context than other, swap them out in one iteration. When you call LLMs over APIs you usually provide the entire context with each invocation...

> Devin

It's not that it's massively smarter or agentic, just that it has the opportunity to correct its mistakes rather than committing to the first thing to come out of it (and is being handheld by a vastly more knowledgable SWE in its demos). You see cherrypicked examples (I also work on GenAI-for-coding) - just like a tragically incompetent employee could waste literal years on a project diligently plugging away at some task, so too can agentic models go off on a wild goose chase that accomplishes nothing besides making Nvidia more money. Just because something is highly persistent doesn't mean it will "converge" on a correct outcome.
From a business perspective I don't really agree.

The market for other types of players is there and it's far from niche. It's more like making games for them isn't as lucrative. Still pays well for sure, but you can make the same or better working in a corporate office like everyone else. Ironically, office drones are probably the ones who most want to make and play these games.
The Australian Guardian has been seething nonstop about this stabbing video. It's so weird to see the media class simultaneously so worried about "misinformation" but so adamant that the public not be allowed to view objective primary source material.

Elon is a cunt and Twitter is now full of weirdos who sun their anuses, but the Australian government and its spineless cheerleaders are unambiguously the bad guys in this instance.
I live in Thailand.

A roll back of the weed laws isn't entirely conservatism even though you are correct in that Thailand is a deeply conservative country.

The reason it's being walked away from is the same it was passed in the first place, politics. The previous election was even more of a sham then the most recent one. In order to win the junta party had to form a coalition with a party which favoured legalising weed, it's implied for personal monetary gain.

However the political landscape changed massively following the recent election where the progressive youth party won a majority but was denied government though the senate system setup by the junta to prevent exactly that outcome.

As a result though the previously very powerful populist party Phue Thai has returned to power and even brought their leader out of exile. Said leader is extremely anti-drug and is the primary reason why this law is now being revoked.

Weed usage is also just not popular among Thais. They prefer alcohol and kratom and see weed usage by tourists as mostly just a nuisance.
I just use copilot for this and bash scripting, which I both do very little of and forget the syntax
As the comment I replied to very correctly said, we don’t know how the brain produces cognition. So you certainly cannot discard the hypothesis that it works through “parroting” a weighted average of training data just as LLMs are alleged to do.

Considering that LLMs with a much smaller number of neurons than the brain are in many cases producing human-level output, there is some evidence, if circumstantial, that our brains may be doing something similar.
Hahahaha! :) Oh this is hilarious. This is hilarious. And it's well written.
I'd disagree, they require a massive amount of moderation and clean up to keep running. The default state is ruined and only by herculean effort is it usable by others.

It's like a park in a high drug use area. Quite often they are ruined, and only by massive expenditure of effort are is it even near safe.
exact spot in video where it plays Doom

https://youtu.be/NT5fb6wR5M8?si=b1WKlpCk5BNE8ETc
Because if there are alternatives, then it isn't a monopoly. Even if we're restricting ourselves to ads, there are other ad networks, and you can find your own sponsors. The OP is a self-admitted lazy commie and just wants to say "Google bad".
It seems like you may have accidentally enabled passkeys:

https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shatt...

Maybe someone else can confirm?
Link should be the referenced/deep linked comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/1cduhra/more_la...
It was a great experience and I had a lot of fun playing it!
Right, I remember reading that story, pretty cool but I had a hard time imagining the mechanics of the game at the time. Purchased, I'll give it a shot.
That is one of the deepest single-line comments that I've found here recently.
They might believe it but anyone not engaging in motivated reasoning can see they aren't. But it just isn't reasonably possible to match up major news reporting with someone who sat down and asked "what reporting is important and helpful to the readers?" outside maybe financial journals. They're pretty obviously trying to gin up hate, fear and misunderstanding. The reporting on Trump alone during his presidency was jaw dropping, let alone all the low-level warmongering that threads through the corporate press.

My rule of thumb is to go read what any politician actually said, because I've only seen it reported accurately by a journalist in rare cases. That rule simply isn't something a productive reporting slant would require.
I like the Walled Garden. I want the Walled Garden. Almost everyone wants the Walled Garden. Even Android users should want the Walled Garden, as a true second option. The Walled garden is fantastic. When everything just works, it's fantastic.

Apple's product quality is without consumer equal. The quality a bright-light in a world otherwise brimming with hardware junk and a software wild west market.

The antitrust issues are obviously without basis. This is an institutional effort to degrade the product line, and the lawsuits and regulations smell of hidden agenda.

As a longtime Windows user, Windows is a privacy and security clown show. Linux is a server OS that is unusable for most casual desktop OS consumers. We're decades into the information age, and embarassingly there are only two usable desktop operating system ecosystems for the common person (Why is that, exactly?) aside from ChromeOS. And only one of the ecosystems, the one being targeted, is marginally acceptable from a consumer perspective. Given privacy, security, usability, and quality factors.

A better so called "anti-monopoly" solution would be to build competitive products. Antitrust law was conceived to open up markets in the circumstance where the market was actually actively walled off by the monopolist. It wasn't conceived, for example, to stop car manufacturers from engineering the cars to accept parts that are only made for their cars. The last time that I checked, Apple was not preventing competitive product development. Android has a massive user base. This State effort to abuse the law so that things are worse quality has to stop.
> I know the one I make isn’t going to be as precise or accurate, the build quality won’t be as good, but it’ll be good enough for my purposes.

Have you had issues with the ESP32's ADCs?
Cinematic Treasures: Underrated Films and Overlooked Masterpieces (2023)
> If there exist classes of problems that someone in an elementary school can easily solve but a trillion-token billion-dollar sophisticated model cannot solve, what does that tell us about the nature of our cognition?

I think what it tells us is that our cognition is capable of more than just language modeling. With LLMs we are discovering (amazing) capabilities and the limits of language models. While language models can do incredible things with language that humans can't, they still can't do something simple like sudoku. But there are neural networks, CNNs and RNNs that can solve sudoku better than humans can. I think that the thing to learn here is that some problems are in the domain of language models, and some problems are a better fit for other forms of cognition. The human brain is amazing in that it combines several forms of cognition in an integrated way.

One thing that I think LLMs have the capability to do is to integrate several types of systems and to choose the right one to solve a problem. Teach an LLM how to interface with a CNN that solves sudoku problems, and then ask it a sudoku problem.

It seems to me that if we want to create an AGI, we need to learn how to integrate several different types of models, and teach them how to distribute the tasks we give them to the correct models.
I worked in a Rails app in ~2018 & hunting down N+1s by sprinkling `includes` in just the right places was tedious, despite being a regular occurrence.

Since then I've been building Joist, which is written in TypeScript, and has dataloader integrated into every operation (even `find`s) to basically never N+1:

https://joist-orm.io/docs/goals/avoiding-n-plus-1s
The right reason for not investing in residential real estate is because it’s immoral.

Every house owned by a landlord is another house not owned by an owner occupier.

The landlord renter system has divided our society into haves and have nots. It’s modern serfdom in which landlords own families.

So sure, you can avoid investing in real estate for financial reasons but you can also avoid investing in real estate for the same reason you don’t invest in gambling smoking or fossil fuels….. to invest is to support something fundamentally wrong.

No doubt the commenters will all jump in with "but waddabout this, waddabout that, so you want no homes to rent eh!?!". I don't care, my point remains - he landlord/renter system is destroying the fabric of our society, has destroyed the social bargain, is robbing young people of the future and if you're a landlord then you are part of the problem even if you hide your identity and sense of guilt behind a managing real estate agent.
Meanwhile batterygate payouts are quite generous: “Images show the settlement payments to be $92.17 per claim”

[0] https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/01/06/apple-finally-sen...
Looking at FRCP rule 37, it uses language like "reasonable steps to preserve" electronic information, and "intent to deprive another party of the information’s use". I'm no expert, but it does sound like this might imply an obligation to change retention settings, switch to another chat app, or figure out some other way to preserve relevant information (if litigation is anticipated).