skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is quite simply untrue. At least in the UK, criticism of Modi has been pretty regular and it is quite distinct from criticism of India (it's very often written with at least some reference to our historical involvement in the problems Modi exploits.)

Do a google news search for 'narendra modi site:www.theguardian.com' for example, sort by date, and you will see stories going back to at least 2019, and that is just the 30 pages result limit.

Do an advanced date search, key in a range, and you can easily find criticism of Modi's populism and the BJP's Hindu nationalism going back to 2010.

There are more than 40 pages of articles on The Guardian's site for the subject of Modi alone:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/narendra-modi?page=40

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/17/narendra-modi-...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/14/narend...

Here's an article from 2010 talking about Modi's involvement in riots in Gujarat when he was governor there:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/28/gujarat-narend...

Here's an article from 2003:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/18/india.uk

I don't think I need provide more evidence?

In the USA, criticism of Modi admittedly is pretty spotty, but that's more to do with the abject failure of US journalism to consider anything beyond its borders until there's an easily quantified or enumerated crisis.

But I am fairly sure if you pick a US newspaper and do a similar search you will find similar criticism.
> Eventually, you understand how the equation is solved. No human teacher would be able to achieve this.

Not true, but only available at great expense.
I think calling something a Germanic language is a bit different to calling it a German language.

I completely agree with your point about a "Germanic language" but I disagree about "a German language".
Good thing the argument wasn't that this will necessarily happen, just that the case can be made that it could happen, and therefore human spacelight is not necessarily a bad idea.

Note that I'm not proposing abandoning robots in space. Your whataboutism assumes a symmetry that's not there.
Neither can you easily notice that when a human teacher/tutor does that. At least with math, you're able to try it yourself and see if it works. I've had many cases where following through on a misleading explanation by a teacher/book actually ended up leading to me better retaining the topic.
https://archive.is/iVhyP
> I just want an answer

The issue is that AI is not at least yet accurate enough for that.
You need think on your own and be expert to spot all the inaccuracies. But then again, we are talking about how students can learn based on that...
I don't think you can call the British thing tyranny, speaking as a Brit.

Ok there have been some hate speech laws, but we have elections and can vote the pols out, no armed uprising required.
What I also love is that you can ask it to explain with varying degrees of simplicity.

You can say, ELI5 (like the Explain Like I'm 5 years old Subreddit), or explain it like a child, or explain it in very simple English (which is like Simple English wikipedia).

It is actually going to be the greatest learning tool, but only for people that genuinely want to learn.
We've had phone apps that you can point at an equation in a textbook and it solves it for you, for several years now: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fastmath-take-photo-solve/id14...

I don't think we need Generative AI for 7th grade. College, perhaps, but how much advanced math is there in 7th grade these days?
This actually works though. Pre-Alpha games get limited releases on Steam and can raise millions that can be used to finish and polish the game.
I never found the Kahn academy videos good. His teaching style was just totally off. I found some videos by a company called The Teaching Company. Really old school, very early 2000s or late 90s. Incredibly high quality truly gifted teachers—-just less well known online.
And if you did want something closer, Hetzner offers USA based vCPU options that are still quite affordable compared to DO.

There's a 4GB option for 9 Euros.

I recently migrated my personal projects from DO to Hetzner for this reason
They tend to be missles, lasers, EWS, or self destructing satellites.

There are multiple different types of ASAT platforms, and every country is in the process is building similar programs out now that the Big 4 are in an arms race.

US builds means Russia and China builds means India builds means ....

We're living the Dreadnought War 2.0
Do you have a question?
> These are the factors I would like to know more about for the Brazil and China flooding... Is it just bad governmental town planning?

The systems Porto Alegre and Canoas had in place used to work. When the river there goes over 3 meters it starts to flood some places, okay? Once every few years there was a flood of like, 3.5 meters, 3.7 sometimes. Those were floods that rose slowly, giving ample time to answer to situations as they arose.

In this case, on the 2nd of May, the river reached 3 meters. By midnight, the river was at 3.60 meters already. 24 hours later, the river was at 4.9 meters, and it still rose, slowly now, to 5.3 meters.

The system that was in place was completely overwhelmed. Pumping stations failed and the water started coming through the pumping stations, for example.

That said, yes, the writing was on the wall. If a place regularly floods a bit to the point you need to have dykes and pumping stations in place, eventually it will flood a lot.
The assumption is that they're comparable with nothing that makes one stand out ("both somewhat bad"). In that case, sure, it could mean something. But you rarely see that situation, because it doesn't make sense to run against someone not very different from you.
The pre-Googling is an excellent idea. You are augmenting the query, not generating nonsense answers. My wife uses ChatGPT as a thesaurus quite a lot.
I must admit, I am quite envious of students with these tools. I wish I had this during my studies.

Certainly as my parent's generation must have been with the internet and computers for me.

I'm not sure what to do with this envy. Though, it has made me want to have a child even more, just to see first hand how they could develop so much faster and smarter than me.
The premise comes off as a bit of a surprise to me. My understanding had always been that physicists have not reached any majority agreement on which of the outcomes was likely, precisely because of the lack of understanding of the exact nature of dark energy.
SO yes, the final answer is probably just in the land of "air pushing wings down". I'm content with that, going into deep fluid dynamics analysis is probably too much for me at the moment :) Thanks!
Those 5% go on to make an upper-class salary sitting in an air-conditioned office instead of a lower-class salary turning wrenches and stacking boxes. What makes more sense than enabling everyone who can to attain that life?

(Plus every one of them who gets out makes life better for the rest at least by reducing downward pressure on wages, and hopefully also by creating new business opportunities that raise wages further by increasing supply. Rigorous education is almost always a win-win: https://matiane.wordpress.com/2021/09/15/democratic-educatio... )
Yep agreed, the secrecy is making this all a whole lot worse. I'm looking for to the point when we find out what really happened, assuming that comes out in my life time.
>obviously responsible for (a child drowns in your pool because you didn't put up a fence)

Does this also count if you didn't invite the child and the terrain was clearly marked as your property? If yes, this is pretty surprising and non-obvious to me. Do i misunderstand something?

For me, the obvious example is bobby trapping your property and hurting a fireman who came to put out a fire.
Violence and "crazy" people tend to be clustered in certain areas and not spread generally among the populace. For example, I bought a house in a "genteel" part of a mill town. In other words, the houses are maintained. 2 miles away in the "mill worker" section of town (not very well maintained housing) we've had numerous reports of violence, and one or two murders.

I can go to my local supermarket, Home Depot, drugstore, ice cream stand and never encounter any violence. Travel on the bus however and well, the police reports say it's a different story. With the reality? Not sure but every time of been on public transit, it's a cluster of "crazies" mixed in with the general populace.

What this tells me is the problem is not public transit or urban spaces. We need to build a more humane city like what they have in Scandinavia (high public trust, services to keep you from being desperate, respect for common individual property) and the risk of violence will drop both in city spaces and on public transit.
A very powerful story! thanks for sharing
whatever this is

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/03/how-to-beat-paper-mar...
link at bottom of https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/docs/ page
For many the alternative would be no substitute at all.
Bottom of the page ...

https://api.enterprise.wikimedia.com/spec/spec.yaml
Can you elaborate a little bit? I'm unclear on your meeting.
> No it's not put to rest, because if they used a different voice actress for the model then it's a legitimate move.

That is simply untrue. Check out the Midler-Ford case, the Tom Waits case as just two examples.

If the intent is to mimic the character, you're in trouble. OpenAI is trying to claim they weren't mimicking Samatha, but you'd have to be a fool to believe that, given the other evidence.
This is just that authors opinion. It seems clear that there is a spectrum of what users want from basic retrieval to content generation.
There is a reason why we just don't give calculators for kids in elementary school. They need to know the basics first. Calculators have been around for quite long time. Why AI suddenly changes that?
In Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri, it has to be explicitly signed via actual signs, or purple paint (relatively recent laws allow this in rural areas). Alaska requires signs. Indiana requires signs. Those are the states I am familiar with.

I believe the states that do not require notice are in the minority, but I'm not sure how to prove that.
Wow this video is making me want to go and re-watch Terminator 2.

Amazing. what a beautiful scene, words, everything. And it's objectively true.
That's absolutely a bug that needs to be fixed, but I think it's possible. Maybe have the network which generates the answer be moderated by another network that assesses the truthiness of it.

It's just a matter of priorities for the company designing the models.
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> The laws of math and physics have very little to do with the determinations of the laws of people.

This cannot be true, as we've seen time and again with cryptography. Wherever the laws of people collide with the laws of mathematics, the laws of mathematics win.
You may be surprised to learn that the latter case is still of questionable legality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
I mean you're welcome to manually do all the calculations for the gradient descent stuff, redo the mesh yourself and carve it out of a block of plastic with a chisel, I'll stick to getting a computer to do it for me
Keep in mind that if you take only a specific type of searches to Google, in this case the ones DDG struggles with, it may just be that Google is good at that class specifically (like natural language or a query doing well with long literal string matching or something) and that makes it appear more competent while others, using Google all the time, are annoyed by it a lot of the time
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421759

<not2b> The answer, based on two different court precedents (Bette Midler, Tom Waits), is that the company can't do that. Companies cannot hire soundalike people to advertise their products after the person with a distinctive voice they really wanted declined. Doesn't matter if they hired a soundalike and used her voice.
That's also how we got fire, stone tools, agriculture, microprocessors, vitamins, hospitals that were more than just places to go die... and the very computer network you're using to post.

Did you have a point?
I agree the endgame is turning all education (and other areas of society) into McDonald's type crap because it's cheapest to offer.

But it's weird to make this about Microsoft when AI is being shoved down our throats from all directions. Like you said, it's a "world of" greed.
The article is about England not the US, where there are already different laws for this and land has not been seized because that would be crazy.

Also you would already see many areas that people can roam that are private properties especially in the midlands.
I give/gave everyone free trials all the time. The concept of ever paying that price at all seemed to be the stumbling block.
Integrity will eventually (soon) switch over to hardware attestation. At that point nothing will pass that isn't stock out of the box, no amount of software hackery will bypass it.
The problem is drivers, every single time. DRIVERS hit pedestrians. If a pedestrian avoids it because they hear a motor that's a NEAR MISS that STILL needs to be addressed by drivers. Drivers have all the responsibility.

This is not an electric car problem. This is a DRIVER problem. And needs to be addressed from that perspective.

Just yesterday I was nearly hit by two drivers. One turning right on a full red who didn't slow down any more than they would on a green light. I was in the crosswalk. Then a driver turning right at a stop sign who didn't even look to their right. I was in the crosswalk.

Don't talk to me about TECHNOLOGY. Tell me how we fix DRIVING.
I posted a rant here...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39121489

But I'll add that I'm happier in languages that are less structured with types and things. Perl, PHP, Erlang. Where I can just write my code and see if it works, and add checks later, if need be. Erlang's model of 'let it crash' is perfect for me, make the happy path with error checking, but only add error handling if you need to; with hotloading in production so there's little disruption. Faffing about with casting u64 to and from usize when everyone knows I'm only ever running on 64-bit is madness. C feels easier to write than Rust, but then that's because C doesn't care if you tell it to do something stupid, it'll just do it.

Also, I don't generally use an IDE, because I'm happy with an editor in one shell and another to compile and run. I do use an IDE when making terrible Android apps and terrible Arduino kinds of things; they're useful, but I can't focus in an IDE the way I can in a terminal text editor, and I've got 25 years of experience in the text editor, so I'm not planning to change.
In the US, at least for most states I'm aware of, the attractive nuisance doctrine applies. And almost anything can be considered an attractive nuisance. It just sucks for everyone because it means the public and property owners lose out.
I disagree with the silence bit. I am a frequent remote worker at coffee shops across the USA and people working have noise canceling headphones usually, I have never seen anyone demand silence in a coffee shop. Libraries are a different story.
That is silly. I think C++ went with lowercase because they expected namespaces to disambiguate everything. The last bullet makes it seem like it's because stuff is templated.
I think that number might be a bit higher if students had access to near-constant tutoring to answer any kind of questions that come up; I think a lot of kids get frustrated because they don't immediately get something and there isn't someone around to answer questions.

Sample size of one, and obviously there's a million confounding variables here, but I think that my love of math stems from the fact that both my parents, and especially my dad, really loved math (and physics), and so whenever I had any questions about any aspect of math (at least up to calculus and differential equations), I could ask one of them for help pretty much whenever I wanted, and they would enthusiastically help me immediately, and eventually I grew to love it myself.

Eventually I did well enough in math to where they gave me a test in school and I was able to skip two grades in it (going from 7th grade to 9th grade level). I ended up getting much more into discrete math and surpassed my parents in the more "pure" math. Even if my genetics were completely unaltered, I am quite convinced that if my parents weren't there to provide constant help then that wouldn't have happened.

I think AI has the possibility of providing a comparable experience to what I had. It can patiently explain every aspect of math that any middle or high school student is likely to come across, and I think it has power to "de-frustrate" them as a result.
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For open source project management tools I prefer to use the integrated solution from Phabricator[1], nowadays called Phorge[2]. It has workboards, very good access control and separation of projects (tags). See an example board[3].

1. https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/
2. https://we.phorge.it/
3. https://we.phorge.it/tag/phorge/
Really ? I never use willReceiveProps or weird life cycles like that. Hooks is better.
advertising agencies have been slapped on the wrist for using "soundalikes":

https://www.expertinstitute.com/resources/case-studies/adver...

https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/using-name-or-likeness-anot...

https://www.tramatm.com/blog/category/other/sound-alikes-5-h...
I listened to a comedy podcast early last week that was using Chatgpt4 with this voice to make some funny bits/jokes.

Without having any context about who the voice was, or the "Drama" between OpenAI and actress in question, or even really being aware of Scarlett Johansson's body of work, I immediately went "Oh that's Scarlett Johansson or whatever, cool"

To read all of this after the fact is almost comical. It's as if the powers that be realized the issues with the "one-man-in-charge-of-ai" platform and created this almost unbelievable story to decredit him.
Wegovy leads to about a 15 per cent reduction in body weight over a year, when combined with exercise and eating healthily. Over a year!

From this statement I am assuming that simply exercise and eating heathily lead to a reduction in body weight.

For arguments sake, I weigh 100kg.

According to my GP I am 20kg over weight.

I am aiming to get to nice healthy 80kg. cool!

I am sure that exercise and eating heathily for one year will also reduce your weigh to 80kg. you dont need weight loss drugs.

Wegovy it seems only adds 5% reduction in body weight.

You cannot claim that a weight loss drug works if you then include combinations of exercise and healthy eating. Wake Up!!

The cat is out of the bag.

Take some responsibility for your life..

Cut down on the carbs and cut out those fatal pork pies mate.
You'll have the conversation somewhere else then? Otherwise I'm confused why you'd qualify it with adding "here."

And not sure why you're saying "sorry" either?
GPL 3 isn't great for either. From a commercial perspective, you can only use it if you lock your stuff up in a datacenter, but not if you ship it on a device that customers own. In practice, that means GPL 3 is not only supporting surveillance capitalism, but is also banning use in commercial systems that do not spy on their users. (The US CLOUD Act says that you have to provide the government with access to all machines you have access to, even if they are overseas. In practice, that means that any commercial GPL 3 stuff that has a footprint in the US is globally subject to US-style dragnet surveillance.)

Granted, bash is now GPL 3 (which is why Apple has to ship an obsolete version, and now defaults to zsh), so you can't use Amber on machines where GPL 3 won't fly (unless it can also compile to posix shell, zsh, etc).

Anyway, if you're interested in freedom for your users, I'd suggest AGPL 3, since it prevents people from locking it up inside the cloud or shipping with proprietary operating systems. At least that way, you're not stripping users' right to privacy like GPL 3 (inadvertently?) does.

These days, Apache and BSD-style licenses are looking better than ever to me, at least when I'm at work.

[edit: You can sell machines with Coreboot (and maybe a proprietary BIOS) + bash. However, you can't ship things that use a secure boot mechanism.

From reading the FSF documentation, it's not clear to me if it's OK to ship a GPL 3 userland on a machine with secure boot enabled, even if it can be disabled later. Apple apparently decided that it is not.]
While I like the idea, I must admit it feels strangely to take just from someone because he/she/it has a lot. It would be different in my eyes to tax higher when it's earned monthly and to tax higher if someone inherit so much money. ... Just like if you won the super ball lottery and want the money "now" or over time.

Inherited a lot. If you choose to split it over time. Then less taxes. if you want it at once, then more taxes. The country can work with that money in between time, if one chooses to get it over longer time..

But, I ain't from this area and except paying my taxes, I don't understand anything here :)
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I think it's a combination of reasons: people aren't used to the syntax, so it turns some of them off from giving Lisp a try, Lisp machines didn't take off and their competition didn't have great Lisp support, when computers became more powerful and better suited for Lisp it was seen as older and not as hot as the new things like Perl and Java, and there's still the perception that because Emacs offers a truly first-class Lisp experience that other editors won't work so well for it.

And of course because of those various reasons the Lisp community is rather small so it creates the vicious cycle of 'the community is too small and there are no libraries so I won't use it' into 'there are too few people using it so there's a small community and less manpower to make various libraries'.
> There are tons of things that linters warn about (today), that should have been errors too by their logic.

Can you give a couple examples?
This.

The people for whom personalized learning works well, can do it with any technology, even books. I recently learnt a new programming language from an O'Reilly book just fine, then did some exercises in a (non-AI) online REPL/tutorial tool, then went off to code a project of my own.
My understanding is they've demonstrated a correlation. I don't think they've made any claims about causation.
I suppose services like Gmail benefit a lot from users who mark the occasional spam letter in their inboxes. While each such marking is inconsequential, correlated over many users, they allow to detect new and unusual waves of spam, and to start filtering them for everyone.

A similar mechanism could work for a search engine. It would be harder to game if it required high karma (many other users matching your judgment before it starts to count), and a paid account, like with Kagi.