skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> set something up on your property that harms someone, intentionally or otherwise, whether they are legally allowed to be on your property or not in the US, you are liable for whatever happens to them up to and including homicide

I know this wasn't your intended point, but this principle in American law does make it basically impossible for any kind of "right to roam [on private property]" to exist here, and creates a strong incentive for property owners to actively restrict/prevent access. I always thought it was stupid that a burglar can sue me if they break into my collapsing shed in the woods on my marked private property, and get hurt because the shed falls down on their head.
> IANAL, but aren't kid's <14 supposed to be supervised at all times by an adult?

Not in most jurisdictions (thanks God). That's a terrible idea for raising kids.
If a new right to roam law was introduced, why couldn't it include a section on the release of any liability if one makes use of this right to roam? It's not like laws can't be adjusted, right?
UK General Election called for July 4th
It's worth dropping the Danish film Riders of Justice in this thread for people who haven't seen it. In the film, a facial recognition algorithm is created, and after some tinkering with the accuracy they are able to find who they are looking for - I won't spoil it, but highly suggest the movie.
Moved to Alacritty from iTerm2 recently. The biggest plus was the simple text config. I actively make a lot of changes to my config (always experimenting with different shortcuts and other things) and updating configs on multiple machines (work and personal) became a headache. This solved that for me; can just commit any changes to the text file and pull on other machine.
The other way around: its use might be more widespread than one thinks, because it is still used in the industry, it is still chosen by new companies. https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ (nothing official here) For instance, CL seems a corner stone for quantum computing these days.

Not saying it is widespread, of course.
My main point was that there's plenty of reasons for China and Japan to be different, especially when it comes to driving norms. Are you surprised as the other poster was about these differences between China and Japan?

And going back to the original intent: would you say driving in Zurich and driving in Naples are two distinct experiences?
> Political unity has only ever been achieved at a point where the severity of outside pressures forced a group of people together.

Political unity generally comes from 'within' not from 'without'. A group of elites or an ethnic group forms the 'center' or the state and pacifies and unifies those around them. This unity is normally achieved through force. It's true throughout the world - the united kingdom, france, russia, china or the US or japan or anyone else really.

> For the EU to come together it can only ever be on behalf of outside pressure

No. Outside pressure is why many attempts at 'the united states of europe' has failed. Napoleon/france tried to create 'the united states of europe'. Britain and russia put a stop to it. Hitler/germany tried to create 'the united states of europe'. Britain/US and russia put a stop to it.

I forgot which historian said it, but he described the last 200 years of european history as 'anglo-russian meddling to prevent a franco-german unity ( aka 'the united states of europe' )'.

The problem for europe is that they have no core ( ethnic group, language, history, culture, religion, etc ) to build a united states of europe around. And that a united states of europe would be the primary threat to the united states of america/anglo world and russia. Meaning the US/britain and russia will constantly be fomenting division within europe to prevent a united states of europe.

Maybe try 'united states of germania'? 'United states of romancia'? 'United states of the baltics'? Baby steps?
Except freedom. In which case freedom is everything.
Being a parent is hard. I would say that half of the US thinks parents are the problem with kids these days and that a good kid should "spend time outside in the neighborhood like we used to", and then the other half will call the police if your child is out of sight because "aren't kid's <14 supposed to be supervised at all times by an adult?"
Microsoft, who is likely collecting data from this feature somehow even if the raw video/images never leave the PC. I imagine law enforcement and three letter agencies love it too since now they'll just have to be able to access someone's windows account (MS will help them) to see everything a suspect ever done using their PC. They can even just chat with the AI about what it saw. That windows user had better hope it doesn't start hallucinating and invent a story about something that sounds criminal.
> are not permitted since these would not fall under this code

The thing is, the law/code only matters if it is enforced. I have little faith this will be enforced enough to be a deterrent when much more important things like shoplifting, bike or phone theft have effectively been decriminalized by lack of enforcement.

Edit: to be clear I am just playing devil's advocate here. I am in favor of "right to roam" laws, just pointing out that restrictions in the law by themselves don't mean anything unless they're followed up by adequate enforcement to deter the prohibited behavior and systemic changes to make said behavior unnecessary in the first place (in case of homelessness for example).
> Personalisation fails for a simple reason - people don't really want to learn.

Students/people who are interested in learning a particular subject are doing just fine learning it from already available material, be it books, videos, MOOCs, etc. They may or may not use AI, but AI won't make a huge difference for these type of people.

For people who are not interested in learning, AI won't do sh*t. Because the problem is not that they don't have a tutor available to them; the problem is that they don't have motivation to learn. I am not being judgemental here: it is perfectly understandable, for example, why a poor kid may not have motivation to learn.

A few years ago, MOOCs were touted as the next best thing to democratize education and make it available to underserved populations around the world. This did not happen. Some research shows that MOOCs are mostly used by an already-educated group of people who are interested in further learning. I think learning with the help of an AI tutor would be no different: its users will not be the intended ones.
Actively shooting trespassers with a gun is different from booby-trapping your property.
Anyone can file a lawsuit for anything. Filing a lawsuit that doesn't get immediately dismissed by the judge because it has no merit, is a different question.

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In the Northern New England states (VT/NH/ME) that have a sort of freedom to roam codified in law (basically - unposted, undeveloped property is generally free to access for low-impact uses like hiking without requiring permission) - there is broad liability protection provided to the property owner.

For example, the law in VT for liability in that land access situation is only if the injury that occurs is "....the result of the willful or wanton misconduct of the owner." (and has further exemptions from even that if the injury is with regards to accessing equipment/machinery/personal property - which you're not entitled to access).

You pretty much need to be setting traps or creating some truly absurd unnatural hazards to be at legal risk.
Take a look at Bionic https://bionic-gpt.com/
> As I said there are zero journalists in Gaza. This presumes independent reporting and Hamas does not allow it. Any journalist that reports something they don't like gets a beating, and if they persist, they're killed.

Would like to learn more about this. Are there reports of this? Has Hamas issued a statement?

Completely clamping down on independent photo/videography is very difficult, even in a place like Gaza.
Loads of things that are a good idea don't get done because nobody in a position to actually do them believed they were a good idea and followed through.

You can have pretty astonishing results if you do the work to be sure you're right and then you follow through. A really extreme example that's known to the public would be the "Big Short". Steven Eisman didn't have some secret insider info, he studied the data and he concluded that this short was the correct play. Or consider "Moneyball". There's no reason other baseball teams couldn't use these metrics, it worked, it's used today, but at the time other teams weren't doing it which gave the A's an edge.
In Germany, while you can't camp with a tent in the wilderness, it's allowed to bivouac ("biwakieren", using a sleeping bag to sleep under the stars).

https://www.alpin.de/sicher-am-berg/30427/artikel_darauf_mue... (article is in German)
I'd love to use kotlin standalone, as other normal programming languages, without any configuration scripts or build tools
Analogical Reasoning-Augmented Interactive Data Annotation
The only extra thing needed is a Windows-style Taskbar such as the one I recently published :) https://lawand.io/taskbar
You seem to have mixed up your scenarios.

In the standard model, i.e. constant dark energy, the universe ends in heat death. Big Crunch or Big Rip were never off the menu in the sense that our measurements couldn't exclude a value of w!=-1. But it's a critical value, you'll never be able to exclude the other scenarios if it's truly -1, because you always have a positive measurement uncertainty.

The standard model is the standard model because it fits the data best. This can change as measurements become more precise.
Now new data hints at the standard model being incorrect (to the surprise of basically no one in cosmology), making a big crunch more likely, but still not strongly ruling out the other scenarios.
I made no such assertion? I was following the thread and I think its a fair request. It was an easy google search to see that he was fired for bullying and creating a hostile workplace a few years back...not sure where that landed. And I saw a number of articles relating to pseudoscience that he recommends in the book. It was a simple ask for their simple ask.
Details of U.S. Backed Kidnapping, Torture and Murder in Afghanistan
Are you talking about lost Amazon tribes? Most places I have visited people have seen real quality of life improvements by having clean water, refrigeration, sewage systems and access to the internet.
The right to roam ought to be given together with an obligation to restore the land to the original state after you have roamed.
My neighbor doesn’t really care about people walking on her property down by the river. But periodically some ATVer rips down the no trespassing signs and makes a complete mess of the trail during muddy conditions.
Agreed, for sure.
This seems very incorrect to me. Human teachers make mistakes, or understand details of something incorrectly sometimes, but it doesn't come up in every lesson. It only happens occasionally, and sometimes a student will correct them/challenge them on it.

ChatGPT makes mistakes literally every time I use it (in a domain that I'm knowledgable in). How is that the same thing? Being given incorrect information is worse than not having the knowledge at all IMO.
https://archive.ph/0bv67
This was exactly what LiquidPlanner did (probably does?). I can't speak for it today, but it was built as planning and scheduling first, task management second.

As a bonus we handled everything a ranges (that task? 1-4 days) so you'd get results like: this project is 90% likely to be done by a given date, 98% by this much later date you're going to hate.
I have a very different reading of the 60 years of theories and measurements detailed in the article. The results from the article come from a $50M instrument developed in the past 10 years for this exact purpose.
When I hear debates about whether or not the universes are black holes nested inside each other, or what the fate of the cosmos is, I often have an instinctive reaction to question whether or not concepts like "inside", "nested", or "fate" have actual fundamental qualities at the scales and timeframes under discussion.
>>Good thing nowadays you can emigrate relatively easily.

Given than 1.2m people migrated to the UK in the year ending June 2023, it doesn't seem to be putting people off.
> For example, users can opt out of capturing certain websites

I'm sure people will feel a lot better knowing that if they don't AI capturing screenshots of every porn site they visit, when, for how long, and how often, they just have to send MS a list of all the porn sites they visit and MS will promise not to watch.
Alan Kay's objects and arts (2023)
When companies are more powerful than the government and they want to sell more products at whatever cost… you get the idea.
OpenAI No Longer Takes Safety Seriously
Kodak's failure to respond to the threat of digital photography has always been a classic example of an innovators dilemma fail... but after reading this I realize it was far worse than I thought.

Having been given 30-40 years of financial data on the effect of digital photography squeezing them out of one lucrative sector they wasted all that unique foreknowledge on ignoring digital photography in the consumer space as well.
Kind of ironic that a smartphone is bad but a “text and call” phone is good. You can turn a smartphone into a text and call phone with parental controls. Maybe these schools should educate parents on them. I’m not even sure if they still sell any text and call phones in the US. The old ones will not work at least with the carrier changes iirc.

I will say that even with text and call phones of my generation we were just as bad. Texting t9 into hoodie pockets all through class. The same “mean girls” issues that people harp on with smartphones predate the tech. Even my grandparents had cruel popular kid cliques in school. And unlike internet age kids they had literally no outlet from it.
It was also "no environmental impact", though.
I'll just leave this here:

https://fpr.vermont.gov/recreation/activities/camping/primit...

There are many, and nobody goes there.
Low/no hassle compatibility with 40(?) years of code.
100% it should be an accessory. It's a bit weird to carry another phone around - it's gonna be a WHILE before this replaces them, if it ever does. But all the hardware is great and having that all in that pin location is pretty nice as well.
I would like them to fix file search first. That's what I want to "recall"
Generative AI works by selecting the most likely next words.

But students misunderstand in many different ways. How would it be tailored instead of another way of delivering lesson plans?

Even assuming you already had the topology of the problem space, you'd have to interrogate the student with all possible ways for each question to determine what's missing for them.

But part of the problem is impedance matching: failing students get little positive feedback because they have to correct many mistakes before they start getting things right. Interrogation makes the impedance-matching problem much, much worse (no matter how sweet and enticing the voice).

Sure, I believe in success patterns and strong leaders. But I'd need to see a sketch of how Khan understands and addresses the problems before I'd invest or rely on this as anything other than a stop-gap that continues the under-funding of mass education.
Google does a good job with People Also Ask?

It's a great service for providing the wrong answers to things I didn't search for, but I admit I haven't yet figured out why I am supposed to desire this.
There's considerably less unsupervised kids running around rocky coasts with high cliffs than around neighbourhoods and backyards.

Note that Australia also has plenty of coasts and does not mandate a fence around them all.
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> In fact that local conservation of stress-energy density is what requires the energy density of matter (which in cosmology-speak means a perfect fluid with zero pressure) to decrease as the universe expands (as the cube of the scale factor).

That makes total sense!

Does this meak we know how much the total density of matter has to decrease in order for universe to expand one cubic meter? What's the energy equivalent of one new cubic meter of space, in Joules? Do we know that? Does it fit the observed matter density, with and without dark matter?

It looks to me that "dark energy" / cosmological constant is just a measure of preference for matter+volume (or at least energy+volume) to take the form of volume rather than matter, in an otherwise conserving process.
Sometimes I feel like I'm wasting my time by obsessively reading RFCs and specifications for the things I use. This made me feel better about that. And also much more smug.

Other than the obvious moral that protocols should be implemented properly, the moral of the story is that all abstractions are leaky, and it will always be useful to understand the lower levels.
THIS. Why does this:

if age < 18 {
echo "I'm not an adult yet"
} else {
echo "I'm an adult"
}

compile to this:

__0_age=30;
if [ $(echo ${__0_age} '<' 18 | bc -l | sed '/\./ s/\. \{0,1\} 0\{1,\}$//') != 0 ]; then
echo "I'm not an adult yet"
else
echo "I'm an adult"
fi

instead of this:

__0_age=30;
if [[ ${__0_age} -lt 18 ]]; then
...

If you're going to compile to Bash, then use Bash-isms.

EDIT: `-gt` is POSIX, but tbf if there's no input sanitization, then bash (or sh) will choke on the float. In that case, as long as you aren't trying to round, you could use parameter substitution to truncate:

__0_age=17.6;
if [[ ${__0_age%%\.*} -lt 18 ]]; then
...

EDIT2: TIL that parameter substitution is POSIX [0] Section 2.6.2

[0]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...
> This kind of research is non-falsifiable

Do you mean that we will not be able to witness the fate of the Universe? But this very article shows the case when the theory about a Universe fate was falsified or at least came close to it. If a theory is making predictions, and one can check them, then it is a falsifiable theory. Simple models of Universe make predictions, like "you will get the same rate of an expansion however you measure it", and oops... different methods give different results.

I believe you are confusing a falsifiable theory and pragmatic knowledge. We are really cannot predict any practical applications for these kind of theories. So they are not pragmatic. But they are falsifiable.
Worth it.

With Amber (and anything like it) you need an Amber compiler to be able to work on the script. And half of the reason to use a "script" is the ability to edit them if need arises.

Also since I'm 100% Nix now, I require `nix` installed everywhere anywhere, and if there's `nix`, anything else is available in a reproducible way.
Check out the Yoopta Editor: An open-source WYSIWYG setting new standards
> aren't kid's <14 supposed to be supervised at all times by an adult

Hell no. A world where a nine or ten year old can’t go roam the neighborhood on bikes with some friends unless adults accompany them would be a dystopia. I know there are occasionally news stories about very-stupid harassment of parents for parenting correctly, but thank god it’s still not the norm.
FYI "run-length encoded" means compressing repetitions. "123 repeats of the character 'x'" would be RLE. You seem to be talking about keeping a tree-of-strings instead of tree-of-characters, to decrease the overhead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_encoding
You're not asking anyone to share, though. You're asking for the government to grant you a legally enforceable entitlement to use property that someone else worked to acquire and maintain.

So your question becomes "why should property rights exist in the first place?"

The answer is that our existence, by nature of being a human being, has material requirements. Humans have non-material requirements as well (friendships, hobbies, art etc.), but you can't dismiss the material requirements of the human experience. The same reason that it needs to be your food, your bed, your clothing is the reason that land ownership needs to be a protected right as well. If you weaken respect and protection for land ownership then, rationally, you weaken the recognition of all property rights from food to clothing to musical instruments to your tech devices. Each material "property" may serve different purposes for the owner, but that doesn't negate the necessity of owning property. And a claim to property is the ability to control its use.
Doing problem sets seems... more useful to a human brain's development than the mere distraction of social media, no? Schooling can definitely be improved (I personally hated school) but that seems like an orthogonal concern to the harma of constant distraction.
if service permits serverless than you can host it cheaply on free tier of serverless platforms.
Cool idea. In practice: they already did this and it's called PERL!

Why would I ever use this instead of just using perl5, which solves all these problems already and is preinstalled on every Unix machine I've ever seen (and I've seen a lot from HPUX to AIX) since there's always some ancient innards component that depends on it, so it's basically impossible to remove...

And even if you don't know perl, you're better off learning it than Amber, because perl may not be super popular anymore but it's still way way bigger with way more resources and libraries and documentation and even people you could hire etc etc
(If you prefer python2, you can probably get close to but not quite the same level of universal compatibility)
You are making me reach Olympic levels coffee snorting.
I figured by 1985 it’d be available in every corner drugstore.
I want this in the US so badly. Thrice now I've had my commute double because somebody fenced off a trail and now I have to go the long way around.
> * Children inherit wealth and knowledge of how to build wealth

that knowledge is so important. When i was a kid all I was told over and over was "get a good job in an office so you don't have to work like i do". This was coming from blue collar oil and ranch hands in West Texas so that's what i did and it's worked out pretty well for me. However, I'm teaching my kids how to build wealth and that a well-paying job is an income stream to assist with that but not the whole answer.
What does this post have to do with china? Are you just going to post anti-china comments with your account?
There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me;

Sign was painted, it said private property;

But on the back side it didn't say nothing;

This land was made for you and me.

-- Woody Guthrie
It works the same way in Haskell, eg

main = do
let x = 2
let x = "foo"
y <- pure 3
y <- pure "bar"
putStrLn $ x ++ y

which is really the same as

main =
let x = 2
in let x = "foo"
in pure 3 >>= \y ->
pure "bar" >>= \y ->
putStrLn $ x ++ y

So it works pretty naturally where each assignment is kind of like a new scope. If the type system is good, I don't think it really causes issues.
Scotland doesn't have the extreme levels of inequality that result in extreme levels of shoplifting, and therefore the shoplifting comparison doesn't hold up.
In the countries that have this, such as Scotland or Sweden or Switzerland, how much of this is actually a problem?
Decades after training, 90-year-old goes to space on Blue Origin flight
Pedestrian safety on the road to net zero: cross-sectional study of collisions
Have You Seen a Cybertruck Yet?
If they had charged $3000 per pin but actually made it work then they could make a case for brand value.
Very cool. Wonder how much time this adds to a test suite as you incorporate it more. Might need to have some different test targets to keep things fast.