skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That set of criteria makes sense to me!

Also, another case in which the death penalty could be warranted:

The person has confessed to the crime, does not recant their confession, and accepts (or even desires) the death penalty in lieu of lifetime imprisonment. (Yes, there are cases like this.)

Of course, this reads a bit more like suicide, and may not be necessary if we had appropriate "right-to-die" provisions in general (such that they also applied to prisoners). Maybe we should just give all such prisoners access to a seppuku knife once a year.
And then you go to Supreme Court, and SCOTUS says:

> The Constitution, Scalia wrote, does not prevent the government from executing a person who new evidence indicates might be “actually innocent” — that is, someone with the potential to legally demonstrate they did not commit the crime for which they were convicted.

And have locked in on this:

> In Shinn v. Ramirez, the court voted 6 to 3 to overrule two lower courts and disregard the innocence claims of Barry Lee Jones, a prisoner on Arizona’s death row. Importantly, the majority did not rule that it found Jones’s innocence claims unpersuasive. Instead, it ruled that the federal courts are barred from even considering them. Thomas wrote the opinion.
Good catch. I do say "heighth" but spell it "height." It's like the opposite of a silent H; an invisible H or something.
> "google execs hearing the feedback that 'adding reddit to the end of every search is the only way to get information that you need' and immediately destroying their business trying to automate that"
Yes it's exactly as you guessed it

The hundreds of files in the repo are just for maintainability and organization, but in the end it'll result in a single file to include, although you can also individually select which part you want to include if you'd like
I hoped that this article provides enough information serve as a tutorial, actually. It's just skipping the parts that should be easy to google for.
Cynically those changes were just a rebrand to meet changing mores about health. McDonald's salad famously has more calories than the big mac. Super size items may not be called super sized, but an extra-large is the same size a super sized item. The obesity epidemic rages on and has continued to worsen in the US and has spread to pretty much every developed country. Not that I fault Spurlock for any of that, just a disappointing outcome to say the least.
Music of Medieval Iran: An Introduction to Middle Eastern Music Theory
Reads like the Golden Gate Claude.
All in good measure. Too many loval temporary variables are quite annoying as well, especially paired with bad naming. When the names are like "thing_with_attr1", "thing_with_updated_attr1" and so on, it also becomes confusing which variable has what, when they are later used.

Having variable assignment after assignment after assingment is also an indication for a function potentially doing too many things and might even be called a code smell.
What's next after software development?
What kind of roles people have pivoted into after to not be stuck developing code 90% of the day. I have been working as software developer for 4+ year s now and don't see it doing it in the next 4-5.
Airlines, hotels, retailers fear being left out in Google's search changes
Hey there! I'm really sorry if that came as snarky, but didn't mean that way. But you have to see that most of the comments are just plain disinformation and just could not let them hang in a no-way-out situation. I hope there would be a way out, without harming the people born into it. But I believe that has to come without this overpowering and dehumanising by those who definitely have the upper hand. This place does have all it takes to be a unifying idea for the vast majority of the world, and I sincerely hope peace prevails. You have a nice day too!
I actually did a homemade uh-oh for one of my things as an homage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PsNkVAjoGQ

Sad to see it go even if I haven't used it since a 5 digit handle meant something.
Cabin air filters, which are in many if not most modern cars, should already have removed the particulates already.
I just typed "cal 1752" and got a calendar with a September that has no dates between Wednesday the 2nd and Thursday the 14th.

Although disputed by some, apparently the switch to the Gregorian calendar is also the basis for "April Fools' Day."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
I like Plan 9's notes: http://man.postnix.pw/9front/2/notify
That was my next step, but I had already spent an afternoon on it, so I ended up just making do without and using grep.

(Partly because docker has it's own set of obnoxious quirks, as it assumes everything can and should be run as root. And rootless docker cannot coexist on a system with over-permissioned docker. I really need to switch over to podman at some point.)
> 2. That person has to escape from their final prison.

Tangentially, in some Scandinavian (I believe?) countries, escaping from prison is not a punishable offense. To be clear, you will be looked for, and taken back to prison when found, but their legal system has ruled that the craving for freedom is a natural human urge, and that it's punishing human behavior to punish escapees for escaping.
That was outside the context of what the paper was studying.
Good old 20854206. Can’t believe I managed to log back in just now. Nothing there though.
Parsable Text Considered Harmful
IME Mac binaries are much smaller than Windows for your average third party software. I don’t know why.
It’s so rare to see Sundar Pichai get nervous, Nilay Patel was certainly asking the right questions throughout the interview. I like to still imagine how LLMs can enhance our experience online, the current “AI” products are none of that, unfortunately.
We already have heat recovery systems in production models, though not for generating electricity of course. Another driving feature is emissions, not cost. Meeting emissions requirements drives up the cost and complexity of the vehicle.
So the history of this type of research as I know it was that we

- started to diff the executives statements from one quarter to another. Like engineering projects alot of this is pretty standard so the starting point is the last doc. Diffing allowed us to see what the executives added and thought was important and also showed what they removed. This worked well and for some things still does, this is what a warrant canary does, but stopped generating much alpha around 2010ish.

- simple sentiment. We started to count positive and negative words to build a poor mans sentiment analysis that could be done very quickly upon doc release to trade upon. worked great up until around 2013ish before it started to be gamed and even bankruptcy notices gave positive sentiment scores by this metric.

- sentiment models. Using proper models and not just positive and negative word counts we built sentiment models to read what the executives were saying. This worked well until about 2015/2016ish in my world view as by then executives carefully wrote out their remarks and had been coached to use only positive words. Worked until twitter killed the fire hose, and wasn't very reliable as reputable news accounts kept getting hacked. I remember i think AP new's account got hacked and reported a bombing at the white house that screwed up a few funds.

You also had Anne Hathaway news pushing up Berkshire Hathaway's share price type issues in this time period.

- there was a period here where we kept the same technology but used it everywhere from the twitter firehose to news articles to build a realtime sentiment model for companies and sectors. Not sure it generates much alpha due to garbage in, garbage out and data cleaning issues.

- LLMs, with about GPT2 we could build models to do the sentiment analysis for us, but they had to be built out of foundational models and trained inhouse due to context limitations. Again this has been gamed by executives so alot of the research that I know of is now targeted at ingesting the Financials of companies and being able to ask questions quickly without math and programming.

ie what are the top 5 firms in the consider discretionary space that are growing their earnings the fastest while not yet raising their dividends and whose share price hasn't kept up with their sectors average growth.
The blog post mentioned in the nbcnews link mentions more of his problems in addition to alcoholism, adultery/infidelity - broken family during childhood, sexual abuse, depression, etc.

see https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sqc244
For who? Was that the best option for the employees who relied on the income? Or the customers who enjoyed the food? There are plenty of actions that are rational from an economics standpoint as long as you don't care about any of the externalities such as human dignity.
I spent the better half of my teenage days carefully tagging my music library with this.
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Yeah I don't think this is meant to be used for a production environment.
I wrotten this mostly to style my hobby projects effortlessly

Anyway more "professional contexts" probably have their own branding too, so the added value is probably negligeable in this case
Even the original waterfall paper describes an iterative project management model with testing & revisions on the results, at multiple levels of the system.
Haha, yes, my initial message didn't mention it; then I re-read it and thought "huh I forgot to mention IRCCloud" before adding it.
A society of overweight and obese people giving enormous attention on how the effects of eating McDonalds everyday cannot be replicated. Please let's snapshot everything so the future generations can laugh at how we turned into a parody.
Carbon Robotics has a tractor attachment system that burns weeds with lasers. Pests can’t be far behind.
A dialog box allowing the user to “chicken out” if they have second thoughts about some important action. Usually they say something like “Are you sure? yes/no”
There's a long history of Memegen trolling for the lulz.

Here's a color link so nobody else has to struggle: https://www.colorhexa.com/ff00ff
> citizens to ask meaningful questions about the finances of their local government.

is there a demand for this. I live in cook country. I really don't want to ask these questions. Not sure what I get out of asking these questions other than anger and frustration.
>And apparently Apple is okay with procrastinating and cannibalizing current sales of M1, 2, 3 if it helps prevent some Snapdragon (or Ampere) sales.

sales of what

i actually can't think of a single competing product. admittedly i don't keep up with laptop news but still, i haven't heard of anything yet that can meaningfully compete with the m1 from four years ago
so its owned by VK now ? how did that happen
I was just joking, I know what it means (to the extent one can truly understand a buzzword).
Ok this made me laugh xD
This is how you destroy Raspberry Pi [video]
>I expect nobody will care. Once someone has decided that a company might "train AI" on private data you've already lost that person's trust. It's not clear to me if any company has figured out how they can overcome one of these AI training panics at this point.

I think it goes beyond a single company, or rather a single incidence of this panic. You're looking at each time this happens as an independent coin flip instead of a series of dominoes that trigger a reaction in multiple directions.

What I mean by that is there's a counterculture sentiment building based off the idea that people have seen this same pattern enough times at this point that they're distrustful of large scale systems by default. It's happening with government institutions, politics, economics, and individual industries like gaming and streaming.

To that end the "panic" is not just a reaction to Slack's (perceived) actions, but an expectation that Slack will be yet another domino in that line of companies that have done the same. It's also difficult to prove a negative (that Slack isn't using private data for training purposes even if they say they're not) so the messaging is up against a very solid wall.

The result here is that public announcements and messaging related to data are under heavy scrutiny, and the media is incentivized to try and make their reporting go viral (ironically for the ad revenue) at the expense of actual journalistic reporting.

I'm not sure what the solution to this problem is, or if there even is one, but promoting self hosting seems like an indicator that the default assumption is that data collected will be abused in some way. Honestly based on the last couple of years it's not an unreasonable assumption either.
agreed. most people can't create a custom tailored finance statement model. but many people can write the following sentence: "analyze this financial statement and suggest a market strategy." and if that sentence performs as well as an (albeit old) custom model, and is likely to have compound improvements in its performance over time with no changes to the instruction sentence...
Yeah I really don't understand why research is still being published that uses GPT3.5 rather than GPT4 or both models. ~500 programming questions is maybe a few bucks on the API?
I started writing an essay about this topic. I am one of those nostalgics by the old internet. I thought it was the aesthetic (geocities, etc), but after giving it a lot of thought, that wasn't. It was that your life (all of us) was "offline by default".

We lived offline and then we connect to the internet for a few minutes, hours, whatever. But you lived your life offline. We attended concerts, took photos, recorded videos, and then we took our time to share them online (maybe that same night, maybe the next days). You went online to discuss something that happened in real life.

Now it's the reverse. We live "online by default". Everything happens online, all we do is first online or at least at the same time. We attend a concert? We publish pictures and videos almost instantly (some people even do a live stream from the concert!). Something happens in politics? People discuss it as it happens on Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Going to the computer to connect to surf the web may sound silly, but that was the difference. Internet was inside a device you had to use. Now internet is happening around you all the time (and if you miss it for a few days, ouch!)
I never used ICQ but I have listened to this song on repeat since 2007
https://youtu.be/xVdMiHmnf_I?si=5rwC12kLsNZ0u7ON&t=74
I can't remember, but I don't think MSN had offline messages. And I don't think ICQ lost offline messaging in the OSCAR transition, IIRC, ICQ moved to OSCAR with offline messages, then AIM got them, then AIM and ICQ could talk for a while (but all my ICQ contacts that I kept had moved to AIM or MSN by then anyway).

As I recall, originally, the ICQ client polled the server via UDP to see if it had any messages, and then you would do peer to peer for online messaging. But when you logged in, you'd get a cascade of the offline messages (uh, uh, uh, uh-oh)
This is my text message tone for a few key family members. It brings me joy on the rare occasions my phone isn’t muted.
Looks like the ICJ tacked on a PS that Hamas should release them too.

So I guess Israel should comply when Hamas does? sound like a plan?
Every self-respecting corporate org will block execution in the cloud + no IDE (you edit the code inside the cells), its dead on arrival
Do you prop it up on your lap at all? If so how's it work for you? What do you use to achieve this?
It also seemed very American/Euro-centric how it was treated as some kind of novel idea that no one had ever tried before. Meanwhile in most East Asian countries it's been common courtesy for ages to wear a mask during cold/flu season.
So his liver was ok even though he was a lifelong alcoholic yet a month later it wasn't and the only new thing he introduced in his diet was lots of mcdonalds? Seems like he proved something.
Weird, a statically built ELF that supports TLS1.3 + HTTP1.1 is like ~30kb, all you need is Emacs as a UI and you have Teams 2 at 1.0e-5% resource usage.
The Samsung NX1 and NX500 running Linux can be pretty easily scripted to upload JPEGs or RAWs to any online service, given that you have a Wi-Fi network with you. Unfortunately they are a decade old and rare on the second hand market.
brilliant, thanks for sharing. seems to work great. i mostly tolerate Windows Defender, but the lack of configurability is pretty maddening sometimes.
Reminds me of a simpler time when messaging was universal, not a Machiavellian marketing scheme to generate social friction in order to sell more phones.
I went from the last Intel i9 16" MBP to an M3 Pro in the last month at work.

I think it's saving me an hour a day and the fan has never come on, the the laptop has never felt warm, and the battery life is just mind blowing.

I run docker & compilers all day. The i9 would run the fan 75% of the time and had to throttle down any time it was on battery power and it was lucky to last 3 hours on battery.
Thinking Big and Small
Copy and paste on iPhones, anyone?
I'm partial to the null hypothesis, but one thing to check would be junk DNA in other extant species, and ancient human remains.
I know. I really miss my old iTunes library. I had the genres and other metadata just the way I liked them.

In my quest to find an offline MP3 player for my kid, I spent a bunch of time looking at models, but none of them give you the ability to sort (and shuffle) by artist, album, and genre the way the old iPods did.
Same here. I have Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max with AppleCare+ which I broke during a trip to US (I'm in Canada). They were able to swap it with replacement at the Apple store in LA without any hassle. Too bad the SIM Card was also busted though :(
out of curiosity, how tall is this child
https://d2l.ai. Rigorous, but not too rigorous. Code for everything. Free.

Excellent background knowledge in the appendix. Easy to get bootstrapped.

Then move to Murphy's two tomes.
Seems to be offline.
Yes, it isn't bare metal vs cloud, it is being your own sysadmin vs relying on someone to sysadmin for you
You are making a few (?wrong) assumptions here:

- that we are first

- oxygen is needed for all life forms

- the habitable zone that is ideal for us the only one that can give birth to intelligent life

- magnetic field is needed for life to exist/radiation kills off all life
>> The situation you are describing is a messed-up environment that puts politics above science.

This has been going on for a while and just came into sharp focus during the pandemic. Its horrifying to think science is now so politically based that any study that contradicts what the gov is telling you is somehow suppressed because they know better? Do you remember when the Canadian Health Minister said people should ignore any information that isn't coming directly from the government?

Our dystopian future arrived during the pandemic and science went from using a rigorous established methodology to allowing the government to tell us that science is now decided as a popularity contest like a survey. "99% of doctors recommend the vaccine so you should trust "the science" and get it or you're going to kill your grandma!"
EasyTAG is a serviceable cross-platform alternative.
Can I use gasoline to cook spaghetti faster?
> When a major new technology comes out, huge new opportunities open up for founders that get in on the ground floor.

> Moments like these don’t happen often. When they do, it’s the people that put themselves right at the bleeding edge that find the opportunities

I hate this framing, and the associated mindset. This "creating a sense of urgency" is a tactic employed by car salesman and phishing emails.

Nothing but respect for the people doing cutting edge on LLMs/GenAI, but this post and video exude a sleazy, get-rich-quick vibe. It feels similar to the crypto hype-rush, which is unfortunate because in contrast to crypto, it seems there's real utility in LLMs/GenAI.

I think the part that rubs me the wrong way is they don't even pretend to care about the technology itself, how people might use it, or build businesses around it. They even directly acknowledge this at 3:00 with "we're not even saying we know the ideas".

It's all just "I smell money" and a rush to try and cut yourself a slice of the pie. I've never founded a startup so maybe I know nothing, but if a founder was asked why are you starting this business and their answer was "to get rich before anyone else", I don't know if I'd bet on that business.
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I find it amusing that I still remember this right off the bat despite not having used it for 15 years, but I don't remember my phone number from the same time period.
I'm unable to load the ChatGPT login page.

Not much in the DOM, just a <form> element and 2 sibling <script> elements.

Console logs show 2 identical errors:

> Refused to execute a script because its hash, its nonce, or 'unsafe-inline' does not appear in the script-src directive of the Content Security Policy.
streetcomplete looks like a great idea! unfortunately i have an iPhone.. but yeah gamification is the way to go (just like google does)
Heh heh heh, the music in the second demo video strongly reminded me of the old Second Reality demo by Future Crew: https://youtu.be/GL5vb3D-8_I?si=LK-1BIQpL-EMrh3k&t=126
Strangely enough, I don't remember my phone number at that time, but I do remember my ICQ#
Microsoft just announced some lackluster arm laptops that they claim can compete with M-series chips. The question is what windows programs are gonna run on them...
Good Luck!!

Looks super cool and I look forward to what comes next.
What’s the modern form of “what Andy giveth, Bill taketh away”? “What Tim giveth, Satya taketh away”?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law
The US government is not some monolith. It's ~3 million different people, under different operational silos, none of whom worked there back when the project in the OP happened. The link between Pfizer/BioNTech and the Manhattan-Rochester Coalition is extremely weak. The severity of anyone's experience has nothing to do with any strength or weakness of that link.
What will happen if everyone starts using heavy statistical methods or LLMs to predict stocks prices? And buys stock based on them? Will it absolutely make everything unpredictable?

Edit: assuming that they initially provide good predictions
Municipal bond rating agencies should be a client of such data.

And if not the rating agencies, people who invest in municipal bonds.
I live in a place where masking isn’t a big deal, people wore masks all the time before covid if they felt sick to prevent transmission. During covid, our rates were quite low, and the rates of countries like Japan where they mask routinely were lower.

How do “anti-maskers” (for lack of a better term) explain this? If masks only work for 5 or 10 percent reduction, then it still helps and with little downside.

I don’t understand what’s so bad about wearing a mask, other than wanting to buck the system trying to tell you what to do.

I don’t understand why you’d look at someone with a mask on and judge them today, even, as you don’t know their story or what their health is like.
"few"

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/03/22/poll-hamas-remains-p...