skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laws that are uncontroversial in one year can become very controversial in another. Is it murder to kill your slave? Is it murder to kill the man breaking into your home at 3AM? Is it murder for the government to kill the man convicted of murder?

I think it's a good idea for all laws to have sunsets, though some could be longer than others.

In the US, I see federal laws renewed every few years with little public debate, sometimes released to the legislature with little opportunity for them to debate, let alone read and verify changes.

> The trouble is that perhaps our societies are now so polarised we’d never be able to agree to pass uncontroversial legislation without partisan horse trading.

Again, some things may be more controversial than they appear.

When things are uncontroversial, I think there's usually broad agreement to pass it without horse trading. More often, I see something (very) controversial is packaged with the uncontroversial, and the reporting of the situation is biased.
Insurance, health benefits.
Clearly you’ve never stood behind or near a barn sour (or just plain cranky) horse.

They will crush your feet, or even kick you in the head.

I was in the mountains and had a mare roll over and try to pin me to a boulder when I was on her - it was 5am and cold + icy, and she clearly didn’t like that.

Unfortunately for her, I grew up around a barn sour horse and saw it coming. Several
times he tried to scrape me off against trees at full gallop.

People are more dangerous just because they can manipulate others to kill/destroy you, and due to opposable thumbs can use weapons and construct machines/traps to kill you.

Physically they’re far weaker and less capable than a horse. A horse can consistently kill a full grown man with a single well aimed kick to the head.

I’ve also been threatened with knives 3 times, and shot at once, by humans - but near as I can tell, they weren’t serious about it. They just wanted the reaction. Unlike those horses.

If horses (or cats for that matter) had opposable thumbs or speech, the sky would be the limit.
Higan is a cycle-perfect SNES emulator, and it's very single-core CPU-intensive. This is what the FAQ [0] says:

Full-speed emulation for the Super Famicom base unit requires an Intel Core 2 Duo (or AMD equivalent), full-speed for games with the SuperFX chip requires an Intel Ivy Bridge (or equivalent), full-speed for the wireframe animations in Mega Man X2 requires an even faster computer. Low-power CPUs like ARM chips, or Intel Atom and Celeron CPUS generally aren’t fast enough to emulate the Super Famicom with higan, although other emulated consoles may work.

Work can't be split across cores (according to the FAQ) because that would compromise the accuracy of the timing.

It may be that the PS2 has similar problems while being more powerful than the SNES.

[0]: https://higan.readthedocs.io/en/v104b/faq/
As someone who spent years studying classical and medieval philosophy, and a few more years studying medieval history, this really pisses me off.

I guess astrophysicists have to deal with people who read Steven Hawking and think they’re brilliant physicists.

But Hawking is generally right.

It’s so insane how serious scholars are allowed to treat this area like it’s crap, ignoring the work done by serious philosophers and historians.

I guess I’m a bit sore because one of the most respected faculties of medieval history in America replaced their “Medieval History” courses with “Modern Conceptions of the Middle Ages” - which is the Middle Ages according to Shakespeare , Chaucer, and Tolkien.

There’s still good work being done here, but the stupidity is alive and well and being passed off as reality.
Warm blooded systems though can power high energy activities like maintaining a large brain, which could figure out how to get warm.

A few degrees can kill a human only in theory, in practice a human would wear a jacket or seek shade.
That's been that way since June 2018 (although it was section 4.3 then), with only minor changes in wording between then and now.

It was also that way since June 2015 except it just said "the Services" instead of "the Services and Software". It may go even farther back but archive.org only has it back to mid 2015.
isn’t this just semantic chunking? There’s been white papers and already implementations in Langchain and llama index you could look through.
Yes, but one does not have to reliably make assertions to feed a meme.

People want to be good. The current agenda God says you are good if you sacrifice to the CO2 god. No need to make reliable assertions to feel good about it. Anyone who challenges the act of sacrifice is someone to burn. No challenge means no problems.

Anyone who wants to see both sides of the Co2 discussion is already sceptical at minimum. But it does not make you feel good. Therefore its rare. It feels good to sacrifice to the Co2 god. “Lemme sacrifice you fool.”
Was there a name? It wasn't mentioned in the quote. Was it revealed later? If not, I suspect the OP's point stands. The only woman I could think of was Helena, mother of Constantine, of course that's the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantine, not the seven hills people often think of when they say Rome.
It depends on your point of view. Breaking work into pieces and contracting it out is bad for workers, as it’s cheapens labor.

It’s good for scaling up massive companies, which is good/bad depending on your pov.
From the moon's reference, the Earth orbits around it, traveling 2 × π × distance_moon_earth per orbit. Divide this by 27.3 days (sidereal orbital period) to get the Earth's speed. Multiply by 1/250th of a second. And we find this is, again, much less than 4 miles. Using GNU units:

$ units "2 * pi * moondist / (27.3 day) * (second / 250)"
Definition: 4.0958765 m

which is only 0.0025450597 miles.
Insurance companies are like casinos:

Playing at a casino, I’m almost guaranteed to lose money (unless I’m a very good poker player — the house and I can both win there); if I’m lucky, I can win big. If I buy insurance, I’m almost guaranteed to lose money; if I’m unlucky, I can get reimbursed for losses.

From: The House Always Wins — Casinos and Insurance Companies — https://kriswilliams.medium.com/the-house-always-wins-casino...
They will try as hard as they can to pin system failures on the unfortunate person who was in charge of the system.

Or, a local case, the nurses were complaining about shoddy supplies. Eventually the holes in the swiss cheese lined up and a baby died. The hospital tried to treat it as a murder by the nurse. (Claiming the line was cut, rather than it broke.)
You may already realize this, but the backing track and production of the "Bits and Bytes" theme slavishly borrow from the song "Neon Lights" by Kraftwerk.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rbARvOyyjUI
Am I dumb or is this basically the binlog of your database but without the tooling to let you do efficient querying?

Like I get the "message bus" architecture when you have a bunch of services emitting events and consumers for differing purposes but I don't think I would feel comfortable using it for state tracking. Especially when it seems really hard to enforce a schema / do migrations. CQRS also makes sense for this but only when it functions as a WAL and isn't meant to be stored forever but persisted by everyone who's interested in it and then eventually discarded.
See my other comment on this thread - larger and larger context windows make perfect chunking irrelevant. We’ve ingested millions of docs and have a product in production, using LLM’s for chunking would have 10Xed our ingestion costs for marginal performance improvement.
> almost all of the calls to thread_sleep wanted to yield to allow another thread to make progress, rather than to guarantee some time had elapsed.

That's .. deeply alarming and likely indicates the bad code. I've seen many beginner programmers use sleep/yield to busy-wait on something, and it's almost always a bad design decision: using proper synchronization primitive would be safer and more performant too.

Just to make sure that my guess was correct, I've searched CHERIoT codebase for some thread_sleep calls. There were only 15 hits, and most of them were related to implementation; only two examples were actual use in the code: busy-wait in TLS stack and polling for response in SNTP driver. Both of those are bad design - they should be using proper synchronization mechanisms.
The problem is that there is never an objective right way. There are infinite wrong ways, and usually a handful of ways that are just fine with different pros and cons that are not always clear up front.

A lot of the time when people say technical debt they mean a developer not taking the time to understand some code they inherited (or they wrote and forgot about), and wanting to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

If think you ask ten developers the best way to refactor a complex program you'll get 100 answers.

But I do agree that deliberate technical debt is more common on a decent team. I definitely have left many comments like "I know it would be better if I did XYZ, or ABC, but the boss wants it now, and I'm tired, so it's going to be a monstrosity"
Incremental collection is preferred in this case, as stop-and-copy collection leads to Second System Syndrome.
I would love to learn. Please share some links.
Crazy that the asset limit isn't tied to inflation, but the payments are.
He had me up until the backside view with the velcro monstrosity. Better (IMHO) to put everything but the ipad in a messenger bag so you can uncouple and wield the tablet without causing joint injury.
> Reading between the lines, neither study has demonstrated that AI models are lying over their own volition, but instead doing so because they've either been trained or jailbroken to do so.

Correct, because to intentionally deceive one must be in possession of the truth (which LLMs arguably are incapable of).

Training sets for games of strategy should include behaviors considered deceptive and surprising. Is it any surprise then, that we see these behaviors reflected in the LLM's output?
'Our universe is one tiny grain of dust in a beautiful cosmos' (2022)
I suspect the patients would fare better if active noise cancelling headphones were issued to every patient.
Some Linux distros are moving that way, particularly for the included Python/pip version. My Arch Linux already does so some years, and I do not set it up myself - so I think it is default.
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I use git to sync across my computers. What does sync provide as true advantage? I am considering but haven't decided.
If you know what a Tontine[1] is, you'll understand there really is no difference between Insurance and Gambling.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine
Life is the gamble. Insurance is a hedge. That’s not complicated.
Mandating that people purchase health insurance is a complication in the sense that a person is forced to use their resources to hedge or pay penalties, instead of going all in on life.
In the US it’s mostly a low-middle class problem because the cost of health insurance affects their financial flexibility.
It’s not a great expense to the middle-upper class and the poor usually qualify for government healthcare.
We already know there is no way make a back door that only the "good guys" can access.

However I see that discussion as moot because governments past and present already abuse the information technology they have access to. Below is just a small snippet of the seemingly countless number of examples I could find in minute of searching:

USA:

N.J. cop used police databases to stalk ex-girlfriend, investigators say
https://www.nj.com/monmouth/2023/01/nj-cop-used-police-datab...

Officer Fired for Allegedly Using Police Database to Stalk, Harass Women
https://www.newsweek.com/officer-fired-allegedly-using-polic...

Australia:

Former policeman accused of using force database to stalk ex-wife and girlfriend https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/former-policeman...

Former federal police officer faces new charges over stalking of ex-girlfriend
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6138318/former-federa...

(Note the two above articles are not the same person)

UK:

Met police officer 'used CCTV cameras to stalk his ex-girlfriend after telling her to take up sex work to pay her bills'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11868575/Met-police...

Creepy cop saw attractive woman on the road and 'looked up her license plate number so he could stalk her on Facebook'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178556/Officer-Jef...
this poor guy keeps getting ignored. here is the tweet https://x.com/rkfg_me/status/1130028610700664832
Beautiful. Must-read.
Higher animal empathy in Australian pet-owners vs. non-owners and farmers
There is also the combination of self insuring. 0
An old boss had a dozen kids and his own personal business so he self insured his fleet as well as all the of age kids as employees.
Gambling isn't about risking it all as some bets are safer than others for less rewards.

0. https://www.policygenius.com/auto-insurance/what-is-self-ins...
Wondering if yet another explanation for dark matter involves entanglement influence from other universes, as described in the linked article.
Is the other important part determined by the Jury is guilt? Does that mean that Google can skip that as well?
I've used something similar to get MAME's VT240 to talk to a WSL instance. Had to go dig up a forum post I wrote a few years back to find the exact commands.

On the WSL Linux side:
socat -d -d exec:'bash -li',pty,stderr,setsid,sigint,sane TCP-LISTEN:11313,reuseaddr,fork

On the Windows side:
.\mame.exe vt240 -window -host null_modem -bitb socket.10.0.0.2:11313
I'm the person who originally set Cara up on Vercel in late 2022, before I stepped away to focus on my own startup.

I chose Vercel for a few reasons:

1. When you have 0 users, worrying about scale is a huge time sink. I wanted the team to be able to focus on building a product people wanted, acquiring users, and retaining them.

2. Vercel's preview branches make it lovely to preview work in progress, and QA pull requests. This is critical given Cara was and still is a small team of volunteers.

3. NextJS is lovely to work with, and choosing something both popular and with a JS/TS base made it easy to onboard new volunteers.

If I was doing things again, I'd still choose Vercel. The only difference is I'd enable spend management for their team (a feature Vercel released in late 2023: https://vercel.com/docs/pricing/spend-management).
In insurance you expect to come out ahead in the average case.

In gambling you expect to come out behind in the average case.

Therefore insurance is rational and gambling is irrational.
The insureds are the only ones bringing money to the table, the insurers take a cut, someone loses and someone wins.
If you want to pay a bit for easier, I have recent experience with Axigen. Still getting updates, web based configuration, bare bones debian 11, updating a couple times a month with 5 command lines, and you need to know how to do backups (use kopia)
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Octopi are cold blooded and smart
> Notably, Only the vigorous exercise group exhibited a decline in both NEPA and BT, resulting in body weight gain the following day

Yeah, no kidding... I also gain weight the day after vigorous exercise. Mostly muscle mass, probably maybe some water retention, bone density, I'm not sure. Pretty much every time I have a reduction in fat mass.
> then you might have maximized the probability of achieving that qualitative difference

No, you have only maximized the probability if you bet all of your money and all of the money you can borrow, beg or steal.
Insurance (outside of health insurance, which is not insurance in the typical sense) hedges your "bet" so it's not gambling to me. Your bet is that you'll drive a car without an accident. Insurance hedges that bet to reduce downside risk if there is an accident.

You're paying a small amount to avoid a large loss, on purpose, knowing that it may not happen. You're not trying to get more out of it than you put in (at least on purpose) because that's fraud. Doesn't sound like a bet to me...
The author mentions problems with flow control, but I'm fairly certain I got that working in MAME. If I remember correctly, you need to enable XON/XOFF in the VT102 configuration (it's one of the bits you can toggle on the SET-UP B page), and also enable it in MAME's Machine Configuration menu.

Also make sure your modem settings in MAME match the settings configured on the VT102. I have them both set to 19200 baud 8N1. I've just done a quick test now, and I can definitely make it through tests 1 and 2 in vttest without the output getting corrupted.

I should also mention that I've got the RS232 device set to null_modem (which is hooked up to a socat instance via MAME's bitbanger feature), rather than the pty configuration that they're using. I'm not sure if that could make a difference to the way the flow control works.
Planck expandable 65c02-based computer
> Richard Feynman on explaining technical matters to the average person

Richard Feynman lecture on computing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA
There exists a ternary if statement?

foo = something() if sanity_check else None

Can replace None with foo (or any other expression), if desired.
Good thing TSMC is getting billions of dollars of government subsidies to build fabs all around the world including in the US and Japan.
> You lose at insurance by not having any circumstances that lead to payout. You win at insurance by having it actually do something for you.

You are misunderstanding what insurance is for. The benefit that insurance conveys for the person insured is not that it is supposed to make money. It is risk avoidance.

Without insurance, you might pay zero, or you might pay a very large sum that you can't afford. With insurance, you pay a predictable sum periodically, no matter what happens, and the insurance company is the one taking the risk of either paying zero or a very large sum, which hopefully the company can afford.

In other words, just as the GP said, insurance is the opposite of gambling. In gambling, you accept the huge variance in payoff. In insurance, you transfer that risk to someone else.

> Every time you pay and nothing bad happens leading to payout, that amount you spent that month is lost

No, it isn't. You are getting something of value to you in return: risk avoidance. If that is of no value to you, then don't buy insurance. You might not regret it. But then again, you might.
i just hope people don't claim "X model support Y context window", when the evaluation is done on "Needle in a haystack" only. It creates so much unnecessary hype.
I think that shows how LLMs lack an important part of what we as intelligent agents have, as the parent comment pointed out, the innate ability to have some sort of train of thought or self check mechanism. In a human, as you said, we don't immediately blurt out or write out a phrase, since if someone gave us this problem we would immediately start considering the constraints and possibilities. By contrast, LLMs do not have this and the ability has to be "bolted on" through a pre prompt like "consider if your answer is correct" and "think step by step" etc. As far as actually choosing a viable strategy, such as figuring out to go alphabetically, this probably emerges as they get larger and larger; i.e, they need both the bolted on train of thought ability and also an actual good sense of reasoning and logic, which could be compared to a person (maybe a child) who can't come up with a good solution, let's say, to making a pangram (in this case).
I'm not saying the noise is restricted to just one party.
8k would mean that it would be very difficult for them to ever have a significant vacation (e.g. seeing another country). Depending on what counts as an asset, I could see most serious hobbyists having more than $8K in various tools and equipment.

Basically, it seems to me that an $8K limit on assets could effectively mean that people on disability are not allowed to have a life.
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You will live those 10 years with more peace of mind, which is the only reason to have life insurance since once you're dead you're dead
I didnt get enough info from GP to make this judgement. The problem could be on HR hiring wrong person due to their interviewing incompetency. It could also be bad hire, but Im careful not to jump to conclusions, I’ve seem both scenarios IRL
Both are rational... if reason is applied.
Being wealthy enough to cover it yourself doesn't mean it's stupid to buy the option to avoid the downside if it's priced properly.
I've been driving 20 years and have never had an accident. I believe I'm the average case. Am I coming out ahead?
> It makes me wonder how much worse roman civilization must have been for women that they apparently didn't even bother to write down anything about them.

A starting point to learn about specific Roman women: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distinguished_Roman_wo...

One thing to note is that freeborn women in Ancient Rome were citizens but could not vote and could not hold public office, severely limiting their public role and hence reference by historians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_ancient_Rome
Something not mentioned in the article is that both gambling and insurance can be regulated, or unregulated industries.

Most familiar forms of mainstream insurance (car, home, health, etc) are actually regulated financial services. Likewise, legal casinos in most states of the US. The quality and transparency of the service depends a lot on the quality and enforcement of regulation.

It does seem to me that insurance involves "collateral" in the sense that you insure things that actually exist. This would seem to place a limit on what people are willing to pay for insurance.
I agree, but something like "incomplete bolus" doesn't really make sense to me and I think those types contribute to alarm fatigue. The key issue with T1 diabetes is hypoglycemia, which can cause acute damage and death, so in theory not having insulin on isn't as big of an issue (assuming the patient is actually trying to control their disease and checks blood sugar etc, in the alternate case the alarms probably don't help much). Of course, I agree something like a hypoglycemia alarm is important
> Having moved from the US to a Westminster country, I have to say that even British MPs can look an awful lot like rubber-stamp voters. The system is set up to punish them severely if they dare to seriously endanger anything the cabinet wants.

Not really. Parliament inflicts major defeats and signficant amendments quite a lot, several times a decade. Which is a lot.

And you have to understand that there is implicit context here, which is that Parliament really doesn't like having the piss taken out of it, doesn't accept disrespect, and hasn't for several hundred years.

It does take a long view of the British parliament to understand how the longstanding collective spirit of parliament as an entity, a community, influences which legislation government even tries to put before it.

There are some notable exceptions (particularly in this parliament) but as a general rule, ministers don't have the whipping power they tend to think they have.

What you see is a series of acquiescences, but what government sees is a process/approach that rules out things they would want to do that they won't ever get through parliament. Select committees in particular are brutal.

We are heading towards a period of time where the government of the day is going to have a lot more power, and what you will see is paradoxical: longstanding members on the back benches of the government side will become even more vocal about the importance of respecting parliament.

It's amazing the way it happens, and it is often underwritten by a little bitterness about not getting a ministerial or PPS job that becomes a balancing force.