skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biden and Trump are probably the worst examples for the point you’re trying to make. There’s no Democrat that polls better against Trump than Biden. Biden beat Kamala Harris (who had Obama’s team behind her), Elizabeth Warren (the choice of affluent white professionals), and Bernie Sanders (the choice of progressives) because he had the support of the party’s critical black voters and moderate/conservative faction. Trump, meanwhile, was the choice of populist republicans who overthrew the party’s establishment (Bush/McCain/Romney) wing.
> Decentralized and global consensus are contradictory properties

That's literally what blockchain solves. ENS (Ethereum Naming Service) already does this.
They could fight and choose not to. They could ignore this and choose not to. They deserve our judgement for that
You're (wilfully?) misunderstanding. No one is saying that laws somehow magically cease to apply to unusual events (wut?). The argument is that good legislative lawmaking is based on data and evidence. Rushing to make legislation to respond to (media coverage of) freak occurrences rarely leads to good lawmaking.

Try to engage in good faith. You don't really think that people don't know what child labour is illegal, and require a Wiki link to elucidate this obscure fact. You're just performing outrage. Why do so? What benefit does doing so bring you, or anyone else?
Being a political representative is not a regular job. It should come with some finite term, no matter how good you are.
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> Server side and centralized beats client side decentralized

SQLite works on the server too. Important data can live in a SQLite database.
Dismissing the potential of the current wave of AI as overhyped because "I literally only use ChatGPT" is like someone in 1985 dismissing computers as overhyped because "I literally only use WordPerfect". You're missing out on what all the other computers are being used for.

The current wave of model development, sharing, and fine-tuning is creating a technical ecosystem that supports making computer programs that are able to interact with unstructured data in ways that historically have been impossible.

That most people have only seen that used to make a chatbot that can answer unstructured questions with unstructured and occasionally hallucinated answers says nothing about the profound ways those capabilities will shift what kinds of problems we point computers at in the future.

Let's take a classic cataloging problem like managing a small library inventory. Say you're a software company and you have a few bookshelves of programming books people can borrow. And you want to make it possible for people to search the list of books you have in stock to see if there's something they want to borrow before they walk down. This is classic Web 1.0 stuff - a mySQL database with a books table and an authors table, indulge your third normal form fetish. And maybe you integrate with an ISBN catalog by sending it nicely structured XML queries so you can use a scanner to scan the barcodes, pull down and transform structured data about each book, and use it to populate your database. Make an old school HTML form to search it by title, author, publisher, date, etc...

Nowadays, you can take a picture of the spines on the shelves; ask a multimodal AI to figure out what books that means you've got; feed that, plus plain text search access to an online catalog, to another model to get it to build a nice big document describing all the books; feed that as context into a chatbot librarian and let it help users find books. Set up a webcam pointing at the shelf and periodically take new pictures to keep track of who took what books.

Think about the massive amounts of efforts businesses go to to create information technology systems to structure the state of their business, interactions among their employees, data about their customers and suppliers, integration with external systems, and to schematize and constrain the processes of their business. And now start to think about how that all changes when I can skip the structure part.

We are not yet used to thinking about how to solve problems with computers that don't need their inputs to be rigorously structured. When we start realizing what that means, we're in a different game entirely.
Astronomers discover Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting a nearby cool dwarf star
A lot of world’s important data is on paper.

As far as important data served from a relational database is concerned, MySQL most likely beats the hell out of everything in terms of popularity. The bulk of SQLite’s usage has to be various runtime caches, file data, and so on.
High-precision measurements challenge our understanding of Cepheids
Only time will tell. Right now this sounds like everything that was once claimed, each technological cycle, only to be forgotten about after some time. Only after some time we come to our senses, some things simply stick while other ‘evolve’ in other directions (for the lack of a better word).

Maybe this time it’s different, maybe it’s not. Time will tell.
i've learned programming with microworlds pro logo, a later product by lcsi.

thank you for the atari documents! i'm pleased to see many of the advanced concepts from microworlds (most notably multiple turtles, but also shapes were so much fun!) already there in this early version.

lcsi's current implementation is a free, web version at https://lynxcoding.club/
Interesting podcast discussing, among other things, why being cheap on cost/kwh isn’t enough

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/volts/id1548554104?i=1...
Yeah I did say “back half”. I just think that if we can build an AI that can logically reason better than any human, combined with the total knowledge of all humans, it can start running experiments and doing “science” itself.
It would be > 0, but pretty significantly < $300B.

I think a lot of people underestimate the importance of good targeting to the online ads market. It's taken over from print/media/TV brand advertising because it's orders of magnitude more efficient. When Google was young (~2005) advertisers were reporting that they'd get 3-5x more conversions from Google at 1/10th the ad budget because the conversion rate was that much higher.
A better question would be "Why survive in the Post-Human Era?"

Else might as well ask "how to thrive as a redundant/slave"
Well there are a couple of ways one can do this!

1. Recursively lookup DNS, so domains will have to be blocked at the registrar level, since DNS is unencrypted, it can be blocked at ISP level as well.

2. Use a protocol alternative to DNS, a good mature example is GNS. It aims to replace DNS, with a built from group up, modernish protocol. Using a DHT and public-key cryptography.

3. There are "block chain" solutions to the whole domain problem, look at Handshake, ENS etc.
Ultrasensitive liquid biopsy tech spots cancer earlier than standard methods
> I don't think it means that BH controls the day-to-day operations of any of the companies that they own or invest in.

I don’t think it does either.

> Like I said, I believe that Buffett looks to make his money by owning profitable companies with strong leadership in markets where they can remain competitive for a long time.

Presumably by employing people who make long term decisions. Why would Buffett keep leadership in place that he thinks are making short term decisions to boost quarterly numbers?
It’s all about the training. Llms can have better understanding of space then humans to the point where they can draw things better than us.

Don’t restrict LLMs to text. If you train one with images and text you’ll get one that understands position.
Quantum entangled photons react to Earth's spin
As our diagnostic capabilities grow beyond their current primitive state, we will discover that the vast majority of these cases are persistent infections either directly or indirectly causing symptoms.
New carbon nitride membrane improves lithium extraction from salt lakes
Duke Energy power equipment in Durham damaged from gunfire after power outage
Is magnesium the sleeping potion that lets sandhoppers to survive cold winters?
Interestingly, anecdotally, the idea of an age cap for our politicians has been a thread I’ve seen both sides of the aisle share sentiments and easily agree on in casual political conversation more and more lately. I am cautiously optimistic that this may be a conduit towards the non-bloody version of the future where we don’t go to civil war and instead decide to do a little foundation repair on our political system. Age/term limits and voting reform.

And 80 is too high, but it is a good test legally. If you can retire and collect money for being old, then you are simply not generationally relevant anymore in terms of your political landscape. Almost by definition when you think about it that way. 60 or 65 should be the cap. Perhaps even to vote… It has nothing to do with technology and lifespan. It has to do with cultural relevance. Sure, our society should foster wise elders who hold respected opinions gained from years of experience, but to be ruled by them is to subject your prime years as an adult to the stolid ideals of a past generation.

Do I trust people like Trump or Biden to sensibly navigate a complex social landscape with gender fluidity, cyber personas, changing approaches to marriage, digital privacy concerns, digital identity, or even to understand the everyday stress and pressures of the generation producing the nation’s capital and the nations offspring? Heck no. Even if they read up on the topic and can respond to talking points or have formed their own opinions, _they didn't live them,_ it’s not the life of their generation and they simply cannot have true empathy for any such concerns. I would be more comfortable electing someone I disagreed with on almost every political topic to office, from my generation, than some impedance mismatched person twice my age who appears to align more naturally with my beliefs. Why? Because I know if it comes down to it, when stakes are high and it really matters, when that person has to make a decision that will have great impact, they will be equip with the tools, thoughts, experiences, etc. to navigate the decision in a way that’s socially relevant, even if I disagree with the outcome.

I say all this understanding that the time will come for my generation to relinquish power (if we ever get it) and shepherd in the next, likely before the power structures we’ve created would prefer it. The problem today is we’re still subjects of our grandparents power structures. And it is so hard not to become apathetic to our entire system when it’s so ingrained and inaccessible.
Your brain might not be private for much longer
New technique improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models
Are they really doing a good job of governing, or just a good job of getting (re-)elected?
Antimalarial drug shows promise in treating polycystic ovarian syndrome
Well, I am opposed to copyright. If it is publicly available, then you can make a copy, and even a modified version (as long as you do not claim that it is the same as the original).

However, what you say about credentials is still valid in the case of private data; this is why you should run the program locally and not use some other company's remote service for this use. (Well, it is one reason why. Other reason is all of the other bad stuff they do with the service.)

It is also valid about credentials, even if it is published but requires a password to access using that service; but even then, if you would ignore copyright, you can just use a different copy of the same file (which you might make by yourself).

None of this is meaning that you cannot pay for it, if they accept payment. It is also not meaning that whoever made it is required to give it away for free. What it is meaning, is that if you have a copy, you do not have to worry about copyright and other legal mess; you can just to do it; a license is not required.

However, it is also another issue how much power big companies are wasting with your data, whether they are authorized to access it or not. This is potentially a reason to disallow some uses, but that is independent from copyright (which is bad, anyways).
Right. For that matter it would be nice if we had decent tools for gauging all of activity, competence, attendance record, record of inserting garbage into bills, sponsoring useful bills, defending bills against garbage, etc.

As far as I know voting record is reasonably available BUT bills are mostly not single issue and are very convoluted so that for any given bill it can be hard to tell whether you would have voted for or against.
NYC Travel Time Map
Money for the plaintiffs should be clawed back from the investors and all the senior management.

All the information they collected should be provably destroyed.
I asked ChatGPT to craft a story to maximize the amount of bullshits. This is the result: https://pastebin.com/raw/zM9h6Cau , with 9 BSs, 36 bullshits, and 20 bullfuckingshits
both things can be true
Trial confirms benefit antacids on bleeding prevention for ventilated patients
archived releases, so "folders" i guess

i dont really ever have a need to go back over the previous versions tho. don't revisit old mistakes, make fresh new ones!
It’s still too large of a surface area for anything other than large on-ground installations. When you get to potential use cases like transport it still matters a lot how efficient the panels are. Let’s say running a cargo ship with on board panels for example
Architecture for architecture's sake is the worst thing you can do because it unnecessarily increases complexity.

The ultimate goal of good architecture is cost reduction. If your architecture is causing you to spend more time developing and maintaining code then the architecture has failed.
I’m surprised ikea puts up with these shenanigans.
We should not strive to be ruled by wise elders. I am not arguing that there is no place for respect or that old people can’t have great influence and utility. Just that they shouldn’t be on the field playing ball.
I've been ordering stuff from Amazon for almost two decades now, and the regular failure in deliveries started about 2 years ago. Recently there's a 20% chance of the package getting lost, and 50% them not knowing whether the package was actually delivered when it was. How did they get to that shameful state? And the final cherry is them now shadowbanning my account from deliveries that are medium to large sized, I can only order small things. What?
After seeing how term limits work in the California state legislature, I stopped being a fan of them.

The first (small) problem is that it caused unneeded intra-party drama. Effective assembly members would end up forced to seek a "promotion" into the state senate if they wanted to stay in politics. This often meant challenging members of the same party. This ends with people constantly fighting their "allies" to scramble up the greased pole, rather than doing more useful work.

Of course, that can happen even without term limits (politicians are the ambitious sort) but they definitely accelerate the effect.

The worse problem is that all of the legislators are now short-timers. But do you know who aren't newbs? The lobbyists! Since they're now the only ones around with deep experience, they invariably get even more involved with crafting laws.

This actually dove-tails into the other problem with the lobbying industry: the revolving door from legislator to the lobbying firm. Even without term limits this happens all of the time. It's very common for a retiring US House member to immediately get a lucrative job lobbying their former colleagues. However in a term-limited legislative body this only gets worse. Not only do lobbyists become more powerful, but term limits provide a guaranteed flow of politicians needing a new job.

So, if you find yourself as a newly-elected politician in such a system and you actually want to make a difference, probably your best bet is to immediately find some lobbyists to get sweet with. They are the only ones with the experience to make the political machinery work, and they're probably your future employer as well.

So at least in my observation, the ultimate effect of term-limits is to transfer power from democratically elected representatives to well-funded special interests. By un-entrenching the politicians you're accidentally making another group even more entrenched.

By contrast, I think the very top legislators are ones that become a true expert in their field of interest. Imagine somebody who has been working on, say, education policy for decades. They know every policy detail, all of the stakeholders, all of the experts. In a world of term limits, how will such a person ever emerge?

All of the above is specifically about legislative term limits. I believe the case for executive term limits is much stronger.
Not casting doubt on your numbers here, but to put some perspective on how much usage that implies: 100km every weekday means literally hours of use every day - we're talking about an e-bike that must average what, 20-25km/h at most? That's assuming you're not in stop-start urban traffic. So four or five hours a day? I guess if you're doing a school run that's 30 mins there and 30 mins back, morning and afternoon, plus another trip to town and back... it all adds up.
Same with tech and China. They fold like paper without any protest:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...

Chinese state employees physically manage the computers. Apple abandoned the encryption technology it used elsewhere after China would not allow it. And the digital keys that unlock information on those computers are stored in the data centers they’re meant to secure.
Or just footybite.cc will become footybite1.cc, then footybite2.cc... so on. The people writing these laws are seemingly clueless about the internet. Or perhaps, the lawyers just don't care as they are getting paid.
If there really such a wealth of honest, talented, dedicated people that you are ready to waste proven ones?
Probably because HN limits titles to 80 characters, so OP had to choose one to get under the limit.
Nano-immunotherapy developed to improve lung cancer treatment
I'm not convinced it can actually achieve that. There is still just one winner, just as now, and I'm not sure the people who picked them under duress will really feel they were listened to. (Or they can approve of only one, and almost certainly lose if it's not one of the two most popular parties.)

Still, I'm not averse to trying. Either it will help, or tactical voting will leave us more or less where we are now. If nothing else it's an opportunity to give the current deadlock a shove.
A great example of why you should be running your own validating recursor instead of relying on a third party
>AIXI doesn’t exactly need you to give it a training set, just put it in an environment where you give it a way to select actions, and give it a sensory input signal, and a reward signal.

That's still a training set, just by another name.

And with the environment being the world we live in, it would be constrained by the local environment's possible states, the actions it can perform to get feedback on, and the rate of environment's response (the rate of feedback).

Add the quick state-space inflation in what it is considering, and it's an even tougher deal than getting more training data for an LLM.
There may be an argument that reducing the voting age could result in more politically engaged under-30s (and eventually, over-30s).

At 18 most people have too much going on (high school graduation coming up, studying for and applying to college and/or looking into employment, potentially seeking housing if their parents are kicking them out, etc) to have much capacity for political participation. That picture is significantly different just a couple of years earlier, where time and mental bandwidth is generally at more of a surplus, and so if people became capable of voting at that age it stands to reason that more would take advantage of it (and continue to after that).
"Clawed back from the investors" does not happen in the US for investors in a limited-liability corporation, which Clearview AI almost certainly is. The most such investors ever lose is to see the value of their investment go to zero.
Writing Solid Code, from 30 years ago, by Steve Maguire, was a watershed, for me.

Many of the techniques, therein, are now standard practice.

It also espoused a basic philosophy of Quality, which doesn’t seem to have aged as well.
Beer kills off the slower and weaker brain cells, leaving only the vigorous ones.
It’s a shame that all of the information that Apple obtains through the legal discovery process on this lawsuit can’t be publicly shared with the world.
It is times like this that I recommend technically inclined people to try setting up your own dns resolver and see how minimal impact a few/handful of milliseconds on first access has on the internet experience. Practically all popular domains also uses some form of anycast network, so the benefit of a single large shared resolver that caches the dns answers has steadily decreased each year.

Just make sure its not configured to be a public resolver, and only allow local network or whitelisted addresses.
Waymo recalls driverless cars to make them less likely to drive into poles
""If somebody doesn't believe Tesla's going to solve autonomy, I think they should not be an investor in the company," Musk said on the latest earnings call in April. He added, "We will, and we are."

Musk has been making these kinds of pronouncements for years, and the company has yet to deliver.

He still has friends and believers."

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/13/tesla-shareholder-vote-on-mu...
In any hacker community I’m aware of, I think you would be significantly ostracized for damaging a purely scientific effort that simply could not be repaired or replaced.
Failed Gyros Are Making Hubble's Life Harder [video]
I wrote ratio or gossip. Sorry it wasn't clear.

The private trackers not only keep score of per-user ratio but also have a shortlist of whitelisted torrent clients that are conformant. So you can't easily cheat.

The downsides are obvious. There is super seeder as you describe in an attempt to be decentralized/trackerless. Right?

Additionally, at least I was under the impression, inherit to the protocol itself is not so much the keeping it fair but rather multicasting the least shared chunks as optimally as possible across the swarm.

All of that is to say that a user agent misbehaving, maliciously or otherwise, will have a hard time. Trust but verify.

Whereas RSS appears to just.. trust. It is a more idealistic protocol from a more naive time period of the web. And I argue lacking in some sort of mechanism vaguely along those lines. Torrents came out around the same time but sort of evolved and refined these things.
> The math simply doesn't work because there aren't enough acres on earth to use trees to reverse global warming.

It depends. The evidence is that Earth obviously reversed global warming in the past several times with vegetation alone. But it probably isn't helpful for the timeline that we humans need it on, e.g. in the next 20 years (and in the next century, if we're being very generous)
That corporate veil deserves to be pierced in cases like this.
It was not about standing up against IP juggernauts in the interest of users, but in the interest of themselves -- it was tech companies flexing their strength to show that cooperation with tech companies was required, and that they are open to cooperation in other ways too.
What? That's not true at all. Citation needed!
They could, but it would be weird. They use anycast for their DNS, so it will land on the French server before they know what the query is. There isn't really a way to tell a client, "no go to another server with the same IP address". But also they still want all the other French traffic to go to the French servers for performance reasons, so they wouldn't want to send all French traffic outside the country.