skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loaning money at 8% interest to informed parties is OK. Loaning money at 200% interest to vulnerable people is usury and should be illegal. Where in the middle is the right line to draw, legally? Does the intent of the lender matter? Does it matter if the lender is intentionally trying to keep people uninformed and vulnerable? These are hard questions, but that doesn't change the basic facts at the extreme ends of the spectrum.

Clearly the Sacklers' behavior was in the realm of exploiting vulnerable people as much as possible in order to create a cycle of dependence. I think they're villains who destroyed lives. I don't think that means no pharmaceutical companies should be allowed to sell opioids, or that Purdue should be shut down for that reason. Clearly giving birthing women access to epidurals (fentanyl!) is OK. Clearly bribing doctors to over-prescribe addictive opioids to vulnerable people is villainous and should be illegal. It's a hard problem to find the exact right line in the middle, but it's a problem worth attempting. Obviously it involves a lot of regulatory oversight.
Don't build castles inside another's house.
Obviously, but your comment implied malfeasance on the part of the CEOs (“paid themselves fat bonuses”), whereas my comment illuminates you to the fact that the CEOs action’s and compensation were subject to a single owner’s approval.

That is about as market price as it gets. Also, if you dig into the proxy forms, I bet you would find those CEOs probably got paid in Paramount stock with various lockup terms before they could sell, so they probably didn’t make out as well as you think.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40812118
Then you have to install the new version of bash on every system you depend on json parsing, negating the argument that bash is installed everywhere.

If bash was ever actually going to get json parsing in reality, it should have done that two decades ago like all the other scripting languages, since JSON is 23 years old. So don't hold your breath.
That's impossible for a great number of reasons, at the very least the fact that the distinction between the source and the binary is irrelevant for copyright and impossible to define in the general case.

The GPL defines the source as the preferable working format to make changes and updates to the program, but you can see how that definition blows up in your face when there is no published source to begin with. "Your honor, that 50MB binary file that has a signature of a GCC compiled program IS the preferred working format for our company; indeed, it was created from temporary text files, but they were deleted as they were deemed unnecessary for a technically advanced company such ourselves. All further updates will be made in assembly language via binary patching, for maximum efficiency".
Do you populate with test data, and if so, how?
> and Tesla would do better how in this case? It also routinely crashes into stationary objects, presumably because the system assumes it wouldn't cause damage.

Are the Teslas in the room with you right now?

Please point out in my comment where I mentioned Tesla. I can wait.
And the real scary stuff is that they demand more than the law requires. They're not just doing the minimal KYC/AML stuff (which is already a huge endeavor btw): they're going out of their way to get as much infos as they can.

For example for AirBnB (well, granted some "conciergerie" service belonging to AirBnB, in France: but even if it's top-end it's still AirBnB) they wanted me to record a video of me of 20 seconds.

They're not the only ones to do that: I've seen other sites asking these vids.

The more regulated stuff, like brokers, banks, etc. shall ask what's legally required: proof of address (a utility bill), scan of the driving license, etc. but nothing more (at least in my experience).

But the non-regulated players: they invent stuff. They make up shit, apparently on the spot.

At some point they'll ask a blood and urine sample to "verify my identity".

Which would be okay'ish, I guess, if they weren't so incompetent as to invariably leak those data when a hacker shows them who can code.

I take it the KYC/AML will have to be modified to prevent anything more than what is legally required from being collected.
One should not confuse alignment and current incapability.
According to astrophysist and space historian Jonathan McDowell, Resurs-P1 passed over Plesetsk, a test launch base for the Russian Nudol anti-satellite system around the time of its debirs-generating event.
Depends on the assembly and depends on the loop. x86 has multiple instructions that hint at knowing about loops: e.g. the `loop` instruction that does a decrement and jump, and the rep prefixes that let you implement memcpyish functions in a single instruction.
Ah, I meant to specifically decorate it as a Typescript object, but forgot to add it.
Noodles don't need to be fried or baked, and I would think that baking them would produce nasty acrylamide in even greater quantities than frying them does unless perhaps the baker is using carefully-controlled low temperatures, which it is unrealistic to assume an economically-motivated producer would do.

But then maybe noodles do need to be fried or baked to have a long shelf life in hot weather when refrigeration is not available? But even in a hot climate, white flour has a long shelf-life, and a person without a refrigerator can make noodles from scratch like the Italians like to do. (The Italians tend to add eggs, but I am guessing grandparent has regular access to eggs.)
True, but the person I responded to wants multiple exits in tail-recursive functions which introduces the same complications as multiple exits in loops, non-recursive functions, and non-tail-recursive functions.
I wonder what ChatGPT would have to say if I ran this text through with a specialized prompt. Your choice of words is interesting, almost like you are optimizing for persuasion, but simultaneously I get a strong vibe of intention of optimizing for truth.
Jira tickets are the bane of my life, until I found this tool
It was pretty fun, though not much to do?

I ran around smacking cows and chickens and PK-ing some people.
I mean that's the question, right? Because while sex is biological (and there are biologically intersex people) gender is cultural & down to presentation. It's how its easy to imagine a boyish girl or vice versa. Nothing there is precisely defined.

For almost everything, gender is what matters. People make a fuss about drag queens and effeminate men and shemales and all sorts of things that are purely gender expression.

To the point where yeah, there are Some rare cases where biological gender is important, mostly in medicine, but most of the time its gender that we see and care about.

What the trans people I know want is to be recognized as having the gender that fits with them. You wouldn't call a cis woman a 'female' in normal conversation, so why call trans-women 'males' when there's already two good ways to refer to them,
'trans women' when it matters or 'women' when it doesn't.

But you seem to refuse to do that. So rather than debunk the "dangers of the scary transexual pervert" myth (when in actuality the more common violence happens to the trans people) I instead ask if that's really the only problem you have with trans people.

Are you actually willing to recognize that they feel as strongly as their chosen gender as you do with your own, and that it hurts them to be demonized and misunderstood by society. Because I will admit that there Is some discussion, especially around sports, but the vast majority of time thats trotted out the underlying reason isn't some theoretical virtue of fairness but instead a rejection of the possibility of changing ones gender altogether.
Seems disrespectful of students to write two blog posts about this without clarifying if you foist OpenAI’s explicitly anticompetitive legal terms on students.

If the OpenAI data use policy applies to Khan Academy students, they implicitly require every student user of this to not use the output to compete with OpenAI (taken literally, you can’t use what your tutor says to you for anything, since it’s always going to compete with OpenAI)

Imagine how dumb it is to say “our thing can do everything. You can use it, but you can’t use it to do anything that competes with us.”

Let that sink in. Can you name one thing you can do using the output of a thing that does everything which doesn’t compete with the everything thing?

What a shame to flush Khan academy just to hop aboard the hype train. I know I’ll probably get downvoted for being negative but to write so much without clarifying what the “Open” AI legal terms mean for students is actively harmful to student trust.

If anyone needs a reason to pity OpenAI, just remember how they betray their true name. That is a profound failure and I would not wish it on anyone.
Yet, during oral arguments they use some of the most juvenile thought experiments to prove their 'slippery slope' opinions
Sims have now CPUs builtin (a recipe for disaster?)
dang, could this merit a black bar in remembrance and honor?
Discussion (42 points, 1 hour ago, 46 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40813384
Depends on preservatives. Nitrites/Nitrates used with cured meats seem to be less than ideal... On other hand they also increase food safety...

Which also opens up question of what factors we balance. Removing too many preservatives from food likely will increase waste. Which then have corresponding impact emissions and resources in general...
How is this enforced? I'm not saying it isn't a good idea, just that it seems like it would be tricky to enforce. Separately, it could result in employees uploading code to a non-privacy-respecting AI, whereas if employees were allowed to use a particular AI then the company could better control privacy/security concerns.
Save for at least one current sitting Justice: Amy Coney Barrett. They only had ~3 years of experience being a judge, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (2017–2020), before being nominated to the Supreme Court. Yes, they have experience in other law related roles, however your comment explicitly stated, "...fairly long careers as acting judges...," so that is what I'm speaking to.
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The ruling was only about whether or not a bankruptcy court has the legal authority to declare that the individual members of the Sackler family are immune to being sued directly, which is an agreed-upon condition of the bankruptcy settlement. SCOTUS ruled that it did not, so the settlement as it stands is dead.

Purdue is not going to be operating in any capacity regardless of this ruling (except as a bank account holding the settlement funds).
> It's easy to forget that, while they are political appointees, they have to have fairly long careers as acting judges to even qualify for the appointments.

This is objectively false. There are no requirements like this and there have been several appointees throughout history without many, if any, qualifications for the role.
I dont think the idea that patient pain is bad was unique to perdue and their drugs. Many European countries have private health insurance, with reimbursement quite similar to the US.

Like I said above, I think it would be extremely shallow thinking to claim that there is a single reason.

If I were to pick a leading difference, I would say that the US has embraced trained consumerism to a greater degree than most European countries. As such, the idea that a simple pill/product will make a problem go away has more traction, both with prescribers, patients, and abusers.

You see this difference manifest in many cultural and social forms, where people in the US are especially prone to "quick fix" marketing and products that offer escape and excitement through consumption.

This is one thing that leads into higher rates of substance abuse in the US than Europe. For example, the US has a higher rate of alcohol use disorder than most European countries, despite most of the countries having more permissive laws around alcohol and more consumption of it on average.
Sure, be ok with the status quo, you do you. But there will emerge young people who'll see the absolutely immense yet utterly overlooked advantages of a computing stack written from scratch, and they'll take on the enormous burden. Watch out, it's about time the world stop running on a kernel written in 1991. Software does age with real world time, and it shall die a natural death if it is to not to be kept in life support at ever increasing expense.

Open source could write 5 fully functional and modern Software Development, Distribution and Running Infrastructures (currently known as an OS) per day if all the effort didn't went into the hospitalization of the current ones and the ecosystems surrounding them.
Not quite the same but might be more relevant depending on context: "If you can't articulate what it does then please rewrite it such that you can."
Alignment is tight!
The only way is if it is done without a profit driven system incentivizing their overprescription. But this requires a gigantic systemic overhaul of healthcare to a nationalized system. And there seems to be a lot of peer reviewed evidence in favor of such a system, and there seems to be broad popular support for such a system. Yet we never manage to get there. It's almost like there's a group of people who simultaneously benefit from its existence and have the capital to influence legislation in their favor. Feels almost undemocratic.
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Could you have recovered without pain killers? Or maybe used a pain killer that is much weaker that doesn't kill all the pain but is much safer like marijuana?

Are there scientific studies that shows that opioids help patients recover quicker?
The 'extraordinary alien underground' helping tech skilled immigrants grab visas
Regime?
> To hang the opioid epidemic on perdue is a gross oversimplification

The only sane comment here. It's laughably ridiculous to call for retribution against a single family as if they were personally responsible for every overdose the country has seen.
I find the 99% isopropyl alcohol from the pharmacy works well, and it's cheap too.
Also, I'd get funny looks buying hairspray, when I have very little hair.
If I recall correctly, ProtoBuf has a reflection layer, and it's probably using that.
Didn't they add this last year?
Amy Coney Barrett only served 3 years as a judge - that doesn't seem very long at all.
Recentralization of the Internet around huge for-profit companies isn't good and doesn't help people.
This is the original article (as mentioned by Gizmodo) which I submitted to HN yesterday, but it got killed immediately because of the signup wall. It went into the second chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308) just now but not before another article on the same matter was submitted it seems. Not sure what the procedure is in that case. I'll ask dang.
Cloudflare's blog post from last year [1] contains more details.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-bots/
I used to think these were really cool and harmless fun as a teenager. Then at college, some guys I knew made one (and they weren’t dumb at all, pretty competent people). They were firing it near where people were sitting on the lawn and it suddenly shattered, sending sharp jagged pieces of PVC flying. One of the pieces hit a girl sitting nearby and gave her a nasty cut near her eye. Her face was covered in blood and it was totally horrific for her and everyone else. It made me realize that the fun of the activity was just significantly outweighed by the possible safety downside. It could have been so much worse, too— she could have been blinded instead of just gotten a nasty scar on her face.
I've used Arch since 2012 or 2013 and never done a reinstall. I'm just mentioning that amazingly popular Standard Business Operating Systems, that virtually everyone used, loved and defended, were like that. Arch, in my experience, is not like that.
I've always wondered about how versioning could help. i don't think it would work with a monolithic kernel, but a microkernel might allow you to run multiple versions of different things, and they would still work.

I've also fantasised about the same thing in application programming languages - e.g. the way racket runs loads of different dialects, you could also have versioning for different things running at the same time.
Large Language Models are not a search engine
Cloudflare is great at blocking users legitimate or not.
Eh, there's a lot of criticism of the OAS report, and a lot of it is persuasive. It's hard to argue that Morales should have been allowed in the race in the first place, though.
I disagree. The dissent focused way too much on emotional appeals. It shouldn’t matter if the remedy was popular amongst the primary parties if the law doesn’t allow for such a remedy, “it was popular” is not a solid legal footing.

If we want to make sure that the victims of people like the Sacklers can get some justice then let’s actually write some laws for that purpose. Let’s remove the loopholes that let them make a ton of money at the expense of a nation, and them take it all offshore. Let’s add transparency to corporate structuring. Let’s fully pierce the corporate veil for egregious situations such as this.

What we shouldn’t do is allow the powerful yet another tool to escape consequences. Whether or not this particular deal was a net-positive for victims is besides the point. It gives too much power to bankruptcy judges and is a ripe avenue for corruption. Go to a “friendly” judge and have them absolve you of any personal liability, then send them a nice gift basket full of Benjamins, now fully legally (Thanks Supreme Court!).
I’ve agreed with a lot of comments I’ve read, but something small I’d like to add:

Consider that any change is an opportunity for all parties involved to be better off. This isn’t to say that your cofounder or employees need somebody else, just that it’s better to go into any discussion assuming that there’s a everybody-wins scenario rather just a win-lose scenario. Maybe the everybody-wins scenario is having the conversation with your cofounder and choosing to stay. There’s lots of good things that can happen if folks conduct themselves with the right mindset to capitalize on new opportunities as they come along.
You’re very welcome :)
I feel like you are assuming too much about people and it seems obvious that you are exaggerating your experiences with the lifted truck thing, so I think we should just agree to disagree on the small differences in opinion we have. A SUV isn't much better for the environment and safety than a truck btw.
It's even a more blatant lie because 404media found the credentials in a Telegram group. So, yeah, there's no way this wasn't exploited by multiple people.
I'd connect the country with high-speed rail and focus entirely on manufacturing, just like China. Lots of cities and towns would pop up along the rail corridors, as in the UK and the first time we built out our rail infrastructure and everywhere else it's been done. The U.S. stopped building new cities around the same time we started adopting automobiles.

Our highway system has enriched incumbent cities and created a nation of gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food, tire salons, automobile dealerships, and billboards.

Let's build Hyperdrive City, Nebraska, where you can rent an apartment on the 93rd floor of the mall for $200 a month:

https://br.ifunny.co/picture/derek-eedrk-can-we-build-one-of...

Or one of these:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/chengdu-future-city-design...
That really is the subset of startups we'd call VC backed - interested in hypergrowth and discussions of TAM instead of just making another profitable business.
thank you! I vaguely remember some of those words from a-level chemistry. i do have some textbooks I've been meaning to go through.
Glad to see the repost. I am going to check if I have this enabled. didn't know this feature existed.
I'm salty that after 40 years there isn't a standard slice_t and buffer_t.

Then you could have functions in the standard library like.

buffer_t allocate_buffer(size_t sz);
size_t append_slice(buffer_t *dest, slice_t *src);
Are they made from brown rice and keep the bran and germ portions or from heavily processed white rice? Are they made from whole grain flour or processed white flower?
With most trading platforms. The api is available to do the trades. Obviously, look on github.com for projects, tie-ing into the trade platform of choice.

This platform, allows one to do automated trading based on your own strategy. US only traders, for now. https://www.composer.trade

If you are just doing portfolio re-balancing. Say, twice a year. You could re-balance based on each stock's risk parity.

i.e.
Risk parity is an approach to investment portfolio management which focuses on the allocation of risk, rather than the allocation of capital. The risk parity approach asserts that when asset allocations are adjusted to have the same level of risk, the portfolio can achieve a higher risk-adjusted return.

Some Quant Resources:
https://quantpedia.com

They teach a class on quant. Pretty good. Python oriented.
https://quantscience.io
It certainly would not be a point-defense system, but...I'd suggest placing a bunch of maneuverable little satellites in LEO, each one capable of making & high-precision dropping smallish cubes of a fast-evaporating aerogel. Game plan: Have those satellites drop cubes in front dangerous little bits of LEO space junk, to drop each bit of junk's perigee to the Kármán line. No need to match orbits, and you don't need to care (much) about debris from the high-velocity collisions, since all of that will reenter or evaporate within an hour.
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Huh, looking at the code, it's simpler than I thought, basically these are the 2 lines that enable the request-response functionality:

const session = await window.ai.createTextSession();
const response = await session.prompt(prompt);
I’m looking forward to it too
A lot of OSS communities, study groups, hackathon groups use Slack. Never understood this choice other than familiarity from work.

I hope more people shift to Zulip. But we all know where people are actually going to shift, even though that is a poor solution for long-term community building, too.
20% of the UK workforce, nearly 9 million employees, were not born in the UK.

leaving the EU has nothing to do with any of the UKs major problems, which are massive national debt, government corruption, complete lack of ethics or values left in any of its institutions, the systematic dismantling of the NHS and a legal system more interested in saving face and protecting wealthy criminal interests than actually practicing justice.

Then wonder why everyone dislikes immigrants getting the lions share of social benefits and having 0% trust in any of the institutions.
> for example you get things which are basically loops in knitting patterns

Also in crochet. A pattern will have instructions like

* (2tr, 3ch, 2tr) all in next 2ch sp; repeat from * 6 times more

where statements like 2tr mean 2 treble stitches and the bit between the * symbols is repeated 6 times
Yeah, to me the whole discussion of "UPF = unhealthy" is based on a romanticization of "natural" that breaks down if you try to make sense of it.

If you use the right words, you can make even cheese and butter sound ultra processed. So the concept of UPF itself is shaky.

Additionally, there is nothing inherent in the "food processing" process that makes the material "unhealthy" -- whatever those words mean. So even if we could define UPFs, there wouldn't be an inherent correlation with unhealthiness, as pointed out in the example of fruit juice -- a personal favorite of mine, because the natural crowd loves fruit juice (don't get me wrong, I love it too, but I'm aware it's just candy)