skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone has good data/analysis of banned books, please share it. While looking, I only found PEN's dataset: https://pen.org/book-bans/2023-banned-book-list/

And the only comprehensive analysis I found was their analysis of that dataset: https://pen.org/report/book-bans-pressure-to-censor/

Any other analyses I found used that dataset. I don't distrust PEN, but they surely have some bias, and more sources is always better.

Unfortunately, unless I'm missing something, they don't look at the grade levels that books were banned at, which seems very important. Banning a book is very different if it's for grade, middle, or high school. Middle and high schoolers are thinking about sex, talking about sex, and having sex, so the standards for what is appropriate should change substantially based on the age of the students.

And of course, it's very difficult to do a comprehensive analysis of "how sexual" a book is. There are books with lots of literary value that have a few paragraphs that are very explicit, but the rest of the book is not. If you only read the explicit paragraphs, you would not have the context or know what the rest of the book is like. The context of a whole novel around explicit content makes it very different than when the explicit part is considered in isolation.

It doesn't help that it's hard to make our own judgements about how graphic something banned for "sexual content" is, because the offending content can't be posted online for copyright reasons.

> As for parents getting thrown out of school board meetings for merely reading out loud (to adults!) their content, this is well documented

One of those videos is not about books at all, it is about someone wanting to quote one of the school board members who said something sexual. This doesn't invalidate everything you said, but I point this out to demonstrate to you that you are not thinking about or analyzing this clearly or with rigor.

Yes, of course there are instances of age-inappropriate books with little literary value that are sensibly banned, but pointing to a few such instances and extrapolating that to "most banned books are pornographic" is obviously bad methodology.

I'd sure love to use an LLM to analyze the banned book data along with the full text of the books, but that would take quite a bit of time and money.
Thanks so much. Great takeaways.
It's ironic that in a comment section on an article bemoaning the death of reading comprehension, so many comments skim and miss points the author was making.
I’ve been thinking about the current landscape of AI chatbot platforms, with Chatbase making waves. There’s actually an alternative called https://voxal.ai that offers similar functionality, and I’m considering open-sourcing it if there’s enough interest from the community.

Voxal AI allows you to create and deploy AI chatbots with a single click, directly to your own AWS account. Key features include:

Easy deployment without coding knowledge Full data privacy (your data stays in your AWS account) Customizable AI models Scalable architecture

I’m curious:

Would an open-source version of Voxal.ai be valuable to you or your organization?

What features would you want to see in an open-source chatbot platform?
Would you be interested in using or contributing to such a project?
What challenges do you foresee in open-sourcing a platform like this?

The decision to open-source hinges on community interest and potential engagement. If there’s enough enthusiasm, I’m ready to take the plunge. Let’s discuss! Your thoughts could shape the future of an open-source AI chatbot platform.
What people inject is not the hormone itself, but a secretagogue (aside from people who directly inject insulin).

> You can take it indefinitely, but you must take it indefinitely in order for it to keep its effectiveness because the body isn't producing enough of the hormone.

I don't think we consider this (weight gain due to overeating) to be a GLP-1 deficiency, although I'd be interested to see research on that.
Agree completely, being in this field.

However, it is weird for the committee to give a prize for theoretical physics without an experiment. It is doubly weird when they already made this "mistake" in 2021 with Parisi, who was the odd one out among the geophysicists, and are giving another prize in spin glass/stat phys... why?
Hey!

>the adage that there are now three pillars to science, the third being simulation (after theory and experiment)

Any specific place I could learn more about this? (aside from Google obv.)

I do simulation for a living, so that is mega-interesting to me.
Characterizing the failure of politicians as a failure of nuclear power is the error in logic I am talking about.
> Spreadsheets, browsers, databases.

I think you're mixing up stuff that's unrelated to your concern.

The concerns you're expressing only apply to operations and financial transactions. That's not handled by spreadsheets, browsers, or databases. In fact, the primary concern of a browser is to provide views over data fed by servers.

In addition, it sounds like you're confusing minor conveniences with something being somehow broken by design. The reason why no one bothered to standardize a money type is the fact that there isn't a technical requirements for it at all.
Is there any potential that indexes could be created over foreign key joins in the future? I know that as of today, no multi-table indices or statistics exist for Postgres, which has had led me to do some further denormalisations.
I was scratching my head but then it seems like the precedence for awarding Nobel prize for Physics for something that isn't "exclusively" physics has been set before.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2018/summary/

Peter Shor also got an award (albeit non Nobel) for something that overlaps Physics with Math + CS.

https://news.mit.edu/2022/shor-spielman-breakthrough-prize-0...

To me, I'd rather see a Nobel Prize in Math/CS/IS but if I had to choose where these type of work would be shoehorned into existing Nobel prize category physics would be it.
It just makes one wonder, what is the point of categories of Nobel prizes? Should they instead hand out half a dozen or so prizes each year for whatever is most important to them?
Not everybody follows GPT releases so closely. I work implementing software using LLMs and this is the first I've heard of this.
Also, applications installed through FDroid cannot be used in Android Auto. For example OsmAnd navigation.
I kinda doubt it. The kind of people who end up nominating people for Nobels or even making the decisions on these aren't really struggling for grant funding.
You can have a C-like language without JS's typing ridiculousness. Many exist, such as Java. Blaming JS's special needs type system on Java and "marketing dollars" is a ridiculous take.

It was not in the original JS and added later on after someone asked/convinced Eich to do it (who quickly came to regret it, but by then "people were using it", and we're stuck with it today). He's talked about this a few times in interviews and talked about it on HN.
That could be true for half the prize, but for the other half, Hopfield is part of undergraduate and graduate physics canon.
> The BART rolling stock set new standards as well. These were the first rapid transit rail cars to use big picture windows, carpeting in lieu of tile, to provide cushioning for sound and sight, no overhead storage bins, no station advertising and no smoking in any of the cars, which reduced ventilation costs by $1000 per car and lowered the car's profile by 12 inches (ventilation is taken through the window sills).

This is in the 1960s too, so before the anti-smoking movement had any real wins. In retrospect, it’s crazy that smoking was ever as widespread as it was in buildings, looking at its ventilation impacts. Perhaps an underrated driver for why smoking bans succeeded could be the increasing requirements of mechanical ventilation for modern buildings and vehicles, making the monetary benefits of stopping smoking more immediately compelling for infrastructure managers.

I think it’s also underrated that smoking bans wouldn’t have made much sense until burning of wood and coal to heat buildings stopped - many wood and coal fireplaces and furnaces let out far more secondhand smoke into the building interior and exterior than tobacco smoking could ever hope to match.
This is like that sidebar you have with someone after you have joined a series of meetings and listened intently and have all these nagging suspicions and you are in denial about people who you think could not possibly be talking this much nonsense because they clearly should know more than you. A few seconds into the sidebar the person tells you that everyone is full of shit, and you find relief in that you were actually understanding everything you were hearing and yes, you were drawing the right conclusions.
Relevant Asianometry deep-dive from a year ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UdNB3ZY4Ks
I thought this was Brainfuck and was confused, as it contains an infinite loop right at the beginning.
"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world."

That's still a pretty strong start. Especially for literature of the time.
Mmmmhhhhh… What about Penrose? Honest question.
I should take up being a public intellectual, instead of a public nuisance.
I understand the frustration, but a lot of Geoff Hinton's foundational work was based on physics principles. For example https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/1993/file/9e3cfc48eccf8...
Many of the actual physicists out there are ML researchers.
Leaked recordings show major environmental agency gutting its workforce
Java has JSR 354 for money [1]. There is also a reference implementation [2]. So there is official support for money in Java.

[1] https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=354
[2] https://javamoney.github.io/
Yeah, fuck peer review!/s
Bhagat Gita.
Never found a book more correct and applicable to life for the big things in life.
The categories correspond to who's filling out the nomination paperwork, and voting. You might think of it as a "Nobel from physics," which only usually is a Nobel in physics.
They are artificial. You could have a separate metric for each platform, for older version, you can use different algorithms and to calculate, etc.
Is it? It seems popular with people getting into low level for the first time.
Oh, this reminds me of my first job out of college at a Swiss bank. Apparently every time a currency conversion was done in a particular model, there was a routine that translated back and forth between the pre-Euro currency and Euro at the conversion rate. So a USD-EUR transaction with a party in France would be run as USD-FRF --> FRF-EUR. All in COBOL. As a result, every so often, you'd get a slightly different result running a USD-EUR trade with a party in France versus e.g. Germany or the U.K.
Are there truly people out there that are terminating HTTP/2 at the application level? That's really quite surprising for anything serving production traffic.
Okay, so a feature phone and a crowbar. :)
"strike proof" industries can mean one of the following:

1. Labor is so automated that you need little to no workers.

2. Workers are exploited and union-busted to such a degree that they cannot organize.

You'll notice both outcomes are bad for the workers. What you're suggesting is so incredibly one-sided no worker in their right mind would take it up.

This is about compromise, as is all things in life. If your solution is "one side loses heavily and the other side wins everything", you don't have a solution, you have a delusion.

In the long run yes, it would be nice to not require labor, and everyone lives happily ever after. In the short run people suffer. They starve, they live on the streets, they turn to drugs, and they die. If that sounds harsh that's because it is. There's a reason these people are working manual labor jobs and aren't fucking around on a computer for 3 productive hours a day. There's a reason they've "chosen" to toil away for 8+ hours for a comparatively low wage. If you're not considering what happens to them, you're not seeing the problem as a whole.
iFixit's Multitasking VoltClip
I don't think he's asserting they brought in Nazis for the fun of having them around. But it's surprising that while heightened ties to the Nazis would disqualify you from immigration eligibility, the most secretive circles of the state (and ones highly acquainted with Nazi brutality) were actively recruiting these people. Shows how deep the anti-Soviet derangement ran.
The Race to Block OpenAI's Scraping Bots Is Slowing Down
Spoiler alert: you can now currently ignore the dates on the things in your fridge. Nobody is going to prosecute you for it.
I know this is considered by some to be a religious text. However, I have read some bits of it and know that there are gems there. Still, could I ask you to expand on why you think so?
"I see you have a poorly structured monolith. Would you like me to convert it into a poorly structured set of microservices?"
That doesn't change the fact that it is possible to use fetch with progress.
Is there an intuitive reason why this ends up working this well compared to, say, applying some kind of thresholding to attention activations that are below average for a given head to filter that same attention noise out?
Somehow I think Musk has contributed to this by making all of his company's products inextricable from his persona.
> I don't think we're going to agree on this one.
First you make the money to buy cool stuff, then you use your power to protect your money to continue buying stuff. Welcome to the power apparatus.
Even in post-war West Germany, "denazification", e.g. excluding ex-nazis from roles in the new German society, was a failed policy that got discontinued after a few years.
No deeper point other than the person who funded it thought these fields should be awarded and encouraged (econ is the exception).
I think the term “volunteered” for the SS is a bit, lost in translation.
As an AppSec engineer and penetration tester...

You'd be scared how often this works (Though not in the exact method you described). It might not even be a path traversal vulnerability [0] that lets you read files, it could be a shell injection [1] that allows you to `cat` the file.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_traversal_attack

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_injection#Shell_injection
The case for CoT unfaithfulness is overstated
it's actually quite easy to set up for netflix for example: https://github.com/AdrianCX/pico_hole

no need to overcomplicate, your concerns are valid but we're not there yet. Above has worked fine for 2+ years as is.
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Most ingredient apps depend on barcodes (e.g. Yuka, Think Dirty). SafeSelect scans text or images, so you can use it while shopping online.

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The original instructions are online!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/bluepeter/makes/tracyisla...

Via https://www.bbc.com/videos/c511wey54g4o ("1993: Tracy Island - Blue Peter")

The next video in the archive is about "this new thing called the Internet", from 1994 https://www.bbc.com/videos/czv20818q2no
This story has been up for three hours and every comment on it has either been flagged to death or is in the process of being downvoted into oblivion.

I think it's an interesting story but I don't have a lot to comment on. This isn't the first time person with a dark history became a pillar of society and later was found out. It's human nature that people will defend those they think they know.

It's not surprising that there would be insufficient evidence to have anything to charge him with in Germany.
Haidt’s evidence is weak https://reason.com/2023/03/29/the-statistically-flawed-evide...
Yes, it is a dark thought. There have been many leaders in history where millions of people have been one failed harvest or missing piece of documentation away from death at all times, and the leader didn't care. (And worse, much of the population backing the leader didn't care either, as long as it wasn't them.)
Seems very promising! Couple of qs:

1) How high is the pubkey overhead / isn’t this a lot of cryptography?

2) How do migrations work?
Use DevDrive. It was created exactly for your purpose.
Impressive project, judging by commits and features, it's clear that significant effort has been poured into this :)
Unfortunately, there's no specific MacOS installation method provided, unsure if buildable from source ?
Reminds me of https://github.com/amark/gun
The JVM doesn't necessarily imply object-orientation. Clojure (a JVM language) is not really object-oriented at all; I'm not an expert but I think the only time objects are used in idiomatic Clojure is when doing interop with Java libraries.
Here's something along those lines in F#:

https://gist.github.com/williamcotton/b67ff641eeec7673131715...
> but I see no real need for an LTS release

For one, providing approved and certified toolchains for safety-critical systems.
>Existence of more-or-less successful slave revolts across history doesn't really say much about viability of slavery as an economic institution

That's the point. The Haitian revolution didn't have anything much to do with the economic viability of slavery, but it still happened, and was a major and very definitely causative event in the broader history of the abolition of slavery.

If you think that slavery ended for purely economic reasons, then perhaps you can point to a mainstream historian who advocates this theory. I don't think you are doing your overall argument any favors by tying it to wild revisionist lost causes.
What is the difference between the state curating media for my child and me curating media for my child -is that a serious question? I trust myself, I don't trust the state. I'm not sure I've ever seen any poster anywhere on HN that trusts the state.
Worked fine on my mobile.
Firefox on Android.
Are You a "Harbinger of Failure"?
Note that most of the downsides there relate to having a pilot that you want to survive in an emergency. Get rid of the pilot, and you get rid of a lot of constraints on size, weight, G-forces, survivability, emergency response, etc.
No! China cornered the solar panel market through the use of megawatts of coal-produced electricity! Transportation for all the ores etc is not gaming the metrics.
Hear, hear.

I'd chalk it up to typical legislative imprecision in writing laws... except for that imprecision's pervasiveness.

Now, I think inspiring self-censorship is exactly the intent.

It makes it easier to pass censorship laws ('We're really talking about {most egregious scenario}. We'd never charge someone for doing {something lesser}'), while simultaneously apportioning governments more power to selectively weapon the law via prosecutorial discretion ('It'd be a shame if you fought us on this. Everyone has done something wrong...').
why say lot word when few word do
Notebook LM: A Threat to the Podcasting World
Xiaomi will reportedly end its global bootloader unlock program
Show HN: JustJSON, front end framework using only JSON
In the spirit of Halloween, I'm excited to bring one of my evil ideas to life. Introducing JustJSON - the best frontend framework based on the best file format.
Cool. Seems like a hardware version of their iOS Ableton Note app. Must. Resist. Urge. To. Acquire. New. Gear.
Directly attributable deaths, at that. Who knows how many equivalent nondeaths occurred by subtracting half a year from a hundred people?
Using "disrupt" like this has not aged well, and people who still seek to "disrupt" a market sound like they're reacting to trends 10 years out of date. After everyone else realized that disruption is bad, these guys are jumping on a bandwagon that's already over. That's the impression the article conveys by using such a charged word.
The goal isn’t just to get kids to look at a book. It’s to get them to stretch themselves and get better at something that is hard. The idea that you should have the kids read what is interesting to foster a love of reading and then they will be able to grow into mature reading habits as they grow has been around for a while now. As someone with a child in the 4/5th grader range, the effects are not pretty. When I was that age, the most popular books were shorter novels like Goosebumps and Animorphs, or longer novels like Redwall and Harry Potter. At my daughter’s school book fair a few weeks ago, it is almost exclusively graphic novels, be it childish slop like Dav Pilkey puts out, or simplified graphic novel versions of books like Goosebumps. Let’s be clear, stuff like Captain Underpants existed 30 years ago, but today it’s almost exclusively that. We haven’t created a generation of children who love to read, we’ve created a generation of children who largely, by middle school, haven’t graduated past picture books.

Prescribing challenging reads is also to get kids used to the idea of doing something that might not be their choice of what they want to do, which is an important life skill to have as an adult. Education isn’t simply about learning math and phonics. It’s about learning how to be a human being who can function in society. Ask your educator friends about how the recent generation is doing, especially since the pandemic. It’s a dumpster fire, with kids never having been less equipped to do things like following instructions, interacting appropriately with classmates, or holding their focus for even small amounts of time.

Simultaneously we are seeing employers increasingly wary of Gen Z employees due to their inability to meet basic expectations and function in the workplace.

We are creating a curriculum based on the idea that kids should minimize having to do things they don’t want to do or might be difficult, and are now seeing a generation of children who are incapable of doing anything they don’t want to do or anything difficult, and it’s impacting their ability to function in society.
> “We were enslaved as American Indians, we were colonized as American Indians, and we will gain our freedom as American Indians and then we can call ourselves anything we damn please,”

- Russell Means, a Lakota activist, wrote in his 1998 essay, “I Am An American Indian, Not a Native American!” https://compusci.com/indian/

See also: https://www.fair360.com/medialib/uploads/2020/11/Native-Amer...
Gymnasium Release v1.0
The quantity of mining required for nuclear vs. solar and wind is massively different.
Webcam support on a MacBook running FreeBSD using PCI passthrough
Weird, this is what the Turing award is for
If your definition of striving to be a part of the power apparatus is simply using money, then sure, I stand corrected.