skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly you will learn more if you try it and fail (or maybe succeed!?) than listening to the advise of professors or random internet comments.
Similar experience in Germany, felt like I did not sleep a wink. I did get a lot of audiobook done during that time though! (And I felt surprisingly okay during the next day, so perhaps my brain did get some amount/form of downtime)

Had expected the train to do like 60 km/h or so because there is no rush, everyone's sleeping, saves costs (wear and energy), easier scheduling by having the same speed as freight, and if the trains normally handle more-than-double speeds then this would be butter smooth. Nah, not a chance. From start to finish it felt like it was springing from station to station, with pretty old equipment so it was loud, plus every station of every tiny village was bright because no curtains, and the shaking and squeaking around curves and especially points/switches were madness.

Asked the passenger from my cabin who got off at the same stop in the morning: he slept great!

Maybe when the novelty wears off and you get used to it, it gets better? I can report back when I do this next time, but for now I'm also left wondering if it's a personal thing. (I'm sufficiently concerned about the rate of climate warming that I'll definitely try this again, it's only a matter of when I'd travel to a sufficiently far destination)
To me it seems like the one of the least useful language out there, but a lot of people love it.

The one use case where it seems good is I think people were saying you could use it to write a compiler that you could bootstrap some other language in, because it's so small and presumably easy to audit at the assembly language level to avoid Trusting Trust problems.

Everything else seems rather like suckless, it appeals to people who live simplicity for it's own sake, and want maximum control and understanding of the system, not so much to who want to support every file format ever made and handle every possible user error and hardware failure and last minute use case change, and reuse as much well known black box code as possible.
Np. I remember first coming to that realization.

Fun thought experiment: what happens to a beta emitter in outer space?
They probably won't sue you, but they usually aren't afraid to report it to the ratings agencies as a credit default.
It's just a Pooh brainworm
It depends on how you define it. In terms of raw number of farms, smaller farms are the norm, and these are the most likely to treat animals with respect. However, in terms of output and number of animals, factory farms are the norm, producing an estimated 99% of American meat.

“Nearly all animals farmed in the U.S. (99 percent) are raised on factory farms.”, “ Large-scale farms make up only four percent of the nation’s farms but “control two-thirds of U.S. agricultural land,” reports The Guardian” - https://www.farmsanctuary.org/news-stories/2022-ag-census-fa...
I'd really like to put all of the photos I have (hundreds of thousands) into a single database so they can be found and accessed quickly. Keeping them in filesystems is a terrible experience.
Thank you for the transcription. Might I suggest you add Chopin’s fingering where available in the original?
You arrive at the station when the train is about to depart, not an hour or more before like you're forced to when flying. But even better, the station is in the center of town, rather than the middle of nowhere, reaching which again significantly lengthens your travel time.

You can jump on another flight faster than you can jump on another train? I rarely fly more than a couple times a month, but for me this is never true.
8th-grade me would probably score better than today-me.
The closest I can think of is ULF radio, which has two properties - extreme range and penetration, at the expense of extremely low bandwidth. My understanding is that it is used to communicate with underwater subs, but likely on the form of simple ascii or Morse code keywords.
Now it's "captagon". Used to be "flakka", and before that "krokodil". Those moral panics failed to get the support that meth did, and crack, and angel dust, and heroin and LSD.

WSJ trying to gin up a new boogey man drug for middle class suburbanites to be afraid of, so they avoid the dreaded downtown, with all the captagon dealers, it's a lawless hellscape.
Well that seems "obviously malicious", feel free to re-read my comment if you're feeling less illiterate than before.
"Damage" is misleading. A DDoS only harms when concentrated on a few peers. Freenet distributes load across the network, autoscaling in response to demand and preventing overload.

As for bandwidth and storage, I think you’re referring to the old Freenet (now Hyphanet). The new Freenet is optimized for lighter services like group chat and isn’t designed for heavy data sharing like BitTorrent. It should be much less of a bandwidth hog.
Can someone do a WordPress plugin that stores all the media in a sqlite? Or S3? I'm tired of downloading and uploading gigas from wp-uploads everytime I need to migrate my WPs from one hosting to another.

There is a plugin for that but it's super expensive.
No. There's sadder.

Some of those are sellers of fake likes/follows on social media.
I listed those quotes to rebut your assertions that we’re being hostile towards a group of people who are merely trying to talk about something interesting, not to imply attribution of all of the quotes to you. I chose the general phrase “the commenter” because it would not have been correct to say “you”, as I was aware you were not the source of many of them.
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(311 points, 121 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17743599

(117 points, 86 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17569741
This is literally the subtitle of that article:

> Microsoft Israel engineers develop advanced AI tools to assist users around the world in creating personalized memorial ceremonies or events based on Oct. 7 survivor testimonies

Same thing this person was fired for, only instead of Palestinians they want to memorialize Oct. 7th Israelis.
What is AGI and ASI? I think a fundamental issue here is both are sci-fi concepts without a clear agreement on the definitions. Each company claiming to work towards "AGI" has their own definition.

How will someone claim they've achieved either, if we can't agree on the definitions?
The disability is not being able to control your focus.
There's huge differences between the US and Japan. When I travel from my home in Tokyo to Osaka or any other city by shinkansen, I take public transit (Tokyo Metro specifically) to get from my home to Tokyo station or Shinagawa, and then transfer to the shinkansen. At the destination city, I just get off and either walk to wherever I'm going, or transfer to another local rail or subway line.

You just can't do that in the US, outside some very select situations (like going from somewhere inside DC to Manhattan NYC). From SF to Seattle, how do you get to the station in SF? In Seattle, how do you get from the station to your destination? What do you do to get around in Seattle? Generally, you need a car, which means renting a car, which is really expensive. The US is set up to handle this at airports pretty well: you get off your plane and go to the Hertz counter and pick up a car (and then after your trip is over and you've returned the car, get arrested for auto theft when Hertz reports your car as stolen--don't use Hertz). I haven't tried trains on the west coast, but on the east coast, I've never seen train stations set up with rental car counters.
I do. Like many others, it's primarily so that I don't have to bring my phone into my room. I spend way too much time on my glowing pocket rectangle as it is.

It's some Sony radio clock, given to me by a relative 8-10 years ago, likely from Walmart or someplace similar. I have it set to the local classical station which is usually more pleasant to wake up to than the beeper. (Though occasionally, train horns in the distance will sound like trumpets, and I'll wake up and have to determine if it's a literal false alarm or not!)

One strange thing about this clock is, it seems to have a half-implemented support for dimming the display. You can get the display to dim by mashing the snooze bar, but once it's dim there's no going back unless you pull the plug and the backup battery. I saw a thread on a forum once about people discussing this odd behavior, but nobody seemed to have any explanation.
Hard to see how casinos are much more exploitative than Silicon Valley social media companies. And they sponsor lots of tech.
They also have to forge the found document, or be in cahoots with someone that can do it. And have access to surreptitiously insert it into the document collection it was found in.
It's happened to me. The good news is they're unfazed if you present said documents in your underwear.
Do we have numbers? I'd like to take precautions, given the risk of ruining someone's vision or mental health permanently - instead of simply trusting someone's assurances.
Ah thankyou! Didn't realize there is a favorites list, will make use of that
I also did all three volumes and found the extra 1,000 to be a waste. Really polluted my Anki.

> The time is better invested in simply studying how to distinguish visually similar characters.

But you still have to know what you're distinguishing between, which might only arise after repeated mistakes. Heading off this frustration directly by studying characters may not have been the best use of my time in absolute terms, but it did wonders for my overall motivation and made me feel like I was doing more than treading water. Pre-Heisig I was reading specific books intended for foreign learners, while afterwards I was just reading the newspaper.
Kentucky man wakes up before organ donation, sparks investigation
The Artemis Initiative
Artemis Initiative: Advancing Public Safety through AI

Public safety is essential for community well-being, affecting both social and economic stability. As urban areas grow, traditional emergency systems struggle to keep up. The Artemis Initiative addresses this with an AI-driven approach to improve response times and surveillance, enhancing security and reducing crime.

Challenges in Current Public Safety Systems
Emergency response systems face critical challenges, including:

Variable Response Times: Emergencies often experience delays, with response times averaging 5-15 minutes due to call volume and prioritization struggles (Montero, 2020).

Operator Stress: Continuous exposure to stressful situations can lead to decision-making errors (Vega, 2023).
Ineffective Surveillance: Traditional surveillance depends on human monitoring, limiting detection efficiency and contributing to unaddressed crimes (Villamizar, 2022).

Reactive Crime Prevention: Limited real-time analysis restricts proactive responses, resulting in reactive crime management (Elias, 2023).

The Artemis Solution

Artemis brings two main models: Artemis and Serafín.

Artemis: This system manages emergency calls by:

Listening: It automates call intake, enabling faster responses.

Analyzing: Using AI, it assesses call urgency, aiding in prioritization.

Responding: The AI provides real-time response suggestions, reducing response times by up to 50% (Beuron & Richter, 2023).

Serafín Surveillance system: Serafín enhances crime prevention by:

Continuous Monitoring: AI analyzes camera feeds, identifying suspicious behavior for early intervention.

Event Classification: It classifies activities, ensuring quick responses to incidents like theft.

Automated Alerts: Real-time alerts to authorities allow swift action, deterring potential crimes (Flores, 2023).

Impact on Public Safety

Artemis promises significant improvements:

Reduced Response Times: From an average of 5-15 minutes to around 2-3 minutes, allowing faster intervention and saving lives.

Resource Allocation Efficiency: AI-driven recommendations optimize emergency resource deployment.

Enhanced Emergency Management: Automated processing ensures all emergencies receive timely attention.

Long-Term Benefits

Artemis contributes to:

Trust in Law Enforcement: Improved response and lower crime rates increase community trust.

Quality of Life: Safer environments encourage social engagement and outdoor activities.

Economic Growth: Lower crime rates create a favorable atmosphere for businesses and investments.

Conclusion

Artemis marks a transformative step in public safety, combining AI with emergency response and surveillance for safer communities. Balancing these technologies with ethical considerations is essential for public acceptance. Engaging stakeholders and policymakers will be key to achieving a framework that enhances safety while respecting privacy.
This is quite a prophetic article for its time (1993). The points about Intelligence Augmentation are particularly relevant for us now as current AI mostly complements human intelligence rather than surpass it... At least AFAIK?

Current AI is somewhat surprising though in the way that it can lead both to increased understanding or increased delusion depending on who uses it and how they use it.

When you ask an LLM a question, your use of language tells it what body of knowledge to tap into; this can lead you astray on certain topics where mass confusion/delusion is widespread and incorporated into its training set. LLMs cannot seem to be able to synthesize conflicting information to resolve logical contradictions so an LLM will happily and confidently lecture you through conflicting ideas and then they will happily apologize for any contradictions which you point out in its explanations; the apology it gives is so clear and accurate that it gives the appearance that it actually understands logic... And yet, apparently, it could not see or resolve the logical contradiction internally before you drew attention to it. In an odd way though, I guess all humans are a little bit like this... Though generally less extreme and, on the downside, far less willing to acknowledge their mistakes on the spot.
When teaching reading and English, learning about context clues is one of the ways students are taught to figure out the meaning of words.
that's a tough one!

i'm a native russian speaker (though i have been living in an english-speaking country for a while), yet it took me a few moments, and i compulsively consulted wiktionary to check myself:

"five fireplace-pokers"
would be "пять кочерёг", marked as 'irregular' in the table.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/кочерга#Declension
Boeing actually pitched a "787, but 737 sized" to airlines, who all said "No, what we really want is a plane with a 737 Type Certificate (so all of our pilots don't need expensive training) that matches the fuel efficiency of the A320neo" and so Boeing found themselves promising a plane that would be a normal 737 so all the pilots didn't need expensive training on it, but would have the same fuel efficiency as a A320neo.

It was 100% the airlines that killed Boeing's attempt to pitch them on a clean-sheet airliner. I still believe that if Boeing had a CEO who was an engineer (and not a Harvard MBA who spent two decades at GE under Jack "Company Killer" Welch) at the time they would have not made that promise, because it was impossible to get the larger, more fuel efficient engines under a 737 wing without changing the flight characteristics too much to keep the type certificate.

But... the Sonic Cruiser is a minor footnote compared to the A380. That was an enormous business disaster (if any A380 ever turned a profit on fly-away costs alone, ignoring the initial up front costs, it was only just barely). The thing about building a new clean-sheet jetliner like this is that you are betting the company's financial performance for the next 10 years on this working out. Because Boeing was actively killing people and there are only the two companies (C919 notwithstanding) Airbus came out of the era looking great, but the A380 was orders of magnitude bigger corporate problem than the Sonic Cruiser.
Discussion (93 points, 9 days ago, 75 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41876516
> Overall they didn't really had single point of failure

Valves are the single most difficult part of space. Valves can fail if the air was too humid for too long six months ago. They can fail if a single assembler's eyelash falls out and finds its way into the valve during assembly. They can fail if they're shaken wrong. They can fail if they're too hot or too cold or not enough of either.

If I was smart enough to solve valves I would be a insta-billionaire.

Almost every single abort is due to valves. Sometimes telemetry but almost always valves. When a countdown stops a safe question to ask isn't "what happened?" it's "which valve didn't valve right this time?"

The cover being ripped off and some malady afflicting the valves due to its absence is only one mode of failure for that single point of failure-- there are always others.
Time to learn about service workers
Well it seems like AI is being used to generate fake engagement and dialogue on social media platforms. Seems like a dangerous direction to go in.
Subtitling for the non-americans (things I had to look up):

- Amtrak: "national passenger railroad company of the United States" "receives a combination of state and federal subsidies but is managed as a for-profit organization"

- VIA: Canadian rail operator (and a ton of other things, but this is my best guess)

- Turtle Island: "a name for Earth or North America" (heh)

- Greyhound stop: greyhound is a bus company

- hobo: poor person traveling by train hopping. (My dutch brain wanted to read it as "hol-bewoner", cave-dweller, since the word stress works out to emphasize the same sounds and given the context of perhaps arriving disheveled or so, but good that I looked up the right connotation)
Sorry I missed that, this is definitely a dupe.
Maybe the same reason English road signs omit punctuation.
> Complex socio-economic problems shall be fixed with socio-economical instruments.

Missing the forest for the trees.

The socio-economic problems are caused by the limitations & drawbacks of modern tech: It's too easy to centralize control over a platform, whilst keeping things decentralized requires an upfront desire to do so, along with the nightmare that is backwards compatibility.

> No new network could solve problems of monopolies and profit-greedy corporations.

It is a solvable problem. Monopolies & rent-seeking behaviors happen because the tech involved has chokepoints that favor centralized entities.

We know the business processes that should happen for running service X, based on our daily interactions with them and the idealized form of how they should work. Breaking the processes down into components & putting them onto a decentralized compute platform would significantly relax their control over common chokepoints. Dispute processes would be made as public as current government processes, ideally Estonian-like.
this will be a cool bug to check in on. its already fun to click on bugs or issues related to encryption / send combos with someone even getting results like spilling unencrypted data straight to disk haha theres so many links in the "this issue is referenced by" sort of thing, it becomes like a maze. I obviously can't tell whether the de-encryption of sensitive data is because of confusion on the end users part because the only thing I know about zfs send was that my boss couldn't get it to work and his vendor said our installation was not supported. I think our OS was something like that openindiana / illuminos or whatever haha

best comment that summarizes the issue for me at least:

"I personally am just treating the native encryption code as unmaintained at this point, though, and would advise most other people do the same."
It's a cipher cascade. (Don't build cipher cascades.)
There's a perennial debate on Wikipedia about which way to go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(...

Indeed, there are plenty of longstanding nautical traditions which refer to vessels in the feminine. Popular culture and Wikipedia's non-enthusiast population tend to neuter them.

Interestingly, Christian churches are feminine as well, although English-speakers may have grown ignorant of this since 1970.
>The ban stems from Apple’s failure to fulfill its investment commitments in Indonesia. Reports indicate that the tech giant has invested approximately 1.48 trillion Rupiah (around $95 million) of the promised 1.71 trillion Rupiah, resulting in a shortfall of about 230 billion Rupiah ($14.75 million).

So it's a classic shake-down, neat.
Faaakkkk.

>It is likely that unlike me, you do not cook your own food, which is why you are not aware about the content of nutrients in food ingredients.

Such a pompous, uninformed, creepy, incredibly illogical and retarded statement you made, to say that, because a person does not cook their own food, they are not aware about the content of nutrients in food ingredients.

Going that same "logic" implies that many people in your friends circle, your relatives, your village or city, your country, and the whole world, are not aware about the content of nutrients in food ingredients. Because a lot of people worldwide, do not cook, you know. Maybe due to being too busy, having others who can do it for them, being partially disabled, or being enough well-off that they do not need to cook, sometimes, or ever. But they have the ability to read ingredient information on packages.

Is that not blindingly of obvious to you?

And further, I do know how to cook, and do cook my own food - sometimes, not always, because I am in that well-off category above. So I don't need to cook all the time.

And I enjoy doing it.
I hate gambling ads and casinos.

But I reckon in this case, if I had to guess, I think maybe it's an external or internal developer that's making lots of Casino websites. Maybe they work for a group that owns all those brands?

Surely it can't be individual casinos, where Bullma is big in the Casino website development space and has grown in that sector by word of mouth!? LOL
> Requiring carriers to enable whatever side-channel is necessary to transmit location info to the 911 PSAP shouldn't be a heavy lift.

Carriers can and they should.

> The callback issue seems harder to resolve, but even if a handset has no assigned phone number, there are other ways to address it (e.g. IMEI). Carriers should be required to build in a capability to make this work.

Carriers can't, because the 3GPP standards do not make this possible.
The thing which these discussions leave out are the physical aspects:

- if a computer system were able to design a better computer system, how much would it cost to then manufacture said system? How much would it cost to build the fabrication facilities necessary to create this hypothetical better computer?

- once this new computer is running, how much power does it require? What are the on-going costs to keep it running? What sort of financial planning and preparations are required to build the next generation device/replacement?

I'd be satisfied with a Large-Language-Model which:

- ran on local hardware

- didn't have a marked affect on my power bill

- had a fully documented provenance for _all_ of its training which didn't have copyright/licensing issues

- was available under a license which would allow arbitrary use without on-going additional costs/issues

- could actually do useful work reliably with minimal supervision
When combined with "You aren't stuck in traffic, you are the traffic", the two quotes sum to "Go kill yourself."
Binder is in mainline Linux, but I was under the impression that most distros aren't building it by default?
There's a pass you can buy. ~$500 for any 10 segments.
Yes, if nobody removes the excess, grid frequency will increase. Running too high or too low frequency can damange equipment, on both the supply and demand sides.
I agree, maybe a more conservative performer than Lang Lang would've been good to hear the first run from. Love Lang Lang but he's a bit of an 'innovator' w/ the romantics.
> I'm not English nor do I live there

What a shock.