skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trials are so expensive and justice system is so

But trials are the point. If you're not doing trials, what the fuck are you even doing? If you can only afford so many trials, then only make that many indictments, and make sure you're only indicting the ones that matter. If somehow, you still need to do more, well then this will force the public and the government to spend the money to scale up the justice system so you can do more trials.

They don't want that to happen though, because if most of these plea deals went to trial, the public would discover just how much horseshit the charges were in the first place. They don't want it, because if they went to trial we'd see so much jury nullification it would all be for nought.

> ou'd have to first modernize justice system to work in more European way

There's nothing about the European way that much impresses me. One wonders what you see in it... is it that you see the results and mistake those for a product of the system, when they're just in large part a product of a different people/culture that can't be transferred to the US no matter how much you wish it so?
Can this be integrated into the various navigation apps?
Makers and takers: why wars are not always won by the wealthiest country
Our entire history we’ve adapted technology to our requirements. Now some people believe that adapting our workflows to make use of “technology” is revolutionary.
Speaking precisely, a small minority is plenty. Successful businesses can run off a few hundred repeat customers and a bit of passion. The root cause is more that it is irrational to behave that way so there may be literally no or single digit people who will behave that way.

Putting some estimates to the situation, the calculation is something like (chance of a serious dispute arising = 0.0001) x (chance of a payout from the courts = 0.33) x (payout = $100,000) -> I'd be willing to pay $3.30 extra to avoid fixed arbitration clauses in a deal where there was serious money at stake.

That doesn't exactly capture all the game theory of the situation, but it suggests the risks here aren't worth shopping around for. It is easier and more effective to engage in economic voting with feet and punishing businesses that way for failure.
https://archive.is/V4fIe
SCIM is another acronym which means something else; in case of Unix desktops, an input method.
What is the context that determines whether or not people will consider a mortgage rate too high?

For instance from 1970 through 2007 mortgage rates were at or higher than they are now [1]. Aside from the '80s when they were 10-17% I don't recall people being overly concerned with 6-8% rates.

So what was it about the economy from the '90s through around 2008 that made those rates more acceptable than today's similar rates?

[1] https://www.freddiemac.com/pmms
> If amateurs can detect the signal from the Voyager probes with a small dish antenna

They can't, at least not for any reasonable definition of small. As I'm writing this, NASA is listening to Voyager using the DSS-14 antenna of the Deep Space Network, a dish with a 70 meter diameter, and the signal it receives is 10^-19 Watt. That's only 15000 photons per second. Coincidentally the area of that 70 meter dish is also roughly 15000 m^2, so a small dish of 1 m^2 will catch roughly 1 photon per second. Given that the datarate is 40 bits/second, it's physically plain impossible to receive the signal with a small dish.

Voyager's security is that it's really far away and you need a big, expensive dish to talk with it.
NewsArticle: "Computers Find Impossible Solution, Beating Quantum Tech at Own Game" (2024)
https://www.sciencealert.com/computers-find-impossible-solut... :

> As successful as that test was, follow-up experiments have shown classical computers can do it too.

> According to the Flatiron Institute's Joseph Tindall and Dries Sels, this is possible because of a behavior called confinement, in which extremely stable states appear in the interconnected chaos of undecided particle properties, giving a classical computer something it can model.
Says it all:

>OM: When I see “Her,” I see two aspects to the movie. One is very dystopian, and the other is that it is a love story. It was a story of someone who was lonely and looked for a connection. Silicon Valley has totally missed that part. Valley’s missing empathy gene is reinforced in how everyone talks about agents and personal agents. So what is that more optimistic, more humanistic future we can build from an AI perspective?

I can't think of a more pointless use-case of 'AI' than these round-about ways to solve what seems to be the root-cause of all of these 'moonshot' projects: people who build these tools lack or are completely absent of social skills. (Never mind the loneliness epidemic of Gen Z and Alpha who were born with the modern Internet.)

I'm like many of you am an introvert by nature, I always had to take 2-3 days off after a conference when I was a founder because of the toll it took on me, but I can't think of anything other than continuous exposure to have ever worked get over this issue... but more importantly the fact that it is stuff like this that continues to funnel money from VCs just make me think what an absolute waste of capital takes place at this phase of this technology.

The guy admits he builds the same thing over and over, and assuming that this takes off I just can't help but affirm my intuition that most of these usecases vary from useless to complete vaourware.

We are so far away from the future where this tech can actually be used to create models and train them to solve things like climate change or even traffic, instead we are in the iterate the 'pokemon go but with AI' phase... which I will remind you was an ad-based venture from google.

We really need to create a new internet, the signal to noise ratio ever since social media has been so abysmal.
Quilt Index
Well Gemini with gmaps will do that very very soon
Wireguard can be used in a network namespace.

https://www.wireguard.com/netns/
If “not just for white guys” is the kind of comment that turns you away, then you wouldn’t have been a good fit regardless
More spelling fun, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana
There are too many comments parading "you haven't read the article", even when replying to comments referencing parts of the article, lately. It's already one thing to complain about someone's level of takeaway but another to only discuss the assumption of how they came to a different conclusion rather than just discuss the topic instead. The article title is also nothing to be proud of, it's 0% actionable information and 100% clickbait assumption - the person that wrote the Activity Monitor gets the same knowledge assignment as someone who's never even thought about it before.

I'd be curious what GP means in the difference between allocated scheduled time vs the way the article describes it (non idle process assignment time) though. It feels like that's 2 ways of saying the same thing? I agree with GP the frequency part seems off and can be surmised as a summary of the point later in the article anyways. Particularly, the opening of that section:

> Unlike traditional Intel CPUs, CPU cores in Apple silicon chips can be run at a wide range of frequencies, as set by macOS.

Is already setting off alarms - in what way is that different from traditional Intel CPUs from the last 2 decades? A long enough time ago there weren't enough (or any) cores to put in clustered groups but beyond that frequency scaling boosting by core/core group is just as common.
> SCIM 2.0 is built on a object model where a Resource is the common denominator and all SCIM objects are derived from it. It has id, externalId and meta as attribute and RFC7643 defines User, Group and EnterpriseUser that extends the common attributes.

Hang on... zoom and enhance!

> It has id, externalId and meta as attribute

Uhhh, so a SCIM object can only only 1 `externalId` value?

...that's a deal-killer right there because Federated Identity schemes will need to handle users that have multiple external identity references (e.g. think how StackOverflow lets the same SO User login using Google, GitHub, even Facebook (in 2024?!) - how is that meant to be represented by SCIM?

(I'll confess that I've only skimmed the SCIM docs; if I'm mistaken then I look forward to being told I'm wrong because it means I can learn something new today).
The physical body is what the mental state (ex, memories) "looks like" from a third person perspective.
These benchmarks are entirely pointless.

The people making them are specialists attempting to apply their skills to areas unrelated to LLM performance, a bit like a sprinter making a training regimen for a fighter jet.

What matters is the data structures that underlie the problem space - graph traversal. First, finding a path between two nodes; second, identifying the most efficient path; and third, deriving implicit nodes and edges based on a set of rules.

Currently, all LLMs are so limited that they struggle with journeys longer than four edges, even when given a full itinerary of all edges in the graph. Until they can consistently manage a number of steps greater than what is contained in any math proof in the validation data, they aren’t genuinely solving these problems; they’re merely regurgitating memorized information.
And that, kids, is why companies pay money to Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM.
Yes, anyone can see the trend has now turned upwards again. Including you, if you would look.
Not as of now. We first want to be a first class spreadsheet engine that implements 90% of Excel functions and features like array functions, LAMBDA, ...

A goal of IronCalc is to make things like integrating Polars trivial for a developer.
Multi-Tenant B2B Authentication Explained: Key Concepts and Components
That's not how it works either.

Plea deals hold their extortive power through the fact that it's often the only way people can get out of jail pre-trial when they can't afford excessive bail. But rather than doing bail reform which would fix that problem, we have the left getting rid of bail entirely in situations where it is inappropriate to do so. This means violent criminals can wreak more mayhem while released awaiting trial so that the right can complain about it and we'll swing right back to excessive bail.

The bail bondsman industry is basically this gigantic leach sucking bail money out of our country, but it has lobbyists and can't be banned outright. Bail is not supposed to be a pre-conviction fine, but when you have to go to a bail bondsman you don't get your bail money back even if you show for trial. If you could pony up the cash in its entirety, it's just "held", and you get it if you show for trial. Even if convicted, you get it back (it's not a fine).

Making bail bonding illegal would be a good start to fixing the problem, but it's politically unviable. Attack plea bargains first, DAs and prosecutors can't put up the same kind of political fight that the bonding industry can.

Your dumb rhetoric makes the problem worse, because everyone can tell it's made up horseshit and if you're lying about the details they figure you're lying about the problem too.
Without a doubt, one of the greatest games of all times!
Also claiming that Joe Rogan is not mainstream media is asinine. His podcast is one of the most popular in the US
Except now, with forum shopping & 5th district courts, companies are getting everything they asked for.

And the activist court will bend over backwards to make new pro-business pro-partisan (imo anti-human) precedent whenever they can. Hardly a symbol of partisan restraint, the Supreme Court has sent words down to the 5th, for example, in pretty bold terms. https://www.reuters.com/legal/musks-x-seeks-steer-lawsuits-c...

They weren't using arbitration before afaik, but ExTwitter for example is trying to court/forum steer to a very favorable North Texas district. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/17/elon-musk...

The days of the courts being balanced & reasonable seems over & it seems like companies have been super able to exploit this shift.
> The biggest problem with Rails is that people get so glued to the conventions that everything gets shoehorned into a model or controller instead of using a better abstraction.

https://speakerdeck.com/cgriego/models-models-every-where?sl...
> Pen strokes are not vectorised and come out inexplicably jagged and aliased.

That’s something I’ve been experiencing with the Kindle Scribe as well. You can’t zoom in on notebooks in the device, but all PDFs exports contain jagged lines everywhere, no matter how straight I write or draw. I can’t explain why these writing-focused devices get this so wrong… a general-purpose iPad does this so much better.
Well, of by "awry" you mean that, as has happened this year, the Republicans get the majority popular vote, then it's not really a principled stance on the fairness or little d democratic effectiveness of the electoral college. If you're fine with still losing elections, I can't say you're unprincipled.

Both parties gerrymander. Both parties engage in "principled" discussions supporting positions seeking only expedient means to their practical objectives. I may be convinced that you believe in purely democratic election of the president, I'm not convinced that the Democratic party as an organization truly does.

I'm not a Republican. But I do like the existing system, where one house in the legislature represents the states, the other represents the people, and the executive is selected by the states with impunity regarding the criteria of selecting him. I'm also very happy that every state has independently decided that their citizens should be the arbiter of that outcome. I would not be happy with that though being encoded in such a way that this was not optional for states, I prefer the status quo, where it is just the stable state of the system and emergent out of existing incentives.

I'd be happier if the electoral college was closer to the popular vote, but my preferred method for achieving that would be the ratification of the congressional apportionment amendment, because it empowers the people at the expense of the federal government and the parties, and also empowers them in the legislature as well as the executive branch, whereas just direct vote only empowers them in the executive branch, not the legislature, and does so at the expense of the states and not at all at the expense of the parties.
It hasn't been suddenly moved in 2024 and nobody knows why, it was left in an inconvenient place (now) decades ago and there's no (found) record of who/why.
SCIM is great, if your expectations are sufficiently low. Mostly for the fact that it’s a de-facto industry standard. Have a large stable of software products that your employees use? SCIM lets you provision and, importantly, de-provision users and assign them “groups” (roles) from your centralized Identity Management system. Most IdP’s and software will support SCIM, so it’s just wiring things up.

The biggest oversight when SCIM was designed was the expectation of an inbound connection from the provisioning software (e.g. Azure) to the SAAS or similar. This means that in hybrid environments (e.g. most large enterprises), you are having to whitelist umpteen different ip ranges from the Cloud Provider. Some IdP’s have solved this with a local agent you install on-premise to reverse the connection, but Azure is not one of these.
I think one understated problem Grim Fandango had is that it's too adult.

Today "adult" often means "there's sex and/or gore", but the content is still simple and juvenile. But Grim Fandango isn't like that, it's just full of themes that probably confused the heck out of almost every kid that tried to play it.

Like the very first chapter throws you right into office politics. You deal with stealing a job from another salesman, sabotage a pneumatic tube messaging system, and sneak into your boss' office.

It all makes perfect sense for adults familiar with office work and all the movies it references. But I recall I tried it when I was maybe 14 and I couldn't make head nor tails of it. I didn't even realize the pneumatic tubes were actually a thing.

Things like Monkey Island and even Full Throttle are far more accessible.
I really wish we had therapeutic vaccines against HPV. As a man, I always got told "it's not for men", followed by "it is also for men, but only if you never had sex", followed by "it's also for men who had sex, but only to a limited age".

As a male who meets all the criteria to be in a high risk group for HPV throat cancer, and who is dealing with a persistent HPV infection (as proved by warts that won't go away), I'm really sad that I may one day at a young age get cancer in my throat, and there is nothing I can do about it to prevent it. I wish we would put the same amount of energy into inventing vaccines that suppress the virus, or help the body to get rid of them.
Any idea where the history of some of this stuff might be?

I’m suddenly curious where the cheese air lifted into Berlin after WWII came from.
If they graduated from Ivy or Stanford or Berkeley, they are elite even if they are unemployed after graduating.
The states can assign them proportionally, but why would they? Again, when we say "the state", this really means state legislature. And, generally speaking, control of state legislature correlates pretty strongly with popular presidential vote in that state. So why would the party that controls the state, and which currently gets all of its electoral votes, effectively volunteer to surrender some of them to their political enemies?

Now, if one party generally expects to win the national popular vote more often than not, it might sign up for such a scheme on the condition that other states do - this is what the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is. But, by the same token, it means that the other party would generally expect to lose the national popular vote, and thus would do the best it can to block such a proposal from going forward by preventing states under its control from joining (or by other means; e.g. North Dakota actually passed a law to block release of its popular vote data until after EC vote specifically to disrupt NPVIC).

Thing is, nobody in position of power today actually cares what the "real intention" of EC is or ever was. The only thing that matters today is winning elections, and so a bipartisan agreement on any electoral reform that upsets the existing balance of power is extremely unlikely.
Lots more work coming from government projects in the UK at the moment.
The author of that post wrote "difftastic", which is "a structural diff that understands syntax" using treesitter.

https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/

https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic
If you're a fan of discipline then you could also just call lint (or equivalent) before compiling.
Because perverts are few? Because perverse people are unliked? Because no one is ok with perverts? Because calling someone a pervert is an offense?

Fair comparison??
Diffusion models are evolutionary algorithms
Superconductors at Room Temperature? UIC's Hydrides Could Make It Possible
> There is evidence that it helps reduce the risk of progression to a cancerous state

I have not been able to find this. Do you happen to have a link to a paper?
>> Are all of these posts just astroturfed?! I ask that sincerely.

>This is amusing to me - since GPT 4 or so, I've been wondering if the real fake grass is actually folks saying this shit is useless.

Heh. If you really wanna conspiracy theory it, if you wanted positive marketing copy to sepl people on using an LLM, would you just use plain ChatGPT, or, because you're in the industry, would you post ernest-sounding anti-LLM messages, then use the responses as additional training data for fine-tuning LLMtoolMarketerGPT, and iterate from there?
Uber burned investor money in major markets for years operating at a loss to drive smaller operations out of business, only to become at least as expensive as their former competitors but as the only game in town.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42093756
I can't find anything about this, do you have any papers?
If you didn't actually know how to fly that plane, they would be able to charge you with a lot of crimes that don't end in "without a license."
Most modern hard drives (and all SSDs iirc) have block-level ECC.
NewsArticle: "Superconductors at Room Temperature? UIC’s Groundbreaking Materials Could Make It Possible" (2024) https://scitechdaily.com/superconductors-at-room-temperature...

ScholarlyArticle: "Designing multicomponent hydrides with potential high T_c superconductivity" (2024)
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413096121 :

> Abstract: [...] First-principles searches are impeded by the computational complexity of solving the Eliashberg equations for large, complex crystal structures. Here, we adopt a simplified approach using electronic indicators previously established to be correlated with superconductivity in hydrides. This is used to study complex hydride structures, which are predicted to exhibit promisingly high critical temperatures for superconductivity. In particular, we propose three classes of hydrides inspired by the Fm3m RH_3 structures that exhibit strong hydrogen network connectivity, as defined through the electron localization function. [...] These design principles and associated model structures provide flexibility to optimize both Tc and the structural stability of complex hydrides.
The issue with divers is that the extra pressure forces nitrogen bubbles deep into their tissues. If they then come up to surface pressure too quickly, the nitrogen bubbles will essentially "explode" out of their tissues and damage them.

So no, this is an entirely different problem.
In the renderings, why are most of the (what look like) stairs/escalators so steep?
By "now" you mean "starting in 2026".

Which raises the question: how much warning do you think is reasonable?
I watched for about a minute (up to the mouse clicks and keyboard modifiers) and have no idea what is being demonstrated that I'd want in the real world. Couldn't scroll to find text explaining it to me. Neat proof-of-concept where I have no clue what is being proven. Perhaps OP (if affiliated) can elaborate?
Can’t read because it wants me to create an account.
Despite externally-incited ethnic conflict, Guyana was a comparatively post-tribal melting pot of cultures and social classes. e.g. kids stack-ranked nationally into peer-group schools around age 10, based on standardized test. Outside Guyana:

Are you from India?
West Indies | South America | Guyana
Where are your parents from?
A couple hundred years ago, my ancestors left India
Oh <disappointed>
[every time: wait, what if I had said yes? nevermind]
> You've got it reversed. AI PCs are just SPAs.

Microsoft's "CoPilot PCs" scheme places a lot of emphasis on the hardware being powerful enough for locally-processed "AI" features and isn't about offloading everything (I suspect because they're starting to acknowledge that not everyone has a highly-reliable multi-megabit Internet connection).