skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don’t get to take away power from voters and give it to civil servants by waving your hands about the Holocaust. Yes, there is a line when a civil servant has to decline to follow orders. But the line is way over there. Obama blew up plenty of Muslim weddings and I think that the UAV operator was correct to follow those orders.

Look at the Blusky group linked here. What holocaust is the national park service “Resistance Team” preventing? You’re invoking the Holocaust to justify defying the duly elected president’s policy choices on legitimate political issues: the environment, immigration, etc.

And Trump won the popular vote.
That's during the power grab to prevent the opposition from rallying resistance during the transition. When you have power, you need to establish control of the money to ensure you keep the power
To me they come off as not experienced in mobile, just trying their best to promote their cross platform tool by saying whatever.
Wow what a blast from the past. Sounds like /r/Tulpas. I've always thought it was a purely rhetorical trick + disassociation, and obvious what is happening and why. Sleep deprecation has always been part of it since that makes it harder to notice the errors at the edge of your perception. It goes back to at least the 2010s I think.

There is some precedent; the Twin Flame cult coerced transition in some members if I remember correctly. My guess is it was emotional manipulation used to make them do something that makes them more vulnerable to control. If you transition and you are not trans, you are going to have a hell of a lot of dysphoria, and shaming people and telling them it's because they are not trying hard enough/a good enough person/etc. would absolutely make it hard to break away.
Yes, you are right. The fact that Thomas Kurian was involved mangled my memory because he used to be at Oracle.
https://www.ibm.com/granite
It is very plausible that he is also using it to get all the data he wants from this, not just to scrub it. It would make sense given his desire to compete on AGI that he can both scrub this data for public use and feed it to his own training sets.
The state-run broadcasting company here in Norway has been digging into our justice system and sentencing. The result is a report[1] and some stories[2][3] on how women and the rich get lower sentences in many cases.

As part of this they published the pipeline used to produce the results, which I found interesting as I have some statistics background but not a lot.

Part of the pipeline is using ChatGPT for certain tasks, like detecting aggravating or mitigating circumstances.

I also hadn't heard about R Markdown[4] before, which nice plain text nature made me discover Jupytext[5]. I had tried Jupyter Notebooks way back, but didn't like the non-plain text nature.

[1]: https://www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/norway-crimina...

[2]: https://www.nrk.no/norge/xl/de-rikeste-far-oftere-lavere-str...

[3]: https://www.nrk.no/ostfold/xl/kvinner-far-kortere-fengselsst...

[4]: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/

[5]: https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/
aside, cool re: GP32

> Game Park planned their system to be powerful and useful, but they also wanted users to be able to create homebrew software. GP32 users could register the unit on the official website and get a free suite of development tools to create their own programs.
Interesting - I genuinely want to understand your perspective here.

Are you saying following the laws to protect sensitive information is not worth it in this case, because it has been authorized by the party of the day?
How does this compare to existing BWT-based compressors on things like the Large Text Compression Benchmark?
Is it possible to distract the kid in power with a favicon that is always visible in the url bar and allow users not curse the brand due to stickiness?
It was too easy for one state’s congressional delegation to hold out for a special concession in any tariff negotiation, and then when the amended version came up to vote, another state would do it, and then another. So Congress gave the president unilateral power to set tariffs, which also is better going into a negotiation since the other side knows you can deliver whatever you agree on.
Under normal circumstances I agree. If things went really sideways… look at how well insurgencies around the world have resisted the US military in urban settings.

Loads and loads of armed angry people with home court advantage are hard to defeat unless you are willing to just flatten the city. Drones might change that calculus some, but against a large insurgency in a huge city of millions?

If we are flattening our own cities, we are so far gone we are in climbing barbed wire to get across the border (in the out direction) territory. Some of my ancestors on my dad’s side did that in WWII to escape Stalin and Hitler both. I hope to never see such things.
I know this has important global trade implications and all, but I'm really curious about the logistics of this. Where is all this gold coming from? How is it being delivered to NY? Is it being delivered to the fed bank? How much will delivery cost? Will it just be some 'plain' armored cars or will they shut down some streets while a military convoy comes in? So many questions...
How does that work exactly? Does it all still hinge on trusting a know Time Stamp Authority, or is there some way of time stamping in a trustless manner?
I mean, isn't the problem that they actually aren't that smart or rational. They're just a group of people who've built their identity around believing themselves to be smart...

They're also not freethinkers. They're a community that demand huge adherence to their own norms.
You do need credentialed technocrats to run a country. But the whole premise of “non-political technocrats” is that they do the job they’re hired to do regardless of their political views. Democracy can’t work if non-political appointees feel licensed to put a thumb on the scale of their preferred party. That’s what was happening in the 2017 resistance.
Professional engineers are held liable for mistakes in their work. If a house falls or a dam breaks the responsibility falls on them to show it wasn't built as designed or there was some other factor involved that a professional engineer would not be expected to have considered in their design.

And, yes, as others have mentioned they get insurance, but there's more to it than that. The level of verification that those designs go through before being released is on a completely different level than what is usually applied to software.
USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House
We are automating commit messages now? Is it really that much of an effort to simply phrase what you just developed and type it out?
> there isnt a single well founded argument to dismiss AI alarmism.

I don't think that's entirely true. A well-founded argument against AI alarmism is that, from a cosmic perspective, human survival is not inherently more important than the emergence of AGI. AI alarmism is fundamentally a humanistic position: it frames AGI as a potential existential threat and calls for defensive measures. While that perspective is valid, it's also self-centered. Some might argue that AGI could be a natural or even beneficial step for intelligence beyond humanity. To be clear, I’m not saying one shouldn’t be humanistic, but in the context of a rationalist discussion, it's worth recognizing that AI alarmism is rooted in self-preservation rather than an absolute, objective necessity. I know this starts to sound like sci-fi, but it's a perspective worth considering.
The end of Arxiv... what fools and children these people are trying to outlaw this. It will hurt the US more
I wouldn't say that.

My point is that any situation where person A puts in a certain amount of work (normalized by skill, competence, etc.), person B uses person A's work, puts in some work of his own but less than A, then gets more reward than A, is fundamentally unfair.

LLMs are this, just at a massive scale.

But to be honest, this is where the discussion went only after thinking about it for a while. My real starting point was that when I publish my code under AGPL, I do it because I want anyone who builds on top of it to also have to release their code so users have the freedom to modify it.

LLMs are used to launder my code, deprive me of credit and deprive users of their rights.

Can we agree this is harm?

I also believe than unfairness is fundamentally the same as harm, just framed a bit differently.
They can make a full backup of the payment history. Congress controls the actual tap but the executive has the power to monitor payments administered through the executive branch. Once the corruption, waste, and redistribution payments are traced we can find out how to ensure voters know what needs done to shit-can those programs and jobs.
Devs, scavengers reign
That only works if the standard actually describes what you're supposed to do with extra data at the end, and everyone agrees.

In practice, there have been antivirus bypasses that made use of AV scanners treating the additional data differently from common extraction software (I believe it was winrar?).

One could argue that a text document with a corrupt file size byte should still be decodeable. One could also argue that the file is completely corrupt and should be treated as such. Knowing that there will be tools that will take the first approach regardless, I'd stick to just decoding the extra data and marking the file as potentially damaged rather than send the user down a data recovery rabbit hole for a file that'll decompress just fine.
Part of demonstrating how powerful superman and by extension homelander is is showing how they dont have these weaknesses and are not exerting themselves. One of the best demonstrations of that for me was seeing superman get shot in the eye by a minigun. It would have ruined the message if he blinked or winced or teared up. Instead he just took it like a badass confirming just how super he is.
> If it were legal to download movies and music, Netflix and Spotify would absolutely not exist.

I question this statement. First two hits:

* https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/welter_brennan_s_201212_ma.pd... Adding a movie to Netflix reduces piracy directly

* https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/jeborg/v209y2023icp334-347.htm... Removing movies from Netflix increases piracy.

There's plenty more where that came from. Netflix actually reduces piracy. Not the other way around.
Show me where in the federalist papers it says that civil servants can frustrate policies they think are “stupid.” What you’re talking about is full mask-off “people should be governed by their betters” technocracy.
These are just as bad, at least their default implementation that triggers on tiny up movements as it covers content you tried to re-read or just annoyingly pops up on inadvertent finger movements
Yikes, I know you don't mean to come across this way but some people might interpret your comment as tone policing from a place of privilege
He was never enrolled at Stanford and was working while on a J-1. That is visa fraud. It's likely, because he never even enrolled in classes, that he intentionally applied to Stanford with the intention to never go to school there but to instead use it as a front to start working in Silicon Valley. And it's possible he even overstayed his J-1 visa while waiting on an H1-B.
It was a Republican policy! From the 80s.
Despite what news headlines love to say, I'm not sure "circling the wagons when someone is caught" has been accurate in the English-speaking world since the 1990s. Often it's more "please don't blame the people who had no knowledge and who had already made rules that would've prevented the situation if actually followed." By far the majority of pedophiles are lone operators within the organization.

Two things that are obvious when explicitly stated but unintuitive otherwise:

* Abusers deliberately target people with a poor reputation; particularly, a known history of lying about other matters.

* If the group does their own investigation, the media will condemn them for it. If the group leaves the investigation up to the government, the media will condemn them for it.
Where is the juggle? You use the most comfortable input method for a specific task
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard_with_a_Vengeance
How is it scientific? What do you mean by scientific?! Do you mean logical?
that's why i like the orange guy

comrade trump, let's go, the next is NED
Are there any evals or benchmarks of this model?
Really? Maybe its my bias showing through, but my memory of the last couple decades is largely an exercise in most people looking to outside authorities (governments, corporations, titled experts, etc) to fix problems rather than dealing with it individually.
Going broke shorting Tesla is pretty much a meme at this point.
Sorry, in the USA, we don't believe in a 'top down, just following orders' style system. In fact we've gone to war with lots of countries that loved that type of system.

But you are halfway there. It was enacted to provide stability. You stated it clearly 'articulate a policy reason'. There is no policy reason why EVERY AG needs to be cleared out. There is no policy reason why a non-government employee is allowed to install hard drives. There is no policy reason why 1000 EPA staff are being threatened with firing.

There is plenty of established case law regarding this. You can try defending it online. I'm awful at online communication, you will win. But Trump is going to lose in court, again. Which is why he is trying to move so fast in front of the coming court cases that it doesn't matter by the time ruling come down allowing him to bypass our nation's laws, rules, and Supreme Court rulings.
Swift itself is a great piece of tech.

But it is doomed to fail as a general widely adopted language unless apple makes few critical moves including open sourcing everything including XCode, providing support for 3d party IDE developers (because xcode is terrible), creating decent package manager, adopting testing as first class citizen etc.

There is just no economical sense for anyone to invest in swift until all the above (and some more) is done.
I don't think Trump is personally a fascist, just an opportunist that is suffering from NPD, and found traction to get attention and power with a particular political movement.

I don't see the value in arguing this point- if you are smart enough to understand any argument I made, and I strongly suspect you are, you can see exactly what Trump and his movement are doing and why with a lot more nuance than any single word label would provide- and you already either think it's a good idea or isn't.

People I care deeply about are being targeted, and systematically dehumanized for who they are or where they are from, and all of the checks and balances that would have protected them in the past have been systematically eliminated. At this point we're past the point of discussing these issues productively, unfortunately.
Curious how Christianity protects itself from abuse? From my perspective, Christianity is used to justify incredibly un-Christian activities pretty much constantly.
I mean the current game plan, from what it seems, is to make porn a shameful and taboo thing. Same as abortions as well.

There’s a heavy pro-natalism push for obvious reasons, and I have no idea why, but it feels like current government is trying to fix it through wrong methods. They know they’re royally fucked if people having 0-2 kids max.
Yeah, he made his first big money from PayPal (I think around $300M), and then invested most of that money in SpaceX and Tesla, and that's how he became a billionaire.
Do you have a particularly complex setup or a typical home LAN with Wi-Fi? If the latter, chances are you did not do anything bad as the defaults are sane and safe. Look over Firewall -> Rules to make sure you aren’t opening any ports that shouldn’t be. Put your phone on a cell network and try to log into your box using your public IPv4 and IPv6 address. Try to run nmap against the same from a remote server (you can get a cheap or free one from Vultr for example). If you have IPv6, try to for example access ssh running on a computer inside your network from the outside, or even just nmap that address.
Appreciate the response. I viewed it more as a question about scope rather than preference.

At mega-scale, even IDE based tools are skipped in favor of automated tools such as Refaster/OpenRewrite that can refactor 10s of millions of lines of code at once.

I do find myself occasionally using, say, a regex find/replace to change something project wide. But most of the time (95% to put some arbitrary number on it), once I’m beyond the scope of single function, I use AST-based tools to ensure changes are correctly reflected in other files or parts of the project.

So, I’m trying understand to who lives in my 5% long enough that they the need what is essentially a highly specialized regex. Are they doing cross-project changes based on text? Do they have giant functions where that’s not a concern? Are their projects just smaller and they have many of them?

I definitely see the allure of having a smaller, faster editor. How far are people actually able to push that paradigm?
> Majority of commit messages are low quality and would benefit significantly from a good summary of what was done.

Why? At that point doesn't the diff speak for itself?
Can you trade money for software quality and complexity forever?
That sounds like a 'why did you beat your wife' kind of question. No comment here has established law was broken, nor did you even cite any specific crime. Genuinely have no idea what red herring you are going on here.
You know this isn’t limited to AI. For example just having the option of iCloud could mean your data could sync unencrypted to Apples hands even without turning it on - if Apple were to be surreptitious.

So in that regard I don’t see why AI is the new boogeyman.
If this continues, it won’t be easy to track and revert 4 years of EOs. And it will be impossible to undo all the consequences
>The registered owner of the vehicle, Felix Baukholt, a citizen of Germany, appeared to have an expired visa in a Department of Homeland Security database.

Presumably the BP had a license plate scanner and this triggered.
The thing being pathologized here - gender fluidity - is at its heart nothing more than willful insubordination. Hate doesn't require anger, and control isn't love.
My best friend in college knew she was a woman when she was a small child (though her mom and her birth certificate disagreed.) Nobody was going to talk her out of it. She got kicked out of the Air Force Academy on account of it. The nation's loss was my gain because she was the most awesome engineering student and science fiction fan and after working in many military-industrial complex jobs she's working on a project to return a sample home from the moon.

My son has two friends. One fell under the spell of blackpill incels, thinks he is not tall enough even though he's an inch above the mean, wants to break his legs to extend them and get taller, hasn't talked to my son for two years because my son said what his real height was in an online chat. Rumor has it he's taken anabolic steroids (but hasn't done any weighlifting or athletic training.)

The other fell under the spell of a self-described "egg-hatcher" who "aggressively" (his friend's word) worked on him for a year and a half to convince him that his being out of sync with other people was a sign he was trans. I knew him pretty well as an elementary school student and he didn't give any sign of variant gender identity then, although like my son and myself he was always a little 'weird'. (He uses a different pronoun and name at his job but tells us it is OK for us call him 'he' and use his own name so we do.) He's taking a cocktail of drugs that gets prescribed via telemedicine and was telling us about the serious side effects he was suffering: one of these drugs, spironolactone, is primarily a drug that alters your mineral metabolism but has the effect of suppressing testosterone if you take 20x the normal dose. (My doc gives it to me for my blood pressure.) He has insatiable cravings for salt as a result.

I completely believe my transsexual friend from college is for real. I believe my son's transgender friend is making a mistake; I support him as an individual and feel I owe him a lot as a person I knew from a young age but I believe he's a victim of a cult-like movement, as is my son's first friend.

(Note a lot of Christian people are brought into it by their family before they're able to make a choice by their own judgement)
I once read a book about this: How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution, by Jack Horner and James Gorman. The basic idea is that dinosaur DNA is carried around by modern day chickens. The concept seemed pretty out there but the book does make a convincing argument for why it should be possible. The first author is a well known paleontologist, and the book was recommended to me by a paleontologist before I spent the week (as a volunteer) in his field crew.

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> The technology for this doesn't exist yet, and the ethics would be extremely questionable.

I do agree with this. Just because we can do it, doesn't mean we should.
OPNsense DECISO router on 2 Gbps symmetric Google Fiber for $100/mo. works great. Anywhere without GF, I'd look for co-op municipal fiber consortiums before megacorps.
When Einstein was alive it seemed like a great deal of effort in physics was to mathematically explain the scientific observations that had consistently been made up until that time.

With Einstein gone, it seems like everything reversed and gradually greater effort has been put into experiments carefully crafted to confirm behavior of particles that have been discovered mathematically to begin with.

Experiments which are often not capable of doing anything else but confirmation of the phase that the target species is expected to exhibit going through. And sometimes the experiments eventually succeed, even if they are not as repeatable or reproducible as the math.

It's got to be more difficult than ever coming up with new particles in that environment, while nobody actually knows when the supply will be exhausted, or even if it might have happened quite some time ago ;)
I'm referring to the thing that anyone with eyes can see is a Nazi salute.

There's a beautiful side by side video clip of Elon actually throwing his heart out to the audience, and you'd have to be blind to think it's the same thing.

Who should I believe? My lying eyes? Or what the prime minister of a country that's courting US support in an internationally unpopular war says to curry favor?

https://www.reddit.com/r/centrist/comments/1i8ajx0/video_of_...

https://video.ploud.fr/w/9mao3sy1hTRcmionRpryX8

The man's grandparents were registered Nazis, the man's rubbing elbows with the AFD, he's throwing out the 'roman salute' to thunderous applause at a political rally, and you're twisting yourself into a pretzel to explain how no, no, this is all a smear job against an innocent man.

How can you not see it? It's hard to tell if you're cynically taking the piss out of me, or if you can actually look at clip, and see something else.
Great series of blog posts, I link them every chance I get.

Important to note that in the years since this post was written, provenance has become an explicitly accepted consideration of the Rust memory model ( https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ptr/index.html#provenance ), and standard APIs have been stabilized for working with pointers in ways that preserve provenance: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ptr/index.html#strict-provenan...