skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Checking out a 6B parameter GPT model, GPT-J, from Eleuther AI [video]
You're comparing a value against a spectrum - there are a few video games that likely rival the complexity of a browser... but I don't know if it's really a fair comparison. Video games just do the one thing - while browsers are essentially mini-operating systems. Some folks primarily use GoogleDocs as their text editor.

I don't know if there was ever a time when browsers weren't heavier to write than games - except back in the dark days when the web was but a baby.
> but getting into this discussion is really more of a question of philosophy than climate science, so it's a bit of a distraction.

Ah, but the politics of it are important to causing change to happen. If we can't get voters to buy-in to changing their behaviour then Governments are unlikely to create such policies.

The important concept for the opposition to individual action, I think, is that the opposition is rooted in two ideas:

1. Individuals shouldn't be burdened with having to change the way they live

2. The burden should be on the big evil capitalist corporations

Neither of which hold much water, I think; the data behind carbon reduction due to covid restrictions shows that changing the lives of individuals is an important and necessary part of the solution.

And those big evil corps are mostly serving consumer demand. They're not pumping carbon into the atmosphere just because they're evil, right? Moreover, some of the largest polluters are in China, and China has been a major polluter for generations; it's not a strictly capitalist concern.
That thread went down the insane conspiracy rabbit hole in a hurry.
What makes you think that Apple will use the same database for everyone?
A toothpick is very old technology indeed.

It is perhaps 90% as good as dental floss at liberating fibres from between teeth, perhaps 95%.

Not much selection pressure, in other words.
The technology behind the mRNA vaccines has been studied for 30+ years and there's absolutely 0 evidence of permanent adverse effects that wouldn't be known by now. At what point will you be satisfied?
One nice feature of hydrogen is that you can use it for lift and also for fuel (and it has good energy density).

I've been wondering for a while if hydrogen airships couldn't make flying cars a reality. It seems like a hybrid jet/zeppelin could find a sweet spot in terms of performance and sustainability.
Wildfires are a bit like crop rotation in nature. I think we're returning to the idea that wildfires aren't a bad thing when done in a safe manner. Visiting Lassen National Park, there was a big area where it was nothing but blackened trees but an interesting caveat was that a lot of smaller trees were present in that same area.
We're focusing on consumer first, as you mentioned it's a bit easier to get into, but I definitely agree with there being an opportunity for businesses as well.

Large purchases work pretty much the same way as small purchases (you get the money instantly, then we sell your investments to cover the withdraw), except that you may run against the $100,000/day limit on electronic funds transfers.

Completely agree on the phrasing, we can do a lot better there.
ProtTrans: Understanding the Language of Life Through Self-Supervised Learning
You can decomission the track when it is no longer useful and build it somewhere else. As you find more iron, the distance you can go increases.

There are some mods with excavators that can also lay tracks. Those were great fun.
the blue-collar, emotionally challenged, still-single at 40 guy down the street repeatedly makes big orders of food from Whole Foods to be delivered.. breakdown- he does not have a lot of extra money; he does not need more food, he is overweight and there is a lot of food in the fridge; Whole Foods used to be more expensive than other stores, I am unsure if he shops carefully or not

In other words, this is a specific example that blurs class and disposable income lines, and is also arguably just bad judgement/addictive behavior on his part.. no grand plans or social changes, unless you count being lonely contributing to your poor health choices as social change.. yet the service is benefiting from his indulgence, and the economy is "growing" ..

reality is messy and not cleanly in categories
And now it's pretty much the same thing, but with a SWAT team knocking your door out when the ML messes up.

Yay progress.
Step 1: install Baritone

Step 2: type "#mine iron_ore"

https://github.com/cabaletta/baritone

https://youtu.be/CZkLXWo4Fg4?t=80

I always wonder why so few people know about Baritone. It can do so much: move the player, clear areas, mine ores and other blocks, construct simple surfaces such as roads or even paste complicated Schematicas layer by layer. Perhaps it takes away too much of the fun.
Saying that it's problematic to take RMS seriously because of the things you mentioned is in my opinion one of the problems that led us to the hellish things we're exposed to today.

It's the well dressed, well socially adjusted people with their silver tongues that convinced the masses that giving up privacy is in their interest. People like that are the people responsible for the shitshow we're now observing.

RMS is strongly opinionated, and without that kind of strong conviction, we would be far worse off. I do agree he's taking an extreme position, but when you're standing against giants with money and power, being extreme is sometimes the only way to stand a chance.
If that is the case, why are big pharma exempt from liabilities when people are damaged from getting the vaccines?
Every orange alert I’ve gotten so far has been a father in violation of a custody schedule.

(if this seems non-sequitur, you haven’t looked into it)
I get that questions like these are perhaps meant to be "more precise" about the specific tech in question, but honestly, they do more to display the naivete of the questioner in terms of understanding how this sort of thing plays out in real life, when it's not just tech folks, but other policymakers and stakeholders are involved and have the power to make decisions.

Even if the thing Apple is talking about right now can be distinguished from "facial recognition" on a technical level, it would be much MORE of a mistake to NOT lump them in together if we're trying to bring this debate to the general public, which we, of course, we should.

(don't get me started on race..)
My guess is that it's not just about securing data, it's also about looking over everyone's should to be sure they look like they are working. Instead of having a supervisor for every ten people to spot check calls and go over performance they can scale to more people per supervisor. And the company doesn't bear the cost of the loss of privacy and dignity. Another win for the Apple's and Amazon's of the world...
My take on it is as follows: Most of the thoughts we have day in and day out, even when tackling hard, existential or universal topics are constrained by the abstract aystems they are thought in. Think how language affects the way a person thinks. Of course you can also think mathematically, geometrically, in terms of pictures, colors, computer programes, small mechanical contraptions and so on.

What philosophers like Heidegger tried to do (the reason for the often hard to read language) is to go to places, think thoughts and create systems of reflection that are hard to express with language alone.

On top of that there have been certain philosophical movements who thought that thinking itself is more valuable than froming any coherent theory of the world into which all is forced to fit.

So in short: they tried to expand on thinking all while jumping through various hoops and trying to avoid various pitfalls.
Unfortunately it hasn't shown resounding efficacy at preventing reinfection or enough breakthrough infections to keep feeding variants. Even with perfect coverage, its likely we'd still have delta and future variants too.

This isn't an anti-vaccination comment. The vaccines are showing great results at what they were intended to do, reducing hospitalizations and deaths.
> Relatedly, the desire to drop the incident count to zero discourages recordkeeping of "near-miss" incidents, which generally deserve to have the same learning process (postmortem, followup action items, etc) associated with them as the outcomes of major incidents and game days.

Zero recorded incidents is a vanity metric in many orgs, and yes, this looses many fantastic learning opportunities. The end results is that these learning opportunities eventually do happen, but with significant impact associated with them.
> I don’t see a path forward without Nuclear. Europe and China has done better in this area than US

Germany hasn't, unfortunately (it decided in 2011, shortly after Fukushima, to decommission all its nuclear power by 2022).
FWIW I have a friend, a former Marine who refuses to get the vaccine because of his experience in the military. He has diabetes and blames the vaccines he got while stationed in the middle east.
Open hardware means that people can be their own manufacturer.

There are lots of places that will make PCBs for you, and sell you the parts to solder together.
I was actually going to switch over to their eco system on the next update. (mostly for the watch, partly for blue bubble on texting-- sadly yes it actually matters in the dating market...)

I'm now certainly not going to and am loudly telling all my friends why.
If you're compiling malicious code, haven't you already lost? I don't see how preventing pointer manipulation at compile time (or anything else, really) improves security unless people never run the executable they compiled.
this is some real 1984
Exactly, gp's argument is quite sinister by choosing a timeframe from 1970s till now. US started cutting emission in 1970s, while China only started developing from an extremely impoverished, pre-industrial state that can barely feed its citizens.

And despite standards of living in China still much lower than western countries, you can already see the reduction in per-capita emission since 2013, thanks to all the measures you mentioned.
I'm in a traditionally mexican east Austin neighborhood. I used to see a lot of houses bought by techies. Yes it was 'gentrification', but at least they lived in them and often eventually started families.

In 2021, the 6-7 in my neighborhood which have sold for record prices are sitting empty with 'for lease' signs. Checking the property records they are all some under a different named LLC.
Right, seen that in Hindenburg footage.
> For millennia, wildfires sparked by lightning, or lit by Native American tribes, regularly shaped the landscape of the western U.S.

It'd be interesting to learn more about the differences between the two. There are places that don't get a lot of lightning and would probably not burn that regularly on their own. So in those places a truly 'natural' state would look different from a 'managed by native peoples' state.
As we necessarily transition away from fossil fuels we also transition away from our primary source of helium.
As pointed out in he comments below, the climate crisis will reduce political stability. And stability is essential to ensure that there will be a strong enough society left to properly decommission a nuclear plant when it will be EOL in 50 years. Decommissioning is likely to be vastly more expensive than initial construction, and after that you still need to figure out how to make sure no one will want to touch the waste for the next few thousand years.

For the current crisis we need to put a cap on carbon extraction now, and quickly bring extraction rates down to zero. Let the price of oil rise and capitalism should sort it out. Only when fossil fuel prices rise to say 500 USD per barrel will people and industries start effectively reducing consumption. Other than on extremely energy intensive activities (transatlantic flights) fossil fuel prices are just a rounding error.
When all you really need is a "close enough" solution.
> The vaccination campaign was always going to be a failure.

The vaccinated half of the population is faring much better than the unvaccinated half. How can you call that a failure?

Getting to that state was the goal of the earlier protection measures.
I asked this question once and got laughed at. My embarrassment burned it into me: Going fast is the challenge with orbiting, not going up.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Paris_pneumatic_post
Because anti-vaccine FUD like this previously threatened our ability to produce them, leading to a specific system for evaluating claims and paying out damages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Vaccine_Injury_Compen...

Be honest: Would FDA approval and extra safety studies actually move the needle for you as implied, or would you consider it all a part of Big Pharma's conspiracies?
Sailboats can run faster than the wind because of lift (which is not involved here), but not when running away from the wind
This is on the right track but came out very light on meaningful impact. See David Parnas to add more substance: https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/09/05/on-the-criteria-to-be-us...
Camera Modeling: Exploring Distortion and Distortion Models (Part 1)
Because the vaccine was released almost a year prior and it didn't have approval but governments and individuals wanted it so bad.

If that's what validates your reality, then call your senators about removing the exemption from liability after the FDA approval. Advocate for that.

One thing I've been having fun with is imagining how people will move the goalpost after the FDA decision. I wonder how many people upon approval will say "ah the FDA is controlled by big pharma and other shadow masters!" If not approved "ha I knew it!" I wonder how many others will read the clinical trial studies the the FDA is evaluating (which are already available now) and reach a conclusion that agrees with the FDA.
Gunpowder still requires an oxidizer, it just happens to be mixed in. The potassium nitrate is the oxidizer, KN03, whereas the sulphur and charcoal are the fuels that burn.

Pretty much any combustion requires a molecule with oxygen to accept the electrons: exceptions exist with halogens like chlorine… but these are still called “oxidizers”

So saying hydrogen doesn’t burn without an oxidizer still makes little sense. Hydrogen will combust with either oxygen or chlorine for example, both oxidizers. Without those then nothing happens because nothing can combust without an oxidizer… You may just not realize the oxidizer is mixed with the fuel.
Everything has software. If he follows his ideology that everything he uses be open source then he can't do anything except live off completely off grid without anything that has a semi conductor in it.

No electric meter at his house, no internet (even if his router is running open source, the ISP he's connected to certainly isn't), no transportation of any kind, no entertainment of any kind, no shopping of any kind (inventory management, cash registers, logistics). The equipment used to manufacture all the pieces of his precious decade old laptop was running proprietary software (not to mention all the small firmwares like wifi and Ethernet controllers).

You cannot escape it.

So, we should be pragmatic about it. We should push for it, but realize that it's impossible to live in society without interacting with closed source software.
Love my Joule. Been using it for years now it feels like for an amazing amount of things. Also the size and waterproof aspect of it is unbeatable. Good customer service too now that breville owns em.
I have precisely that scanner! I totally agree, I love that it's double sided and comes with really good OCR (ABBYY FineReader). And that it's an auto sheet feeder – I have terrible memories of flat bed scanners from the 90's that took a minute to scan one page but this only takes a few seconds per page.

Like you I put the documents in a hierarchy of folders and mix with downloaded "official" PDFs, and I use yyyy-mm-dd in the filenames and folders. But, I must admit, a big part of my filing system is often a pile of physical papers stacked up next to the scanner that I haven't got around to yet... But I'd still recommend it.
If I worked at a pharma company and the government expected me to develop a vaccine in record time, I would probably bargain for zero-liabilities in advance.
you might be interested in a startup working on pneumatic tube delivery. Sadly there is not a lot of info yet but they are hiring

https://www.pipedreamlabs.co/
How much of this is just because for something to be big, it needs to be fairly universally used?

I can't imagine any kind of irrigation company every being larger than Uber for example.
I really did not expect this from Apple. Perhaps I am too naive. It makes me think Apple is doing this as a sort of litmus test or as a way to force another issue:

- Government says Apple has to do it

- Apple announces they will do it

- Apple brand suffers immensely

- Apple cites suffering as a reason to not do it?

Seems like there would be a word/term/phrase for this kind of thing.

I'm so optimistic I'm hoping there is an ulterior motive here or some sort of outside coercion.
There's an implicit assumption you are making where your "Return On Investment" measures $$$ and what I believe the article is trying to say is that is exactly the problem and you should be measuring something else
The real question is whether they can keep their pro-privacy image intact with this change.

Also, if they don't then does it even matter at this point?

It's possible that even if Apple dropped all pretense and started working with authoritarian governments to compromise reporters the general public in the west still wouldn't care.
For the most part I agree with you. I think the popular watch companies (Omega, Rolex, etc.) are resting on their laurels, but perhaps in part because that's what their consumers want. I credit Zenith and Seiko with making their more recent advances accessible to wider audiences. However, most innovation in mechanical watches, unfortunately, is currently too expensive or niche for wide diffusion. Check out companies like MB&F, Urwerk, HYT, and Ressence to see what's being done.
> In many cases, investments sell in time to directly cover the withdrawal, while other times, the withdrawal is made on margin until the investments’ sale completes.

Very rich people have access to borrow against their investments so they don't have to sell (and trigger taxes).

I would never use FC as it is. BUT if you made a product where you never sell the underlying assets, and instead offer a 0% loan against them when i withdraw (and take a fee somewhere to cover), I would be very interested. Ideally, it might have protections so i can never get a margin call and be in debt during bad market times. Perhaps i can only borrow against the invested amount (or eg 75% of it), and any asset growth is profit, and not borrowed against.

The benefit to this is great. I can watch assets grow, and capture their growth and not deal with taxes, while still benefiting from liquidity. For people will large, regular income (eg. SDEs), you can usually rely on a continued income stream. I am fortunate that i usually invest a large % of my income (sde DINK yay), so being able to only "borrow" against a subset of it for faux-checking seems fine.
You will note I did not suggest a "true democracy" replace the entire process, that would be completely impractical, rarely does it work at scale.
Thousands of Patients Were Implanted with Defective Heart Pumps
Unlikely to help given how big and slow they are. These cargo ships carry thousands of containers.
Guillain–Barré syndrome[0] is a rare reaction to vaccination that causes the body to attack its own nerves and damage the myelin sheath. Possibly related?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillain-Barr%C3%A9_syndrome
Indeed that is true , but it is also their only opportunity to increase their payout. Being at the mercy of a machine with no options is more bleak. Telling people to "shut up and work" turns them to serfs
If you want to take the game to the next level there are many different mods that you can add that would add another layer of complexity to the game with new challenges and problems to solve. It could be great if you feel like the vanilla game is getting a little stale or too straightforward.
Doesn't Prodi.gy also claim to do active learning, which essentially reduce the instances to label too?

Haven't used Prodi.gy so don't know how its active learning algo works. May you share the difference?
I really don't Apple Hardware is a lot of money. I buy the cheapest MacBook Airs with a ram upgrade and they last me around ~6 years. Same with the phone I buy (iPhone SE). Outside of the battery needing replaced they last me a long, long time.

Everything else with I agree. The eco-system of all these companies is never-ending (cars, food, cities, etc.). It's like those sci-fi movies where one corporation owns everything. The only difference is it's 5 or 6 companies because they haven't yet started to merge.
Recent studies found that re-using a design made nukes cost more & take longer to build. Reason being each site is different, and so the design always needs to be tweaked, and at this scale changes are more expensive than from-scratch.

SMR's made in a factory seem like the only way to address that, but I have no idea if we can ramp SMR's to national viability in the next ten years.
/r/apple is absolutely furious.
That's not how capital distribution works. These VCs would've put their money elsewhere, possibly something you consider 'even less productive'.
SpaceX and a Canadian Startup Will Turn Space into a Billboard
You have an automated system like an ivr with voice recognition collect sensitive info. You don't have sensitive info on an agent's screens. You don't collect unnecessary personal info.
Yeah no. You want to stick with the established base Linux distros that have corporate backing or people that know what they are doing. Don't swim down the river and like hardware peripherals don't use anything that associates itself with gamers.
>"Bussard collectors"

I think I read somewhere that despite this being a science fiction trope forever, there may not be a region between "too thin to produce net power" and "thick enough to blow up a spaceship at relativistic speeds". And in practice, the interstellar medium turned out to be the former, too thin.

In fact, I'm not sure but what someone may have calculated drag would exceed power generated, regardless of density.