skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> kinda odd. Is there a need for cloned humans?

Cloned militaries. Eliminating birth defects. Relieving women from the pain of childbirth.

Also to solve the problem of low birth rates, and allow people to perpetuate themselves. Elon Musk could clone himself and raise his copy to eventually take over his businesses after him.

> What huge societal improvements do holograms permit?

Look man, the Jedi didn't use Slack, did they?

> Why is a consumer product with graphene meaningful but the massive innovation in small, powerful batteries not?

Life is graphene. It's fantastic.
Dirty Pipe exploit on Pixel 6 Pro and Samsung S22 latest update [video]
Is anybody searching for compounds that reduce evil intent? Something that would mellow people out without causing hallucinations. A mass tranquilizer? Not effective against lone operatives but able to be deployed against an invading army.
I'd like to reference the classical economist's answer: it depends.

It's obvious that without leaving this planet that we're limited to the resources on it, so economic growth is limited barring any massively revolutionary technology allowing us to skirt that seemingly hardcoded ceiling limit. Even including stuff like the Metaverse as economic growth, physical servers are necessary for them to operate.

It's entirely possible we reach a global steady-state economy point, but that shouldn't stall lateral growth due to obsolete sectors shrinking and disappearing to make room for newer advancing sectors. Total growth wouldn't be the goal in this case.

It depends on a lot of factors that are difficult to take into account, but I do agree with the underlying premise of the article: humanity needs to start figuring out how to "best" use the finite resources that we do have. But, that's an incredibly sensitive topic, I mean this is an issue that has arguably started most violent conflicts in our history. Without going down the all the potential rabbit holes this topic creates, it depends on a lot of which is uncertain. Notably, what sort of values we want to apply moving forward, which is difficult to coalesce to say the least.
> We still don't have space stations that can accommodate more than a half dozen people. We don't have Moon colonies. We don't have 3D holograms (not the ones that rely on spinning a stick really fast and using a projector). We still don't have a cure for any type of cancer. No warp drives. No anti-grav. No 200 year life expectancy. No human cloning. No $25 000 flying cars. No mass produced technology or consumer products using graphene.

All of these statements apply to Einstein's era as well.

We do, however, as of the past ten years or so have reuseable rockets (non trivial), inexpensive virtual reality goggles, mRNA vaccines, bioreactor grown meat, on demand access to an enormous quantity of humanity's artistic creations at any time, nearly-out-of uncanny valley digital human replicas, self driving cars with a low probability of killing you getting from point A to point B, and, yes, some really cool video games.
You're making a lot of broad, unfounded claims. According to [1], Ukraine has a "A long path towards integration" (into the European Union):

> "Of course, it is not only Ukraine’s population but its level of economic development that makes membership so costly for the EU. Ukraine is much poorer than Bulgaria, the poorest existing EU member state. Using 2013 World Bank pre-crisis (mid-year) figures, Ukraine’s GDP per capita ($3,900) was slightly over half (53%) that of Bulgaria ($7,340). Ukraine’s GDP per capita is also just over one-tenth (11%) that of the EU average ($34,240). For the sake of comparison, the GDP per capita of Croatia, the newest EU member, is almost identical to that of Poland ($13,520) and higher than that of the largest candidate country Turkey ($10,945)."

"Ukraine’s membership prospects are also linked to significant legal and political challenges. In discussions over Ukraine’s Association Agreement, EU negotiators repeatedly expressed concern over Ukraine’s high level of corruption, and insisted upon reforms within the judicial and electoral systems, as well as the release of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko from prison for medical treatment."

[1] https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/eu-accession-and-ukrain...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union%E2%80%93Ukraine...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_enlargement_of_the_E...
While it's worrying and worth thinking about, the track record of using AI to generate pharmaceuticals to do good has been "mixed", except really it's just been a bust. It may someday do great things, but not much yet, and one silver lining is that AI-generated toxins are unlikely to improve on the human-designed ones, either.

"That is, I'm not sure that anyone needs to deploy a new compound in order to wreak havoc - they can save themselves a lot of trouble by just making Sarin or VX, God help us."
How polyglot is Copilot? I see plenty of positive results in the replies for (Java|Type)Script and Python, but how does it fare with a Lisp-like language or Prolog (for examples)?
In the speeches and statements I have seen, there are a few differences. When addressing the European leaders, the Ukrainian leader speaks English without an interpreter. In addition there aren't any non-christian religious symbols in the image or speech, and when it comes to cultural symbols it is almost exclusively in terms of European union.

I have read/listen to a bit of research when it comes to diplomacy and tensions between nations, and a common theme is that its the small things that tend to have a large impact on kinship, trust and cooperation.
The article assumes that full development of a new chemical weapon would require more development effort. With regards to military usage: storable at room temperature, relatively easy to manufacture from commonly available precursor chemicals, etc. [1]

How true is that? Are there components of this process that make things easier now? Where I have chemical structure X, and a system generates the process steps and chemicals needed to produce X. How much of the domain in chemistry / chemical engineering has been automated these days? What are the future prospects for this?

[1] I assume one of the design goals for a new chemical weapon for military use is that it breaks down in the environment, but not too quickly (like say in a week or a month). Though I suppose if you want to just destroy civilization you would design for longevity in the environment instead. And being able to seep through many kinds of plastic if possible.
It's built on C3D which costs them money to license

http://web.archive.org/web/20210412124037/https://c3dlabs.co...
What? They absolutely do offer monthly plans. They _default_ to an Annual plan, which is described in two flavors, "Annual plan", and "Annual plan, paid monthly", but they absolutely do offer straight monthly plans:

https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html - any click on the "Plans and pricing details" would show that.
We checked for dot in addition to @. There was probably also check for special chars which makes sense, iirc.

One win we had was, we didn't hardcode any tlds.
Somewhat related? "Soap Bubbles" (C. V. Boys) [1] was a book from over 100 years ago that reads like a series of lectures to a science class on the physics of soap bubbles.

I was impressed with the step-wise manner in which the book proceeds from simple observations of soap bubbles and how they behave in order to develop more complex theories as to why they behave that way and the physics behind it.

Logic can feel so refreshing sometimes.

1) https://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/soap-bubbles-boy...
The article assumes there is an infinite linear pool of ideas that we can take from. This is not the case. All-encompassing models like general relativity, the standard model and quantum mechanics can only be discovered once, same goes for music and other old fields.
Not to comment on minor errors in the article like quoting Olaf Spengler instead of Oswald Spengler.
> We make smaller chips, miniaturized computers, made fancier looking user interfaces, made rocket boosters reusable, and video game graphics are approaching photorealism. Great.

Damn.. I'm not sure what more you are wanting given the amount of time that has passed? You wanted humanity to go from its first flight and engine-powered vehicle to warp drives, cured cancer and Moon colonies in less than 200 years?
> No person in their right mind would want to go wandering around the south side of Chicago.

Tell me you've never been on the Southside of Chicago without saying you've never been on the Southside of Chicago. Nobody ever walks around UofC campus, or to White Sox games, or the Museum of Science and Industry, or Beverly, or Mt. Greenwood, or Illinois Tech, or Chinatown, or Big Marsh, or Little Village, or Pilsen, or Promontory Point, or any of the many beaches, etc. Good point.

> That is not a falsehood.

Yes it is, you have no idea what you are talking about.
Believing batshit crazy things isn't unique to rural areas. In fact, I'd say it's more common in cities simply because there are more people there.

I know a woman who lives in Chicago who doesn't believe in dinosaurs. It's not a religious thing, it's just that dinosaurs don't fit into her mindset somehow.

I dated a woman in New York (native New Yorker) whose entire family believed that the moon landings were fake.

I know a guy in Houston who believes that drinking his own pee is helping him live longer.

Crazy is everywhere. It obeys no geographic, social, wealth, or political boundaries.
"(e.g. Baltimore has a higher population than Wyoming)."

Maybe not a great example (not sure the exact argument you're going for) given the murder rate in Baltimore is about 55 and the rate in Wyoming is about 1. I also question if socioeconomic factors are really that similar between the two. A better comparison might be city rates vs the state rate for the stare they are in, like Baltimore at 55 vs MD at 9 (even better if you could exclude Baltimore from the MD stats).
I believe that's called a sedative.

Most armies aren't filled with people with evil intent; they're filled with draftees who couldn't get out of it.
Further down that rabbit hole: https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2017/9/20/trigger-h...
Pretty impressive. What do you use for synthetic data generation? Also, you say in the blog post that it works with any type of data. Can you tell a bit more? Does it work for text and images?
The Fed can’t stop prices from going up soon, may have luck over the long term
It's trivial to store a null pointer in an Option::Some().

struct Foo;

fn main() {
let option_with_null: Option<*const Foo> = Some(std::ptr::null());

dbg!(option_with_null);
dbg!(option_with_null.is_none());
}

Output:

[src/main.rs:6] option_with_null = Some(
0x0000000000000000,
)
[src/main.rs:7] option_with_null.is_none() = false

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Erlang has selective receive, meaning it will go through all your receive branches in order, until one matches.

With this code:

receive
{high_p, Message} ->
process_high(Message);
{low_p, Message} ->
process_low(Message)
end

if the process has one high_p message and a low_p message, the high_p message will be processed first.
Agreed with all your points, except for this one:

> b) will continue to bloom for the foreseeable future

I don't think this will be the case. True, it was/is a golden age, but I don't see how this demonstrably unsustainable machine can go on fore the "foreseeable future". Unless we get a huge breakthrough on the order of fusion, I don't see this golden age going on more than 50 or so more years.
Yup.

Apple does the same thing.
I humbly submit Einstein’s own words: “The perfection of means and the confusion of ends seems to be our problem.”

The author rightly identifies the educational impotence of our society as a major problem, but his inability to address it as anything other than a question of technique leaves the problem unperturbed.
Dismissing a person's anxiety about existential threats is also unhelpful. As if u/halfjoking has more responsibility, agency, culpability than the actual villians.

True, a return to Eocene-like conditions (iirc atmospheric methane 200ppm) is unlikely. (On mobile; too lazy to find tidbit that rules out calthrate gun hypothesis.)

But there are plenty of existential threats. As well as compounding factors interacting in unforeseeable ways.

In other words, please be nicer. Shit's bad, getting a lot worse, and people are (understandably) freaking out.
This. The issuing bank/institution needs to verify additions to any 3rd party processor like ApplePay, GPay etc

The tweet is a little bit weird too because he assumes its because he used a card somewhere and makes it seem like his card was added to Google pay which can't automatically happen..
Old communist propaganda worked a lot like that. The sci-fi of the era described a future deeply permeated by their ideology. The nice part was that is was universally optimistic - no dystopias allowed in the red future. The bad part was that is was ridiculous: they were talking about astronauts and colonizing far away planets while we were starving in food lines.

Still, as a child behind the iron curtain lacking access to western writings, I read and enjoyed quite a lot of it. Not sure if you can find it anymore though.
They signed my business accounts on to their obnoxious chat without asking. Thankfully, I caught it before some customer tried to chat.
Neutron star density
"But Why would density lead to higher murder rate?"

It's about opportunity. A kleptomaniac is going to find they steal left often when they're in the middle of a 100 acre property that they own than in a dense apartment complex.

One of the most significant criteria for committing murder (as opposed to suicide) is other people. You can have all the murderous intent in the world, but if there is no one else around, you're unlikely to pull it off. On the other hand, even if you don't generally have murderous intent, if a place is packed with other people, that increases the chances that for one reason or another you'll develop murderous intent towards one of them.
Chromium and Firefox have all your history stored in a sqlite database.

I have a script to extract the last visited website from chrome for example: https://github.com/BarbUk/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/chrome_hi...

For firefox, you can use something like:

sqlite3 ~/.mozilla/firefox/.[dD]efault/places.sqlite "SELECT strftime('%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S', visit_date/1000000, 'unixepoch', 'localtime'),url FROM moz_places, moz_historyvisits WHERE moz_places.id = moz_historyvisits.place_id ORDER BY visit_date;"
I don't understand how the VC investment space doesn't have to worry about collusion type issues.
Doesn't exactly win any awards for elegance, but:

err := h(map[bool]func(T){true: f, false: g}[cond(x)](x))

You're probably not going to want to use this though, although I've used the map[bool]T trick in some simpler examples.
>>The thought had never previously struck us. We were vaguely aware of security concerns around work with pathogens or toxic chemicals, ...We have spent decades using computers and AI to improve human health—not to degrade it. We were naive in thinking about the potential misuse of our trade...

Of course now, the next step is to use the technology to preemptively search for and develop antidotes to the new potential weapons their tool has discovered.
> Cookies as tech say nothing about privacy.

But cookie banners do. Essential cookies that are required e.g. to store login data no not require a cookie banner (https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/). So if there is a cookie banner you can assume that the site wants to store analytics, tracking or advertising cookies.
"Wildly unpopular"? Maybe in the corporate and media world, but even despite that, he nearly won re-election. You can credibly attribute plenty of negative characteristics to Trump, but "nobody likes him" isn't one of them.
That's going to eventually kill her neck.

Maybe we should realize the human body is just not built for extremely repetitive actions, and work our way from there.
Yep, this includes everything.
RP2040 is designed to provide full bandwidth to both cores at once without bandwidth contention. Combined with the PIO's you can do some really impressive bitbanging.
I think right now only a single-digit number of people in the world can produce a convincing fake. And while they could be working for the government, I don't think they do.
Crypto Startup That Wants to Scan Everyone’s Eyeballs Is Having Some Trouble
Microsoft updates Outlook, Teams, and PowerPoint to be hybrid work ready
Background article from a week ago:

https://www.wired.com/story/the-race-to-rescue-ukraines-powe...

The Race to Rescue Ukraine’s Power Grid From Russia

In late February, Ukraine began a long-planned 72-hour test to unhook its electricity grid from Russia’s. Then the invasion started.
People are addicted to drama and toxicity. Ignore them
When the conversation about "oh, you work for us?" started to get too repetitive, I'd just start using "Caesar +1" for the name, that is, <tipq> instead of <shop>.

The problem is that I'd still received a lot of spam. Tried graylisting and other methods, but a hard rule (i.e. name must end in a number) ended up working better.

Another amusing thing about using a personalized catch-all is finding out who had their users' database hacked/leaked ...and, other than the common ones that we all know (the ones in have I been pwned?), I received some others that were kinda big (i.e. a Spanish airline company)
I'd guess that the primary difference is in the attribute space and specificity.

Home Depot products are specific in odd ways. E.g. an 8' PVC pipe can be shortened on-site, a 3' downrod for a ceiling fan might not be able to. So substitutability is hard.
Spaces are allowed too :)

"totally valid @ email"@localhost
I would suggest that perhaps the intended audience played a factor as well.

I picked up a series of books on vacuum tube circuits from the 1950's created by and for U.S. military personnel and it is probably the easiest and most digestible explanation on how vacuum tube circuits work that I have come across. Wonderfully illustrated with diagrams as well.
> Wouldn't "n" be number of murders?

No. I'm not disputing the murder rates. Those are probably very accurate for that year. I'm disputing the claim that red states have a murder problem based on one year of information.

> It was a pandemic year in every one of these states.

Not equally. Given the information they used, it is entirely plausible that the murder rate did not increase more in blue states because, in general, they weren't allowed to go outside unlike, say, Florida. To be clear, this is not "proof" that an ideology is better. This is a temporary measure that could lead to longer term issues.

> What if the two of them are linked?

That's what I'm saying. This article is claiming a link without actually analyzing the impact. You need a longitudinal study is my whole point.
Looking at the problem a different way (maybe), you can buy BBC Basic and run it on modern x86 hardware.
No, we’re always at the beginning of infinity.
None of those has service advertising (only enumeration). RS232 is not even a buss protocol,
What was that talk about transitory inflation again? I remember one year ago that people were getting crucified for denying the narrative.
Fortunately we don't see any real work in the chemical and biological weapons space anymore. While it would still be pretty handy for terrorist groups, in actual warfare chemical weapons aren't super useful. See https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch... .
Came looking for this comment, heh.
Serious question - Is putting PoW in front of media a violation of Geneva Convention?
I think most people here are missing the point. This is not about incremental progress but about breakthroughs. Religion was breakthrough. Electricity was a breakthrough. General Relativity was a breakthrough. The Internet was another breakthrough and now we are enjoying these things.

A similar breakthrough today could be: Quantum mechanics, Fusion and a fully functional decentralized Internet (not to be confused with decentralized web).

My theory is a little different: War. War is the thing that, in my opinion, enables all progress. The pandemic had some sort of war conditions, and this forces people to get creative and create new unusual paradigms.

In the normal/usual day to day, people could not care less. They want incremental improvements but rarely want a full disruption of the status quo. They dream of remote work, but there aren't enough forces (government, society, corporate, workers, etc...) to make that happen. They just don't do fundamental changes.
>I’ll certainly admit that finding irrefutable evidence for a decline of genius is difficult—intellectual contributions are extremely hard to quantify, the definition of genius is always up for debate, and any discussion will necessarily elide all sorts of points and counterpoints

I appreciate that they at least acknowledge my first thought. They try although I really don't know what they mean exactly when they mean by the title.
Great visuals!

For those that are interested in more details on how this is done in real research, I recently wrote an introductory article on the topic that should be accessible to anyone with a scientific background:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9716843

TLDR: When you go beyond simple disk and/or black-hole models, things become extremely complicated. Real black holes have complex and turbulent accretion disks that cannot be studied analytically and require large simulations. Similarly for binary black holes. When you put the two things together, ray tracing and radiation transport become much more involved.

EDIT:
The article is unfortunately behind a paywall (with no benefit to the authors), as publishing with open access would have required a steep fee. Please, do not pay to read! If you have no way to access this document for free, we will be happy to share the PDF.
Some people told me to add a demonstration GIF to the repository, so now you can see it in action in case you don't want to run it yourself: https://github.com/Esc4iCEscEsc/skanuvaty/blob/master/demo.g...

I'd still love to hear opinions from all the Rustacians here on HN about code quality or what I can do better, as this is one of the first Rust programs I've written.
We're still limited by the constraints of our capabilities.
An updated version of that section in the form of a booklet was distributed to every household a few years ago, the advice is mostly the same.

Stay Alert! Trust no one! Keep your laser handy!

(OK, that last one came from somewhere else).
> Time on a clock is just a concept we all agree on. If we all agree “_now_ it’s 9am and we shall not change clocks from this point on”, then that’s that, _now_ is “9am”, there’s no “off by an hour”.

I guess we are arguing about whether we can all agree on what now should be.
this is so insulating and misguided. we have the internet but the people have no time to flourish. we are crushed by the boot of our miserable economic systems.
Just out of curiosity, what are the racial demographics of Mississippi, and what are the racial demographics of murderers in Mississippi?
Apache default page is coming for http://analytics.google.com and the site is not opening on https.
Apple launched a chip last week with 114 billion transistors. This person says humanity is run out of genius.

Maybe some perspective is needed.
On Killing Tanks (2020)