skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is the kind of thing that could possibly be worth trillions of dollars.

I think it would also have a profound impact on society and culture. Just how we think about the world differently as our lifespan extends. I think that makes a lot of people scared.

Discussing this with others I see a few things people are highly concerned with but I'm unsure if they would actually happen (as in, I'm uncertain either way). The first is over population. The reason I'm not convinced this would be a problem is that most western countries have declining populations (without immigration) and world wide we've seen dramatic reductions in birth rates. World fertility rate is about 2.4 (replacement level is 2.0)[0]. The other aspect is political. People think change happens on the generation level. But I'm not entirely convinced of this either. We can take attitudes of same sex-marriage as an example[1][2]. A generation is 20 years but our (US) views have changed substantially faster than that. Especially if you include LGBT[3] (I couldn't find timeline sources for European attitudes as easily. Even when looking for specific countries and including quotes). I agree that there's a correlation with generations, but I'm not convinced it is a principle component.

I also wonder how we would think about the future. Interesting to be is that a lot of Eastern cultures typically are more future oriented in their thinking (as compared to typical Western, and I wouldn't say by too much). I would expect that longer lifespans would put pressure to be more cognizant. Would a crisis that is 100 years out seem as far away? Hard to say. We might even have to live with longer lifetimes for awhile for that to happen.

All I know is that it would cause big changes. But I'm not sure that should stop us from pursuing this technology unless we see major pitfalls ahead of time and find that they are insurmountable obstacles to overcome. There are clearly issues with increased longevity (especially the disproportionate use of it) as many dystopian SciFis have pointed out. But I think it is better that we at least discuss these things in the open since the technology itself is no longer in the realm of fantasy but has graduated to the realm of possibility. There's too much money being put in this technology now for us to not take the questions of the impact of it seriously. Even if 10+ years out (even 50+) I don't think we should dismiss them. If we're talking about culture shifts, maybe one of the best things we could do is talk about the impacts (pros/cons and how to use them in fair and equitable means) of technologies before they are here. Maybe we could have some of that discussion here?

I'm normally not a big CGP Grey person, but I do like this video on the Fable of the Dragon Tyrant[4]

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/350486/record-high-support-same...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/changing-att...

[3] https://news.gallup.com/poll/1651/gay-lesbian-rights.aspx

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY
Either the ASL includes values the ASF does not hold, which would be very strange, or the example of a value enshrined in the ASL speaks for the values of the ASF as well.
Except for the sun screen, do these have lasting effects, or do they only work for the skin cells that a person has at this moment (i.e., the effect will be lost in a few months when the skin has renewed itself)?

Is there any skin agent that can be used from a relatively young age, where the usage will pay off at a later age? Again, except for the sun screen.
A lot of people are applying this approach in gumroad, actually. Time to time I can see Notion tables with diverse curated content for sale
But the hard biological limit of 16 waking hours to consume all those things is unlikely to change anytime soon. With the cheapest yet best methods readily available to anyone, maybe the majority of what we will want to budget our attention spans on will be permanently crowded out by the AI-generated options.
I've coincidentally just been watching Rick and Morty and this really fit read in Rick's voice.

Is yawning at everything astonishing not just exhausting? Everything is "just" made up of less impressive things. But is this really not worthy of a little wonderment?
In CA, primary school teachers cover most subjects.

But even secondary English teachers should be able to pass a mathematics proficiency exam.

Would we want barely literate folks teaching Mathematics? No, because mathematics does not exist in isolation. Someone who can't read and write reasonably well very likely can't teach mathematics in a contextually useful way. If someone cannot pass an English/French exam, I'm not so sure that they are literate enough to teach.

Similarly, a basic competency in number sense and Mathematical constructions is necessary to teach any subject, including English. If someone cannot pass a Mathematics exam, I'm not so sure that they are numerate enough to manage a grade book and interpret basic statistics about their students' progression. Not to mention teaching students how to write expository texts on technical subjects.

Remember: these exams are relatively low bars. We're not testing teachers on university mathematics; we're largely testing them on material they should have learned in order to graduate from high school in the first place. See https://mathproficiencytest.ca/#/en/applicant/learn/about:wh...
Taking the word at face value, propaganda is that which propagates. It
may be true. It may be false. It may be spread with malice or
benevolence. It's key characteristic is that it is intentional, has a
source and a purpose in contrast to 'news' which may be be picked up
on simultaneous fronts by independent observers of a matter of
fact. It is 'conscious manipulation', in the words of Edward Bernays
who effectively "wrote the book on it".

A good model is congruent with malware and so may find resonance with
hackers. There is the vehicle or mechanism (medium), the exploit, and
the payload. The payload is the intended effect. The exploit is the
reason it may have permeability with certain groups or
predispositions. Bernays, and Chomsky's re-reading of him, focuses
mostly on manufacturing consent or alignment.

The now common, modern understanding, as other commentators point out,
is the cultivation of fear uncertainty, doubt, anxiety, division,
discombobulation and disarray. That is to say, Bernays's thesis
(Shared with Walter Lippman's), that propaganda is a necessary tool to
ensure stability and proper functioning of society, is failing.

In that sense, dicombobulation and mischief making of the modern
propaganda qua Surkov (see the Three pillars of Putinism) might be
seen as "anti-propaganda" through Bernays's lens. It's end is
destabilisation.
The article mentions extradition, so I would like to hijack this thread to disscuss that. Don't you think that extradition is something like a custom from an age of slave trade? Queens and Presidents trade their citizens like slaves. A person born in one country, protected by its Constitution, gets brought into other country where none of constitutional rights apply any more, where he doesn't know local laws and local language, doesn't have a lawyer, doesn't know his rights and where he cannot defend himself as well as in his own country. Furthermore, a crime he has commited might be punished much more strictly in that other country, for example, 20 years instead of 4 years and additionally he can be charged with crimes that are not a crime in his country and wouldn't allow to extradite him. Also, that country might not allow criminal's family to visit him in prison (the right that he had in the country of origin).

How is this compatible with human rights? The proper process should be like this: if country A thinks that someone from country B has commited a crime against them then they should come to that country and prove it in a court without being able to add additional charges. This is the only way where the defendand won't be stripped of their rights.

Am I missing something here and there are valid reasons why prosecution for international crime cannot be implemented like this?
I plan to add more options soon, don't worry! I did this since it was a quick implementation.
This goal of "protecting trans/NB people" is accomplished by signalling your support for normalizing trans people indicating their pronouns. If you think that describing it as "signalling" sounds weak or trivial compared to "protecting", it's because it is.
I had a strange feeling after reading the article and I was right. The stanfordreview (founded by Peter Thiel) is a right-wing mag. It doesn't mean that they are wrong about the Stanford prof but I don't trust them to not be overtly biased.
That doesn't attempt to add for example compute shader support to GPUs that don't support it. Or FP16 support. Or geometry shaders. Or VBOs.

And for example from that Gallium page:

> The new driver interface will assume the presence of programmable vertex/fragment shaders and flexible memory objects.

It essentially was a hardware HAL rev, and did not attempt to support hardware that couldn't be updated to the new HAL.

Which is actually the Linux way for most all hardware. Either the driver stays up to date, or the hardware is abandoned and no longer supported. The push there is to upstream the driver so that the community can maintain it, but the end result is more or less the same. It either gets updated, or it's no longer supported. Linux has never had and actively rejects attempts to introduce any form of a driver API/ABI. In terms of policy then Linux basically provides 0 days of support for anything that isn't open source & upstreamed. Even 2 years would be an unfathomably long support window.

But even ignoring all that, GPUs are above average in flexibility for hardware drivers. Compare to something like a camera ISP. A huge complaint of fragmentation for app devs on Android is around the camera, because it turns out you just can't layer a lower level, more flexible API on top of a higher level, more restricted HAL. That's the Camera1 vs. Camera2 API mess on Android in a nutshell.
“The term "regression" was coined by Francis Galton in the 19th century to describe a biological phenomenon. The phenomenon was that the heights of descendants of tall ancestors tend to regress down towards a normal average (a phenomenon also known as regression toward the mean).[7][8] For Galton, regression had only this biological meaning”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_analysis

I bought the book and I’m not sure where those other quotes originated

““A few years after publishing his initial findings, he coined the more general term correlation (originally co-relation) to refer to the association of any two variables that tended to go together, such as a person’s height and their shoe size, and he provided a formula for correlation that would reproduce his “coefficient of reversion” from the heredity studies.”

Excerpt From
Bernoulli's Fallacy
Aubrey Clayton
https://books.apple.com/us/book/bernoullis-fallacy/id1538214...
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To be super precise the council member you're referring to, Kshama Sawant, is technically a self-avowed Trotskyist. If a Trotskyist can be elected to city government it's pretty fair to say the left is "winning" in that particular city. When you dust off your history books and think about Trotsky's "Permanent Revolution" for a bit, suddenly a lot of the policies that actively make people more miserable start to make more sense.
More people from Vancouver go to Richmond for work than the other way around.

Also, Richmond Delta are 50% or more farmland, Surrey maybe 30%.
I submitted the article, and I'm afraid I agree with adra. But the story behind it seems important, and while I wish I had a better article to link, one must play the hand one is dealt.
>>> What was wrong with the old "zero" policy?

In practice it led to turning a blind eye rather than facing the aftermath of a cheating accusation. And I doubt that a more relaxed approach is teaching kids to cheat. Kids learn the mechanics of cheating from one another.

Also, kids could get into a hole that they couldn't get out of, for instance being assured of a failing grade no matter how much further effort they made. They essentially become dead weight in the classroom.
Public transit is significantly slower than driving, unless both endpoints are immediately close to a skytrain station.
> people would be willing to pay thousands of dollars per year on.

To note, a huge market segment is are already paying thousands of dollars per yer, right now, on skin care (for instance the SK-II lineup sells well, and it’s 100-250$ a bottle)

My semi-cynical view would be that cosmetics companies don’t have any specific incentive to accelerate the natural march of research as long as they stay on the forefront of it and have top of the line products. Basically they’d only have issues with new players making bolstering entrances and disrupting their market with a revolutionary products they’re not ready to counter.

And the gap between some process being validated, and a product with that process being on the market is so huge, it’s hard to see a non entranched company start investing on that without getting noticed.

I’d see it as the same situation as Camera makers when digital was coming at the horizon. They only needed to be there when the tech is ready, and had no need to bet the farm on making it a reality sooner than necessary.
>All certified teachers in Ontario may be assigned to teach math up to Grade 6

for grade 7 and over you need a qualification in math, however, you can still be assigned, so

>Therefore, even a teacher without a qualification in intermediate or Senior Division Mathematics can be asked to teach math in those divisions.

and

>The Respondent’s evidence is that due to the competitive nature of teaching positions, newly certified teachers may find that the only positions available to them are positions that require them to teach math, whether or not this was their intention. When few teaching positions are available, new teachers will often take positions outside of the subjects or divisions on their teaching certificate.

From page 3 (points 13 & 14) of
https://www.otffeo.on.ca/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/...
In 1980 an Earthquake Destroyed an Italian Town and Revealed Another
And... they aren't just used for proprioception. They also tell you how heavy things are when you pick them up, and sense vibrations, and help you sense changes in acceleration, which are distinct sensations from 'where in space are my hands right now.'
> “It is still very hard to go to all the places she visited, even in this day, and some places she visited still lack scientific survey,” says Yu. “There are still many species in her paintings without information or a photo, or even a scientific name, so the paintings are still very important for scientific research.”

Sounds more like "A Botanical Observation Finally Classified After 146 Years." The current title suggest people have been wondering about these blue berries for that time - but the article sounds like only one person was curious and that was very recently.
Sorry, this happens a lot to me. For the record I'm not trying to discredit Boeing. I do have issues organizing and expressing my thoughts which results in less than ideal communication.
As far as I can tell, they are not from the book, which I just purchased
I do sometimes work nights, but not in a factory. But your missing the point, there are lots of industrial processes that you don't just turn off for 12 hours because the electricity is not there or more expensive. Spooling them back up can take far in excess of that, so a 50% duty cycle is a non-starter.

I'm sorry we can't all be laptop-class software devs, someone has to make the 'stuff'.
> Changing zoning is pretty short sited if you have the goal of having an area that people love to love in.

This implies that the current zoning was implemented for good reason. That's basically never the case. Most existing zoning was done either to increase property values or to keep out people that the elites don't want to be around.
Picture drawing lines in 3d space in something a little more sophisticated than SketchUp, and then having the drone follow those paths. What's tricky about that? Indoors you have no weather, and could use a beacon system to pinpoint location.
I flew a lot of flights on United where they have a feature in the inflight entertainment system where you can listen in on the ATC comms (if the captain turns it on).
I've found that:

* French pilots generally speak in French in France or Quebec

* Russian pilots speak in Russian in Russia

* Mainland Chinese pilots speak in Mandarin in mainland China (but not in Taiwan or HK where English seems to be universal)

* Spanish/Latin American pilots speak in Spanish in those places.

Otherwise, it's generally English ATC including countries where it's otherwise not the native language, e.g. Japan, South Korea, Germany.
A Comprehensive List of Educational C++ Videos in 2022
I recently started using Notepadqq (https://notepadqq.com) and so far it is quite okay. It is not as sophisticated as Notepad++ but it does the job.
They will move on to more stable careers.
> Political ads rarely contain new information. They almost never change anyone’s mind. The function of political ads, though, isn’t to persuade. It’s to “burn money” in a public way. They are costly signals of the political campaign’s willingness to expend resources which shows their commitment.

Rings true with me.
Which features of Npp are you struggling to find in other editors? I used Npp a bit a decade ago when I had to work with Windows but it didn't really have any stand out features (not a complaint, it worked perfectly for what I needed).
Does OpenAI have a GUI that you're using or is that a CLI?
This reminded me of the HP instant ink [1] printer I once-upon-a-time bought. They would entice you with a 'free ink' service, where they sent you some ink on a regular basis. But woe betide you try to supplement the free ink with some shop-bought ink, as the printer monitors how much you use and will automatically order the amount consumed from HP. There's no point buying any cheaper third party ink - you'll always pay for the equivalent HP ink as well.

[1] https://www.ldproducts.com/blog/the-fine-print-8-things-you-...
> Narrow streets (avoids traffic in side streets)

That's an interesting one to me, because I'm generally bothered by how wide Vancouver streets are. IIRC most Vancouver residential streets are 33 feet wide, waaaaaaaay wider than in many European and Asian cities.
> We tend to think of propaganda as loudspeakers and silly posters

more generally, people fall in the trap of thinking of propaganda as "messaging that goes against my positions" or "propaganda is what my enemies use"

which is 1. hilariously wrong (American propaganda is the best in the world, and far more widespread than Russian or whoever else is the boogeyman du jour) and 2. self-sabotaging (inability to play the game is why liberal messages that _should_ appeal to the majority of Americans fall on deaf ears, why health authorities have failed so spectacularly with COVID, etc.)
Looks to be this:
https://zaplib.com/docs/zapium.html

> Zapium is the native, cross-platform Zaplib runtime. It converts Zaplib web apps to desktop apps, where the Rust code runs natively, not via WebAssembly.

> This is Zaplib's equivalent of Electron -- for an extra speed boost.
Ever hear of electric heating? How on earth would you expect solar or wind to be used for heating. It's far from the cheapest option currently, but you're not getting rid of fossil fuels without electric heat.
Typically not worth the cost of automation. Automated tasks need parts with certain levels of precision, among other requirements. That precision can some times make parts excessively expensive, heavy, etc etc.

One example of this that you don't see mentioned often, is that stamped door assemblies frequently need "adjustment", aka bending and beating, in to position to make them fit properly. You can see some examples of it in this video: https://youtu.be/iPhwBUnR_XA?t=216
> This is also what turned me against free speech fundamentalism in the end. Every attempt at getting this addressed was shot down in the name of free speech and anti-censorship.

The solution is to put these vile pieces of sludge in prison forever, or execute them - not turn against liberty. This is a red herring for at least morally questionable people.
That's a great project, but a mute button would be really nice.
Loved the story, thanks for sharing. That SGI box must've set you back a goodly amount, but worth it to get using IRIX.

I've a few memories of 3.x too (none of SGI alas).

My experience of Windows 3.1 was retroactive. I began with Windows 98, but my neighbour was given an old Mitac 486 that ran Windows 3.1. My ten year old self initially found it strange that there was no start menu, but I quickly found my way around. It was enough to have fun with the DOS games and the few rudimentary Windows 3.1 games, something called the "funpak" with slapdash clones of arcade classics.

Sadly, it never went online. But I upgraded the HDD to a 256MB IDE job that someone else gave me (Quantum Maverick Prodrive, I still remember that).

Good times indeed.
Even if the text just serves as random entropy, it's alright for people to feel a subjective connection between the artwork and the text.
What are you basing the 45 bn ly on? A redshift of z~13 should correspond to a comoving distance of about 33 bn ly, whereas 45 bn ly would correspond to z~600.
There was just this too, wtf is going on with Boeing? https://avherald.com/h?article=4f700fec
That's very cool but once you have stable image output how do you define good image output when it comes to art?

The stuff on deviantart is pretty good too and neatly tagged and classified by art style.
Hour long video of the i3 being produced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGi-KmYGuZE

Like the Tesla video, the secret sauce is omitted, (composite frame layup) but much attention lavished on commodity items. (motor coil winding)
Yeah, Vancouver's zoning code has pretty awful origins; I wrote about it here a while back: https://www.abundanthousingvancouver.com/vancouvers_first_zo...

In a nutshell, it was intentionally designed to keep apartment buildings and stores out of most of the city.