skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wouldn't benefit the Taiwanese.

It's plainly obvious that US does not want the PRC to have access to TSMC, or anything like it. And this suggestion from US military academics is most likely based on the fact that the US is not going to send its troops in for Taiwan.

So far, nothing new.

PRC wants Taiwan back for reasons beyond just TSMC. It's probably the only one of the containment that the Chinese has a chance of breaching without going into full scale war.

If the situation gets bad enough for Taiwan to blow up it's own crown jewel in anticipation for war, at that point, what's stopping the Chinese from bombing the shit out of the rest of the Taiwanese government and military installation and follow through? Probably nothing.

Doing that is dumb for the lives of Taiwanese. It would only benefit the US and no one else.
The government. I worked for the US state department for a couple of years by way of a major consultancy. Not sure you can get any more boring than that. And you'll make a solid six figures doing maybe five hours of work a week!
What do you want more of in your life?

From what you've typed, it sounds like you want less of people (employer, therapist, girlfriend) hassling you over being non-proactive. Thats fine, but it is still a reactive desire.

To be more proactive, you need:

1. Some desire that leads you to initiate actions in the face of uncertainty.

2. The take actions which change things about your life even in the face of fear.

Example:

Suppose the answer is "I want more time spent relaxing". You could then make a proposal to switch to a 4-day workweek. You could then take the risk of talking to your employer about it. There is a risk your employer is unhappy about that.
I know I'm missing something obvious here, can someone close to this tech help me out? What problem does this solve? For reference, I'd like to compare this to a hydrogen cycle, which is apparently already a subsystem of the proposed process used to reduce the spent iron. I went to the "Why iron?" section of the web page and got the following points:

'CO2 free' - H2 cycle systems are also CO2 free

'Compact' - the energy density of iron is already pretty low and the proposed machinery also doesn't seem very compact. Maybe storing uncompressed H2 would be somewhat inconvenient depending on your location, but you can always compress it. And if you need longer term storage, you can actually make hydrocarbons from it, although that wouldn't technically be CO2 free (only CO2 neutral if you use captured carbon)

'Cost-effective' - this system seems way more expensive, per kWh and in absolute terms, than gaseous cycle concepts.

'Easy to store and transport' - the iron is certainly not easy to transport, nor is the machinery using or recycling it. It is easy to store safely, just not efficiently.

'Scalable' - while iron is abundant on Earth, most of our iron is actually at inaccessible depths, so we're stuck with traditional mining. If you think iron is cheap, you haven't tried to use it as a building material recently. Cheap and abundant metals would be calcium or potassium. Even cheaper, again: H2.

'Safe' / 'Commodity' - true, but how relevant are these, really?
No, Lisp is applicative.

The link splits languages in to applicative vs concatenative. This is straight up Church-Turing. Where Applicative is Church's a program is function application, and Concatenative is Turing's a program is a list of instructions concatenated on an infinite tape.
As far as I know, the most difficult part of playing Roguelikes with a screen reader is interpreting the map. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup supports setting a fixed random number generator seed, and pre-generating the dungeon using that seed. This means it would be possible to print embossed maps in advance. It would make the game easier by removing the "fog of war" exploration, but it would probably still be difficult enough. Possibly the code could be modified so the monsters and items remain random even when the map is fixed.

What's the current state of the art of embossing printers? Does this sound feasible?
It might be a gain, but that doesn't make it corruption.
I have on a parking meter. I scanned the app clip QR-like code and a lite version of the parking app popped up for me to pay. Felt incredibly native and more trustworthy than a QR code taking me to a site.
It's a normal elision, yes, we all picture a public library when we say "library". But "free library" isn't redundant or weird, because "public" is a modifier of library, not a trait.

People tend to call their personal library a "book collection" or the like, but it's a library, in just the same way that a Little Free Library is.

So most people who read have at least a small private library, whether they think of it in those terms or not.
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It’s Warez.
Core values is just a vague concept. A lot of things considered backwards or even downright evil today used to be core values not too long and vice versa, e.g. racial segregation, LGBT, women's right, etc.
> then the additional cost to transport it would be less relevant

I mean, if weight is the only issue, then maybe don't transport it ever?

Its not like we try to "transport" the Bath County Pumped hydro station around (aka: the largest battery in the USA). We just let it sit in one location and convert from electricity (usually nuclear at night) into energy-storage (pump water uphill), and then convert it back later (release the water during daytime peak-electricity usage).

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If the energy "needs to be transported", then convert the energy into another form (Ethanol fuel? Syngas Kerosene? ). Each conversion loses efficiency of course, but if Iron is cheap enough to use as "energy storage", then it can be our "energy storage of last resort", since any storage is better than waste. (IE: Never turn off your solar panels. We always have "something" to dump our excess electricity into)
Very good! I like this a lot, my wife and I just spent 20 mins on it.

Thoughts:

There is too much USA, for people outside the USA. Multiple choice between different counties in the same US state becomes just guesswork, maybe that situation could be prevented. (Also, non-Americans don't know the abbreviations for most US states.)

It's too easy when the choices are too geographically diverse. Maybe the 'wrong' options could be selected based on a min + max distance from the location in the video, say 500km to 5000km.

Needs a pause button so I don't have to close the tab, or if there is one it needs to be more prominent.
You’re thinking about it from the perspective of a professional artist. But put yourself in the shoes of someone who’s not an artist and would like free art. The implications for artists who want to get paid might be bad, but even as an occasional artist myself, I have to admit most of the results in the article would be hard to distinguish as computer generated, if shown on their own in a different context. I don’t agree that AI pictures will never have any Aura - in some sense the opposite is true, some amount of Aura may be guaranteed because the inputs have it. The Aura is only lost when you assign the ‘machine generated’ narrative, when you know the story and already have opinions about whether it’s good.

People who want cheap but unique abstract art for their house, small business owners who need ad clip art but don’t have the budget for a designer, even artists using DallE queries to generate launchpad ideas, I can imagine many reasons DallE would get used. But also don’t forget to imagine the future, this is one of the first and it’s bound to be improved until you can’t distinguish it from “real” art.

There’s a valid point in your comment about how artists currently look at AI, and a valid question about what AI produced art actually means, so I’m throwing you an upvote because I don’t think you deserved to get downvoted for sharing your opinion. Maybe more importantly, AI generated art could challenge and rekindle the age old debate about what art actually is, and bring a new perspective to the table.
For all of those getting excited about Hikaru in the candidates, keep in mind the 3 strongest players in the world who aren't Magnus didn't play in the FIDE Grand Prix for various reasons: Alireza Firouzja (already qualified), Ding Liren (weird travel restrictions) and Fabi (already qualified).

At least two of them and likely all 3 are going to be in the candidates, so this is just going to be an entirely different level of competition. The betting odds put Hikaru at <10% chance to win, which seems about right to me. Hikaru was also in trouble at various times in the FIDE Grand Prix but escaped some very bad positions with draws, which against higher level competition he might not be so lucky.

I'm not necessarily a Hikaru fan, but I enjoyed his post-game recaps after the grand prix matches, because that type of analysis isn't something any other top level players are going to do for fear of revealing some weaknesses that opponents can seize upon (and believe me... Hikaru's opponent's teams will be scouting those videos). However, not caring can only get you so far as the level of competition increases.
This was truly amazing, I hope the add more templates for the non-artistically inclined. The fact that even I could do something like this is amazing!

https://imgur.com/a/Up4vaXn
Wouldn't "less than, equal to, or greater than" imply anything EXCEPT unordered?
The worst I've come across is a jackass on an electric push-scooter.

I was driving down a badly lit one way street, he was coming towards me at speed.
He was in the centre of the road, was dressed in black on a black scooter with only a tiny reflective square just above the front-wheel.

He avoided me a few seconds before he approached me, but I honestly would have hit him if he didn't. I only noticed his little reflective square moments before he appeared.
I don't think Carlsen would actually give up the title to Nakamura without a match.
That's just it, 65 - 75% efficiency is still a lot better than having it wasted or end up on the market at negative value for power wasters like crypto farms and Facebook datacenters to just use up.
its not just the crypto-buffs. This is a purely ideological decision that actually goes against the original libertarian ideas behind wikipedia. Keeping BTC payments costs nothing to wikipedia, and it actually meshes with the original idea of BTC as "native internet money" which has not yet been refuted. Wikipedia and BTC are a good match because of their nonaligned, distributed web 1.0 nature . Wiki&banks are not, wiki&paypal is not. The reasoning behind this decision is purely ideological, and rightfully people should be worried. This will open the floodgates that will eventually lead to the destruction of npov. We have seen this happening so many times with social media and payment platforms that it is laughable to suggest it won't happen this time.

Occam's razor would suggest to do nothing, but ideological axes are being wielded. This will turn a lot of people off.
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I assume there are background processes that Apple deems essential. Does anyone know what they are?
I checked that too, I couldnt find software that would import into the music library from iCloud either. Id be very interested if you know of one that works? I'll keep searching. Or if I wander into an extra $1000 bucks I can buy a mac soley for the purpose of getting music on my phone that I own.
Yeah, but if you take a book from a LFL, you own it. With a public library, you merely borrowed it.
I liked it! Similar to GeoGuessr. Logged in to give an upvote.
Yeah if I was forced to give up Magit, I'd definitely roll with Tig. It's well done.
When my father use to say this I used to be like I will change with time and like the stuff that current generation likes.

I try. But it's becoming harder and harder. When someone asks me my favourite TV/movie show I end up telling them something that is decade old. Something from time when I was still in college.
Ask HN: Why don't security cameras look like eyeballs that move and blink?
Wouldn't such security cameras be more likely to attract people's attention and discourage bad behavior?
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> Accredited investor rules was an example of not having a even playing field.

1. Having an income that qualifies you as an accredited investor doesn't mean that you will have access to higher quality investments.

2. Even if you don't qualify as an accredited investor, you probably still have access to the same set of investments that a capital-poor accredited investor has access to. As an accredited investor, I've never had access to an investment opportunity which I couldn't have also accessed without being an accredited investor. No one checks, and the "opportunities" are mostly not great anyways unless you have a lot of capital and connections.

The operative things that unlock unfair investment opportunities are 1. one's professional network (or family), and 2. access to large amounts of capital.

You can counter this assertion by providing a list of investments which are open to all accredited investors, do not require significant amounts of capital, and which have higher expected return with lower risk than investments that are available to non-accredited investors.

The common misconception that becoming an accredited investor suddenly gives you access to high quality investments with super high returns for low risk is one of the best justifications I've ever seen for keeping the rule in place... which is particularly funny because I'm not even an avid fan of the accredited investor rule.
Isn't that what the author is saying? The deeper problem was that the wife felt that the authors' inability to do something so simple for her sake was indicative of disrespect. Not acknowledging that your partner is worth a couple seconds of consideration is a pretty deep problem. The author probably demonstrated this disrespect in multiple ways, but the glass by the sink is a succinct way of summarizing the whole problem.
A lot of this feels 'right' and Dalio obviously has proven his investing chops, but I'm a little nervous about the rigor behind these arguments. Can't see any citations in this video - which, fine, most Youtube videos don't - but then the book also lacks citations(!)

Also find it strange that the video references how polarisation is about redistributing vs maintaining the status quo, when we've seen in recent years that both sides are talking just as much about redistributing away from elites, at least in rhetoric
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E2%8B%9A

> If the function f is differentiable and concave, then f′(x1)⋚f′(x2) as x1⋛x2. That is f′(x1) and f′(x2) have the opposite relation as x1 and x2.
Kraken is the least shitty of the actors in the space.
> This 100% reminds me of the almost cultist like extremely negative reaction to anything related to crypto on some parts of twitter.

This could as well be orchestrated by fiat enthusiasts.
type=number allows for weird exponential notations AFAIK.
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It's a nice parallel - I like that it could be both a compliment and an insult.
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Exactly. I am on the other side of this in my marriage — my wife leaves her water glass out (sometimes for days) because she “might want to use it again”. It bothered me, so I put it in the dishwasher. She didn’t like that, so I stopped doing it. And I got over the fact that there are sometimes six or seven half-full glasses around the house at any time, because I am not a petty psychotic who would take something so trivial to be representative of how my wife does or doesn’t respect me. Good lord.
That's a very nice blog post, thanks!

I'm not sure why you think HTM layers are bigger than modern DL layers. The HTM layer configuration used in the paper (B=128, M=32, N=2048, and K=40) is 335M parameters. Compare to GPT-3 with 96 layers, where each layer has 1.8B parameters. Much larger models than GPT-3 have already appeared with no end in sight as to how much more they can scale.

The point is, if HTM worked, people would throw compute resources at it, just like they do with DL models. But it doesn't.
I think they are faster on average, although a fit cyclist can go even faster.

I cycle faster than average for Copenhagen, but it takes some effort. I'm not going to bother when I can see the lights ahead are red, or if there are too many people ahead (I may well be unable to overtake safely), or I'm going to turn soon.

Some (only some!) of the e-bikes that pass me don't take this into account. It's very easy to get to 25km/h, and I think it's easy to end up paying less attention to the street as a result. (I have done this myself, when I borrowed one for a couple of weeks.)
So, violence?
That's great. I hope they can scale it up and mass-manufacture it.
I wonder where the line is for "fair use" or not?

Going a step further: even "public domain" music often gets taken down because there are commercial remixes of it. So even if Disney gets mad, somebody wanting to prevent videos from being uploaded could do that too.
Then who is "they" in this situation? You need a citation!
Would be pretty incredible if the git branch command had a vulnerability.

On the other hand, having a git aware PS1 would also immediately alert you to the fact that a user had created a top level .git folder, thereby allowing you to prevent the first cve here.
Sorry about the confusion, I meant to say "if you think prices are going up without a corresponding increase in disposable income", not "if you think prices are going up with a corresponding increase in disposable income".
High school physics and math as a major. I could scan you my scripts and papers if you're interested.....no won't. ;-D

But maybe "commonly used" was maybe the wrong term. More appropriately: "sometimes" or "by some".
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It's not a bad thing necessarily, a rolling shed would be great for hauling things around and the Element especially has an amazing cargo opening when the doors open up. I should qualify that I'm used to driving compact to midsized sedans and wagons, so most CUVs look like sheds to me, but the Element especially so.

Don't get me started on the Cybertruck though, it really does look like a pole barn.
I saw a video about that ('used up' wind power blades), honestly it sounded like anti-renewable propaganda and I'm sure the problem was hugely overstated. I'd rather have fiberglass/carbon/whatever but inert and harmless blades stored somewhere than CO2 and other shit in the air, or coal slag dumped wherever, or nuclear waste.

Just grind them down and put them in landfill or whatever, it's fine.
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In my current pension plan. If Right now everyone stopped participating, the pension is setup to be able to pay-out all currently outstanding pensions in full. There is of-course some variance in the interest rates attained, and the actuarial factors (how long people live) which mean that in reality this might not be the case. But the Dutch pension system is very much setup to _not_ be a Ponzi scheme.
Money I put in is earmarked for me. The only 'collective' situation is that if there is a shortfall some of the money earmarked for me can be used for others. But such shortfalls are rare. Especially because there is 'slack' in the system to catch a shortfall not by touching my money, but by not (fully) compensating inflation.
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https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-addre...
>I did not detected such perception, really.

Well, there was such a perception

E.g.: "How Russia Helped Swing the Election for Trump"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/01/how-russia-hel...
> is individuality in art and media now seen as a negative

I don't think an individuality was in favor more yesterday then today.

I think that today we have an exponential growth of number of ways we consume some informations, while number of good ideas grows not that fast.
People need a simple good guy vs bad guy story. Putin is the bad guy so the US/West must be the good guy. If you start talking about how the good guy is also a bad guy who illegally invades countries and commits coups with impunity then that breaks the narrative.

Atrocity Propaganda (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_propaganda) is extremely effective.

>Atrocity propaganda is the spreading of information about the crimes committed by an enemy, which can be factual, but often includes or features deliberate fabrications or exaggerations.

>"So great are the psychological resistances to war in modern nations", wrote Harold Lasswell, "that every war must appear to be a war of defense against a menacing, murderous aggressor. There must be no ambiguity about who the public is to hate."
2008 crash is a decent example of finance being rigged. Robinhood's handling of GameStop is not. They may be a pretty shit brokerage, but DTCC collateral requirements hit everybody, and they just didn't have enough money lying around to deal with that in the way a lot of customers would have wanted.
I definitely want to be effective in my work and relationships to the best of my ability. I think I'm happy to be hassled about it.

> 1. Some desire that leads you to initiate actions in the face of uncertainty.

This is what really hits home for me! I think a lot of what I hide away from is uncertainty. I don't do that essential task at work that I haven't really been asked to do because I am not sure if I can do it correctly or if it is really what is needed (even when on reflection it is blatantly obvious that it is).
Genius idea. We'd need more toasters though or we'll only be able to hold 2-4 slices!
My guess - "incorporated in NL" has some high fixed costs, whether in actual dollars or in hassles & overhead. Any FAANG can spend a $1M or ten to farm out the latter to professionals. But if you're an actual startup...
Buurtbieb - in English, roughly pronounced as b-eew-rt-beep.

It's a literal translation of "neighbourhood library", it alliterates, and it sounds cute. (Keep the "beep" part short for that).
I don't think its age or a change in media currently.

New, innovative, exciting cultural ideas come from small niche groups of people that are motivated by furthering those ideas. The further from those groups you get, the more easily-accessible, lowest common denominator, standardized and banal those ideas get.

I've found when I was young, more ideas were new to me, so I misattributed what really was standard and easy vs what was new and novel. But also, because so many ideas were new, and were new to my peers, if I did take an interest in one, I had a ready group of friends and colleagues that made finding the groups of people who truly were creating new ideas much easier.

As I age, if I haven't kept in touch with such innovative cultural groups, the ideas and media I am exposed to trends towards the standard and easily-mass-acceptible. And the fact that I have knowledge in those ideas already, makes it less likely for me to accidentally accept the mass-standardized ideas as novel.

But there absolutely are new cultural drivers out there. They just, clearly, aren't in the electronic dance music you're being exposed to. Innovative movie ideas aren't being pushed by Netflix and Disney. Etc
You could wire them up in serial to increase the voltage.
At this point, I don't know how to apply any natural photography rules to camera phone results. There is so much processing going on that it is hard to even try to do things the "old" way. From the skin softening, to the pushing of the contrast/color balance/saturation, to the correcting of content replacing a person's face with a leaf type examples, etc, I really don't want to use the damn camera at all from a purist point of view.