skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the first-order (i.e. direct) effects of suburban life. In fact, TBH, suburban life can be downright cozy--you got your own decent-sized home, a little patch of grass, maybe a patio, barbecue, deck, maybe even a garden.

That's not the issue. It's the externalities, the downstream effects, of trying to scale up suburban living to huge numbers of people.

At a small scale, a little town of a few hundred or couple thousand people, things remain walkable. There could be a corner grocery store, one gas station, a few stores clustered together in the town square, courthouse, playground, park, school, church....all nice and wonderful.

But all that disappears when you scale suburbs up to tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, then millions of people. The amount of land area gets enormous. Traffic gets enormous. It scales like O(n^2). You get bigger and bigger streets. Bigger and bigger courthouses. Bigger and bigger stores, parking lots, huge shopping malls, and everything keeps getting pushed out by the pressure of it all. It sprawls. The city tries to transform itself into something medium density, as housing prices go up. Office and commercial real estate go up. People want white collar, nice, high-paying jobs. They don't want to be plumbers and electricians and house painters, but executives and managers and have their own businesses.

But suburban sprawl really doesn't support those things very well. People get pushed miles and miles from their jobs. Traffic becomes a nightmare. The prices go off the charts. Tradespeople get pushed out. Culture takes a dive. No more walking or biking when those freeways go up.

Bad examples of sprawl are places like Houston and Los Angeles, even the Bay Area now. I spent 4 years in LA, 5 in the Bay Area. LA is truly mind-blowing. The entire basin is just one big grid of endless permutations of the same concrete jungle, here or there less dense or more dense, a few bright spots, but OMG and endless labyrinth of Stapleses, Starbuckses, McD's and strip malls...

But LA in the 1930s wasn't that. It was just a few towns here and there and some downtown. It was literally a few spots in the desert where people had little nuclei of the small-town living. It just grew without real direction and was completely powered by oil and cars.
No neural networks aee stagnant on most key NLP tasks. While there has been some advances in cool tasks, the needed tasks for NLU are potently wintered.
They did, but at least you were aware of it, besides, throttle cables breaking was far more common than them getting stuck. And typically if a throttle cable got stuck it wasn't really the cable but the butterfly valve attached to it that got stuck, usually on gunk in the throttlebody itself.
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Disclaimer so I don't sound like a troll: I figure I had what appeared to be "long COVID". I got COVID in March 2020 and within 24 hours, went from very highly cardio fit to perma-tired with what felt like half the lung capacity[1] that, long story short, lasted almost a year and required a significant amount of self-rehabilitation[2] efforts on my part to fix. I seem to be doing mostly fine now.

Now...

I try not to get into discussions about COVID with people, because it's so fraught with politics and misinformation, but when I do it seems like most people I engage with on the topic of COVID claim they have long COVID. Hell, I try not to mention my own "long COVID" experience, but when I do, people are dubious about my claims.

So, how do you quantify those who are affected versus those who've just been inactive during the pandemic and are really out of shape?

> Shifting our framing of healthcare from a source of profit, to a vital part of our national security, might not be a horrible idea either.

This. Yes. 1000%. Treat Climate Change as a national security problem, too. Because it is.

1. Fluid, apparently, because I kept coughing that up for the next 8 months or so. Eventually, it cleared.

2. Very gradual cardio starting with quarter mile walks, pathetically enough. Also, deep breathing and diaphragm exercises.
How do you try this out? Is there a free alternative you can try? I would like to make some backgrounds for a platformer game.
Suggested listening about food waste: Econtalk Rachel Laudan on Food Waste Dec 4 2017

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https://www.econtalk.org/rachel-laudan-on-food-waste/
Those three points are related. Facebook/Twitter/Et al wanted to play gatekeeper and now are becomining festering corpses, which has made the disparate online identity problem worse.

Because these platforms are gamified, they are worth gaming and gave rise to lots of fake automated content. Go search "best tablet" or "best lawnmower" for several hundreds of thousands of examples. Or look at Twitter.

Instead of any of these achieving a plaza of conversations, people are farther apart than they were to begin with.
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> As an Arduino enthusiast I see statically allocated (global?) variables are frequently the way to go for an embedded system, the frontier is to be able to prove the correctness of what you're doing.

Worth noting that 'statically allocated' and 'global' aren't the same thing. Whether they're making that distinction in the powerpoint I'm not really sure because it's more of a language specific thing and the document isn't quite that technical.

As for how you do that, in C/C++ you can add `static` to a global variable declaration to make it "local" to the file/compilation-unit it is declared in. The variable itself still works the same from within the file, but a static variable cannot be "seen" outside the file even with an `extern`, so it can only be (easily) modified from functions inside the file. Doing it this way allows you the big advantages of static allocation (in many cases the only real option) while still allowing you to encapsulate the variables within a sane API that the rest of the code uses.

Edit: Actually page 39 references this, saying that 89% of the variables are not locally scoped. There are still ways to achieve some level of encapsulation even without using `static` but it's effectiveness drops a lot since anyone can just write an `extern` line and ruin your day...
> Facebook's real name policy, Youtube's real name policy, Twitter's blue checks..

These are all opt-in verification mechanisms, likely with the main purpose of protecting the rights of influencers and other content creators so that the platforms keep making money off them.

I'm talking about a single federal government-run identity provider that obsoletes all the above schemes. That's what we need and where we are headed, whether we like it or not. It is absurd that we still rely on SSNs and home address verification in 2022.
In this case, it made it clear what was possible with the currently available technology and some focus. That certainly drove more funding into self driving vehicles, as they no longer seemed like pure science fiction.
GitHub pages seem to be about the simplest way to do this today - bringing the goodness of basic source control, simple issue management, and related.
> We have the most sophisticated data collection and logistics networks in the history of the world, and you think we just accidentally run out of a fundamental economic factor at a key moment in the natural economic cycle, and that risks mass starvation?

Absolutely.

There is no omniscient Illuminati pulling the strings for the entire planet. Just people, corporations, governments, and other corporate entities making decisions based on what they perceive to be their best interest. And all of them are limited and fallible.

Also, wars and pandemics tend to throw a wrench into the quality of planning forecasts.
I'm planning moving to Benelux. Can you tell me what is MD rate for mid spring boot/angular dev? Sorry for bothering you :)
Why are the two necessarily unrelated? Can human being just be considered to be learning via optimization, and perhaps consciousness is an emergent property of an agent with a large enough world model, or a world model that includes the agent itself?

While I don't think a majority really thinks current systems are conscious, SOTA results are absolutely astounding (check out DALL-E 2 if you haven't seen it already). Whether or not an agent is conscious doesn't really matter from a practical standpoint (but obviously a moral one) in the long run - it is intelligence that matters with these agents, and they're getting absurdly more intelligent by the half-decade
Stop trying to forcibly move the Overton window. Repeating a lie enough doesn’t make it true.
The AGI safety stuff is weird and silly. AFAICT that community is mostly filled with philosophy types anthropomorphizing ML models that they don't understand. It's a waste of time and money. But then, I feel the same way about like 80% of what NSF CISE funds and there's plenty of toxic types in academia. At least the AGI safety stuff is all private money. My whole reaction to that community is mostly "weird and not worth my time".

Timmit et al.'s reaction to the AGI/existential safety stuff is also weird. I don't even disagree, but I'm not sure why this topic in particular is such a lightening rod.
After spending time in the (German) military I translate “military grade” as “nothing special but really expensive and convoluted designed by committee”. I don’t really see why the military should have better encryption. More likely they have some stupid back doors added by clueless contractors.
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As a German who got some first / second hand accounts from children of Polish survivors and Polish survivors I disagree. The German army and other occupying forces did awful things in Poland and not just to the Jewish population. Just because the violence and killing was maybe more methodical and less unstructured like randomly raping civilians, doesn't make it any less awful. Even the initial attack that resulted in the occupation of Poland was done without regard to the lives of the civilian population.
Nice article with many points I agree with from a practical management
perspective.

There are hidden dangers to Pareto logic though. Not fully
understanding the value of the remaining 80%, and how it in turn is
distributed, can lead to suboptimal or catastrophic decisions.

One that strikes me from software engineering, IIRC Sommerville's
analysis, was that 80% of the cost of projects lies in the
"maintenance phase". However, with software each work unit breaks
down, fractally, into a "building" stage and a "sustenance"
(debugging, refactoring, integrating...) that looks like an
overhead. Modern SE kicks that can down the road so that we end up
with software that is only 20% finished (but what a wonderful 20% that
is), and 80% of problems made into deferred externalities of
downloading updates, security fixes and so on.

Another problem happens when we apply Pareto selection iteratively.
20% of 20% of 20% is less than 1%. It's easy to get carried away with
brutal rounds of optimisation.

Not understanding how the low value margins support the seemingly most
productive minority is a classic judgement error best told by
the Aesop fable of the stomach;

" One day it occurred to the Members of the Body that they were doing
all the work while the Belly had all the food. So they held a meeting
and decided to strike till the Belly consented to its proper share of
the work. For a day or two, the Hands refused to take the food, the
Mouth refused to receive it, and the Teeth had no work to do. After a
day or two the Members began to find that they themselves were in poor
condition: the Hands could hardly move, and the Mouth was parched and
dry, while the Legs were unable to support the rest. Thus even the
Belly was doing necessary work for the Body, and all must work
together or the Body will go to pieces."
> I mean, this comment is wrong. The US has some of the world most stringent food standards in the world. FDA, USDA, OSHA etc. wield immense regulatory power. Is it perfect? No. You can't sell meat at scale in the USA without the government signing off.

> It may not be up to your or mine standard, but it has proven successful at getting _quality_ meat into the mouths of millions.

The GP was maybe a little hyperbolic with "basically no food quality standards", but I don't think "regulatory agencies exist therefore you're wrong" is any better.

A lot of people would likely be alarmed at the lack of standards for cattle feed. You can't feed dead cow brains back to cows, for instance, but you can use lots of other parts of dead cows for feed for other animals, and then those animals (and their manure) can be used in feed for cows. And this distinction is almost entirely self enforced by workers whose jobs are largely only rewarded for throughput.

> Also, I would bet there aren't any cattle housed in a desert in the USA. They'd die immediately due to heat because no way anybody is paying for AC for _cattle_

You'd be wrong. There are a lot of cattle raised in the Chihuahuan Desert and surrounding arid regions, as just one example.
They need to fire their loser NFT-deluded president and let YoshiP run the company.
Staggered extraction cycles, where each round leads to a 10X increase in concentration, is one option. If you look up how D2O (heavy water, where the hydrogens are replaced by deuterium) is produced, the first step is often done that way. The initial stage is the concentration of HDO from H2O, which is naturally found at about 1 part in 3200. 400 ppm CO2 is 1 part in 2500, so it's comparable.

Proof-of-process for Starship fueling would be generating a stream of pure CO2 from air at a rate sufficient to feed into a methane production facility (which would require a similar stream of hydrogen from water processing) to produce around 500 tons of liquid methane in a reasonable amount of time. Possible?
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You mean like the IRS hiring a private shady biometric company to try and match you to a grainy drivers license photo before they canceled the whole thing due to the bureacratic nightmare hellscape it spawned?
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It's not 0.1% of global warming, it's 0.1% out of ~1/60 th of all emissions we need to eliminate.

See figures SPM.5 and SPM.7 of the "Mitigation of Climate Change" IPCC report for a picture of how much needs to be cut to reach a stable state, and how much Carbon Capture is estimated to contribute.
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Sorry, not following you here. How does 16 and 10 sharing a divisor make the mod trick fail? As long as you pick a base that doesn't match the range you're picking within, you should be good to go.

If someone asks me to "pick a random digit in [0x0, 0xF]", then I'll use base-10 as my start. 284. I have no idea which hex digit this will result in after I mod it by 16. It's 0xC, but I didn't know that going into it.

Oh, wait. I think I do see what you're getting at. I would still know if it's even or odd, because 10 and 16 share 2 as a divisor, right?
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Looks awesome! Big fan of doing UI this way, but honestly I find doing BE stuff like this too, but typically find it too difficult to read/share to do often
Can this be safely/efficiently virtualized? I love using these tools but post-spectre I could understand people being hesitant to expose more internal "state" (I.e. Technically unique to a VM but only one processor bug away from kaboom?).

Congrats on the job.
I feel you. In my extended family environment, more food is wasted than necessary. Some relatives have a habit of buying lots of food, more than they need, because they used to be poor and now that they are no longer poor the derive happiness from buying lots of things. The fridge is always full, and they'd still come home with two huge bags packed with food. Food is regularly thrown away because it has rotted in the fridge: food comes in faster than anybody can eat it.

And meals are often bigger than what everyone can finish during that meal. This is especially so when there is visit. In Chinese culture, it's not done to ask visit whether they want more food because they are not supposed to say yes. Asking is thus equivalent to signalling that you don't want to give them more food, i.e. a lack of hospitality. Thus people make more food than necessary.

That in itself isn't a problem because one could save the leftovers in the fridge. But some refuse to eat leftover food because it's not fresh, or they refuse to eat fridge leftovers that are more than 1 day old (you can save most leftovers in the fridge for 3 days if you put them in the fridge immediately after eating). Some even believe that even frozen food is considered unfresh, or has fewer nutrients or something. Others refuse to put anything in the fridge at all because they hate colder-than-room-temperature food (why reheating is a problem eludes me, but they refuse to use reheating as a solution).

All of this pains me. I hate wasting food. The result: I'm often the only one who eats the oldest leftovers, everybody else eats fresh even though there are lots of leftovers.

This doesn't just apply to food, but also energy. Some insist on turning the heat so high that they can wear tshirts indoors during winter, because that's more comfortable than wearing more clothes. Others think I'm being weird for trying so hard to drive electric-only (driving to a public charging station can be a pain compared to parking at the most convenient location).
I don't care either, just don't call it fast if it takes 4 billion CPU instructions to start drawing a black square to the screen.
You have to include disclaimers like that or else people on the web will come after you. But yeah, the hope was that it would spark some discussion on the topic.