skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming that the scaling hypothesis keeps working, GATO could probably achieve human-level performance. It was artificially constrained in size to be able to run in realtime on a robotics platform, but human-level intelligence doesn't require human-level latency even for robotics; most robotic tasks can happen slower (up to 3X slower if directly competing with an 8 hour human workday). Whenever novel domains need to be trained they can be mapped to the existing tokens GATO uses and the model fine-tuned on examples from the domain, and a scaled version of GATO would probably have audio, visual, and kinesthetic tokens along with textual and motor control so it wouldn't require a new architecture for every new domain.

At some scale I expect that a fine-tuned GATO-style agent would acquire the ability to be successfully text-prompted in novel domains (no longer requiring fine-tuning), which would allow autonomous operation.

I fail to see a step along the way that isn't solved by Moore's Law (or an all-in investment by large companies).
I would give up these modern improvements in return for my attention span.
> Why did you leave out the "For example" preceding that sentence in my comment? Leaving "For example" out completely changes the meaning of my comment.

I interpreted your use of "for example" as indicating that what followed was a specific claim that backed up the more general claim in the previous sentence? I didn't include it in my quote, because I was responding to your two claims separately. While it's still not clear to me how you see it changing the meaning of your comment, I've edited mine now to include it.
That‘s simply not correct. Instead of founding as a GmbH you can start with an UG. A UG is legally virtually the same thing as a GmbH and you only need 1€ Stammkapital.

Once you start generating money with it, you can transform it to a GmbH. The only thing you achieve by that is displaying that your business is at least backed by 25k€.

In addition to that, you could also just start your business as a GbR. Funding this can be done completely for free (without needing any lawyers, paying fees etc.). As a GbR you‘re personally liable as a founder but when starting small that usually isn‘t a problem.

Founding in Germany kind of sucks, but for many different reasons.
Nowhere near the same volume. Not the least because the infrastructure to transport this oil in volume aren’t there.

I don’t think sanctions will make Russia stop the war, the only thing that will is a large enough flow of dead soldiers coming back home. But it will impact its ability to finance this war, its military capabilities (replace hardware), and potentially (though not clear to me), create opinion backlash in Russia.
the results don't look right here https://ibb.co/4TMvcnQ
I can't answer, it's been years since I played something more complex than CoD (and even then it's due to younger siblings insisting).

To me the most overloading part is the pacing and degrees of freedom. Everything is moving everywhere, yet somehow they manage to feel at home and instinctively act clean while I struggle to pursue the basics. I guess it's just young brains being too good at sipping whatever is required to play, while we're having to fit our legacy views and needs.
I worry about extreme conditions like this. They have a historical effect of radicalizing the locals.
https://www.quora.com/What-do-Chinese-citizens-particularly-...
Just those in the USA because we deal with healthcare data.
Reminds me of Xitami on Windows 95 ... I wonder if that project is still around
Not true anymore:

> We invest in US, Cayman, Singapore, and Canada corporations. We have founders who apply to YC from all around the world and many have already incorporated in their home countries.

https://www.ycombinator.com/deal

I am currently trying to figure out what the best jurisdiction for an international team actually is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31620700
Big big nope. Argentina is in hyperinflation mode for over 30 years. It didn’t implode.

Economists don’t know everything. Their analyses are too mechanical.
I did it with a GmbH. You can always merge it with you as solo-entrepreneur. You need a balance sheet (don't ask me about the time limits, there was a Covid exception when I did it), a notary for paper work and of you go. Fast, easy and painless. Needs some additional paper work if there a more than one share holders. There are some loss carry forward limits and liability aspects to consider, the act itslef is quite easy so.
I think you can mitigate this by deleting your CA key after signing a certificate for localhost. Sure, that means you can't sign new certificates, but that's not a big deal as you can just replace the CA on your desktop when the time comes.
Oh, yes, this is Panic's game system.

I didn't follow that the project had made so much progress. Damn, it looks insanely cool. A black & white screen is quite limiting for games, though.

Zig looks like a perfect language for such a platform.
There are lots of good ones on Apple Arcade, if that’s an option for you.
About 10 or 15 years ago, OracleDB was years and years ahead of other databases. They had better replication, they had a better query optimizer, they had better storage management. OracleDB was the big thing you wanted in a business for a reason.

However, by now, MariaDB and especially PostgreSQL have caught up so much that this edge is gone and it feels like they are just siphoning money from companies who have invested in their big oracle cluster years ago. I do veto any new oracle-first or oracle-only development at work.
Vote here for Haskell, which receives great hate on HN because it allows essentially unlimited abstraction.

Meanwhile it has one of the fastest concurrent+GC runtimes, obliterating Ocaml in this regard, and competing handily with JVM or CLR langs.

Finally, it has standard abstractions for concurrency and parallelism that are basically flawless.

Clearly, the hate comes from the association of Haskell with category theory, which is frankly useless/borderline harmful to the working Haskell programmer.

CT was critical to core library devs being able to deliver the main workaday abstractions that make Haskell such an unreasonably productive app languages. But since 2012 you can simply use these main abstractions and enjoy a level of safety and maintainability that rust, c++, ocaml, kotlin, java can't touch.

It's not perfect, but there's been huge improvements of late to tooling (cabal) so there's never been a better time. I really wish the tide could turn, because if you're willing to take on rust for low-level, you're missing out if you don't try haskell for everything else server-side.
It’s not surprising to me that someone who very clearly hates Spotify for ideological reasons doesn’t have a good experience when using it.

Spotify is amazing for discovery, they’re holding it wrong.
Cars have used 10% ethanol for decades and engine reliability has only gotten better.
Replica of Hong Kong’s “Pillar of Shame” Unveiled in Norway
Hopefully this is just like the Ubuntu "switch" to avconv instead of ffmpeg. A stupid mistake quickly fixed in the next release. avconv and gnome-text-editor might be "cleaner" and mesh better with modern GNOME's copied Apple design principles but they can't do the same tasks easily so they're not real replacements.

Nothing GNOME has done since 2014 has improved gtk or their desktop environment (except for high dpi support). It's all been downhill.
ding ding ding

But then again, maybe the purpose is to swamp the input, maybe for testing, so the more the better, so, you never know and it's wrong to decide what all users don't need.
I think you can turn off that expand-on-hover popup in the YouTube settings. I found it super annoying and I was surprised it was even an option.
In zero gravity, too
I think this is looking at the head tilt. Not eye contact or the position of the head. The example photo on the site illustrates the concept. The woman is clearly making eye contact in all three photos, but her head is tilted up and level in the first two. The impression given in the first is a haughty contempt. The third photo is one who you might want to converse or even have a drink with. It's a total attitude shift.
I know little about finance, but this seems pretty clever. Actions like this can definitely give some insight into how their leadership operates (at least the leadership at the time of the action —- can’t pin that on the team who comes in 15 years into a 20 year agreement)
A similar concept is used widely in glibc under the name “__wur” (shorthand for __attribute__((warn_unused_result))).

https://github.com/bminor/glibc/search?q=__wur&type=
I've already mentioned this on the other thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31569646), but my friend and I have been working on https://www.codeatlas.dev as a sideproject - it's a tool for creating pretty (2D!) visualisations of codebases, while providing additional insights via overlays (e.g. commit density, programming language or other results from static analysis like dead code/test coverage/etc.). For example here's the Kubernetes codebase visualised using codeatlas: https://www.codeatlas.dev/repo/kubernetes/kubernetes

At the moment, codeatlas is just the static gallery, but we're only a few weekends away from releasing a Github action that deploys this diagram on github pages for your own repos - if you're interested, feel free to watch this repo: https://github.com/codeatlasHQ/codebase-visualizer-action

OP, how close is this to what you had in mind in your question?

EDIT: fixed broken links :o
Suppose someone purchased USDT with TRY in June 2021, and sold that USDT for TRY today, he would have doubled his TRY and effectively offset 100% inflation.
Thanks for encouraging me to read more about the training my workplace required me to do. Based on what I've read, seems like there's no measurable change in people's long term behavior when given unbiasing training (sad...), but it doesn't change that you can in fact measure peoples' implicit associations (unconcious biases).
I’ve found the combination of Apple Music and a nice script to quickly import stuff from bandcamp to navidrome has all my needs met. Music discovery? Talking to people and going to gigs has me covered.

Anything I like I can easily access in ALAC on any device from anywhere in the world.
> That's true. Crypto has zero value because it has no utility.

So is that why Stripe, Moneygram, Skiff, Namecheap, TransferGo, Porkbun, FIDE World Chess, etc are still using cryptocurrencies or blockchain? Maybe they chose the ones that are useful and ignored the low effort scam tokens?

I don't think very absolute statements work well these days.
Nginx Access and Error Logs
> The "blending" of corn with gas

It isn't 'corn' - it's ethyl alcohol. It's C2H6O no matter how it was produced. All fossil fuels come from organic matter. You're making it sound silly by calling it corn but not actually making any useful point.
If you actually think so, then have you considered moving to Russia yet?
> If you want to avoid tax problems, and problems around social security, you would need a local legal entity in every country you have employees.

My understanding is that we could work around this issue by using https://www.letsdeel.com/ or https://remote.com/?
That’s exactly what the UG (haftungsbeschränkt) does, you can set one up with (theoretically) 1€ (though in practice it’s more like 250€), and you then have a GmbH with lower liability
Ethics is a very slippery issue and Dr Hossenfelder is very intelligent.

I say that ethics is a slippery issue in the sense that we as human beings, given the right societal pressure and clever reasoning, can be made to believe moral claims in a way that we can't be made arbitrarily to believe assertions related to, say, mathematics and the physical universe.

A whole generation of highly educated Germans were led to believe that sending Jews to internment camps was the right thing to do. (I will stipulate for the sake of argument that this same public was not aware that the Jews were actually being murdered.)

How hard might it be to convince someone who believes in late-term abortion that killing infants is morally acceptable? How hard might it be to convince someone who believes that an 11-year-old child should be allowed to determine whether he or she will undergo sex reassignment surgery should also be allowed to determine if he or she will have sex with an adult?
Is the west’s [silent] support of Yemen’s slaughter any different? That’s a travesty just as much as Ukraine.

To be clear, I don’t agree we shouldn’t sanction Russia. EU should remove its dependence on Russia since Putin doesn’t seem to be going any where and if he does, we don’t know what that means
Learned this the hard way with my zeroturn mower this spring. Left a bit in the tank. Gummed everything up. Had to take an air compressor to all fuel lines and clean the carburator.

Reasonably priced well built electric tractors and zero turns can't come soon enough.
Why would you want information that has no value in the discussion?
Can one of the richest men in the world stand up to the SEC?
I have always wondered about the economics of these massive marketing campaigns. Take crypto.com for example:

> Crypto.com buying the naming rights to the L.A. Lakers’ home arena for $700 million

I guess they hope people see the stadium name and go use their site, right? crypto.com makes their money from trading fees. Let's take their most expensive fee of 0.4%[1]. $700M ÷ 0.4% = $175B. They would need to do $175 billion in trading volume just to make their money back. That's not happening any time soon. Do these companies even care about ROI?

[1]: https://crypto.com/exchange/document/fees-limits
Oh wow, thanks for the post here, hasheddan! Just an FYI for everyone, I had heard people were interested in writing Zig for the Playdate, so I put out some code I have for a game I've been developing on Twitch.

I do plan on having a more complete template in a proper Github repo at some point in the future when the code is more complete. When that is finished I'll post it on my Twitter @dbokser91. Feel free to reach out if anyone has questions about this code!
Agreed, took about 14 months and multiple visits in person to a notary for me.
> however recently Valve stopped any communication (besides that tweet) so they just allowed downloads again [2].

It's important to note that the modders reached out to Valve about their lack of communication (after six months of silence according to the modders), and how they would reenable downloads, back in March, so Valve had plenty of time to respond.
I'm not sure this would fly well for Germany.

Generally, in most European countries, if you're resident in one country and open a company in another one (and start paying corporate tax there) you need to prove there's a valid reason to have the company there.

It can be hiring people there, having a director there, having an office, having your board meeting there.

Otherwise the company where you reside can argue that your foreign company is actually done to avoid paying taxes in the country you reside and ask you to pay corporate tax rate as you would in your country of residence.

Maybe having shareholders (Y-comb) is proof enough you can claim to be a Delaware company - but for small German businesses I don't think it's as simple.

Happy to be corrected.
Useless encryption is the same as no encryption.
If you put the key next to the lock, it's nit locked.

It's an abuse of language to call that encryption because if you say encryption you imply security.
But this is not secure and if it's not secure encryption is useless because security is the reason for encryption.
Encryption is not used for the sake of encryption but to protect the content of a message from unwanted access.
I loved Lisbon and have contemplated moving to Portugal. Don't know how challenging it is for an American to migrate there. Have romantic notions of a garden+bakery. :)
There is a much shorter tradition of Ubuntu using dumb names like this, which are descriptive yes, but also too generic.

"Vi" is not "just naming the editor what it is", it's a relatively distinct short name that doesn't actually mean anything unless you know the reason for the name (which I did not for years after being introduced to it).

At some point recently, Ubuntu stopped using "nautilus" as the name of the file manager, and now it's just called "files". Except, wait, that's some kind of alias, so the process name is still nautilus after you start it. If you don't know the relationship between the GUI name alias, and the literal process name, how are you supposed to figure it out? How are you supposed to search for info or help about "files"? It's too generic.
This might be controversial, but I don’t think we should be using food as fuel for our vehicles.
Thomas Was Alone and To The Moon. Both absolute masterpieces.
The Carbon Offset Problem [video]
Meta-materials? Nano-bot assembly? Astroid mining?

I don't see why it can't be cheap and small eventually.
I’m in Turkey currently and I do not see crypto exchanges on every corner.
Edit: Reading again, they specify that the randomly sampled companies are NFL stadiums, but I still wonder why Staples Center was skipped in the section that talks about qualcomm/target
This classic rears its head again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

The Nazi thing in Ukraine is just tired and old, especially since Russia has active ranks of Nazis (like the Wagner Group) that they send abroad. If the Nazi factions justify exterminating civilians in Ukraine, then for consistency's sake, the same could be said of extermination of Russians. (I support exterminating nobody)

America is wrong to start wars. Most people (especially outside of America) agree with that. That doesn't mean Russia gets a free pass to actively threaten Europe and commit genocide, and no amount of paragraphs will change that.
Well that does explain it, while begging more questions! Ta
Sure. These are two different things. Liability protection and, let’s call it social acceptance. OP article suggests a UG as your personal holding company, which then owns the shares in the actual outward facing entity. That UG, I think, could be replaced by an Ltd. it’s easier and cheaper to set up, and insulates you against personal liability just as well as a UG or even a GmbH would.
My daughter has really taken to (child-appropriate) graphic novels. More engaging as she's learning to read than just pages of text. If you have a barnes and nobles nearby, they have a whole section just of kids graphic novels now. Way better than when I was a kid.
How many piplines do we (EU) have from other countries that will provide us oil, after we totally stop importing it from russia? Won't the price hike hurt us too, possible even more than russia?
On GitHub as a Social Network
Norway to track all supermarket purchases?
Damn, I was about to write this
Rising prices are bad for all but the most wealthy

* It’s bad for people who don’t own a house, which disproportionately impacts the poor and the young.

* It doesn’t really help homeowners either: their property taxes go up but the increased land value will just be spent on the increased cost of a new property if they move nearby.

* So the only way to realise increased land value is to move outside the local market. This turnover reduces the community of a neighbourhood, and creates pockets of dull old homogeneous people with no shared history.

* The only real way to benefit from rising prices is to invest in property, further concentrating wealth among the wealthy.

* Treating one of society’s most important assets as an investment has a ton of negative side effects, like poor utilisation due to land banking, cheaply finished low quality buildings rather than ones that vest serve their occupants, evictions, further increased community turnover.

* It’s a self perpetuating cycle, as the wealthy investors vote, lobby, and just straight up are politicians.
As stated in another commebt, you can merge a GmbH with yourself. Sure, it costs money but is quite simple, fast and straight forward. I have no idea why start-up entrepreneurs fail at stuff your Döner shop or local garage succeed. Or tire change shop is part of a small local chain, every site is it's own GmbH. Just saying...
> are we really stopping the conflict by eg. banning import of russian oil?

I wouldn’t know.

But I can say the fungibility (or not) of oil is necessarily equivalent for both importers and exporters.

Consider the implications if it were trivial to change markets: Russia losing X units of exports per year to the EU and increasing exports to China and India by a total of X, means China and India are buying X fewer units from not-Russia, which means the EU could buy X more units on the everyone-else marketplace.
I don't consider VR Chat to be part of the "metaverse." I only consider Facebook's (as yet mostly nonexistent) VR hype fantasy the "metaverse" since they appropriated the term for marketing purposes, and it wasn't a part of common parlance for anyone except maybe fans of Snow Crash until Facebook started pushing it. Now Facebook owns the term and it's dead to me.

And yes, I also refuse to call them Meta.
Make Games – Finishing a Game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen#Special_Economic_Zone...
is a mostly unencrypted … of course it's going to cooperate if local law enforcement comes knocking on their door with a warrant

I don’t see how these are connected. All messengers will hand over all metadata they have to comply. The chatgroups in focus themselves are mostly public groups, you don’t have to play james bond to read what’s there. LEAs are arriving to the scene from that vector, not the other way round. “The NGO CeMAS monitors 3,000 German-language channels & groups for "disinformation, antisemitism, and right-wing extremism." - it’s literally in the tweet, man.

Metadata logging is unrelated to encryption, not sure what’s the sensation is without comparing what messengers will actually have on hands in case of a warrant, minus publicly accessible info.
You can find embarrassing far right extremists and parties in every country these days. Ukraine is hardly a new nazi Germany.
It’s because people are bad at reasoning. You don’t ban Autopilot for being imperfect, you ban it if it’s less safe than the average driver. However, Tesla’s crash rate is on the order of 10x better than the US average—assuming that carries over to the fatality rate pretty linearly, it would mean we could save 36k of the 40k lives lost each year to traffic fatalities if Autopilot were ubiquitous and mandatory. The idea that we should just sacrifice thousands of people until Autopilot is flawless is abhorrent and foolish.
>If you never make any profit

Sure but then that's not really anyone's goal starting a company in Germany. So ultimately you will have to deal with this issues if you don't fancy being homeless.
To play EA's advocate: if you assume that donating the kidney will "save" a life, then if you had 4,000 kidneys, you could, on average, sacrifice yourself to "save" 4,000 lives. Of course you don't have 4,000 kidneys, but the intuition is that the decision is the same whether you're sacrificing 1/4,000th of your life to save one person, or your whole life to save 4,000.

However, I agree with your point that this isn't really "saving" a life as much as "extending" or "delaying the inevitable". In terms of QALYs (Quality-Adjusted Life Years), the benefit may be much smaller while the risk remains the same. And I especially agree with your conclusion in the last sentence.
yeah it seems like a spun narrative, curious what actually happened
I prefer Asus Zenbook or dell xps
Second Fez, such a good game!
I suppose then you're a proponent of photographing all famous works of art and displaying them on a webpage somewhere, because if the painting is worth looking at, the medium shouldn't matter at all, right?

I guess going to a museum to view artwork is an incredibly shallow experience for you?