skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alright, so I'm off by how many orders of magnitude then? 4? Or 20? If I'm off by 3 or 4, whatever the reason, my previous comment applies, and the amount of energy you need is still off by orders of magnitude! So how many am I wrong by?

wind power takes up surface area too. In fact, wind is just solar energy. The amount of energy you can get on earth from any source besides nuclear, fossil fuels and geothermal is hard capped by the surface area of the earths apparent disk and the inverse square law and necessarily requires environmental destruction.
Because college students have to pay tution so they cannot afford those tools.
Use a swamp cooler
It's definitely not just caused by a lack of testing. The UKHSA is reporting a huge difference in positivity rates between men and women: "More adult men were screened for orthopox virus (3,467, 80% of all tests) compared to adult woman (447, 10% of all tests) and children (173, 4%). Monkeypox positivity rate was considerably higher in adult men, 54%, compared to 2.2% in adult women and 0.6% in children." See https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/monkeypox-outbrea...
> I wasn’t suggesting that you have a conversation with LaMDA about these topics. Instead, I was saying that in order to answer the question “is LaMDA sentient?”, we might discuss these questions among ourselves.

I see. I thought the comment it was about a conversation with the model, which wouldn't have been a suitable criterion for evaluating sentience.

> What does it mean to “deliberately” pursue action?

Determinism/ free will is an interesting topic in itself. Here I meant "The model doesn't just react to input prompts, it would have a way to interact with its environment on its own accord".

> I think the more important question here is to understand how to recognize what consciousness is, rather than how it arises. It’s a difficult question.

I'm inclined to agree since that would be the more practical question, but I doubt that they are unrelated or that one could be fully answered without the other.

> I don’t think this line of reasoning is sound.

Well, I've just been speculating here. My questions and derived arguments would be:

1) Could any AI possibly ever be considered sentient? If we knew that sentience was only possible for a natural living being, we wouldn't need to worry about the issue at all.

2) If yes, how could we (as a society or judge) assess it properly by interacting with it?

While the argument "we designed LaMDA to only do XYZ, therefore it can't be sentient" makes sense from an engineering standpoint, it is a weak argument: It requires trust ("Google could lie") and if more capabilities (e.g. memory, the ability to seek interaction,..) were introduced, how would we know that sentience cannot arise from a combination of these capabilities?
I used to work for a software company providing professional services to customers. Over the years, I heard the same feature requests from customers over and over again. I came up with a solution, and now it has more than 10,000 users.
The Swiss are probably in contention.
This is a really, really good feature and I am so glad it is finally getting standardized. C23 is shaping up to be a very good revision to the C standard. I’m hoping the proposal to allow redeclaration of identical structs gets in as well as you would finally be able to write code using common types without having to coordinate which would allow interoperability between independently written libraries.
Robert, go out ASAP and start demanding with the uttermost force that """free""" education is provided to them.
Right. But, to which he would (he has) reply Twitter made false and misleading representations when the acquisition agreement on April 25th was signed.
To which Twitter ripostes 'prove it', and Musk counter riposte 'give me the actual & all the data', to which Twitter responds 'we already gave you what you need, you do not need anything else', to which Musk responds ...

So the game is going to be around, who has to provide what, and were all the requirement for the agreement true.

I am guessing.
This sounds like free energy. The desiccant absorbs water and then dries out from the heat of absorbing water?
because CS students are more likely to pursue software engineering as a career

free for education really is a marketing tool to get the students to use and depend on the product so that when they land a job they can convince their Product Manager to pay for it

this is business, not a charity
It’s often cheap blog spam “original content“ and matching cheap social media spam to increase how legitimate the blog looks … which is cheaper than ever now thanks to advances in machine learning models like GPT-3 and other current generation models. The pipeline is take a random sample of pages in the domain, take the target page -> summarise -> generate some blog spam of varying length and level of human input -> if desired based on social media analytics then generate some automated social posts about the blog article that was just added since it’s widely done by real humans with their real blogs it all looks legit.

This is how it gets done and Google used to be brutal about crushing it, somewhere along the way they seem to have given up on being so brutal.
> Largely because the production of fuel rather than electricity means you can transport it over great distances without the losses generated by heat or radiation.

I very much doubt you can get higher efficiency by going

electricity -> fuel -> pipeline -> generator

than by going

electricity -> wires ->

And even if you just use it for heating (so you skip the last part) - it wouldn't be worth it.

In particular big turbines are about 60% efficient, ICEs are about 30% efficient and electricity -> fuel conversion is even worse.
Burner account created 8 days ago? So I guess you work for redpanda?
For real HN users please read other comments below about why BSL is bad
Monkeypox declared global health emergency by WHO as cases surge
Oh, I guess you're right.
Seems the same as it was roughly when I worked there 8 years ago? I don't see what's secretive about this.
This has nothing to do with integration but rather with the goal. Comparing a 2D-only tile editor and an animation editor with a 2D/3D engine and full-IDE is nonsensical.

Might as well compare Logic Pro X with Visual Studio Code. Which one is better for editing pictures?

Call me when the tile editor starts having aspirations of being an IDE.
There are many chemical plants synthesizing chemicals in large quantities: ammonia, ethanol, etc.

Until 10 years ago, the cheapest primary fuel was all fossil fuel based, so making synthetic fuels from fossil fuels is simply a loss in efficiency.

Only in the last decade, for the first time, renewables are a cheaper form of primary energy, creating motivation for a fuel producing energy plant R&D.

BTW: instead of raging at people with your own definition of "real" and "not real" it may help to talk in terms of Technology Readiness Level as used by eg NASA.
I can see why you say electricity to synthetic fuel "isn't real" but its not "not real" in the same way perpetual motion is not real.
Understood and I agree. I always feel like it's important to stress that when those protests happened the government's response (by way of the police force) was considered well within it's right, in support of your main point.

It's a quibble but an important quibble imo.
More relevant, from the author's 1-paragraph Atlantic bio:

> From 2005 to 2009 he was the deputy assistant secretary for policy of the Department of Homeland Security, overseeing the U.S. Secret Service.

Yet he writes the article as if he had zero insight into the Secret Service. Zero knowledge of their org chart, zero knowledge of their data retention policies, zero... The only card he shows is a very idealistic letter-of-the-law notion of how it should operate.

I could theorize about why that is... Plausible theories do not seem flattering to Mr. Rosenzweig, nor The Atlantic, nor readers of The Atlantic.

> There’s nothing here related to policing presidential behavior or decisions about...

No, nothing "policing" at all, about turning over detailed records on the rather clear commission of Sedition by a sitting Republican President, to a Democrat-controlled investigation. No chance that such records might help determine who wins the 2024 Presidential election. And no chance at all that a future Republican President and/or Congress would ever do anything to punish career employees of the Secret Service, if such records were turned over.
Ask HN: How to legally protect significant technical IP when taking on cofounder
For the last while I have developed a machine learning platform that I believe is valuable. The algorithms work, and while some are public, they are mostly only exposed via recent research papers with no public implementation/trained models. All questions aside to whether that is true, I developed the platform to support ten or so startup ideas. Probably some will not work. The idea is then to set up new startups for each idea, find a non technical cofounder, and give them significant equity in that particular business vertical.

So from a legal perspective, the IP sits in a separate company, which bills the consuming company for the compute, and the startup sits in a separate entity, from which the non technical founder has equity.

Is this common? Are there other ways to think about it?

Obviously should talk to a lawyer, and yes I know ideas are cheap, but here I have already reached 90% of the technical implementation for each idea. Other caveats, I am aware startups are hard, most fail, I should focus on one, etc.
> whether dehumidification alone is enough to make them comfortable ... if most of the weather is in the 'evaporative cooling' zone shown its probably a good choice for you.

That doesn't seem right - the evaporative cooling zone includes conditions like 40C 1% humidity.

What would dehumidification alone do under those conditions?
You said iOS in the previous comment and OSX in this one, the chart has an entry for Mac OS and no seperate one for OSX, so assuming iOS is the one you're basing the claim on.

While macOS + iOS > Windows, Android outnumbers macOS, so claiming the combined macOS + iOS share means that mac is more popular than Windows is like me using that Android market share to claim that desktop Linux is more popular than MacOS.
I've interviewed at probably 15+ companies over the last decade, and none of them had language requirements or tests. Honestly I see those things as red flags. If you can find somebody with good problem solving skills and proficiency in any language, they'll be able to pick up your language no problem.
how many subscribers would it take to reach this valuation (ignoring ad revenue)

let's do napkin math

$12 / month ~ $150 / year

10x value-to-revenue calc

180B / 150 / 10 ~ 120M subscribers

Of 2.6 billion users, 120M subs ~ 5% subscription rate would alone validate this valuation
I wonder if this is that the grounds, post use, are somewhat sterilized and vulnerable to rapid colonization.
While the German train system can definitely improve, it's hard to come up with many countries that actually have a better service. France and Japan, maybe Spain? I don't know about the Netherlands and Nordics? It's still too rare to have such an extensive network.
There are free tiers of software and services everywhere. Businesses make the calculation that sponsoring university students’ use of their product will create loyal paying customers down the road, and students are both easy to identify via email domain and probably more likely than the general population to make purchasing decisions on software and services.
This is a great illustration of why appeals processes are often not taken very seriously. Generally they're used to re-litigate the issue by people who do not even consider the possibility that they may have violated policies. The insults are just the icing on the cake.

Basically, the real people involved know that appeals processes are going to be subject to vast quantities of what amounts to spam.
What are you arguing here? That twitter is good at moderation because we simply can't see it behind the scenes?

I can think of hundred different ways this could have affected someone negatively, especially if they weren't able to speak with support in native language.

So c'mon, there is no excuse for this ban to take place, and then continue to be banned after the first appeal, statistics or not.
> free for education really is a marketing tool to get the students to use and depend the product so they when they land a job they can convince their Product Manager to pay for it

lol (i was extremely guilty to this)
> Coming from web dev, I used to volunteer to dive into a Objective C repo to fix some random bug in a mobile app

The thing about this is that this isn't just a language change, this is an ecosystem change. It's one thing to go from writing Python based web apps to Ruby based ones, because web dev has a lot of concepts that will apply no matter the language. Objective C might be something you can pick up no problem, but having the learn all about mobile development and that ecosystem is a much larger task, and I could absolutely see that getting exhausting if you're hopping from web, to mobile, to desktop, to embedded, etc.

Ecosystem switching requires a lot more of a knowledge shift than just a language does, IMO.
I don't disagree that most sports are bad for the body at pro levels, but even so generally speaking they usually have implicit or explicit rules against deliberate short term damage to help you win.

The most obvious is really that while the case for rules against performance enhancing drugs is usually that they just give an unfair advantage, if you look at what's actually banned and what's not, and how natural advantages are treated, it seems pretty clear that most banned substances are also the most harmful, while others skate under regulation. Esports hasn't even reckoned with this yet afaik, even at pro levels. We'll see where we're at in 10-20 years as it mainstreams.

As you point out in the other branch, that's kind of motivated largely by PR concerns. People are mostly ok with basically anyone ruining their body slowly for a job (unless it's their own), but they balk at rapid injury. My point is really just that hypertapping potentially gets very close to this line, and that's a big part of why there was a drive to find a replacement technique or even ban it from competitive use.

Anyways, there's a lot more research into how to do high APMs with a keyboard and mouse ergonomically than there is with an NES controller, which also has a hard and shallow throw compared to either of those and a very unergonomic shape to begin with. There's a lot of reasons they aren't obviously comparable to each other when talking about the RSIs they can cause.
Dehumidification is already obligatory in AC units by the nature of how they work. When you cool air down it can’t hold as much water and so that water condenses and leaves the air. The current way that we handle this is we just let that water condense on your AC evaporator coil, then expel the cool water as waste. But it’s more efficient if your AC unit spends its time cooling air instead of water.
That shouldn’t matter. It’s the World Health Organisation. Not the UN Membership Health Organisation.

The only reason Taiwan is not a member is because of China being a bully.
“Nobody ever goes there anymore, it’s way too crowded!”

Really though, how is this an issue? A few people might not use trains anymore because they are packed full of new people? The net result is more people using trains
Come on, the Chinese already produce the majority of all components for major US infrastructure. What's the harm in giving them a little more? Heck they made John fuckin' Cena learn Chinese to apologize to Xi for saying he supports democracy. China won.
I don't like to criticize things I get for free.
It being possible to misuse a tool does not mean the tool is not very useful.
You are noticing a change in relative humidity even tho the cooling did not change the absolute humidity
Because it is far and away the most feature complete, polished, and stable DE that exists in the Linux ecosystem. It requires zero learning curve, has an app suite that isn’t riddled with bugs, everything for the desktop user can be done in the GUI.

Like there is no alternative that does what GNOME does. It’s GNOME and forks of GNOME, a chasm, then KDE, another chasm, and then the DIY DEs/WMs dejour.
Lots of coffee shops think that tannic, acidic coffee is good coffee.

For those in the bay area, Red Rock in Mountain View has this issue with their brewed coffee. It's often downright sour.
Those who can't, will criticise and attempt to bring others down to their level. Their lack of worth is a disease they have to spread.
Please see my above comment for why it is wildly incorrect to describe the removal of features as "user-hostile": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32205125

In general, going to developers with a list of demands for patches to revert is not going to be helpful, it is much more likely that behavior is seen as hostile, coming from a user. It would be more useful to ask them why they have removed those features, figure out what their goal is, and then discuss it so you can reach consensus.

>because the devs are hostile to APIs that would allow such functionality

This one is blatantly incorrect, see this twitter thread from a GNOME developer: https://twitter.com/tobias_bernard/status/145743855381055898...
Once I had my WM running I had to clobber together lots of different pieces together (with scripts and whatnot) to get the remaining desktop functionality. For example:

1. Laptop screen brightness
2. Wifi setup
3. Application launcher
4. External monitor/projector configurations for presentations

etc.

Some people might argue this part of the unix principle to have separate tools that do one job well but frankly I don't care about the unix principle as long-time emacs user (the anti-thesis of unix). The end result was a frankenstein thing: random tools glued together to emulate a basic desktop experience.
It's a very short sighted excuse to use for not building transit. Sure if you don't have a land-use plan, but then why build the transit in the first place. These things always go hand-in-hand; many towns started as a train station.
My layperson's understanding is also that if this were happening, we should have noticed it by now. The communities where monkeypox are blowing up all have gyms with a lot of gay customers, and if it was easy to spread we would have noticed more straight or celibate gym-goers in those areas getting infected. That said, the limited testing infrastructure and the questions screening people before they even get tested might stop us from confirming such cases?

I _am_ annoyed that the guidance on how it spreads keeps getting broadened. Initially it was supposed to be fluids or skin-to-skin contact ("ok, easy, no cuddling with active rashes for now").

Now the guidance says it can be carried on cloth (e.g. linens). But really, the virus doesn't know that much about what surface it's on, right? And indeed the CDC public-facing guidance does say that it can spread from "shared surfaces, and objects, such as bedding, towels, and sex toys, that were used by a person with monkeypox", but only under a collapsible heading "Can I get monkeypox from having sex?" I.e. they recognize that surfaces can carry it, but perhaps there needs to be a lot of contact with the surface in question. But if, for example, I'm unaware I'm infected but I lie on a pool-side lounge chair which someone else then uses ... couldn't that be comparable shared contact as a bedsheet? Is that so far off from contact with a bench at the gym?

Slightly more concerning is:

> "It also can be spread by respiratory secretions during prolonged, face-to-face contact"

The same page includes "talking closely" as a form of "intimate contact". So it does sound like it can be spread by airborne particles but perhaps less easily than the other viruses we've all been dealing with. If there are a few treadmills in small, not especially well ventilated room, at what point do two people running there share respiratory particles which are comparable to prolonged face-to-face contact?

https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/faq.html
Well, on it's own it's not viable at all, the federal government paid for it to the tune of about 2.5 billion EUR. Money well spent, if you ask me.
For those who'd like to see similar techniques in action, a popular Youtuber recently made an iron arrowhead using iron age(?) metallurgical techniques [0].

He gathers water containing iron-oxidizing bacteria, he extracts the ore using a sieve, he then smelts the ore with a handmade blast furnace and charcoal he made himself. He then separates prills from the slag and forges them into a knife with a clay mold and said blast furnace. After all that, he has the worlds worst and knife.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhW4XFGQB4o
> That's not something to be proud of.

Its learning from old mistakes.

Look at embed as an example. Look how complex it is, dealing with empty files, different ways of opening files, files without lengths, null termination... the list goes on. This is typical of a proposal for C, it starts out simple "why cant i just embed a file in to my code?" and then it gets complicated because the world is complicated.

I worry a lot about people loading in text files and forgetting to add null termination to embeds. I would not be surprised if in a few years that provides a big headline on Hacker news, about how that shot someone in the foot and how C isn't to be trusted. The details matter.
That's a horrible advice.

Knowing a language is helping you read/write the code in a good quality.
Knowing the ecosystem and solutions in this language is your sellingpoint.
Take any language and tell me one can be productive in no time without knowing the ecosystem around it.
The vaccine trials didn't measure hospitalization or serious illness. They didn't even show impact against mortality. Go read the trial reports! The only endpoint they cared about was PCR positivity, and they claimed it led to >90% reduction in infection.

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

"Vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first interim efficacy analysis"

It's totally insane how in recent months some people have started trying to rewrite the history of the vaccines here. This is like the fourth time or so I've seen that claim on HN in about as many days. Do you people really think this will work? The events in question took place last year, not a century ago. Rewriting the historical record isn't going to be that easy.
Evaporative cooling is where you blow a fan through a wet filter, which cools the air. Works in very arid places; it humidifies the air.
Agreed. Spain is leading the world here. It's frankly embarrassing
given our population density, love or railways and history (inventing
them), we have "Railtrack" plus a dozen foreign-owned totally rubbish
train companies. We are more concerned with ticket barriers, CCTV
cameras and Orwellian tracking of passengers than getting people from
A to B so the economy can prosper with the smallest environmental
harm.
I don't know Canada's nitrogen/carbon output offhand but I am certain it is less than India or China.
Here is an answer that includes a few examples systems from comp.lang.c

https://c-faq.com/null/machexamp.html