skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't watch this at work, but as I'm subbed to Two Minute Papers, I'll definitely be watching it later. I see from the video description it's about Minerva, though, an AI I read about the other day. In my understanding, Minerva is basically a version of PaLM specifically fine-tuned to solve math and physics problems, and some of the common mistakes it makes are similar to human mistakes. To me, this raises the question: what do we mean when we say an AI is "smart" or "as smart as a human"?

If we just mean "is it as good at physics and math problems as an average high school student", then probably, yeah. But the fine-tuning means it's likely less generalizable than the base PaLM model would be, and I'd argue any AI that's truly "as smart as a human" would need to be generalizable. Because there are so many ways to measure intelligence, we'd need to account for them all to do a direct comparison to human "intelligence".

So while this is certainly impressive, to me it's less impressive than more general LLMs including the base PaLM model itself.
>Then again Romans didn’t really practice ostracism either

IIRC, the Roman historian Polybius described exilium, relegatio, Aquae et Ignis Interdictio, and more commonly Deportatio as being favored over other forms of punishment.

>Marcus Aurelius

I hope you were thinking of Antoninus Pius instead. ;)
Titan's of CNC and Haas both have great youtube channels addressing training because of exactly this.
Korean is the correct answer for world language. Revive the hangul triangle and other characters to represent sounds not present in Korea and you're good! Highly efficient. Beautiful. Calligraphy is art.
Some of them can be rewritten. If you can read it through the skin, you can rewrite the data through the skin. No idea how many times, but presumably enough to keep your name/title/email/phone up-to-date.
The ability for a single person to create a technology, digital or otherwise.
Xen Project is far being dead (there's a lot of activity in the mailing list, and now, thanks to new contributors like Vates/XCP-ng, there's also more initiatives to have a decent project tracking, see https://gitlab.com/groups/xen-project/-/epics?state=opened&p... for example).

Regarding nested virt, you are mostly right: it's only "working-ish" for basic things, but indeed, it's broken when you start to use anything heavy in your nested VM. The main reason nobody fixed it is because it's not really used: as any other open source project, you find what you need if you contribute. Obviously, as soon someone will need this and willing to contribute, it will change :)
The bullshit will wash over everything though - there are lots of people out there that are not acting in good faith (ie. Russians) and they will use your suggestion to claim status for all sorts of wickedness.
> Mostly because people didn't believe that it was possible to exploit the retpoline limitations versus the performance penalty to mitigate them.

I'm not a native speaker, but is this an acceptable written English? The part starting with "versus" seems out of place.
I opened this up fully expecting it to just be "It's a weird language without many relatives. We'll all be equally miserable learning it except those weirdo Finns. A level playing field for us all"
This sounds wonderful; I'm super supportive. But, is there anyone who can articulate the trade-offs without the snark? Are there research groups that benefited from the revenue who will now have to raise even more funds?

What's made it take so long? (Beyond just "entrenched interests...")
> My goal in doing work and writing papers is to see them disseminated. The acceptance/rejection process is asinine -- studies show it's basically random. I've had one paper in my whole career where the reviewers did a proper review (e.g. worked through the math). The rest were quick skims. Comments often show the reviewers never read the paper. The stuff that makes it through this process is often nonsense, while very high-quality work is often cut.

How come this is not fixed ?
I don't mind paying more, but DoorDash should put that upfront. Same with Uber, Lyft, and all these other services.

Show me the real amount up front. Charge me the real amount. Pay them the real amount. Deal done.

It's really not that hard. I don't mind them getting paid what they need to get paid, but it should already be baked in.
why should we allow human cloning? at some point won't we just get evil clones coming out of russia to fight the next big war? We could even alter them just enough to call them sub-human, store them in cages and teach them to shoot machine guns.
Came here to say that. From what I understand, a lot of nuclear welders retired and because very few projects happened in the past couple of decades, their expertise was not transfered. It is a shame.
If the US government is anything like the military almost everything is marked as classified, it's basically the default state.
There are shortcuts, they're just different than those you have in English. 1975 for me would be vuos seittenviis, vuos seitkytviis, or vuos tuhatysiseittenviis. And if I wanted to say in the year ____, I'd just have to change vuos to vuon. The set of shortcuts you could use when writing in the literary variety is more constrained, however.
Machine learning is coming for the examiners jobs. :P
Hmm seems like there are no significant ongoing costs for hosting a file, unlike a museum?
I am with you on fixing problems. The issue is not nurses, the doctors who run these nursing homes are culprit. They are as bad as PE guys. That's my point.
But lunations are, as far as I can see, irrelevant to 99.99% of human beings. There is no reason a modern calendar has to align with what the Moon is doing.

Why do you think a calendar should be aligned (sort of) to them?
I think you're missing the part where academics still submit to these journals and conferences just like everyone else. They just also put it on ArXiV or theri own website at the same time or sometimes before publishing in the bigger journals.

The majority of journal copyright agreements allow authors to post the article publicly if they choose.
Those were neat. I remember getting some piece of little software that came on one (pretty sure it was a driver for something).
I had an hour-long debate with coworkers about the International Fixed Calendar (Sol Calendar). There are so many benefits! I particularly like that every 1st of every month is a Sunday, every 2nd of every month is a Tuesday, etc. No more "What day or date does _____ holiday fall on _this_ year?"
> Switching to new EV cars will dump vast quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere. And it is hard to see how that does not accelerate climate change? Front loading a 60% CO2 fee and hoping to offset it over, what, 20 years?

My link, and every sensible discussion of this over the last decade has answered your rhetorical question.

The EV pays itself back in CO2 after a year. Every year after that it offsets enough CO2 to build another EV, which then can do the same.

We had this whole conversation about solar panels and wind turbines too. They also have short and shrinking CO2 paybacks. Weve passed the point where we were in carbon "debt" for these techs and are in the payback phase.
Yeah, literally he was simply right but what he did was "illegal" under unethical laws. And now he's dead.
Those Dell XPS are no better than an Intel Macbook, they're designed by people who can't put function before form and consistently screw up their hardware design enough to avoid like the plague. I'm not the least bit surprised they didn't pick the right chip for the job, two years ago it was Dell sending out emails to XPS owners warning them not to leave it asleep in a bag for risk of permanent damage...

I've tried a few Alder Lake laptops now (and daily-drive a 12700k desktop), and I don't really have any complaints about the thermals. Gaming, music production, video editing, none of it can seem to push the CPU past 40c under extended load. It's a solid chip that stands toe-to-toe with it's contemporaries, and I reckon it's going to get scarily good once Intel transitions it from 10nm++ to 5nm.
I had to work with some code from a Japanese manufacturer and translated some of the comments. I got stuck on デバドラ (debadora) for a while. It was clearly Japanized English but it took a while to realize it is "device driver".
Finally, something to give scientific discoveries back to the people that bought them.

The devaluing of teachers, public education and critical thinking has gone hand in hand with companies using these discoveries as publicly funded subsidies, turning their profits against those who made them possible in the first place.
Sure - shouldn’t we update rules based on current understating of the virus? They might help tourism a bit.
Your use of the word "petrol" makes me wonder if you are aware of the difference between US gallons and UK/imperial gallons. UK gallons are larger volume and so give a higher MPG metric for the same vehicle.

There also are not many sub-compact cars marketed in the US, and the range of engine options is usually limited compared to similar vehicles marketed in Europe and the UK. Compacts like a Civic or Corolla would be considered efficient commuter vehicles by most people here, and might get around 40 MPG (US) in highway cruising and somewhere in the 30s as a combined figure (for non-hybrids).
That and for some crazy reason my son who has had a passport since he was six months old, has to apply for his first adult passport as a brand new applicant. He has never had a lapse in holding a valid passport but since he's is now 18 he's a new person apparently.
Those commenting here how this sticks it to publishers, it doesn't.

The publishers have merely switched payer from reader to author. The same amount of money is changing hands, and possibly more.

What this does do is make it much more difficult for those groups without the means to pay $1000-$5000 in article publication charges from publishing.

Don't worry, though the federal government is on the case. Researchers will be able to request funds specifically to pay publishers to publish their articles.

The publishers are going to keep making money for doing basically nothing.
Oh come one, I obviously don’t chop the lima beans or chickpeas. I don’t peel carrots, wash and then chop in under 20 seconds per carrot literally. If I want to make them really fine I use a peeler to thinly slice them into discs (I’ve gotten very good at this, can probably do a carrot in a minute. I don’t have a mandolin slicer).
Improving the core of the power grid to prepare for the near-doubling of power demand that will occur when everyone drives EVs, and also making the grid more maintainable, more robust, and easier to fix if damaged by anything from mundane causes to EMPs.

Some thoughts:

* Equipment to allow existing runs to be upgraded to higher voltages or even HVDC while being compatible on the other side with existing equipment and grid voltages. That way existing rights of way can carry far more power over existing wires.

* Smaller more modular cheaper substation equipment that can be slotted in and rapidly replaced, eventually to replace the mega-transformers and stuff that are very hard to physically ship places. Today there are substations with equipment so unwieldy that it would be physically challenging to ship replacement equipment.

* Lower cost methods of stringing new high power transmission lines to bring distant renewable energy to cities.

* Make undersea power lines as cheap (or nearly so) as undersea fiber allowing "global supergrid" systems to share renewable energy.

* Protection equipment or techniques to reduce damage from solar storms or EMP.

The power grid is becoming more and more central and essential to human life, and we are about to drop tons more demand on it via electrification of transport and HVAC (heat pumps). Yet it seems like there's not much innovation there. Right now if everyone comes home and plugs in their car it crashes the grid in many places, and this won't do.

Batteries are hot, but they're still too expensive to back up whole cities or regions. The need for batteries can be greatly reduced if the grid can be made bigger, wider, and at least an order of magnitude more reliable.
Unfortunately It seems it's not open source anymore https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JSxBn_gxWXA
Those rectors are all end of life and EDF/France are doing a poor job at their attempt to replace them.

https://www.thelocal.fr/20191028/french-nuclear-power-plant-...
This is the comment I came to find. Thank you, dearest zasdffaa
Is that sarcasm?

If not: you can still profit from it, you just need to publish your research.
The infrastructure, chip and energy bills aren't too shabby either in terms of fueling innovation.
It's not a custom Xen: it's *is* Xen (AFAIK, with possibly their own patch queue for some specific needs on top of it). What's custom is the toolstack around it :)
I would +1 this

I think the long term best thing we can be doing is documenting the how and why of building, designing, fixing, working with etc... everything
At least you know to expect them!
Integrated Reasoning (S22) is building fast hardware for optimization problems.

We currently target AWS F1 FPGA instances, and custom ASICs are on our roadmap.

hn@ir.design

https://ycombinator.com/launches/64273

https://integrated-reasoning.com/
1) Except, they didn't form a consensus. There was plenty of disagreement, and there is still a fair amount, of what the appropriate response was, often within the same fields of medicine.

2/3) I will give you that the vaccines have undergone some testing, but do I think it is nearly enough? No. The testing period for these vaccines was far below what a standard testing period is for medical procedures humans participate in. Standard Phase 1 approval takes, on average, 10 years, and this vaccine did it in less than two. While this vaccine has appeared to be helpful, when it comes to a novel disease and drug testing, there is only so much leeway we can and should give.

4) If we were looking for immediate reactions, sure, but improper dealing with biological functions is a long-term game like cancer, not something typically observed or resolved in the short term.

5) The problem is, we didn't know that millions more were going to die without this vaccine, we made an assumption. This is a novel disease that we didn't have anything close to accurate mortality projection rates, even before the vaccine. They were all over the place and were about as accurate as the lottery numbers in a fortune cookie. Beyond that, we can't really know if this particular vaccine did actually save lives because the drop in case numbers not only corresponds with vaccine rates but also with natural infection recovery and immunity rates. And with estimates of over half the country appearing to show such a high level of immunity to the disease that they didn't even show any symptoms we really didn't know what to expect.

6) And this goes back to my original point. Maybe more people die without the vaccine, but orders of magnitude more? I find that unlikely. 600 million COVID cases in the world [0] and only 6.5 million have died in the whole world. I find it very hard to believe that waiting on a vaccine would have increased those numbers significantly.

7) The body's generative abilities only go so far. The protein development may be a minor issue, it may not. I still would like the question tested and answered.

8) Even if a stop-gap measure is better than no measure at all it should not be forced on people. Make the vaccine available? Sure. Be open and up front about the perceived strengths and flaws? Absolutely. Provide regular updates? Of course. Force people to take it (even just making it a condition of being able to work or go to school)? Absolutely not.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

EDIT: I suspect neither of us will be able to convince the other of their position, but I did want to let you know that I do appreciate the civil tone that has been kept throughout the conversation.
Onshore windfarms are a hard sell. I think the UK has great potential to expend offshore windfarms, which are a much easier sell (most people won't mind).
Mostly go whenever shell scripts are not enough.

Check out the libraries from charm (charm.sh). They really make the command line glamorous!
I think there might be conflicts where research was not only funded by the government but also companies, side by side. These "partnerships" will lose exclusivity/first mover advantage for the companies, so why should they get into that if they can just sit it out and get the results just as early as the non-paying competitors?
Even the least efficient EVs still get some charge at 120v. One of the worst offenders only gets 1 mile per kWh so that's roughly 1 mile every hour at home. Even if your inefficient EV is only plugged in for the roughly 8 hours you need to sleep, that's still 8 more miles of range when you wake up than you had before you went to bed. A lot of people like to discount that as "basically nothing", but a gas car isn't going to have 8 more miles it can drive when you wake up. It's a subtle seeming shift, but it's still a useful shift, because it adds up. 8 extra miles a night is still 56 miles a week you don't need to "fast charge", even with the most inefficient sort of EV and the least time at home.

Cars spend more time parked than in use by a great margin, even among those drivers that drive hundreds of miles every week. The US is at a disadvantage with our 120v standard and that a lot of people don't think 120v is "adequate" for EV charging ("it's only an additional mile per hour range in my inefficient EV Hummer!"), but we should normalize 120v charging because it should be easy and affordable to almost every household and a lot of shared parking. We've more than a century of experience installing "regular plugs" everywhere. We could start there and do a lot of good in the US to encourage charging everywhere a car is parked. We have to reduce the stigma that it "isn't good enough" because people can't think fourth dimensionally that 1 mile per hour is "adequate" because it is still more than the car would have had otherwise.

Dryer plugs are great, too, but we don't have as many free circuits in our fuse boxes and circuit breaker boxes as we'd all like to put extra dryer plugs in all our garages, because the US made the mistake of standardizing on 120v instead of 220/240v like most of the rest of the world. (Thanks, Edison.~) We can start with regular plugs, and need to destagmatize it/normalize it if we want cheap charging everywhere and less focus on "how do we install chargers" as if it's this deeply complicated bootstrap process. We have outlets everywhere, let's use them better. We install new outlets all the time for relatively pennies (the labor investments far dwarfs the supplies/capital investments), we can install them near every parking lot a lot cheaper than we can add 240v circuits to parking lots (or "fast chargers"). If we can start to think of it as "adequate" because it is still additive.
There was a glut of RNs, CNAs that time. Almost all CNAs want to work in a hospital; no RN/CNAs want to work in nursing homes. Nursing homes are the last choice for these people. This CNA friend, who told me about how CNAs work at nursing homes, now works for the state prison. And she makes $160K a year with overtime. And she lives in some socal desert, where this state prison is located. She was happy to get a job there, because of $100K jump in salary.
Not if vim can help
Or self-cloning? Here's a thought to give you the shivering frights: What if a someone created a self-cloning version of themselves? Humanity could be replaced by a single clone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbled_crayfish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis
How about making Github-Current actually have a good code review UX?
He has a bachelor of arts in physics. He isn't an engineer. There are actual qualifications to being an engineer and he doesn't have those. He came up from his dad's unethical mining company. His code has never been used because it "was garbage".

If elon musk is an engineer, what has he engineered that has his name on it?

Please point me in the direction that shows that elon has the certifications and education to call himself an engineer.

Musk has a lot of people fooled that he's a genius, and he even lied about having asbergers, on top of everything else he has lied about.
What population size problem? Birth rates have plummeted in all developed countries. As more countries become developed the same thing will happen. The population size problem is already solved - birth control, freedom for women, middle class lifestyles, etc.
Thank you, both for being kind and also providing a constructive feedback. "So" is very common trap for French speakers :D
> It's not fallacious. You even agree that it costs the school money.

It's not going to cost them money unless they're actually going to spend more, and they won't. Putting up one poster instead of another isn't spending more, preventing vandalism you're already preventing isn't spending more, etc.
Deploying Web Servers for Free in 2022
Speaking a common language is a good thing. This is no more difficult than a sanction on something already common like food crops.
Wake me up when I can grow a mouse from my own body and see from its eyes.

http://latenightsketches.com/detach-2.html
OSAC issued a warning in 2012, suggesting ~30k cases a year.

From Wikipedia:

> Between 1998 and 2004, 13% of emergency-room admissions for "poisoning with criminal intentions" in a clinic of Bogotá, Colombia, have been attributed to scopolamine, and 44% to benzodiazepines.[39] Most commonly, the person has been poisoned by a robber who gave the victim a scopolamine-laced beverage, in the hope that the victim would become unconscious or unable to effectively resist the robbery.[39]
Treehouse of Horror embryo
The (good) riscv cores designs that implement the spec aren't free, it's the ISA spec that is free.

There are some open source riscv cores, but the paid ones make money for a reason
That is because Asia started adding more cattle. USA and Europe are not the biggest factors here unlike other global warming sources, since the amount of meat each person can consume is limited. Convincing Americans to stop eating meat wont do much when India and Brazil has twice as much cattle as USA does and continues to add more.

You'd need to convince India to stop having so many cows, good luck with that.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cattle-livestock-count-he...
As a huge fan of Scandinavia And The World comics I agree.
Note that in that comic all characters speak, apart Finland that express himself by waving in the air a beer and a rusty knife.