skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The moon is very far away!

For every foot your girlfriend climbs, she would need to do 1km to get to the moon in a year... Although in space you wouldnt be fighting gravity.
Brenner touches in this in a recent paper:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016749432...

> Second, animal gene sets evolved to allow individuals to acquire food, avoid predation, find mates and successfully reproduce. Long-lived species like humans also provide a substantial investment in caretaking of offspring until they can obtain food, avoid predation and reproduce for themselves. The advantages conferred to youth by parents mean that genetic selections for parental health are extant in caretaking species. Such genetic selections for post-reproductive health are not extant in non-caretaking species (Brenner, 2022a).

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> Think of it this way: if foxes can reproduce at 6 months, what genetic selections are present for them to live for six years? The ones that live for 6 years might reasonably produce 6 times as many offspring as those who perish in a year but those who die in a year would still contribute to the gene pool so long as they are successful at reproducing. Indeed, experiments done in flies that were selected for the ability to reproduce late in life suggest that hundreds or thousands of genes, not single dominantly acting genes, are modified to allow every organ system to function better over time in the resulting long-lived flies (Burke et al., 2010). However, animals in the wild are under little to no direct genetic selection for longevity beyond that to produce reproductive success.

Personally, my guess is that long lifespans are a tradeoff with reproductive age fitness. Also, it seems there are diminishing returns for longer lifespans and the benefits of knowledge transfer from post-reproductive age individuals.
https://twitter.com/waDNR/status/1575541070427193350

> Our derelict vessel crews are begging you to understand that anything that “serves briefly as a boat” should not be used as a boat
William Faulkner:

"Ernest Hemingway: he has no courage, has never crawled out on a limb. He has never been known to use a word that might cause the reader to check with a dictionary to see if it is properly used."

Ernest Hemingway:

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use."
For a more authentic experience, you can breathe through a straw for the last 1k and put bags of ice on your hands and feet. ;)
It’s far from perfect, but this is probably the best proposal I’ve ever heard except the federal agencies would need to be more broken up.
There's a lot of comments in here about the video being age restricted because of the cursing, but the real story here is the inconsistency in YouTube's moderation. SummoningSalt's video has one section where there's 6 f-bombs dropped in 3 seconds, which is what YouTube explicitly called out the second time the video was age-restricted. But the video was reinstated the first time: why did they reinstate it and then change their mind later? Furthermore, despite the density of cursing in that one segment, overall the video has less curse density than other comparable videos. Why is SummoningSalt's video age-restricted but not videos from the Angry Video Game Nerd, whose whole schtick is heavy use of profanity? Is the issue really just the use of so many curse words in such a short amount of time? That seems to be a really weird rule to have
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Image generation models didn't improve. Someone figured out how to use them to do something new.

Anyway models have been improving for a long time but when was the last time you saw a news item about the progress in machine translation? That was probably around 2016-17 when the hype cycle for neural machine translation was at its apex. You don't hear anything more about it in the news because the hype cycle has now dipped to its bottom-most pit of indifference and the hype about being able to speak to a machine and communicate with any human on the planet in their native language has been replaced with, for example, the hype about being able to generate human-like art.

My point being, just because performance increased in the past in one particular task, it doesn't mean that it will improve in all other tasks, or, indeed, that it will keep improving in the same task. For all we know what we've seen so far of image generation is all we'll get for the next ten years or so.

I don't have a crystal ball, but I do have history books, so I don't make predictions. We can't even speak about the past with confidence, let alone the future.
And fission
There's a great true story 'bout plain paper copying. Halide Xerox announced in ads that their new product would be able to copy on just paper (not chemically treated paper.) The US govt flatly disbelieved them and sent them a cease and desist such claims letter. Halide copied that letter onto a torn up lunchbag and sent the govt agency the copy. There was no response, and no further trouble from the agency. A transcendental argument (term from philosophy) in real life.
As far as I know the best we can do is PEM electrolysis with about 80% efficiency, but as you say, efficiency is not very important.
Rappers snitching on themselves through their music has been a widely known and parodied phenomenon since the year 2004 at least. Just last year there was an LA rapper "Nuke Bizzle" who hilariously rapped about his Covid-19 welfare scam and got caught. It has gotten so bad that rappers are trying to argue that confessing to a crime shouldnt count if you do it through a rap song.

These rich and successful rappers shouldn't be supporting the governor of California because this is only making them look bad. They should tell these new rappers "use the 5th ammendment"
So were people.
> If it makes you feel any better, HTTP without HTTPS was a mistake we all made together. It should never have happened.

Given that http predates SSL 1.0 by a few years, somewhat inevitable.
Upscaling with a neural network resizer such as Topaz Gigapixel Ai dramatically improves the usability of the art. On1 also has a resizer that might be a good less-expensive choice.
It secretly collects data (spies), so it is spyware. Which part do you not get?
What qualifies as household?

My nuclear family shares a netflix account, stemming from years and years ago (when Netflix was mail delivery dvds) and we were all under the same roof. In the years since us kids have grown and moved out, yet we still share the same Netflix account and use it to stream.
Can you put into words what makes it special without spoiling anything? I played to the first boss. Found zero interesting. Stopped playing. Up to that point it was just generic "game". Walk a character around, shoot stuff, repeat.
The Tesla Robot was underwhelming. I appreciate the engineers on stage highlighting their work, but it all felt a generation behind Boston Dynamic’s efforts.
>The folks working at Stadia should have seen the writing on the wall.

I'm not sure that's fair.

From not quite three weeks ago, on 9to5google regarding Stadia: "it’s really not normal for Google to “kill” products unless there’s some form of replacement, despite what the meme says"
https://archive.ph/QyBVJ
The problem is that we don't have another forty years to wait for nuclear costs to come down if we want to prevent catastrophic warming.
> This genuinely happens a lot in the 2020s.

Sceptical of that claim, can you provide a few documented cases?

Particularly for low-volume sites like the parent post.
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In Seattle, they paint bike lanes everywhere. The craziest ones are the ones that Kriss-Kross the car lanes, like those slot car tracks where the cars swap lanes"

Same in the Netherlands, not all bicycle and stoplights are equal
It’s one thing to suggest self censorship, but what about the other concerns in the article? Like how the manual review cleared it, then it got flagged again later? Or how the video will never recover from the hit taken from the recommendation algorithm? Or that YouTube is notoriously bad about informing uploaders of troublesome content with specificity? Let alone how bad they are about applying poorly written and nebulous standards.

This is more than a one dimensional “just don’t have any curse words or non family friendly content in your videos because it’s entirely your own fault if YouTube flags it capriciously ” kind of issue.
Video and article are written as though this was the first time that issues concerning moderation and inconsistent applications of the rules have surfaced, which is absurd. Also odd to want to die on the hill of replaying a video game streamer's saying the f-word in reaction to the game. It is hard to think of anything more insignificant.
is it really though?

I was actually doing something, was a bit curious, spent 30 seconds on it and thought "well this looks like a waste of time" and then scrolled through to see the comments and now I'm bouncing and going back to what I was doing.

The people better than me wouldn't have even done that.

The best and the brightest are busy doing stuff. Why would they even come in contact with stuff like this?
You do, although it's still unclear how much storage you'll need to add. On the other hand, while you can't turn PV plants on at night, you can't turn conventional nuclear plants off, and so to go all nuclear you need some form of load following: either gas peakers, or PV that carries a higher load during the day, or storage, or giant resistor banks.

Evidently naval reactors are a lot better at this, though.
If the only companies that used the H-1B program were the ones that abuse it, then that's what would happen. But since there are some companies that do have a legitimate need for talent they can't find domestically at all, wouldn't they end up pushing the price well beyond that to outbid the abusers?
A correction on terminology might prove enlightening. The US citizens working for the CIA are “spies”, handlers, or agents. Anyone who works for them, eg provides information, is an asset. They're not an employee, advisor, or “spy.” Theyre an asset to be used to the benefit of the United States as long as theyre useful.

That said your point on trust and incentive doesnt hold up to history. Being an asset and providing information to another country almost always ends in prison, or death, or best case exile. The material rewards are laughably small, thousands of dollars typically. And yet agents, of all nations, are good at their job and consistently succeed in recruiting new assets.
It's not for everyone.

I forced myself through it expecting to be surprised at some point and it fell flat.

Some stuff is clever but parts of the story are terrible.

The character development is atrocious, in a single mission a character goes from "feelings aren't allowed" to "the mission doesn't matter I will literally die for you".
how in the hell am I this bad at communicating?

optimizing for short term gain IS OPTIMIZING TO MAXIMIZE PROFIT IN THE SHORT TERM.
> there is a shortage of labor in America

Nope, and nope.

If I have a software development firm, and I advertise to hire developers at $10/hour, (aside from interns), how many employees do you think I'll get? Right, I won't get many. I may want 20, but I may only get 1 or 2. I know there are developers available, but those developers want $50/hour! I don't like paying that much, so I keep my offer at $10.

Now I go around whining because "there are not enough workers". If I'm big, like Microsoft, I pay lobbyists to convince ignorant (or simply greedy) politicians that we need to create an immigration allowance so I can import workers from lower income countries. Those workers will be happy to work for me for $15/hour, because it's so much more than they earn at home. Of course as the business owner I want to hire as many of the cheaper workers as I can import.

While the H1-B topic doesn't get much attention these days, it was pretty hot in the 2005-2015 period. Evidence and consensus was that there was not a shortage of local skilled labor, and that foreign talent was not more or better suited to the tasks. There's so much out there on this topic, but here's just one example: https://www.epi.org/publication/bp359-guestworkers-high-skil...
Electricity demand will surely increase. Primary power demand on the other hand will most likely go down. An EV is about 80% efficient from solar panel to movement, an ICE is only about 30% efficient from gas to movement (and you have to invest a whole bunch of energy to get gas into tank starting from oil underground). Similarly, heating with a heat pump is about three times more energy efficient than heating with oil or gas.
I’m disappointed by these comments.

Johnny Cash said he “shot a man in Reno just to watch him die” but never got in trouble. But when people of color do it, they can get sent to prison (Young Thug is right now).
Media privacy might be less tempting, but it's been swinging in the other direction (of becoming valid again) for quite a few years.
What "community norms" were violated in this instrumental song to require age verification? (Likely the most egregious example I can think of.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Mte6z7TQI

Stop making excuses for this horrible company.

Or do we truly live in a world where all sorts of horrors have become socially acceptable yet a static image of a cartoon frog is deemed "adult content"?
If you run a marathon every day, it “only” takes 25 years.
That would be nice arguments if they would actually be true.

a) typically nuclear plants don't have to include all life cycle cost into their calculations. Insurance is essentially not included (no insurance is willing to cover nuclear disaster), storage costs are not included to the full extend (partly because we actually don't know the cost, storage for these amounts of time is unprecedented)

b) is also falso both wind and solar have significantly lower ROI on energy than nuclear. A wind turbine has a break even (when you have produced more energy than it took to build it) after 18-24 month or so

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222703134_Meta-Anal....
It’s at least bigger than the surface of the earth :)
have you considered any search methods that are too big for memory or at least want to avoid making the user wait to download, but doesn't require a dynamic server backend?
The acquiring company basically cranks up their fees to the acquired customer base to weed out anyone that a. doesn't have deep pockets and b. has an alternative. The customers they are left with are then stuck with you and you can continue to ratchet up prices while cutting costs for years. of course this requires that the software in use is hard to replace, or in the parlance, has a big moat. if you get it right you can make billions with this strategy. after all, an unhappy customer makes more money than a happy prospect.

conversely, any start-up that can bridge the moat is guaranteed a thrilling ride.
> Depending on what the drivers are for, you may be a prime candidate for MitM.

Doing that MitM is technically very easy, but in practice pretty hard. You'd have to have an adversary on your network path watching for connections to this particular esoteric low-volume site hosting drivers for machines from the 80s and 90s.

That is extremely unlikely.

I have a much easier way to target that content: Just put up a new site hosting the same content with malware attached. No need for MitM shenanigans.

Security isn't about absolutes, it is about risk managment and being aware of the likelihood and consequence of the risks is important.
That's intentionally supposed to be confusing. Did you go past the first couple endings?
You say that as if 18 year olds having sexual experience 1) is good and 2) is normal. I would contest both of those points from a perspective outside of contemporary Western values.
If the ISP is legally protected from any inquiry or transparency into what they do with the data and is systematically incompetent about protecting it and the vpn exists in a country with good privacy laws, then yeah.
False dichotomy. Going out on your own doesn't mean you think you are the smartest person in the room. It's often about freedom. If I decide I want to go biking alone, doesn't mean I think I am the best biker.

I decided to keep going the solo-founder route precisely so that my social circle could be enlarged and enriched. Now I don't have to spend most of my time around tech bros and cofounders whose main interest in business. Instead, I cultivate my social relationships in completely unrelated domains: the arts, community outreach, my physical neighbourhood, religion/philosophy and other hobbies. That gives me both the motivation and the space to think and keep going at the business, because my work fuels something other than itself.
I think you vastly underestimate the number of small landlords, as well as smaller local PMCs -- particularly for older duplexes, triples, and tenements -- which will never spend the money.

Go to places like Boston, where you will find plenty of apartments where your unit still might only have 60A electric service -- if not 40A (I've seen plenty)! You'll find complexes built of multiple 4-6 unit buildings, built 70+ years ago (if not 100+), with dozens of units like that. We're talking places with natural gas hotbox clothes dryers that were installed 30 years ago! Places still with lead paint. So long as someone is still renting them, they won't do anything.
> EVERESTING IS THE MOST DIFFICULT CLIMBING CHALLENGE IN THE WORLD.

That's quite a claim. I'd say "everesting +1m" is a slightly more difficult climbing challenge. Or, you know, actually climbing Everest..
> a lot of stuff that Google security researchers do directly affects and influences (for the better, I'd say) the current industry too. See: Project Zero team, etc.

Yeah, and a lot of stuff that Google security researchers do directly affects and influences (for the worse, I'd say) the current (and future) users.
Especially now that he has publicly admitted that he deliberately makes up shit to prevent investment and interest going to potential competitors by lying.

The whole hyperloop nonsense was nothing other than an effort to kill the CA HSR because it would potentially impact Tesla negatively.

The good thing is that unlike the Hyperloop this was actually demoed, so other than the ElonCult most people are not gonna be impressed by a Honda Asimo circa 2011 knockoff. Especially not Boston Dynamics.
This is awesome. I see this coming builtin to power point.

Cellist eating a donut is super freakish!

https://replicate.com/api/models/stability-ai/stable-diffusi...
Horizon: Zero Dawn is a marvel. One of the best looking games, original, solid and challenging gameplay and a storytelling that keeps on the edge of the seat wanting more. It has everything.
Such a good book, highly recommended.
Every action from the first boss and beyond has meaning, and it gets more dramatic onward. But if you didn't latch on to the plot by the first boss it's probably fine to skip if you still have a refund available. If you are locked in financially I would still recommend playing.
What makes the Nier Automata port any more miraculous than, say, the The Witcher 3 port? This article has almost no details.
Are you from the east coast?
it's the Little structural things like loose connective tissue and mild centralization that guided me to what I currently use. At the moment, I recommend it.

I keep a daily journal / log thing. it's really just a monolithic text document that I can dump thoughts onto and not really meant to be accessed as a reference. Somewhere near the bottom (at the end of the last daily chunk) I have an EOD bookmark: `,./`. because I use vim bindings (emacs-evil) this allows me to gracefully jump to the place where I start writing every day. I have a key chord bound to insert a header with the date.

The interesting stuff happens just after that bookmark. I have two classes of thing here:

- a short TODO that represents the 'misc' one-off tasks (get check to irs, rotate tires, call that guy back) - these are things I'll hate myself for forgetting but don't want to stop what I'm doing to take care of in the moment.

- a series of headers representing deeper, longer work, with the URL of a file in that project that's structured mostly like my journal. This means I can break stuff up into subtasks with their own little todos and sub chunks, and I can navigate to those files without leaving my editor (again, vim bindings for goto -file).

The most important part of this system for me is how frictionless it is. `g-f` jumps to the devlog for the thing I want to be working on, `/,./` jumps to the current point of thought, and right below that is the itemized to-do. The thing that makes me keep using it is that it's fun to use - moving around is completely intuitive (to me) and I spend almost no time wondering where to put stuff.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend this specific set of shortcuts to someone else, but I highly recommend starting from the simplest, least opinionated method that works for you and building on it organically. I don't think I would have figured most of these tricks out if I had sat down and said "okay, time to make the perfect thing"

edit: `.,/` => `,./` because I wrote this on mobile and forgot the order.
Yes, a bit underwhelming, but it's a recruitment event and you've got to start somewhere. Question is how fast and if they can catch up with BD in terms of control.
The rules of what you can and cannot say, and what content can be shown and what cannot, have changed a lot in my lifetime.

At least we can still criticize the President. I wonder how long that will last.
It's not relevant what source is used to charge the batteries. Right now there is a massive price difference between peak and off peak power (partly due to renewables daily cycle), so anyone able to build a battery can charge at the off-peak rate and sell at the peak rate every day. This means that batteries have a revenue source right now, and therefore, the only reason they don't exist is because the cost exceeds that revenue source.
I upvoted you and here's why.

I've played lots of MMOs when I was younger and it's always the same: the "game" doesnt really start until you hit the "endgame" (usually near max level with decent gear).

Until that point, you are often grinding and doing daily events, like a job.

And we often joke that once we get there: "Finally, I get to play the game".

Then there's fear of missing out with seasonal or other limited-time awards etc. which " forces" you to play when you don't want to.

Jonathan Blow has written about why this isn't fun game design.

And those are some reasons why despite having played a lot of these, I agree with the pithy comment that they aren't games.
>For example, anecdotally, the percentage of founders I've heard say that they only want to hire early-20s engineers, is... high.

Maybe that's because early-20s people are willing to work for less, easier to manipulate to work long hours and don't understand red flags like founders who say things like that.
So, I solved this challenge the "intended" way instead of just using an engine. But I'm pretty sure that you could just use an engine for longer than they are. Behind the scenes it appears to just be running stockfish with a timeout of "10" (10s? Didn't check what units, seems faster than 10s so maybe 10ms or something).
You buy a bond from the government for $1000 paying 5% interest and, as long as you keep the bond, you're guaranteed to get that interest money and get your $1000 back when the bond matures. A bond fund has no "maturation date" therefore the only money you get back from it is the current market rate of the bonds in it which could easily go up or down.
> in a single mission a character goes from "feelings aren't allowed" to "the mission doesn't matter I will literally die for you"

Nobody tell them