skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Michio: If someone in the audience can come up with a unified theory of everything, it just has to meet these three criteria...yadda yadda... and if you do come up with that, please tell me first.

:-D

i feel bad for Sabine because it seems like the moderator keeps pronouncing her name 'Sabina'. maybe that's correct?

and i feel bad for Michio b/c Sabine (and Roger) was crushing him and all String Theory. the weird part about what she said is, she's like String Theory is ridiculous, but so is the idea that mathematics has to make sense, and theories have to be testable, but i would say -- how can we have testable theories when math doesn't have to make sense? i've thought of Sabine as a troll - maybe because she does that kind of in your face, 'everyone is stupid but me'-way of speaking. reminds me of the EA crowd.

in String Theory's defense, Michio mentioned how Fermilab got some result that does not obey the Standard Model:

https://news.fnal.gov/2021/04/first-results-from-fermilabs-m...

man, people be hating on string theory.

i think of George Saunders quoting Einstein:

“No worthy problem is ever solved in the plane of its original conception.”

i figure, at a minimum, some wacky theory might open up some lines of thought that might not present themselves otherwise.

and i think of the smartest scientists in the world at any given time, shitting all over all the 'stupid' people who believe, say, that the world is round, or that the earth revolves around the sun, etc.

chomsky talks about how humans are limited -- thus, able to be creative -- but only up to a certain point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc1hsQWzUKc

that's the kind of explanation that makes me think, well, string theory (for one example) might be exactly correct, but we can't even properly conceive of it, much less test it, etc.

and Sabine and Roger are like, "ok fine, BUT JUST DON'T CALL IT SCIENCE."

ok.
How many millennia did it take between gold being a big deal and the development of electronics? Two? If bitcoin finds a practical use in the next century it'll be far speedier.
Sorry, this is my first time on fly.io. The connections were hard-coded to 25. I've increased it.
"I feel for every single person, every single family. But one thing I'm really excited about is that they are really smart people... they will surely buy this token that I've just invested in"
Also recently made the switch. I don't like that there isn't a Jellyfin app for my Samsung TV. Everything else about Jellyfin is 100% superior. Hands down.
I don't know the actual term, but the "rigor" of consent can play a role in the validity of a contract. A mortgage is a very high rigor contract. You don't accidentally enter into a mortgage by clicking a box.

These are the levels that I've seen:

* Implicit Invisible ("By ordering a sandwich, you've agreed to pay for it")

* Implicit Visible ("By clicking continue you agree to our terms")

* Clickwrap Opt-out ("[x] You agree to our terms")

* Clickwrap Opt-in ("[ ] Click here to agree to our terms")

* Form ("Type your name below to agree to our terms")

* Digital Signature Service ("Sign this in Docusign/HelloSign/eSign/etc")

* Physical Signature - "You must print and upload a signed copy"

* Notarized - "You must complete this in the presence of a notary".

----

Closing on a mortgage requires notarization - with multiple lower level signatures along the way.

With that being said, I can understand your argument was an example to represent the spirit of the issue. More broadly, it comes down to how significant the action is vs how well the party can prove a counterparty agreed to it.
> It seems odd to complain that computers are using human's artwork to inspire their own creations. Every human artist has done the exact same thing in their lifetime; it's unavoidable.

Agree.

But you also have to treat code the same way. We shouldn't be suing Open AI and Microsoft over copilot being trained on open source code. It's no different than models trained on art.

Besides, if Microsoft loses, they actually win. I expect they're one of the few companies with enough code to train the model on completely proprietary data. If they lose the case, they'll still be able to build the tool. The rest of us will be locked out of easy training data and won't be able to compete.
:sweat:

Sorry, had the default connection limit of 25 and it's all websockets, so anybody after that couldn't connect. It works for me now.
I always preach for "lies we can believe in!", this one would have been nice if it worked.
>This crime defrauded actual patients.

It is somewhat worth pointing out that she was found not guilty of defrauding patients. She was tried on that count but found not guilty and one of the jurors has come out to say that they actually do not think that Holmes had ever defrauded any patients or doctors, only that she had defrauded investors.

This is in stark contrast to Balwani who was recently found guilty of defrauding patients and doctors.
I use it all the time. It allows me to keep the highest-quality videos (4k HDR) for my own use while allowing family to stream it to less capable devices by hardware transcoding and tone mapping. A mid-range 11th gen i5 handles it without a stutter. Got a Plex lifetime pass many years ago and I’ve never regretted it.
Related:

Hypertextuality: how a programmer reads TS Eliot's 'The Waste Land' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1878647 - Nov 2010 (17 comments)

Somewhat related:

How T.S. Eliot’s therapeutic practice produced The Waste Land - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33570683 - Nov 2022 (8 comments)

'The Waste Land' Reviewed (1923) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33291953 - Oct 2022 (12 comments)
Bringing Up an Old Motherboard Is a Delicate Process
Bike theft rackets have sprung up in cities all over north america. The only notable thing about this article is that Burlington's problems are a cliche.

A friend who lives in the same neighbourhood as myself recently had cops hanging out in his garage to stake out the house across the alley, which was being used as a drug den/bike chopshop/whorehouse at the time. The police shut (the local) operation down eventually, but doubtless another sprung up not too far away.
Pulse Browser – An experimental Firefox fork
> If people figured out how to generate this kind of art without exploiting uncompensated unwilling artists' free labor, it would be a different story.

No it wouldn't. It would still compete against artists. We'd have worse models in the beginning and it would take time until someone licensed enough images to improve the models, but the capability is there and we know about it, too late to stop.

By the way, Stable Diffusion has been fine-tuned with Midjourney image text pairs. So now we also have AI trained on AI images.
He blocks anyone who remotely disagrees with him on Twitter. You get the sense that his faculty for critical thinking has atrophied after years of electing never to use it.
Samsung to show off 8K/900Hz monitor at CES 2023
https://archive.ph/VHOt0
Stefano Boeri's forest stadium to stand as a green lung for Milan
Just like the USD then, you can take Yuans if you dare, freely. I live in Hong Kong where we all have multi currency accounts, and for me currencies dont feel centralized at all.
They are part of the sensor suite in big buildings.[1] The usual sensor set is temperature, humidity, and CO2. It's mostly hotels with conference rooms that are serious about this, because their product is comfortable conferences.

As buildings approach airtightness, this becomes essential. I was expecting more in this area from the IoT crowd, but they never delivered. It's the old-school HVAC systems which do this.

Some years back I went to an IoT meeting in San Francisco, in a beautifully converted industrial building in Dogpatch on the waterfront. Big windows and skylights, with openable windows driven by manual chain falls on both. Ceiling fans. Plus a standard HVAC system. Was all of this coordinated in any way? No.

The place should have had motor drives on the windows. They were all on two long shafts, so it wouldn't be all that hard. As the place filled up with people, the skylights should be opened and the ceiling fans driven to blow upward and exhaust hot air and C02. Open the bay-facing windows slightly for intake air. As the evening went on and outside temperature dropped, close the bay-facing windows, continuing to monitor CO2 and temperature. If heating, open a damper to take air from the outside as necessary to keep the CO2 down. When everybody leaves, flush the air for a few minutes, then close everything up, turn off the fans, and let the temperature drop a few degrees.

The place should have been a showpiece for intelligent building control. But what were they pushing? Refrigerators with a tablet built into the door, for more than the cost of a refrigerator plus an iPad. The tablet had no useful interaction with the refrigerator; it was just a general use tablet.

Even home "smart thermostats" don't do much. They need this set of sensors, plus an external air damper so they can switch from recirculate to outside air as necessary. And the ability to run fans, without AC or heat as necessary. But that requires actual installation, which neither Amazon nor Apple can competently handle.

All this stuff saves enough energy to pay for itself.

[1] https://buildings.honeywell.com/gb/en/products/by-category/s...
Memes (in the sense Dawkins used) have found easier replication into this new medium. Rather than jumping from brain to brain, with the intermediate step of writing, our old memes now replicate by language model. They do meaningful work when deployed without a human in the loop.

I think both humans and AI without training are stupid. Take a human alone, raised alone, without culture. He/she will be closer to animals than humans. It's the culture that is the locus of intelligence and we're borrowing intelligence from it just like the AIs.
The VCs who goosed FTX and Scam BF with hundreds of millions, resulting in 4 years of feckless tech and finance media fawning over this moron and his supposed "genius" as well as furthering the cancerous spread of crypto into mainstream consciousness, these elite ur-capitalist gatekeepers of gererational wealth - had the 'benefit' of due dilligence before jumping on board. They are now writing down their investments to $0.
> Modern war seems to have destroyed a lot there, how much is unclear.

If you’re talking about the recent Syrian war, Ive read there’s reason for optimism.

Many of the ancient fortress were used by fighters, not necessarily to defend against attack. More to keep prisoner, train, etc.

But what I read was about medieval Kracs, which are still functioning fortresses, not ancient Mesopotamian structures.
I'd be interested in reading it.
>>"They do not hire disagreeable people."

>And this is why skilled people can't find a job

Which is a good thing because it makes it affordable for startups to hire skilled people.
Portraiture is a good example of what I mentioned. I am a painter, but I would say that a camera is far more capable of capturing the subtleties of the human face your than a painter. Don't believe me? Search for paintings made before 1800 that feature a smiling face. They exist, but even the lamest insta does a better job of showing us those fleeting facial moments.

Landscapes are another matter. Try finding any photo of a landscape that is half as sublime as the landscape paintings made by the Hudson river school. An effective painter can improve upon optical reality in a way that beggers belief. They do this with a clever mix of increasing contrast and affinity in a way that would be almost impossible for a photographer.
That'd probably happen with cash too though, it my thinking.
This is very cool but wow the site is a disaster on mobile
Or maybe see if someone has mounted /var/run/docker.sock inside the container?
8086 (and any subsequent intel chip, running in real mode)
This is a pretty interesting idea that I hadn't thought of. Presumably this means that things like what happened in The Matrix would be possible: people could give themselves the ability to defy gravity and fly, create on-demand barriers to stop projectiles, and in general warp space and time as desired. Essentially, "magic" would be real.

I wonder, though, if we might catastrophically "break" physics in some ways someday, but instead of seeing that as evidence that we're in a simulation (that we have managed to hack), we might believe that our understanding of fundamental physics is just flawed.
An Artist of Our Social Age
This is a great point, we treat all the dopamine and novelty uptick when escaping our normal life, but we then return and spend 90% of our life in exactly the same rut.

I think the trick is to design the 90% to work based on realities, not fantasies. We think that moving to bali, surfing every day, drinking coconuts and participate in ayahuasca is somewhat extraordinary or can sustain our connection to it long-term, but thats not really the case. Every place, every fantasy has a trade-off and is usually short lived.

So coming back to `present`. Its fixing our daily life that is desperately needed in order not to dream of that 2 weeks bahamas escapism. But I suppose that is what is meant here as slow life and how can we design it... unfortunately still haven't found the answer to this.
Not sure if you are trolling.

Hardware transcoding is available with modern GPU:s.
What terrifies me is what happens after a truly competent leader leaves.

A competent system would be preferable.
There are docker builds which are trivial to run from your laptop.

It requires some terminal stuff, but only for installation.

https://github.com/e7d/docker-jellyfin-for-tizen-installer
Separation of gender roles is a human universal. Meaning it is a trait observable in every human society that can be observed.
I’d love to use Jellyfin someday. Right now it doesn’t have broad enough support or the app ecosystem that I need. I use every OS and tvOS under the sun in my family. I need music apps for my music and audiobook apps for my audiobooks, so far I have only found this in plex (in addition to the video/tv/movies app).
Quintillionaires of the future may pay for elaborate escape rooms wherein the entire universe is simulated.

I still think if this is all just a simulation, it's some type of archeological study.
These systems aggregate and interpolate human work. Interpolation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpolation

It's like a very complicated form of linear interpolation:

a*x + (1-a)*y

These systems do not "think". Today I spent all day mulling an idea, experimenting with variations, feeling frustrated or excited, imagining it, simulating it, making mistakes, following paths of reasoning, deducing facts, revisiting dead-ends with new insight, daydreaming, talking to my wife about it, etc. That's human thought.

These models do not "think" like a human, they do not dream or imagine or feel. They run a feed-forward system of linear equations (matrix multiplications).

They INTERPOLATE HUMAN WORK.

They don't exist without training data (huge amounts of intellectual property) aggregated and interpolated in a monstrous perversion of "fair use":

https://bugfix-66.com/7a82559a13b39c7fa404320c14f47ce0c304fa...

Starve the machine. Without your work, it's got nothing.
And still, aim for the small guy. Because he (mostly) actually threw that stuff into the trash.

If you want to fix id, you also need to educate people.
There are definitely more novel ideas to explore and popularize
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The biggest problem with IINA is that it regularly hangs on the legacy part of my vid collection (you know, mpg files and such), so I had to use it with mpv on standby. Mpv is absolutely stable, so the problem I guess is in some components that IINA added (GUI?).

Besides I am not sure if IINA video collection capabilities cover author’s demands (can’t say, I use it strictly as a player).
Thanks for denoting the initial archive.org link here, the text is identical and the lack of ads make it an easier read.
I'm having trouble understanding how this could be so.

If sedimentation gradually pushed the sea away from Ur, how could the sea level now also be higher?

Wouldn't this imply that today one would be driving up hill from Ur to sea's coast?

Genuinely, curious to know how this whole process works.
> But it's our responsibility to put pressure on those institutions.

Is it? What amount of pressure results in a 100 IQ person making 140 IQ decisions? :)
I did this myself at home when my IBS was getting out of control. My girlfriend at the time, now - unsurprisingly - wife, was the donor.

I took a specific antibiotic to wipe out what I could and then we did the transplant. It helped significantly and pretty much instantaneously, though over the years I’ve regressed a bit.

I took antibiotics for acne as a teen for years, so it’s no surprise that when I stopped those I started having issues.
Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness (2012)
“if you are willing to shovel shit in this part of our country it does not entitle you or your family to the rights of the mainland”
A nice enough list of tidbits.

I am currently building my own web content manager from scratch. Separate HTML generation, JS (using ReScript) mainly for integrating payment processors and a photo carousel. That stuff was straight-forward.

I found CSS the most time-consuming and confusing part of all. Currently using MDN (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS) for reference but still CSS is all over the place with different units of measurements, box model, overflows, display types blah blah blah. What a disaster.
I wonder if the people who are reincarnated (if true) would know...
Elon Musk culls Twitter contractors after mass employee layoffs
was negative intention assumed here? It's not in the quote.
Hardware transcoding includes your GPU doing the transcoding.
When practicing any kind of sport, it is necessary to do it in such a way as to avoid accidents.

While it is possible to train in a careless way and suffer consequences, the straining of the wrists and of other articulations in aikido is actually very useful for avoiding the loss of articular mobility that happens to most old people, unless they do regularly other kinds of mobility exercises.

For someone who types a lot, regular mobility exercises for wrists and fingers are very important for avoiding the injuries caused by typing and by using a mouse, which are much more frequent than the aikido injuries.

As a personal anecdote, I have practiced for some time aikido without any kind of injuries, but later, when failing to do regular exercises, I have developed some tendon problems in my right middle finger from the scrolling wheel of the mouse (which I have healed by switching from using a mouse to the use of a stylus on a Wacom tablet in mouse mode; now I wonder why I have used mice/trackballs/touchpads/trackpoints for so many years, because a stylus is much more comfortable).
Or maybe this is just a CI test run isolated environment.

> Test run #896643 for commit hash...
> Comment: Altering initial seed value for Sol, trying to fix issue where intelligent life fails to maintain stable planetary environment.
Sorry, site was/is not loading for me so I thought it was gone :)
It's not that Wall Street gives you warning signs. They literally tell you "this is a probably a bad bet, and you should not take it" in the descriptions of most products. Very few people actually read those descriptions, despite the fact that they really should if they are buying weird financial products. The banks tell you to read them. And yes, a mortgage is a weird financial product.

For example, people who lost a lot of money holding XIV (a leveraged inverse-VIX ETN) had the warning about not holding the thing overnight in bold red text in the prospectus. People holding leveraged CDOs and every kind of CDS had all kinds of warnings in big bold text in their prospectus. The good old "liar's loans" of the early 2000's had big bold text saying "it will be bad for you if you lie about your income."

Pretty much the only financial products that don't come with big bold text saying "you are an idiot for buying this" are single stocks and the most boring of ETFs/mutual funds (eg SPY).

Contrast that with the warning signs from crypto projects, which are a lot more oblique than big bold text in a document that they tell you to read. Wall Street screws you, but they generally do it slowly and they tell you how. Crypto projects just straight up steal your money one day out of the blue and run to Dubai.
> It seems odd to complain that computers are using human's artwork to inspire their own creations. Every human artist has done the exact same thing in their lifetime; it's unavoidable.

I don't find it odd to complain that publishing an artwork on DeviantArt has gone from "I intend humans to look at this" to "I (opt-out!) agree that a corporation may use this to generate new artwork for profit."

I would not complain if a painting of mine were exhibited in a museum and someone came in to look at it and draw something inspired by it.

I would complain if I handed over a painting of mine to that same museum to be exhibited, they scanned it in at high resolution, handed it over to a class of copy artists, who then produced artwork in order to compete with mine, before finally putting it up in a gallery.

Does that still seem odd?
C23 has ckd_mul.
But this resistance is against a problem it creates: yes if all your stakeholders are anonymous and distributed you cannot trust them, but why not make a network of licensed operators you can trust ? Like I dunno, a savings account with international bank transfers...
That language is C99, a now 23-year-old standard dialect of C.

if (n && m > SIZE_MAX / n)
There are a lot of music players for the Mac, here are a few of them:

https://swinsian.com/

https://colibri-lossless.com/

https://cog.losno.co/

https://vox.rocks/
There are pretty significant “side effects” with that particular medication.
> Many researchers have conjectured that the humankind is simulated along with the rest of the physical universe – a Simulation Hypothesis

I would rather say many philosophers or even many stoned college kids instead of many researchers.
A lot of times TOSDR’s simplifications are just condensing the legalese and not actually interpreting it.

For example, it notes “This service can license user content to third parties”, which can sound super scary until you read that it says “in connection with operating and providing the Service“, which is the language every service with user-generated content uses to let you know that they have to sub license anything you post to other users if they want to show it to them.

It would be useful to know what impact some verbiage has, rather that reading 50 different tooltips that make it seem like the service is a Facebook ads competitor.

0: https://edit.tosdr.org/points/11418
It is standard in a lot of places: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Ma...

I can't vouch for how seriously those different countries look at the issue, though, despite what they have legislated, e.g. I once had a relationship with a Korean who had been physically abused by both parents and teachers. Here in Denmark it was outlawed in the 90s and isn't very common.