skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Internet, smart phones, better and cheaper consumer electronics, microwave ovens, highly reliable/low maintenance automobiles, very affordable air transportation, more comfortable/efficient/pervasive HVAC, many medical advances, wide variety of foods (some not so good for you, but others are) in most grocers, and scores of additional things I haven’t thought to list.

These are extremely marginal "improvements" if you compare them to central heating, penicillin, food sterilization, running water, electricity. Most of the ones you cited come with heavy drawbacks that can't be eliminated (ecologically, socially, &c.). Most of the food is junk food (diet cause 30%+ of cancers), most transportation systems are extremely wasteful and a major cause of pollution (which causes another 30% of cancers), globalisation killed local economies/communities, people are lonelier than ever, teen suicide is through the roof, the internet became a big distraction machine. Of cours tech as a whole comes with nice things, especially medically, but when you look at the whole thing and weight the pros and con it's hard to miss the plethora of cons.

I personally don't wake up thinking about how great everything is but thinking about how I can opt out of most of it

> What percent of westerners would give up all of those things in exchange for a full migration back to 1975? I thinks it’s under 5% and probably way under it.

Stockholm syndrome imho + they'd give all of that away in a heartbeat if they could get a 1970s house, food, etc. while working 3 hours per day, which is what technocrats were promising if we followed their automation dreams, instead we work as long, are more isolated, more depressed, are less fulfilled, but sure enough we have 4k netflix and smartphones more powerful than the entire early NASA .

Also it's not a full migration back to the 70s, it's using modern tech to live sustainably and giving up and the impossible quest of infinite growth.

But I guess it's too late to even discuss that, virtually no one even talks about alternatives anymore, just buy your iphone X max pro 14 and forget about your dreams while doom scrolling the social media of the year while patting your own back about how productive and efficient the whole system is !
"...the fetus helps repair..."

This is perfect clickbait wording

"The Fetus" = "general epithelial cell"

"Helps Repair" = "Follows well understood biochemical processes"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epithelial%E2%80%93mesenchymal...

The way that it is written implies agency, signal discrimination and focused intercession by the "Fetus" which of course is absurd

It's an interesting and novel result, no need to make it seem bigger than it is.

Now all that's going to happen is that I'm going to add a discount bias to anything coming from these sources and I will have reduced my trust in reporting (again) reducing trust overall

Great work folks, you got 1000 more hits on your article while undermining science communication again. Worth it?
I'm in New Zealand have a VPS in Eastern Australia, so a little over 2100km (1600mi).

Average ping is 63 ms. Even that latency is noticeable - more typing errors for sure. I never connect without mosh.
I am not trying to be quippy here, but why does Mozilla need a chief executive officer? as someone who's never been amongst the leadership roles of a company but witnessed the legal structure of plenty of such companies, I'm not sure I understand why it needs one, given what it is and what it does.
I am not being sarcastic or facetious when I ask - Do you feel noticeably better? Better than placebo (understanding of course that such a question is a misnomer, but please address the spirit of the question).
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I dunno, kids may be incompatible with a lot of lifestyles, but I wouldn’t call them inherently expensive. You just have to adjust your expectations.
Before factoring in inflation, people who defied the order would have roughly doubled their money during that time period.
Nearly 6 women enroll in American colleges and universities for every 4 men.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/young-men-...
It was so bad that they had to take it back: https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine/status/159835363751585382...
> There is nothing honest nor good about the EFF.

I don’t know much about the EFF but have met several people working there who are certainly trying to do good. Your statement seems at odds with the HN values of thoughtful discussion.
Contextually this is clearly about people who died of disease, rather than accidents. It actually represented a tightening of the earlier definition, therefore resulting in the number of deaths defined as being from COVID-19 being reduced by around 5000.
Is it bias just to criticize calling it rehabilitation? The US has one of the highest recidivism rates in the world, let alone among developed countries. I think it is safe to say there isn't much rehabilitation going on.
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Why not both? Mandating companies maintain a comprehensive list of ingredients, processes, countries of origin, etc, that is readily available to the public does not prevent agencies from also enforcing standards.
It's 4 days of 8h each (32h total) with no loss of pay.

https://www.4dayweek.com/

> The 4 day week is a reduction in the work week from a standard 40 hours to 32 hours for the same pay and benefits.

I think this is now the standard interpretation of 4DWW - as that's all I see in news articles about the global movement.
It's a good question. It's hard to understand what all is involved in building something like that until you have to get into the details. You can think of Extism as a layer around wasmtime. There is an ABI of sorts that helps you communicate with the plugin: Send data to it, invoke functions, and get data out. With our system, you don't need to enable WASI to use a plugin. You can invoke functions directly. However, you can use WASI for other purposes. And we are working on a way to do POSIX-like stuff (e.g. programs with a main function that use stdin and stdout).

Because we wrap wasmtime, we can also switch it out. That's how we are able to run the same plugins in the browser. There we use the browsers' implementation.

I think one day we will replace some internal pieces of Extism with pieces of the Component Model spec. As of today it's not in a state where we can do all of this in this many languages.

edit: rewording, grammar
The equipment is not sentient, it'll always come down to abuse of the equipment, the same way an automatic weapon doesn't create any problem by itself, but what people can do with it does.

Take a gander at drones in the middle east for a more extreme example.
Right? :) I intended only the first two paragraphs to be the pitch and the rest to be an extended explanation, but I have to admit they aren’t really a summary of the rest.

Now that I’ve written this, I see I can’t really phrase the benefits such that the result is neither a shallow-sounding platitude nor a laundry list of features, when the reality is a laundry list of features that mostly fall out of a couple of overarching ideas. And it’s not like each of those features haven’t been done before, but this particular implementation comes out remarkably simple and sane given the length of the list.
I "rooted" my Android once, it was a nightmare. Never doing that again...on my primary phone at least.
Yeah, I get the runtime can be big, but letting gc cross module boundaries seems really bad for sandboxing. I also kind of wonder why we'd want to use those languages in wasm other than their libraries and runtimes. If all you want is gc and performance why not use JavaScript or typescript? C# or go after a ~20% wasm penalty isn't going to be that much faster than js right? Or use something like nim that compiles to js and get libraries as well. The case for wasm always seemed to be absolute max performance in a safer package, which would send you towards languages that support manual memory management anyway.
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There are even entire applications written this way - Adobe Lightroom was originally built from some core C++ imaging code lifted from Photoshop but with all of the UI built in Lua. The dev builds of Lightroom have an entire integrated Lua dev environment in them.
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Don't tell anyone but the pilots are wearing sunglasses and headphones too. Perhaps you've heard of aviators?
Fertility isn't the only consideration with having children when you're old.

Skin elasticity and athleticism decreases with age, and that translates into worse tearing, and more difficult births, longer recovery, and more trouble keeping up with a baby after all that.

Then, on top of all that, your parents are entering their sunset years rather where you have to help them rather than having grandparents young enough to help you with your kids.

It's also linked to things like low birth weight. I sure wish my wife & I had started earlier.
Actually, 6 cycles is statistical average for conceiving.
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For me it's noticeable down to around 20ms, although of course it becomes less noticeable the lower you go. Surely the existence of high FPS screens is clear evidence that humans can see latency spikes? 60 FPS is ~16ms. 120 FPS is ~8ms.
You don't need sperm if you can't afford housing.
So? What’s wrong with complaining about people on both sides of a political divide?

“Evil” may not be eventually distributed, but there is plenty to go around.
Do you (or anyone) have some idea why anyone could possibly have thought 16 bits would be enough? Many decisions are bad in hindsight but surely no hindsight was needed for that.
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On top of the fact that Google has probably the most advanced AI R&D program in the world. When these tools are eventually deployable to the masses, Google will probably be the one doing it.
> Humans can’t notice 100ms or 200ms latency

Yea, author never played MMOS or FPS games online?

Going from 20ms to 100 is going to be VERY noticable.
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No the reason they want to invade is to project power into the wider pacific, nationalism, imperialism and the people and human capital not just limited to semi conductors. The factories will be destroyed in any invasion, the US will guarantee it, I promise.
>If you look at a topographic map of Taiwan, it's not so obvious

Assessments of TW's defensibility gets dimmer and dimmer with increasingly modern PLA capabilities. If you actually look at topo map of Taiwan:

https://i.imgur.com/Ds6hz2e.png

Island a series of plains with no depth fragmented by rivers from rain + high mountains. Essentially a series of sequential turkey shooting galleries from air. PRC will be the ones blowing up bridges and infra to cut island into piece meal bastions to further restrict operation space of TW. The mountains themselves are incredibly tall, which is a nightmare for defenders limited to light arms against attackers who'll be droning them with relative impunity. The foliage helps, but SAR / sensors tech filling that gap fast. Before/if PLA even bother with landing, they're going to shape conditions to be as uncontested as possible. Which likely means embarassing one sided bloodbath as PLA drone operators in air conditioned mainland offices glassing 100,000s of relatively soft ROCA defenders in plains with no rear except rough mountains rougher than what Vietcon / Taliban operated from. Meanwhile, rest of island - the home front - will have critical infra distrupted, after calories and clean water runs out, they'll be inviting PLA to resupply island vias sea and air. Capabilities of attacker determine whether geography is blessing or curse to defenders. For TW, it's increasingly curse.
Generative models will surely change the shape of the web. If a major effect of freely sharing something is to enable a big AI company to ingest it and show it to their users without attribution, people are going to share things less freely. Which will then mean that these models won’t be able to generate new things as well.

I don’t know exactly how that will manifest, but something of that shape seems to be on the way.
No. WASM will have the same problem that every "run everywhere" system ever had: what makes software hard to port is not the ability to execute it, it's the environment differences.

But it will be a powerful low trust portable VM, like none mainstream today. Odds are it kills Lua.

(And yeah, it removes the Javascript monopoly on the browser. At this point, it can't be killed, but it will shrink.)
There is nothing more human than having to imagine the procedures and operations of a machine at all times.
Considering how fast birth defect raise after 35...yeah not bullshit at all.
Good news coverage from this week:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/30/business/4-day-work-week-resu...

https://www.livemint.com/companies/people/want-a-four-day-wo...

> Not one of the 33 participating companies is returning to a standard five-day schedule.
You can dispute it if you are unable to get satellite service, or filter it appropriately to only include landline service.
Yea... when being proactive, in any way that is not adversarial... ChatGTP has shown me that it's capable of providing very specific insights and knowledge when asking about topics Im currently curious about learning. And it works, I learn the type of information I was seeking. When the topics are technical, GPT is very good at crawl, walk, run with things like algorithms. It's great at responding to "well what about...".

Not only do I learn simpler, I gain better communication style myself when figuring out how to communicate with GPT. GPT also has a nice approach for dialog reasoning.

It's filter system may be annoying, however you can easily learn to play GPT's preferred style of knowledge transfer... and it's honestly something we can learn from.

TLDR; IMO ChatGPT expands the concept of learning, and self-tutoring, in an extremely useful way. This is something no search engine of indexed web pages can compete with. Arguably, the utility of index web pages is really degraded for certain types of desired search experiences when compared to ChatGPT... which it seems obv that internet browsing will be eventually incorporated (probably for further reference and narrowed expansion of a topic)
Epic games has done exactly that with Fortnite on Android, which is only available in the Epic Store or Samsung Galaxy Store.
I just tried Googling "when did the moon explode?" to see if it still gave authoritative answers to bogus questions:

> About an hour after sunset on June 18, 1178, the Moon exploded.

"when did lincoln shoot booth"

> April 14, 1865

Mostly they seem to catch and stop this now, but there was a fun brief period where it was popping up the fact-box for whatever seemed closest to the search terms, so "when did neil armstrong first walk on the earth" would have it confidently assert "21 July 1969".
It's a tricky situation. Marrying later leads to more robust marriages, but more difficulty conceiving.
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> Imagine if every computer in the world, you could only use internet explorer, and they forced you to pay them 30%, and use IE.

Absolutely nothing like this is happening though, so what's your point? I run Firefox on my iPhone, it's free?

> But let's try a different example, since apparently you support the railway monopoly.

I don't support the railway monopoly you're putting words in my mouth. I'm saying that breaking it up did nothing really useful. Shit trains still exist.
The less-than-1% of Web push message volume that is desired and helpful is a no-brainer sacrifice to get rid of the 99+% that's unwanted, accidentally-enabled spam.

Of course, short of just getting rid of it, we could make it like RSS where there's just a little icon and you have to choose to engage with it to use it, otherwise you won't even realize it's there. But I expect that amounts to the same thing, and the feature'd be dead before long, being too much effort to keep up for something that nearly no-one would both know is there and want to use. Probably usage levels similar to FTP in the browser, and that got axed.
I'm very curious, wanna give us more information?
Buybacks are not stopping apple from building a fab. They still have more than enough money, they're just not interested.