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// People are getting mortgage sized loans just to buy a family car

I mean... That's insane hyperbole right? Below you are talking about $30k cars, in what universe does that approach "mortgage sized"?
Sauropods, particularly. And while we are at it, pterosaurs, which are not dinosaurs, and mosasaurs, likewise. All are equally plausible, meaning not.

The original article is actually promoting inventing new animals that look like dinosaurs. Or rather what we guess they looked like. We might be able to do that, someday.

Anything that looks like a sauropod would need solutions for all the problems anything sauropod-shaped would necessarily have had, and solved. There is no reason to think our solutions would match what they had, but we could anyway determine whether they were plausible solutions. My bet is on two-chambered auxiliary hearts all the way up the neck. (The null hypothesis is a volkswagen-sized heart and very, very thick artery walls, assuming new circulatory structures were out of reach.)
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If you keep telling me the same thing with the same lack of results, I could say the same to you as being boring and repetitive. Just because you say 2+2=5 and someone tells you you're wrong every time doesn't mean they are boring and repetitive.
Complete layman here. -- What about trying to reconstruct a likely common ancestor of reptiles and birds on the DNA level and combining this with the Parent's approach?
I remember in the 90s, when they cloned Polly (or Molly? I don’t remember), people predicted crazy future where we keep cloning animals and one day maybe humans.

I don’t hear much about cloning recently. What happened?
I once wrote a keygen for AI War, an indie RTS game by Arcen Games. The game was written in C#, so I decompiled it and found the function that checked the keys. It used some kind of PRNG, maybe a Mersenne twister, but customized a bit. Rather than reverse engineer the whole thing, I loaded the "buildKeyFromPrefix" function right out of the exe (like it was a DLL), then built a WinForms wrapper that would show a valid key for each of the expansions. It used a predictable incrementing integer ID for each expansion, so I even included a few future ones.

I never shared this beyond my personal friend group. We went on to play (cumulatively) probably two thousand hours of AI War using this crack. Once I got out of college and got some income, I bought 4 copies to make up for it. Sorry Arcen!
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That sounds like the most elegant approach so far.
> The vast majority of people

[citation needed]

I know it's surprising from within our bubble of contrarianism, but no, actually the vast majority of people are very conventional and find the outlets you listed pretty conventional and ho hum, even if they disagree with some portion of the content. But not at all "complete insanity and severe disconnections from reality".

Here's the current top headline at NYT: "Inflation Forecasts Were Wrong Last Year. Should We Believe Them Now?"[0]

Whatever you think about the answer to that question about inflation forecasts, that's just a boring newsy article. And that is what > 95% of the articles there are like. If you think most people find this sort of thing to be "complete insanity and severe disconnections from reality" ... well you might need to look in a mirror.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/business/economy/inflatio...
> I think you're being condescending.

I share some of the attitude, because farming and fishing get weirdly good branding compared to other extractive industries. This thread is full of people opining about how things would be better if only the government would stop pushing regulations they don't understand on hardworking farmers who know better. I live in the US state of Iowa and it's a truly laughable sentiment. There was a recent local public radio call in show where water quality experts and environmental engineers were told by a caller to "try riding along in a combine sometime to see what it's really like out there". These people are experts in their fields and have absolutely studied farming, but get talked down to by large agribusiness concerns like they're naive little kids.

It makes me really angry to see, when the environmental harms agriculture in my state commits are so well documented. With that context, I tend to come to these conversations with a lot of extra salt.
Hi chatgpt generated response
Again I suspect if "ex-colonizers" allowed open frontiers, an avalanche of "ex-colonized" people would come to get peace and prosperity, leaving their elites preaching to themselves about "subjugation". Past is past. Abuses were made but "colonialism" doesn't have to be a zero sum game. Actually it never was.

It is just another point of view - an unpopular one among the elites - to be aware of.
> They're only targeting cash transactions so unusually large that it's hard to imagine a legitimate purpose for them.

I am saying that millions of cash transactions of this size take place every year and that the majority of them are legitimate. Whether or not you can think of reasons why people would use cash in that amount is sort of irrelevant.
As far as I understand it, MIT only requires you to include the attribution next to the binary so ias you guessed next to the source code on the server.

However, the js shipped to clients is usually minified and transformed which means it may count as "compiled" and thus the same rules as for binaries would apply.

Cases like these are the reason why the AGPL exists.
Sounds like you need to relax and maybe smoke a joint, eh?
"sufficiently advanced compression/encoding is indistinguishable from encryption"

like QR codes.. they're encrypted, but the secret key is widely available: it's the source code that decodes the graphic
Magnet there is probably used as an isolator. The laser can only go out,but not come back.( yes, there will be laser coming back from reflection, which also interrupt the operation of the source laser.
Your hands don't get saturated in resin unless you're doing something wrong, like squeezing the buds trying to drain oil by hand. It would take a extremely bad trimmer to be continually cutting themselves while trimming. There are a lot of components to THC and CBD that could have beneficial properties, not just the fact that they are naturally sticky.
That's the understanding of some. It's really a question of what does knowing really mean. I think most of those people assume the model must be "conscious" to "know" anything. Which seems silly.
> Replacing my phone with a police report is basically free

Free to you, maybe. But someone has to pay for it.

> Do people actually value a replaceable object more than lives that can never be replaced??

No. This is why we all agree that murder and manslaughter are worse crimes than phone theft. But jaywalking is not murder or manslaughter.
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Thanks, this was informative. It wasn't clear to me, but I think the study does not account for switching heating from burning NG in the dwelling to electricity. I don't have numbers, but I'm pretty sure that's going to introduce an enormous load on the system, and is my main source of skepticism for wind/solar/storage as a solution for all electricity generation in places like Minnesota.
It seems he does not think.
Extreme weather events are not actually worsening if you look at longer time scales. The damage from extreme weather events is worsening because we've built more in vulnerable areas. Hurricanes, for example, have gone through natural cycles lasting centuries or millennia before any sort of anthropogenic global climate change. We had been living in a period of relative calm and now appear to be reverting to the mean.

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/uncovering-prehist...
I have listed 5 different types of batteries than Tesla makes. A number more are much farther than the fundamental science stage of Fusion. Tesla primarily makes batteries for cars, grid storage is actually way more flexible in the type of battery that can be used. You are missing the forest for the trees.
Making js essential is not that hard, right? Just "display: none" on the root element, which is removed by js :)

More sophisticated options can been found in other comments.
To say one thing, then do the opposite.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33953823

clever-hans 4 hours ago | undown [flagged] | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?

I agree that ChatGPT/generated responses should be banned on HN. It undermines the integrity of the platform and goes against the spirit of genuine discussion and collaboration. Let's not turn HN into a spammy bot-infested wasteland.
Somewhat related, cannabis might not actually help to relieve pain. [1]

[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/does-cannabis-actually-r...
California EV Waste: 'It's Like the Wild West.'
Show HN: Obsidian: Insert conversation starters generated by AI in your notes
I often prepare my conversations beforehand, whether for business or family/friends, with this Templater you can get ready for great & deep conversations using https://langa.me API (free tier).
The purpose of jobs isn't to kill time, but to produce things like food, shoes, and soap. It's important that it accomplishes that.
> Left and right are incredibly well defined and understood if people are being genuine.

Confidence and insulting the integrity of people who would dare disagree does not make this true.

edit: also this makes theocracies left-wing?
Please impose your city slicker values on us poor people. We are too ignorant for our own good /s
Computer architects use the term 'memory wall' to refer to this latency problem. CPU microarchitectures are constantly improved to improve IPC, Die technology helps increase CPU frequency, but memory access latency is not keeping up with the CPU improvements.
It had come to [Squealer's] knowledge, he said, that a foolish and wicked rumour had been circulated at the time of Boxer's removal. Some of the animals had noticed that the van which took Boxer away was marked "Horse Slaughterer," and had actually jumped to the conclusion that Boxer was being sent to the knacker's. It was almost unbelievable, said Squealer, that any animal could be so stupid. Surely, he cried indignantly, whisking his tail and skipping from side to side, surely they knew their beloved Leader, Comrade Napoleon, better than that? But the explanation was really very simple. The van had previously been the property of the knacker, and had been bought by the veterinary surgeon, who had not yet painted the old name out. That was how the mistake had arisen.
Ask HN: What's a good newsletter for events in SF Bay Area
any recommendations for newsletters for tech and startup related events in the SF bay area?
"Vintage", huh? 1980s is vintage now?

Like Yogi Berra said, "It gets late early out there."
Thank you for calling them "JavaScript developers" instead of "front-end developers"; it's accurate.
That's fair, overstatement on my part.
The way I do it in my SaaS app is there is an "attributions" page. On it I have a list of all OSS software I've used in both frontend and backend.
Wikipedia Category: Individual animals by country
That was not the point of the supposed hoax, whatever else you think it might demonstrate.
Ok, so to be precise I did not mean to imply a DE should be a resource hog, leak memory all over the place etc. I simply meant to say that a diff of few tens or even hundreds of MBs of RAM between DEs is realistically insignificant for most people.
Why do you think the unit economics of Carvana have to be worse than a traditional dealer? Maybe they have to do more shipping of vehicles around, but they are less reliant on storefronts/sales staff. It seems likely to me that they overspent on marketing/gimmicks/badly timed top-of-market inventory, but that doesn’t mean that the business model fundamentally can’t work.
To be clear, I am not straw manning your argument here. I am just asking: who is the expert?

You have assumed it's the farmer. But he just inherited (or rents) some land. And since the majority of his income comes from subsidies, there is no reason to assume he is competent.

On the other hand you have actual experts with real field trial results.

That's my point here.
I've found success in cutting tasks up in things that will fit in a sprint. If I have to write a feature, I commonly split it into a few tickets:

- Write the code
- Test the code
- Documentation changes
- Deploy the code

If it's a big enough change (or a new app), I might create a few sets of those tickets. E.g. one "write/test/document/deploy" set for the database schema to do Y, another one for the business logic to do Y, another for the HTTP endpoints for Y, etc.

The tickets are specific to the implementation, not to the feature, so they can't be expanded. New work can only come through new tickets, which get prioritized. Manager is happy because tickets get cleared. I'm happy because I can fight scope creep by pointing to my sprint and asking which tickets they want to bump for their new scope creep.

Tickets like "implement X feature" with a 2 week estimate are a landmine for engineers because it's broad enough for the scope to expand infinitely, and it starts to look like nothing is getting done to management.
Honestly I was a brand new hire and it was my first real engineering job so I gained nothing from it. At the time I had no idea how to advocate for myself or my accomplishments. Big lesson learned.
“brotherhood” seems like a fancy word used in propaganda. It’s too high level and too abstract.

You don’t start with “brotherhood”.

A you start with respect. Respecting your neighbor. Respecting people practicing some different religion, or having different sexual orientation, or speaking different language, or practicing different traditions.

“brotherhood” is about recognizing that we are all human despite all the differences in the ways we live.

First do that. And that is fundamental difference between the US and russia.
Okay, but then if the funding has decreased, what hasn't the "years away" increased? No, that wouldn't sound good in a press release now would it. So they keep saying it is just around the corner. It's like the religious people saying that the second coming is right around the corner for over a thousand years now. I know, I know, religious zealots and science (zealots?) are different. Or are they?
I will be interested to see how much of a hit AWWS/Azure/GCP takes during this downturn. Suddenly startups are not going to be spending millions per year on cloud stuff stuff that they don't really need (ex: massive redshift cluster for your "data collection"). Furthermore, a large number of startups will cease to exist.

I would guess large customers have account for a massive portion of cloud revenue; however, they also get much better pricing due to their scale. I would guess that the startups have to be where the gravy is since you are not getting a massive discount when you are small.
In California Caltrans operates a 24x7 oncall ferry service for cars in the Sacramento delta area serving an island of fewer than 300 people. It costs $4 million per year plus capital costs (this year: over $25 million in new capital). Because we are idiots.
I like that it means both that I have self-image issues and that I'm a conformist.
> Some teams are geographical. For example: Overwatch league.

OWL never made it to a full home-and-away season; they planned one in 2020 but never executed it. Are there any esports leagues that play in home-city venues?
Media influences elections. The entire point of an election is that whoever wins gets to decide for everybody.

It does not matter which one is lead and which one is vanilla. If 51% of the people vote for what turns out to be lead, it's bad for everybody, not just them.

Elections are supposed to rely on most people's ability to figure out falsehood from reality for themselves. That's a fragile premise, especially when a lot of money is put into creating a substantial propaganda campaign.

In general, we don't have any system for dealing with falsehoods. We just let everybody talk and hope that the people figure it out.

In this specific case, however, we have a jury to decide. When the falsehoods can be shown to be deliberate, reckless, and damaging, they can be penalized for it. The bar is very high, and it's up to a jury to decide.

If somehow this destroys Fox News, it won't be the government making the decision. They will have committed an infringement of the law, and are suffering the consequences. The damage being compensated is to the company, not the nation.
Lack of need and practice, I suspect. And they may be prioritizing, but simply by different unstated (and perhaps subconcious) criteria than mere importance.

Someone struggling with an exam might first prioritize the questions they're confident in answering quickly to improve their grade. Someone who will ace the exam regardless of order can simply power through without needing to waste time "prioritizing" that could instead be spent on answering the questions.

Someone who is smart/driven/competent enough to generally complete their projects in time and under budget has no need to prioritize features based on need - if they do prioritize, they may prioritize based on ease of overal implementation. That might mean prioritizing the "less important" / less defined items before the more important / more fleshed out aspects. Eliminating unknowns and variables up front in this way might lead to less time "wasted" on refactoring and redesigning.
That's been done!

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

>"Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" is the second episode of the seventh series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. It first aired on BBC One in the UK on 8 September 2012 and on BBC America on the same date in the United States. It was written by Chris Chibnall and directed by Saul Metzstein.

>The episode features alien time traveller the Doctor (Matt Smith) and his companions Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) accompanied by Rory's father, Brian (Mark Williams), Queen Nefertiti (Riann Steele), and John Riddell, a British big-game hunter (Rupert Graves). The group lands on a large spaceship that contains dinosaurs and discover that it is a Silurian ark, though the Silurians have been murdered by Solomon (David Bradley), a black market trader who is intent on finding something of value.
I love thought experiments like these, One would have to think where could ancient dinosaur DNA survive? Antarctica has been covered by ice for 5 million years, that is still 60 million years too young. Maybe there are a few bugs that have dino dna that is better preserved than the stuff that has been exposed to sunlight and elements the past 5 million years. And even if there is viable dna you would have to drill down 13-15k feet of solid ice to the antarctic landmass, which might as well be impossible(if you knew exactly where to look).

And lets say you bring the dinosaurs back, what was the air and temperature like for them? back >65mya earth had 30% oxygen(its 21% today) that much oxygen would be hard to deal with for humans today(cuts would heal in a day though!), also forest fires would be uncontrollably bad. And what about the temperature? It would be 10 degrees warmer than it is today. So you would have to alter the climate and atmosphere significantly for your newly cloned dinosaurs to survive, or perhaps they could adapt to our current conditions, who can say?
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Curious what are your top challenges now. Could you please reply with your title plus top challenges if possible? Thank you!
As far as I understand, keeping such creatures alive would require facilities with enriched oxygen. If the large ones escaped, they would suffocate.

"...large dinosaurs really required to be living in an oxygen tent. An atmosphere in the neighborhood of 35 percent oxygen would be considerably more compatible with large dinosaurs than one in the neighborhood of 28."

Volcanic activity in the Cretaceous enabled these high oxygen levels.

"The Cretaceous is clearly a green house period as opposed to the present ice house that we have... One of the problems that people have always suggested about these high levels of oxygen at various times in the past, is that this is
comparable to what you have in an oxygen tent in a hospital. And what about wildfires? What they forget is that the reason for this high oxygen is that there is also a high carbon dioxide level. We are talking about carbon dioxide levels 6 to 10 times the present carbon dioxide level. And that is more
than enough to essentially combat wildfires."

https://profjoecain.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/robert-e-...
> Here in NYC such things get snatched from peoples hands on the train along with gold jewlery and other expensive gear. I dont want to attract that upon myself, no thanks.

Why would you want to live in a place like that? I can't think of a single city in Australia where that would be a concern.
Ask HN: Running (multimodal) semantic search on edge?
Has anyone ever tried to run (multimodal) semantic search in ONNX? (or alternative, i.e. mobile/JS)
Do you think multimodal models will increase in size over time? (even less likely to run on edge?)

For example, https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05253 seems to go in the direction of bigger models
Why language seems to imply large models but image models seem usually smaller?
An industry basically can't ever make a profit is not a solution to anything.
> takes them about 1h. Automating it, is just more fun than actually
doing it.

Spot on. The joy of technological skill, being a programmer and
engineer is that you can customise, reconfigure and shape the world in
front of you. Other people see you playing and having fun, and say;
"Hey, can you do that for me?" What was just scratching an itch
becomes something others want to universalise. And that doesn't always
work.

> almost always start with a technology that solves problem thought of
> in research proposals.

Such proposals are often desperately scraping the barrel for ideas.
Anything that combines grant-worthy buzzwords in a barely coherent way
is fit for the game.

> The problem however was never real.

The tragedy is that the problems become real. Otherwise intelligent
people see a bunch of PhDs frobicating widgets, and a bunch of wealthy
investors throwing money at them. They read the self-affirming press
reports on the research and the marketing hype about how Widgifrob PLC
are the hottest new thing. Suddenly everyone has a widget that needs
frobnicating.

Low interest + easy capital + bloated academic research machine = new
problems. It's a problem creation machine.
Discussed at the time (of the article):

“A damn stupid thing to do”–the origins of C - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25400486 - Dec 2020 (20 comments)

“A damn stupid thing to do”–the origins of C - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25357867 - Dec 2020 (5 comments)
That sounds like an epic hiking trip. Can you share more detail about the specific route and accommodation etc? Do you happen to have a write up anywhere? Cheers!
In northern states almost all residential energy use is heating. The amount of electricity used is minimal, therefore even modest amounts of electricity generation can meet need. Wyoming is the only northern state that has natural gas in notable amounts, all other states import a lot of their energy (especially heating) needs.

If most states stopped importing energy they would have to go back to wood and coal-fired stoves. That would be a huge quality of life reduction in terms of convenience and home air quality.
As others on this thread pointed out, faithfully replicating a dinosaur is both difficult, due to lack of data and a bit pointless if it could be accomplished.

Synthetic biology has bigger fish to fry. For example we are very likely to find that humans are really bad at living in space or on other planets. Fixing that problem has more practical implications.