skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Arguments on the internet almost never have the effect of persuading the person you're debating of your opinion when they didn't previously hold that opinion already.

Well yeah because the arguments are all poorly defended; see below. Not going to change my mind because the tide goes in and the tide goes out.

> Debating, after all, is almost a bit like a sport. Now imagine someone challenges a boxing world champion to a fight, and the world thinks that the fight is worth watching. Now the champion turns it down, thinking to himself "It would be a waste of my time to fight this person who is just so much worse of a fighter". ...that would be unsportsmanlike.

Except that if scott_w doesn't comment somebody else can. The analogy breaks down very fast because if the world really thinks somebody should argue with the random person then anybody in the world can. If the world doesn't think that then there'll end up being no replies and the world doesn't care.

Also almost certainly if you ran into a world champion in the street and challenged them to their sport they wouldn't accept
The good thing though: After the initial seed phase, where you produced your content you could just disappear and only be active on twitter!
Yes, this is the point I was making in my comment. Unless “policymakers” (aka people) are willing to enact some very unpopular policies then everything is just window dressing and rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
Heh, I just thought of an even smaller solution called newsgroups ;#)
>> "I think the two biggest differences between art AI and code AI are that (a) code that's only 95% right is just wrong, whereas art can be very wrong before a client even notices [0];"

Art can also be extremely wrong in a way everyone notices and still be highly successful. For example: Rob Liefeld.
Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNQtQWjX-sA&t=222s
My memory of this is really fuzzy, so I'm probably getting the details wrong.

I watched a documentary in roughly the early oughts about AI. The presenter might have been Alan Alda.

In one segment, he visited some military researchers who were trying to get a vehicle to drive itself. It would move only a few inches or feet at a time as it had to stop to recalculate.

In another segment, he visited some university researchers who set up a large plotter printer to make AI-generated art. It was decent. He saw it could depict things like a person and a pot, so he asked if it would ever do something silly to us like put a person in a pot. The professor said not to be silly.

To jokingly answer the title question: everyone who saw that one specific documentary 20 years ago knew that AI art was way ahead of AI machines.

Art is useful when someone subjectively finds it enjoyable or meaningful. While it might not achieve all of what humans can, the barrier to entry is relatively lower.
Once the banks behind the Twitter acquisition want their money back, the tax problem will go away...
> but I've been in some actually trashy neighborhoods that could have used a higher floor on the public-facing conduct of its residents.

Cool. Buy a house somewhere else then.
The SSP5 appears to be presupposing everything else just works out in a high-trust, globally-integrated economy. The basic problems expected to surface in this century are largely ravaging of coastal communities and at least a few places that can currently support human life no longer being able to, largely near the equator. As far as balance of global land mass versus human population, there should still be enough, but significant migration will need to occur, including across national boundaries.

I'm not all that confident, given the way strong nationalism, isolationism, and anti-immigrant sentiment seem to have made major comebacks in rich nations far from the equator, that this would really happen.

But the bulk of the more serious ecosystem collapse scenarios probably don't happen until the next century. You can certainly make the argument that more people, more money, and significant investment into basic research and geoengineering stands a better chance of addressing this than stomping on emissions to prevent it. Higher GDP is probably a prerequisite to this happening, but political will and strong, trusted governments are another. We can't just have that GDP going toward bigger houses, faster cars, smarter targeted advertising, and even better-funded attacks on public services, science, and expertise.
There is ArchUnit - https://www.archunit.org/
> Microsoft [...] not venturing into legal gray areas.

Their history as litigation defendants would suggest your optimism may perhaps be unfounded.
And can’t be clawed back in bankruptcy. Great way to preserve wealth
I've been thinking about this for a while as well and feel that it all depends who is the audience of this service. One idea is to define geographical limits to participate. That aligns with your cap idea. The nice thing about this model is it allows participants easy access to get to know others near them. This has real world benefits for strengthening a local community.

A second idea I had, especially relevant to HN, is to setup a barrier for use. Similar to old BB systems from the 80s and 90s, in order to participate it takes more effort than an email and password setup. A `vi` or `emacs` interface where there is a true learning curve but that also invites the user to learn more as they on-board into the social media service. You could spin this idea around other niche interests and hobbies though.

Network effects mean that these ideas likely won't be break-out hits for the general public. However, I find that to be ok as the easy approaches are solved challenges, the new challenges for social media are making those services more of a positive/healthy (as in eat your Broccoli) experience for everyone who interacts with it.
Awesome. Been using XFCE for ages. It hits just the right spot of modern features and usability without trying to re-invent the desktop paradigm for the Nth time. If you just want "Win98, but in 2022," you've found your desktop environment.

WRT this update, the Thunar updates look fantastic. The File Highlight feature looks especially cool. I can imagine using that to highlight really frequently used folders in my home dir ("projects" folder etc) to make them stand out in the file browser. Customizing the toolbar buttons is a welcome feature. I'm also glad to see improvements on the default application feature, which I found difficult to use before.
HOAs aren't contrary to the American love of freedom--they are a result of it. The ability to create HOAs is the direct result of our broad freedom of association.

If you don't like HOAs... then don't move into a neighborhood with an HOA. If you have to live in a neighborhood with an HOA and you want to change the way it runs, then change the way it runs. Convince your neighbors to make a change. Run for a seat on the board. You'll be surprised how easy it is to get elected. If you can't convince your neighbors to make the change you want, then you'll just have to live with the crushing oppression of the democratic process.

What's the alternative? Banning neighborhoods from associating without giving HOA members a say in the matter? That wouldn't make us more free, it would just transfer control out of the neighborhood and up to the City/County/State, where your control over your own neighborhood is transferred to people who don't live in the neighborhood. Does that make us more democratic?

It is my sincere wish that each and every person who champions an HOA ban is rewarded with a neighbor who repairs roof leaks with tarps and tires, puts junk cars on cinderblocks in their un-mowed front yard, and keeps a rooster--enjoy your "freedom", brother!
Federal Reserve Is on the Brink of Bankruptcy
The Earth is rock is like saying a computer is a plastic and metal box. True but lacking in usefulness. When most people talk about the Earth they mean a living ecosystem of biological organisms. The Earth in that sense also doesn't care, because it doesn't have the self reflection necessary to do so. However humans in general seem to care, not only about themselves but also about the ecosystem in general.
I've long wanted to build social media which is focused on correct information rather than marketing. The main problem of existing social media is that the environment encourages the spread of

- novel sounding (interesting) or emotionally triggering, and
- poorly checked information

(see https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aap9559).

Regardless of algorithm, Twitter promotes fast re-sharing without thought (retweet is easy), short messages which make it difficult to explain a nuanced position. Even without an algorithm, this produces a Darwinian environment which favors replication (retweeting) of certain types of tweets over others.

I suspect a lot can be changed by changing the base environment. For example, retweeting could become "intent to retweet", which isn't applied until information gets a peer review. Peers can be calculated via a per-topic reputation system + reference users (examplars). Automatic reviews could at least check that you've included references...
U.S. should brace for '10-year' chip curbs against China: analyst
> there are no countries in the top 30 GDP per capita that have even a loose form of slavery

Allow me to quote the 13th amendment, Section 1, article 1: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Now look at the US carceral system and tell me if you can still say with a straight face that "there are no countries in the top 30 GDP per capita that have even a loose form of slavery"
He also worked for Apple.

But if you compare Microsoft’s model to let’s say Google’s non existent strategy, the difference is night and day. Google has the strategy and focus of a crack addled flea. Nadella came in with a vision and executed perfectly.
Maybe look again without assuming hydrocarbon. Ammonia is a good transport medium, liquid at room temperature under low compression.
This, I mean why created anything than the charity with most value in your personal view. This just signals he has faith in his own charity.
It's strange that the more Bill Gates donates, the richer he gets-
pip-tools unfortunately doesn't generate cross-platform lock files, so your locked requirements.txt may be different if you generate it on macos than if you generate it on Linux.

Edited to add: both Poetry and PDM do generate cross-platform locks.
Twitter already suspended someone who posted a video of Elon being booed, is it that much of a stretch?
It seems like the least-regulated professions will be the front lines, due of course to the friction created by getting AI operating in regulated environments.
And GPT can't fix a bug, it can only generate new text that will have a different collection of bugs. The catch is that programming isn't text generation. But AI should be able to make good actually intelligent fuzzers, that should be realistic and useful.
looks like you could do this via API. Not sure though, it's not in the UI and according to the company it's on the roadmap.
How do you do that when most of the calculations (and data required for those) happen on the backend?
Coporation

BTW, what makes the pictures in the paper wildly dithered like that?
For social networking atop XMPP, see https://movim.eu/

Combined with the in-development ActivityPub gateway from Libervia ( https://salut-a-toi.org/blog/view/goffi@goffi.org/@/id/liber... ), interop with Mastodon, Pleroma and others becomes possible too. The decentralized social web space is quite active at the moment.
My understanding is that the impacts of warming will be uneven, with parts of e.g. India becoming unlivable. So we're looking at mass migration and/or warfare with continued warming. Are the GDP estimates factoring those into account?

I'd love it if this could be handled peacefully, and Canada just sells a big chunk of some northern province to the Indian government: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33483424 But history doesn't exactly leave me optimistic here.
The best scenario possible for humans alive right now is to use fossil fuels (including coal) to reduce poverty and generally improve quality of life but having the fumes concentrated in areas where there is no population and have the electricity transported to major centers of population via high voltage lines.

Nothing is as cheap and vastly availible, doesn't require an overhaul of the grid, no need to develop new tech, it's all understood down to the last detail.

Everything else is just gaslighting, hypocrisy and selfishness that has people in rich areas of the world and especially the very rich areas within very rich countries (think California, New York, Oslo, Stokholm) care more about their children and their children's children than people who are alive right now.

The worse are those who don't have children and don't plan to have children but they still live in those rich areas and use climate to virtue signal. In one word Leonardo Di Caprio.

Amazing actor, great producer and fundraiser, delicious taste as far as his women but completely unaware of the trade-offs necessary to do what he wants.

The moment actors and people from the show-biz stopped supporting Africa and turned to climate you understand the deep divide between Hollywood, NYC and the priorities of the rest of the country, even with something as trivial as empathy. The rest of the country has empathy for humans whereas NYC and LA graduated to empathy towards animals and inanimate object such as climate.
Magic Mouse-looking, Star Trek-esque, health tracker for the whole family
In art, you can afford a few mistakes. Like, on many photo-realistic pictures generated by midjourney, if you look closely you'll see a thing or two that are odd in the eyes of characters. In an AI-generated novel, you can accept a typo here and there, or not even notice it if it's really subtle.

In a program, you can't really afford that. A small mistake can have dramatic consequences. Now, maybe in the next few years you'll only need one human supervisor fixing AI bugs where you used to need 10 high-end developers, but you probably won't be able to make reliable programs just by typing a prompt, the way you can currently generate a cover for an e-book just by asking midjourney.

As for the political consequences of all of this, this is yet another issue.
Covid is here to stay, but global emergency could end next year, WHO chief says
Propaganda article is propaganda. They're only falling flat with a specific group of people that listen to media that refuses to acknowledge anything that goes against their activist message.

There's a large portion of the country that they're not "falling flat" with.
My empathy for artists is fighting with my concern for everyone else's future, and losing.

It would be very easy to make training ML models on publicly available data illegal. I think that would be a very bad thing because it would legally enshrine a difference between human learning and machine learning in a broader sense, and I think machine learning has huge potential to improve everyone's lives.

Artists are in a similar position to grooms and farriers demanding the combustion engine be banned from the roads for spooking horses. They have a good point, but could easily screw everyone else over and halt technological progress for decades. I want to help them, but want to unblock ML progress more.
I think it might literally mean "operates at room temperature" as in 25-35 degrees C. Not really sure how it works but there seems to be a distinction between high, intermediate, and room temperature for the Na-S battery's operating conditions.

Quote from: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21663831.2022.2...

1.1. History of Na-S batteries

Research on Na-S batteries originated in the 1960s, with the first research focused on High-Temperature Sodium-Sulfur (HT-Na/S) batteries, which operate around 300–350 °C. A molten Na anode (melting point=98 °C), a molten sulfur cathode (melting point = 118 °C) and ceramic β'-Al2O3 as solid electrolyte are assembled into the HT-Na/S batteries [11]. HT-Na/S batteries avoid the dendrite problem and have high electrical conductivity. However, it also has the defects of high working temperature, high risk, low energy density and high operation cost. And then, the Intermediate-Temperature Sodium-Sulfur (IMT-Na/S) batteries were innovated in the 1970s and operate between 120–300 °C. The IMT-Na/S batteries also eliminated the dendrite problem, but the electronic conductivity and the utilization of sulfur also decreased. Researchers have been intensively investigating Room-Temperature Sodium-Sulfur (RT-Na/S) batteries, which operate around 25 °C-35 °C. RT-Na/S batteries can completely convert S8 to Na2S, so they have a high theoretical energy density (1274 Wh kg−1)
22 Discoveries of 2022
Can they be recycled to get back close to 100% capacity?
Deepmind’s AlphaCode conquers coding, performing as well as humans
A somewhat shorter lifespan might be a decent trade if the materials are much more recyclable and if mining is produces less pollution.
oh yeah, rereading it, it's pretty obvious actually, I guess I was being dense that moment.
Sidestep it by using multiple interpreters, each with their own GIL:

https://peps.python.org/pep-0554/

https://peps.python.org/pep-0684/
PSA: all Firefox users should go into about:config and set network.IDN_show_punycode to true. This will completely protect you from these kind of attacks, at least in the browser.
They are literally saying they would rather humanity as a species die out rather than survive and solve problems. And given very few people will not have kids because of global warming, really what they are saying is, "My own genes are terrible so I'll let other humans figure it out." Very stupid arguments all around!
>> force the hand of the opposition to appoint the Istanbul mayor as presedential candidate.

how is this in favour of erdogan? mayor has better chance of winning than kemal.
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There should be rules on what they can put into news papers or on the air. Needs to go through some review process where actual sources must be provided and verified. Not the trash we have today where “sources say” “polls say” lol what f*cking sources? Prove your BS!
If they competed with me by throwing my product through a decompiler, fed it into an AI model, and selling the generated output, I'd be pretty upset about it.

Which is pretty close to the actual issue here, that artists did not give their permission to use their own work to generate their competition.
Listening to various Rick Hartley talks on youtube, I got the understanding that it was the opposite: even at slow clock rates, modern ICs cause all sorts of signal integrity and EMI issues because of very fast edge rise times.

Cannot confirm from my experience though, I don't practice EE, I just dabbble in electronics and never actually characterized SI and EMI in my creations.
I find it irritating, but I can see your point.
In short, this is probably because climate economic modeling has traditionally focused on estimating more knowable, quantifiable impacts, and acknowledging but not including potential (maybe even probable!) impacts that are too difficult to model based on current knowledge.
Tail risk is a big area that has traditionally not been modeled well leading to a very likely underestimate to the social cost of carbon (SCC):
https://www.volts.wtf/p/economists-have-quantified-the-econo...

Here’s a historical overview of the situation with some links to the latest research:
https://impactlab.org/research-area/social-cost/

It’s not just tail risk, even things like geopolitical instability and crop failure were often not historically included… you can see why the headline statement seems to conflict with intuition, and it’s because of the narrow view taken on the impact of the fossil fuel scenario on GDP.

There is one more important element, and that is the distinction between economic activity (which GDP measures) and economic welfare. Natural disasters often don’t have much of an impact on GDP in part because the rebuilding activity counts in GDP. But it’s obvious to see why a future where we are spending an increasingly larger share of our effort to mitigate and rebuild losses is a much worse one. So GDP may not be the best measure here:
https://www.economy.com/economicview/analysis/296804/How-Nat...
There's nothing subjective about central heating, air conditioning, healthcare, and living in homes that can easily withstand hurricanes and flooding.
Well, we have a real world example here on Earth in Libya/Nort Africa going on since at least the Roman times.

Ocean to the north and desert to the south and only a thin strip in between where to live and wage war in.
sure, but almost any game built on the Steam engine or an id engine came with the server code, which was nearly any game that mattered for a decade. That was a huge library of games you could self host a server with.
>maybe some roads that should be adopted by the local government...

Government won't "adopt" roads behind a gate...
To be fair, I do think there are people who work hard, especially founders. There are also vocal pretenders like Musk. My guess is that the folks who do work really hard are probably the least likely to go around broadcasting that fact. That was my experience, at least.

I was never VC-backed but I did a couple runs (combination of bootstrapped and angel investment) and I worked like crazy all the time. I never really thought about the amount of work I did until after (I was too busy worried about failing). I never discussed the amount of work I did with anyone, especially not publicly, because I never felt like it was anything to brag about (I still feel this way). This post is probably my first public mention of it TBH. :)
> why should we aim to reduce emissions at a significant detriment to human life?

Around 60% of the global population lives within 100km of the shore[0]. In the US, coastal counties are home to 40% of Americans.

Relocating all those people (not to mention industry and commerce) would be a significant detriment to human life. Damage to industry worldwide would be a lot more than a few percent of GDP.

And this is not even considering all the ecological damage, food shortages (crop failures due to rising temperatures), danger to people everywhere due to more intensive storms, heat, etc.
FTA, problem-solving angle tangential to Sanskrit:

> Mr Rajpopat said he had "a eureka moment in Cambridge" after spending nine months "getting nowhere".

> "I closed the books for a month and just enjoyed the summer - swimming, cycling, cooking, praying and meditating," he said.

> "Then, begrudgingly I went back to work, and, within minutes, as I turned the pages, these patterns starting emerging, and it all started to make sense."

Sometimes the best thing to do after grinding is to just walk away for awhile.
The secret Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ... I have been doing some digging (citizen journalism) and you will never believe who is behind it ...
> It seems strange that Putin should be claiming he is running an Anti-fascist[0] Special Military Operation when he is channeling (if yet more hypocritically) Hitler himself.

That's only strange if you expect honesty from him. Despite everything, fascism still sounds like a massive negative to everybody today, so he appeals to that as justification, regardless of whether there's any basis for it. On top of that, he hopes the memory of the Russian WW2 fight against the Nazis will invigorate the Russian people to support his war. The fact that his war has more in common with Hitler's aggression than with the defense against it is of course an inconvenient fact he wants to ignore, deny, and bury under his war rhetoric.