skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what it would mean if Republicans conclusively proved that China did covid (whatever that means). Do you think the Republicans would have been/will be more likely to wear masks or get vaccines?
TBH, I think it is likely that quite a lot of human speech behavior is LM-like in terms of its internal "implementation".

But humans do so much more than that, as the other reply indicates.
Just in case anyone wants to see the rather delightful cartoon referenced in the article, which is now a dead link[0]:

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20050305233206/https://www.colum...
I guess I don't follow your reasoning. You don't have to kill all of them, you just need to ensure all that get a dose die. If some dodge the death rays, that's ok.

Antibiotic resistance is a thing not because antibiotics are a molecular shredder that chews up the bugs. It's because they're some kind of metabolic poison.

I might be able to increase my resistance to Iocaine powder by slowly dosing up. But I can't increase my resistance to Andre the Giant tearing me limb from limb.
Half-way through reading the article I descended down a Wikipedia rabbit hole that eventually led me to this article [0] and dreaming of what it would be like to touch a moon rock. Thank you for your story!

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/02/nyregion/fbi-revisits-ear...
The current zeitgeist is zero sum in thinking, believing that there can only be one winner in an employment arrangement. And if they aren’t winning, then it is inherently exploitative. This can be seen on both sides of the employer/employee relationship, and seems to be a bit of a prisoners dilemma, where the negative vibes of one side incite the other and the animosity intensifies.

IMO: more people should consult or work for themselves. You learn a lot in a short amount of time and get a good understanding for the pros and cons of salaried employment.
The linked article doesn't mention that the SSEC's modifiable-program nature is debated, since it normally read instructions from paper tape. It did have a small (150 word) relay store from which it could also read instructions (so I personally think it counts).

http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/cp04.htm#ssec

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/ssec.html
another way: if exp(x) implies x dimensionless then by euler identity sin and cos parameters are dimensionless as well.
This makes no sense. Name a country you can become a citizen of, as easily as getting a new job.
But where does the money come from
Ohio the other day was Norfolk Southern cutting costs. Same general deal with Houston and just now Tuscon.
Let's be clear here. Nothing outside of some extremely filtered high end equipment is producing exactly and only 222nm light, and no cancer study is isolating exactly and only 222nm light. Except in extreme cases all light sources have some bandwidth. Most UV generators produce tens to hundreds of nm of bandwidth. A common MIG or TIG welder produces plenty of 222nm light in a broad distribution* of UV. UV lamps for curing applications have used arcs to generate deep UV for ages. Lack of a particular study for a particular 1nm band is not a meaningful signal.

*Source:
https://www.ehime-iinet.or.jp/ehime_e/corp/toyo/ronbun/image...
This is very interesting, I think what the world needs, is the inference/deductive reasoning/critical thinking kung-fu in an AI, which can be trained on "bespoke" body of knowledge/datalake.
Realness has little to do with the quality of the output. Or else my TI-83 would be the realest mathematician on the planet, it can multiply numbers that even Terence Tao can't in his head.

Judging these systems solely by their output is to repeat the msitakes of behaviorism, even a dumb markov chain or a parrot converses better than an infant, but unlike the infant does not acquire an understanding or representation of language.
Calling it stealing in the first place is inflammatory.
The important aspect of a wet market / farmer's market is the removal of exotics from the trade. [1][2]

There is a movement that simply doesn't like live animals prepared into food at the markets, or raw meat products hung in non sterile conditions and wrongly attribute aspects of the trade for any emerging disease.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00677-0

[2] https://says.com/my/news/china-finally-bans-trading-and-cons...
Anything worse than the first half of the 20th century, when nuclear families were in tact?
I’m not waiting y the brake failed. It can take minutes for air brakes to respond on a long train.
Once they become aware of the hot axle, if they could stop quicker, then the bearing doesn’t fail, which causes the axle to drop out, and thus the train to derail.

Think about pulling over as soon as you know you’ve taken a hit to a tire instead of continuing to drive until you’re on nothing but a rim and sparks.
Berkshire dumps shares in TSMC, banks; increases Apple stake
I don't know which is worse, storing the thumbnail in Exif, or not updating it when the image is modified.
Shouldn't we be doing more research on viruses that come from bats?
In my experience, ChatGPT is unsuitable even for tic tac toe. When I tried it, it hallucinated completely incorrect board positions (e.g. forgot about moves already made or wanted to continue playing after I had won).
I'm objecting to you acting as if including a disclaimer negates the exclusive use of "makes you think" to insinuate. if you don't want to imply, don't include a podcast host "but I'm just a dumb guy" disclaimer at the end, use a phrase that isn't 100% always used to insinuate, or don't say it. it's as simple as that

can you see how this works from my reply to your comment? I spent the whole comment slating what you said, then stuck in a disclaimer at the end to point out that I don't really disagree with what you said, nor do I intend to insult you, and yet you still got emotional about it. disclaimers like that are lazy and don't change the fact that you said something. why not just put the same extra effort into making your words more clear?
It's not just bats. Plenty of wild animals carry rabies and other diseases. Bats are incredibly vital to their ecosystems and shouldn't be vilified. It's generally a good idea not to touch any wild animal or its droppings.

As someone else pointed out, bats eat mosquitos and other insects that transmit disease at much, much higher rates.
Precisely. The old “build one to throw away”
The theory is the US through ecohealth funded the Wuhan lab in their gain of function research which brought us the virus which causes Wuhan Pneumonia.
That's not exactly a closed loop recycling system.

Additionally, flame is very restricted on a sub. You wouldn't be using any sort of methane to cook.

https://qr.ae/prgBKF

https://qr.ae/prgBsh

https://www.answers.com/Q/What_fuel_does_a_submarine_use_for...
Ah cool, that makes a lot of sense. Interesting peek into the process.
CCP is fucking useless and we have nothing to fear of their invasion of Taiwan. They seem to have found the least intelligent people of China to run the country and exported the smartest citizens.
Flow Waveform
I don’t think the article mentioned art one way or the other.

But, the very first sentence seems like it could apply to art as well, where GitHub Copilot could be replaced with any of the generative AI models out there used for art.

> GitHub Copilot intentionally severs the relationship between creator and creation. This purposefully, yet painstaking act is accomplished by 1) stripping the humanity that’s uniquely part of the creator to make the creation and then 2) monetizing the creation immediately.
Now at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/newyorker-720-lo... (the Columbia article links do redirect).

Edit: perhaps that image is not hotlinkable.
Just about every industrialized democracy that has the concept of emergency powers and uses them in emergencies? This happens all the time in small and big ways, there are plenty of US examples alone. For instance the US currently does not have rationing or near-universal consumer goods price controls, the National Guard doesn't run New Orleans, etc, etc.
You are saying that half the US population views taxation as theft.
The lady speaking is not Jan Huitema.

Jan Huitema is the other person on the live. IMO, I would not trust this as a source at all.

To each their own.
>They really should have had someone to say ‘you can’t ship that’ when the topic of glue to hold mirrors came up.

I work in product at a hardware company and have a lot of domain experience which came from spending years in the (literal) field. There's been many times where I write a product spec and the engineers are incredulous. "Really? It gets THAT hot?" or "Do we really need to provide a bonding/grounding lug on the case?"

It's not uncommon to find engineering teams with deep domain experience in one area, but completely lacking in others. Ignoring domain experience, there should have been rigorous product testing during design that would have weeded out the glue issue.
I've taken several road trips in my non-Tesla. I've yet to fail to charge at any location I've tried at the rates my car can charge at.
It makes sense at an individual level, but does not make sense at a population level. On an individual level, I would tell someone how to stay safe, but if I was advocating at a population level I would be focusing my time on infrastructure change.
What prevents good support is scale. For example, Microsoft is very entrenched in the enterprise space, yet support is quite lacking (unless you are a very large customer, maybe).
From what I can tell

The binary is running a proxy (fiddler?) on the windows machine.
The iPhone is on the same network and accepts the proxy's self signed certificate which allows the iPhone to trust the proxy.
You point the iPhone to the proxy.
Start Game - End Game - Zero points.
When the POST or whatever API call is sent to the server the proxy (fiddler) modifies the request to whatever _points_ you specified.
Then you see the updated score on the app.
The lower income demographic didn’t vote for her the first time, and they aren’t going to vote for her this time either.

In the general election, there were 10 candidates that got > 10,000 votes. Lightfoot got 17% of the vote, concentrated in the rich white northside along the lake. Prekwinkle (the other person in this article) got 16% of the vote, concentrated in the rich white and black south side along the lake.

The poor areas of the city voted for a variety of black and Hispanic men. The most interesting of those men was Willie Wilson, who literally went to churches and handed out cash as people left Sunday services. The Trump-era FEC investigated and declared that handing out cash does not count as trying to buy votes, so obviously this Chicago program is A-OK regardless of whether any recipients vote for her!
Clojure is not Go or Python
Not the person you're replying to but:

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/12/22-0666_article

I wouldn't worry too much about it though. I put it firmly in the possible but extremely unlikely category. I've seen other papers talking about the possibly of it spreading through apartment buildings though plumbing and air vents, and also spreading via shared spaces like hallways and elevators.

In the end, it's all a numbers game. If enough of the virus wafts your way and your immune system can't deal with it before it gets a foothold and spreads you'll get infected. If you've got a hole in the wall between you and your neighbor and your neighbor is sick and their virus is shedding like a stressed cat you might get sick too. We've also got plenty of cases where someone is living in the same household as someone infected and they don't get sick. It's really just down to the amount of exposure/viral load, and the immune system of the person exposed.
I hope the kids that killed that lady get punished for their actions.
Thanks to you and the other commenter. It seems my perception of the timeline is indeed incorrect, although I'm not sure my view of its complexity is. I have found it difficult to dive into but want to give it another whirl here at some point.
I think the issue with modern society when it comes down to it is we pretend we're not playing a long running game of monopoly when we are. There's a fixed amount of resources on Earth. It's weird to look at the new generation entering this game and say that this is the way it needs to be, when they didn't have any involvement in how it came to be. The entire idea of land ownership or resource ownership is strange when you think about it.

We've mostly decided as a society that taking other folks resources by force is wrong, essentially cementing the last generation of folks that did so successfully as the aristocracy.

If the nonviolent polite resource sharing society we've tried / are trying to construct is to last, resource sharing of some sort must be enforced (taxes, etc.).
Is there an elegant solution to the garbage collection problem that append only DBs have to deal with?
Well you don't have to wipe out the species, just keep your distance.
There are ton of internet use cases that don't need low latency, though, especially if you have super high-bandwidth with lasers[1] (sorry for shit citation, just went with the first thing I found). First one that comes to mind is streaming back raw scientific data you're collecting from the moon. Netflix would be easy, you just gotta wait for 2.5+ seconds of buffering. And you could do voice/video memos and stuff, they'd just be async.

But yes, real-time video chat and gaming will be kinda hard.
Full disclosure, Google asked me this on a PM interview once: "knowing these lasers exist, how would you design an internet for Mars astronauts, and what limitations would it have?"

And yes, I failed. So take my words with a grain of salt. (Though I actually felt like this was the one question I nailed.)

[1]: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220913005840/en/Aal...
The problem really existed and I contact them and they were able to solve the problem already, thank you
What are you talking about?

I'm asking why you think the BBC should be exempt from scrutiny like any other organisation.
Replying with some vague hundreds-years-old anecdote is also incredibly unserious.
Yann LeCun often argues that animals like cats and dogs are substantially more intelligent than current LLMs [0] and I'd have to agree. I don't see how/why to consider practical knowledge as only constituting a tiny fraction of our overall intelligence. Either way, it's not clear if the GPT-* models will someday produce emergent common sense or if they're going down an entirely wrong path.

[0] https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1622300311573651458
If not theft, would you not agree that it's certainly excessive? Did you support government giving your tax money to the banks in 2008 or the automakers in 2009? If you didn't support it, did you still pay your taxes? If so, why?

fwiw, I think the "taxes are theft" argument is often used as a response of exasperation against what appears to be systemic misuse of public money. I suspect that the vast majority of people who would repeat that, would also agree that some form of the "social contract" is necessary. They probably just disagree on what specific level of government involvement makes sense. ie: rather than expanding the size of government, why not reduce the size of government. Wouldn't that free up more productive labor that could grow the pie for everyone? Maybe government doesn't need to be picking winners and losers in a free market - or at least less so than they currently do.
> gunshots rang out one day as he was leaving work. Two bullets from a drive-by shooter pierced his head and left him permanently blind

Only in Chicago could you read this and conclude that giving out monthly checks is the solution to the city’s problems.

I recently left Chicago. The main reason was that with a young family the crime was just too scary. I don’t have a strong opinion on this program, I was happy to pay taxes in Chicago, and I was certainly not eligible for it. But I will observe that the tax base that is needed to fund it will continue to leave due to crime.
It actually nearly exists in France https://www.caf.fr/allocataires/aides-et-demarches/droits-et... It is called RSA. Any person (in need) who are elligible can claim around ~500 euros of revenue, even more if you have children.

I personnally see a lot of people abusing it and not willing to find themselves a situation, when I pay their salary with huge taxes. It's not so fair for active people who have the ambition to reach a greater comfort than the bear minimum. But, it really makes you feel safe to know that your country will never let someone in need down.
It's certainly not half, and really how we get mired in these things is way more complex than what you mentioned; I'd argue a lot of getting bogged down and accomplishing nothing is people whose views are not worth consideration (not all of them are, shocker!) clamoring about how oppressed they are that their disingenuous positions are not being taken seriously.

If someone really believes taxation is theft, that is past the point of consideration. That leaves little avenue for reconcile, makes the bias very clear, and puts on full display the lack of critical thinking.
Yes, nation-state-unique emergency powers exist and were used widely over the last few years.

> world organizations will need to be pretty totalitarian to effectively manage public health.

What's being proposed for May 2023 majority vote goes way beyond existing powers, e.g. asking all countries to strike "human rights" from the international health treaty and their local response to health emergencies.
> There is significant concern that the mere act of having researchers wade around in bat caves looking for coronaviruses is a bad idea.

Bat guano collection for farming along with mining activity probably has a hundred thousand times more human to bat contact than research does. It isn't like nobody in China is coming into contact with these bats other than the scientists.

Also in Hubei's Enshi prefecture there is the Tenglong cave which is the longest monomer Karst cave system in the world, home of probably millions of bats, and open for tourism:

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/33905/20211012/china-r...
Can I see the math on that? Unless efficiency improves dramatically that does not seem feasible.
That is a hypothesis. I just don’t understand why it should have policy impact since there is no evidence for it. It’s currently just a conspiracy theory.
Is this really that hard to comprehend? It's a slight twist on a ticket based arcade game or a slot machine. It's pretty common knowledge that they are a waste of money.
is there data viewable online that you refer to?
Would there have been a better time to post?
This is really interesting comment and thought provoking. Thank you.

I especially enjoyed the part of building frontend apps more as a server of communicating processes.

My interest is multithreading and parallelism. If I could write frontend software in the style of processes, that would be awesome.
I found this interesting.

"There were 11 million victims of the Holocaust (or 6 million Jewish victims and 5 million non-Jewish victims)

The number 11 million is a fictitious number on a number of levels. “11 million Jews” is the population census that is mentioned in the 16th copy of the Wannsee Protocol, notes taken by Eichmann (January 20, 1942), only about the Jews. The issue also seems to be the differentiation between victims based on NSDAP race policy versus civilian deaths during war (i.e.: victims of genocide or casualties of war) if the latter, the correct number is probably between 30-35 million deaths, maybe more. The death toll on the territory of the former Soviet Union is generally regarded to be about 27 million including Soviet military."

https://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/holocaust-misconceptions/
I wouldn't suggest it if is like all the crap I have around me. They're wood and metal not electronics and software.
Maybe some type of cellular automata could explain it;)
That’s pretty low
There have been efforts to find them in the Milky Way and in other galaxies. All we really know is that Kardashev Type III civilizations aren't all around us. But that doesn't mean very much. https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2022/01/20/the-dyson-sphere-...
Taxes, obviously. Is this supposed to be some kind of gotcha? The ultimate purpose of a guaranteed income is to reduce inequality, rich people pay for it or it doesn't work.
Not every opinion deserves consideration.
You add the new CA so that you can Man-in-the-middle the traffic between your phone and their servers. That lets the app to view it unencrypted, modify as needed, and then send it off to the real server.

Just removed the CA after.
You will need millions, and that includes a vast number of fast chargers plus grid upgrades.
20 years away myself, who did vote for her?
When / where did you meet with Mayan Elder? Whats the story there? That sounds like an adventure!
The ETH Papers – Example Smart Contracts for Ethereum (2018)
> It's entirely plausible (albeit far from a certainty, partly because China is so uncooperative) that the entire global pandemic could have been prevented if they just hadn't botched the initial response.

Based on the earliest found wastewater samples in Italy, along with what we know about how the virus spreads, this is very unlikely. By the time China was reprimanding doctors the virus was already spreading in Europe.
>Calling the view of approximately half the US population "unserious" is why we are where we are.

A large amount of people think the Earth is flat. Am I now supposed to consider flat-earthers a serious position?

>People who cannot fathom or refuse to accept some widespread opinion/view/belief of another is why

I can perfectly fathom it, much like I can understand why someone would believe the Earth is flat. That doesn't make the position any less serious.

>I think you ought to be more charitable to the opinion expressed by others, it's far more constructive.

Much like a flat-earther, I consider those who think the taxation is theft have not put any actual research or thought into their position, and have simply come to that position by naively interpreting the first experiences they have come to understand from their senses.
I personally want a modern car that won't gravely injure me in even the most modest of car accidents but one that doesn't have inane software-controlled lockout features.
I get "Object Not Found!"
How are you liking it? I got to look at one recently and really really liked it. Lot more than I expected. Unfortunately I need to make about 3x what I currently do to ever be able to justify buying something like it for my use cases lol.
Human cells don't have cell walls.
I didn't know what it was either. OP is likely referring to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Family:_The_Case_For...

Commonly known as the Moynihan Report. It has its supporters and its detractors. I have no opinion on it since this is the first I'm hearing of it.
It's a bunch of smoke and mirrors akin to blockchain, bitcoin (and the entire web3/crypto space in general) - a whole bunch of hype and "evangelists" who keep saying it's going to change the world (and make them a whole lot of money in the process, how convenient!) but if you do look at it critically even at a surface level you realize it's just a bunch of really computationally expensive BS that isn't any better or more officient than existing status quo solutions.
Amazon makes one but to view data, it's app based and that's a dealbreaker for me: https://www.theverge.com/22971411/amazon-smart-air-quality-m...
At the time, the title was the opposite of a slur. Now, it would paint the report in a different light.
agreed and obviously running this in a VM is the way to go.

i'm impressed at the amount of effort this person put in.