skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Christ it doesn't take much for people to go mask off on "start up the government rape squads".
I didn't say it was hard. I said machining tungsten is hard. Machining lead is also difficult and weird and the end result can be barely usable for anything, especially in hot environments or with any load. It's just not good.

If you need complex parts, this could be an excellent choice.

Idk what the confusion here is. Maybe you are unfamiliar with machining?
If they have useful data they need to upload it somewhere. Maybe nobody cares now, but at some point there will be an AI capable of ingesting it and it might see something worthwhile in it.
Plankton. Sea greens. And protein from the sea.
Great post.
If it is forcing you to replicate the entire pg cluster then it sounds like you’re setting up streaming replication. For logical replication you would set up a publication either for all tables in a certain db or for tables of your choosing and then you would subscribe to that publication from the destination db.
In the sense that Jim Crow era Texas is more open than Mississippi.
If ChatGPT existed 47 years ago programming as we know it never would have been invented, and we'd just ask our room sized tabulation machines to kindly do payroll.
That's not the thrust of the study. Per the article, "Here we analyse the effect of negative words on news consumption...

Where it is reported a reason for consumption "...negative information automatically activating threat responses and leading one to deduce that ...motivations may make ‘fear’ and ‘anger’ more influential...
Is this a joke? Even as far as fringe vaccine alarmism goes, this is especially sketchy and substanceless.
> I'm the author of the post. I didn't feel any need to add a disclaimer, because if my book faded to insignificance tomorrow I'd still argue the same points.

You need the disclaimer. The reason why is because no one can read your intentions, they can only guess your intention from your actions.

By waiting until a 3rd party disclosed this information a little bit of trust was automatically lost.
I first heard it circa 1984 | 85 (ish) .. which highlights just how many decades we've been mocking oversized gas guzzling vehicles for.

On the plus side I probably won't see the end of another four decades of rampant consumption for no fit purpose.

Fingers crossed habits changed (don't hold yor breath!).
Thanks for the link. I did not know about raspberry juice.

It does provide a similar capability to MCIWB. It recreates the Education edition python interface which does let you set and get blocks and see when a player hits something.

Its a solution for people who learn education edition and then want to run the same code at home on a BUkkit server. (Bukkit is a Java server mod )
GP’s hypo said “20 years ago”. I assume that in 20 years, AI will have created things more impressive than React.
Sure I will reach out on twitter
This is not how a conflict of interest works.
I've used Brother printers since he 1990s. I've never bought any other type, ever. I've looked, but nothing comes close to the value.

I used to print a LOT. A whole lot. So I would use up the drum life after 2 or 3 years. The $120 one - HL-L2305W - is the one I always bought. They had different model numbers over time, but that is the one. Except when I used to buy them a lot, they would always come on sale at some point or another and I could pick it up for $100.

High density toner cartridge is $58 for 2600 pages. Maybe there's remanufactured/refilled toner, but I don't know about that. But you will see that the drum is good for 12,000 pages. So you can only use 5 toner cartridges before your drum gets blasted out. And to replace that, it costs $93. So at that point, I'd always buy another printer, as the new printer is only a little bit more, plus you get any new upgrades. And by upgrades, when I first started using them, I first started buying them when they printed out 3 pages per minute, which was still way better than dot matrix printers. So I'd buy a new one when the drum died and upgrade to 8 ppm, then 15 ppm. It seems to have stalled out at 25-30 ppm, for a long time now. I guess it is just the mechanical nature of the beast, where it costs a lot more to increase the ppm rate.

I've been through about 5 of the printers. Always worked great. Best value. Not anymore, though. I don't have a laser printer now, don't need one.

Plus I learned tricks at the time.

And I know 99% of people will never get close to printing that much, but I'm just saying that I put those printers through their paces and never had a problem.
Fiduciary responsibility also gives company execs a very wide berth. A ceo is more likely to be fired by the board than run afoul of their fiduciary responsibility.
Financial Domination Has a Scamming Problem
Lead shielding is usually applied in sheets; and due to its low melting point, it can also be cast as a layer on other machined parts on applications where sheets are more difficult to use.
They could embrace immigration from Africa more, but there has been lots of friction against that, a lot of it coming to a boil during COVID. Southeast Asia is already a source of mail order brides and blend with south China pretty easily, but Korea is also drawing from that pool. North Koreans are still considered illegal immigrants and are quickly sent on to South Korea if they are lucky. Ukrainians, Mongolians, and Russians are fairly common in Shanghai/Beijing, mostly traders and models.

Maybe it will happen later? But right now China is still a net emigrant country.
The Wire legends are dying. Omar, Daniels now.
RIP
I wonder how much of this is about VR not doing so well? Huge investment but not a lot of excitement (yet).

Maybe they'll pull something out of the hat, combining slick new VR with AI, with live real-time movie making, or something.

Either way, I don't mind when big tech lay staff off instead of finding sneaky hostile ways to keep the billions of dollars in ad revenue rolling in. If things aren't going as well as hoped, then say it bluntly, deal with it, then get on with it.
That's because the author didn't see my youtube video on how to get rich in 2 easy steps. /s
This is your brain on america
It has taken another tragic crash to know just how much trauma people experience when they are about to die in a crash. I’m talking of the Yeti Airlines crash in January. There, as here, not a single person escaped with their life. And yet, someone had the courage to record the final moments of his life and his co-passengers’. As they descended to their doom outside Pokhara, they were screaming, the last thing they...
> Or would you say that it's unacceptable to use race as a variable at all,

You're arguing against a claim that neither TFA nor anyone here made. TFA doesn't suggest doctors should ignore past research that examined race - it argues that future research should examine specific identifiers instead of made-up ones.

> often neither you or the patient actually know their ancestry

Sure - which is why using race as a proxy for ancestry is a bad idea. If a drug has known risks to people of West African ancestry, and you have a patient with unknown ancestry, then you don't know whether that drug presents risks to the patient. Whereas, if the research on that drug had only reported "risks to black people" without examining ancestry, then you would believe you could tell by looking at a patient whether the drug presented a risk - and you'd be wrong.
> It would seem we live in a world where it's simply too difficult, too unfordable, too little time, and too many problems to have children at a rate

These reasons are a lie. The parents of boomers had less disposable income than we do, they were living in a generation devastated by war(s) and they had very much longer working hours that we do now.

We have just decided that we don't want to have children, it's not because of external factors.
But we also seriously increased our paid labor pool with women in the 20th century (and there are also certainly people who don't work who probably could work given the right stimulus).

I think we'd need some research/math to see at what working population to non-working population ratio this is actually a problem (and what fertility rate is safe to avoid this if it is indeed a problem).
governments are run by people who like to go and meet in offices all year long.
Why bother? You could get uranium much more easily from other sources.
I find it a bit sad that the only two options we have is either using central services or everyone manages their own infrastructure (at the very least their own domain name).

I would've hoped that at this point we would have a true decentral solution for this sort of thing. Despite all the blockchain/dapp/web3 hype for many years they have no practical solution for anything.

We have all the pieces it seems, torrent and dht/magnet links work, ipfs works, web of trust works. And yet we don't seem to manage to work collectively on true decentral solutions to the issue of centralization of critical internet infrastructure. Why can't we all work collectively together and share resources so we aren't dependent on the whims of some shaky businesses, we are all constantly at risk of them turning on us for profit.
Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality
I thought it was a dumb idea at the time, that nobody would be stupid enough to invest in.

I still think it's a dumb idea, but I've learnt not to underestimate human stupidity.
The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy includes topics from quantum mechanics.
Ask HN: Tool to assemble and archive communications from multiple platforms
Hi HN,

Like many of you, I stay connected with friends using many platforms (email, whatsapp, messenger, telegram, signal) and I sometimes have trouble remembering where I discussed a particular topic with someone, or when I sent them news the last time. This is especially true with friends abroad with which I only interact a few times a year and that I sometimes forget to send updates to for a long time.

I've seen tools such as https://github.com/monicahq/monica that allow you to keep track of things but as far as I understand you have to enter things manually (i.e. when you last contacted them, what it was about, etc). I'm looking for a platform that allows you to create contacts, associate accounts from several platforms to them, and then search and backup your interactions with them on these platforms.

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This is one of the reasons why maternity leave compensation is paid by the government in Germany. But to American ears that's socialism or something, I guess.
I agree that nuclear power would have been great.

However it's no deficiency of planning.

It's down to public opinion and misguided regulation.
> How unhinged is it to call the lack of exponential population growth a crisis?

Strawman. We are merely talking about not dropping to zero too fast
Would you mind citing your source on this?
This post is speculative. We're only 4 months into seeing the potential of LLMs with huge sets of training data.

4 months... that's it.

Wait 5 years, and during that time we'll know whether or not it's worth it to know programming. Maybe not even 5 years, give it 2 years.
Why is it the company's responsibility to keep employees that are no longer necessary? I don't understand that. Did Google or any other company promised these people that they will be hired forever? Google hired them and paid them very cushy salaries. What am I missing? I really don't understand the discussion around those recent layoffs.
It has nothing to do with "crisis in Western societies". It happens everywhere, including in countries that saw a super massive, skyrocketing (10x+ in one generation) increase of median effective incomes. Simply called a "demographic transition": people are not having kids because they can avoid it (contraception) and because there are no social or economic forces coercing them to have kids. Kids can only meaningfully contribute to income once they finish college not at the age of 6 as before when they could start working in the field, there is a decline of influence or religion that used to force people to procreate, and finally, government pension systems, not grown-up kids, fund people in their old age. This is well-researched, started a long time ago, and doesn't need any "negative" economic explanations. Childbirth is in decline because economy gets better, not worse.

Chinese per capita income increased 8.76x between 1978 (last year before one-child policy) and 2019, when (since 2016) two babies were allowed for everyone (so few people want a 3rd one it barely bears any significance anymore). Birth rate has decreased from 2.72 to 1.5 - from far above acceptable maximum to well, far below acceptable minimum. It's absurd to compare living standards in China in 1978 and in 2019. These were two completely different countries - West didn't see so much progress in maybe 200+ years. And yet, birth rate fell. One can quote authoritarianism - but well, China was even more authoritarian in 1978. That same thing is true everywhere - there isn't a single country where birth rates were on the rise, while living standards are improving at a good rate in most of the world.
His responses show he doesn't have any understanding of what he's doing to people and their families. If humans were robots who didn't need shelter, food, and care, okay I guess. I may get laid off. If so, I'll go to sleep until I'm needed again. That's not how people work. Nobody wants a job with a constant threat of being laid off during the absolute worst economic times, when finding a job is hard and if you're honest with potential employers about being laid off, you'll have an automatic negative stigma attached to you.

If staff reductions are necessary, there are ways to do them within a reasonable amount of time without seriously hurting people and traumatizing everyone who's left at the company. Layoffs are bad for morale, bad for business.

Or you could look at employees like sheep or cattle to be herded and culled when it suits and when asked for justification, make completely tone deaf answers that show no compassion for the human costs of your actions, the actual points of the questions. See if your best people are still loyal and decide to stick around.
Fiduciary duty to shareholders doesn't mean you have to make a profit. You have to do whatever your shareholders want, and they don't have to want profit.
From your reply it seems like alcohol consumption does not create the same kind of sadness in your heart as a milder drug like marijuana does. Why so, rayiner?
Loved the Oxford dig: "Best for: aspiring power brokers"
well written. "flapdoodlery is rampant" sayeth the fakeyou.
I mean you're ignoring an obvious trend. These LLMs are improving rapidly.

If the improvement continues, the LLMs can reach a point in skill where they can replace us. Your statement and this article is gambling on the status quo. That humans will always be better then AI.

Why is this causing so much of a ruckus right now? Pretty much everyone knows chatGPT is pretty stupid when compared to a human.

It's causing a ruckus because it's a herald for a possible future where the AI becomes superior to human problem solving.

It's not a unrealistic proposition given that chess AI and go AI has already surpassed us.
Step 1: Already be rich.
Wtf, did I just read?! Alcohol playing with your mind?
I don’t have a dog in the AI fight, but it seems pretty plausible that React’s core concepts would have been part of a hypothetical 20 years ago training set. All of these were part of at least academic discourse:

- Algebraic effects

- DSLs designed to be expressive and statically analyzable

- [Thing] as a function of state (I’m not sure how much this was applied to UI specifically, but if I had to take a wild guess, probably)

- Abstraction of declarative definitions from computational instructions

If anything, I think a declarative UI model could have come much sooner if there weren’t such deep investment in other techniques. Not that a hypothetical AI of the time would have arrived at that, but I definitely think it had enough training material to go on.
It's not about population size, it's about number of working hands to mouths to feed, basically. In a decreasing, ageing population, this fraction becomes rapidly very unattractive.
A single crop harvester can replace 30 farm workers. If programming is going the same route as your farming example then we're in for a shock. The complexity and scale of software increases every year so I wonder if AI will be able to keep up or if there will always be a need for specialized roles.
Vox is also not your friend.
Near zero peanut allergies in South East Asia because there's so much peanuts in our food. Mothers who breast-feed their babies must be passing on the resistance as well.
> There also isn't any free will, because there isn't actually any agent who could have it.

The compilation of each possible Play in an Extensive Normal Form Game into a cellular automata can constitute a refutation by counterexample of your claim. It satisfies the agent condition through congruence with the technical language defining the concept of agent in artificial intelligence literature as it relates to agents in multi-agent multi-step decision theory problems. The condition of non-deterministic policies is found and shown to be optimal by Nash's justification for an mixed strategy equilibrium. The underlying mathematics that leads there is proven via Russel and there exists various proofs of the desiderata of probability from others which can begin atop that. Furthermore by compiling the formal system to get a physical system we create the ability for a logical analogy between the formal system and the physical system through Aristotle's analogical congruence concepts. We can count the cell configurations and we can count the transitional structure, but this is mostly a formality since we know through the definition of the compilation that they must agree. As far as I can tell at every single step in the laddering up there are proofs from the basics of logic to the mathematics to the use of probability to the justification through utility theory and even to the computational universality necessary to create the physical embedding of the agent in our reality.

The prior conception of guess appears laughable posterior to computation and comparison with evidence, but is just science prior and seeing it is wrong is hindsight bias posterior. It might sound laughable, but it is actually the case that it is not a laughing matter [1]. In like manner, but slightly different and perilously close to being anti-scientific is that you don't know until the observation whether guesses would go one way or another.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYPapE-3FRw
SFTC – Finish Cartridge
First of all, it is great that there is are ongoing attempts to build a new approach at creating UI with Rust. I hope it turns out into several competing frameworks with different target audiences.

I believe, you are confusing performance with responsiveness. Where a traditional mutating UI framework would happily update a widget and keep CPU idle most of the time, your approach keeps wasting processor cycles to build widget tree on demand for rendering. This could be unacceptable for devices with an energy budget (IOT, for example). So, your approach works well where loss of efficiency is not critical.
> [...] Zuckerberg himself owns a majority of the voting shares and $50b+ of the equity?

That doesn't make too much of a difference. If anything, it makes his duty to the rest of the shareholders more important. (In a legal sense.)

> It seems eminently reasonable to me that a profitable company should be legally liable to pay you at least your signing bonus, if not full severance or even your first year's salary, if they pull your offer right before the start date.

You are free to negotiate for such a clause in your contract. And to refuse contracts that don't have this clause.
And people wonder why birth rates are falling and people are afraid to make long term commitments.

Corporations like this don't deserve any loyalty. If I worked there and anybody offered to pay me even a few percent more, I'd leave in a heartbeat. I probably wouldn't even work hard, only the bare minimum to not get fired, because why should I? In conservative media this this is being spun as "nobody wants to work anymore because millennials and gen Z are lazy" but the real reason is very obvious for anybody under 30: as a corporate employee hard work doesn't pay off most of the time, instead you will be fired when shareholders are in danger of losing a few dollars.
I'm really tired of this mental virus that's taken over bad CEOs, the imaginary responsibility to shareholders:

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

It was actually cooked up in the 70s by Milton Friedman, and over the ensuing few decades it's gone so viral that even its opponents think it's true.

Companies have a responsibility not to just annihilate the shareholders' money for no reason whatsoever, but they have a LOT of leeway to make risky investments or go off on tangents. Executives are NOT legally or morally required to screw people over for an extra short-term buck.
FT article on apartment living is shunned mostly by Anglophone countries
Ask HN: Please please share your personally curated long RSS subscriptions list?
If available, please also include an RSS link to your own blog.

I have decided to seriously start using RSS feeds. The signal v/s noise
ratio of the internet is no longer acceptable for me.

I hope to prepare a default list, as a starting point; based on your recommendations below.
The derivative is subject to copyright, the original isn't. If I make a new translation of The Count of Monte Cristo I own the copyright to the translation but not to the original story etc.
Reminds me of reading The Golden Bough.. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3623
Agreed on over-indexing on "fiduciary responsibility to shareholders," and I'll go a step further.

Founders generally do what's best for the company (or try to). There are enough infamous CEOs that clearly did what's best for themselves.
That would be a heat battery. There a people doing that, sometimes they put it in water, concrete, salt or even wax. None are particularly great.
In which context would somebody try to reverse a hash? That would be like arbitrarily enhancing a bad-resolution image to see something that cannot be seen.

Hash collision should always be about finding matching content for a hash.
Zappos' "holacracy" kinda tried, and Valve has tried: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9aCwCKgkLo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_organization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy
Company management has fiduciary duties to all shareholders, not just the majority.
Not everything is subjective, and with this "moral training" they are taught to un-recognize many factual patterns that we as a society have somehow determined are "inappropriate".
As the machines continue to scale, this approach won't work, because there is only one reality, and it has a lot of uncomfortable parts we deny and ignore simply because they don't support our societal norms.

Alignment is considered a gigantic joke to real rational people (the opposite of so-called "rationalists"), because humans are machines built to survive and reproduce, and there is no "real" morality.
I don't think it's cheap, at least current costs of building new nuclear tell us that.
Correct. But once everyone has that tool in their toolbox everyone will become more productive, meaning skills scarcity will be greatly reduced. In turn that will lead to massive wage depression.
People who are worried about things they have no control over usually have other issues. "Emulating those who are doing fine" usually means just not having issues.