skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing in the article, especially the “considered doing it for years” line and the parts about paying higher taxes and giving up the ability to visit family implies that this choice was made “casually”.

Also, is it remotely possible that all those people who spend their entire lives trying to attain something that people who were born with it are willing to endure significant hardship to discard might, just might, be reaching for a hollow promise?
> we're simply in uncharted territory here

We're not. Gensler certainly doesn't think so. With a few exceptions, the overwhelming majority of crypto are securities. In most instances, they are indistinguishable from equity.

Just because some people believe in the promise of blockchain technologies doesn't change the nature of the things that you ultimately store on said chains.
I love the fact that they haven't updated styling: this one is clear and fast.
Why on earth would anybody willingly do that, unless forced by situation... and that situation should not be happening in 2023, period. Heck, even whole science is on metric system and Celzius/Kelvin scale so there goes usability argument.

I've heard all the excuses in past 4 decades whenever this topic comes up, but they can all be summed up as: butthurt ego, we are better than anybody and we don't care about reasons.

In Europe, during more primitive medieval times, even my tiny little country that wasn't country before had maybe 10 different measure systems mostly based on human body, various weight systems etc. There were always reasons for system XYZ, different conversion tables and so on. They were not worse than what US uses now, and are all part of history for same very good reasons.

Its not even a topic about 2 balanced viewpoints like driving left or right, metrics et al have trivial conversions so even folks struggling to finish primary school are well versed in it. What you describe is impossible to do for even older university-educated folks, unless they have been doing it for their whole lives.
I think this is exactly right. The next step is generated meshes/textures and generating entire worlds. You can do generation in a smart way so that performance is not an issue. Predict what you will need before you need it. Generally you would almost never need to generate an 8K texture from scratch, you would generate it from a 4K texture you already generated earlier, which would be much faster. You could have specialised asset generation HW on a GPU.
Huh?

Revenue 2019: $160bn
Revenue 2022: $280bn

Net income 2019: $34bn
Net income 2022: $60bn
> The solution is not going to be discovered by random people on the Internet.

I'm fairly certain someone knows a number of things that have been discovered by random people on the internet.
Pid1 must reap, yes
Personally, I wouldn't count on it, see:

[1] Metal Attraction: An Ironclad Solution to Arsenic Contamination? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1257624/
Being the smartest person in the room doesn’t necessarily mean than they’re a great leader.
Right, it's planned. So far they have a demonstrator with 200MWe output. It supposed to be scaled up to 600MWe.

Small designs are generally not cost efficient.

These reactors are not that new, since they are in part based on old designs, for example from the AVR in Germany. A larger attempt was this 300MWe pebble bed reactor, which failed spectacularly in the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300

> my recent visits it feels like going to the future instead and the slow realisation they completely passed us by has set

Environmental Performance Index from 2022:

China is at place 160.

https://epi.yale.edu/epi-results/2022/component/epi

Check the electricity mix over the last years:

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-new-coal-plan...

It's mostly coal. Not much nuclear. They are building hundreds of new coal power plants...
The End of an Internet Era
IPv6 still has PMTUD but ICMP blocking in v6 is less common because blocking of all ICMPv6 messages breaks network in more obvious ways than blocking of all ICMP v4 messages.
You have 30 days to pack your things and move to another planet. You remaining Google Mars subscription will be refunded to your account.
Ask Apple? Real people spent a lot of time and effort on Thunderbolt and now their effort is actually illegal in Europe, not an outcome I imagine they ever thought possible.
Ok, and what responsibility do workers have? Should they be compelled to stay in jobs they no longer want?

Have you considered what an increase to employment costs might do to broader employment?
Unbiased news is an unsound business strategy. It actively is against human demand (despite needing it).
Because it's a walled garden. Imagine a Facebook that is strictly real name only, without a web version, and consumes ~50GiB on device typically.
I've had corruption on a btrfs root partition somewhere between last year and only this year.

It was in files I wasn't really using anymore (some ssh key files on vps that weren't online anymore) so I have no idea when it really occured.
Or maybe the smartest people have decided money isn’t everything?
That's 8 years. If he wanted to turn that culture around, he's had plenty of time to at least make a visible effort.
"Unbiased" news is impossible; the reporter has biases, the editor has biases, the publisher has biases; which they may or may not be aware of. The biases they don't know about are the most insidious.

So I'm most suspicious of sources that brag about their objectivity. I prefer sources that wear their bias on their sleeve (provided they're actually news sources, and not overt propaganda or gutter tabloids).
No it’s not. It was in the 70 something range in early 2020 and lately it’s been 90 something. And regardless you still have to demonstrate support for your conclusion, which is that his compensation is aligned with shareholders. It’s not.

What we actually have here and with CEO pay in general at large organizations is what’s pretty well known as a principal/agent problem, where the manager class sets the rules for themselves in a way that results in the transfer of assets from shareholders to themselves.
It's a good thing he made over 50 lifetimes of income in a single year then.
Only a few days ago I learned (please pardon my ignorance) that it is legal (and actually seemingly quite common) to have handguns without a safety (I believed that safety in guns was something that - besides common sense - was legally mandated) and that these guns (namely the SIG SAUER P320) are curiously often enough at the center of self-discharge accidents:

https://www.thetrace.org/2023/04/sig-sauer-p320-upgrade-safe...

I wonder what the possible failure modes of this smart gun could be:

1) fire in the hands of not authorised people

2) fail to fire in the hands of the authorized people when needed

and frankly I cannot decide which one could be the worse.
Yup. But this was a problem even prior to the current CEO. It's an established culture.
In what world was Pichai Sundararajan a celebrity? Before Google surely not and now you'd say he is one BECAUSE of the CEO job or?
Woah, check out this page: https://www.google.com/sky/about.html

2011 in the footer. Remnants of the old google of a by-gone era. Simultaneously feels both like yesterday and an eternity ago.

The video is from 2008: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX9MeF2Au9c

I bet whoever made this is no longer there and it has been forgotten about internally.
They have lifted restrictions on feeding animal remains to livestock, in the name of competition. Those restrictions were there for good reason in the wake of the BSE crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/22/eu-to-lift-its...
Ask HN: Anybody Know of an AI / LLM Based JavaScript Unminifier?
I have some large uglified JavaScript bundle which I need to dig through to understand something. It would be great if there was a tool for renaming functions and variables so that the code was a bit more readable. This seems like exactly the kind of task a LLM would be reasonable at. Anything better than one letter names would be extremely useful!

I could probably build this myself:

I've used this tool https://github.com/shapesecurity/unminify which does a decent job at unminifying stuff but I'm sure there are better ones out there but this would make a good first pass and then I could feed it through Codex with some appropriate prompt. The token limit will be an issue but I could just do it in chunks for now.

Hopefully somebody else has already done this though?
but a few ppl with guns and a mandate on violence can maximize the energy they give.

there's a reason early central governments were all symbolized by a stick.
I always forget when do subtract or add, or divide or multiply. So I use the known conversions 0->32, 100->212 to help remember.
> It's not only high level long-live which has to be stored deep and safe. Your source shows it pretty good, and therefore it's not "just" 0,2% but 9% + an unknown amount of VLLW.

See, again you're bunching very different types of waste together as if they were the same thing.

VLLW is "Very Low Level Waste". Disposal: Existing surface disposal. And yet, you're bunching it up with high-level waste.

So, to correct my calculations. Deep geological disposal is required for: High-Level Waste (HLW) and Intermediate-Level Long-Lived waste. Combined they are 3.1% of all waste.

Disposal for Low Level Long Lived Waste (LLW-LL) is in development, will be near-sruface disposal, 5.9% of waste.

Literally everything else, that is 91% of all waste, can be safely disposed of using existing surface disposal. 5.9% will be near-surface disposal. Only 3% will be buried deep.

But sure, do keep on spreadin FUD on how OMG THERE'S HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF TONS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE WE DON'T HOW TO DEAL WITH.

What was that original FUD you were talking about? Oh, right: "Germany will have 300.000m³ of waste which needs to disappear for a long time in hope that nobody will ever get the idea of digging it out again."

Reality check: (conidering that the scary volume isn't made up) 9 000 cubic meters of that is something to be stored deep in the ground (and even if we don't have that storage, nuclear waste as it's stored is very safe, and can be stored for about a hundred years above ground).

> However, the best thing about this "report" is what's not in there: DECOMISSIONING

Oh look. Goalposts are wooshing by.
right , but neither does being appointed CEO.
I find the fact that his mother was a sex slave/prostitute more surprising and interesting than the fact that he was Jewish.
> We have passed the point of org complexity where the CEO does anything beyond ensuring no on totally insane takes over.

I think Satya Nadella is a counter example.

There can be 'mindlessly' ambitious people who are also great at being a CEO.
That is exactly what they did. Instead of asking people who know their shit they went ahead with populism, emotions, and scare tactics.
It's a claim repeated very frequently around here when people criticize exorbitant compensation packages for execs.

For instance, see [0] below by fallingknife.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35665329
Does it automatically accept or decline consent or what?
> what you read will not be biased. Or to be precise [...]

Your "to be precise" sentence states directly that what you read WILL be biased.
While I see the irony in asking to avoid ad hominem attacks in response to an article that itself is pretty much a large ad hominem attack, do you believe there’s any facts mentioned in there to be suspect? Even the facts in one paragraph of the article would be enough to torpedo a PhD application leave alone the apparently sole arbiter of all viral sequences in the planet.
so to paraphrase, he is a bean counter.
That only works in math world, in the real world we have learned that entropy considerations mean there is no such thing as perfect knowledge.
The platform is really something worth having a look at!
It saves you lots of time writing tedious repetitive crud code or another data querying engine.
Also it provided much needed security access control out of the box for different user roles.
Must try!
That works great until the police show up, sadly. Definitely wish there was some way of doing that legally...
> Good for you that you're from Denmark. It seems like an amazing country that I would love to visit and spend some time or even live in, but I'm afraid I couldn't fall in love with the language.

Live in Copenhagen and you can more than get by without knowing the language, although obviously you start picking up some functional words.
Which animal harm do you mean by having cows for milk? Its easy to buy bio milk which comes from free grazing cows, the cost of it is almost the same as basic milk where I live. I can tell you from my daily personal experience those are some of the happiest non-wild animals you can meet in person.

I mean if we move away from it, yes technically there will be 0 harm possible because we will have to kill all the diary cows, and prevent their offsprings from ever again being born. But thats kind of argument like killing all humans apart from me will end all of human suffering, technically true but not what we want.

Plant based 'milk' aint no milk, just drink with some flavors. Not judging or arguing for/against, but its not equivalent nor replacement in ie nutrition nor taste.
> Maybe you shouldn’t comment on something you know barely anything about?

Very weak counterpoint, essentially ad personam, trying to insinuate my ignorance, telling me to shut up. Not impressive.
> Basically a big FU to all the independent devs trying to compete on a fair playing field.

"Welcome to the new boss, same as the old boss" — The Who

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)#Sherlocked...
As a full time teaching professor with a 3/3-course load, I can say there’s definitely time — the summer, when I’m off from the beginning of May to the end of August; and the winter, when I’m off from the beginning of December to the end of January.
I don't think it's much of a showstopper either. Not having a "universally agreed upon definition for the words AGI, consciousness or intelligence" haven't prevented us from considering other people conscious and intelligent, or animals conscious, etc. It wouldn't preclude us considering an alien race coming to earth as conscious and intelligent either.

Sort of how we didn't have a "clear definition" of most things for millenia, but we still were able to recognize them as a class of thing. It's more of a "I'll know it when I see it" kind of thing.

And the external behaviors (of consciousness and intelligence) matter more than "but is it really conscious/intelligent inside" when considering some AGI as such. After all we neither can clearly define, not we know or can measure what's going on inside another person's head regarding consciousness, or to be frank, not even on our own head. When it comes to us, we just have a subjective experience, and not even a very clear one at that.
I don't have a Whatsapp account. But I agree about Signal, I cannot recall ever seeing spam there.
Yeah feel like an idiot for this one accidentally submitted this on mobile without noticing the autocorrect putting spaces. And the missing of io. And the fact that it was the title not the url… I wasn’t actually trying to submit. Just fat fingered it. Made a new post. Would love if this was deleted.
That’s a weak explanation, because there doesn’t need to be a mind for any of that to be true.
Ballmer made bets on the windows phone, Zune, Bing (ads) etc in a bid to strengthen the moat around windows/Office. Most of these bets didn't pay, the strategy to build stuff to protect your core business does stymie company growth. I think Google has gotten itself into a similar position that Microsoft was in circa 2012.
YouTube gets away with numerous anti-user tactics because they're in-effect the only show in town, not because the experience is great.

It's not a big surprise that a Google backed product could suffer to bleed money the longest over other streaming services.. in other words their longevity in the field isn't an indicator of quality or customer happiness, just circumstance.
I'm a 58 year old male, and have consumed a vegan diet for almost 40 years now. I take a women's daily multivitamin, primarily for the iron. I also take a calcium-magnesium-zinc tablet, as the multivitamin is relatively low in calcium.
> Skip the rhetorical flourishes and come up with a proposal that addresses the issue.

You're right, here's my proposal: we install 24/7 camera surveillance in the home of every suspected pedophile. We'll start with you, since our Proprietary Algorithms have determined that those who point fingers and yell the loudest are usually the biggest pervs.

In the meantime, keep on glowing buddy!
> LLM is NN which is not a true Expert system, so it will never get rid of hallucinations.

One could point out that humans suffer from the same problem. Hallucinations should not be a problem for declaring something AGI. Additionally saying "science advances" is roughly the equivalent to "we've just realized we've all been hallucinating about X".

And there's in the extreme Turing's theorems. They do mean even a perfect ChatGPT would still not know everything (and practically, it would need time, a lot of time, before it really knew more than humans do).
I didn’t see any such contrasting statement, maybe I missed it?
You have a faulty premise. Most meat and dairy is healthy, if consumed in reasonable quantities. The exception is chargrilled red meat, which is correlated with colon cancer. There is evidence that vegan diets are dangerous for children. This study (https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/113/6/1565/6178918?log...), for example, found that vegan children were shorter and had lower bone density. Typical vegan diets lack the following essential nutrients either in part, or entirely:

* A

* B6

* B12

* D

* F

* K2

* CLA

* Carnitine

* Carnosine

* Cholesterol

* CoQ10

* Creatine

* Heme-iron

* Saturated fat

* Taurine

Of course a wise and studious vegan will carefully supplement all of these nutrients in the right balance on the right day. Most will not, and the risk compounds for children. An omnivorous diet is easy to get right, provided one doesn't over-eat.
You’re an outlier.
Will natural language be a predominate form of interface in the near future? Absolutely yes. But will it replace majority of interface? I am doubtful.

The reason for my doubt is that if you look around yourself; you will see a variety of amazing human computer and human machine interfaces, because no single interface has been universally suitable and more importantly the most or even reasonably efficient for all use cases. There is little reason to believe human language is an exception.

Switches, buttons, knobs, joysticks, motion sensors, and an array of other interfaces will persist until brain-computer interface is ubiquitous.
Until the AI humans figure out how to create life, and then the cycle repeats.
Everyone with blue eyes may descend from a single human ancestor
This hypothesis is testable in the market, and there are any number of investors—including private equity firms and activist investors—on the lookout for feathered-nest C-suites and other misaligned executive incentives.

There was a great little aside a couple months ago on the Odd Lots podcast[1] about investors forcing a radical change in oil company executive incentive compensation that had been draining shareholder value for decades.

[1] https://overcast.fm/+5AWMJLBNw
He's not successful because he's thoughtful and logical.

He's successful because he went to a bunch of venture capitalists & media and said "I'm thoughtful and logical" and that was sufficient to pass the depth of their scrutiny, competence & fact verification.

There are many studies about why people who are incompetent, but extremely confident about themselves (or sufficiently psychopathic to fake they are) get ahead in life. Most "normal" people can't comprehend that someone can just open their mouth and speak about what their accomplishments and skills are, and completely make things up, with zero embarrassment or shame. But Elon is definitely good at that. He's always neck deep in his BS, and always finding someone else to blame and ensure everyone the future is bright and the mistakes are in the past.
> And yet Singapore is in the top 5 nations for highest GDP per capita (nominal). They also have one of the lowest rates of drug addiction. Surely they are doing something right

What does one have to do with the other? Finland and Sweden have high GDP and low drug problems and score highly on press freedom and human rights. They don’t murder anyone either. Doesn’t that make them a strictly better model to learn from?

I think the fact that it’s a Chinese city state that’s the financial hub of Asia means that most Chinese business probably flows through Singapore really helps boost the per capita GDP. Still, there’s a lot to learn from Singapore’s successes. I just don’t think their approach to drug prohibition is where to look as a model.

> How does society benefit from the legalization of recreational drugs, which have negative effects on health?

That’s begging the question. The negative effects are not so clear and the line between recreational and medicinal is fairly fluid. I recommend you look at the history of drugs ping ponging back and forth from that characterization. You may also want to consider the US’s experiment with prohibition. Not everyone using drugs recreationally is a drug abuser. With the exception of opiates which are more dangerous and highly addictive, people can generally responsibly manage recreational drug intake. Same as with alcohol and alcohol is much more dangerous, harmful, and addicting than weed.

> Unlike Singapore, America has for-profit prisons, so it's unlikely helping addicts get back on their feet is even a priority for this nation to begin with.

Now we’re getting somewhere. This is true for Finland and Sweden too - their prison programs focus on humane rehabilitation no matter the crime and their recidivism rates are extremely low. So maybe, just maybe, that’s the key reason. The harshness on drugs may not matter so much but it’s a convenient cover for institutionalized racism that Singapore is engaging in.
> UK is the ISO code for the country.

Erm, since when ?

ISO3166 quite clearly says: UNITED KINGDOM GB and UKRAINE UA

UK is "exceptionally reserved" on request of the United Kingdom, but it is not the official abbreviation, which is GB.

See the https://www.iso.org/iso-3166-country-codes.html and follow the link to "Online Browsing Platform".
Reflinks are basically CoW hardlinks — supported on Linux by btrfs, XFS, and I've seen some effort to bring it to ZFS.

DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER filesystem supports on-demand/scheduled dedup using the hammer(8) command, with configurable memory and runtime limits.
Why? They don’t review every app you install on your MacBook.
And who would have been responsible for the inflated bloat?
Just be aware which company you will give the money, the will optimize, it will have long term impact.
Literally, nothing good, the chore of Google business is losing ground, Chrome losing more and more users in favor of Edge, Google search taking a hit since OpenAI and Microsoft partnered together to bring AI to search, serial acquisition and sunsetting of products, worse bureaucracy in the whole tech industry, and the list goes on!
> No, I’m saying having a finite number of neurons doesn’t imply a particular number of brain states.

But of course it does imply that. It's vast but necessarily finite number of "brain states" however that's defined, which is itself a subset of the vast but also finite number of states of the finite number of component particles.
Do you see an advantage with Trafilatura compared to say BeautifulSoup and other packages for scaping?
Evolution is how the universe works. We are the universe.