skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if you had sufficient technology and time, couldn't you well just blow up the planets, wait for sufficient time and comeback to collect resources. Planets are inefficient in mass to surface ratio anyway...

If you can do everything in space, why even bother with planets anymore.
The premise of the argument seems wrong. Even in just Europe, there’s evidence for an increase in animal size during the Roman period, a decrease during the early middle ages, and then an increase into the high middle ages, e.g. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-021-01426-w

These correspond to economic changes which made different sizes of animal more appropriate. Size and productivity aren’t the only criteria anyway – disease resistance, hardiness, or ease of feeding seem like they’d be just as important to subsistence farmers.

Earlier techniques may have been less good than modern ones, but they quite evidently worked to some extent. Specialized horse breeds had gotten to the point where they needed to be specially fed way before the start of the period in the book reviewed here!

Instead of positing a lack of understanding, the observed phenomenon is likely more a factor of limitations in documentary evidence (how many people engaged in stockbreeding were actually writing books anyway?) and in the actual goals of the people involved around optimizing for robustness and practicality over pure productiveness.
"If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster."

"Near the day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky."

"A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans."
Games like Gorilla Tag and VRChat have tens of millions of monthly users. They are on a hardware devices that give most people nausea after 30 mins. Meta has the most popular hardware by far. Seems huge
Another malware in npm. Some people never learn.
“Uncool?” Are the folks at the New York Times teenagers?
this is starting to look like a (practically) forever war

both sides seem committed to impossible goals - Russia wants to occupy everything up to the Polish border, Zelensky wants Russia completely pushed back even out of Crimea

both goals seem unrealistic, and both leaders will probably be replaced by new leadership with an even more zealous commitment to the conflict

on some level I feel like the US administration is fine with this...on the most cynical level, a smashed Europe helps preserve US status militarily and economically
What are some examples of enchained symbols?
the media labels them whistleblowers though so doesn't it?
Almost as if someone vacuumed them up.
Yes - you're absolutely right. Eventually I'm going to see degradation in capacity. Fortunately, the tablet is a Amazon fire 10 tablet (rooted) and relatively cheap to replace. I paid $100 for it 3 years ago.
ive been playing with it locally in the hopes of a model that allows for commercial use. at my job if i had a model I could run in the cloud and just wrap a REST service around I could think of a ton of ways to use it both internally and externally.
Four questions concerning the internet
Better solution: have syncthing rapidly upload new videos when they're taken to a host on the internet. Give someone else access to these files.
Many fields of medicine, such as mental health, are far closer to religion or politics than they are to science.

Science requires controlling the environment and the ability to do repeated experiments with rapid feedback. The mental health field cannot do that. It can on worms. We could build the most amazing medicine for worms (by killing trillions of them). But we cannot do that with humans.

The Mental Health Industrial Complex deserves no respect. It may turn out that psychedelic mushrooms that someone could grow for free in their yard could have saved millions of lives over the past 50 years, but that would have deprived the MHIC of tens of billions in revenue. The field is built on lies.
GPT-4 performs better at Theory of Mind tests than actual humans
I'm not aware of any Java book comparable with AaDS. If you have something in mind - please tell me.
Ukraine liberating Crimea, while a stretch goal, is more likely than Russia defeating Ukraine.
Cool. You do it your way and I'll do it my way and we'll see who gets results.
Not a recruiter, but something I have learned as a general idea.

You are flawless. No seriously, you have no shortcomings. Your interviewer doesn’t want to hear your actual weaknesses because there is someone else that is willing to lie their way through it and even if they aren’t telling the truth, they’re gonna look a lot better than you are. Presenting all of your weaknesses as strengths, ending every statement you aren’t confident in with “I am a quick learner” or “I am absolutely wanting to learn the industry standard/company way of doing this” etc, making it look in general that your shit doesn’t stink.

It’s way easier to train someone that they hired then it is to hire someone so that they can be trained.
> Perhaps the most interesting way you can approach this is by designing the language first and then figure out how to implement it.

Yeah, I'd say if you're not creating a "domain" in which solving the problem at hand is easier, you need to get back to the drawing board. That's true for language and API design.
OSS AI CLI tool please
I saw PGE and the LA Philharmonic performing live with the movie in 2009 at the Hollywood Bowl, and they also performed other pieces, so you're likely remembering correctly.

https://www.nonesuch.com/journal/philip-glass-ensemble-la-ph...
An AI helper script to create CLI commands. Just ask your terminal to "please tar every json file in the current and subdirectories into compressed.tar.gz" and it will create the a command to do exactly that. It is completely OSS and will work with an OpenAI API key.
Only circumstatioal if you havent been paying attention over time, which is the point -- only TIME can give you context
It's fun to ask it questions about famous computer scientists like Ron Rivest. Who is apparently a professor at Harvey Mudd College.
Violent crime rates in the US declined every year
This outlet seems pretty Putin-friendly: https://covertactionmagazine.com/category/ukraine/
Oops, sorry! I will keep that in mind for the future.
Thanks. I don't want to be anywhere near any population centre, the biggest threat by far is masses of hungry people imo. I'll build an open-source food production system with only dependency being sunlight later this year inshaAllah, everything else will be closed loop. I don't think any amount of canned food will cut it either, this is Collapse of the entire civilization we are talking about. Maybe 10 years of canned food will let me and my family ride out the initial population decline, but there's always the possibility that armed groups will take it, not to mention I can't not share it with those in need (read: everybody) as a muslim.
There's roughly four main parts to programming: "getting it", creativity, experience and working hard.

Some people are better at some of these aspects than others, and vice versa. Only experience requires having programmed a lot. However perhaps those who start young are more likely to "get it", making it fun for them, though I think it's a poor proxy since you can't control for who had exposure at an early age.

I started programming at age 12, quite by chance. I stumbled over some code one day, and my buddy could tell me it looked like Basic and I could try QBasic on my machine. I was quite fascinated, and really wanted to learn more. However I didn't know anyone who could program, and we didn't have internet nor BBS access. So until I was 16 and we got our first modem, I spent a lot of time bumbling around alone.

On the bright side I think it made me good at reading documentation. On the other hand, I could probably have done a lot more actual programming if hadn't had to spend a full week trying to find the one keyword I was looking for... Of course it didn't help that QBasic's built-in help was in English, and I had only started learning English that same year.
> What do you think the AI could do that you couldn't by searching the web?

Create enough hours in the day to do the work.

No amount of skill or knowledge will get me over the hump that it takes hundreds, maybe thousands, of person hours to produce a Radiohead album.
I am not understanding how this is any different than similar complaints from the last few months. Also, any public utterances by someone as high-up as Prigozhin is not based on logistical, but rather political considerations. To really understand what it means would require much more insight than I have into the all of the players and the current power dynamics between them.
You have to do some really weird shit if you want generalised branchless ternary statements.

begin += (arr[step+begin] < value)?step:0;

Something like:

int mask = ((arr[step + begin] - value) >> 31); //Depends on signed shift
begin += (step & mask) | (0 & ~mask);

(Obviously in this case, it's simplifiable.)
> And if it is going to be this hard, why do I have to pay social security and medicare taxes? I

You don’t; no one is requiring you to reside or work outside your country of citizenship; presumably, you have chosen to do so because it provides economic advantage over your other alternatives. (Also, no one is prohibiting you from taking the necessary steps to qualify for a different immigration category, including the unlimited ones that have no quota and therefore no backlog.)
You don't need AI for this, you can do it now. Any analog music production gear in existence has a software emulation that's 99.99% accurate and available for a few hundred bucks at most (and of course can be easily acquired for free, as with all software). High quality audio interfaces are available for cheap. Most expensive thing would be renting out a studio to record vocals with a good mic, and even that is arguably unnecessary. Plenty of in-the-box musicians and producers are making top quality songs with not much more than their Macbook.
Besides that error; the images are each above 1mb and very low quality. I believe if you just save them as pngs you should get much more quality at 20% the size.
Government employees already face a pretty substantial pay cut compared to the private sector. For people on an engineering track, you're looking at double-digit percentage paycuts, but for the upper echelons of management track, where the comparatives are being C-suite at a medium-sized company, it's starting to look like a 90% paycut. This means you have issues recruiting people to fill these roles.

Adding on a permanent pecuniary pay element for life is most likely to result in people finding various wheezes to get around that pay cap (I suspect in the form of undeclared gifts, not unlike the recent revelations of a certain Supreme Court justice). And it would tend to increase corruption, since now the incomes of these people are more heavily reliant on under-the-table payments from patrons who now need to be kept happy.
That's just not possible. Light has been bouncing off biosignatures on Earth for as long as life has existed here. We can't hide those. We also can't hide the spectra bouncing off air pollutants. There's an ever expanding bubble of spectra racing through the galaxy announcing the Industrial Revolution.

Radio emissions are actually much harder to detect because they're weaker than all the light bouncing off the planet. Aliens aren't picking up TV or radio broadcasts. Those become undetectable a little outside the solar system. The signal strength fades (due to the inverse square law) to under natural radio background a little into the Oort Cloud. Only very deliberate high power and highly directional signals can be detectable at interstellar ranges.

The Dark Forest theory is just silly and I'd go so far as to say pseudoscience. It just doesn't make any sense if you think about it for a few minutes.
I came up with a lot of small custom algorithms for my thesis, all based on np.einsum. I had to estimate the assymptotic complexity for them, and every time I would get a different answer than the last. So at some point I built a system to which you give an einsum expression and a mapping between axis and their names and you get the assymptotic complexity (e.g. for MxN times NxM matrix multiplication 'ij,jk->ik' you would use {'i': 'M', 'j': 'N', 'k': 'M'} to get O(M^2 N) complexity). It also supports chains of einsum expressions, summing the complexities together and symbolically simplifying. And it uses opt_einsum to reorder the operations to get the best possible asymptotics for an expression.
Legally Compliant Paperclip Maximizers Are a Terrifying Possibility
On 1, she says

>The CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A databases contain reporting and analysis fields for multiple disciplines including Human Intelligence or HUMINT reports, Psychological Operations or PSYOP reports, Engagement reports, Counter Improvised Explosive Device or CIED reports, SigAct reports, Targeting reports, Social and Cultural reports, Civil Affairs reports, and Human Terrain reporting.

They're the reports we made and the actions we took. How is that not about us?

She seemed to be genuinely unhappy with life when she whistleblew, but to me it seemed more like "I'm unhappy so let's make a grand move" than "let's get revenge on the military for my unhappiness."
The focus on animals also ignores the obvious evidence of selective breeding in food plants for 10k+ years.

Specialized breeds of dogs have also existed for a very long time.

This may be an accurate critique of the written science of animal breeding, and gives good examples of the reification of bad practices, but some techniques were obviously working over long periods of times whether they were recorded, or not.

What ultimately bothers me about it is the same things about the "discovery" of America. Ignorance that plant cultivation and ecosystem engineering was prevalent in the Americas (it wasn't a savage, untamed, wild land at all, but had been carefully cultivated).

And, in general, the idea that things didn't exist until written down by those in power.

> Inventors who lived in a neighborhood with a high per capita patent rate are themselves more likely to file a patent. Future inventors might correspond with their heroes (shades of the ‘college of letters’) and, if they then meet them in person, they are more likely to go on to innovate, even if it was only a single short meeting and the hero was in an entirely different field and so it is difficult to see what key fact, skill, or wealth/object they could have transmitted which might make any difference.

Conflating the credential with the skill (or here, the patent with the inventiveness).
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35763483 also
You make the big assumption that countries are surprised to be spied on. Granted, the head of French military intelligence was absurdly inadequate, but are generations of spies in those countries clueless? Probably not.
It is irrelevant if the object of the calling agrees or not on the name. Otherwise nobody would ever be called anything bad.
> (how many people engaged in stockbreeding were actually writing books anyway?)

Yeah, I was thinking that a lot of this knowledge would have been kept secret as proprietary trade information.
A career FAA employee would be like having an astronomer dictate how to land a shuttle on a moon.

Career fed employees are always, lacking the real world knowledge to make sound decisions.
Yes. For many folks there is an intrinsic value to protecting the environment.

I find more and more that even within the NGO and environmentalist community people only care about how natural resources impact people in a utilitarian sense. I can respect that philosophical position, but it makes me equal parts angry and sad that it's taken as a given. I don't believe life on earth exists just to serve human needs.
Paragraph 2 of my response:

> The 2nd figure accounts for carbon footprint of electricity generation used in the home as well as gas combusted in the home. The 4th chart from [1] suggests this is about a 50/50 split (if we bring grid emissions to 0 but don’t exchange these natural gas devices, carbon intensity remains at half of what it is today). Therefore, we can conclude that these 4 appliances in residential properties account for 10% of US carbon footprint.

To your first question - the answer is yes; replacing gas appliances with modern electric appliances is less carbon intensive, even if the electricity is produced by fossil fuel combustion. This will become increasingly true as the grid gets greener over time and the carbon intensity of electricity production continues to drop
Yeah, even if just to know which car to break into.
You need to clarify what you understand "design" to mean.

There is "design" which is to make something pretty and aligned to the latest trends. (Junk design IMO).
You'll largely need some experience with design tools and frameworks to make things look good.

Then there is "design" which is more about the experience of something, how information is ordered and how usable something is for your customers. This is one hundred times more valuable and you probably need more usability, user experience and "design thinking" experience. You likely don't need to learn any visual design tools but you can easily pick apart your application and understand "what does the user need to do now".
well, how do you know there was a first attempt. because there's a tape ... there was a tape. it got accidentally deleted due to a "data entry error" :)

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/09/795004811/video-outside-cell-...
Unlimited design subscription for B2B SaaS
I was considering doing it all in a ternary statement, but I feel that the current form is also branchless because it is simply a multiply and add. The extra bounds-checking condition can probably be omitted, but I haven't tested that.

for (step >>= 1; step != 0; step >>=1) {
if ((next = begin + step) < size) {
begin += PyObject_RichCompareBool(PyList_GetItem(list_obj, next), value, Py_LT) * step;
}
}
I think the article is not saying "selective breeding" in general was late, but that actually selecting for characteristics which correlate highly with ultimate yield, rather than for merely subjectively* impressive characteristics, occurred very late in the whole "selective" breeding fancy.

* eg, here bulls were evaluated on (among other things) muscling until very recently, whereas in the States bulls of the same race were already being evaluated solely upon how many litres their daughters produced. Moneyball with straws.

Edit: of course, if one is far from a (local) optimum, just about any breeding program will tend to produce improvements. It's only when one is so near to an optimum that most changes make things worse that one needs to get properly (statistically vs. optically?) selective...
Yes that's true, but in this case only because Lubitz chose to use the autopilot to make a controlled descent into the mountains. He could have put the aircraft into an unrecoverable nosedive while the captain was in the lavatory, and saving it would have been impossible even if the captain had been able to get back into the cockpit.
I think what I like so much about the aesthetic is that it its age allows me to quickly forget the second order effects of industrialization and quickly, quietly appreciate the sheer magnificence of these extraction cathedrals, the total celebration of our ability to harness nature, to defy the balance of the world in our favour. If my suspention of disbelief is paused for a minute, i recollect the opening scenes of Dr. Strangelove, where the refuelling of the bomber planes looks more like a avian pairing ritual than a technocratic feat of usurping the laws of nature. A few scenes in the shell video definitely have a phallic quality to it (like the drill bit penetrating the water, the pipes laid across the forest floor), and I even felt a moment of self referential criticism as the camera panned across the bleak oilfield in the middle of the ocean expanse.

I think I disagree on the point about the "medium is the message" framing. I dont think the camera quality has much to do with it, instead the visual qualities arise from the lack of a need to show that critical view, as the blank optimism overshadowed the less savory views by a mile. I think we have lost the capacity to view these process neutrally, independently of the medium used to record them.

I remember watching a hungarian film called On body and soul, which takes place in a meat processing facility. The footage of the meat processing is beautiful, eerily so, and it is really jaunting when you realize the only images of slaughterhouses you have seen is grainy handycam footage filmed for ideological purposes. The medium is always important, but always subservient to the gaze.

I found the video eons ago, it still has so few views and I am so happy to have brought it to light to such a receptive crowd.
the tape covering the first attempt got accidentally deleted due to a "data entry error"

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/09/795004811/video-outside-cell-...
Distraction-free writing: a failed experiment
Or for those unfortunates who can't read Swedish: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/452024-hacker-news-anti-pa...
A NixOS way to create terraform.json files
Obviously, a civilization in need of stellar expansion in order to address population expansion needs would probably be very detectable on sky surveys, but the notion that geometric expansion wouldn't result in extensive stellar colonization because of resource needs seems pretty naive.

One of the interesting concerns about being an interstellar civilization kind of related to the great ant war that I think was documented in a Kurgesstz video about the relentless expanding invasive army ants around the world.

They used to not attack neighboring colonies because they all shared the same smell. At some point one of the species diverged and had as a different smell and now the unopposed growth of the one species now fights in huge battle between their own species that just smell slightly different.

Likewise, if you have a large distance between two stellar colonies. There's going to be a smell evolution over time.

Humans fight a lot of intraspecies wars but not nearly to the extinctive ferocity that a war between two different species results in.

How long before you send individuals to another star do they consider themselves another species?

I mean look at what happened with Hitler and other genocidal actions.
Also from the article you quote: "We find that as Black–White racial segregation increases over time, total per pupil expenditures and other per pupil expenditures shift in ways that disfavor the typical Black student’s district relative to the typical White student’s district. We also find that Latinx–White segregation is associated with a relative shift of per pupil infrastructure expenditures that disfavors the typical Latinx student’s district and a shift of per pupil other expenditures that favors the typical Latinx student’s district."

So, still doesn't seem better for the argument that's trying to be made.
One of the highest selling songs of the decade, Old Town Road, was made by some kid on a laptop in his bedroom. He has outsold Radiohead, the song went 16x platinum. Production value means nothing in the success of music, even some of the most successful major artists with major label backing put out badly mixed garbage and still outsell Radiohead. Music is like code: consumers don’t care about the input.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Town_Road
Worth 600b until it isn't
His thesis was 1983, so it was well established by then. (It's not itself online, but in case anyone's curious, a description of a project using the work is at http://doi.org/10.1145/1096419.1096446 thanks to ACM now making all old papers free.)