skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew, as soon as this "OS" title didn't lead to a Unix-like general purpose OS, that there would be a lot of shitting on it.

Stay in your lanes, designers! Humanity cannot improve on the taskbar/window configuration for any use case, ever.
This sentence from the article stood out to me:

> The explanations have to be wrong, because if their explanations were always right, you could just replace the black box with the explanations.

I've never thought of it like that, but I think that really gets to the core of the issue...

To be able to reason about the behaviour of a neural network with 100% confidence you would need an explanation that incorporated every weight, otherwise you have to accept some degree of uncertainty.

But the idea you could ever explain something with billions of parameters in a way that a human could comprehend seems ridiculous. Imperfect generalisation therefore would inevitably be required – "this bit of the network seems to perform x function". But in doing this you have to accept that this generalisation comes with uncertainty because such a high-level approximation is unlikely to capture all of the nuances. And if it did capture all nuances then the black box isn't needed.
Storage of nuclear wast turned out to be a hard to solve problem.

As of now Germany has no “Endlagerstätte”, all current wast storage sides are intermediate. The last attempt to establish a permanent storage side failed horribly and the nuclear wast that was interned there will be extracted under high costs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine
Income from treasury bonds is taxed by the federal government.
No they bet on cheap russian power due to a combination of compromised politicians and the lure of extra cheap and low friction power.

Make no mistake, people didn’t like nuclear in Germany for historic reasons fusing cold war armageddon fears, Chernobyl Trauma and anti-americanism. The majority did not like it. Every nuclear fuel transport was a fight. Every power plant was fought by a combination of NIMBY and groundswell opposition. We are tightly settled and no place could be found to dispose of nuclear fuel that didn’t have the entire local population rise up.

They voted for it to be abandoned. And then the russians came along offering basically out of sight, NIMBY proof power cheap, an unreasonable package for politicians.

(Germany’s are the greatest NIMBY nation in the world. We fight power lines (it makes children sick), wind power (it kills birds), prisons (they create crime), internet lines (they destroy nature), wifi (makes children sick). We, especially our intellectuals, are a bunch of crazy ass people with centuries deep insane obsession about homeopathy, Kneipp. Ideological blinders so large they blot out the sun about misunderstood peaceful russians.

The last 15 years of German prosperity was not, as people would love to delude themselves, engineering ingenuity- it as powered by cheap Russian power, out of sight, and Chinese Manufacturing. The entire economy got addicted to it and the party stopped last year and the cost of it has become apparent.

The Nuclear decision has to be seen in that context, a ruinously stupid short term focused energy policy influenced by well placed Russian corruption and passed by the largest parties in the country because their constituents, large industries, donors and yes, unions, wanted it. It was a devils bargain but it allowed them to pretend progress.

Now the green party, who yes always wanted this but never ever had the power to force any of it, is a convenient scapegoats for ‘you made the population do it’, but that entirely flies in the face of how decisions are made and laws are passed in Germany.
That's a good point, but I think the trend over time is, what was a targeted tool, is now mass.
It looks like after the Russian gas fiasco they’re prioritizing energy independence, not necessarily clean energy.

Through the lens of energy independence this move makes a lot of sense.
The storage technology to make nuclear cost-effective also does not yet exist, as demand is also not constant. Nuclear is a pretty bad complement to renewables on a grid: it loses terribly to renewables in a free market, relying on subsidies to get built and operate, and also does not actually make up for the intemittency of renewables. People keep saying that we need both but frankly it's one or the other.
Yes, that dictatorial approach to music has already begun to disappear.

Our appreciation for music will not disappear. It is time for democratised music.
Just to clarify your point, are you saying we should stop posting archive links.., or? I honestly am intrigued by Llama and company, but don't think about them that much.
> In what way?

CERN experienced graduate vs WITCH QA engineer.

That’s not going to be resolved by USCIS, it needs legislation
Covered that already:

> Powering the control boards / fans with a generator (or even UPS in a pinch) is a lot simpler proposition than trying to generate enough power to heat my house, water, and food with resistive heating.

My furnace runs on 120V power pulling ~8A when running. That's ~1kW. Comparable sized resistive heating would use about 9kW.

1kW for a few hours a day is easy to provide through a cheap generator, a couple small solar panels and a single marine battery, or apparently a ~$220 wind turbine I can order on Amazon that can output up to 1200W. 9kW is a whole different ball game.

And that's just heating. My stove uses in the order of single-digit watts for seconds at a time. It can also just be lit with a match without power. My water heater does run a small exhaust fan while it's heating, but again... we're talking hundreds of watts instead of kilowatts.

Yes, all these options pretty much still need power, but the smaller power requirements are a hell of a lot easier to provide than the power needed for resistive electric heating. I could run my water heater off of a desktop UPS.
You have the same issue with nuclear as it cannot load-follow and technical issues can lead to massive shutdowns like in France last year.

There exist several answers that have to be combined:

Using biogas to load-follow. Currently biogas produces around 8% of electricity but mostly as base-load.

Directing the use of electricity. This was already done to deal with nuclear‘s similar issue by offering cheaper prices in the night. With smart meters we can offer hourly based billing.

Batteries for intra-day storage is already getting deployed as it’s already economical and we will see much more in the future.

For seasonal low-points we will probably first continue to use gas but in a much smaller quantity if the other points also get deployed. At some point hydrogen will make sense.
I flagged it because it's exhausting sociopolitical drivel that has nothing to do with tech. If the company discriminated against this person, then prove it in court. Nobody here has sufficient information to make a determination one way or another. And none of us has an obligation to take the author at their word.
At my store the same size/type of olive oil comes in plastic bottle or glass bottle and the glass bottle is a dollar more expensive.
When I was in school, I recall another kid tried to steal a lump of sodium from the lab. It went exactly how you'd expect a child with a lump of sodium in their pocket would go.
That's pretty easy:

You go to a bank to manufacture you a derivative on eg the stock market. The deal is that you pay them 30 million dollars now, and in 30 days they either pay you x dollars with probability p or you lose everything.

Eg they pay you 100 million dollars, if the S&P 500 index goes above, say, 5000 which they think will happen with probability of just under 30%.

If you do the math: the deal is fair.

If you lose the bet, you get your inheritance.

If you win the bet, you get your 100 million dollars from the bank, and presumably pay the 30 million dollars back (if that's a stipulation in the will).
Is it possible GS needs Apple to get entry into the consumer (non-money-market) market, possibly to provide the needed liquidity/cover for their institutional investments? In that case, it's an R&D expense for them they can simply write off.
> Worrying about sea level going up 10cm in his/her lifetime is a rich person hobby.

Worrying about the future past next year is definitely a rich person hobby, if you define "rich" as "not imminently starving".

Sea level rise is the least of the trouble. Look at fisheries decline (yield per inflation-adjusted-dollar spent has been recorded for a long time now - in spite of new tech it's been dropping for over a century), temperature-driven crop failures, increased frequency of severe storms damaging infrastructure.
If you ever believed such a thing for a moment, I have a bridge to sell you. A big one!
Raising the floor without increasing the supply enabled the suppliers to charge more.
It's been down for well over an hour
Also useful is having the fans set to fresh air rather than recirculate.
Issue there is the ability to trace out the brain networks accurately. We're getting closer. Once we're in the ~0.5 micron scanning range, things will get VERY interesting.

I believe we've already mapped some invertebrate brain, maybe 250 neurons.
What's the objective measure of sentience?

I don't necessarily disagree, but I do think it is possible we will have AGI, even ASI, long before we have sentience in AI. Of course, I'm a little skeptical of measures of sentience, so even if I'm right it will certainly be debatable.
> AI is not “smarter” than human

You personally can get access to GPT-4 which exceeds human ability on most tests. For the sake of argument, say that this still doesn't mean it's smarter than humans. Its training was finished nearly a year ago, and was nerfed before it was released to the public. Even if you think the pre-nerfed GPT-4 was still not smarter than humans, do you think the next version won't be? And you think the next version hasn't already been trained? If you think one smarter than humans doesn't exist yet, do you think that you will be immediately informed when it's created?
It would be hilarious and sad if some spooks focused on me or my wife and wasted hours on traffic analysis just to figure out we are average law abiding people of zero interest.
Buy it now!
You talk about a misguided sense of compassion. But what have we really tried except liberalism?

The city of San Francisco spends $70,000 annually per homeless person! <https://abc7news.com/sf-homeless-plan-housing-all-san-franci...> The homeless there are homeless because severe mental and addiction issues cause them to reject help, not because resources aren't available.
That’s not fair. Context switching often involves a lot more than opening up another tab. And even if it’s not a problem for you, maybe it’s a problem for other people? Or you in the future?

Maybe what I just outlined doesn’t require a new OS but acknowledging the problem seems in line with accepting the most charitable interpretation.
And, honestly, science many of us do isn't that impressive to be worth it.
The political groups are simply rough mappings to "major demographics" of users and their preferences - clout-seekers, self-styled entrepreneurs, collectivists. The actual shifts taking place are all within the old bundling/unbundling saw: some features are now outside of the product, and some are integrated into it, and the features attract or repulse these demographics accordingly.

Mastodon always presented some dealbreakers for the "clout-seeking" demographic, since ActivityPub doesn't flatten the space into one high school class ranking(basic KPIs for this goal like numbers of likes don't synchronize across instances), and instances that behave badly are treated by the broader network as "nails to be hammered down", for better or for worse. And nostr likewise centers visible exchange-of-value which is too grubby and nakedly commercial for the upper crust. So I agree that Bluesky is "it" in the realm of attracting Twitter users, for the moment.

But any of these three could absorb features of the others in time. That tends to happen in tech.
Well, it is based on Locust so there's at least some rhyme or reason to the name.
No, here is a pic of a similar meter

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ve_DPfzgEoQ/maxresdefault.jpg
They did in the human brain.
Yes, the plan was set in motion many years earlier. But the reliance Russian energy (whether fossil or uranium fuel) would have been there in either case. Energy exports are a big lever for Russia in foreign affairs.
Sea level is projected to rise 30 centimeters over the next 30 years. The rate is gradually accelerating, so the coming century will see more than a meter.

But the primary near-term risks from climate change are heat damaging crops, (wet) heat killing humans, declining soil moisture in some regions, and increased risk of flooding along some rivers. Over two centuries, coastal cities may be inundated, but that is a long time.
Makes sense. Utah is 1% of the population of the United States and .04% of the world.
You absolutely can by investing in transmission infrastructure instead of wasting it on guessing nonces. It incentivizes continuing to waste it instead of transmitting to to places with productive uses.

Transmission is extremely efficient. A power line spanning all the way from New York to San Francisco should be about 92% efficient.

Transmission line losses are only about 2-3% per 1000km. [1]

[1] https://iea-etsap.org/E-TechDS/PDF/E12_el-t&d_KV_Apr2014_GSO...
Sure. I just would have expected the courts to be interested in justice.

The complaint here is that the courts, in this case at least, have embraced bureaucracy and process even when in conflict with justice. Not a great look for a "justice system".
Well, I've never seen the milky way in the sky with my own eyes.
Recently pivoted front end to vercel and it has been amazing, but back end has stayed on Heroku because Vercel only currently offers headless RoR. Actively considering alternatives because of this.
OK they finally figured it out at ~7:06pm PDT. So ~90-minute time-to-detect. Nice. https://status.heroku.com/
28% of the total population can provide full occupancy of all the areas near nuclear plants. Those ignorant or willing to live in discomfort will ease the capitalist equalizing that will naturally encourage that 28% to fill those houses.
FWiW no drug has ever won a Nobel prize - researchers are awarded such prizes.

Specifically William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work developing a new drug, Avermectin.

From the actual press release from the actual Nobel Prize Committee [1]:

which was subsequently chemically modified to a more effective compound called Ivermectin.

Ivermectin was later tested in humans with parasitic infections and effectively killed parasite larvae (microfilaria).

Collectively, Ōmura and Campbell’s contributions led to the discovery of a new class of drugs with extraordinary efficacy against parasitic diseases.

So, in actual fact NOT used for treatment of "infectious diseases" but for treatment specifically of parasitic diseases because it was developed to be a highly effective dewormer that kills roundworm parasites.

The Nobel Prize press release that you yourself cite (although apparently have never actually read) depicts Ivermectin as a Horse Dewormer (see figure 3) - it also deworms cattle, humans, pigs, etc.

As a highly effective dewormer it is obviously positively correlated with health improvements in any large population with significant parasites - killing parasite improves overall health, more food eaten available for the host, improved immune responses, etc.

Hence the reason for many global studies showing positive results following Ivermectin treatments.

Hence also the reason quacks in the US started pushing propaganda about supposed effectiveness against COVID, setting up smoke and mirror site such as the one linked above, and spreading sly not quite untruths such as the Nobel Prize one you've repeated.

Do please read the original 2015 press release in full.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20151005210425/http://www.nobelp...
KDE Plasma has something like this called "Activities" Check it out.
Status issue now live for it - https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2539
This is a nonsense definition. Science absolutely must follow the scientific method. What you are talking about is natural philosophy and protosciences - its the difference between alchemy and chemistry - which is all the difference in the world.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/07/starwatch-op... has some background.

I would mostly agree with you.
Looking through their comment history nothing stood out, and unfortunately the comment they made is now invisible :(

Im now very curious what the straw was that broke the camels back.
How do state laws such as this not contradict federal interstate commerce laws?
Correct, but that doesn't let the nuclear power industry off the hook. Statistically, they have an adequate record. But there are way too many examples of people denying or covering up nuclear failures only to be subsequently embarrassed by facts. I'm pro-nuclear but reflexive endorsement of the industry is just as embarrassing as reflexive opposition.
"democratization"!? It wouldn't be YOU or another PERSON gaining these capacities, in such a scenario, it would be the tool, and you would be the toolmakers customer.

ATM, LLM's of reasonable sophistication for such tasks are not running on your laptop, and at the point they do, something else will be getting all the limelight, and it won't be within your reach.

As a lifelong musician and composer and producer, it's just automating things away that I don't want automated away. Producing music is about making decisions.

You act as if Radiohead just inserted money and out came pro music, but really you appear to be wishing to skip any hard work and appear to be asking for instant gratification. Well, I can tell you, as someone who could readily train AI in music, that you only cheat yourself by cutting corners.
Knowledge is power to do what you actually really deeply want to.
Handing off the minute decisions that add up to making a masterpiece = cheating oneself of being a creator.
The world is a better place now for more people than ever before.

If anything, we are escaping hell, not descending into it.
We use locust at work but I HIGHLY recommend wrk for a very robust yet simple load testing tool.

https://github.com/wg/wrk

And of course, this talk by Gil Tene is fantastic if you're interested in load testing stats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ8ydIuPFeU
> I also learned it's incredibly difficult to sue a doctor for a misdiagnosis, even if they put you on a drug like methotrexate and took years of normalcy from your life

This seems so frustrating to me. A big factor in the high healthcare prices in the US is that doctors need to pay heavy premiums for their malpractice insurance. If they can't get sued anyway then why are we all paying them to pay for the insurance?
Before making claims, please look up numbers. In the same period nuclear was shut off in Germany coal-use also went down.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Energiemix_Deutsch...
The map is not the territory.

Or, at more length and in more depth, The Analytical Language of John Wilkins by Borges.
Wouldn’t it be nice. But no, there is a race now. And Sberbank’s computers are chipping away. And Musk is building a supercomputer.
Requests don’t make growth. Don’t redirect responsibility and perpetuate the illusion that poor VPs at the top were deceived.

People love to avert responsibility and many seem to be loving the idea that Zuck somehow was deceived into over hiring by ruthless middle managers but anyone who worked in that place knew Mark is a control freak and absolutely everything in the place was top down.

Top management is being paid too dollars for being responsible given how easy it is to create a narrative of a runaway middle manager situation, it seems to me that most people don’t understand the meta game in the US

The meta game isn’t work hard and make a lot of money. It’s not even about money - it’s about no responsibility and the power to do anything that comes with it.

The US system has created a world where consequences are for normal people. Elon at the time could molest all of Austin Texas, spend the same coin he spent on the flight attendant and still have more money than 99.9% of Americans.

Almost everything is legal for a fee. All top level lieutenants at FB got Exceeds or Greatly Exceeds for their loyalty, everyone else got fired. And even HN loves to propagate the insane idea that the cause of the fuckup was rooted in Middle Management and by ruthless employees who sat around all day.
Your hypothesis has a couple of flaws.

The Wii U had great Nintendo first-party games. What they failed to do was court third-parties. IP isn't the whole story. The Vita is a similar story.

Shenmue was groundbreaking at the time of the Dreamcast, Jet Set Radio and Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 were lightyears ahead of the PlayStation. I could go on.
All I want to use my phone for is to occasionally talk, easily text, and snap photos or videos. It's ridiculous that I have to own a smartphone to do this with.
> I wonder if people who eat organic food would be less likely to do so if they knew that fields were being flame-throwed multiple times a season in order to avoid using pesticides.

It's much better for the soil and crop than cultivating multiple times a season, MUCH less expensive than hand pulling, and is potentially better for the environment than using herbicides.
Why I deactivated my Facebook page
From memory, one of their dependencies (maybe skia?) was a gigantic pain to build. I also wasn't very familiar with ninja, and couldn't debug some of the ninja output from cmake.

Doesn't really matter because I already had a license, but it would have been interesting to play around with the internals.
How Lex Fridman's podcast became a safe space for the anti-woke tech elite
So? One failed attempt doesn't mean nobody else will ever succeed.
People seem to fundamentally misunderstand the problem space of AI.

I assume that you are implying that AI will be able to "figure out" how to synthesize a virus, because something like GPT4 sure as shit not going to be trained on materials on how to specifically synthesize viral weapons.

That "figure out" part is where you make a whole shitload of assumptions, one of which is that P=NP.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230405002915/https://www.busin...
I assume you mean this in jest. I get it.

To be fair/serious if you add the "near past" with "near future" you might get enough time for things to change.

Was there something fundamentally impossible about blood analysis with a drop of blood?
That link was already in the comment I responded to. And it doesn't even say that you should expect to be able to see it.