skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even easier than that... just don't treat it as "sewage". In Japan all the way up into the 20th century landlords often claimed a right to their residents "night soil". In pretty much everywhere except (parts of) Europe, human manure was seen as a very valuable resource.

Start a compost pile and get the correct Carbon:Nitrogen ratio (~24:1). Using the Berkeley method it can reach heats of up to 200°F (93°C) within a week. You'd be surprised how quickly something like human feces can neutralized in conditions like these. The recommended wait time before direct handling is usually about 2 months but this is mostly because it's hard to be sure you've got the right ratios, temperatures, etc.

Regardless, anyone trying an "offgrid" life would be wise to stop pouring effort into throwing away one of the most valuable resources humans produce
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Hokas, not sure if there are any copycat competitors in the space, there probably are.
> Lyme disease also causes symptoms that overlap with RA

This could just mean that diseases trigger same pathways. Overlap doesn’t mean a common etiology.
To back up a little further, the purpose of a bank before fractional reserve banking was to store gold and other valuables safe from theft…

Fractional reserve banking began when the banks started converting the deposits to issue loans without the depositor’s knowledge or consent… and that’s largely the way it remains.
The reason may be dumb but I'm anti-monopoly enough that I simply don't care. Anything that even slightly hinders companies from completely removing any form of competition in the space makes me happy.
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The main reason is that no heavy lift rocket in history (not a single one in the last 60 years) has been launched without mitigations that prevent a launch pad from being destroyed during a successful lift-off.

SpaceX (or rather Musk in particular) decided against 60 years of worldwide experience and decided to forego such measures. The result was not just damage to the launch facility, but also debris being spread around at dangerous speeds in a significant radius around the pad. The latter should not have happened, especially considering that the launch site is partially surrounded by protected wildlife habitats.

The fuss is primarily about the negligence and borderline incompetence. The icing on the cake was that they already had plans to avoid this, but deliberately decided not to implement those before any launch attempt. The excuse that "they didn't expect this" sounds a bit strange, given that Saturn V and the Soviet N1 had quite substantial protection systems for their launch pads while being only half as powerful as Starship/Super Heavy.

It's really a culmination of many issues with the site, and this event is just the latest in a string of irregularities at Boca Chica. It started with a false license - the site was licenced to launch F9 and FH only; not experimental super heavy rockets - and included unlicenced launch activities that resulted in a major explosion (see https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/17/faa-defends-spacex-despite-u...).

It's not just about a destroyed launch pad, it's more about the entirety of SpaceX's activities at Boca Chica. It doesn't matter what one's personal opinion about the company as whole or its CEO is; there are some legitimate irregularities and in the end some parties decided sue.
As a person living in Sweden, I think your (and my) immediate concern should be the Swedish government. It's a weak, spineless, and outdated institution that only worked for a few decades because it relied on the homogeneity of the population's opinions (and the unwillingness of those opposed to voice their opinions) to make decisions based on a fake idea of common sense.

Assange is just one example, merely an outlier. Random immigrants, perfectly productive and integrated into the country, including children, are being deported everyday for no special reason. Families are being separated, careers are being destroyed, just because they want to look "strong".

On the other hand, not a single criminal or terrorist is deported; why? Because they will make a fuss. Because there is a bunch of spoiled Swedish people who never experienced hardship with nothing better to do than to defend outdated ridiculous socialist/communist ideas, and they will kick and scream if a criminal is deported. And the coward government is afraid of having to deal with that.

Deport a working, honest immigrant, and they will not say anything. They comply, go out, and try again. If you're one of them, that is what you should be concerned with.
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limit != ban

Capital gains taxes don't prevent an investor from making money.
Personal trainer for resistance training. Nothing even comes close.
> node-postgres is ripe for sql injections because you just concatenate strings yourself when using it...

Why the heck would you do that?

I guess for any library that accepts SQL, someone might concatenate strings rather than use the parameter handling.
This question makes me wonder if there is a scientific discipline that actually empirically tests the efficacy of hiring questions and methods. Surely there must be, but a quick google search for career science and similar terms only brings up job postings for science positions.
Then again, if I ask for a ranking by average user rating, or alphabetically, then I (the viewer) are setting the criteria.

If YouTube's algorithm is deciding what to show me, then I (as the user) am asking for YouTube's opinion.

So I think that there is a coherent argument that YouTube 's recommendation algorithm is expressing an opinion, and is therefore YouTube 's content.

Would it have 1st amendment protection though?
I believe they look for evidence of rejected mating advances around bedtime.
> What "better" jobs am I able to choose from?

Ones that are in a different city, of course.
What are the leading alternatives? I know about RemixJS, but not too up to date on others and how each of these compare against each other.
I don’t think most of this stuff is a secret… I watched one of the recent documentaries about the frantic exit of Afghanistan and its effect on the Afghan military. There were scenes where the military used drones on various targets, one dude made the decision at the end.
It’s very clear you are not a user of GPT4.
Okay, I was slightly off because there were a few 2 core 4 thread models that snuck into the low end of i5, but in general they were 4 core 4 thread. And Nehalem/Westmere worked together as the first generation, so they didn't make the bigger desktop sizes using Westmere. Westmere shouldn't be analyzed as a standalone release.

But those Celerons are simply a different product line. I'm pretty sure they never released an i processor with less than 2 cores and 4 threads.
I lived in Mongolia for a year and got to stay a couple days in real yurts.

The round wall directs wind around the structure and local people hang a heavy weight from the center of the yurt to give it resistance to the lifting force of the wind.

They are cool in the summer with the bottom edge of canvas rolled up to allow airflow. ( but also mosquitoes)and warm in the winter when a layer of thick wool felt is layered over the whole structure and covered with canvas. In the centre is a stove that can burn wood or dried animal dung.

They are very spacious.

You can tell the time by the sun shadow on the floor via the smoke hole in the centre.

BTW if you enter a yurt and in Mongolia don’t step on the door still it is rude.

If you sleep over don’t be shocked when members of the family take off clothes to change. Modesty is the responsibility of the viewer.
Environmental groups sue the FAA over SpaceX launch from Texas
I’d say that Apple was the exception not the rule. Like a modern Silicon Valley startup it was partnered by both a technical mind and a business savvy mind, who (unlike Tramiel) remained at the helm during the worldwide shift of business computing to IBM PC. Also, Apple didn’t participate in the race to the bottom, and concentrated on making a high quality product that justified its price tag as a serious business machine. Amiga started out trying to be the cut price Apple, but the entered the game too late. But it is tantalising to think what could have been if Amiga was founded alongside someone who had business savvy
> there is significant value at the world level, of keeping secrets.

There can be. But secrets can also be unimportant, or easily learnable through other public means. We need to analyze what we're keeping secret and optimize.

The democracy answer is omni-present. People can't really be said to support something they don't know about and if secrets encompass too much of their government it becomes, for practical purposes, illegitimate.

The cost of keeping the secret has to be weighed along with the cost of it leaking and the chance of that happening. It's not practical to keep everything a secret for reasons of censorship limiting other valid activity or just the increased bookkeeping in tracking secrets without revealing them.

And ultimately, not everything is all or nothing. You can have an undisclosed number of weapons for instance, but have a process where civilians can band together and form a special body, get some people vetted, and be granted access to otherwise secret information that they, because of their unique skills or interests, may have input on. This exists today in the form of aerospace companies, etc, who have access to many secrets to aid in the planning and construction of further tools.
Personally, I'm sick of the cheapening of everything brought about by careless (rather than careful) adoption of technology, and I see AI adoption as an extension of that.
Their are private copying levies - essentially blank media has a royalty paid to lobbying groups. Here's the US version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy#United_St...

I don't know if this counts though. It's not crippleware or control, it's a pretty modest nominal tax on a physical good (between 2 and 3%) that otherwise already costs money.

You could say the market pivoted away from things covered by the law into the area of the exceptions but that's a little too neoclassical for actual human behavior - I'd need to see significant direct evidence to support the idea that a 2% cost increase was both passed on to the consumer and the consumer made significant purchasing decisions from that price signal delta.

I'm going to guess that in practice, the 2% difference was absorbed in, for example, cheaper packaging, scaled manufacturing, permitting larger margins for QoS failures or by placing on cheaper areas of the distributor's shelf space as opposed to being directly transmitted to the actual consumer price of say $9.80 versus $9.99.

Even if it was directly transmitted, the majority of consumers aren't that discretionary with such small deltas. But this is another topic entirely.

Regardless, that's the only thing I can find that disputes my initial claim.
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If you're looking to use that 100k soon, maybe for a new house, or saving to start a business, then you want very safe and liquid options. 4% is close enough to other safe options that if it's easy then that's good enough for some people.
Simulating Turing Machines with Wang Tiles
Likely zero.

This is a bunch of Greenpeace-types that would pat themselves on the back for stopping the construction of a nuclear power plant, while blithely ignoring the new coal power plant that had to be constructed in its place.
This is neat, and as someone who wants to eventually build a layout in his basement I'm glad there's continued development of these types of projects, but I'm not sure I see how this is going to be simpler than DCC. The complexity of programming DCC is called out, but reprogramming and designing an "infinitely variable" Arduino based solution is almost certainly going to be way more complex

Maybe that complexity is the selling point, in that you may be able to do things DCC can't, but approaching this as easier than DCC seems off base
It's messed up that twitter was a platform for speaking truth to power and then the power that truth was spoken to bought it to shut it down.
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> Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin discuss how existing A.I. capabilities already pose catastrophic risks to a functional society, how A.I. companies are caught in a race to deploy as quickly as possible without adequate safety measures, and what it would mean to upgrade our institutions to a post-A.I. world.
> Text inputs have no affordances

It has all the affordances. You can turn it into anything you want. Want it respond with json, check, it can do that. Turn a wall of text into a Python data structures, check, it can do that too.

You can take your LLM text interface and put what ever api you want on top. You start with clay and mold it into anything you need. You construct a parser so that the way data is already constrained and validated. Same goes for the output.
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Historians have found little evidence that Manuela Beltrán existed
> The temperature can range between 500,000 to 1.2 million BTUs

Oy...
I'm not talking huge blobs, just (fixed-size) 8- to 16-byte uuid-like fields. You can obviously marshal 8-byte fields to a bigint but you can't do that with 16-byte fields.
SQL Server until recently.
Jumping, maybe not; for running, the shoe is a weight at the end of an arm that needs to be accelerated consistently.

Even if it's mostly psychological, you can absolutely feel the difference with a lighter shoe.
Cloud shoes are shoes with a very high level of cushion (38mm is race legal limit) and support. Some have carbon fibre plates for extra bounce. Popular models from Saucony, On, Hoka, Nike, etc. It is now estimated that majority of amateur marathon runners are wearing them. This is in stark contrast to 15 years ago when minimalist and lightweight racing flats were in vogue (typically around 20mm stack for endurance events).

If you walk into a runnning shop now, you are probably leaving with a pair of cloud shoes - that’s all some shops sell.
It’s in the public interest because we want you to choose a greener more sustainable transport option, such as the train.
hummingbirds also have similar tongues, not certain if they wrap around the head.
Alright:

First is a graph that shows healthcare costs increase steadily slightly above inflate rate over time from 1970

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spe...

Seconds are a bunch of numbers in a CSV indicating that there is nothing special about 1968, healthcare costs rose just like any other years. 1965 is in fact a pivotal years, costs rose more then previous years when medicare and medicate were rolled out (more on that later). But also noting that between 1960 and 1965 prices still rose above inflation, just not as much as in the late 1960s, while still much more than in the 1990s.

https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...

Third is an article explaining the trends (using same number as in nr. 2) in terms of historic events.

> Between 1961 and 1965, health care spending increased by an average of 8.9% a year. That's because health insurance expanded. As it covered more people, the demand for health care services rose. By 1965, households paid out-of-pocket for 44% of all medical expenses. Health insurance paid for 24%.

> From 1966 to 1973, health care spending rose by an average of 11.9% a year. Medicare and Medicaid covered more people and allowed them to use more health care services. Medicaid allowed senior citizens to move into expensive nursing home facilities.

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/causes-of-rising-healthcare-...

So when you say stuff like: “The price of health care in the US rose at the same rate as inflation, up until 1968.” first check if your data and your dates are correct, but also consider nuances. Like, what does it mean thate prices go up (explained in source nr. 2) Does it mean that individually your average out of pocket costs are higher, does larger funds go from government to the health care industry? Are hospital operations more expensive? etc. But also note that if nobody gets health care, health care costs are 0 USD, while treating more people will make costs go up as more people are getting more technologically challenging and expensive treatments (explained in source nr. 3).

Taking costs going up when more people get healthcare to automatically mean that socialism is bad, that is kind of a simplistic take to say the least.
Touche, I should've had some nuance in my post.

I will try another approach:

I typically would label the HN crowd as above-average when it comes to understanding technical progress. I would not call myself that; I'm just a software dev that enjoys tech and happens to also enjoy learning about the human brain.

And my question stems from the fact that I see all these smart folks initiating conversations, like "it doesn't understand anything", and then whenever a follow-up is presented ("what does it mean to understand?"), it's silent.

That's a common theme I've seen these last 3-4 months. And I truly feel like I'm missing something.
> There's too much darn rent seeking.

It's kind of hard for the American Dream to be a rent seeker, and for their not to be a lot of rent seeking...
Comments like this confirm that you are indeed reading every comment on the website, which should be out of the realm of humanely possible.
First of all, multiplying two numbers together is not "shifting the goal posts", but an absolutely basic test of any system that is claimed to able to do mathematical reasoning. I know that LLM's are not well suited for this, and that's because they cannot do arithmetic (among other things).

So I tried a word puzzle that would also require simple multiplication:

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PROMPT: i am going to cycle 1600 miles, with 234 miles on gravel roads. on paved roads i will ride at 1929288282 millimeters per second but on gravel I will ride at 0.00000000202 parsecs per second. How long will the journey take?

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Now, I have to commend GPT on its ability to understand how you solve a problem like this, though that's not really very surprising given the huge numbers of such problems that exist in written materials. It precisely broke the problem down in a way that I suppose you could call "reasoning", but I would call "copying the formula for solving puzzles like this".

And how did it do with the actual math?

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0.00000000202 parsecs per second is equivalent to 7499.6103827 miles per hour (mph), which we can calculate by converting parsecs to miles (1 parsec = 3.26 light-years = 19,173,511,840,000 miles) and dividing by the number of seconds in an hour:

0.00000000202 pc/s × 19,173,511,840,000 mi/pc ÷ 3600 s/hr = 7499.6103827 mph

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Utterly and completely wrong. Same issue with the millimeters per second computation.

It is completely obvious why LLMs cannot do this. They cannot perform even basic arithmetic reasoning, and even more fundamentally, the ONLY capability they have is to create likely responses to prompts. For some things, this is extraordinarily (and scarily) powerful. But it is not reasoning.
As an AI language model it is not possible for me to smell cheese.
You can also just disable javascript for nytimes.com and the full article renders without the paywall
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> I'll submit this is prima facie evidence that tech was (and is to some degree) highly meritocratic

How do you imagine that constitutes evidence of meritocracy?
Same with nutrition industry. Decades of saying eggs are bad for your cholesterol, but no science to back it up.
ChatGPT: Abstract logic and the doubling down bias
Keating is the name that is known, but I do believe it was hundreds of people. Like, hundreds of people did (some) jail time. But as Martin Shkreli would say, "I just want to let you know, jail is not that bad. So don't fret – I hope it doesn't happen. If it does happen...it's not that bad."
What protections does China have from an abusive government that Russia didn’t?
Subscription cancellation buttons are intentionally confusing and hard to find. It's easy to add a big red Cancel button in an obvious place that works immediately, but companies choose to avoid that route in order to extract more money from customers. Nothing about that dynamic will change with LLMs, those same companies will have the same priorities.

The only difference will be that script-following customer service reps giving you the runaround will be replaced by indefatigable chatbots giving you the runaround, which honestly sounds pretty hellish to me.
Waste Heat Calculator
Well give me a term that other people understand that I can use instead of socialist.

I do tend to agree with most socialist diagnosis of the problems of capitalism, I just don't tend to agree on the cure for the disease (or if there even is a cure, and not just limiting the damage).

The fact that the terms don't really exist are a good indication of how well the propaganda is working I guess.

> Yes it seems that capitalism/free markets works best most of the time (even China knows this) but there are many cases where it does not and something else has to happen (healthcare, housing etc.)

And I don't necessarily agree with this. I think money+markets will need to exist. I don't agree that the current top-down hierarchical nature of corporations is the best. CEOs are all tinpot dictators and we've universally decided that this is just okay and commands flow down from the top and people don't question that. I've found that to be a pretty shitty model, just on the basis of not having enough feedback loops from the bottom to the top which leads to badly performing economic machines. And as corporations consolidate and grow to become the size of governments the CEOs are becoming real political dictators and a ruling class.