skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree privacy is not a crime. However criminals like privacy, because it defects accountability. Hence, in the public eye, things that are highly private tend to attract criminal behaviour.

This can have the effect of guilt-by-association.

By contrast people do business either people they like. With people they trust. And both qualities require some level of not-anonymous.

Of course i do incidental business with anonymous strangers all the time - like buying gas, but even there the "company is a known entity to me.

If I wanted to use a messaging service that featured my anonymity I would need to trust the provider. Frankly I'd assume the service was being run by a state actor or law enforcement. (That would be true though even if you were public, and not suitably trusted)

Ultimately your service will be very appealing to both privacy-keen people, and criminals. This will result it people assuming that using it = criminal behaviour.

Take bitcoin as an example. Sure there are legitimate uses for it (beyond just speculation.) But the killer app for it is criminal enterprise. Personally if I encountered a service that only took bitcoin, I would assume its either criminal, or a scam or both. That's because bitcoin adds no trust to the situation.

Incidentally I don't believe privacy is a foundation of freedom of speech. Freedom of speech let's you say anything you like. Bur that freedom comes with accountability - in the sense that your words have more power when you put your good-name behind them.

Clearly though privacy and free-speech are very orthogonal -there are plenty of free-speech channels around. Privacy though is more complicated.

(Not least because when you privately communicate with an anonymous someone who ends up being a criminal then you open the door to being complicit etc)
All true. I buy some of the cheapest Bluetooth headphones available. After all, what's the selling point of Bluetooth. Audio quality. Protocol quality. No, it's convenience. That's it.

Encouraging to see some auto manufacturers calling out touchscreens. The marketing for so-called "tech" is some of the worst I have ever seen. The "technology" is half-baked.

There's technology and then there's just data collection and surveillance, aka "tech". The later needs non-stop hype. No wonder it's goal is planned obsolescence. The stuff is not high quality. Never was and never will be.
I hope to get a battery system to offset some of my costs, but I can't forsee not being connected to the grid as backup and to sell some excess energy back anyway.

I don't have an electric car either, so while my current solar system (6.6kW) could power my current household energy use basically year-round (if I had sufficient battery capacity), I would only be able to slow charge solely off that, so I expect I will still be buying energy from the grid once I get an EV for times I want to fast charge (probably 11kW three phase), even with the solar and a hypothetical battery.
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Looks really neat! Thanks for posting it
“I've not met anyone in AI labs who says risk is ≤1% of blowing up the planet”
Growing up, on the playground, you said, "actually what you just said is a symbol of power of the Roman consuls, so I will take that as a compliment.", didn't you?
What about edamame? Definitely count as beans. Per 100g: 120kcal / 11g protein / 5g fat / 10g carbs / 5g fiber.

Plus it’s impossible to stop eating them once you gain momentum.
Alignment with any philosophy. Alignment itself is easy to define. An AI system is considered aligned if it advances the intended objectives.

Firstly we don’t know how to concretely and completely define any philosophical system of values (the intended objectives) unambiguously. Second even if we could, we don’t know how we might strictly align an AI with it, or even if achieving strict alignment is possible at all.
As an amateur blacksmith, I can tell you that bronze is very difficult to forge. The minimum working temperature is close to the temperature at which it turns into a liquid, and you would be hard pressed to keep it between those limits. It also doesn't color like iron or steel, and iron and steel have much wider working temperatures. Bronze is much easier to cast than it is to forge.

So, if we're talking about casting, then we have to ask what did they cast in, and what did they use for the molded object? I don't know when sand casting was invented, but I think that's how a lot of modern casting in bronze is done. As for the original piece that was molded, you could do a lost wax type process, and wax was certainly a thing available back then, but would it have been used for this purpose? And how would you do lost wax with sand casting? If it wasn't a lost wax process, then how did you get all those neat little knobs, because otherwise you'd get the equivalent of mold tear outs.

Any sand casted piece would have needed a lot of cleanup to make it look nice, so you'd need to cut, sand, and polish those edges and surfaces.

It would be interesting to have this discussion with someone who is well acquainted with the process of casting bronze, to see what their thoughts are.
If so then at least, auto pilot is not harmful, is it?
> So.. we built a weapon system who's utility is immediately reduced by the amount of time it spends in proximity to enemy radar systems?

It's a far more complicated situation. Short answer: No. That's a naive perception of how "stealth" aircraft work.

First, it's unlikely that the F35 will ever be susceptible to a weapons grade radar lock for the frequencies in which it was designed to be low observable in. However, detecting that an F35 is present is quite useful for adversaries. These would be on non-targetable frequencies. It's in the best interest of the F35 operators to make sure that it's return signature in those frequency bands is a bit of a mystery. In fact, this is so important, that F35s are generally flown around with _intentional_ radar reflectors during all non-combat operations to keep the aircraft observable.

Second, (this is speculation I want to make that clear its my opinion) 5th generation fighters are likely "as good as it's going to get" for a long time. Within 25 years, every country will be able operate low-observable aircraft, barring some breakthroughs in quantum physics. Extending the time it takes other countries to catch up makes the investment pay out longer.

I really didn't have a good grasp on this stuff until I read up on the LRASM weapon. It's an anti-ship cruise missile fired hundreds of miles away from a moving target. During its its terminal phase, it's able to use its radar to seek its target, even if the target warship is using civilian vessels as human shields. How exactly it does this is of course classified, but military analysts (your favorite word, I know) have surmised its clandestine radar operations have been taken profiles of ships from likely enemies vs radar returns from merchant vessels. Does that comparison sort of make sense?
Surprised to not find "refrig", "shelf", or "storage" occur once in TFA.

One of the major advantages to beans is they're a healthy protein source you don't even have to refrigerate/keep frozen to store. Sacks of dried beans will last a very long time provided you keep them dry and away from vermin.

I've cooked decade-old dried black beans found in a "kitchen stuff" box after emptying a storage unit and they were perfectly fine.
I'll believe that works when someone demonstrates it working - it sound good in theory but my hunch is that it's hard or maybe impossible to actually implement.
Awesome build. However my first reaction was "I have RSI just looking at it"
Beans and rice in sealed containers are perfect "forever" food, all you really need is a source of water.
HX-20 is still appealing! Never seen one in the flesh though.
If you regularly eat them it goes away and isn't a problem.
Everything in a free society is debatable. I was using that sense of the word.
I totally agree, and I quite like meat.
I'd rather have 100 videos where it actually looks like people are pointing guns at their heads go unflagged than 1 video of someone using a hair dryer being wrongly flagged.
You'd certainly hope they wouldn't be on HN, wouldn't you?
We haggle for things which have high optionality in their details. If its a loaf of bread of unit weight, and white grains of stated quality, it's unlikely you'd haggle except at the end of the working day when it becomes "yesterdays bread" and has different value to "tomorrows bread"

A car can be the wrong colour, with or without a lighter, have cop tires, cop engine, a chicken, two pieces of white bread.. There's a lot to haggle about.

What the article doesn't explore at length is how the haggle is itself asymmetric because their willingness to cut price excludes telling you of a better choice outcome for another vehicle. Once you're in the haggle, you're haggling about THIS car.

I have persian friends who haggle about everything. Sometimes, it works. Furniture floor stock can be hard to move. Dent and scratch white goods can be hard to move.

The thing people routinely haggle over is a car, typically secondhand but often new. But they do actually haggle about other things: its culturally defined.

I hate haggling. I was walking around the grand bazaar in Istanbul with a giant "rip me off" sign flashing over my head. It took me 2 hours to spend the same $25 on the ticket for something, because of my reluctance to propose $15 for something clearly worth $5.

I like to imagine successfully haggling the price of the car down and then watching the dealer removing the seats and tires.
Worringly, I am it sure the people working on this really understand what a Transformer is

Quote from them:

“ There is still active research in non-transformer based language models though, such as Amazon’s AlexaTM 20B which outperforms GPT-3“

Quote from said paper

“ For AlexaTM 20B, we used the standard Transformer model architecture“

(Its just an encoder decoder transformer)
A decline in deaths from one cause can signal another cause is killing people before the other cause gets a chance.
This comes up in response to this hobby frequently, and the answer is pretty simple- it does whatever you want. There are pretty much an endless variety of cyberdecks, and some are more useful that others. Even the ones that are for different aesthetics go on to inspire specific builds.

I think you're asking the question in good faith, but it's a bit like looking at an Arduino, Raspberry Pi 2040, or Raspberry Pi 4B and asking, "what can these do that an Intel laptop can't do better?"
Yeah, it's incredible, as if nature evolved a way for the seeds of life to endure decades of drought or something...
My friend Roni Bennett blogged about “what it’s really like to get old” for nearly two decades with a large readership.

https://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/archives.html

She passed away in 2020.
Uh huh, and how expensive, heavy and bulky was the generator and the fuel they have to constantly feed it?

If they need/want more than just lighting, then fair enough. But for just lighting, rektide's proposal blows a generator out of the water.
I wrote about why I don't think that's a good approach here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/2/prompt-injection-explai...
F-Droid interview featuring Sylvia von OS and Hans-Christoph Steiner [audio]
Saying "just leave" leads to a problem similar to the prisoner's dilemma: if everyone left Facebook, everyone would be better off for it, but if just you leave Facebook and everyone else stays on, you're way worse off.
YouTube videos. Language may become an issue for you. If it does, please feel free to ask, I'll reply at leisure. The second video uses sprouts, but it works as well with any pre-boiled beans.

[0] https://youtu.be/asY7cq6j0xE
[1] https://youtu.be/SNDrDZs3nn4
I think some Homo sapiens sapiens in Europe mated with some Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and that's where the white skin came from. Maybe. But this was a very long time ago and there's no historical record or way of using DNA evidence to narrow anything down to a specific date or a specific person. Even if we did know the person whether we met the conditions for being white would depend on what kind of definition of the White race we were using. For example, whether we were using a definition that focused on the current point in time, or one that was interested in the White race as it exists and evolves throughout the past and future.
It still requires knowledge that this arrow is African.

If you have enough knowledge transfer to know that this particular arrow is African z you would imagine that you also would know that storks show up in Africa only in the wintertime...
I don’t have a statistical interest in this dispute, but I do think it’s worth pointing out that this is an unusual use of the term “FUD”.
‘Socrates: There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire, whether the way is smooth and easy, or rugged and difficult. And this is a question which I should like to ask of you who have arrived at that time which the poets call the “threshold of old age”: Is life harder towards the end, or what report do you give of it?’

https://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/arch/greeks/PlatoRepublic.h...

In 2,500 hundred years we have advanced much in technology. In philosophy, perhaps, none at all.
I would encourage you to either take a look at the cyberdeck.cafe website or drop into the Discord server- you may be surprised how many different builds there are, and you probably would find the original designer pretty happy to share design files or suggestions.
This is actually the biggest problem. It's not that beans don't have protein, it's the amount of it you have to eat to meet your daily requirements. 3 ounces of chicken has the same protein as almost 11 ounces of beans.

A cup of beans has about 15g protein. And usually you need 1g/kg of body weight per day. A normal sized adult would then need to eat anywhere from 6-8 cups of beans per day, which if you haven't had beans, is a very tough thing to do. As compared to that, 1-1.5 chicken breast could provide the same amount of protein, which is much easier to consume.
I mean plants definitely are more intensive than a lot of farming, but I'm not sure space is the only consideration? Eg we farm cattle in Australia on land that's not particularly usable for any cropping.
from here https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_2019/plmrep/COM...

"Providers of foundation models used in AI systems specifically intended to generate, with varying levels of autonomy, content such as complex text, images, audio, or video (“generative AI”) "

I think your characterisation of input vs output size may be useful, or it may be the more the open-endedness of it.
Sounds like the original commenter had a reasonable case, but I just don’t think it’s likely to save anything for small sites on traditional stacks.

If you are running on i.e. EC2 and RDS instances, you’re not saving anything by using 40% less of the CPU, unless you can actually downsize the instance as a result. Read-only traffic is also not that hard to scale out, but with forums etc, you can be stuck with some legacy systems for sure.
What proportion of the population are making Big Gainz? And what proportion are just getting fat? Because excess protein will just end up as fat.
Mujaddara is middle eastern lentils and rice. The rice makes it a complete protein. I modified this recipe https://feelgoodfoodie.net/recipe/mujadara/ and cook it all in a rice cooker at the same time. Delicious.
> hmm, how shall I put this?

They’re the magical fruit.
> i've never run across a blog that i've wanted to follow that doesn't have an rss/atom feed

One time only for me. Don’t even remember the site as I couldn’t follow it ;)

> these days i just ctrl+u (view source in firefox) and ctrl+f for "rss" or "atom" and 99% of the time, there's a hit.

I tend to not even do that much, the vast majority of sites have their feeds properly marked up, so pasting the base URL into my reader gives me a list of available feeds.
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> Whatever I might have thought if he had said that, he did not say that, therefore it is not relevant.

Do you not consider counterfactual thinking to have any value?
In 2023, most people who give two shits about running wired headphones are using a USB DAC, even if their phone has a 3.5mm socket as the onboard AD/DA chipset is usually mediocre and struggles to drive most high-end cans.
What about the pressure cooker makes them more practical? Reduced cooking time? Can you skip the rehydration process for dried beans? For me at least I think a lot of what limits me looking to beans is to go from "no prep" to "finished dish" for beans involves hours of soaking, then a long cooking process.
Hi, I'm looking for a sales cofounder to join me in building a B2B cross-border payments company using stablecoins.

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Last I heard, the subset of beans that have been somewhat developed for human consumption are nonetheless still full of antinutrients like glutamates and lectins that function as a defence mechanism and which mean that the nutrients that they do contain (and that survive processing) have a very low bioavailability relative to components like starches. I for one prefer the use of regenerative pastureland as opposed to intensively farmed monocrops that rely on artificial pesticides, oil-derived fertilizer and air freight transport (!). Advocacy articles like this tend to a paint a skewed picture of land-usage-per-unit-of-nutrition and nutrition-per-unit-of-food with graphs like these, as well as other assumptions that they're implying about pastureland being suitable for agriculture (it often isn't).
Considering the relatively small size of the budget that might be the most carefully managed bit of taxpayer money in the entire country ;)
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Realistically the only way I was able to do it was being laid off which forced me to jump in. I had a savings and a wife who believed in me (the savings has helped her belief hah) Family is a no-compromise #1 priority for me under any and all circumstances. I don’t think it is possible for most people to do all three. At Berkeley we had a saying “you can have 2/3 of either: good grades, a social life, and sleep”. This feels like a similar 2/3. Unless your job is easy enough where you can get it done in 1-2 hours and spend the rest on your startup.
I agree with your point about car oriented suburbs, but I’m also not convinced living in cities is necessarily social particularly in America.

I lived without a car for 5+ years and I didn’t find it led to spontaneous interactions. I think there’s other cultural and socioeconomic factors at play here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Freedom_Fund
What is unprivileged text?
Or perhaps simply scanning the first page of Google image results is not a reliable way to figure out what a weird sex thing on the Internet is actually about.
My favorite iteration on this, linked there, is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law :

> Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

And my own take:

> Every program attempts to expand until it can (a) interpret half of Common Lisp; (b) read and write mail; AND (c) implement a nontrivial subset of Quickbooks Online, including double-entry accounting. Those programs which cannot so expand are eventually forced to thus expand by the mythical force known as the Stakeholder.

One must embrace the inevitability of the "rule.trigger_logic" column, of the "how do we make this work like gmail" question, and of the dreaded interplay between "balance due" and "transaction/account adjustments."

Only then can one find inner peace.
This headline had me thinking the antenna was lost. Not that it had finally deployed.
Yep. Sometimes so.

https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/wood-joinery-methods-use-no-...
This looks tasty thanks for sharing the recipe.
Ice Cube admits to just chucking D-batteries at other drivers in his younger years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Za8BtLgKv8

Maybe a carton of eggs would achieve the same message? Don't want to do what those kids in Aurora did.
> Depends on the sub.

It depends on the size, and your opinions. I don’t like movies and enjoyed the Wheel of Time TV show, people like me are not wanted in /r/fantasy.

But it is a big subreddit (3 million), and that just comes with toxicity. I’d say anything with over 100k subs (probably even less) will have toxicity, it’s just that it tends to stay hidden until someone says the wrong thing (/r/selfhosted with 250k had some crazy drama a while ago).
Why the hell is it wonderful or should be cherished and lauded?

I say on the contrary, this sounds like some hedonistic bs and it’s shameful and should rejected on the basis that pleasure is not everything and considering it as such has been refuted many times. Look up Experience machine by Robert Nozick.
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This is fraud.

If I impersonated you to commit fraud, I would face jail-time. How is it that CEO's almost never face jail-time when they do crime?
None of those sources has any relevance to the bottom line accounting cost of large scale utility storage for intermittent renewable energy. You presumably have to over provision both storage and baseline power generation to assure the grid of enough reliability. The assumptions you make in doing that drive the cost of the entire solution.

Lazard has mostly ignored those costs when it tries to come up with a LCOE for intermittent renewables. A real world grid operator can't ignore those costs. To take a real world example, Germany requires dramatic subsidies to build out its renewable energy portfolio. These subsidies occur at every level of electricity grid. There is no simple way to untangle the costs and come up with a single number that can be compared to non-intermittent sources of energy. The share of biomass in the German grid is strongly suggestive of the fact that renewable energy isn't cost competitive without significant subsidies.

There is no free lunch, decarbonizing energy generation requires more expensive sources of energy.
The article doesn't mention phylogenetic evidence at all. That makes me think that this issue may be completely resolved/rendered irrelevant by more recent phylogenies.
I believe they are simply pointing out the hypocrisy of the racist rant. Racists claim that the reason they are against immigration from certain countries because of the increase in crime rate they would allegedly bring.