skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did their metaverse bring anything to the table other metaverse didn't?
I realized I made a mistake: A quick Google search reveals that air gets heated up to full body temperature in the lungs while the nasal turbinates, after inhalation, remain below body temperature for a bit longer. So upon breathing out T_N < T_A and heat indeed gets transferred back from the air to the nose.
Well, some people just like to be internet famous, without selling you a product.
Interesting! It is not often that we get to hear about the achievements of the engineering arm of the armed forces in India.
That is such a weird argument to me. I can count in the fingers of one hand the number of times in my life that I've had to compose ranges, it seems a strange thing to optimize for.
If you're talking about the glitziest parts of Mumbai or Bengaluru, maybe.

It's rare to see Mercedeses or BMWs outside of the wealthiest parts of even Chennai, for instance. I don't think a small-towner in a second- or third-tier city is going for a C-class that would be worth several years' salary, even as a software engineer.

Indians might want to buy German luxury cars, but whether they can afford to actually buy them and whether they actually buy them is a different story altogether.
in snow, I'm scared of other people on the road
The concept of probability is based on the concept of measure in math => limitation in its description of things, e.g., the probability for a real number in [0, 1) being an irrational number is 1.
I love the DEC so much. They seem to actually give a shit, and NY's environmental recovery is astounding.

A parallel to that is the incredible research and work done by SUNY ESF. They've almost brought back the American Chestnut!
Show HN: Botecko, a gpt4 client that simulates an instant messenger
This is a simulation of an instant messenger running on the browser.

It generates contacts (including the profile picture) based on a single sentence.
All chat history is stored on your browser.

Features:

- Open source (apache 2)

- Profile generation including picture

- Prompt with plan-ahead in 4 steps. This improves the response and also gives a way to debug the character motivation.

- Group Chat. Get new insights by making characters with different opinions talk to each other.

If you don't have an openAi account you can check a demo here

https://youtu.be/e07yjZJGnYo
The totality of all life on earth need not contain the human brain to be a complex object. So I still don't see the difference here.

>But society and the terrestrial ecosystem don't exist without functioning brains in them.

1) Original reply didn't say anything about society, only life an it's physical interactions.

2) Sure it does. Plenty of life forms without brains exist, and their sum is more complex than the human brain. The human brain itself is a composite of brainless life.

>And a genealogical relationship doesn't exist at all as a physical object, just as a conceptualized object (such as a graph). And conceptualized objects, such as graphs, typically aren't that complex (though can probably get there if someone dedicates the computational resources to do so).

That isn't because of what conceptual objects are, it's because of how they are used. The purpose of most conceptual objects is simplification. One can produce arbitrarily complex conceptual objects, we just don't normally because... why?

We can even throw out all of these semantics if you want and go with a much narrower version of the original statement: "The brain is the most complex physical system", and even that isn't necessarily true. The bacterial ecosystems that compose the digestive system have more interacting cells, with less defined interactions, than the brain. Maybe you meant "most complex computational system"? That's potentially true, depending on your definition of complexity.
Yes, terribly written. Eveything but a detailed description of "backwards".
It has no inherent meaning. You can choose to play whatever part you like.
But first you might try to figure out what this "you" is - is it a body, a mind? An infinite, underlying computational substrate? Maybe there are even multiple "yous".
Kind of: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/small-basic-blog/bg-p... It was started by MS employees in 2008: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/small-basic-blog/hell...
https://archive.md/1w5mR
https://archive.is/3Ypsg
Yeah this, setting the price to $100k to guide core laws around $B businesses in a way to override public feedback is cheap. Sounds like it is now officially open season.
I'm reminded of the old adage about playing chess with a pigeon. It knocks down the pieces, shits on the board and flies off.
Then how about hiring people in Canada? Unless Canada somehow has worse education system than the US?

Or, if it’s really only about education systems, Finland?

Seriously, if it’s only about education, you can do better than the US.
All the presentation of this has been weird.

"Leaked Google memo" is true in a sense, but the doc was written by one person who isn't the primary leading force within relevant orgs at Google. The headline is more accurately described as "what does the opinion of one Googler reveal..."
On a visit to a friend in Norway we went up the mountains, the road was white and we were doing a consistent 60 kph. We stopped to take some photos and I noticed there was about an inch of ice on the road. In Norway you leagally have to have winter tyres and your driving test has an individual ice exam along with motorway and night exams. Training and the right equipment make most things a lot safer.
It's true that government request isn't a valid reason, but administrators lock articles for much shakier reasons _all_ the time. Usually this happens when news comes out which would challenge the prevailing narrative of the article. At this point, other members come in and update the article, but those still loyal to the original viewpoint are quick to revert. Thus, the resident admin can declare an "Edit War", and now the article will go protected and will largely still pander to the original view, regardless of what new reports or data may come out. Typically, the original editors will then get in Talk-fights and exhaust any dissenting opinions by nitpicking with rules (WP:___, etc.) and the article will remain locked.

I had some examples linked, but I worry their inclusion would derail the discussion. To be clear - I love Wikipedia, I use it every day. It's abundantly clear though that it doesn't represent anything close to a neutral perspective, it represents the exact politics of the kind of person who you would imagine would become a Wikipedia editor.
Snow and ice provide more friction at colder temperatures. People who occasionally get snow are essentially placed in the worse possible condition an at or slightly above freezing surface. They aren’t using snow tires because the roads aren’t covered in snow long enough and nobody is replacing their tires for 48 hours after a once or twice a winter storm.

So, the normal response is to avoid driving in it, which means they never learn how to drive in snow.
Evolution of Haskell Programmer[1] comes to mind.

[1]: http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html
I thought there was a price cap on vehicles that qualify for the federal tax credits (I assume that’s what you mean by “good incentives”). Aren’t the S and X priced above that threshold?
The mysterious dodecahedrons of the Roman Empire
There is also safing which does something similar with a great GUI and it works on Linux, windows and macOS and its open source!
The household agent movie is something I'd watch! Let's see: "Groundhog Dishes"? (a comedy) "Squeaky"? (modern horror) "The Cleaners" (action)...
This is so coool!
Many (perhaps most) drivers have a mental model of driving that bypasses any understanding of traction circle and tire slippage. "When I want to go faster, I push this button under my right foot; when I want to stop, I push the other button to its left. It's usually safe to drive 8 mph over what the speed limit sign says."

Those people are going to find snow problematic, because to drive effectively in snow, you need to have a better understanding of vehicle dynamics than is required to extract 0.25g of acceleration from your car on a clean and dry road.

Even in New England (where we get a half dozen to dozen snow events per year), people often stay home in the worst of it, waiting until the main road are mostly clear, and then they go charging out on those mostly clear roads with their all-wheel drive, ABS, and traction control and then come to grief on a section that isn't in the set of mostly clear because "it was fine for the last 20 miles".
Maybe when I can afford one. It's slow on my machine.
I would agree with that.

Except the guy touts the merits of hiring from anywhere. He seems to think he’s somehow better than all the others he criticises (I, personally, favour remote work. Just not holier-than-thou hypocrites).

All while his very own company hires from anywhere. Except outside the US. Except in one state out of ten.

If hiring people "from anywhere" is so great, and if even Basecamp can surmount the legal hurdles of hiring people from anywhere, what’s Airbnb’s excuse?
You've completely missed the author's point. The code itself takes negligible time and effort to write himself. Accepting code from someone else takes more time and effort than it saves.
I drive a sensible European car with standard road tires, it wont climb a 2-3 degree incline with 1 inch of snow on it.

I have never meet a person in real life with alternative weather tires. Its just not a thing in my country.
Have the Zeroth Nations weighed in or did none of them survive the First Nations' arrival?
What "traditional static program" can successfully pass novel theory of mind tests as part of a broad suite of intelligent capabilities that it can apply in context when appropriate? I am interested in hearing about this program.
Thanks for both comments and the clarification!

I'll give it an honest shot tomorrow and update you on the pain points.
No. No they really are not well understood and the complications in the type system multiply fast.
> Mr. Pearl noted that people with only a couple of million can use “securities-based loans,” borrowing low-cost funds from banks using the value of a given investment portfolio as collateral. “You just loan yourself money,” he explained, and in many if not most cases, the portfolio’s rate of return exceeds the rate of interest on the loan.

It seems like a step is missing here. Wouldn’t the borrower have to sell part of the portfolio to pay the interest on the loan? And wouldn’t that trigger capital gains?
Popular economic "theories" are starting to feel like they've just been excuses for the ruling classes to siphon off all of the benefits of technological advancement for themselves.

More astrology than chemistry.
Dear HN: I am the author. Thank you for your wishes.

I do see that a short obituary like this needs some context. To address some of the comments:

* Why choose to disclose that my father was a Maharashtrian Brahmin: being brought up in such a household in the early twentieth century implies a lot of things. For example, rigid rules about non-violence and purity; not being exposed to other people's food and customs; avoiding leaving your country and going far away from home. These are huge barriers for a twenty-something signing up for a commission in the military. It's very relevant to reveal who he was and what choices he made. I should note that historically, certain groups sign up in the Indian army, and many groups don't. [1]

Regarding objections to the word Brahmin being mentioned, I should clarify: the caste system was evil, particularly in the nineteenth century, and the government of India made it illegal as soon as it became independent. Despite that, discrimination continues in many places today. But to understand people, you need to know something about them. The word Brahmin by itself is not a precise enough descriptor. Indian castes are much more local than that. "Maharashtrian Brahmin", in particular "Chitpawan Konkanastha Brahmin", is much more precise, and these gruops have their own history. In Maharashtra during this period, these groups gave up their land under the land reform movement [2]. Brahmins no longer owned property or exercised much real power, especially not over other groups. They tended to be well educated but middle-class. It would be quite different from being an upper-caste landowner in (say) Bihar during this period.

* Why say that the Bangladesh war was justified: again, looking at it from my father's point of view, I think it would be an important consideration for him. Not that he would have a choice in the matter---once you sign up, you have to fight. But he would need to justify it to himself.

[1] The Indian Army: its contribution to the development of a nation, Stephen P. Cohen. https://www.amazon.com/Indian-Army-Contributions-Development...

[2] The "Bhoodan movement", (donate-your-land movement) by Vinobha Bhave in the 1950s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhoodan_movement
The only remote (to me) office I had to work with that I'd describe like that was in California. shrug
I used to work for a computer repair company in the Sacramento area that had a dementia patient who'd call in every two weeks or so to have his computer reformatted. The company never intervened. They charged $200 a service. The technician who was sent out quickly realized what was happening and morally objected to it. The manager told him "its not his place to question operations" and they continued to do it indefinitely as far as I understood.

The company had serious issues. They offered financial incentives for reviews. The CEO asked people to clock out and continue to work. CEO also brought a roulette of scantily clad suspiciously young age girls into the office.
check with your university before forwarding all mail to gmail. you may use it like a mail client, but the university may not view that as an acceptable reason to mass-export emails to a third party.

an actual mail application for your devices may provide a similar feel to gmail without all the other issues.
It’s mostly a problem when the main purpose in hiring remotely is to aggressively save money.
> These two properties together - the elimination of expiration, and the elimination of contango/backwardation, led to massive cost savings for the miners.

This is either an Ad or the writer has no experience trading these instruments. As someone who traded these instruments, I'd take the defined future which has a fixed contango/backwardation over the "risky" perpetual which charges daily "funding/interest" that is more volatile than crypto itself.

If Basis risk is annoying, interest rate risk is a real and dangerous risk.
Real-Time Messaging
There's the Common Lisp standard with the Quicklisp library manager being almost fully compatible with SBCL, ECL, Clisp... (the performance will vary a lot, tho), and then there's Scheme, the LISP cousin.

For programming, the best env for CL it's Emacs and Slime, and for Scheme there's Emacs and Geiser. For further programming, Org-babel from Org-Mode wth the accompanying modules for Slime/Geiser with ob-scheme or ob-lisp.

Emacs with Org-Babel it's like having an anotated REPL with options to put anotated marks, graphics and/or export it to ODF or PDF.
Kinda like the Python/Jupyter notebooks but with superpowers.
I’ve been considering adding this bot to my account just for a chuckle: https://twitter.com/jules_su/status/1656005035631820804?s=46

But if this is what is happening to the prioritisation of replies it might actually be a useful change.
Just out of curiosity, what is this account? "damg-" created a few hours ago? Seems like an attempt to impersonate dang?
Thanks a lot this is looking amazingly prescient. Who bought the movie rights?
> She apologized as soon as it happened

She apologized for using the word "half", not for calling Americans deplorable.

Apart from that one, it sounds like you have it all figured out. The part I think you're missing is that many people are bothered that hate speech coming from those privileged enough to be holding the majority view is forgiven with a forced apology, whereas other hate speech will send you to jail.

More than ever, it really just seems "hate speech", for Americans at least, is better defined as "speech coming from people with views I hate". It's seemingly impossible to separate American party lines from their definition of hate speech.
Complex projects need to have extensive tests if they are to accept contributions from everyone. I don't mean just unit tests - also extensive integration tests run with sanitizers and static analyzers as well. Without this kind of tests, you accept a significant probability of frequent bugs popping up (especially if you allow contributions from people unfamiliar with the code).

It's perfectly fine for authors to decide they don't want to follow this route and simply disallow most contributions (instead of investing into the test infrastructure required to enable them).
I don’t follow the models closely as I don’t really care.

For HP, basically you look at $350-500 devices as the entry point. Some of the commercial inkjet and all of the midrange laser printers don’t have these problems.

Brother and Epson definitely offer devices with no ink controls. Canon used to, not sure about today. Epson sells a fixed print head printer with tanks of ink.

HPs strategy is a subscription model for casual users. It’s probably the best value for most people, who don’t really care about print and want minimal viable capabilities. If it’s not for you, it’s a declining, although still competitive market.
I’m curious. Who at the Berkeley economics department is Marxist?
How AI coding companions will change the way developers work
> I'm glad you asked. It is pronounced “pig-zee”. It is not pronounced like the plural of pig.

Then don't spell it like that. And I'll continue to say GIF with a hard G also.
they are worried about currency forgery.
You're probably not passionate about programming, you're probably passionate about crafting or completing something that involves some degree of simple puzzle solving or design. Or maybe you're interested in rule/logic based systems. That's the spark.

Programming was one of my interests too, but if someone offered to put £2M in to my bank account under condition I never wrote a single line of code again, well... I'd take it in a heartbeat and I'm pretty sure I could find another "passion" in the 20 years of my own life that that would buy me. Hell, if i didn't have to work, I bet I could find a half dozen passions.
Yep, proper tires (ideally studded), reasonable speed and avoiding sudden movements is all there is to driving in snowy/icy conditions. Not doing any of these three things can get you into trouble.

Here in Finland statistically the most deadly months in traffic are in summer, when there's no snow or ice, and weather conditions are generally good. Holidays and great weather encourage people to drive fast, stay awake late, and drink alcohol.
“Reading mode” usually solves this with HTML
It's hard to describe. Implementing Lisp is the best way to understand just how powerful the ideas are. I thought I had a reasonable understanding of the language but making my own still changed me.
I've tested a few of the self-hosted models, and also compared GPT 3, GPT 4, Palm 1, and Palm 2.

Currently, GPT 4 blows everything else out of the water, there is simply no comparison.

More importantly, the limited context size of the open-source models precludes them from being used for this type of task. It takes well over 10K tokens to load some of the longer Wiki pages, let alone the page, a prompt, a reference, and the output. The GPT 4 32K model could handle most such scenarios.
Yes, it's a problem with management rather than with the workers or the timezone.
I don't think this is accurate. For example square root of -1 was motivated by clear applications in mathematics, it was definitely not just idle leisurely math. Most of important pure math has not been leisurely or recreational in any sense in its origin
I accidentally made the best way to choose colors for UI design [video]
ASRock is my go to, especially because of their support for Unbuffered ECC on consumer boards.
Archaeologists discovered ruins of an ancient temple at the bottom of the sea
The firmware would make sure the significant yellow dot patterns would be recognisable by not printing some of those yellow dots you tell it to print. As long as the firmware has the final say on what ends up printed there is no way you can avoid those watermarks no matter how cunning your scheme is. Stalin was right when he said "It's not who votes that counts, it's who counts the votes" - this is just as applicable here: "It's not who orders the print what counts, it's who prints the order".
Never got into tmux, still using screen after all these years. Is tmux still claimed to be superior?
For anyone who thinks I’m exaggerating- I grew up Baptist, and I can tell you that what they believe is that God created the earth and all the animals on it recently, that there is no such thing as continental drift or evolution, that Jesus is going to return soon to bring forth the end days, and that Noah really did fit every kind of animal on the ark.

More than that, they believe in maintaining the social order. That’s what they value. The reason they are so upset about trans people, for instance, is that they threaten the male/female gender based social order. They believe in a universe built on simple rules that apply all the time. Don’t kid yourselves, that’s exactly how they think.

And, they believe that having power is its own evidence that you deserve that power, because otherwise why did God give it to you? Therefore powerful people are virtuous and obedience makes you also a good person. And in a certain sense violence is virtue since it cleanses the earth of wickedness.

Again, I grew up among these people and this is absolutely what they believe.

And as a corollary, scientists or activists (largely the same, in their view) are by definition evil because they are in opposition to the social order, or in the case of science they are agnostic to the social order, which is even worse because science treats the social order as irrelevant.
This is the paper, linked in the article:

https://irle.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/High-Mi...

There’s both theory and evidence. The theory is that labor market monopsony (few employers dominating the market and having the market power to drive down wages) makes it so that minimum wage laws push wages closer to what they would be in a competitive market. This doesn’t reduce employment. Instead, it increases it.

The puzzle that they talk about is that previous research has found zero employment effect instead of a positive effect. The paper explains why they think this is.
Would you say RoR is significantly different from Django?
Even though there is, today, half a dozen startups dedicated to solving just that (Deel comes to mind), yes, it definitely is reasonable.

I just don’t appreciate people sanctimoniously dishing out lessons all while not applying what they, unprompted, decided to preach.
SDK headers and linker symbols for core system libraries would enjoy very strong fair use protections, though. You can thank Oracle and Google for that.
Sure.

But if you liquidate the loan payment every month, but the portfolio grows greater than the loan interest you are “making money” (not really until you actually covert to $)

If you liquidated the full loan amount up front, you get all of the tax now, and you lose leverage

Edit:

Let’s make an example. You have a 10MM portfolio.

You wanna buy a thing for a million dollars.

You sell like 1.3MM to cover tax.

Or you get a 10 year loan for 1MM with your 10MM portfolio.

Interest on the loan is 7%.

If your portfolio averages greater return over the life of the loan, you “make money”.