skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting!

https://www.usbr.gov/lc/phoenix/AZ100/1950/whiskey_drinking_...

One of the hard things with "looking in from the outside" is that these numbers are just so batshit insane that we cannot really grasp it. An "acre-foot" is huge, and what we personally consume appears so small (and what does "consume" mean anyway? If I pull water from a well and then put it back in the ground with a septic, how much is "consumed"?)

Perhaps we need federal labelling for things that puts some "water used" on things so you can compare, though water used in some areas is critical and in others is not a bit deal at all.
Hopefully, as HTTP3 picks up steam, this will stop happening.

But yeah, there's no amount of innovation that can't be undone by a motivated adversary. ;-)
> I forget the # and am not willing to look it up right now.

I gotchu.

1944's "UTILIZATION OF WATERS OF THE COLORADO AND TIJUANA RIVERS AND OF THE RIO GRANDE" treaty between the US and Mexico established the "International Boundary and Water Commission" (IBWC). The text of the 1944 treaty is available from IBWC's website[0][1].

According to the text of the 1944 treaty (article 10 deals with the Colorado River), Mexico is entitled to at minimum 1.5 million acre-feet of water per year from the Colorado River, and in wet years is entitled to 1.7 million acre-feet of water.

Based on the submitted article, which says "3m acre-feet of water is expected to be conserved over the next three years". If that comes down to 1m acre-feet per year, that's 2/3 of the quantity of water guaranteed to Mexico.

[0] https://www.ibwc.gov/Treaties_Minutes/treaties.html [all treaties overseen by IBWC]
[1] https://www.ibwc.gov/Files/1944Treaty.pdf [PDF of 1944 treaty]
> Curious, do you think Russia is to blame at all for violating the terms of the Budapest Memorandum?

The Budapest Memorandum was predicated on adherence to all prior agreements Ukraine would never see sovereignty without in the first place [1]. Nobody would just let it go in peace without those prior agreements signed in 1990: >> The Ukrainian SSR ceremoniously proclaims its intention to become a permanently neutral state in the future, which will be out of military blocks and will be committed to three non-nuclear principles: not to accept, not to produce and not to acquire the nuclear weapon. (1990) <<

[1] https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/en/55-12#Text
You are right, and that’s why none of these companies have a tech moat

OpenAI might not have the best reputation within tech, but people who are not in tech are completely unaware of this

Same with Google and Microsoft

Those companies are dominating the mainstream tech media/conversations

Even if they are not the best tech or don’t have the best products/services
elisp? :-)
The finger-cutting in chess must be a reference to

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yubitsume

Which makes more sense in the criminal underworld than in chess. That kind of feedback loop is terrifying and beautiful.

A similar (less gruesome) loop in the white-collar world is effort measured by tiredness. Bags under the eyes is an honest signal for mental strain over time (as far as I know).
Missing from the diagram is when success of A is mismanaged and all its resources get slowly redistributed to C through Z in fragments until one of them becomes the next A.
"Since we know that infinite densities cannot actually happen in the universe"

How do we "know" that?
Parameters don't have diminishing returns so much as we don't have enough (distinct) data to train models to use that many parameters efficiently.
The vast majority of the consumption isn't personal, it's silly agricultural use like growing alfalfa and almonds in the desert.

80% of the Colorado River water usage is agricultural. [1]

Forget not drinking water or taking a shower - eat one less steak or skip a handful of almonds. That's where all the water is actually going.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/12/colorado...
Then they’d be engineering their own eventual demise. Any regulatory capture regime ends up stalling progress and bloating incumbents until eventually a nimble competitor is able to circumvent regulators and steal their lunch money.
> I'm not sure that even AGI is possible, per Bostrom's Self-Sampling Assumption.

Can you explain more? I’ve found a definition for SSA, but unsure how it applies to AGI…
One way to categorize, I guess.

Prior to humans enriching radioactive materials, how many humans died from ARS vs. falling from a great height?
They are doing a great job, but any organization who can pay US$623,286 in severance pay for 1 person shouldn't be putting out sob stories asking for donations IMHO. I've made donations in the past, but I'm not sure I'll be making any in the future, if there is where it is going.
> Then you ask people to do something productive, what?

Use direct democracy at the state level, where state constitutions provide for this, to replace single-member FPTP systems with multimember proportional systems, creating multiparty democracy, and then advance it state by state until it becomes a national norm.
Yup. I have been warning about this for years. And things are going to get much more weird soon.

“But Web3 sucks”

Hold. The beer.
If you want all the "Name Brand" music, you can still buy a lot of it. I've heard iTunes/Apple Music is pretty good for such things. Personally I've been getting a lot of my favorite artist's music through BandCamp on FLAC. You can also buy singles on Amazon Music.

The indie scene is so much more vibrant these days. Literally anyone can self publish, and there are hundreds of thousands of amazing artists putting out excellent stuff. Usually I'll wander into some rabbit hole on Spotify and then go buy some music on BandCamp for my lossless collection.
The people who review board games are ... a special bunch. Those games are very popular and well ranked, but they're not considered "best of the best" by people who "seriously play games".

One of the best usages of BGG is to find a game you like, and use it to find games that are like that one, and see what you want.
An interesting thought, but I personally don’t consider art style based on how “useful” it is. A realistic painting has a certain quality that a photograph doesn’t. Also, an unrealistic art style does not signify a lack of skill and sometimes even takes more skill depending on the specific piece.
Apple TV's "Extrapolations" is an interesting dramatization of this. Highly recommended.
How so?

Unless, I'm missing something, the spec you expose to ChatGPT only tells them which api endpoint to hit. The code powering that endpoint is not visible to ChatGPT.

The only argument you could make is that you are giving it machine understandable text to describe an API endpoint. In future, it might not even need the text description if the API endpoint is named well. Quite a stretch though.
Whether there's a downside is moot since no one knows how to do any sort of regulation effectively.

That being said, I don't know why you think that only a small community will see this as self-serving. It's not subtle even though it may be unavoidable.
This is why I refuse to donate to WikiMedia.
If it would convince you otherwise, I’m happy to provide citations of third party analyses and Ukrainian defense statements stating Bakhmut had little strategic value months prior and that it was being used to pin Russian troops in a costly offensive.

Edit: the Russia being out of ammo thing was an internal politics thing of Prigozhin claiming Russia MoD was not supplying Wagner with enough ammo. It was not a western talking point. Nor was it particularly true.
Scikit-LLM: Sklearn Meets Large Language Models
These types of broad summaries at least often fail to talk about the cost of support, education, and interoperability.

Eg xrdp is a huge productivity hit at best, but honestly not viable at all.
Seconded! The SR-71 is at the (newer, bigger) Udvar-Hazy center. The original location in Washington was showing its age last time I was there but also has some amazing, one-of-a-kind, artifacts.
The wikipedia page for automatic differentiation and its references would be a good start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation

In particular, the section "Beyond forward and reverse accumulation" tells you how hard it is to deal with the graph in optimal ways, hence the popularity of simpler forwards and backwards traversals of the graph.
Google datacenters are run off green power, so it's deceptive to compare energy costs there to jet fuel. It implies that the carbon impact is the same, which isn't true, because not all energy is the same.

As for being technical or not, well, none of her work seems particularly interested in technology. It's all grievance studies stuff. Having academic credentials counts for nothing because universities are so obsessed with race ideology they'd happily award black females computing-related qualifications on the back of nothing. It supplies no credibility.
> All of this to say, if you are at all similar to me, it might be worth considering the lack of ability to find flow a big red flag worth actively investigating. I don’t know if I could’ve avoided burnout, but I’m sufficiently convinced now that internal work is one of the most important (and accessible) ways of addressing this.

Don't you worry, I have plenty of other red flags besides inability to concentrate to keep me worried :).

I've tried meditation before, but didn't really "get" it. The instructions always tell me to let go of my thoughts and concentrate on a mantra or my breathing, but not a single time during the two months I followed a meditation program was I able to do so properly.

Exercising is one of the few things that even remotely work for stress relief. I've also done yoga and it works, but not any better than jogging or weight lifting.
Terribly misleading link-bait headline. The authors were specifically trying to determine whether the hallucinogenic effects are related to the antidepressant effects, so they blunted the hallucinogenic effects by applying ketamine while under general anesthesia. They found that in that case, there was no effect on depression. So the study showed that the hallucinations are a key part of the depression treatment, not that ketamine is no better than placebo. But now I’m sure that this will be cited by people in shitposts based on the title. Science should know better.
> - Poverty and homelessness running rampant? Check.

Compared to what, exactly?
because over the last 50 years, there have been dramatic improvements[1].

[1]: https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-evolution-of-global-p...

It's true - there's room to do better. So, so much better. But discarding the progress of the last 50 years is so unbelievably counter-productive.
yes, trusts can have any instruction set with no public filing, and swapping the beneficiary being the simplest aspect

good to know this kind of transfer is already permitted, I wondered about that
This is why it's worth blocking all accounts paying for a checkmark. They're not there to provide insight, it's just a way to promote things for a few dollars a month.

https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20-filter%3Ave... will show you who you follow that's paying. Probably worth telling your friends why you're blocking them first.
> It is a bit of a memory hog

Do you have a handle on how much of a memory hog? I've considered installing it for a small group of people (~15 total, likely no more than 6 actively on a video call at any given time) but the dedicated server I'd put it on only has 32Gb in total (though it does run very little else that needs much memory: a large filesystem for backups, a web server hosting simple stuff, a LanguageTool self-install, occasionally other things I'm tinkering with that benefit from more bandwidth that the ~12mbit I currently get upstream hosting things at home).
I wasn't being sarcastic. They replied the following in a discussion about seniority causing allocation problems.

>Basically there is no need for allocation at all.

They might be saying what you did, but it was far from clear to me. If so, my response would be pretty straightforward:

Seniority settles the question of rights. Buying and selling of rights and water is a very clear and effective way of putting them to the most effective economic use.

If a potential user wants water and can put it to better use, they can simply buy it. If they are the city or state, they can even use eminent domain to force the sale.
A bit pessimistic though right? Carbon capture through both natural and engineered methods is a thing that could have more investment/incentive if that were the case which counters the idea that just because CO2 hangs around a long time doesn't mean there's nothing to be done about it.

Obviously, it'd be great to limit the production of more CO2 going forward but I don't believe that everyone will collectively just give up.
FTC could try to raise interest rates again see if that would lower the global temperature.
When Americans complain about Comcast, it's not a meme, they are actually an awful company.

But for the record:

If you just sign up for Comcast (XFinity, whatever) and use the internet, you are renting a modem/router combo from them for about $10 a month, in perpetuity. You can buy an off the shelf modem/router for a couple hundred bucks, and use that instead. It'll pay off in a year or two. You have to call Comcast up and activate the device, but it's otherwise a completely painless process.
It sure looks like they do, the company logo is on the side of the headset. It doesn't look anything like the nreal either.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/1919392/spacetop-is-the-firs...
Was just going to post this but you beat me to it! This was a fun read, and introduced me to vogons where I think I'll be spending some time.
I think it is counterproductive to limit the rate of growth of AI since some countries — typically the ones who are less concerned about ethics — will not follow those rules and could gain a considerable edge over the rest of the world this way.
Seems to be down...

EDIT: 15:03 It's back.
I would apply to jobs that I would be happy to get in case my boss decides to decline the raise anyway.
FRB, or just “Fed”
> Second, we are likely to eventually need something like an IAEA for superintelligence efforts

> Third, we need the technical capability to make a superintelligence safe. This is an open research question that we and others are putting a lot of effort into.

I think it's important to remember that the IAEA was not proposed until 1954 and didn't get approved by the UN until 1957. By that time we had already gotten past the first fission reaction, fission weapon testing and uses, nuclear submarine and grid-connected power generation. We were trying to control something we already knew how to build, and about which we already understood a bunch of specific risks. And this is for a technology which (a) requires access to rare materials and (b) there's a pretty definite line that shows when fission is happening, even briefly.

It's a different order of challenge to try to regulate the development of something we _don't_ yet understand how to build, which might be possible to build with computers which are everywhere, and where we don't have a clear mechanism to detect or identify the thing we're trying to control, let alone to decide whether or not it's "safe".
I can only assume someone is working on a BS detector. And holy fuck, I would pay cash money for a way to identify it without having delve into it myself. Imagine not having to dive into paper only to find out that the population sample is so low that it shouldn't even be considered for submission or better yet have online news qualified as 'propaganda beneficial to side x'.
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Edit: Seems like I misunderstood the parent usage of class to refer to the terms as a sociological term not as its US legal term. Sorry about that
We have the power to change it. It is estimated to cost between 2-6% of global GDP each year until 2050 to prevent exceeding 1.5 C.

Costly, but not insanely so. We spend more on quite a lot of things.
Literally literally.
So....what is gh_id and gh_node_id?

Like, you have

gh_id | gh_node_id
------------------
1 | 2
2 | 1

And then you want to "upsert" (1, 1).

You want both records to be updated?

I'm still struggling to see why you would want to do a upsert relative to multiple unique constraints at once.
Read about the "Esperpento" (grotesque) movement in Spain.
I don't even think it's deplorable, if it's possible to charge iPhone users more, do it. They'll pay. It also doesn't matter if it's illegal; they're suing because the entire fee system may be fraudulent, and since they're hiding this alleged iPhone tax in arbitrarily named and applied fees, it's relevant.

Even worse imo, if it's held to be true, Doordash will be in real existence-threatening trouble with iPhone users and will have to increase its marketing spending towards them drastically.
Yeah, I stopped reading when i got to that sentence
There is some interesting stuff with Scottsdale and water going on now.

https://www.azfamily.com/2023/05/16/arizona-legislature-pass...

https://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/Assets/ScottsdaleAZ/News/News+I...

https://kjzz.org/content/1847190/scottsdale-wants-governor-v...

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/joannaallhands...
Show HN: I made a chat bot for spreadsheets
I'd say they should be shipping code of some kind in the first week.
There’s a market segment of people that do coding tutorials with their iPads at bedtime. You’re not going to sit in actual vim since really, the target audience wants micro lessons
MELPA is not ELPA.
Can charismatic robots help teams be more creative?
If I am talking to a group of friends some in the US over Facebook messenger. Should that be stored on EU servers?
Discussed 3 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35995959
IF that's the case, they shouldn't have put it in their 2030 predictions video and hosted it on their platform.

Handwaving it away as some low level actor's wacky vision isn't really a good or original excuse.
It's all so tiresome. When German leaders went online to celebrate turning off their last nuclear plant and instead turned on more coal I learned it was all theater by woke fools. They are not fools because they are woke but just because they are foolish. The dutch seizing farms in the name of global warming. Where are they going to get food from? Ukraine? China? Giving power to foreign possibly enemy nations like they did with Russia. It's all political theater that will weaken the west and do nothing to accomplish it's goals.

Africa and Asia are going to want the same standard of living as the west so carbon use is only going to go up. You don't intentionally cripple industries in your country in the face of global competition.
> 2. glibc strings functions are ok, but not particularly good, ime

Do you mean for RISC-V, or in general? (and in particular, what about x64?)
What problems do they have?

[Also what are in your experience better implementations?]
In the scenario where the current AI boom takes us all the way to AGI in the next decade, IMO there is little downside. Risks are very large, OpenAI/Sam have expertise, and their novel corporate structure, while far from completely-removing themselves from self-centered motives, sounds better than a typical VC funded startup that has to turn a huge profit in X years.

In the scenario where the current wave fizzles out and we have another AI winter, one risk is that we'll be left with a big regulatory apparatus that makes the next wave of innovations, the one that might actually get us all the way to an algined-AGI utopia, near-impossible. And the regulatory apparatus will now be shaped by an org with ties to the current AI wave (imagine the Department of AI Safety was currently staffed by people trained/invested in Expert Systems or some old-school paradigm).
Not to be defeatist but the solutions have byproducts that are just as counterproductive to our goals
Really depends on if the cost increase is due to Apple taking a cut. Restaurants usually charges more on these delivery apps anyways due to higher fees. It is usually cheaper to call your order into the restaurant and pick up than it is ordering via these app.

Delivery apps are an interesting industry because it seems that no one is making money. Delivery apps are not profitable, delivery people are complaining they are not making enough, restaurants are complaining that they dont make enough via the apps, and customers are complaining of higher costs. The industry doesn't seem sustainable yet it keeps going
Correct. Story seems to be, Wistron was screwing over employees to save costs, and used those low-costs to secure a deal with Apple. Then they got caught by the government, and now have to play by the rules. Because of this, they asked Apple for more money, and Apple said no. So now the deal is done.

The deal really shouldn’t have happened in the first place, had Wistron played fair from day one.
What is an example of an i dependent AI agent carrying out as much productive activity as a large company that is plausible?
No. There's even a Dutch law that requires ISPs to allow and provide basic configuration information for a customer's own modem.

The cable company resisted it but ultimately published a how-to as well.

https://www.ziggo.nl/klantenservice/apparaten/wifi-modems/ei...
> If I pull water from a well and then put it back in the ground with a septic

Get your septic system fixed if this is happening. Septic systems are supposed to evaporate the water into the air, not put it back into ground water.

Of course you won't actually see it working like that in a properly functioning system. However that is how it should work.
You realize that I said "causing"?

For people to die in a traffic accident, there needs to be a traffic accident. They are usually caused by impaired humans, which means that they are very often involved in traffic accidents (basically, almost all of them have at least one party of the sort), whereas non-impaired people mostly do not participate in traffic accidents as often.

This is a discussion of chances and probabilities: not being impaired significantly reduces your chance of being in a traffic accident since being impaired significantly increases it. I am not sure what's unclear about that?
Training students to discriminate between true and false information (via verifying the claims of the AI ala hallucinations)
Asking to not be oppressed is a manifesto?
The developed countries have made tremendous strides to reduce CO2 while continuing to grow.

China is also investing heavily in reducing their dependency on fossil imports.
Working for me (Colorado / Firefox).
It's a hell of a carbon loan to take out against future generations.
And yes, apps should also password-protect and event-log the URL configuration field separately from the password used in database(s) as well ... from any change, accidentally or maliciously.

That is following inline with still-so Common Criteria guideline.
And if they go to the website?
I must have missed the link to the website. The preview demo is pretty neat!

> Units are going to be difficult, villagers are something like 10 pixels across

Could it possibly help to upscale units, apply reskinning, and then downscale them back?

The Mortal Kombat WIP is super interesting, thank you for linking to it! I’m wondering which techniques are used to keep the rendering stable cross-frame.
Even if you quit voluntarily?
> I went full digital Marie Kondo a few years back, and I regret it.

I would love to hear/read an exposition of this at some point.