skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "It is reasonable to assume that there is a maximum limit to local processing power."

As the article points out - a motorbike is much faster than a cheetah, and a supersonic aircraft is much faster again, and a hypersonic missile faster again, and a satellite in orbit is much faster again. A bulldozer can push harder than a bull, and a big hydraulic ram much harder. A metal plate is more damage resistant than rhino skin, and a bomb shelter or an aircraft carrier or an underground vault even moreso. It could be a very high limit; Bremermann's limit of computation throughput is around a hundred trillion trillion trillion trillion bits per second per kilo of matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_of_computation

> "We don't know how close to this maximum the human brain is."

We don't, but we do know human eyes are not close to telescopes or microscopes, humans cannot sense radio waves directly at all, human speech is not close to the loudest noise, human memory can't compete with computer storage, human calculation ability can't compete with a scientific calculator, etc. Why would we assume that intelligence has any closer limits?

> "However it does seem likely that there are diminishing returns on effort spent increasing the intelligence of a system. Thus it seems like runaway intelligence growth is unlikely."

Nature doesn't care if we have poor eyesight after age 40, we still make glasses - as far as nature is concerned there are diminishing returns, as far as we are concerned we like clear vision. We also like sunglasses, polarising lenses, swimming googles, safety goggles, magnifying glasses, loupes, night vision goggles, x-rays, thermal imaging, millimeter wave scanners, head-up displays, tele-vision; we haven't stopped trying to enhance our vision. Why rule out wanting to improve intelligence at least a lot further?
> ethnically homogeneous countries

Wut? Europe is anything but ethnically homogenous.

The US is anything but welcoming now. It might have been in the past.
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I don't even understand what this would mean for school libraries. I literally understand what it means, because it is toothless - it simply requires libraries to declare that they are against censorship. I don't understand what that declaration means for school libraries. It certainly doesn't require them to shelve donated erotic literature or the works of prominent neo-Nazis.

Questions of school library censorship have always been about age-appropriateness, or blasphemy, or antiquated common but now forbidden ideas. If not buying and not accepting donations of that material isn't a ban, then what could possibly be? If it does count as a ban, every school library now has to carry the complete works of Lyndon LaRouche?

edit: a real ban on bans in my eyes would be a state restriction on local governments passing book bans that apply to public schools and libraries. It wouldn't be aimed at the libraries themselves.
> private equity actually solves that problem

Private equity firms still try to please their shareholders, they’re just not beholden to a public stock price.
I can understand the principle here. Just to confirm, though, you'd then have no problems with controversial books being donated by private groups to public libraries, is that right? Or are there other considerations in your calculus.
Youtube has a bunch of simple and free UX and UI courses.

You might also want to search more specifically for information architecture, designing website navigation, picking a color scheme, basics of web fonts, designing forms, and UX user research.
If panpsychism turned out to be true would it be a moral imperative to starve to death?
As a non-prominent layman, I’ll point out that experiments have yet to contradict it, and not for lack of trying.
My comment was meant to be broad and a bit hyperbolic. I hate the historical country more than the modern stuff (which is thinly veiled pop music). I found it a formulaic kind of boring, uninspiring, and moaning about the writer's current state of affairs or others not like them. What causes the hate is having grown up in the country, I was forced to listen to it for a solid chunk of my childhood.

That being said, there are always exceptions to the rule. If we were in a car together, you'd not see me protesting if you put on Johny Cash or Gordon Lightfoot (though they're arguably more early fusion styles). And I'll admit I enjoy the sound of the Eagles, which I grew up listening to in the car from my mom and their sound is heavily influenced by country style that I loathe.
When I was 16, I wanted to work. I ended up at a grocery store, pushing carts, lifeguarding for the summer with a lot of people my age and finally at a theme park running then then 7th fastest roller coaster in the world.

My parents didn’t give me allowance and I wanted gadgets. My first full summer job bought me a shiny plastic HP laptop which I installed Ubuntu on. And that’s I how ended up in a career that led me to join hackernews.

I see no moral issue with 16 year olds working basic retail and dining jobs. They should get to keep all their income though.
Update: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/55704#discussi...
> Another time, a co-worker there got a “don’t you know who I am?” from Seth Godin when they refused to bend over backward to fix an order he placed.

Why on Earth would a real-life meatspace person have any idea who he is? This is what happens when people don’t touch grass often enough.
Unironically, Americans think like this because they're more progressive than Europeans (some, anyway; some are way less). Europe has a history of disenfranchisement too, and to the extent they don't see it much it's because they have more homogeneous societies (until recently, with refugees). The melting pot of the new world was always life on higher difficulty: you don't get to be racist while pretending you're not because you're never tested on it as a society. You don't get to outlaw slavery, posturing like you're doing it because you're just that virtuous when in reality it's because it's easy to do when your economy doesn't rely on slavery so it's an easy way to look good. In this crucible, minds are traumatized into reverse-racism and performative bullshit.
Had one octopus post yesterday- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36091954
It's raining Octopuses on HN.
Libraries are a public service so of course taxpayers deserve of a voice. And of course there exist some books which should not be offered in libraries.
The price of the EQS is $105k. The Tesla Y was $70k in 2022.

Not that this should make poor construction acceptable, but there is a difference in class of the car.

Furthermore, he didn't take the car to a service centre to be repaired. I wonder if he had anything done to the Merc, or if it was perfect from the start?
Start a company, get a care home to buy itself and give itself to you, then profit! The returns are exactly what you make of them.
The passing stuff down when it isn't needed also comes up with JSX / React.
The basic options for solving it are either:

- pass it down manual
- use Context, essentially thread local variables but React

both have tradeoffs and it really depends on what you're building your codebase.
Unfortunately, exactly the people who abuse the dislike button are the ones who won't care which reason they pick - they will just pick one.
Seeing how the word “banned” is used, it means they must offer every book for loan.
Gutenberg is great! And if you don't like it you can still use the classic editor. And if you kinda like it, you can use Gutenberg (block editor) with classic editor blocks.
They can, that's how the Concorde used to fly, but it meant that a flight from London to New York was only able to be done at supersonic speed for something like half the trip (measured in time). The aircraft was also incredibly inefficient at subsonic speeds because the aerodynamics were all optimized for much faster flight

https://simpleflying.com/concorde-long-distance-over-land/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2_AzIktybM
Noise pollution, local air pollution from exhausts, and local air pollution from tires are all far more directly costly to human wellbeing at scale than water use in lithium mining.
If awareness of the environment ... is the criterion of consciousness, then even the protozoans are conscious. If awareness of awareness is required, then it is doubtful whether the great apes and human infants are conscious.

- Thomas, Garth J. (1967). 'Consciousness', Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. 6. p. 366.
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I'm currently working on an AI platform for training and deployment. I'm working on early access with the early users.

It would be great if people with AI/ML experience who are interested in a way to reduce their costs and increase their performance check it out!

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If it's concentrated enough it could work. Possibly. Maybe.
This is timely - we've been gearing up on Lua as we're building an open-source web app firewall [1] on top of Redis and whatever framework, and it's been a great experience.

Lua really unlocks some superpowers with Redis with respect to being able to chain multiple requests into a single call, handle some application logic, etc.

1 - https://wafris.org
> If the hospices have competition and comparability (for patients or their loved ones)

People in end-of-life care are kind of a locked in market. Nobody is going to a better hospice that might be an hour further away from all their family.
| If you think we’re living in a computer program, trying to segfault it is inconsiderate to everyone who lives in it with you.

A reality in which most sentient beings brutally prey on each other.
It is a lower-bound on the cost of erasing a bit. Reversible computing retains enough information to run the computation backwards, resulting in the erasure of no bits.
Well, the nature of emacs is that you can always add a line to your config file and have it radically change everything.
I wonder if it's even worse.. by law they are required to have a certain statistical payout right?

What if the casino can enable "win mode" for their favorite customers staying in high priced rooms, and then turn it to basically zero for foot traffic. At the end of the month the machine paid out the correct ratio... Except you as a general player had zero chance to win because it paid out to their loyal customer earlier in the day.
You also can't allow people to give positive feedback without insincere feedback being used to artificially promote things. If you're going to have a feedback system, you need some manner of checks and balances on it to limit insincere feedback.
Absolutely not. The US doesn't even make the top 20.

https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-social-mobility-index...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_the_...
> two towels

Why is everyone obsessed with towels? This is not the first time I’ve seen this indicated as a standard for quality, but I don’t understand. Do you _need_ more than two towels?
no source is needed

words mean whatever
we want them to mean. dictionaries revise themselves every year to add a new/changed definition based on what appears to be recent popular usage

if we want octopi to be the "correct" plural form then it will be declared

English is riddled with inconsistencies and hip slang anyway

octopi: I'm +1 on it
It's definitely just a fad that will die out any day now!
https://gwern.net/drug-heuristic#loopholes
I guess that's a borderline call. The topic is ideologically fraught; on the other hand, it looks like there's interesting history there, which it would be possible (though perhaps not easy) to discuss while holding a state of curiosity.

If this thread had gotten a lot of attention, standard mod practice would probably have been to (1) let the article stand, but (2) change the title to something a bit more neutral.
Is there anything unethical about porn?
> This just sounds like a gateway to the widespread open robbery and stealing

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
No, because it's private equity. As I said in another comment, public markets are effectively for dumb money, so they'll let anyone invest because they're essentially set up to take advantage of investors. Private investment means investing on your own, and is what "sophisticated" investors with a lot of money do.
Seems right to me. Homeschool and teach your kids directly, in whatever form that may take, and with all the rebellion, exemplary results, and/or indoctrination it may come with; or, use your available resources to get your kids trained roughly the way you want; or, let your kids be taught with and by whatever system is available with minimal to zero input. Stratification and discrimination between individuals is pretty natural, even if it's morally abhorrent. Mandates ain't gonna change any of it.
Yes, I was able to take advantage of this via lualatex to access METAPOST so as to do a parametric design for a CNC using OpenSCAD as a front-end:

https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb40-2/tb125adams-3d.pdf
There are many problems thought to be hard for which efficient quantum algorithms are known.
Pritzker and Giannoulias, so extremely ambitious and well-resourced politicians.
I believe that journalists have an ethical obligation to write headlines that are not only technically correct, but won't be misunderstood by most of their readers.
> Wut? Europe is anything but ethnically homogenous.

You are right. I forgot how diverse countries like Belgium are where Flemish, French, and German communities (whose ancestors all likely were born within a few hundred miles of each other) all live together in peace and harmony (other than when they try to form a government)
It looks like your comment may have been removed(?), but I thought its last sentence or two was recommending that the parent poster search their vocabulary for something less laden with negative connotation. Based on this, I was hoping you'd have a suggestion.

I think your analogy to the "N word" makes it difficult to assume good faith, but if it were possible to do so regarding "woke," is there a way to refer to that idea without being offensive?

Perhaps just "progressive" or "left-leaning" would suffice, but my impression is that "woke" usually refers to a more extreme form that is focused on social issues. "SJW" also seems to have a negative connotation.
As I said in https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mort96#36107457, I interpreted the statement to be about forks in general, and responded to it as such; and I realize now that I probably misinterpreted the line. I don't know what to do, I wish that comment had more visibility but it's not highly upvoted and I can't amend my original comment.

FWIW, the trademark policy was incredibly clear in that it wanted to disallow any use of the word "rust" in reference to the language in project or domain names. I don't know if that would've been the legal effect or not, but that's what the policy stated, clear as day. That was the issue. But that's a separate discussion, I didn't actually intend to argue in favour of crablang itself being a productive use of time.
Whats everyones favourite uncensored search engine?
According to [1] There are about 130M published books in the world.

So by your definition, does a school library with 13k books ban 99,99% of all books?

[1]
Agreed. it's just the probabilistic language model running away with generating next (token | word | phrase | sentence | paragraph ) or however it really works under the hood. Rather different than what is going on within the noggin of a human who is hallucinating.
How do you know the profiles are fake?
It seems like part of what makes this sector attractive is that regulation is weak and it's unclear who's supposed to be in charge, at least according to the article.
Grading on a curve also strikes me as bad. Either you know it or you don't. If I score 50% in the class, but 60% of the class cheated so I pass based on the curve.. is that a good thing?
sar·casm

noun: sarcasm; plural noun: sarcasms

the use of irony to mock or convey contempt.

"his voice, hardened by sarcasm, could not hide his resentment"
I used Tree-sitter to navigate and extract syntactic information from source code files in multiple programming languages. It was great that I didn't have to use multiple parser (generator) libraries.
I occasionally use tcc (https://bellard.org/tcc/) like an interpreter (`tcc -run`), it's convenient for certain odd tasks.

Not so much for interactive stuff, but if I'm building little PoCs for an idea that will get dropped into a C project, or fiddling with structs work out how something should/is being stored, or in situations where I'm making stuff that interacts with or examples based on C code and I want to use the same parts as in the real code, etc.
Not the parent, but most any browser should support this for basic videos. And with JS disabled I think it's only basic videos you'll see.

That is, any <video> HTML element can be right clicked and downloaded, at least in Chrome and Safari where I tested. Interestingly this even works when for `<video controls controlslist="nodownload" ...>` elements where the developer tries to prevent downloading. (in Chrome that removes the download option from the video player's controls, but not from right-click)
Drinking is much better at 16 too… hangovers are just not a thing.
No it's not, it's his job to teach people that want to learn. If uninterested people that are forced to be there drift through without creating a fuss, who cares?

Let me ask you people something. Of the college graduates that have been out longer than 2 years, what do you actually remember about non-major classes? My guess is: basically nothing. It's a waste of everyone's time. I don't support cheaters because at the end of the day you agreed to the rules, but I'm not upset that people break dumb rules to save their own time.
I have some health problems that severely limit my dietary options. I am really grateful to be able to drink milk.

I have problems with normal sugar and fructose but not lactose for some reason. It provides some much needed calories.
School vouchers are paid for by the government.
Excellent; just what i was looking for!

Please do submit this as a top-level HN submission so that it gets greater visibility.
Uncanny.

I literally just finished this mod with the good ending for the first time after hearing about it three days ago at work, and here it is on HN.

Download GZDOOM, grab the files from GOOG Drive, and have a look at an amazing .WAD.

Definitely worth your time if you ever enjoyed DOOM.
Title also hints it'll be the first in a sequence:

"Octopuses observed engaging in light manufacturing"

"Octopuses experimenting with novel propulsion methods"

"Octopuses clearing out a large, flat space and assembling assorted metallic objects"

"Octopuses targeting Sydney, Brisbane"
I feel the same, and had it corroborated when I chatted with him briefly at a WP meetup some years ago. Just a very warm, practical, unpretentious person.
>and without that how is it better than ARM.

Only ARM can license ARM cores to others.

Using RISC-V, any company who can design their own cores can also offer them for licensing.

There's already tens of companies offering hundreds of cores for licensing.

This is much better than ISA-enforced vendor lock-in, which is the situation with x86 and ARM.
Mark Rylance is excellent in the slow-moving Wolf Hall, about a no-name Thomas Cromwell's rise to influence in Henry VIII's court. I hope they go through with season 2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Hall_(TV_series)
I don't understand how you would think the two are the same.

A ban implies to me the book cannot be sold at all which is hardly splitting hairs.

And did you find it just as egregious when Huckleberry Finn was banned in new york and california schools and public libraries for using the "n" word?
You're focusing on the "publicly available" part but it's irrelevant to my point. Samsung's camera software is literally doctoring people's photos with fake data from its ML models. From the perspective of photographic integrity, it does not matter whether they scraped their training set off public photography sites or if they hired a team of photographers to build a dataset from scratch. To the user the effect is the same: it is not really an authentic photograph that is being created, it's a hybrid derived from (to the user) unknown sources.
Kicad also did a GIGANTIC leap forward in the past two years.
SYS:WITHOUT-GCING is better but is still fraught with danger (that's why I didn't mention it).
I have been making a similar argument for some time. The choice to anthropomorphize dialogue systems and large language models is a clichéd and misleading UI design choice. By presenting chatbots as disembodied persons, we are implicitly suggesting agency to an inanimate object, and subtly exploiting humans' social instincts into engaging with a system that is incapable of empathy. AI is best thought of as a programmable tool, not a conversational agent.
I don't think a restaurant is really comparable to hospice care. There's not much a long-term commitment involved, the pricing is more transparent, it is easier to judge the quality of what you are getting, and the service is not exactly essential.
That's to become a permanent resident, not renew a H1B. You cannot renew a H1B indefinitely.
About 8 years ago I tried working with Wordpress and half built a site for my then boss's portfolio bc he insisted he wanted it.

I just quit my last job which was a RoR/React shop. I've been working with NodeJS and JS frameworks for the past 10 years. I never really got into PHP.

Now, I'm working in PHP again and specifically making Wordpress sites for a non profit agency as a contractor. It has been a joy. In particular, we're using root.io with Valet and heavily relies on root's version of Laravel blade system which makes building websites super fast and seamless and I've gotten a lot of satisfaction building things this way.
This feels like a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book or a CLI game like Zork.
It's also generational and moving, but other than that you're right.

For anyone wondering how it can be conservative and moving, for values that may or may not be pointers, it treats the data as pinned.

Originally CMUCL targeted RISC processors that had a lot of registers, so it maintained two stacks. X86 is extremely register starved, so the conservative GC was written.

In practice, the conservative nature doesn't cause problems on 64 bit architectures.
as somebody who only really started using wordpress post-gutenberg, i don't see the problem. it works, it seems easy enough to use, and my non-technical colleagues who are more used to making facebook posts than websites love it. and that was the whole reason i started using wordpress in the first place: so i wouldn't have to maintain content editors for my colleagues.

is the problem just that it's different to the way it used to be?
You need to payoff fewer people in a parliamentary system.
Depends on how many people are staying and for how long... Though you can just request more.
> There is no difference between an ideal world and real laws when the laws actually exist.

If you're not capable of understanding what a hypothetical is then there's really no further discussion to be had here.
Hmm, "harder to write" stings, considering how difficult html is to write. Thanks for the feedback!
You said the ESG rule was vetoed.
You missed a link.

No. Not stocking a book because it's physically impossible to stock all books in the world is not the same as banning it.

The ALA's statement[1] is clear, and IMO common-sense: proscribing or removing content for doctrinal reasons is the problem.

[1]: https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill
Maybe it's anthropomorphic but I like hallucinations because it reminds me of the DeepDream psychedelic generator