skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that sex is different because, looking at the animal kingdom, the result is rarely a benefit to the individual. It’s resource intensive and in some cases (with insects specifically) the ushering in of a new generation results in the death of the parent. Reproduction is absolutely essential to the survival of the species but often a bad deal for the organisms involved. It’s a bodily function that many resources are dedicated to but is the least essential for for the survival of the individual.

Part of what enables pleasure-sex in humans is the fact that penetration does not trigger ovulation and that happens on its own schedule so evolution selected for mating strategies that would lead to frequent and short encounters. Additionally, the way we began to walk upright had the effect of moving human female genitalia more to the front which enabled her to be more selective about her partners. With the parental instinct being shared among both males and females combined with the fact both parties also are able to derive a great deal of pleasure from the experience, both sexes end up being more closely aligned with the goals of a sexual encounter vs those of our most recent, more ape-like ancestors.

To bring it back around, I understand what you are trying to say here, but disagree with your conclusion. Evolution selected modern humans to engage in sexual encounters that will not always result in a pregnancy, unlike eating which your body will always attempt to process the same as the last thing you are.
> Why else would "they" spend all those resources?

Entertainment? Random Number generator? Maybe they are in the future and doing some historical analysis. Plenty of reasons to spend resources.
The northeast is full of managed landscapes. It’s not necessarily cheap to do, but it’s also not expensive. However we do not generally have landslide risks.
"Famines struck India from almost the beginning of British colonial rule. In 1770, over one million people died of starvation in Bengal, 13 years after Robert Clive’s seizure of the region following the Battle of Palashee (Plassey). Famines across India followed: the most devastating were in 1783-84, 1791-92, 1837-38, 1860-61, 1876-78, 1896-97 and 1899-1900."

This is very deceptively phrased. It suggests that there was no famine in India before, and somehow Britain caused that problem to arise for the first time.

Other famines in India:

1. 1335-1342

2. 1460

3. 1520

4. 1555

5. 1629-1632, the biggest famine in Indian history

6. 1655

7. 1682

8. 1702-1704

The rule of the East India Company started in the 1750s. The British Raj (Empire proper) in the mid 1800s. Famines continued up to the green revolution.

The way the article presents famine as some sort of direct consequence of one set of empires being replaced by another suggests that the article has an agenda that goes beyond history.
> Nobody doubts the future will be flying cars

Lots of people do.
Look at the leadership. They have a large number of non-technical people and placeholders. The reason why it has ended up becoming political is because Rust is run by politicians.
A few years ago i wrote up some questions related to this. Cool it’s on NPR now

Question:

Can an adult somatic cell be de-differentiated into an induced pluripotent stem cell and then re-differentiated into a working/healthy germ cell. Can this germ cell undergo meiosis and produce spermatocytes and oocytes?

Can one of these induced gametes fertilize another induced gamete and produce viable offspring.

Can this system be applied to humans?

Can a somatic Cell from an XX female be de-differentiated and induced to become a functional sperm by re-differentiation (and placement into reconstituted testis)

If sperm can be induced from the somatic cells of an XX female, can these sperm be used to fertilize an oocyte? (Whether it is an induced oocyte from a somatic cell or naturally occurring oocyte)

Objective:
If possible, I want an induced sperm from an XX female somatic cell to fertilize a natural oocyte (or induced) and produce viable offspring capable of reproduction. The purpose is not to create a clone, such as seen in nuclear transfer, but to have a female derived sperm cell fertilize a female derived oocyte
Given how many cartels have expanded operations to include synthetic opioids, methamphetamines, and human trafficking I am sceptical of efficacy of such a policy viewed only through the lens of defeating organised crime in Mexico.

Also, given how American policy seems to have to explore and exhaust all the bad options before settling on some mediocre option, I expect that the first policy choices might actually turn out to be harmful.
Let’s stop corporations and governments from acting short-term.
Can you explain what you are advocating?

It's not clear to me what connection you are making between America's GDP and wanting the wealthy to do more. The wealthy capture the largest portion of the GDP, so America's high GDP would seem to support the idea that the wealthy can do more.

It seems like you are criticizing tax rates but then you talk about how much can be done with the money that makes up the national debt. Are you advocating more or less government spending? Are you advocating more or less taxes?
Literally just that RetroArch doesn't support any Nintendo system from the last 20 years?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists

whoops wrong link but fuck it, serendipity
You have to get people to actually come to your house voluntarily in the middle of the week to sit down and do some boring stuff in your computer. And it all just clicked with everyone’s schedules in four days. I usually can’t get people to even answer a 5-minute online form, let alone get them to drive to my house. Maybe he’s just popular (which he isn’t, by the way; and a confessed previous cheater.)
It didn't say it improves on the cheetah. It said it is faster then a cheetah. That's not the same thing.
I find this to be a much more plausible area of concern than standard horror-story AI doomerism. But the more we shift our focus from fantasy to reality, the more we have to acknowledge reality, as Maciej does in this talk. It isn't plausible to prevent all the great powers from developing AI. We don't have that level of cooperation in the world today. We are going to need to adapt to this by keeping up with our adversaries, whether they be hostile nations, corporations, or mad scientists.
> a custom programming language

You mean the trigger/action system in StarEdit? I wouldn't call it a programming language, but it was a very nice introduction to scripting, especially for me as a 10yro kid at the time. I probably owe a bit of my career to it.
There's an error of generalization here. There are some who would cut budgets in either case. These are politicians who are generally characterized as far right in the media.

https://rollcall.com/2019/06/03/sen-rand-pauls-austere-budge...

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/17/rand-paul-oppose-s...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-ma...

There may be others, but these are two politicians who come to the top of my mind. However, generally speaking there are many GOP members who are content to approve spending on their own partisan budgets. This is a well known issue.

As for the accusation, "that's why they're being called far right"

I had hoped to avoid this by stating, "I do not dispute the characterization..."

The reasons why some are described as "far right" are beyond the scope of this discussion. I do not attribute motive. It is simply an observation of the status quo. They are described as far right here and elsewhere. They seek to limit the government's budget regardless of which way the pendulum is currently swinging. They maybe described as "far right" for any number of reasons. It is an entirely separate topic which could be debated at length.

Perhaps you are projecting your own elaborate ideas, partisan biases and expectations into what was a simple and concise statement? Furthermore, you assume we should all implicitly understand your accusations and their frame of reference. Only by elaborating on why you feel it is a straw-man are we able to discuss this. Without elaboration we can only assume your intent, which more often that not leads to even more projection and partisan caricatures.

Another interesting ambiguity is "semi-sophisticated". It could have meant that HN was too sophisticated for the stawman you alleged. Perhaps it meant that HN isn't sophisticated enough to read the sentence without inflammatory nonsense. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
Yea, I also have an OMRON and I'm sure it would agree in the same setting but I actually check my BP according to guidelines at home
I'm using both terms as equivalent to "I don't recall dreaming".

The reality, I hesitate to speculate.
That is one of my favorite scenes ever, and I think of it whenever I’m in a big freeway system or tunnel.

But yeah probably not easy if you’re not already fairly deep into art-house films.
Sure that's the posts that are being shifted here.

If the same model can do exactly what you say it can't with so little effort added that you can do it minutes or hours within your paper release then the model can get very much do what you say it can't.

There's nothing inherent about falling flat on your face that makes it some quality reserved for beings that can't reason. Humans do that fine on their own al the time.

A paper that doesn't even pass the try rest is a paper that should be questioned at the very least. Invalidates all the claims it makes when the results it's founded on are patently false or misleading.
I feel one thing isnt mentioned often enough, or actually 2: If you invent something, start looking at the previous art sooner. 2) Limit creative insanity or genius to one thing and keep everything else as boring as possible. When the garage explodes you know why and you have at most 1 biohazard at a time.
If you’re interested in a counter argument, see https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/winston-churchill-isnt-t...
The hospitalisation rate made this implausible. Sure, we could have kept calm and carried on, but the health care system would have collapsed. It almost did in a bunch of European countries, including mine. And that's with the lockdowns.
The world has become a sad and pathetic place. If you're "uncomfortable", whatever that means, don't watch, whether we're talking about a speech, a TV program, etc. Don't try to ruin it for everyone else. You're just not that important. Life is filled with discomfort. You can't cancel them all. And as you get older, the discomforts keep coming. That's the real world. And when you retire and the doctors tell you that you have cancer or heart disease, that too will be uncomfortable. And guess what, you don't get to cancel that, because life really doesn't care if you're uncomfortable. Grow up world.
This is black-and-white thinking. The metric was, saving lives from cardiovascular or cancer causes. Nothing to do with quality-of-life.

I often don't see my doctor but once a year for that annual visit. We cover lots of ground, make adjustments, give me heads-up on what I can expect as I age, and so on. You know, what a GP is for. An expert collaborator on my health decisions.

For god's sake, visit your doctor sometime. Maybe not as often as you visit your dentist or hell, your auto mechanic. But maybe your body is worth some care and maintenance visits? Think about it.
On a purely technical level, importing enough food to feed all the people necessary to prevent 3 million deaths feels staggering. Imagine the convoys.

Every time I read about WWII maritime logistics, I’m blown away by the sheer scale of it.
been using the v5 for a long time, v6 update is way better than v5 and is akin to the mac version.
To me it looks like both sides are acting very emotional over the situation and using very loaded language to push their agendas forward. I almost feel the author is using discomfort even more as a weapon than the person who originally complained.
Leaving (or excluding yourself from) something because of "personal reasons" is very different to excluding someone else because of your own discomfort, though.
I'm not lol. Which is exactly why I explicitly say I'm posting comments that have already been posted.
> It's NOT acceptable to call people "Black" (note, pretty much equivalent to the n-word)

That's a rather extreme claim. I'd be careful about holding strong views on things you don't understand very well, especially on such a charged topic.
The Human Intelligence Enterprise by Patrick Winston
Glad she included a book om LLMs for the kiddos:

> Group 2 (Children born in 2022)

> Llama Llama Red Pajama
The fact that you think justice has anything to do with this is quite sad.
Let us see you rewrite it given the community culture and guidelines. Can't write i left because of toxic pieces of shit people with zero empathy.
The A to Z of economics: Economic terms explained to you in plain English
Archived: http://archive.today/w3Eu9
Traffic is most likely a spike. In a month it will probably be down to a few percent of that. I wouldn’t shutdown or optimize too much unless you see it persist for a few more weeks at this level.

If your lucky and it’s still going strong after that time you’ve got something worth more than your hosting bills.
For ‘predict Einstein’ read ‘predict what an Einstein-level intellect would think (about a given subject)’, not literally replicate what Einstein did.

You’re focused on the idea of LLMs as collators of ‘things that have been said’, but that’s not all that they collate from their training set.
I thought it was pretty widely believed before the snowden leaks that the US (and in particular the NSA) did warrantless surveillance of US citizens. What was lacking was credible evidence; anyone who claimed it was widespread before snowden could easily be written off as a conspiracy theorist.
Not gonna lie, this sounds pretty personal from the way you're trying to rationalize this. None of this mental gymnastics you're doing makes any sense at all.
They know that piece has the potential to find a buyer at auction for several millions. I would also rip apart my house.
Once you start poking, a lot of popular narratives turn out to be manipulative and deceptive, driven by a certain political agenda. Remember the Belgians and the Congo? Hands cut off etc? Never happened as commonly told, probably one of the biggest hoaxes of history: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/king-hochschilds-hoa...
If we graphed all famines by deaths per capita, would we observe a signal indicating when British colonial rule began?

I’m curious to explore this when I’m back at a PC.
No empathy. The supposed costs are to preserve their windfall of what, a million dollars? Poor them, having to make cost-benefit analysis on a fortune.

It won't cost any damn million to get rid of their problem. Just a bucket of paint and an afternoon.
I agree that NDEs are weird and give some hints that _something_ is out there.

I think it more likely NDEs are a hint that the supernatural isn't fiction than that they're a consequence of being simulated.

Per the above discussion, though, if NDEs are a hint that we're in a simulation, they don't necessarily give us any access to the exterior reality. They could just as easily be part of the simulation as something outside of it (as could OBEs).
If you have government funded healthcare, you only want enough capacity for average needs because otherwise you're wasting taxpayer money.
Process and Reality
You cannot change the fact that you're posting photos of your kids on facebook?
I didn't say it's necessary to deeply understand everything.

> if you have at least a passing familiarity with the actual full stack, you're in a much better position to understand how your day-to-day work affects and can be affected by the rest of it.
Being away from a bad family environment and around non-threatening people for a few hours every day is a huge benefit to many people. But there are also good families, where children thrive and can learn well remotely or through homeschooling. Not all families or students are the same. Indeed the effects of the lockdowns on students prove that. Some kids did well. Those who were already struggling got permanently destroyed (for all intents and purposes) by the lockdowns. Overall the lockdowns were bad because, imo, teachers cannot teach well remotely. Remote learning is not a hard problem. Remote teaching— that’s the problem.
> Nobody cares but the speaker themselves.

You're not speaking for everyone. I care about the Rust leadership behaving properly for example, because issues like this may be a sign of other problems with respecting the community. And I would like to trust them to resolve issues fairly and quickly since I will rely on the project's progress in the future and don't want people leaving because of mishandling social issues.
Cos 333: Advanced Programming Techniques Spring 2019
Because then they cannot sell it. It's a BS story, they made a $250k investment because they expect to sell it for much more than that. It's a non-story.
I hope you're coming from a good place but I can't help but find this kind of comment naive and a little rude.

It's never as simple as "here's the code, have at it". Actually packaging things up and documenting it takes times and effort. Also I'd imagine it feels like somewhat a slap in the face. "Hey, I see you've donated your time and money to this project until you felt you couldn't any longer but please donate more time to package it all up for some heretofore unknown entity that might benefit".

It's a lot easier to call for something to be open sourced than it is to actually take up the mantle and carry the project further. Same as when people say "Well have you seen if someone else wants to run it if you don't?" As if that's not a massive time investment of vetting and researching, not to mention your name is still attached to it even if you hand it over. Somewhere down the line a less scrupulous person might wrest control and do who knows what with it.

Lastly, it's been my experience that the majority of people asking for something to be open sourced have never used and/or are not interested in the original thing. They say it almost if by rote.

Again, I want to be clear I'm not trying to come down or attack you personally, I just feel like this statement gets thrown around a lot without a care in the world for the effort involved. I've had it said to me, I put in the time to clean up a project enough to open source, and no one touched it again as far as I can tell. That's more than a little disheartening.
You could — at the risk of being burned at the stake by purists — try the other one [0] which is faster paced but touches on the same ideas. Then if you’re really intrigued by that, go back to the original.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(2002_film)
The A53 is very popular in automotive and embedded applications. I'm familiar with the iMX8 and the S32G but I'm sure there are others.
This doesn't work when you are in a relationship with someone with a personality disorder like BPD. They use it to hurt not to heal.
curious - what tools were deprived to a whole generation?
woah. i created something similar recently. but my app lets play along by providing an easy way to interpret the chords of any song you can think of. i built a really neat interactive music player that breaks the song down by bpm, pitch, key, and (of course) a preview of the upcoming chords and when to play them.

https://www.nevertwenty.live

lets collab?
There is a clear asymmetry they can take advantage of and it won't be dealt with any time soon, so it's sustainable, and who defines what is reasonable?
Why not just make all talks keynotes then. Change the label and everyone gets respect.
Don't forget about the great famine in Iran during WW1 - that is the REAL HOLOCAUST committed by the English.
Finished Children of Time two weeks ago. Now I want to be a spider.
Specifically, I don't know. But Aurora is an open source client that uses google play APIs to download and install apks. It's used by users who want to install apps from google play without having any google play services (and their unreasonably terrible privacy implications). The account is required I assume to authenticate to whatever network requests they're using.

I cannot imagine this being allowed in their TOS. The app is a reverse engineer of their APIs.
I often wonder, with my computer on all the time, why do I need an email service at all? Just send me the damned email. Straight to my computer. Point to point.
Show HN: Cloud Dev Assistant with GPT-4 and Pinecone
It's very cool. Now they only need to work on the rest. Over all FF's performance is significantly worse IME.
You could try to apply for grants. 20K+ chats sounds like a large number -- you must live in a 1M+ person metro area, right? It would probably be fairly easy to get a four figure grant from one agency or another. You could frame it as "localization of generative ai to the regional culture of X", or as a tourism thing, etc.

You could also sell advertising the old-fashioned way -- ask local businesses or perhaps a local university if they'd like the model to mention them in certain prompts.

But your best bet is probably to treat this as a loss leader and put up a small banner offering "In-Person Generative AI Consulting" in your metro area.
Thought Experiment: What would humans do in a world of super-AI?
I do REALLY want such existence of such superintelligent machine who can kill human being.

Human being is deserved to die to me (look at how human destroy the Earth).

A superintelligent machine do intelligent things, of course.
You should care because this becomes more and more the reputation of the language and as it pushes more and more talented people away the staying power of the language (and its ability to be "great") begins to diminish.

People don't need to be perfect, but if people are going to REPRESENT something (ie the Rust Language) they need to be better than the petty drama that the Rust team has been involved in over the last while.
>So they need reverse psychology to express anger at injustice because of the Code of Conduct? What is this world we're building?

All of life is change and cycles and oscillations. Not just human society but even whole ecosystems. Very likely this approach will be pushed to extremes, implode and then the cycle will swing the other way. There are valid reasons for this cultural shift and like all such shifts those supporting it need to experience the failure of going too far. Eventually some less extreme equilibrium will come about.
I’m not talking about outlawing usury by fiat, more the automation and extension of equity markets into the general economy using smart contracts for ar/ap using margin calls for unpaid bills and a pre-defined money supply currency as the unit of account. Credit at interest would not be supported and would be unnecessary.
No is even sure what the original source of the fire was, after a very long investigation.
Hard to prove or disprove hearsay or heresy though.
I don’t know if this is true so maybe I shouldn’t be mentioning it, but: I had a driver for a week in India who I talked with a lot because my wife and our two friends rode in the back seat while I sat up front. One of our longer conversations was about British rule. Our driver claimed that England very purposefully dismantled India’s education system and had the harsh punishment of “hand maiming” that was frequently meted out for even small infractions.

Empires, especially when in decline, can be brutal so maybe what our driver told me is true.
Sit down and do your best at the things that must be done.

Design is learned hands on.

But nobody understands your project better than you.
I assumed it was due to the height of the ships that typically passed. Probably costs more to build the bridge higher so you don't have to raise it as often, so they fight about lowering costs and minimize the number of times they raise the bridge.