skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My eyes were opened when I saw the calculations for how many watts of energy a 1 C change in the atmosphere equals. It is something like the world's total energy output over a ten-year period.

Think of the weather system as a huge engine. We are effectively stepping on the accelerator with an enormous number of terawatts. That's a lot of wind and rain.
The only "goal" of crypto is to make money. Anything else is just worn as a mask for promotion because, "Lie, cheat, steal" isn't a great set of principles for a new economic universal ledger.

What crypto has become has showed just how wrong Satoshi was about people. Crypto COULD have been everything he hoped for. It could have been a system where everyone participated, with millions of nodes. Instead it became something no one understood, operated by a few mega pools, all who are trying to fleece people who don't understand or care but just want to make money. Crypto is now an economic matchmaking system that matches the desperate and greedy with those who would take advantage of them. It's a free market system that matches predator with prey. It's doing what almost all banking regulation tries to mitigate.

Capitalism consumed crypto in a second. I'd go as far as to say that the two are actually incompatible at a fundamental level.
> If they lose, they could be broken up for being a monopoly.

Correct. Monopolies have been given a pass because they supposedly have not raised prices for consumers. If it can be shown that they have then their argument falls apart.
What product was your startup building, how did having a fancy QR designer benefited your product? Was QR designer the product? Why did it fail and what are your plans next?
If cooling happens slowly, best to pour the milk early (soonest), to keep the tea (slightly) warmer, than near the end.

So a higher marginal advantage (in something) if we take the sudden drop early, if "cooling" travels along a known curve.
All the places I've given addresses like that dutifully e-mails to the right place, so I guess I must've gotten lucky. But if you use your own domain with Fastmail (which I'd recommend anyway, so you have an easy way of moving elsewhere if you need to - how I was able to migrate to Fastmail from Google relatively painlessly in the first place) you can also set up catchall addresses so you can use the whole local-part instead:

https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277942-Ca...
Seriously. Well, I guess their customer roster isn't all that impressive. Sounds like they're willing to burn them.
I'm not really arguing that WASM was the first to target previously existing languages, I'm arguing that WASM has a reason to exist because (1) it's an extant project and (2) it solves for other requirements (e.g., streaming compilation) that weren't previously addressed. I could well be wrong, and if so I'd genuinely like to hear how CLR actually solves all of WASM's requirements (essentially how we should have just shoved CLR into browser engines and called it a day!).
At least on the coasts, clubs that do outdoors activities are fairly common. Doesn't need to be hardcore. There's the Appalachian Mountain Club in the Northeast US which dates to the 1800s. There are (unsurprisingly) at least a couple different Northern CA/PNW clubs though I'm less familiar with what they offer.
Mexican cartels have started inserting themselves into legal businesses like farming within their territory, increasing prices and taking the resulting profits.
Although I think the existential risk of AI isn't a priority yet, this reminds me of a quote I heard for the first time yesterday night, from a draft script for 2001: A Space Odyssey[0]:

> There had been no deliberate or accidental use of nuclear weapons since World War II and some people felt secure in this knowledge. But to others, the situation seemed comparable to an airline with a perfect safety record; it showed admirable care and skill but no one expected it to last forever.

[0] https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/119598
Temporal Workspaces
Context: Ashley Williams has publicly stated a desire to "kill all men", and explicitly refused to walk that back, or clarify it as hyperbole, or apologize for the sentiment, when asked to do so.

Acknowledging this historical fact has (for multiple people) been judged a rust CoC violation so please don't go asking about it if you still value being part of that community, for some reason.

And no, "kill all men" was not considered a CoC violation itself, because Williams is far enough up in the org chart that the CoC doesn't apply, as explained by the resigning moderation team back in 2019.
Have you considered starting a family?
When I can, I like to try to find local classes in something. That way you get to see a group of people more regularly, as opposed to one-off meetups. I've taken classes in acting, swing dancing, salsa. There's probably some cooking classes around, and given my local creative writing too. Hope that gives you some ideas.
> As he says, it is true that in his novels, Algerians are almost non-existent, although the novels happen in colonial Algeria and he himself lived amongst them

The term "Algerian" itself would need to be defined. Camus was born in Algeria, he would have called himself Algerian, just like someone born in Corsica would call themselves Corsican.

What is certainly true is that the society (like many colonial administrations) was racist and highly stratified. the pieds-noirs (descendants of immigrants from western europe) were "below" the french expats/public servants and their families (but could get a leg up from the former, as did Camus), but "above" the arab community (who themselves would look down on the kabyle, who themselves were above the other berberes etc..)
Hi everyone!

You old heads may remember the original usehooks. It was built when hooks were first released in 2019. We just rebuilt it from scratch, added about 40 more hooks, made it compliant with Server Components, and launched it as a standalone lib.

Hope you all enjoy!
> Another attempt is sandstorm.io but it was abandoned by the original authors.

Sandstorm is still maintained:

https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm

https://sandstorm.io

At Libera.Chat IRC #sandstorm . Welcome :)
Crypto absolutely can still do that. There's nothing in the Bitcoin protocol itself that enforces KYC, so you can send whatever you want to whoever you want using a basic Bitcoin client. Meanwhile, good luck sending a wire from your bank account to Iran. That will flat out be prevented. But with crypto, you take all the burden/consequences of the KYC on yourself, and the algorithm itself disallows no transactions.
We're using the NPY format [1] at the International Brain Laboratory and we're pretty happy with it. It works well if you have few large arrays that you can store in different files within a folder. Another good option is Apache Parquet.

[1] https://numpy.org/devdocs/reference/generated/numpy.lib.form...
> Do what kids in the 80's did, and many still do: go to the local playground, and ask if you could also play with them.

I was a stay at home dad for a couple years, and I made a lot of long term friends this way. In one case I saw a guy riding his bike with a 2yo on the back so we chased them down and asked if they wanted to hang out and do bike nerd stuff together. That was almost 6 years ago and we're still friends
> and the iteration time is painfully slow.

Yeah, that's pretty hilarious. It show how incredibly far and fast the goalpost has moved. Two years ago, you would have to hire someone.
> Eh, it's genuine as long as you subscribe to their set of beliefs. This may not be a problem for you, but for folks who care about reality, it could be more difficult.

Sounds like any friend/social group that has strong political beliefs too? Was enlightening to see this in 2016 when I shared I didn't vote for Hillary. Heaven forbid I voted libertarian, was like having a scarlet letter on my chest.
> GP is simply saying that making a permissionless financial network a key element of the way value is exchanged across the world is a much more ambitious goal than selling books online.

They said:

> And that's in a space whose biggest ambition was to replace catalogue shopping and how hotel reservations are made.

Which is an amazingly uncharitable interpretation of "the whole tech industry" in the 90s when the internet was being created, ask people at the time to give their best-foot-forward description of ambitions and you'd probably get something much more like "make all the world's knowledge available to everyone" and "eliminate the tyranny of distance to let human relationships flourish"

Vs, you know, "replace banks and let people transfer money instantly" or "create a new currency" - which sounds an AWFUL lot like a subset of that "connect everything together" original tech goal. Hell, "create a new currency" was even a goal for a lot of players back then, too!

(Interestingly they both share a level of idealism in terms of transcending traditional national borders, whether or not that is practical/achievable/or was achieved fully.)
Also, riders are using two or three different apps, so if Uber promises a 2-minute wait and then confirms with a 6-minute wait and Lyft is promising a 3-minute wait, cancel the Uber ride and now that driver is available again.
Thanks for that --
And is something analogous not possible for electrons in a wire?
My username is in this list, this proof that the above list is only about submissions or comments that include the word LLM, that is not what I am looking for. Don't know if you can select by upvotes.
React popularized and brought one way data flow, and Redux introduced centralized state which was a massive improvement over AngularJS.
"But I feel like something that gets lost in the discussion of AI-generated artwork is the turds."

You know, we already have a word for this... "flaws". Does the notion that AI-generated artwork has flaws really get lost in the discussion? Midjourney not being able to do hands until recently was a whole meme...
absolutely not confirmed to be a boson star. Most likely a black hole found its way there under unusual circumstances
My neighborhood. When we moved in we sat out front every evening, and made small talk with every single person who walked by. Some were caught off guard, some kinda just waved and moved on, but most stopped to talk.

What's interesting is that people who had lived in that neighborhood nearly 20 years together had never talked, and met for the first time as both stopped to chat at nearly the same time.

Then we started with small gifts, usually food because my wife cooks exotic things for people to try. Now we get random gifts, usually food or fruits or some flower or plant.

Now we have little get togethers inviting each other, text to ask if need anything from the store, etc. And all it took was being willing to sit outside for a couple hours each night and say hi.
I'm not sure what AI would add?
Show HN: Zoo. A free, open source tool for playing with AI image models
Interview and talk podcasts have always been popular. I'm not sure why that's surprising? It's an established format in all media, and in my experience podcasts aren't bad at it -- certainly much better than TV which these days seems to be universally terrible at it; there are some tradeoffs when compared to written formats.

Individual talk podcasts or episodes tend to be as good or as bad as the people in them. This is also not surprising?

Edit -- here's a somewhat tenuous Top 10 list from 2005, via Web archive via USA Today (of all places) via Wikipedia History of podcasting. A few of them are still going, 18 years later. They're mostly people talking, not radio drama or stone cold journalism:

1. The Dawn and Drew Show, dawnanddrew.com: Married-couple banter.

2. Engadget, engadget.com: Technology news and gadget reviews.

3. Reel Reviews, mwgblog.com: Reviews of current and classic movies.

4. IT Conversations, itconversations.com: Hard-core tech talk.

5. The Daily Source Code, live.curry.com: Adam Curry with podcasting news and the latest shows.

6. Coverville, coverville.com: All about cover songs, the good, the bad and the never-should-have-been-recorded.

7. Free Talk Live, freetalklive.com: Political talk radio with a libertarian perspective.

8. The MacCast, maccast.blogspot.com: All things Macintosh, by and for Mac nuts.

9. The Rock and Roll Geek Show, americanheartbreak.com/movabletype: One fan trails rock's less charted waters.

10. Tracks Up the Tree, upthetree.com: Music show featuring artists whose tunes are available online.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060207133911/https://www.usatod...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_podcasting#Wider_no...
This is actually sort of an example of what I'm talking about. Yeah, part of the strength of cryptocurrency is that it allows bad people to do bad things. Sort of how part of the strength of encrypted messages is that they allow bad people to do bad things. Same with file transfers.

The defenses people give of file transfers, chat encryption, etc etc are pretty straightforward: certain things should be equally usable by both law-abiders and criminals, for both legitimate and illegitimate ends. That kind of broad protection is the only way to insure that the civil liberties of all users are protected. Some of the illegal things that people do with these tools are unfortunate, but protecting them remains worthwhile.

What I'm saying is that the people who invented cryptocurrency believed basically the same thing about finances - that we would be better off treating the ability to transfer money as an absolute right, kind of like Signal treats encrypted messaging as an absolute right. The fact that the government doesn't see this as "legitimate" is kind of the point. (It was illegal to export many forms of encryption for *years.) As someone who at some points has used cryptocurrency for completely legal money transfers, I've directly benefited from the ease of use and simplicity this entailed.

Is it "naive at best" to hope that Signal will indefinitely maintain the property of protecting my chats against intrusion by third parties? Maybe! But that doesn't change the point that the fact that Signal does this is the whole reason I use Signal!
There's a group on Discord I hang out with that puts together experimental/industrial music compilations for charity. The group is highly creative which is fun and engaging

They actually just announced their next theme today and are looking for submissions that are based on serpents. Their "inspriation" page is like a floating museum gallery (so long as you're not using IE/Edge)

https://moonmusiq.com/serpents-compilation-info/
I guess the retort here would be, you had to circle the turds for someone to notice. JPEG encoding creates lots of turds, actually the entire output image is riddled with them. Tons of little artifacts.

If you expect perfection out of it you’re going to be disappointed but it’s pretty astonishing that it’s as difficult to be nit picky as it is currently.
https://archive.is/e9zze
> In other words: If you don't pledge total loyalty to the LGBT flag, you are "rotten flesh" and you need to be banned from the openSUSE community entirely

Opensuse people seem to have said some seriously dumb things there but the above paraphrasing does not seem to be made in good faith. I am not getting this meaning from what I read at all.
It's a shame that AWS can be used to do this and they'll either do nothing or take their sweet time doing anything, and half the time they reply saying that the abuse is no longer happening from the reported IPs (because they've already moved to new IPs).

It's infuriating.
Optimal for who? Because I think it's equal and opposite goals.
New York Times and I are frenemies: they are detestable but judgmental and mouthy, I am nothing but a soul that cannot be sold and a mind that cannot be dissuaded into their carefully-crafted narratives.

Yet, both of us need each other to know where we stand.
Is it ironic that they start with, "Even so, it can be difficult to voice concerns about some of advanced AI’s most severe risks," and then write about "the risk of extinction from AI" which is,

a) the only risk of AI that seems to get a lot of public discussion, and

b) completely ignores the other, much more likely risks of AI.
Ralph Nader: "Everything will be solar in 30 years" (1978)

Al Gore: "Within a decade, there will be no more snows on Kilimanjaro due to warming temperatures" (An Inconvenient Truth, 2006).

Everything is not solar. Snow is still there. Gore literally made a movie on the back of these false claims. Not only has there been no social penalty for him but you are even citing him as an example of someone who was right.

Here it is again: our society systematically rewards false claims of global doom. It's a winning move, time and again. Even when your claims are falsifiable and proven false, people will ignore it.
Indeed! Which is why counterbalance and dampening of oscillation are desirable features in a system of government. But you over-emphasize that, and you get a government incapable of action.
Citing a disciplinary rulebook is not citing reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...

>Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

>In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

>That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.
LLM is already a misnomer. Latest versions are multimodal. Current versions can be used to build agents with limited autonomy. Future versions of LLMs are most likely capable of more independence.

Even dumb viruses have caused catastrophic harm. Why? It’s capable of rapid self replication in a massive number of existing vessels. You add in some intelligence, vast store of knowledge, huge bandwidth, and some aid by malicious human actors, what could such a group of future autonomous agents do?

More on the risks of “doom”:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xWMqsvHapP3nwdSW8/my-views-o...
So in other words, "its going great" :)
I maintain that there were never any consistently good podcasts[1]. There were and are many good podcast episodes, however. Because of this I've never really understood the whole "subscribing" deal -- I always end up subscribing to hundreds of podcasts that all had one or two good episodes, but basically almost never have a good episode ever again. It's also been my experience that most people who are especially into one podcast are in a parasocial relationship with the host(s).

1: For the purposes of this argument, I'll say this means >50% good episodes, but even setting the bar at 10% doesn't change much.
Really? How? I needed to transfer money from the sale of a property in Europe and the fees + currency conversion was over $1000.
are you aware that comments are a thing in email addresses ?

john.smith(comment)@example.com

there are also tags

john.smith+sometag@example.com

neither of these require any DNS or server muckery and _should_ be supported by major mail hosts.

Of course, who knows how many random half-assed email validation things people have in their forms that'll prevent you from entering them.
Oh they do it. When I offered a self published book at a lower price on another site I got an automated email from Amazon saying my product would be de-promoted if I did not sell it at the same price on Amazon.
That is a pretty horrifying prospect

> “Another interesting thing we discovered is a set of genes called ‘zot’ genes, which causes leaky gut syndrome,” said Mincer. “If a fish eats a piece of plastic and gets infected by this Vibrio, which then results in a leaky gut and diarrhoea, it’s going to release waste nutrients such nitrogen and phosphate that could stimulate sargassum growth and other surrounding organisms.”
Sometimes I think we should allow ourselves to be very critical when reading older authors writing about concepts like “meaning” of life or what constitutes a “worthy” life.

Some of these big words are just concepts that doesn’t really mean anything without a clearly defined context.

Back when Humanists like Camus where active the context was like:

“Ok, god probably doesn’t exist, so now we have to find new answers to all of these questions”

But today we know even more and should start asking if the concept of “meaning” is even applicable to a single human life but rather humanity as a group (or a processes).

* I’m slightly drunk
A while ago I bought some older AMD 8350 systems, which apparently are the last without a PSP, the platform security processor.

I did this as a sort of 'just in case' setup, was planning to put OpenSolaris on it and run things under Zones or LX zones and to run it as a backup server. Fast enough to get some work done and possibly more secure if the PSP is ever used/broken maliciously...
So what will make this right?

It's clear what you're against -- what are you for?
Could the chromatic number be less than 4 (for some or all hat/turtle/spectre tilings)? Note that for the lattice tilings by squares and equilateral triangles the chromatic number is 2, while for the tiling by regular hexagons it is 3.
ZeroRogue has drawn dual graphs of hat tilings https://twitter.com/ZenoRogue/status/1639644061823819777 so you can just try to color them.
The comparisons I've seen have generally been comparing ROOT on a problem it was optimized for to HDF5 (or whatever) out of the box on the same problem.
There are a half dozen knobs to turn in any of these libraries, if you don't turn them I'd be skeptical of any general conclusions.
He should just respond in kind and use ChatGPT to generate terrabytes of discovery documents for Amazon lawyers to go through. Overreach for overreach.
The article isn't really asking for perfection. I think the key point being made is that these are basic mistakes that even a non-artist can easily recognise (the hallucinated objects being a particularly bad example), and which are a big obstacle to taking AI-generated work seriously.

Who cares if the work that AI produces is great, or even good, if it can't stop generating nonsense at the same time? The article even mentions this - you can try to work out the turds, but then productivity takes a big hit, and you're still not guaranteed any consistency. So what's the benefit of the AI at that point, from the perspective of a professional, or even an entry-level?
How was bit.io different from say supabase