skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As terrible as the system is today, people willingly to choose (in most cases) to bring children into the world and (in most cases) accept the responsibility of raising them

People are hard at work on removing the 'willingly' part of this right now. We have the wealthiest man on earth backing people who are headed down a road where contraception will be outlawed.

> Who raises the kids in a world where they're bred via technology?

People who voluntarily adopt them. You could have babies made to order for people with fertility problems, or merely for people who don't want to undertake the risk of carrying a pregnancy to term in a country with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the developed world[1].

[1] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...
Used hotspots are $12 on eBay. The Franklin T9 is hackable and fun, but it would be nice to have Ethernet and OpenWRT for less than $100
They have it backwards, rich people come to the US for their treatment. It's not a coincidence that places like Mayo/Hopkins/MD Anderson all have buildings named after a gulf country sheikh.

Top US institutions are definitely the best/most advanced in the world right now for cancer care and arguably overall, especially for weird and wonderful stuff.

Affordability and accessibility is a different question.
> Unlike common right-wing claims over the last decade, two million+ extra ballots would not just go unnoticed.

For sure. The people spreading these baseless lies (Trump, Giuliani, Lindell, etc) should be loudly condemned. But half a dozen fraudulent votes, in a very close city council race, is not totally unimaginable. Or even a few hundred, like in the 2008 Minnesota Senate race (that gave Democrats the critical 60th vote needed to pass Obamacare): https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/york-when-1-099-felons-vo...
Currently 1T. When AI hype fades out back to 250-400B range
Ask HN: How do you make money on the side?
How do you make money on the side?

I'm talking about work that can be done one day per week on a weekend, or perhaps across a few evenings whilst maintaining a regular job.

Im interested in things that leverage a SWE skillset, as opposed to Uber or GrubHub type work, but also anything unexpected!
You're right, I can also reproduce that behavior with the API. Fascinating. I really thought they were the same model but ChatGPT4 is clearly a lot more RLHFd compared to the API. Not only is the API honest but it's also way less wordy. Practically every answer from ChatGPT in the sample conversation had to be truncated because it includes an essay about the scientific consensus.
> "Secondary pneumonia, not cytokine storms, a leading killer in the ICU"
I have bypassed that in the past on mobile by switching to desktop view (ugh).
And most customer lists are on Salesforce. ADP has everyone's salary data. At the end of the day, the safe thing is to just disconnect all your computers from the internet. But that's not very practical so you decide how much of your company's time and energy you want to devote to reducing potential security exposure while your competitors are just taking advantage of available online services (with some level of security due diligence).
Similarly I wondered if partially decompressing video and using that format as both the input and output might work. The logic is that a fully decompressed video is huge, and that extra data is by definition wasteful: it’s exactly what’s thrown away by compression! We’ve designed compression to efficiently match the human visual system and not waste bytes on irrelevant things.

So I wonder if a NN trained on something like a quantised DCT as both input and output might be dramatically more efficient, roughly in line with the compression ratio of applying the same transforms to a raw video.

Obviously we’d have to avoid bit-level streaming algorithms like Huffman coding.

However even reusing image tiles might work via methods such as differentiable hash tables, as seen in NVIDIA’s reverse rendering neural nets!

Food for thought…
His link to 100+ page book doesn’t even claim “full socialism”.

He’s just a tank.
Once you break it down by age group, you find that the vast majority of people at significant risk from COVID voluntarily took vaccines shortly after they became available, so mandates could have had little effect in that cohort. Meanwhile, the mandates have lasted the longest on college campuses, where the risk calculus tilts most strongly against vaccination for COVID. So even if we're going to engage in a kind of naive "how many deaths from COVID were prevented" analysis as the sole criterion for evaluating the success or failure of mandates, the question is still potentially quite tricky. And that's without getting into the second order effects of throwing many people out of work without unemployment benefits, or cutting down the numbers of healthcare workers, both of which led to some number of preventable deaths which again would be difficult to calculate.
And obviously you are angry too. Whether it be at me or at someone else, rationality does not follow. The subject triggers. The disagreeable responses trigger. At this point, the best thing to do is disengage.
I'd absolutely love to do DD on this project. It has all kinds of interesting bits to research. On the assumption that they have done their homework there must be something non-obvious that they know that outsiders don't.
You can buy cables or small splitter pcb's;

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/usb-c-pwr-splitter?varian...
> Current loudspeakers use a magnet coupled with the movement of a copper coil to vibrate a membrane.
In the future these heavy, bulky, and expensive components could be replaced by a dielectric elastomer membrane.

They mention efficiency, but not power. I don't like how this is framed as the general future of all speakers when it's really just the future of midrange drivers.
Sorry, assume I've read standard textbooks and Ellis-Maartens-Mccallum, and explain to me how inflation controls the spatially flat FLRW chart density of low-entropy fluctuations in the quasi de Sitter +CC phase (ideally beginning with the "dark era", or even the earlier black hole era if you want to deal in nonequilibrium entropy explicitly, rather than just assuming heat death).

(I don't know where you got "14b.y." from; we still have the local group (including Milkdromeda) making new stars that soon from now; it's a cosmological eyeblink).

> This is barely anything beyond inflation, it just sets the proper measure/odds among the details to match observations

"Barely anything" seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting there, but perhaps I'm missing something simple. See at the end below.

> For BBs, yes the "tiny" ones will be exponentially more likely.

Well, yes, statmech.

The problem is that if you allow non-"tiny" low entropy states you get them even during the matter-dominated era, so our sky should be sufficiently full of Boltzmann-russell-teapots to show up in studies of high-redshift quasars (and H II).

I do not understand the rest of that paragraph.

> That's all I was saying.

If that was all you were saying, I'd agree. I used the word "diagnostic" in the comment you replied to. But you also write:

> Inflation might be so pervasive it makes BBs infinitesimal

???

> ... Susskind ...

Are you trying to summarize stochastic eternal inflation? Or is this something out of his recent investigations of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev? I haven't looked at his DSSYK stuff because AdS results aren't interesting to me.

ETA (just for me, i had to put this somewhere to find it later): Brandenberger et al 1992 "The Entropy of the Gravitational Field", https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9208009v1
Like an electrostatic speaker the opposite charges' attraction generate movement. The difference is in an ESL one of the charges are stationary. In this new scheme, both charges are on the membrane but on opposite sides where attraction compresses/thins the rubber causing it to expand along its planar directions causing the dome to get larger. The inner air pressure is to assist the expansion movement.
Had a quick skim.

I was really struggling to see the practical advantage of this. Because you can convert different formats to what the model needs easily.

It feels like some strawman are set up. In the world of the paper, people have to painstakingly convert the image to the correct format for the model, and "hand-crafting a model stem for each modality"

But once you have set up a model, and got it working for say .tiff then to work on any other format you can just use ImageMagick or something? Unless you want the meta data too?

I think the use case for a model that works on bytes is as a kind of "easy to install" package on local devices, like a security camera, regular camera etc that will work with whatever the local file format is.

Also, a dollar into the "is/are all you need" jar please.
There are dozens of Reddit clones, many have come and gone. In my eyes they don't work because they aren't novel or innovative. There's no reason to switch for the average user.
> So I don’t think AI technologies we have now, or plausibly have in the next few decades minimum, look like they will have materially novel effects.

Anything you can do with chatGPT-4 today, you can also do with Google Search and a little more, or maybe less, work.
I mean it’s a press release. Those don’t cost anything.

The only application of this that seems half feasible is maybe some kind of post-disaster recovery where for whatever reason you’ve ruled out using a generator.
This video is of incredibly poor quality? It's hard to understand what the magician is doing, also it is quite clear that the coin is in his left hand (right side of the screen).

Was the trick also done so poorly when used on monkeys too?
That doesn't make a ship a viable alternative by itself. And there are plenty of undersea cables within Japan, including power cables.

The solution would seem to be to generate power in Japan not to transport it there by such bizarre (I agree with the title here) method. But let's reserve judgment and see how it plays out in practice, I'm going to watch this one just to see how real life matches my intuition about this project.
Yes, let the Big Tech eat themselves. This is how progress is made.
Induction of a torpor-like state in rodents by ultrasound
Even then you'd probably be better off shipping a mixed load of diesel trucks and large generators.

Even the larger version doesn't make a whole lot of sense, you'd be looking at keeping the ship in port for quite a while unless those batteries are going to be charging and discharging at very high rates but that would shorten their life (and hence the number of trips). They are aiming to do 'short runs' only (100 km is mentioned in the article but the economic range is a bit larger) which makes it even more dicey economically.

Their transportation costs per KWh as quoted in the article exceed current generation costs by a factor of three already. 214 MWh is a proverbial drop in the bucket on grid scale and even 10x isn't all that much, and you can only deliver power if you have enough of those vessels to guarantee overlap at the destination or you're going to have to deal with outages.

I wonder who is investing in this project.
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This sounds like a fit for NESSUS
A shame. It could be a little bit bigger and get a good keyboard and a bit more of a display, and still look like a TRS-80 model 100.

What I like about it (thinking about getting one) is the upgradeability - the RPi CM4 adapter should give it a couple extra generations, but I'm not a fan of the 480-line display idea unless one could use Wayland to extract more virtual pixels.
“Losses caused by striking” is a funny way to describe the holding of the case, which was about cement truck drivers deliberately timing their strike to maximize the risk of damage to the trucks and at a minimum spoil their loads.

The decision was 8-1.
I knew that...
Indeed, it only works for other applications, not browsers. Interesting question. Perhaps you could ask it on the Qubes forum: https://forum.qubes-os.org.
Wiener is credited with the concept of cybernetics. Yeah this is a grotesquely bullshit title.
You could travel for vacations, see family and such. But it wasn’t as simple as get up and move to a new city. You needed a job. The place you lived was often allocated based on your workplace.
I think the picture painted here is a bit on the rosy side. For example, at 4:22 a lady from Oklo says "we just don't have the commercial facility to do so [burn nuclear waste]. But the technology is there". What she fails to mention is that a technology that is not approved by the NRC is as good as not existing. We don't want another Chernobyl, do we? Well, the NRC has looked at their (Oklo's) technology, and said "no, thank you" [1].

So, what the lady should have said at 4:22 is "The technology is almost there, if we work hard we might iron out all the issues in 10 years. But more realistically in 20."

Once they iron out those issues, they will have a fast reactor that could burn "nuclear waste". In reality, it will turn out that it will be orders of magnitude cheaper to burn freshly mined uranium, and they'll do just that. Why? Because nuclear waste contains all sorts of transuranic elements, like Neptunium, Plutonium, Americium, Curium, and each of them with several isotopes. Some of these isotopes are friendly to being burned in a reactor, but some not. Some are highly radioactive, while regular nuclear fuel is not. Getting reasonably "clean" fuel out of this is expensive.

But even if expense is not an issue, getting the NRC to approve the fuel will be another one. The NRC does not approve only reactor designs, but also everything that has to do with reactor operations, including nuclear fuel. There are currently several applications to approve uranium fuel where U-235 is enriched to a bit higher than 5%. Six weeks ago the NRC gave an approval to Framatome [2] that will allow Framatome to eventually enrich fuel to 8%, however, I think they will need a few more approvals until that fuel will burn in reactors.

It takes many years for the NRC to give an approval to even such a simple thing as increasing enrichment from 5% to 8%, but otherwise keeping everything the same. Imagine how long it would take them to allow someone to burn a fuel that is essentially a random mix of a bunch of radioisotopes.

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/large-lwr/col/auro...

[2] https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/NRC-approves-use...
It is mentioned on the website at the end of the article.
Why don't they just charge the user directly for the ability to use the API in that case?
The email bothers me a little.

What bothers me a lot is that there's an active account attached to my email address with dozens of companies I did not choose to engage with. It as astonishing how few companies allow you to disavow an account created with your email (practically none. I don't have an instagram myself but my email account does.)

Marking their emails as spam just means I will no longer know what's being done "in my name" (with my email address). It doesn't aftually solve an issue in any real way.
What exactly happens if even one of those batteries pops?
many, many, many. A selection is on our website https://soundmind.co/research

Note: We aren't talking about "gentle tones to help you fall asleep". This is a closed-loop neurofeedback system.
Spoken like someone who has never actually looked at how an election works in a county in the USA, doesn’t care about the actual legal requirements, seems to ignore all concerns for accessibility (eg. Scantrons are terrible for old people with bad/no eyesight, have motor control issues with hands, etc), doesn’t know what scantrons actually did with the scan results, hasn’t thought through the complexity of ID in the USA (we don’t have a single ID number and the alternative is to store photo ID cards for everyone to see and collect) and doesn’t have a plan for absentee voters or military deployed voters. And that doesn’t even address any of the human factors (eg. people lose their ID, they lose their ballot, ballots get crumpled by voters and stuck in the scanners, electricity isn’t up 99.999% of the time, etc).

Elections are hard for a reason — the requirements are complex. Everyone wants 160million+ votes to be collected, counted, and results published by 9p on election day. Everyone wants the registry to work perfectly and wants the convenience of not having to travel far to a polling place. In practice, these create a huge number of hurdles that election officials must navigate, plan for contingencies (eg. the hurricane immediately before the election in Florida 2022).

Maybe my best advice to you is the snide “don’t reinvent the wheel in Hacker News comments, but rather get involved as a polling place volunteer next year, then see all of the edge cases in action”. Then don’t propose your MVP v2 to me, propose it to your county election board. Only you will be ignored because elections in the US have 250 years of learning from the previous errors, but you seem quite content to ignore all of those hard-earned lessons.
The stats might work against your thesis: the outbreaks where the cause is unknown might be more likely to be caused by pathogens transmitted by workers.
old.reddit.com is tolerable on mobile.
I’m astonished this one ever got past the design stages. Even dating/hookup sites, who pioneered this pay-for-attention mechanic, have long ago realised that it’s a problem, and have largely either abandoned it in favour of other monetisation approaches or rationed it (For instance, Grindr has a feature where you can pay to move to the front of the grid, but only for an hour).
No. This is a closed-loop neurofeedback system.
The original scp used rcp (as a protocol, or very close to it) inside of ssh.

IIRC, wildcards are allowed, so the rcp server expands them.

If the rcp server is malicious, it might slip an /etc/passed into its output, writing over the client. Very bad if the client is root.

The original scp suffers the same problem. I'm not sure if this issue is entirely avoided if a fully-qualifed path is sent to the server (but I think so).

EDIT: I am incorrect. The rcp server has complete control over the filename sent.

"...So one might type a command like:

$ scp admin:boring-spreadsheet.ods .

"with the expectation of getting a file called boring-spreadsheet.ods in the current working directory. If the remote server were to give a response like "here is the .bashrc file you asked for", though, scp would happily overwrite that file instead."
" What is generally little known: STAR WARS Episode 4 from 1977 actually featured one of the first three-dimensional CGI scenes in film history. A forty-second sequence with the Death Star. All the other special effects were handmade and were convincing because they were seamlessly integrated into the story."

https://cleverclipstudios.com/en-ch/blog/star-wars-and-the-c...

It was a big deal at the time.

The late 70's was when CGI started to take a hold in movie making. It was primitive compared to today but effective.
You just never stop, you’re a beautiful human
https://www.gov.br/mma/pt-br/analise-dos-alertas-de-desmatam...

Haven't found good english sources newer than 2020.

Sibling article you mentioned says nothing about amazon deforestation. It's about indigenous people's land rights.
see
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29981188
500 isn’t bad, but I hear some pickup trucks with large tanks can get this type of range. I’ll be excited when we start to see 750-1000 mile ranges
Yeah, that's kinda the problem. If your dependencies are complex enough you may have a tough time figuring out when you've packaged everything.

Surprises may be lurking anywhere. It might be loading files based on something read from a config file, or concatenating tokens, so you'd have a hard time knowing you got everything for sure without reading the source for every library your application loads, and every library your direct dependencies load.

And then everything may still work until 3 distro releases later something finally becomes binary incompatible.
It's mostly the user base.

An idea: Twitter has lots of users, maybe Elon could build Reddit-like features into it.
Tangentially, the book The Vital Question is fascinating: it explains how life on earth is basically just proton-moving machines with flair (and how such machines could have come to evolve in the first place).
Ehhhh interesting, might go well for tweeters. Can't see it being great for bass. Can't be arranged in a paraflex horn config.
Boutique consulting firms sometimes have side work you can do and they don’t always care where you are located.

Just look for a consulting group that doesn’t have 40000 job postings on LinkedIn
> It just makes no sense to me that Linux Kernel boot images are, how much? A gigabyte?

I guess the reason it doesn't make sense is that you're living in your own imagination where nothing is obligated to be sensical!

The current boot image (vmlinuz) on my debian system is 6MB and the initrd is 40MB.
Never overestimate the power throughput of a barge loaded with charged batteries.
We are already doing that one, at least some of us are.
You should flesh this out into it's own piece, I'd love to read it.
I can't see Reddit as "Big Tech". It's absolutely not in the same weight class as Google, Facebook/Meta, et al. Which is not to say it shouldn't be allowed to die, but if nothing else we should keep the true scale in mind.
Some context:

> 1. Being a consumer of OAuth2/OpenID Connect: you implement "Sign in with Google," need access to a user's GitHub account, and other use cases. Here, OAuth2 makes a ton of sense. This article does not cover this use case.

> 2. Being a provider of OAuth2/OpenID Connect: You want to become the system that issues OAuth2 Access Tokens, OpenID Connect ID Tokens, etc. This article is for you!
Yes, this is a hash function. Whether it’s “useful” or “good” is the purview of the architect.

Tangential edit: https://xkcd.com/221/
no.

> 11M Apr 6 12:14 vmlinuz-6.1.19-gentoo

> 4.6M Apr 6 12:14 System.map-6.1.19-gentoo

And that's a full desktop QEMU "server" - and i don't use initrd, because i don't need every driver in the tree, just the ones that work for my system. No AI needed. You boot a "kitchen sink" kernel, lspci -k, note down what it says, then just enable those things in the kernel and build it.

Even ubuntu being "quite supportive" is 30-45MB.

The kernel source tree is over a gigabyte, but that has to support everything it supports - arm, risc-v, x86_64, etc.

> 2.2G linux-6.1.19-gentoo/
My example is very simple. I am pretty much using it as a cache I guess.

Firstly there is an external product feed API that returns JSON.

In a single file I have an async function fetch from it and do some transformations.

In various pages (and I am using the new App Router so this might be different) I just call the function from an async React component and then use that data to do server-side generation.

The catch is that it is limited to 2Mb calls for caching. Otherwise the fetch works but they don't cache it. I am going to experiment to see if I can just store the data in memory globally.

This may not be a great approach for data provided by users. And it is a cache, so the data can be lost of course. Since in my case I can go back to the API it is of no concern.
not to brag but me too.