skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think their point is that a species cannot suffer, only individuals can. Under that consideration, it seems downright hilarious to keep individuals perpetually suffering just to keep a species that didn't occur naturally anyway alive.

The whole topic becomes a straight farce once we realize that our "conservation" of these species costs us thousands of other, far more ecologically useful species. Like in the rainforest, for example, where we grow feed for cows, and pasture cows.
there really isn't - what makes you think that?
Love the the bridge! Looking forward to your email!
They spent 3 years lying about fabricated Russia Russia Russia allegations and live COVID Kill counts. No wonder no one watches them anymore.
Has anybody made a product to help you cope with GitHub outages?
What would be great is a product that is specifically designed to help you deal with a GitHub outage. Oh, GitHub is down? Flip this switch and your developers can somehow keep working.

I think a lot of companies would pay for this.
> Especially since at the point any civilization starts to develop technology, it happens really exponentially.

Most likely, even overall technological development forms some kind of sigmoid function. It's likely to hit an absolute wall at some point.

Obviously, though, we have no idea if we're 0.0001% of the way or 10% of the way to that wall.
The investors seem to know the deal.
Georgia is not in the EU or NATO, and has no real impact on anything in the 1st world. To paraphrase a US President "no dog in that fight"
Hacker News evading criticism by selectively adding noreferrer to certain links
Is it really "getting better at logic and reasoning" though, or is it actually just another LLM like any other, and therefore just getting better at the appearance of logic and reasoning? The distinction is important, after all. One possibly leads to AGI, where the other does not (even though people who don't understand will likely believe it's AGI and do stupid and dangerous things with it). As I understand it, LLMs do not have any logic or reason, despite often being quite convincing at pretending to.
Have you thought about making more structured objectives? Shameless plug: I built a simple French/Spanish chat app and the #1 piece of feedback I got was that it's a bit aimless without any objectives.

I built out ~20 scenarios that would give users objectives like buying train tickets or ordering coffee. Now that's the most used part of the app (not the generic chat bot). As far as ads go, App Store ads are not bad and can't be ad-blocked, so that's an option.

Would love feedback! https://apps.apple.com/app/verbius-ai-language-learning/id64...
I'll bet we also find out eventually that the dam sabotage was conducted by Ukraine

This particular report still strains credibility though. Capability-wise much more likely to be a US-backed operation. And the US gained the most from the situation.
How were you hand pollinating? I've done it with ~100 plants and it takes ~5 minutes every couple of days for a few weeks. Certainly not _nothing_ but relative to other garden tasks, pretty easy.
Not sure I follow- the answer matches minus the first leading zeros. Change the range from 0-32, and it matches exactly. So it pretty clearly recognized the pattern and produced working code.

This question is a pretty obscure benchmark. Another commenter has it just printing the string, as suggested.

If there's some weird math trick to get an optimal implementation, it's probably beyond the grasp of nearly all actual people.
...do we know that it doesn't?
Lisps are excluded from that page because they (mostly) don't play the dangerous game that the page is about.

The dangerous game is this:

1. Prove some things about the program graph.

2. Assume that your proof is correct, and translate the program accordingly (possibly with aggressive optimizations based on the proofs).

3. Remove all the proof artifacts from the program, such as types, and run the compiled code with no further safety net.*

The entire Counterexamples project speaks to the truth in Donald Knuths' famous quote:

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

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* Even if there is a safety net, the selling point of the languages is that it's unnecessary. If the type system is supposed to catch something, but it's not caught, and results in a run-time error (safely caught and everything) that still demonstrates unsoundness. It's not behaving as advertized/hyped.
Housing supply is actually a function of transportation. There's no point in adding housing, if people struggle to get where they need to go.

So, Toronto is wisely adding new transit lines. For example, the new Eglinton LRT. Unfortunately, it is already years overdue, with no definitive plan to finish it. They started construction in 2015. When will it finish? Who knows. Maybe a decade after starting?

This, of course, ties into the extremely difficult climate change situation. Transportation is a key emissions source, and without the ability to construct new subway lines, the transition away from carbon emissions gets that much more difficult

Another key problem: They keep building towers in Toronto, but not adding services. For example, the Yonge/Eglinton area has exploded in growth. Every new building has a sign that says "there's no plan to accommodate elementary students here." No new parks either. Most of the development is very anti-family, with tiny units and as many 1 bedrooms/studios as possible. Plus, these towers are usually all glass, which is a terrible from an emissions perspective.

Another example: They tried to start building "affordable" housing, funded by the government years ago. They still haven't broken ground. Anywhere. [1]

Bad planning, short term thinking, etc. It all adds up to a huge mess, and very little progress on the real problems that should have long been solved.

[1] https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/06/05/housing-eventual...
I always thought Slashdot's meta-moderators was an interesting idea. Before you could ever moderate (vote up/down), you first had to get enough points via meta-moderating.

Meta-moderating consisted of being shown a single comment and how an unknown moderator scored it. If enough meta-moderators disagreed with how a moderator was scoring, then that moderator would eventually lose all their moderation points.

Those that meta-moderate would slowly gain points they could use to moderate (no one had unlimited moderation points)

Granted, slashdot was different in that it only applied to comments. Post on the front page were done by slashdot employees. Reddit would still need a different level of moderators to remove inappropriate posts all together.
One needs to be very careful about which things to label human sacrifice. It is possible to be very "inclusive" there. One popular example is the expression "sacrificed on the altar of progress", and the works of philosophers such as Adorno and Horckheimer on the topic, who argued that human sacrifice just takes a different form in modern civilisation, but is still present e.g. as victims of car traffic, suicides from depression or industrial accidents. Imho, this only serves to hinder any kind of productive discussion because things tend to be not comparable in any way if terms are _that_ mushy.

I'd define anything as human sacrifice that the culture performing the act would label thus. E.g. we, as a modern civilization, don't call an abortion, war or execution "human sacrifice", so it isn't. The Romans didn't consider executing prisoners as such, because the prisoners were just subhuman and it was just an execution, so it isn't. The Carthagians seemed to think they were doing a human sacrifice, so yes, they were.
The only logic I see:

If the user is from Europe, tell them to fuck off.

What is the reasoning behind that?
I tried out Bard the other day, asking some math and computer science questions, and the answers were mostly bullshit. I find it greatly amusing that people are actually using this as part of their day-to-day work.
Strange comment, in my area nobody is against more housing, if you don't plan to MOVE out of the city, your house keeps doubling in price and your taxes go up, you make no money. If you want to buy up into a larger house because you had a kid? The gap between a 2 bed 1 bath house and a 3 bed, 2 bath is too much to justify.

Locals that have been here 20-30 years are selling and moving into remote areas because the only way to use your home equity is to abandon the area. More houses are not built here because our infrastructure has been poorly planned for 40 years. We are also surrounded tightly by mountains and water, every new build is condos to jam in as many people as possible.
I honestly don't really know why you take issue with that, but I'm pretty sure our world views are quite different, so I'm just gonna wish you well on your journey.
I'm here specifically referring to off-heap memory. I verified this by looking into the jvm with VisualVM. These are objects that aren't part of the normal java heap area and aren't part of garbage collection. The offheap can contain many things - classloaded code, memory-mapped files, direct bytebuffers, and so on. And since it's offheap, it's hard to analyze from Java tooling. So I literally don't know what it was doing.

So in my above scenario, I could indeed run the app with a -Xmx32M and yet the application was still using 200-300MB of resident memory (RSS) due to offheap usage.
AskHistorians and uncertainty surrounding the future of Reddit API access
Most US developers are not producing versions for Chinese app stores. That’s a red herring.

Of course individual products have their own idiosyncrasies, but is it in fact the case that on average, an app on iOS will make more than the same app on Android.
Just checked before posting that comment... It's not, unfortunately.
>While doing vr, I've broken a monitor and gone through a wall and broken several controllers.

Jesus set up the room boundaries, it's really not that hard.
pedestrians, cyclists, skateboarders, and all the other road users that the US car-centric society has determined are "hazards" to driving.
It's both. Your eyes have much better dynamic range and FPS than modern self driving systems & cameras. If you can reduce the amount of guessing your robot does (e.g. laser says _with certainty_ that you'll collide with an object ahead), you should do it.

Self-driving is still a robotics problem, and robots are probablistic operators with many component dependencies. If you have 3 99% reliable systems strung together running 24 hours a day, that's 43 minutes a day that it will be unreliable ((1 - .99^3)*1440). Multi-modality allows your systems to provide redundancy for one another and reduce the accumulating correlated errors.
> but that comes with its own costs as well.

So does having a large plot of land to every single driver on the road driving past you. Even if it doesn't really show up in a municipal budget or in a mortgage payment, it's still very expensive to drive past a farm that is wide and not deep, but most people, most of the time don't want deep lots for aesthetic reasons, and even if you make deep lots taxi-cab geometry will get you anyway if the whole area is residential land anyway.

When it comes to residential land that is outside of environmentally protected zones, my position is simple. Allow land owners to build two or three houses. One primary one (6 bedrooms, say) and up to two smaller ones (2 bedrooms each) or one smaller one and one general use building (a workshop or many car garage). That way the frontage is used, we get housing stock for poorer families and we intermix ages and income levels in a way that is socially beneficial, since it's a lot harder to turn a blind eye to the problems of the lower-middle class if they're literally living on the same property that you own.

Plus it gives a way (for families that want it) for grandparents to live on the same land as their grandchildren without always being in the hair of their kids. Super win-win if both parents work and can rely on the grandparents for after-school hours. Plus it makes extended family gatherings more feasible as enough of a chunk of the family is nearby in the first place.
It'll be about as effective as taxi medallions imho.
Yes, this is why I have that feeling that we're so out of sync and people are so blind to the consequences.

This is a person who we can give the benefit of the doubt that they want to do the right thing for their community. To them, community planning and maintaining a certain status quo is genuinely important and meaningful, and no doubt, their community is asking for it to varying degrees.

But we don't have that kind of agency. We don't have the wealth in communities like View Royal to insulate ourselves from the consequences of inaction. We're fooling ourselves, but I suspect it's quite easy to do so because we've never known any different.

Yet we no longer have the boom of various resource extraction as we had when we initially scaled out these communities. We no longer have the space and freedom to sprawl so effortlessly. We have inherited something from a time that is economically, politically, and geographically unrecognizable. It's a monolith of ideals we can't sustain.

I suppose a major issue is the complexity involved and frankly, our broader inability (including my own, to be clear) to fully understand where we're coming from and where we're going.

Frankly though I would say we're coming from an era of opportunity and entering one of relative scarcity with necessitated resourcefulness that we evidently don't yet possess.

And yes, I'm extremely hopeful that the Province will actually execute on making an example of them. It's yet to be seen that they're aware and ready to take action in a manner that will actually foment meaningful results. The fact that they imposed the timeline for action in the first place gives me some hope, though.
I disagree with that attitude. I think most scientific information that comes to us through the media is reliable. If people stop trusting science (or they continue to stop trusting science), we are just left with superstition and religion. It was really hard for people to cope with the fact that during covid we started with the best explanations and then as we learned we improved on it and some ideas or expected safety practices changed. Good example is that many viruses spread through touch and covid spread through the air and that was a surprise.

People take that in and say I just don't trust anything. That is a problem with America because people stop believing in objective facts, saying that it goes against their beliefs. This is a major problem why America doesn't have enough engineers and scientists and mathematicians, because people haven't learned that your intuition can be wrong and you can overcome your strong expectation about something by studying something, debugging a program or whatever.
I think perhaps the usage has split, with dual meanings, depending on the social identity of the user.

It is still often used by many people for friends (like the quote in the link), with the original meaning.

Some people also use it as a pejorative, usually against people they don't know or like.

I think it is an error to think that the second usage the only one, or even the predominant connotation. I would guess a small portion of english speakers hold negative opinions about "bros", and the concept isn't even on most people's radar.

How often does the word bro get used, and in which context? I would guess that bros use the word in the positive sense more often than other people spend talking talking about bros in a negative sense.

If someone claims that there is only one meaning of bro and that it is negative, I think that reflects more on their social bubble and social leanings than reality.
See my reply to the other comment - I specifically refer to off-heap memory, not on-heap/GC-managed memory.
Your story is very similar to mine, I switched to Colemak in 2010 and it took about 3 weeks of 5 minutes bursts of practice a couple of times every day(ish).

I have never looked back. My motivation was moving my finger less, speed was just a bonus.
Right why talk about anything ever everyone just sit in silence.
We're letting technology direct us to social interactions in ways that are pretty scary actually.
That sounds obviously transformative and on any non-trivial scale I can't see why copyright would be avoided.
Why is it always about riddles or doing math instead of something practical like working with code?
Just because the people you showed it to couldn't imagine using it doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of people out there who desperately want it and would recognize its utility to them.

To other creators: 0.1% of the USA and EU is 777,000 people. OP made a very niche product, hopefully he showed people who need SEO-related products, but if you only need to sell to 10,000 people to make a profit, you might "just" have to find them.

Of course, part of the "product" is telling the right people they need your product. If you can't do that then you haven't really finished the product.
> But Licht genuinely appears to have represented an attempt to move CNN back into a trustworthy news organization.

What?!? He fired a bunch of “radical left” reporters for saying there was no evidence the 2020 election was stolen, and for pointing out that it had been proven that many people claiming it was were intentionally lying. (these are both verifiable facts, and CNN management doesn’t dispute that).

Then, they said their business plan for the next few years was to pull in the Fox News demographic by running similar content.

Trump famously made fun of them for this, since it’s a transparently desperate, destined to fail strategy. It also immediately started alienating their existing audience.

Note that, for legal reasons, Fox News is extremely clear that its programming is entertainment, and not news, so, even if you approve of their stated intentions, you can’t plausibly argue they are trying to become a “trustworthy news organization” by emulating Fox.
You can now use cloud flare and “send as” to perfectly mimic a custom domain without upgrading to workspace
Non-round manholes covers (2012)
The answer will vary depending on what part of Canada you’re looking at. In my city, it’s remarkably hard to get approval to build new rental housing. While most of the population agrees that we need more rental units, nobody wants to live near rental housing.

We also face a big infrastructure problem which is exacerbated by some odd urban planning decisions. As small as my city is, it’s still possible to get caught in a logjam of traffic. Add in subpar transit and the city is extremely car centric, but despite all the wide open space around us it is still relatively hard to get from point A to B at certain times of day. (Not hard compared to cities like Toronto or Vancouver but harder than people are used to).

Canada also suffers from some very difficult social issues that should be part of a grand housing solution. Unfortunately, in practice there just isn’t much political will to truly solve these issues.
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FWIW, the link mentions Cameron's "wide-ranging attack on the book" in 1973, but leaves out that people complained about the book's racism before then.

From West's "Roald Dahl" at https://archive.org/details/roalddahl00mark_0/page/70/mode/2... :

> The controversy started when Lois Kalb Bouchard and some other critics charged that the book was racist. In 1970 Bouchard published an article entitled “A New Look at Old Favorites: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which was reprinted a few years later in a book called The Black American in Books for Children: Readings in Racism.

That 1972 reprint is available at https://archive.org/details/blackamericaninb0000macc/page/11... .

West continues:

> Bouchard did not accuse Dahl of “being deliberately racist,” but she argued that he perpetuated racist stereotypes through his portrayal of the Oompa-Loompas. She criticized these characters’ “childishness and dependency upon whites.”12 She also disliked the relationship between Wonka and the Oompa-Loompas. “As workers in the factory,” Bouchard wrote, “the Black characters are exploited. The owner clicks his fingers sharply when he wants a worker to appear. The Oompa-Loompas are made to test various kinds of candies, sometimes with unfortunate effects” (Bouchard, 113).

After the 1971 announcement about the movie, the NAACP threatened to boycott the movie. Dahl "found the NAACP to be unreasonable, telling Knopf editor Bob Bernstein he was unable to understand why the perceived his story as a ‘terrible dastardly anti-negro book,’ and described their attitude as ‘real Nazi stuff.’” - https://daily.jstor.org/roald-dahls-anti-black-racism/

The NAACP protest is why the Oompa-Loompas in the movie are orange - https://screenrant.com/gene-wilder-willy-wonka-and-the-choco... .

Only after Cameron's "wide-ranging attack" in 1973 did Dahl agree to change the book, in 1974, several years after the movie came out.
The thing is, is that we've had an oversight commission who reacted quickly to decide in those cases. That worked, it provided oversight.

Now they want free reign to spy on everyone.
Most of the comments seem to be "I switched to Dvorak and love it" with a couple of "I switched to Dvorak but had to go back to QWERTY for other people".

Is there anyone that became sufficiently proficient with Dvorak and regret it/wished they hadn't wasted their time?
Another 10+ year user of this reporting in. It's 10000% not the speed but the reduced strain. I used to get bad pain from typing 60wpm in QWERTY for 30 minutes. I can type 100WPM constantly for the whole day with zero pain since the days I switched in college. It took me 3 times to change, but once I forced myself it was great.

Edit: And want to clarify from reading other comments: I was a touch typist on QWERTY, had the recommended posture, and even used ergonomic keyboards. The pain happens in your knuckles and back of your hand, not wrists. Zero of that ten years later.
The NSA has no jurisdiction on American soil, so making cases is basically a moot point for PRISM anyway. PRISM will allow the government to extrajudicially kill you if you join a terrorist group (or a group the government considers one), and the fact that it exists and Russian officials have been caught using Windows XP is probably why Ukraine has outperformed expectations so much.

The PRISM systems have data on NSA workers’ exes, everyone who’s ever criticized the government, and every gang of shoplifters/carjackers/drug dealers, but most of that data is probably tossed in the garbage. If America ever turned fascist that could be a serious problem (and China’s probably using their equivalent to stop dissidents and criminals), and it’s a massive invasion of privacy, but it doesn’t effect 99.9% of people’s everyday lives.
It's a matter of cost and resources. Alphacode was surely running on unbounded hardware.
append ?authuser=myconsumeremail@gmail.com to the url and you're in w/o switching
New DepthAI SDK 1.11 released
Yes, VR Games. https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-quest-store-revenue-1-billio...
From layman to former submariner, a very silly question I've always wondered about and that I now have the rare chance to ask someone with some expertise: Do submarines mostly roam about or do they tend to stay relatively quiet/idle? I always imagined submarines constantly moving about but at the same time it feels like a waste of fuel.
In 5 years, the idea of AI being "cheating" will seem as silly as someone touching up an image a photoshop being "cheating" does to us today.

But I'm sure some people with expert darkroom skills had similar thoughts when photoshop was rising to prominence.

Consumers don't care what tools were used to make what they produce. "AI generated" mark is something only the people being made obsolete will want, and their power is rapidly declining.