skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uneducated people are not idiots. Coming from peasant family, this infuriates me. My peasant grandma never read anything except Bible but was among the wisest and most respected people in her village. Us, her grandkids, are now working high-knowledge jobs in top companies in the world.
This has nothing to do with karmic justice.

There’s oil and gas in Texas because it used to be a warm shallow sea near the equator where trillions of organisms lived and died and found perfect conditions to be cooked into oil over millions of years.

Texas is still somewhat near the equator, the area that is still warm. And thus will get hotter first.

Unless you don’t burn fossil fuels yourself, you do not occupy any sort of moral high ground. Unless you were particularly prescient and entirely saintly, if you owned a piece of land that had a bunch of oil, chances are almost 100% that you would have sold it to the oil companies too.
> You'd think a professor would want to encourage better documentation, or at least expose students who are reading this post to some basic commenting.

Welcome to academic code. We're lucky there's any comments at all. :)
San Francisco may soon get 24/7 driverless cabs. City leaders are fuming
Yeah, between the rate limit, and the algorithmic weighting toward "blue" users, there's very little incentive to interacting with high-follower accounts at the moment.
The Mysterious Airships of 1896-97 (2014)
So many jumps to conclusions I had to quit early. Assuming we have a clear definition of “understanding”, “consciousness”, intelligence, ai.. etc.

“It’s just auto-complete”.. more of the same takes dabbling with the same unknowns but with high confidence. My subjective experience is that I’m basically just a spicy multi-modal auto-complete. Rarely do I ever feel like I truly “understand” something. I mostly operate on varying degrees of “confidence”. Maybe I’m just dumb like LLMs though. Maybe I have no soul?

Though I agree in spirit I with what I think the author is getting at. There are diverse intelligences. Language is a medium for communicating our intelligence.
Yes, but at least Celsius uses the same size degree as Kelvin (which is also arbitrary) and Celsius has simpler fixed points based on freezing and boiling water (0 and 100).
Than it's certainly not homeopathy. It doesn't kill anyone.
My mom emailed me the SFFA decision before I even saw it. She was extremely relieved. She’s 71, immigrated from Bangladesh in her late 30s, blue dog democrat voter.
F-35 ($78M) costs less than a new f-15 ($80M) currently. It's oy marginally more than a modern f-16 ($65M) with hugely more capability.
Well, it's an excuse at least.
The writer’s strike concern is more hypothetical, but still existential and real, given that studio heads were on earnings calls saying they were looking into AI to cut costs.
Welcome to how protesting works. This could be a time for you to inform yourself of why the protesters are pissed off and why Reddit is at this point, never going to get back to the quality of engagement it used to have.
"Texas" isn't a person. There are lots of individuals in Texas who are as liberal and eco-minded as any coastal California hippie. And they're suffering right along with the rednecks. And before you say "just move," life situations and budgets don't always allow for that.

So, yes, maybe Gov. Abbott deserves to suffer, and maybe some oil execs do too, but there's plenty of righteous and undeserving people in Texas who never benefited from the fossil fuel industry, but are having to bear the consequences anyway.
If you go to a red subreddit and say something blue, it isn't surprising that you'll be banned from the red subreddit. But you're also likely to be banned from the blue subreddits as well, and even gray subreddits that have no overt political affiliation, simply because you associated with the red. Despite not being a radical, you can catch bans simply for arguing with radicals. This is what I mean when I say that regular people frequently catch capricious bans on reddit.

> I'm not sure why you keep bringing this up, because nobody said it was

I bring this up because I am responding to your attempt to shame Aleklart, with the implication that he did something worthy of getting himself banned:

> Your post really comes off as if you are sore about being banned from some sub.

Suppose he did get banned, does that imply he did something to deserve getting banned? No. Because reddit bans are frequently capricious. And if he was banned for no good reason, is it shameful that he was banned? No. And if you never get banned for capricious reasons, is that meritorious? Also, no. Quite the contrary in fact.
> Texas consumes more petroleum than any other state. In 2020, the state ranked third by volume in per capita petroleum use, after Louisiana and Alaska.

That is the cost of wind. The amount of petroleum needed to make a wind farm is insanely larger, mostly caused by all the miles and miles of wires they need to be insulated.

But go on…
how is an HLS playlist abuse?
Another related thread from last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36084461
> Sorry to be so negative about it but this is something that I see skipped over in all discussions related to AI.

I don't know which forums you are discussing these things in, but this is the first comment on all discussions about AI on HN.
you are right, i think it might have still been cached in my browser from yesterday
The military is pivoting away from the Middle East to focus on China instead. The A-10C simply lacks the range and speed to reach from airbases to the battlefields where ground troops are expected to be engaged. If it can't get to the fight then what's the point?
It’s funny how the responses are so critical of the idea, which reveals that Reddit hasn’t really done all that much with karma- in the sense that the idea of using reputation systems as actual currency, or social credit and the like, was regularly theorized as a future post-scarcity sort of thing in sci-fi stories, yet the company never went far enough with it to experiment in that decision. So Reddit karma is less valuable than MMO in-game currency.
Interesting. I think you'd find that doing this in chunks of 128-bit wide vectors with platform-agnostic logic would be even better. Have you tried something like Google Highway or writing this exact logic in scalar code and seeing if the compiler will autovectorize it? Then you have the option to do up to 4 of them at once instead of one if your platform supports it.
But they’re not out of trademark. This usage would still be an infringement.
The paper reviews other papers about various societies and reports the percentage of them in which women hunt in various way (e.g. broken down by size of game). It reports no data on male hunting. So I think it's dishonest of science.org to say the following.

> These data flatly reject a long-standing myth that men hunt, women gather, and that this division runs deep in human history.

It could easily be consistent with these data that men usually hunt much more than women.
> Texas is like a small country

As an aside, Texas not very small, as a country (median of the worlds 194 countries is 768k km^2, Texas is 696km^2.)
Microsoft-Activision trial reveals game industry secrets
That's not how the iPadOS treats files. Things are 'owned' by a single App, which makes moving data around or working on a common thing a real PITA except in very specific cases (and even then, it is often heavily controlled).

It's a 'App as a central work unit' type workflow, which is fine as long as you don't use more than a single piece of software/app to work on something.
Predictions about Artificial Intelligence [video]
Thanks for saying this, this is my perspective as well and I've been kinda dumbfounded by all the questions about copyright from LLMs. They're just tools and computer programs right? Why would copyright be any different while using them than other tools.

Never seen it questioned that Windsor & Newton could actually be the copyright holder for half the world's art.
every time I find an article on hackernews analysizing or attempting to explain human behavior, I get nauseous. stick to technology. my goodness.
Thanks for mentioning Mythical Man Month - I've never heard of it before, but it seems like a good read from a skim. I've always felt that engineers in the past have already solved (or put heavy thought into) a lot of the problems we deal with today, and I was wondering where I could get that insight.
> ... 95F (35C) at 100% humidity

Last summer in Europe there's been 38C for weeks in several places/countries. I was on the Atlantic side (for once), not even much south, and had 38C. We were cycling daily (without electric assistance) to the beach, under the sun, and had zero AC at home. It was hot but nobody there died. I used my car once while the rest of the group was cycling because I wanted my car's AC and music but that's it. It was very hard to enter a water at 17C (Atlantic side, huge tides, very cold water there) while the temperature was 38C outside but besides that meh.

Is "100% humidity" a value that even make sense? Spain regularly gets 40C+. I lived in Spain about five months a year for five years straight. 35C is really common there.

So I don't get it: "You can die at 28C with 100% humidity". OK, I don't dispute that.

But where do you get 100% humidity?

For example Morocco / Marrakesh is 41C today. It's pretty normal there.
> Yet you don't see people take such issue with terms like "Bronze Age Collapse," because these comments aren't coming from a consistent intellectual framework, but rather from people mindlessly repeating a shibboleth.

And because medievalists are personally invested in pushing the relativist notion that the early medieval period was just as sophisticated as the Roman Empire that preceded it.
Are the states of water arbitrary?
Amazing, Germany has radically innovated a way for people to travel throughout the country via a (logistically) complex system requiring multiple stops, transfers, waiting for vehicles to arrive, unload & reload, where transporting large or heavy items or managing children is extra hassle & stress, where you're exposed to hundreds of strangers' behaviors & germs and the enforcedly generic environment that has to accommodate everyone by not being particularly well-suited to anyone.

Public transport is a good thing to have, but extolling it as a desirable-in-itself, convenient way to travel as compared to personal transport is simply not viable.
Among the surprises in this article were these:

“The US appears to screen more vigorously for cancer than Europe and people in the US who are diagnosed with cancer have higher 5-year survival probabilities.”

There is a similar, though not quite as strong, pattern with cardiovascular disease — it is treated more aggressively on average in the U.S., and survival odds are better.

A detailed survey of prostate cancer evidence shows that “The combination of earlier detection and aggressive treatment in the US has produced greatly improved survival chances for men diagnosed with prostate cancer.”

Similarly for breast cancer, America does more early screening and more aggressive treatment with the result that “the US has experienced a significantly faster decline in breast cancer mortality than comparison countries.”

The abstract of the paper they came from (which is linked in the article) is:

Life expectancy in the United States fares poorly in international comparisons, primarily because of high mortality rates above age 50. Its low ranking is often blamed on a poor performance by the health care system rather than on behavioral or social factors. This paper presents evidence on the relative performance of the US health care system using death avoidance as the sole criterion. We find that, by standards of OECD countries, the US does well in terms of screening for cancer, survival rates from cancer, survival rates after heart attacks and strokes, and medication of individuals with high levels of blood pressure or cholesterol. We consider in greater depth mortality from prostate cancer and breast cancer, diseases for which effective methods of identification and treatment have been developed and where behavioral factors do not play a dominant role. We show that the US has had significantly faster declines in mortality from these two diseases than comparison countries. We conclude that the low longevity ranking of the United States is not likely to be a result of a poorly functioning health care system.
i do have kids and i make it a point to get to know other parents of my kids friends. they are not strangers. a stranger is someone who i meet once and never see again, or don't meet at all. parents of my kids friends or even any parents from my kids school are not that.

what bothers me here is that on the one hand we have this concept of stranger-danger, and on the other everyone is a stranger, just because you haven't talked to them yet? that doesn't make sense. calling the parents of my kids friends strangers just feels very wrong to me.
> Sure but it wasn't even a Common Lisp initially.

Right, initially it started as a Maclisp derivative.

They morphed it gradually into Common Lisp, while defining Common Lisp. The Spice Lisp project was actively involved in defining & implementing Common Lisp. Two of the five members of the original designers of CL were at CMU: Steele and Fahlman. The others were Moon, Weinreb, Gabriel.
Celsius is not “equally arbitrary - 0 is where water freezes and 100 it boils vs 2 random numbers I can never remember.

Fahrenheit is also only used by one country in the entire world: America.
> Recently Disney decided to openly campaign against one of two major parties in the US, effectively choosing to align themselves against 50% of the country.

When did this happen? Specifics, please.
The comparison isn't about scalability. It's about spin.
To make an enclosing cylinder that bounds the cone in my example, we can use a 1x1 square with centroid (0.5, 0.5). The cylinder has volume π. And that works out from Pappus' theorem too:

1 (the square area) * 0.5*2π (the distance traveled by the centroid)
Yes, which is why I posted citations.
I can't wait to show my wife this survey and explain how I do 50% of the housework
If they have a single app/app suite that does everything, then sure that's fine (as long as it isn't things like copying a lot of data off an SD card or whatever) - the OS doesn't get involved much.

That isn't a common use case unless someone is paying a ton of money for a single, specialized piece of software that does everything they want, and the iPad only is used for that one thing. Which is a very limited subset of 'work'.
Religions “take” 10% of your income??
Moderation, hosting fees, legal liability, responsibility for accounts (people invest a lot of time in creating content tied to your instance), security,etc... it is federated but all the legal,security, infra,moderation,etc... people across the world that support twitter and the like are no longer there for your mastodon instance but the only thing there that scales down/up with respect to the number of active users is infra support staffing/costs. Everything else is "decentralized" but since it isn't a technical problem, much like most things foss, the responsibility is transfered to whomever runs a mastodon instance assuming they have taken all the neccesary steps to be responsible and reliable in every regard. But in reality, the user is expected to find out through trial and error and word of mouth, which instance is being operated properly. Matrix and other decentralized systems have the same problem.
It’s different because rules are written and enforced by humans not robots. So it’s whatever the copyright office says at the moment.

I think a same result though is that any work translated by the original author counts as a translation that maintains but doesn’t extend copyright.
> Processors are running in the nano/pico range but the led/camera likely can't reach that resolution.

You don't need a lot of precision to get enough hints of a key to be able to brute-force the rest.

> Oh, and as mentioned, nobody who knows anything about crypto already knows and protects against timing/power attacks.

Sounds like this could never be a problem then! But it is.
> Entropy is a well defined concept in information theory (and can be connected to the physical concept). More entropy means more information, not less.

More entropy means more missing information.

https://iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-0-7503-3931-5/chapt...
10 years ago I would have called you an extremist.

5 years ago I would have said ads are a necessary evil, but there's a lot of substance to your argument.

Today, I almost completely agree. Fuck ads.
I can think of a country currently at war that has a much more aggressive and longer history of being a bad actor on the internet than NATO countries...
Also, why would anyone suggest that men's superior strength would completely prevent women from hunting? Lots of game animals are weaker than all humans. It feels like a strawman set up to make the paper sound more significant.
How possible is this kind of thing in Golang, in Elixer? I'm trying to choose tech for parsing, processing, calculating, and applying complex business rules to a massive csv parsing pipeline. Early stages but golang seems like the right candidate.
I’ve had to… uhh… eagerly advocate for exponential backoff for weeks of constant uptime issues before someone listened and actually implemented it and solved the problems.

Like several times in different roles.

People do it, exponential backoff is everywhere in your stack, but it doesn’t end up in your application layer until you have enough traffic that you actually have to manage throughout.
Really? I disagree. Running a ubiquitous service that is good for users does not require that you allow every random person to scrape your site and incur that cost.

You simply setup API deals with those who you want to have your data, those that benefit your business, aka Google etc…

Then you close everything else up. This saves cost and complexity and real users, the target of your advertisers, don’t even notice.

This isn’t a sign that engineering is slipping.

It’s a sign that a in a company which struggles to make money, someone is paying attention and trying new things to fix the money problem.
This sums it up pretty well…

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/politics/disney-gov-ron-de...
I thought Beehaw aligned with my values. Turns out I was wrong. Many of us discovered we were wrong. Beehaw didn’t announce at the beginning their intent to do this. The owner changed their mind at some point and significantly altered the experience for everyone. This is the risk: the capriciousness of the instance owner.

This is compounded by the fact that defederation goes both ways. I can’t find an instance which hasn’t blocked at least some other instances. So no matter what, if I want to have access to everything (until such time as I decide to block it), I have to sign up to multiple instances. I also have to regularly check what the owners might have blocked in case I need to sign up for other instances.

I tried really hard to like it, but all in all, Lemmy has been a crappy experience.
The paper doesn’t make a statement about the frequency or prevalence of women hunting, and it does describe different hunting behaviors and patterns between men and women in the discussion.

I think the paper’s goal is not to say women hunted as frequently as men, but to disprove the idea that there was a sharp and rigid division of labor in subsistence societies.
Maybe trying to reverse engineer it using GNNs until they produce the same output(within some error margin) for various arbitrary inputs? Dunno.
This is not remotely a likely culprit.
How can I see Yuriy’s top solution for this task?
Jesus christ these headlines. Ambient is supposed to mean room temperature and pressure. This alleged superconductor is a high pressure one.

External groups have not been able to reproduce his results.
> Is "100% humidity" a value that even make sense?

According to the National Weather Service, "If the relative humidity is 100 percent (i.e., dewpoint temperature and actual air temperature are the same), this does NOT necessarily mean that precipitation will occur. It simply means that the maximum amount of moisture is in the air at the particular temperature the air is at."

https://www.weather.gov/lmk/humidity#:~:text=If%20the%20rela....
Your url comment reminds me of the concept of the semantic web [0] Whereby we can have a structured machine readable and pure URL structure backed by ontology and linked data. There's a project that is working on this for Wikipedia called Dbpedia. [1]

[0] Unfortunately this concept has been completely bastardized by random research groups shoehorning the technology for EU grants, from my experience working in one such group.

[1] https://www.dbpedia.org/
In fairness, "above average" doesn't say much... and beyond that the average game review is not too far from 7/10 because of longstanding distortions.

But a whole lot of Nintendo's first party games, including BoTW/ToTK-- deserve far better than 7/10 (metacritic 97 / 96, "universal acclaim"). Even if they are not too much like the first things I loved in the Zelda franchise.
Great site. Minor nit - the book "The Dictator's Handbook" is listed twice in the books section.
Not sure if you are humble bragging, but I agree The Witcher is more demanding. Layers of meaning, emotions, allegory, subtext. It’s no Shakespeare, but physics and math are simple in comparison especially in the wonderfully produced and easily digestible format of Veritasium.
This is different from what I expected. It's for an ambient pressure room temperature superconductor, rather than high pressure. Big if true.
The reason behind their ban tends to be banal, as it typically aligns with what you would expect: Vaccine denialism, and so on, almost always intruding into an unrelated discussion.

The effectiveness of proper moderation is what largely keeps it from catching your attention.
That is not about saving cents tough.
Ya. The USA’s problem is mostly due to income inequality and a lack of will to correct nutrition disorders at the level of society.
Why is this pithier than the video? I’m not entirely sure I see added pedagogical value. Asking the rhetorical question how can there be a shortage of energy sounds a little like someone sort-of intentionally misunderstanding what that phrase “energy shortage” means in any practical economic context. “Energy shortage” is an economics phrase, not a physics phrase. The first law of thermodynamics doesn’t suggest there can’t be energy shortages on earth, because the phrase “energy shortage” is not used to suggest a loss of energy to the universe, energy shortages are all about not having enough specific forms of energy in specific places at specific times [1], and it’s no surprise that we can’t capture dissipated heat, or that a local power system has a maximum limit at any given time, for example.

Something similar could perhaps be said for the video’s approach; “what do we get from the sun?” is an ambiguous question, not necessarily a fair setup to ask a lay person when you have entropy in mind as the answer. We do get energy from the sun, that is a correct answer, and we use some of it before it goes away. But, there is the nice a-ha that all the energy from the sun eventually leaves the earth, right?

[1] “An energy crisis or energy shortage is any significant bottleneck in the supply of energy resources to an economy.“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_crisis