skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Energy should never be used to introduce entropy as the concept of energy itself is highly, highly complicated and abstract.

Entropy and energy are orthogonal anyway. You can understand entropy without the need to even use the word "energy."

Entropy is an aspect of probability, it is in fact a numerical phenomenon.
People can adapt to heat, but the real danger is that Texas gets too stupid for humans to survive.
You can't "leave the country" for the large default subs. That kind of argument doesn't scale well into the millions+ subs where even if every mods on that board being a dick to 2-3 people a day, they would still need years to make the current population of user to get noticeably affected. And because they are basically the default subs, their new users make up for whoever is leaving anyway.

The mods for those big subs are literally untouchable and can do whatever they want, with no accountability.
Thank you for creating it and keeping it free of charge.

Hoping to see it as a long-lived project - how / who is paying for it?
Well, hundreds of millions of people already live here.
One approach I've had a lot of success with: always ask for multiple options.

In this case I might try a prompt along the lines of:

"Here is the schema for a table: (schema here). Here is a query that runs against it: (query here). Provide several suggestions for potential indexes that might speed up the query, and for each of those suggestions provide several hypothetical reasons that the index might be a bad idea."

I tried a version of that here, the results look pretty good to me: https://chat.openai.com/share/dc5d7007-cf05-4e5c-89c4-fc669b...
Reminds me of the e-cat:

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

Years and years of breathless "we've applied for a patent!" and "we're accepting investors NOW!" all based on hopium and snake-oil.
It's not an either/or. Very few people have the connections necessary to get into elite schools with, say, a 1.0 GPA in high school (or an equally terrible performance on whatever your preferred measure of merit is). But Harvard is filled with merely moderately above average legacies who would have otherwise ended up at a good state school or equivalent.
I fundamentally couldn't much care less about the supposed effects of one synthetic sweetener over another versus highly processed sugars, if it were't for the fact that as soon as I taste whatever synthetic sweetener it is, it tastes disgusting to me.

I just don't get how people are content to consume this stuff - they markedly change the taste, indelibly affecting the thing they're sweetening. Heck, even stevia adds its own distinct nastiness to whatever it flavours.

So, I stick with sugar, and just consume waay less of it than I used to. Though this somewhat limits the choice of soft drinks I can enjoy consuming when it comes to a treat.
It frankly just tastes weird. I can't understand why people want to eat it. Americans need to retrain their palette to not need a sweet deluge every day, and just enjoy heavy sugar items as an occasional treat.

And I say this as someone who cooks with MSG daily.
I think the hysteria comes from the inverse. Almost everything can be proven to be unsafe.
Accurate :) Gluing stuff together feels like that all the time.

The alternative is to go full-native, writing your own tools in the unknown context, to ascend the complexity mountain with handmade rope, harness, and hook.

This usually takes too long, so IDEs and existing tooling, libraries, and packages take precedence.
Right, I probably won’t use bluesky as I never used Twitter. The format was always fomo- and hot-take oriented to me, so I stayed away. I don’t understand why people are desperate to remake that particular product.
Argo: The International Oceanographic Observation Program
A Mac groupware vendor pays a famously sycophantic market research firm from the dotcom bubble to calculate how great their sof-, I mean, how great the M1 is and what an amazing company Apple is.

They should have waited a few years and asked them to calculate how much money they lose now that they're sherlocked: https://www.apple.com/business/essentials/
It seems to come down to whether you think the game is fundamentally zero sum and/or whether you think intelligence is primarily linked to or used for aggression and domination.

If intelligence leads to better cooperation and benevolence or if the game is positive sum, autonomous AI is not likely to be a huge risk. If we live in a zero sum eat or be eaten universe, it is. But then again so are we to each other.

I am of the strong opinion that humans are the greatest threat to humanity. Sentient autonomous AI is much less dangerous to us than our own kind using AI as a force multiplier.

The reason is that whether or not today’s post-technological intelligence explosion world is zero sum, humans are hard wired to behave as if it is. We would attempt to dominate and enslave one another in paradise because our brain stems think they are clawing for survival on the African plains hundreds of thousands of years ago.

You can see it in how the rich and powerful often behave. They have incredible abundance but their brain stems still think they are fighting for subsistence.

Recent example: Vladimir Putin has billions of dollars and an entire large modern nation at his disposal and the biggest idea he can come up with is to launch a war. His brain stem still thinks starvation is near and we better raid the neighboring tribe before the dry season.

The harsh world we came from made us what we are, but the legacy of instincts it gave us might kill us.
I’ve never understood this reasoning, why is this a downside? You need water to live. Air has no scent and yet no one insists on only consuming air with scented candles.

Besides, if you really need a flavour, squirt a little citrus juice or something in there, your tastebuds don’t need to be bombarded 24/7.
I do not 'need' the additional flavor. It is simply a life enhancement.
The typical problem with journalists, they are so hysterical in wanting Elon to fail, they will write Pointlessly biased articles. The results are out, Tesla beat WallStreet expectations handily, they are making good sales, the stock is mostly going up. The journalists should write more objective articles and not be so cringe
"More than 1,5 kilograms of 18K gold is needed to decorate the accessory!"

Great, because what this overpriced toy needed is to be heavier still
Will the SDC not get any updates over the internet? What Google decides to lock me out? Or show me unskippable ads before starting the car?

I don’t think the self driving car cheerleaders have thought this out.
... your comment doesn't particularly suggest that you have understood what this is about, while complaining that its authors don't understand things. For one thing, this is not the game and doesn't attempt to be.
Nothing wrong with not having seen it, but I default to time stamps like this for log files, I use it all the time in scripts. I even also do it manually and have an alias in my .bashrc I call ‘now’ that spits out a call to date with that format string. This is, obviously, useful for organizing and sorting and finding files & folders by date & time. (And, hopefully obviously, creation & mod times on files are completely unreliable for this once you factor in copying & archiving.)
We're already thriving in many areas with lethally high and low temperatures. The big difference is going from cold being a threat to heat being one. We instinctively know that going out when it's freezing, unprepared, is a pretty bad idea, but the pairing of heat+humidity doesn't tend to give as obvious of signs as 'my spit freezes before it hits the ground.' If anything it'd be a mixture of a mindset change, and also probably a gradual shifting of where the ultra-premium places to live on the planet are, as well as what plants grow most optimally where, and so on.
3) west has done and continues to do things they deem immoral to stay ahead while use propaganda and coercion against others when they do the same things to catch up. Folks who fall for their own propaganda and clash with those that don't.
Pine64 do not write any software, and many operating systems on Pinephone actually use Phosh developed by Purism for Librem 5.
Sure, neither does your food. But you’re unlikely to convince anyone by moralizing about it, and you’ll probably just cause them to tune you out entirely. I say this as someone who drinks mostly plain water.
His history of fraud suggests that he knows exactly what he's doing, and he's moving into the "monetize this shit" phase of his criminal lifestyle.
One of Twitter's stockholders is valuing it now at only $15 billion: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/31/tech/twitter-value-fidelity-e...

Even Musk values it at $20 billion: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/26/23657182/elon-musk-twitte...

And that was a few months ago. I'd argue that one of Twitter's most valuable assets, the blue checkmark, has been irrevocably destroyed. And if I were looking at buying it, I'd also be concerned that the technical infrastructure is a significantly impaired asset, possibly one of negative value.
I like org-mode but what I like the most is the whole Emacs ecosystem. You can tweak org-mode and customized to your liking.

You can think of org-mode as interactive markup language. It has a lot of features for managing TODOs but what I like the most I hiding or displaying sections, exporting directly to latex or html using custom classes with a simple keybinding and so one.

It takes time to get familiar with Emacs. I started on October and was spending one hour a day during two weeks to get familiar with it. You have to take it very slow because there are a lot of keybidings, concepts and functions. It is like learning to play piano. But once you get it it's awesome and it is lots of fun.

This May I started getting serious with elisp, the Emacs scripting language (also Emacs own language, C and elisp), and it's amazing. You can automate everything you want really easily. I wrote some elisp functions that made my life so much useful. I used to have tons of bash shells open over the place. Now I have some key bindings that automate the usual tasks. Some written in bash but others written in elisp or a mix so I have a nice UI and can have easy selection or can add parameters and interact with my documents.

If you have time, are curious and like to hack I totally recommend giving it a try. Also the community is amazing. Getting into Emacs made me discover other funny things like mailing lists, Usenet and even philosophers!

I am not an expert and I will never be but for me it is a lot of fun. Also the community is awesome.
Driving my kid to/from school in San Francisco, I regularly see completely empty Waymo cars driving around... pretty much every day. There's 1-3 that I see parked on a particular wide and relatively empty side street and I suspect they use that street to wait until they have a destination.
I agree that's one way to look at it. I prefer the framing that the signal just isn't that interesting to listen to.

Compare to the cosmic microwave background - we have no problem converting microwaves to visible light (implicitly doing a frequency shift), but the picture you see doesn't vary despite us having had enough time to collect many cycles of data.

The gravitational background should be similar - even if we collected data for thousands of years we're not going to hear a cool 'bloop' like for black hole mergers because interesting transients just aren't in the signal.
I've long felt that working under people who practice this management style make people feel like they can hang their hats, stop focusing on the rat race, and really strive for bringing creative solutions to their teams.

It may sound silly, but I think of it like being a hobbit that really wants to stay at Bombadil's place. Eventually, you know you'll need to leave... but the respite from merciless backstabbing that happens elsewhere feels humanizing.
Ignores = does nothing

Normally, UNIX time goes up by one each second.

Unless, it's a leap second, in which case UNIX time does nothing.
Amazing to be able to recreate a functioning camera on first principles. So much work but the result is totally worth it!
I mean, Satisfactory and Dyson Sphere Program run well.

Also, hypothetically, I don't think a 3D client would impact the simulation since Factorio (AFAIK) runs as a client + server. The 2D simulation would be unchanged.
The Venn diagram for psychedelics include escapism, but it includes a lot more as well. Psychedelics can be a powerful tool, and for all the good that they can bring you, they can also wreck your shit for a while. It really depends on who you are, what context you take them in and what you do afterwards. This applies more broadly to other substances as well, even ones not typically seen as psychedelic, like alcohol and caffeine. There can be therapeutic effects with those as well.

For example, if you're feeling really stuck at a certain point in life and you take the time to get drunk by yourself and listen to some enjoyable music, you can end up being really honest with yourself and become aware of what you need to do to get unstuck. But you can also get drunk at a party and make a number of bad decisions that you'll regret later. It be like that when it comes to psychedelics as well.

Imho, the main benefits of psychedelics are two-fold.

One has to do with subjective experience - psychedelics can simply provide you with a different experience, a different point of view. This can help you see that there are other possibilities for the narratives you tell yourself and this can be beneficial. Depression is a good example here - it's super easy to forget what it's like to not be depressed and psychedelics can provide a temporary clarity about it that can later help get out of the depressive state.

The temporary difference in point of view can also cultivate more skepticism in general. This is especially true for certain "truths" we hold about ourselves (like insecurities, inadequacies, fears). Psychedelics can open us up to consider different causes for our behaviours and this can be therapeutic as well. But I gotta say, they can also make you lose yourself within a new false narrative, so skepticism is a powerful ally here.

The other benefit simply has to do with neuroplasticity. Most psychedelics open up a dose-dependent learning period that lasts from days to weeks. That's why something like a shroom trip doesn't really end until a few weeks after the shroom is ingested, when that learning period eventually closes. Even if you didn't experience anything spiritually or psychologically significant in the acute phase of the trip, you can still benefit greatly from the learning window that opens up afterwards.

It's a good time to try a new activity, do some self-reflection, change a habit, have a therapy session or two, connect with people on a deeper level. You might be surprised by your learning abilities after a shroom trip. But I gotta say, all this also opens you up to learning "bad things" too, so again, skepticism helps here.

Yeah, you can do all that without psychedelics as well, but there are a couple of problems here - you might be unaware that there's something you can actually do, and even if you are, you might not know what to look at or how to change your point of view about it. Psychedelics can provide a strong emotional and psychological example that can guide you in that process.
Read the article.

This is just a fun pet project allowing you to visualize your base in 3D. Nothing less, nothing more.
It's more like an opinion. Of one particular guy who has a Ph.D. in Physics. But there are many, and there is no consensus overall.

Here's the relevant quote from wikipedia [1]

Recent work has cast some doubt on the heat death hypothesis and the applicability of any simple thermodynamic model to the universe in general. Although entropy does increase in the model of an expanding universe, the maximum possible entropy rises much more rapidly, moving the universe further from the heat death with time, not closer. This results in an "entropy gap" pushing the system further away from the posited heat death equilibrium. Other complicating factors, such as the energy density of the vacuum and macroscopic quantum effects, are difficult to reconcile with thermodynamical models, making any predictions of large-scale thermodynamics extremely difficult.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy#Cosmology
We could compare with git. Sure, you could publish a git repo anywhere, but most people will choose Github, Gitlab, or another large git hosting service. The reliability of these services matters and we’re fortunate that they’ve been quite good so far. People don’t usually use custom domain names when publishing git repos, though I suppose you could?

With Mastodon you can download your data any time, but you can’t actually upload it anywhere else. There is forwarding, but only for follower subscriptions, with the cooperation of both servers. It’s quite limited. There are brownouts from servers getting overloaded and also due to fairly frequent policy disputes. It does let you do more things without making them public, though, and that’s important to many people.

The blogging model where you have actually independent websites, links, and RSS feeds seems better from a decentralization standpoint, but it’s not popular due to the difficulty of getting people to subscribe to your blog.

That’s why we comment here, right? You could post a comment to your blog, but who would read it? Replies are important.
My experience was quite similar.
You could just as easily be describing therapy. Of course people sometimes need external help to achieve their goals or change their perspectives! Sometimes it's therapy, sometimes a vacation, sometimes a heart-to-heart with a close friend and sometimes a bunch of acid.
Having followed this blog for a long time, I can assure you very little on it is about the easiest way to compute.
The patent application you link to was never actually patented. The USPTO rejected the application and the applicant abandoned it.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20040230959A1/en

I'm a former patent examiner, and from that experience, I know that attorneys frequently write things in applications that they think probably won't be allowed. They're testing the limits of what will be allowed.
Well, you atleast have some control over the government and can theoretically vote out any policies that would deny you the license to drive a vehicle.

Google is not beholden to any democratic process and can summarily deny my request to go somewhere.
I desperately do not want this to succeed. Who moderates it? No moderation means a fractal of spam, hate, propaganda, and low-value posts. You cannot have a system like this that's resistant to Sybil attacks without centralization or federation (or at least not without forcing users to get into crypto to use it... No thanks).

You either accept that it's centralized, and it becomes siloed (see: reddit, Twitter) or you federate it and it's an echo chamber or nearly empty.
The WHO recently published a recommendation essentially condemning all non-sugar sweeteners. I've read through much of the 200 page report (https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240046429), and what I found was really troubling: time and time again, the report takes a longitudinal study whose authors note "likely confounding", omits that information, and then includes the study's conclusions stripped of that context. In one case I saw, the WHO report implied that the authors had adequately controlled for confounding factors even though the authors had specifically called them out as a weakness.

Even more puzzling, the WHO announcement (https://www.who.int/news/item/15-05-2023-who-advises-not-to-...) explicitly lists essentially every commonly known artificial sweetener, even though the evidence the report cites is extremely uneven and has very little to say about many of them. The studies on long term health effects, in particular, are almost entirely based on studies which examine soft drink consumption. Aside from the obvious, difficult-to-control biases is that approach (e.g. people who drink diet drinks are disproportionately people who are trying to lose weight, are diabetic, have been told to switch by their doctor, etc.), this means that virtually all of the data is primarily about aspartame, since that's the primary sweetener in most diet drinks.

The cherry on top is that the WHO announcement suggests that people try to shift to "naturally occurring sugars" despite the fact that multiple studies cited by the report specifically note that the health impact of fruit juice consumption is not distinguishable from any other sugar consumption.

That said, from my non-expert point of view, the one thing that does seem to be pretty consistent is evidence on gut biome effects. It kind of seems like there's some mechanism involving sweetness itself and gut biome interference, and I'm not sure what's going on there.

But the WHO report is disturbing. A meta-analysis is supposed to pull together large numbers of studies in order to smooth out biases and find broader trends, but what this report seems to have done instead is to launder biases that were reported with integrity. Taken together with the WHO recommendation, a large number of sporadic and often suspicious results have been put together into a wildly sweeping conclusion which does not look to me like it's at all scientifically justified.
Halting the advancement that would've ordinarily happened is not "ignoring it", it's doing something to actively counter it. That "something" ends up canceling the previous trajectory to evaluate to "nothing", but that doesn't happen through ignorance - it required a countering action.

Example: You're driving your car when pedestrians appear in front of you. What does "ignoring" them constitute? Stopping the car, or running into them at the previous speed?
I do. The quick, single-stroke version goes like this (follow the numbers:

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(I draw the bottom part of the right line twice, and the bottom loop ends up being rounder).

Or, the two-stroke version:

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The real story of the skylab 4 strike in space
He's parsing them into UNIX timestamps.

And apparently these strings don't have second 60.

Works for me.
>squirt a little citrus juice or something in there

When I'm offered a drink, it's a very simple, go/no-go life decision. I don't prepare and carry fruit juices around in my pockets.
> My guess is that a certain router is getting infected with a botnet because ISPs usually hand out the same router to their customers.

This seems trivial to figure out with an analysis of the connecting IPs - which is absent on TOR's report page.

I'm also a bit confused why no one here on HN has asked about the connecting IP data (at this writing). Are these commercial IPs, dynamic (biz/residential) IPs or a mix? If they're mostly dynamic IPs, are they from more than one ISP?

TOR has country of origin data so it seems reasonable they'd also have network of origin.

All that said, I don't precisely know how TOR determines country of origin. Entry node data would seem to be the likely source. However I've long assumed that entry nodes are public supplied, like Relay and Exit nodes. Within that assumption it isn't clear to me how that data would flow to TOR - while maintaining anonymization of traffic.
Nothing magic about it. When you fire all the people who contradict you, you create yes men and a culture of sycophancy. At that point it's self-perpetuating.

Twitter had many issues as a company, but one of its strengths was a lot of independent thinking and honest speech among staff. That's surely gone, and once gone it's very hard to get back.