skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'll get these cool things either way, no need to bundle them with the supernatural mumbo-jumbo, imo.

My take is that every advancement in these highly complex and expensive fields is dependent on our ability to maintain global social, political, and economic stability.

This insistence on the importance of Super-Intelligence and AGI as the path to Paradise or Hell is one of the many brain-worms going around that have this "Revelation" structure that makes pragmatic discussions very difficult, and in turn actually makes it harder to maintain social, political, and economic stability.
There’s no “right way” when you’re a learner.

You’ll gain confidence when you realize you can just hack away until it works and that is OK.
Wouldn't the energy of pumping the water all the way back up to the surface completely balance out the energy provided by the weight of that water to push it through the membrane?
Interesting, didn't know about that. However it sounds like maybe he never had one or it snapped early on and he grew up without one, which is different than being at the height of your game and losing it. My friends who snapped ACLs in college or highschool never felt safe on those knees again and it limited what they were willing to do move wise.
> I've heard that this brine is toxic. Does this make disposal an issue? Is the toxicity true or hyperbole? I mean, do we know how bad it is, and if we can do anything safely with it? It seems like "salt" is useful in a lot of contexts, including industrial, so can we do something with the brine besides disposing it somewhere?

Too much salt can kill stuff (e.g. people, plants), so I suppose that makes it "toxic." Maybe there's a tiny amount old industrial pollution from anywhere an everywhere that concentrated in there, too.

However, if you're desalinating seawater, what's the problem with just dumping the brine back in the sea? Unless you introduced new stuff into it during the desalination process, you wouldn't be making anything worse.
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That equates to around 4,000 liters per person per day.

Freshwater withdrawals is a very broad category, it also includes water released to turn hydropower turbines. But it's also unfair to compare across countries without taking into account water sent between countries in the form of produce and products.
>it’s scary how many parents fall for the emotional manipulation around that

Are you saying that the expiration dates are bogus? I knew that rated sports helmets and similar products had expirations, but not car seats. Maybe I'll go check the handed-down seat my son is using...
God's Advocate, in fact (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_advocate). These used to be _official posts_ in the Catholic Church; the devil's advocate's role was to argue against the canonisation of a prospective saint.

(I can't, offhand, figure out if they got a special uniform, but I do hope so.)

They now use a more civil law-ish approach to this.
My issue with this, is this a problem that needs to be solved? Do we need to guarantee monetization of every human interaction?

If my friend and I go a cafe, see a newspaper headline, and have a discussion about that headline without ever opening that newspaper should the cafe have to pay for that discussion? Why should any media adjacent interaction anywhere happen without payment? If the cafe is playing music, they're paying licence fees for that. Why not everything?
Musk made the same "absurdly cheap" claim in a recent interview with Bill Maher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO8w6XcXJUs [skip to 14:45]

I don't think he gave any substantiation to the claim then either. (He dismissed delivery of clean water to the world as a problem not interesting enough for him to spend time on.)
Sounds like sales speak, nodejs isn’t even there yet.
We have caused the Halocene extinction. Our wasteful lifestyles are the virus of the planet. The overconsumed. The technologists who think our devices and social media and VR are a substitute to blind us from the truth. We are destroying our planet. That’s reality. Our devices and travel are our escape.

“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.“

What if mankind just lives in peace and balance with nature? No plastic. Carbon balance. Nothing added annually that wouldn’t be taken back and fixed anew by nature. Greenhouse gases back at 350 ppm. What if?
I'm not sure you fully grasp all the dimensions of IP law.

If you have two brands of baby formula, Death brand that kills babies, and OK brand that is perfectly fine, and you start putting Death brand in fake cans labeled OK brand - that is absolutely an IP enforcement issue. The desire of OK brand to protect their brand, and profits, combined with reasonable IP laws allows them to lead enforcement actions and protect consumers.
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Solids really make rapid reuse impossible. You need to recast them.
Mozilla ran out of good will for me after they used Firefox Studies to promote some Netflix thing, although at this point "whatever Mozilla is doing to torch user trust" has become a forgettable quarterly event, so I honestly can't remember many of the other things they've done that have agitated me. As it is, I have to use Fennec F-Droid on Android to have any hope at a decent browsing experience, and even then installing add-ons that aren't allowed by Mozilla is a Kafkaesque nightmare, instead of being a prompt I can bypass, even in this fork with about:config enabled, unlike the upstream Firefox for Android where they have about:config disabled and I'm not even sure if you can install extensions outside the select few Mozilla enables.
Tried that, the university considered lecturers to be disposable if there was a chance to replace them with a tenure-track who could get grants, and told me I could come back if I got a PhD.
I think working on a lot of small changes across different areas of a project and starting to feel momentum.
Well each time you use the await keyword you are saying its a safe point to exit, which is more predictable than killing at random points. Holding locks across await points is an anti-pattern, and Rust at least can give a hint if you try to do that. Async/await implementations will also generally allow you to run cleanup code on cancellation (but the exact mechanism depends on the language).

In the end, its about expressing a state machine in a more concise implicit way, which is a suitable level of abstraction for most use cases.
So the previous poster was spreading FUD? I'm feeling like I'm transported back to the Ballmer years.
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1. Models aren't "programmed" so much as "grown". We know how GPT is trained but we don't know what it is learning exactly to predict the next token. What do the weights do ? We don't know. This is obviously problematic because it makes interpretability not much better than for humans. How can you ascertain to control something you don't even understand ?

2. Hundreds of thousands of years on earth and we can't even align ourselves.

3. SuperIntelligence would be by definition unpredictable. If we could predict its answers to our problems, it wouldn't be necessary.
You can't control what you can't predict.
The grid was not designed for everyone to charge large BEVs with them. Nor are there DC fast chargers on every block. And I’m not sure what 150 years ago had to do with anything. Today, we will build whatever infrastructure will allow for cheap transportation. Which technically is mass transit, but because of other factors we chose a much more expensive route with cars. But if we insist on having cars, it makes more sense to have a system that allows for rapid refueling all the time. That will enable everyone to have a single refueling system. So basically the gas station model, which implies hydrogen cars as the future.

Again, hydrogen cars can be as cheap as ICE cars to manufacture. Your argument here is pure shortsightedness and is insisting on a double standards. What was the cost of BEVs when they first came out? It took subsidies to drive cost down in the early days. Same is true for hydrogen cars. As mass production expands, hydrogen cars will get cheaper until they are cheaper than BEVs.

You do not understand the thermodynamics of the subject matter. Again, electrolyzers/fuel cells are an electrochemical systems. It basically doesn’t have “thermal-dynamics”. Theoretical efficiency is the same as li-ion batteries. A fuel cell car is effectively the equivalent of a battery car whose battery is made from water. Although there are practical issues to deal with in reality, so this isn’t totally the case, but it is much closer to being true than what you’re imagining.

If you can understand that electrolyzers/fuel cells are functionally the same thing as li-ion batteries, and are subject to the same basic physics, then the real conclusion is to replace li-ion batteries with hydrogen systems wherever possible. After all, if the long-term level of efficiency will be parity between the two, then why insist on the one that is much more resource dependent?
I just worked through making a 2D physics engine via Gustavo Pezzi's course on pikuma.com

Seeing shapes collide, bounce, roll, and understand exactly what was happening in the code I wrote was a huge confidence booster.
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Because very few people click through to the article, they just read the headline, summary, and comments on Facebook. Facebook is capturing most of the economic value generated by these articles.
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"The party spent nearly $15,000 on over 1,000 ads in the past month."

Oh no! Fifteen thousand dollars?! I'm sure Facebook is shaking and crying and will reverse their decision immediately.
While it downloads, speaking about Lambek, in Lambek-Scott they prove the equivalence of CCC's and simply typed lambda calculus. I suffered some functional programming exposure via Lisp, and came later to see that in the core of lisp, the lambdas, were formalized by (you guess it), lambda calculus. This idea migrates also to Haskell, so if one is pressed to give a formal Haskell semantics, that is a good bootstrap. But that is equivalent to CCCs (cartesian closed categories) as per Lambek-Scott, where the essential feature of CCCs is having functions of functions, higher order functions. And that is not just self-pleasure, look at Conal Elliot's "compiling to categories". Applications I think I've heard of: probabilistic programming and automatic differentiation.

Lambek-Scott: Introduction to Higher-Order Categorical Logic

http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/automatic+differentiation
We're trialing TinyPilot right now at my employer. They're very easy to work with and are willing to work with small companies to find new use cases.
Mmm do you use s/mime for your email? You can usually tell from outlook and such.
JavaScript isn’t going to perform as well as C++ or Rust, or at least not consistently, but V8 does pretty well for a scripting language. It has definitely passed “good enough” and for many people, that’s good enough. There are websites are written in Python, after all.

You can drop into WASM to get more speed without performance cliffs, or for Deno itself, they use Rust.
There are also smaller (typically private) colleges and universities that heavily focus on their undergrad programs. The Jesuits seem to lean into this style with both Santa Clara U. in the Bay Area and Loyola Marymount U. in LA falling into this pile. Research at these institutions definitely ends up taking a secondary role.
If there were any enforceable duty to be informed. People would be buy newspaper subscriptions already to keep them running.
I wasn't too clear about what I meant, but is storage even necessary here? For example, would there be an issue if the desalination process was left in an intermediate state for X hours / days while power is intermittent?

I wonder if there are more energy-expensive desalinization processes that are better to use with intermittent power sources, like solar.
I'm not a lawyer, but it seems like you stood up a straw man there.

>Just because it's represented as a bunch of numbers does not make it non copyrightable.

Can you give an example of where the bunch of numbers is copyrightable when it's not just a numeric encoding of something that was already copyrightable? Taking music and encoding it as a wav file is not a creative work, but it's a representation of a copyrighted work.

Maybe you could create a long list of numbers and call it an artistic impression, but that's clearly not what AI weights are. I'm interested to hear an example of your copyrightable numbers.
Yes they do. But the income from one story doesn't pay the cost to generate all the other stories that the paper produces. According to our local paper that just shut down, their ads couldn't compete with the ads on Google/Facebook.

So the only profitable stories are very narrow, or the click-bait type that might be picked up by Facebook, assuming that Facebook doesn't just extract and show the core of the story.

This isn't a new problem. A friend of mine used to do articles on historical issues and post them on his blog. They were good enough that there were other sites that would just copy them and change the byline to themselves. Grounds for a lawsuit, but the cost of the lawsuit and the tiny amount of damages made it impractical. Now he does the articles but tries to sell them to publishers. His income from that is now so tiny that it's no longer cost effective.

Local papers now are money-losers, and the centralization of those many papers in the hands of a few corporations seems more to provide political influence than make money from news. In our recent election, the 160 papers owned by one corporation all made the same political endorsements.

Australia's moves to charge for local news was a first, I think, and at the time there was comment that it could be the wave of the future. Google/Facebook have financial incentive to try to head off the same action in other countries.
I have the 2nd edition of the book from 2014 both in paper back and in digital format.

It’s a nice book. I bought it years ago.

I haven’t finished reading it yet, as it is a lot of pages and quite heaving reading.

But I like it a lot. And I will continue to read it.
The lawyers are fronting the fees if Twitter won't which indicates they feel it's a pretty solid case IMHO.
Ask HN: Have you noticed random accounts have started following you on Reddit?
Basically the title. I've had a Reddit account for >10 years effectively for lurking. I haven't made any comments or posts in the past 1.5 years. Despite this, I had ~10 accounts randomly start following me in the past month and a half. Wondering if this is part of some broader scheme to pump user numbers before the IPO, or if it's a one-off coincidence.
We can only make backwards compatible changes to Javascript; Google has made several backwards incompatible changes to Dart.
This is exactly what I meant when I said the price is justifiable. It is designed to be advertised as a premium product to an exclusive set of customers.
>I've never seen anything close for c# for example

If you highlight a method you call from external code and hit CTRL + F12, Visual Studio will automatically decompile it for you.
There are no walls in this garden. They might want people to stay but they have to work for that.
The thing is you can use all of these for different use cases.

I have a car which I take to anywhere I can park easily (which is a lot of places in the city if you avoid downtown).

I don't own a bike but I know many who do, and just take it inside with them. Roads are dangerous for bikers but not moreso than every other city in the country.

I use uber/lyft only when I know I'm not going to be sober, which isn't that often (once a weekish).

Plenty of people I know use public transit, though only some routes are useful/safe.

Self driving cars are still very early days and I'm sure they'll work out the technical issues. The fact that they're owned by big tech isn't a problem for me and most other people.
> “These are the kind of women you don’t wanna get married to,” he said. “You know, some men, they lose their temper and the next thing you know, the wife is dead, you know… they start punching them and kicking them, and they lost their minds, you know… they kill the woman… it’s the woman who can drive you to do crazy stuff, you know?”
Do you have docs on the API / integration mentioned here and on the website? Would be good to know in broad strokes before buying one. Sample apps and whatnot
Go about it indirectly: Keep your eye out for hobbies you can suggest. If he gets interested in something new, he'll have to make tradeoffs with his time. If turning off news = being bored (in his mind), it's not so appealing. But if he's excited about... woodworking, dancing, painting, piano, horror films... he'll automatically be pulled away from news.
Expanded quote:

> Rafael Mandelman, who sits on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which is responsible for legislating, said there are a growing number of children “doing these really awful things”.

> “I think, what happened with kids not being in school, I think there may be something going on with that, that we’re going to be experiencing for a while”, he said.

> He added: “Those couple of years where school was erratic or non-existent, where everyone was under stress, parents and caregivers were under stress. That was probably impacting vulnerable communities more anyway. Sociologically. who knows what was going on, but I would not be surprised if we are going to be experiencing the lingering impacts of that for a generation.”

This is very clearly a "cover your ass" move, the hand-wavy "it's due to the pandemic" is just an easy thing to hide behind instead of actually doing anything about it. Even if it was "due" to the pandemic (I doubt that) it's a shitty non-answer, it doesn't matter what caused it, you need to fix it and you aren't doing that Mr. Mandelman.
Details would definitely be nice. Maybe we'll get lucky and Gamers Nexus will have already poked at it a bit since they're active in the hardware investigation space.
So when the hell is Imphobia #13 coming out? Been waiting a while here.
The aim is not to excuse the behavior, but to identify contributing factors so they can be addressed, reducing the risk of further harm.
Of course, but what's your point? That's not meant to be rude. I'm just confused because I talking about myself, not "most windows users".
Actually, they're as bad as everyone else at that, e.g, Obamacare website; state of Maine website; lots more.

And then we have, by three or four orders of magnitude, the great Sunk Cost Fallacy of all time, by anyone ever:

Not ending World War One in 1915, 1916, or 1917: "All those lives and treasure we've spent! We have to get something for it."

And so we had the Spanish Flu, which killed more than the combat deaths, and of course, the combat deaths.

https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu

Not to mention World War Two.
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I have copied it into the feedback issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/414756#note_14... (also linked in the blog post). Feel free to add more details and thoughts. Thanks!
Because the brine is hyper-salty compared to ocean water and takes a while to mix back in, essentially creating a new ecosystem, brackish, where the outlets are.

What's wrong with pumping 10% CO2 into your office constantly from a compressed gas plant extracting oxygen and argon next door?
> I tried to match the spirit of llama.cpp and used minimalistic js dependencies and went with the ozempic css style of ggml.ai.

Ozempic? The anti-diabetes drug? That's either a glorious typo or an interesting new adjective...
Style explicitly isn’t copyrightable. It’ll need to be for some other reason.
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The problem with generated summaries as opposed to generated code for example, is that there is no way to verify them without reproducing the entire thing "manually".

Can't do better then brute force for verification.
Yes the entirety of the sources for the article appears to be random reddit users.
They are only protectable by copyright you the degree they are creative works of authorship. Copyright is not usually how these are protected.
> Claims without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

> considering the lack of public attribution present, I assume Amazon's paying for it.

Well, that was a wild ride.
They're basically bogus but put out because people don't bother inspecting the components and the makers really like selling additional ones.

And basically all thrift stores and other used good dealers won't touch them because of the perceived liability.
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Yes, basically golang model
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We're building a closed loop artificial pancreas (think dialysis but for blood sugar) for hospital use -- the first of its kind in the US. There's a massive unmet need; all critical care patients, and all people with diabetes in the hospital could benefit. Studies have shown you can achieve a 30% reduction in mortality, and 25% reduction in length of stay, in addition to the hours per day you save nurses from managing blood sugar. It's a win/win/win on the lives saved/cost savings/nursing time saves, so we think it'll be pretty important when we hit the market!

Sad to see how few other hard healthtech people there are here, they seem to be few and far between.
No. There's a huge difference between "hard to put a hugely detailed 3d landscape into 4kb" and "hard to get a pixel on the screen because the damn dependencies can't be found and why do I have to edit a Makefile at all, can't it just compile everything and then run it?".

At the risk of sounding dismissive, Linux was for the kinds people who enjoyed configuring stuff, digging through man pages, editing textfiles and then recompiling their kernels. It was for people who loved tuning their system 100% perfectly to their needs. Not for people who just wanted to code cool computer art.

Actually I think most democoders, even the insanely good ones, have very little patience. The attractive thing about coding graphics is the dopamine cycle is short. It's code, run, woa cool!, code, run, woa cool!.
They mean “it just so happened that” or “it turned out that” or “come to find out,” etc - ‘transpired’ is understandable, but probably not the most accessible way of phrasing it.