skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The natural state of the Salton Sea today would be a dust bowl with no water without human intervention. Without waste from Farm water there would be no Lake to be poisoned at all.

People can make the argument that we want a man-made lake in the location to cut down on dust in the air. However, appeals to preserving a natural environment or ecology are not historically based
There's isn't a mathematical model of how thinking works, let alone of the entire organism. So no, respectfully. A theory that thinking equals math and so math must at some point equal thought (and then emotion) remains inhibited by the first unproved statement, at the least.
While it may be fair to say the number isn't "hundreds" (or maybe it is?) I will say that I'd take that Google Scholar number with a grain of salt. Just poking around looking for stuff in the spirit of this sub-thread, I've found 4 or 5 additional documents that cite the SHARD paper, and which aren't on that Google Scholar list.

I've found that Google Scholar's coverage gets a little sketchy on older stuff, and since we're talking way back in the 1980's here, I don't think it's surprising that some things are missing.
I highly recommend https://swimlanes.io/ personally. It has essentially zero friction between thinking of a diagram and seeing the diagram in front of your eyes.

I'm sure Mermaid.js is nice and I will try it for comparison soon.
That hardware costs money and making complex hardware vs using a human could have a non-trivial cost boundary for a long time.

I don't expect a cost efficient bookshelf cleaner robot any time soon (or even a robot vacuum cleaner that works in non-trivial settings).
Is your fork available somewhere cause it sounds awesome!
I think they do it slightly differently.

One they are billionaires, hearing no is likely exceedingly rare, however to get to prestige, I'm certain they heard no many many times (or the equivalent, say "no way you can do that") so they're so used to people objecting and they succeed anyway - Tesla, SpaceX come to mind here - that no just makes them want to double down on what they're doing, combined with the fact that their inner circle at this point likely isn't saying no very often, if at all, directly to the person at hand, it makes them very resistant to real feedback
Would it be fair to say, you can absolutely minimize bias... at least in terms of reporting news?
Why? I'd be hanging out with my loved ones in mountain cabins and beach houses. I truly cannot comprehend what makes these people want to spend their time and money on internet nonsense.
I'm more worried about him suing x.org and losing, but still managing to bankrupt the foundation with legal expenses.
Atoms are just chemistry and physics! They don't get scared, they don't get happy, they don't get sad, they just run DNA!

An arrangement of atoms does not have a consciousness that feels emotions. Sure, it can replicate, but that does not imply consciousness.
It would nevertheless be the cleaner option. Had this been proposed and implemented six years ago, by now almost all devices would have supported it.
Why is everyone claiming this is impossible in JavaScript? If you have a POC you should post it so others can learn of the danger.

You've even been quoted elsewhere in this thread about this topic.
The middle class has it the worst because their kids will have a lot of trouble getting accepted to prestigious universities due to the quality of their education + "non-academic factors" that heavily bias towards the upper classes ( see https://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/C... ).

The financials are almost secondary to that, although there's also a lot of bad targeting by kids in those (where you'd go out of state / private instead of going to your flagship public and save a lot of tuition $$$).
Wyeth doc: following SIDS reports, they spread out lots to avoid detection [pdf]
You jest but that is actually a subject of real research.
"You're taking a lot of drugs, we're going to make sure you keep taking them by giving you free drugs" is extremely different from "you're buying a lot of bras, we're going to give you a free bra". This should not even require pointing out, but apparently it does.
Videos with lots of text hijack the algorithm a bit - it counts what proportion of the video is watched when evaluating its effectiveness, and if you put a giant wall of text on a 7-sec sound clip, you can get an artificially high watch-through rate with not-particularly-good content.

Text without images in the background seems objectively less attention grabbing, I wouldn't be surprised if most people just keep using captions over video.
Re DB2 vs UDB, thank you, it's been too long. Well done breaking DB2!

We actually targeted Oracle on Unix. Fortunately, the app developers never got too deep into DB2-isms, so it worked out fine.
Should we call all grocery stores 'government subsidized food stores' since American AG receives a huge amount of government subsidies? Gas stations 'government subsidized gas stations' or maybe 'government owned' since a large amount of US oilfields are on US government owned land via leases? Should anything that is government subsidized should have some pejorative prefix added to it or just free education?
The initially-too-high offer plus downturn in his stock value right after, meant a deal structure that damn-near doomed the company anyway (tons of debt).

Best-case (for him), Twitter as we knew it dies and he manages to turn the burnt-down ashes into something profitable enough to overcome that hurdle. Twitter per se cannot reasonably get out of the hole he's dug for it.

Though, arguably, the brand itself was a huge part of the value, and he just threw that in the trash.

You know a guy's going down a weird path when all defenses of his behavior amount to "I know the last twenty things he's done have looked insane and none of it's made any money, but he's got a secret genius plan, I swear! 5D chess!"
Well, the check just served a different purpose, it was to distinguish parody and troll accounts from authentic ones. I think it's role as status symbol is exaggerated.

But charging in pursuit of removing "worthless" users from the platform - you see what I'm saying there right? That's literally constructing an underclass, deciding they are unwashed and unacceptable in refined company, and then charging money to keep them out.

It's the business model of a country club. Maybe it's a cheap country club, that's a difference of degree.

I've paid similar amounts of money to join closed forums before and found them to be enjoyable and relatively free of trolls. I'm not opposed to it in principle. What I was asking about was the contradiction.
Computers do have sensors already. Current LLMs have a very limited amount of sensors (basically they receive one token at a time), but it's there.
Folks reading the comments on this one might be able to solve this old mystery: https://superuser.com/questions/78862/what-is-the-old-aix-rs...
I hope people begin realizing by this move that this guy is a complete fraud. Government funded puppet and media clickbait egotist.

The nerve of this guy to call his company "Tesla" after a genius that could vividly model his ideas. A genius that invented radio, AC power to homes, etc.

"X" sounds so stupid and he picked it because it makes people think "his" things are bigger than they actually are. My advice is to not use his products as he'll only produce further garbage.
I think that is putting an awful lot of faith in a few legal hypotheticals. If this draconian bill passes, companies mitigate the damage this way, and things shake out that way in the courts, then great. I just think before the bill even passes, it's much better to focus on nipping it in the bud. The reason we have the first amendment is because by the time government is trying to police speech based on its results, things have gone horribly wrong and it's better to make them to address those root causes rather than go even further down the rabbit hole of authoritarianism.
is it really so bad? It's fun.

It would be "fun" if it only affected him. But there are real people who get caught in the blast radius of his "fun."
X.com was an online bank co-founded by Elon Musk
From Pet Cemetery Owner to Identity Thief to Best-Selling Ghostwriter
> Bozo the Clown didn't build anything

Following his retirement, Frank Avruch, the first nationally-syndicated Bozo the Clown, launched his own website -- bostonman.com -- which, like the “Man About Town” segments he did for WCVB-TV news, provided information on special events, hotels, restaurants, museums, and theaters in Boston.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Avruch
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thought this was "The 'three things' exercise for getting out of talks." I'd be very interested to read that article.
A lot comes from tv contracts which are usually paid for by advertisements or subscriptions. Some of that advertising could be from foreign companies.
As a parent (no longer of toddlers... but I had them), I have to disagree with this somewhat. In my experience even the best of parents, with the best of kids, sometimes has them go off the rails when they hear "no". Certainly there are some parents who are (significantly) less able to get their children to accept limitations ("no"), but I don't believe that this is something that is ever perfect.

None of this should ever apply to any even moderately-adjusted individual beyond childhood. Certainly not as an adult.
Yes, this is what I use and I can't recommend it highly enough. I'll try mermaid but I think swimlanes.io is going to win for most use cases. Here's why:

(1) you just open the web app and start typing and you have the beginnings of your diagram within 30 seconds literally.

(2) The web app is elegantly and thoughtfully designed, the diagrams are beautiful, export functionality is there.
Totally.

I think this is like the whole buying vinyl records to hang on your wall (of which I have several).

I suspect they're not really intended to be used other than for decoration
Musk sending the new branding to all his 14 devs on Sunday

https://i.redd.it/g4i702g8xe751.png
Maybe the thought is that if you drop a 4000m-deep-to-surface pipe into Monterey Canyon, there will be a pressure differential at the base of the pipe (since sea water is denser than fresh water).

I don't think the math works out all that spectacularly though. The pressure difference would be a about 1.1 MPa, and desalination of seawater takes ~6MPa, so by running a pipe down to the bottom of Monterey Canyon you could... save almost 20% of the energy costs.

Which makes sense. You can't build a perpetual motion machine by sticking a pipe with a membrane at the bottom and a turbine at the top into the ocean. Even if it's a very long pipe.
I fastened mine to board with a metal plotting surface (I picked up a cheapo 'metal whiteboard' on amazon). When I'm not using it I slide it sideways behind my desk. It's worked out well, it's a nice .. subjectively level surface. I can using my plotter on pretty much any small table at all as the board will make it bigger...

This also helps so that I don't constantly have to worry about accidentally bumping the table and causing the drawing surface to move in relation to the potter or visa versa.
I don't think humans have a good definition for their own emotions, so where would a definition for AI come from?

Do we have it look at a picture with smiley to sad faces on scale from 1-10.
But the Shuttle was retired well before the US had a replacement ready. For quite some time, the US was dependent on the Russian Soyuz. It was technically reusable, but at a pretty steep cost. It was not very efficient.
Elon himself didn't like that an account was tweeting the location of his private jet, generating bad publicity, going so far as paying for the owner of the account to stop.

Trivial, yes, but does show how it can be an annoyance even through simple things.
The conversations around AI today, versus 12 months (pre LLM boom) ago, are borderline ridiculous. Very little has fundamentally changed in the past 12 months and now people are losing their minds.

A definition of 'emotion' is a complex experience of consciousness, sensation, and behavior reflecting the personal significance of a thing, event, or state of affairs.

Software programs can be constructed to mimic emotions over a breadth of scenarios covered by training data. That's it.

If I input written text into the program [designed/optimized for emotional response output] describing a situation or event, the software program will provide text output demonstrating an emotionally response based upon a probabilistic neural network... the accuracy and completeness of the training data, coupled with the suitability of the network design and training on data, will determine the quality of the artificial emotional response. The program will work well in many cases and will 'poop the bed' in some cases. One could train a computer vision model on crying faces, sad faces, etc. and then feed data from that CV model into a text response LLM model... so that a computer with a camera could ask you if/why your sad and respond to your answer with a mimic emotional response. Still just a really big plinko machine... 'data in' --> probabilistic output.

These programs are not conscious, do not 'feel' human sensation, and thus cannot have actual emotions (based upon definition above). These programs are just tuned probability engines. One could argue that the human mind (animal mind) is just a tuned probabilistic reasoning engine... but I think that is pretty 'reductionist'.
Can confirm. My old father who works on these mainframes laughs every time.
> Microsoft just switched the unit from degrees to turns.

From days in the year to years, but since Microsoft isn't very good with calendar, they stuck in pre-Julian epoch and have incorrect values.

Wonder if I should explicitly put an emoji here?
Hydrogen peroxide found on Jupiter's moon Ganymede in higher latitudes
This is of course false. We can't prove how any system is able to have emotions much less prove that a system can't
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Instead of the birds singing it from the roofs you're going to get X-ed out. Not encouraging.
Thanks: good sentiments to bear in mind in general for a PhD student!
Apple had to pay a lot for that license and even if you are willing to pay its not that easy to get. And if you do pay, you are not actually allowed resell the licenses for that chip.

RISC-V gives all people a level of power that is even higher then what Apple had with ARM.

As somebody from Esperanto said when making their Esperanto said it. If we had asked ARM it would have been 'pay of a couple million and then you can't do X,Y and Z'.
Not since RISC-V Profiles[0].

0. https://github.com/riscv/riscv-profiles/releases
This specific CVE still applies even if SMT is off, per the article.
Again, with the misuse of language in order to create the illusion of a point. In this case, in an attempt to create a ridiculously reductionist hallucination that the human brain is in the same essential category as a tree, toy, or computer, and therefore that cross-assigning human traits is a rational discussion. This topic, taken seriously, makes science-oriented people look bad.

A nuclear reactor, a bear, and a blade of grass are also all objects. Yet, we don't casually cross assign their essential traits.
there was even video download, which was wild to me
Absolutely crazy, even by X Corp. standards
This entire endeavour not sure whether conscious or unconscious is Musk trying to -- gosh, there's a word for this but my English is failing me -- to finally get even with Thiel, to show Thiel he can do everything Thiel did but better. Someone like Musk never fully recovers from getting fired from his dear X.com post-merge. Make no mistake: back then Musk was doing a stupid by trying to force a Windows tech stack on a payment company which was using Unix.

Thiel was one of the largest donors of Trump in 2016, is a true darling of the alt right so of course Musk must rub shoulders with them.

Between the erstwhile x.com and Confinity the company which launched PayPal, the latter succeeded, gobbled up x.com so now of course Musk must show to Thiel that he can make a successful payment company called x.com. He must.

That's the reason for all this bullshit, I am certain.
No. Many companies have an "X".
I see you have Pensions for Commonwealth Countries; what about US Government Pensions? I FIRE'd at 40 with a US Military Pension and some other investments, and can't really adapt your tool to my case due to that.

There are some interesting things about those pensions though (and the related VA compensation metrics). I have a spreadsheet I use to advise veterans who get sent my way because there are no decent tools out there for that population.

Otherwise it looks awesome!
Plants use water, sunlight, and organic chemicals. In plants, protein is made from soil nitrates. Bacteria don't feed the plants, but they can fix nitrogen from the air into the soil. If we really wanted to cut out the middleman, we'd turn the nitrogen we breathe directly into proteins. For now, we have to eat to obtain the essential amino acidd, Histidine; Isoleucine; Leucine; Lysine; Methionine; Phenylalanine; Threonine; Tryptophan; and Valine
It looks like this is a Zen 2-only exploit, so it shouldn't have any impact - AWS are likely already running hardware that isn't vulnerable to this
Quick! Ban cryptanalysis!
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To grasp these arguments, one has to have done enough self-reflection to perceive the workings of ones own mind, where thoughts arise. If a person has not done this, then many of these arguments fall on deaf ears, and they cling to their illusions.
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Thanks for checking it out! That UI is the product of more than a few sleepless nights.
Having custom field classes for specific functionality that Just Work (TM) is idiomatic in Django. Be it for input widgets (phone number field and the like) validation and query capabilities (JSONField, JSONBField), 3rd party integrations (S3-backed file storage), if it's stored in the database, sticking it in the ORM just jives with how you use Django.
The video algorithm is a lot more precise. If you spend ~3 seconds on 2 girl scout videos before swiping on, and less than 1 second on body building, you suddenly get a surge of girl scout videos like the whole app is sponsored by them. Someone else never noticed a single video in the subject. It feels magical that the app happens to have thousands of videos for your specific likes and none for content you don't like. I wouldn't be surprised if it went down to measuring your attention to a hundredth of a second

Saying all that, if you read 1000 characters, according to the TikTok way of sorting, you're already hooked. There will be plenty of posts where you swipe on after ~10 characters (in terms of swiping on within X hundreds of a second)

People who regularly use TikTok are used to the swipe up super quickly once a post doesnt interest you, it shouldn't be any different for measuring text
Well, if the Police and Military have done nothing wrong, they've got nothing to hide.
I mean in terms of a "best" option for many/most data center applications. Right now, these 128 Zen 4c server processors are actually really close to ARM in terms of per core power usage, so who knows if ARM will still even have that advantage in production in 3-5 years as these servers start to cycle out.

Also worth noting that AMD could drop in ARM chiplets as well as x86, so there is some flexibility there as well if there's enough demand. As it stands, this will bring a lot of compute density for a lot less power draw than previous generations of servers.
Yeah, I suspect he's going to start calling himself "the creator/founder of X" soon
> Epstein flight logs with the other billionaires.

Musk has multiple Epstein connections including having gone to his house, he’s exactly like the other billionaires.
I am focused right now.

Focused on HN.

Of course that means I am not focused on one of the projects I am working on.

It doesn't mean I am not focused.

Recognizing the difference between being focused and working on a project is useful...or rather, I find recognizing the difference to be useful.

Distractions are relative. A hobby project is a distraction from paying work. Email is a distraction from hanging out on HN. Updating Firefox is a distraction from Gmail. Gmail is a distraction from a hobby project...

Interruptions are what break my flow states. Flow is about rhythm. For me, flow might be: focus a bit on the project, a bit on HN, a bit on the project, and so on.

Anyway, the way I get more time focused is by working more hours. Thinking about efficiency is a distraction. Good luck.
Taking this tangent even further, the successor of those games is the Jackbox series, which make great party games. You put the game on a screen everyone can see and then each player uses their own web browser (on whatever kind of device they have) to play the game. Since you can share the main computer's screen over a video call, it works for distanced game nights or for a remote team activity at work. They regularly have decent sales on Steam, too.
Because when you do reactive web pages, they are not necessarly here on page load.

I made a JS file explorer, to see files on the server from the browser.

I wanted to mimic the windows explorer breadcrumb path bar. If you look at the behavior of the breadcrumb pathbar, you can't do that on page load, you have to replace the breadcrumb by an input text on clic, so not at page load.

Yes theroically, you can fetch a whole new page for that, but it would imply fetching a new page from the server just for this: it doesn't make sense.
To your point about being a black belt, I find that more mastery of an ability makes you aware of how much you still have to learn. Like at first you assume you are 30% of the way there as a beginner but at the high levels you find that almost everyone at your level has something new to teach you and there is infinite potential for growth.
There's also a time an place for admitting you are not normal.

I burned through a lot of social capital as a young adult because I assumed that if I thought of an idea, everyone else would think of it too if I just gave them a moment, or a few hints. I saw myself as thinking faster, not thinking deeper. When you think of people being slower than usual instead of the solution just being very non-obvious, you don't have the sort of patience the situation requires.

Why don't they let donkeys into universities? Because nobody likes a smart ass.
I honestly didn't even know that I could still view individual tweets. I used to go read new tweets from my favorite posters from time to time, but I haven't been back since they forced that behind a login.
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Ive noticed this hijack before.

I have to purposefully skip by any text posts now because any interaction just fills my feed with the junk.
It's a pure vanity thing and thus very elonistic.
Mine loses its settings when you update the BIOS, so your fan curves go away.
Raph Koster claims parallel invention of the term "shard" for separate worlds in MMOs. https://www.raphkoster.com/2009/01/08/database-sharding-came...
Looks like my 2700x narrowly misses this one, assuming 7020 series is affected and not 7000 series.
Historically, the Colorado would periodically take that course, but it shifted on the timescales of several hundred years. The fact that there is anything there today but a dry lake bed can be solely attributed to human intervention. The last time the lake was natrually full was in the 1700s.
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