skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“considering they are likely attempting to monetise this as much as possible (I hate this mindset, hope it fails!).”

In the history of getting science out the door, it turns out that the ability to monetize makes it far more likely to happen.

This is game theoretically true because the first entity that wastes all the effort figuring out how to scale would immediately be copied (first mover disadvantage).

We need well funded capital projects to have a mechanism to make their existence low risk, especially when it comes to materials science which is far more expensive to scale than software.
But there already exist cores for Mister and Analogue Pocket. e.g. https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Genesis_MiSTer
I feel cryogenic storage of people would work far better if it was driven by some cult-like or religious beliefs rather than monetary motivation, where dead bodies are managed as well as possible simply because it’s the right thing to do.
Oh I agree! I have a couple of gen servers acting as very simple message queues—the kind that don't matter if they are nuked during a deploy.
At this point I’m worn out, owning this thing has been a complete nightmare and a mistake. An underperforming battery is the least of my problems so far. Also there’s no point because Tesla routinely lies about repairs on my car.

It’s been in the shop for many months for dozens of mechanical and software issues over the years, I’ve been lied to too many times. The value of the car has depreciated too much for selling it to make sense and there is some convenience and value to it so I keep it.

I’ve tried the lemon law angle but since they “fix” issues with software that introduces new issues and “fix” their “fixes” it’s a moving target so I can’t qualify.

Tesla, never again.
Yeah, even if the soldering isn't intentional for non-upgreadability, they certainly took advantage of it in the pricing. And with the heated seats, the margin is infinite.
True, it is a temporary solution though to how long Cloudflare offers it.
Took a lot of failed experiments, the model would keep converging to greyscale / sepia images. Think one of the ways I fixed was by adding an greyscale encoder to the arch. Used its output embedding as additional conditioning. Can't remember if I only added it to the Unet input or injected it during various stages of the unet down pass.
But what would it offer over this? https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Genesis_MiSTer
Actually you’re sort of wrong, but not quite. It turns out the fact the Netscape homepage was the default was a huge asset that was unused. At a certain point we realized we were leaving tons of money on the table and pivoted to the my Netscape stuff. If we had done that much earlier and built ourselves as a services and content platform much earlier with advertising etc we could have survived the browser revenue loss. But Barksdales view was we didn’t compete with our partners like yahoo and excite. The loss of browser market share would have eaten this revenue as well over time but market share eroded a lot slower than browser license revenue and it would have extended our revenues.

The data mining industry didn’t exist at that time but it was obvious to me that with my Netscape and our content channels we could use the data we were collecting to do targeted advertising and “personalization.”

That would have been the enshitification route we avoided by nobly imploding.
In the mountains of the world's most remote country, baseball takes hold
People recognize their neighbors.
Ha, yeah, though I would say that the lisp solution has a different downside: it's really nice to be able to see what the post-generation code all looks like. None of lisps I've used have made that as easy for their macro expansions as I would like.
I believe you. Many older ones are better, especially if the documentation is sufficient.
I remember seeing minimum speed limit signs in Iowa. I was told this was to keep tractors off the highways.

Where these signs aren’t present, I think you’d have to be going more than 10 under the maximum limit to get a ticket.
Better to have no abstraction than the wrong abstraction!
The banana has 2 bananas, and the bird has 2 beaks! Why is that? Does it not know about real life objects and what the image might be representing? Would it be possible to combine this with some other kind of model so it would be able to handle things like that?
Think the final training run was only a couple hours on a Colab V100
You're assuming that the cost of the component is being recovered through the base price of every vehicle, but that's not likely because the base price has to compete on price against other vehicles without the feature.

Instead if, for example, the component adds $30 to the BOM and they know from market research that 10% of buyers will pay $500 for the software unlock within 3 months of purchase, they don't have to include the cost in the base price and still make very good margin on it.
The arguments presented there make very little sense.

1) Lyme existed before

> So decades before Lyme was identified – and before military scientists could have altered or weaponized it – the bacterium that causes it was living in the wild.

Of course it was, regardless of whether the conspiracy theory is correct. If it was a bioweapon, do you think they were engineering a fully synthetic bacterial genome de novo? In the '60s and '70s, decades before the first publicly known successes with fully synthetic genomes in the 2000s?

It would be far more reasonable to assume they were working from a reference species, selectively breeding, maybe inducing mutations or engaging in some rudimentary gene editing (although the latter seems unlikely).

2) The genetic distribution doesn't support the conspiracy theory

> Population genetics research on Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterial agent of Lyme disease, suggest that the northeastern, Midwestern and Californian bacteria are separated by geographical barriers that prevent these populations from mixing.

> Had there been a lab strain, particularly one engineered to be more transmissible, that escaped within the last 50 years, there would be greater genetic similarity between these three geographic populations. There is no evidence for a recent single source – such as a release from a lab – for Lyme disease spirochetes.

Keeping in mind the counterargument to point 1) above, this argument is wild. If we assume that a weaponized form of Borrelia burgdorferi was created from a wild specimen, we would absolutely expect specific variants to only exist in certain regions, particularly the region in which the conspiracy theories allege an outbreak of the weaponized form occurred. The paper the author references here even notes that the worst strains were not found in California [0]:

> Eight of the most common ospC genotypes in the northeastern United States, including genotypes I and K that are associated with disseminated human infections, were absent in Mendocino County nymphs.

This all seems very consistent with the most likely scenario if there was in fact an effort to weaponize the bacteria and it was released in the northeast.

3) Lyme isn't a good bioweapon

> One of the most important characteristics of a biowarfare agent is its ability to quickly disable target soldiers.

Unless the goal is to softly neutralize Communist sympathizers, unfriendly foreign leaders, and left wing politicians. This thesis is in fact wholly refuted by the fact that the CIA plotted to use tuberculosis as a bioweapon to neutralize Fidel Castro in the '60s [1].

> Lyme disease does make some people very sick but many have just a flu-like illness that their immune system fends off.

Again, consistent with the theory that there is a weaponized strain in the wild alongside less harmful natural strains.

Final note: none of this is really evidence *for* the conspiracy theory, but those arguments against all seem totally specious.

[0]: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/AEM.01704-09

[1]: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/21523-document-09 (footnote on page 137)
Which then requires each app to have a public IP, priced at $44/year starting soon
Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99
Someone literally equated folks from other states as having similar stakes as actual neighbors. This isn’t strawmanning.

And you’re the one that keeps beating ‘civic duty’ when I’m pointing out the disingenuous and manipulative nature of a lot of the current political strategies - including fake grass roots ‘neighbors’.

Which people have a right to ignore, despite your statements otherwise.

Personally, I’d argue they have an actual civic duty to ignore or even ostracize folks doing that, as that kind of manipulative lying is what poisons actual civic discussion.
This will be hard as:

The attester verdict is an abstract concept that refers to the response from attester. It reports how much an attester trusts the web environment the user agent is executing in.

The web environment is defined as TODO [sic]

So essentially google has carte blanche for information from your browser.

And they are prototyping that into browser - so forgive me but I'm concerned even more.
My daily driver for the past couple of years has been the last Intel Macbook Pro with 32GB of RAM, but I just started using an M2 Mini in the last few weeks and with 16 GB of RAM it easily outperforms my older machine. A couple days ago, I realized I had a lot of stuff running without any signs of trouble at all, and I checked and was using only 14 GB of RAM with all of these apps open:

XCode, a Flutter project in Android Studio, a Rails project in Rubymine, a running server/database and 2 different mobile Simulators, Sublime, Safari, Chrome, and 3 different Firefox profiles.

I'm looking forward to picking up a new Macbook sometime in the next half a year, but for now I'm quite delighted when using my Mini which literally boots in less than 5 seconds.

Edit: just wanted to emphasize that sometimes my Macbook Pro struggles without even all of the above apps open.
The climatic optimum you refer to was cooler than today. From the wiki you reference:

A study in 2020 estimated that the average global temperature during the warmest 200 year period of the HCO, around 6,500 years ago, was around 0.7 °C warmer than the mean for nineteenth century AD, immediately before the Industrial Revolution, and 0.3 °C cooler than the average for 2011-2019.
If it were a matter of time, it would've happened by now. Yet we are seeing one after another CGI-overdosed marvel movies starting to flop.
Last I checked you need to do init/1 by hand. Honestly being more transparent about creating child_spec like `GenServer.create_default_child_spec` would be great. The rest of use GenServer is pretty good, IMO (this is why I wrote 'kind of a bad' macro). I normally hate default implementation of functions but defaulting with an error saying "you forgot this" is reasonable.

Edit: just checked, it warns if you don't... I have compiler warnings as error on all my personal projects so that's why I thought you had to do it manually
> I know that getting sound emulation perfectly right for the Genesis/MegaDrive has been a tricky issue over the years, even for Sega themselves

I would definitely be curious to know why - the emulation of Genesis is notably behind most other video game consoles but I always assumed this was because of less interest and not because of any unique technical challenges.
Hi :)

I had a related idea a few years ago...

Multiplication might be a good way to associate nouns with adjectives, but isn't kingship a quality of something? And what can we do about the confusion when the French King, a man, is also a woman?

How about:

Person is French King = (P.f.k) where k = royalty.manhood P.f.r.m We divide and multiply ~ Person is Martian Queen = P.m.r.w

Dogs might be added to owners eg: W+pug, and averages can be taken:

((W + dog.breed1) + (W + dog.breed2) + (W + dog.breed3) + (W + dog.breed4) / 4) = 4W/4 + the dogs = W + incomprehensible remainder

Perhaps there's a use for it all. Logistics maybe? Whether by the PM's system or mine, grammar can certainly be encoded in arithmetic-like forms.

Maybe it's just the way we think.
Of course not. But the Impacts differ by latitude and longitude and the differing effects of the Indian Ocean against the pacific and southern.

The DPI are all over this: https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/climate-change/climate-ready-agr...
Not just big tech; there's a reason why "you will own nothing and be happy" is a thing.
We are truly living in a neo capitalist feodal system. Chase is the worst, why do they still only pay out a miserly 0.01% interest when so many other banks have raised savings rates along with the feds offering 4-5% interest on basic savings accounts? They have grown way too large and monopolistic.
That's why I suggested (also in another thread) that the amount charged should be modest. I'm merely suggesting the concept and not the specifics. Perhaps businesses should be subjected to different types of regulations on how they can charge their clients under such a system, just like businesses are excluded from the National Do-Not-Call Registry.
In the video they explained that part of their reasoning with the water curtain is that this solution allows ambulances and police to drive through the stop sign without damaging their vehicles or slowing them down or removing the sign.
Sure, that's true, I'm a heavy user of the standard protobuf library in python, and you certainly won't catch me singing its praises for its style.

But that's a different (and less important) kind of problem. It does not exhibit the huge issue with generated-and-then-modified code where you have to maintain all the generated code rather than just the source from which it was generated.
Arizona’s extreme heat is killing honeybees and melting their homes
Mushrooms are literally one for the categories of things that are "DO NOT EAT UNLESS YOU'RE 100% CONFIDENT AND KNOW THROUGH YOUR OWN KNOWLEDGE" types. (Caps used because it is a yelling thing)

Seriously, just don't eat any mushroom that you can't personally identify with 100% confidence from your own knowledge and references, with some app saving its xyz not being considered a reference.

Even experienced mycologists have sometimes made mistaken identifications so anyone else should be so cautious as to presume poison in all cases except the most certain.

(Obviously store bought are an exception)
https://archive.is/hCWQX
I wish he mentioned the ethics behind this.

01 the freezing costs power, which damages our planet.

02 This is often paid for by life insurance policies. Instead of the money going to your family or donating to a humanitarian cause, it goes towards damaging the planet.

I wouldn't be surprised in 100 years, the owners of these businesses cut a deal with the remaining family members, offering "hey, we will pay you $500m (half of the account balance) to unthaw your great great great great great grandpa if you promise not to sue us."
No thank you! I don't enjoy fighting dragons :)
> Don't download Microsoft Teams if it claims an app developer with an unrecognisable name and only 500 downloadeds, don't download cracked games, be wary of the obvious free-to-play clones, and if a web page shows a flashing gif warning you that Whatsapp is outdated, don't install the APK file it's trying to push through your browser.

Ah, so pretty much all the warning signs people ignore when clicking on a phishing link or an advertisement saying they’re the millionth visitor.

I don’t want this coming anywhere near iOS. Maybe a controversial opinion, but I’d rather have that than my Grandma’s entire retirement account being emptied because of a malicious app.
Go big or go small or go home but don’t go medium
A load of tedious drivel that offers no insight, doesn't take the topic seriously, and openly refuses to brook any discussion.
It hasn’t been legal since 2009, and there’s only a handful of enforcement actions.

EU regulators are a joke.
Fingers crossed the FTC finds and fines you. If it’s big enough maybe you’ll have some empathy for your victims, or at least the calculus will change in society’s favor.
Not all parts of EULAs are enforceable.
Ask HN: What good is a VPN if Hulu and Netflix still know where I am?
I’m getting tired of these, mostly because I don’t have the fundamental knowledge to follow or synthesize the significance

is there a youtuber or tiktoker I can follow? even the nerdiest tiktokers know how to communicate effectively so that would be useful right now, far more succinctly than what I’ve seen so far

edit: just searching LK99 on tiktok gets it done

example https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8LhJccL/

nothing you couldnt get from a summary anywhere else and these incremental random papers arent easily evaluated or worth your time yet
The thing is, base car prices go up anyway, and subscriptions are an additional revenue stream. If manufacturers can get away with charging for anything, they will surely charge for it.
Seriously. Anyone who is hostile to ad blockers is hostile to ADHD sufferers.
> units comparison and conversions even on C++

See mp-units[1].

[1]: https://github.com/mpusz/mp-units
Depends, given the low res, the 3x64x64 pixel space image is smaller than the latents you would get from encoding a higher-res image with models like VQGAN or the stablediff VAE at their native resolutions.

It's easier to get a sense of what's going wrong with a pixel space model though. With latent space, there's always the question of how color is represented in latent space / how entangled it is with other structure / semantics.

Starting in pixel space removed a lot of variables from the equation, but latent diffusion is the obvious next step
I think there are more developers opposed to the recent web attestation shenanigans than those for it (even those who might be coerced into being for it by their employer). A majority guild vote could stop everyone working on it and keep the web open.
Cool, I base my data off actual statistics instead of just anecdotes.

https://www.statista.com/topics/5144/single-family-homes-in-...

82 out of 129 million units are single family detached homes. 62%. That's the majority. And I imagine most car-free households probably don't live in single-family detached by a large margin, so whatever percentage of that moves more car owners towards being the single family homes. Then another percentage of non-single-family-home dwellers probably aren't in the market for $40k cars, which for sure EVs have an upfront cost penalty.

Plus some of the other sizes like 2-4 units still often have garage or at least private parking spaces (carports and driveways) which would probably be easy to add individual chargers as well so another 16M units or 92/129 or 71% of housing units.

Average miles driven is like 16k these days.

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm

16,000 / 300 or so days driven is like 53 miles a day on average. Easily doable by any EV, even doubling or tripling that average use.

Maybe you should look outside your bubble. The majority of US households who could afford a $40k car probably live in a place that can add charging without too much difficulty. And they also don't drive much more than 50mi a day on average, by a large measure.

> I’m looking forward to when EVs catch up to the conveniences of ICE vehicles

For most US households in the market for a car priced like an EV, an EV can be more convenient than an ICE, today.
If you want Pratchett and also Gaiman, then both Good Omens the book and Good Omens the TV version are fucking fantastic.

The Pratchett/Gaiman collab is one of my absolute favourites, I like it a lot more than Gaiman and Moore on Watchmen.
> Do not use Windows 8 or older. Only recent Windows 10 and 11 builds are supported.

I wonder why this limitation exists? Does anyone know?
Just wait for more comments in these threads. Someone knowledgeable is bound to explain more.
Nagging is both imposition and compulsion.
With the wrong analogy you can prove anything.

In this analogy the coin flip results in 150% your net worth or 60%. In real life, we make thousands of decision per day, but very few people make a single decision like that in their entire life. And this analogy goes for 1000 such decisions.

In the real world, most of our decisions are not like a coin toss actually: if I do this homework, I might become a bit smarter and boost my lifelong learnings by 0.001%, and if I don't I will enjoy an extra half an hou of TikTok. The outcome is anything but a coin toss, still most kids go for the second choice. The kids who go consistently for the first will end up in the top 1%, but unfortunately, they'll hear from their TikTok-loving friends that their success is just due to pure coin flips.
Now imagine how those who were born rich feel? I assume that in those circles it's very uncommon to be humble enough to do any work for others, so their "job" must be to entertain only themselves: a sad one man show where you're the spectator and the clown at the same time.
VPNs were originally intended for networking multiple devices under one subnet. So... that.
Is there remotely any reason to believe you could put their brain back together in a functioning way or that the connections are even still there cryopreserved like this? If not, this is all so silly. Just take a tiny piece of tissue and cryopreserve its DNA and you can have a clone made in the future. It won’t have your memories but that’s as close as we can get.

I cryopreserve cells all the time but they have to be single cells surrounded by fluid or it just makes a mess. As far as I know we don’t know how to cryopreserve the delicate structure and micro architecture of tissues. It may be physically impossible.
Not when Microsoft makes their own App Store and moves their apps to it, then Meta, Epic, TikTok, X (Twitter), Netflix, Amazon, and you get the idea. It's going to be just like the streaming video mess that we have now.
It hasn’t done that in some time.
Speculative fiction of Lilith’a Brood by Octavia Butler comes to mind, it was good but so bleak I had to stop in second book.
How can the planet sustain nobody dying?
I'm in rural W.Australia, my neighbour over the way has been running tens of thousands of seed trials on ANOVA plots all over the state for the past decade for all the major crop strains (wheat, barley, canola, ..).

Logged yields, multi spectral drone imaging during growth, etc.

I wouldn't say they have it 'solved' it's always ongoing, but they have candidates for most conditions .. and can recommend for overseas conditions that aren't seen here.
As other commenters have noted, if the awk script is just a pure function of the output of the black-box generator to a new output, then I would consider this a modification to the generator, and no problemo.

However, if your awk script requires the current state of the generated code as input in addition to the output of the black-box generator, and tries to reconcile a diff between the two things, then yep, I consider that busted.
I know Hacker News guidelines say you're not supposed to ask if someone's read the article but... did you even read the article? What part of the article is not about C++ and macOS?
Akbar 'n' Jeff's Cryonics Hut!

"Where the elite beat the heat and avoid having to meet St. Pete"
By then we will be inside cans of soylent green.
Isn't it more like dead cells that are being reawakened, switching to fermentation to create as much NAD+ as possible to grow as fast as possible?
a weapon released without a means to target and control damage is generally less effective than one you can make sure isn't pointed at your feet.

lyme disease 'immunity' is spotty at best, and not well correlated to a specific group of people or traits; so while I could imagine its' use as a weapon, it seems that from a military strategy point of view that there should be better options.

there are plenty of diseases out there with what seems to be a racial component to immunology, I would imagine those are the ones with a lot of bio weapons interest towards them.