skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As best as I’ve been able to research, it’s still under active exploration and there are hypotheses but no real answers. I believe research has basically been circling around the recent understanding that in addition to being part of how the brain is wired, it is also an active, deliberate (if unconscious) mechanism that takes place in the background and is run “at a higher priority” during sleep (sort of like an indexing daemon running at low priority during waking hours then getting the bulk of system resources devoted to it during idle).

There are also studies that show “data” in the brain isn’t stored read-only and the process of accessing that memory involves remapping the neurons (which is how fake memories are possible) - so my take is if you access a memory or datum sequentially start to finish each time the brain knows this is to be stored verbatim for as-is retrieval but if you access snapshots of it or actively seek to and replay a certain part while trying to relate that memory to a process or a new task, the brain rewires the neural pathways accusingly. Which implies that there us an unconscious part that takes place globally plus an active, modifying process where how we use a stored memory affects how it is stored and indexed (so data isn’t accessed by simple fields but rather by complex properties or getters, in programming parlance).

I guess the key difference from how machine learning works (and I believe an integral part of AGI, if it is even possible) is that inference is constant, even when you’re only “looking up” data and you don’t know the right answer (i.e. not training stage). The brain recognizes how the new query differs from queries it has been trained on and can modify its own records to take into account the new data. For example, let’s say you’re trying to classify animals into groups and you’ve “been trained” on a dataset that doesn’t include monotremes or marsupials. The first time you come across a platypus in the wild (with its mammaries but no nipples, warm-blooded but lays eggs, and a single duct for waste and reproduction) you wouldn’t just mistakenly classify it as a bird or mammal - you would actively trigger a (delayed/background) reclassification of all your existing inferences to account for this new phenomenon, even though you don’t know what the answer to the platypus classification question is.
Amazon Cuts Dozens of House Brands as It Battles Costs, Regulators
I agree on being careful with China goods in general, but Anker is one of the very few very trustworthy brands out there. IIRC, the only fuck-up regarding batteries they did was with the 535 power banks, and they handled that one very solidly [1].

[1] https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/anker-recalls-some-535-p...
When solar was becoming affordable, there was a lot of talk in the industry about "grid defection" exactly as you describe, but it didn't come to pass.

Now that energy storage is getting radically cheaper too, I think there's a decent chance that what you predict could happen. It would be... enormously bad.

And I agree load growth plays a part in all this. The big growth will come from electric vehicles--once cars are all electric, that will roughly double the electricity demand.
Look more closely: the cup has two handles.
Going back to paper maps isn't the alternative. I already have a device with me that can do all of the navigation, etc., that I'd need. None of that needs to be built into the car. Backup cameras are fine.

The only fancy thing I would like to have in my car is the ability to connect the sound system in it to my phone or computer via bluetooth as if it were headphones -- but I can add that easily as an aftermarket thing with the bonus of having actual knobs on it.

I really only have two reasonably hard lines. I don't want my car to be able to talk with any external servers (it's a car, not a smartphone on wheels), and I don't want a touch screen interface instead of physical knobs and buttons.

The presence of infotainment systems is a pretty solid indication that the car won't satisfy either of those things.
I would love to chat, what's the best way to reach you?
'industry insider' here.

I'll be vaguer than the actual info but reference Penn's online presence netted them a fair bit less than $200m last year, so yes that number is insane.

The reality is that Penn could probably have smoothed the ongoing toxicity over with regulators if the deal made sense. They apparently didn't know what everyone else knew: Portnoys community are all squares with no disposable income. They're terrible for handle and a burden on customer service. The purchase didn't move the needle.

They also shit the bed on theScore purchase ($2b, worth nothing like that outside of hype), which allegedly Portnoy had a hand in in some fashion.

ESPN deal is $150m a year over 10 years with ESPN having a get out at 3 years if they don't like how it's going. I'd put good money on them taking it.

For reference ESPN approached FD and DK and they both rejected a deal because the financial made no sense.

Penn leadership has been floundering for a strategy for years. The base question is: why do they need a brand to hide behind at all? They're not a big player because like most square shops their business model sucks.

You could invest 150m a year over 10 years into actually doing their own market making and risk management rather then copying offshore books (who are the real market makers that almost all US books copy) and become a brand know for an actual bettors shop.

My guess is within 5 years were going to see full management change and packaging up what's left of the business for a sale.
Suppose CNET published an article about LK99 a week ago, then they published another article an hour ago. If Google hasn’t indexed the new article yet, won’t CNET rank lower on a search for “LK99” because the only matching page is a week old?

If by pruning old content, CNET can get its new articles in the results faster, it seems this would get CNET higher rankings and more traffic. Google doesn’t need to have a ranking system directly measuring the average age of content on the site for the net effect of Google’s systems to produce that effect. “Indexing and ranking are two different things” is an important implementation detail, but CNET cares about the outcome, which is whether they can show up at the top of the results page.

>If you have a huge site, similarly, we might not get all your pages. Potentially, if you remove some, we might get more to index. Or maybe not, because we also try to index pages as they seem to need to be indexed.

The answer is phrased like a denial, but it’s all caveated by the uncertainty communicated here. Which, like in the quote from CNET, could determine whether Google effectively considers the articles they are publishing “fresh, relevant and worthy of being placed higher than our competitors in search results”.
Even so, who in the HOA wants higher prices?
Sad thing is a lot of people don't take you seriously unless you have a B after your name
It can happen, the Pólya conjecture is the usual example which holds until n = 906150257.

Another fun one I just found is the statement “n^17 + 9 and (n + 1)^17 + 9 are relatively prime”. The first counterexample is at n=8424432925592889329288197322308900672459420460792433.
> OK, and? How does this change anything? You have to be a PhD to be a mathematician anyway.

I don't understand your objection. Comprehensive math training is useful in areas other than academic research math, and it's not like PhD programs erase or overwrite all math instruction from before you entered that program.
A distribution is a collection of software - if reduced to a certain point, the identity is lost!

It makes sense to me for a distribution to find commonly wanted software, package it up, and make it available.

There's tailoring to consider! Some go further and introduce patches. Not every distribution is as good at both contributing and being accepted upstream.

Now, if you want something newer, then you're obviously welcome to acquire that as you see fit.

The distribution will help with that, too -- providing build utils, headers, etc. Enabling third party repositories, ie: PPA/COPR

There are also runtimes to avoid building; Flatpak/Snap, Docker/Podman, etc. Though, these also lose some of the 'distribution spirit'
Does everything have to have a monetization strategy?
There's also a lot fewer blacksmiths than there used to be. As a middle manager, I'm not a protected class. My job didn't exist a century ago and I'd be naive to think it deserves to be around a minute longer than is required.

On a long enough timeline, we're all elevator operators.
So the only way to succeed on AirBnB is to commit review fraud?
Oh yeah, that's bad. I guess that's why you want tests running from time to time on <current stable> even if the software itself doesn't change.
> the current purpose or intent

… is to make society less meritocratic? Where’s the evidence that this is what the institution is currently driving at as its mission? Versus this being an emergent effect, subjectively?
At least in my area, we absolutely get more tourists - but a lot of their money does not get spent within city limits.

They rent a house near downtown, spending all day at the lakes/beaches/attractions outside of the city, then maybe go downtown for dinner (assuming they don't cook out).
As far as I am aware there is no possibility for forgiveness or bankruptcy.
Not sure about that computer plan but I do enjoy his brand of entertainment.

Also really hoping he makes more progress on amd ml
England is full, there is no room for new holiday spots in the popular areas.
From what I have read, Apple does not charge carmakers anything to support CarPlay functionality.
The beast my ISP sends out says 5w power save (when does that activate when something is always connected?), 18w typical and 36w max (probably with usb devices plugged in).

https://www.192-168-0-1login.org/datasheet_6208_coda-4582.pd...
I would say OpenSUSE is the best rolling release by far: since they actually test packages instead of rawdogging it and putting bug notices in each package’s release notes.
There is when you flop over, and they won't come after your estate for any balance.
> AirBnB flippers have wreaked small havoc in my city

Cities have put themselves in this position both because they don't allow enough new housing and because they don't allow enough new hotels and VRBO-like options in the places people want them.
Sadly, you are not correct about slashes. They are allowed in filenames for Macs https://alexwlchan.net/2021/slashes/
To the OP: Don’t be discouraged. Indie artists are out there and if you get connections in that space it’s pretty accommodating. You will not make a living off of streams. You will not make it as a streaming only label. The economics of scale only work at the very very very top. Everyone else is touring, merching, festivals, or lending talent in other aspects of entertainment (licensing for example).

To above: you knocked it out of the park with “what do you bring to the table?”. This is what labels do. This is what labels are for. Calling out the questionable motives - only the bold and determined survive the music business. If you aren’t in it for the passion, you will fail.
Because after your lean, highly-productive startup team creates the app that everyone loves, you get a bunch of funding and hire thousands of extraneous software developers and then have to find something for them to do.
I am sorry about your brother.

When we talk about these things it is always assumed that we want our family to have access to our digital lives after we die. I have lots of pictures from shared memories that I want my family to have - and they already do.

Other things I want to die with me - things that were not shared with my family before I died shouldn't be shared with them after I die.

Why is it that we generally assume that we should get access to other peoples private stuff because they are dead?

Again, not trying to make this an attack on you.

And of course I am excepting getting access to bank accounts and insurance.
https://archive.ph/Jo7VL
You could have any combination of 0 1 4 5 and it'll work as long as you use the same numbers the same amount of times as the original sequence.
Tell me about it! My own landlady is one of the tiktok "real estate investors" who didn't understand that she can't get out of legally mandated minimum heat requirements because "I bought an old house and it's gonna cost me $10k to redo the heating!"

She also used to run an Airbnb on the floor below me until this summer, so go figure.
For tooling I use something like nvm, Pyenv, or SDKMan.

I don't want Python to update from 3.10 to 3.11 silently, but I also don't want to be held back if they decide that they don't want to support Python 4 yet. I also want to be able to pin to particular versions if I want, or at least update in a structured way.

I dislike the way that distros purge older packages, so building containers requires me to build my own package repo cache to allow me to have repeatable builds.

It might make sense for the distro, but this is where the difference between the base operating systems requirements and mine differ.
In SA, were his fans mainly white, Coloured, or Black, or did he have an appeal across the country's ethnicities? (If the latter, I would be surprised, because when I cycled across SA for several months and stayed with members of all three groups, their respective communities' tastes in music seemed very different.)
To give some idea of the arbitrage potential, in Texas right now the price is usually $20-$30 / MWh for much of each day, but rises into the hundreds or even low thousands during times of peak demand, usually for 4-6 hours each day. This pattern is very common during the hottest ~4 months of the year.

https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/systemwideprice...
Why do you think the answer to labor issues it to get everyone to learn how to code?
I've found it better to use dd to wipe out data than an rf.
It is nice to see tasteful and profitable disagreement in place of simple drama. It's a credit to all parties.
> Perhaps because a tall residential building in a tourist spot is an eyesore.

If you build it like an eyesore, it will be an eyesore, yes. Here is a multi-story building that I lived as a student in and it housed another 10k: https://www.ruseducation.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/LOMON...

But I agree that building glass+concrete rectangles is a not a great idea for tourist spots (or anywhere, really).
> A ban on gas stoves would only affect rich people for the most part.

And professional kitchens.

For the record I agree with phasing them out but I can see restaurant chefs fighting hard against it.
How is this a defense of the CEO? The CEO comes out looking not just like an ass, but an ignorant one.

When someone acts as entitled to be where they are and do what they do as that junior analyst to that CEO, it's because their life experience so far has told them, consistently, that they have every right to. It even mentions that he points out his other associates.

He's acting like he's meeting someone who's, at best, an equal, because from his perspective, he is.
Exactly. "Hey, let's build a dime-a-dozen twenty-story glassy tower next to all these centuries-old churches and open-air markets."
If I write a book with a creature I call trolls and they are giant blue hairy with small shark like teeth, a "design" with nearly no association to extant trolls, and that is then appropriated by damn near everyone your position is that they didn't engage in theft, right?

You could see how any author would find such an assertion absurd, right?

Just because it's legal doesn't change what it is. We have plenty of types of "theft" in the _colloquial_ sense that are not theft under law.

Really....
I’m not sure how I managed to forget housing, but I agree.

We are no longer living fulfilling lives but going about lining the pockets of landlords and rent-seekers.
Agreed. Additionally the US will net gain from not having to pay Social Security and Medicare for these passed borrowers.
> Interesting that modern discourse is to use "scary" and "dangerous" and such words so much more. I wonder if it is related to the present rise in neuroticism and trigger warnings etc.

I doubt it’s trigger warnings because they usually don’t “warn scary things”.

Also is there any data to back up that scary and fear is used more today than in the past? That seems unlikely.
Hmmmmm... In which decade where you a teenager?
This is so obvious it's embarrassing.

50-year-olds are 6x more likely to die than 20-year olds. [1]

And while I don't have a citation.....it's not a stretch to say 50-year-olds have less student debt.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db456.htm
The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act has provisions where low-income households can get an electric or electric induction stove fully reimbursed, up to $840. Middle-income households can get half the price of the stove reimbursed.

Apparently, individual states have to do stuff, so it might be like the medicaid expansions where some states opt out of providing stuff for poor people to make a political point.
> The insanity goes both ways: I refuse to use a cellphone, so I will not buy a car that has Android or Apple stuff.

FYI, a car that supports CarPlay/Android Auto and a car that does not is indistinguishable to the person who does not connect a phone to the car. It is just an interface that allows your phone to use the touchscreen, but if you do not connect a phone, it continues to work.
Because, like you said it's an absolute pittance. What's the difference between $50 from Bandcamp vs $1 from Spotify? You can't live off of that, you're not quitting your day job,
regardless. So then it's about the music, and not about the money. If money is the only thing driving you to make music, that's fine, but that's a thing. There are those that need to make music, to express how they are and how they feel and the urge to create won't let them go. They need to share their gift, tell their story and just want people to listen. If you could get everyone in the world to listen to you for 3 minutes, what would you say or sing or play? Some people just know what their answer to that question is and have uploaded it to SoundCloud.

Success would be nice, but if, instead, people have heard my music and appreciate it? Listen to it over and over again? I'd take that over beer money. Beer money would be nice though.
> A Chinese company sells to Iran. America says they can't and asks (Tells) Canada to arrest Meng. This seems more than a little illogical.

A Chinese company sells American hardware and software to Iran. They intentionally helped Iran bypass sanctions, and lied to institutions like HSBC because they knew they'd get in trouble.

There is nothing illogical about the USA being upset about that and wanting to pursue legal action.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-iran-sanctions-exc...
I've got Parental Plus loans paying for my daughter's college.

I was aggressively paying them off before COVID.
imo, it amounts to revisiting concepts once more general principles are found — and needed. For instance, you learn the alphabet, and it's hard. the order is tricky. the sounds are tricky, etc. but eventually, it get distilled to a pattern. But you still have to start from A to remember what letter 6 is, until you encounter that problem many times, and then the brain creates a 6=F mapping. I think of it in economic terms: when the brain realizes it's cheaper to create a generalization, it does so on the fly, and that generalization takes over the task.

Somtimes it's almost like creating a specialist shard to take over the task. Driving is hard at first, with very high task overload, lots to pay attention to. With practice, it becomes a little automated part of yourself takes care of those tasks while your main general intelligence can do whatever it likes, even as the "driver" deals with seriously difficult tasks.
The data from the previous link shows that Japan has increased from 11% part time workers in 1970 to 25% part time workers in 2022. It's entirely possible that full-time workers are overworked while part-time workers are under-employed, leading to a decrease in average hours worked. Full-time workers can be time poor, while part-time workers may be money poor.
I'm all for both of these actually.

However, until utopia happens and we don't have to use cars or commute I'm thankful for the little improvements.
I think the confusion comes from the fact that some platforms render it as a drawing as if it was an emoji. I never understood why...
As far as I understand it, the UK housing market suffers from an additional problem that is rare to non-existent in the US: builders who get planning permission for new housing but then sit on the land because they know with almost 100% certainty that built or not, it will be worth more in the future.

There are places in the USA where a builder could take this bet, but it would be much, much riskier.
Markets solve these problems and that remains true even when you disagree with the results. If people don't want to visit places with tall buildings and sprawl, then it won't get built and where it does it will fail.

What actually bothers you is that this is what people want and it will get built and it will be patronized.
We literally just had the Surpreme Court strike down loan forgiveness on the basis that the pandemic was not a national emergency.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/06/supreme-court-strikes-dow...
I did that only yesterday to upgrade from 22.04 LTS to 22.10, and now my laptop doesn’t boot.

So it doesn’t always work.

I am strongly considering trying Arch instead.
Its how your prompt aligns with the SDXL image output, not how your prompt aligns with SDXL's interpretation of your prompt
I could easily be mistaken here, but wouldn't applying any dark matter theory to a binary system require it to have its own dark matter halo and core?

I can understand how things like superfluid DM might help explain galactic rotations, but I'm having a harder time applying it to things like wide binaries.
Yes, this, USB flash drives live at most 5 years or something. Things get even worse for SSD.

If we are talking just about credentials, you can just print the password and access instructions to a password manager and give it to the people you trust. This is one place were having a cloud password manager might be helpful, otherwise you would need to also provide the access to a device containing the offline manager (or a updated copy of it)

You probably don't need to keep a whole flash drive for credentials. Unless you also want to keep some other files secure without being on other devices
I'm not sure if you didn't read the article, skimmed it, or are mis-representing it on purpose.
So what's the story again? You either die a hero or you live enough to see yourself becoming the villain?

And now even Oracle is looking like the reasonable player?
> Phasing out natural gas in new construction is going to cause this passion play in slow motion. Have you priced out induction stoves? Phew.

Two things here. For one, natural gas has to be removed from the market as the supply of gas is finite, it's bound to raise in price anyway due to CO2 taxes, it emits toxic particulates associated with lung disease, it's more efficient to run a heat pump than burn any kind of fossil fuel, and it's a major fire/explosion hazard particularly when maintenance is neglected.

The other side is, if you're worried about electricity going down, you can always grab a gas cylinder for a camping stove and live off of that for a week and more - personally, I have an Enders Explorer portable grill that can double as a stove and two 5kg cylinders of gas, mostly to run outdoor BBQs but also usable in case of a prolonged grid outage.