skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> after all being comfortable is great.

Diabetes isn't comfortable. I know all about it, I'm type I.

Hardly any health issues related to "moving too little" or "eating unhealty" are comfortable.
Just use <https://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?type%5B%5D=64k&page=1>.
Isn't the problem the absence of random DNA?

I wouldn't call random data 'complex', but it is easy to sequence when assembling short reads.
Similarly, the kernel of Xenix used letters A to Z to indicate which stage of the initialization it had reached: https://www.scosales.com/ta/kb/105420.html
Helpful for debugging issues.

I assume this was common with other Unices.
But why did Epic start a huge row with Apple about their percentage of Fortnite IAP sales, but didn't do the same with Microsoft or Sony?
Experian slapped by DOJ for sending spam emails. Company denies any wrongdoing
What I read was that the founder and author of this thread got diagnosed a year ago and instantly got to building the service.

I also got diagnosed as an adult but though things started making sense when I went through the evaluations it has taken years of conscious thought to unravel my difficulties and even start to see what I should do and avoid doing because of it.

Personally I just can't find myself trusting a service like this unless it has strong connections to ongoing research or as part of treatment by professionals.

But I could really use a coach. I need someone to help me stick to and maintain my to-to list and/or help me write reminders but I'd really like them to really understand ADHD and be able to spot thoughts and behaviors and help me do well.

I've found some great paycholigists can do this, and I think it's very very rare among the rest of the population.
The fact that these naked mole rats live 30x longer than other rodants suggest life spam can obviously be controlled. Anyway, I can imagine increased life spam as just costing something (not free) - e.g. you spend more energy on error correction and detection.
Just as a side info, the profile card in Microsoft Teams does use Web Components.
>If they learn world models, those world models are incredible poor, i.e., there is no consistency of thought in those world models

Incredibly poor compared to ours, but thousands of times better than what "AI" we had before.
What does this prove about the client? Just that they have a reasonably fast connection (which in TOR-world can be painful to achieve), not that they aren't part of a botnet.

It allows you to scale your workload, but "just pay for more servers and outscale the attacker" isn't generally an acceptable way to deal with DDOS.
My favorite trivia here is that flamingos aren't actually "genetically" pink but "environmentally" pink because they pick up the color from eating algae.

Except of course "genetics" and "environment" aren't actually separate things; sure, people's skin color isn't usually affected by their food, but only because most people don't eat colloidal silver.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Karason
Niklaus Wirth also removed the BEGIN keyword from control statements in Modula-2 and in Oberon.

Oberon:

IF a < b THEN
...
END

Pascal:

IF a < b THEN
BEGIN
...
END
I don't get it. This is an extremely basic fact that most people can figure out after thinking about primes for a minute. Maybe if you ask for "what's an easy optimisation here?" This would make the candidate think more closely about invariants that their code should hold, which in itself is a very valuable skill.
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It's going to be sealed deep underground in solid, stable rock. If future generations dig it up again, it's probably because they want it?
Someone could just as easily have an oil tank near a legally drilled well, and contaminate everything.
It's not exactly at the South Pole. It is somewhere around 70 deg latitude. It is lunar day now which will last for about 12 (earth) days. After lunar night falls, the rover and the lander will probably stop working. They might try reviving them in the next lunar day but there are no guarantees given the extreme conditions of the lunar night. Also this might be an interesting tangent (not related to CH3):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_of_eternal_light
I'm in kind of the opposite situation where I've grown up in web dev, kinda want to get into EE, but the job prospects are really bad so hard to motivate.
>Why pick straws though?

Because banning them is highly visible and enshittifies life in general (paper straws are fucking garbage and everyone knows this) without solving the actual problem (pollution should trend downwards).

This makes environmentalists happy, because making life worse for everyone is their goal (actual progress on the problem means they lose relevance/social power and nobody ever destroys their own meal ticket); and it makes the greenwashers happy, because it makes most people think something's being done even when it isn't (and can continue to sell truthy solutions that feel good but don't work, plus the profit and power that comes from having massive capital stores in an economic context artificially driven to zero-sum with environmentalism as the excuse to impose it).
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from an LLM?

Cute, but practically speaking, I would prefer the former.
I've hear of the shipping cloud trails. How's this going to be employed at scale without creating other massive problems?
And people can access those systems via their own devices without the company knowing.
That's the whole point though, by requiring repair services to disclose they used third party or used parts, you get to make an informed decision, without that, you don't.
Quite easy to happen if like many of us you were taugh British English, and then you remember that you're on a US forum, and everybody around you uses the US spelling for things (and you get to read the US variants all the time in other comments).
https://archive.is/0n80k
In this case (docker image) I create an archive and send it, saves traffic too.
the fact that each species tends to live its own lifespan and each lifespan is somewhat unique (like not all species tend to live 10 years, for example) suggests that lifespan is genetically programmed.

There are some good, obvious reasons to not have parents and grandparents around forever in limited resource environments.
Or things need to be automated
I think it should be as easy as not presenting a drawable if you detect that the previous frame is still rendering. Should be solvable by adding a single conditional guard to the command buffer completion handler. Never did that myself as I don't have a use case for it, so I might be underestimating the challenge.

Note that mailbox approach does not really give you unlimited refresh rate, as you are bound by the number of drawables/swapchain images your driver can supply. If your drawing is very fast these resources become the bottleneck. If you truly need unlimited framerate (e.g. for benchmarking) the best approach is probably to render to a texture and then blit the last one to a drawable for presentation. And if your goal is "minimal input lag", then you might as well do it right and decouple your simulation and rendering threads.
Perhaps without intending to, you've cited a pretty appropriate example of overconfident pessimism. Philosopher Hubert Dreyfus is most responsible for this portrayal of AI research in the '50s and '60s. He made a career of insisting that advances in AI would never come to pass, famously predicting that computers couldn't become good at chess because it required "insight", and routinely listing off what he believed were uniquely human qualities that couldn't be embodied in computers, always in the form of underdefined terms such as intuition, insight, and other such terms.

Many of the things AI does now are exactly the type of things that doomsayers explicitly predicted would never happen, because they extrapolated from limited progress in the short term to absolute declarations over the infinite timeline of the future.

There's a difference between the outer limits of theoretical possibility on the one hand, and instant results over the span of a couple new cycles, and it's unfortunate that these get conflated.
Yeah, not sure what this guy is talking about. I'm syncing my notes with my Nextcloud using the FolderSync App on Android which I used for other stuff anyways. Works like a charm, never had any problems.

Obsidian is great, but I'm not paying over 90 bucks a year for a simple file syncing service I can build in less than an hour.

Maybe the publish feature is worth it, but I'm content with the ObsidianPublisher workflow I set up for now.
Yep I did the same.
I see them more as creative artists who have very good intuition, but are poor logicians. Their world model is not a strict database of consistent facts, it is more like a set of various beliefs, and of course those can be highly contradictory.
lol what? op is the one insinuating anyone using utility classes are ones that don't bother to learn a line of CSS which is untrue, so I find it curious your criticism is directed solely at me.

Value judgement for value judgement, I'd say the snark both ways is pretty fair. More than welcome to explain their pov.
Where is the above quote from? If I search for it online I can only find your comment here.
> runs on a nas, so it can coordinate the backups of the different machines

Do we really assume that the "typical home/family" is using a NAS ? I think it far more common that they use "the cloud" like OneDrive, Google Drive, Apple iCloud, etc.

That is not a bad thing (privacy issues aside) as data resilience is much much better in the cloud, than almost any NAS you can setup at home. A paid OneDrive subscription gives you dual datacenter redundance (erasure coding) with unlimited versions for 30 days of all files, copy on write, and much more.

And regarding privacy, that is also not an issue that the "typical" user is concerned about. All the big vendors pretty much swear to never look at your data _unless you share it_, and for the "nerds", things like Cryptomator exists.

In my book, and one i use myself, a modern setup will have the cloud as primary storage, and "all you need" is a local box that can synchronize cloud data locally with versions, or make a versioned backup locally (the sync is useless if upstream gets corrupted). In theory a "real time" sync of data and scheduled BTRFS/ZFS/APFS snapshots every N minutes would be a versioned backup.

On top of that you then add a cloud backup of the synchronized data to a different cloud provider, and you have 3-2-1 backup in place.

This will, for most users, be cheaper than buying and running a NAS, as the average family probably has less than 2TB data, and comes with less risk of data loss due to hardware failure. The biggest threat to your data in the cloud is loss of access, which you can mitigate with the local mirror and the remote backup.

You can get Microsoft Family 365 for around €65/year (Microsoft HUP program and other deals), which includes 6 x 1TB OneDrive storage. Add to that a Backblaze Backup subscription at €65/yeaer and you have both primary cloud storage and cloud backup at €130/year. Where i live, just powering a 4 bay NAS for a year costs around €200.

> Synology active backup for business, which I use now, goes there about 70% of the way. Any suggestions for alternatives?

I personally use Arq for my client backups, but it does not support global deduplication, only per marchine.

For global deduplication, you might want to look at Restic (open source, stable), Duplicacy (commercial license) or Kopia (open source, beta state)
> Generative AI spending this year just so far is 4x greater than last year

I'm sure they spent a lot of money looking for gold in the long rushes long before the gold was all gone too.
Are India and China and Nigeria broken ?
( I don’t have the answer , but I believe those 3 alone are “most of the world” )
I think there is definitively room for someone to add a lot of value to this by creating some automation tools. It would be really nice to be able to download a single binary, fire it up, have both a web interface and an API available, be able to configure it quickly, have it download whatever it needs for you etc.
The current crop of LLMs is like Paleozoic megafauna, or like Egyptian Pyramids. It takes a few relatively simple approaches and stretches them wildly, using colossal computing resources.

Live systems in nature seem to solve similar problems with way less compute available. There should be better architectures.

Also, as somebody said, every exponential growth curve is a lower part of a sigmoid. LLMs will plateau at some level. That level may be impressively high though.
So what? It's been a cold wet summer where I live. Guess that disproves everything. This sub-thread is about UHI anyway.

Look, climate fanatics are constantly latching onto random natural events and claiming it proves the world is doomed. They're always wrong and when they get proven wrong they just ignore it and pretend it never happened. Or they change the historical record to make it look like they were correct all along.

On the polar theme, look at all the stupid claims about polar bears from some years back. Polar bears became the face of climate change where I live, they appeared on adverts by the electricity company. Polar bears turn out to be doing fine and the self-proclaimed academic "experts" who claimed they were in mortal danger were all proven wrong, yet again, just like they always are, and yet again there were no consequences for their failure, just like there never are.

And how many times have they claimed all the ice would be gone at the poles by now? They claim this so often it's a meme. Search this page for "ice":

https://extinctionclock.org/

If these guys were doing science in the private sector they'd all have gone bankrupt/to prison a long time ago. Only very naive people keep believing claims from a culture so thoroughly discredited as them.
Not an expert, but one difference seems to be the principle of dual criminality:

> Specifically: the draft would authorize police to help foreign governments investigate activities that may not be a punishable offense in both countries, she explained.

"The dual criminality principle safeguards human rights, but it is treated as optional," Rodriguez said. "To uphold global human rights, the proposed treaty must mandate dual criminality[1]."

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/proposed-cybercrime-tr...
Not sure that matters much as they are only for low risk stuff without skilled supervision, so back to advertising, marketing, cheap customer support, etc.
I recently enjoyed reading https://every-layout.dev. Even though I considered myself to be quite good at CSS, some of the ideas covered in that book (like thinking about how big your elements should be and let the browser handle the breaking instead of relying on media queries) was eye opening for me.
Except that we've seen plenty of times that "non-physical" evidence doesn't exist and has never been relevant, and usually there's a better physical explanation. So by default, it's fair to assume that non-physical evidence doesn't exist, and if you use that in argument, the burden of proof is yours.

I'm open to accepting non-physical evidence if you can prove it exists. If you can, that would be very interesting, but it's likely that you can't. Again, anecdotes and tradition aren't evidence.
Many languages are designed with IDEs in mind and "dumb" text editors are not a concern.
>One salient question in this is: will we reach a level of intelligence where we become beings capable of actual collaboration that doesn’t waste so much effort in conflicts, or one that is capable of living in harmony within its environment?

That's more about ethics and an wish for moral behavior and conflict aversion, than about intelligence.

Intelligence (human and AI) could just as well opt for conflict and evil, if this helps it get the upper hand for its own private goals and interests.

Simply put, the interests of the collective, are not necessarily the interests of the individual intelligence.

(Even assuming there was a single, easy to agree upon, "interest of the collective" for most problems).
I had this conversation with Indian citizen a lot .
My very limited experience is that the sex and the marital status will lead the decision. Also; not being able to be dual citizenship is harsh.
> with known and acceptable side effects

I bet there's some unknown and undesirable ones, too. Law of unintended consequences on a planetary scale.
can you specify which one? There seem to be multiple courses by him
That maybe sufficient for advertising, marketing, some shallow story telling etc., it is way too dangerous for anything in the physical sciences, legal, medicine, ...
> The primary author of the shotgun assembly was Gene Myers

No conflict of interest there!
... and not all browsers support them.
Yes, I have noticed that a lot of extreme AI cynics have been arguing that any and every example of reasoning or thinking that an LLM displays is just some variant of memorisation.
IMHO, given the head is upside down, the ciliary muscle of the eye is having more difficulties for to freely adjust the crystalline lens due the blood pressure increment.

So I think the effect described in the article sounds more like a lack of strength, or a strength adapted to lower pressure conditions, while adjusting the lenses.

has this been checked?
You see I'm also a human being such as you who values life and people. It's a bit harsh to comment about my world view sarcastically like that.

I was just voicing something about the process: biology is a complex thing and longevity is not attacking things from a metabolic, complex-system viewpoint. As we see here, we are after single pills or single gene activations to carry us to a healthy state. I doubt infinite health unlocks in such form.

Another point is, if you transform yourself to this new state that's immortal but lose most of the biology that makes your body human, what does it mean? (reference to Leto Atreides II here maybe)

Why do people suddenly make it unethical to view death as most-probably-inevitable for human beings?
As someone that has done some Haskell, and does Java for a living, I think their metaphor is extremely accurate. It's not about purity, it's about how the functional parts were grafted onto the language, and therefore don"t "interop" with the classical ways very well.

In a good mixed paradim language like Rust, you can freely choose the correct paradigm for the problem, and can easily mix them. In Java, they are often at odds with each other. Best example is exceptions (esp. checked exceptions) and all Stream operations. They take a lambda which does NOT throw any exceptions. So, you need to either never use checked exceptions (which is impossible, because most libraries still do) or not use streaming, or create a horrendous hybrid.
I trust the scientists, the problem isn't them.
Look at the whole abortion data scandal in the U.S.
This is a maths book with zero Data Science content.

If you're wondering how Algebraic Topology can be used to solve real world problems, you will still wonder 300 pages later.
FDA approving drugs after fewer trials, providing less information to public
Which technologies are these? I've read about a few some time ago, but they were all quite pie in the sky deals then.
It may be a primal aversion to illness and its manifestations because of a natural selection favoring the best and the fittest, as anything skewing from that could pose a danger to survival. Let me be clear that I do not justify any discrimination or prejudice but I also acknowledge that there are primal urges at play and it's from this point of view that I speak, not my human own.
We have had no internet for 4 days now
For anyone being afraid of ransomware keep in mind you want to pull backups instead of writing them.

So backup server has rights only to read your prod server and prod server should not have write rights on backup server or at least “create only” if other option is too much hassle.
I'm not convinced we're going to get much further than this, at least without a see change in how this stuff is done. We saw a pretty big amount of diminishing returns with GPT-4, which cost 2 orders of magnitude more money to train than 3.5. Is the performance more than 2 orders of magnitude better than 3.5?

How much compute is too much to be spending on this bullshit. 30% of humanity's total computing resources? 70%?

GPT was a big innovation in parallelizing the training process. I think the optimism that we're on the beginning of a sigmoid curve here ought to be questioned.
Partly because most meetings waste time (moving around a large building, waiting for peoppe to get there from the previous meeting, etc), but generally to reduce the floor space used and reduce the property portfolio

The opportunity of covid to get rid of more desks was great, and we’ve closed two more buildings in central london thanks to it.
Gotta recommend this guy, building lots of fun projects
https://www.youtube.com/@RcLifeOn

(though arguably not undiscovered, currently 870k subs)
There isn’t a generic set of steps for all businesses, but this set seems like it would get you to a safe-ish bet. rather than a moonshot, which I think is what many programming minded people would benefit from.
The biggest evidence that LLMs can’t reason is hallucinations. If it could reason it would have rejected fictional generated output that make no sense.
Guess money is still the top then, you can buy knowledge (either hiring SME or giving you access to top tier universities/research institutes), you can buy time (someone doing your everyday tasks), you can buy health (preventive care and proper health care whenever needed), relationships (either personal or professional), and experience since you can afford trying and loosing money in the process of your experience journey.
If you go to the web site for the crate (or the standard library), and find the doco for the module / function / trait / ..., you find an handy "source" button. It will take you straight to the definition.

Eg, (me picking a random crate on crates.io): https://docs.rs/syn/2.0.29/syn/ or the standard library: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/index.html

It's all generated by the same system from comments in the source. You can generate the same thing for your code.
Surely Apple maliciously went after some tiny third party that sells 3 screens per year.

Occam’s razor..
Trouble with that is invoking main and declaring main are too similar. I prefer this:

let main () =
printf "hello"
0
int main()
printf("hello");
}

This is perfectly reasonable and has precedent in one of Wirth's languages (modular 3? Oberon?):

/* Syntax from memory, may be wrong */
function main(): integer
println("hello");
end;

This does potentially break a symmetry in the language as to how a begin…End / {...} local block can be declared, but whatever, that's easily fixed.

I don't see how this would make any particular issue for bracket matching (except one of the brackets isn't there, you match to something else such as the start of the function) and lexing/parsing is fast.

Just as a suggestion buy if everybody here actually write their own compiler, even a simple one, perhaps there would be less bikeshedding.
> other selector genes such as H63D and C282Y

A nitpick: Those are not genes, but mutations, probably describing variants of the HFE gene (according to a quick search).
> Epidemiologists, meanwhile, took interest in how MMORPGs, unlike mathematical models, could capture individual human responses to disease outbreaks rather than generating assumptions about behavior.

I'm a bit skeptical how useful this is; it's "just a game" after all. There's always the assumption that you can survive/win the game, and typically nothing you do really has a lasting negative impact, even in-game, and even less outside of it.

I would have gone to a city as well, to find the in-game cure which I would assume exist, not expecting it's just a bug.