skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can understand sexual desire, but is there really a "desire to have kids"?

there is even a desire for kids without desire for sex. which can be filled with adoption.

the desire that i don't understand or feel is the need to have kids to be my biological descendants

i see my kids as given to me as a responsibility to raise and care for. regardless of our biological relationship. for me "i want kids" means "i want that responsibility"
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Oh, go on. How did they report on the Scottish nationalist movement? How would you characterise it?
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> What makes a soil suitable for growing vegetables?

There are many factors. Sand/clay mixture (I think there are other types of "rocks" that make up dirt as well). How much organic matter is in the soil. How much water is available (which in a function of both the above and local rainfall). How loose/compacted the soil is. What temperature the soil is. How deep the various soil layers extend. Fertilizer is good, but different plants need different amounts (2-4-d was developed has fertilizer but it is mostly used as a weed killer) There is probably more that I can't think of. Note that the right soil for one type of vegetable is often wrong for another. There isn't a one size fits all.

> What can we grow in a soil that isn't?

That depends on what you have. Desert soils can grow cactus (add water and they can often grow more). I've seen trees grow in the cracks of rocks.

> Is it possible to transform an unsuitable soil into a good one?

Define good? Do you care about costs? Around me there are a number of places where coal strip mines closed 100 years ago, and the soil was good for a few scatter weeds, the DNR has a grant program to transform those into grass land, and in 3 years that bare ground can support cows but it will be thousands of years before it can grow corn. Global warming will melt permafrost and those areas will then support plants, but they will never support tropical plants (at least not assuming any likely level of global warming). Modern housing developments strip away all the top soil but gardeners often buy enough manure to redevelop the soil into a garden - at great expense. Depending on how you define good you can get very different answers.
Sure .. just as long as crazy assumptons aren't made such as automatically flagging single men, single women or homosexual couples.

The social history I'm most familiar with had a wide systemic issue with wealthy elite pillar of the community power couples adopting in "unwanted children" trained for menial servant roles as nannies and living breathing sex dolls .. not that you can accuse chief justices and their scaly mates down the yacht club of that kind of thing, of course.
Anyone try rclone or sshfs on Mac OS X with macfuse/osxfuse?
20 years ago, I worked as the plate person at a newspaper: we had two million dollar kodak plate "printers" -- printer is the wrong word, but the emulsion on the plates could be hit by UV light and dissolved in a chemical bath iirc. Regularly, the kodaks would fail, and my boss would go into the postscript (or maybe eps) files manually, change a header or some other malformed bit that came from the layout software that sent us the files, and all would be well again (our giant German offset web press ran linux, btw)

I think his name was Bill. He took me, a 17 year old, to a Sigur Ros concert. Great dude. Wow two stories that don't involve pdfs!
Let me know when you've built that non-hallucinating "AI" and shown that it cannot hallucinate.
For others who want to try their hand, or ears, rather:

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And:

https://abx.digitalfeed.net/

The mp3 bitrate tests are on this page:

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And be sure to read the classic essay on 24/192:

https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
As someone who does not have children I find it at times difficult to interact with parents specifically because of this mentality. Anything that challenges their authority over the kids (correct parenting, behavior, values etc) can be seen as a direct attack and people will get very rude and offensive. Varying levels of aggressiveness... but as someone on the other side of this there seems to be very little warning or notice that even minor transgressions can cause defensive outbursts.

There is NO LIMIT to what people will do for their kids and sometimes in a very corporate way they will use those kids to justify their awful behavior on others.

I'm dealing with some burnout related to bad job experiences, something in the way you punctuated your statement just gave me the heebie jeebies.

I apologize if this is rude just trying to articulate something I can't quite explain. Family members have kids that are awesome, I have friends that are parents that have managed to remain respectful and tolerant.

I think having kids changes your brain in an irrevocable way and sometimes people don't want to admit that.
A great deal of the current excitement around vector search is related to embeddings.

I tried to provide a very clear explanation of embeddings here, since I know lots of people haven't yet learned what they are or why they are interesting: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Sep/4/llm-embeddings/
I think at this point we might just be debating the meaning of "political order".

George and Lenny had an agreement and social relationship, but does that count as "political order"? (-:
That new tech. The article quote was referring to Docker pre-WASM.
The problem is with discoverability, i.e., knowing that you want to type "nytimes.com" instead of "theonion.com", or even "amazon.com".

Most people start at a search engine with keywords because that's how we've trained them for the past 25 years.
… not through “debate” but through discussion or maybe music, see

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/18/daryl-davis-bl...

“Debate” is one of the words I hate the most these days, it brings back memories of high school debates where you didn’t necessarily believe in your position and the whole idea was that somebody was going to “win”.

A certain kind of right-winger uses the word “debate” mindlessly the same way some left-wingers use “nazi” mindlessly for instance there was the headline “How can we have a debate if we don’t use the same language?”

So often a staged “debate” is an attempt to legitimize an absurd position such as the bad theology of creationism or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky

an associated “bad smell” is that idea that something said to be controversial is necessarily good or interesting because it is said to be controversial.

You don’t change people’s minds about things like racism or LGBTQ acceptance through having a one-time confrontation with winners or losers, you do it through the much slower process of seeing people’s humanity.
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This person is 72 years old. Maybe people don't understand what parents mean by "kids take a lot of work". Take everything you do right now and double it. Maybe triple it, because it's harder when they don't know what they're doing at all and you need to teach as you go. All your household chores: double. Work: double (homework). Getting friggin' dressed in the morning: double. Wake up extra early too because school starts at 7:30 and they can't eat their own breakfast in a timely fashion, let alone make it.

That's not to mention that at 72 years old, there's a good chance he's going to keel over and leave that child fatherless pretty soon. Super traumatically too because guess who's going to find his body after he passed in his sleep?
This outright silly, salmon tastes better and thats why people eat it.
There isn't some great mystery
about small fish being less edible.

I regularly go to the fish market, small seafood like anchovi and shrimp can be bought 4 times cheaper than salmon.
> Again Chomsky and other tankies

Chomsky is literally an anarchist.
Isn't the larger issue that the UK, like the US, doesn't have passport exit controls so neither government can actually say who is and isn't in the country at a given moment?
IMO, it’s option (1) if the effect is small enough. Option (2) if there are serious knock on effects for society.
If your thesis is that America should not have entered the world wars because of reasons other than it would've saved American lives to avoid them, I'd love to hear it.
c) They don't want to deal with the clusterfuck of dealing with communication between parties in the UK and parties in the EU. Because then, UK law would require them to remove the privacy tech in place, while EU law would require them to protect that privacy. And they'll have parties changing jurisdiction frequently, possibly mid-call.
The exception to the corollary:

"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."
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For me:

1. The Wire

2. Breaking Bad

3. DarK (German)

4. Halt and Catch Fire

5. Bosch

Others- True Detective S01, S03, Westworld S01, Generation War (German), Happy Valley, Mindhunter, Mad Men, Silicon Valley, The Sopranos, The Fall, Band of Brothers, Rick and Morty, Veep, Babylon Berlin (German), Arrested Developtment, The Americans, Narcos (Spanish), Fauda (Hebrew-Arabic), Black Mirror, Bojack Horseman, Vinland Saga (Japanese, Anime), Fargo S01, S03, Kleo (German), Freaks and Geeks, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Mozart in the Jungle, Tales from the Loop, Panchayat (Hindi), Paatal Lok (Hindi), Broadchurch, Yellowstone, Tales from the Loop, and Charite (German).
>don't manually focus well unless you mod the camera with a split prism

You can use electronic focus confirmation with MF lenses.
d) It's more worthwhile to give up a small valuable market to appear like they're doing the right thing for a larger valuable market in order to keep those users.
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I do wonder whether they'll let other apps hook into the "don't access private data for X" safeguards. In this hypothetical, how many developers would choose this – over simply putting their private data behind a password?
That's a good addition - I was being reductionist by saying it eliminates a couple of functions that identify and modify elements. With that said, I feel it's still pretty close to being "just that" - I understand the details of everything you listed, but at the end of the day it just keeps track of individual displayed items, if they are parts of objects and regardless of how they are passed in (params, state, context, etc).
We’ve also decided as a society, through laws and constitutions, that governments maintain a monopoly on use of force (violence).
Exactly - gun laws are way more complicated than people assume - some countries on paper will be identical to Ireland but basically anyone can say "hunting" and the police don't do much more than just sign off on it.

And in other countries, they make no distinction between a black-powder blunderbuss and fully automatic military weapons - they're both equally hard to obtain, so the people who do get a gun end up with a select-fire rifle.

Pistols are often more heavily regulated than rifles, because they're concealable.

In the USA you can just buy a black-powder cannon if you want. Artillery not so much if it is autoloading. The "own a musket for home defense" copy pasta comes to mind.
> Are you sitting there refreshing for responses?

No, I just saw it at random. You replied 3 minutes after my response; far sooner than I replied to you.
> I don't understand. In the case of a national security incident, the US gov/military would have popular apps cracked open ASAP.

Except that didn't happen. For example, there was a terrorisim-related mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, and they got the shooters phone.

Apple refused to decrypt it.

The Feds later bought a 0-day off of a foreign firm, thought to be Israeli or maybe Australian, and got into that way, but Apple stood their ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...
No part of the post you’re replying to suggests it’s opening the door to reciprocal violence.

The more complete argument is that extra-judicial action is justified when there is no other way - such as when the political process cannot effect change.

If there are no just elections, the only way to remove a ruler is revolution, almost by definition. In that case, “punch the Nazis” all you like.

No part of the post you’re replying to suggests they want to pursue or support tyranny. If some right-wing kooks justify revolution with demonstrably false statements, that does not justify their actions - falsehoods are never a foundation of justice.
This desire is why our species continue to breed despite the need to share resources. So yes, it's normal and natural.
> either because the police aren't good at IT security or because an insider will be bribed or (worst of all) a dictator takes over

... or because a police insider is threatened and/or hit repeatedly with a $5 wrench. One of the most effective decryption tools.
Ahhhh, that explains it
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I just realized the problem isn't as much about resource constraints but the political will and structural issues and perverse incentives. If OP is really interested in solving problems, he shouldn't be another cog in the wheel in the Charity Industry but attack the problem from first principles, read some literature.
> It is absolutely possible to make that (and more) by doing honest work.

I’d agree with you under our current ethical system.

Under my personal moral system, I think anyone “capturing” $1 billion as a “portion of the value they created” most likely involves greatly undervaluing the contributions of the system they built upon/in (which should have been captured by taxes and reinvested into that system), as well as much of the labor they employed (other key employees were probably given too little equity, and much of the bottom rings are likely underpaid on an hourly basis for the value they provide).

Personally I’d like to see significantly higher taxes on top-end earners to help allow the “system” which provided the infrastructure, skilled and educated labor, and favorable market environment, to capture a little bit more of the value it provided to billionaires and reinvest that in K-12 education to create a strong workforce for the next generation of business owners to rely on.

I personally think even with say, an absurdly high tax rate of 90% on earnings over a billion dollars, folks like Elon Musk and Sam Walton and Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos would still have nearly as much personal incentive to earn money past their first $1 Billion.

I personally feel that Jeff Bezos would absolutely still fight for growing his net worth from $1B to $13B at 90% tax rate, instead of $1B to $130B at his current tax rate.
Isn't centralized agriculture more efficient on a calories-per-acre basis? You even say that you can't raise as many cattle as industrial cattle production. Also, the more people we can feed with land in places like the US Midwest, the less land we need to use in places like the tropics which are more important from a biodiversity standpoint.
That’s exactly my experience (typing with an eight week old sleeping on my chest. I can’t imagine feeling 100% ready before, but the 9 months leading up to the delivery is time to mentally shift and prepare for the enormous change.
05:30: Cat asks for food, must get up to feed cat and return to bed to try getting back to sleep

06:00: Alarm goes off, turn it off and try to sleep again

06:05: Second alarm goes off, now I actually need to get up

06:15: Breakfeast

06:30: Sit on the couch with the cat and read HN

06:40: Leave to catch the bus
Uhh.. London has a CCTV network that doesn't prevent theft.

My parking lots used to be tech-free and all now have poles with cameras and government signs on them.

Face camera tech in all retail outlets. Every second or third home is plastered in cameras, some beaming their data back to some US corp.

Phone tracks everything you do, to hundreds of app providers, who then sell it on to data aggregators.

Refuse covid vax? No access to public services.

My IT friends have admitted the whole point since the 80s was the spying.

Watergate and Cyberdyne (nixon) started the end of secret keeping.

It is no different to Oceangate and Teledyne (sub imploding) starting the end of physical freedom.

Snowden, Assange, basic facts about GCHQ and google offshoring domestic data in the UK so they can classify it as 'foreign spying' and legally dissect it all, when they re-import it.

Deanonymizing online activity is statisically trivial.

All the 9/11 stuff destroying liberty and adding excessive security at airport gates and body scanners that were never needed before. ect.

Euthanisia has been legalized.

Some of us, do in fact, pay attention.

Writing's on the (digital) wall. Every man will be a 'slave' to tech run by harvard-types, by the end of the 2030s.

While we're "working from home", the gov and tech companies destroyed the physical infrastructure that allowed freedom and replaced it with tyranny.

People are fleeing cities to live in the countryside. I. Wonder. Why.

Here I am remembering and telling the truth. As if that mattered.

I'm watching this in real time without the means to change my living circumnstances, and it's a big old brain melter.

I'm supposedly responsible for my actions as a person, yet the gov and tech companies, really are indicating it doesn't think I should be allowed to exercise free will.

....
> That's pretty patronizing.

Let's be lenient, there is a whole cocktail of dont-abandon-your-child hormones in that brain.
Every word sent across the Internet is; every move accompanied by a mobile is; every move in an automobile with a tag is; every purchase made with a credit or debit card is.
Wow! Starred and saved. Thanks for the tip, that will be so useful for testing and incorporating in my Drone pipelines. I'll have a play and post an update, it looks like it should work nicely with my simple utility. Nice find!
Visited Dubai couple of years ago. Nice place to visit for a few days if you remain oblivious to how its society functions; but taking up residence will feel like living in a shopping mall always. Also, the general idea of labour abuse conveyed by this linked article[1] is mostly true. Some excerpts

> This is all supposed to be illegal. Employers are meant to pay on time, never take your passport, give you breaks in the heat – but I met nobody who said it happens. Not one. These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying, with the complicity of the Dubai authorities

> There's a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the construction sites, but they're not reported. They're described as 'accidents'. Even then, their families aren't free: they simply inherit the debts.

I was made aware of such labor traps meted out to Philippine and Thai women as well, who were forced to work in beauty & massage parlors, or as house maids. I was accompanying my parents a decade ago, who were rapporteurs on behalf of UNHRC. In many places, we were physically stopped from proceeding. The situation I am told has improved a tiny bit, but still remains grim. When you look at Dubai's manpower resources - you aren't looking at a industry, but more of a cartel working at a nation-scale.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-har...
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User/Item/Query embeddings are the most common. That way you can generate per-user recommendations, or search results for a given query (with personalization using side information). Video will be interesting, once we have video embeddings (maybe this exists already). It depends on the use-case but a few of your ideas are certainly possible. Generally I've seen them at a coarse rather than fine level, but I'm sure that's out there too.

This looks like a good overview if you want to read about it: https://recsysml.substack.com/p/two-tower-models-for-retriev...
The issue is when this kind of code builds up and no one other than people who consume copious amounts of various numbing drugs can maintain or read it. Not sustainable.
No, but you can check yourself. Flying in Europe is cheaper than train or bus. Not sure if there are Ryanair style cheap airlines in the US or other parts of the world.