skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting article. I enjoyed watching that movie not too long ago which made it even better.

A small correction:
In the picture of the reddit co-founders the caption is incorrect, it says "reddit co-founders (right to left) Alexis Ohanian, Aaron Swartz, and Steve Huffman in 2005". It should be "left to right".
Lithium, as an element is not rare, but the deposits that are economically viable to mine are. I keep hearing about extracting lithium from seawater, but no one so far have come up with viable technology.

Funny thing is: laws like EU's one that demands all new cars be electric by 2035 will lead to lithium shortages, which means Lithium batteries will become much more expensive in the next few decades.
Malaria is not a virus. And the problem is not that much mutations as the fact it can stay dormant, protected from the immune system.

Also having lived in West Africa, it's a very bad market so financial incentives are low. Plus they can't dev it themselves.
Malaria is a pretty complicated eukaryote. Makes it much harder to figure out and target and it can evade. A non living virus or a simpler bacteria can be much less evasive.
I don't think it's realistic. Certainly people are tired of the geriocracy.
Please file an isusue in https://github.com/oven-sh/bun and include the code to reproduce it
> SpaceX proprietary design info

I thought SpaceX made their IP freely available.
Why read books when you can have them read aloud at x2 while exercising?
Malaria is caused by a parasite, not a virus. It has developed resistance to antimalarials very quickly, however.
I don't have a metabolic condition, but I am on medications for a chronic condition that have "weight gain" as a side effect. I don't know why these medications cause weight gain, but I can tell you from experience that they do. I have to be very careful.
I somehow experienced data loss with procreate at one point, but maybe it was some weird accident. You’re right that procreate seems to advertise iCloud sync. All I know is it didn’t work when I needed it most, so I was leery of just blindly trusting it when the data is currently sitting on my table.

Thank you for pointing that out.
Can we just switch to pre-filled tax forms already? The average American spends about $200/year and 12hrs preparing their taxes. This study from last year found that pre-filled tax forms would be accurate for 42-48% of people. That is already amazing, and I'm sure that number could be doubled over 10-20 years.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w30008
All of those "simulate" not just a companion, but the whole relationship scenario, which I've been told is what women are attracted to?

Whereas men are simpler creatures attracted to any woman that is visually hot.

The former is a lot harder to implement than the latter.
At a minimum there’s probably also going to be soot, particles of burned engine metals, and trace impurities from the fuel. Protected land isn’t the place you normally go dumping _anything_.
I had the “fortune” to experience what happens to a budding physical relationship when your nose suddenly stops working, thanks to covid.

What happened was that a previously powerful physical chemistry would fizzle a few minutes into the act, leaving me empty, puzzled, and upset.

That experience showed me that, unless we somehow manage virtual smells and pheromones, no amount of vr or haptics will make that bladerunner girlfriend all that appealing.
It's also the goal of Microsoft in this project
Development doesnt stop at 22. Think development of sex life, character, self-confidence, social skills, etc.
This is a much larger problem. Fail open and you potentially let someone who has been evicted with a relatively unsophisticated method. Fail closed and you lock someone out.

Now, if you are going to say you are solving the problem, it means you have to think deeply here. However, all of the existing solutions have had unpleasant tradeoffs in degraded cases.
> It was created to be an improvement over the Javascript situation

I see this repeated everywhere in this thread. async/await originated in C# not JS.
Apple endorses bill that forces companies to disclose their carbon footprint
"you just have to know what to do" is the problem. You can call any color from any color, but for some colors it's trivial, e.g. sync function from a sync or async one, or a non-failing function from a failing or non-failing one.

I don't want to be able to call fallible function from an infallible one trivially, I want the compiler to force me to specify what exactly I'm going to do with an error if it happens. Likewise for async-from-sync: there are many ways I could call these: I can either create a single threaded executor and use it to complete the future to completion, or maybe I want to create a multithreaded executor, or maybe I expect the future complete in a single poll and never suspend and I don't even need a scheduler.
Not trying to single you out as this has been brought up in multiple comments in-thread, but I think this is apples-to-oranges. Diets work when followed. The problem is that the vast majority of people struggle to adhere to them. This drug aids in reducing the urge to eat, which reduces/eliminates the need for scrutiny over intake. It's "diet autopilot", which is why it's so powerful.
The text to image models represent the data that is being fed to it. If you feed it 100 images and out of those 100 images 95 are of white men politicians and 5 are of politicians of color, that's what you are going to get back. These datasets are gathered automatically from various internet sources and represent the data that is available out in the wild. For stable diffusion to "fix" the bias in the data set would be simply impossible. That would require hiring an army of people whose sole purpose would be to "rebalance" the data set on some internal objective schema manually.
I am horrible at drawing in general (though I do photograph). And even given that $15 is a no-brainer just to play around with.

And, yes, I'd never buy a subscription because it's just not a daily driver application (for me).
The most important thing:

> Additionally, the scrubbing process has fixed the packet, so now any operating system behind the firewall accepts the packet.

Ie if you are running a router based on pf (including pfSene and OPNSense, I suppose) you are probably fine, because you have only ssh and webgui on this host.

If you have a full OS running some services (eg MySQL and like) for which you rely on the firewall to block the external connections (instead of binding to localhost or LAn interface) then you are at risk.

Attacker should know what you are running that service or probe the known running hosts, so the opportunity is low.

ADD: it's not clear for me, but looks like this works for the forwarded (aka routed) packets as well. If yes, the 'known hosts' still apply but exposure is a bit bigger. If you are running pf firewalls with a full IPV6 connectivity - update ASAP.
I saw an interview with a movie producer from the code era of movies. He said they dealt with the Hays Commission and the Catholic Legion of Decency by including a risque scene in the preliminary cuts they submitted. They censors would reject them, and they'd resubmit with the scenes cut.
The Kindergarten to Germans you're describing seems like the "Kita": https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindertagesst%C3%A4tte - but the whole education system is very confusing and it's generally not language-specific but more culturally specific AFAIK
If what you describe were economic reality, ads wouldn’t be a thing. The reality is that ads allow a vendor to reach significantly more customers, paying for the ads.

You can see this with the rise of ultra specialty online stores we’ve seen in the last decade thank to targeted advertising.
It's called "creating jobs".
Probably no exclusivity. But there have been cases where an app that was only on ios decided to release android version. And immediately all their Apple contacts stopped talking to them. No more featured placement on appstore.
> Preface this by saying I have nothing against Ozempic, and its uses. But there are people (myself included) who do not believe for one second that there are people who if they actually watch what they eat and exercise, can't lose weight. Outside of extremely rare conditions, I don't believe that's possible. And yet so many people claim it. Just admit that you want a shortcut, there's nothing wrong with that.

My sibling, who has an addictive personality trait, required bariatric surgery after attempting for years to lose the weight (~120lbs overweight). Their doctor told them if they didn't lose the weight, it was going to kill them. Post surgery, they are in the best shape of their life. Insurance covered it, because they demonstrated they attempted all other options first. They simply can no longer overeat now due to the plumbing update.

But sure, laziness. Feelings over data. Shockingly common.

(these drugs were in clinical trials at the time their surgery was scheduled, and were inaccessible to them)
He staged a coup to get rid of the CEO and reinstate himself so I'm afraid "he was just collecting a bag" can't accurately describe his role on the board. The overall point here being that of course he was aware they would be hiring, and even if he wasn't, it was his job to be aware. But on his first day the guy doesn't even have it in him to write the trite line of "this is wholly my responsibility".
This article was at least partly written by AI. The give away is that after every use of an imperial unit of distance a metric conversion comes right after in parens. This happens even after unspecific uses like:

“… for miles (kilometers) around…”

That makes no sense and only a bot would do that.
We Investigated Roblox: Your Kid's Favorite Game Is Exploiting Them
Because men & women are still overall looking for something different, that's my 2 cents. What you say about the romance publishing industry is roughly correct although your algo description flattens the diversity of the genre (note the popularity of shapeshifter novels, paranormal, Amish with no sex, etc etc; there are many subgenres). What you don't note is the distinction between romance and erotica. Romance has a story with a happily ever after. Can TikTok or Instagram AI Boyfriend ads provide a story satisfactorily?

I'm not sure if research has really addressed evolution of women's expressions of sexuality over time and changing social norms. Even in the romance genre, what's considered appropriate in terms of consent and fantasy has evolved quite a bit over the last 40 years. That's true in terms of porn aimed at straight men as well, though not necessarily in the same directions.

But anyhow, how would AI boyfriends continue what's popular about romance -- the customization (subgenre for every taste), the story, and the happily ever after or happy for now for the woman? The last part in particular doesn't seem to be relevant/considered in the AI girlfriend discussion, it's just not part of the structure.

Also, dating sims seem to be popular in some geographies and not others; I know nothing about them, so there's got to be a story there...
I had the inverse: literally only a return statement impossible to guess:

return output
}
}
}
}
}

I guess this is one of the cases where an app should pretend to choose a "random" snippet, but actually the user doesn't want real randomness.
Affirmative Action Is Still in Effect. For Men
https://web.archive.org/web/20230908194700/https://www.nytim...
This is awesome! I've been looking for exactly this type of solution that gives a more intuitive (yet robust) ui and has node/typescript api (rivets node sdk is even better!).

Quick question, how does it know to choose plugins? I think you add a plugin node to the graph but are there ways in which you can describe what the plugin does so that an llm could dynamically choose amongst plugins? Or is this just building out a graph with nodes that explicitly choose amongst plugins via prompting?

Thanks so much for open sourcing this! Great work!

(also love that your docs authoring look to be assisted by llm's, so meta: https://rivet.ironcladapp.com/docs/api-reference/node/overvi...)
Of course there are still costs; the point is that we would be able to generate more and more energy without increasing carbon emissions.
On the other hand, the energy density difference is astonishing and this is where hydrocarbons are pretty unbeatable. 1 US gallon of diesel has more than 35 kWh of energy in it (and we can get more than 40% of that out of it with modern efficient engines) and weighs approximately 3.5kg.
Literally on the ocean, which is still liquid. You have to go further North before it freezes
Dawn of Everything is a textbook example of cherry-picking data to support a preconceived ideology. It's not good science.

Graeber was a smart guy, but also had a pretty clear, and strong ideological position regarding power structures.

Hierarchy is natural because of natural limitations like "Dunbar's Number". The human brain can effectively track only so many relationships, and at some scale it is advantageous to consolidate them into abstractions like "authority" or "organization".
So any company that makes a device knows that all their proprietary work will become public if they end support -- that seems like a great reason for companies to not build devices.
Unidentified Golden Specimen Captures Public Imagination
I mean, come on. WW2 and all that.

What's the worst that could happen... sheesh why don't we not find out for a change.

Watch the 10hr long interview documentary called Shoah and listen to how trains, buildings and institutions were used to do 'the deed'.

It was impossible to tell what was going to happen ahead of time for the victims, they assumed they were heading to a labour camp and being assigned a block of soap and sent to the showers was a good thing...

Why does this even need to be said! Do we not know our dark european history?

Conserving the known good we have, is not an 'immediate fail', as many futurists would indulge in saying...

At least you know now where you can discover one reason (of many) as to why some people are wary of collective control.
Does anyone have links to resources that someone new to Rust should read on how to conceptualize async code in Rust? Based on reading the comments, it would seem there are ways to start with writing synchronous code, and if necessary make it async but do it in such a way that is runtime agnostic... don't just reach for Tokio.

If I'm implementing a library, how should I write it so that the consumer of the library doesn't have to pull in Tokio if they don't want to?
Id rather train it on real data and fix the root cause than to interject some version of utopia that won the minds of developers.
Hahaha same. "Can you just sit still on the phone?" Absolutely not :D
Yeah, this strikes me as the kind of tech that becomes viable with unlimited free energy.

If/when fusion becomes harnessed I think we can expect to see a large variety of impractical tech like this suddenly becoming mainstream.
> i don't see why turbotax in this instance shouldn't be punished.

I don't see why they should only be punished 141 million dollars - they undoubtedly made a lot more money than that out of these shady practices. Therefore, this is just a "cost of doing business" and won't curtail such behavior in the future.

Not until the penalty is severe enough to put the fear into them.
Loans exist, especially for people who own houses. When I had solar panels installed ten years ago, I put nothing down and started saving money immediately. The system cost about $14K and paid for itself before the seven-year mark.
I suppose some people like to think that.
Yeah, I want to do that as well! And Lambda is definitely high on my list of potential solutions for that.

I'm still hoping for a solution to the run-on-personal-devices problem though.
Disney made a movie, 'Crater', released it exclusively on Disney+ then pulled it 50 days later.

Their own film!
Looks very promising. I will await with interest more developed tutorials.
I don't have any affiliation with them, but Together is hardly random and very important to the open source community, putting out some of the most useful work around things like new architectures, distributed training, datasets.
Silicon Valley's Slaughterhouse
I wrote a book and had a small amount of royalty income to declare, which meant I needed the 'premium' package on top of the state filing.

I think Intuit has made almost as much money from my book as I have!
Probably trying to save SSD wear via preaggregation, and preaggregation is so hard to get right.
One of the bigger problems that environmental organizations have no sense of proportion. They flip out over some chunks of concrete from the launchpad, while four-wheekers are running all over the same mudflats. Seriously, they need to put a sock in it.
If the only thing police did was correctly and safely execute arrest warrants for specific people I think people would be far less critical of them.
I think that’s the term used for synth music
I guess you don't drive to work if you somehow equate driving (something necessary to live) with taking mushrooms (unnecessary and risky pleasure)?
MacCarthy was definitely conducting Lisp as a language implementation project. He was just surprised that his specification of the evaluation could be literally translated to code and executed; at first he thought Russell misunderstood that the spec was just for people to read, not for the machine. Someone was supposed to read that and implement the behavior.

It's kind of hard to understand why MacCarthy was surprised. Anyone sitting down to follow the spec and make it work on the machine would soon realize that they are just mechanically converting the expressions to code. Like where the specification calls APPLY with certain arguments, your machine code has to obtain those argument values and call APPLY in the same way. It will soon be obvious that you're just hand-coding exactly what is written. People were already doing that. FORTRAN is "formula translator"; before Fortran, formulas had to be translated to code by hand. Russell was just "fortranning" the formulas in the Lisp specification, like you would arithmetic formulas.
v6 on the whole just doesn't seem like a well-designed protocol, especially not for the 21st century. It's kind of a shame that the negligible uptake in the 2000s wasn't used to do a go-around and create a more apt successor to v4.
Why do you need such long lifespan for grid storage? It’ll be much easier to service and change out modules in a grid storage plant than in a car. Most likely, when recycling tech is more widespread and efficient, you’ll want to recycle the cells quite often to stay at a high % SoH to get the most out of the material, and to exploit the latest chemistry advancements.

Obviously li-ion doesn’t need to get cheaper to be used for grid storage. It’s used profitably for that purpose today. What kind of grid storage are you talking about?

Li-ion is already excellent for frequency regulation and short term energy storage. Li-ion has never and will never be a solution for long term seasonal storage. Then you’ll want pumped hydro or other gravity based storage, flow batteries, thermal storage, liquid air battery, etc.

I think liquid metal batteries might outcompete li-ion in the end. And they do probably have 30 year lifespans with little to no maintenance. But it’ll be the cost and rapid scalability that’s the critical factor.
> disturbing to think about

Why, exactly? Every time somebody tries to defend that position it either becomes a circular argument (x is bad because it leads to more x!) or a non-sequitir (there was once a guy who did x and he became a mass murderer!). It doesn't destroy your lungs and kill you like smoking does or cause you to crash your car and kill other people like drinking does - in the worst case, it just turns you into a recluse which I believe is exactly what women _want_ of the unwanted men who find refuge in it. They certainly don't want those men trying to talk to them.
Yes, I agree many expert's informed (not intuitive) opinions are going to be better than uniform sampling. That's not what intuition is: intuition is the ability to make a prediction without thinking about it or using reason. But in practice it's really more a statement about one's inability to recognize that one's own mind did think, or did reason, but in a way that didn't appear to the conscious mind.
But the whole relationship scenario exactly what you'd want an AI partner for, is my bafflement. If I want porn I have plenty of free stuff on PornHub et al. There's no reason to get an intelligent anything, artificial or not, if I actually just want generated fap material. It's obviously selling companionship as well as porn, which is definitely more what I see in erotica, which I already know is fairly formuliac as it is-- basically like porn. So I'm asking: why is it so skewed, because there's clearly a mix of both appeals here. If it was a40/60 or a 70/30 skew, okay because ads are primarily visual attractors. But this makes it sound more like 90/10 or 95/5, which makes no sense to me, I know that fake relationships with hot men is one of the few ways you can make a good income as a self published author.
Apple is a very profitable company, with the largest market cap in the U.S. Its cost of computing a carbon footprint as a fraction of its revenues is probably much lower than for most other companies. It is common for companies and professional groups to endorse legislation that will hamper competitors.
it also advertises news, music and apple tv (and probably all their services, those are just the ones i've noticed)
We have a serious problem if someone making a minor comment results in a 10-email tirade because "that's just science" or whatever nonsense is being used to justify it.
That’s not all this program seems to offer. I’d specifically be interested in a way to be able to connect directly with engineers at Apple, and to others who are building things similar to what I’d be building. This program offers that.

For what it’s worth, I’d be willing to pay for it. Perhaps even a substantial amount.

Maybe a better approach would be to charge like $5k for the program, but have a “scholarship” system in place for these communities. Give them their own space to discuss issues important to them that aren’t relevant to those outside that community even.

As it is, I feel like this is creating separate systems for underrepresented groups. Regardless of how those groups are defined, we already know that “separate but equal”… isn’t.
90% is the distraction of smart phones, streaming, etc... we used to do shit because we were bored as f*k.

There's nothing else to do? Well I might as well:

- do my taxes

- mow the lawn

- do a batch of laundry
... etc.

Abundant entertainment leaves little room for otherwise boring but useful and necessary activities.
The founder (James Cuda) was on a podcast in 2020 and as of that time, he and his wife were the only investors in the company. That year they had $30 million in revenue and 43 employees.

I’m guessing any screw tightening will come when Adobe (just a guess) eventually buys it for a lot of money and the company has to raise prices and move to a subscription model to service the debt.
Here's an idea nobody has brought up yet: AI boyfriends are not good enough yet.

Romance plots involve an intricate and complicated progression of emotions. Lonely guys need a lot less and don't mind skipping the romancing part of the romantic experience.
<Unless I'm missing something ... quick mutation of the virus>

It is a long article but you missed the part at the beginning of the article explaining that malaria is not caused by a virus or bacteria but a parasite.

Also the chart labelled 'Vaccine Discovery' which clearly shows no previously existing vaccines against parasites.

Also, the world map showing where Malaria has not been eradicated clearly indicates that it is found in the tropical belt where unfortunately a lot of poor countries exist.