skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard problems are solved with money and political will. Political will is created with money. Money that is provided by companies who profit massively from the status quo.
> It exercises your imagination, your vocabulary, and ironically your writing ability.

That strongly depends on what you are reading and what your average level of education is. And considering we are talking about Booktok and UK, or any other country with similar levels of education, I'm not really sure if this is even remotely true. Booktok seems to favor more trashy, silly books, not the kind of content which will enrich your vocabulary or imagination. And I'm saying this as someone who also likes to read such trashy content.
"X" is overloaded, so you can't really use it without an additional specifier such as "formerly Twitter" and be certain people know which X you're talking about. It's one of the reasons why X is a really stupid name.

Personally, I just skip the whole issue and call it Twitter. Everyone knows what that is.
10 year old girls watches porn to such a degree it affects their hormones? Obesity is the main suspect so far, but maybe it is blue light, we don't really know. But we can be pretty sure it isn't porn, since it affects young girls to such a high degree.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/science/early-puberty-med...
The remaining tatters of the once-robust market for books rests among folks who are probably rather less-intellectual than you’re supposing book readers to be.
> You (and pretty much the entire debate around AI safety) have smuggled in the notion that these AIs even have the capacity to "love" and "hate," and have the agency to perhaps act vindictively.

It's a metaphor, actually. I guess I needed heavier use of quotes.

The one thing we can be sure of is that if goal-oriented AI exists, it will follows goals.

> How we get from predicting the most plausible next token to a god-like entity with agency is... not clear at all.

It doesn't have to be clear. If it was clear, we'd be working on it. That's... how invention works.
I don't think it's a training isuse. It's a "if something goes wrong with the output, it's my neck on the chopping block" issue.

There is vanishingly little value in deviating from a known-good workflow until you have a good reason to.
How much do I get? Oh right, just another shakedown.
Some of us saw what was going to happen with D4. It was pretty obvious.

After DI, and D3, to expect D4 to launch in any decent state would have been naive at best.

I've said as much in the Diablo subreddit. D3 is now a good game, if it is what you are looking for. It's a fun romp, but... It isn't a truly heavy ARPG. If you want that POE is calling you.
Indeed, from that paragraph:

"He was very influential in popularizing certain spellings in America, but he did not originate them."
> The Nexus 5 had a bootlooping issue

Are you sure that wasn't a Nexus 5X? I'm still using a Nexus 5 (running some LineageOS fork) as a media controller.

I had a Nexus 5X that bootlooped, so I traded in its replacement for a Pixel 2, but its microphone died, and its replacement had a perma-locked bootloader... but the Nexus 5 is still doing fine.
>For some reason our "fix" is to group people into camps that forever have 50% of the population that can blame the other 50%. This way, no one ever feels at fault - they simply "switch sides" as soon as they perceive a bit more blame on them.

This says so beautifully what I, as European, never understood about the US political system. They say it's the THE democratic system in the world, but yet there are only two parties! How could that even work?!

I mean, we in Germany have a lot to deal with too. But at least we can balance our blame on at least 3 political parties....
You make it sound like business shenanigans, but the truth is, it's a natural fit for now, as performance of LLMs improves with their size, but costs of training (up-front investment) and inference (marginal, per-query) also go up.
I don't want to put down Sam or his accomplishments but you might as well compare him to Barbie or Ken as to Oppenheimer
can't wait, for voice I need an app to improve my accent when learning a new language, so far I failed to find one.
Sure, I’ll just take some salads for lunch to cure my traumatic brain injury :)
+ steam now opens steam + shows you ads, each time when you start a game, using a game shortcut from the desktop. You still could disable ads in settings, but not starting steam.

Another "genius" improvement. Yes, I recommend buy factorio directly from the dev now.
In fairness to Zuckerberg, he was only 22 when he said that; it's kind of typical youthful hubris that many of us probably had to some degree. I'm fairly certain current 39-year old Zuckerberg would think it's a load of bollocks.
I think people who engage in whataboutism and defend it with cries of "hypocrisy" do not understand the even more difficult concept that, even if you personally think that someone else is a hypocrite, it doesn't make you any less wrong.

Indeed, whataboutism itself is easy because it's purely distractional: "but Y is a hypocrite!" a defender of X may shout, when the topic is not Y, or their hypocrisy, but X, and what X did.

If your argument is that it was okay for X to do the thing, then you should be able to affirmatively say outright "I think it was okay for X to do the thing", and convincingly explain why, on a moral basis, it was okay for X to do the thing, without bringing anyone else into it.

Otherwise, it's like a child whining "but Stevie took a candy bar!" – maybe, maybe not, but that doesn't mean it's okay for you to take one, even if you think that makes someone a hypocrite
Not entirely convinced this is correct. I've noticed that the humidity from a shower can also make air quality sensors readings spike so it does seem plausible that it's at least partially picking up the water
I think having the same requirements you should expect more than 3x deviance for a lot of roles.

We aren't talking about an observation between the random difference between two average people. We're talking about the most performant and least performant people who could potentially share the same job description.

The entry level is full of this. If you hire a bunch of engineers with no experience, how often will you see a difference of 3x or larger between the top and bottom.

I would say often, and it doesn't show anything bad about the organisation.
Anything that lacks a proper debugger or logging mechanism is a PITA to work on
I can assure you, I don't place used needles, or feces, in my car, which are the statistically significant threats that I've faced.
My brain now automatically replaces "linked to" with "correlated with, and no evidence of causing" whenever I read a headline. Obviously if they had evidence of causation they would lead with that.
http://humoncomics.com/mother-gaia
What did your software do?
That doesn’t answer the question. Since the space bar is at the bottom, I can’t navigate lower than the initial position of the cursor. Aaaaaand since the keyboard is not wide, I can’t go laterally to a portion of a URL that is far away.

Just to prove it’s possible to do better: iOS used to have the two-finger drag (one force-press, one gently navigating wherever you want, like on the Touchpad) and it worked.

I know something that works and something that doesn’t.

iOS doesn’t.
> He is expecting, and preparing, for widespread riots by 2050. The riots will begin, he says, as they have throughout history, when we run out of food.

Except, we (the rich world) won't run out of food. About a third of the global maize (corn) crop is used for biofuels and a similarly large fraction of wheat and maize (edit: and soy) is used for animal feed. We may have to go light on meat consumption and ban biofuels (which would be no bad thing anyway).

Places with ineffective government, dense populations, and water scarcity will likely suffer.

Global warming is only one of a number of things we are doing to destroy the global harvest, though. Soil erosion and poisoning (salination and chemical poisoning), groundwater exhaustion, river diversion and damming, annihilation of supporting microbes and insects, ... take away climate change and the picture doesn't change much.
With regards to turning it back into electricity, that is not feasible due to the way entropy works. You would just generate more heat than electricity in the process. However, there are schemes to heat homes with waste heat from data centers. I know for a while, some crypto mining companies rented space in residential structures and sold the heat to the building.

Probably a better alternative would be geothermal air conditioning. A heat pump's efficiency is related to the difference in temperature. Utilizing the constant temperature of the earth's crust, you can maintain an extremely efficient air conditioner. Iron Mountain does this.

https://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/showcase-pr...
I know that when my mental health starts to become a problem again the first thing that goes is any desire to cook. Which often leads to gettin take out, frozen meals, or just constant snacking.

I have had basically zero desire to cook (or really do much of anything in complete honesty) for the last couple weeks and I am super thankful for "processed" things like Huel.

Edit: Also I am 100% going to reach for that frozen meal from Trader joes that gives me a brief amount of joy and makes me feel good.
Basically it looks like if you own a home large enough for 2 cars and a nuclear family in a nice school district you are upper class.
CEO of Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket company resigns
We know exactly how to solve it, but nobody is willing to vote for collective action to give up any of their cushy lifestyle.

Don't believe me? Try to get a bike lane installed in your city at the fraction of the cost of car infrastructure, and see how many death threats you get. I wish I was joking.
Funny enough, XMLHttpRequest[0] was conceived because Microsoft needed to build out a web client for Exchange[1], which was a precursor to Gmail in many ways. In absolute terms, Gmail had more users and showcased the possibilities of web apps more broadly, however Outlook for the web in 2001-2004 was pretty sophisticated for its time

[0]: Though it was called ActiveXObject for a time

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20090130092236/http://www.alexho...
Euro 7: Council adopts position on emissions from cars, vans, buses and trucks
At 0:40 I see the sort task has magnets on the blocks.

I'm curious, dropped out of state school economics: for robotics types is "sort blue and green" something you should be able to pull of as an undergrad, given equipment?
Which of those answers do you think applies here?
Globally 30% of food goes to waste, and beef is so inefficient there's easily room for another 5% or more just from that, probably another 5% if you convert ethenol crops back to food for human consumption.

Victory gardens grew 40% of vegetables consumed in the US (back when we got a lot more calories from vegetables, and yes, corn is a vegetable).

It's not going to be one or two crop failures out of nowhere and suddenly we're in WW3.

We are so far away from starving or running out of water that it's hilarious.

Sure, our current way of life is probably not going to continue forever, but there is so much room for easy optimizations, it's outrageous.
The allegation upthread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37646366) was that security fixes are so slow to come out that it is more or less irrelevant that they eventually get released. While OO release notes do list security issues that are fixed in that release, I can't seem to find info about when each was found/reported so it's hard for me to tell whether that particular example was unusually long or not; if you have evidence that the process has improved that would be useful to know.

> We do wish to know about security problems. We are an all volunteer project. AFAIK No one is paid anything to work on Apache OpenOffice

That makes it understandable that people can't commit to working on it, but isn't exactly a counterargument to "the project doesn't patch quickly". Like, it's not a personal attack, it's a breakdown of risk factors, in which case nobody getting paid to care is another argument that the product won't fix vulnerabilities quickly.
I got food poisoning from a very well known fast food chain about 25 years ago. I haven’t eaten there since.

Unity just gave every one of their developers food poisoning.

I suspect similar results.
I am not a climate scientist, but I am aware that many people underestimate the concept of the exponent, with many not even understanding what it means. Preparing for a mass extinction event is impossible, especially when the changes in climate are unpredictable. I am certain about the potential of methane being explosively released from permafrost and oceanic methane hydrates. The changes will occur rapidly. Currently, it is not possible to colonize Greenland. Once the ice shield is gone, colonization will still not be feasible due to the lack of fertile soil. By the time the ice shield disappears, Greenland will have a tropical climate without a biome capable of supporting human life. The same applies to Antarctica.

I believe we may need to create an unshackled AGI that could potentially inherit the Earth from us. However, I question whether we will have sufficient time to accomplish this.
Fat Men's Clubs (2016)
Your bank account can sure ve seized by the government and even not auctioned off.
Selection was introduced at the same time as “space bar cursor”, which is with the introduction of 3D Touch in the iPhone 6s.

Actually, it wasn’t even a “space bar cursor”, as the way of triggering it was with force pressing and not by holding the space bar. It works much better with 3D Touch, as you can move the cursor around and press harder without lifting to start selecting, then release a bit to stop. My iPhone 8 can still do it, and I’m really going to miss it when I upgrade.
This is like perl's CPANTS system: The modules you upload to CPAN had their unit tests run on a variety of systems and configurations, operated by volunteers, which would report back to the module author any failures and trace output.

In retrospect, it's remarkable that it's been running as long as it has with little major incident.
I'm a computer scientist, and though I was well-versed in the intricacies of Y2K, I was not qualified to comment on how or whether computer failures would result in societal collapse.

I don't mean to be trite, but I don't know that being a climate scientist particularly qualifies one more than another on sociological issues. I look to the climate scientist to say "here are the probably climate outcomes...", and to the sociologist to say "...and if that turns out to be true, we can expect society to turn on each other like rats/band together in a community-minded effort to live in harmony."
i have never heard any investor who is willing to put $50K over asking, they are dictated by their pro-forma, they run the numbers and it has to beat S&P 500, much more stricter in sending offers. Families however..they purchase with emotions or schools for their kids, they are the ones who drive the price up.
https://www.freddiemac.com/perspectives/sam-khater/first-tim...
Articles like that give science a bad name.
We expected openai's announcement of the multi-modal models and built our platform to complement it. In modern LLM/agents, even openAI and Google have trouble defining their moat. So, as a bootstrapped startup, we are in no position to postulate a moat.

Instead, we aim to achieve a growing advantage by having considerable user adoption that exposes the agents and platform to the ever-growing long tail of unexpected edge cases. And boy, do we have weird edge cases in web design worldwide. But this is good and helps build up robustness. We have one agent per critical workflow to accommodate that. Despite this, our sign-in agent struggles with icon depictions. We purposefully didn't debug it or invest in computer vision, as we knew multi-modal was around the corner.

Instead, we invested in traditional engineering and ensured the table stakes and workflows were robust and scaled well. We use it ourselves multiple times per day on every pull request to ensure it feels natural.

But the most important thing is to find the users who help you build the leading tooling. Feedback is our oxygen, and we make sure there is a feedback button two clicks away.

Imho, this accumulation of smaller gains is as close to an advantage as possible, but what's your opinion on it?
Absolutely. The standard for printing banners / logos on tables etc. at trade conferences is definitely still EPS, from my experience coordinating with conference planners in the last 3 years.
"You can wake up the sleeping loop" clearly depends on the runtime in that you have to contact the runtime to wake it up, but beyond that I don't really see it.

Like, if I start a thread that calls `sleep(100); timer.resolve(); runtimeInstance.wake()` how is that related to the implementation details?
Ok, so people have had "child sexuality" since forever. Every time some person is talking about a kid's boyfriend or girlfriend they're talking about child sexuality.

The only change is that now we recognize that bullying and abusing children because they're the "wrong" sexuality is wrong, and homophobes have decided that instead of doing it directly they're going to try the "sex is sin" path of abuse and then say that the only reason for a non-straight relationship is sex, and therefore is adults only.

The fact that you go on an uninformed transphobic rant tells me which camp you're in.
I am also of the opinion that a world-wide shortage of food would be the most dire outcome of climate change. I have no idea how likely it would be, but I have imagined that perhaps one year the news would be filled of reports of failing harvest from all over the world. Over the course of a few weeks or months these news would go from being normally serious to really serious. At some point fear sets in and people will hoard food, emptying the stores. After that we are in a new type of civilization, where normal structures break down and new appear.

What I don't know is the likelyhood of global harvest failures. Bad conditions in one place should compensate in others, perhaps, avoiding a full-on disaster? But if we are unfortunate, it may quickly become every nation for themselves, but a level of panic we haven't seen before.
I'd still be happy with just my (GrapheneOS) Pixel 3, if only it were still getting closed blob security updates.

Instead, I've had to replace it repeatedly: Pixel 3, Pixel 4a, Pixel 5, and now Pixel 6a.

Each model upgrade was a regression in size and weight. The only improvement I liked was in the cameras, but photography-wise they're still only cameraphone snapshot grade, so not a worthwhile upgrade to me. I would've rather been able to keep using the Pixel 3.

I'm looking forward to keeping the Pixel 6a awhile (once the carrier flakiness that coincided with the move the other day settles down).

(Edit: Unless there comes out some local ML model that I want that needs more processing hardware.)
Good article (I remember reading that one when it first came out)—not only does it seem to disproportionately affect young girls, but it also seems to affect American kids more than kids from any other country.
I can de-Google a Pixel way past the extent I can de-Apple an iPhone.

e: downvoters, any counterpoint? Please show me where Graphene is leaking info, or, conversely, how to obtain code-signing privs equivalent to Apple keys on iOS.
I replaced my Pixel XL battery earlier this year, still works great as a backup and/or hacker news browsing device.
I read about NAC (N-Acetyl L-Cysteine) in various forums and it seems to be a relatively safe antioxidant that does wonders for MDMA after effects and "losing the magic". YMMV but I highly recommend.
I've started using white vinegar for most cleaning tasks. Readily available in large quantities & works fine for most household grime.

Initially thought it would make the place smell but hasn't been an issue.
You'd think the billionaires building their survival bunkers in New Zealand might realize this as well and work a bit harder to prevent the apocalypse, but it doesn't seem to occur to them that at some point their money might not save them.
I've done it in the US and Brazil and the Carribbean.
Not sure what was not neat about the demo style credits!
Were you disappointed that there weren't any actual presets?
Humans were building with wood in the Stone Age, half a million years ago
I feel like that is often true for organizations like this. Eclipse Foundation isn't much better.

Sometimes it is the place projects go when their original author wants to kill them but doesn't want to say they are doing that.
Yes, that's true. Many people, including scientists, don't actually understand how the scientific method works.

However, there is also another possibility, and that is that the word "knowledge" is being used in two different ways. "Knowledge" in science is often used as a shorthand for "The best explanation we currently have in hand, one which has so far withstood all attempts to falsify it." This is different from the kind of knowledge studied by epistemology, but it is a not-entirely-unreasonable use of the word.
Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro specs and pricing leaked ahead of Oct 4 launch
> They won't be addicted to alcohol, tobacco, television, mindless games, or any of the other drugs for sale.

Do you think you’re underestimating capitalism a little bit here? You can’t imagine a world where pharmaceutical companies over-prescribe MDMA for financial gain?
The idea is simple, you burn through money to establish a monopoly, then squeeze the profits out on the back end.

Hold on long enough to get your money back plus a hefty profit, and then when it seems like the laws will change to outlaw what you're doing, then sell ahead of the wave for more than you paid to begin with and leave the next sucker holding the check when the bottom falls out.

It's worked so many times in the past and barring some sort of major legislation it will happen again.
> Participation in religious services is correlated with a reduction in mortality by a third...

If I had a 1/3 chance of immortality, I'd join. Kinda takes away the whole fear of hell if you never die.
Part of me feels like we are well on our way. His framing is primarily around climate and food supply but if you consider society at large, but if you look through other lenses there's already deeper cracks in the foundation so to speak. More and more people are hitting retirement age without enough, or any, savings. More and more people are living paycheck to paycheck while adding a tad of credit card debt each cycle. When folks can work hard and barely survive, is that really a functioning society? How long before something goes from not functioning well to fully collapsing?
Doesn't have to apply at all, perhaps OP's job entails a lot of that style of writing, and it's just habit. Just like I still put a slash through zeroes (0) when writing by hand, even though I haven't coded on an IBM coding form in decades.
RustScript2: RustScript is a language that is completely unrelated to Rust.
Your run of Apache Bench only specifies -c20.

Please try this with Platform Threads - not virtual ones. It'd be very interesting to see the performance.

(This should just need a 1-line change of the Executor?)
In all seriousness, what fuck is going on in Fandom? It has soooo much ads!

I just turned off my ad blocker and literally only 21% of the page is content and the remaining is ads. After 2 seconds, it got replaced by a full screen ad. What? How? What are the people at fandom thinking? This is completely unusable without adblockers!

Don't believe me, here are the screenshots I just took: https://imgur.com/a/sNg3IlJ
Each "g" let us modulate more data in the same channel size. Spectrum re-use via smaller cells is virtually limitless.

And we're re-allocating more spectrum for 2-way data regularly.