skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where consumerism is high, procreation is low, as children and parenthood are antithetical to the ethos of consumption. This ethos infects and corrupts every domain of the culture and conspires against families by creating a mutually enabling thicket of disincentives, consumerizing and commoditizing everything, including sexual intercourse and sexual relations, in general. Contraception and sterile "sex" are paradigmatic of consumerism.

I have to disagree here. Having more money to spend on consumer items is not the only reason to not want kids.

For me it's not about money but about time. I don't want to waste time raising kids that I could have used pursuing interesting opportunities to enrich myself. Which are usually not things that make me financially richer either. And also, I just don't want them. There is no attraction to fatherhood for me.

But I would not call myself consumerist at all. I don't buy that much stuff, don't have a car, only a $100 second-hand TV, buy a new phone once every 4 years or so... But I do have a really interesting life. I learn new things every day, constantly move my horizons. I couldn't do that if I were tied down with a family. Many of my friends do have them but if we want to go on a weekend away we have to plan it months in advance because they have to find a common path between all the birthday parties, judo competitions and dance performances of their offspring. I can just do whatever I want on a whim.

And once people become parents their sex life becomes pretty much null and void too.

There is definitely a correlation between high standards of living and smaller families yes. But I don't think this is because people want to spend more. It's just that they don't really need a big family for "pension" reasons, don't usually care about religious directives anymore (think the big catholic labourer families of old) and want their life to be more than about having kids. Women don't just want to be a baby machine anymore. It takes a toll on their bodies too.

And I think it's good. For environmental reasons our population should be stable, not growing rapidly. 2 children per couple is perfect.
I feel Evolve skateboards are next. Remote drop-outs and start/stop issues have been known in community for ages. I miss Boosted - they really cared about rider safety :(
> It's the Amish and Mennonites that seem to retain people well by having it be optional.

Both groups have many instances of rape happening that much of the wider world is not aware of, as they are cloistered societies, so, combined with the fact that many stay silent due to fear of retaliation, those are not the best examples to use.

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-48265703

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/19/797804404/investigation-into-...
What do you mean by works correctly? By what standard do you say the software gets things wrong? After all it's an indisputable fact that computers only ever do exactly what you tell them to.
We play god all the time, and I'm glad for it. Little about human habitat is natural, it's all reshaped to our need by us. In terms of responsibility, it can be the same as normal children -- either they are assigned parents or they are wards of the state. They should have same rights as other people.
> and the F00F bug discovered in 1997 which causes the processor to stop operating until rebooted

You reminded me of the Things I Won't Work With piece that observed in passing that the behavior of dioxygen difluoride was surprisingly well described by its chemical formula. ( https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor... )
They're never overly enhanced. I would bet 99.9% of people who see them just think "damn, this guy is good at taking photos" and don't guess I tweaked them.
How is that obvious? Where are the statistics to show that they are individualistic?
We’re definitely on the verge of it not being enough.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2960642/cerns-data-sto...

“In the next 10 to 20 years, data will grow immensely because the intensity of accelerator will be ramped up”

https://home.cern/science/computing/storage

“Even after the drastic data reduction performed by the experiments, the CERN Data Centre used to process on average one petabyte (one million gigabytes) of data per day during LHC Run 2.

The LHC experiments plan to collect more data during LHC Run 3 than they did in the first two runs combined.”
Yes, I am particularly excited about Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO)
Lawrence Lessig's greatest claim to fame is handing Disney and friends unlimited copyright before the Supreme Court.

I'd hold up Judge Alsup if I wanted to give an example of a tech saavy legal practitioner.
Those ceramic jars are some of the beautiful creations on earth
> If you leave the house every day unarmed but the day of an alleged crime you're seen leaving the house armed that fact can be used to show intent to commit a crime with that weapon.

It doesn't however. Say I am usually do not carry a weapon, but today I wanted to go to the range, and I take one with me. And while cleaning it up, I accidentally shoot somebody. Does my taking a weapon means I intended to shoot them today? Not at all - I could have shot anybody at any day, it's just that the day I went to the range with the weapon was today, if I went yesterday, the same could have happened and would be as unintentional.

Or, for example, on the way to the range, the same day, I meet my sworn enemy, we get into a fight, and I shoot him. Did I intend it? Not at all, I didn't even know I'd meet him today, and if I met him any other day it'd probably wouldn't happen, as I wouldn't have the weapon, but again it doesn't prove intent.

It's a logical fallacy to conclude that if something happened, then all events prior to that without which it couldn't happen were purposely arranged with the goal of that event to happen.
> 1. Just the brown/black of my eyelids, with some slight variations in darkness.

Anyone else here see a lot of colors (mostly purple/maroon on navy/black) that phase in and out when they close their eyes?

Or do I just have yet another expensive problem to fix now?
I think the simplest desire for cloning is propagation of one's own genetic code. I strongly believe that these clones should be accorded all the privileges and rights of normal humans.
Only if your definition of evil is so broad that it includes everyone, including yourself, and thus making it a completely meaningless word.
A Reflection on my B.S. in Software Engineering
Figured I'd share, hope that's alright. Please let me know your thoughts. I'd like to hear about your own experiences.
There is a third party accessory to add front wheels called Fangs. They were initially very popular, but most people ended up getting rid of them because they end up making crashes worse. When the front of the board is down, it desperately dumps as much power into the motor as it can in order to attempt to bring the nose up to level, but if it is unable to level out you just end up adding more speed to the inevitable fall.
Says the guy who knows about neutrinos.
Technically it appears to be a RISC-V emulator in Scratch code, and then the emulator loads the Linux kernel.
Several = few >= couple >= 2
Living in a big city offers big opportunities too though. In my city I have access to a lot of clubs for the niche interests I have. And there is always something new to discover.

I used to live in a small provincial "city" of 150.000, 250km from the country's only big city. People often mocked it was the graveyard of ambition. But to me it really felt like that. I hated living there so much.
Why? We allow people to have children, why can't they have clones? We can still grant these clones all the normal human rights.
The Question of Programming, Refactoring, and Everything
> American Muslims are more affluent and highly educated than the average American

Is this not just due to the immigrant effect, ie the only ones who can afford to immigrate (legally, at least) are those who are relatively rich (which correlates with high education levels) in their countries? It takes money to shore up a visa and buy a plane ticket, that most individuals in poorer countries would not be able to afford. American Hindus (including Indians), East Asians etc are also more affluent and highly educated than the average American, for the same reasons.
Yarkovsky Effect
Linux is a combination, but it's worth noting that it wouldn't exist without hobbyist work.

That said, it would be interesting to do a breakdown of how much work comes from corporate vs individual contributors for, say, all the packages in a default install of some popular distros. (Also it sounds like a nightmare to try and do that analysis (ex. how do you even determine corp/non-corp contributors?), but it would be interesting if you could do it)
This focuses a lot on the production/offer side, but is there really all that much demand for the size of game advocated for? Aren't those publishers asking for bigger games because that's what the market is looking for?
> your BS

just curious, why are you certain about quality of essay from the post?..

for example I tried to track first of his claims about archivals. He complained that author of the book referred on some database, which she titled with some name. Apparently database is some Taiwanese site, and name was letterhead of the document on that site, and he made conclusion that she invented nonexistent database from this, which makes me think he was nitpicking to find reason for drama, because such database totally could exist since documents printed on stationaries with such name.
> religious energy is still ever present in non-traditional religions.

Which would those be? Are you talking about stuff like the rise of astrology and numerology in the US?
One could call it an unfunded mandate for public availability of restrooms. Not that I find that to be a bad thing.

I noticed in Denver a number of places that had gone out of their way to remove seating specifically to avoid having to offer restrooms to the booming homeless population in the urban center there.
Newly Declassified Material from the Yom Kippur War
Or they know the costs will be picked up by the people paying for Medicaid/CHIP and free school lunch. Those people will now be less able to afford their own children.
Insurance adjusters are straight-laced to the point of being anal. They go to prison if they're not. I trust them here.
This all sounds quite a bit similar to a certain book about a Brave New World. I wonder if that is really where we're going in the future, but again, who would take care of all the new children growing out of their vats, if they are all artificially created with no set parents?
Why is using a particular backup software solution related to it. Maybe they are using tarsnap or blackblaze ?
Regular solids and Monte Carlo integration
> especially from closer countries (Philipines, Thailand etc.)

This is akin to grouping Mexico with other Latin American countries when discussing American immigration. The situation is fundamentally on a country by country basis, rather than geographical proximity.

What struck out to me is mentioning Thailand. There is literally 9x Vietnamese immigrants in Japan than Thai.
Even Nepal is twice as many Thai. Then there’s Brazil. Meanwhile, Taiwan, despite having the proximity and cultural/social/political ties to Japan (I was at a Japanese island where I can literally see Taiwan’s mountain) is only the 10th. It’s not a matter of difference in socioeconomic development either. The top two immigrant countries to Japan is Korea and China.

Proximity is a weak correlation. The commonality here is that these are Asian countries.
I don't really buy your argument about what's more real. If I was watching TV and a character punched the screen and I got a bloody nose from it, that's pretty real.

Similarly, if my mind experiences my body reaching out to take a drug and then my conciousness fractures, I think that's a sign that the experience is pretty damn real, regardless of whatever fragile concept of "consciousness" is floating in that reality.

If "you" are unable to sense the real world because you're unconscious, that doesn't mean your body isn't cogitating, it just means that the individual parts haven't come together to construct the illusion that is "you". Parts of your nervous system continue to work, though.
Personally:
1) I do think that was Minstral did is based.
2) I do advocate for uncensored LLMs.
3) Mistral actually does refuse to answer certain queries. I wish it didn't, but it does: https://twitter.com/Aspie96/status/1707980233998012669

I'm not saying Mistral added restrictions on purpose. It may very well be that refusals are a side effect of data from other GPT models that they didn't clean out, of the fact that humans also refuse and possibly even of some kind of pattern the AI picked up but I wouldn't think about.

Mistral does claim that the models (both the base one and the instruct one) do not have any moderation mechanism. I do not know if it is true, but it is what they claim. The article also mentions that Mistral does have some refusals, but fails to consider that it might be unintentional.

Personally, I do advocate for giving everybody indiscriminate, unfettered and unrestricted access to maximally powerful free and open source (like LLaMA and LLaMA 2 are NOT) AI software, including foundational LLMs, which are entirely unrestricted, un-moderated and maximally neutral and versatile.

> On one side are AI companies like OpenAI, researchers, and users who believe that for safety reasons, it is best for AI to be developed behind closed doors,

Generally, we should be assuming good faith until proven otherwise. OpenAI is not "generally" and, I believe, has done a really good job at proving otherwise.
I don't think it's fair to say OpenAI believes any of that. OpenAI claims to believe certain things, and they are the thing that make AI look dangerous unless they control it.

> On the other side is another coalition of companies, researchers, and e/acc shitposters who think the safer, more productive, and ethical way to develop AI is to make everything open source.

Ah, yes. If you believe that you are either a company, a researcher or an e/acc shitposter.
Personally, I don't belong to the e/acc movement. I don't know their ideas and I don't think we need to "accelerate", I think the current speed is fine. I also don't associate myself with any movement.
I do think open source is good and I think treating AI as a special kind of software is a mistake. The same arguments for open source still applies to AI.
I guess that makes me a shitposter.

> Obviously, as Röttger’s list of prompts for Mistral’s LLM shows, this openness comes with a level of risk.

I think this is far from being obvious. In fact, I think this is far from being true. The article does nothing to support this idea.
Now, some users say that "Röttger’s list" doesn't actually reflect their experience. Indeed, the author didn't mention whether those are the first responses he got, or carefully cherry-picked ones after many attempts.
But a model that does exactly what the user wants is exactly the way it should be. Mistral is not that, but it should.
Not a book, but this article was eye-opening for me: https://aeon.co/essays/a-history-of-kidults-from-hello-kitty...
Similar to https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfinspector/ or https://www.reportmill.com/snaptea/PDFViewer/pviewer.html or https://www.o2sol.com/pdfxplorer/overview.htm ....
Sure, but China has lifted nearly a billion out of poverty in the last half century. Would it be superior if that didn’t happen but there was no censorship?
American cities are poorly legislated and suffer from a tragedy of the commons when it comes to basic public needs like restrooms. We have deep seated issues that keep us from being able to have nice things like that.
It’s not clear that it is. Countries in crisis often try to impose capital controls to stem the outflow of cash and prevent collapse but it’s super unpopular and causes extreme internal instability. The sanctions created the most effective Capitol controls the world has ever seen resulting in all money getting trapped in Russia and may have actually prevented a major collapse that would have happened normally if Russia had to impose those same controls from within. Without sanctions any money from Russian natural resources would have simply escaped and been used to buy dollars and foreign real estate. With sanctions Russian oligarchs had nowhere to exfoliate their loot and had to reinvest internally which may have prevented the collapse we wanted to create. Economist are going to be writing books for decades analyzing if the sanctions were effective or counter productive.
> I get the impression Apple openly encourages (and maybe even requires) it.

When I worked at Apple I needed a personal iCloud account to set up my corp MacBook. I simply created a new dummy personal account just for that. Nobody's auditing your iCloud account to make sure it's your "real" personal account or anything.
It should bring pause to anyone considering buying an Apple Silicon device for inference, at least.

And while you're right, I personally have no interest in running two 4090s. My 24GB 3090s and RTX 5500s can feel a little meager at times, but 4090s are still overpriced and power hungry. If I'm moving up, it'll be for density, and a few hundred won't matter.
> I “expanded the data pool” for my eight grade science project.

My teachers warned against this and told us they would catch us if we tried.
One risk in creating cryptosystems is that I think applies very much to these POS systems is that you create something, it gets broken, you revise it, broke, revise it broken, revise it broken, revise it each time adding more complexity... okay no breaks found. Is it now a cryptographically secure system or was it just revised until it was cryptographically secure against review?

That's very much the history of POS systems but it's even worse than that, because as the revisions went they added new conditions to the assumed security model so at the end of the day the security assumptions are very different from where they started. They might be secure but for example a function whose security definition is that whatever the function does it correct is always "secure". :P

There is one prominent POS cryptocurrency (I'll not name it because it's not relevant and naming it will just invoke vicious shills) which has a formal security proof that starts with the assumption that all participants have a network that faithfully delivers all messages without loss and in the same order. It's trivial to have a consensus system that is secure in that model because you don't even need a consensus system in that model: "first transaction out of any competing set wins" is an adequate policy, the network in that case is equivalent to a consensus system. (Maybe the system provides some useful security properties, but its security proof won't tell you anything about them)

In any case we're largely in violent agreement. I think.

While I can agree with your argument that some of the friction in these systems may have practical utility even if it doesn't meet a strong security criteria, the danger that worries me is that people don't actually have a clear mental model for what they do provide or what risks they have. This may lead them to expose themselves in ways that they wouldn't if the properties were better known, and ultimately result in losses greater than the benefits.

Or maybe not: lots of things work fine on fully centralized systems, or works fine even when their security rests on no one bothering to attack. But there is a little pedantic voice inside me that weeps at the obfuscation and misrepresentation.
> being a sister to D lang with similar benefits.

That is the fist time I hear this. Other than Python, I always felt Nim is more like Pascal and Ada.
Would you be happy if your vendor also double-spent, and you ended up with nothing?
Yet is's LLMs that people are loosing it about, not search engines.
NExT-GPT can read and generate audio and video prompts
This is exactly how I use them.
I'm not going to spend a bunch of time digging up statistics for you, because I think it is obvious for anyone who has spent significant time in urban areas of developed countries. The youth are obviously individualistic, focused on short-term personal fulfillment, and building a family is the opposite of that.

There just aren't throngs of young people living "traditionally" (non-individualistically) yet not having kids.
Very interesting, good luck
Couple is two. Few is four. Several is at least five. There is nothing for three, except for very large values of two or very small values of four (these are so uncommon in practice that we just use three).

> Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.
Envisage is English
Human rights and human prosperity aren’t mutually exclusive.

On top of which, they did such a terrible job of lifting people out of poverty, they unnecessarily killed tens of millions in the deadliest famine in human history:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127087/
that is not the logical conclusion; all it needs is people above some wealth line to be the ones who have the means and wherewithal to decide against, and it is their perceived cost of guaranteeing a good childhood home being input to the decision, not the minimum cost necessary to maintain a life.

Lots of kids grow up sitting alone with the TV and eating bologna. Lots of parents want tutors and sports equipment and musical instruments, and crucially: free time to spend with their kids.

They also want to minimize the impact of that on their other dreams, and if the impact is too high, they'll at least try to wait.
Aging food in a pickling medium/paste for taste and/or preservation is quite common globally. Wikipedia as usual provides a nice overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickling
I don't have this problem. Reaper, microphone + sax, occasional other woodwind and occasional keyboard. If I write code for music it'll probably be in puredata or perl (day job). Puredata for (generative)? sequencing and audio effects. Lilypond for notation which I'll consume with reaper or timidity. I tried windows - it confused the crap out of me. I don't mind OSx but do all my real work on a debian workstation.

I kind of just use reaper as a dumb recording reel - I don't use much of it's timing features.

At the moment I'm mostly just writing up exercises to fit my current goal of learning everything in any key.
Are keyless entry systems safe? [video]
Yeah I had a nursing friend bring this up to me and I looked up the paper; i don't know jack about the medical industry but these numbers were ridiculous and the methods atrocious lol. I told her that the stats were basically useless which made the paper useless. She didn't like my answer. My two or so diet sodas a day habit will likely continue.
> I look at cost versus VRAM. Fitting a model in one PC helps. Fitting a model on one GPU helps more.

Yes unfortunately I dont see 128GB VRAM coming any time soon even with 512bit GDDR Memory Interface.
The incentive is that the salary for a tenured professor is a sinecure. At that point you can just produce bullshit and maybe cash in on speaking fees and publishing. Source: TFA. But that's loserthink.

The freedom to fuck around and (probably) never find out is considerable. And if you're actually inclined to apply yourself that 100-150k a year plus your grad students basically means you're your own y combinator year after year every year. Tenure is HUGE. It's worth way more than the equivalent salary in industry.