skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We could fix this stair. It would just require the raw data from a variety of pharmacokinetic trials, some in-depth experiments on human liver and gastric membranes, and some simulation of the physics of how different drugs diffuse into the bloodstream and across membranes.

This statement seems overly optimistic. Predictive Pharmacokinetics that obviates most trials would need to model all possible drugs for all people. The computational complexity of that problem seems out of reach. The best way to get to know complex adaptive systems (which can’t be properly simulated most of the time) is to test them empirically.
The Anatomy of the Melancholy (1621)
I’d wager the primary factor is how you land, whether you hit your head, etc. If you land on your buttocks first it likely wouldn’t be as bad as landing flat on your back and striking your head. Although getting that much shock/compressive force applied to your spinal cord probably isn’t great either.
You can do this with an “oh by” code[1] since a code with only a url in it acts as a simple redirect.

[1] https://0x.co
I have seen what old age and infirmity looks like when you’re poor and it isn’t always that pretty. We all get old and fall apart eventually, but the ability to choose your situation (and take care of yourself so that you make it farther into old age with good health) matters a whole lot. This doesn’t make everyone implicitly happy, but it gives you a better chance.
Ask HN: A kernel module that adds a syscall
How awesome would it be if I could write a kernel module that could enable a syscall like functionality. Example: I want to make something like pipe() or fork() but with highly customized behavior that runs with the kernel and produces an FD to be used by userspace software.

eg:

int fd = my_custom_syscall_like_functionality_related_to_my_hardware(FLAG_X | FLAG_Y);

int rc = read(fd, ...);

rc = write(fd, ...);

close(fd)

Does this or something similar already exists? I can write kernel modules that add devices and stuff for connected hardware but I only recently learned how to do that so I dont know what I dont know.
Wrong take, and a prime example of the national sport of being overly negative and pessimistic.

Portugal did go early into the wind power game. It had its costs but also produced know-how and a relevant industry stake in that market.

The solar installation effort was much better timed. Solar being fed into the grid is a lot cheaper than other sources, except for hydro (built in the 60s/70s, mostly already paid for).

The current push will create 40GW of capacity, for a country that uses 9GW peak. It should be enough to run the country 100% on renewables. That's a game changer.

Remove oil/gas imports from the national trade balance, and Portugal is suddenly a very very rich country.
If we don't have a viable solution, do we really understand the problem?

Not being facetious. Saying we know that people are hungry is like saying my computer doesn't do the thing I want it to do. The difficult part is (in both cases) solving the problem. And that INCLUDES the pesky "why can't society just agree to do the good thing" part.
Sorry I'm getting kicked out of this room
There's a Facebook group devoted to the old computer magazines:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/521427671543144
Agreed! You can start by getting rid of whatever device you used to post that response and not buying any more electronics. Bet you won’t!
What was the thread about paper?

I remember when I first got on the Net in 1993, almost none of the sites I wanted to connect to had DNS entries so I had piles of notepaper filled with random IP addresses.
Having children changes you right quick. It's not just that you have to change therefore you do. No, it's that it just changes you. A 20 year old dad can be much more mature than a 40 year old bachelor, but there's no reason to think that the 20 year old dad will have less fun than the 40 year old bachelor.

There are tangos (and I'm sure country western, and other songs) that are all about the protagonist having had all these ladies as a young man, but never a woman, or how they left behind the one woman who was their soul mate just to get laid with lots of others. E.g., Ansiedad, by Juan D'Arienzo[0][1].

Here's Nick Freitas talking about getting married at 19[2]. Be sure to read some of the comments.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoHGmN9GTPM
[1] https://www.musixmatch.com/es/letras/Juan-D-Arienzo/Ansiedad/traduccion/ingles
[2] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u_q8-UNk4TU
Where are 12 junior dev days worth more then 20k? Not even in silicon valley salaries are that insane.

Relying on proprietary technology is in itself a pretty large risk regardless of the monetary cost.
In Favour of Simple Writing
When using changeset-based review, do you find yourself writing things like

"This changeset still has the problem I drew attention to in my review of the previous changeset. Please see the comment there."

? I'm just curious how that works; I haven't used changesets much but it seems like this would be one inconvenient aspect.
Most soaps are missing their early episodes; keeping all of them wasn't standard practice until the late 70s.
What is the advantage of that RPi setup over some cheap Android phone?
This is a fair comment - price calculation is one of the main services the free market provides and I am also skeptical that a committee can perform that service to the same standard.
What do you mean by locked away? He could have left, it didn't say it was a forensic psychiatry.
These sort of snide remarks are so closed minded, maybe she spent a lot of time honing her craft. I can probably ride my brakeless track bike in SF traffic with a higher safety margin than most people on a normal road bike. Don't underestimate human skill.
Not a fan of moving back toward indenture systems, personally.
We write off debt via two methods: bankruptcy and inflation. The latter effectively writes down the principal of all outstanding debt.

If we hit hard limits to growth it might actually look like a boom for a while, a very inflationary one where number go up a lot. In reality a lot of debt is being vaporized and prices are going up.
Oh. I just remembered. A friend of mine lives in an SRO. The owner of the property manages these pests with a room heater. They bake the room for something like 12 hours and supposedly this mitigates the problem.

As I mentioned here before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35699400), I prefer my "killing field" method, "The bugs infest your bed, reproduce, and spread out. To get rid of them you do the reverse—kill them on the bed with steam. Wait a day or two for the commuters to repopulate the bedding, repeat."
Yes, definitely Sopwith! I originally ran it on a non-IBM-compatible PC, the RM Nimbus. A lot of games would thankfully just run.
Locking algorithms are great, but before applying them to your problem, I think it is important to take a step back and ponder whether you really need to have lots of threads fighting for the same resources. If you're working with in-memory data structures that is expected, but if you're dealing with an external database or another shared external resource, you may be able to do better.

Often, you can batch the requests and hit the external resource with less concurrency, but larger payloads. If the resource handles well batches, you'll need far less concurrency and locking. For example, if you're working with Postgres, you'll need fewer connections, and you may be able to forego adding PgBouncer, which makes things more complicated.

Granted, batching requests is not something most programming languages are well suited to do. Those that are optimized for high concurrency like Go (channels) and Elixir (processes) can do it well, but for languages that do everything with threads it can be painful.
Oy, how often his column would send me into a rage. He sold himself is just a real user reporting what it was like to use a given machine or bit of software he was reviewing. He was anything but. He'd talk about the frustration with some machine or software and because he was Pournelle, he'd contact the company and the owner or an engineer would drive to Pournelle's house to troubleshoot the problem. Then Pournelle would gush that while things weren't perfect, their support was great.

Or some company would give him their $10,000 top end computer system and he'd state that the fact it was given to him didn't affect his opinions about the system, because he really used the system and that it was he, a power user, who was doing the company a favor by shaking the bugs out of their systems. I didn't buy it for a second.

Perhaps it is like some podcasts where you like it or dislike it more based on the personalities of the hosts more than the content. Because I have never been a reader of science fiction, I saw Pournelle as just a privileged curmudgeon and wasn't tickled that a famous SF author was sharing his personal life with me.
> the weird intel situation where the e-cores don't support the same instructions as the p-cores

Intel didn’t have this problem. They simply disabled instructions available on P and not on E. They did face the scheduling issues inherent in heterogenous systems. But so will AMD.
Why should routing nodes be rewarded at all.
>There's no evidence that consciousness is anything other than a state arising from the physical processes in our bodies

Actually this is backward, "I think therefore I am". There's no reason to believe consciousness is a state arising from a physical process, our experience of consciousness precedes our experience of sensory input and therefore the physical world.

There is more evidence for the reality of consciousness than there is for the physical world, in fact we know for a fact that our understanding of the physical world is aberrational.

edit: evidently alot of empiricists aren't very happy with this comment hahaha
It’s part of the right metric. Harm versus benefit. Often hard to determine the right values for each.
"What’s the difference? Steady state is steady state. "

From Gails article, capitalization from me:
There is No Steady State Economy (EXCEPT AT A VERY BASIC LEVEL)
So sure, a a steady state economy at a pre-industrialization level is no problem.

I am not able to spontaneously find data in your link for China, neither do I find my statistic since I am not at my desktop computer. But assuming you are right, what about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
"No pointers, no cry" was worth the price of admission. There are features and benefits here that seem magical. I may be misunderstanding, but does this mean that you could compile directly into containers like podman? That is, is the NIR parse able as a container image?
Sure, ELI5: the only things we actually know are from our conscious experience. Everything else we have to logically infer from those conscious experiences. Literally everything is built upon our conscious awareness. We have direct experience of our conscious awareness before we can even do physics to determine the four fundamental forces at all.

To clarify, consciousness isn't just a fundamental aspect of the universe -- for our human minds, it's the most fundamental aspect.

If you want to take this to an extreme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism
I don't think there's a good way to bail from a bike, but I can't think of a situation I've been in on a bike where bailing would have been a good choice.

There's more chance of bailing if you're on an undersized bike (bmx style) or maybe on a step through design rather than a straight top tube. But I still don't know where you'd apply that; maybe at a skate park, but not on a road and I don't think on a trail either.
I think consciousness emerge from physical processes. Imho consciousness is necessary to have a sense of self, and especially of self through time. This imply any living being capable of improvising new strategies (not randomly through chance and genetic lottery) is 'conscious' in the same sense that we are.
I believe sapling uses https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack under the hood for stacked PR.
But humans are special. They have to be special. Right? Not just what happens once nematodes evolve to survive better. Otherwise, why are we here?

It gets worse for this kind of philosophy as machine learning gets better. Machine learning is a rather simple operation replicated a huge number of times, fed with lightly filtered data about the world. As you add more units and feed in more raw data, it gets smarter.

Now we have a clue about how intelligence really works, and it's upsetting some people.
> It's a shame to see so many comments engaged in this kind of pseudoscience.

You have Roger Penrose [1] interested in link to say between consciousness and physics [2]. Would you consider that to be pseudoscience?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose

[2] https://nautil.us/roger-penrose-on-why-consciousness-does-no...
I sold my onewheel pint a few years back only after 200 miles because of a few uncontrollable crashes and nobody believed me that this is a dangerous product.

I warned the next buyer but he still bought it, just like me before crashes.

But I did convince him to join the Onewheel Crash Club Facebook group. For everyone who is interested to know how dangerous this is, check that page out.
The thing is this code only has to do one very simple function. It should be a few hundred lines at most. It's easily within the realm of formal verification.

I guess they always thought they didn't need it...
Not having kids is great. I thought I’d regret it but the older I get the happier I am with the decision. If you want to have them, great, but they’re not for everyone.
> I'm sure I'm wrong about some detail about some of the points above. Someone is likely to say "he could've just done this to solve problem 5(a)"

Yep, I'm going to do that!

> Work-in-progress commits towards addressing review feedback become visible as soon as the branch is pushed. This forces contributors to address all feedback in a single commit, or for reviewers to deal with partially-addressed feedback.

This point isn't really valid. It assumes that the contributor wants to push their new work addressing feedback to the remote as soon as they make each commit. That's OK, so do I (in case my laptop disappears or whatever). But, it takes 1 second to make a git branch, so you can just push your new commits there and then merge or cherry-pick onto the PR branch when you're ready.
How did this person come to learn that others can be poisoned? The methods of the ones who taught them are surely to blame, or else others can and will follow the same path.

We must purge these ideas by eradicating the language that could be used to express them. Just as the poison is merely a tool wielded to enact harm, so is language in the hands of the untrusted.

No other tool in the history of mankind has led to so much misery, oppression, death, and injustice, and now, the magnitude of possible evils is apparent in the very name: Large Language Models.
Scroll down a bit. The good part is the graphic that shows the history of searching for life.
Theyre going to change the whole backend essentially just for better not nil and static array bounds checking?
I keep reading that, why is behind? What Unity does better than Godot in 3D?
Debt has two sides. It’s a trade like any other. it should be arbitrage neutral, and both parties should be better off after the trade, or it doesn’t happen.
Welcome to SearXNG
Lots of ranting about ai safety people here.

We regulate potential harms from technology - including people other than direct users of said technology - all the goddamn time. We don’t always get it right, but we do it.

And yes, some of this relates to information technology. Selling stalkerware is likely to get you into serious legal trouble, for instance.
Not the parent commenter, but perhaps this helps:

1. Some people believe that conscious awareness exists on top of physics. I.e., something happens and conscious awareness notes that it happens. Here there is a flow of information going from physics to (our) conscious awareness. But not necessarily in the other direction.

2. The above (1) is not likely to be the true. We discuss conscious awareness in this physical world. Hence physics "knows" that conscious awareness exists, and thus there is at least also a flow of information in the other direction.

One might go further, and start questioning whether it is physics that does not really exist, and only our conscious awareness exists ...
Good luck getting out of a psychiatric hospital when nobody understands a word you are saying.
Full human cloning won't take off because it's too unethical - not because of lack of technological capabilities.
It is not as uncommon as you may think. Invariably, police find evidence of an accused’s browser search history detailing methods of disposal, effects of toxic agents, rates of decomposition, etc., etc.
If you want to know the excruciating detail of how people kill, maim, torture, evade and otherwise abuse others, pick up the latest book about the serial killer de jour. Trawl through court records where evidence of criminal violence is described in excoriating detail, including acts of genocide. Clearly, all the training material for the Chatbot is available on the Internet and it is no different from you or me searching for it. Or is it?
Why are people freaking out about a chat bot that can tell me answers to “bad” questions when I can trivially find the same or much worse material on the open Internet?
It will be war, it's always war that changes the social order.

Changing the financial network cannot be solved by planting a few more trees, you need to have a solution that values labor over rents again.
I think you can guess. I specifically wear a BMX helmet.
4K won’t happen for a very long time. Broadcasters get the majority of their revenue from retransmission fees from cable companies. Their OTA broadcasts are a secondary concern. Their business model rewards adding more sub channels and therefore more ad slots, not cancelling the subchannels to allow the main channel to occupy the entire 6 MHz. Many viewer don’t own a 4K TV and on the content end the cameras on the fields don’t support 4K yet.
They ought not have replied.

Problems with inflation and expensive housing in Germany will only fuel the discontent with accepting ever more refugees. My prediction is that the support for right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) will keep growing. They seem to be already behind the top-supported center-right CDU/CSU alliance.
Noahpinion's self-admitted optimism bias towards solar and batteries is unhelpful hopium. (and drive-by downvoting is copium, Noah! :P)
> Search engines also curate ~~nowadays~~ and always have.

It's impossible not to. Even merely putting one specific search result above another because it's "more relevant" is the very act of curation, because you are inherently defining "relevance."
I meant “standard USB charger” from your pile of random chargers, not the one that RPi Foundation sells. Such a thing hopefully provides the 500mA, that the USB2 port is supposed to deliver.
We can construct an analytical language to interrogate these claims, but that wouldn't change the underlying fact that it is not physics or math.
I completely believe you but it's funny to me that there is a laundry list of ways that could have easily been faked (tell it to respond with a specific answer after the next question, edit the text, edit the image, ask another LLM to create an image faking it, train it on custom data to spit that out...) to the point one might as well not even try putting in effort to proving it happened. Like, what are we supposed to do other than say "trust me bro"?

This particular example isn't so "new" in that regard (raster capture of digital text output), but just trying to think of ways you could give believable evidence... get a notary while typing all of your prompts, take 3d video with a camera moving along a random path in hopes it's too complex to easily fake for now, or record everything you do on a computer for deterministic replication? Anything short and it lacks any useful amount of trustable evidence.
it's a LLM. none of them have human decency. none of them understand anything - so how could they?

> The murder bit though - people do Google “how to poison my wife” or whatever, and that turns up as evidence in trials.

"weapon, motivation, oppertunity" are - generally speaking - the threshold for a murder prosecution. no one is getting convicted of murder because they googled how to kill someone (in isolation, at least).

> A local LLM can discuss in more detail and answer the parts you need clarified. All with no trail of logs.

ah, so, perhaps the government should also be keeping an eye on our book purchases, library rentals, etc.?

apologies, but i don't buy your dismissive assertion that the harm is non-zero.
There are way too many layers between you and the decision makers. It's a straight up oligarchy.

People don't feel like the governments of their own countries are representing them, let alone ANOTHER super government organisation.

Most people don't even know the names of the EU representatives of their countries.

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

You can see proof of that in the increasingly lower number of people who even bother to vote.
if it's used for productivity increases only.

We are well past that point.
So I guess I'm not clear about this -- have they implemented a fresh new compiler that runs on the GNAT toolchain? Or is this a stable/certified fork of the existing Rust LLVM-based toolchain with a GNAT branding overtop of it? Or something inbetween? What about associated tools like Cargo? Rustanalyzer, Rustfmt, etc.? What version of Rust do they currently target? What about 3rd party crates support etc?

FWIW I work professionally in a space which is likely one of their target markets (autonomous/precision agriculture) on a system in Rust (and C++). I skimmed through the pages but didn't find a technical explanation of what they're offering.
"And I say that as a native speaker of a very very regular language."

And what language is that?

"I always felt like in French you never know how to write something."

Similarly, I've had friends and colleagues who are native German speakers and they've also had one hell of a difficulty in learning French, seemingly more so than native English speakers despite them being reasonably fluent in English. Maybe understanding English is easier for them because of its Germanic roots which are largely absent in French.

Perhaps native English speakers find learning French easier because English is a sort of bastard language that's also part French.

I'd be interested to hear from others who've had similar experiences.
Sometimes there are bugs on the ground.
At least in my FF, the "never translate x language" doesn't seem to work. I needed to tinker with the browser configuration to remove the popup.