skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To go from nothing to that level of complexity in one stroke seems impossible. But nobody thinks that single celled organisms sprang into existence like that.

Most theories postulate simpler replicating chemical reactions, maybe around hydrothermal vents or pools, possibly forming in mineral structures and cavities. Later on membranes may have formed, and so on. Many steps, not one.
This response, to me, misses the point. Yes, you gotta play the hand you're dealt. It's not crippling at all to acknowledge the cards in your hand. If you don't have any pairs or face cards or whatever, it is not crippling to acknowledge that. Acknowledging the help of other is not telling ourselves we're succeeding because of "what we were given", and acknowledging the role of chance isn't denigratory either. To me, acknowledging what others helped us with, the chance encounters that helped, etc can help us seek out more chance, more help, and then provide that to others as well. Then we can indeed make our own luck and create luck for others.

Acknowledging the help of others is just not at all the same as lessening our own contributions.

I guess it is true that some folks see it that way, that if you ever thank or acknowledge anyone else then you're weak, there is this pressure to pretend that everything is original and done alone, but... that's just lying.
Initial Release of Incus
Until "nationalism" goes away, this is effectively impossible.

Just my opinion.

Some religious leaders argue for global citizenship.

Infinite Improbability Machine:

https://www.quora.com/What-if-Napoleon-had-a-B-52-bomber-at-...
I really can’t understand what the end game is here for Canada. The entire mindset of the nation is just resource extraction. Resources from the land, resources from existing dwellings and municipalities, resources from income, borrowing resources from the youth. Nobody just comes out and says “heres the problem and heres the plan”. We just get these absurd solutions to problems 99.999 of the population don’t have.

With a few exceptions, almost nothing stands on its own merit. Sure, Drake, Beiber, and Schitts Creek were good. Just make better things. Write better content. Build sustainable businesses. Look to the future. Set a vision in place. Something.
Milvus is open source https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus
"BAKC": When you care to steal the very best.
The average sales tax in the US is 5.1%.
>without inciting a mass genocide

The Myanmar government incited a mass genocide, Facebook was just one of the communication mediums they used.

>capitalism should be abolished

Pretty rich saying this while commenting on Myanmar. Myanmar did abolish capitalism, that's why they have a communist government, and nobody has the power to stand up to the government because no capitalism == no private property. Abolishing capitalism is essentially saying "only people in the government are allowed to own property", and on top of that constructing a violent state apparatus to destroy anyone who dares to acquire property of their own.

You can't abolish capitalism without also having groups of armed men arresting or killing anyone who tries to open a shop, because violently intervening is the only way to stop two willing parties from trading with each other. And this is not exaggeration, it's literally what happened in China and Russia after the communist revolutions.
Rewriting makes sense if they do the same thing to the material being searched. It has been obvious to me that the ads do more generic matching than the search results but I do not consider that to be evil.

I just wish they would leave alone the modifiers we can apply to actual search results. (And, for Google Translate, allow specifying that adult results are acceptable. Normally, with a term that can be adult or not you only get non-adult results but it's easy enough to throw in an explicitly adult term to fix that. Throwing in extra terms doesn't work so well with translate--that means it's basically impossible to get the adult result for an ambiguous word. What's the dirty word for the male reproductive organ? English has no unambiguous word for this, thus the translation is impossible.)
This is the context to the current state of the relationship.

Not every reference to history is whataboutism.
There is no word for swapping $5 of crypto on Uniswap currently costing ~$2 in gas fees (and this is 'low') and taking several minutes other than "dumb".

There are other cryptos which have most or all of the advantages of Ethereum with minimal downsides. I don't want to come across as shilling any particular bag, so I'll be vague and say there are chains with reasonable amounts of activity where transactions take seconds and fees are $0.00x or $0.000x. This actually is disruptive and interesting compared to fees for Stripe/Braintree or even Mastercard/Visa.

The reality is that if Ethereum released today with its capabilities, it would not see widespread adoption. Its position today is purely because it's the incumbent smart contract chain.
perhaps vigorous exercise in the form of running from police, throwing molotov cocktails, and hand to hand fighting their shiny AI overlords robot assassins would keep them in better shape?
Alright, but you've sort of re-invented docker compose there, but as a shell script. These days docker compose even work with podman if you really prefer IBM's docker implementation to the original.
Yes, the parts of the brain attempting to apply correct grammar to a given idea are likely quite similar.

As in, the part with producing language. I.e large language model.
Very cool, I like the idea, reminds me of css modules in react, but easier. Or svelte/vue css.

Its weird to compare this to tailwind and say it’s a simpler abstraction though. This requires JS on the client, whereas tailwind does not. This modifies the css styles you write at runtime, tailwind does not.

> Tailwind verbosity goes up with more child elements

True, but in component-driven design this does not happen in source code at least. The tailwind classes are only defined in each component, not the usages.

> No chance of deprecations. 16 lines is infinitely maintainable.

Ridiculous claim, sorry. Those 16 lines aren’t trivial, aren’t tested, aren’t formatted (would be more like 30-40 lines I would think)

Anyway, I’m impressed with the idea and concept behind it. Good work on implementing it!
In the slight case that you are arguing in good faith. What does US/Russia affairs have to do with Russia following the UN resolutions they sign themselves?
Anything that can lead to flame wars is frowned upon and gets pruned in a number of ways. Political topics tend not to lead to useful, sober discussions.
To echo others, it’s against policy. Not that we don’t care (we do) but that it’s better covered (and serviced) elsewhere, this isn’t the forum for those kinds of discussions.
Or maybe the "ramen" (vs "varelse") from the Ender's Game series...
I doubt it. In fact, due to human activity, Earth may be the only planet that can't support intelligent life in a sustainable way. Even if we were to discover intelligent life on earth, it might not survive long in our current internet-meme-dominated ecosystem.
> infraviolet

…Blue?
How can you assert that they haven’t?
> The only "innovation" of capitalism is intermediation, otherwise called "rent-seeking". One of the big lies Big Pharma tells you is that R&D is expensive but the actual R&D is done primarily by government funding and research at colleges. Big Pharma spends WAAY more on marketing.

Yet when shit hit the fan with a global pandemic, it was US Pharma companies that were both able to develop and produce and distribute at scale effective vaccines in a very short amount of time.
Not really, one planet could have seeded the other
Private sector highways here in Canada are a disaster and an embarrassment. They have near zero public support (aside from libertarians).
And is it true?
Also /r/israel is in "private community mode" and /r/palestine remains open. This is just for informative purposes.
Enough is enough. Y'all need to pack it up and go home. The big boy browsers are making features that make websites seem like native applications while y'all are still struggling making css look right. Maybe this is not a brave
thing specifically since last I looked brave was based on chromium so should have feature parity with chrome browsers, but then what's the point? Are we just pointing things to different servers in the source (or removing that part) and claiming FOSS/privacy. I'm honestly confused by these alternative browsers.
If having no parents is awful, single parentage is rough but barely navigable with money, and two parents seems to work pretty well… why would three parents not continue the pattern? Why shouldn’t a throuple be as much an improvement over a couple as a couple is over a single?
People that have done it for significant amounts of time realize it's not even the talking that is hard - it's the scheduling.

So many conflicting calendars, and scheduling issues to deal with. Especially if some/all of you have children..
How to Make a CPU – A Simple Picture Based Explanation (2021)
Likely the issue is related to circulation (or lack thereof), lack of exercise in key core muscle groups (including the heart), and nerve inflammation in spots where there is consistent pressure.

Notably, the bed is much worse for this than sitting (see bed sores, compartment syndrome, etc).
World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days
If total shrink as a percentage of sales has remained within a narrow band for many years, then it's natural to wonder why there's suddenly wall-to-wall coverage of the ostensible crisis of retail theft.

From the panicked noises made by this CEO and his media amplifiers, you'd think losses must be up by a factor of ten.

The fact that total losses are relatively constant gives the lie to the entire narrative.
Prevent creating accounts in countries they cannot operate responsibly. Disallow comments in languages they cannot moderate.
Russia doesn't uphold any of their promises, to anyone.
I actually critized the free market for being totally fine with, e.g., fascism, or any kind of atrocoty as long as profits are to be made...
That's the nice way to cheat with AI. It takes a probabilistic set of inquiries to discern the truth.

And right now, I'm in my states capitol, looking for a restaurant... Using Google maps. And when I searched for restaurants, was given an advertised 'optimized' curated set of restaurants. And within walking distance, they're missing easily half of the restaurants.

Now, which half are they missing? The small one-off places just aren't here on a search. HOWEVER, if you zoom in all the way, then those less-indexed restaurants FINALLY show up.

I'm sitting in 1 of those deindexed eateries right now. So yeah, the article's true and has been for a while now.
Have you read Cracking the PM Interview?
Another day another JavaScript framework.

Also, to me at least, just because it’s able to execute code on the browser and on the server doesn’t mean “full stack”.

Let me know when it supports all the real stuff you need to build actual “full stack” applications.
Raw clocks matter far less than architectural efficiency and instruction throughput.

A 16MHz 386 was around 2MIPS, around the same as a 12MHz 68000.

A 40MHz 68040 was around 40MIPS, a 66MHz 468DX2 was around 25MIPS.

The 68040 also had significantly faster floating point performance.

It's slightly insane that the 68000 (released 1979) was comparable in performance to a VAX 11/780 (released 1977) - for a tiny fraction of the cost.
The author read the slide wrong.
Once a 256th develops, the overflow causes every intelligent form of life to disappear.
>If you squint hard enough, much of SaaS is really just a big consulting package. The software is a shiny distraction to keep everyone participating. We only want to use just the right amount of software. No more, no less. The business can be much easier to change than the code in many cases. Sometimes back office processes completely evaporate when you get 2 employees together who have never met before.

What a great paragraph and overall reply. Thank you. I really like the bit about shiny software in particular. Also, the quick point otherwise about arbitrary ideology. At the end of the day, a lot of us are not building products driven by some serious human/moral/emotional mission. Instead, they're fairly ordinary enterprise (or other) SaaS products. So - ok to take the money too.
I think this could be a maybe a way to assess the efficiency of the QA team, but I am skeptic of using it as a metric about estimating the number of bugs. This is because QA is there to help with reducing the probability that an important bug will happen to a real user. But the total number of bugs a system have is a sum of bugs found by developers + bugs found by QA + bugs found by average users + bugs found by power users + bugs found at scale/big numbers.

The more we move to the right of this sum the hard is to replicate conditions to find bugs and so we move from finding to probabilities and risk management.
Why, though? I hear this argument a lot, but never ever is it backed up by actual facts aside from assumptions (i.e. that technological civilisation build Von Neumann probes in the first place).

So first question: why even Von Neumann probes? What would be the purpose of a self-replicating spacecraft? If it's science, then there's no reason to assume we would even be able to detect it. If it's some kind of colonisation effort, it only requires more assumptions.

The basic assumption that the Fermi "Paradox" (I refuse to see it as a paradox) requires, is that technological civilisations remain unchanged over geologic time spans. That's a bold assumption, judging from our sample size of 1. Another assumption is that such civilisations grow exponentially for a practically unlimited amount of time (yeah, yeah, millions of years isn't exactly "unlimited", but on a human time scale it kind of is).

Given the vast distances in both time and space, it's much more reasonable to acknowledge that technological civilisations are simply too far apart (in both time and space) to make contact in most cases. A thriving local interstellar civilisation on the other side of the Milky Way within the Zone of Avoidance would be virtually undetectable by us, for example.
>AI will likely finish the job

The SEO attack surface is functionally infinite for AI, and I'm not sure how any search engine is supposed to be good and also have revenue. The only way to make money is to get people to give it to you, and it's hard to imagine a world in which either a) people will pay for the right to use a search engine or b) companies will pay you to rank them fairly.
> The dollar buys drugs, it buys guns, it buys terrible things. But it also buys bread and pays your rent.

You can use Bitcoin to pay your phone bill with AT&T and buy electronics on Newegg. Many Americans might use US dollars to do this instead, but why would that impair their view of the Euro?

> The interface a large portion of us has had with bitcoin is speculation and cybercrime. "Your computer has been encrypted, please insert X bitcoin to continue" is not a great interface for making someone have a good feeling about a product.

This seems like putting the blame on the wrong party. If the criminals demand payment in gift cards, do people get mad at companies for offering gift cards?

> You also lack the perspective that if the economy collapses, particularly a large economy like the US economy your "unpinned" bitcoin is going to behave like it is very much pinned to that dollar.

If the world economy collapses, sure. If you're in some country in South America and that country's economy collapses, probably not.

US dollars are unique because -- ironically -- they're not just used as a currency. Enough large institutions and foreign governments hold them (or explicitly dollar-denominated assets like US treasuries) as an investment to significantly affect their value.
I mentioned this in another comment, but the presence of interchangeable clones created a form of distributed long term support for business software. This was the killer feature that propelled business investment. Companies invest a lot in tailoring off the shelf software and custom software. Knowing that you have the ability to switch to another vendor made the decision a no-brainer for most businesses.
> having 8 applications all thrashing wildly and competing for the same page table may not be the most performant way of allocating resources.

They’re not, though. There’s a tree of “page tables” (that is, a tree with branching factor 512 or so, in the format used by the CPU) per process. Also, per process, there’s a tree of VMAs (the logical maps from contiguous virtual address ranges to whatever logically backs them) — these are created by mmap and friends. And, regrettably, a lock, also per process (although this lock is a read-write lock, and page faults are reads).

If you have a whole bunch of processes mmapping the same file and thrashing against it, you could end up with contention for that files’s data structures that track mappings, but that seems unlikely. Mappings of different pages of ordinary memory should scale well.

And a VM, for this purpose, is more or less like a process. QEMU (or whatever other userspace host you use) literally maps everything that the VM logically maps, and VM faults are handled as though QEMU triggered a page fault.
Life as we know it seems to depend on have a large Moon, a planetary makeup infused with heavy metals, a distance from our star and rotation that makes most of the planet a temperature good for our kind of life, a star that's safely boring, and LOTS of water.

But with 10 to the 24th stars, even one in a billion odds are no deterrent.
The End of Coal Culture
UN resolutions as I imagine are in the form of "We all agreed it is a good idea if we collectively did the following".

Then of course every side can just walk away from such memorandum once it becomes taxing without moral repercussions. Not sure about the US law but Russian law disallows coercion into contracts which overhelmingly favor one side taking advantage of the other one.

There are mechanisms of coercion but they are not functioning as of now since any sanctions that US could place on Russia for dealing with NK it will place regardless.

So to summarize, the sides agreed it would be great if they limited trade with NK. If one of the sides no longer thinks it's a great idea, that's it.

If you still think it's an universally good idea, go nag China so it uses its influence on Russia, since their opinion Russia will take into account.
You surely meant will be removed in C23?
At this point, it’s not about whether we get AGI or not. It’s about who gets AGI first: USA or China
Almost certainly not true. Consider pronouns, as they reference other words, therefore cannot be written in isolation. Or simple rules about when to use "an" or "a".

Shaping your words to sound correct is very common. Both in speech and in writing. Sometimes it is finding how to fit a word you want to use into a sentence. Sometimes it is building a rhyme.

You may feel that you go a word at a time, but that really shows how embedded language is.
How does a computer/calculator compute logarithms?
After I found myself stuck on x86, I finally gave up and learned C. I couldn't stand assembly language on x86 after 680x0. That slope was slippery.
I still remember chortling at that mnemonic as a teenage assembler programmer.
It's not always obvious the article is over these days. Sometimes they run sneaky ads afterwards.
HotSat-1: Novel UK spacecraft maps heat variations across Earth
Is champignon a specific type of mushroom in english? I thought it was just the word for “mushroom” in french
How Computers Use Numbers
First thought: "There's a sucker born every minute"

Second thought: "Nobody ever went broke [by] underestimating the intelligence of the American people"

Daydream: When the feds actually catch a scammer, they shift through the guy's records to see who his victims were. For the best-born and best-off ~1% of those, they publicly ask a judge declare the victim non compos mentis, and appoint a trustee to manage their affairs. For the next ~10%, they ask the family to try to convince the victim to move to a care facility and appoint a trustee. Goal: Fear of devastating loss of social status might motivate at least the most-profitable scam victims to be somewhat more difficult to cheat.
Assuming that they are currently roughly at the same stade of evolution as us, or less, and knowing that Voyager 1, the farthest human made object in space, only crossed the heliopause eleven years ago, it's not highly probable that "something" would have reached us by now.
Of course, it's based on an assumption, but the contrary is too. The thing is we don't know enough to estimate when, where and how life might have appeared elsewhere.
True, I should have added "independently"

Actually, without any additional knowledge I'd assume that some sort of seeding has happened, as that's presumably more likely than live developing independently.
Can you give an example of Google ignoring quotation marks? I've seen this claim many times on HN but I've never seen a link showing it happening.

Disclosure: I work at Google but not on Search.
I requested and received a sit-stand desk at my office. Not sure if standing at a desk is that much better but hopefully so.
Placebo effect shapes how we see AI
Sure, I use micropython on the rare occasion when I'm playing with microcontroller stuff. Mostly that's hobbyist stuff, but still it's a feature I'd miss.
A good start would be if the medical industry in the US were run like normal businesses with transparent and consistent pricing. Right now nobody can predict how much something cost because insurances, hospitals, drug companies and a lot of middlemen play all kinds of games. I think we should mandate that all prices are open so people know what's actually going on. Hospitals should also charge the same price for the same procedure to everybody independently of insurance or day of the week or whatever factor makes a procedure cost $5000 sometimes and $50000 another time.

All the excuses like "we need to charge more to insured people because of uninsured people" or "we need to charge 10x as much in the US for drugs than in other countries because of R&D" should be viewed as self serving BS until all the numbers are transparent. If there is an imbalance we should do direct subsidies based on the actual numbers instead of the current mess.

Health care is not regular business in the sense that you don't have to buy a product if it's too expensive and where it's easy to compare competing products. How would I know which hospital is better than another?
It is probable that Mars had life even before Earth. It had water oceans for hundreds of millions of years, which is approximately how long it took life to emerge on Earth. Venus potentially had life as well, in addition to some of the moons. Let's be conservative and say that 2 of the n bodies in the solar system had life and one had so-called intelligent life emerge. It seems pretty damn likely given the sheer numbers of the Universe that intelligent life also emerged elsewhere. We currently can barely detect exoplanets. It isn't a surprise that we haven't detected intelligent life. How can you find something you can't see?

From what we know, life is effectively guaranteed to emerge on a planet with a rocky core and water in the habitable zone. Are there planets like this? Yes, lots, probably.
Some places have some laws against those things, but they are still "allowed on the road" and only "punished" after they are "caught".

In any case, I assure you Tesla's autopilot is vastly beyond a teenager in their "second driving lesson." Driving lessons! How quaint! As if these are obligatory prior to being "allowed on the road" everywhere!

Simply darling.
There is some nondeterminism coming from parallel computation, which affects the results because floating point math is non-associative.