skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sure, but the explanations, like here, are always given in isolation, seemingly as the be all and end all, and while it may well be true that they're all a little part of the truth, that is interesting in itself
What's the economic benefit for the company?
This gave me a proper chuckle.

Truly though I think movies like The Terminator and The Matrix really did a number on the societal consciousness and capacity to think clearly when it comes to anything called "AI".
It’s probably mostly done out of carefulness. I’d do the same if I were to write my own implementation of a file system.

Bugs and mistakes in the code are already not great when implementing the read part. But if you mess up the writing well now you’re gonna cause corruption of existing data. No one likes that :)

Better to stick to just reading for a long while, and weed out most of the bugs and getting an even deeper understanding of the filesystem, before starting the implementation of anything that will modify the data.
718 grams is 1.6 pounds, times 7 is 11.2 pounds. 61 cents would mean that you are paying a nickel a pound, or only a quarter for a 5 lb bag. This seems unlikely.
What's maybe also interesting is that the whole transition was very developer-driven, at least in my circle. It wasn't management deciding from the top.

Around me it was just everyone that wanted to use Git: potential hires, junior devs, senior devs, etc. Even the older devs with 20+ years of experience liked it well enough to not oppose the change.

And management was also happy because it didn't cost anything to run a Linux server with Git + GitWeb installed.
Yes, this is right on (and great book rec - Mike Jay is a friend and a brilliant writer on drug history).

The concept of smoking cannabis is not quite so surprisingly new as that of smoking opium (which apparently emerged in Southeast Asia as recently as ~300 years ago). However although there is archaeological evidence of cannabis smoking in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa stretching back quite a long time, there is virtually no evidence that it reached Europe before the 19th century.

I wrote an article about this for Lapham's Quarterly (https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/our-strange-addi...) that gets into one intriguing piece of inconclusive evidence from earlier:

>In 1689 the natural philosopher Robert Hooke gave a firsthand report on the effects of Indian cannabis to the Royal Society of London: “The patient understands not, nor remembers anything that he sees, hears, or does in that ecstasy, but becomes, as it were, a mere natural, being unable to speak a word of sense; yet is he very merry, and laughs, and sings, and speaks words without any coherence.” Hooke described cannabis as being “chewed or swallowed” but specified the dose only ambiguously, as “about as much as may fill a common tobacco-pipe.” It is still not clear to what extent cannabis smoking, as opposed to edible or drinkable preparations, was practiced in Hooke’s time outside of the cannabis-smoking regions of South Asia and Africa.

I made a pretty thorough search of the textual mentions of cannabis in the 16th and 17th centuries and couldn't find any evidence that Europeans were aware you could smoke it. In other words, it's entirely possible that someone who sat for a portrait in the Renaissance had consumed cannabis orally -- in the form of either hashish or mixed in an "electuary" with things like nutmeg and sugar -- but I would be very, very surprised to see any visual evidence of it being smoked, because the textual records don't support it.
https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/40553/20221018/flying-...

Seems the ones who live on the Japanese islands do this as standard practice.

Like their bigger cousins they use dynamic soaring.
A technique for harvesting energy from the wind by up and down oscillations to cover distance rather expending muscle energy flapping their wings.

Afaik they can also lock their wings into glide mode with tendons without causing muscle fatigue to maintain flight for days on end.

Also using unihemispheric slow wave sleep aids in that as well.
I don't agree that that wording is as precise as you think it is. if you move in the direction where the signal goes up, when it stops going up, you are still moving in the same direction. Move "so long as the signal goes up" would tell you to stop, but it wouldn't tell you the direction, is the type of clarity I'm looking for.
A model we've been looking at with AI is how self-aware they are.

So with AI/LLMs, they're arguably not at all... they have little awareness of self, don't develop experiences or memories, but people feel like they may be conscious because they communicate well.

However something like a city or an advanced enough vehicle is fairly self-aware. Cities deteriorate with crime, but also develop the mechanisms to fight crime as well. Same with garbage, GDP. There is some parallel to the systems that goes on in your body, how blood transports resources, parts regenerate from those resources, and so on. Anthills have about the collective intelligence of a dog, but an ant is pretty dumb.

On the other hand, some animals aren't very good with it. Arguably a newborn baby, or an old person nearing death isn't very conscious. You could argue these humans still have souls, which could mean that the concept of a soul is not strongly related to being conscious.

I don't know enough about trees, but I'd ask: do they have pain receptors? Are they capable of focus? Predators have eyes in the front of their heads to focus their attention on a target, which also allows for more advanced thought and rationality. Can they interact with the environment to protect themselves? Someone here mentioned that trees communicate, but that could also mean that a tree may not be conscious but a forest might be.
The ship has sailed many years ago on your definition of cloud computing. Fight it all you want, you're just going to be downvoted.
Apparently I'm Forbidden (403) from airports... :(
There are all kinds of ways of getting rich. Working is the least efficient in terms of effort.
Off topic but that sounds like a stressful ordeal you went through, and I'm sorry to hear it. Hope things are well now.
How long does it take to get used to beans?

Also, is there any recommended strategy? E.g. to gradually increase the portion size over some specific time?
$25,000 in API credits seems a lot less cool than $25k. Will the kind of people that would be good at this be motivated by that?
Isn't That a Balloon? Deflating a DoD UFO Video
We're calling it... Sailr, the revolutionary green sea travel technology, it uses the power of our app to capture the wind to drive a turbine to generate electricity that charges your phone which you can then plug into our cybertwirl that propels your boat. Only $14,99 per month, in the App Store and Play Store.
Interestingly, another article [1] that was recently posted on HN contains the following paragraph .. which reads to me as if Bitcoin were indeed not that good a tool for crime.

> Hamas thought it could flout Western surveillance and international sanctions by embracing the world’s leading digital asset. It thought wrong, and the story is illuminating for those who mistakenly believe that bitcoin provides a safe space for criminals, money launderers and the financiers of terror.

[1] https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4273988-hamas-just-learn...
You can not live on Social Security, no way. If you don't have a job your not getting healthcare and even if your job provides healthcare. Its too expensive to actually use. Also you need to be living below poverty wages before a state will give you healthcare.
Maybe the biggest misuse is to use AI to create hypothetical bad outcomes used to limit its use and restrict its benefits.
What if the person that has physical access to your LAN is not you? Example, a rogue physical visitor that you were unable to fully supervise.
What's ironic is that you didn't respond to the strongest version of their argument.
Mung beans sprouts taste nutty and a little bitter, and they only take a daily rinsing, so it's not a lot of work to sprout, I use a mason jar with a cheese clothe rubber banded to the top. I don't like the taste much, but they can have a nice crisp texture.
What the _% Is a Passkey?
Wine, thus Proton, is not an emulator.
> One of the most obvious examples of the problem with this approach is that they're shipping previous generation servers on Day 1. One can easily buy current generation AMD servers from a number of vendors.

> Their coupling approach will most likely leave them perpetually behind

This is a startup that took years to get their initial hardware developed. The time between this version and the version using the next version of AMD chips will be shorter than the time it took to develop this product. This is not an inherent issue with coupling vs decoupling.

Also, most servers are rarely running on the most recent cpus anyway. At least in companies I've worked at with on-site hardware they're usually years (sometimes even a decade) out of date getting the last life sucked out of them before too many internal users start complaining and they get replaced.
Awfully convenient that they know the amount, but can't break it down.
While it is a joke, I assume, I think it hints at a crucial problem: it's relatively easy to imagine an Auto-GPT-style agent with some sort of CLI access on an internet-connected machine turning into a paperclip machine, no matter how harmless the original task.
Germany broke $2 trillion GDP around 2002, so it took about 20 years to overcome Japan. California broke $2T GDP around 2011 so it'll probably take another decade for California to overcome Japan.
"the then president of Brazil said he would reveal which countries were the consumers of the illegally extracted wood from Amazonia."

Could one of those countries be China? In Madagascar a decade ago, the felling of hardwood trees (even in supposedly protected national parks) was said to be largely driven by the Chinese furniture industry, and often when I passed a logging operation while cycling, there were Chinese overseeing the work. Considering Brazil–China trade links, no surprise if the then-president didn’t want to rock that boat.
Passkeys and Privacy
> People who say this don't understand that Mars colonies aren't about pragmatic, resource-optimized decisions.

On the contrary, many of us agree very much with this. Mars is not a practical goal at the moment and it doesn't make sense from a resource perspective.

What might be more exciting, I think, is to develop such a well-functioning, resilient terrestrial society, such an abundant, adaptable community of life, that we could realistically take ourselves and our companions to Mars and hope to persist there. But that takes a lot of know-how, a lot of materials and energy, and (most importantly) a lot of wisdom.

Is a species steamrolling its paradise of a homeworld's living fabric really capable of planting a viable colony on a dead planet?
I mean, we absolutely sell support. I just don't know anything about the details personally. You shouldn't take my lack of knowledge as a "no," just a "steve doesn't personally know."
Yes you need to have floor heating. Here in the netherlands pretty standard in new houses. The tiles can look really like wood. Its expensive though and not easy to replace. No floor heating would be too cold indeed.
Why did you multiply by 7? I believe this 718 grams is the entire weeks, not per-day.
How about Rested on the laurels of its postwar boom?
Do they have GPU's?
https://www.airportscannergame.com/

There's also Papers, Please, which is great and depressing, lol
I am unsure why you are curious about documentary recommendations from me, haha, but here's one I enjoyed quite a bit recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKP1I7IocYU
Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3
> Asking for "confirmation before sending contact details" is feasible but easily circumvented as is my mail is joe at example dot com.

I’m pretty confident this is a task where LLMs will shine.
Is an open source game engine likely to cause those War Thunder forum participants with military clearances to become more angry in debates (because they can now see how the inaccuracies in specifications would impact the performance in game) or less angry?

Either way, I doubt the impact is zero. So as something that has military effect, it might be covered under ITAR after all!

/s
What are you referring to by "at scale"? Can you give some examples?

I would also like to understand why you think web has to change. Why can't the ad networks change by not allowing tracking in ads, or make ads bearable to look at? I don't need an ad moving on a web page. Newspapers have gotten this right for centuries. I can look at a newspaper all day and not get frustrated, but I can't do that on the web because I have to worry about content moving on my screen or privacy.
>>I guess it kinda makes sense, they seem to have a vastly different culture than game developers have here.

I mean the place where I work still employs several people who worked on the original Driver game - couple of them already crossed the 30-year tenure threshold too. So I don't know where "here" is for you, but it's definitely not exclusive to Nintendo or Japan. 38 years is impressive though.
Sure, that's part of it, and the other half of the equation is that when economic crashes happen the rich use their liquid assets to buy up physical assets that everyone else if forced to let go this concentrating tangible wealth with the capital owning class.
Appearing together, and actually performing together are two very different things
Seaweed is technically an algae, of the kingdom Protista.

Farming seaweed is not that complicated and is pretty widespread.

> Today, seaweed makes up nearly 30 percent of the wet weight of all seafood produced by aquaculture globally. About half of cultivated seaweed is red algae and about half is brown; of the brown, most is kelp.

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/banking-on-the-seaweed-ru...

There's also a company called Running Tide "farming" seaweed explicitly and exclusively as a carbon sink technology. Kelp is grown on rafts until it gets heavy and sinks to the ocean floor where it nourishes micro- and macrobiota.

https://www.runningtide.com/
The people who reviewed the game in the first few days were the ones who either pre-ordered it or bought it as soon as it came out. They were so excited to play the new installment they took a gamble and trusted that the developer would produce a polished product, because they wanted to be able to play it as soon as possible. When they got to play the game, they saw it ran poorly to the point that it might have spoiled the experience for them. They're right to be angry about it, especially when developers and publishers make most of their money during the first few weeks since launch. By releasing a half-finished product they're treating their most enthusiastic users like crap. They didn't have to do that, they could have delayed the launch. Be it because of decisions made by the publisher or by the developer, they chose to release when they did. They made their bed, now they have to lie in it. I don't blame anyone who raves about performance, because what was released was well outside the realm of what's acceptable for a finished product, regardless of what said prior to launch. You don't get to sell a car with an asterisk that says "by the way, the fuel tank leaks so until we find a way to fix it you'll use twice as much fuel as normal".
Is that a huge ecosystem of windows servers, or an ecosystem of huge windows servers? I know it takes some CPUs to run that tosh, but still ...
It was the entire reason they broke up, in fact.
well, technically neither yeast nor seaweed are "plants", so it's still correct.
How does pledge interact with multiple threads?

Is it just "it just takes effect at the time of call and it's up to you to synchronize whatever you need to synchronize"? Anything racing with a pledge call in an observable way is clearly tempting fate anyhow.
Countries that I know some of them ended up in are Germany, Portugal, and Poland. I have no recommendations myself though. I live in the States and don't plan on moving.
And you would probably come away with a lot of (well deserved) knowledge from this assignment.

If a professor can inspire you to actively seek alternatives and/or think outside the box, I consider that a win.
> the bird resumed normal transmission and no doubt had some explaining to do when he returned to his flock over the water near the nesting island.

as a dad joke appreciator, i love whoever wrote this
Cannabis in Italy
> Being part of an entire continent and a monetary union, instead of tiny isolated island definitely works in favor of Germany.

Controling said continent and ensuring policy is tilted in your favour tends to help. Bonus points if your resources are supplied by dictatorial regimes that start wars with or threaten your neighbours keeping them docile.
Something about religious and conservative countries, their media, and their birthrates.
I was expecting this reaction, of course, but that's why I specifically wrote "Windows API emulation layer", which it definitely is.

The recursive acronym name was chosen first and foremost because it's funny, but also to make the point that it's not emulating all of Windows, and definitely isn't something like dosbox or Dolphin in terms of implementation strategy. This is true, but we shouldn't allow it to break our language, no matter how much we love the clever meme!
As a robotics engineer and someone who was interested in robotics since I was 11 years old, and I am SO VERY TIRED of people making the "haha they will kill us all" jokes. It's just the only thing that 99% of people can think about when it comes to robotics and AI! The Terminator came out the year I was born, 39 years ago, and it seems to be all people can think about to this day. When some powerful and wealthy person controls an AI algorithm that could manipulate the masses, all the people can think about is "oh no the algorithm will become sentient and take over". I am MUCH more worried about the actual people at the helm who will definitely use these things to harm society, not the completely theoretical fantasy that the algorithm itself will become self aware and do us harm.

So I completely agree with you. I see this constantly and it is just a completely thought-terminating cliche and a "joke" which is four decades old at this point.
I did that. Ignoring the better weather, food, culture, transport, and public services, my disposable income relative to cost of living is much higher. (But what have the Romans ever done for us?)
I think the post mentioned that the 718 grams of dry goods lasts a whole week. That would cost about 38¢ per pound, and they are bulk-ordered from the local food cooperative.
If you emit CO2, you are hurting everyone else. If you participate in a web browser monoculture, you allow one company to own the web, therefore hurting everyone else. Please don't absolve yourself of the harm you are causing those of us that don't want to be under Google's thumb.
but wouldn't the wind exert some pressure on the back of the bird? wouldn't it not generate any lift otherwise and just drop back to the ground? like sails on a sailboat, for the sailors it feels like there is no wind, but the sails are carrying massive pressure
The 718g last a week though, so it's more like $2 for a 5lb bag of seeds.

I have no frame of reference for how reasonable that is, but it's more reasonable than $.25/5lb bag.
How do I know your post or this world isn’t already projected by an AI?
> AGI is arguably already here.

What is the evidence/argument that it's already here?
The sex on movies has nothing to do with birth rate ( unless is an american movie, when every sex scene will make you abstain from sex).
To people who agree with the stated premise: "Cloud computing is the future of all computing infrastructure"

Do you think people want to design games with unreal engine on the cloud? Is there no desktop application that's safe? I don't fully accept this premise and I wonder if I'm the crazy one sometimes.
I plan to look into the issues that you mentioned in your previous comment. I'm sorry that I can't get to it today, but I will follow up on those issues.
Earth crust has relatively small amounts of iron, or nickel, or silver, but it has areas with high concentration of these, so large as to enable massive metallurgy on Earth.

Chances are, Mars may have local concentrations of nitrous minerals (as does Earth), and these can be used to run a large enough agriculture. Few plants know how to consume atmospheric nitrogen anyway.

Air pressure and temperature can be maintained below transparent domes, greenhouse-style.

Dim sunlight looks like a much bigger problem, which can't be fixed by any terraforming.
This is a good point. But I'd like to dig deeper than that.

Google has demonstrated a culture of killing off services. https://www.thestack.technology/google-cloud-iot-core-retire...

Amazon, on the consumer side has many canceled products. On the AWS side they have demonstrated a commitment to keeping old services alive.

So on a surface level, your analysis holds up. But where Amazon has earned some goodwill by supporting even barely used services, Google has not.

Perhaps they will given time, as GCP is fairly new. But when you are talking tens of millions of dollars in spend, reputation matters.
I remember going to a museum and seeing a 150 year old tool (a cant hook) that was in worse shape than the identical version my father had in his garage and was still using as a tool.

Time scales are much larger of course, but at some point these are just "old things" to the people involved.
This is how I feel, but I also find that it’s overused as a device to inject manufactured gravity.

Some stand up comics use something similar. It’s easier to make someone laugh because they’re uncomfortable than it is to make them laugh by being funny, so some comics will be obscene and get their laughs that way.

In the same vein, it’s easier to make a story feel serious by putting in a sex scene than it is to write an engaging plot.
Once again, inflation is a result of business owners choosing to raise the prices. If money that's created goes directly to consumers, then it allows business owners to raise prices on goods. However, that's not what's happening when US government is printing money to pay off its debts. You appear to have an incredibly superficial understanding of how money supply works, and you appear to be just regurgitating tropes you've memorized.
When I talk about apathy, I look around and I see people who care more about Kim Kardashian than history, politics, or financial literacy. I look around and see people who care more about their fantasy football stats than their children's grades. I see people who would rather veg on the couch watching the same reruns over and over again instead of learning a new skill. I see ignorant ideas like America oppresses its people when in fact it's the American people who've forgotten that America enables them to be their best selves if they're strong enough to achieve it.

America was not founded for the common people. It was founded by the exceptional people who risked everything to come to this hostile continent in search of freedom from oppression. Freedom from serfdom. Freedom from debt. Freedom from religious persecution. Freedom to live how they wanted to!

America's population has forgotten its morals and what it means to be American. We are like the fat people in wall-e floating in our bubble, complaining at our minor inconveniences, and not knowing where we're going. We are fucked unless we turn this ship around.