skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maintaining a stable population in the steady state is something that needs to be done for society to continue existing. You can decide that, okay, maybe the target should be half the current population, but that just means that within a generation, those people in LA need to be having twice as many kids as their parents, which doesn’t seem plausible to me. Whatever the target is, the lifestyle of American secular whites (where the TFR is around half the sustainable rate) can either only be temporary, or must be propped up by immigration that only exists due to accidents of history and colonialism.

I’m only here with my three kids because the British colonized the country I’m from. The Latinos in LA—who are doing the grunt work of society as well the work of raising the next generation, while white people have dogs instead of kids—are only there because the Spanish were worse colonizers than the British. Secular white people tell me how wonderful their permissive, individualistic values are. But it’s like saying how great a job a government is doing when they’re running massive, unsustainable budget deficits. A value system can’t be “good,” in my view, if it can only exist because of an immigrant servant class.
Bad take. The Christian faith, outside of fundamentalist sects, is not built around clear-to-a-child interpretations of individual phrases in the bible. The bible is a product of the Christian faith, not it's source. In other words, it's teachings are defined by those sensitive adults, not the naive childlike readers of things they wrote.
I think for many people, myself included, the worry isn’t “the switch flipped” it’s losing everything and everyone you’ve ever cared about. Life is pretty awesome. Don’t want to give that up for any reason.
HN's 90% width is difficult to read for long-form content; anything more than a few sentences and your eyes are doing far too much work.
> you can’t say “you need to let us show the ads which pay more because otherwise we can’t keep the lights on”.

Yeah, I get that. What I'm sating is: that's a stupid rule. Why should I not be able to say that, especially if it's the truth?
Long-lost Roman forts spotted in declassified spy satellite photos
Sometimes I have this urge to try getting into a manager role. I really want to see and experience for myself if most managers I work with are just bad at their job, or if being a "good" manager is simply impossible and you're doomed to fail regardless of skill.
"when the green hydrogen infrastructure is built out."

You mean in like 20 years if we invest a trillion dollars today?

By then batteries may be three times as dense and 1/3 the cost. H2 cars are a dead end and a trojan horse for fossil fuels derived H2 and a political policy disruption strategy to delay EVs and alt energy.

A business strategy that involves a new infrastructure build while waiting for ... Other infrastructure to complete seems stupid.

I can already see it. The H2 transport vehicles get built, but shockingly doing green H2 gen is never cheaper than methane sourcing, so the green part of the infrastructure just becomes a very small scoped show pony.

H2 is a bad energy carrier.

I do support research and startups, but the H2 proponents pump wayyyyy too much FUD against grid storage and EVs, which is a tell as to who is pulling the strings behind the H2 industry
Also not clear why you couldn't get 90% of the way there by just filling the conventional T-slot more completely. We'll have to wait for some ME types to chime in, I guess, but I don't get this at all.

I could see this solution being better if you only had one fastener along the length of the pieces being fit together, but in many/most cases there will be more than one fastener. Seems like a real-world T-slot system will end up with fewer unwanted degrees of freedom than the ad is telling us to expect.
Arguably Psychedelia by Jeff Minter [1] has a claim to be the first software music visualiser. The algorithm is pretty straightforward [2] and I recently 'ported' it to Javascript for fun.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelia_(light_synthesizer...
[2] https://github.com/mwenge/psychedelia
[3] https://mwenge.github.io/psychedelia.large/
Either upon reading, or seconds, minutes, days, weeks, years later.
> Try finding good managers.

Is that necessary? I know 'Agile' isn't cool anymore, but at the heart of the Agile Manifesto is a suggestion that every contributor on the team should share in the management role rather than having a dedicated manager. Granted, it also suggests you need motivated people.
Nice, thanks for sharing that. I heard it in Sapolsky's new book "Determined" [1] and did a little extra research since it seemed fascinating and I never knew about this.

[1] - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/592344/determined-b...
It's probably still too big to be helpful with these model sizes, but if someone helpful runs the same training on `small.en` (and smaller) we might have something.

Yes, this is me praying to the benevolent HN gods that someone will pick this up and run with it. I don't have a GPU anywhere close to capable...
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Most people don't care about what browser they have anymore. The world has moved onto apps, for better or worse. This will only accelerate if we move into AR/VR more seriously.

I love Firefox, but as long as Safari continues to be the default on iOS and Chrome continues to be the de facto default everywhere else, I don't see much hope for Firefox long term.
> Is this a clever side-step to mask a ecological catastrophe with market economics (e.g. the environment didn't collapse, the market just solved a resource allocation problem by making food unaffordable to ?illions, nothing to see here).

Dr. Zubrin's main point is: look at history. So let's look at history. Does a growing population increase hunger or decrease it? Throughout all of history increasing population is correlated with decreasing hunger. If a "scientist" can not even look at the existing data to see that EVERY SINGLE TIME it contradicts their hypothesis, then that is not a scientist. See "Merchants of Despair" for a more eloquent explanation than I could ever give.

> No matter what your population density, your society will not be able to build a perpetual motion machine.

I don't see the relevance.

> They're also not making more arable land (vertical farms are not a substitute), which is ultimately what those dense cities are dependent on.

The goal is not to maximize arable land. The goal is to feed everyone. Our modern crops can produce much more on the land we have than humans could ever produce before.

> As they say: past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Just because in the past one s substitute could be found for an exhausted resource, that doesn't mean a substitute can be found for every needed dwindling resource in the future.

As I said, If a "scientist" can not even look at the existing data to see that EVERY SINGLE TIME it contradicts their hypothesis, then that is not a scientist.

> Sure, but how many? If it's 500 million, what about the 7.5 billion that didn't make it?

You might be experiencing a hallucination. I believe there are currently close to 8 billion people on this planet. Please tell me how many people you think are on this planet. If you think there used to be 8 billion people on this planet, and that 7.5 billion of them died, please tell me when that happened and what year you think it is right now.
and it isn't more ridiculous than the wandering earth movie today. at least rocks hurling through space do exist.

that it and many other shows were so much more unrealistic a decade after star trek is really the weird thing. like for example jason of space command with james doohan. it's absolutely cringe
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> Even Fathom and Plausible analytics struggle with logging activity on adblocked browsers.

The simple solution is to respect the basic wishes of those who do not want to be tracked. This is a "struggle" only because website operators don't want to hear no.
There have been a couple of times I knew death was possible in the immediate future and all was out of my control. I thought, what happens, happens. And I let go, relaxed and peaceful. But it is not easy nor useful to hold that attitude in everyday life.
Some example prompts/searches would be interesting. Can anyone suggest some?
GP did mention that the whole project was actually a waste of money.
“Don't say that a crime was committed because an LLM produced something better and faster than a human could. Don't call obviously original writing and original art a COPY when it is obviously NOT. These are the same tactics used by patent trolls.”

The law is arbitrary, written by humans, not by some platonic ideal inherent in the universe. It doesn’t need to be applied equally to people and tools.

The people producing these models just want profit as much as any patent troll and like them will interpret the law in such a way that benefits them or fight to change it so they can realize that profit.

It’s easier to go after the models and prevent copyright for AI generated works than to take issue with all of their users which is what we’re seeing in the courts.

“Society is fucking changing”

I agree with you there.

I’m not fundamentally opposed to AI generated anything actually but the training is problematic and I don’t see society as ready for it.

It would be an easier pill to swallow if we had a shortage of writers/artists/etc and this was the solution to that.
A bold new thing would have been to make the system behind these homepages work. The nhs, hmrc, and wide range of other government agencies are in total chaos. Slapping a new look on top wont fix the underlying issues.
Oh my, is that real?!

It literally has Comic Sans on the page...
They could be even more bold and drop the cookies which "require" them to have a consent banner which takes up half the screen

Notably absent from their screenshots too
Plus then your agent won’t try to trick you into selling it to their friend at a low price
That's odd. The hacker news headline says 27 comments, but I only see 5 of them.
> Civilization collapsed quickly but temporarily a few years ago because of a virus.

No, it didn't. I think you might be experiencing a hallucination.

How many people within 50 miles of you starved to death during this "collapse" of civilization?

I've seen this from my adopted mom. She claimed 6 or 7 people she knew died of COVID-19, then when I asked her for names she named people I knew were still alive.
Airlines Take Stand Against Proposed Credit Card Bill
Wikipedia says 32 Mly, maybe needs an update?
The Money Has Stopped Flowing in Commercial Real Estate
Wow. This is definitely going into Matt Levine's column!
New games and more than 50 updates coming to Apple Arcade this holiday season
Good job guys.
LLM CLI tool (can connect to public and self-hosted LLMs)
The most obvious example is the idea of waiting for retirement to do the things you want to do and, frankly, things you probably should be doing long before you’re in your late 60s.
What was the point of leaving EU if the cookie nonsense still takes half your screen?
> This is the same problem, borrowing from future generations. Why solve our problems now when we can inherit them to the next generation?

Developing new technology is a gift, a legacy to pass down to future generations.
They want you to search for everything I believe. E.g. letters from the government give instructions such as "go to gov.uk and search for <x>"

I don't feel they want you navigating things like directories or typing in URLs

I think it's a worse experience. The search isn't exactly perfect...
the tesla chargers worked fine for me but it cost me $600 in electricity for three weeks... almost $1000 in total including the rental
Bringing Tiny Chiplets to Embedded SoCs
Lots of adults have underachieving coworkers, have no say in the matter, and have to figure out how to deal with that both professionally and emotionally.
As a steam deck user, I wish GoG would do something to better support it and linux. I bought CP2077 on GoG and now I kind of wish I hadn't. Everything from steam just works so well from the moment of purchase. I wouldn't even mind an extra step of having to load up GoG galaxy to download stuff and then have it set it up to run in the deck launcher. But getting stuff from steam is just so smooth. And things like the shader precompilation can really make a world of difference to the overall experience.
Your comment was dead, so I vouched for it. I don't agree with all of it, you say for example that there is "no difference between Hamas and the Govt of Israel" (which is a common way off putting things, but there is always a difference between two discernible things). You could have phrased that better in order to keep a civil tone IMO. But Israel is definitely stepping across a line here, this response is not "proportionate" as required by the Geneva convention, which I think is the gist of the comment.
On mobile it takes up the entire screen
https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/tree/master/example... is worth a poke. llama.cpp supports llama2 on CPU.
Reminds me of watching the Saibamen grow while spamming the analog sticks on the loading screen in Budokai 3 (PS2).
Yup it's a great idea. I have a great camera setup and use self view to make sure I look good on the other hand, but other than that, I hate self view.
Without a salt, you can generate the hash for every IP address once, and then permanantly have a hash->IP lookup (effectively a Rainbow table). If you have a salt, then you need to do it for each database entry, which does make it computationally more expensive.
you need to enable show dead to see flagged comments.
It means you can freely engage in transactions as you please, without traditional limitations like intermediaries, exorbitant fees, or geographic boundaries. This can offer increased opportunities for wealth accumulation, project collaborations etc
It's still in use. We have like 400 classrooms and like 400 T.A. so it's difficult to get a good statistic. We have some anecdotal evidence from students and T.A. that say that they are useful.

For example, IRL we have 7 courses of different topics/levels. One of the students took the virtual helper course for Calculus and he asked about the virtual helper course of Algebra. So he liked the first course in the first semester and wanted the second one for the second semester. We sadly had to answer that the his Algebra course would be ready 3 or 4 year later, because before that we had to complete other courses, and each course took us like 1 or 1.5 years. It was a side project (like the 20% projects), so we didn't have too much time to allocate.

We started with the biggest one that is Precalculus+Easy_calculus that is huge, then a few Calculus courses that are similar, then we started with the Algebra courses.
New Chrome extension to easily sanitize personal information from HAR files
I'm with you, incredibly vapid content
I added the 96% to the title here on HN intentionally, because it says here in the abstract "We convert highly concentrated bicarbonate solution to solid formate fuel with a yield (carbon efficiency) of greater than 96%"

Neither MIT Press nor the ScholarlyArticle authors asked or paid me to modify the headline to cite the carbon efficiency.

This capability is arguably better than everything else we do for energy; it is 96% carbon efficient.

Other stats for comparison of such methods are proposed herein?
What has been lost? You no longer know loss then.
I was expecting to read “… a stork” lol
My point is more that if this outcome wasn't entirely predictable to the people in the courts system who set this situation up, it's indicative of deeper problems with their assumptions. I'm happy to go into what I think those problems are (though it would be an essay) but a single shocking example is often enough to act as an intuition pump.
Why not just store the data in localStorage?
For some reason, the best government portal I've found so far is in Russia: https://www.gosuslugi.ru/ - you can even volunteer to serve in the army in just 3 clicks!

But apart from that it's awesome: services are well organized, there's an AI chat bot that can help you locate them, there are portals to the services provided by the local authorities, and the overall design is great.

Ukraine has an _application_ instead: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ua.gov.diia.ap... - it's great, but it's a freaking app.

It'd be interesting to compare government websites in multiple countries. I know that Estonia is also pretty good, but I've never used it.
This is what AI generated synthetic data and giving AI the ability to ‘dream’ is addressing.
I love my Lenovo dock. Still itches my design scratch and is super reliable. Least reliable part is just the USB c cables as usual
pretty good. I wonder if generating the images is always the best choice vs. just searching for keys words on https://pixabay.com/
Death is not poverty, because you do not experience poverty.

You don't live in the squalor and suffer. You are DEAD.

Death is the true absence of all, not a lacking of anything.
heard of teensey for a while but I decide to use Daisy Seed for my project for a better latency. have you considered this alternative?
Another way I understand the idea of schema growth that, you should transform schemas with monoids.
at light speed, the next solar system is 4-5 years away. but yes. although we can assume that what they ran into were all rogue planets because i don't remember seeing any stars. who knows what's out there that we haven't detected yet.

still remains the problem of everything needing to be pitch black all the time. i think even without finding any other planets they had a magic light source on the moon.
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> Just because a group of fanatical prudes (ie Mormons and and other religious sects) wanted

"Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZGfGJvY2Dg&t=30s
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That sounds like toxic communication to me. I bet if you took a 10 second pause before saying something is wrong, then you would be able to come up with a form of expressing your opinion that isn't phrased in such an absolutist matter. I don't think it's fair to engage in that form of language and then put the burden on other people to "pick up on the subtext". If you're trying to make a point, make that point, don't just reduce your argument to "trust me I'm right you're wrong".
> Isn't it some comfort that you can see there is something to stop or change?

No, of course not. Is being helpless comforting to you? How often does anyone actually fix a serious problem with an institution? Sure it happens sometimes, but the best almost everyone can hope for it to muddle through being subjected to the problems.

The impulse to put homeschooling under the thumb of government officials is not comforting, because it would remove the agency of parents to respond to problems they experience or fear in the school system.
Perhaps “At Own Risk”, “Agent Of Record” or “Authorized Organizational Representative”?
8000 square foot lot! About 1300 square feet here. When someone wants to meet up I just hop on my bike and go, anywhere in the city. I love it.
I just imagined a world where certain books are banned from AI training data.
My 2012 Chevy Volt has over 170k miles.

When it was new, the battery would average about 9.7 kWh per drive cycle. Nowadays, I only get 8.6 kWh. It is very consistent.

I can boost that number to well over 9 (in the old days, well over 10), if I "let the car warm up" (via leaving it plugged with the power on, this tops off the battery).

Needless to say, all my "friends" who told me the car would be an utter failure 10 years ago: they are no longer my friends.

Too bad it was all of my friends :(

At least the car is my friend :)

...

The battery is made up of 300+ cells, I bet my car has 'dead/damaged cells', but it'll never tell.
I'm only slightly familiar with the specific features ACPI provides. But isn't the solution the following

For every "feature" provided by the SMM or bios.

Export a UUID ( eg NVME resume implementation1)
Have that feature have an enable and disable function.
Have each feature have a dependency on each iorange / firmware device it needs access to.

If the kernel know how to implement the feature it can just disable the feature and then as long as it follows the dependency tree and can see nothing else accesses those ranges. It can know that it has exclusive use. If it doesn't have exclusive use it must use the firmware to access those ranges if possible or fall back to no support

If the firmware has a feature without a disable function. The kernel knows it can never access that hardware directly/safely.

You could even have a "lock device" that if you take you know that SMM won't access those io ranges whilst you have the lock.

Obviously this all requires vendor support
They're doing both.

They have a lot more control over gov.uk than all the other departments and systems. They take a _long_ time to improve
I think that’s a mischaracterization. What the movement is about is that everyone is in agreement that education is a right and that the government is responsible for funding it. But that the government is not responsible (or even competent at) providing it. Governments are good at taxing and distributing but not at meeting the needs of individuals.

So the solution is to privatize education so parents can choose a schools that fits their child’s unique needs and suits their values. We are a massive diverse country and it’s crazy to think we have so many shared, universal values.

So, let a marketplace take the place of government schools and give everyone an equal amount of money to choose the school that they see as best fit. The model works for pre-schools and colleges really well and there’s no reason to think it won’t for the rest.
As it currently stands, ChatGPT is quite bad at classical Chinese.
This strikes me as a poor choice (moreso than other BSL adopters) since there are many other error-handling SaaS companies available. It seems like it is better for people to be using your tool hosted by someone else than using a different tool with a different API so that migrating to your offering (hosting or support) is more difficult.
Data gets messy, because the real world is messy. Once you start ingesting from other sources, it gets very messy. There is a reason ideas like the "data mesh" or semantic web (distributed schemas) were attempted.
Honestly the 8core ~15W things are alright for dev work. It seems to be game for giving all the power budget to one core. Runs a badly configured Emacs with misc c++ parsing nonsense without trouble, and I build llvm on one every few months without too much irritation.
The docs for the pragma are confusing me about whether or not GLOB's behavior is also affected:

> This pragma uses sqlite3_create_function() to overload the LIKE and GLOB functions, which may override previous implementations of LIKE and GLOB registered by the application. This pragma only changes the behavior of the SQL LIKE operator. It does not change the behavior of the sqlite3_strlike() C-language interface, which is always case insensitive.

You're right though, GLOB defaults to being case-sensitive!

> GLOB is case sensitive, unlike LIKE.
Well, I think it's valuable inasmuch as it's easy to look at big, beautiful houses as an aspiration, when they won't do much to improve your relationships with other people, which tend to be at the core of happiness.
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Every talented junior and mid hits this wall at some point. This is where a new mindset and new skills have to be acquired: moving with the whole company in the same direction and improving it from the inside. Pointing out inefficiencies is important, but more important is how you do it and to who. It's easy to complain, it's hard to act accordingly.