skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
COOL~ interpreting a big AI with a bigger is like interpreting 42 with Earth~
Eugenics (Galton, and then advocated by almost every "smart" person back in the day in well respected circles).

Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Hitler by giving him what he wants and wasting time.

Robert McNamara setting up the disastrous Vietnam War.

Malthus's population control scare and their influence on policy.

Larry Summers/Alan Greenspan and other luminaries deregulating the financial sector (including mortgages).

All the way to modern day tech moguls and thinkers, with examples ranging from the Californian Ideology and Effective Altruism, to stuff like "let's bomb countries with advanced AI" from Eliezer and co.
Right, not to mention that the magnitude is what has largely been used to put blame on one thing or another over the decades following.
270 ha, 4400 homes? For shame!

Tung Chung East, part of a new development on the northern edge of Lantau Island in Hong Kong, is reclaiming ~130 ha and building ~62000 units, housing ~184k people.

> The TCNTE was originally planned with 49 400 housing units with
public / private housing split of 63:37. To meet keen housing demand and
optimise infrastructural investments, we have recently reviewed the technical
feasibility of intensifying the development density of TCNTE housing sites. With
the spare infrastructural capacity so identified and revision of the public housing
flat design, we are able to increase the overall housing yield from 49 400 units to
62 100 units for estimated total population of 184 000 subject to subsequent
planning approvals to be obtained. The increase of 12 700 units will all be public
housing with the resultant public/private housing split adjusted to 72:28. In terms
of commercial facilities, the TCNTE will provide about 877 000 square metres (m2)
floorspace generating some 40 000 jobs.

https://www.legco.gov.hk/yr20-21/english/fc/pwsc/papers/p20-...

https://www.tung-chung.hk/

build up, not out!
Personal annual and monthly horoscopes from Chintamani Namboodiri
I do not even think any of this has much of impact on AGI timelines. Human brain cells are not a superior substrate for computing "intelligence". They just are what they are; individual cells can somewhat meaningfully "want" stuff and be quasi-agents unto themselves, they do much more than integrate and fire. Weights in an ANN are purely terms in an equation without any inner process or content.
Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Redis and Memcached is now available
Idea is that facebook can give free access to its platform or they can choose to ask for payment, but they can not accept as a payment that users would wave their right to privacy. Privacy cant be for sale like you cant (legally) sell your kidney.
Doctorow is saying AGI is non-issue used to distract from the present issues like labor, bias, rights.
You are saying these are non-issues used to distract from main issue AGI.

I think the whole article is him not agreeing with your position.
I've been using "sfence" memory barrier to enforce visibility in my programs on amd64/x86_64.

It's good to know that my programs might need to be adjusted.

Chris Wellons [1] has an interesting post about using an explicit __ATOMIC_RELEASE and then __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE to tell thread sanitizer that there is definitely a happens-before relationship between threads.

[1]: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2022/10/03/

I have an idea: I would really like to layer an abstraction ontop of the memory model to formulate a protocol for interprocess/interthread communication. In other words, the cache coherency protocol IS the protocol for message passing. No locks!

My understanding is that memory_order_seq_cst or _ATOMIC_SEQ_CST in gcc C means all atomic operations in the same thread happens sequentially from the perspective of other threads.

This whitepaper ("How to miscompile programs with “benign” data races") discusses more about compiler optimisations breaking data races.

[2]: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/hotpar11/tech/final_file...
There were some posts recently about 4090s being mass imported into China and the chips being desoldered/converted to lower height reference boards and blower fans.
Just don't join the gaggle complaining about your adblocker randomly no longer working or YouTube randomly blocking the page till you disable it and were all good.
It's not that absolutely no countermeasures were taken since 1985. Just take Chinas renewable boom alone. There's a few things that wouldn't have happened without that prediction.

Also don't misinterpret a range. It doesn't say "5-7 degrees", it says "1-7 degrees" covering a best-case and worst-case scenario. It's not less credible just because the worst case is so bad.
> San Francisco is already the most densely populated city in California, with three times the density of LA.

LA is practically synonymous with disastrous low-density sprawl, so "three times the density of LA" is kind of a "three times zero is zero" statement. Huge parts of San Francisco look like this: [0], it's obscene and absolutely is unreasonable.

[0]: https://sf.curbed.com/2020/3/9/21171492/housing-affordabilit...
That's cool!
I'm a big fan of Ustad Tari Khan's tabla style.

So what language would you write a composition in? Urdu, or English?

I'm somewhat familiar with the bols since I learnt the Tabla a long time ago. 16 sounds a manageable number. Of course, putting together the audio samples to play a piece and making it sound non-robotic would be another challenge.

But another question is: would you find such a tool useful? There's a similar trend with Raga music, because recording is so easy now, few seem to want to take the trouble to write down notes. Would you, as a Tabla practitioner want to write down a composition? <and do similar tools exist already?>
I’d rather donate the 250 than pay meta https://noyb.eu/en/donations-other-support-options
Yes, that is exactly what it is. It is designed to mimick the action of the naturally occuring GLP-1 hormone. It is one part of the “you have just eaten” molecular signaling chain.
If meta offers facebook in the EU, then according to law, people have a fundamental right to use it without personalised advertising. Meta has the fundamental right to pull out of the EU completely and shake their fist at the sky if they disagree.
> There needs to be more constraints for this to be interesting.

Scott Aaronson's quote in the article provides this constraint:

> Precisely because the Turing machine model is so ancient and fixed,
whatever emergent behavior we find in the Busy Beaver game, there can be no suspicion that we “cheated” by changing the model until we got the results we wanted.

Your "each number x is interpreted as n+x" is a clear example of the cheating that makes for an uninteresting scheme.
ABSTRACT

Context. A mid-infrared nulling-space interferometer offers a promising way to characterize thermal light from habitable planet candi-
dates around Sun-like stars. However, one of the main challenges inherent in achieving this ambitious goal is the high-precision stability
of the optical path difference and amplitude over a few days for planet detections and all the way up to a few weeks for in-depth char-
acterization. This is related to mission parameters such as aperture size, number of apertures, and total instrument throughput.

Aims. Here, we propose a new method called phase-space synthesis decomposition (PSSD) to shorten the stability requirement to a
scale of minutes, significantly relaxing the technological challenges of the mission.

Methods. By focusing on the consideration of what exactly modulates the planetary signal in the presence of the stellar leak and sys-
tematic error, PSSD prioritizes the modulation of the signals along the wavelength domain rather than baseline rotation. Modulation
along the wavelength domain allows us to extract source positions in parallel to the baseline vector for each exposure. The sum of the
one-dimensional data is converted into two-dimensional information. Based on the reconstructed image, we constructed a continuous
equation and extract the spectra through the singular value decomposition, while efficiently separating them from a long-term system-
atic stellar leak.

Results. We performed numerical simulations to investigate the feasibility of PSSD for the Large Interferometer For Exoplanets
(LIFE) mission concept. We confirm that multiple terrestrial planets in the habitable zone around a Sun-like star at 10 pc can
be detected and characterized despite high levels and long durations of systematic noise. We also find that PSSD is more robust
against a sparse sampling of the array rotation compared to purely rotation-based signal extraction. Using PSSD as signal extrac-
tion method significantly relaxes the technical requirements on the signal stability and further increases the feasibility of the LIFE
mission.
>less local/more federal legal zoning and land use power, more federal level direction to get things done,

Nitpick: this part isn't correct. There's no federal legal zoning or direction or anything federal at all. Japan doesn't have a federal government; like most countries, it has a unitary government. The US is unusual this way, along with Germany and Russia.

But otherwise, you're right. It's much easier to build stuff here for all those reasons.
It is available at this price point for several years already. Due to the high price of consumables and other reasons, this is not practical for many applications, including sequencing your genome. One application where it shines is infectious disease monitoring in remote regions - it can run on the battery of the attached computer.
One problem with "look at the epidemiology" as an approach is that the virus is such a moving target. I'm citing these figures from memory, so apologies if I mangle them, but with OG covid you could mask up properly and spend an hour in an enclosed space with viral particles in the air and have a low risk of infection, while with omicron you had maybe five minutes masked the same way before you'd catch an infectious dose.

More generally, the trouble with evaluating masking is all the confounders. I spent the early pandemic in Japan, where ubiquitous masking was a highly effective barrier to spread. One reason it may have worked as well as it did is that people talked less with the masks on. But there were already strong social norms against talking in confined public places, and the public health authority stressed airborne spread. How much did that contribute?

I feel like the mask issue is irretrievably lost at this point in the US, but it's important to stress that in places like Japan and Taiwan it worked quite well, at least until omicron got so infective that even stringent adherence was no longer adequate. But there's no way to untangle it from the changes in social behavior that accompanied it, some of them a physical result of the masks (less talking), some due to social signaling aspects of mask wearing, and many unrelated.
4,400 homes proposed. The city of Brisbane settled for half that.
I absolutely love the internet. I pay for satellite internet so I can be sure that wherever I go, a battery and a laptop are all I need to stay connected. I can access the world's art, literature, science, history, the greatest and the trashiest works all at once. I can find out what's happening around me, I can look at historical weather data and learn about wave propagation, and then drive 200km to go surfing and be confident that I continue to remain attached to the virtual real-time sensor system and incredible brain extension that is this glorious information superhighway.

And then, when there's nothing more interesting at hand, I can explore a virtual world, or I git into a project and do some work, or... anything.

I can't take the title seriously when the author just seems to mean 'escapism'.
European Parliament votes to abolish member states' veto
Even in math, the most exact of all fields of study, people in practice are being nonrigorous and ambiguous and take shortcuts all the time. That’s just how communication works, because it would be incredibly grating and inefficient to try to be 100% unambiguous when everybody already knows what you mean.
I hope a similar ruling comut out against google.

I would pay for YouTube premium in a heartbeat if it meant they will stop tracking me and stalking my activity.
Thank you so much for the support.
I had the same question. Because it could have been that it reduces desires in general, like invoking a slight depression where you just don't care about things, including addictions. Then again, things like depression are likely to increase the desire for dopamine triggers.
There are rarely any design "decisions". Typically, you throw many things at wall and something sticks which becomes paper. Transformer paper has approximately zero "design decisions" apart from attention block. I can imagine they just tried out various combinations, kept adding projections and went with what worked the best.
Absolutely. I recommend the references linked under “Mechanism of Action” of the wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaglutide
Using AI to generate junk and steal web traffic from real humans
In the author's case, I think that will be London City Airport (LCY), which has an extremely steep approach.

> Only multi-engine, fixed-wing aircraft up to Airbus A318 size with special aircraft and aircrew certification to fly 5.5° approaches are allowed to conduct operations at London City Airport.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZIDFgpT0-o

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_City_Airport
> Can I open the fridge while I'm at work to see if I need to get more milk on the way home?

Only works for a neatly organized fridge. The way my kids cram everything into the fridge makes this feature worthless.
I have no clue why you're angry and arguing against a point I didn't make. Settle down.

The Sega Genesis and SNES had completely different libraries, but both had massive third party support. The N64 and onward has had basically limited third party support in comparison to other platforms. This isn't limited to the genres you mock because you can't play them--it's all genres.

The DS was far weaker than the PSP but had absolutely colossal third party support. The point is, when it comes to consoles you plop down in front of a TV, Nintendo basically burned their bridges 30 years ago. GTA and Call of Duty weren't even around then.

As an addendum, here are the Switch's top selling games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Nintendo_...

All top 10 are first/second party. And top 20. Only in the top 30 do third parties start to appear.

Compare it to the SNES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Super_Nin...

Third parties everywhere.
Exceed in some regards but not others right? Like, let’s not imagine the plane is better at being a bird than the bird. It’s an evocative set of associations though. Makes me think we’ll end up creating the Concorde of intelligence but be no closer to understanding how our own works…
Potential ZFS data corruption issue
LA upzoned for an additional 255,000 homes this year, which was enough to satisfy the state's requirements.
most consoles had their own build chain, most development studios had tools to use the different build chains.

starcraft made it onto that console, that in and of itself negates most of what is being talked about here

https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/StarCraft_64
As a number, N=BB(100) is trivially computable by the program "output N". What you really mean is that the function BB(.) itself is uncomputable.
I'll take the bait.

The increasing number of Rust jobs ask you for previous Rust experience, if only on open-source or hobby projects.
> The difference may seem slight, he said, but the planet is only 9 degrees warmer now than during the 8,000-year Ice Age that ended 10,000 years ago

Sounds like they're talking Fahrenheit, not Celsius.

The change has been about 1 F, which is 0.555 C: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v4/graph_data/Glob...

Ice core derived temperature graph: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ice_Age_Temperatur...
I think to credit these guys you'd really have to ignore a lot of factors that were discovered decades later than this outburst, including many previously unknown natural phenomena that would have curbed their estimates had they been discovered prior. Especially in hindsight, it's alarmist.
I can't speak to the GBA version, but the point is that that generation was the first generation to start getting cross-platform games.

What is being said was true of previous generations, but not that one. N64 even had starcraft ported to it.
> Was the government less involved?

Yes. A lot less. The US government was fairly small until WW2.

> So maybe government successes are readily at hand in my mind.

You have to look at the cost before determining if it is a success. Not simply the volume of production.
Alibaba Cloud suffers second service outage in a month
In Romania, one of the top 5 ISPs, telekom.ro, is still doing it in present days.
No, it's just a random adjective-noun pair used last time I restarted my aaccount!
For me: https://youtu.be/W-XynViVN3E?si=b3ka5JCZOINoTBRq
Yup - it's definitely not perfect yet. Getting there though :-)
It's very probable he was using Farenheit as his unit (given he's a lifelong US citizen) and given he's not a scientist of the physical or vaguely numerical type he's likely sloppy on his baseline and ranges.

None the less:

The 2022 surface temperature was 1.55 °F (0.86 °Celsius) warmer than the 20th-century average of 57.0 °F (13.9 °C) and 1.90 ˚F (1.06 ˚C) warmer than the pre-industrial period (1880-1900).

So the earth was up a degree and half F within 30 years relative to the 20th Centuray average.

and:

Dr Noel Brown is the former Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, North American Regional office.

Dr Brown holds a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Seattle University, an M.A. in International Law and Organization from Georgetown University and Ph. D. in International Relations from Yale University.

He also holds a diploma in International Law from The Hague Academy of International Law.

https://www.pace.edu/sites/default/files/files/commencement/...

So, not a STEM person and not a climate scientist.
GitMounter: A FUSE filesystem for Git repositories
Signing Git commits with SSH keys
I think the biological information on earth would likely be extremely valuable. Our DNA took an absurdly long time to evolve, and would probably be almost impossible to acquire with simulations given it spans from microscopic to macroscopic factors. Works of artistic or cultural significance probably have a decent chance as well, given the value we place on those even from ancient or foreign cultures. Whether our biosphere/temperate planet has value probably depends a lot on your assumptions about how hard terraforming is for super-civilizations and how compatible life is.

On the other hand I agree our natural resources are likely worthless. I always laugh at that scientology movie, Battlefield Earth, where the aliens invade, then inslave humans to dig in Earth's gold mines with pickaxes. Maybe the most troublesome possible way you could acquire gold as a spacefairing race.

As a hobby project I'm making a video game about aliens looting museums and zoos for items of cultural and biological value. Mostly because I find the idea of little green men busting up the Louvre then blasting off to be very funny. The zoo angle is a little nonsensical if you consider how much DNA is shared, but obviously scooping up pondscum is a less interesting scenario.
That comment forgetting that the Bundys are suburban means its conclusion that they live on the Southside is incorrect - there's plenty of West suburban houses in the 9600s. I think the house itself is a little unusual for any of the towns you named, especially Evergreen. A bungalow (in Evergreen), ranch or split level would be more typical. Your assessment of the demographics of those towns back then is accurate, btw
GDPR does not allow discrimination against users who do not want to be tracked and you have the right not to be tracked. Wether the workaround ,that makes €10 then‘ is viable has not yet been tested in the courts. General assumption is that it is not. This would result in facebook to either allow non-sanctioned opt-out or pull out of the EU.
Incredibly fascinating, thank you!
I think too many people on HN overanalyze things.

Just about all stories have lessons to be learned in them, TNG was no different, it's uniqueness was in the setting not in the themes of its stories.
> it was fun watching advocates of complex, abstract Haskell argue against straightforward programming that normal developers can understand

I don't think that's what they were arguing against. I think they were arguing against equating straightforward programming with basic language features.
As far as I can tell, section 8 has residency restrictions at the USA level, not local level. I see no residency requirements in WA for example, and they even encourage you to apply to multiple localities because waiting lists are long.
>there's no way to claim the domain of somebody else.

That's a problem, surely, as it means all domain names become owned in perpetuity. That's good if you don't want governments to be able to have control, but it doesn't fit with current systems like Trademarks, but also just if there was an error or con that caused a domain to be transferred that you want to reverse. Also, over time domains become lost; which is sub-optimal in a limited namespace.
A month late getting booster shots into pharmacies and blatantly corrupt games played with sole sourcing the contract to a single pharmacy chain, which itself caused a pile of doses to expire and be thrown out.
It definitely is a more mechanistic effect, from experience and from a large sample of people I know addictive behaviors that were rooted for years and were unknown to be even addressed by the drug are dramatically nerfed, nearly universally. Just doesn't happen by wishful thinking.

Also it's not just food related - gambling, smoking, nail biting even.
Same browser, and same result (probably). The left negative margin on the first line is too large, the initial "i" is too far to the left and overhangs the line.

O.45em vs other sizes probably depends a lot on font/rendering/minor details that the website may not be able to control.
> Sure, but it’s a PITA to take because absorption is bad.

That’s a dosing problem :)

Unsure if the GI effects will actually worse. Depends if it’s a direct effect or not.
Wow I really like that little mini-map on the right...
Can you explain what these A₀, A₁, A₂, ... are, and how their supremum is a finite number?