skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Space is hostile to life. After 4 billion years, life cannot propagate to nearest planet. We are lucky that life on our planet is not erased yet, but it will be erased in about 2-4 billion years, when oceans will boil, then when core will freeze, then when Sun will consume the planet.

Out of 6-8 billion years, 3 billion years was spent in single-cell form of life. We are extremely lucky.

We can calculate how many stars are formed after a supernova event, how many Earth-size planets in the habitable zone are survived after collision of two objects of comparable size, how many of them survived with ocean and large moon, to make large tidal waves (I suspect that first cells were formed as greasy puddles, then partially dried out, which created a membrane), then how many of them were far enough from a supernova or not erased by it own star in 4 billion years at least.

I suspect, that final number will be much less that 200 sextillion, because, to avoid a supernova, a star must be formed in a less dense region.
If you notice, quite a few top executives go to Zen retreats... these are the same people who have no qualms with 5, 10, 20, 30% cuts.

It seems anathema, but it isn't, Zen, arguably, was instrumental in the Imperial Army running roughshod over its enemies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_at_War , so too with Executives -they simply become instruments of fate itself, it's not they themselves doing it.
True, but let's say the timeframe is rather short with X.
Do we know how GPT4V tokenizes? You’d probably need the blocks to match the token size?
Ouch. I sponsored the developer on GitHub for a few months precisely because I realized that we need to support independent developers who are in the trenches building un-sexy software like SMS, Gallery, Calendar, etc. I don't blame them for selling, but it does leave a bad taste in my mouth...
> it was a no-name aliexpress special

Not according to this:

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

> A modified Logitech F710 wireless game controller was used to steer

Even then, it wasn't responsible for the implosion, right?
The internet or modern technology is not only social media...

Its like saying a books are only cheesy romantic 5 penny books...
Such a silly argument to make for settling other planets. No matter how bad earth is going to get due to climate change, it's still a million times more livable than the toxic hellscapes that both the Moon and Mars are.

Also, outerspace is not some lawless frontier akin to America in the 1800s it is governed by the, quite restrictive, Outer Space Treaty which doesn't even allow for claiming parts of a planet as sovereign territory.

In short, everyone who thinks settling outer space will save us from problems here on earth is extremely wrong along multiple axes.
The USA spends more on healthcare per capita than many other countries, but our life expectancy and general health is worse than other high-income countries.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...
A company with billions of dollars of investment investing a relatively small sum as an early commitment -- which is likely is the sort of thing that gets you preferential access -- into a AI chip company seems ... just smart?

AI chips are expensive and hard to get; nvidia can't produce enough; nvidia's chips are very expensive; building / seeding alternate supply for a crucial input is just competent business.
You can modify Windows bat-files too while executing them. Like append stuff to them. Quite useful.

foo.sh:

echo "echo foobar" >> foo.sh
echo "Will it print?"

=)
Doesn’t seem so sensational when it can’t build binaries for the target machine… on the target machine itself…
They dont need to hack their way in. A good bribe in a dutch or belgian official pocket is all it takes.
Thread per architecture is a topic in and by itself in computer science. I feel like you are talking about it as if the author invented it to solve its needs.
Article 27 of the UN convention on the high seas stipulates that all signatories treat this as a crime if their subjects or flag-bearers do it, so it's hardly a free for all.

Although, typically, the USA has refused to ratify it. Maybe you'd be fine!
Automated error-correction is an easy fix.

User: did you provide me the correct answer to the question which I asked? Please look carefully for errors in your answer and let me know if it accurately answers my question or not.

Please respond exclusively in JSON structure:
{
"error_found": bool,
"error_description": string,
"updated_answer": string

}

Answer:

{
"error_found": true,
"error_description": "Mistaken repetition of 'feathers' instead of comparing 'feathers' with 'steel'.",
"updated_answer": "Both a kilogram of feathers and a kilogram of feathers weigh the same, as they both are one kilogram."
}
Code signing is the exception, not the norm, in OSS packaging ecosystems. The ones that do already have it tend to have properties that make them amenable to simple implementations, e.g. being able to pre-bake a set of trusted signers into the OS in the case of Debian.
I'm just renting.
It seems like the kids don't know as much. If you take a classics class from 20, 50, 100 years ago, they will have a better understanding of Latin, better understanding of Ancient Greek. Which leaves professors with the choice of watering down the curriculum, inflating grades or both. And when professors have done this for a decade so standards have evaporated I can understand why they would ask "What is the value of what I'm doing?"
It has been a winning strategy for SoftBank. When there are gigantic sums of money sloshing around, the waste can become enormous.
The post mentions SLSA level 2. Here are the SLSA levels, for those not familiar with them:

https://slsa.dev/spec/v1.0/levels

Here's the full spec from its beginning:

https://slsa.dev/spec/v1.0/

For those saying we should have verified reproducible builds: yes, that'd be great! This effort does not conflict with reproducible builds. However, some builds are hard to reproduce. Making sure you protect the build process itself is a great first step.
That’s some serious garbling on behalf of the author then
Interesting. Could you share some detailed examples?
What sort of classification? What are examples of traditional NLP tasks?
Op is not talking about real poverty here, these are AI tech workers whose skills are in high demand.
You are assuming the board doesn't know. The board seems to have turned over many times since then. Do you know for sure the board didn't know?
Probably a great way to increase equity
> unless they've been educated to expect that.

And this is critical.

I've seen enough times when kid did expected to receive what they wanted and threw a tantrum if not.
Have you tried ACA meetings?

adultchildren.org

It’s twelve-step based, but more focused on recognizing and managing one’s traumas. ACA can synergize nicely w/ therapy. Since it is technically free, it could be a useful companion to therapy, or even a substitute while professional is not available.

I am in US, but ACA is international.

I am a big believer in therapy, but it can be costly, and finding an effective therapist for you can be a difficult onramp to effective care. ACA + therapy has been a helpful combination for me.
From the study:

> From the perspective of the lyrics’ linguistic cues, we saw that people who value more foundations related to Care and Fairness (Individualising values) prefer artists whose songs’ textual content is about care and joy.

Those concerned more about Loyalty, Authority and Purity (Binding or ingroup) foundations tend to choose artists whose songs’ lyrics talk about fairness, sanctity, and love. Also, individuals with strong ingroup values tend to prefer artists whose lyrics have positive sentiments and talk about dominance. This is intelligible as individuals who value Binding and their social groups tend to engage in group activities such as sports, religious events, and political gatherings, which often make use of music to promote messages of power, unity, and victory (e.g. sports chants, church choirs, etc.). On the other hand, participants with high Binding scores tend to dislike songs with negative valence, violent narratives and songs that resonate with sadness, fear, and disgust.

From an audio perspective, we saw that participants with Binding values preferred more artists whose songs are danceable, loud and with more positive sounds. In contrast, participants with Individualising values chose more artists whose songs are smooth, acoustic and have less dynamic sounds. Based on the correlation and statistical significance, timbre and pitch classes displayed important information about the link between individuals’ music choices and moral values. Binding foundations showed higher correlations across timbre and pitch dimensions, whereas Individualising foundations showed higher correlations to pitch classes. Individualising values showed a somewhat negative correlation to the dominant pitches (with values closer to 1), implying that people who value Care and Fairness prefer smoother rather than louder and dynamic music, which is in line with the findings from the higher-level musical features. Binding values had mostly positive correlations with timbre dimensions; however, it only showed a negative correlation with the averaged timbre 11 and 12 and the averaged first-order difference of time 9. We found that these particular timbre dimensions were dominant in hard rock, metal indie, pop, and electronic music (see Timbre subsection in the Materials and Methods section). This implies that individuals who value Loyalty, Authority, and Purity might prefer artists with more conventional and rhythmic songs and dislike those with rebellious, loud, distorted songs.
"...The prevalence of the
great Eskimo snow hoax is testimony to falling standards in academia,
but also to a wider tendency (particularly in the United States, I'm
afraid) toward fundamentally anti-intellectual "gee-whiz" modes of
discourse and increasing ignorance of scientific thought..."

"...Some time in the future, and
it may be soon, you will be told by someone that the Eskimos have
many or dozens or scores or hundreds of words for snow. You, gentle
reader, must decide here and now whether you are going to let them get
away with it, or whether you are going to be true to your position as an
Expert On Language by calling them on it..."
On the opposite end. We in Germany keep them because the prospect of your car getting wrapped around the tree is a good reason drivers use to go slower. Flipside is I can read about drunk teens dying to them every couple of weeks :/
I mean I would figure it would be extremely different, much more so than say visiting the USA or Europe since our heritage all comes from the same parts of the world (minus indigenous which USA and Brazil also share to an extent)
Yes google is making me stupid if you ask me what the longest river in the world...

People are getting worse in these kind of trivia questions...

Because why should you even remember them?

If all the internet shuts down then the least of your problems are trivia questions...
Show HN: Letter to a Young Artist
That is extremely cool! I like the stem 'thiccness' parameter :)
> You can do this, but I don’t think it has much of a value (or security) proposition on its own.

The value prop is pretty straightforward in the open-source space: allowing clients to choose to only trust binaries signed by N independent actors.

F-Droid achieves this today: if an application needs to be built/signed by both the original author and F-Droid to be considered valid, neither party can push a compromised binary on their own. ("Compromised" in the sense of "doesn't match the source code it claims to", which AFAICT is all you're targeting with this Homebrew scheme too.)

GNU Guix is working on a similar scheme where the client can choose to only accept binaries built by K of N "substitute servers". And even today, they ship a one-click "challenge" command that rebuilds a bunch of binaries to report whether a substitute server is shipping something suspicious; users can then gossip about this via their favorite social media platform.

I'd argue that both of these solutions create a lot more value than your scheme, where most of the people who would previously be able to tamper with the single, central instance of the build infrastructure are still able to do that without being detected.
Interesting. I believe those might be called silence seizures and if I’m not mistaken are prone to happen around the sleep cycles, so before or after one and are found at a fairly high rate in people with a Satb2 mutation, a gene known to be heavily involved in bone growth and cerebral cortex development.
Sure we're gonna get the inaccessible favela anyway, but that doesn't mean we have to vote for it.
OpenAI is nothing without its people!
It wouldn’t be hard to replace China for solar cells. Especially if the west starts to shift investments and manpower away from fossil fuels.
To me, serif fonts convey a sense of the classic, and sans serif fonts convey moderness. So if the top people of a company says to designers "make the company more modern", it makes sense that one of the first things the designers will do is to change the serif logo to a sans serif one. It's not always a good decision though, some industries, like high fashion (as seen in the article) and literary (e.g. New Yorker, Littler Books) benefit from being "classy" and having a serif font.
If someone could explain the dishonest part to a simpleton like me it would be sincerely appreciated.

So he has an incentive to do business with a chip maker that he invested in. But that's allowed right? Or is the argument more that it's like insider trading (investing?) because he knew he might announce business with it in the future? Since it's not publicly traded, I don't even know if that's unethical.
This is my first time hearing about PowerLine. Has anyone used it extensively and have any tips and tricks to share?

Wikipedia[1] lists some pros and cons but it's not clear how impactful those cons are in real world scenarios. How does the speed compare to Wifi? Do multiple devices cause issues?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-line_communication
Yep. It demonstrates that the Turing test is strongly influenced by the culture it's administered in. One bot can influence other bots' performance on the test just by existing and being familiar to the public.
Elon is richer and used NASA money at SpaceX to buy bad SolarCity bonds, then used Tesla to bail out SpaceX and SolarCity when SolarCity were going to default on them.

But, Zuckerberg has done some stuff maybe somewhat similar to the WeWork trademark thing: the "Meta" trademark came from his quasi-charity's investment into some kind of meta-study medical research company. I'm not sure there was any conflict there though as I think Chan-Zuckerberg initiative fully owned it and didn't have other shareholders.
Tech Funds Adopt Private Equity Strategies in Race to Return Cash to Investors
https://archive.is/VKpMP
I for one am here for techoGaudi-ism.
"Warren Buffett: Private Equity Firms Are Typically Very Dishonest" - https://youtu.be/r3_41Whvr1I
maybe neurofeedback? https://web.archive.org/web/20110710194522/www.epilepsyhealt...

wikipedia claims there is not much recent research when it references that link.

it is being shown that meditation can affect brain waves, I wonder if it is in a way that is beneficial for preventing seizures.
Take a look at
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.
Twitter will be bankrupt within the year.

Honestly, I think this is the best thing that could have happened to the tech business culture. Maybe with this, and SBFs sentencing, we will finally learn to stop worshiping unqualified tech leaders who are trying to market impossible science fiction pipe dreams.

... one can hope, I mean, looking at what's going on in AI, we still have some learning to do
This is a really fantastic summary. Thank you.
Read the post up above by @3cats-in-a-coat
> The response here is to demand legislation from your own country that makes it unprofitable to companies that employ child labor to continue to do so.

You can start with a democracy: US. Just a couple of days ago, child labor in US made headlines.
It’s back up

https://t.co/VpuH12Z1It
> My personal wishlist would be for a USB-C power adapter that also provided an ethernet connection, so you could just plug a laptop in anywhere in the house no matter how congested or flaky the WiFi was there.

This caught my eye. If something like that worked well without too much fuss setting it up, it would be really cool.
Personally, I am sick unto death of bland sans serif fonts and flat, minimalist design, but I realize that's just my opinion.
I appreciate your attempt to invalidate my experience but your points are irrelevant.

> hosts rebooted in the wrong order

Order doesn't matter. Host groups set a threshold for unavailability. Hosts are not rolled unless availability targets are maintainable. Usually this just means the oldest host at any time will get rolled.

Facebook obviously uses hot patching kernel updates to work around a social issue. Instead if you are functionally able to prescribe a set of behaviors that teams must comply to, you can easily do things like rebooting the fleet monthly without impacting availability regardless of the statefulness or fault tolerances.

If I shoot a random host in your pool and it matters to you then you haven't achieved fault tolerance. I'm obviously not proposing shooting an unfair number of hosts to you.
At the same time with taxonomy, we're basically lossy encoding the information and so data is lost or glossed over. IE, white walls aren't exactly white, there's other color information there but it's easier for our brains to encode. Creating lines, borders and categories is a lossy function and if objective truth is to be obtained, it's important to retain as much of it as possible while we can also be intellectually honest about our needs for such distinctions.
AI laser that reads heartbeat through the throat could replace stethoscopes
I wouldn’t say they are smarter.

They have more information in their heads and know more ideas, facts, figures, and so on.

But the wetware is still the same it’s been since ancient civilization. We haven’t changed, only stuffed our heads with more information that hasn’t been given any time for processing. Very few have any real free time to allow their brains to wonder and to begin integrating what their senses have collected.

Dare I say this makes us less wise.
And it does if you start it off with a prompt that asks it to check to make sure your inputs are valid.
Ok, I'm wrong, sorry. But my point original still holds. See @3cats-in-a-coat for more details.
Don't they have official APIs for this? I think "Nearby Search" and "Place Details" have the same info?
Why you get sick in winter months [video]
You're missing the point: to the extent there were things you didn't like about XP and 7, you could fix them. Your relationship with your OS vendor was that of a paying user, not a hostage.
I see.

That doesn't make a difference though? Not using IRC limits who you can reach. In some projects, all the interesting people are easily reachable through IRC (and less reachable through other channels).

Of course there are other projects where all the interesting people are reachable through matrix or gitter or zulip or slack, and if you're interacting with those projects, IRC won't do much to help you. That doesn't mean "not using IRC limits who you can reach" is false; it just means you may not have an interest of interacting with the people who you can't reach without IRC.
China is overtaking the West in the open AI race
> This will break all the runtime type checking modules (such as typedload, which I wrote).

Most runtime type checking modules I am aware of support

from __future__ import annotations

E.g., typeguard, Pydantic, beartype, among others.
I have it deployed in my attic (one sender in basement, one receiver in attic) because so far I’ve been too lazy to pull Cat6 up there.

I get about 35Mbps and it’s a little flaky, but I haven’t tried to troubleshoot it. It serves my minimal use case (streaming to a very rarely used guest bedroom TV).

I’d use anything else in most cases (including pulling fiber to my detached garage rather than using power line to galvanically isolate the networks).

I’ve not tested it, but my understanding is that powerline networking will not pass (or pass well) a surge suppressor (which might be a problem if you have an updated electrical panel with whole house suppression).
Finally, the actual AAMMG, not some weird companies.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his philosophical discussions about language, argued that the concept of a "game" cannot be defined by a single set of characteristics. He suggested that games share a "family resemblance" rather than a strict definition, meaning they have overlapping features but no single feature is common to all.
I would simply call it demeaning.
Yes - the 2018 date was buried, rather disingenuously, I think.
I've used powerline once or twice, but I'm a heavy user of MoCa. It's basically the same thing except ethernet over Coax cable. My use case is creating wired backhauls for mesh wifi system (or adding wired AP's where stringing ethernet isn't practical)
Meh, I've worked on several embedded systems, majority of developers did not use globals and bad coding practices. They weren't massive class hierarchies like I'm sure a lot of HN people would desire. Mostly (if c++) single inheritance, basic usage of RAII, basic usage of smart pointers (if allowed to use STL, some roll your own). The C projects I worked on were a little more ramshackle but almost no one used global variables or data. Lots of good use of translation uses to separate areas of interest. Most people avoided pointers until needed. It's not as bad as HN likes to portray.
I asked GPT-4 what the following means:

> enO of eht prlobsem hiwt necsnstee dveoirpd ot LsML si hatt eyth yma efrre to ifsiccpe sc,jestub and lodcu pttayoeilln be arpt fo hte gnirtnia ets. rFo plmaeex het ngiloolwf si eonsdreidc xyeletmre icfdutfil

it replied:

> One of the problems with sentences provided to LMSs is that they may refer to specific subjects, and could potentially be part of the training set. For example, the following is considered extremely difficult

I believe the above sentence was not part of the training set