skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whether underground, on an island, or at one of Cole’s haven farms, they would constitute an unlikely community of CEOs, each driven, to quote Mark Zuckerberg’s motto, to “move fast and break things” as they compete to run the show.

That could be interesting: strip a bunch of billionaires of their society-protected wealth and power structures, and then watch them compete amongst each other for dominance using only their innate strengths.

While they're trying to figure out Machiavellian alliances and backstabbings from scratch in an apocalypse, the winner for leadership might be the physical security mercenaries that they hired and treated like the help.

That reminds me of something I saw during dotcoms. I was visiting a big-name university campus, and within earshot was a table with a few students who seemed to be talking about forming a startup. I don't think I paid attention to them, but at one point, a woman at the table who sounded like a no-nonsense engineer seemed to address one in particular, something like, "So, what do you bring?" And some young guy (who I guessed was a business major undergrad), sounded alarmed and hurt, "I provide leadership..."

I think he implicitly imagined himself in a social class that in practice was often about collusions of the few to exploit the many, like a royal birthright. But so far he'd only gotten the "leadership" PR, not how you get that job and project the confidence that you merit it.

Surely there are CEOs who might lead in an apocalypse, because they are respected and trusted by everyone, and can organize and inspire. But that's not how society usually selects CEOs pre-apocalypse.
I think this is about the stage we are at in regard to decentralized finance at the moment.

I often think about how strangely archaic our financial system is.

For example when you start a new job and the first payment comes in after 4 weeks on the job. In the future, the payments will flow realtime.

Or when I want to check the price of some stock and the stock market is closed, like it is most of the time. In the future, prices will be set on a global market with no downtime.

Or when I talk to people who run online businesses and the plethora of problems they have with credit card payments. Because a credit car payment is not a payment. It's a something where the receiver of the money is held responsible when the one who pays plays dirty tricks on them. In the future, an electronic payment will be simply a payment.

Let's hope we don't need over 40 years from theory to reality like it took for the internet.
Why is this a race you'd want to win?
>It is not moving US based core engg

Manufacturing is also becoming a core engg. Just ask the semiconductor industry. That was also offshored to Asia from the west by the metric boatload because it was not considered high value and prestigious enough, and now we depend on Asia for the most high value cutting edge chips which power our ... everything, as the western companies have fallen behind and are left with the manufacturing of low value chips. How ironic.

Reminds me of that scene form 'Back to the future' where 1955 Doc finds a faulty chip in the DeLorean's time travel circuit and says "No wonder it failed, it says Made in Japan", then Marty explains to him that in 1985 all the best stuff is made in Japan. That scene aged like wine.

It's all fun and games until you have another global supply chain disruption because some component you thought is irelevant but you now find out is only made in one country that now decides not to play ball or is vulnerable to an aggressor or a natural calamity, and you can't fix it because there's no equivalent manufacturing capacity or even know-how left in the west anymore, as it was all offshored 20+ years ago so everyone who knew that field well, is now retired or doing some other job. But hey, at least some execs got some fat bonuses and career changing promotions out of it.
You know the person who you downloaded from did, which is then benefitting from ill gotten gains, and also immoral.
I haven't looked too deep, but kagi does let you regex filter your results[0]. I don't think you can manipulate things to be hidden with this, but it seems trivial. I'm sure you could put in a feature requesr.

0. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/redirects.html
The context should be clear in their comments. If not a web search usually helps me clear up any such misunderstandings before any doubling down.
I would never buy a Tesla. Or for that matter, I've made a point to stay away from Musk's anything.

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Ive seen engineer reports from Tesla. https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-tesla-employees-reveal-th...

And really, forced reboots while driving on the highway??? And I thought MS was bad. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/a-system-reboot-occu...

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I've seen the injury reports from SpaceX. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spacex-m...

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Starlink is the least-troubled, but still launched without full permission. And is causing havoc with astronomers. https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites-megaconstel...

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I have absolutely no trust in anything Musk touches.
You must live in a bubble if you think that EU leaders don't see the invasion of Ukraine as an existential threat... Do you get all your news about what happens in Europe from HN?
>For the first month

aka half of the entire study duration. As for "satisfaction" it didn't: diet satisfaction was reported lower in the vegan group. But while there may have been cheating, we know that the vegan group was consuming less calories, because they lost more weight. If they had been provided the same number of calories, that would tell us that they were cheating less or something similar. Because they were not though, we have no idea how much of it is due to some advantage of the diet vs. the difference in provided meals. The issue is not that this problem disproves advantages of a vegan diet. The problem is it makes it impossible to know. They have hopelessly confounded with a factor that we know is incredibly important in nutrition related health outcomes.

And the authors know it too:

>Fifth, our study was not designed to be isocaloric; thus, changes to LDL-C cannot be separated from weight loss observed in the study.

I personally think that this one throw away sentence is far too small for what is probably the largest methodological issue in the study.

Again, this problem doesn't disprove anything about vegan diets, it just makes it nearly impossible to learn anything from this study.
So nothing changed?
Is capital growth the most important goal we should set for ourselves as a society?
The second example shows setting text through a dictionary.
Slightly unrelated but just learned about Hacker News pool. Very interesting.
Exactly. That game has raised by expectation on what a game could be in this day and age. This is coming from a huge fan of Fallout I,II, NV, Planescape Torment, old adventure games ect.
No login: https://nitter.net/sawyermerritt/status/1733178375353618758
... And advertisers and revenue stream.
It's just as immoral to steal from Big MegaCorp as it is to steal from Joe Random, especially when what you're stealing is entirely frivolous and not in any way required for your life or even happiness.

The insidious nature of piracy is that it's so completely unnecessary. There are no "but I'm starving" kind of arguments to be had here.
While I agree that the comment you replied to seems a bit over the top, I don’t think the answer to your question is as obvious as you make it out to be.

1. If the AI is more effective at finding successful cancer treatment for Little Endians versus Big Endians, then there is a non-zero chance that the AI will be deemed discriminatory. This could play out in a number of ways, but restricted access is certainly one of them. I live in California, and I also think that there is a non-zero chance of this happening here. It all depends on how the treatment and data are presented.

2. If the manufacturer of said treatment is anti-union, will the treatment options be distributable in certain parts of Europe?
>Supposedly teenagers care about this,

Android vs iPhone is definitely a thing people in their 20s and 30s even use to judge others. I have polled quite a few family/friends, and it is near unanimous that it is a dealbreaker in dating, mostly because they assume there is a higher likelihood they will not mesh with the type of person the non iPhone user is.

>but that seems like a poor basis for anti-trust action.

Correct.
> You are allowed to withhold access until verification can be made, and generally it can be done in 5-30mins.

So it's not like on TV where if they have the paper they can just show it to you and barge past you by force?

For arrest warrants that makes sense, but they portray search warrants the same way.
How big is the upside for Elon Musk here?

As the article points out, he was one of the founders but left in 2018 “in a huff”.

On the other hand, they were a nonprofit, and even now have this weird capped profit structure.
> 1: It really varies; surprisingly enough it's not a felony in all states, and in at least one state, it's only a felony if there is intent to benefit from the authority granted.

You think that's surprising? Wait til you hear that in 35 states, a police officer can claim that a detainee, in custody, even handcuffed at the time, can 'consent' to intercourse with the officer. (That's even before you get to the lesser issue of why a police officer is having intercourse at work...)
> I have absolutely no trust in anything Musk touches.

Yes, HN & Redditors have made their views extremely clear.

Just don't be surprised when the rest of the world disagrees.
I think I read someone else say that, if libraries weren't a thing already, the publishers would have never allowed them.
I might be a foolish dreamer, but I think a healthy community with a lot of 3rd party tools make a project even greater. Like git.

It also inspires confidence for new adopters. I was often wondering with vault "why are there so few 3rd party tools? Is almost nobody using vault or people just use their own private tools". I was afraid to "invest" by using a tool that I perceived as not being popular enough and maybe have a limited future (maybe just in the 3rd party tools area)
I've also been pondering a backwards-compatible fork of PNG - but rather than a fork, mine would be a subset. Specifically, it would be an as-simple-as-possible uncompressed* bitmap format, suitable for use in low-complexity embedded systems etc. (e.g. bootloaders, wink wink). By being backwards compatible, you get the added benefit of retaining compatibility with existing image viewers, but without having to implement "all of PNG" in decoders and encoders. Now, the base PNG spec isn't even that big, but the more you constrain the spec, the easier it is to be sure you've implemented it securely.

* If you're wondering how that works in a backwards-compatible way, DEFLATE already supports uncompressed blocks.
So guilty until proven innocent then? You see zero problems with that?
The reason why it is funny is that almost by definition, anything that a biometric data detectors could detect would fall under the banned category.

A bio-metrics detector, detects biometrics! And the law basically bans bio metrics detectors from detecting biometrics.

It would be like if there was a law that said that restaurants can't sell food.

Or if hammer regulations prevented hammers from being used on nails.

Or that water could be used for anything but making things wet or drinking.

It is almost definitionally contradictory.

That is indeed funny.
You're right about London, although I explored it not long ago, and having an EU/EFTA passport and a job in tech seemed to basically guarantee it.

As for Switzerland, you don't need it. As the Swiss government itself says: "Thanks to freedom of movement, citizens of EU/EFTA member states can enter, live and work in Switzerland.".

[1]: https://www.ch.ch/en/foreign-nationals-in-switzerland/workin...
https://web.archive.org/web/20231209174528/https://dougengel...
The method in this paper is different than most existing RDT applications since achieving the best results requires much more water than anyone was previously suggesting. The heuristic that James Hoffman has espoused is 3-4 spritzes of water per 18g of coffee. Obviously this depends on the spritzer you use, but it’s much more water than people have used before so questions about that effect are valid. The paper addresses these concerns somewhat by measuring humidity in the grind chamber, and they found that it dropped to ambient on the order of a minute after grinding finished.
Lots of things are this way. School busses and fire engines are mostly all custom built to order. Fire apparatus at least make some sense, as the needs of every district vary, but school busses? I would think a few common models would suffice.
Sorry but no, this won't work as you'd know the goods were gained through deception (since that's the only way the goods would be made available to you).
You can't easily put backdoors in cryptographic algorithms that can be audited
No? Where is it held?
I think the major issues with this approach are:

1) You aren't sending them naked DNA which can be modified in a test tube, you're sending them epithelial cells that they extract the DNA from.

2) Any changes you make would mostly not be complete, and they're generating your reference genome from a consensus (to account for sequencing errors and DNA damage). This increases the odds that any randomization you do is basically swamped by the consensus algorithm. If the changes are not swamped then your decryption depends on knowing exactly which changes are from your encryption algorithm, and exactly which are from their consensus algorithm.

3) Bisulfite conversion, methyltransferases, general deamination, and the like make known changes to your genome that can easily be fully accounted for during analysis. There's no easily done "random" cryptographic technology that you can do on your DNA. And even if there was, it probably wouldn't be doable without already knowing your specific sequence.
You’ve missed another obvious example: fiat currency.
Hah, indeed. Before Brexit, I used to take the Northern line in rush hour and it cured me of any desire to live in London, unless I can walk to work.
Sorry, to avoid embarrassment I didn't include the conclusion:

Since, as stated, non-carbon chemistry is limited, non-carbon life (very broadly defined as replication of information) is either impossible or incredibly boring.
TL;DR The book is great - "The Amazon Conservation Team would like to give a special thanks to Dr. Wade Davis, whose book One River was essential in reconstructing details of Schultes' travels for this map."
> "The ancient world is full of admonitions – don't run away from battle – which tells us that people did run away from battle because it was just so terrifying,"

More directly, consider the moons of Ares (Mars) — Deimos (dread, terror, and foreboding) and Phobos (fear, panic, and rout): one god for when the battle is close to being joined, and one for when it's close to being over.
You negate your own critique: "assurance that bread would once again be plentiful and cheap".

So like I say "inequality" doesn't even enter the broad collective mind. And the intellectuals that try to run "what's next" do talk about "égalité" but again that's not what they mean.

This is not what anyone means by "inequality" now. Not killing the economy with random wars, yes. Welfare, yes. Price controls even, sure. Better planning (because we are talking about famines here in this specific case - not even taxes.) Even when "Egalité" and "Fraternité" make it into foundational texts, soon after, this is not what they are about.
I thought we are at the stage of DeFi where most people realized it has flaws that can only be fixed with centralization.

Most crypto users are already using online exchanges and wallets, so from their perspective it already is centralized.

True decentralized crypto only has niche applications outside a small number of enthusiasts.
Except people don't stick to pirating old works, a huge "scene" exists to get the latest and greatest episodes and movies out to the masses via piracy. You bring up an exception, which may be different! But it is an exception. The general rule of piracy is that it's immoral, however.
Thank you!

As relevant to Godot, most of my work is with kids (as relevant here on both ends -- teaching kids to code, and making educational activities). I haven't used either Godot or Unity much, and was trying to decide. For a variety of reasons, open-source is a huge win*, so I was leaning that way.

I don't expect much 3d or to be doing too many things which are overly fancy. Much more on the "weekend hack" or "kids afterschool activity" side of things, and much less on the serious game development side.

From your list, it doesn't sound like there are (m)any showstoppers to just picking Godot.

* (1) Avoids licensing issues installing / uninstalling on classrooms full of computers (2) Advanced kids can learn more, since they can look under the hood (3) Guaranteed long-term support (kids activities are sometimes not updated for a while) (4) Automatic FERPA / COPPA compliance and proper handling of student data. ...and the list goes on for quite a while longer.
Very useful! Thanks!
Content feed: text and images you see when you look at your computer/phone

Outdoor billboards: text and images you see when you go outside and look around

I don't see what is dilutive about this comparison, seems about equal to me (except outdoor advertising is worse because you can't avoid it by not visiting certain websites). My broader point, I guess, is that the intended interpretation of the word "manipulation" seems to be restricted to "manipulation we disagree with".
Yes, that's my understanding.

Actually, I don't know what the status of the Golan Heights is. I suppose it's Syrian territory, occupied by Israel. But I know that the State of Israel has never claimed the Gaza Strip. TTBOMK it was Egyptian territory in 1948, and its present occupants are mainly refugees from the Nakhba and their descendants - i.e. they are mainly the original occupants of the territory of the present State of Israel.

I suppose the Gaza Strip must still be technically Egypt; but it's quite clear that Egypt doesn't want responsibility for 2 million impoverished Palestinians, many of whom are aligned with the Moslem Brotherhood, a group that arose in Egypt that has always opposed the Egyptian government.
Hugely popular little indie game Vampire Survivors, for example, requires some thoughtful optimization to have a zillion objects on screen without lagging to death. ECS isn't the only answer, but it is a valid one.
I have no problem with skyscraper. I'm for the abolition of taxes, which are in practice a massive transfer of wealth from poorer to richer. LVT is a transfer of tax balance from those unable to improve their land, to the rich who can. LVT accelerates this balance towards the skyscraper landlord-baron.
A multifunctional soft robot for cardiac interventions
I don't think it's a matter of disagreement. Just a combination of a) most people don't follow Musk's shenanigans that closely, and/or b) most people are not that principled about what they buy, and just want a car they think is good.
Show HN: AskYouTube – Chrome extension, not a standalone site
There are a lot of these youtube-openai api projects, but I really don't want to open another page to interact with youtube videos. This is a Chrome extension to perform tasks on YouTube videos without leaving your current tab.

This extension simply pulls down a transcript for the video you are currently viewing and sends this to the OpenAI API with your task request.

"Generate a vegetarian version of this recipe."

"Extract the materials list for this project."

"What was the book they recommended?"

This extension does not use a speech to text model to transcribe the video or an image recognition model to actually pass along information about what took place in the video. Automatically generated YouTube transcripts are not great quality, but they tend to be totally fine for the lightweight use cases when you just have a simple question on a video with dialogue.

gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 with the 16k token context window is used by default for videos under about ten minutes. For longer videos, the gpt-4-1106-preview model with a 128k context window is automatically selected. You should be able to use this for videos of to about four hours in length, but this is highly dependent on the volume of dialogue.

Best thought of as a very simple starting point for configuring a diy extension of your own. I actually use this on a regular basis now! Its nice for just getting around ads and not suffering through long youtube videos sent by well-meaning friends. Would love to see how other people configure this to be even better. Fork away!
The bigger issue here is that there's an intentional vulnerability.
The name doesn't necessarily need to be the date it was created on.
The social contract does. It would be bad if people throughout society just straight up ignored the concepts of ownership and copyright law, and all of the things you enjoy would not be made. However, by ignoring that and pirating it anyway, you're becoming a "free rider" who benefits from the contract but doesn't abide by it.
> When I hear people say (not your words but I think it conveys your feeling) 'stop being mathematical; use your heart' ...

That's not what I'm saying. I'm not trying to be offensive, but what I'm saying is that I don't think you're at all aware of what's going on in Gaza and Israel. Take this statement you made earlier, for example:

> You are claiming there is another factor: demoralization of the Palestinians. I would like to think this is small percentage, but I have not looked at it in detail. To the extent this is true, it is abominable. To the extent Netanyahu's warped ideology and corruption are culpable, he should be stopped.

Israeli officials at all levels have been saying since October 7th that they will take revenge, that they will punish the Palestinians, etc. It's not just Netanyahu. The President of Israel has said that there are no innocent civilians in Gaza. The defense minister has said that the Palestinians must be taught a lesson that they don't forget for 50 years. People in the IDF who are involved in targeting say that inflicting suffering on the civilian population is a deliberate aim, because they think that that will force Hamas to give in.

You wrote a lot of text to say that you're the only one being rational here. It's not a question of being rational vs. irrational, but rather of knowing vs. not knowing what's happening.
I’ve never been convinced that ivy education is really better, but I’m quite convinced that it is much higher status. If your children are extensions of your status, then it certainly makes sense to push them in that direction, but I’d also say that some children will need their noses held to the grindstone to do well enough to be accepted into a flagship state school anyway.
The question is, did things like emergency services actually use the higher levels, or did they just use TEA1?

It's kind of like saying...

Vendor: "We support up to 1 zillion bit encryption!"

User: "What's the default out of the box?"

Vendor: "10 bit"
Can you solve Charles Munger's microeconomic puzzles?
only has niche applications outside a small number of enthusiasts

Like the internet in 1968.
Hard for you perhaps. Disclosures from the Apple v Epic litigation indicate it's true.

https://www.thurrott.com/apple/248931/apple-didnt-bring-imes...
The answer is that unbridled capitalism is not what I want.
MSF uses inflatable hospitals: https://msf.org.au/innovation-inflatable-hospital

More choices for more contexts is more good!