skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The nature article is paywalled so it's impossible to see what they actually did, and the abstract is not very clear either. What benefit did they get from whole-genome sequencing, for example?

Additionally, it can't be called an antibiotic until it goes through the necessary human clinical trials, where all kinds of problems can crop up - they don't seem to provide any evidence that their AI-enabled scan for human cell toxicity actually worked.

Finally, the real problem with antibiotic resistance is that microbes always evolve resistance over time if the antibiotics are overused (i.e prophylactic use in industrial animal agribusiness, and careless prescriptions of antibiotics from doctors).
That kind of explains why humans need to absorb less language to train. It still takes 25 years of focused study to become capable of pushing the frontier of knowledge a tiny bit.
"A survey by the International Energy Agency of clean energy firms finds that not enough workers are pursuing the training needed to fill the growing number of skilled jobs. There is a great need, in particular, for trained electricians."

"If the world radically accelerates the transition to renewables, doing what’s needed to keep warming to 1.5 degrees C, then by 2030, the IEA says, the energy sector will add two jobs in clean energy for every one job it loses in fossil fuels."
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If you have the answer to that question you could make some very lucrative investments.
Does anyone actually really care about the compatibility still? For quite a while now, I have relied on PostCSS/Vite presets just doing the right thing, transpiling my CSS to whatever is most compatible. And that’s how it should be - from all the important things to know about the web platform, developers really shouldn’t spend their time fine-tuning compilation artifacts by hand anymore.
Probably something like market cap (although I guess it would have to be based on the past now that Red Hat has been bought), or there are nebulous measures of brand value out there.

I think it is a fair point TBH, my original comment could have been more clear about this aspect.
OP of the thread says they talked to multiple financial advisors but they didn't listen. If they'd just put the majority of it into stocks 6 years ago and forgot about it the OP would have nearly doubled their money.
Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing
This is so cool, kudos to you for sharing
> These limits cause entropy to max out at about 10^69 bits per square meter. “If you tried to pack information more densely than that,” says Aaronson, “your hard drive would collapse into a black hole.”
Another way to look at it is to consider being stolen part of business model.

There are massive number of piracy content in China, but Hollywood are also making billions in the same time, and in fact China already surpassed NA as #1 market for Hollywood years ago [1].

NYT is obvious different than Disney, and may not be able to bend their knees far enough, but maybe there can be similar ways out of this.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/09/how-holl...
You're correct, it is common. However, it's the sell. That is, HN sells itself on not being The Common; perhaps even better than The Common. So the irony is, those defaulting to such nonsense should be the ones being down voted (for violating the community standard), and instead they take up the role of The Down Vote Police and/or disingenuous countering arguments.
Modern GPUs allow mapping memory through PCIe, so you can treat memory as the same. Resize-able BAR effectively allows the same the other way, where all the GPU vram can be mapped into the CPU.

The issue is that suddenly accessing an address can have orders of magnitude lower bandwidth and higher latency, if it is resident on the far memory bus. So for performance reasons you still really need to treat them differently.
Yeah, good point.

You want to at the very least be able to show the user on which line his cursor is, and that already requires reading all the contents from the start up to the cursor. You might as well read the entire file and also show the user the total line count.
It doesn't refuse. See this comment containing examples from the complaint: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38782668
It uses a Pi Pico, not the Linux SBC. Arduino-tier.
I know in Korea it’s also illegal to test positive for drugs on a drug test, so not only for possession, as is usually the case. It’s incredibly strict on drug use.
Such incidents mark the end of an era. The diminishing relevance of traditional media in the digital age is afoot.

I feel sorry for those who feed their families through this industry, but they need to learn and adapt before it's too late.

Even if this lawsuit finds merit, it's akin to temporarily holding back a tsunami with a mere stick. A momentary reprieve, but not a sustainable solution.

I agree with those who say power matters. There are players out there who don't care about copyrights. They will win if the "good guys" fall into the trap of protecting old information models by limiting the potential of new tech.

Such event should be a clear signal: evolve or risk obsolescence.
There are plenty of .NET jobs, and .NET (Core, particularly) is really easy to write.

That said, I'd guess the difference is that the startup and big tech world (i.e., "software companies") like our fancy stacks, but non-software companies prefer stability and familiarity. It makes way more sense for most companies to have a 3-man "bespoke software" department (sys/db admin, sr engineer, jr engineer) on a stack supported by a big company (Microsoft) where most of the work is maintenance and the position lasts an entire career. It's a big enough team to support most small to middling businesses, but not so big that the push to rewrite everything in [language/framework of the week] gains traction.

The practical conclusion is that these companies have few spots to fill, and they probably don't advertise where you're looking.
Yes, thank you. I was reading through this and just thinking...neither of those things are true. Especially since, by the tail end of their popularity, both issues had mostly been mitigated. FastCGI solved the issue of process startup latency by keeping worker processes running and security was mostly a solved problem via user process isolation (at least on *nix hosts, I'm not sure about IIS CGI or ISAPI). Especially since mod_php was far more known for it's security issues in those days.

The switch was 100% made due to ease of use and lack of desire to learn/manage/debug server architecture; the slight performance boost modules offered was a small cherry on top.
I presume if you get caught overseas you get shipped back and the Korean prison system awaits.
Colorado already has a program like you describe

> Introduced with bipartisan support, the SB23-255 Wolf Depredation Compensation Fund appropriates $525,000 over the next two years to cover livestock losses.

> Under the state’s final plan, ranchers will be compensated for vet bills to treat injured animals, including herding dogs, with up to $15,000 for animal deaths.

Montana has a similar program, which paid out for 97 head last year. Montana is home to over 2 million cattle.
My guess is that it’s aimed at celebrities/politicians.
> On the other hand, the certificate from a Blockchain University probably had a well defined curriculum and criteria for passing.

Is this serious?
IMO, no, not remotely. The externalized impacts from cattle on public land are extensive and severe compared to the supposed benefit. Beef is also by far the highest impact food source humans use at scale. We should be minimizing it in favor of other, lower impact protein sources. Nobody has to eat grasshoppers either, chicken and pork can be largely fine from an impact perspective (though aren't always today).
I've been re-learning CSS this year in order to work on my website and it's been amazing. Variables alone changed everything and I can't believe it's gotten nesting support already. Things like SASS are simply not needed anymore!

And it keeps getting features I couldn't even imagine. Scopes are awesome and will make selectors less complex. Those color functions are going to be very useful too, I spent way too much time fiddling with colors on my website and I have no doubt they're going to make things much easier.
The cost of copying and publishing has been almost irrelevant to the need for copyright at least since the times of the printing press. In fact, when copying books was extremely expensive work, copyright was not even that needed - the physical book was about as valuable as the contents, so no money was there to be made from copying someone else's work vs coming up with your own.
I would assume Boston had relatively few lighthouses due to not having that much shoreline, but I am not sure how to look that up.
> Russian and Chinese consumers are less interested in English-language articles.

Isn't it just one additional step to automatically translate them?
How your computer know there is no longer a neighbour with an IP address X.X.X.X at MM:MM:MM:MM:MM:MM MAC address? Timeout
LLMs are still too expensive to run and therefore can't be supported by ads. If costs get lower we'll see them being pushed _a lot_ more
Drug Policy of South Korea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_South_Korea
You might get drug tested if you're involved in a car accident, a fight, getting swatted by your neighbours or a sasaeng fan¹, so it's not impossible to enforce.

In Korea if you're an actor or celebrity, then your agency and clients could end their contracts with you even based on a mere rumor. The press, people on social media are also incredibly aggressive, especially against women and would harass a celebrity once the rumor gets out. This is why spreading rumors is serious business in Asia.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasaeng_fan

My guess is Lee has possibly committed suicide after being investigated for drug use, harassed and his life basically ruined.
Ah! Didn’t catch that, thanks.
Except it's not if you read the page:

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Down voted by those who don't understand marketing, human behavior, read the Heath Brother's "Made to Stick", etc.? Love you HN but you're jumping the shark.
Shut up and take my money :)
Fun aside: this is awesome. I would like to buy one preassembled
I was really shocked to see how many major corporations had large offices in Israel. I don't think that's going to be tenable going forward. Everyone I know is looking for ways to reduce their exposure to Israel. Boycotting Intel seems like a no brainer. Also I really don't see stability coming to Israel any time soon. They've lost what global support they had, they're losing the war with Hamas and it's expanding to Hezbollah and the Houthis have successfully blockaded the Red Sea. Add in the fact that none of the younger generations in the west support Israel and it's pretty clear that at best it's going to be chaos for decades in the region, likely ending in a South Africa style ending of apartheid.
Amazon drought: 'We've never seen anything like this'
Coverting GOSUB X:RETURN to GOTO X was my first tail-call optimization.

> I don't know that I ever looked into what happened if you called GOSUB from a GOSUB routine

I want to say all BASICs had a stack (not sure about Apple Integer BASIC), or used the CPU stack. Expression evaluation also used it, and if you overflowed it you would get a ?FORMULA TOO COMPLEX error.
Depending on your model of TV and how it's connected, it's possible for the Apple TV to be on and responding to inputs even if the TV is off. If it was on, and a promotional popup came up offering the free trial, then depending on just what the flow is for those popups, it's possible that a small child just fiddling with the remote could accidentally have accepted it.

(I know that our TV is often off while our Apple TV is on; I have no knowledge of how those promotional popups work, as I haven't accepted one.)
Curious how AI gets the raw information if there are no reporters nor newspapers. Does AI go to meetings or interview politicians?
>it is immediately classified as "reserve antibiotic" and the sale is restricted.

Is that so medical professionals can break it out as a means of last resort to save a patient and ensure the course is finished?

If so that mightn't be a bad idea before we destroy the potential of new antibiotics too by having the general public misuse them render them useless over time.
Applesoft BASIC allowed nested GOSUBs. I think you could get about 10 deep, if memory serves. You could absolutely do recursive calls. You would have to implement subroutine-local variable scope yourself. (I would have use arrays with an index that incremented at the beginning of each call and decremented before the RETURN.)
A non-specific treatment that revs up the immune system increases the risk of autoimmune disease. It would have to be specific to the cancer AFAIK, so more of a treatment for an existing cancer than a preventative measure.
It's not a full Raspberry Pi, but their RP2040 microcontroller based board. Teensy boards are awesome but they are kind of pricey. This one is 4-5$, it's in stock everywhere, and what's usually the most important reason for making such decisions - I had two lying around from a previous project :-)
https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/article/10/8/085014/990263/The-...

> after ∼500 years from now, the digital content will account for more than half Earth’s mass, according to the mass-energy–information equivalence principle
——> I’ve discovered the tech focused haven’t actually read the guidelines for HN…

There are many non-tech submissions on Hacker News.
From the guidelines:
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Excellent! I am all for this type of contested reality with sources and derivative works. You feed in something you can’t claim it’s not being used in a way that isn’t allowed if you can’t explain how the fuck your little box works in the first place. I mean seriously pouring gasoline on yourself and playing with matches is about the same cause and effect of input output.
The problem is that having a typo-based issue, especially one that would have been trivially caught by a compiler from the 70s, can sometimes prevent you from having a chance to tackle the important problem.

(Now, maybe it's PTSD from that time a typo in a script botched a demo in front of important people, and, well, let's say I avoided a bunch of scaling / domain complexity / temporal cohérence / etc... issues by not having to work on the thing any more ?)
RENUM? What!?!!?
I think it's going to be very hard for US politicians to make the case to continue to fund Israel. They may get away with it while the Baby Boomers are still around, but it's all but certain to be cutoff in the near future.
Another thing that helped imessage cement its position was that teens often had an ipod and you could use imessage on an ipod, so those teens talking to their friends were using imessage and when they switched to iphone that mental model carried over. Blue bubbles were familiar and green bubbles were alien.
From the article, and relevant here:

I’m worried that when people hear ‘5 OOMs off’, how they register it is, “Oh we have 5x less data than we need - we just need a couple of 2x improvements in data efficiency, and we’re golden”. After all, what’s a couple OOMs between friends?

No, 5 OOMs off means we have 100,000x less data than we need.
Except that every stackoverflow post is explicitly creative commons: https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing
It might be nice to modify the title a bit though, to indicate that it is about AGI.

Obviously scaling works in general, just ask anyone in HPC, haha.
At least on the C64, I use BASIC as largely a scripting language and master scheduler, calling 6502 machine language subroutines with SYS, and reserving BASIC for the very highest level main loop or non-speed-sensitive tasks that would be inconvenient, bulky or unnecessary to write in assembly. It gives me a scaffold to hang things off.
If the bar for copyright is as low as ordering of words, then I don't even know what to say.
Ask HN: Why aren't we investigating other methods of superintelligence?
I'm talking about humanity. We are going the 'machine' route, currently. Trying to twist machines, in their infinite scalabiltiy, to become more like us.

But why aren't we coming at it, also, from the other direction?

But why not twist ourselves (or enhance ourselves), to become more like those machine qualities we admire?

Savants arguably display superintelligence in a specialized niche. Why aren't we investigating how to add that module to regular cognition? Super-recognisers, and super-memorizers are often far more "neurotypical" than savants (in the sense they may be broadly 'high functioning' which seems less common among savants), why aren't we figuring out how to augment our cognition with those abilities?

Similarly, but requiring more broad-mindedness to consider, sages through the ages have acquired supernormal abilities (facts which are as accepted in some cultures as they are ridiculed in others), why are we not investigating how to augment our societies with these qualities?

More prosaic, but perhaps no less startling examples include chess prodigies, music prodigies, bodily kinesthetic prodigies, puzzle solving prodigies, and so on. It seems that a rigorous unified program of study devoted to all these types of skills may yield ways to augment ourselves with those types of abilities?

Anyway, just a thought throwing out there into the ether wondering why we aren't as focused on developing innate human superintelligence given we are so focused on creating machine AGI superintelligence. Oh well... :)

A super intelligence that is human based, and possibly distributed among all of us, could be far more manageable and less catastrophic than a machine innate superintelligence.
> As late as January 2021 vaccines were thought of as dead pathogens

Oh, stop lying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine

"The first successful demonstration of a polio vaccine was by Hilary Koprowski in 1950, with a live attenuated virus which people drank."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenuated_vaccine#History

> The technique of cultivating a virus repeatedly in artificial media and isolating less virulent strains was pioneered in the early 20th century by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin who developed an attenuated tuberculosis vaccine called the BCG vaccine.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mmr/public/index.html

> MMR is an attenuated (weakened) live virus vaccine. This means that after injection, the viruses cause a harmless infection in the vaccinated person with very few, if any, symptoms before they are eliminated from the body. The person’s immune system fights the infection caused by these weakened viruses, and immunity (the body’s protection from the virus) develops.
Amusing to see someone referring to anyone other than the megacorp controlled by fucking micro$oft hoovering as much data as they can, legally and otherwise, as a parasite.
I literally installed Mouse without Borders this week! But hardware is better for secure login screens and the like. So, I still have a KVM switch. One thing I learned is that I don't want seamless mouse between two monitors.

So, I setup "holding" down CTRL which allows the mouse to pass. Its just a nice way to stop accidents and for when I want auto window sizing at borders. This project looks great if it can support holding down CTRL to allow the mouse to pass into the other screen.

I also love clipboard copy. That is kinda a biggie some days.
This is a general problem. If you want to get a good answer to a certain class of problems (especially in the diy domain, and now even math problems), YouTube videos are the best. But you have to watch 20 minutes. This is not scalable.
I agree that the tide is turning, but I don't think the argument that actual criminal behavior (I don't know if that's what OpenAI did, but that's what NYT alleges) should be glossed over in the name of progress.
Positions that are too important to be filled on merit.
If AI companies wanted to train their models on good content, they had a chance to create a second Renaissance. Funding artist collectives to create content for their models. Paying royalties to authors. Generally increasing the value of human art while creating a new form of expression.

Instead they do what every large corporation does and treat art like content. They are making loads of money off the backs of artists who are already underpaid and often undervalued and they didn't have the decency to ask for permission.

I know publishers don't treat authors much better. But I see this as NYT fighting for their journalists.
Well, it is amazing you can write something in a decent set of Javascript these days and have it execute mostly the same across Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android, irrespective of CPU architecture.
> Aside: Shouldn't browsers update themselves these days? Any reason to turn this off? Seems silly from a security perspective.

They should. But we have iPhone users who get an update to their browser every 6 months(?) and even then, it's still behind on features most of the times.