skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who’s never flown IRL (but has played around in a few simulators), do you have any idea/reasons why this is so? I’d imagine it partly down to the “overriding” of senses (forces/g’s) in actual flight vs simulation, and perhaps the lack of stereoscopic vision.

Would this also extend to navigation landing?
100M a year in reasons(revenue) thus far may suggest otherwise.
I'd take the under on that bet.
They released the latest dump today :) https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenAssistant/oasst2
> In the current state no one has financial interest in spreading negative news about them

Perhaps not as much incentive, but considering the relationship between M$ and OpenAI, I expect many to have interests in spreading negative news.
> However, in eight days (1/1/2024) SB 699 [2] goes into effect, extending that protection to everyone outside the state too

How can a state unilaterally extend its jurisdiction across state lines?
ITT Technical Institute
It's pretty clear that the general public will find uses for this product considering how useful it is. But I don't see why OpenAI would be worth $100 billion, they're eventually going to get run over by Google or others IMO since the models are probably going to be easier to match than the infra to efficiently serve and train them
These sorts of technologies tend to be very region and building dependent. They add complexity for some amount of energy recapture, but often the energy recapture isn’t worth it, or some other optimization would have a better pay off. (If we were talking about software, the law would be similar to “all floating point must be done in unrolled assembly loops”, which sounds reasonable but breaks GPUs, instruction cache, interpreters, etc).

For example, we didn’t insulate our concrete slab floor because our windows provide too much passive heat 10 months out of the year. We’re on the edge of the region where such insulation is recommended (thankfully, it is not required here - in the fall, we have to run the air conditioning when it is in the mid sixties outside! In the summer, we don’t need A/C until the upper seventies because of the angle of the sun and passive cooling from the slab).

Anyway, our hybrid hot water heat pump has a COP of two or three, and was a much cheaper upgrade than passive heat reclamation would have been.

Because we bought an efficient unit, it uses hardly any power (800kwh per year, so an average of 91 watts, or about $100/year, or charging my car from empty to full 24 times), so we’d be better off with some other upgrade on a thing that hasn’t hit diminishing returns.

For instance, we should have used bigger air ducts on our hvac system to improve the air handler’s efficiency.
> I see all these thought leaders talking about AI safety and the end of humanity but the real problem is one that already exists.

Because the job of those thought leaders is to deflect and distract from the problems that already exist, particularly the ones that benefit the most powerful.
This feels odd to me. I don't see how this can mathematically work out.

I don't really see how AGI and capitalism coexist.

Semes like a perverse incentive. I'm not sure if most billionaires (investors) deep down want to create a world where they are on an equal footing because money has lost all significance.
It's funny because there are careers that have figured out the kind of lower-work senior roles you're talking about -- doctors and lawyers come to mind right away, with surgeons who work 1-2 cases a week and senior partners who come in to consult for a month here and there.
Ahh you’re right. Don’t know what I was thinking.
> Yeah, but those are people who are nowhere near that level of excellence at all.

Why does this matter?

> That would be like comparing a masterfully built modern bridge to gothic cathedral.

That sounds really fun! Those two are both massive structures that need to support a lot of weight, they are more similar than you might think. I can see a video looking into that getting many millions of views.

I think you really underestimate how much fun people derive just from learning things from these discussions. It isn't about feeling superior to Bach or Gauss or Newton etc, its just fun discussions about the world.
Bach played organ, harpsichord, flute, oboe, viola, violin, and bass. He probably played brass instruments too. He was so good he could sightread Bach but he could also improvise counterpoint in more than four voices simultaneously.
Was going to reply to say the same thing. It's tempting to take neutral cities at the start and sometimes I do it, but it's almost always a mistake, and I can usually tell when other players do it and they make easy pickings. It takes a long time to recover from taking a city, and the payoff isn't worth it until you have a lot of them.

It's better to cover a large swathe of territory. This can hide where your general is, and every 25 turns you can collect armies from the squares. Build up that way and then you wait for someone next to you to get into a fight with someone else, or take a neutral city, and then bomb in on them in force when they can't defend, and take advantage of all of their hard work.

There's also a bit of a "dark forest" aspect to the game, where you can benefit from being hidden for a long time at the beginning of the game, but you have to trade this off with the disadvantage of not being able to build adequate forces in that time.

I'm "bubbles" in the game.
Tactics that have been used against similar tools:

- Changing the generated HTML so that the extensions selectors no longer grab the right data (this becomes a cat and mouse game and there’s a non-zero chance that the extension authors tap out, especially if there’s not enough money to sustain the workload)

- Filing nuisance complaints (DMCA is a standard one here, but there are lots of others)

- Filing a copyright lawsuit in court

- Filing other court lawsuits (lost income, slander, etc)

In many cases the business knows they are fighting a losing battle but all they need is more resources, more time, or more patience.
Folks seem terrified to really "let loose" and have fun. Fear of judgment seems to be the basis of their fear. I don't think this fear is completely irrational. Social media (or something) seems to have made people jump to unjustified conclusions fast about people they don't even know. People assume the worst now.

Before: "Oh random person X just asked if I want to dance. How fun!"

Now: "Can you believe a random person came ask me to dance? What a creeper!"

Before: "Look at the kids having fun playing in the ditch and making mud pies!"

Now: "Who leaves their kids unsupervised in the rain? Should we call the police?"

Before: "I think I'll try an improv class. It looks like fun. Why not!"

Now: "I want to learn piano but I'm scared to be bad in front of everyone while learning."
Yes, with caveats.

If you want the experience to be genuinely useful you really need to go all in. Head tracking or VR, charts, pay for an ATC service (not VATSIM, sorry), plane models that are extremely complete and complex, and decent yoke/pedals/throttle setup. Then turn off every single assist and dial up all the realism. And even then you need to take everything you experience with a pinch of salt.

I used FSX while I was learning to fly, with a setup part spec’d with my instructor. Once I was around 10 hours in real flight it became meaningfully useful to augment with sim as well. Especially things like flight planning, leg timing, checklists, etc.

Two other things it’s especially useful for is learning the Garmin (again needs paid addons) and for practicing approaches.
They can't hide money laundering because of this. Just because the information is not publicly available doesn't mean that law enforcement agencies and the government don't have access to it... How does this information being available to the public help law enforcement do their job?
Trying to do everything at once may not be practical. (Now-retired) Actuary Fred Vettese released a book a for those in the 20-40 age range on balancing major life expenses during that time period (mortgage/rent, kids/daycare, retirement), and he concluded that is was 'fine' if one didn't get a chance to really save for retirement during that time period:

> In a nutshell, the 30 idea is a rule of thumb financial planners can use to guestimate how much young couples starting off on their financial journeys need to save for retirement. Rather than state something like save 10%, 12% or 15% of your gross (pre-tax) income each and every year, The Rule of 30 views retirement saving as occurring in tandem with daycare and mortgage repayment.

> From the get-go, Vettese suggests young couples allocate 30% of their gross or after-tax income to those three major expenses: Retirement savings, daycare costs and mortgage payments. However, when starting out, they may have to save less in order to handle payments for daycare and the mortgage. Since daycare expenses are temporary after a few years or so (depending on how many children a couple has), once that expense has finished, they can ramp up the mortgage paydown and/or retirement savings. And if—ideally five years before retirement—the home mortgage is paid off, then couples can kick their retirement savings into overdrive by allocating a full 30%, or more, solely to building their retirement nest egg.

* https://www.moneysense.ca/columns/retired-money/the-rule-of-...

* https://www.myownadvisor.ca/the-rule-of-30-review/

* https://boomerandecho.com/the-rule-of-30-book-review/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Vettese

Anyone interested on reading up on retirement, especially if you're Canadian, should look at Vettese's work.
Heh, but surely the definition of 'passive income' is you do the work upfront, then sit back and let the money flow in without any further interventions?
> why would you think 'modern civilization' would be limited to one planet?

Because we're nowhere near ready to live outside earth! Approximately no human lives in a desert, on a glacier, or below the ocean surface, even though that's easy compared to living anywhere else in the solar system. Humans are not made for space.

My prediction: By the time we have sufficiently advanced tech to keep humans alive in space, the humans won't be necessary anymore. Why ship delicate bags of water between planets? It's sheer hubris to think humans will play a role in space. It'll be machines that don't suffocate or freeze at the slightest inconvenience.
Most people shouldn’t worry about how to work till retirement.

Life expectancy trends have reversed and I suspect will worsen with more climate and zoonotic disease crossover, antibiotic resistance; though maybe mRNA cancer vax will balance that out.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/12/22/1144864...

But the author is Canadian, working for the CBC, which I don’t think suffers from the ageism in most of corporate America. But if you are post retirement age, you are expensive and will be a target for employers because you certainly have lower future potential value by definition and there will be at least assumptions about reduced productivity.

Outside of doctor/lawyer where people admire experience, maybe nearing retirement folks can work as teachers or walmart greeter, but high paying jobs will be in short supply and favor the young. If AI further quelches job creation, it will be even harder for old people to keep working.
Well, it only make sense in aging population that doesn't have too many "next generation" anyway.
Typically, the periodic "downs" are usually referred to as that particular civilisation collapsing (e.g. fall of Rome).

Our current civilisation is far more brittle than previous ones due to its unusual size and reliance on technologies. Previous civilisations could revert to simpler agrarian based ones without involving the death of a significant percentage of the world's population, but I'm having difficulty seeing how we would manage a simple failure such as pollinators dying out (e.g. by toxic microparticles).
The difference being that reduced mortality at age 60 adds mostly unproductive years, while reduced mortality at age 0-1 adds mostly productive years.
> terrible marketing

Remember when they said their product will follow in the historic tradition of E.T. for Atari 2600, the Power Glove for NES, and the Sega Dreamcast? I guess they were more right than they knew.

Google is a laughingstock. I can't imagine working there if you have any pride or passion for your work.

https://www.gamingbible.com/news/games-gamers-recall-when-go...
You’re not misinformed, but perhaps underinformed.

The hexapod both provides acceleration and rotates to use gravity to simulate continuous acceleration.

The brilliant part is that it trade between these two modes below human vestibular thresholds. So you can’t tell whether your sense of acceleration is coming from movement or orientation.

I took a flight physiology course with Larry Young who modeled the human vestibular system as a set of feedback loops with known gains. And an awesome graduate course entirely on flight simulation.
Love the mix of organic and industrial design.
This is, of course, very hypothetical, but you’d also have to stop interacting with people who do check their email and text, and who thus could be persuaded by the AI to persuade you.
Now I feel fortunate
I get the humour now. It is funny and my bad. It is plug and plugin.
> “This is where our destitute end up, in these government-run facilities.” According to a 2019 report by the National Institute on Ageing at Toronto Metropolitan University, long-term care costs are expected to triple from $22 billion to $71 billion by 2050. “It will be the equivalent of the modern-day Victorian poor house for our old,”

I would love to hear why old ppl don't choose to voluntarily end their life. What good is a life spent in 'poor house for the old' .
seems kind of an obvious strategy to end your life but maybe will to live trumps all commonsense even in old age?
Good correction! My apologies.
LoRAMoE: Mixture of Experts for Maintaining World Knowledge in LLM Alignment
If something is currently a problem and then a new thing appears that potentially makes the problem significantly worse - isn't that a good time to do something about it?
The techbro call is coming from inside the techbro house
The manifold[1] project for Java lets you write unit expressions directly.

Force force = 5kg * 9.807 m/s/s;

1. https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/tree/master/man...
By this logic a car crash isn’t binary either, because the car could have always set on fire, or exploded, or fallen into a spontaneous black hole etc.

It’s still a car crash regardless of the magnitude, and a collapse is still a collapse if it’s a small or a large one.
Seems to me waste heat won’t be as big of a problem as waste cooling. The sun is almost pure heat for us right now. By capturing more of that energy with photovoltaics and converting it to, say, plastic, we are cooling the planet.

Neither one is a problem IMO because the earth isn’t a fragile place, it operates at temperature swings of over a hundred degrees F, at least 30 degrees in a nice temperature zone where various plant species thrive.
Thankfully with Encrypted Client Hello (formerly eSNI) we should be pretty future-proofed with middleboxes losing more information on where a HTTPS connection is going. The only thing left is the IP address, which is only a guess and is mostly useless if it's going to a CDN - effectively making all sites unblockable if they use akamai/CF/etc.
Those jobs have a fixed supply of graduates set the the Bar and AMA accrediting medical schools (and law schools but that is less clear to me, but anyways law school is very prestige based so kind of moot if a 3rd tier law school expands enrollment). Other fields have no body policing the incoming employee population.
If a country has a plan to become smaller, I guess I can see why they’d need to stretch out their current workforce for a long as possible. The US, which is where I live, I think plans on growing until we find a hard barrier that we can’t power through.
Show HN: I made a Fallout inspired PIP-Boy portfolio
Hey, last year I started working on this high-on-the-midnight motivation and yesterday I decided to finally finish it. I hope you all like it :)

It's only opitimised for desktops
This would be a better link:

https://www.designboom.com/technology/holcim-3d-prints-phoen...

The components were printed off-site and then assembled on-site.

While I like the structure a lot, I think it could benefit safety-wise from a proper floor layer, as the small ridges could cause someone to stumble, specially running kids.
It assumes 2.3% yearly exponential growth of energy consumption for 400 years while we know our population already passed peak growth and peak children number and will start to decrease in this century.

It's just dumb.
>The scientific community was recently thrilled to hear that in response to successful field trials, the nonprofit World Mosquito Program (WMP) has partnered with the Brazilian Ministry of Health to build for $19 million a mosquito factory in that country, which is expected to produce five billion mosquitoes with Wolbachia per year for field releases starting in 2024.6 This is the biggest bio-factory in the world....

>We can use Brazil as a showcase to foresee and avoid a double-edged sword effect associated with Wolbachia releases. Probably there are a myriad of yet undiscovered traits beyond insecticide resistance that may influence vector local adaptation and would affect the success of released strains. Therefore, neglecting the genetic diversity in favour of centralising the rearing of mosquitoes with Wolbachia for nationwide releases could represent a drawback for future releases. Long-term studies regarding the consequences of releasing mosquitoes with homogenous genotypes in diverse ecological and epidemiological scenarios remain a critical research priority, essential for informed decision-making and sustainable management of mosquito-borne diseases.
Here's a few more!

https://www.holcim.com/who-we-are/our-stories/striatus-bridg...
20 years ago yes.

Today it is a terrible monster that you use because of the lack of alternatives, not because it is fast or comfortable to use.
Evidence is evident. freeworld took over those three non-free plugins in https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6819
If they dont work, file a bug there
This is so cool. I have been trying to replace the default history lookup in irb with fzf but have not found a clear path to do so. Maybe the irb team can also make it easier to do this.
I don’t think you can have a big company that behaves like a small company no matter how much everyone from employees to owners of big companies fondly cherish the idea.
This kind of „analysis“ also gets written i. sources that are not wikipedia. And that‘s better?
This is a very inaccurate comparison. Palestinians faced the violent expulsion of the Nakbah, and before that in the British mandate period there were attacks from violent Zionist groups. Currently, Palestine is militarily occupied and colonized. In this context, from the river to the sea must be understood as a desire for freedom and for justice.

The oppression faced under occupation by people in the West Bank and in Gaza for over 70 years now reminds us of how situations like Apartheid in South Africa formally continued until 1994.

To dismiss as simple “Jew hate” is really not the correct context; very disappointing to see these broad generalizations dismiss the fundamental needs for human life.
> AI might be able to coordinate them more cleverly than advertisers

Of course these two might not be different. There is no reason to think advertisers and con artists and politicians and their ilk would not use AI to reach the same goals they always wanted to reach but more efficiently.
The numbers in the article are quite alarming for some countries - 49.9 out of 100 Canadians dependent (so one dependent for every 2 workers according to article) by 2075, or 77 out of 100 for Japan by 2075.

This seems like such a critical issue that governments around the world will need to have significant societal changes - at the moment this doesn't seem like something that tech or biotech will be able to solve simply.
It's just depressingly hard to survive.
>> not the least of which is a fixation on the instruments.

Haha, I was having some trouble getting my speed right - either just starting decent or on base - my instructor turned the brightness to zero on the Garmin and said to look out the darn window. Everything got smooth, I turned final and landed fine.

Flying is a visceral experience, not a video game. You become one with the airplane in the same way to do with a bike. Can't get that in a sim.
Love that it's using recycled materials.
On one hand, we have older people retiring later and amassing wealth through their homes.

On the other hand, we have young families who can't afford homes near their jobs and insane childcare costs.

I think we just got too far away from the natural order where elders cycled out of the workforce and assumed family oriented duties.

Doubt there's any going back though.
Debugging Dockerized Python apps in VSCode
why should they? old people can live too
Even if they hadn’t I’m not sure what legal right you’d have to demand service.
This is partly true. Mendelssohn brought back the great religious works of Bach into the public consciousness (79 years after Bach's death, not 50 years). However, Bach was by no means unknown among the professional musicians, though his fame was of course eclipsed by his sons. If there was anyone who surveyed the breadth of music in the late 18th century, it was Burney, and he gave a very sympathetic treatment of Bach in his General History of Music. The young Beethoven was famous partly for being able to play the entire Well-Tempered Keyboard from memory, and his Op 120 variations were unmistakably composed with Bach's Goldberg variations in mind.

Mozart, who was himself a great master of counterpoint, was understandably delighted by the Bach fugues that Baron Van Swieten showed him. Mozart was of course very heavily indebted to Johann Christian, but several pieces were clearly homages to the elder Bach; the subject from the K. 394 fugue was clearly derived from the first of the WTK, and the K. 574 Gigue (composed in Leipzig, no less) is obviously Bachian pastiche. The armoured men chorus from the Magic Flute sets a protestant chorale (often used by Bach) in a Bachian setting. That's not to mention the string quartet arrangements of Bach's fugues that Mozart made.
The real difference is between "we think we can do it" and "we think we can get away with saying it".
I genuinely had no idea that a license wasn't required to fly a glider (or "ultralight" based on my reading). I'd imagine there is very high overlap anyway -- most glider pilots being pilots, etc.
Yes! Lots of pictures vs just one.
It's also a preventative thing.

If I find an LLC I want to do business with, now I can look at who owns it to see if that changes anything. Otherwise, I can't.

For me personally, I like having them public because one LLC might become a client, and I want to be sure that client is who they say they are and not owned by a company that I won't do business with.

For example, maybe Microsoft decides they want to get support from me. I don't want to support Microsoft. So they have one of their existing shell companies act like a potential client. If LLC records are not public, I can't know it's really Microsoft and reject them. If they are public, I can do the legwork to find out and reject them.
Nothing recent about it.

Deathwish politics is at least as old as the mid 1950's when impending
nuclear Armageddon was on the cards.

Out of that came a sect of American evangelical fundamentalists who
believe in "The Rapture". Many prominent US political figures were and
remain associated with it.

Right now many of these types are rubbing their hands with glee over
the middle-East conflict, hoping it will escalate as prophesied.
What do you mean by "waste of the spec"?