skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was pointing out that in the civilized West, you survived or not based on your immunity to diseases common in crowded places, and your intelligence had little to do with it, where if you lived in a hunter-gatherer society, a whole lot of knowledge was required to keep you alive. So if intelligence is selected for it would play a much larger role in New Guinea. He was also describing his personal experience with New Guineans, where he spent a lot of time. But I didn't take that part as a rigorous argument, more like a statement that you could make Murray's argument in reverse (that living in a "being stupid gets you killed" place might produce more brains than living in a "having a weak immune system gets you killed" place), and he didn't attempt to build on that point.
It needs to fit into a fairing. Otherwise you need to build a deployment mechanism.
Balloons are a very small portion of helium usage and the helium used is not usually pure enough to be put towards more important applications anyways.
The post "A Very General Method of Computing Shortest Paths" (https://r6.ca/blog/20110808T035622Z.html) shows that the Gauss-Jordan algorithm for solving matrix equations, the Floyd-Warshall algorithm for all-pairs shortest paths, and Kleene's algorithm for converting DFAs to regular expressions, are all the same algorithm on matrices of elements from a star-semiring.
Poe. Poe has Claude 3 right now as well as Gemini pro (not ultra), gpt 4 and 3.5, mistral large, llama, others
> The Incas had a handful of fancy residences for the ruling class. The society as a whole was very poor

Meanwhile, in 15th century Europe…
Landing on a sloped surface will be an issue. Apollo 15 was close to disaster on its tilted landing and Apollo 12 had a bobble when setting down. Starship is unlikely to survive the same.
Go domesticate a tiger shark ...
Are you off your medication? Do you need help?
Diabetes Alert Dogs - Not technology based

I have recently be learning about tremendous success with well trained dogs alerting their owners as a complement to the technology based monitoring and alerting systems.
Thank you for that explanation I actually haven’t really read up on it enough and this gives new a good starting point
Let's not forget GIT and DOCKER.
There's also Loop on the iOS side: https://github.com/LoopKit/Loop. I've been using it for 7 or 8 years. There's also several pumps that have closed loop capabilities built-in, but I've found that they try so hard to play it safe that they are less capable than running your own.
Well, you own the hardware, but not the software. So at least part of the system is not yours.
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*bong* i don't have that answer
Note the four or so Google employees in the audience who haven’t quit or been fired yet.
Because it’s trivial?
Sure, but the original argument was that next-character-prediction implies lack of intelligence, which is clearly not true when a human is doing it.

That doesn't mean LLMs are intelligent, just that you can't claim they're unintelligent just because they generate one character at a time.
lol. most unis teach java, python or node these days. (i learned on java and C++ back in 2005-2007)
None of those controls are commonly located on a touch screen, which is the topic of the article.
May the longest chain win.
Nobody serious actually believed it was an accident to begin with.
Until it stops working with a new game and isn't developed anymore.

This is a rather disrespectful way to ignore a tragedy & suffering: utterly short on sympathy & consideration of where the world has been left.
That's a pretty small component and I think folks would find a comparable React component also pretty easy to read. Conversely: https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter/blob/master/src/UI/UIDeskt...
I wrote the article- I’m very aware of Dexcom and it doesn’t have all this out the box
I thought you were going to post this one
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23702560
> I kind of disagree. Yes the person on the moon wasn't that important but all the technology outside of the moonlander itself had nice utility.

Counterfactually, all the tax payer money wasted on manned space flight would have been used for something else, and would have driven some other technology, and at that other spending would have had direct utility. (Especially if the money had been left in the tax payers pockets.)

See 'What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen' https://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basEss.html?chapter_...

> Had the doubled down on Apollo and simply continued investing in the technology they could have done impressive things.

You really need to learn to start thinking in terms of opportunity costs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

> [...] it was just financially unsustainable while also investing in Shuttle.

I agree that the Space Shuttle was an even greater waste than the Apollo program. They overshot their projected cost per kg to orbit by 100,000% (one thousand times).

But I hold that approximately all manned space flight is a waste of tax payer money.
Most of the press articles mention it
I'm sorry XD
The worst thing about ai art is having it inflicted on me at the beginning of every medium article now.
You're not emulating anything. If you're communicating with someone, you go piece by piece. Even thoughts are piece by piece.
Pretty impossible to have a conversation with a passenger then.
Screen time robs average toddler of hearing 1,000 words spoken by adult a day
This is another positive results using human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), which I'd consider a prebiotic https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S193131282...

They used EVC001, a robust strain of B. infantis that came out of UC Davis research, and HMOs, which are a symbiotic that it can metabolize into short chain fatty acids, to achieve reversible engraftment without the use of antibiotics. The insurance hypothesis has kind of conflated diversity with function, but it could be possible to have a stable microbiome with less diversity but high function using symbiotics and strains we have identified as contributing to improved function [1].

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7171047/
I agree. And I think the key to this is VR.

Another comment in this thread is about how hard graphs are to visualize, but a 3D interface gives you a lot more room.

When VR hype began I thought "well what's the excel of VR?". Microsoft's answer was "2D spreadsheets floating in 3D space". What nonsense. I think graphs.

email my username at gmail.com if anyone is interested in exploring this together!
Because Microsoft injected money into Apple to prop them up and maintain 10%.
'Dune: Part Two' Gives Sci-Fi-Obsessed Silicon Valley a Reason to Party
way way way easier said than done for many people
I did explore them; for what I wanted to do I could build it faster from scratch and it was a fun learning experience
> Will he nill he…” huh, I wonder if that’s the etymology of the modern expression.

Well, that's at least what the internet told me, last time I checked.
Hey Chewy! Good to see you here :)
No, that's shifting the goalposts. The original claim was that LLMs cannot possibly be intelligent due to some detail of how they output the result ("smarter autocorrect").
It is more the price / demand curve , I.e how many will pay a cost of the flight and is that sufficient demand for to recoup the costs .

Emirates (also ethihad ) have for example this ultra luxury suite with its own shower and bedroom in normal flights they sell for like 20k+/per .

It is targeted towards people who have chartered a private jet (100-200k+) and by most accounts the service is successful. However it just 1-2 suites in few select routes .

My point is it may not be typical business class passenger that is the target market, perhaps it those taking a private jet between these two destinations and they will definitely pay a lot .

Look at this way the “billable rate “ for a moderately sized company senior management would be in the range in thousands of dollars/hour, so 10-15 hours saved could be one way to price this service .

The key question is does it require million people / year or only thousand/ year to break even . You can easily do the latter , million people a year would be quite difficult.
Thanks so much for the kind words :)
Which, in many ways is a polar opposite to Kind of Blue. Whereas Kind of Blue is comprised almost entirely of first takes, Bitches Brew was assembled in the editing room, pulling together multiple takes and pieces to form the tracks on the album.
>What 'innovation' has Apple introduced in the last 10 years other than their M chips?

Computers that Just Fucking Work(tm) if you stay on the One Apple Way(tm), which 99% of people are perfectly content to be on because shit Just Fucking Works(tm).

Seriously, Just Fucking Works(tm) is a virtue.
Who Predicted 2023?
I looked it up and it seems like that’s what they’re selling yeah! Though aws advertising really doesn’t want to say how they’re so cheap on their front page!
This is was more responsive than the Synology UI.
Well, that's why you have appeals and higher courts can overrule the precedence of the lower courts.
> You'll develop an average just from traffic, and it'll be a lot higher then the bottom end - since otherwise why have the datacenter? Why not use spare capacity in your other datacenters?

Because when the sun is up over the Pacific ocean, everyone is asleep, and all of your datacenters are quiet.
> Given how much money they were bring in on patrion, it isn't much different than if they tried to make a physical knock off switch that could run switch games.

Why would that be a problem? As long as they're not actually violating trademarks or patents and making an actual counterfeit product, there is no reason why they shouldn't be able to make their own hardware that is compatible with Switch games.

These products already exist for other systems, and they are a good way to allow you to play your existing games on more modern hardware.

Just because it upsets some executive at Nintendo doesn't make it illegal.
I have a Dell with that, wasting power and forcing glossy on me—there was no other option. Hands on keyboard more efficient, so have used it twice in five years maybe. A waste imho.
This is not an excuse. Either the nonprofit can have the charitable mission of building a free web browser or the corporation can accept donations that aren't tax deductible. Their leadership obviously wants to spend their money on stupid things nobody wants and chose their corporate structure accordingly
> Androids can't run the SW developed for iOS

Sure they can. You can install free emulators on Android, can't you? Just side-load it, and Bob's your uncle.
Tax return is secret by law. TurboTax wants you to give up your privacy
Ha, that's still better than editing files directly on a shared drive.
What's OT?
Wow, ok, disagree with me even more without contributing to the conversation. I'll leave additional reading for you to disagree with this comment as well.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8518604/
OS level and apps can record the screen. With root access the State or someone who knows the triggers could issue a capture and store to a remote site without user knowledge.

A GPS transponder with microphone and camera under the control of billionaires seems like a mistake
In case you wonder about the purpose of the project like I did, here's the explanation in README:

> It can be used to build remote desktop environments or serve as an interface for cloud storage services, remote servers, web hosting platforms, and more.
In the late 1980s, I flew under my suitemate’s father’s name to get to college once (he had to change his travel date and sold me his ticket which was under his father’s name so his dad would get the frequent flyer miles).
sounds neat. link?
Dropcap Generation with AI
Type 2 is called Insulin Resistance - basically your pancreas works fine but the cells in your body stops responding to the hormone that tells it to remove glucose from your blood leading to a dangerous build up.

I use a drug called Metformin daily which slows down my digestive tract (you feel fuller after a meal longer like Ozempic), lowers the uptake of glucose in your gut and lowers glucose production in your liver.

That and a low carb diet is essential.
just a minor nit but you don't even need to do `remotes/origin/master`, just `origin/master`.

Alternatively you could do `git switch -c new_work && git pull -f origin master` which will create a new branch (you could use `git checkout -b` as well but like you said, more bytes to type) and then force pull from master on origin into the current branch (which is now your new branch) replacing the history with origin/master.
It adds a surprising amount of time. You have to descend, land, taxi to a fueling area, refuel, taxi, take off, climb. And that's if the local regulations allow fueling with passengers on board.

That's probably around 2 hours extra. And this in turn can require the plane to carry additional pilots and flight attendants.
Can you precisely define what you mean by "generating" and "pretends", in such a way that this neural network does both these things, but a conventional modern audio codec doesn't?

"Pretends" is a problematic choice of words, because it anthropomorphizes the algorithm. It would be more accurate and less misleading to replace "pretends to be" with "approximates". But then it wouldn't serve your goal of (seeming to) establish a categorical difference between this approach and "regular algorithms", because that's what a regular algorithm does too.

I apologize, because the above might sound rude. It's not intended to be.
Version numbers. You can’t modify an already-published version of a Rust crate on crates.io.
I would say more than 12% of job postings are fake or suspect in one way or another. Either just trawling, or they're some college kid posting their idea from previous drunken night, or someone overemployed outsourcing their jobs, etc.

The entire market seems to have turned to a cess-pit recently. I am looking for work (in Rails specifically, but can do C, some js, even 6502, lol), have many years experience in code and IT in general, worked for industry behemoths in the past, and even willing to work for the paltry $10/hr or whatever many of the Indian companies post, at least to start, but because I have no history on the platforms, I get almost no responses to proposals. And you only get credits for a handful of proposals before you're expected to start paying - sorry, but no. maybe I'll buy an actual lottery ticket instead.
The theories are linked. Diamond's assertion that Europeans conquered the world because they had an easier time domesticating animals makes sense if you're talking about the Americas, but not so much when talking about Africa, which was in constant contact with Europe and in theory should have been able to trade for any technology invented there.

Simply saying that Africa didn't have domesticable animals isn't good enough because, certainly, they could have imported them along with other technology from Europe.

The continental axis hypothesis is his answer to this. He says crops (and later animals) could be more easily moved east to west rather than north to south because the climate will change less. In his mind, this explains why Africans didn't adopt European advancements in agriculture and animal domestication.

You don't need a study to debunk this theory within the context of Diamond's overall hypnosis; you need a globe and some measuring tape. Africa's east-west axis (4600m) is only 8% smaller than its north-south axis (5000m), which in turn is almost identical to Eur-Asia's (4,900m). The only time this isn't true is on a distorted map like the Mercator projection he uses in the book.

Sub-Saharan Africa is not some wasteland that couldn't support these animals and crops. And this is obvious when you consider that colonial empires brought their crops to Africa without the need to fundamentally change them for the climate. Colonial holdings in Africa often produced a good chunk of the grain for their empires as a whole.

Axis theories aside, Diamond is just factually wrong about the origins and timelines of domestication. Many of the crops and animals that supposedly helped Europe dominate the world were widely present in Africa centuries before European invasions.

Romans explored into Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1st century BC; Turks and Arabs had established trade routes deep into Africa by the 6th century AD; the Indian Ocean, including the coast of Africa was continually interconnected through trade going back to the bronze age at least, and trade caravans across the Sahara have been recorded in ancient Egyptian records.

This is covered well in Diamond in the Rough: Reflections on Guns, Germs, and Steel https://www.jstor.org/stable/24707701

You could fill a book disproving his theories, but I'll point out one last thing: trying to explain European conquest through the lens of continents is super weird. Africa, let alone any other 'continent,' is a vast and diverse place. The idea of continents in and of itself makes less and less sense the more we learn about geography. You could as reasonably draw continental boundaries in dozens of other ways that would make more sense than the ones Diamond presents in his books.
You are going to need to support that blanket assertion with some references.

The capital city of the Incan empire, Cusco, is estimated to have had a population of ~40,000 [1] ruling over an estimated 10,000,000 people.

The capital city of Spain at the time, Toledo, had a population of a mere ~32,000 [2] at the time ruling a population of a mere 6.5 million at the time.

Contemporaneous accounts demonstrate the comparable grandeur of their seats of power and more objective determinations demonstrate the comparability of scale and scope. It is not just “a handful of fancy residences” unless you apply that moniker to Spain as well.

For that matter, Spain in the early 1500s is not exactly a wealthy country. Their wealth largely came from their American conquests which resulted in what is believed to be a ~300-600% increase in the amount of European-accessible gold and silver [4]. It is a little hard to determine how much came from plunder and how much from the mines and slavery, but the Incans were not poor in precious metals, the measure of wealth in the contemporaneous European societies.

[1] https://www.worldhistory.org/Cuzco/

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo,_Spain

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Spain

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_revolution
US Government aaccountability office says DoD failed to mitigate cloud costs (2023)
Collective action problem. So, never, because structurally there are game theory reasons pushing individual customers to behave this way. Therefore you can't blame the customer you have to blame the regulator and system.
I once ended up in the smoking section by accident. The smoking section was almost always in the back of the plane and I was in the habbit of requesting a seat "as close to the front of the plane as possible." But once time the smoking section was in the front, and I didn't realize this until the no-smoking sign went off and everyone around me lit up. It was a nightmare.

Happily, there were empty seats in the back and I was able to move. Thank God, because it was a trans-Atlantic flight.
I consume about 67 mL of olive oil per day; I buy 6 liters of olive oil every 90 days. I'm type II diabetic, diet-controlled, which means I have to get my calories mostly from fats because I'm on a restricted carbohydrate diet.
If you listen to that kind of jazz long enough you start hearing things. Patterns. References to other songs or standards in a solo. Two players interacting and having a kind of conversation with each other. I’ve listened to this album so many times I can play it in my mind.

If you’re really interested then listen to it enough so that it becomes somewhat familiar. You’ll be able to distinguish the structure from the improv and hear the interaction between the two. Bill Evans was a classical pianist. Maybe just focus on the piano and try to see what it’s doing in the song.

My Favorite Things by John Coltrane may be a better place to start though. It really emphasizes a familiar melody.
Ha, I am not criticizing your work at all. It's nothing short of jaw-dropping.
Ubicloud: Open, Free, and Portable Cloud
What is a “mobile story”? Can you deliver some messaging in a comment story?
That's not really "at best" - at best, this represents a mix of new demand plus some compute being moved from customers' on-prem / small and inefficient datacenters. I'm not sure how much of AWS's growth is "new compute" vs "moved compute", but for the part that's moved, it's not necessarily a bad thing for it to move to a datacenter with a low PUE (power utilization effectiveness - overhead such as cooling/backup power/power supply inefficiency) that uses green power.

(AWS/Google/Microsoft's datacenters are a _lot_ more efficient on a per-compute basis than the typical small corporate datacenter; like 30+% lower power waste because of inefficient AC and power distribution design.)
This is exactly what I did last summer. 10Gb fiber backbone between big switches, copper fans out from those to devices. I don't really need that much bandwidth but it's nice to have transfer faster than spinning rust write speed between my primary and backup storage servers.

For what it's worth, my reasoning had more to do with line noise and lightning isolation than bandwidth. I'm connecting between multiple "buildings" (two sides of my duplex-ish house and my shed) via buried 2" PVC conduit. Fiber means I don't have to worry about ground loops or static charge or lightning-induced faults.
> Not sure how flying a plane while it's essentially doing nothing is helpful to anyone.

When we train engineers for oncall, we take a look at incidents they saw while shadowing. Just X days shadowing doesn't really cut it, they have to be meaningful.

I see the comparison to flying pretty clearly.

Chaos engineering and game days are excellent ways to get engineers more experience in a system. Does the aviation industry have something similar?
Goldman Sachs set up continuous integration (with automated testing etc) back in the late 1990s / early 2000s for the eco-system of their in-house language 'Slang'. Great system, way ahead of its time. (The language was also pretty neat for its time. You can tell that the people who came up with had a Lisp background. Think of it as a worse version of today's Python. And probably on par or ahead of 1990s Python.)

In any case, because of when they built that Continuous Integration system, it was all jerry-rigged on top of CVS. Problem is, they were still using that system for Slang 15 years later.
Hahaha, I need to go watch Hackers right now!
I don't really understand why everyone is in such a rush to use Discord now (or any other chat platform). It's about building a community, but you can still do the same on forums.

Sure, it's nice having near-instant feedback from other people, but at that point it's just turning into social media. I feel like forums provoke people to write more sophisticated, and better posts rather than on Discord.

My current workplace uses phpBB (lol) with a bit of GitHub discussion sprinkled in. I think it's great, much less cluttered than something like Slack.