skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hacked up this python script that lets you hear any log file or anything else that outputs lines to stdout.

https://gist.github.com/perryizgr8/c795b74ac7cb59fd34b269b7d...
I don’t doubt your story but I’ve seen many apartments with “no pets” policy but never a “no kids” one.

But also, millions of people in the US have cats, kids, or both. So while I am sure your story is true it doesn’t sound representative.
I wrote https://pingtype.github.io to split sentences into their words, and translate each word to pinyin and English. That might be easier if you're trying to read a longer section of text.
Virtue signaling clickbait doesn’t give any real estimates of the impact, only that all data center usage is projected to be 1,000 terawatts, meanwhile Bitcoin alone already uses over 100 terawatts today. But if you already hate AI clicking on an article that itself almost feels AI generated with fluff sounds about right
AI use is soaring? Where is it soaring? I've found going back to StackOverflow, Google and my brain works best.
I wonder if "reverse anthropogenic global warming" could be a Skynet inducing prompt
The PairDrop dev appears to have been shadowbanned by github:

https://github.com/fm-sys/snapdrop-android/issues/356#issuec...
There is no way that it will be easier to turn a completely lifeless planet into an inhabitable one. The Marsers may as well purchase some barren land on Earth and live in Mars colony structures, at least they'll have breathable air. If humanity makes Earth uninhabitable, how would a Martian civilization make Mars inhabitable? Better caring for the environment? Why not care for it here?
> who’s got 3-4 kids and is way happier and more fulfilled.

Or maybe different life goals are valid for different people, and there's no one true path to happiness and you need to make up your own mind? Just maybe?

For some reason this topic invariably includes a bunch of people lecturing everyone else about what they should do - or mistaking someone discussing their own preferences as judging there's.

Someone saying "I don't think I could cope with having children" isn't telling you that you couldn't cope - though you might do well to consider your own expectations.

I have a child, and I would never presume to tell anyone they definitely should or shouldn't have their own children. I will happily relate my feelings on the experience so far if asked.
Has always been, even pre-AI. Just replace "AI" with "the media". People live in their own information bubbles. Extreme society polarization, QAnon stuff, it all happens because of that. And it will only get worse, of course.
As much as some will proclaim neither is required, I think `null` has genuine use when representing data. It's the data-model equivalent of "no preference"; "use the default"; "automatic"; or even "not applicable". That doesn't mean every field in every object/schema should allow null, but there's definitely a use-case for it.

`undefined` to me sounds like a language/engine internal state that ideally shouldn't be relied upon. Whether that means you treat it the same as `null`, I'm unsure of.

JS obviously has `undefined`, but I think it's rare to actually rely on it specifically as different than null; the biggest specific reliance that comes to mind is polyfilling e.g. `if (typeof window.foo === 'undefined'){...}`...; This pattern could just be inverted `typeof window.foo !== 'function'` but could also be just a simple boolean check, `if (!window.foo){...}`.

PHP has something similar with typed properties that have no initial value set - they start with a state of `uninitialized` (whereas untyped properties without an initial value start with a value of `null`). In this case it really is an internal representation that scripts can't really use - trying to fetch the value of an uninitialized property is an error in PHP.
The demo itself is a video of this: https://youtu.be/Vt8jyPqsmxE?t=750 which is a simulation done in the Frank system in the STEPS project.
This (you can just build a cabin) was true in colonial Europe, and yet we had a lot of settlers in USA. I think it's an illogical desire, but one core to our being and based on the perceived reward of having "everything the light touches" rather than whatever you are left with, plus gov, etc.

I only say this in case we weren't clear on each other's scale argument. Building a cabin and going for a hike is very different from building a new society from scratch. I do think both are desires but the second is the one I'm talking about.
If one’s goal in life is to be “less tired” then for sure having young children does not contribute to that goal.

If one wants something more like the feeling of a life meaningfully lived - it will take energy no matter what form that meaning takes.

Fwiw I am definitely more tired as a parent then when I was single but it’s what I would call “good tired” - work you are choosing to do.
How else would they be able to provide the service? They aren’t doing the compute on my laptop, otherwise I’d have to download model files, etc.
ChatGPT, how can entropy be reversed?
If you want to be Martian, live in the woods, build a cabin, and eat yeast. Not enough game and wild resources to sustain many people anymore in many places.
The angle here is a bit of a baffler - people spend money on to use an AI product, then companies spend that money on the resources they need to provide the product. The only thing that would get an angrier article was if they don't spend the money on resources, then people arc up and whine that profit margins are too high.

There is a problem with data centres using energy in the EU and US. Both those polities have been squeezing the energy market for decades and are in long energy-per-capita downtrends. If people had behaved rationally and let the nuclear industry flourish in the 80s instead of going all-in on fossil fuels, we'd have had a shot at avoiding this. Scapegoating AI and other new uses for energy will not help undo decades of poor economic management. If the communists in China managed to figure this out then the western powers have no excuses.
How about you first.

> grid scale storage is orders of magnitude more expensive than production.

[[Citation needed]]

PS: I have little interest in looking for citations when you can do your own research using 2024 data.
Yet another way to avoid thinking about the problem and hoping someone or something else takes care of it.
> Trump tried this. It was blocked by the courts [1]. Retaliatory tariffs aren't something the executive can magic up.

The link you sent is not relevant to the claim - just because a specific kind of executive tarrif was found illegal doesn't mean that there aren't executive tarrifs. The executive has the right to impose tarrifs - the 1974 Trade Act allows the president to impose 15% tarrifs for 150 days for broad national security reasons and the 1962 Trade Expansion Act allows the president to direct the Department of Commerce to investigate and recommend any kind of tarrif or trade measures for broad reasons including general welfare. Both of these laws have been tested by the Trump administration and in most cases the tarrifs survived challenges (*1)

> Restrictive and immoral. Even withint this framework, this bill's response is incredibly forgiving. Because, again, the point is not to ban TikTok. It's to rehome it.

International trade doesn't work on the basis of freedom and morality. It works on the basis of reciprocity. The idea, and the norm, being that foreign businesses should be allowed to operate as a local business would. Restrictive and immoral laws are completely consistent with this so long as they are applied to local and foreign businesses alike. Forcing a sale to a domestic entity however is completely different and is not precedented.

> If anything, banning TikTok (which, again, this bill doesn't aim to do) is deeply internationally precedented [2].

Read the list carefully. Every one of those bans were either temporary (Bangladesh, first Indian ban, Indonesia, Jordan, Senegal, Pakistan) because TikTok chose not to comply with local laws (Iran, Russia, Afghanistan) or the result of a military conflict (Second Indian ban, Taiwan).

After this, 4 countries remain : Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nepal, and Kyrgyzstan. It turns out that, as of today, Tiktok is not banned in any of those countries. In Armenia and Azerbaijan, the ban turned out to be temporary after border flashpoints led to media suppression (*2). In Nepal, the ban is being challenged in court and meanwhile the ban is not implemented by many ISPs (*3). In Kyrgyzstan, there simply isn't actually a ban (*2)

That is to say, no, there is no precedent. Every other ban was either temporary, due to TikTok deciding local laws - applied to everyone - weren't worth compliance, or as a result of a direct military conflict with China. These are all fair, accepted, and preceded scenarios. A Tiktok ban purely based on foreign ownership just isn't precedented.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_tariffs?wprov=sfla1

2: https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=AZ&since=2024-0...

3: https://www.lokmattimes.com/international/tiktok-still-opera...
In some cases I've found that that's true. In the time it takes for Bing or Gemini to generate an answer, I could already get a faster and more accurate answer via Google search.
There is (of course, philosophers are involved) some debate about whether the angel's answer is a valid answer to the question.
Why can't it?

The pandemic made a significant positive impact on the environment.

If LLMs can replace certain lines of work (eliminating commutes!), reduce demand for certain consumer goods, and spread the demand for power throughout the day, they could have a huge impact.
The solution in that paper does require third parties, except the parties are unknown, the amount of parties is unknown, and the system breaks down if insufficient people are interested in running the chain.

I’m really not convinced that solution is better is any way. If your adversary has the resources to coerce the “leave of entropy” in the OP, cracking that blockchain implementation will be trivial.
Before you freak out about "millions of gallons" of water globally, you might want to consider that oil and gas in Texas alone uses about 2 trillion gallons of water per year. Environmental writers unfortunately have this huge hate boner for the information industry and a corresponding blind spot towards the oil business.
You do know what "the oldest profession in the world" refers to, though?
We Replaced Vagrant with Devenv
Is anyone familiar with the economic situation? Is this really a concern about health or is this Mexico trying to ensure the cheapest US corn can't be imported to protect Mexican agriculture?
Wow thanks for sharing. I didn’t know about this stuff.

I guess refrigeration is much more interesting than I assumed! I definitely need to read up more about all this.
>But it’s probably taboo to openly say you’re unhappy about having a child.

Imagine (like I never have to) that the man who raised you says to you: "if I could go back in time I definitely wouldn't have children again."

Most honest thing he ever said. I agree with him.
But it makes perfect sense, because in many car fatalities there were numerous things the dead person could have done better like not drink, brake sooner, not speed, etc that would have spared them.

In almost all plane fatalities the only dead people who had a chance of doing something better were the pilots. The passengers were doomed from the start.
I use it regularly for accessing PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLight. Very happy so far. It’s regularly updated also.
Senior apartments don’t allow kids, but that’s not a majority.
Most people don’t own stocks (at least not directly) and wages only went up for the bottom quartile on an inflation adjusted basis.
Yes, it's not intended to be a positive sentiment, just an observation about the great organism that is all of humanity.
I think it is a reference to Gödel's incompleteness theorem.

> What is the ordered pair whose first member is the best question to ask, and whose second member is the answer to that question?

Is isomorphic to:

> What is the highest cardinality set in the set of all sets?

"What is the best question in the set of all questions?" is itself "what is the best question in the set of all questions?"

"What is the highest cardinality set in the set of all sets?" is itself "the set of all sets".

"What is the answer to that question?" is an assumption of bounded size, and therefore isomorphic to saying "the largest set that is not itself."

> What is the answer to the best question we could ask?" Which was roundly criticized because of the possibility that the answer would give no hint to the question it answered. One philosopher cheekily pointed out that the angel might reply "42 of course."

42 is a valid answer because if you assume two contradictory statements are true at the same time, then all statements are true. The cheeky philosopher is pointing out that "What is the answer to the best question we could ask?" implies self reference, which implies a contradiction.

The philosophers asked a self referential question and got a self referential answer.

At least that's my take.
Time crystals aren't the only thing that has properties that change in an orderly, predictable fashion. Plain old uranium has the same property. The answer to both is the same - put them on a very fast rocket and do a lap around the galaxy and see how well they agree with you on how much time has elapsed.
I'll second (third?) the "I'm not worried about being replaced by AI" camp...

In fact, I actually think unless your getting into foundational work in AI, "AI" is probably a riskier career then "traditional" programming in the near future. Everyone seems to want to pivot "work in AI" so there's gonna be a TON of relatively inexperienced people looking for work in the field in the next 2-5 years..
And how does one define a SHA512 hash of a Unicode string?

UTF-8? UTF-16? Others?

But that’s not the worst thing…

What about normalization? Skip or implement? Should “equivalent” code points cause differing hashes?

Should one be able to use the same password from systems with differing locales/languages ?

ASCII is insufficient, but Unicode is a royal mess!
I use perplexity over google now. I thought I would never get my muscle memory for google changed but here we are.
Great at writing programs, but doesn't know how to debug?

You're pulling our leg or in denial.
I agree with what you are saying but that’s not what I am talking about on the comment you are replying to.

Discussing one’s choices is different than painting a topic with a broad brush and some of the anti kid voices are hysterical in their tone and persistence.

It’s the difference between “I chose not to have children because…” and “we are screwed nobody can afford to have a cat much less a kid and the world is going to end next month anyway”
This list is pretty awesome and the work is impressive.

I wonder what percentage of applications break or have such slow performance that they become unusable, when this set of mitigations is enabled.
Actually pro players may have the deepest understanding of the balance but they only represent a tiny fraction of players and while useful for esports, implementing their expert feedback may alienate the broader audience.

QA may provide good balance feedback but are rarely valued for it/do it on their own time with career progression in mind. They often are a rare combination of players who also understand the dev side.

For actual tuning before release, playtesting and other user research involving players representative of the target audience is the gold standard.
> having the LocalSend window visible and idle consumes an insane amount of cpu with the desktop window manager

so Flutter :)
Ackman further stated that it could be a good idea for him to invest in Bitcoin.
Saylor even volunteered to have a private conversation with Ackman about the matter.
On Saturday afternoon, Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, diverted part of his focus to Bitcoin, playfully speculating that the price of the greatest cryptocurrency in the world may go far higher than anybody could have predicted.
Israel refuses to extradite child rapists; hardly surprising that they'd refuse to give up mere fraudsters.
Given there's no explanation for 10s of 1000s of reports, things looking for satellites would spot them, if they're coming from space and the sensors cover the right area, and can adopt a configuration that detects them. Perhaps they can't tho.

Regarding your other point about sightings that get explained: how many of those is it dishonest to include in UFO numbers to start with? If they're so easily explainable, probably a lot haha! :) Also, how many of those are poorly explained? Or unconvincingly explained? Could be a lot, too.

Including easily explainable things in the dataset only pollutes the data. No serious analyst would do that, for any data set.

Some databases you may be interested in if you want to see the big scale of the open data on this: NUFORC from US, CNES/GEIPAN from France, the 700 unexplained from Blue Book.

It might help you refine what you mean by "most". 51%? 91%? Where are you starting at? Reports of balloons or something that's a little more difficult?
Use placental tissue (or a tissue sample), revert to stem cells, migrate to heart cells and grow them in a tube, harvesting the blood cells periodically. Not there yet but give it 5 years maybe.

What is wrong with old zillionaires? You'll be old someday too if you're lucky (odds are against your becoming a zillionaire).

And why claim that a particular group of people (especially with whom you likely share very little) lead a "shitty self-absorbed existence"?
I am not a chemist, but Crucian Carp manage some chemical trick to convert food into oxygen (the reverse of what you're saying):

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060825103548.h...

(Truth be told, Carp in general are so resistant to winter, I wonder if most carps have this trait in some amount)
“Reduce blood levels and see if functions return” so like reduce smoking to see if lung cancer go into remission? Why the assumption health effects are reversible?
https://thehill.com/opinion/4517470-dei-killed-the-chips-act...

> But less than a week later, Intel announced that it’s putting the brakes on its Columbus factory. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has pushed back production at its second Arizona foundry. The remaining major chipmaker, Samsung, just delayed its first Texas fab. This is not the way companies typically respond to multi-billion-dollar subsidies. So what explains chipmakers’ apparent ingratitude? In large part, frustration with DEI requirements embedded in the CHIPS Act.
Works really well in snow.
Not that important depending on use-case. Lots of people have been running for years with `mitigations=off`. If someone could steal their crypto, they would have.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32077583

I run with `mitigations=off` in offline cluster.
Yup, QA log bugs, then producers triage them and punt/decide to not do what doesn’t fit in the schedule.

Any time a game ships with horrible bugs, i wonder how many more even worse ones had to be fixed, for the game to ship with the remaining ones.
That’s a really great endorsement. I had Zinsser as a textbook for a non-fiction creative writing class in university. It was one of the only textbooks I never had a compunction to sell. Haven’t read it since then, but your comment will make me give it a re-read.
Didn’t know about wellfound, will check it out. Thank you!
I think it's more like asking the angel to solve the halting problem.

Solving the halting problem requires solving the halting problem's halting problem.

Asking the best question requires the answer to what the best question is.
I've often pondered: why does this problem submit to sustained exponential improvement for such a long time? There doesn't seem to be any physical characteristics of miniaturization that map directly to exponential functions, in the same way as many rate-of-change problems do when you first learn differential equations.

I've largely concluded that it's a combination of three things.

1. As Fenyman said, there's plenty of room at the bottom. This is why so many orders of magnitude improvement have been available.

2. As Turing proved, computers are general purpose. A consequence of this is we have only a small number of problems to solve that apply to all software, and so as the industry has grown exponentially, we've been able to put concentrated resources into making hardware better.

3. Exponential growth is simply the best we can do as human innovators.

Exponential growth isn't a property of the problem; it's a limit of our innovation. We are able to hit the limit due to the economic consequences of computers being general purpose, and able to sustain it due to there being plenty of room at the bottom.
> Also, as far as the name "Monte-Carlo Tree Search" itself, readers might note that there is nothing "Monte-Carlo" in the above algorithm - that it's completely deterministic!

MCTS as commonly implemented is deterministic? How strange! I assumed there was randomness in the sampling.
How do you manage to scraoe 50k companies?
People are charging at home as we speak.
Another open-core project rejecting PR citing paid feature
Cars are regulated for safety. High grills and raised trucks kill. Pedestrian deaths in the US go up because of these things while they are going down in the rest of the world. Are you really suggesting that we must have a law against high grills? Or does that fit a regulatory framework?
Arc is a cool concept, but these initiatives are ultimately handicapped by their reliance on the infrastructure of "grants".

Grants suck. What matters is having smart people together in one place.

If you pay smart people enough money, and offer them enough insulation and protection from academic politics, they will come to your institute. Grant-making to people at institutions which are already politically and socially captured does not fix the root issue.
This is solid advice, thank you very much
If a new theory fits 199,999,999,985 galaxies, you deal with the remaining 15 edge cases one at a time.
The vertical panels are bifacial so they get some of the light being reflected from the other side. This is a huge boost to their productivity.

The other major advantage here is that you can use them with farming and actually do something with the space.

In addition areas where it snows sees a dramatic uptick in solar power because of the reflection of the snow and not needing to brush the panels off.

vertical panel layouts really open up a LOT of options that were not available before. (using them as fences, putting them on sun facing walls of homes spaced off and letting the pass through sunlight hit the other side). There's a lot of possibilities here).
When defining payloads for updates, it is really useful to be able to distinguish something like

{"name": null, "age": 25} // Set name to null, and age to 25

from

{"age": 25} // Only set age to 25, leave name alone

In the former, "name" has value `null`; in the latter, the "name" field has value `undefined`

Most strongly-typed mainstream backend languages don't make this distinction between "a field having value null" and "a field not being present", and this results in those languages parsing both payloads as the same. This makes API design much harder than it needs to be.
> or simply choosing not to write about or share

The default action for an autonomous entity or system is to do nothing. It’s really odd to phrase doing nothing as a choice. Anything other than doing nothing is a choice. Especially when it comes to work, most humans just don’t want to bother spending time thinking about work outside of paid work time.
Usually the comment sections here are pretty fun to read but anything neuroscience related results in absolute cringe-inducing comment chains. This one is no exception.