skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why Boltzmann brains are a problem. If a theory predicts the appearance of Boltzmann brains, then that theory is (arguably) self-defeating.

For example, let's say you tell me your theory of the universe. And then I say, "Wait a minute, doesn't your theory lead to an infinite stretch of time where random brains can randomly spring into existence?"

If you say, "yes", then I'd say, "If your theory is true, then I'm probably just a Boltzmann brain, and this whole conversation is just a figment of my imagination."

I would assume that I'm probably a Boltzmann brain because the number of Boltzmann brains that ever exist will be far larger than the number of human brains that ever exist. Even if it takes a zillion years for a Boltzmann brain to appear, it will happen zillion times, over an infinite stretch of time.

Sean Carroll discusses this in much more depth in "Why Boltzmann Brains Are Bad" [1]. In the paper, he argues that "the theories that predict [Boltzmann Brains] are cognitively unstable: they cannot simultaneously be true and justifiably believed."

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.00850
Is it in any way, shape, or form, addressing a current or even feasible problem? Are there any vaccines currently administered via food?
How? There is nothing in current federal law that would allow anything close to that level of reduction.

When SBF was first indicted there are a lot of unrealistic comments about how he won't do any time because he donated to politicians for a cycle or two. Those comments didn't age so well.
Can an entire state legislature be pulled into a conspiracy theory?

Maybe an April Fools joke gone wrong?
AI art can be aesthetic pleasing. Not all drawings and paintings need to communicate a deep message.

One way to see the human touch in AI art is that humans need to select the right AI art to use in products, so it's not like the human is completely out of the picture. Additionally, I don't think people are generally arguing for a world with 100% AI art, a lot of human art is fairly repetitive and uninspired, and AI can take care of this type of art and free humans for the truly special work.
In my amateur worldview your "race" is the manner in which you inherit genetic traits from your parents. Skin color is perhaps the most unimportant of these traits.

Actually looking this up, seems the notion of race as social vs biological is hotly contested. This is new to me! Fair to say it's a social construct with a biological cause and potential biological implications, then?

I'm all for knocking down biases, just don't want to throw out good data in the process. What's the margin of error on dark skinned people with sickle cell?

Or perhaps more relevant - black people's kidneys were thought to be _healthier_ when it turns out they're 3x more likely to have kidney disease. At first glance this sounds like a very large error but I'm interested in how much of that is biological vs societal risk. Is it really as big of an error as it sounds? What if they start out with healthier kidneys, the +3x comes from somewhere else, and we're correcting far too late in the game when we jostle the transplant line?
Sickle cell disease is caused by a mutation in the HBB gene, not by belonging to a specific race. Race is a social construct, meaning it's defined by social factors rather than strictly biological ones. Since someone who is Black in the US often has about 20% European ancestry, how does this compare to someone who is directly from an African country? Where is the line?
If "the universe" not getting 70 heads (e.g. if that one constant is not 0.007) mean we don't exist, then, the fact that we exist means the universe got 70 heads, yes, by chance...
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Well, the "beta" tag turned out to be a joke.
The individuals who make up the IC are trustworthy* so it comes as a shock to them that on aggregate they are not.

*E.g. One group can be trusted with fair elections, another can be trusted to predictably obliterate a village without asking questions.
Race has to be a biological factor. Some of my family were on the transplant list for a long time, due to PKD. Throughout those many years there was a constant call for more Black donors.
If you think of it as a state sponsored attack it makes a lot of sense to have a "secure" vulnerability in system that your own citizens might use.

It looks like the whole contribution to xz was an effort to just inject that backdoor. For example the author created the whole test framework where he could hide the malicious payload.

Before he started work on xz, he made contribution to libarchive in BSD which created a vulnerability.
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Yeah, I don’t give a damn about European honeybees (which are imported cattle), it’s the native pollinators I worry about. Ironically “hooray more bees!” headlines just mean more stress on natives due to disease (which isn’t just mites, but imported virus complexes and possibly fungi as well) and sometimes even local food source depletion by honeybee hives.
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Finally a useful link in demonstrating all the drama.
I thought this little gem was going to be in the comments section of the article. Surely not in the article itself. Nope.
I am not sure that the ideas about substances being fundamentally the same were very well developed at the time. Atomic theory didn't exist. What counted as "fundamental" and "the same" was not very well understood or, I'd eager, even broadly agreed upon. Turning lead into gold was considered a genuine possibility for a long time.
This guy has a BachSci in “soil sciences” from University of Tennessee.
Or exist far longer than human life expectancy.
There are two characters for t, h, s, d, th, and k.

The two characters for each are pronounced a bit different.
From the article:

> “So does the sponsor know of any instances of there being food offered in the state of Tennessee that contains vaccines and some kind of a retail or public forum?” Campbell asked."

>

> “No, I do not know any specific examples."
I've used NextDNS myself, and it seems very easy to enable/disable. Is there a way to turn it on so the kid cannot just disable it at any time, and then re-enable it without you being aware?
My garage door opener works much better when it’s raining and also at night. I’m out case, our solar inverter (or one or more of the optimizers at the panels) creates enough noise to interfere.

I also believe our microwave is adding noise to the same circuit our WiFi router is on. Despite using 5GHz, WiFi is severely degraded whenever the microwave is on.
It's pretty goofy, yes, but on the other hand, don't we always bemoan how legislation takes years to catch up to malicious practice and wish legislators would take initiative?
So .. how old are you? I'm 62. Maybe your condescension is warranted but can we establish what the relativities are in the context you set?

As I've grown older it never ceases to amaze me how ugly debate online can be when a simple "I don't agree" will do.
We were lucky that the backdoor called attention to itself, because it impacted the performance off ssh and introduced valgrind warnings.
We don't currently have silicon persons, but we do have silicon enhanced carbon persons - the carbon component writes the prompts and the silicon component produces the art. The objections appear to be that 90s Photoshop is okay, but generative AI is not. It's pure emotional dogma to oppose it.
Interesting, could anyone drop a link to the playbook?
Does Tennessee not require a Biology 1 class?
What makes it hard to estimate? Is it a very intractable problem?
The tax rate in the 50s was never paid; the current tax burden is extremely high.
It addresses mental issues of the legislators and their constituents.
> Don't black people get sickle cell at higher rates than other races?

Except that "black people" describes the color of someone's skin, and sickle cell prevalence is more properly tied to things that are much more specific than skin color, like the geographic origins of sickle cell disease. Which is why black people in Ethiopia and South Africa have low prevalence, and white people on mediterranean towns like Orchomenos have high prevalence. It's your social construct that lumps the idea of "black people" into a racial category in the first place and then associates that with sickle cell disease.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3708126/

https://web.archive.org/web/20140917070248/https://www.thegu...
Have you ever used a rapid development framework like Django or Laravel? A good ORM is basically the core of any decent backend framework that interfaces with a RDBMS. You get to define a schema once which can then be used as a foundation for migrations, validation, queries, serialization, etc. Many ORMs may only help solve one or two of those things well, and in personal experience it is rare to see even okayish JavaScript ORMs, which may contribute to why people hate the category of tools.
JSON is too far, says the engineering culture still relying on a pile of shell scripts like it’s 1970.

(that’s unfair, there’s probably tooling to build the shell scripts automatically I bet)
Actually, it kind of does. If you have to keep adding edge cases, that tends to imply that your foundation is bad.
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It is business as usual, is it not? I remember my dad talking about the same problem when I was quite young. Somehow, though the numbers keep growing, the wheels continue not to fall off: presumably there are people whose job it is to keep those wheels attached, who have thus far performed their duties with competence. One can hope that they will continue to do so. In any case, there is nothing meaningful I can do about any of it, so I worry about this problem in approximately the same way that I worry about meteor strikes or nuclear war.
People won't log all the food they eat, but supermarkets actually have data on what food people buy.

So correlating that data with people's health could be very interesting!

I don't think that has much chance getting past an IRB though.
I guess I was confused, and still am, about what the point is here.

> You haven't understand what functional programming is.

I almost exclusively use functional languages, so I'm not sure about that.

> I was ranting a bit that the term "functional" is nowadays so unclear that there is little benefit in knowing that a language is "functional".

I'm actually not sure that is a problem. Any examples? And it's quite common to describe something as "functional-first" if it has a functional core but allows other paradigms such as imperative or OOP, such as OCaml.

And a lot of this is based upon the semantics and definitions of the words like "pure", "functional", etc. which are more like spectrums than binary.
The Daily WTF is full of them.

https://thedailywtf.com
There already are vaccines you ingest orally, but they aren't well known in the West. They are much cheaper to product, but also not as effective (so much more common in developing countries).
As long as they don't feed them after midnight (local), it's completely harmless.
Of course; how else could they have been on the HN frontpage? (I’m not saying this negatively)
I am really aiming for density here. I don’t think it’s weird (or debatable) that humans don’t care as much about other humans that are far away. They care about ones that are closer.

The thing is lack of density was sufficient to trigger this lack of care. Kind of interesting.
I've had a similar weather experience where my internet connection dropped when it was cold. Turns out some water had seeped into the optical fiber connector, when it froze it broke the connection, and it would recover when it thawed. This one was a nightmare to troubleshoot.
> Race isn’t a biological factor like age, sex or weight — it’s a social construct. So how did it make its way into calculations of kidney function?

How would cystic fibrosis pick its targets based on a social construct? Look up its very imbalanced prevalence.

So, if the prevalence of cystic fibrosis is indeed race-based, then we can't just assume that kidney function isn't.
No idea what you are talking about. I simply replied to the parent and gave an explanation that could answer the question. I have no study to prove my point though.
yeah. It's "some parts of the universe that could replicate much more if they have consciousness developed consciousness" vs "the universe was conscious all along, and so it ensured that other small fractions of it had selection pressures to develop consciousness", and I'm not sure the second explanation is more parsimonious...
Joseph Campbell was not an expert on every creation myth ever. His ideas had large cultural blind spots, and he was prone to over-generalization. A sibling comment pointed out an exception that doesn't fit into the assumptions behind Campbell's leading question to the children.
> when unicorns start eating this stuff.

Oh — dude — more people need to be talking about this!
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I have a hard time believing this. Wifi can go through multiple walls. And if these were directional P2P links, they can easily go through and even around trees, I've deployed them in the past and they don't need perfect line of sight.

Granted the equipment could have been cheap, but this sounds questionable. He's asserting that the a few leaves at the top of a tree were blocking it when it wasn't raining? Idk.
I’m still not sure what you mean in regards to the quality of streaming content.

I’m not even sure whether you mean “quality” in terms of bitrate/picture clarity or “quality” in terms of the production value/content being created.
Does it include any QOL updates? I tried playing it on Android but the UI just felt clunky. I don't mind the way the cursor works, I just found the tools I'll suited to managing my minions.

On the other hand I've been playing X-Com Files / OpenXcom on Android and loving it (granted there's a nostalgia factor).
There are different levels of art, some of it is just something nice to look at. There is is no shame in that and often that is exactly what the artist was intending, it shouldn't be considered a lesser art, just a single form of it.

Other forms of art are what I think of as "an invitation to consider" which could range from a painting to a collection of chairs pointed at a small window (and beyond). There is a degree of snobbishness within the art community about the former, but really much less than you might expect. This, I think correlates with the survey's findings on open-mindedness and acceptance.

The nature of provenance and forgery is a completely different beast. The thing that is valued (in monetary terms) is the same intangible thing that NFTs trade, and when you think about it it makes as little sense.

There are instances where forgers have been caught and art owners have resisted wider investigations because it might reveal that something they own is a forgery. In that respect they really don't care if it is a work by the original artist but that it is believed that it is a work by the original artist.

In a similar vein is the peculiar case of Milli-Vanilli where the artwork was audio media but considered fake because of the artificial supplementary material.

In some respects I might even consider AI art to have an advantage by being unencumbered by such shenanigans.
Don't have to do anything too complicated. Here's the knocker code in a short Bash script, produced by GPT4:

~ % gpt4 'write a very short bash script that takes the number stored in ~/.ssh/knock_seq, increments it by 1 and saves it to the file. It then takes the new number and concatenates it with the value stored in the file ~/.ssh/secret. It pipes the resulting string to sha1sum, spitting out binary. It then takes both the resulting sha1sum and the number used and pipes their concatenation to "nc -u $host $(cat ~/.ssh/knocking_port)". be brief'

knock_seq=$(cat ~/.ssh/knock_seq)
let knock_seq++
echo $knock_seq > ~/.ssh/knock_seq
concat_seq_secret=$(echo -n "${knock_seq}$(cat ~/.ssh/secret)")
sha1_output=$(echo -n $concat_seq_secret | sha1sum -b | awk '{print $1}')
final_output="${sha1_output}${knock_seq}"
host=localhost
knocking_port=$(cat ~/.ssh/knocking_port)
echo -n $final_output | nc -u $host $knocking_port
This is never more clear than when you think about the last time "union" was used on a televised newscast on labor day. Sure, they may say "the parade included members of XYZ union local 995" or whatever, but absolutely nothing about "the day set aside to celebrate all the things made possible via the prior sacrifices of unions and other labor organizers".

And the insidious thing about that omission is that there are plenty of perfectly valid arguments in defense of the journalistic integrity of everybody in that office, until you get to the interface between editor-in-chief and the actual owner of the newspaper. And even then, there's an apparently huge difference between "tell people that labor day is actually meant to celebrate the noble spirit of the lone entrepreneur, laboring to make our civilization great" and "just don't mention it, people don't care". That the actual intent is identical either way is not anywhere near as apparent as the surface-level differences between the two.
Come on, you could have at least hodled till then
There's a link to a github repo [https://github.com/tvondra/pg-fs-benchmark] with all the configuration details, including the ZFS details for each of the runs.

For example https://github.com/tvondra/pg-fs-benchmark/blob/master/i5/20..., but it's all set by (admittedly ugly) scripts that are also in the repo: https://github.com/tvondra/pg-fs-benchmark/blob/master/i5/ru...

But yeah, I certainly did the tuning recommended on the vadosware.io page (I think I actually used it as one of the sources back then, I guess I should have mentioned that in the blog post).
Sounds like Open Individualism
Oddly that article doesn't mention polio, which has had an edible vaccine for a long time. I'd edit it in but I'm not sure exactly how it relates to these others...
SQLite is a file. It doesn't need auth any more than a text file your editor opens. The "auth" is in the OS not letting people access your files. That article seems to be talking about using SQLite to implement authentication for I guess web apps or something, and many/most sqlites are used for stuff that isn't anything like a server.

Admittedly coders can still fuck that up by not setting file permissions right(as with any file), so that other users on the system can access it, but these days that seems to be a secondary line of defense, now that systems are mostly single user or container based, people usually don't have fully untrusted stuff running outside a VM.
Avicenna argued otherwise. Have a look at his "floating man" thought experiment for how consciousness can exist detached from any sense experience.
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There's nothing wrong with your post otherwise; but we have to apply the rules even-handedly.
For "realtime" compression, wouldn't lz4 make more sense?

Much lighter in both the server and the client.