skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the sibling comment alludes to, it's otherwise they wouldn't behave according to what we measure.

For a deeper "why", see Feynman[1].

edit: it's related to how spacetime with a finite speed of light is represented mathematically. There's some discussion here[2] which might shed some light.

[1]: https://fs.blog/richard-feynman-on-why-questions/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_time#In_cosmology
Came here to say this. Great service.
The people working on these understand the alternative looks like a WWII bombing campaign with greater loss of life
Stable Audio 2: Generates 3 minutes of AI music
Nanodevices can produce energy from evaporating tap or seawater
I really enjoyed that essay.

The last paragraph seems to sum up my view of the world.

In school when learning Stopping By Woods I'm pretty sure the death/suicide interpretation was mentioned by my teacher, and seemed pretty obvious to me even before she mentioned it.
> When fields highly specialize they seem to attract a certain personality of people who revel in their 'insider knowledge' and make the learning of it for others more difficult in order to inflate their standing in the eyes of their students

This is one reason why Wikipedia is so very valuable. A well-done article gives you a foot in the door, even if by doing little more than decoding jargon.
I think the entire situation is creating more Hamas.

You think some starving Palestinian kid whose just seen his family (and now, the person supplying aid in the form of food) blown into a thousand pieces is going to just drop all pretenses and love Israel?
Not to be nitpicky (well, maybe a little)...

El Ajedrecista [1], a chess machine designed by Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo in in 1912 and later improved in 1915, defeated chess Grandmaster Savielly Tartakower in 1951 [2], a few years earlier than the unnamed lab assistant who lost to Los Alamos Chess. This would make Savielly the first human player defeated in a chess-like game. The lab assistant loss must have occurred sometime after 1956.

To be fair, El Ajedrecista played a very limited game, only capable of playing a white king and rook against a black king moved by a human opponent. Still, I think it qualifies as a "chess like game"

As a matter of casual trivia, El Ajedrecista inspired Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, to build his own chess machine [3], which he named Caissac (after the goddess of chess Caissa [4]) in 1950.

[1]. https://www.chessprogramming.org/El_Ajedrecista

[2]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ajedrecista

[3]. https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-man-who-built-the-che...

[4]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%C3%AFssa
I hate to say it but I’m somewhat glad as a resident. This isn’t the right move, or the moral move, but taking decriminalization to mean “do nothing” was equally immoral in its own way.

No drug user was ever helped by a jail cell. Nor was any drug user helped by this free-for-all policy. Oregon allowed users to suffer the same as before and cause unsafe situations for the general populace.

Smoking meth in a sidewalk tent should get your ass sent to a care facility. For help. Oregon ran with the headlines from Portugal but never bothered to read the actual article.

Now I doubt decriminalization will be tried again on this level in this country. And with the drug epidemic still in full swing we badly need a policy that isn’t criminalization. It almost feels like it was meant to fail.

Time and time again the people of Oregon (and specifically Portland) try to show goodwill towards their fellow man. Raising taxes on ourselves is a hobby. Time and time again the legislature makes the money disappear, implements XYZ poorly, and engineers failure.
It really feels like a scaling problem than anything else. It big companies go to shit as they do most of the time it's because tackling scale is a extremely difficult problem
You act like people individually have agency to make sweeping changes of how the world works
Google Is Killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites
Train tracks to SD get washed away every year it seems.
> How will the "rich people" maintain privacy/secrecy after the Corporate Transparency Act?

I mean, I think the whole point of the act is to stop "rich people" from maintaining privacy/secrecy in regards to the businesses they own. And that's a good thing.
Breast milk? Or maybe literal live breast feeding? Mouth on mother's skin and all that.
PeOS – Windows-like OS mockup in web browser
Yes, it's a state thing. Getting city people aligned is much easier because the area is much smaller in total area, as well as the parcels of land are smaller. Once you get into the open land outside of the city, the parcels of land become larger with smaller number of owners that are very loath to allow the state to "come and take it". You might get one person to agree, but then the surrounding owners say no, and the route has to change yet again.
Finally some true monero adoption.
Is that from Google Zürich?
I think the point is that you can't tell a good person from a bad one by inspecting the atoms.
Wonder how it compares to guetzli, which is good albeit slow (by Google also!).
> should we rename it Coordinated Global or Earth Time (GTC or ETC) instead?

No, why? Universal is already defined as referring to earth (the world). From the Oxford Languages dictionary:

u·ni·ver·sal – of, affecting, or done by all people or things in the world
Double blind trusts are specifically designed to keep those in control of the assets isolated from public scrutiny and taxes.

The fact the News cycle quickly forgot about who the Panama Papers exposed... proved there is a deeper cultural issue in North America.

This has been going on for over a century, and it is foolish to think one could stop someone's full-time job hiding wealth. =)
> its interesting what cases make headline news and whats relegated to law journals

It certainly made headlines to people its impacts. 2 of my law firms sent out alerts. (They send out alerts maybe 1-2 per year whenever a significant legal change is happening - I think the last alert was the Wayfair sales tax Supreme Court decision)
Don't forget the triangle shape! Unleash the power of the pyramid!

Much better than boring old oval megaregions.
Availability, durability, etc.
The actual argument is a bit simpler than implied by the quote's use of the terms 'monodromy', 'solvable subgroup', etc. Here's an explanation of Arnold's proof that doesn't use those words at all, and while not precisely easy is much easier than you'd think from the quoted bit of the OP article: https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/lg5/394/ArnoldQuintic.p...
That's as far away as "Nawlins" from the triangle, so I don't see why it's relevant.
> either via function pointers or a switch/if?

> but would a modern CPU not be able to predict the path taken by a brach that tests the CPU features.

That's true, but the CPU has finite branch predictor state, and now you've wasted some of it. Indirect calls hurt too, especially in you need retpolines.

This is a great read: https://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf

The Linux kernel has interfaces for doing the same thing, more explicitly than ifunc:

https://docs.kernel.org/next/staging/static-keys.html

https://lwn.net/Articles/815908/
- "One of the earliest references to saffron dates to 2300 BCE, in The Legend of Sargon of Akkad, a Mesopotamian work that describes the birthplace of the founder of the Akkadian empire as “city of saffron.”"

This doesn't seem right: Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest known Mesopotamian work of fiction and it's a more recent ~2,100 BCE [0].

The historic person Sargon of Assad lived in the 24th/23rd century BCE [1]—are they perhaps confusing his biographical era, with the era when (surviving, extant) poetic epics were written about him? His Wikipedia entry [1] doesn't seem to mention any written works older than 8th century BCE.

edit: I've tracked down [2] what I think is the original source of the "city of saffron" quote. It's from an "autobiography" of Sargon which seems to be a much, much later (7th century BCE?) work of fiction—not a historical autobiography (see the introductory discussion starting page 16).

- "4. As has already been noted, no such city has been located, but its meaning, “a specific azupiru-like spice and medicinal plant, is well known. Note, however, the logogram U.HURSAG would mean ‘Mountain Plant’ in Sumerian, which may be related to Sargon’s supposed origins in the highlands. This herb was also used as a potion to produce abortions, which may lend a double entendre to this so-called place-name."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargon_of_Akkad

[2] https://archive.org/details/resgestaesargonis/page/39/mode/2... (Joan Goodnick Westenholz, "Legends of the kings of Akkade : The Texts" (1997), page 39, footnote 4)

https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/epsd2/cbd/sux/o0024740.html (Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary, ePSD2: "azugna [VEGETABLE] (N)")

(footnote: I'll never not be amazed modern web browsers support 4,000-year-old writing systems. Look, it's 𒀭𒄑𒉋𒂵𒎌!)
The sinking of the USS Liberty is the most notable of those events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

> The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two marines, and one civilian NSA employee), wounded 171 crew members

The only consequence for them was "paying compensations" as if there was a price to put on human lives.
Texas is very willing to use eminent domain, but perhaps not for rail projects or there are different statues for such a project. The use of eminent domain is pretty common for pipeline projects
Instagram down as well.
Bombing civilians doesn’t kill careers. People were promoted for what they did during strategic air campaigns.
To complexify things a bit more, there's also a difference in testing/implications between:

1. Someone can detect a difference between rate X and Y.

2. Someone can detect that X is lower than Y.

3. Someone receives information better when increasing from X to Y.

It's self-evident that there are values of X and Y where those are all true, but it's not certain that they will become false at the same conditions.
Light propagation in a medium is a quite different thing from light in vacuum.

For example, the speed of light in a medium is not the "speed limit" of things in the same medium, and particles in it can actually move faster than light: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation

In other words, the speed of light in vacuum plays a special role in both a vacuum and a medium.
Gamers have testably higher in-game performance at higher framerates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX31kZbAXsA
To Slow Global Warming, Scientists Test Solar Geoengineering
Shhh don't think this hard about it, the concept will fall apart and we won't be able to salivate over our lovely triangle!
The infotainment and drivetrain are separate (but integrated) components, thankfully. And this applies to all modern vehicles AFAIK, which is a really good thing, because every modern vehicle I know of has some software issues.

And agreed, the bar needs to be higher.
The original commenter said that Tesla had the most selling vehicle in the world "for years". This is not true.
I’ll do everything I can to keep sickos the hell away from me. Too many stalkers or people DMing inappropriate shit. But I never forget that in the end I’m never truly safe from someone trying to do serious harm.
Technically possible, yes, but that’s increasing the death toll from 33k to 2,300k. I don’t think that’s plausible.
https://archive.ph/SqZoB
Text and/or audio to music. Trained on AudioSparx data, with opt-out for artists. Music is somewhat coherent, but struggles to produce anything with direction or character. Only tried text to music for now, could be a lot more interesting with audio prompts.
I mean we are used to having at least some privacy when engaged in business negotiations. Do you forward your pay stubs from the prior job to a new employer when engaged in salary negotiations?
probably the CFO of Cloudflare inc knows
We need to talk about Brexit – FT Film [video]
Office Vacancy Rate Nears 20% to Set Fresh Record, Moody's Says
https://archive.is/kj2ta
New Materials Discovered for High-Performance Solid-State Lithium-Ion Batteries
Have you noticed any trigger foods since then?

I'm kind in the same boat as you were in. Nothing live threatening but definitely daily annoyance of gut issues that impacts my life.

Mind sharing some meals you eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner? I'd love to try some new healthier options.
The same author wrote Nazi Nexus, with separate chapters for different US companies' (Ford, GM) dealings with the Nazi regime. It can always be a case of "let's not bring politics into work" attitude or the belief that "tech is a tool only, can be used for good or ill" but at least in the years leading up to WW2 there was a lot of support for eugenics, antisemitism (Henry Ford was a notorious one) and other Nazi tendencies in the US too. I would not be surprised if many of those working on killer AI today were politically motivated and not just developers caught in projects they don't really have their hearts in.
I've spoken to many people who have purchased a tiny jar of saffron but have no idea how to use it, so here's what I consider an excellent starter recipe:

https://wtop.com/lifestyle/2024/01/braised-chicken-with-fenn...

Reprinted from here (https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/provencal-braised-chic...) with permission, and avoids the paywall.

This dish also works just as well with fish (it is based on a bouillabaisse, after all). You will definitely taste the saffron!
Texas is not going to secede. In the 2020 election, the vote was 52:46 between Trump and Biden, meaning almost half the state supported the overall national winner. Compare this to the actual secession crisis election in 1860, where the vote was 75:24 against the pro-Union candidate, with Lincoln not even on the ballot in the state.
hm, and how do you feel about Qatar sponsoring higher education in the US? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatari_involvement_in_higher_e...

Not sure these three links show that "supposedly morally superior western world is entirely bribed and blackmailed". Especially on the "entirely" and "blackmail" parts.
Texas is one big triangle if you just use a sharpie to draw it on the map. Illuminati confirmed!
I bought a phone holder, USB hub and USB to SATA adapter from them. It works as advertised, but personally I wouldn't recommend buying anything too expensive from them.
The world has been at a perpetual war for forever! That is actually quite interesting in of itself.

There has been no mass self-correction to my knowledge that would avert this kind of destructive behavior.

But in saying that, I am fully aware that most of such behavior stems from people who are in charge of the world at a political level.

Is it implausible to think that this is something that will have to change in order for the world to change?

The war doesn’t serve anyone but a few rotten minds who are trying to make decisions on behalf of millions if not billions of people.

And we share a similar nudge. I do think that was is happening in the world today is a mere preparation (of society) for a massive power struggle in various parts of the world that will inevitably lead to a full-blown war. But this is only my personal feeling/interpretation.
> Again, most drugs aren't that bad, regardless what DARE propagandized you into believing.

I haven't been propagandized into believing anything by DARE. My sources of information are PsychonautWiki and NIH research papers, as well as harm reduction communities like Bluelight.

I do actually know someone who has permanent short-term memory impairment due to heavy marijuana use at a young age. There is absolutely nothing propagandized about that because it literally happened. It is something that can happen. But it's merely an example. I'm just using it to illustrate how reckless usage of drugs is one of the big issues right now.

> I've been on damn near every painkiller up to fentanyl. My fav is morphine. Feels like a glowing warmth and "home". I could easily see me doing a small amount on a friday evening after work's done. Id keep it down enough that I wouldn't get a tolerance, and I'd be "sobered" up by next morning.

Nothing wrong with that. Just because abuse is an issue doesn't mean you can't use drugs responsibly.

I used to have a lorazepam prescription for panic attacks, but had to stop getting it because I couldn't use it responsibly. It mostly worked, but I would use too much and risk depleting my natural GABA reserves, which could kill me.

I don't see anything wrong with benzos though. Or opioids. It's all in how you use them.

> Ive also been on amphetamines, and threw' em away. Made me feel TERRIBLE.

I have ADHD and adderall made me feel so terrible that my executive dysfunction got worse and I couldn't leave bed at all. I had to sleep it off. Meanwhile, dexedrine (pure dextroamph without levo) makes me feel calmer and more focused.

They work differently for everybody!

> The 3 biggest scourge drugs we have are alcohol, tobacco, and sugar.

I'd add nicotine (even outside of tobacco) and caffeine to that list!
Screening for ADHD in Yourself or Your Child [video]
The problem with engaging in an ongoing criminal enterprise is that if you fuck up once you lose, whereas people can fuck up normal businesses for years at a time.
I agree that this is not within the reach of most high school students, and if I had to guess, I think that either these Moscow kids were very carefully selected to be in this group or most of them didn't follow it.

But I do think some very talented and motivated high school students could at least follow the gist of this argument! I've worked at a summer program for mathematically talented high schoolers, and while I didn't teach this particular class, one of the years I was there someone taught what I think is essentially the same proof this article is talking about, and they did get through it in five weeks.
In fact many states require LLCs created in other states to register as a foreign entity if they do any business in that state (incl. having a presence there). For example in Massachusetts [0]:

Pursuant to M.G.L. Chapter 156C, §48, a foreign limited liability company doing business in the Commonwealth must submit to the Corporations Division within ten days after it commences doing business in the Commonwealth, an application for registration as a foreign limited liability company ...

So even if you form your LLC in Delaware, if you live/work/conduct business in Mass, then you must also register there -- it costs $500/yr and the statute requires that a non-trivial amount of information about the company be supplied including the names/addresses of "managers" for the entity as well as the registered agent.

I don't know what the privacy laws for foreign entities in registered in MA are (if any), but I suspect not the same as say Delaware. If you have a footprint in more than one state, you may be required to file as a foreign entity in multiple states.

[0] https://www.sec.state.ma.us/divisions/corporations/filing-by...
PBS: What If Gravity Is Not a Fundamental Force? – Entropic Gravity [video]
Gravity not as a fundamental force
I'm people. I had a secret LLC I was doing contracting out of because I didn't want my companies'address out there easily. My companies' address being my house.
But you're totally ignoring the Texas ethos. I'm going to do whatever I want on my land, and I don't want your train that does absolutely nothing for me to cut through my property is a very common point of view. As a land owner, you never get back once it's been given away. They only continue to want to take more. You do it once, you just show you're willing. This is something that takes the land away forever, not leasing with monthly payments for access like an oil well.

They really just need to wait until the older owners start to die off where their kids would rather have a check than the land. It might take a few more generations though. Generational land ownership is a helluva drug
> I wonder if you would say the same on the other side where every male or female above 18 years is required to serve in thr military and in the reserve afterwards? [1]

I don't think anything in the grandparent post suggested that. If someone used to be a combatant and then ceased fighting, usually they then become a civilian. They don't stay a combatant for life. Reserve forces not on duty are not generally combatants. You have to be in the fight to be a combatant.

Things get more complicated with combatants who don't fully wear uniforms, which is why failing to wear a uniform is a war crime.

It should be noted this isn't so much the grandparent's personal opinion as they are just paraphrasing what the geneva convention says. However there is of course a lot more details to it then that and the devil is in the details.

[Edit: i think i read the post too quickly. The grandparent is incorrect when saying "[Civilians] also includes members of the civil population who are actually involved in hostilities without being a formal part of an armed force.". If you pick up a gun and start shooting the other side, you are not a civilian. It doesn't matter whether you are formally part of the armed forces. Civilians get protected because we want to protect the innocents stuck in the middle. People who are taking part in a war dont get that protection]
I would think it is more like going from North America to Australia. Possible, you are likely to know someone who did - but it isn't common because between cost and the travel time is just isn't worth it.
We fought many wars over lands that no one occupied. In fact, we've fought many wars over maritime territories before too. Wars are far from exclusively fought via inhabiting force and invading force. How do you think those boundaries were developed in the first place? People don't grow out of the ground and we all originated from Africa. In fact, not even the whole of Africa!
How about the de Tocqueville model? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39861369
Current Intel and its leadership seems to be much more focused on long term goals/growth than before, or so they claim.
Chess.com isn't really more sophisticated than lichess - it's only trying to appear so.

It's definition of blunder etc is still based only on engine evaluation. For example it marks as briliant all sound sacrifices, even the most routine ones. This is good marketing, but I doubt it's good analysis.
> you might as well say that the supply chain for staplers is a national security issue because government officials staple documents together, or that the manufacture of socks is a national security issue because government agents wear socks.

You’re leaving out the key part: this only works if there’s a way for a flaw in those staples or socks to impact national security functions. Once you correctly make the analogy you can easily see why that’s true for a server operating system but not either of your examples.
Certainly lunar clocks should feature on the first series of lunar postage stamps.
Imagine that you had to negotiate with a homeowner. You could find a price where you could buy their property.

Now imagine that you had to negotiate with 10,000 homeowners. At least one of them is going to insist that their place is worth one billion dollars and count on you caving because they can hold up the entire project.

That's why forced confiscation - because people try to hold the project hostage for ransom.
I believe guetzli is slightly more robust around quality 94, but jpegli likely better at or equal at lower qualities like below 85. Jpegli is likely about 1000x faster and still good.
Yellen talked about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiKSHuEetYI

That said, I don't think I trust a single person less than I trust Janet Yellen.