skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Relativity is kind of the trivia of physics, it really has not informed much technology apart from a few things in space

GPS is kind of a huge one, though it technically is just a few clocks in space.
> your job is not to find the winners but get rid of the losers

As I understand it, that's exactly backwards. The fatal mistake is not funding losers, it's missing winners. Certainly that's true of YC but it's well known among investors generally.

That's also consistent with YC's view that founders matter most. If Larry and Sergey cross your path and you decline to fund them because they're on an H1B or some other issue like that, that would be...really bad.

> Not saying you are wrong but let's just agree to disagree ;)

Ok :) - I read your comment as saying that founders are fungible and we can definitely agree to disagree about that.
Exchanges almost always have large amounts of stable coin, and no limit on withdrawing them.

It makes it so easy to get large amounts of cash equivalents out of an exchange and then launder them though mixers (even laundering it though the deposit wallets of other exchanges would obscure the path long enough for them to covert it to real cash).

An attacker can deposit coins, trade it for USDT and have it deposited in another exchange before they even reveal the 51% attack.
Curtains on the 2024 Centerstage robotics season
Chop me up and feed me to the chickens when I die.
We live in a cosmic void so empty that it breaks the laws of cosmology
I don't believe that effect size. What's the case you're thinking of?
There are two problems with this take:

* The people who immigrate have declining TFR after a couple of generations, if not in the first generation.

* The rest of the world has declining TFR.

So hey, you might gain a couple of generations, but maybe not even that much. Populations all over the world are rapidly gaining in education and, with it, undergoing the "demographic transition" -- later entry into the work force and much lower TFR.
It isn't the immigrants. The wealthy business owners outsourcing the jobs overseas are doing more to fuel populism than any immigrant is.
YC is just a circle jerk for rich kids.
"Many Jewish people" according to....who, you? Seriously! Who is the "many Jewish people"??! Do you regularly poll the jewish diaspora? Israel? Specifically on the collective jewish opinions of JVP? Man if I wanted to write up an example breakdown on how to structure a weasel word contradiction ridden filled post I could start a lot worse than here!
"They tread pretty close to the line on things like the Blood Libel in their rhetoric" sure seems like something I'd want to substantiate! Claiming one of the most venerable peace organizations in American Jewish communal life is "treading the line on Blood Libel" (love that capitalization, great stuff) is disgusting, full stop. Maybe if you recognize that you're "not qualified to render that judgement" you should....not do it. Which is exactly what a cowardly "they come close to blood libel" type of a claim is. A claim about antisemitism. Really really gross and frankly beggars belief that you, a gentile, who is a self-professed catholic (I've been on this board almost as long as you have homie, and up until recently I read your posts with interest) feels the need to accuse a bunch of pacifist jews of capital B capital L Blood Libel.

As for US police training in Israel, once again, you show your own profound ignorance, or outright dishonesty, by stating this is a "risible" claim. US police training in Israel has been well documented, and pretending that there aren't any carryover effects of that training is itself the "risible" claim.
https://www.amnestyusa.org/updates/with-whom-are-many-u-s-po...
Democracy doesn't mean that everything is micromanaged by elected officials. The legal system is. The legal system is the framework for non-profit and for-profit entities and individuals to live their life.

We can certainly argue competence and alignment. - And soon enough we reach the issue of who the voters choose to represent them...
Eating plants = harming plants.
Eating meat = harming plants and animals.
https://archive.is/Lggyg
Insofar as this would require line of sight, I suspect the distances are too great without having very tall towers.
"bombing each other into rubble" can happen this century.
One of my friends from undergrad solved an erdos problem a couple years ago during the first year of his PhD... Absolutely insane.
Good Luck Trying to Resell This West Elm Coffee Table
> It's hard to run a local restaurant when the houses are all evenly spread out and going out to dinner means a 30 minute car drive.

Can you point me at a few suburbs (not out in the wilderness) where it actually takes a 30 minute car drive to get to a restaurant?

I have difficulty picturing that such a place exists, but maybe I'm wrong.
Can’t fight this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_ti...
No, factory farming and ecological destruction makes me uncomfortable. We do this because we don't think animals are important, or we should care about them.

Animals eat other animals, they don't roam around being upset about it. When I hunt, I don't feel upset about it either.

What I am upset about is the the lack of respect we've shown other animals by ruining their whole ecosystem via ecological destruction and locking them in factory farms. Little chickens born never get to see their parents, they're just thrown into a grinder, like what the fuck?

I spearfish mostly, and I've seen a mother fish proudly cruising around with 3 of her juveniles, do I take that fish? No, I respect her, and her time she is spending with the young ones. By the same time, I've seen fish have their face gnawed off by a squid, this is the reality for most wild animals, a gruesome death. Living a semi-long life and being taken by a skilled hunter is probably the most human way an animal can die. Being thrown into a grinder at 2 days old because you're a rooster and can't lay eggs? Disgusting. Drowning in a trawling net? Horrific.
"I'm in a cage, which must mean that everyone else is in a cage too." Worldviews like this are really sad.
They are both largely incoherent in that debate because they both think "the right next move" is to test "free will" against their notions of morality. Morality has nothing to do with free will. If you consider morality important, then you might care about free will within your moral framework; but you can debate free will without any notion of morality, and neither of them can see that. (is - ought, which they both are aware of)
"2024/05/19", "Posted in 30 days"

Premature announcement?
A quick google suggests they think it helps stop the bleeding..

It's hard to reconcile that you'd be willing to rip an animal from the sea to kill and eat it, or just for the fun of it, but also care about the animal though to conduct some insane little ritual of pouring soft drink on the wound you created to try and help it survive.
You think a sane person tries to become a professor???
Intuitively nonsensical but irrefutable thought:
Everything about how animals think is based on human assumptions. They might actually like being eaten by humans. How can we know, when the animals haven't said it themselves? In fact, there are people like that in the world. Such people have pain receptors and higher cognitive abilities, yet they still think that way. In other words, analyzing their physiology alone cannot determine whether animals dislike being eaten.
This is the basis of all superstition. Our crops were doing poorly, but then I burned a chicken and now they're doing well. Let's keep burning chickens.

You have to have an explanation of what counts as a valid empirical relation. And that depends on a whole lot of things worked out by philosophers and scientists.

Including, for example, that you can safely ignore correlations that can't have a basis in physical laws. Or that you can write certain symbols on a blackboard and compute the probability that your correlation is worth spending more time on.
>Where I’m from, the climate has changed.

Not an argument for the fact it's driven by human activity. However it suggests that you paint the past climate as some harmonious system on short time ranges:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.2-kiloyear_event

>the 8.2-kiloyear event was a sudden decrease in global temperatures that occurred approximately 8,200 years before the present, or c. 6,200 BC, and which lasted for the next two to four centuries.

>[...]

>Estimates of the cooling vary and depend somewhat on the interpretation of the proxy data, but decreases of around 1 to 5 °C (1.8 to 9.0 °F) have been reported.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4.2-kiloyear_event

>Starting around 2200 BC, it probably lasted the entire 22nd century BC. It has been hypothesised to have caused the collapse of the Old Kingdom in Egypt, the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, and the Liangzhu culture in the lower Yangtze River area.[4][5] The drought may also have initiated the collapse of the Indus Valley Civilisation, with some of its population moving southeastward to follow the movement of their desired habitat,[6] as well as the migration of Indo-European-speaking people into India.

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

>The African humid period (AHP; also known by other names) is a climate period in Africa during the late Pleistocene and Holocene geologic epochs, when northern Africa was wetter than today. The covering of much of the Sahara desert by grasses, trees and lakes was caused by changes in the Earth's axial tilt; changes in vegetation and dust in the Sahara which strengthened the African monsoon; and increased greenhouse gases.

>One study in 2003 showed that vegetation intrusions in the Sahara can occur within decades after strong rises in atmospheric carbon dioxide[952] but would not cover more than about 45% of the Sahara.[53] That climate study also indicated that vegetation expansion can only occur if grazing or other perturbations to vegetation growth do not hamper it.[953] On the other hand, increased irrigation and other measures to increase vegetation growth such as the Great Green Wall could enhance it.[950] A 2022 study indicated that while increased greenhouse gas concentrations by themselves are not sufficient to start an AHP if greenhouse gas-vegetation feedbacks are ignored, they lower the threshold for orbital changes to induce Sahara greening.
antirez wanted to allow it, not prevent it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863371
Windows Central: Microsoft and OpenAI invest $100B in new 'Stargate' AI venture
You're welcome ! Best wishes for your business :)
That's fair. Though, my point stands. Once that number starts to grow, that's when inheritance starts to shine. Again, only in Java as is.

And yes, excellent wording with the idea of "Should not even know about the concept". I think that is another good place where inheritance shines.
But it's on a halving block, so whoever did it has bragging rights in a way. In twenty years they can point to it and say "I did that." I fear that ordinal inscriptions will start making the blockchain unwieldy, but I'm not educated enough to know if the mining cost of adding them is a good enough defense against such spam on the bitcoin chain.
Disney 'Star Wars' Box-Office Profits Fail to Cover Cost of Buying Lucasfilm
But society can handle population decline if it happens slowly (ie over a couple of generations). It's a problem if it happens quickly.

(And, personally, I think it would give us much more than a couple generations.)
If your vocabulary size is 10000, then that's also your initial one-hot "dimension". Projecting down to 512 floats (or whatever) is, relatively speaking, low dimension.
If anything a capable open source model is good for Nvidia, not commenting on their share price but business of course.

Better open models lower the barrier to build products and drive the price down, more options at cheaper prices which means bigger demand for GPUs and Cloud. More of what the end customers pay for goes to inference and not IP/training of proprietary models
Catholic fertility is very low compared to the other groups listed. Whatever secret sauce for resisting modernity is built into evangelicalism, mormonism, etc, appears to be absent from high church denominations. Except for the hardcore traditionalists. We can expect to see more of them, as the others are bred out of existence.
I agree with you but I live around chickens. They feel like the worst example. I might be wrong but they seem dumb as hell to me lol. Almost like they are driven fully by instinct from thing to thing.
The article doesn't actually walk us through a comparison with other countries to show us how, exactly, the USA is worse off than other countries when it comes to handling a falling population. In Japan -- a country that is much more centralized than the USA -- closures of local services and funding cuts due to declining populations have been widely reported on for many years. In fact, there are small localities in Japan that are doing things like offering new residents free houses to get them to move there, which is not so dissimilar to small cities in the USA offering people incentives to move.
The legendary Zilog Z80 CPU is being discontinued after nearly 50 years
Then why are we discussing population decline?

I'm just saying, if we need more people, we know where to get them.
nothing is true, everything is permitted
Unrelated, but they _charge_ you for transferring money???

Is the US ever gonna have true free instant transfers? Without none of this venmo paypal shenanigans?
What is Occam search? Can't seem to find it.
I do think of them, but I have a different parenting style than you. :-)
One obvious advantage of centralization, though, is that the government is much better equipped to enact programs to keep towns afloat (whatever that entails). Red tape and obstructionism on the local level is minimal and is unlikely to cause issues.

In the US, if the federal government wants to put similar programs in place, in many ways they’re at the mercy of the states. Certainly out of 50 states some will be cooperative, but even that is subject to rotations of state politicians. This means that any measures to counter depopulation are going to be spotty in the short term and unstable in the long term, greatly limiting efficacy.
oh that's what i mean though, mouthing, in your head, same thing as in "it's somewhere" that's internal to you. That's why i can't understand how everyone doesn't have an internal monologue.
>formal logicians are quite isolated in philosophy departments

Few generalisations hold of philosophy departments across traditions and regions, and this is untrue of departments in the analytic tradition of which Dennett was part. Philosophical logicians are often interested in more than logic for logic’s sake, and other philosophers share that interest; see e.g. Williamson’s /Modal logic as metaphysics/.
There's not really any evidence for this. On a source-by-source basis, plant-based protein quality tends to be a few percentage points lower than from animal sources due to the differing amino acid distribution, but mixing sources like rice+pea gets you all you need. Soy is already pretty good by itself if you're okay with just consuming a tad bit more. Personally I just add a protein shake to my diet and that more than makes up for the difference relative to my carnist days.

The micronutrients that vegans need to watch out for are EPA/DHA (types of omega 3s) and Vitamin B12. Both are trivial to supplement, and not particulary expensive (especially now that Costco sells the former). The B12 you get via factory farmed meat is all supplemented to them anyway, so there's no difference in some hypothetical molecule quality.

The last remaining micronutrient that might be tricky is Vitamin D3, if you don't get the necessary sun exposure. The D3 in standard supplements is usually made from sheep wool. But you can also replace that with relative ease, and many vegan options are really mixed D3+K2 supplements which is even better. Also available at Costco, for what it's worth.
Loom looks way better on a CRT than it does in e.g. dosbox. It is easily the best looking EGA game ever made (if that's not damning it with faint praise).
Nothing was stolen. The license allows commercial forks.

Also, nothing of value was lost. The new forks have all the source code.
This event does reduce the incentive to expend that compute power, which is generally good thing.
If your recommendation for airing their grievances still results in their unemployment, why on earth should they quit instead of doing what they did?
> Get back to who?

"Can other animals have consciousness? Is there even something like consciousness at all? (except I have it right?)"
a consciousness phenomenon that may or may not even be real

If I were to run up to you and kick you in the shin while shouting 'I refute it thus', I submit that consciousness is the part of you that would be angry and upset afterwards, even if I were immediately detained and taken away by a conveniently present police officer.
Oh no why would I want to watch that? That sounds horrible. Those poor animals! They should be nicer to them when they kill them.

/s
Population in Japan has barely fallen (yet). So far it's only a ~2% decline from peak population, but there will be a 20% decline in the next 20 years.

There is a long lag between below-replacement fertility and actual population decline. Because of how compounding growth works and the length of human lifespans, sub-replacement fertility won't result in population decline (for a previously fast-growing country) until 40+ years after the fact. Japan is only just now seeing the effects of lowish fertility from the 70s and 80s.

Note that one of the other consequences of population math is that if a country has been previously declining in population for a while, it'll continue to decline for decades even if the current fertility rate is at or slightly above replacement rate. This means that population decline is essentially an inevitability for most East Asian and European countries for the next several generations.

None of us knows what will happen when populations are falling by 5%+ per decade which is now the inevitable future of many countries the next few decades..it's totally unprecedented in human history (excluding cases like war/disaster).
That's just an illusion; it's only one page, going forward and backward in time.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
At least read some book before mixing two different terms. There is difference between 'consciousness' and 'chit'.
The second is my least favorite. Maybe sour grapes because I was stuck on one puzzle for about 6 months, and when I finally got past it, that ending was a major letdown.
I worked on this. We called it the parking lot bug. WiFi still shows signal but no proper connection. With MPTCP, it will failover to cell.
when drivers are most likely to be using their phones.

I don't know about phone-use while driving laws in the US but in Australia, the fine of 3-4 hundred dollars for holding a phone at all while driving means there has to be some form of "hands-free" system in the car.

That means the driver isn't looking at the phone at all. Most cars these days have phone controls on the steering wheel, some form of bluetooth phone-car connectivity, and also voice-controlled phone usage such as "Call MaryLou."
My good buddy, Union carpenter, laughs at Silicon Valley hipsters trying to replace his industry with robots.

One of his greatest quotes is ‘We already have 3d printers for buildings, they’re called cranes’.

His advice every time I send him one these articles usually rounds to: ‘If these smart@$$ %|~>heads would spend a couple of weeks on the job actually sweating and doing some real labor, they’d realize the problem isn’t lifting things, it’s organizing it.’
Anyone notice the last few days tons of people bringing up the IBM/Holocaust connection? I've seen maybe half a dozen people in different threads bring it up. It almost feels coordinated, like those are the marching orders that were given out somewhere: "If this topic comes up, compare it to IBM and the holocaust, make these points, etc."
Unfortunately, listening to Dennett debate Sam Harris on free will made me lose faith in Dennett’s credibility. He was not able to understand the very clear argument of why we don’t have free will. Hearing him literally being unable to understand was surprising.
...we may have turned the rows for a photo-op :)
Is he? Or is it his imagination?
> When I review code from more junior developers or even tenured developers, I find a tendency to either overengineer or overcomplicate solutions

This has been the biggest struggle of my career. No one ever wants to take the easy route. Everyone thinks they are smarter than everyone else. Everyone thinks their little API is going to be globally popular and needs triple redundant failover zones, 64TB of memory, Kubernetes, scale, scale, scale.
Ah! Finally a real world use for egg drop (with eggs and floors both equal to num commits since init, but maybe fewer eggs for those less patient).
Can be borrowed here: https://archive.org/details/treeofknowledget00matu
Different flavors for different use-cases. There was even $-terminated ones prevalent on DOS which got it from CP/M which got it from DEC OS/8.

Pascal-style strings (length + data or length + pointer to data) have the nice properties of O(1) size inquiry, simpler bounds checking, and easier to represent strings that contain embedded NULs. A downside is though you have to pick an unsigned integer width of power of 2, usually 0 to 3. Another upside is (length + pointer to data) immutable substrings (with longer lifetimes that the parent string) are very cheap because they just point to wherever in the start and specify how much of the parent string with the length. There was a language IIRC that implemented a more complicated Pascal-style strings perhaps for COW or reference counting of the underlying allocation.
How do you know it can't? What makes you think that these questions are beyond the scope of scientific inquiry?
Oops, just typoed the date. I probably won't be able to fix that until tomorrow.
Best of both worlds? Not for the taxpayers. Why waste resources manipulating the market when the force you need is already there? Free.

As it is, it's unnecessary gov bloat and politicians buying your vote *with your money*. That's exactly what's happening. It's not a good thing in any world.

Yes there's a lack of moderately priced EVs, but not limited to EV. Cars are big and expensive for a reason. They sell. There are plenty of non-EV vehicles in the EV price range that continue to be made and bought. Why? Gas. Is. Cheap.
There are a lot of weeds to get into on the subject of philosophy here and demonstrated by the comments. However, Dennett contributed a lot in terms of thinking and arguments...

We don't 'think' enough as individuals/beings and for that I doth my cap in respect of the work that he did and however it's regarded by 'the mob'!
No. A p-zombie is a very specific hypothetical construct: something absolutely 100% identical to some equivalent conscious being in every way except that it has no consciousness.
IMHO, it's still a useful joke because one can immediately judge the joke teller to be worth zero of my time.
You really believe that the question of human fallibility is beyond the scope of scientific inquiry? I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree about that.
Thinly-veiled whataboutism
Reminds me of the quote:

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations

I’ve found many times in life that limitations and obsessing over quality lead to more growth than obsessing over productivity.

I remember asking a guy who worked at a high end place how he liked working there. He said, “It’s good…if you’re good”

It can’t be all option-maximizing and no mastery.
It would now requires more like a trillion and they would also have to KEEP spending or everyone could just switch chains at point.