skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia in Spanish says https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmunoglobulina_G

> con una concentración de 600-1800 mg por 100 mL

IANAMD. It looks like most of the time the increase can be produced by many common infections that are not dangerous. I strongly recomend to get a second opinion before starting some invasive procedure.
How about informal treatises? There are a couple smart, incredibly creative people who regularly get front page here with their latest project, it does stealth for a year or a couple years, then it's later followed by an "incredible journey " announcement.

Anyway, is the impression that Bell Labs was great, but not good enough for the quality of the people who built much of what we are using today, right? Maybe the bureaucracy, as well as the free time that doesn't exist in a fast moving startup, was part of the equation.
As I like to say, it's funny that humans are the one and only member of the animal kingom who must be told not to stare at the sun.
What's the difference between responding logically and giving answers that are identical to how one would answer if one were to apply logic?
That sounds like a good idea. Ultimately the value capture is going to be actually doing tasks instead of just making it easier to do tasks. I would be fascinating to see the platform be able to connect agents so that whole workflows can be bought (maybe usage basis or one time) and then connected all on the platform. That would actually make it really really sticky too because whole personalized work functions would be housed on your platform and users would both value from individual contributors on one side the platform and then put them together and benefit from them right on the platform so they wouldn't leave and especially if you have the largest platform of agents to work with. interesting for sure
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I was admittedly thinking more about their quality problems due to their spinning out big chunks of their manufacturing, and the general failures of management, rather than specifically the MAX problems and the fraud in question, so my comment was somewhat off-topic. But in general, it seems that they’re encouraged to not look too closely at parts of their business that are acting in risky ways, and if that’s the case, perhaps we should change the incentives to try to fix that. I don’t know what that would look like, there are obviously limits to how much someone can know about what’s going on 6 layers below in the org chart. But making them liable would certainly be an incentive. I think people would still take the job, given how much is typically on offer.
By "wealth" I presume you mean gold and silver? Some sort of precious substance that I not easily replaced? Thus converting permanent for fleeting (assuming the spices were consumed and the silks were not currency.)

Could this lead to a shortage of "money" - which in turn limits production of essentials, like say food?

It's an interesting hypothesis but would take quite a lot of research to explore. It was a slave economy - so no money needed there. On the other hand perhaps non-slave workers were laid off, reducing production etc.

My gut sense is that it's not a significant issue. Conditions like drought and storms are more likely to have needle-moving effects. Food security is the root of stability and (as the article points out) there were periods of food insecurity towards the end if this period.

I'm also unaware as to the degree of currency production at this point (ie mining of gold etc which was what might be referred to as "wealth".)

The most obvious wealth of course is land, and that can't be sold "out" of the economy.

I suspect you are pondering though to analogize it with today. Since the supply of physical money is not constrained these days, there's no real risk of unrestrained imports impacting of the economy. Rather the loss of primary production would be a concern (a metaphorical drought) . However primary production (food, oil, mining etc) seems strong. Secondary production (factories) are weak though. Which is probably a bad thing overall.

Certainly an interesting hypothesis though.
The difference for me was that Google had it all polished with fancy videos, whereas Open AI did a Live Demo that had a few hiccups - It felt more real and relatable
Enjoyed it a lot, sounded like alchemy on the way to create gold.
As someone who have only A Level (i.e. high school) knowledge of Chemistry, every time I read "Things I won't work with" it always brings a smile to my face, as if those dangerous chemical are being synthesis in dodgy situation like those in cartoon.
(2019)

This is from Derek Lowe's wonderful "Things I won't work with" series from his long running blog.

Even if you're not a chemistry person, it's written in an accessible way, and usually quite humorous way.

I recommend his 2010 post on "FOOF" Dioxygen Difluoride from the same series.

[1] https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
doesn't this break DKIM?
good thought, definitely will for sure
It's always interesting to read about an OS, and the implied toolchain from the ISA vendors PoV. It helps them to have diversity of OS above, because .. well because it stands to show its a generalised engine, not a captive portal to one OS vision. There are going to be projects, products heading to ARM ISA which will come out of a BSD model, and being able to say "yep: got that" will mean they get better sales in that segment.

Back in the days of mainframes, it wasn't unusual for the vendor to talk to clients about instruction-set needs. Dec did, they added stuff to the Dec-10 because the buyer wanted it. I doubt many people used the User Defined Instruction stuff, but some did.

Dec also invested in DECUS tape swapping. They were totally fine with people having the VMS code in Bliss-32 microfiche sets. It was a useful 2-way street.

I don't think its a huge stretch from that, to having ARM talk to FreeBSD about emerging tech in their chip, and ways to make the OS and compiler toolchain use it.

One level up the foodchain, I kind-of wish the same was true for Raspberry Pi, their use of uboot, their design decisions with the machine they make out of the ARM chip wrapped in Broadcom's vision of it: I sense that it's nothing like as useful a relationship, the Pi series work with FreeBSD but it has a lot of if-but-maybe about it. Broadcom still seem to think (I am an outsider: what would I know) that blobs are fine, their IPR has to be defended, talking about how things work is risky. Why?
It's called an "unrolled" linked list
Every time I'm confronted with an alphabetical keyboard my brain malfunctions. It should be easy but I'll be on R or S looking for the T and spend 5 minutes scanning for it. Usually via remote with some crappy app trying to login or search and its on a big TV huge, usually people watching making the awkwardness even worse since everyone else can obviously see where the T is.

/end rant
When the black death hit Norway in 1349, 2/3 of the population was wiped out. The whole structure of society broke down. Most of the state and church was just gone. It took 300 years to get everything back in operation because most people that could read and write had died.

I don't know how you define "long term", but for several generations society didn't work, there were no justice and people really suffered.
> Already, researchers in the lab can extract lithium from water with more than 90% efficiency

Maybe that's step one, but of course the real question is whether it can be accessed economically. The paper mostly doesn't discuss economics, and indeed the only reason the research appears to have been done is because there is a regulatory requirement to have the wastewater analyzed (as opposed to, e.g., being done because the company thinks it's possibly economically valuable).

Here's the abstract of the research article:

> Decarbonatization initiatives have rapidly increased the demand for lithium. This study uses public waste compliance reports and Monte Carlo approaches to estimate total lithium mass yields from produced water (PW) sourced from the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania (PA). Statewide, Marcellus Shale PW has substantial extractable lithium, however, concentrations, production volumes and extraction efficiencies vary between the northeast and southwest operating zones. Annual estimates suggest statewide lithium mass yields of approximately 1160 (95% CI 1140–1180) metric tons (mt) per year. Production decline curve analysis on PW volumes reveal cumulative volumetric disparities between the northeast (median = 2.89 X 107 L/10-year) and southwest (median = 5.56 × 107 L/10-year) regions of the state, influencing lithium yield estimates of individual wells in southwest [2.90 (95% CI 2.80–2.99) mt/10-year] and northeast [1.96 (CI 1.86–2.07) mt/10-year] PA. Moreover, Mg/Li mass ratios vary regionally, where NE PA are low Mg/Li fluids, having a median Mg/Li mass ratio of 5.39 (IQR, 2.66–7.26) and SW PA PW is higher with a median Mg/Li mass ratio of 17.8 (IQR, 14.3–20.7). These estimates indicate substantial lithium yields from Marcellus PW, though regional variability in chemistry and production may impact recovery efficiencies.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-58887-x

Discouragingly, they say:

> Further, extraction of Li from [wastewater] with high Mg/Li mass ratios (> 6), such as in [southwest Pennsylvania], is less efficient and expensive relative to low Mg/Li extraction methods31. The low Mg/Li composition of [northeast Pennsylvania] produced waters are comparable to salar brines, such as the Atacama brines of Chile, which are favorable to more economical and sustainable evaporative and distillation Li recovery methods. As a result, the higher Li yields from [southwest Pennsylvania] wells may be more costly to extract due to the lower concentrations and reduced treatment efficiencies due to the high Mg/Li nature of these waters.

Also

> Another important consideration in the total Li yield of a reservoir is the well production decline rate. A typical Marcellus well has an 80% decline in production of water within it’s the first 2 years (SI 4.). Sustainable production of Li at volumes reported in this manuscript require continuous addition of new Marcellus wells to supplant older, less productive wells.
A long time ago, my friend bought a Hyundai Getz. We used to play the Getz game - nothing complex, but whenever you saw a Getz you'd yell "Getz" and get a point.

After playing for a few days, we were seeing easily 20-30 per day. I'm sure I'd seen them many times before (they were one of the most popular cars in Australia for a few years before that), but I'd never really noticed them. I've played the game with a few other car models with friends since, and it always results in a comment like "Wow, there are so many X on the road".

I understand why your story feels chilling to you and how it would convince you, however it's more likely that:

a) in the 100+ ads you see per day[0] you've seen panty liners before but it was never relevant to you (like a Getz) or

b) you've seen ads for panty liners recently but not conciously taken it in, resulting in the inverse of what you thought happened - your MadLibs suggestion was due to an ad.

I'm very confident many companies would be happy to spy on you via microphone if practical, but outside of malware I'm yet to see anyone proving this actually happening. We have billions of smartphones in the world and millions of tech people, many who would have to be keeping the secret all these years and many others who somehow couldn't find evidence of this. Occum's razor just doesn't add up here.

[0] https://www.thedrum.com/news/2023/05/03/how-many-ads-do-we-r...
As an indication. Azure have more Linux machines running .NET than Windows machines.
Can you name a single accessibility feature where this has happened ever? Kinda seems like you just made up some fake reality.
I beg to differ. In a trillion plus rocks floating in a vacuum and we colonize this one, I don’t see why candy flos planets controlled by beings is so far fetched.

We have Bluetooth toasters!
This seems shocking. How long before Apple sues Nuvia?
Doesn’t make much sense to me. If you are going to use a credit card for some payments, why wouldn’t you use it for all?
Anti cheating software can detect virtual machines.
The thought of Google projects only fills me with dread. They move into an area. Crush the competition with the market advantage, then abandon their products, leaving the niche ruined, and people scared to invest in it again after the damage that was done.
Llms would generate the code/definitions underlying these dashboards, presumably a model could be trained for the task. I'll argue it trades one version of the sprawl problem for another. Unless this generated code is easy to debugs and comprehends other generated code, it will still be a spaghetti mess at scale.
You don’t need to know every Astro and Remix, but not even knowing what Vite and Next are as a FEer in 2024 is not exactly something to shout about.

If you don’t need to, fine, but also understand it just sounds ignorant given their size and many years of news around them.
Entropy is inexorable and must always be resisted. Humans need to drink water and eat food, again, and again, and again. Unimaginable amounts of time, effort, and resources are spent every day maintaining civilization. If we build out solar panels, we will have to replace them in 20 years. There is no free lunch.

We don't know how bad the climate will be at 800 ppm. 300 millions years ago, during the Carboniferous era, there were vast forests and very high CO2 levels, around 1000 to 5000 ppm. If the Earth gets too hot we will simply do stratospheric aerosol injection. If climate change turns out to be overhyped, then we get the CO2 fertilization boost for free, win-win.

Regardless, the real solution is next level energy production from advanced fission, deep geothermal, and ultimately fusion power. With a vast surplus of energy we could do wildly impractical things like filter sea water for gold, and of course extract extremely diffuse gases from the atmosphere. Renewable energies are very low energy density, and more akin to farming from a physics perspective. They make sense in certain situations, but are not reliable for powering an advanced industrial civilization.

I also suspect people's intuitions are out of perspective in terms of time scales. It seems likely AGI will arise within the next 20 years. Climate change is nothing compared to the singularity and rise of superintelligence.
There were attempts to do this automatically ~7 years ago (https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/7f70bd5a-5d16-e05...). It didn't actually make it in due to worries about the approach and properly de-duplicating the final resultset, as well as that approach to the optimization not playing well with duplicate inner-join removal optimizations (which were also being discussed at the time).

There have been more recent attempts to improve OR clause performance in another thread: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/567ED6CA.2040504%...
Microsoft economics are changing under the hood
I think it all depends on your manager, obviously. I’ve had good managers and mentors at startups. I wouldn’t have done it any other way.
Someone ought to write an article on Nate Silver’s straw manning in order to write this article.
Google sure is regurgitating search money onto the table faster than anybody can clean it up.
As an unimportant bit of trivia, that's only true on the non-existent platforms with O(1) bignum operations. The output size is exponential in the input, guaranteeing that any non-approximate answer requires O(exp(n)) computations to produce on a real-world register machine.
They're free to sabotage themselves and miss out on this new wave of productivity, of course...

I wouldn't want to ever work without Copilot again. So frustrating to not have my magic autocomplete when I have to make some changes in a basic editor.
Meanwhile over here in Bellevue, home of T-Mobile and (close enough) Microsoft, I’m stuck with Comcast or really crappy DSL. How is it that central WA gets way better internet than Bellevue? Oh right. Comcast lobbying.
{ Multiple people in household each having multi-party high resolution video calls | band practice | data manipulation collaborations | 4K TV on demand } can suck up the bandwidth when the priority is smooth real-time with low interactive latency.

It's not always going to be peak demand, but it'll be noticable when everybody piles on at particular times of day.

TBH I have relatively low bandwidth most of the time and don't notice download speeds at all as I queue the things I want and return to working on what's in front of me.
I built a different kind of RSS reader that might help with that. It's called Lighthouse, and the tagline is "Inbox zero for RSS feeds".

The idea is that instead of showing feeds separately, there's an inbox where all new content lands. Then you look over that, and add only the articles you find interesting to your library. The other articles you can mark as read, and then they are removed from the inbox (directly to the archive).

This way you still keep up with all rss feeds, and it's much easier to filter which content you read.

Please let me know what you think. I'm always looking for advice on how to make the product better.

The website is lighthouseapp.io
What networking gear do you use inside your home? What router? Do they terminate an actual fiber connection (SFP+) to your home or you get 10GB Ethernet?
It does. Sorry, I didn't realize my claims would carry such impact. I definitely want to support the work of creatives and will be much more careful from now on.
Nope. Open source’s only purpose is make something available in case anyone wants to pick it up. The “no warranty or assurance of fitness for a particular purpose” verbiage in open source licenses is precisely what this means: the author disclaims all responsibility, and that’s it.
I'll give it my attention. Thanks for giving some background info.
Interesting stance to take. I do wonder how they'll verify it, though. There is no quantifiable way to identify if code is AI written, other than the general 'vibe'.

Will be interesting to see.
In happy to do maintenance tasks at a startup for an application I built with care. It’s my baby and I want to take care of it.
Mobile Linux also has excellent theft protection baked in.

The thief becomes so annoyed and frustrated that they end up returning the phone the next day.

Source: daily driving a Linux phone.
It's always surprising to run across unusual worldviews that just espouse it as if it is normative. Is the hope that people will be fooled into thinking it is a commonly held belief, and then take some sort of action from that? Or perhaps the commenter is genuinely oblivious to the oddity of their sentiments?
I once called Sonic on a weekend because my modem kept rebooting. They answered immediately, and the debugging felt like magic.

"My modem keeps rebooting."

"Put the modem to your ear. Is it hissing?"

"Um...? Yes. Yes, it's hissing."

"Bad capacitors. We'll send you a new one."

This was during the Capacitor Plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague , so clearly he'd seen this before. Still, fastest support resolution I've ever experienced.
Depressing to realize that ten years later opportunities like these are still nowhere to be seen in Europe…

(Yes, I know, you can make decent money working for Google in Zurich. But that’s an absolutely tiny fraction of the European job market.)
There are many reasons to not use steam accounts or only use them for logging into another backend, such as cross play over multiple stores and platforms. The problem really is just the convenience. There's no reason it has to be this clunky.
I'm not sure from your post if you're aware of the collections feature of a Kindle library. It can be accessed under the menu on the library view. Chose the collections view and add books to collections you create and it works a bit like folders.

https://us.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=T...
Banks exist since a long time before computers existed, and thus have ways to detect and correct errors that are not purely technological (such as double entry bookkeeping, backups, supporting documentation, different processes). So a bank can survive a db doing nasty things on a low enough frequency such that is not detected beforehand, so they don’t need to “prove in coq” that everything is correct.
There's almost no amount of money that would get me to work for a company larger than Dunbar's number. We all have our preferences, and mine are very clear here.
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Some of them are, at least on Apple's side, but it's always for a good technical reason. Screen recognition is only available on devices that have a neural chip, things that require lidar don't work on devices that don't have lidar and so on.

Google is worse at this, Talkback multi-finger gestures used to be Pixel and Samsung exclusive for a while, even though there was no technical reason for it.

Apple has a different problem, many accessibility features aren't internationalized properly. Screen recognition still has issues on non-english systems, so do image descriptions. Voice Over (especially on Mac) didn't include voices for some of the less-popular languages until very recently, even though Vocalizer, their underlying speech engine, has supported them for years. Siri has the same problem.
The methodology of this paper is seriously suspect.

First they have a very small sample size of around n = 150. Second, they don't represent average husband, they use people working on mechanical Turk for $9 an hour.

Finally, they don't have any standard measures of divergent thought - they just use 4 different types of question answering problems, and those are supposed to measure creativity. Whether they do or don't would require us to evaluate the questions.

It's important to be clear that this is saying that LLMs might be more creative than low paid workers on mechanical Turk, given no training time. That's not a very good representation of the average human, or the fact that humans need training.

So for example, an average doctor or scientist might still be more creative than LLMs.

Tldr; this is not a good paper to throw around if you want to convince people. It's truly awful in its design, and the way it's presented is not always honest.
Because it is less trustworthy (not the method, obviously, but the institutions). The most trustworthy elements seem to have more in common with engineering than science.
Why is single player factorio phoning home so heavily?
Microsoft sacrificing long-term reputation for short-term profits
Actually, Arizona is quietly advancing a plan to do desalination with Mexico, and Arizona has a history of building audacious infrastructure (New highways, etc). We will probably see desalination but it won’t come out of California.
Uh? All the time??
Amber: The Programming Language Compiles to Bash
If the rate of change in the NetBSD codebase was 1/10th of what it is now, I'd be content. The idea that LOC or speed of change is a good measure for a 40+ year old operating system doesn't work for me.

You should get committer flag in NetBSD because of how LITTLE new work you bring to the table, and because of how MUCH code you REMOVE.
lighthouseapp.io (disclaimer: I'm the developer)
FRP is a worthless pain in the ass. It's usually trivial to bypass, it just wastes time and makes resetting phones more annoying. (I've had to do it a few times, once on a used phone I bought, and a couple of times for family members who forgot their password.)

Factory reset should be exactly that; FRP needs to die in a fire.

It sounds like this new thing is going in the opposite direction.