skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, acute exposures cause harm, but the same can be said of salt.

Experience has taught me that anytime someone pulls the "well, technically, water can poison you in large enough doses" card, an intellectually dishonest conversation is about to follow. This one is no exception: the "well, technically..." card is played, followed by repeated statements of "...ergo, I don't see what the big deal is", and a hefty sprinkling of some whataboutism for seasoning.
Legal Talk Network Podcast about Shaken Baby Syndrome
Transcoding isn't that expensive.

Especially when you're already running ginormous data centers and can transcode on processors that are otherwise idle.

Also, video quality on YT is not great. When you're using ffmpeg to transcode a movie at home, you're probably doing it with fairly high quality settings because it's a movie.

But you can also configure ffmpeg to transcode very quickly if low quality output is fine.
Do you have any good recommendation for such 1U server with 32 slots?
Thanks
What is with this phenomenon of services getting more expensive in real terms (health care, tuition, child care, pet care) while also delivering a worse experience?

AFAIK, for all of these industries, this has nothing to do with pension obligations.

And at least for child care, demand should be going down relative to the population given that less people are having less kids. So it can't be a simple demand thing.
Java is perfectly capable of expressing this thought, it has sum types, so the Result-type road is absolutely available to it. (Optional<T>=Maybe T is part of the JDK even) Although, it might not optimize as well, as this is not common practice.
How is this a hot take? Not wanting to give money to the government is practically the fundamental human condition.
Aspirin should be less effective. But you could try crushed Aspirin with a drop of vinegar. This should give you Salicylic Acid. Vinegar alone is also a treatment.

Edit: Both Salicylic Acid and Aspirin inhibit Cyclooxygenase in your body. This is the main mode of action. Aspirin is much softer to the stomach. Against warts, the acidic effect should be the important one, hence, contrary to oral consumption, Salicylic Acid should be the preferred choice.
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I think theres a big difference between a model that is "dumb" and a model that can cause harm by running loose with ill-thought actions.
> photocopy the redacted document

tbh I would be wary of this too; if you use a run-of-the mill office copy station that defaults to color copies you never know what information might leak in the subtle gray scales.
GPU Quest: Multi-source graphics cards price comparator
> It's a silly thing to say because it assumes the compiler for the language has to be written in the language.

It assumes no such thing. All it assumes is that the compiler has to conform to the specification.

> The spec is that you have cons, car, and cdr.

And XAR and XDR. And threads. And no compound data types other than mutable pairs.

> You could have a secret third element to some pairs that is only used by the compiler without changing the interface of those functions, and hence without changing the interface of the language as a whole.

That's right. You could. How would that help?

> This entire document is basically just an extended brain-fart

OK, so we're basically in violent agreement here. We're just quibbling over the justification.
They mentioned "NOAA's USHCN reference network of well sited thermometers"

(I opened a search to go figure out what they mean, but work interceded.)
I’m writing this because I suffered for years with warts on my fingers next to my nail bed that would never go away. I used to take razor blades and try to get as close as I could to the nerve endings in the warts.

The only thing that worked was “Mr Flanders Magic Wart Cream” out of Oregon. I’d like to thank the random lady who saw duct tape on my hands, and gave me the suggestion to try it out. If you suffer from warts, try getting the cream it’s worth it.
Step 1: Draw a solid box, of whatever color you choose, that covers everything you want to censor, because you don't want to risk leaking any information from it in any way.

Step 2: Draw whatever censored-looking stuff you want on that now-empty space because you want the censoring to look fancy.

Step 3: Spend some time thinking if step 2 was really worth it or not.
Do you still have your medical records around in order to share the name of the treatment with HN? It sounds fascinating.
Analysis of GNOME Foundation's public economy: concerns and thoughts
I think you may be assuming the parent poster's definition of minority.
> AFAIK, for all of these industries, this has nothing to do with pension obligations.

They do, indirectly.

All those PE, IB, and VC funds people rail about are overwhelmingly funded by pension funds *, and all the industries mentioned are increasingly consolidating due to regulatory overhead, pushing solo practitioners out (eg. lots of older MD friends selling their practices to consolidated funds because they don't want to deal with paperwork and billing).

As more and more Americans retire and have inflated expectations of retirement, funds need to return much more.

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*

State+Local Pension funds in the US have $6 Trillion AUM [0] (it would be the 3rd largest economy in the world on its own).

Federal Pension funds is around $1 Trillion AUM [1] (it would be the 20rd largest economy in the world on its own).

And all the 401k funds combined would be $7.4 Trillion AUM [2] (it would be the 3rd largest economy in the world on its own).

This is just American funds. Other countries pension funds invest in the US as well.

[0] - https://www.nasra.org/content.asp?admin=Y&contentid=200

[1] - https://www.opm.gov/about-us/reports-publications/agency-pla...

[2] - https://www.ici.org/401k
> There are the public perception costs, the infrastructure and staffing needed to maintain compliance with China's censorship requirements, and the taxes.

Don't be silly. Infrastructure and an ops team aren't meaningful costs in relation to the money to be made there. China is 1/6th of the world economy.

And for example Apple is absolutely minting money there, giving full cooperation to the CCP including handing over user data thousands of times per year, with no PR consequences at all. Even on HN, let alone with the general public.

Now, it is true that there would be PR consequences for Google specifically, since there is a double standard at play. In this case it's a self-inflicted double standard, since they left China in the first place. But would those consequences be durable? It's hard to say. Google's leadership under Pichai has been incredibly risk averse, so it makes sense they're not taking that gamble just like they're taking no other gambles.

But it's definitely not obvious that the costs of operating in China would exceed the benefits.
I had warts for years as a kid, I had one large on my left palm, that somehow transferred to the same place on right palm and a few little on fingers. Cryotherapy did not help as they grew back soon. Supposedly anti-wart band-aids did not work. What finally worked was onion. Cut onion, rub it on the wart few times a day. They were gone in a few weeks and never came back. It worked like magic and I could literally see them getting smaller every day.
Ha I was just thinking how after the recent QA whistleblower fiasco and MCAS, one can't really look at Starliner's ongoing list of problems without a sensible chuckle. It truly is the 737 Max of space capsules.
Apple Releases iOS 17.5.1 with Fix for Reappearing Photos Bug
Is it 64K period, or 64K plus access to gigabytes of external libraries?
> diffused

You mean defused? "Diffused" kind of turns the meaning of your sentence around.
But we don't have an "outside-in" view? You have an inside + "guess the outside" view. Just because we can imagine an "outside-in" view, it doesn't mean we have it.

If there is an "objective" meaning to our lives which is without recourse to an inside-out view, then we have no access to it.

Occam's Razor, fewest entities/assumptions, etc is so problematic, because it is not invariant to being re-parameterised. I.e. under one description X is more complex than Y, and under another Y is more complex than X.

Here is Roger Penrose talking about the fine tuning of the Universe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDqny7UzyR4

Many use these observations to argue for design. Say it became a scientific consensus that design was the strongest hypothesis, because it just kept making good predictions. Design implies purpose. Would life still be meaningless?

Is this all just a regress to "nothing is just as good as something therefore all life is meaningless"? I think that's where you have to end up to defend Nihilism.
Well, eggplant (aubergine on my side of the pond) is a member of the nightshade family, so I wonder if that's got something to do with it.
Or they’ve cryonically frozen their brains and put them in ships powered by nuclear explosions enabling them to travel at 0.2c assuming that the aliens at the other end of the trip will be curious enough to reanimate the brains and build them new bodies.
You took 10mg/kg ? Any stomach upset or other side effects?

[edited to remove comment about Recommended Daily Allowance (USA) which is about a different form of zinc.]
Because people are more careful spending their own money than other people's money.
They rely heavily on family and friends
There are multiple reasons. For one, dealing with people and their animals is high liability. It is also generally unpleasant to deal with the general public day in and day out, especially sick and stressed out ones, so the work is undesirable.

> demand should be going down relative to the population given that less people are having less kids

It is demand for labor relative supply of the labor. If the supply is going down quicker, then the demand going down is not going to make prices go down.

Bottom line is that in previous generations, people who took care of infants/toddlers (including older siblings, neighborhood kids, grandparents, etc) either did it under a situation with less liability, or they had less opportunity costs (lower wages than today’s workers), and/or did it at a “lower quality” than legal staffing
minimums for daycare businesses.
Ai. I remember another product and thought it was this. Sorry. Move on and keep up the good work.
If you are concerned about security risks, just add a confirm CLI prompt before running, to ask the user to confirm whether to execute the code (Y/N)
Lol I was not being on topic or constructive - just repeating the meme that rust is synonymous with "blazing fast", because of endless statements to the effect of "rust is blazing fast," or "if you want blazing fast code, use rust," or the endless blazing fast rust libraries:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=blazing+fast+rust

Now I'm not an expert in either rust or go. But I know my deductive meme logic:

1. Uber's solution is not blazing fast

2. They are a Go house

Then the meme implies:

3. Their solution is slow because they did not use rust!

Q.E.M. (Quod Erat Memonstrandum)
It has already been solved. Just sentence the company executives personally like in China.
That leaks the length of the text
I have a vague memory of someone being able to fairly accurately estimate redacted words and phrases in a government document by using the size of the blacked out portion along with the font metrics. I think the safest way to redact text would be to first normalize it all to the same text (maybe something like "etaoin shrdlu" from the hot type era), then black it all out, then there would be even less information leaked.
teach to fish vs giving of fish, I suppose. I did not mean to discourage or stifle discussion, but point out that there's a tool that makes it much easier to get the right incantation of ffmpeg.
What is worse is that if you dig deep into current government spending the money has a strange way of ending back up in super-rich people's pockets anyway, just with extra steps.
Building prototypes for clients to explore genAI
> That was not a nice reply for a non-insult.

It's an insult if you dismissively explain basic things to the folks working on the project.
Is using the term "indigenous" in reference to people living in the Americas before Columbus an implicit repudiation of the "Out of Africa" theory?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_moder...
Opinionation Incoming! Objective-C is completely irrelevant outside of Apple because Interface Builder was the killer app for Objective-C and there was never a version that worked well with anything except AppKit -- even UIKit has always been painful to use with it. iOS developers had to tolerate Objective-C, but no one else bothered.

It's a shame, because Foundation.framework circa 1994 was a better standard library than any other language had at the time. Many have caught up since!

Swift has many virtues outside of SwiftUI -- real static typing, functional, sophisticated generics without all the gotchas of C++ templates, complete ABI, efficient exceptions, the syntax isn't so foreign to people used to C++/Java/Rust/Ruby/Python; I could go on and on.

I've written Objective-C code for 23ish years, and I like it a lot, but no one entering the workforce cares about its remaining virtues and the language has been mostly unchanged for almost two decades.
The latest in Web UI (Google I/O ‘24)[video]
Personally I believe it's a consequence of the increasing financial-ization of society. I know lawyers who've securitized preschool curricula for private equity firms to purchase and trade, which to me just seems bass-akward. When literally every aspect of society is serving double duty as both the original thing, but also a financial asset for capital holders to trade and profit off, eventually value is going to be extracted from the quality of service provided. Everywhere you look people are basically paying (what I see as) a hidden tax across all goods and services, so that capital-holders can see (increasing) returns.
I'm aware of mouse-actions, I have several issues[1][2][3] open. Unfortunately, mouse-actions has a terrible UI at the moment and, overall, doesn't work consistently. I'm hopeful that mouse-actions will improve in the future, but it feels like it too is abandoned, having seen no additions in over a year.

As for easystroke being unmaintained, it's a simple utility that does what it says. And it has worked the same way for the last 14 years.

[1] https://github.com/jersou/mouse-actions/issues/15

[2] https://github.com/jersou/mouse-actions/issues/16

[3] https://github.com/jersou/mouse-actions/issues/14
Hey WGLB, thanks for this. I'm an idiot and should have read more of that. I will open up my website now to public!
No reason for it to be placebo. Probably any irritant has a good chance of working.
The Sky voice was obviously flirtatious sounding. It was actually very cringy and embarrassing for OpenAI, and it seemed really like a jump the shark moment TBH
Then we are probably dead anyway, the onus would have been on them to contact us as they are probably several centuries more advanced. In that case its like going with a tank to an island population that still uses bows and arrows
Blinking for attention is fine. It's more the 50-100Hz flicker that drives me crazy! :)
There aren’t really any ways to make 1 adult caring for 4 babies more efficient. Maybe robots eventually?

Also, I really hope legislation doesn’t come about that further encourages outsourced childcare rather than a stay-at-home-parent. Ideally any benefits to parents are equitable regardless of the parents’ choice in their form of childcare.
I guess it comes down to how one answers the question - do taxes exist to support the country and its means, or enforce economic distribution with the benefit to social welfare?
Is the thickness of skin superficial to the blood vessels constant even on the wart area, or has the wart additional skin, making it thicker in that area than usual? Or, a different way of putting that, if you were to follow the normal contour of the skin when shaving the wart down, would you end up drawing blood?
Completely screwed, mostly. Unless they come from a culture with very strong extended family and thus have grandparents, uncles and aunties, etc. who help for free. and they specifically make sure to live all close together.
If someone with the resources of a retail investor can do enough due diligence on every company of an ideally very diversified portfolio to determine which companies are committing crimes, someone with the resources of the US government can do so for every company and prosecute them. If the government can't figure out that a crime is being committed, how could we expect the average citizen to do so? There's just no point in making it their responsibility except as an excuse to say it was their fault.
Awesome, wishing you well and I hope you make many sales
There are times and places (including the 18th century) that seem like they could be interesting to live in, but then I consider the lack of indoor plumbing. It's not just the convenience -- the lack of hygienic facilities was a major reason why cholera and other water-transmitted diseases was such a problem even in the West until the late 19th century.
It's not the skills problem. Looking for a job, I know that my skillset would match the employer - in fact, thousands of employers likely - because I have successfully done such jobs in the past. But I have no way to prove it to a potential employer than going through an expensive and friction-laden process which could fail at any stage for a reason totally unrelated to the main question of qualifications - like some random interviewer not liking my answer to a weird question like "tell me about your three biggest failures" or getting some obscure pet detail of a language wrong when nobody actually uses that corner precisely because of how hard it to get right, or not solving irrelevant leetcode puzzle fast enough. Immense effort on both sides is spent to go through these dances - and almost all of it is wasted. I wish there were some good solution for it. So far there's none.
I prefer the state table because it forces you to consider every transition.
Letting the patient worsen his health by doing nothing, try to improve things slowly in something rational but that by now it may take longer for him to survive or giving him this potential snake oil that you don't know if it will kill him in the short term?

So far climate and related things in this complex system is full of surprises, even for experts. We are finding out that something seemingly innocent that had a clear positive impact by one metric worsened a lot of other things. I don't know if I could call engineering something with so much uncertainties on the outcome.
> There are multiple reasons. For one, dealing with people and their animals is high liability. It is also generally unpleasant to deal with the general public day in and day out, especially sick and stressed out ones, so the work is undesirable.

Is this new? Did it not used to be this way?

> If the supply is going down quicker, then the demand going down is not going to make prices go down.

So why are these types of services exploding in real terms, but haircuts and food and personal trainers and massages and mechanics and other types of services are not?
Demand may be going down, but supply is going down even more (especially post-pandemic).
Here's a good talk on that very subject from one of the key people whose fault that is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzt36EGKEZo
That financialization is due to pension funds as well. The largest LPs in every single fund is always a Pension Fund.

State+Local Pension funds in the US have $6 Trillion AUM (it would be the 3rd largest economy in the world on its own).

Federal Pension funds is around $1 Trillion AUM (it would be the 20rd largest economy in the world on its own).

And all the 401k funds combined would be $7.4 Trillion (it would be the 3rd largest economy in the world on its own).

This is just the US.
What was the sea level at 20K years ago?

I was wondering whether more exposed land would have made much difference to migration routes?

The DNA record doesn't show any migrations across the north or south Atlantic Ocean, correct? Is there any evidence of humans using routes other than the Bering Strait?
The Endless Shrimp Investigation
> You can also not swap out your body and remain yourself.

Why not? Even taking technological limitations into account, there is almost no part of your body that can't be swapped out even today. People have artificial limbs, artificial hearts, artificial ears. They get lung transplants, kidney transplants, face transplants. Give the technology a few more centuries and I don't see any reason why a complete body swap-out should not be possible.

> it is not an easy question to answer

Indeed. But most people would agree that you can get an organ transplant or an artificial limb or a hearing aid or wear glasses -- or any combination of the above -- and still be you. Not so for a brain transplant.
> over the entire word

Word length can be extremely revealing. A I'd suggest covering the entire document. Plus a large (& random) number of junk pages which you prepend and append to the document. One pixel per page should be fine.
Thanks. Can you share a sample of the questions you used? Were you comparing the LLMs to answers you knew already, or comparing the new answers which were output by the LLMs
But the integers are a subset of the rationals, which are a subset of the reals, which are a subset of the complex numbers. Looking only at the objects and not their operations 1 (integer) = 1 (rational) = 1 (real) = 1 (complex). Moreover, when we do account for the operations, we also see that 1 + 1 = 2 and 1 * 1 = 1 in every one of those systems. This isn't just a coincidence, of course; it's by design.

However, the way you arrive at 1 + 1 = 2 is not the same (though I suppose you could short-circuit the algorithm). Rational addition requires finding a common denominator, while integer addition doesn't. They achieve the same result when the inputs are integers, and again this is by design, but the process isn't the same. Ditto real addition vs. rational and complex addition vs. real.

In higher-level mathematics, the operations on the objects become definitional. We don't look at just a set of things, we look at a set of things and the set of operations upon those things. Thus "1 with integer addition and integer multiplication" becomes the object under consideration (even if it's just contextually understood) instead of simply 1. This is why they don't satisfy higher-level notions of equivalence, even if they intentionally do satisfy simple equality as taught in grade school.

Of course, the entire point of the submitted paper is to examine this in detail.
Yes, this section of Wikipedia is spot on in my opinion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor#Controversial_as...
Meanwhile, in the Linux sphere:

https://dockshub.com/thunderbolt-on-linux-debian-ubuntu-cent...
https://archive.md/Rg2WT
I think this is fantastic illustration of how expensive proprietary cloud based data stores can be... and what it is feasible to migrate from them to something else.
Cool idea! Good luck with it. Personally don't need it, my backends come with that built in but this would have been handy in the mySQL days