skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> This will be near-post-scarcity society. Capitalism will soon have become so successful

Not even close.

Take something like the iPhone. Everyone will want a pro max latest version. Great we can make 8 billion of them. How do you hand them out... we have to get in line I think.

The person at the back of the line, looking at 8 billion assholes in front of them is gonna get stabby...

The chart you're pointing out is showing us that an increase in productivity and/or creativity only will serve to exacerbate disparity, not improve it. Who goes first when there are more firsts is going to be a bigger problem.
The productive output of many people is also just mediocre. I think of chat AIs as near-zero cost interns or the boss's nephew. Probably doesn't know what it's talking about, but can get a lot done with supervision.

I hope the net result will be a shift toward upskilling employees to achieve the expertise handle the difficult edge cases and less time spent on the routine or the trivial. Seems like a win-win. Incentive structures might make this hard.
AIUI the slog is only for synchronous writes; most people using zfs at home don’t do any of those (unless you set sync=always which is not the default).

https://jrs-s.net/2019/05/02/zfs-sync-async-zil-slog/
Man, I haven't thought about it in a while, but running in the dark is exhilarating, something about the blur of low light vision makes it feel much faster.
Overcoming Self-Reference Modelling
The iOS version for ipad is a great way to play it.
It's not a prescription drug, so I'm not really sure what 'self-medication' means; I self-medicate with caffeine, might eat an orange and self-medicate vit C later, etc.

NHS (UK) guidance:

> Government advice is that everyone should consider taking a daily vitamin D supplement during the autumn and winter.

> People at high risk of not getting enough vitamin D, all children aged 1 to 4, and all babies (unless they're having more than 500ml of infant formula a day) should take a daily supplement throughout the year.

(People at high risk = for example darker skin, or indoor jobs.)
Quantum tunneling redefined! TU Darmstadt physicists propose a new method to measure tunneling time, challenging the notion of superluminal speeds. #QuantumPhysics #ScienceNews #Physics
> So, let's assume each user has at least two services, we're now at a 60gb table, and that doesn't even include a mapping between users and guids, which will probably double the table size even more.

That's literally nothing. As I said, each user gets 10x more spam than that daily.

> and spending compute-days, or even compute-weeks, just running migrations

Migrations for what?

> just to get some dubious returns and a lot of additional end-user complexity.

There is no additional user complexity.

Supposing your math is correct, each user has a relatively fixed but larger than normal storage overhead for their address book and a inbox that that grows slowly because there's no spam, rather than a a small but fixed storage overhead for their address book and an inbox that grows 10x-100x faster due to mountains of spam.

I just really don't think you're comparing the storage requirements correctly.
No mention of Julian Jaynes "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" here?
All power originates from the people.
Several kids in our family's social group have successfully undergone desensitization therapy for severe nut allergies.

It was much more rigorous than the author's approach, with weekly doctor visits and taking increasingly large amounts of whatever they were allergic to (starting with micrograms of nut powder).

I think my niece had the best time as she eventually was advised to start eating daily measured amounts of nutella.

I mention this mostly because I do think the author was a bit cavalier in his approach (mostly because it's hard to accurately judge dosage from wild plants) but also to just spread the word that the allergy desensitization therapies are out there and quite effective and life changing.
What will fix our biodiversity problems are the 3 Ps: powerdown, permaculture, and population control. A much smaller human population living at preindustrial levels, with strong taboos against building too large or becoming too advanced.

And no, mass murder is not necessary for the needed population reduction. It's simply a matter of incentivizing not having children at a global scale. The best time to do this was a few generations ago; the second best time is now.
Microsoft Asks China AI Staff to Relocate Amid U.S.-China Tensions
In order for my definition to make sense, the organism or program must be able to observe the memory of the state. In the case of the bacteria and the Python program, I doubt they are able to do that in any meaningful way.

But I would not mind if a slightly more involved program, or a system of plants for that matter, would be considered conscious. The basic definition seems fairly irrelevant, and it obviously matters how much the specific type of consciousness matches our own experience for us humans to actually care.
We actually played in the evening, from about 4:45-6:30pm. The park where we played was surprisingly empty for a Friday evening.
Offense is easier than defense. How do you know some other civilization isn't going to, say, get angry at their own decline and unleash destructive Von Neumann machines on the galaxy?
New Shepard Mission NS-25 Webcast
I think they meant that a realistic attack would need to be an AGI, not that an AGI was built.
I think it was on the Ezra Klein show where he dropped the statistic? Almost 70% of employees are using ChatGPT in one way or another.

In many cases the bosses don't even know, but all it will do long-term is require everyone to produce more output. AI is not about to create 3-day work weeks and everyone living their best lives off of Universal Basic Income.

Literally nothing will change - except that all of us will be expected of more and we will be more stressed out and overworked.
Thanks for sharing this, it's interesting to get an insider look into what's driving the prices here in Denmark.
People either solve problems and add value as employees (or contractors), or they don’t. What they call themselves has no relevance.

The exclusive focus on “stacks” and the tools and lore and make-work of programming has left a lot of people unable to contribute much value.
Nothing about my proposal requires centralization, the federated status of email remains exactly as-is.
Parent is down voted but mostly right. Thousands of plant species are invasive and even dangerous for house foundation: japanese knotweed, running bamboo, kudzu, mare's tail. They're almost impossible to get rid of. Even unchecked wisteria can lift foundations and crack a house's walls. Animals can be even worse: carpet beetles coming from disturbed bird nests can easily infest your wardrobe, same for the many species of clothes moths. It's very hard to get rid of them without ripping up your carpet and putting all your stuff into sealed bags for years. Wasps and bees are minor threats, but they can still be a nuisance if they decide to nest in your wall, or in your chimney, or in your loft. Biodiversity is good until you keep an eye on it. If left to itself, it almost always tends to do damage.
> people are talking about timing attacks on state updates in the universe, hopefully we can exploit it

If the universe did happen to be a simulation (as opposed to just naturally holographic), I imagine exploiting it might be the only way to conclusively prove so. As an actual simulation, there would be a risk of someone and/or something observing it. If intelligence in our universe tends to eventually discover exploits and if the observers aren't fond of simulation errors, we might have ourselves an unexpected answer to the Fermi paradox.
I can't figure out how to play. I'm on a screen where there are - + buttons for various properties with a "Production Phase" button.

Whatever I do, nothing happens when I tap that button.
Anna's Archive. Can't think of any more but I'm sure I've seen others.
My first introduction to urushiol was as a kid... there was a Japanese rhus tree [1] near my local bus stop and I happened to play with some of the seed pods while waiting for a bus one day. I ended up looking like the elephant man for a few days, and it took a bit of time to figure out what was going on.

It turns out that Urushiol shows up in some surprising places, including mango skin, which I discovered later in life after peeling a bunch of mangoes to make a mango salad. Apparently the husks of cashew nuts are notoriously bad for the workers who deal with them too (although the nuts themselves are perfectly safe)..

I don't think I'm likely to deliberately eat anything with urushiol in it, but I must admit, the idea of being able to train my immune system to deal with it is kind of appealing.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxicodendron_succedaneum
The issue with iranian, egyptian, and so on scholarship is that it is not purely academic andtherefore it has little value for the interested unless they are studying propaganda tools in the XXI century. Additional issue is that even this research is worthy, it should reach the wider audience and not be published only in arabic or farsi.
That was Linus's first computer! I wonder if he'd be interested in writing such a kernel, to revisit an old friend...
> if I could keep this up and convert 10-20% of waitlist users

$5000/mo for 10% of the list. Unless he factored in the list growing further.

The website has pricing and it does say $500/mo for the pro version. So maybe 100 was a typo and he had 1000 on the waitlist.
Humans generally don’t like eternal suffering, and will fight against it. That’s a reason to think it won’t happen.
Humans attempt to dominate every nonhuman species within their reach, sentient or not.

Humans have not even advanced beyond attempting to dominate others of the same species.
havng lived in both the U.K and the U.S.

landlords are much worse in the uk, since they're pretty much the politicians or people setting policy. i'm not making this up, my landlord is a tory politician and him and his friends own a bunch of property. I don't think party affiliatin matters - but point stands.

no incentive to improve housing at all.

whereas in the U.S, if you stay at a corporate owned apartment -- you're guaranteed things will be functional, repairs done on time etc. In, the U.K the repairs are done wheneveer the landlord feels like it. In london, you see some apartments get on the market without any repairs done to them at all
Metamizole is the only thing that works for me when I have fever. But it seems that I recently developped an allergy to it, which is a bummer. Every single damn time I take metamizole, I develop very itch rashes.

So by taking some substance it seem I became more sensitive to it's side effects, not less.
u guys are the genius
AGP was released several years before PCIe specifically because the bandwidth needs of graphics cards were so high. PCI just couldn’t keep up with the demands of 3D accelerators that were starting to come into widespread use. AGP increased bandwidth massively by providing direct access to system RAM, unlike PCI which had to go through the CPU.

A better question might be why AGP didn’t supplant PCI for all devices rather than just graphics cards, and the answer is that since AGP was a port rather than a bus, it was impossible to put more than a single AGP slot on a motherboard.

Once PCIe came along and was able to provide the bandwidth and DMA required for graphics cards, it simply replaced both PCI and AGP, rendering them both obsolete.
Why does your blog article need 4 popovers before I’ve even read one paragraph?
It's not that they are "bad guys for making good stuff cheaply" it's that every dollar sent to China is another dollar used to oppress and abuse innocent people. It is another dollar in favor of an inhumane dictatorship. Everyone who buys products made in China must certainly know this on some basic level. By the size of the American-Chinese trade deficit consumers are largely ok with this.

Some of us are not ok with supporting dictatorships.
It's not just convenience. Having a centralized authority - with all its downsides - comes with some crucial advantages. They can:

* provide identities

* moderate content

* vouch for integrity

* enforce a consistent set of features

The same problems haunt email. It's also why Marlinspike was always against federating Signal. Decentralization comes with some hard problems.
Very powerful would mean someone can effect a lot of change if they so desire (change what a lot of people do, have a new and material law put in, change large financial flows, ...).

Not sure I agree with the 99% of planet. Even if a single member of the Australian parliament could command all of Australia, it would still only amount to commanding 0.3% the global population (or maybe 2% of NATO plus Japan). Maybe within Australia the individual member's power is more than 99% of population?

I don't know much about Australian politics, but in some places vanilla members of parliament or not very powerful within the parliament (compared to party leadership, whips, etc.).

Software developers need people that sell stuff, admin for larger organizations etc. They also very rarely have unchecked ability to change things when those things are high risk etc. Zuckerberg, for example, is a huge exception, not the norm.

Journalists, even with a large readership, typically would not have much ability to get their readership to just act a certain way. There is not a great command relationship.

Most individuals just don't hold much power.
I was trying to find their actual streaming implementation in their codebase before giving up and checking their Discord. Apparently parts of their game streaming stack are being developed in private repos, and their subscription service is the only working version of this project.

In its current state I wouldn’t call this project open-source.
Context I guess?
https://www.mareonline.nl/en/news/devastating-report-how-arc...
You need to get it off the grass, as wildflowers do better and grass worse in less fertile ground. You can compost snd yse elsewhere.
Because there was no PCIe when AGP was developed, and the video cards being made needed something faster than the PCI bus while other consumer expansion cards did not.
There's definitely games in this category and I do still think they work even in a digital age. It's a relatively niche microgenre though, and I think in a sense that is why it works.

Immortality and The Signifier are both solid games where most of the enjoyment is interpreting the world.

They aren't hypercard-esque puzzle games like Myst and Riven, but what they share in common is that the enjoyment of the game is figuring out the somewhat ambiguous world major beats occur in the negative space of what you are explicitly shown and told.

The former has sort of Lynchian undertones that slowly emerge over the course of the game, and the latter benefits from at least a cursory understanding of Freud and/or semiotics.
Sure it’s possible, but is it likely?

I’d argue the bigger issue is bogus reviews in favor of landlords.

Open Google Maps, pick any apartment complex. You’ll see lots of 4-5 stars for “Great tour!” “Staff were so friendly to show me around!” “I’ve lived here 1 month and it’s PERFECT”

These reviews are disingenuous.

Some landlords encourage prospective tenants and tenants with bonuses to quickly rush out a review before any actual behavior can be observed.

What’s stopping a sour neighbor from marking a unit as a business in Google Maps and tossing on a bad review?
Brazilians don't care because they largely live in poverty, and China is promising the country and its people economic salvation. It's an easy choice for Brazil against America, whom they see as an economic oppressor.
"Four cards were placed on a table: [D K 3 7]
The participants were given the following instructions:
Here is a rule: “every card that has a D on one side has a 3 on the other.” Your task is to select all those cards, but only those cards, which you would have to turn over in order to discover whether or not the rule has been violated.
The correct answer is to pick the D card and the 7 card,..."

Wait a minute, this is wrong! You have to check the K card also, since it could have a D on the hidden side.
Only if you were given the instruction, which is done later, that all cards have a number and a letter on one side, you know that the K card must have a letter on the hidden side.
Show HN: Find humanely raised animal-based products
Same here. I'm trawling through the comments hoping to see someone mention an ongoing game near me.
I think actually your assumption that someone needs to cough up the cash for a mortgage to happen is wrong? Why do you think that? The banks control the ledger. They just create money. If they go under, they get bailed out by the tax payers. A large part of the money in the economy is the difference between mortgages issued and mortgages paid back. So that cash "leaving the system" is the money being created. As long as people still haven't paid back their mortgages, the money remains in the economy. I've heard it described like a bathtub. The tap is new mortgages being issued, the drain is people paying them back. The tap has been running faster than it drains for a long time now.
AGP was a modified PCI bus making it a high speed point-to-point PCI connection. It was only ever intended to connect a single graphics controller so for years we had only one AGP port (They later hacked more than one slot/chip but PCIe thankfully happened). The idea was the higher bandwidth could allow the graphics chip to use main memory for graphics but that access was much much slower than the on-board RAM on the . Plus you know, your CPU and hence, OS And programs also needed to access that memory. I am pretty sure that idea was quickly abandoned after the i740 flopped.
The limitations created style. It's why most modern games seem to all look the same,because they have few limits.
Hey HN! I'd love any feedback on this app I built called Find Humane which is a free website and phone app for people to find humanely raised animal-based products including meat, skin care, soap, leather, pet food, and more at over 28,000 locations nationwide and by delivery.

The tech stack is pretty simple: Client (Expo) } Server (Ruby on Rails) } Database (PostgreSQL). I've really enjoyed Expo and React Native.
Infrared temp sensor is useful but it's not so common. My JDM Panasonic microwave have it.
Lawns are deserts, they support very little ecologically. Fewer insects means fewer pollinators, fewer birds, fewer frogs and lizards, fewer bats, which in turn means fewer raptors and other key predators.

They also take a heavy chemical, water, time, and fuel load to maintain. Especially in arid areas, where turf grasses need lots of support.

Who wants to live in a sterile landscape? I'd much rather see bumblebees, ladybugs, butterflies, mantises, flowers of all types, beetles, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and bats hanging out nearby.
Yes, but again it shows there isn't necessarily a dominant way to communicate. Convincing people is hard.
I've run into a similar experience with bots signing up for our waitlist although we ended up with some active users via those sign ups. Around 4% of the waitlisted users signed up for an account (free product). I think the insight about focusing on the red flags is pretty accurate. Not enough to just have waitlist signups and assume it will convert.
> The Witness understands that huge challenge is completely fine, so long as it's isolated to a specific virtual space, such as a given panel and room

What about all of the puzzles that use the environment? There are all sorts of challenges that use the island/features. Really enjoyed that game. Good sense of progression and learning without teaching.
Who’s the Spotify dude? Google searches come up with nothing
you also recently did a post on reddit, didnt u?
you're associated with chatplayground.ai where u did 80k views and got 8 meaningful conversions in the end or so...is that u?
The "maths is discovered not invented " camp
Thanks for checking it out. Here's a quick demo: https://www.funcburger.com/storage/demo.mp4
TLC cannot mature as long as it continues to use 3D-NAND without utilizing a more advanced material science. Reading data and preserving data consume writes, what degrades the memory, because the traces in the vertical stack of the circuit create interference.

Perhaps there are techniques available to separate the traces, but this would ultimately increase the surface area? which seems to be something they are trying to avoid.

You should not use datacenter SSD disks as a reference, as they typically do not last more than two years and a half. It appears to be a profitable opportunity for the SSD manufacturer, and increasing longevity does not seem to be a priority.

To be more specific, we are talking about planned obsolescence for consumer and enterprise SSD disks.

> If you really want a modern SLC drive there's the Kioxia FL6, which has a whopping 350,400 TB of write endurance in the 3TB variant, but it'll cost you $4320.

Did you read the OP article?
That's begging the question of whether inorganic matter can be conscious. If you boil it down, she's just said if it's inorganic, it's not conscious.
Something about the use of first names “Sam and Greg” to communicate a friendly relationship with corporations is bothersome to me. It strikes me as phony in its attempt at being casual and human, and at the same time attempting to elevate these people by first name in the popular culture seems pompous.
I have direct experience with this and it is indeed a miracle. What's interesting is that the protocol largely emerged outside the regulatory channels, with a handful of doctors worldwide developing it once the science became clear that exposure could help and more and more offering it to patients every year. These allergists have carefully figured out regimens that work and it can take a year of daily dosing, with dose sizes increasing twice monthly, until one can safely eat, say, a handful of peanuts.

There's still today another camp: Many allergists still preach avoidance however and put fear into worried parents about the dangers of oral immunotherapy.

Because it can be hard to find an office that will run your immunotherapy program for you, or costly if you do, many parents are doing it on their own, following dosing protocols they find in Facebook groups or on YouTube. The ones I've seen have been supportive and helpful, not quackery.

Meanwhile the medical establishment is finding ways to monetize this immunotherapy by turning, for example, peanut doses into pharmaceuticals, e.g. Palforzia, which is a recently FDA approved "food allergy treatment" and is in fact simply peanut protein.
Your "good guys" use slave labor and harvest organs from prisoners. Their people suffer under censorship as they instigate domestic conflicts abroad. They are just as imperialist as anyone else you can imagine, but they are still challenged by the US. If they get into a dominant position, prepare to be censored or disappeared in your own country because of what they think of your online comments.
I got desensitization from ragweed prescribed by doctor (Ragwitek). But the allergy causes me permanently irritated throat. That was right before covid, then I got scared that it will make infection easier and gave up.