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With AI startups booming, nap pods and Silicon Valley hustle culture are back
They're thinking of PySR but you are right on all points!
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> are turned into just a cost which never produces anything.

The whole premise here is incorrect. Every time UBI is tried, this scenario does not happen. You can find study after study that finds the same thing. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/19/21112570/univer...

> Economists found that it doesn’t make them work less. It does lead to improved education and mental health, and decreased addiction and crime.
Frida Kahlo Narrates Her Life
I panicked for a few months, as a naive college student in my early 20s, then I realized there was no stopping it and decided to position my family as best as possible to live through it.

But if you have nothing better to do than panic, then by all means do so. At some point I might be able to market you a product based on that panic, which will be a few more dollars toward building my family's ark.
Oh cool, maybe these things can help track the rat problems when there aren’t illegal grills to go check out.
Dmarcchecker is one of those great things on the internet that you never knew you needed it until you really needed it. Thank you so much for your work on this note project, it's really helpful to us in monitoring our mail security.
This may be the first time I had that "well, that's enough Internet today ..." reactions on HN from a cybersecurity/cyber-physical protection perspective, and not something gross on Reddit.

So, my hat off to you, Internet stranger.
Most Americans actually buy peanut butter that doesn't need mixing, too... brands like JIF mix oils into the peanut butter which keep it from separating.

"All natural peanut butter", which is what a lot of us like and what the OP is talking about in their article, is made with just peanuts blended, and the oil separates after a while on the shelf.
Someone should make a Best of HN Karma Farming list with all the most frequent front page links.
When the store shelves are empty for months despite the fact that nothing has actually changed in terms of underlying supply or demand, that's hoarding.
I routinely fat-finger the hide button while browsing on my phone. I then need to fish the article out from somewhere within my profile.
All four of those things were present in my classroom experience, and I’m an 80s-90s kid. They were just in their proper place. I’m obviously not advocating for kids just totally tuning out and fucking with their phones all day.
'I'm the new Oppenheimer ': my day at Palantir's AI warfare conference
> The article seems to suggest that low obesity rates are the result of a particular style in Food, compared with western foods.

I think you're missing the point of the article. It's not claiming that the mere existance of unhealthy food is what's causing obesity; it's the societal norms and behaviors developed around food (and exercise).

Of course ultra-processed food also exists in Japan. Same for sugary drinks, sugars and sweets. But it's undeniable that there's a culture of acceptance of junk food in the US, and a confusion that some of it "must be good for you" -- e.g., fruit juices, cereals.

There's so many historical differences between Japanese and American societies that could be part of the cause -- many of them listed in this thread.

To give you one example: breakfast in the US is typically full of carbs, sugars and fructose: cereals, fruit juices, bread, honey, maple syrup. There's a common belief that they're healthy, and you need that "energy punch early in the day to keep you going".

That couldn't be further from the truth. All this carb and sugar-heavy meal does to your body is to give your metabolism a glucose spike, followed by a rush of insulin, and eventually a crash [1]. This roller coaster leaves you hungry and craving soon after. Rinse and repeat for 30 years (together with other bad habits), and you're one stop closer to obesity and diabetes.

The American culture of "snacks" is another example: we're inundated with granola bars, dried fruit, veggie chips -- all "organic", "natural", "full of vitamin". Portion size is another one; go compare to portion sizes in the US vs. Japan. Or the common habit of eating fast and until full, while in Japan is 'eat slow, until 80%'. The list goes on.

Now, you need a social scientist to understand WHY it happened this way over the past 70 years. It may have been the food scarcity during WWII, or how baby boomers grew up, the rapid industrialization of American society, or a myriad of other confounding factors.

Whatever the case, it's clear that this is wrecking the metabolism of millions of Americans, and it'll get worse before it gets better.

ps: I'm using Americans instead of Western society, because 1) that's the reality I'm familiar with, and 2) I think this is more prominent in the US than in the Western societies at large.

Source: born and raised abroad, but living in the US for the past 20 years, with a Japanese-descent spouse. This gave me some perspective on how different cultures develop a relationship with food.

[1] Glucose Revolution, https://www.amazon.com/Glucose-Revolution-Life-Changing-Powe...
are you sure https://www.espn.com/boston/mlb/news/story?id=4524957
Sure, right, it's not the death of retail at all. It's San Francisco's crime problem. Unrelated of course that Red Lobster, Bed Bath and Beyond, and many other chains are closing outright nationwide.
TOCTOU||GTFO: State of Sandboxing in Linux
There's an intensive wilderness school in Washington, and their capstone activity is IIRC a 2 week long game of capture the flag in an even larger area of dense woods

It's a great way to test stalking, camouflage, and survival skills. A lot of the game is played in pitch darkness, where moving silently becomes critical. Rather than a fast-paced running game, capturing the flag often means inching into enemy territory over the course of days, and moving back to your side just as slowly without being detected.
Step 1: Don't do the obviously evil thing
LuaJIT is only appreciably faster on text ingestion and printing in those benchmarks. Julia is also plenty general purpose, just targeted (initially at least) towards the numerical community. LuaJIT is fantastically impressive though.
Not useful proposal. Markdown is both limited and ambiguous. It's okay for writing by hand more naturally than HTML, but the sender should parse it and then explicitly indicate which characters are bold, which ones are underlined, etc, and you're back at a subset of HTML.
I have had similar experiences a few times. One time it was extremely scary. I could not move, and I experienced someone whispering something unintelligible in my ear.
My solution is to have 3 kids. Peanut butter has no chance of spoiling around here, we go through it like it’s going out of fashion! On a more serious note perhaps simply buy a smaller jar if it spoils before you eat it all.
US corporations managed to make food addicting by using science to formulate food in such a way as to trigger a massive spike in dopamine followed by a massive drop a short time later. Combining that with an individualistic culture that leaves many lonely and anxious, it’s no surprise that people depend on substances to make themselves feel better. The average american puts themselves to sleep with a 2 litre of cola, a bag of chips and a pint of ice cream while playing games on their cellphones way late.

If you saw a population of people injecting heroin into their veins and getting frail, would you say you have a frail ness epidemic? No. What you have now is a food addiction epidemic. You should treat it as you treat any other addiction.
Don't let people disguise malice as incompetence.
Part of me thinks that’s exactly why this department has been sidelined - having such a department is necessary to create hype (“we are creating things so powerful we have to explore how to contain them”), but it doesn’t need to thrive either.
Get a good quality silicone spatula and your life will never be the same again.
Thanks for bringing up the intricacies involved. I shouldn’t have used the word “just” as it implies that the solution is easy.
LOL 1 month and minimal costs, for years of reduced fuel costs, someone did the calc above and its ~35m in savings a year seems worth it to me given they list the ROI of the film at 2 years.
On the hospital system part, there are actual timelines and goals to harden their systems after seeing what happened to the HSE in 2021. The issue is some parts of the chain have been slow on the uptick.

That said, paper based redundancies do exist as a massive ransomware attack is similar in impact to a multiweek power outage.
Not being able to block posts or comments by some users.
Reciprocally, it's not hard to envision how an overly-zealous military-industrial complex could promote the wrong ideas at-large. The Lavander AI's recent coverage is a good example of why you shouldn't stoke the flames of information-fetishizing warmongers.
Still solid for a application thats probably relatively cheap and has a 2 year ROI for ongoing savings
Accidental downvoting is also easy on mobile website. I zoom in each time just to be sure.
Yes. Somehow people trust Elon musk. Amazing eh?
You basically subject yourself to altitude sickness every time you fly. It's actually kind of ridiculous how "unpleasant" flights are, but since they're rare enough we just accept it.
One of my coworkers, who is Moldovan, is well acquainted with Russian chauvinistic attitudes towards Moldova / Romania.
> A few thousand years of this and the only thing left will be people who really want kids

It would take less than a hundred years to create the first baby from scratch without human intervention. From there, the possibilities are endless. China seems like a probable candidate that lacks human rights controls and has enough biotech to build world’s first baby factory, but even if only North Korea has the tech and political will initially, the pressure on the depopulating countries would either legalize these or at least relax immigration to the extent necessary to benefit from them.
There's no need for such complexity. FPGAs read their programming from an i2c eeprom/flash when they boot, the hidden CPU just has to sniff that bus to get the entire bitstream and know the mapping.
And fat fingering down votes.
I view payments to low-income people as the state "buying low", with the expectation that they will be able to "sell high" when those same people pay taxes later when they gain a higher income. Such payments are investment by the state in its people. Sure, not every investment pays off, but investors still invest in high risk ventures. Societies should similarly invest in low income people.

A UBI would go to everyone, but the benefits would accrue largely to low-income people, hence my focus above.
The real answer is they have realized internally that agi is simply not possible. Even gpt 4o doesn't understand at all any logic.
I mean, admittedly you have to scroll down to the second half of the (long) page, but the "Code repository on Github" link goes straight to the github project page for me...

Only one of the security issues seems to be unfixed, the others all have patch versions.
Competitive scrabble certainly isn't helped by the fact that, unlike other relatively mainstream games such as chess, it's jointly owned by Mattel and Hasbro.
“The app we had before” had 50M+ users, developed by a large iOS team, including a lot of experienced developers working on performance, and generating billions. I think it was a valid baseline.
Interfering with the pathway that causes cell death is very interesting. Maybe more than freezing.

Related sci-fi: https://galactanet.com/oneoff/antihypoxiant.html
> Who do you expect to appoint intellectuals?

I figured it was the magic dragon MENSA keeps in their vault.
I think there’s an analog to individual empathy that happens with groups. Or maybe it is just that group membership tends to suppress understanding of others.

When the group is about fun, people say “why can’t they just let us do our fun thing?” —-meanwhile you have grown adults chasing each other through toddler play areas, screaming at the top of their lungs, running across the road, etc.
Nobody knows what the outcome is though. Its literally bad science fiction being used to pay people to do... What exactly? About a technology which doesn't exist.
Why is Africa so expensive?
If the teacher says 'okay I' m confiscating the phone' and stretches out his hand but the kid just puts the phone back in their pocket, what do you want the teacher to do?
This isnt new. Scammers been doing this to musk's streams for years.
Ask HN: How do you get better at log analysis?
There was a massive DDoS in Israel on 10/7, fake alerts of a nuclear missile launch were sent, and newspapers like the Jerusalem Post were taken down and temporarily defaced[0]

[0] - https://www.axios.com/2023/10/10/hackers-ddos-israel-hamas-c...
This reminded me of a game of capture the flag I played also in deep New England snow, with just a few friends, but over maybe a half-mile schoolyard with various buildings and playing fields.

Long periods of silence and slow creeping punctuated by moments of sprinting when you were spotted. Some of the most fun I ever had.
Well, Julia also has a pipeline operator built in so:

array |> mean |> x->round(x; digits=2)

will do what you want and is arguably more readable than dot notation.

Not supporting OOP is very much intentional. It has structs and multiple dispatch (which has proven to be insanely useful in Julia's domain of scientific computing) so about the only thing you lose is the namespacing that dot syntax facilitates.
The "defense" against V2 attacks was to conquer the areas from which they came. Which was what the armies in France were going to do anyway. They were a blow to morale, since the Brits were sick of war by then and thought it was almost over.

I don't think any of the city bombings in WW2 caused "panic."
Siri already is semi-broken if it can't understand basic names in your phone book or smart devices.

Siri being like ChatGPT would be a massive improvement.
I think this is basically the right insight, yes.

At the level of a state, there is probably a close connection between warrants served there and crimes committed there, because most people spend most of their time in one state. At the level of neighborhoods, though, there probably isn't, because most people travel across numerous neighborhoods every day and warrants are served wherever it happens that the criminal is found by police or stopped for an unrelated reason.
It’s arguable whether it’s actually improbable. Many people, including (and seemingly especially) experts think it’s likely or even inevitable. This video might be interesting to see some arguments for why people think it’s important: https://youtu.be/9i1WlcCudpU
To clarify, you would prefer the cops not be called if someone is breaking into your house?
At this point I am not sure, if it's all theatre to keep the hype up, or if these people actually drank the koolaid.
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Because an increasing amount of capital and effort is going towards improving the chances we eventually achieve AGI. We might hit another winter where the party stops, but right now a lot of stock prices are encouraging more research. That increases the odds. Assuming we never get there is a bet against human ingenuity.
ah ok so this is the compiled and compressed binary. Still, that’s a tiny space for instructions (no matter how they’re represented).
Note they said Lufthansa freight fleet, which is why it's only 11 planes. Lufthansa (the passenger airline) is indeed still a very large airline.
LLMs don't reason. Are LLMs on he path to AGI?
It could theoretically be possible, but it's not gonna happen from training a machine learning model off Reddit.

SolidGoldMagikarp is the canary in the coal mine if you doubt it's Reddit
Build Android APK from command line without gradle
This is true, but even engineers see the advantages of Julia. My engineering school has went from almost pure Matlab usage to many key engineering courses switching to Julia due to its simplicity and friendliness.

It's also SOTA for many engineering applications, particularly for acausal modelling and scientific machine learning (see https://sciml.ai), which has led to big companies like Pfizer adopting it [1]. And for engineers writing novel libraries, it clearly has a strong edge. See for example the work by NASA's JPL [2, 3], the FAA [4] or the CliMa project [5].

[1]: https://juliahub.com/case-studies/pfizer/ (see also https://info.juliahub.com/case-studies)
[2]: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1669/seven-rocky-trappist-1...
[3]: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20170008266
[4]: https://youtu.be/19zm1Fn0S9M
[5]: https://clima.caltech.edu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40400572
That's easy, huh?

To make things more concrete, look at how long the EU was (and still is) dependent on Russian gas. Russia even used it to influence politics by shutting off supply to Ukraine. Poland, along with its non-German neighbors especially, have been working to diversify their supply to prevent that, but it basically took the war in Ukraine to push Europe in that direction (and even then, reluctantly; take Germany for example).

Or consider the case where your economic partner is much larger economically (like US in relation to Mexico). Who do you think has more weight at the negotiating table? Who has more money to influence political realities? Who can take a bigger hit? There is mutual dependence, but the relationship is not symmetrical.

It's easy to say GFYS, but often difficult to do in practice. First, there has to be an alternative, second, you have to migrate to that alternative. This can be costly if not practically impossible until a contender emerges: he'll have your back against the other, but now you're their vassal, so to speak.

Some call this phenomenon "neocolonialism"; Picketty also uses the term "foreign-owned countries". You get lodged in a web of incentives. You always are.

Right now, the China-US dependent is something like: the US needs China for cheap labor and cheap goods, but China needs the US to buy all these things to fuel its economy. The balance can eventually tip and shift, however. Indeed, that's what BRICS is about.
I worked at a computer store in the mid 80s and we sold the heck out of Kaypros because they were a bargain next to DOS machines. They came bundled with software and often times a promotion with a bundled printer as well.

They tried transitioning to add DOS support with an addin card but it was too late to save them as PC and Apple became the defacto standards.

There was a little-known multiuser CP/M variant called MPM and we managed to sell a few of those, too. It was a cool if plain OS.
Are you claiming that it is not possible to put a satellite into an orbit around the Sun? Please take a look at how many times this has been done already: [1]. Now just capture Sun's energy on one and do something useful with it: part of Dyson swarm.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_objects_in_... .
The walking may not be what actually loses the calories but it probably also affects how you look at your own fitness. It gets a lot harder to walk when you're heavy, and you'll notice quickly when you get start getting winded just going to work every day.
Loran-C: Hyperbolic Positioning
I'm really sorry that happened to you, Lyme is bad stuff :(

I kinda want neighbourhood opossum farms, since the opossums eat those bastard ticks.
My kids don't like peanut butter. How does a kid not like peanut butter?
Truth.

To that point my favorite peanut butter is hot melted peanut butter warmed by being spread over recently toasted bread.
I'm always wary of 100% anything in marketing claims.

In what significant way will these rockets be more reusable than say a Falcon 9, that makes the Falcon 9 not 100% reusable? Put differently, what is a Falcon 9's reusability percentage, and wat difference does it make to bring that number up to 100%?
StackOverflow seems to have been designed to maximally obnoxious in a lot of ways, so it's right on brand.
There's a "blessed" reseller that runs "closest thing to Apple Store", and that's running under the brand "iStore"
"The Internet" is still there at a lower level than the examples you've given.

It's just how it's been used by the majority for the last couple of decades that's fragile.
Hoot looks awesome, but I've yet to get past the initial hurdle of screwing around with guix. Frankly, I need another package manager like I need a hole in the head.

It really needs someone to give other package managers some love (Homebrew, apt, rpm...)
That's simply not true. We now have LLMs that perform similarly or better than average humans on general reasoning and logic benchmarks. So if you were to say that they don't understand logic at all, then by that definition most humans don't either (which can be debated, but it's a different topic).
And then you know that mapping. That still means you will need to connect to arbitrary wires. If you have the mapping but you aren't connected to the wire you want to disrupt or sniff then tough luck you can't do anything.

Theoretically what you could do is MITM the bitstream, upload it to a server. Resynthesize, place and route with your sniff wires connected and write that back flash. But now you have to hide a radio, and either force a restart or hope a restart will happen.
> The oil and the nutty material separate, and thus require mixing to return it to buttery consistency

I don’t mix what’s in the jar - I tilt the jar (to avoid picking the oil), dip deep and spread on the bread. The peanut butter then has varying densities, but I spread it well, mostly mixing it on the bread. Not buttery smooth, but close enough for me. And tastes great.

I rarely use toast bread though, I guess toast bread could fall apart.
Common Data Structures in Common Lisp
Do I think that we are likely to suddenly see a massive massive leap to AGI/ super AGI? Not really... But does it still seem like enough of a long tail risk in my/my kids lifetime that I hope someone is getting resources and access to think about this? I sure do.

I know comparing AGI development to nuclear weapon development is a trope at this point, and in general, not that that useful of comparison... But I do think having a group with a diversity of how to think about the impact of desired outcomes is a good thing to have whenever you are working in the realm of world changing outcomes, and it seems like the changes at openAI are eroding that to some extent, even if it is really really unlikely to come out of this specific company at this time.
> You're betting on Flutter and Dart.

> So am I. So is Google.

RIP Dart and Flutter.
Probably Mattel/Hasbro and trademark/copyright issues.

Official mobile games have to be ruined by aggressive monetisation and scammy in-app ads, it seems.

Words With Friends got away with a making A Scrabble clone by using a slightly different board layout and dictionary. But they eventually transformed that into a very annoying experience overloaded with the usual F2P clutter.

WordFeud seems to be the recommended mobile Scrabble clone these days.
Note that "The benchmark data shown above were computed with Julia v1.0.0" (2018)
I love the David Friedberg startups. The previous one - Cana, a molecular beverage printer that didn't work out but could've replaced most of the beverages sold in stores was also wild. Perfectly foiled against Sack's AI slack clone or Jason's premium-offshore-assistant company which I am sure are reasonable bets but represent essentially the same tired wave-riding pseudo innovation we're familiar with.

With this I'm a bit worried that the food would be the same calories but would be ultimately less nutritious. This is one of the theories of rising obesity, where modern food is up to 70% deleted of micro-nutrients so we need to eat more to feel satiated.
Is this the same safety team that decided GPT-2 was too dangerous for us plebs to use? Good riddance.