skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the terms "farmer" and "farm" are entirely appropriate, as the farms that traditionally sustained humanity absolutely required animals to provide labor, fertilize the soil, and consume what would otherwise be waste.

So there was a past in which the lines were more blurry and animals were not as hardcore exploited as they are today. I agree. And there was a time in which people in many places needed animal husbandry to survive (nomads, cold climates, etc. -- everywhere away from the habitat of the other primates). I agree.

But what I do not agree on is that these two points make the word "farmer" less "cover two topics at once" in this day and age, were:

1) animals are most commonly being exploited at a massive scale when being "farmed", and

2) we can live really well without animal derived foods/clothes/labour
I think this research is great. I've often said (and I'm sure I heard it somewhere else first) "Depression is not a disease, it's a symptom". The treatment for depression is kind of "throw stuff against the wall and see what works", because while different treatments target different parts of the brain, if someone comes in with depression we often don't know what the underlying etiology of that depression is.

I suffer(ed) from chronic depression, and I'd get "bouts" of severe episodes every 5-6 years or so. I was very fortunate in that ketamine infusion therapy was a complete and amazing godsend for me - it was like it fixed a switch in my head. But I know other people with chronic depression that did ketamine therapy that got no benefit (but at least in one case they did get a lot of benefit from a different treatment, TMS, transcranial magnetic stimulation). My point is that basically everyone in the field of psychiatry knows that some interventions work great for some people while having no effect on others. More research like this should allow us to better target treatments.
It's a massive attractor of investment funding. Is it proven to be massively profitable?
It's an ongoing conversation in the eastern orthodox church you might find something interesting there. Historically it was the state church of the byzantines, later (and still officially) greece and russia. There are liturgical gestures and phrasing that indicate an entanglement with the state that is not really true in most places today.

There are factions that openly consider this the "ideal" form of the church and think we should return to it. Others think that was an embarrassing political necessity and are happy to be free of it. There was a lot of meddling in church affairs by the soviets that showed people the downsides. But the allure of power is still there I suppose.

You also run into interesting stuff about like, what is the state from the church's point of view. In liturgy we pray for "the president, armed forces, and all civil authorities." So for example during the russo-japanese war, was a russian orthodox mission in japan praying for russia's enemies? The canonical answer is yes and this makes almost everyone uncomfortable one way or another.
What's the connection between LLMs and AlphaGo?
TuxPaint is just as fun for adult artists, especially using a stylus touchscreen. The Magic tools have unique digital-grunge effects that a more respectable paint program won’t have (my favorite is Chalk). I only recommend replacing the stock colors with something like Dawnbringer’s 16- or 32-color palette.
Francois Chollet, Mike Knoop - LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize
Glad someone is saying this. Some obnoxious moron putting countless lives in danger to virtue signal has gotta be a new low on the internet retard scale.
That’s a very different suggestion than “try paying attention to your breath for 5-10 mins whenever it’s convenient for you”
Could you say more, or even link, to proper methodologies for measuring iterations of your curriculum?

I'm a very amateur teacher, but have received great feedback on my "teaching style",

which I've refined based on two things: how often I get puzzled looks during a technique, how often I get thanked for using a specific technique.

I'm curious what this looks like in the big leagues - how this "scales".

Thanks for your time.
That’s already illegal. The problem is enforcement. Ever since the pandemic and the “defund the police” nonsense I’ve hardly seen the highway patrol on the roads at all, much less pulling anyone over.
my favorite database migration tool - simple does the job, doesn't get in the way. your migration files are based on sql not some language dsl. so if you decide you want to move your project to rust - your migrations still work.
Operating system is complex project that consists of many elements. Kernel is one of them and it is written in C and assembler.

What you write is truth but it doesn't apply to kernel.
Discussion (731 points, 5 hours ago, 546 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40730156
I find Schneier to be one of the most cogent observers and commentators on the influence of technology and corporate organization on our society. His writing is compelling.

Agree with others that I’m left wanting for solutions to the challenges he so clearly articulates.
trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
> If you want your data to be stored persistent for real, you need to issue a sync command to make the operating system block and only return control after the data has been persisted.

Well on linux the work that has to be done during a blocking sync() can be minimized by triggering async writeback via sync_file_range in advance.
If I try to concentrate on my breathing I always feel like I'm not getting enough air. If I persist, I honestly start panicking a little bit.

Related: I can't snorkel for the same reason, except I panic A LOT.
Dang has to protect their investment. Which is why this whole site is a fucking scam. Can't possible let someone know they invested in a scammer piece of shit
> Most of conversation are on open channel.

This is the hallway of modern Remote work.

You either do it right and pay the price or the design gets updated... Email shit, make a point to keep asking the question till they reflect whats going to get built.

Deisgn is an implementation detail, not a cost driver. You aren't working for apple.
It was introduced a few years ago in Denmark with good results, too.
Companies that lease out cars complained a bit, but I suppose they have since learned to be more careful when issuing vehicles to punters. This, of course, also applies to people who just lend out their cars – you really want to ensure that it will be driven responsible.
Trying the same thing and expecting different results
Depression presents with many symptoms, some of the are mutually exclusive. Take for example psychomotor changes. It could be retarded or agitated. Some people have anxiety, some don't. Some are irritable, some sleep very much and some sleep very little. There have been the classifications of melancholic and atypical depression, but they aren't used very often as many patients have features of both.

Now consider the poor response to available medication (IIRC 30% remit and 60% respond, which leaves roughly 40% with a potential deadly disease without medication). Some symptoms of depression occur in other mental illnesses, like the similarity between bipolar and unipolar depression. Maybe the disease we currently call depression is acutally a cluster of diseases. That's the reason to look for biomarkers that separate those different diseases and the develop treatments specifically for one disease. Similar to the development of brexanolone for postpartum depression.
If you genuinely believe your brain is just a token prediction machine, why do you continue to exist? You're just consuming limited food, water, fuel, etc for the sake of predicting tokens, like some kind of biological crypto miner.
Drone warfare is pretty big. Only reason it’s a stalemate is because both sides are advancing the tech.
Thanks for the feedback and the kind offer, Rick - I'll definitely take you up on that and reach out!
I think the same is true for all the psychiatric disorders, but people talk about diagnosing and "having" these disorders as if they're definite things.

I don't understand for example why ADHD is any more real than any other collection of seemingly related symptoms one might conjure up. Just going by the criteria of the DSM, its logically possible for two people to be diagnosed while sharing only 3 of the 9 symptoms. And if one someone without ADHD can have 5/9 symptoms, and someone with ADHD can have the first 6 symptoms, and another can have the last 6, and another 1,3,5,7,8,9 of the symptoms, it says to me these symptoms can arise out of completely independent causes. So might it be possible someone meeting the clinical definition of ADHD can have just happen to have 6 independently caused symptoms?

Thats not to say I don't think people truly have physical issues, but there is nothing at all to say any two people who "have" depression or ADHD are anything at all alike.
What drove the switch from Vapor -> Nest?
That's a fair comment. For small servers, you can probably just get away with inputting the smtp details of any regular account.

But probably not a good idea, and you want to host your own mail server. There are also the domain name settings that you do have to put in. I don't know mastodon, but mailinabox has these settings [1] that took me a while to figure out.

My proposal is to write a software that is layer on top of popular domain name registrars' apis. The user just plugs in the api key into the software, and the software does the configuration on behalf of the user. The mastodon installer can then use this software to set up the mail and domain name settings.

I want to finish with one of my favorite facts: At it's peak LimeWire (a social media of sorts) was installed on 1/3rd of computers worldwide [2]. A dead simple installer that any grandma could follow ensured that it got there.

[1] https://mailinabox.email/guide.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LimeWire
Good article, thanks.

> Bush knew how to map, build and manage the relationships and organizations necessary to get things done. He knew how to craft the human networks that could build the technological networks.. At OSRD’s height.. roughly two-thirds of the nation’s physicists were working for him.. Bush ambiguously noted that his role was far more administrative than technical: “I made no technical contribution to the war effort,” he wrote. “Not a single idea of mine ever amounted to shucks. At times, I have been called an ‘atomic scientist.’ It would be fully as accurate to call me a child psychologist.”
You have to compare it to being a self employed business owner instead of to a salary from a job. Half of it is going to go to taxes.
I'm not sure HN isnthe right place to discuss political issues, but this is a horribly toothless law.

> The law applies when a driver within a city is going 60-plus kilometers per hour over the speed limit. Outside the city, the vehicle must be going 70 or more kph (44 mph) over the limit. But at that level, the vehicle is only confiscated for two weeks. For repeat offenders, as well as for those who go 80-plus kph (50 mph) over the speed limit in a city or 90-plus kph (56 mph) outside a city, the vehicle is permanently confiscated and sold.

Doing 110 kpm in a 50s zone is willingly putting people's life at risk. It's beyond reckless driving, and might be considered as a super weak form of attempted murder (and suicide) even. And you get your car taken away for 2 weeks. Unless you're doing the Autobahn max Speed in a 50s zone or be a repeat offender for it to actually trigger.. What the hell?

Even better, if the racer doesn't own the car, there's (as they admit themselves) nothing they can do.

Why is this so weak? Is there some ethical concern about taking someone's car, or is this a political maneuver?
I still just use the website for twitter. What am I missing out on?
Human level AI should be able to control an android body to the same extent as a human can. Otherwise it is not AGI.
Arvind Mithal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvind_(computer_scientist)
All iPhones since the iPhone 12 (except the SE model) have had OLED screens.
Non-Pro iPhones don't use LTPO, which is the tecnology that enabled the screens on the pro models to dial down to 1hz. It's also what they use to enable AOD on their smartwatches.

Also, this is completely off-topic to the original comment.
FWIW the XML specification has been at version 1.1 for 17 years as well.

The CEE/7 standard was last revised in 1983 and is used by hundreds of millions of people every day.
Great idea, 100% agree this space is ripe for innovation. But that website is cold and stark, the opposite of what a human-interaction should be. Find some (quality) stock photos of actual people to add to the landing page.
I think the hints are in there, and I have my opinion.

1) Chinese Tiktok scaring the US government: Sure OUR corps can mentally rape our citizenry, but someone else? Nononononononono. This may provoke the first real debate on pernicious ubiquitous algorithmic manipulation.

2) Are we really out of "think of the children" political movements? With the polarity of Democratic and Republican parties changing, we may be ripe for protections for children (I mean, the tactics that childrens games use in the app store are utterly depraved: gambling games, social payouts, a litany of PTW strategies for fleecing adults applied to children) that may bleed into general society and adult welfare

3) fear of AI: AI is a boogeyman, and will continue to be. AI is just an algorithm, the next mass corporation/state algorithmic weapon to be deployed.

4) democratic institutions. maintain a functioning government and the core aspects of western "free" society such that they maintain a massive competitive advantage over totalitarian states in the long run.

One thing I will say is that people are smarter from the first (pre-social-network/mobiles) internet, and the initial stages of mobile/social network internet. I think people are educated at a rapid rate to deal with advertising and manipulation, and from an early age. I think it is making saavier people, even if in the short run your kids will get swept up in some manipulation/scam at some point. Better they get manipulated and conned early on by the Nigerian prince before they have real money to lose.

We shall see with AI.

What is abundantly apparent with the later stages of social/mobile internet is the massive distrust users of social networks now have of the platforms, even if they continue to consume it. This is what is underlying the very very correct distrust people have of corporate AI: if the social network corps have gone to such depraved degrees with the last round of algorithms, what will they do with new AI weapons? We already know: nothing remotely good.

The larger social network companies are firmly in their ossification phases: the biggest hallmark, publicly and openly having contempt for their customers. They are all ripe for collapse.

In a perverse gradiose manner, consider Conway's Law applied to the entire internet: the current internet mirrors the open trade period provided and maintained by post-WWII US hegemony.

Many many many people predict that globalization and trade is coming to an end, and the internet will change to reflect a less global and guarded real world.

We are also in a world of first-world demographic decline. Despite the rise of AI, people are about to get MORE important, because there will be less of them in the peak/prime years. If regard for human rights tracks the economic value of a productive human, it may increase substantially in the coming decades.
> which is called the "rust belt" for a reason

...but not for the reason you're implying.

The "rust belt" used to be the "steel belt", until free trade agreements made the US steel industry non-viable.

Rust is symbolic of that decay.

All of the infrastructure that was built when these areas were economically solid, is now rotting along with the economy that built them.
Realistically, most freeways are built for 100mph, and it’s weird the US doesn’t just allow that like Germany does.

What the US really needs (also like Germany), is to make it much more difficult to get a license, and make it much easier to lose one for bad driving. Unfortunately that’s a political nonstarter since decades of poor zoning policy have resulted in nearly everything requiring a car to get to.
> These still are not good examples. Every country has laws to prosecute spies, and copyright has numerous international treaties.

You are just moving the goal post yet again. I fail to see any difference between laws that govern forieng citizens movement of copyright data and laws that govern foriegn citizens movement of private data.

If anything, I think privacy laws are MORE ethically defensible than copyright laws since they tend to protect the powerless against the powerful rather than vice versa

> The thing is, the EU is the first to actually claim the power to do so

Again you are saying things that have been already shown to not be true.
I’m guilty of this sort of “kids these days” thinking as well. But really the AWS lambda free tier is very generous and I don’t get any sort of bill unless there’s a very large spike in usage. With DO or Hetzner I pay for the server to be up and get a monthly bill no matter what.

I would even somewhat reverse your assertion: use Lambda until you have a need for a real server infra and then upgrade to things like Hetzner.
Whose lives did he put in danger?

Also, if the entirety of the US goverment will not protect you from foreign state-sanctioned personal attacks, what should one do? Just sit there and take it, even if one could stop it?

> The State Department has a thing called "Rewards for Justice" and they talk extensively about the NK problem and how we're being hacked all the time. They pay millions for information. I told them "I don't want any of your money, I want you to know who I am [insert wired article here] and that I can listerally make any attack coming from the country North Korea stop in its tracks within minutes. Let me grab their response:

> https://imgur.com/a/s-lX6inGA

> Just be ready to be fucking infuriated. They have a bunch of shit about how we need to take on the NK cyber threat. I literally give them a SOLUTION and they say it's not within their purview, go to other intelligence agencies. I told them I FUCKING DID. No response since.

https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1divlp3/im_the_hacker...
Hackernews has "protected people", typically high-ranking Silicon Valley types, for whom, if it is revealed they are scumbags, they will run interference, changing account names and replacing their powerwords with [redacted]. An example is the high-ranking GitHub engineer who has an Indian first name but goes by "Alex", who was accused of mistreating women, and actually pled guilty to at least one incidence of such.
Do you know https://www.viabot.com/ and https://www.enway.ai/ ?
Genetic and memetic/intellectual immortality, of course. Biologically there can be no other answer. We are here to spread and endure, there is no “why” or end-condition.

If your response to there not being a big ending cinematic to life with a bearded old man and a church choir, or all your friends (and a penguin) clapping and congratulating you is that you should kill yourself immediately, that’s a you problem. Get in the flesh-golem, shinzo… or Jon Stewart will have to pilot it again.
To add, it is more "to move heavily" - it has a negative correlation to agility and speed.

Cars don't trundle, overloaded trucks do.
Do you think that Discord will leave the european union if chatcontrol pass ?
Well, requiring a material to withstand a higher temperature is an added constraint, so of course it's going to increase cost. Otherwise, the more exotic material would have been used in the lower temperature application too.

But that's all secondary to the observation you ignored, that the apples-to-apples comparison you're trying to make ignores power density, and when that's included HTGRs require much heavier pressure vessels.
I'm with you here, but it should be noted that while the combustion engine has augmented our day to day lives for the better and our society overall, it's actually a great example of a technology that has been used to enable the killing of 100s of millions of people by those exact types of shady institutions and individuals the commenter made reference to. You don't need something "super intelligent" to cause a ton of harm.
The US is pretty permissive about speeding. In many states there are highways on the outskirts of cities where the average speed of cars is 20mph higher than the speed limit. We've abandoned automatic speed cameras because people want to be able to speed. In South Florida you can take your traffic ticket to The Ticket Clinic, lawyers who for $80 guarantee to get the points against your license removed or your money back.

We have so many technological fixes for it too. Modern cars can actually read speed limit signs, yet they don't have a feature to limit the speed of the vehicle to that limit. Some cars have a feature to limit the speed limit depending on whose car keys are in the car, but the owner has to enable it. Even if sometimes you have to speed for some extraordinary circumstance, the car could limit it to <85mph after 30 seconds (the fastest public road speed limit in the US is 85mph). And to reduce the number of drunk driving incidents, all cars could have a built-in breathalyzer.

But we don't do these things for the same reason people refused to wear masks during the pandemic: fear of an attack on personal liberty. We care much more about our ability to do terrible things than our responsibility to not do harm. Humans suck. But culturally, some do more than others.
There is a great book called "The Horse, the Wheel, and Language" by David Anthony, and in Chapter 10 he goes into some depth about horse domestication.

https://archive.org/details/horsewheelandlanguage/page/192/m...

I suppose as it relates to this article, the author points out that:

1) "Earliest evidence for possible horse domestication...appeared after 4800 BCE". This evidence comes mostly from cultural artifacts representing the horse, I believe.

2) Looking for physical evidence of domestication is very difficult, but two methods of debatable applicability to horses - size variability and age at death - seems to indicate 2800 BCE and more recent than 3000 BCE, respectively.

3) Evidence of bit wear in teeth provides evidence of horse-riding, which is assumed to post-date horse domestication. Bit wear is evident in teeth whether hard (metal) or soft (leather, hair) bits are used. That evidence pretty conclusively indicates that horse-riding goes back at least until 3700-3500BCE. Domestication of horses (herding) is presumed to predate this by at least another 500 years.

4) To the topic of riding coming after domestication: "What was the incentive to tame wild horses if people already had cattle and sheep? Was it for transportation? Almost certainly not. Horses were large, powerful, aggressive animals, more inclined to flee or fight than to carry a human. Riding probably developed only after horses were already familiar as domesticated animals that could be controlled. The initial incentive probably was the desire for a cheap source of winter meat." The author points out that unlike cattle, horses are able to forage in the winter on their own, making them extremely valuable as livestock for primary and secondary products.

Point 4 is in opposition to this article, and demonstrates the idea championed by the article (horses domesticated for speedy human transport) is not new, per se, but since this article post-dates the book, it should be read as perhaps bringing new evidence to the table for that theory.
Same here. Total blast from the past.

Markdown has obviously replaced it. And Reddit has, for better or worse, replaced the phpBB boards of old. But man, I miss this era.