skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10,000 words about the idea of "thought leadership" and what that might mean.
Ok. Even if we hold that ridiculous assumption true… so what? Let’s say grandma is explicitly suffering because others are failing her?

Your proposed thesis still suggests she does not have justification for choosing death. What does she still owe us.
Costs at least a few minutes a day, which works out equivalent to plenty of dollars per year if you make it at home and have a well paying job. Works well but I hate cleaning it after making coffee.
People tend to consider outsider identity politics a bad thing, not their own.
The locals are right to be pissed.

But the logic seems a bit flawed... when you spend 2.1 billion in funding and then write it off on taxes, you are not saving 2.1 billion, you are saving YourTaxRate% of 2.1 billion, right?

The environment is lucky that it was Exxon who made the mistake of hiring an incompetent and overworked crew (per NTSB); they had more resources to deal with the consequences of an (allegedly?) drunk captain than smaller firms. I had a PhD relative working at Exxon whose work was halted and spent a year or two of his life working on the mess; not sure if that was part of the 2.1 billion or in addition to it. Certainly there was non-financial opportunity cost not even measured.

Like "Fire safety codes written in blood", the international requirement for oil tankers to have double hulls ensued.
I'm not sure NZ needs this:

Throwing the baby out with the bath water makes great sound bites for politicians, but weaker societies for everyone else.
easy differences: Effect does everything and is huge, this does iteration only and is tiny
You can delegate the choice to the terminal by using ANSI color codes [1]. Then the onus is on the user/terminal developer to make sure the colors they’ve configured (or the defaults provided) are reasonable.

A downside of this is that it is quite restrictive, there are only like 8 colors.

EDIT: I missed the “regardless of the color map” bit, that is a bit unreasonable. Either you trust the terminal emulator or don’t. I think trying to have it both ways is too much.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/JBlond/2fea43a3049b38287e5e9cefc87b2...
I'd also like to add that everything I click seems to open a new tab/window. Can't I just view the coffee devices and store all in a single tab? Details? New window. Shop? New window! Back to the details? New window. Contact? New window!! I don't like having all these extra tabs to close without a good reason for it.
A whole city run by Elon? What could go wrong!
I agree here. Given the bespoke design, I would love to see a comparison with other machines.
Maybe, but these are activist litigators and in this article are only interested in staying “outside” the government. They profit from big pharma more than any government official, shareholder, or doctor’s office. Aaron Siri is one of the best.

I predict the strategy will be to burden FDA with paperwork and try to establish a pattern that no government agency could possibly keep up. Dismantling the authority of FDA will be talked about in terms of individual freedom (as Aaron Siri does before the Federalist Society) and conveniently demand the government maintains an avenue for class action.
I wish that was the case, but it carried over to LCD when the CRT monitor fizzed out. Also as mentioned, just about any other environment caused me no issues.
> In the first, you are subservient of something much larger than you, and the second is a world of possibilities.

The latter is a much more grim perspective. What it means is that, if you've been putting all your effort, all your effort is still not enough, and you objectively suck and you will never stop being useless trash. But if you consider people as an unpredictable, unstoppable force, then it's much easier to accept, and just make your way around it. Like weather. It really sucks when I want to go out but then exactly at this moment a huge storm breaks out, but there's nothing I can do about it, so I'd better adjust my life to the fact that weather sometimes sucks and that's it. While I could've planned for bad weather, at its core the fact that weather sometimes sucks is not my fault and there's nothing I can do about it.
But how was "increasing the capacity of the country" conceptualized? I can believe that it was put together with the intention of strengthening the new country and building up institutions that it felt it needed, but that's not at all the same thing as being not for the elite (at the time of the founding of the first state schools we still had property requirements to vote!), much less that they conceived of it as job training.

For a primary source on how they conceptualized the role of the university, see the charter for the University of Georgia (1785) [0]. It essentially says that universities are really important and it would be unacceptable to have to send youths to foreign countries, so we're starting one here. They weren't reconceptualizing the university, they were funding the rapid development of institutions that would otherwise take centuries to develop if at all.

[0] https://sclfind.libs.uga.edu/sclfind/view?docId=ead%2FUA22-0...
University started to learn law and medicine. Two things that were and still are very remunerative.
Many thanks for that pointer!
Also from those who learned with Pascal. Traditional Pascal requires that all variables be declared at top of procedure/function in a 'var' section.
I think these analysis are optimistic but get the chicken and the egg wrong. We look at our institutions badly because we’ve lost trust in them, not the other way around and we’ve lost trust in them because there is a lot of power in being able to convince people institutions are broken.

I actually think the problem is people’s sense of who to trust is different and for a large number of people, Transparency and honesty is a contra indicatory signal. That what you want to trust is confidence and certainty, and Trump and other politicians capitalize on this big time. That too many institutions expose people to the complexities of modern life. I also think the author, in the list of things that institutions have gotten wrong, makes the mistake of assuming everyone will respond similarly. His own list is just a regurgitation of right wing grievances over the past ten years. For example, he could have mentioned healthcare since that’s been in the media recently and is relatively bipartisan, but nope, it’s trans, DEI, Fauci and Russia. How can we restore trust in institutions when we can’t even diagnose the problems without bias?

I personally think the problem with the Russia investigation is that it didn’t go far enough. It should have been non partisan, and it should have looked at Russian influence broadly, not focused on Trump. But because Russian influence is seen to be partisan, the person’s conclusion is we should have just swept it under the rug? How can we restore confidence in institutions if we just ignore any facts that might happen to have a partisan lean.

But I think the most humanistic take on this is that fundamentally no one is going to trust an institution that says something that is contrary to their life experience.

For example, from everything I can tell, coal is not coming back, and in extension towns that are built in a coal economy are not coming back. But most people in those towns are not going to accept that diagnosis. They’ll vote for the institution that supports their life experience.

Matthew Yglesias wrote about this recently saying that basically institutions are probably no better or worse then they’ve ever been, look at Vietnam, look at I dunno, all of history. If the solution is we will have infallible institutions, that’s not a solution at all. We have to be resilient to the types of failures described in the article, not eliminate them, and that is near impossible when anyone with a platform will exploit any human error they can find in our institutions.
Occasionally there are connection issues, best to preload 4 or 5 ads before you load the content - just to be on the safe side.
Yes, that can be created in principle, but you would need to modify the natural machinery (ribosome and tRNA) to make it possible.
amazing! This was in my todo list since, like, forever aha!
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Nice story, and I'm glad formalization work is proceeding. "Details left as an exercise to the reader" is the bane of true knowledge.
Can’t you do something like this with clojure?

I don’t understand the particulars, but one selling point of biff is it’s got built-in support for updating things directly in prod via the REPL.

There’s a fun interview with the biff guy on the podcast “the REPL”. He talks about how much fun it is to develop directly on the prod server, and how horrified people are by it lol.

https://biffweb.com/

https://www.therepl.net/episodes/48/
For these purposes, I’m not really interested in the whole question of free will. If you want to take a mechanistic approach, you just need to appreciate that the decisions aren’t being made by “natural selection” but agents influenced by “natural selection”. The ideal agent may be also be quite different from what some imagine. Whether or the agent has “free will” doesn’t affect what I’m saying.
It's worth noting I'm completely locked out now. Any verification attempts I open are now being closed without me even reaching the point where I'm able to upload documentation.
What kind of insurance because both health and auto insurance absolutely are. I don't think it's a coincidence that these two forms are also mandatory by law.

Insurance where there's a well defined insurable event that has a known in advance payout are great, life insurance for example. "Insurance" where the insurance company gets to decide if and how much to pay out is flat out bullshit. Everyone with auto insurance has experienced the— we decided the value of the car we declared totaled is $x where the cost of buying your exact car same year same mileage is at least $2x, usually $3x.

My favorite health insurance story is the one time I had to have an operation out of network because there were no in-network doctors that could do it. I got all the right paperwork, insurance said they would cover it, got it done and the cost was well beyond my out of pocket max. I called up insurance asking where my check was for the difference between my oopm and what I paid. Well guess what, the insurance company "decided" that the operation actually cost exactly my deductible so they owed me $0. The breakdown was hilariously bad, they claimed an anesthesiologist costs $17.
Yes. Some bacteria have D-amino acids (such as D-alanine) as part of their cell walls (which otherwise contain almost entirely L-amino acids). D-amino acids are also sometimes incorporated into drugs that are synthetic peptide mimics in order to slow metabolism.
Renters Less Likely Than Owners to Feel Sense of Belonging in Their Neighborhood
It would be way worse than micro plastic and closer to your 115v example.

The parts would be similar enough to form bonds and trigger receptors, but different enough to become permanently stuck, unable to be processed.
It would seem building better systems is not enough. We must strive to maintain, continuously improve, and scale them to meet demand.

Sadly culture in the US is diluted into believing that profit motive is a silver bullet that fixes all problems. And many are raised in religions that teach one to deny critical thinking, embrace appeals to authority, and love confirmation bias.
The head of the physics department goes to the university president to ask for money for a new lab. The president says “Your department always needs such expensive equipment. Why can’t you be more like mathematics? All they need are paper, pencils, and trash cans. Or even better, sociology only needs paper and pencils.”
Microscopic organisms mutate rapidly and unpredictably, so this sounds like a "swallow a spider to catch the fly" situation.
More specifically, it would have no interoperability with the portions of life that target chiral molecules.

Most critically, metabolic pathways.

But that isn't to say there isn't already varied chirality in nature [0]. The primary reason life is generally aligned to one chirality is because its very purpose is to interoperate with the living environment around it.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality#Biology
> Lots of computer science research produces useful products that make their own money directly, and so the need for reproducibility is less if impact on the economy is a main criterion.

That research isn't being conducted by academics applying for pure research funding from the Marsden fund...
Just off the top of my head: 1) what specific mechanisms are used to hook people initially? 2) What specific mechanisms sustain or deepen the addiction? 3) What actual value do the provide to users? 4) Who specifically do they harm, and by how much? 5) Who uses them without harm? 6) What societal impacts, positive and negative, do they have?

And I could keep going, but you get the idea. Any one of those could be a hundred research projects.

Even if your sole goal was to regulate them out of existence, you'd need a lot more than "I think Facebook is bad". You'd at least need a solid enough definition of the problem to craft the ban in such a way that it stuck. But that's a very unlikely outcome, so most of the people working on this are looking to minimize harm while maximizing value, and that just requires a lot of detailed research. For example, compare Facebook vs Mastodon, or vs HN. Do we ban them all, because "social networks bad"?
Your story is nice and all but there are no actual videos these devices running. The website seems to feature blender generated mocks quite well though. And you're taking preorders?

I'm surprised folks are willingly getting scammed.
Not sure what you mean by "in a protein", but if you have a solution of some chiral chemical compound such that there's 50% of the L-enantiomer and 50% of the R-enantiomer, you get what's called a "racemic" mixture. So, yes -- mixing chirality is possible in at least one sense.
With an exception (not checked exceptions) you get the advantage of the compiler knows about this and can optimize some code paths - any function that doesn't handle the function or have clean up to do can be bypassed, while result/checked exceptions need to go into that function anyway - which may be faster, more benchmarks needed. (though is possible a "sufficiently smart" compiler could understand thus pattern and turn it into an exception).

So the real question is syntax - which do you prefer: having to write some result type all over instead of the regular return type you mean, or knowing that "magically" at unpredictable times your function will just abort in the middle. There are pros and cons to both, so anyone arguing absolutely for either side is wrong - at least now when we don't have decades of experience with result in large projects (though maybe we do in a single project)
I would imagine this is as much about having the authority delegated to SpaceX who will effectively run the city and so can issue permits and the like for building. Not some desire to make it a better place to work but just a better place to do business. The reason for the move from Cal is probably because of all their "red-tape" and this way they can play fast and loose with the environment and residents lives.
There's a reason why those have different degree abbreviations—they're a different kind of thing than the degrees universities later arrived at and spent centuries developing. And they and a few others (like engineering fields) are still the only ones that really work as job training.

It's a good point insofar as it shows the institution has never been static.
There is a workaround I saw used by wcd, a tool for changing directories. To install it you have to add a wrapper function in your shell that executes the actual wcd binary, and after possibly interacting with the user to figure out what directory to change to the executable will print out the destination, and then the wrapper function will make the call to cd, affecting the shell it runs in.

https://wcd.sourceforge.io/
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It also depends a lot on your CPU. Operations can be made faster by dedicating more resources to them. Most CPUs go for a slowish division operation that isn’t too expensive in terms of resources, or lower-end ones don’t provide it at all and make you do it in software. Apple seems to have decided that integer division is pretty important, so they dedicated a lot of resources to it and the M1 does a divide in something like two cycles. Even thinking about loading from memory is probably slower than that.
Marviken – the nuclear plant that never was
I'm sure I'm in the minority here. When I see these kinds of comments, the first thing I think of the movie Good Will Hunting:

You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.
seldom needed, but don't neglect it when it is
Tbf, strict causality is very difficult to prove in social sciences, no? Meaning, most of the studies for/against the link between video games and violence can't meet that threshold. Social science isn't physics and I don't think it's fair to treat them the same.
Could the brain microbiome help prevent dementia?
Besides the achiral glycerol mentioned in the article, some bacteria subsist on methane. That is also non-chiral and in large quantity in petroleum and under the sea.
> D-amino acids are also sometimes incorporated into drugs that are synthetic peptide mimics in order to slow metabolism.

Thanks! I think that was the notecard in a dusty corner of my mind that was nagging.
Do you know about vtubers? In case you don't, they are people that record or livestream themselves playing games and whatnot. Instead of using a regular face camera to put themselves onto the video feed, they use a 2D or 3D animated model.

Most people use a desktop webcam which can do decent tracking or an iPhone which does really good tracking through ARkit, but there isn't really a decent solution on Android.

It could be a good new market opportunity for you on desktop, iPhone, or Android - but especially for Android users since there isn't really any alternatives. There is a steady stream of new people getting into being a vtuber and I think a $15 app might be an easy sell considering people can end up spending up to a five-digit amount getting custom character models commissioned. If you are able to improve the eye/face tracking past the basic level you mentioned the 2.0 version having, it would be even more appealing.
ChatGPT will hallucinate and make impossible/invalid moves frequently, so I don't see how it could have a chess rating
“Patterns” is the key there. Knowing that *OOD has 6ish options is more useful than memorizing each word.
> So this points to a fundamental problem with using AI to do math.

No it doesn't, AI like an LLM has no issues with stating two inconsistent propositions, just like humans, which is why both AI and humans can reason about all of mathematics, eg. Godel theorems is that a formal system cannot simultaneously be complete and consistent.
I doubt they weren't people to him before.
Espresso machine getting 455 upvotes and 213 comments on HN was not on my 2024 bingo card
The US is a young country for this discussion. Other than maybe the likes of Harvard college was already democratizing around the world when US colleges started.
I want to say something along the lines of "they want to de fund critical thinking in general" but I fear I'm becoming too extreme. I'll go with what you said instead.
Yes, there are safety concerns, especially given SpaceX's track record at that site. They've already been fined for violating the Clean Water Act. Their pad design blows up and sends chunks miles away and into nearby towns.

But, Musk is on a b̶r̶i̶b̶e̶r̶y̶ campaign donation spree right now, so I'm sure he'll get this rammed through.
Ah that looks cool, got a sort of retro-coffee filter machine for the office look to it too (I love Bosch appliances).

I never understood why so many kettles always put the fill indicator behind the handle, which of course you'd be holding when filling it up. The first time I saw one with a large, clearly graduated window on the side (and wasn't also a cheap, white plastic kettle) I was impressed, being the nerd I am.
And wasn't a smart phone.
It has but the speed is what will change and who has the capability to copy.
I found Phi-3 to be quite underwhelming when trying it out locally in an agent-like use-case. It didn't follow instructions well, and produced subpar output often, especially compared to Gemma 2 9B.

Looking at the numbers[1] it seems like Phi-4 14B is a solid upgrade over Phi-3 on reasoning tasks, at the expense of factual knowledge. This is a good trade-off for my use-cases, so will be interesting to try it out.

[1]: https://ai.azure.com/explore/models/Phi-4/version/1/registry...
Unidentified drones spotted over US air base in Germany
it is possible to have mixed chirality in syntheic proteins. (see michael weiss work investigating insulin receptor binding to insulin)

its basically impossible (but not totally impossible) for a living creature to be able to generate any protein with mixed chiralities.

this is because a ribosome with a chamber that can support both chiralities is likely to be less efficient at protein extension. but also you need so much more trna if you want to support arbitrary d-amino acids, etc.
You can make these things in a lab. However Phind said "In summary, while scientists have proposed various models for how biological homochirality may have emerged, there is currently no known example of mixed protein chirality occurring in nature. Biological molecules appear to exhibit almost exclusive homochirality at the molecular level."
>potlucks, D&D sessions, going to the movies, book clubs, etc.

Also either male dominated activities or non existent in my area. Hence why dating apps and bars/clubs are popular.

> going to the movies

BTW, How are you meeting your potential date by going to the movies? Dunno about you but whenever I went to the movie people just watch the movies, not talking to others. How do you flirt there?
300 to 700 micrometers? So almost nothing to still almost nothing.

Could anyone tell a difference in the before and after images, other than one was grey and the other was blue? Structurally, they looked identical to me.

Edit: internet tells me human cells are around 25um, so I guess you can tens of cells deep
Ya, but you get it working... eventually.
The Paradox of the Internet
The range of communication side effects and their societal impact is correct between swimming in the shallows and alone together.
How much money do you think the Lord of the Rings, as the modern multimedia francise it is, makes? Do you think Tolkien, the first time he cracked open an Old English tome of Beowulf thought to himself, "someday, being a Beowulf scholar will lead to me creating a vast amount of money for Warner Bros."?

Academic outcomes are nonlinear. Outside of the job-training-ified fields like engineering, there is seldom a direct "I studied X and then made a ton of money doing exactly that". The success stories, like Tolkien, are more like, "I studied X, then I lost a finger in the great war, then I typed up a manuscript of a children's fairy tale, fast forward 100 years and it's worth untold millions." It is a winding road. All that is gold does not glitter, not all who wander are lost.
And a full environmental collapse is not even strictly necessary to end civilization. If the climate perturbation is large enough it will cause a mass migration and an economic disaster, either of which is enough to cause a war.

Can humanity peacefully deal with things like half of China becoming uninhabitable by humans? Dunno but if I had to pit humanity against this or the mirror bacteria I'd choose the latter.