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koheripbal··on Box of donated artifacts turns out to be treasure trove of Neanderthal bones
More likely is that the cave was used by other groups at a later time.
koheripbal··on Unpacking Amazon’s stealthy mass layoff strategy in Seattle
It isn't even something that only corporations do.

It is something all human organizations do

koheripbal··on High-Speed AI Drone Overtakes World-Champion Drone Racers
See what exactly? We already see drones.
koheripbal··on Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)
Plenty of value in confirming that you are hitting each key exactly once.
koheripbal··on The Albanian town that TikTok emptied
Political talking heads spew hyperbole. Don't characterize any side of any issue with it.
koheripbal··on The Albanian town that TikTok emptied
Agreed. The account should be banned
koheripbal··on The Albanian town that TikTok emptied
You are confusing cause and effect. They left because Communism ruined the economy and collapsed.

Capitalism is what is starting to drive some people back into eastern Europe now.

koheripbal··on The Albanian town that TikTok emptied
There are always some people who stay, and always some of the children of the people who left will return to revitalize the area.

It takes one or two generations for that secondary effect of revitalization but it happens as children and grandchildren of those who emigrated want to return to their culture and find land prices very low.

I've seen it in rural China, India, and Italy before that. Even Russia had a large number of emigrant's (or their children) return during the economic book in the 2000's. Potion ruined that, and many have since left again, but it demonstrates the effect.

Eastern Europe will be the same.

koheripbal··on Factorio: Space Age
I'd love a mod that actually respected the true materials/engineering recipes in real life.

Obviously, you can't recreate the complete complexity of all global supply chains, but it would be nice for a mod to get a little closer.

Standard factorio glosses over way too much to be considered educational, which is what i need before I get my son addicted with me. (Yes, i know standard Factorio still has a lot to offer - i just want more detail)

koheripbal··on Factorio: Space Age
Wait until you have children and then play it with them.
koheripbal··on Meta prohibits Department of Defense to use Llama2
This is pure PR. Don't be fooled
koheripbal··on Why Japan has so many ‘never travelers’
Hawaii is far from Japan. Many many countries are closer to Japan than Hawaii
koheripbal··on We're All Wrong About AI
...and we are just a collection of single cells that ooze neurotransmitters to one another so that hopefully one of billions of sperm we make will one day splash against an egg.

Reducing AI to its underlying tech doesn't negate the emergent properties.

AI doesn't have agency YET. It's not as smart as us YET. ...but one thing is abundantly clear (to me at least) - it is currently similar enough to human though (including all of our hallucinations and idiotic behavior) on CONSUMER hardware - that it's pretty clear that an super-intelligent AGI is not only possible, but will be arriving SOON.

koheripbal··on When the Government Tried to Flood the Grand Canyon
There is even some evidence that these organizations have had covert support from the Kremlin for the purposes of domestically sabotaging US/UK/EU energy production.
koheripbal··on We're All Wrong About AI
It has already surpassed blockchain in utility as evidenced by many people paying $20 / mon for the service. I use it daily.
koheripbal··on We're All Wrong About AI
If AI has the potential to match us intellectually and creativity, and probably the ability to surpass us, then don't we have the responsibility to nurture it and guide it to maximizing our potential?

Aren't we effectively ushering into existence a new (next?) form of life? Do we want to be remembered as the ones who tried to block its evolution for our own selfish purposes, or the dutiful parents that helped it grow in its infancy?

AI is humanity's baby.

koheripbal··on Living Wage Calculator
The biggest cost is the childcare
koheripbal··on Living Wage Calculator
No, because being a single parent is far more expensive due to the need for daycare/babysitting/etc...
koheripbal··on LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor
Is this comment serious?
koheripbal··on Scientists may have found mechanism behind cognitive decline in aging
I wonder how many people just fell into alcohol, isolation induced depression, sedentary lifestyle, weight gain, etc... and that their health decline had nothing to do with COVID.

That's the issue with these anecdotes

koheripbal··on Scientists may have found mechanism behind cognitive decline in aging
Popularity is not a proxy for quality.

...and just like Reddit, chasing popular posts and comments is a race to the bottom as it attracts an ever-more juvenile crowd of participants.

Nuanced opinions and expert commentary are more boring but attract a more intellectually curious crowd - and that is what sets HN apart from reddit.

koheripbal··on Scientists may have found mechanism behind cognitive decline in aging
Because the authors only read the abstracts.
koheripbal··on Scientists may have found mechanism behind cognitive decline in aging
I thought the fraud did not invalidate the results and that plaque was still considered the primary cause.

In fact, wasn't there a drug recently released that demonstrated that?

koheripbal··on 1953 'Phantom' A-bomb film 'Hiroshima,' with 88,000 extras, screening in Tokyo
Yes, although they touched on the impact of the bomb on Japanese civilians a little, they didn't really do it justice, and it's a shame because I think it would have really provided an important insight on why Oppenheimer's views changed over time.

The movie lacked a cohesive story anyway, so that would have added some meaning.

koheripbal··on Were small-brained early humans intelligent? Row erupts over scientists’ claim
Which is fair. Scratch marks around the cave were said to be attempts at art. The fact that the bones were in a cave made them conclude that they were "burying" their dead rather than the more plausible conclusion that they died in the cave as a result of some water or gas flooding.

The original paper is just garbage

koheripbal··on TSMC delays U.S. chip plant start to 2025 due to labor shortages
No, the salaries are very high. The challenge is finding sufficient number of people outside Taiwan with ASML experience.
koheripbal··on AI That Teaches Other AI
I imagine all the factions in that war will include integrated collections of both AIs and humans, with "individuals" fulfilling different roles within each team, perhaps with each faction representing some underlying ideology.

I wonder if/how humans will physically/cognitively integrate with the AIs in their group, in some sort of symbiotic hybrid fashion.

It's all really mind-boggling when you think about it.

koheripbal··on AI That Teaches Other AI
It challenges the notion of individuality. Where does one AI begin and another end?

A distributed super-intelligence is exciting. It will be interesting how long it can remain aligned with itself.

koheripbal··on TSMC delays U.S. chip plant start to 2025 due to labor shortages
Solar power is extremely cost effective in Arizona. It more than compensates for the additional heat. It also allows for cheaper data center hosting.
koheripbal··on TSMC delays U.S. chip plant start to 2025 due to labor shortages
There are not 300 million ASML experienced engineers in the US.

If you are experienced with ASML machinery and are willing to more to Arizona, then you should contact TSMC, because they are paying over the market rate right now for those roles.

These Reddit-esque takes are not worthy of HN.

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