skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. Let's hope some charity decides to take up the cause for those children whose families cannot support the cost of treatment.
> Experts largely agree that current forms of AI are not conscious, in any sense of the word. While there have been many studies on “computational consciousness,” or how something that might be considered conscious can be realized with computers, these studies are very preliminary and do not offer anything close to a concrete plan on building “conscious” machines. The reality is that we don’t have a widely accepted definition, let alone understanding, of consciousness. Claiming that we have already replicated such a nebulous concept with computers seems improbable at best. Granted, the claim could also be reasonable, if a particular definition of consciousness was specified as well.

is the last sentence of this paragraph not a direct contradiction of the first?

and look at the third sentence. what’s wrong with saying “we don’t understand enough about consciousness to make claims in either direction when it comes to our neural networks”? really: why do so many people in this article seem uncomfortable with other people saying as much? is it just the PR angle? is this field really less about answering the interesting questions than it is about satisfying the public?
What do they do with them?
I can think of plenty of ways where mega-companies and governments could make power-grabs and increase control/administration over app stores ("get your app approved by EU/US/Japanese agency to get a geo license to distribute your app"). As opposed to simply forcing tech companies to take a more hands-off approach.

I can think of 100x examples of the former in other industries and almost no modern examples of the latter happening (besides maybe right-to-repair, which hasn't meaningfully happened anywhere yet).
For those unfamiliar with the meme context of "shape rotators":

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/wordcel-shape-rotato...
A change in a library is not a change of the language. So definitely no.
Rakuten Hand 5G (released in 2022) is 138x63x9.5mm, RAM4GB, and Snapdragon 480G. But it's only available only in Japan and only support eSIM. There are other local weird tiny phones: Balmuda Phone, mode1 GRIP.
No, it's not. There's an enormous amount of fossil evidence now that humans evolved in Africa and radiated from there. There's also the genetic evidence that has solidified the already pretty iron clad evidence.
Not only for ethical reasons, but we may also find out very nontrivial things about our own biology this way.

If it's looked at through the right lens, yes. I'm not sure if genetic research is actually the optimal means to find such takeaways though.
Proximity to HQ doesn’t inform the CIAs ability to wiretap. They can just use the Internet and their ability to influence lawmakers. CALEA says every telco has to wiretap their own infrastructure.

The CIA built a giant data center in Utah in the previous decade.
Negotianting a Salary at Big Tech
Tangent: I've been trying to recall the author and title of a sci-fi short story that had slow computing as a central plot element. The protagonists had organic computers (eg DNA Turing machines or something). Massively parallel. Much slower than electrons. Used to chew thru intractable problems without deadlines. Like cracking encryption.

Maybe it was Stephenson.
They could try making the phones a bit bigger. A lot of flagships have a camera bump; the case could be made thicker to eliminate the camera bump and have a larger battery.
GNU/Linux, then? That's still not quite right - Alpine is perfectly good - but I'm not aware of a nice short term for "user-respecting open source unixy system".
Bro, would I be driving a Lambo if I didn't? Sign up for my online course to find out!
> I don't see why the bitcoin case needs to be singled out any more than the yacht, private jet, gaming rig, or hell...even personal car cases.

Because Bitcoin literally is designed to waste electricity on proof of work. The Ethereum network has the processing power of a Raspberry Pi and wastes fantastic amounts of electricity to deliver that paltry power. Bitcoin alone uses more power than all of Google's operations.

I doubt that the total power used by the world's yachts and private jets per year is even half the power the Bitcoin network literally wastes.
I wonder if the selection pressure at "meta" has helped "optimize" out the PR / research people who might question such things.
That's correct, Fossil contains everything you need.
I feel they've lost all touch with reality.

Hey, let's run an ad admitting the world sucks, in part due to companies like us, but you can escape that reality if you put our headset on.

Replace that last 15 seconds with a bottle of Whiskey instead of a VR headset and the message is about the same.
There's a corner-case to this corner case which is marijuana sales. Legal state vendors are technically violating federal law but the IRS still expects a cut from them, and the ones wanting to stay in good standing are certainly reporting.
Eugenics has a somewhat fraught past. Everyone who tried it thought they were doing their victims a favor.
I'll take a look, thanks for the link!

EDIT: The idea of being able to suspend/resume and push/fetch in-progress merges/rebases is very cool indeed. It's hard to tell if it could speed up the task of rebasing across thousands of commits or not -- the README doesn't say. I like Viktor's script because it's very focused on one thing: quickly rebasing local commits across thousands of new upstream commits with a minimum of conflicts -- a simple solution to a simple problem statement (though the problem can feel huge when you have it).
that's ridiculous. you might equally say too much internet infrastructure is optimized for adjacency to neuroscience. there's no other good reason for so much near HHMI Janelia
Yeah, that’s where I got the idea.
Respectfully disagree. Many of these books advocate habits that actually interfere with effective code development.
On the topic of Greenland, this episode of Fall of Civilizations is worth a listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmbY-GrM8pI
Can someone tell me, does the metaverse exist now? Like can I go and be like the wolf or squid in the commercial and wear goggles and walk around?

I searched just now, and five or six articles down (after headlines like "the metaverse is stupid") I see a link that talks about what the metaverse will be, and lets me buy a headset. Is that where we're at? Why are we talking about something that's just made up, that's been made up for years. Or is there actually some product or service I can join here?
And no 18 hold golf course, just two 9 hole ones!
It looks like that makes pulls faster, which is not quite the same thing, although it's probably a good trade for many cases. Huh, that could even work out nicely for cases where you don't end up using everything in the image - AIUI, you could just... never pull those bits if you never used them, which would be nice. Of course, you would be distributing the pull slowness through the runtime of the container.... which, again, is probably a good trade to make, but something to bear in mind.

In any event, thanks for pointing that out; I'll have to play with it:)
Given that the argument being made here is that some laws formed by legitimate democratic institutions impose ownership (and are therefore unjust) no, you can't draw a distinction between laws and power here.
It's entirely possible it riffs with the particular market segment they are after... which to be fair, I have no clue what that is.
^ This.

In the United States today, approximately 1 in every 27 Jews is a Tay-Sachs carrier.

https://healthresearchfunding.org/17-good-statistics-tay-sac...
Our dev team is looking to switch as soon as we have time to learn it. I assumed it was going to be like React from the one tutorial I've done of it so far, which already excited us.

Is this the best resource for learning it well enough to come out with your opinion that its even better?
https://developer.android.com/courses/pathways/compose

I'm also a little worried about missing components currently available in XML, although I know you can mix and match, but not sure how that actually is in practice.
Cutting support for non-TPM capable hardware is a nice side effect, as is being able to use TPM manufacturer attestation [1] for DRM and anti-cheat.

IMO the real goal is to revive Microsoft's Palladium technology [2], which is awful and incredibly user-hostile.

[1] https://oofhours.com/2019/07/09/tpm-attestation-what-can-pos...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computi...
That's right! I almost forgot about needing background images.
WebGPU? https://web.dev/gpu/
The first thing I thought of when I saw that ad was the comic strip The Greatest Gift from 2011: https://www.buttersafe.com/2011/12/22/the-greatest-gift/
> Not eating a single steak would offset my entire life of using the internet.

This appears to be hyperbole - from what I could find, one steak has a carbon footprint of 15.5kg [0] and one Google search has a carbon footprint of 7g [1]. That makes one steak equal to 2214 Google searches. Over a lifetime, 2214 searches seems low. In my browser history, I found evidence of 776 searches in the last 3 months.

Moving away from searches, apparently 1GB of data transfer produces 3kg of CO2 [2]. That makes one steak equal to 5.16GB of data transfer over the internet - or less than one hour of 4K content streamed from Netflix [3].

[0] https://www.co2everything.com/co2e-of/beef

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-carbon-footprint-of-one-Go...

[2] https://www.emergeinteractive.com/insights/detail/does-irres....

[3] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/87
Apple iPhone is far efficient compared to Android devices, so they can make smaller high end devices. From some news, iPhone mini series sales are bad. So it is expected that 14 mini won't happen.
Second Life and VRChat exist. Of course, Facebook would prefer that we imagine their metaverse will be materially transformative in some way that even they can scarcely yet imagine.
Trying to not get destroyed by Google does wonders to your focus I would imagine
I think their product is Horizon Worlds: https://www.oculus.com/horizon-worlds/
This is cool. We use strong_migrations but I’ll check this out. I love the idea of an enforced pattern for background data migrations.

While I’m here a shameless plug for a gem we built that we’ve found incredibly helpful for safer migrations - https://github.com/TandaHQ/migration_signature

It adds a CI check to guarantee the migrations you tested in development are actually the migrations that run in production.
echo 80 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh

As usual more information is in the Arch wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/tp_smapi
It’s fine to view the hiring process from recruiters’ perspective, but man, some parts of this article.

> The job she posted listed its selling points — the business had 400 percent growth a year, the backing of a legendary venture capitalist, no limit to personal vacation days, full coverage of employee health-care premiums and the option to work remote or locally.

> Dyba estimates that she sent the listing to about 75 prospective hires and received back maybe five responses, three of which were either a brief “no thanks” or the simple declination of her InMail message. A declination — that’s LinkedIn language for “Please, stop throwing all these jobs at me with employer-paid health-insurance premiums and unlimited vacation time.”

Sorry, what? As an in-demand tech work, I feel incredibly fortunate to be compensated far above many others who work harder at in my view more significant work (e.g. teachers, or nurses). I would certainly not defend tech compensation relative to many other sectors of our economy.

At the same time, there has been an explosion in value creation and wealth in technology over the past few years (from an already high baseline). I think part of what we’re seeing is a larger percentage of that value flow to software engineers and other technology workers. And still that percentage of the overall value created pales in comparison to the value that’s accruing to tech executives and venture capitalists.

When I read passages like the one quoted above (which by the way is written by the reporter! not even quoting someone), it’s as if the article is written by a tech exec or VC who’s outraged that they have to spend an additional 1% of their market cap paying engineers.
I don't care much about digitizing my notes these days. Instead, I do a weekly review on my notes, and type anything that might benefit from being searched into my computer.

The primary reason is that for any notes that I want to put into my digital database, I have to do a lot of editing anyway. My first draft notes are full of short-hands, dangling sentences, struck out words, back-and-forth thoughts; while I need them to be self-contained, clear, more bullet-point-ish, and better organized inside the computer. So I might as well just type a second draft.
It seems like these things come up when someone has a axe to grind. Why do we use energy for anything? Because we want to do things.

How much energy do we use to farm sugar, junk oils, grapes for wine, hops for beer that only serve to make people unhealthier. How much energy do we expend to make junk fast fashion. How much energy does the US educational system consume in districts where the average kid can't read. How much energy does it take us to bomb civilians in the middle east and maintain the bases to maintain the capability to bomb civilians in the middle east.

And the answer is a very clear "we generally don't care" until someone has an axe grind.

I'm not justifying these things, just pointing out that I don't buy that these articles are just written out of a genuine interest in understanding and improving global energy consumption.

The problem doesn't seem like that people use a lot of cloud services. That's probably not going to change and probably shouldn't. Maybe we should stop shutting down all the nuclear plants and build new ones and get the problem dealt with if this is such a big problem.
I just can't get past the idea of trading the universe for a universe that someone owns.
This is wonderful, but I wonder if cost of adoption is an issue? I know that abandoned netting is a substantial source of plastics in the ocean, so I expect that fishing operations are sensitive to the replacement cost.
Not on iOS — just a gray background with the centered “code” link to the repo. No shapes, no interactivity.
I had no idea. I just used my "wait, no, that's eugenics" heuristic. Now I know!

One day it's "we should save these kids from a difficult life," the next it's "we need symbols to tell undesirables apart," the next it's "we have too many people in camps and nowhere to send them." People like me ended up in those camps next to the Jews, so I'm not keen on the noise that starts the landslide.
They are working on Native AOT for .net 7, which is based on CoreRT. See the issues tracked in the runtime repo.

I have been using it with reflection fully disabled in a console app and it produces a 5Mb native binary.
I'm confused. The blog post has Haskell examples in it. I think the author knows Haskell already.
Not really, "Facebook Horizons" is like a cheaper knock-off version of Rec Room. Laggier, buggier and feels very very corporate. You walk around and feel stalked by these "Community Leader" facebook employees and it just feels ick. Hard to explain. I recommend you try out Rec Room. Infinitely better.

I own both the index and the quest 2. The quest 2 is less powerful objectively but it's ergonomics are on point. It's so much easier to pick up and play.

Yet every time I put it on I lament how it's owned and created by Facebook. What a travesty.

I hope Valve makes an Index 2 and pushes VR forward again.
Good idea. Not sure why YouTube/Google doesn't do it. As you would think there is good money in it and better user relations. Possibly they like the authoritarian algorithm approach, and feel they are making enough money, so don't need to bother with alternatives or "lowly user" issues.
You should just assume a "real phone" is rooted by the FBI and functions to track your movements 24/7, accurate to the meter, is capable of remotely enabling mic/camera and all sensors, including WiFi, accelerometer, GPS, etc. Because even if it isn't, the software on it already (system software, apps, everything) already does a massive amount of snooping, distilling, and uploading. The feds "enabling" targeted surveillance on your phone will not look materially different from what it already does which has been purposely obfuscated to be undetectable.

The surveillance state is already here. The dragnet is on for everyone, and if they miss anything it's because it's hidden in the noise, not that the signal isn't being sent.

We're cooked, it's over. Forget being anonymous.
> The truth is, humanity can continue to be more productive and efficient for millions more years

It’s not truth. It’s a form of techno-libertarianism bordering on religion. I can’t find a single working scientist in any relevant field who believes this claim. Most scientists believe we are on our way out, along with the biosphere we’ve destroyed.
Also everyone addict to phone camera.
Point 1: If you don't want to use alternative stores, then don't use them.

Point 2: Human review never stopped security problems, and has never, ever been considered of any real value when it comes to designing secure systems.

Point 3: iPhone's response to various 0days has been less than stellar. Right now, when a security issue pops up, we have literally 0 choice other than wait for Apple to fix it - even if the fix can be written up and sent out immediately, we have to wait for Apple to package an update. Giving more choice in how fast you can patch your system actually increases your security.
You have completely misunderstood my comment about why C stands out. I though it was obvious from the example I gave, what I meant, when I said everything is a pointer to something?

As an embedded developer in previous life, I can assure you C is not special because it can run on bare metal. Many other languages can too.
I riffed on bullet journaling to create a habits tracker. My template is just a big grid; tasks along the left side, calendar along the top. This allows me to see at a glance how I'm doing. (Riffing on Seinfeld's "don't break the chain".)

Some of the tasks reference other sections of my bullet journaling, like to do items, time logs, journaling, and daily praise.

I tried using a bunch of different apps on my phone. Square peg, round hole. And toting around a physical journal is a helpful nudge to stick with the program.

YMMV.
I recall somebody promoting this like 40 years ago. Patents will be expired, anyhow.

They didn't have quantum dots back then.
I don't necessarily disagree with this, but I think the difference isn't between frontend and backend, it's between strongly typed and weakly typed, or structured and unstructured. The strength and weakness of Firebase and MongoDB is that they let you shove unstructured data into the db without defining a schema.

Once you have any users at all, you need to migrate that data every time your data model changes. When you need to migrate data, not having a schema goes from a blessing to a curse, because you're trying to change the structure of unstructured data.

For this reason, I'm skeptical of both sides of the coin. I'd almost rather start with an ephemeral in-memory store that forces you to rewrite before you have actual users, rather than be tempted by MongoDB or Firebase.
I expect external change, but going to use old iPhone XR/11 chassis. That's how SE/SE2 made.
Wow. Didn't watch the super bowl this year, so this is my first time seeing that ad. That is incredibly depressing.
The Chinese Room argument might have a number of problems, but it can be simplified. Put someone in a room who cannot see colours (an achromatope), and give them three different colour filters in the form of plastic sheets. A person outside the room passes sheets of paper of known colour into the room, the achromatope puts them under the colour filters, thereby determining each paper's colour, which he tells the person outside the room. The person outside the room thinks there's someone in the room who can see colours. But achromatopes can't see any colours, and will readily tell you that they have no idea what it's like to see colours.
I would venture to say that you're likely working on a distributed monolith rather than microservices. There are many varying definitions but the two key ones are that they have bounded-context/do-one-thing and that they are small built by a two-pizza-sized team or could be rewritten in two weeks. Another property is that they should be able to do what they do without tightly-depending on other services (e.g. calling them and awaiting a response to continue). I would expect to understand what a microservice does and how it does its thing simply by looking at the data/communication schemas, source code, and maybe a little upstream and downstream.

Unless you are very curious about the details of different ways 'microservices' can be done wrong, there's little reason to stay and try to understand what's there. I could be wrong, like if the reason it doesn't make sense is lack of domain knowledge, in which case it may be worth staying and getting a view, but the environment doesn't sound very conducive for learning.
Is this still possible in Blink? Or was this feature abandoned?
If you don't try to understand it very deeply, and maybe only pay about 20% attention to it, you might find that at the end you get a "YES!" moment when the character puts on the device and the music kicks in and he's got the little happy foot stomp going on.

That's really all I got from it. Good music, good times, with the device on. Terrible times without the device.

To me it's just the same old "you need this in your life" bullshit that advertising is all about.
The DMCA gave websites carte blanche to host user uploaded content with practically zero copyright liability as long as they responded to DMCA requests and let the third parties fight over it in court. I wouldn't call that restrictive.
The context here is that, when AI was overhyped last time, the whole field collapsed to the level below ground.

You see, overhyping doesn’t exactly help the field:

(1) researchers need consistent investment over a long period of time.

(2) a large amount of blind money goes into fake projects and false promises.

(3) after the bubble pops, the “AI” will be bashed hard for being not very profitable.

(4) here comes another winter.

So, for academia, it’s better to get hyped slightly less and run longer, instead of go brrr and die tomorrow.