skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was never sure if it was dust causing my phone to refuse to charge or Apple's gatekeeping "official" cables. There used to be jailbreak tweaks that would allow unauthorized cables to suddenly start working fine, but the best I could do in iOS 14 was get a cable to maintain the battery (without charging it). Perhaps Apple is shooting their own standard in the foot simply by enforcing their certification program.

That said, you're absolutely right that its limit is reached already with phones. Some old cables have two pins (presumably VDD) that are discolored from use. Would not want lightning for charging a laptop.
My personal story is I was in a similar situation, I used to do "Flash" development, which died out a long time ago. After some sporadic work and rough times, I did a developer bootcamp (General Assembly) and took out a large loan. I had my older brother co-sign and help pay. I worked REALLY hard, 10-12 hour days of coding for 3-4 months. I landed a contract coding job after several interviews, and usually one job is all you need to get the wheel rolling. The loan is paid off, no regrets.

Getting any job is an effort. I suggest people get better practice interviewing and presenting themselves. Finding a career coach or mentor is incredibly helpful. And finally, getting instructor-led education is potentially the best strategy. Even taking one introductory class can be invigorating to see a clearer path forward.
They both sound terrible and shouldn't be allowed off a racetrack! :P
Although I’d argue that it isn’t necessary for all those functions to be part of the buffer object themselves - they could receive the relevant details vi dynamic extent and not burden the user with an API that requires passing in an Editor State object (which is the key benefit of Emacs - I just don’t see how this is related to the naming of buffers).
I think there can be one argument that apply to many German brands: they perfect and produce their “Model 100” little too much and too many for a brand to diverge later. A driving 944 sells for sometimes as low as $5k, literal wreck of a 911 goes twice that.
This conclusion was sealed when they settled on the definition of AGI as being "as good or better than humans at things humans do", emphasis mine. Things humans do require embodiment.

The more interesting proposition (that I'm inclined to believe FWIW) is that "common sense" requires high-bandwidth interaction with an environment, complex inputs and outputs. The environment could be Reality, it could be a simulation, or it could be something totally other. In either case, the abilities the agent develops will make sense in that environment. If that's true, and if "human level common sense" is close enough to AGI by OP's definition (that's pretty close to what we mean in practice IMO), then OP is basically the special case of this argument where the environment is the real world.
In The Ministry For the Future (World War Z style novel about what the near future might look like as climate change really takes hold) there’s a group that torpedos ships with shipping containers and uses drones to take down private jets and cargo planes. The idea being that if they do it enough, demand will dry up.

It’s a very interesting book.
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USDC is an example of a 1-1 backed stablecoin. Circle is just another private company but it is well funded and I think only fully collateralized stablecoins can exist. Algorithmic stablecoins are pure hocus-pocus.
I ran this on my mp3 collection in, I dunno, ~2002, and wow, buy me a beer & ask me how it went.

I already had folders with with albums in it. It'd often split these albums apart & decide this song was actually from some other album.

I'm sure- quite sure- it's gotten much better. But it's been a lesson to me, even to this day. I hope that old hard drive spins up again, some day.

In general the principle here is amazing. The real feature is identifying songs. And it was & is pretty amazing at that. I applaud this software. My tale, I hope, is mostly historical. But it still sticks with me.
Imagine you license a word processor this way, would it then be a violation to use that word processor to edit your resume?
DALL-E 2 Has Redrawn Classic Paintings by Famous Artists While Preserving Style
Still one of the funniest stories about the clueless https://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html
Pretty surprising that MSFT would end up with a deal like that, I'd feel like they would be in a position of strength. Unless all the ARM vendors were pretty supicious of whether Microsoft would succeed/invest properly in the ecosystem?
I prefer to think it's a survival instinct to pass as much knowledge as possible to the next generation.
This may not be accurate, but from what I heard, it actually turned out that Lamborghini was a subject matter expert on that particular clutch, because it also happened to be used in some of his tractors. He tore down the failed Ferrari and found exactly what the actual third-party manufacturer of the clutch was. He was not exactly happy about it.
Mega-tsunami in the Pacific NW? It could be worse than predicted, study says
jQuery in demand? Since when outside legacy work?
The way the US electoral system chooses representatives is terrible. Other countries have better methods, but change is very, very hard.
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but it's such a shame, it's a lovely tool
Yes! Just don't cold-email businesses with your offerings - lots and lots of low value options do!

Instead, find local meetup groups of businesses and start making connections. Be the local business doing this.
Is this still true with services like Squarespace and Shopify around? There are also many startups with millions in funding building sites for industry niches (e.g., Luxury Presence for high-end real estate). And many small businesses seem totally content with just their Facebook page. This feels like a tough area to compete in to me.
I don't think this needs to be a dichotomy.

Different conditions beget different types of innovation. Interoperable systems evolved things (paradigms, models, languages…) that competing ones couldn't, and the opposite is also true. The world needs both, and probably everything in-between.
I'd be interested to know if you do get examples. Also interested to know whether you were able to find evidence and examples for the prior claim that "It's also how stability is maintained and a nation remains safe and trustworthy."
> Pius XII had other priorities. As the head of a large international organization, his overriding aim in negotiations with Hitler’s emissary was protecting the institutional resources and prerogatives of the Roman Catholic Church in the Third Reich. If the only goal was to protect the welfare of the institutional Church, his efforts could well be judged a success. But for those who see the papacy as a position of great moral leadership, the revelations of Pius XII’s secret negotiations with Hitler must come as a sharp disappointment. As the war years wore on, in all their horror, Pius XII came under great pressure to denounce Hitler’s regime and its ongoing attempt to exterminate Europe’s Jews. He would resist until the end.
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Do you have any plans on adding hashtables/dictionaries of any sort to the language? It seems to be above the cutting-off point for some other retro basics I've seen, like QB64. Perhaps it's too complicated to add, but they feel kinda like part of the bedrock of "scripty" languages these days, so it's something I'd definitely add if I was making a BASIC myself, but I understand that different folks take different tacks on stuff like this.
Living sustainably has little to do with expansion of the species (and population, pretty much by definition). Almost the opposite. Maybe the solution to Fermi's Paradox being discussed is other species do become fully sustainable and thus never spread. Leaving us with the opportunity to devour the galaxy like a cancer.
Apple didn't support WebP for the longest time. A bunch of fairly major sites started using them. While they worked in the browser, when downloading the image macOS couldn't open it. The same went for the video format.

I just tried downloading a couple and they seem to work now, but I've grown to hate WebP. Even if they open today, I likely won't keep anything saved as WebP, because I won't trust it will work down the road, where jpg and png will likely work for decades.
Agreed, this seems like a case for getting external help. Career coach, resume reviewer, practice interviews, mentoring, etc. Stay humble, ask for help!
Legacy work includes websites that were written a few years ago, but still work and don't need to be completely redone. Add some features, but a rebuild is unnecessary.
where is this "must seize TSMC" quote? A month ago there was also some discussion in which the media alleged Putin of saying "nuclear deterence" when he just said "deterence". Do the journalists think their job is to read people's mind and word it whatever way they see fit to manufacture consent for going to war with China?
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You cannot have a "fully open" license which disallows commercial usage. Both the OSI and FSF definitions of "open source" and "free software" licenses would exclude such a license. Of course you can create a proprietary license which disallows commercial usage, but it won't be "fully open".
I worked in a clean room for a couple of years-- you are correct that any contamination could cost months of cleaning. Possibly even losing environmental control of the facility. A lot of people don't realize clean rooms have temperatures/humidity factors that must be maintained.

That being said I'm sure the real risk is the Chinese capturing the machines-- it is acknowledged they are about 15 years behind the state of the art.
I think the problem with this assertion is that how do you differentiate between specialization and the "G" for general in AGI. ... in many ways, wouldn't a tree meet your definition of AGI? (Perhaps it should?)

Like, at a sufficiently granular level, I probably couldn't "tree" very well, even with the assistance of tremendous computing power. There's vast amounts of computation being performed during a tree doing its thing. But is a tree really a general intelligence?
They happen between walled gardens, them they sponsor a comitee to turn into a standard. The only difference between current and standard based is a bunch of extra burocracy where your competitor will try to fit their custom walled garden extension that is hard to implement to give them an edge.
I didn’t mean purity in the functional programming sense. Rather, I was using the general English sense of strictly adhering to some ideal. I claim that there is no such thing as the Lispiest Lisp.
Yes, but many non-technical business owners want to focus on other aspects of their company and just get someone to do that work.
Three journals/sets of docs:

Active - Currently doing/note taking on current task. The idea is not to recall later but for the task at hand. This is physical.

Reflective - After completing a task take the active notes and refine and update them for someone other than you. This is a git repo my team has access to.

Aspirational - Ideas, concepts, all that jazz. For me this is lots of mechanical drawings etc that I want to CAD up, interesting phenomena that could be reproduced with code, far fetched ideas to solve the world's problems, nothing is off limits. This is a physical notebook and the one thing I'd grab if my house was on fire.

Google has some good resources on technical writing[1].

[1] https://developers.google.com/tech-writing
I don’t know, I feel pretty aware of where my desires come from. When I moved to a country where everyone dressed up I feel the need to dress better because it will be more appreciated.
For the person who has owned neither marque, it's only a question of feeling.

Ferrari has always been beautiful and performance driven.

Lamborghini has been design driven. Performance is there, but with more conditions.

If you want iconic, you'll have more choices with Lamboroghini. If you want elegant and mechanically elegant, you _usually_ want Ferrari.

Then there are specific models...

Ferrari 250, in its various forms is a Mona Lisa to the viewers who appreciate it. Then there was the Testarossa, and then the F40. After that, the designs were also great, but they weren't so special at the right time.

For Lambo, you have the Miura, Countach (probably the most recognizable supercar design of all time), and the Diablo.

For the car enthusiast, it's rarely a direct comparison. At times one has the mechanical advantage, and at other times is a design appeal.
I looked into Yubikey a while back and the first thing that pooped into my head was to buy 3 and put the third one in a bank's safe deposit box. Keep one for myself and give the other to my wife.
PayPal is allowing users to move their cryptocurrency to other wallets
Furthermore this is a significant ethical problem with testing and developing an AGI, especially an embodied one. That horrid montage of security footage in Ex Machina makes the point well.
So you have a primary key ("row key") and each column C is essentially its own table containing column C and the primary key column, with the index being on column C. You can see how there is data duplication here, right? Each primary key value is duplicated #columns times.

So we have a mapping from column value to row index. Is there an inverse mapping stored if I want to find all column values contained in a given row?
Well there's likely to be surplus rocket fuel available, either RP-1 (kerosene), methane, or liquid hydrogen, and LOX, so burning some in an (non-rocket) internal combustion engine is not so crazy. Fuel cells would be more efficient though.
Yes, hiring is zero sum, but if you're complaining about the suggestions I just gave, those work to remedy bias in a hiring pipeline rather than explicitly making people's lives harder.

In other words, if you are unhappy that you no longer have an advantage because those rules are being implemented, you are seeking to benefit from policies that would otherwise advantage you as a result of your attributes, ones that make the lives of those with other attributes that much harder. There is nothing acceptable about that, even if in a technical sense this makes your life harder.
Releasing a non-802.11ax/wifi6 device is gross. Can someone clarify? It means one of two bad things. Either: A) no other device can communicate with your AP while this device is chatting, or B) only wifi6 devices can chat while this device is communicating. I'm not sure which, but either way, releasing a device lacking basic ability to keep spectrum shared & usable is pretty frustrating.

I guess 802.11ax was only finalized 2020, so it's not _that_ established, but holy heck, like 802.11ac, there were so many pre-draft implementations that ported fine to the final spec. It's brutal thinking of adding more oldschool devices that sacrifice & sap our AP's & spectrum. Can't we have some decency?
My wish for configuration languages is that as an industry we continue to adopt scriptable build systems like Bazel that make it easy to transform human-written configuration into machine-readable configuration during compile time.

Want comments in JSON? Spend 20 minutes refactoring a single BUILD rule and now humans can write JSON5 that's transformed into JSON

Want more flexibility? Have humans write cue or dhall or jsonnet

Wish you also had a copy of a subset of the same config data in YAML? Easy

Want to write a compile-time check in a programming language of your choice that a certain setting is never missing? Easy

Want all of this to work with reproducible builds across a variety of computers and distributed build farms? Easy

We don't have to let legacy build systems limit our imagination.
I don’t believe one can travel across the Americas via the Panamerican highway. It’s more idea than reality.
I think people in this thread are taking this a bit too seriously.

To me this just looks like a novelty item, more akin to an art piece than a serious technology intended to be used on a daily basis. You gotta admit it looks pretty cool.
4chan has always been a haven for kids with depraved thoughts... It's an example of how things go when there is no moderation at all. Even the founder (Moot) left ownership of the site early on as the festering hate was directed at him.

It's a classic lord of the flies scenario, when something with the best of intentions spirals out of control and then ends up being chaotic, despite the best intentions.

It's also a reflection of human character, online, many people act in a way they would not in person, because there are less to no consequences... Always an interesting debate.

I joke around online at times and am often taken too seriously in those times, and I also am careful in preventing harm with my words at all times, but not flawless, and that to me is normal. There are some memes and things I come across when I am on sites like Reddit and TikTok that do leave me highly concerned when I happen to be able to decipher them... Many of these memes have deep rooted contempt in them that nobody else gets. Memes also completely skirt moderation because of how they're encrypted messages, and that's why AI and moderation simply wont work in countering them and in filtering content from young minds...

We need better ways of talking to each other in real life to counter the hostile online culture, just banning/muting words and people doesn't fix anything. Banning people from social sites also forces them to flock to seedier havens, where deeper mistrust, contempt and hate reside, and that in turn radicalizes people more because those places are often toxic by nature, and this is why things just get worse over time. There is great responsibility in running large platforms, they make vast amounts of money, but shirk responsibility regularly.

The heavy amount of moderation on social media only servs to frustrate people more, and often totally prevents regular/considerate posters from being heard altogether (Because it is abused by many others), which pretty much makes most of the social Internet dull and exclusionary to the point that the best contributors rarely want to use social media any more.

The only plausible ways to get visibility on many social sites and apps these days is either to be already popular, a platform employee or affiliate, a high-paying advertiser, or to be highly controversial in pushing social envelopes... I'm not qualified for nor invested into any of those success routes (I'm just a musician and developer), so I guess I need to learn to be happy with my own web site. If we all went back to personal sites over social media, things would likely get better, because there is more accountability involved without giving your government name and phone number to FaceBook.
The comparison with geothermal is flawed for 2 reasons. 1. Geothermal turbines spin at whatever temperature the geothermal steam comes out of the ground. According to the EIA, that's between 150 and 370 Celsius [1]. This is lower than the steam coming from a nuclear reactor. Lower steam temperature means lower thermodynamic efficiency (the ideal Carnot cycle has an efficiency of 1-T_cold/T_hot and all other cycles have an efficiency that is monotonic in T_hot). The second problem with geothermal is the cost of digging the holes, putting the pipes in place, etc.

Here's a better comparison. The legendary General Electric turbine LM2500 [2]. GE has built more than 2300 such engines, which operate lots of civilian and military ships and also function as electricity generators in various places.

The top of the line such engine is LM2500+G4, which can generate 35 MW and costs about $12 MM. That comes at about $350 MM/GW. That's absolutely negligible compared to the cost of a nuclear power plant, and it is a third of the cost of a solar power plant (see the EIA report [3], page 179, where they estimate a 150 MW such plant to cost - only the components - $172 MM, which translate to $1.15 BN/GW).

[1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/geothermal/geothermal-po...

[2] http://www.fi-powerweb.com/Engine/Industrial/GE-LM2500.html

[3] https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/powerplants/capitalcost...
I'm an RSE building such a tool right now for a clinical trial, and came in knowing this is the norm.

We're experimenting with building a data collection system that uses adversarial/multiplayer game mechanics incentivizes researchers to share (gain co-authorship) and excludes them from the benefits (e.g. co-authorship) if the minimum submitted data threshold isn't met.

Still early days, but we figured this is the only way to get people to share data, even within other people within the same project / lab. Similarly, I'm getting a lot of ideas from HN on event-driven data collection and immutable data storage to help make the data more tamper proof.
I dare say personal identity is wholly and explicitly subjective. Are you claiming otherwise?
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> Griggs vs. Duke Power.

Griggs vs. Duke Power does not, in any way, establish that White males are less protected than anyone else, which was the question. And your rants about it in this post wouldn't make that different even if they were accurate.

> The CRA explicitly allows testing.

So does Griggs. If, and here Griggs quotes the language of the statute authorizing the use of professionally-developed tests, they are not “designed, intended or used to discriminate because of race. . . .”; and the EEOC had, at the time, under its explicir regulatory authority under the act, specifically allowed only job-related tests.

> It was amended to introduce the word “intentionally.”

It's a big act, and I am sure that word exists somewhere in it, but nowhere germane to the case. And if it did, you, being the law-school grad you are, would surely quote it in context, and explain the conflict with the ruling in Griggs.

> The courts ignored the text of the bill and the intent of the congressmen who voted for it in developing disparate impact theory.

No, they didn't, but even if they had, that wouldn't make your case: disparate impact applies equally to discrimination against White candidates as that against blacks.
Yes, I'm sorry if I came across as at all pointing a finger at you or your family, not at all the case and it would be foolish given the rest of my comment narrative. Just mentioned the Arabic history of slave trading as a general counterpoint to a dominant narrative of it being a European custom above all else.
Their goal may just be to keep their job as head of the DEI department. Seeking out a solution to a problem that doesn't exist keeps them employed.

EDIT: this can also apply to various other functions within a company. Doesn’t have to be DEI.
> But they rely on SMS for initial authenticaion (when you install or re-install the app)

It's been a long time since I installed it, so I'll take your word for it. They have my email address displayed in the app, so maybe I can do authentication on a new device over email, too. But regardless of how you initially authenticate a reinstall (email or SMS), as long as you are using the Authy cloud backup -- which is password-protected and cannot be reset over SMS or email -- what is your concern (genuine question)? I do not see the security risk, but I'm no expert.
I actually really like RON[1]

[1] https://github.com/ron-rs/ron
> Griggs vs. Duke Power

This [1] one? With the majority opinion written by Chief Justice Burger? Burger the Ike supporter and Nixon appointee, now somehow a "liberal judge"?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.