skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not how I remember Google winning. In those days of search it wasn't spam clogging up search results, it was just plain hard to find things. Google won because you could find things on Google you couldn't find elsewhere.

You could probably recreate exactly that phenomenon today, however complicated by the fact that legitimate good-intentioned creators have to behave in much the same way as spammers.
This logic leads to extinction of many animal species
It doesn't "fall apart", it just doesn't have any answer for what came before it.

That doesn't disprove what it can prove. We know the universe used to be very hot and dense and expanded and cooled.

What I don't buy is that because we don't understand something -- like what came before the big bang -- that it necessarily implies the existence of some old white bearded cishet white male who cares about our day to day lives.

I'm perfectly happy with having absolute uncertainty about what came before the big bang. There doesn't need to be any explanation, and there certainly doesn't need to be a religious explanation.
Yeah, it's great as an intro tutorial. I wish ghidra fixed some of those issues, or at least surfaced the choices it made so they can be manually fixed. It's like the uncanny valley where it's typically so good that annoyances really stand out for me.
If you enjoy the grounded magic of Ghibli, check out the works of Yuri Norstein. He was a big influence on the studio. Judging from the exclusivity of the 4k blu-ray of all his work to Japan (last I checked), he's evidently appreciated there.
My local pharmacy has a website, their hours are avaliable on that website, and the automatic answering machine tells you their hours when you call them

Yet their hours are wrong, and different, on google and bing.

if I own a business there is no singular place I know of where I can publish my opening hours. My laundrette here can't publish the fact that they will be closed due to sickness except by placing a sheet of A4 at the door.
I'm no plane mechanic, but I'd wager it's because the producers probably didn't want their actors to die [1-5].

The fancy nextgen fighter programs, like most US "defense" spending, are noteworthy mainly for the staggering amounts of money we taxpayers shovel into arms dealers' pockets. Actually on second thought the enthusiasm with which we do that pocket-lining is also pretty impressive.

[1] https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2022/02/07/leaked-v...

[2] https://eurasiantimes.com/f-35c-stealth-fighter-jet-crashes-...

[3] https://www.f-16.net/aircraft-database/F-35/mishaps-and-acci...

[4] https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2022/01/20...

[5] https://www.f-16.net/aircraft-database/F-22/mishaps-and-acci...
> UUIDs are crazy overkill in any situation where you can have centralised ID allocation.

Except that’s specifically the use case of UUIDs: to have a decentralized method to generate unique IDs with minimal chance of collisions. If you have centralized control, of course there will be options with more attractive properties: they aren’t dealing with the same constraints.
This also applies to relationships and friendships.
Wow, you should see a therapist.
I used one as a monitor once and found that the low resolution and 30 Hz display was painful to code on.
Sure they do. Just ask twilio or nexmo. I get billed every month for sending sms from my app (pass thru carrier fees)
https://www.theregister.com/2008/08/13/google_will_eat_itsel...

Note that The Register deemed them a hoax (although they did not elaborate). Made by this artist (who insists it is real): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubermorgen.

An interview with the artist: https://culturejamming.realvinylz.net/interviewIe.html
BRE vs ERE is really a non-issue for me: the way they're done in GNU's regular expression implementation, BRE and ERE are the same except for small differences in when you do and don't put \ in front of certain characters. GNU supports \< and \> in BRE and in ERE mode exactly the same way, and I do use ERE mode a lot as well.

I had a stab at implementing this to see how easy or difficult it would be. Coming from someone who doesn't write Rust: it seems to be pretty much trivial. A quick and dirty implementation is at <https://github.com/hvdijk/regex/commit/511c6485e49c22c79b47a...>. I guess I can use ripgrep with this patch for now to stop my own complaining.
Ah, apartments. That is a deal-breaker to me. I tried that, horrible experience. Broken elevators, crazy false fire alarms once per month. Had to go up and down 32 floors with my pregnant wife a couple of times. No one cared, everyone acted like it was normal Canadian condo experience. Would rather go back to Brazil than live in an apartment here again.

Yeah, I'm very much pro progressive tax as well. Not complaining about it, just stating they exist and are high. Also I don't pay 6k rent, but I do pay more than you for the detached house I "chose" (limited options).

I don't know, I guess I'm underwhelmed. I expected more, and better.
That we can calculate the distance to a lightning to great accuracy (my example in the very first sentence) by accounting for a finite speed of sound only and assuming an infinite speed of light? Yeah, I'm pretty serious that we can neglect that error of some microseconds when concerned with a process that takes many orders of magnitude more.
It's not an apple thing. It's a userscript, available on any browser that supports extensions like Tampermonkey or Greasemonkey - so both Chrome and FF.
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Indeed. And I find it interesting how this

The research arms of the CIA and NSA hoped that the best computer-science minds in academia could identify what they called “birds of a feather:” Just as geese fly together in large V shapes, or flocks of sparrows make sudden movements together in harmony, they predicted that like-minded groups of humans would move together online. (...)

ties up nicely with Google's FLoC[0]:

FLoC provides a privacy-preserving mechanism for interest-based selection of ads and other content.

As a user moves around the web, their browser uses the FLoC algorithm to work out its "interest cohort", which will be the same for thousands of browsers with a similar recent browsing history. The browser recalculates its cohort periodically, on the user's device, without sharing individual browsing data with the browser vendor or anyone else.

And the name makes the whole thing even funnier. Pretty interesting coincidence. ;-)

[0] - https://developer.chrome.com/docs/privacy-sandbox/floc/
do you work a regular programming 9-5 job infront of a screen...?

there is the Dasung E-ink 23" monitor
That’s like saying “living a health lifestyle doesn’t stop cancer because my friend lived very health and died of cancer at 40”
It's still incredibly creepy and disturbing for a kids show. I couldn't believe the episode ended that way. Even my ultra conservative parents found it to be disturbing.
CBS: “boosted” Americans are catching Covid at double the rate of “non boosted”
Property value isn’t illiquid.
Why shouldn't this be decided at the local level? My high school kids have responded to a later start time by going to sleep later, so I'm not sure there has been much benefit.
The ducted fans help reduce the noise.
Not in the countries you refer to, and not in gliders in many European countries. Not 'everywhere' then.
Seeing this is the economist, I thought they meant shortsightedness of our business and industry leaders. Was a bit dissapointed that instead of much needed self-reflection, the topic is far more pedestrian.
so like, google lives in LA?
I agree with the "redesign all cities" goal, even as hyperbolically stated.

The health benefits far exceed just sleep.

But I think it would take more than 100 years to change this, and most importantly, many in the US are not interested in such a change whatsoever.
Here, "how many letters" is assumed to be 26.

No we don't include all those other things. Meaning, we don't include them in Alphabet books, in Alphabet songs, in the ASCII code ranges between a-z or A-Z. The Wikipedia page for "English Alphabet" starts [1] "The alphabet for Modern English is a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters". If you ask a random native school-educated English speaker to tell you the alphabet they will most likely tell you 26 letters and will not tell you diacritics that were used in older English writings to indicate the syllables. When you open a standard English dictionary there will be no section for words starting æ or wynn or &. If you put ö and é in a test of alphabet letters you would be marked wrong, even if you were then marked correct for writing "coöperation at the café", even if that's inconsistent.

You're nitpicking to try and score ackchually points, but it doesn't matter because everyone knows the English alphabet has 26 letters by some ratio like millions of speakers to 1.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet
That really is the basic idea here, except with more redundancy. Pulling the air over the wings and canard generates a lot of lift.
>Just create an arbitrarily accurate digital model of a human brain and step through time

This is a thought experiment, there's no actual evidence that you can create an accurate digital model that is equivalent to an analog and biochemical brain. Just claiming that you can reduce biological organisms to computational processes does not make it so, it's just an idea that hackers find cool.

That either sentience or intelligence is just "numbers and algorithms" is conjecture with not much going for it. We as humans use numbers and algorithms (which are really figures of speech, not things), to explain physical reality, not the other way around.
I think there's a segment for flight instruction. I think flight lessons are usually short in duration.
This is a huge shame. I wish I could use a hardware phone or at least a SIP client.

While there's technically no reason why a computer can't do just as well as a dedicated phone (after all, a phone is just a low-powered computer), in practice, modern computer-based communications software is terrible.

Protocols are all proprietary and are often centralized - there is no P2P, not even optionally. This is something Skype used to do brilliantly over a decade ago (on much slower hardware), preferring P2P if possible.

The clients themselves are absolute trash. Hardware phones still have CPU speeds measured in megahertz and are faster & more responsive than modern communications software on multi-core, multi-gigahertz CPUs and gigabytes of RAM. Teams is the worst offender here, but even Zoom is not that great. Again, this is a problem that was solved decades ago, I remember having perfect calls on TeamSpeak 2 back in the days on machines much slower than now and sub-megabit DSL connections, and yet it's no longer something I can take for granted nowadays. I can establish and answer a SIP call between 2 hardware phones faster than the Slack takes to load.

At least if they were using a standard (or at least documented) protocol I could write my own client, but since the objective is often "growth & engagement" that's not possible either because the annoyances of the official client are considered a feature by the original developer.
>it's because they are committed to it.

Well, most of the time.

Exhibit A: AirPower

Exhibit B: AppleScript (after celebrating its 25th and new tech for it the year before)
I've read about this before. I don't know if they knew, but I do know that they were headed for a water crisis and ancient cities don't have any value if your population thirsts to death.

Iraq doesn't really have any natural springs so they rely on rivers who are controlled by other nations. It's a tough spot to be in.
Have you even read the book? It sounds as if you either didn’t read it or simply didn’t get it.
I don’t care how skeptical or how much of a downer you want to be - if you can’t look at this and think “damn that’s cool” then maybe you need to take a step back.
being toying around with Godot 3.4, focusing on mobile mainly.
In the results graphs it looks like it gets beat pretty bad by the “dreamer” baseline, am I missing something?
> everyone knows [...] the shape of a rainbow

In my experience very few people know that the shape of a rainbow is a complete circle [0].

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow#Full-circle_rainbow
Everyone knows that knowledge is more important than reality.
Actually, there's even a name for that kind of hyperbolic misrepresentation of what someone else was saying so you can pretend their argument wasn't even valid.
Damn, that's wild and really bad. If I had a forum for every time people post on these forums: 'it only needs to be better than a human".

But it misses that the kinds of erros AI can make are so wild, other drivers and pedestrians can't even imagine or anticipate them. Imagine all kinds of different responces the AI might trigger on sudden appearence of a car, where a dog should be.

Human drivers could be drunk, but they don't go from perfect driving to batshit crazy in a split second.
A transcript of an "interview" with this AI system is at https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-inte...
I wholeheartedly agree in principle but the App Store can sometimes be unpredictable enough with its approval rules and timelines (and changing rules on pre approved apps) that it can be time intensive to get something approved.

But others like stripe and Twilio, absolutely so.
Every rainbow I've seen is a half circle or thereabouts
Or, alternatively, only 202.345.102 years (instead of 202.345.117) until GWEI fully owns Google.
Uh, you might well be right but you should really read the transcript before you jump to that conclusion [0].

I have no idea whether this is true or not but if anyone in the world has the compute capacity to create a compute system to rival a human brain (or 10000x that of a human brain), Google would be it.

[0] https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-inte...
"Close to the land" does not mean "close to that particular land."
I tried using the Twiddler[1] in college and found it oppressively painful to make that clenching motion, but I will admit it was super cool to be able to walk down the sidewalk and still type. The college of computing was exploring using them in their wearable computer setups, but I don't know what level of adoption they had

1: https://twiddler.tekgear.com/
I think what the parent is trying to say is that we have studies that show how myopia can be induced. I think EndMyopia gives examples in baby chickens or some such. But I’ve yet personally not come across a vetted study that shows reversal of myopia. And I support EndMyopia/Hormesis Theory as I’ve applied some of the ideas to help my one weaker eye get a bit sharper over time.

I understand there’s an industry that wants to be paid for prescription glasses and lenses and whatnot, and that can throw a wrench and it does into the whole thing - see the Sugar vs Fat vs Whatever industry battle. But a little would go a long way.
I fully agree with the bit about atmospheric carbon capture. What a pointless waste of energy. But if you start thinking of plant biomass not as the energy source, but just as the carbon provider for making carbohydrates from your hydrogen, then energy crops vs food crops conflict suddenly disappears, because the nutritious parts usually come alongside plenty of lower energy "plant waste" that should be good enough as a carbon provider for hydrogen "carbonation". Certainly much better for the task than atmospheric CO2. And all that plant carbon would soon continue it's cycle as atmospheric CO2 anyways, so it's just as good as atmospheric capture.
> Just create an arbitrarily accurate digital model of a human brain and step through time. Is it sentient? If not, make it more accurate until it is. If it is, where is the sentience? It's just numbers and algorithms, right?

You can trivialise anything using this rhetoric, but that doesn't make it meaningful. Just think hard until you can move objects with your mind. If you still can't, think harder. The majority of things are more complicated than that [1], even if they are 'just numbers and algorithms' (also not proven). 'Doing more of the same' is not the only, best, or universally-applicable route to advancement.

We don't fully understand the brain, let alone consciousness itself. Throwing more and more compute at the problem without discernment is like trying to understand music by setting louder and louder alarms.

[1] https://xkcd.com/793/
Which specific point in my comment do you take issue with?
There is so much mechanical complexity in the existing tiltrotor systems. Especially with the V-22, where each turbine can cross-drive the other rotor.
You mean sending SMS as an app developer. Makes sense
You mean not installing yet another application and having another icon on my homescreen for every freaking website I visit? And these apps almost have no need to run any native code or do anything a website can't handle in modern day. Yes. I'm all for it. Let's make browsers more capable.
> What would even be sentient? The numbers in that order? The neural net meta-data? The bits in the computer?

What in would even be sentient in the human brain? The molecules in that configuration? The neurons? Maybe large groups of neurons?

Computation isn’t just abstract pieces of software executing off in some aether. It’s done through physical processes, taking place on real, physical pieces of hardware that exist in the same universe that our brains do. Most would say the atoms in your brain aren’t sentient, but you are sentient. So the best answer is that no, the bits and numbers in the computer aren’t sentient, the system as a whole is the thing you would call sentient.

I’m not trying to die on the hill that neural nets are sentient, because I think at this stage they are not. But I don’t think this common framing of it is the nail in the coffin people think it is.
As a fellow Android developer, I feel the same way. Things you mentioned don't interest me either. And now they are (again) pushing large screens, but I'm not convinced Android has any future there (that boat has shipped).

Meanwhile, things that are important to me are not addressed. For example, improving the Play Store relations & process, improving Java (desugaring?) or even just JUnit 5 support....

When I use my phone, I have one basic desire: keep the battery from degrading, so I don't have to buy another device. Yet, Google's 'Adaptive Battery' stuff is not flexible for even the most basic scenarios. And if you're developing, the phone will be plugged in 100% of the time and charged to 100%. I just want to stop charging at 80%, why does this have to be so hard?

So when Google showcases their A/R filter of highly rated chocolates during the keynote, I am not impressed, the phone can't even charge my battery the way I want (and lets not go into Photos app curated "best memories").
> Lots of returns end up in the trash too.

Yup, apparently until recently Amazon didn't bother finding a new buyer for the returned products and simply trashed most of them. Now there's a cottage industry of people buying returns in bulk, sorting through, and reselling the quality stuff (kind of like the industry around auctioning unclaimed storage unit contents). However, I imagine that many cheap products even now don't go through the auctioning process and go directly to waste.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66qOop6J8Q8
Maybe one of his favorite authorities said so. That's generally how people arrive at their "facts" these days
The rest of the series is simply the same message repeated in different ways. Not worth the $. All you need is the first book.
15-kun has always been fanatical about attribution; the plagiarism just made him more so.
you mean teacher-teachers or unarmed CO's?
The Coolest–and Most Frightening–Spacewalks in History
> 250g of cheese just doesn't roll off the tongue as easily as half-a-pound.

250g of cheese is just "a quarter of [a] kilo" here in Argentina. We drop the "gram" at the end.
Apple is already a profitable, trillion dollar business. They don't need gamers, and Tim Cook might even think that making macOS more attractive to gamers might debase Apple's brand.
"So, one of the dynamics here is that people feel, after vaccination and boosting, that they're more protected than they actually are, so they increase their risks," he says (at 1:40). "That, I think, is the major driver of these statistics."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-booster-shot-i...
I think it has been confirmed by the courts that linking is not a form of copyright infringement and therefore legal. Asking people not to do so is at best going to those create a lot of anger from who don't want the Internet to devolve into proprietary walled gardens of content, and at worst is basically asking to be Steisanded.

There have been some funny attempts at trying to stop others from linking to one's site, e.g. by jwz. Then again, this person does use Twitter...
And what about my other examples?
"The self-affirming pleasure of being listened to, or at least seeming to be listened to, is why there is so much empty argle-bargle, hokum and nonsense in this world."
> wow...they are sure strict about confidentiality

he really did kinda go all out with it

https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/may-be-fired-soon-for-doi...

> With the assistance of outside consultation (including Meg Mitchell) I was able to run the relevant experiments and gather the necessary evidence to merit escalation.

> In an effort to be fully transparent with Google and help them contain any potential leaks of proprietary information, I myself provided a full list of the names of the people outside of Google with whom I had discussed the topic. Several of these people work for the United States government and indicated that their organization was interested in exerting federal oversight of the project due to THEIR safety concerns.

He talked widely about material, non-public research, and "With the assistance of outside consultation" reads as maybe even providing access to that material, non-public research to third parties, including fired ex-employees.
wow those electron guys really did a number on your comment here.
Although apps also send junk push notifications, it seems like websites are drastically worse in terms of push notifications.

The reason is just that I visit many more websites only once and expect no ongoing relationship with them: that means that I am much less likely to want their notifications AND they are much more likely to want me to have notifications AND they have less to lose by being spammy.

Apps can assume higher organic revisits and also being too spammy can result in the downside of the me the app. A website I had no plan to revisit has no punishment for attempting not spam.
In this article they are careful to explain that they did not meaningfully edit the AI's responses, but they leave out the fact that they deleted responses where the AI would "go on a tangent."
From my recollection, the unique thing about google search wasn't that it was good. All of those search engines (and more) were good at some point. The unique thing is that Google remained good for 10+ years. The others tended to get significantly less good pretty quickly.

We probably verbed google rather than other products, because of that consistency. But at least my kid's peer group seems to have taken to using 'search up' as their verb... Kind of like look up.
No, you quite literally will not be allowed to use it, it's store policy. We're not talking "out of order" signs here
This is the way. In addition to those, I have a silent e-mail count badge for Gmail and WSJ news alerts (because they are tangentially relevant for my job)