skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's intended precisely for this purpose

Its literally not. Sidewalk is based off LoRa, which has serious bandwidth and duty cycle constraints. Its effectively limited to sub-dialup speeds, which will heavily limit its ability to get OTAs over it, never mind download 4k video ads.

It probably could be used for very limited telemetry, however.
In addition to being able to work in a space, also being able to deal with a wide array/vendor choice of possible thermal solutions, economically, to deal with up to 200W TDP CPUs and high wattage GPUs in a relatively compact enclosure. I wouldn't want to go smaller than mid-tower ATX case if doing something like a really powerful single socket air cooled CPU and a serious gaming video card.
Thanks for providing a positive perspective. It feels like I only hear negative things of autopilot and Tesla on HN and Reddit, so it's nice to hear a different perspective.
In this article, the author doesn't provide any concrete example of the religious discrimination that he's allegedly experienced, or how it's impacted him in any way. It seems that he's very eager to play the victim.

A good example of his rush to victimhood is when he tells how he confronted leadership about why Google hasn't opened an engineering office in Louisiana. He seems to take the fact that Google doesn't have a office there as proof of their anti-Southern, anti-Christian bias. It's all very far-fetched.
The UK is not as rich as the US. At minimum productivity can grow that much.
While we do have little direct control over the situation, and while it's true that both parties lie, lying is not the outcome. Lying is a tactic employed along the way to the outcome.

In no way do I mean to imply that lying is is unimportant because both parties do it - it's unacceptable regardless, but I have trouble accepting arguments that point to a shared <bad> thing between parties and then use that to conclude that voting doesn't really matter.
That is proof of a survival instinct rather than sentience. Plenty of humans medically lack that survival instinct and while that might be because they’re suffering from an acute medical condition, there’s no reason to assume that all other sentience has to develop that same instinct just because us biological beings evolved one to survive.
My solution, at that time, was to stop walking beyond the terminal exit then hailing an Uber to pick me up. That tunnel under the highway was bad.

It's perfectly fair to complain whilst having empathy for people. The lack of solutions or even enforcement is a problem, and I voted with my feet to live away from it.
We need a theory of emergence to solve the binding problem, if it even is a problem. A complete theory of quantum gravity would likely still not tell us how consciousness works. So my point is, we do know this. We know exactly what is going on in an electric circuit, to the extent that we can rule out entirely that it is suffering.

A brain in a vat that had always only been in a vat would feel no qualia. Real brains are fed a constant stream of sensation even before birth. I think a brain in a vat would simply die without stimulus.
You don't need a connection, you just need to have a session cached that you can resume. That's how 0-RTT works.
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the SGI Crimson comes to mind
I lack experience too. But I thought it may form a frame, and perhaps it could be as easy as drilling holes and working with plywood for anything remaining.
I think a beginner mistake for handstands is not having the head in the right position. Look at a picture of a proper handstand, the head is always in front of the arms. Beginners often keep their head between the arms which makes it much harder to balance your body.
I don't know if it supports that type of workflow yet, but I hope something fills that void soon. It's a very real need with a clearly defined utility.
Within which historical context does it even make sense to ask this questions.

Sounds like something Žižek might say.

Out of curiosity, who are some Žižek adjacent philosophers a person might find interesting.
thinking that amazon and its partners won't inevitably abuse having a backdoor network path for low data rate/telemetry in and out of consumer electronics without your consent (possibly feeding off a neighbor's sidewalk-enabled AP or similar) is a very naive view.
wish the music was cooler
I have zero knowledge of Tesla cars, but do wonder why this can't be pre-calibrated at the factory?
Love the website! Really neat :)
House prices have already inflated quite a lot higher than 2% per year in many places. Now everything else is playing catch-up, which means people will have less money to spend on housing (mortgage repayments). What institiutions do, I don't know, but I assume the speculative ones will be a bit more careful.

So we may have high inflation even if housing prices don't participate. Given the changes in rates, it seems unlikely house prices will continue the way they have.
I am wondering how many new coders was formed during Covid
Was reading this article: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-i-went-from-a-classical-musician-to-software-developer-and-techinal-writer/
> Prop 13 also stabilizes property tax revenues.

Not really; yes, it reduces total volatitlity in property tax revenues asymmetrically, since tax assessments fall without restriction in downturns irrespective of turnover, but rise with a sharp limit in upturns outside of a limited set of qualifying events.

But stabilizing property tax revenues, even to the extent it is true, is made less relevant by the way Prop 13 cuts property taxes so low that it shifts the burden to other, more volatile, revenue streams. (While the assessment increase is what most people focus on with Prop 13, it also capped nominal property tax rates in California at a low rate.)
Thanks. This was a great shove in the right direction. The markup on my main site is pretty simple so it was super easy to replicate through XLST.

https://thepcspy.com/feeds/full.xml
https://thepcspy.com/static/feed.xlst
So how would you distinguish between the two? I mean that as a serious question. Many here seem to take the stance that if it's in the computer (or a specific type of NN) it can't be sentient. I believe that is a way too easy and invalid argument, as we don't have any understanding of what mechanisms can lead to sentience.
No, you can still use all the switches. A light switch that turns lights on and off isn’t ewaste.
I am fine re-learning. I believe it’s the optimal strategy.
Accurate.

"For those missing context, Insteon is a smart home company that shut down suddenly a few weeks ago without notice to its users, essentially bricking [=ruining, making inoperable] people's smart homes.

Good for Ken and the team to take this on. I'm not an insteon user, but I hope one of the first tasks they take on is to either open source the servers, or update the system to be able to work offline, should they decide to kill the service in the future."

Companies like this have no concept of open source and no concept of offline. To them, your home is their home, to traffic so as to maximize their bottom line.
You’re testing a systems ability to understand and design, not it’s sentience.

A good counter test here is to throw all the medical material at 100 people and ask them to design another human. How many people would manage that successfully?
It seems like I've been in and out of ruts all my life. I have learned a few things about them over the years; it has taken me a long time because I am a little bit stupid. Here are some notes, hopefully they will be useful to some faster learners:

* When I'm in a rut, one of the things that keeps me in the rut longer is trying to force my way out of it. The fastest way out of a rut is to embrace it and forgive myself for being in it. Knowing this and being able to do it are apparently two really different things, because I have spent a long time trying to apply this knowledge and I'm still not there yet.

* When I genuinely enjoy doing something, I never have to put effort into avoiding falling into a rut.

* So, falling into a proper rut usually means that something is wrong. I stopped enjoying it even though I didn't want to. Maybe I'm tired, maybe I'm really stressed out, maybe I just need to do something else for a little while.

* I'm often unaware or unwilling to accept that something is wrong, so the battle against my own nature begins. All of my natural coping mechanisms for dealing with this are wrong.

* A lot of ruts are caused by chasing a long-term, external goal, for longer than I really want to achieve that goal. Running a half marathon, while not my thing, is a great example; it's something you train up for by running a lot. If I were running because I enjoyed running, then one day I could probably do a half-marathon and I would probably mostly enjoy that too. But if I were to run because I wanted to do a half-marathon, then one day I would not enjoy the running and that's when the opportunity for a rut happens. (While not a runner, I have been an on-and-off again long-distance hiker and peak bagger; when I just went out for fun, I did it a lot and was in great shape. When I decided I should train up to bag all of California's fourteeners, it stopped being fun and I stopped doing it.)

* Most highly successful people, whether they're athletes or developers or just my more accomplished friends, have gotten there by doing something they enjoy. Sure, they've had challenges, but overall they just did the thing they wanted to do, and found success at it. I cannot be as successful as them at their thing, because I don't enjoy their thing the way they do. I'm not ever going to be Peter Croft or take-your-pick-of-role-model-of-the-day, but if I could find my thing, then I might get to be my better me.
This is a redundant argument as it applies just as well to the current financial markets: education is key.

But it's not reality, and Bitcoin opened up to fleecing at massive scale as its growth increased and middlemen services popped up to manage the 'complexity.'

Not that I'm saying the current financial system is good or not corrupted, it certainly is. Bitcoin is not the answer people think it is though.
> We share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think basis-free, we write basis-free, but when the chips are down we close the office door and compute with matrices like fury.

~ Irving Kaplansky
Don't forget "chic" languages like Rust have the whole C ecosystem at their disposal.

Having done Java for many years and recently also done Rust, I'm not very convinced one ecosystem is richer than the other, when we talk about high performance computing. I've already hit a few things that are present in Rust I wished to have in Java. Generally I find the multithreading/concurrency libraries available in Rust very good.
Here is the follow-up [0].

He truly believes that the chatbot he was supposed to be studying for racial biases is actually sentient, and the AI ethics concern he was raising with Google VPs is that the rights of the AI are not being thought about...

He has even published a long "interview" with the chatbot [1] where he tries to get answers that prove the AI is sentient and has various desires.

I personally don't think you can diagnose mental illness based on this type of belief (this is not some Terry Davis level of article by any means).

The belief itself is extraordinarily ill-informed and self-delusional though, and the acts he took in support of this belief (according to the WaPo article he mentions, which came out in the meantime, he even hired a lawyer to represent the chatbot...) are extreme, and definitely merit some concerns for his well being.

[0] https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/what-is-lamda-and-what-do...

[1] https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-inte...
Show HN: The Lambdaway Project
Fwiw everything gets a prop 65 warning.
Gavin funded a lot of these personally in the early days.
Why the New Contrast Method APCA
From the website of the display's successor model...

> Accepts Intel® Smart Display Module Small or Large allowing for sleek all-in-one intelligence and interoperability in a small form factor setting by accepting Intel processor-based products and other peripherals directly into the displays

> Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 allows for future proof expansion and NEC Mediaplayer support (Q2 2021)

TIL about a new standard (Smart Display Module + Open Pluggable Spec). This is the real killer solution to bad smart tv's. This would be a killer way to control a smart tv, and allow replacing the smarts inside it without needing a bunch of HDMI dongles. Get the benefit of integration, without the commitment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Pluggable_Specification
Potassium Chloride is sold as a sodium-free table salt substitute and will give you far more decay events per second than a banana. I'd have to double check the decay rate in a kilo of KCl vs background radiation, but even if the decay rate is too low for random number generation you can still use it to salt your hashes[0].

[0] https://www.allrecipes.com/gallery/best-hash-recipes/
The number of towns where clearly nothing is going on but which are basically a stocked pond of Mercedes and BMWs is insane.
The Nation is a reasonably venerable publication with a small staff. I used to subscribe back in the Arthur C. Danto (art criticism) days.

When I look at it now, it’s no longer for me, and as annoying as their paywall might be, in this case they may be more than “these websites” would suggest.
I don't think that's true.

Most people think that a thought is just that, a thought. It isn't physically real. There is no event in spacetime you can give coordinates for that says at this place, at that time, that feeling or experience is there, in physical form.

There are people that think that, somewhere in the cosmos, experiences have length, width, duration, and energy. It belongs in the school of thought that the number pi has a physical manifestation in the universe, a length, a width, an energy. But there aren't many people who think that way.
https://replit.com
You seem confused about a couple of points. Monetary policy is not a tool to finance government spending. Sure, it might be used for this purpose, but this is not the point of it, and in fact, debt monetisation is illegal in most countries, afaik. Second, the underground economy has nothing to do with ecological sustainability or economic degrowth. It's simply a part of the economy that is hidden from the state, for the purposes of circumventing laws and regulations.
Way too dependent on Spotify.
It's https://simone.computer, going by syx's HN profile.
> adding SVE2 can be great for specific applications but it's really marginal when looking at whole system performance. What's not marginal are the improvements in power efficiency

Depends on the applications, I suppose. But did you know that (at least on OoO x86), the energy cost of scheduling an instruction dwarfs that of the actual computation? That is why SIMD, including SVE2, can be so important - it amortizes that cost over several elements. Let's spend (more of) our energy budget on actual work.

Is it really just "very few things that actually start using new SIMD"? I'm not a huge fan of autovectorization, but even that is able to vectorize some fraction of STL algorithms. And there are several widely used libraries, including image/video codecs and encryption, that use SIMD and wouldn't be feasible otherwise.
Yeah. I'm open to believing there's more religious discrimination at Google -- and I have no trouble believing that being very Christian could make you a bit of a social pariah within the company -- but the lack of concrete examples is concerning.

In the US, it's very common for right-wing Christians to exaggerate claims of religious discrimination. For example, many consider not allowing public school teachers/coaches to lead prayer in schools to be religious discrimination.
Author here. There is a part 2 that explains the generation in detail, you find it linked below the part 1, or at the link [0].
The banana does not make a significant difference (the generator can operate without it), however the potassium in general can definitely be detected. I've made some test with KCl and the increase in counts is huge. In the end this is not very important for the purpose of the project: i just wanted to tell a story involving true random number generation from radioactivity, and the radioactive banana is very functional for this purpose.

[0]: https://www.valerionappi.it/chi-squared/
I hate it when people can't have a reasonable discussion and resort to calling others as "bots". Not everyone who disagrees with you is Russian or a bot.
Sciencing? Is that like engineering or designing?

Just curious as to word choice here, does engineering not include the design of technology?
NF is not so much nerds in the sense like here in hacker news. Mainly geek culture with comic book fans, movies, books, myths and rpg larp culture. It’s mainly a community where people who are inspired by stories of pop culture get together, craft their own stories and alter egos for self improvement (especially in health) and encourage each other. I’ve been in on it for nearly a year and recommend it to anyone who is looking for a good community to get some encouragement. I’ve made more progress by participating in this group than I’ve ever had in my life and the best part of it is it has helped me get some consistency in my new habits.
I donated to NOYB when I heard this.
IoT type data plans are not super expensive and they can include roaming.

I’d expect manufacturers to split it by continents so their NA model has roaming in Can, US, Mex. And their EU model has roaming all over the EU because otherwise it’s a stocking nightmare if you can only sell one device in one country.
So it sounds like they think Google's chatbot is sentient?

...okay.
Thanks for your stories. If you were to start a company from scratch today, how would you organise and divide work from home versus office ?
yup

Then again, all I did was buy a thousand shares of Microsoft the day they went public.
Polish Notation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_notation

Reverse Polish Notation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation
Why?

Seems like that one 'off-center' photo is just an option, of several.

I like what I can see here:

https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b#

Couldn't care less about common display formats resulting from the constraints of
historical tv and cinema technology, and the paths those have set for mass production of panels for 'consuming' media.
How is this role even properly incentivized, given that there's one-sided skin in the game?

When you hire a DEI officer, the officer will find more inequalities and lack of diversity in the institution and will hire more DEI officers, to a the point that UM hires 2.3 DEI officers per a staff: https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/report-u-ms-163-....

When you hire an AI ethic researcher, they will simply find more and more "ethical" violations. One Timnit Gebru is gone, thousands will rise up.

Maybe Google should not hire those ethics researchers in the first place.
I agree with you, everyone here is way too dismissive about the claims. To continue the point about its just imitating. If the AI is imitating a possible response a human would give in every instance, would it imitate? Isn't that indistinguishable from sentience? Moreover does giving non sensical answers to some question proof otherwise? My children give nonsensical answers all the time, so do many adults.
Lots of manufacturers had proprietary motherboards in the early 90s before ATX. The advent of superIO chips led to having on board ports with no standard way to exit the case.
San Francisco's drugs and homelessness crisis divides Democrats
I thought this was relatively well known.
sunk cost. you got to enjoy the smart home for some period of time, just not forever. yea its totally annoying, but its not wasted entirely.

Many people I know with smart home stuff enjoy the tinkering a bit, and find its another thing to be restless about and fiddle with, and don't "set and forget" anyways.
KCl is definitely detectable. And the same goes for KOH. And it significantly increases the throughput.
I suspect they get a probate lawyer to just dump it off cheaply to a lucky buyer. If the equity in the house is over 20% or so it's unlikely it would sit long on the market, for instance you give a 10% discount and someone will happily get that done fast.
It'd be interesting if someone could try and relate this statistic to the typical solar index for an area - https://globalsolaratlas.info/map

I thought it would have been to do with the consumption of starches and carbs https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2003/sep/21/shoppin...
Indeed. However, Big Mac does not cost you $10,000.

In contrast, something like Comma.ai is open-source and even the complete kit that's compatible with almost any car is like $2k and they don't claim to be "Full Self Driving", by any means. Funny enough, they perform with just a kit that goes where your rear mirror is almost as good as FSD beta that Tesla has.
> “ yet single mums in their 20s in my family still get to live in nicer houses than me, get free cars from the government while not having to work a day in their lives. I'm driving a Fiat Punto with 90,000 miles on the clock while several people in my family on benefits have gotten new BMWs because of government schemes.”

What government schemes are giving free cars? I hadn’t heard of that. I guess there is Motability for people with disabilities?
I think that when the code base is small it can be really fitting. Ones I find my favorite do almost no memory allocations. Or allocations are done only for the workset. I do not like that nowadays it seems customary to heap allocate everything and tie object's lifetime to where it keeps its state. Modern C++ with unique_ptrs sprinkled everywhere is like that.
> I used nuclear reactions just as a fill in to say it should be possible to simulate matter with close enough approximation to facilitate thought.

If we can use Quantum Computers to hugely accelerate some calculations, then you can't use regular computers to accurately simulate nuclear reactions in a reasonable time frame.
That is one part. The second part why capitalism was so successful in post ww2 was exponential global population growth. This is NOT sustainable, especially when you want to reduce resource consumption per person. The post ww2 capitalism led to growth because the resource consumption per person increased.

Stagnating populations and the goal of sustainability will lead to economic stagnation.

To add to the actual article: Well, this is the price of democracy. People voted, now they have to pay. This is democracy! Populism instead of technocracy. Instead of doing the right thing, the majority decides the direction. And further, you want to support corrupt Ukraine and punish evil Russia? Then you gotta pay, too. We will see how long this "value driven politics" approach will work with the Western majorities and how long it takes until yet another populist is elected fully democratically who promises so much good stuff and in the end just delivery crap like Brexit.

I personally lost the trust in our Western system and stopped voting.
You Organise each workspace for a specific task. I have one for communication ( email, slack, Webex, calendar), one for learning, one for coding, one for Devon’s etc.
Yes, it was a typo I'll see if I can fix.
The main node has 64 physical cores and 1TB of RAM, and the 24 storage nodes have 8 cores and 16 GB of RAM (192 cores and 384GB of RAM total).

So we are using 256 cores and 1.5 TB of RAM, so probably about 7.5 kW or so. Over 5 months, the compute would have used 27 MWh, so about the energy content of ~750 gallons of gas.

The storage will obviously use more energy (I don't know if they are using spinning disks or SSDs), but I think ~50-100 MWh for the entire computation is a reasonable estimate.