skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I do. Where I live, winters are long, so none of the heat is wasted. But that aside, the real reason is the quality of the light. Spectra! Incandescent lighting is a black body radiator basically, so you will have a full spectra curve even if it is weighted toward the red side. The downside of LEDs (and the CCFLs that preceded them) is that they only have a few narrow peaks in the spectra, R G B at differing heights and the rest of it is low. This is why colour rendition generally looks poor, and even worse, they flicker! Because we live in a society that wants everything as cheap as possible, the LEDs generally flicker at 60 or 120 Hz, sometimes higher. This causes a strobing effect, etc. This can be avoided by using DC current, but who uses that? CCFLs used electronic ballasts with much higher rates but they're not on the market anymore. Incandescents have a small degree of flicker too, but it's basically non-existent because as black-body radiators they continue glowing until the next pulse arrives.. LEDs are not like that, they are instant on-off, and their "dimming" trick is usually pulse-width-modulation where they're still fully light, but their duty cycle is spaced further apart, you think it is dimmer but it is not.

LEDs are a terrible technology for lighting.
The calling isn’t the unlock. It’s what he asked them to do first.

An interview is much easier then asking them for a sale upfront. Everyone wants recognition.
This is such a tired take, they're doing plenty of innovation in AI and bringing them to consumers with innovative products like Google Home.

I really love my Google smart home speaker and it's been extremely useful day to day.

Being able to just say "Google set an apartment in my calendar to meet John for coffee next week at 3pm" is infinitely more convenient than opening my phone or laptop and clicking through the UI to do so. Or "Google remind me to cancel my subscription in 10 days" or "Set a timer for 10 minutes" etc etc.

Likewise Firebase has made it infinitely easier and smoother to deploy a web app. Google Domains is probably the most seamless way to purchase and register a domain.

Waymo is innovating like crazy and possesses the most advanced autonomous driver agent.

Wing is innovating drone delivery in rural and suburban areas.

They are innovating to the highest degree and anyone who claims otherwise is deluding themselves.

(I'm not affiliated with Google in any way, but I do hold stock)
Used cars will always be an option, and there will be a time when the standard used car on the market is an EV.

> I thought the goal of a pension fund is to ensure that people have pensions?

Yes, through an investment portfolio, and this article states that the 4 pension funds in question have a combined $300 million in shares invested in Toyota.

The article says:

‘Toyota is jeopardising its valuable brand by lobbying against much-needed climate related regulation of the auto industry,” said Anders Schelde, AkademikerPension’s chief investment officer last week. “What is the science based argument for their position, which is what we expect from companies if they are going against most expert views on the role of battery electric vehicles and the required timeline for phaseout of fossil fuel cars.’
If the questioning AI is unable to distinguish between the two respondents, does that mean the answering AI is really good, or the questioning AI is really bad?
Doh! Yeah that was a brain fart...
I would recommend this video https://youtu.be/73hip3pz0Xs by a channel called Atrocity Guide about Yuri Norstein. It was my introduction to his amazing work.
I wonder what price they'll get when the sell them. Probably more than the 'man in the street' would get for the same object.

But that happens with any object at all that has been previously owned by celebrities, so it's not indicative of what the 'normal' sale-price would be for the same object owned by any Joe SixPack on the open market.
Along with your other points, you're not making any sense.

> - That's not to mention issues like being able to fix bugs yourself, extend it, or understand it. I don't do this often directly

That's just saying it's better for paid products because there's always someone paid to fix stuff instead of relying on volunteers.

I care to get the work done in the easiest way possible. And I hardly believe JetBrains will go away anytime soon, besides, using less productive tools until you see the paid competitors leave is really a dumb idea. If JetBrains were to disappear tomorrow and somehow they disabled my perpetual license along with them, I'll have to switch to Vscode but why let go of the benefit with your hypothetical concerns that may not materialize for years to come?

Sounds like you're just trying to create excuses to stay on your free apps.
That's interesting, I wonder if it can account for any drifts in meaning across generations: https://www.wsj.com/articles/sending-a-smiley-face-make-sure...
i've updated the readme with an attempt at better explanations.
I don't think 'not being surprised by the output' matters.

I'm imagining future AI researchers reassuring their lab technicians: 'Ah, yes, the robot will scream and beg for mercy when you threaten to shut it off - that's just a consequence of the learning model, pay no attention to it.'

What I'm actually concerned about is that 'thinking' might not be as complicated as we assume. It might just be making weighted choices based on prior input after all. And when you make a system that makes weighted choices based on prior input, you might assume 'well, it's just a basic ML system, so I know it's not capable of thinking. Therefore, whatever I see, no matter how sophisticated, must be a result of our system, which only looks like the result of thinking.'.
Sure we can. My first words were "I'm out!"
That is really interesting to hear. In India homes often have 3 phase for water heaters and other heavy appliances.
A high share price has a large impact on who is able to trade options.
And each an every plant susceptible to the same strain of the same disease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_disease.
The evidence of The Creator is your very existence.

He is just how we are able to articulate in our language. We are limited, and He chose to reveal Himself using He, so who are we to question?

> or that it has any involvement after creation

Provably false.

We have hard evidence for our belief and faith. Here's a good starting point: www.provingislam.com
This reads like imperialism. Do you think Alaskans should be able to have a say in whether land is developed or improved adjacent to where you live, say, in Alabama? Wouldn't make much sense to me..
It is teens who due to changes they undergo during adolescence that would greatly benefit from much later school starts, and they should also be old enough to be able to get to the bus without parents supervising them.

Elementary school is fine with its current schedule because all the students there are pre-adolescent, so the parents could still deal with getting an 8 year old to the bus.

Middle school is in the middle so might not have a good answer. It will likely have many students who have started adolescence and would do better with a late start but are not yet independent enough to be able to handle getting ready and getting to the bus without their parents still around. So probably need to keep early starts for middle school.
I came here to say exactly the same thing. Development always begets more development.

The rural wilderness that I grew up in is completely unrecognizable today. Acres and acres of essentially untouched forest now replaced with human housing. Creeks have dried up and animal life is a shadow of what it used to be. We used to have otters, beavers, deer, and more but they're long gone now. That transformation started with mundane uncontroversial things like gravel roads and basic utilities. But it grew to encompass much more as more people moved in.

If you accept that the diversity and abundance of plant and non-human animal life has instrinic value then it's awfully easy to say that blocking further human development in wild areas is the "right" thing to do.
This is great as a research project, but if I needed something like this to be embedded in an existing project, I'd just go with Yaegi [1] instead of going with something that is similar to golang, but not. Having all the golang ecosystem and tooling is a huge advantage as well.

[1] https://github.com/traefik/yaegi
All you have to do is go to LA or Orlando to see this principle in action. There’s nothing human about a tarmac.
I recall having come across it in articles on/translations of continental philosophy. I've never heard anyone use it in conversation.
Just because there are many mutually exclusive religions, does not imply that none of them are correct. Look up genetic fallacy.

The "Abrahamic" faiths have demonstrated themselves, but only one remains uncorrupted: Islam. You can check out provingislam.com for some hard proofs.
A detailed description of every step of the reverse engineering process! That's amazing. Ghidra is such an awesome piece of software. I found it to be much easier to use than radare2. I wonder if there are similar process descriptions for the latter...
Do Not Pay has a feature where they automate that process for you, although I've never tried it and I'm sure there's probably a lot of limitations to it, but for me, it's something I look forward to in the future: The ability to automate a lot of services that maybe only humans could previously do.

I'm also not sure how much of it is actual automation and just a random person sitting on the call for you, but still, I like the spirit of the company.

https://donotpay.com/learn/customer-service/
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I think that's entirely reasonable. I'd be expecting two years, too as my "high end" expectation.
The land in question belongs to the federal government*... we already pay them not to develop it, with taxes!

*: subject to the land swap, which Carter argues is illegal
I had something that was really bad for about a month, but it occurred before the general public knew about Covid. In retrospect, many of the symptoms were indicative of Covid (eg. Cytokine Storm), but I have no way of proving it now after several years and after receiving vaccinations.
you didn't need to change the headline like that...
So what country were they attacking in the movie? It was Iran, right? It's the only country I could figure that the US doesn't want enriching uranium and also still flies F-14s. The only thing that doesn't fit is that, as far as I know, Iran has no snow covered mountains within a short distance of any body of water that the US would have a carrier in. Well that and they don't have any Russian 5th gen fighters, but neither does Russia really.
Your argument seems to ignore the fact that Apple has their own browser and could put in the time to properly handle pixel-perfect rendering.

Yes there are a lot of complexities with that statement, but I personally think they would have a significant win here if they set a new bar of excellence as a part of the challenge.
Is Crypto the Answer to Walled Gardens
The Current Mental Health Pandemic Is Inevitable
Do parents need to be there to get an 8 year old safely on the bus? Really?

I recall taking the bus, on my own, since the second day of first grade. So did everyone else. Nothing terrible happened.
So you're saying Tesla has more charging stations than there are hydrogen fuel stations and Teslas still need tow trucks?!

Wow, you've convinced me. Tesla must be super doomed.
You can buy a burger for 15 bucks, even at earls.

100 reais is an appetizer of shrimps now a days, with like 15 shrimps. I think you’re out of touch of just how expensive it has gotten. Wish you the best too.
The thing I hate the most about helicopters is that their flying altitude isn't restricted even over homes...
I have used Milton for this for about a year or so. One thing I really like about Milton is the Grid tool, to create rows and columns. It’s great for sketching out ideas or calculations when learning. From what I can tell, Lorien just has Rectangles, so Grids would be a nice addition.

I think the Linux code for Milton had one or two issues when compiling on a modern Arch system, but I have a simple fix laying around if anybody else has trouble.

I should try Lorien though.

https://github.com/serge-rgb/milton
Carter had a fairly rural upbringing.
the problem isn't the process of using vim. I like that part. The part i dislike is the ecosystem of plugins and extension points.
I have this vivid memory of listening to a conversation between my parents, and they said something (I don't remember what) was going to happen on "Saturday". I did not know what "Saturday" means, so I tried to ask them about it. They could not understand my question though. I sometimes wonder about this memory, if perhaps I was at an age where I could understand some, but not speak. Pretty weird.
Same here. And I figured if a hobby project had such a disclaimer it would be important and so I was interested to read what the rules were. But how spoiled and precious are we all today when we can’t even read a few paragraphs and accept some terms to be able to try something cool for free!
Absolutely. The sustainable future is with dense urban living. Reducing humanity's footprint is key.
> It just looks as if they _want_ to avoid success at all costs. Is there any reason that a megacorp would make such decisions?

One reason is that you and Apple have different definitions of gaming success.

For you, gaming success means "running PC/Windows games well on macOS."

For Apple, gaming success means "making more money from gaming than Microsoft or Nintendo."

Guess which path they've taken?
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Yeah, probably hugged to death.

I watched the cached demo, and I wasn't impressed. Okay, maybe the main object inside that box is gone, but the shadows aren't. Which makes the result look so much weirder.
This is a nonsense suggestion, but what if they used SVG to build and populate the pixel grids?
> But sometimes I get the uncomfortable feeling he's deceiving himself

That is one of the best ways to lie. If you stop caring whether things are true, it can be much easier to sound like you believe whatever thing is most useful in the moment. And think of all the brain cycles you can save by not checking in with thinks like external reality or consistency with one's past statements.
Globalization has favored migration, and this is built in to your background: ergo, "these people are not smart and don't work hard like I did...so I should exit" is your first inclination. It's a very common sentiment through America that somewhere else can be escaped to, that there's a new frontier to homestead.

But... I have been through California's most competitive schools. The ones in which everyone grubbed for grades, and therefore pursued exactly what you are romanticizing. Yeah, you get some education, but the course material mattered very little. All the serious challenges that have left an impression decades on were presented by other life events like kids who commit suicide(an occurrence that is depressingly frequent at those competitive schools). I do not think of myself as a winner, but a survivor. The moments where genuine flourishing took place are likewise things that were not really about the school system or what my parents did, but the whole confluence of factors.

California - as a society - is, in fact, facing and working through those challenges of how to make its society work without relying on exit, because exit simply means others get dumped on. Making it a place worth living in is not about working hard, or voting in the right government, but about answering all the ethical questions involved in creating that society with clarity and intellectual honesty, one day and one incident at a time. The parlor tricks necessary to earn a tech salary and then uproot oneself are simple stuff in comparison.

And Asia is not gaining in terms of competitiveness: it's gotten wealthier and older too, and it has started having the same kinds of issues, of younger Japanese going "hikkikomori" or Chinese workers "lying flat".
You're saying that as if gaming consoles had never been a thing.
I do agree, my point is rather that the question "“can computation be sentient” is trivially answered as, no it cannot. Is a computed brain sentient is like asking, 'is a computed sun hot?'. Computation is a subjective interpretation of a physical process. You don't get wet from a machine that computes the weather.

A digital machine and an analog one aren't equivalent merely because their behaviour can both be explained in the same terms. (i.e. computationally). That's not to say by the way you can't make some kind of sentient digital system, just that computation isn't really relevant to answer that question.
I'd be curious what a machine learning to do list would look like; something that can let you categorize tasks based on different categories, like sentimentality, genre, and even patterns it detects from common usage, like the fact that one may spend a long time on a particular subject.

Would be an interesting experiment.
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You are giving humans too much credit. It takes us 2 years to start understanding anything. We are given millions and millions of inputs and context before we can start rationizing about the world. Since we have millions of more feedback mechanisms built into us(Generally sensors all over our entire body), we can reason about the world in general.

however, sentience in this given example does not need to mimic "real life Sentience". They don't need to move, obtain energy, reason about 99% of reality; They only need to reason about human language and interaction online. That is a very narrow constraint of "reality" in general but is a very, very important aspect.

Also, with it's ability to process "Most upvoted response" at scale (Something humans can't do) in reality, we may see some politician saying things that are created entirely on AI. In this given example, AI doesn't even need to 'Take over'.
This is happening around the world. Any vaccine doses seems to be more protective than no vaccine doses, but, after a few months from latest dose, the fewer (but nonzero) doses you have, the less likely you are to get sick, be hospitalized, or die.
They should first learn about checking accounts, credit cards, and mortgages, and then about stocks and bonds. Some smart people advocate crypto, and other smart people think most cryptocurrencies will go to zero.
Might be more interesting to follow the next editor the author is working on.

https://zed.dev/
And what would be that problem? That sounds like wishful thinking. The median age of China is below of that both the US and the EU.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_ag...

A significant fraction of the US seems to have problem to adjust to the notion that in the next decades China will become the clear number 1 country in many fields, and the US will be to China, what Germany is to the US.(Similar on a per capita basis, about 1/4 in absolute numbers)

Wishful thinking is a terrible basis to plan.
My school district in California also put us on a city bus. I can't remember now whether we got a discount or full vouchers, but the bus line/schedule had definitely been chosen to support the school. It worked great and also familiarized me with the bus system, so when I grew into middle/high school I knew the lines and could get wherever.
Lots of crazies at Google. I remember an all hands many years ago where a newly hired engineer got up to the mic and complained to the CEOs about signing a document online and that due to url links it wasn't clear to him what he was actually signing.
> Third, COVID-19 vaccination status was not considered in this analysis, nor were potentially confounding factors... because data were not available, were inconsistent...

Dang. Would have liked to see the outcome here.
The enemy fighters were “MIG-28s” (actually T-5s). They were black and had a yellow circle with red star on the tail. I don’t think the enemy country was mentioned.

Edit: according to the Top Gun wiki, the audio commentary says North Korea. https://topgun.fandom.com/wiki/MiG-28
IMHO, WebGPU on Metal will erase Apple’s foot-dragging.
The disclaimer is a little ironic considering the site owner doesn’t own the model (MIT does) and doesn’t own the training data (the various shows and games do)
That's interesting. Do you have the rationale for why that is the case? What about recovered individuals?
In case anyone else was wondering: a) jfc => jesus fucking christ, and b) you missed the point.
> When the high is 110 F in a Phoenix suburb, you can’t ask the 14 year olds to skateboard 20 miles to school on a country road with no breakdown lane. Similarly, you can’t ask kids from Maine to skateboard to school in the dark on ice.

80% of Americans live in urban or suburban areas [1] and the average school commute distance for high schoolers is (or, was, can't find a recent number) 6 miles [2].

FWIW, I lived a little under 5 miles from school in a non-bike-friendly suburb and managed to transport myself to and from school just fine without a car. We had 100 degree days in the summer, but we also had... summer break. Maybe one hot week in August, but nothing I would call dangerous.

The "20 miles down a county road" scenario is an outlier. If that is representative of your community, then the school policies of your community (including start time) should reflect that reality. The 80+% rest of us are having a different conversation about a different place. No reason to get angry about it.

> city dwellers

Far more Americans live in metro areas than in nonmetro rural areas.

> childless

The vast majority of American children do not live in rural areas. Rural areas are, on average, old and managing to get older.

> think they’re making some massive revelation suggesting that kids just get their own butts to school at a comfortable 10:30 am.

The California law requires a start time no earlier than 8:30am, which is already several hours later than 10:30.

When I was in high school our start time was 7am or something like that, but there were "negative hours" so you could show up as early as 6am. There was cold breakfast in the cafeteria with a staff member present, or you could go to some classrooms for tutoring (I think one per core subject). Hazy on the exacty details -- it was a long time ago -- but I do remember the doors were unlocked 1 hour before classes started and you could either hang out or get tutoring.

Starting -1 hour at 7:30am gives a parent 1.5 hours to commute from school to their job by 9am.

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[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/05/22/demogra...

[2] https://nhts.ornl.gov/briefs/Travel%20To%20School.pdf
America has been running large debts forever but has only become bigger and more successful post Covid

Citation needed, not clear how America has become more successful post covid.
> 'Ah, yes, the robot will scream and beg for mercy when you threaten to shut it off - that's just a consequence of the learning model, pay no attention to it.'

hahaha, this almost made me fall out of my chair.

How an AI would actually convince us? honestly, this transcript is not too short of that.
I dunno. I'm playing games and emulators. If they are preventing things they are doing a poor job.