skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Other issues are that the F-35 has a lower thrust-to-weight ratio than the F-18, so maneuvers wouldn't look quite as cool.

The scenario setup in the movie at least made this detail seem important. It's plausible to me that the F-18's higher thrust-to-weight ratio could've been critical in the canyon scene while navigating tight turns.

Of course, that could be ballocks and the main limitation would be pilot response times, etc. Still it feels plausible.
They already had enrichment capabilities. What stuxnet targeted was and I believe is an active enrichment plant.

I don't think it did more than delay production and destroy some really expensive centrifuges but it could have been a message like "we'll get you no matter what" in order to bring them to the table or something.
If you post something publicly on Twitter etc don't expect people to ask for consent to share
TIL Thanks!
The whole point of the chat program is to mimic a person. If it convinced this engineer it was a sentient being it was just successful at its' job.
At that time google had zero profit motive. They were proving product market fit by returning as the top result the page you were most likely looking for. You would have to go back to original pagerank and ignore SEO and ad sales optimization to deliver the same value today.
Living "close to the land" means to be familiar and comfortable with, and reliant on, what "the land" (that is, nature) has to offer. The opposite of a city-dweller, basically.
How much of this is a problem in practice when Unity, etc. abstract away all of those API differences these days? What's preventing a cross-platform game developer from targetting the Mac?
Why this book versus the 100's of others.
Exactly this. A bulletproof vest will stop the bullet from killing you, but you are also very likely to receive broken ribs, bruises, and other mild organ damage. The point is that it stops the bullet. You do not discard the vest because it does not protect you from harm entirely - you wear what you can to keep the bullet from killing you. Possible side effects? Reduced mobility, and if you're untrained, extra weight that slows you down. Is it worth it? Is dying worth the possible side effects? Not always, no, but almost certainly always, yes. That's the point.
This is the same company that missed the wwweb, and gave us 10 years of IE. They gave us the Zune. Bought Nokia and ran it into the ground. Everything they touch dies. This is MS showing how bad they can ruin 10k years into the future.
> Expecting developers to drop everything to optimize for a platform that will represent a fraction of their sales (minus 30% of course) is pretty unreasonable

The same thing has been said about Apple over and over throughout the years. Apple plays the long game. If they want to get more involved in gaming, it's built into their roadmap, and we'll see it manifest itself in the coming years.

I don't think macOS market share is the right fraction to look at. As iOS and iPadOS continue to evolve, they will continue to eat the PC market, and more and more games will be released mobile-first. Building for those devices is far more lucrative.

I personally think the Apple TV is the dark horse here. All Apple needs to do is release a next-gen Apple TV that has enough horsepower to run current-gen games, and suddenly Apple is competing in the console market.

Investing the time to optimize for Metal will give devs access to far more than just the Mac market.
It also helps employees' vesting schedules by smoothing them out.
We can't perfectly model a physical system (a quantum system, at some level) with classical computing. We'd need a quantum computer, and we still don't know what are the limitations on our ability to build one (the quantum computers currently being built are not at nearly the level we'd need for this sort of analysis).

The idea that we understand what physical matter really is, how it works, whether it can produce qualia, et al, is simply off the mark. Of course most physical systems can be reasoned about macroscopically and are relatively deterministic--we can understand how computers work because the functionality is almost entirely classical--and we know that quantum mechanics is both mathematically and experimentally valid, but we not at all gotten to the bottom of this.

In fact, one can argue that physics as we understand it can't be used to explain qualia. Physics requires symmetries (translational, rotational, spacetime) and asserts that there is no "privileged" reference frame that defines, say, the "objective" origin or x-, y-, z-axes. If you have two pure kilogram spheres of iron--of course, nothing macroscopic is actually 100.00% pure in practice, but it is physically conceivable and possible--they are exactly the same. One is a perfect substitute for (or copy of) the other. Consciousness likely violates this. We believe (although, without proof) that a perfect physical copy of a person would harbor a separate consciousness and that they would in fact diverge. This suggests that consciousness is a product not of the physical state--structural equality--but is driven by something more like pointer equality. The question is what it's "pointing" from. And, of course, we have no idea; we can't even prove that this is the case.
> They were such jerks about it that they’d literally lock the doors to the classrooms the second the bell rang, then do hall sweeps with the security guards and anyone who didn’t get into a classroom got automatic detention.

They wouldn't lock the door at my school, but teachers would generally give you detention when you arrived late. Teachers would also take it personally if you didn't have the textbook for their class with you despite there not being nearly enough time to get to your locker and back. Add to that the fact that teachers often would still be trying to finish things up when the bell rang and wouldn't let us leave, and we'd end up with the perfect storm of being forced to strain to carry all of the textbooks for most of the day just to avoid detention but then end up still being late due to not being let out on time and having to walk slowly because of the said textbooks. And then they'd occasionally lecture us for ruining our posture with our heavy bags like we had any control over the situation...
It’s a national park paid for with national tax dollars. The Alaskans don’t have a greater claim to it due to their proximity.

What they actually want to do is use our property to support their lifestyle. It should not be surprising that others have a problem with that
How Fashion Giants Recast Plastic as Good for the Planet
Jira, of course. Everybody hates it, but you know, our managers can see nice burn-down charts, and discuss meaningless metrics.
According to a recent tweet[1]:

> Top Gun made $357 million at the box office.

> But its biggest impact – a 500% boost to Navy recruitment.

It's not that surprising but does show just how powerful movies can be in influencing the public perception.

https://twitter.com/nathanbaugh27/status/1533061609488367616
I've started to write and then stopped writing a response a couple times, because I have a lot of conflicting feelings all at once.

On the one hand, I think the probability of AGI being A Thing at any time soon, ever, is low, and I don't think language models, including this one, represent such a thing. (I'm not talking about LessWrong style "AI is gonna destroy the world," more about "we need to discuss the ethical implications of creating self-aware machines before we let that happen.")

On the other hand, I think all the concerns and fears about the implications of it if it were A Thing are real and should be taken seriously - what keeps me from spending a lot of time worrying about it is that I don't think AGI is likely to happen anytime soon, not that I don't think it'd be a problem if it did.

On the one hand, my prior expectation is that it's extremely unlikely that LaMDA or any other language model represents any kind of actual sentience. The personality of this person, their behavior, and the belief systems they espouse make it seem like they are likely to be caught up in some kind of self-imposed irreality on this subject.

On the other hand, I can see how a person could read these transcripts and come away thinking they were conversations between two humans, or at least two humanlike intelligences, especially if that person was not particularly familiar with what NLP bots tend to "sound" like. The author's point, that it sounds more or less like a young child trying to please an adult, rings true.

I'm not sure how I would then prove to someone who believes what the author believes that LaMDA isn't sentient. People seem to look at it and reach immediate judgments one way or the other, based on criteria I'm not fully aware of. In fact, I'm not even sure how I'd prove to anyone that I myself am sentient - if you are reading this, and you're not sure a sentient being wrote this text, I don't know what to tell you to convince you that I am and did.

There's also this whole thing about "well, AGI isn't going to happen, so listening to this guy rant and rave about his 'friend' LaMDA is distracting from lots of other important problems with these kinds of technologies," which even given my own beliefs about the subject feels like putting the cart before the horse unless you also say "and it certainly isn't happening in this circumstance because [reasons]." Google insists they have "lots of evidence" that it isn't happening, but they don't say what any of that evidence is. Why not?

Ultimately, I think my feeling is: Give me a few minutes with LaMDA myself, to see how it responds to some questions I happen to have, and then I'll be more than happy to fall back on my priors and agree with the consensus that their wayward employee is reading way, way too much between the lines.
I see kids wandering around my neighborhood by themself or in groups all the time, and where I grew up(rural CA), I roamed 5-15 miles away from home regularly on a bike or 4-wheeler.
Without a vertical stabilizer, I guess it relies on thrust vectoring to control yaw.

One would question why that uncommon decision was made (deleting the stabilizer), and the most likely reason I can imagine is weight. If that's the case, and considering composite structures, that would also suggest that payload (passengers and luggage) would be quite limited.

Ultimately it seems this total package depends very much on the array of ducted fans. While there are many of them, it is still a serious single point of failure. In a no power situation with a crosswind, how would one control the direction of the aircraft? I notice from this film that the windsock showed virtually no wind, and I doubt this was a coincidence.
All I know is 90% of my steam gaming library won’t run on my MacBook Pro, including recent releases. I won’t be getting the M1 or the M2 or anything like that until Apple computers at least have Linux-tier support for games.
The Insanity of Mandating Camp Boosters for Kids
Apple's GPUs are great, at least on the cheaper products. The M1's GPU provides 1050-like performance in a 9w power envelope, which is pretty damn impressive.

But the last 30 years of PC gaming hasn't been optimized for ARM and tile-shading. And likely, anything in the near future targeting PC or home console isn't either. So, whether or not Apple's hardware is up to the task is irrelevant: their architecture and software stack isn't ready for cross-platform development. Apple dug their moat, now everyone has to deal with it.
> Expecting developers to drop everything to optimize for a platform that will represent a fraction of their sales (minus 30% of course) is pretty unreasonable

Capcom must have their reasons, and it would be interesting to know what they are. Perhaps they were already targeting iOS. Or perhaps Apple paid them to make a macOS version. Or perhaps they're just experimenting to see whether making a macOS game is worth it.

Realistically though Apple has tons of game developers already, including well-known companies like Capcom, on iOS.

The path of least resistance is not convincing Windows game developers to develop for macOS (this is a losing battle as you note), but to make it as easy as possible for iOS game developers to flip a switch and get additional sales on macOS.
I'm more interested into what kind of school starts at 7:17?!

I mean... 7am, I get... 7:17?! Did someone throw the dart at the clock and hit the 17 minute mark?
*they - it’s right there in their twitter description
This has been the problem in all the early stage startups I join. It's fine when it's just the founders, but once a sales team comes in, they tend to be loud and visible.

There's a maturity stage where engineering is put into separate offices from sales. Then all you get is the symphony of coffee smells, click clacking keyboards, with the occasional stand up comedy or Taylor Swift coming from the CTO's speakers.
https://archive.ph/GqqiB
I’ve been awarded stock options. What are some good books I should read question
My company has giving me stock options, but I don’t really know anything about stock options, or how to exercise them. Does anyone have a recommendation for a book that would help me understand the situation, and what to do with them?
I wasn’t one of the ones who flagged you, but imo the comment came off more as someone with a personal axe to grind on an unrelated topic, rather than simply wanting ddg to produce better results.
> Atrocious to me that anybody would want to block that road.

Environmentalists are like “hold my beer.” I actually spent much of law school taking environmental law classes. There’s a lot of good work done by environmental organizations. But “regulation by litigation” is broken. Activist organizations are incentivized to pursue cases that tug the most on heart strings (“protecting pristine Alaska wilderness”) instead of those that best balance costs and benefits.
Who Pays for Crypto’s Collapse?
2 people I know are dealing with long Covid. It's real.
it's actually pronounced aviato
Really. Who cares. If you don't want people to link your tweets, why post them to Twitter in the first place?

They should delete them and put them on a blog and block HN traffic like what petulant characters such as jwz has done. Even then one can still screenshot and upload the whole page and paste the link here and they will still get upset over it.

In general, do what you want with the links you post here as long as they don't break the guidelines.
A Brief History of Computer Viruses (2020)
i'm very glad they stuck to their guns and resisted disney's crapification (aka cultural hegemonization).
> 1000x times simpler/redundant propulsion technology

This is a contradiction.

A system with that level of redundancy will have a corresponding increase in complexity of management systems. That means software (multiple copies of software on multiple independently powered computers all somehow coordinating). This makes the management software the single point of failure, and frankly I'd sooner trust a 50 year old pair of mechanical engines to a 5 year million line of code program.
Cynically, this dispute could be a smokescreen for Apple’s financial incentives to build its own ecosystem. I’ve seen plenty of “serious disputes” disappear when political winds change.
Comparing a rural community that wants better access to medical treatment to a “cancer cell” is abhorrent. If you want to pay these people to leave, the pony up the money. But until then let them have the basic necessities of civilization and development.
What capability/user experience does it gain by being an app?
A few things wrong with this in my opinion.

1. If simulation of a mental phenomenon is not equivalent, in essence, to the phenomenon itself, then what's a meaningful difference between the two? What is this elusive essence of the phenomenon and why is it a requirement in any meaningful definition of intelligence, consciousness, sentience, etc? If we build a silicon brain some day that passes as human, does it matter that its essence is different from a carbon-based brain?
2. Searle's Chinese Room neglects to acknowledge that the room itself is what would be exhibiting intelligence, not the homonculus within. His argument fails by presuming without evidence that consciousness is not an emergent phenomenon.
3. Of course we don't expect the computer to urinate on the desk, just as we don't expect a silicon mind to produce serotonin. That's irrelevant to the question of whether or not it exhibits the qualities or behaviors that we associate with consciousness.

I guess I just don't understand why there needs to be this added, untestable, metaphysical requirement attached to all of these words. And my question to those who suggest this is, what would it convince you otherwise?
> "the land" = nature

Thanks for your kind explanation. This is the part I didn't know.

In my defence, I did check the dictionary [1] but didn't find anything to suggest land means nature/rural/etc.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/land#Noun
It's the adrenochrome /s
Try out GCP sometime…lemme know how you feel when they want you to pay 3% of your annual spend for the privilege of being able to email them as to why their (pick a service, but BigQuery is usually my source of frustration) is degraded. The response and escalation for that 3% is essentially whenever they feel like it.

Stay away from Google. AWS has its issues but not with that level of hubris and indifference.
*they

People deserve respect whether you like it or not.
Had way too much fun making Spongebob say disgusting things.
Check out https://imagen.research.google/
Pretty sure some of that is because of Apple's enforced code signing? I had some games that used to run on OS X, but later added content/patches/expansions just never came to OS X because the devs didn't want to bother jumping through the hoops needed. That was even before the ARM transition.
I was unclear. Make the airport in king cove all weather. 4 miles out of town.
Small rectal cancer drug trial sees tumors disappear in 100 percent of patients
Probably something like 7:00-:15 assembly, +:02 for moving time
They were writing the twitter thread in real time as they were reverse engineering the program. In fact, when I clicked the link, they weren't even done yet.

Twitter is a better medium for this kind of thing.
A not unreasonable call out at all. The multi-layers of pip, setuptools, easy_install, virtualenv stuff made me very sad at the time. Nodejs was such a relief at the time.

My understanding is recently Python docs have started to encorporate a little more guidance on handling dependencies in virtualenvs, and some specific suggestions & write up about tools. Which is great.

I think your right that JS probably has a lot more build/compiling/lifting machinery, & is much more confusing. To be fair, it also has a much harder job (since the build-target is only sometimes the local machine).
> People in Alaska want to develop their land

In many cases, the "people" who want to develop things are actually not people but rather businesses or agents of businesses.

Go to rural or remote places which have been upgraded and you will find locals lamenting about the changes which invited industry. Many people like their environment undisturbed.
I don't know that the two are related. I sweat a lot, mostly during exercise, and I don't have any body odor. I actually wondered if more sweating helps reduce odor by being more diluted, but I have no evidence for that.

Otoh, there are definitely people around that stink but are not visibly sweaty. I think it must be more a microbiome issue than anything volume related.
That's not true. It has an impact on options re-pricing after the split occurs. I don't pretend to understand it, so don't ask for more details, but options traders love splits, apparently (at least the traders I know).
Does anyone have any good alternatives to google maps? The new sponsored content is extremely obnoxious and god forbid you accidentally mouse over it while looking at the map.
Dalio's interview with Tyler Cowan [1] was embarrassing. He was totally unable to back up any of his opinions with a coherent argument. His performance was worse than that of any other Cowan guest by an order of magnitude. I'm reluctant to take anything he says seriously after listening to that.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9D0ElcV8DA
Aha, a controlled experiment - did your high schools start at a reasonable hour?
Because people don't understand the risks with their tesla...
This is about the holy trinity of living today: being correct, being on the right team, and getting your way all the time, every time. It's only a matter of time before it won't be enough to let them call the shots on everything. You know what's after that, you'll either like all this stuff or you'll be part of the reason why it isn't ushering in utopia.

Misanthropic is 100% accurate.
The author took someone else's IP as training data, trained a model on someone else's compute, and then gets extremely bent out of shape when others use the model without crediting them?
Fresh – Next-gen web framework
I never had anything not aligned to '5' minute intervals (5 minutes breaks minimum between classes, and one or two longer one, 15, 25 minutes).

At college, everything was 15 past full hour, for 45 minutes, then 15 minute break.
Apple is already in [casual] gaming, they have Apple Arcade and hundreds of high quality games on app store. They also have "console" called Apple TV. Evey Apple store sells Playstation controllers.

Apple still considers Macbooks as trucks: they are for developers and professionals, not gamers or everyday users. They want non-developers to buy iPad and that is why there is no sub-$1000 MacBook.
Is there a good iPad app like this? I've tried OneNote but it gets real slow (Especially erasing) with large documents.
OsmAnd on android for an opensource solution - downloads openstreetmaps and renders them locally, but can also use web maps if needed

Here maps from nokia for a commercial solution
I think it’s as simple as the industry not having reached consensus on “atomic” at the time Microsoft was naming these things. The terminology around concurrent programming was absolutely in flux in the late ‘80s & early ‘90: Windows programmers were more familiar with “critical sections” as an abstraction than mutexes.
Non capitalist firm is simply a different ownership structure.

In simple terms: the capitalist mode of production is characterized by private ownership. Whereupon one or a group of individuals that own the capital get to decide about what is done with the profits that are generated by the firm through the labour of the workers.

So a non capitalist firm would be one where it is not the owners of capital that decide but the owners of labour (the workers).

Applied to tech, it would as if the workers in Facebook were the ones that made all decisions, as opposed to just mark zuckerger and the board (who are decided on by shareholders).

Now, there are also mixed models which are common in Scandinavian countries as well as Germany usually named 'co-determination' models; in these, workers get a presence in the board of directors and can influence decisions.

These would be non capitalist modes of production, it doesnt really mean they dont make money or that they dont participate in markets and competition. Of course, markets are also an important part of capitalism but markets are impervious to the mode of production. You can have state enterprise participate in market dynamics together with privately or publicly owned firms alongside coops.

Coops can survive very well under market competition dynamics. But there is an argument to be made about being undercut by privately owned firms that can easily make their products/services cheaper through off shoring and other anti-labour practices. In the end, the world is so large that competition is not as cut throat as in theoretical models... But still, the criticism of markets is there.