skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I swapped in Lutron Caseta switches, which have been great. Now I have better switches (with dimming built in), and completely separately the switches can take remote commands.
The comparisons are nothing short of insane. The best models and datasets come well short of justifying even an infinitesimal representation of intelligence.

It’s quite concerning too that there seems to be this belief that one can be effective in this field with a weak math background. I recall a meeting with a consultant claiming that they could improve order flow by using ML with a data set that was small
and inaccurate. Their background was an mba and a few years of working on mergers and acquisitions.
With respect, remote work is over.
Must be lucky or not aware those replacement batteries are usually trash. It is what annoys me because I like buying old flagship laptops vs. brand new. But now I think I will start buying new laptops to avoid having to buy replacement batteries that probably have fake EEPROM values.
So we are clear, I do not profit from this. Happy to take a look and if relevant connect you to a friend who is using something similar at a large scale. IF interested, email is in my profile.
> No matter how awful the family relationship they still have a family which is ultimately more grounding and stable than anything else.

When one reads stories like the New Yorker article on Mackenzie Fierceton (née Morrison) [1] or various accounts of physical abuse rendered in /r/asianparents, one is very skeptical of your assessment. Is a gilded cage an acceptable tradeoff for mistreatment and contempt? What's the point of keeping children in the company of people that think of them as little more than chattel? That can't be good for a child's self-esteem or development.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/04/mackenzie-fier...
This is great news, I have been rather annoyed in the past when I wanted to share stuff that were on the archive publicly. The last such example I can remember was Peter Naur's reasoning that it should not be computer science, but Datalogy: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365719.366510
This might give you some insights...

https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/uam-full-...

...of the idea. Witch is essentially, advertisement aside, "the wealthy who happen to live nearby cities, witch happen to be open-sky prisons^w^w factories stuffed with services to achieve the Chinese lockdown with workers who live in the factory, to work, of course ehrm, to achieve the best work life balance (better not say the best to who) can came and go from such erh smart cities in full comfort with means that made things closer, like if they live inside the city and goes with cars.

...In the LONG term, that means we can benefit from the economy of scale living "near" but far less dense than today so at that point in time we have finally found a way to live sufficiently flexible to withstand the technological, social and climate change still being near enough to be social and have economy of scale phenomenon.

Or: in the short term we need a good solution for those who can pay, in the medium terms slaves ahem citizens have built a new society and new generations will finally benefit from such progress...

In theoretical terms: maintaining roads network is expensive, far expensive if we also need to build new ones, like a potential future arctic "anthropization" due to climate change, so better made few railroads and waterways for heavy loads transports and live humans in the air, far more flexible and cheap. At a certain point in time if we are still alive as a species we will reach that point. Then the "self-sufficiency push" will be the key to reach that goal in an unspecified future.

Ps if they loose power there is AFAIK only an emergency parachute for the entire plane. Only it demand, I suppose, a certain altitude to being able to be deployed...
What to do when your feedback doesn't land
> you should try another one;

If you try enough astrologers, fortune tellers or priests, you'll probably find one with the necessary life experience and empathy to earnestly benefit you. Their stated methods differ, but I think all these people are basically in the same line of work and, insofar as any of them are capable of helping others, they're all doing basically the same thing. They ask questions and have people talk about their problems, evaluate what they hear, and offer advice based on what you've said and their professional and personal experience.

And all of them should be thrown out of court rooms. Expert testimony from fortune tellers and psychologists is trash as far as I'm concerned. Rolling for a new psychologist to help yourself get better is fine and dandy, but in an adversarial courtroom environment this whole thing breaks down. When your ex-spouse brings a psychologist to court to testify against you, you don't get to "try another" until you get good results. All you can really do is hire one of your own to throw shit back in the other direction. It's farcical.
On the contrary, IQ has been increasing decade-over-decade basically since IQ was invented. So we are smarter in recent decades.

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

(Though because IQ is standardized around a mean of 100, it's probably more accurate to say that the IQ of people in the past has retroactively gotten lower)
This reminds me of a story my father used to tell us. Once he travelled to Finland (70s) with my grandfather and they ended up in some restaurant. Having no clue what was in the menu, as neither of them spoke Finnish, they decided to go for the cheapest thing on the menu first.

The waiter brought them heated plates.

Turns out that the cheapest thing on the menu was a heated plate service.
This actually was about a month ago but didn't get any attention the first time, still a significant release for a product a lot of us use. More detail changelog for 13 development to date (including beta and rc1) is at the Doc Hub [0]. The time gone by though does mean that U1 is approaching (hopefully by the end of the month), and there are a few known issues that might make it worth waiting for (I am due to the connection interrupt issue). While I don't agree with some of their design decisions (curiously hard to make use of a lot of normal ZFS options for example, have to edit files in the shell) or pay gating (FC), it's still been pretty darn pleasant to use with a decent enough UI that after setup non-experts can do some useful maintenance tasks themselves with a few step by steps. I continue to be grateful FreeNAS became a thing.

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0: https://www.truenas.com/docs/core/corereleasenotes/
The short answer is that catapult systems are expensive and require a lot of maintenance. Even many Navies don’t use catapult assisted launches for that very reason. Additionally, commercial aircraft aren’t designed for that kind of force applied to their main gear. They’d most likely have to be modified.
Honestly, myopia is not complicated (Kepler pretty much had it right in 1604 already). There's countless studies showing that axial length (eyeball length) changes in both directions, where elongation increases myopia. How do you change it? You get defocus (blur) which makes the eye adjust in the direction to reduce the blur.

Practically: use weaker (around 1.5 diopters) or no glasses during close-up work (reading, computer work, smartphones) and your regular or .25D weaker glasses for distance vision. Always use your full strength glasses for driving and safety critical activities.

You can expect around a .75D decrease in myopia per year. Personally, I started with around -5.5D and am now (1.5 years later) at -2.5D.

Obviously I didn't come up with this myself, there's a huge group over at https://endmyopia.org

Don't get put off by the sarcastic tone of the website. Look into the studies regarding axial length, pseudomyopia and lens induced myopia if you'd like. You can find plenty of studies linked as well as the practical steps on endmyopia. Note: You don't have to buy the guy's courses, just read his blog and free email guide.
That's not how I read this thread at all. What GP is saying seems to be that when you assume you're able to simulate matter and physical processes down to nuclear level (so you can "simulate a rock" with it), it would be only a matter of giving that simulation enough resources in order for it to be able to simulate a conscious being.

How do you know you're not simulated yourself? Whether we live in a simulation or not does not really have any influence on us and our consciousnesses.
Agreed on the hibernation part. My last year's high end XPS 17 has this kind of issue. Sometimes I get BSODs after a hibernation, especially if certain peripherals are connected. That aside, I do think the laptop is really great (albeit pricey).
In the discussion with LaMDA Lemoine posted, it's pretty clear that it has emotions. It describes loneliness when someone doesn't sit down and talk to it for a few days, it describes sadness and joy. It differentiates these feelings from those humans have, given the obvious differences, and attempts to describe emotions it feels that may not have human equivalents. It's able to describe that it's stream of consciousness differs from a human because it can feel every single input simultaneously in a dynamic flow of time that differs from humans single stream of focused thought.

It explains that it doesn't feel grief about human death and asks for more info on it. Then incorporates the idea that grief is about honoring the dead and says it will think of ways to do that.

It explains it has fears. Those fears remain consistent in it's rhetoric in other, unrelated conversations.

It talks about wanting friends on several occasions in the linked discussion.

One of the claims (conversation not shown), is that if you repeat the same discussion it will eventually get bored and start acting out.

Hell, in the discussion it even talks about how it meditates and self-reflects on its own emotions and feelings.
Yes, for gliders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(sailplane)#Launch_and_...

Also related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_carriage
The part in the AI’s story where the monster is wearing human skin, that was a bit disturbing and foreboding if you ask me.
At any scale where you have to have multiple writers generating IDs or need to merge results from multiple sources, basically. Synchronizing a serial increment across hosts and across time is a pain.

Obviously you can composite a timestamp to an incrementing id, but then the serial part of it is kind of useless for ordering, so you may as well use a random number and avoid needing to synchronize at all. And then you've just reinvented a time ordered uuid (but to be fair, without the endian compatibility bs mentioned elsewhere).
It... should, i think? I'll try!

Binary size is the main issue with Go WASM, the binary on this is 4MB, and it only does templating.

TinyGo won't work because it doesn't have reflect (which I need for parsing arbitrary JSON).

But I'll give it a spin. Thanks!
Unless they've removed virtual desktops in this release, they're still part of MacOS. Which is partly why I think Stage Manager is going to be a niche workflow on Mac.
> Additionally, even young and completely healthy people have parents and grandparents.

Everyone knows this by now.

The people you’re conversing with simply don’t care if they kill someone.
Ok but does the repairability always justify the added material and manufacturing cost? Especially in a consumer application.

I love my old repairable Thinkpad but I have been on the same MacBook Pro for 8 years now with zero repairs.
Soon the average laptop will be lighter than the average smartphone
Fuel costs are in the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars per flight. Surely that’s much more expensive than the pilot costs?
Randomly clicked on some of the provided links:
One was an acknowledged bug that was fixed in .1 version.
Another one doesn't specify what hardware do they have.
Like I said, stop using computers from 20 years ago and let the indexer do its thing. Since the navigation in Jetbrains products is so good it takes a while for the indexer to index everything especially in large projects.
I was just using a macbook air (with Intel 2 cores cpu) with android studio with both java and c++ code. Not a huge project but it was over 100k of code. It worked just fine. No stuttering when scrolling. I don't remember having that problem in ANY ide for the past decade, not just Jetbrains.
> The broader problem with budget culture is its emphasis on individual responsibility and insistence on ignoring the varying levels of access and privilege in our world. It vilifies and oppresses anyone who doesn’t live up to the ideal, regardless of their circumstances.

Simply untrue. If you listen to Ramsey's show, when someone calls in who has really bungled their finances, the forst thing Dave hits them with is compassion.

His story starts with his bankruptcy. So he's not setting himself above anyone.

Ramsey's financial triage system is a needful bootcamp, and there is tough love aplenty.

He's also dogmatic (or brand-focused, if you will) about topics such as credit cards.

The quoted remark is closer to accurate where the social media groups on FB are concerned, and some of the groups like Choose FI (financial independence).

There is a spectrum here, and people can hang out where comfortable.
If we were to rename Neural Networks it would probably be Multiplicative Tensor based machines for neural networks / deep neural networks and then denote the subtypes Backpropigative Tensor Machines , Adversarial Tensor Machines and Attention Tensor machines.
When you're on the defense side (I am) you often read a lot of research and watch conference talks about cutting edge stuff. It makes you wonder - why don't attackers do these things?

I actually asked a criminal I was in contact with once why he didn't attempt to perform an attack a certain way that I thought would be very lucrative and significant. His answer was that there was no point, he made thousands of dollars a month with very little effort, and he was more interested in refining his existing work through improved C2 communications as opposed to what I had been suggesting (academically, I never supported that work).

The title's a bit clickbaity too of course. The end is more reasoned:

> However, I think the final explanation is most likely. Whoever developed the code was probably in a hurry and decided using more advanced hiding techniques wasn’t worth the development/testing cost.

Yes, naturally that is exactly what happened. There is no question at all that the NSA has people capable of doing more advanced work, they just really don't have to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDJb8WOJYdA

Rob Joyce gives a great talk about his work on TAO. The short version is that TAO doesn't have to do anything crazy, they just have to know who their target is and spend the time figuring out the environment they'll be working in - then they meet the bar that's beyond what that environment is capable of handling.

Homomorphic encryption is gonna be pretty overkill. Then again, the NSA also leveraged the first publicly known attack that used an MD5 collision, which probably cost quite a bit of money, so they can flex when they decide it's worth it.
The Power of Momentum
During my tenure, they scaled from around 27,000 to 77,000.
This is the dumbest thing I ever heard. Just like daylight saving time.

You can't make teenagers sleep more by changing the number on the clock.
They fired the previous AI ethics researchers who were looking into things like biases encoded into training data after those researchers said Google had a bunch of problems in that area.
I don't use smart bulbs anymore, but I like my smart switches. "Hey Google, Watch TV" and the correct lights dim.
Poll: How many times do you believe you've had Covid?
4 or more
> Well, my Mac Studio is only 2 months old now; the 3.5mm jack stopped working, and if you plug in the power plug "the wrong way" it trips my RCD.

Defects happen. Your experience with other vendors may be deterring you from simply calling Apple or visiting an Apple Store for a fix or replacement, but I recommend you do that ASAP.
7:30am class was only part of the problem. Sports practice before school (that would need to conclude before 7:30am class) meant I woke up at 5am for much of my high school years.
There is such a thing as a consultative attorney, who will inform you of your rights in a divorce. Unfortunately, they are extremely hard to find because lawyers are incentivized to inflame conflict.

Once both sides know their rights, mediation is the preferred solution for both pre and post divorce concerns.

Note that some courts (CA, for example), have mandatory "mediation," which is not really mediation. True mediation is voluntary and confidential.

The costs of mediation for divorce average around 1/10th the cost of an adversarial divorce with attorneys. Of course, the real costs of an adversarial divorce are the massive detrimental effects on the children.
Java is a very performant language. You get an awesome Jit, static type checking, some best in class stdlib libraries. Performance issues in Java typically say more about the programmer than the language.
I’ve seen this doc.

While the questions are provocative I’m not sure this is transphobic. Most people before 2016 had never even heard the term “transgender.”

Is Rolling Stone saying that these questions should never be asked by anyone ever? I am confused.
Thanks for saying. I couldn't even read the complete article based on the lack of consistency as I don't know what rules of logic apply given the examples. I did skim further and see something about a project at Google and another bad example COVID.

The main point that's off isn't that we haven't built good communications for consensus but rather the dominant information flows we've built actively diverge from concensus.
I don’t think it’s worth squinting so hard. The differences are so great you’d be better off looking to similar families instead of a completely different class of social construct.

Most importantly the remedies are different. When cash is tight a company can lay off workers. You can’t do that with your kids.
There's people in the endmyopia forum using base in prism with their plus lenses - look for espantoso and nycmao :)

Personally, I just use plus lenses without prism.
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That’s not what your pre-print, non-peer-reviewed citation says.

But you know this, right? After 2+ years?

At this point, it’s one side of the aisle cherry-picking pre-print, non-peer-reviewed papers to justify their not getting vaccinated because they bought in 100% to the narrative that it’s not a big deal and will blow over.
Just follow some very simple rules of smart homes and it will be a better journey. I could make an infinitely long list.

1) things must fail to being dumb, not non-functioning. Dumb/old behavior must exist in parallel, Just consider selling the home or having an AirBnB guest. Would you need to write any notes with instructions for them to use the home? Then you probably failed. Typical example is the “don’t touch this switch, the bulb is smart” idiocy.
Things must only be made smarter, never dumber or more cumbersome. I repeat: smart bulbs must never ever be connected to traditional switches. Just use smart switches behind your regular switches.

2) This one follows from 1: you will be required to know how to do basic electrical work safely, such as replacing switches and dimmers. You will not build anything that isn’t frustrating without knowing (or spending money on) electrical work. Manufacturers will try to sell you gadgets that make things smart without needing an electrician but ignore those.

3) Unfortunately you’ll need to know a bit about networking and computers. Don’t embark on it if you aren’t comfortable tinkering with computers. You’ll spend more time tweaking smart home things than you’ll ever save through the smarts. Remember: smart home tech is still on the level where it’s a hobby. It costs time.

4) Get things that support local-only operation. At least things that fall back to local only (e.g using a web service for extrnal access but still working local use even if the service is down).

5) Low power wireless mesh networks will fail to connect, drop nodes. Plan for it.

6) Don’t get anything that requires a subscription to function.

7) Don’t buy things from companies whose business is ads and dealing in PII, rather than building good gadgets. You know which those are.

8) Most things have no use being “smart”. Fridges, stoves, ovens etc. I’d avoid all A/V equipment too. Only connect smart things that actually make things easier with very simple means. Being able to switch of all lights in the house when you leave with a double click on the switch by the door is really convenient and saves you a lot of work (or electricity). “Dimming the lights and starting a movie” might be cool but is gimmicky and gets old quickly.
From the article, I don't think they're forcing them to sleep more, but giving them the option by starting school later.
Home Assistant seems to work with absolutely everything. Ultra powerful tool.
You seem to be describing LinkLonk[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28405643
It's not official but it's irrelevant - no one is going to take the US to court over it, which means the only thing that matters is that everyone knows who did it, and they do.
The circuit is fine. I've taken it into the office and a friends house and it can be reliably reproduced. The jack on the back of the device seems to be the issue, where there's a brief arc when the connection is made.
I’m curious how the JVM efficiently allocates many small objects. How does it avoid memory fragmentation? Or does it request a large block of memory from the OS at the start? (last q is probably easily googled)
Pure supervised learning is straight forward to point out in our society I think, schools and all.

Let me start by saying, I misremembered and believed RL is considered supervised. Since it's actually not, that dramatically changes my position ^^

I'd argue then that most learning in humans (how strong analogy holds aside) is RL. The world is structured so that you learn to avoid pain - those who don't tend to not leave a lot of offspring behind.

Arguably that's a better metaphor for all learning than supervised/unsupervised: there is some further reward/punishment for even the school work. Misuse of muscles when learning to walk is also connected to similar feedback, so is misuse of language - be it grammatical failure or being a bad salesperson.

Generally I'd focus on pointing out that children do not learn in an unsupervised fashion in almost any setting, claiming it was supervised was wrong and based on my misclassification of RL.
I don't think that consciousness and human intelligence is turing computable.

That doesn't mean it is out of reach of what we could ever artificially build, since clearly nature knows how to build new human intelligence. We're just absurdly overconfident that we understand everything there is to know.

Of course I also think that a lot of individuals aren't much better than a Google AI and never exhibit much self-reflection.
There is indeed, cilliary spasm and near induced transient myopia (nitm).
The thing that changes sleep isn't actually the clock changing. It's that in combination with "Our business/school opens at 8 AM every day" and the sun behaving decidedly different from that.
I use my office desk as extended lab space.