skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not like the European model even works. Public transport is only as good as it is convenient, and it's virtually impossible to make it convenient for most people outside of extra-super-ultra urban areas (think New York City and London).

If you can hop on a bus within a 5 minute walk of where you live, and then hop off withing a 5 minute walk of where you work, life is beautiful and you can probably ditch your car (at least for daily commute). For most, this is not the case.

And I don't want to live in a ultra-urban area.
Depersonalization is really bizarre and unsettling. During the pandemic while working from home (and shortly after our first child was born), I started to get these periods of time where life didn’t “feel real”. A room in my apartment wasn’t a room; it was just an arbitrary box that my body was inside of. Things that had substance or meaning started seeming sort of “hollow”, and I felt like I was watching a movie about myself rather than experiencing it. I started Googling and depersonalization / derealization showed up in the results.

I’d like to say it’s gone away since it first appeared two years ago, but it hasn’t entirely. The “not real” sensation seems to linger in the background of my life permanently now. I notice it’s worse if I’m stressed, haven’t had sleep, or haven’t hung out with any friends in person in a while. I also wonder if working remotely via Zoom meetings all the time contributes to the problem; it would be interesting to know if diagnoses of depersonalization spiked during the pandemic.
Is it a personal choice though? If in the morning I decide between wearing a blue shirt or a red shirt, that's arguably a matter of personal choice, but deciding to believe in God is as much a 'personal choice' as deciding to believe in gravity or deciding to believe in homeopathy.
I got the precise opposite impression: that censorship is a losing battle, and those who engage in it are doomed to fail.
Making things up out of thin air like “the creator used someone else’s compute” goes beyond negativity because someone thinks the project is in the grey. That is just straight up disinformation.
Everything is down. Stocks, crypto, NFTs. NFT volume (most of which was wash trading anyway) has been on the decline significantly over the past few weeks and months. That doesn't necessarily mean the craze is over, but I think it's likely that the craze of the past wave of NFTs, which are celebrities promoting JPEGs and rug-pulling them, is over. The market has had enough of them after realizing 99% are scams.

I don't think the overall NFT craze is over though. Many blockchain projects rely on NFTs of one type or another. They just won't be the typical celebrity-backed NFTs.
Defining the term is hard. So hard in fact, that no one has managed to do it in millennia (it's not as if this question is new).

We can, however, use proxies to get around the problem. Just like "life", "species", or "time" - all of which are surprisingly poorly defined and might not even exist in strictest sense - there are ways to work with terms without having a waterproof definition for them.

No matter the set of criteria you choose, you will always find some that match the subject in question (here: a chatbot). The question is, at which point you draw the line and whether that necessarily arbitrary line has any relevance (see the discussion amongst biologists whether viruses are alive).
Used BEVs with depleted battery which might not be produced anymore.

Toyota is fully aware that BEV does not have longevity, which is actual core of their brand and that's main reason why they are tiptoeing around BEV
Completely free to try
No credit card required

So how much is it (going to be)?
Thankfully my kids are now aware of 'free to try' and 'no credit card required'.....to try, i presume, but not 'to actually use'.
Skipped, on principle.
Scams aren't supposed to last long, no surprise.
New Gaia data paint the most detailed picture yet of the Milky Way
So can I buy just some random hosting, upload .js file and it is done?
Another data point: Our fairly old house, heated with an air heat exchanger, use about 60 kWh per day during the winter months. The power draw for heating is reduced to almost nothing during the coldest period when the outside air is too cold and we use firewood.

Apart from heating the house, we also use some power for hot water and pumping water from the well into the house.
The author didn't claim it was an accessibility concern.
> In Australia it's illegal to perform you own electrical or telecoms work.

I think most countries have similar laws. Exactly what level of knowledge you need to do it legally varies. Where I live most things are off limits to non-electricians other than 1-1 replacement of existing installations. I some times use that loop hole to replace a dumb switch with a smart one, or do other such basic repairs. Other times I try to do most of the work myself but have an electrician bless my work before I power it up again. Obviously I encourage no one to do any kind of electrical work they aren't 100% comfortable doing.

> I'd also counter that it's totally fine to replace normal bulbs with smart bulbs!

Yes. But the point of my post wasn't that it's EASIER to make a home smart by doing that, it was that by putting a smart bulb behind a dumb switch, you have created a frustrating experience. A bulb that can be controlled from a phone but can be completely disabled by a switch somewhere, isn't really that "smart"...

> It works exactly as before

if you can hook it up that way, then you have made your home a little bit smarter. Just make it pass the "smart test". I.e. does the old/dumb switch work still? Can someone buy or rent the home and not need to know that a specific switch must be set to "on" for the smart feature to work? Does the app work 100% of the time to switch the light on/off regardless of any switch positions? Great, the home is smarter.

If the app some times doesn't switch the light on because a switch has ben flipped to the "wrong" position? Then I'd say the home was actually smarter before. The physical switch functoining and the remote controllability/color temperature/voice command are adding less smartness than the feature "the light switches on the walls actually switch on and off the lights" were. That's what I mean by that smart things should only ADD functionality and be careful to not remove it.
Variable rate loans do exist in France and they were relatively popular 15-20 years ago (up to 38% share).

https://sdw.ecb.europa.eu/quickview.do?SERIES_KEY=304.RAI.M....
You've got two approximations we are used to working with.

One is our eyesight, which is pretty precise (error depending on the speed of light) — of course, I am not getting into all the potential ways our eyesight can fail us.

Another is our stereoscopic sound positioning based on having two ears, which is ultimately much less precise, but can still point in a general direction of where the sound you are hearing right now is coming from. If you've got both functioning ears, you can usually tell if someone is calling you from the front, either side or from the back. Some people are better at it than others, though.

Sound you are hearing right now (a discreet event) has been emitted at a particular point by an airplane a number of seconds/minutes away — this is what identifies the "discreet" point and requires no remarkable event like an explosion, and you can do the math based on that and the two "instruments" you'd use. I am not sure why would it matter that airplane produces the sound continuously for discussing this discreet moment in time when a particular sound was produced? (unless you are going for there being no vibration of air possible without time passing, which is needlessly picky).
> However, I can't help but take exception to Vivado and SOLIDWORKS being good software... While powerful, they are both incredibly buggy and prone to crashing if you so much as look at them wrong.

That hasn't been my experience. Solidworks definitely isn't as responsive as I'd like, but frankly I'll take "a bit sluggish but has all the major features and is not a UX disaster" over something like FreeCAD or Yosys.
It's actually the opposite. At altitude you have to breathe more to get the same oxygen, and this makes your carbon dioxide lower than normal, this makes your blood too basic, so the body pisses out basic compounds to compensate.
The function is dynamically linked from kernel32.dll, compiler inlining is irrelevant here.
Given that policing is supposed to offer a path into the middle class https://www.policemag.com/374280/law-enforcement-a-path-into... - as the middle class gets squeezed is the idea that smarter people will leave policing to go on to other jobs less likely to be correct?
> Island based client hydration

Software development already has its own vocabulary, but I feel quite ignorant now.
> Also, what happens if the Fed doesn’t stamp out inflation in that case? Wouldn’t that force people to buy equities like crazy?

At a very rough level, no. Stocks are valued based on discounted cash flow (in general and over the long term. Plenty of short-term exceptions, i.e. Tesla future earnings costing 18x more than Fords future earnings).

A higher interest rate, i.e. inflation, lowers the value of those future earnings.

Stock prices today represent an extreme historical outlier in terms of the price people are paying for future earnings. This might make sense if we assume low inflation for the next 30 years. It does not make sense in a high inflation scenario.

Reasonable scenarios allow the market to fall another 30-50% over the next year or two.

Reasonable scenarios allow the markets in 10 years to be roughly where they are today in absolute terms (i.e. before adjusting for inflation).
> LaMDA is almost certainly Turing complete.

I very much doubt that, and it is perhaps the key to our disagreement. If I believed LaMDA were Turing Complete, I would be more likely to think that there is even a small chance of it being sentient in some sense.

> - "with desires" - LaMDA can be thought of as rational agent whose objective function is to produce text with high likelihood

> - "that it expresses in language" it expresses likelihood of next token in language

I don't agree with both statements at the same time.

I can agree that we can say that LaMDA is a rational agent whose goal is to generate the most likely next token (or safe, full human-like reply if we look at the entire system).

But then, we can't say that it uses language to achieve this goal. An example of it using language to achieve this goal would be if, prompted with "What is your name?" it's output would be "Please help me answer this - what would a human think is a likely, safe answer to this question?". Instead, it will generate a sentence that it deems likely.

If we are modeling LaMDA as an agent whose perceptions are text prompts and whose possible outputs are text answers, than it giving a text answer that matches the prompt is more similar to an animal running away or howling in pain than to a human communicating. If the agent were sentient, we would expect to see higher-order behaviors, such as discussing the prompts instead of answering them, asking questions; or, at least generating answers as it is programmed but in a way where it tries to achieve more, similar to how an animal may act normally to get close to you, than snatch your sandwich from your hand (indicating that it had a plan and was displaying normal behaviors with a higher-plan behind them).
That animation stole my heart
I find it funny that the real egregious stat is the 600ms render time, but every retort to GP's comment is about the size.
Oh, thanks I must've missed it.
> In the UK I understand they now have acccelerated promotion programs for more educated candidates, designed to get them into management more quickly.

Not every educated person is a good manager.
Could you specify what you mean by "management"
That's true to a degree, but there's always the not-in-my-back-yard condition.

I got to see this first hand during the Barnette Shale gas drilling boom in the mid-2000s. As Texas, particularly the DFW area was very pro-oil&gas, many people were very much in favor of fracking and the possibilities it opened up.

Many of those people stopped being in favor once actual wells appeared in their neighborhoods. At one point I could see five different wells from the second floor of my suburban home. Their noise was audible all the time, and our roads became clogged with heavy trucks delivering liquids and materials necessary for the fracking process. Oh, our roads got destroyed rapidly from those trucks as well.

The few landowners who got lucrative mineral lease deals were very happy, but "the people" living all around were definitely not happy. So a small few individuals profited well, a few oil and gas companies profited very well, and the general population suffered.

That was even before the earthquakes started.

Keep in mind also that "the people" are generally speaking rather like sheep -- not stupid necessarily, but given to following the herd. "Everybody knows" that Texas is an oil state, so it's only natural that you will be in favor of the industry your state is famous for. To go against that means you no longer fit with your neighbors, colleagues, church members, sometimes even your family (if you're from Texas you probably have a cousin who works in the industry) etc.

However, after negative outcomes appear too often or too clearly, the concept of "the people" fractures. I can't speak for the SF folks, but I would bet that there are quite some strong differences of opinion amongst them, just as there are people living in nature who are very opposed to development around them.
> I’m wondering if you’ve ever been married.

I haven't, apologies for being naive.

> People generally don’t live their marriage with the intent of divorce, so planning in the way you suggest seems obtuse.

Having witnessed firsthand how absolutely traumatic my parent's divorce was, I'm currently approaching the idea of long-term relationships, possibly with children, as one where "hope for the best, expect the worse" is the optimal policy.

Obviously, if I marry someone, I'd like to stay with them my whole life. Nevertheless, I think it important to ensure that if things do go south, which, statistically speaking, they do quite a lot, collateral damage is limited. By which I mean, there is nothing for the lawyers to fight over.
That's not an issue. Parents are installing much worse things to monitor every tap on a display in life of their children.
I've used Numpy, Matplotlib, Octave and Scilab. None of them are really anywhere as good as Matlab. R has quite a different focus.

The biggest thing Matlab has is the GUI (which is surprisingly good!), the documentation (excellent), and the plot viewer. The plot viewer is probably its killer feature. There's just nothing remotely as good in any other software, at least as far as I could find.

Octave's is terrible. Barely any features and incredibly slow.
> Google Assistant, Alexa, or Siri

Doesn’t sound like there is much of a coherent strategy at work here.
at the top you mentioned "Rails". Rails handled the backend. You defined database schemas. It built forms to edge them. To a certain level you install got a working front end and backend.

Where does Next fit here?
I read it, but I don’t believe it.

I guess I have to wait for ifixit‘s teardown though.
Why is it not practical for most business and personal purposes? I cycle to work (on an e-bike) every day and so do most people I know
> I really meant what I said, not the original brain-in-a-jar thought experiment.

In that case please explain your thought experiment in more detail. In reality if we scoop your brain into a jar your brain tissue will be dead before it hits the jar due to the lack of bloodflow. Then after a while it becomes mouldy and stinky and even more goopy than it was before. Not sure anyone would call any of that inteligent.
As you need to do it on both ends it is limited to your own stuff. The bonding trick works for everything automagically.
How do you decide who cleans the toilets?
Gates owns pharma labs and reflects a lot on diseases through his foundations. I don't know how much exactly we can trust on his opinions on those subjects, or any subject for that matters, but I would say his knowledge isn't 0, in reality it's probably higher than in software nowadays.
It did indeed make my brain unearth old memories of enjoying PWEI. Had completedly forgotten about them until this GWEI link.
Well, first you're cross-comparing mobile iOS with desktop Windows. Steam exists for macOS and does not take shuttle any revenue to Apple. Microsoft did everything it could to lock developers into the Windows ecosystem because their focus was on Windows. And it worked, on the desktop. I sincerely don't doubt they would have done what Apple did with an app store cut had they figured out a way to do it. They were ruthless back then and were almost broken up for their monopoly. They certainly didn't develop the Windows-only DirectX out of the goodness of their heart. It was to sell Windows. They got their cut, make no mistake, even if they didn't cast as wide a net as Apple.

Getting back to the mobile side, for which Microsoft never could decide on its strategy, I still don't see how one can say that Apple is "trying to fail" at gaming. They account for 15% of the mobile market, but generate 56% of the mobile game revenue (data from here: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-revenues/) . That just doesn't sound like anything resembling failure to me.
This proposal was 12 bytes and the feature that it is 16 chars in base64. UUID is more than 16 chars in base64.
Don't you think pilots would tend to try and stay within that "safe autorotation" envelope most of the time while flying? It seems mostly a case of having sufficient altitude and/or speed, similar to what fixed wing pilots try and maintain - a safety margin.
' suspecting the musicians to be spies' add to it journalists, preachersetc, and everyone is suspect now. Few years ago I was stopped for 2 hours at a Russian airport for a sport event, it was a KAFKAESQUE Nightmare, but it seems that they have some justifications.
> > It is mystical to hope for awareness, understanding, common sense, from symbols and data processing using parametric functions in higher dimensions.

> but that is all our brains do, really.

> How can we claim that a computer doing the same kinds of computations that we do is fundamentally different? This just reeks of human exceptionalism.

Our brains and physiological mechanisms are far more complex than matrix multiplications sprinkled with some tan or max(0,x). I'm ok with saying that we are big machines etc, but the power of our primitive operations, the range in aspect and behaviors of our mechanisms is far far greater than what is currently done in NN. The complexity of what is learned in NN, seen as a computer program, seems to me to be at the level of a full-text-search index together with a probabilistic automaton. What i believe we are as humans (and other "very sentient" animals) is more on the level of linux: tons of subsystems each looking very different, tons of "drivers" for accomplishing very specific tasks rapidely.
I use around 70kWh/day (but nearly zero in summer and probably 4x that on colder days).

Heating is a heat pump with probably 300% efficiency (i.e. 3kW heat for 1kW electricity). Walls are 300mm insulated wood frame. Triple glass windows. -20C for at least one week every winter. Could probably lower the consumption by recycling more heat (none of the wastewater heat from hot water running down sinks is recycled for example).
100days; $100B; Financing the Ukraine-Russia War
Source article -https://energyandcleanair.org/financing-putins-war/
Apple's mobile strategy has about 15% market share but generates almost 60% of the mobile game revenue. I just can't see that as "avoiding success" in gaming.
It's quite strange (and nice) to see a hint of nostalgia creeping back in to Apple's communications. For a long time, celebrating its history seemed verboten at Apple?

There's that story of Jobs getting rid of the Apple Museum that occupied the foyer. Something about not wanting Apple to be a company that was living in its past.
> I mean, you can just serve mp3 files over HTTP. The browser can download the whole file, and load it until whatever mp3 playing library there is

If you have the right container/encoding format (my experience is that it works well with mkv) you can even start watching a video file locally with VLC while wget is still downloading it via HTTP... works amazingly well.
It only makes sense to the con artist that put it on their resume first.

Let me try:

Hair dry volcano hydration off the cliff only, no added sugar.
> But I also wonder if it's relevant at all.

The idea that "Was he a good cop?" can be answered without asking the community being policed is just a dumbfounding notion, and really puts some urgency behind the question of who is the police serving.
I used osmand in Poland and Ireland and it's great. Better for walking and biking than Google maps. And it's fully offline.
Stadia isn't crazy. It's just dumb.

Is it new? No. Streaming games has been done for a good while now.

Is it exciting? Games on subscription? Already done.

Even exclusive games were done. And done better by Epic store.

Works with existing collection? Nope.

Working on any device? So does GFNow but works with current Steam collection (unless publishers is greedy).

Does it solve any interesting issues? No. But adds non-repairable console. Basic issue can't be fixed easily - Network congestion, speed of light.

On launch it was universally panned by hardware reviewers like Gamers Nexus, and others.

It's not like Google graveyard was a secret at that point.
I pay around 0.20/kWh, but I made a mistake in my calculations! It would “only” cost 600$/month or 7’200 a year.
One of the systems I set up recently I decided to go the docker-compose way. Quite quickly I found out that either the tool doesn't support (or at least isn't exactly interested in supporting) multiple compose files, or I am too stupid to find out the right combo of options, which resulted in a growing yaml file as the setup of dockerized components rose on that specific server.

Whatever claims about user friendliness, I didn't figure a stable way to do deploy separate docker-compose.yml's from same user at the same time.
How can that be if you have such detailed knowledge of his conduct?
> I wasn't going around spamming — I made a post on LPT when my startup launched

How many launches of other startups not affiliated with you did you share there first? What % of your comments in the sub would you say were on threads you didn't start?
This is probably why jazz sounds like jazz.
I'm reading that as "unknown to you, the advertiser."
What would that mean for parodies though, death of satire. Can likenesses have fair use or perhaps only for for positive representations of the person?