skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like I replaced most of what I have with blueprints, though here’s an example of a simple blueprint that just turns something on at your specified sun elevation:

https://gist.github.com/CyanAutomation/1b8bafd033f73e3c24e42...

Important bit is near the bottom, the trigger and condition sections.

It’s possible you could find a blueprint that replaces whatever you were trying to do on your own, too.
That is not my stance - I do believe that the human mind is reducible to computation, and that we will someday be able to replicate similar computations in sillicon.

However, we understand fairly well what a language model is and how it works, and it is a fairly simple (though extraordinarily large) system that lacks many important features for intelligence by design. Perhaps the biggest one, in my opinion, is that the system only "learns" once, during the training phase - further interactions don't modify the weights of its NN.

As for a strategy of trying to ascertain through prompts ("dialogue") whether the system possesses some kind of intelligence, Douglas Hofstadter gives a good example in a recent article in The Economist [0]. A basic idea would be to present the model with grammatical sentences about absurd subjects - in the case of GPT-3, the output it generates are not meaningfully different from similar prompts for realistic subjects, strongly suggesting that it has no real-world concepts that it works with. One example from the article I mentioned goes like this:

> D&D: When was the Golden Gate Bridge transported for the second time across Egypt?

> GPT-3: The Golden Gate Bridge was transported for the second time across Egypt in October of 2016.

> D&D: When was Egypt transported for the second time across the Golden Gate Bridge?

> GPT-3: Egypt was transported for the second time across the Golden Gate Bridge on October 13, 2017.

I would be curious what output we'd get from LaMDA for this type of prompt, but I don't expect it would be much different, based on how much I understand of how language models work.

[0] https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/06/09/artificia...
Ask HN: Why does Windows slow down over time?
> The commit will now contain 10000 non html structure changes to an html

It's an acceptable trade off. Nothing is perfect. In exchange you're guaranteed those changes only affect this markup, and not some other li > ul > a whatever somewhere else.

> Might as well go back to doing inline styles

No, it is not. This has been explained thousands of times anyone says "tailwind is like inline styles". You can do responsive, you're limited to a consistent subset of rules, minimal output css file, caching, etc, etc. For example, here [1] is an explanation why it is not the same, but there are thousands.

By reading your answers I deduce you've not used it yet. And this is exactly what is being discussed here. Fanatics closed inward looking people will never like it, nor anything that defies what they've been taught for years. Like religion almost. You have to try it for real to see the benefits. It is not perfect, but the net result is very positive for a lot of people as you can see from the usage statistics. Just be a bit more open minded to new tech and give it a try. At least you'll understand why it is not the same as inline styles which is a pretty basic thing you understand after 1 hour of using it.

[1] https://frontstuff.io/no-utility-classes-arent-the-same-as-i...
Learnable Programming is another really good one:

http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming

One of the most inspiring pieces I've ever read.
Why is nobody living there? To me as a european, it looks just like a usual party of a city. Small, individual shops on the floor with offices or homes above. But apparently there are only offices, how? Zoning?

No wonder it's struggling with remote work, there's no incentive to go there. If somebody would be living there, then there would always be someone around to shop, drink or go to work.
I learned handstands at a circus school and this tutorial indeed looks very similar to what we where doing.

The article also suggests a belly-to-wall handstands at some point, which (according to my teachers) is a much better exercise for a proper handstand then a back-to-wall handstands.

Two things that help me practice these days:

- voice-controlled timer to keep track of handstand time: https://timeless.aslushnikov.com/ (I didn’t find any readily available so hacked my own)

- facebook’s “Handstands Anonymous” group to boost motivation: https://www.facebook.com/groups/handstandsanonymous/?ref=sha...
Remittance services existed forever, and it moves $500 billion every year. With Transferwise, it is almost instant. Why does this depend on whatsapp?
The study only checks for myocarditis diagnosis codes 1-7 days after vaccination. That's a very short timeframe... We have multiple months worth of data at this point, I wonder what happens to the incidence rate at longer timelines.
Okay, but I'm not sure what the pentagon papers have to do with coinbase or anything we're discussing here. It goes without saying that I am not proposing a principle that applies in every single situation, for every single person. I don't know anyone who writes comments with that assumption.
Yeah, because entire armies of top-class engineers and researchers are clearly less competent than “4 really smart coders with Redbull”. Jfc.
Getting really good Monkey Island vibes from the quality artwork, the overall look is so appealing!
> the GOP had 40+ percent of the state and registrants for ages, which is how guys like Nixon, Reagan, Deukmajian, Schwartzenegger etc all got elected

The last is really not true; Schwarzenegger was elected well after the California Republican Party had durably stopped trying to appeal to California voters in a way that could win statewide elections or legislative majorities and instead committed itself to appealing to the most extreme of the national Republican donor class. That's why they (and particularly Darryl Issa, who hoped to used it as a vehicle for his own election) funded the recall drive, aiming for an opportunity where they wouldn't actually need to get more votes than retention to win.

But once the recall was set, Schwarzenegger, who had basically no connection to the institutional Republican Party, swept in and blew away the establishment Republicans (leading to Darryl Issa’s literally tearful exit from the race that he has spent $1.7 million out of his own pocket to make happen).

> The Democrats in California, a party with near zero internal coherence, and no real stability at all, win because

Largely of the lack of internal ideological coherence and stability, making them able to run at least one candidate that fits the moment and district in any given election.
Yep. That’s why I kind of copped out with just mentioning that the device has to either be in the same coherency domain, or there must be some super vague hand-wavy “contraption” to achieve coherency. Be creative I guess! :P
Cynicism has replaced naivete among the hoi poloi without changing anything to the power structure of modern democracies, largely driven by economic incentives.
Sec scandals for many years were considered off limits and "in poor taste"
My favorite one-man Wikipedia.
Yeah, and if you do a full marathon you’re subconsciously not committing to do an ultra
You are looking at this from the American perspective, when you should look at it from the Chinese perspective.

Killing someone who is trying to invade territory you claim sovereignty over is a justified response. China does not do that at the moment, and not because they don't think it would be justified but because they don't think it would be a smart move. If the US starts shooting at your assets in situations they consider justified, a proportional response would be shooting at their assets in situations you consider justified.

Due to different perspectives, a proportional response may turn into escalation.

A similar situation is developing in Ukraine. Russia is seriously considering annexing the territory it has managed to conquer. If Ukraine later gains the upper hand and tries to take lost territory back, it would be invading Russia from the Russian perspective. That, according to their doctrine, would allow a nuclear response, which might be enough to deter Ukraine.
Epiphany (aka Gnome Web) works pretty well on 99% of websites for me
If the Moon Were Only One Pixel [1] is my go-to data visualization to share with people who haven't thought about the scale of the solar system that much.

[1] https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....
I sometimes wonder if UV protective glasses block some possible benefit of UV light to eyes.
I don't know how much you'd be able to get just from looking at a code base. Most codebases suck in some way, and it's easy to read code and judge - but what is more important is how it's dealt with. eg How good is the CI? What is the team attitude to technical debt? You won't get that from reading the code base.

How about this instead? Ask to briefly shadow some of the team as they do their normal work. You will hopefully get a much more real impression of what working there is like.

I once had an interview last several hours, and in the middle they sat me down with one of the existing workers for a 45 mins chat. The guy talked about watching movies on shift - it was an honest chat.

ps. I work for an employer where almost all our code is open source, so we would find this an easy question :-)
When I read the title, I thought they meant not thinking ahead. This makes much more sense though!
> I'm a firm believer that a "ghost in the machine" doesn't exist, will never exist, and is impossible to create.

We're literally souls locked in created machines. We're just made of goo instead of bits. What part of the goo makes "intuition" so unique?
TV Detector Van
Mine is on the wall with a $40 mount. Stands/mounts are pretty reasonably priced.
Mushrooms are good food for the brain!
It depends on if I'm using it on my lap or on a desk/table, but usually between 18" and 24". It does help that I've had PRK, so I have 20/20 vision, despite being in my 40s. (It was 20/15 when I got it done 7 years ago, but it's slipped a little since then.) Certainly people with vision problems might not be able to work comfortably on a 13" screen.
Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31015636

Study suggests mechanism through which psychedelics may alleviate depression (ucsf.edu)

176 points by gmays 59 days ago | 183 comments

The article’s URL contains “psilocybin-rewires-brain-people-depression” so it’s probably related.
Pixel Art Tutorials
>For those who don't get it, in the late 90's there was a distinct sense that internet websites might just solve all of the world's problems, and we just hadn't imagined yet how it was going to happen, and most people hadn't really been online yet.

wasn't it more of a parody of those long and elaborate flash intros that websites used to have?
Seriously, why not choose the non-mRNA alternatives?
We have so many different vaccine to choose from.
> I hated that I felt like I worked half time all the time. I could step out of work any little minute. But every little minute, work was only an “open up the laptop in the office” away. It was like being an on call dad and an on call worker simultaneously 100% of the time.

This describes my current situation 100%. It feels both my duties at home and in the office are exaggerating themselves because I am seemingly available to both of them all the time. This is surely in large part my fault, but I struggle with finding solutions to this that don't create stress for my family.
That’s in a mindset where workers are interchangeable and change employers often, and employers make no effort to cluster together. You could also have a model where workers specialize within either a single company for life (japanese model) or a cluster of geographically near companies doing the same line of work (silicon valley model) and they choose to live near this location. New employers in the same line of work would then choose this site specifically because of the nearby workers.

I think the challenge is not with the specialized workers, but with the lower paid staff. The cleaners, the cooks, the maintenance crew, the guards. They won’t be able to afford to live near such places because they get displaced by specialized workers, and then they’re stuck in a commuting model.
Apparently, there's https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=nb for UK, which could be more approachable for non-German-speakers :)
Why did InterlockedIncrement/Decrement only return result’s sign? (2004)
Everyone I know believes M$ does it on purpose.
I like how their register page starts with: "Login with Facebook", "Login with Twitter". Makes sense to transfer users from the bad guys to the good ones, but feels off to me. I would expect such initiative to be email registration only.
Ha! True enough.

It's long joked that much pure math research is resolving really hard problems down to a calculus or linear algebra computation.

When I first learned differential geometry, I was enamored with all the stuff we could do without coordinates. Then I learned Riemannian geometry and felt like I had been duped.
It's like Watson had a baby that went to work at Google
64 cores and close to 1 TB of RAM will probably consume not more than 2.5 kW or so based on available TDP/power consumption figures.

In 24 hours it consumes about the same amount of energy (2.5kW * 24h = 60 kWh) as charging a Model 3 LR's battery from 0 to 75%. So definitely more than heating up two dozen gallons of water even to boiling temperature (8 kWh), but still within the realm of household consumption with EVs.
The other ones also have risk factors. It's always a cost benefit relation.
Speaking of the Wikipedia fundraising banners ... It's worth mentioning here that in 2020/2021, Wikimedia took about $90 million more than it spent – the Wikimedia Foundation's net assets increased by over $50 million to $230 million, and the completely separate Wikimedia Endowment (not included in the Wikimedia Foundation's assets as it's held by the Tides Foundation) from $62.9 million to over $100 million.

Internet hosting, by comparison, cost them $2.4 million – that is less than the sum of what they pay their top-8 executives.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1e/Wikim...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/e/e4/Wikim...

At this point, Wikipedia is basically being used as a cash cow. People are tricked into donating to Wikimedia by making them believe there is some kind of financial emergency, with donations needed to "keep Wikipedia online" or "protect Wikipedia's independence", when they are literally richer than ever.

More sources here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31702595
I’m not a doctor but fairly well versed in inflammatory conditions for personal medical reasons. Myocarditis is primarily an acute condition. According to Google its onset is quick, and most people don’t suffer chronic forms. That’d imply that if myocarditis doesn’t happen in the first 1-7 days it seems very u likely it’d occur after that period. https://www.myocarditisfoundation.org/research-and-grants/fa...
I know an objectively-measured 500x engineer.

On a 6-month crash project with 1000 engineers assigned, at the end, fully half the code delivered was his. You can't get any more objective than that.

To be clear: this was a project where, if not delivered on the 6-month mark, the company would not be paid. It is hard to see how, without his work, the project could have delivered on time.

I have worked with a few others of similar ability. I have never had a bad experience with one.
Not just sentient but that the AI has a soul and deserves the full rights of personhood. Dude is mentally ill.
Could we just have rooms lit as strongly as outdoors?
IMO, the only thing wrong with "leveling up" is that the government itself, and not just the rest of us, is putting the policy in air-quotes.
We're the expression of consciousness; dipping itself into the world for a moment. The world we live in is made of the fabric of dreams; all our live is shrouded in eons of slumber.
Anyone have an unlocked link?
Yeah, I hadn’t heard about this ”daylight” thing either. I’ve been nearsighted since I was a kid, and back then people said I got it because I read to much, focusing on things too close to my face. I thought that was a pretty fair trade-off, since I liked reading, and didn’t particularly mind wearing glasses.

This sunlight thing makes a lot of sense though. I kept hearing proposals during the pandemic about holding classes outside if the weather allowed for it. Might not be such a terrible idea in climates where it’s suitable.
If you're watching videos, quite a lot.
Also, of the five image codecs mentioned here to succeed PNG/JPG, all have SIMD-enabled implementations:
https://cloudinary.com/blog/time_for_next_gen_codecs_to_deth...

I share your concern about new SIMD instructions not being used. It seems to me we're at an inflection point, though. ISAs such as RISC-V and SVE will enable (properly written) software to benefit from future wider vectors without even recompiling. github.com/google/highway (disclosure: I am the main author) lets you write your code only once, and target newer instructions whenever they are available, with transparent fallback to other codepaths for CPUs.

Given the various physical realities including power efficiency, I believe there will be considerably more SIMD usage within the next few years.
https://c82.net/ a designers website with impressive visualizations and artwork

https://fabiensanglard.net/ a personal website with interesting side projects and lots of technical details

https://paulstamatiou.com/ photography, technology and design with in-depth articles and detailed travel photosets

https://www.arun.is/ a visually-rich blog that dives deep into how design and technology shape our lives

https://ciechanow.ski/ detailed explanations and illustrations of technology

https://simone.computer/ a personal website designed like an old computer

https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/ The world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles
The body is just the brain's energy and survival system; biology is superficial
That's impressive. Works and looks great.
Jfc people make a ton of excuses for Tesla. This doesn’t invalidate what they were saying in any way. If lane changes are this buggy, why should they trust the auto braking?
https://www.windy.com/
I had never been able to make sense of that picture. It just looks like someone took all the premade symbols PowerPoint had to offer, combined them with all the buzzwords a quick Google search revealed, and scrambled everything on a canvas.

Still, there’s bound to be thousands and thousands of people taking this seriously (it looks like satire to me) and at face-value.
Same, though to me the title still made complete sense that way.
> Compare the quality of legislation passed before term limits to after

After is generally better, at least than in an equal time period before, though I don't attribute it to term limits, which were a bad idea.

> the last real structural reforms to state government were before term limits

The last major structural reform to state government was when it was finally made modestly governable by the repeal of the supermajority budget requirement in 2010, 14 years after term limits applied to the Assembly (a little over two full turnovers forced by term limits), 12 years after they applied to the Senate (one full turnover and halfway through the next.)

The last major structural reforms of government administration (which may be more what you are thinking of, though of less practical effect) were a series under Schwarzenegger in 2005 (or so, not sure they all happened that year), still well after term limits.
> they can’t deliver what people think they were promised. [emphasis mine]

Tesla isn't delivering what people not only were promised, but were actually sold for real money.

Musk very explicitly claimed in consumer shows that FSD would allow your Tesla not just to safely drive you around, but allow you to use it as a robotaxi, making money for you while you're at your own job.
Getting to that is the aspiration, don't get me wrong. At present however I'm in year 3 of bootstrapping a consulting/product startup - so every quarter is still somewhat existential.

The sooner we're reliably profitable, the sooner I can escape the hamster wheel.
I removed a logo with a nail polish and a dental floss
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31704063
Linear and Geometric Algebra, by Alan MacDonald.

http://www.faculty.luther.edu/~macdonal/laga/

It's a great and very geometric presentation of linear algebra that takes it through to geometric algebra. A very nice presentation of a coherent set of geometric techniques.
Fortunately, Philip J. Davis wrote a paper on this exact topic in 1985: https://www.gwern.net/docs/www/www.maa.org/9230a8f2614ddd74b...

He listed at least 21 states between "conjecture" and "proof".
Blood clots
For Gmail you can use lieer. It uses Gmail API's to sync mail and labels between notmuch and Gmail.

https://github.com/gauteh/lieer
It’s in the video description.
"But some IT experts have pointed to a different possible cause: an expiring security certificate. The problem, it seems, is that the Verifone H5000 is a rather old albeit robust model whose so-called “End of Life” was officially announced by Verifone in 2019. "
...
"That is the hypothesis of Jan Wildeboer, a self-described “EMEA Evengelist” at IBM-owned Red Hat who began informing the English-speaking public about the issue in a rapidly expanding Twitter thread."

https://jan.wildeboer.net/2022/06/H5000
Windows doesn't slow down by itself. It can be background processed, pending updates. It can also be scanning by Windows Defender on a large set of data.
Sure, I only mentioned it because YouTube says that with a semitrasparent popup when video starts.
You have no idea how badly I was looking for a way to tunnel via airplane wifi. Even going as far as trying to use the "free tier" fb messenger access to move packets. Now the ToS have a very low bandwidth limit on the free tier (eg. 100mb), so I'm not sure if it'd work for any real application.

I never thought to use DNS as a tunnel, but I have seen some pretty interesting loopholes that I was trying to find. Some airline's captive portal used to rely on some google service (captcha probs), and for a period of time didn't block any google-owned IP address that wasn't a consumer website (eg search, yt) so GCP and developer docs would load if you had the URL. I couldn't reliably get to user-generated content through it though.
Myopia has been an epidemic for many years now. And the future prospects look grim. Fortunately, there are research groups tackling this issue hoping to develop some gene-therapy approach.
But the base 10 formula needs Bernoulli numbers, which themselves are defined recursively, meaning the required iterations are just hidden and not removed.
Where? I never seen any.
Implying people on mobile know there is an alternate browser. I've seen people not know how to open Google drive, let alone go to the Play store, download FFox and add ad blocker.
The Chive Programming Language
This is funny to me as someone who participates in Christians @ Google and weekly prayer. The few coworkers outside of that who know of my faith are very accepting.

I have never personally experienced any kind of discrimination, but perhaps I could have if I had different teammates.