skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've been waiting for our Ioniq 5 Ultimate since our order in Q3 2021...latest from them is that it'll come in "late 2023." 2 years seems optimistic at this point–and dealers have no idea, nor do they communicate about what that means–will I get a 2023 model or the old one?– it's an awfully run program, which is a shame because the car is pretty nice. I just don't think they'll deliver it in even the quoted 2023 timeframe at this point.

We ended up ordering a Model Y as a hedge and it came three weeks later.

p.s – Just an FYI that the waitlist is actually closed right now, so if a dealer takes your money to put you on the waitlist I'd question if that's what's actually happening. My local dealer is taking the downpayment and promising to put people on the waitlist when it reopens–so it'll be two years from whenever THAT actually is.
Technological Doping: Why Nike Alphaflys Were Banned from the Tokyo Olympics
The pictures are incredibly similar to what one gets when you type that same string in to google image search - it makes me wonder if you could do reverse-image search on some of the pictures it produces and find whole training pictures embedded in it, the way one can find blocks of intact training text stored inside language models.
It’s become more coherent with the rest of the platform and iOS, even if you don’t like the design.
AI Accelerator Subsystem for Linux
Right, if Apple doesn't let people hyper target it's not necessarily a privacy issue. Main issue with Facebook ads is when you interact & identify (e.g. click an ad and sign up[0]) you are confirming to some advertiser that their campaign targeting applies to you.

If this ever changes that will be a big privacy issue.

[0] Advertisers can also identify you if you only click (and don't sign up or otherwise identify yourself) via some other data source like their own data, a third party service
Can anyone build on results that are so hard-won and complex that understanding them is as much effort as learning the basics of some entire fields of study?
So, not exactly the ideas you're talking about, but the racing world is increasingly exploring outside of the aero that FIA/F1 et all have allowed.

Check out this fancar that set a new course record at Goodwood this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtvT2XYlcOY

For anyone unfamiliar, a fan car uses motor driven fans to actively create a low pressure zone under the car, while also reducing the low pressure drag bubble behind the car. This particular one is all electric and quite compact.

It's very fast, and yes footage of it looks weird, almost artificial, because its sustaining grip through corners that rivals F1 cars, with the torque of electric. Running full tilt the fan system creates about 2000 kg of downforce. But the neat thing is you can flip a switch and then the thing just becomes a Nissan Leaf with a really crazy body kit. So some future "track day" car based on this concept would be surprisingly practical.

I think the future of auto racing in a pure electric era is going to be surprisingly bright.

Anyhow, not really relevant to talking about making big trucks more efficient, but thought you'd find it interesting.
>conscious of their guilt

This hits it for me:

Consciousness is kinda "being aware of the fact that you have choices for available actions, and what the impact of these actions/non-actions will have on either yourself, your environment, the object of your action, or impact on others.

Intelligence is being aware of the inputs and knowing the (non)available list of actions to take.

Intelligence acts on stimuli/input/data?

Consciousness is awareness of one's own actions from intelligence, others acts from their standpoint of intelligence or consciousness...

A yin/yang, subjective/objective sort of duality that Humans make. (thought v emotion)

Dogs are both intelligent and conscious. They know guilt when they are shamed or happiness when praised for intelligent actions..
So, the anti-semite anti-Soros propaganda has reached India now?
So it just comes down to bot software not being compatible with HTTP 2.0 rather than any sort of HTTP 2.0 specific mechanism/feature?
Maybe India takes inspiration from her colonizers?

"How did the British Parliament become a place where the person speaking is constantly interrupted while the US Congress is one where the audience is quiet?"

Answer:
"It didn’t become such a place, it always was such a place. It started life as a collection of people sent by various towns to meet the King to petition him for some action or other. It was a totally formless group of individuals admitted to the King’s larger meeting hall when and if the King permitted. As such they would shout over each other in the attempt to get the King’s attention. Over the centuries it became more formalised and more structured, and a modicum of order imposed. But it has always had the character of a rowdy everybody against everybody discussion rather than an academic debate.

Famous Parliamentarians, particularly Winston Churchill, have enjoyed it being so and encouraged it. The width of the gangway is still two swords lengths, so they cannot engage swords across it, and the cloak rooms outside still have ribbons intended for you to hang your sword before entering the chamber. Parliament values its traditions of being a barely orderly town meeting."

I don't know how accurate that answer is, but it was the top comment in quora. Other sites show similar answers.
Personally I’m moving out of the field into general software development. As a data scientist I never found myself getting into a “flow state”.

Most importantly I’ve found the impact of machine learning to be limited outside of massive companies which come with their own headaches. To add to that the number of jobs is limited and the competition is fierce.

Not to say any of this is a negative, I just recommend people only get into it if they genuinely find working on ML problems exiting enough to do in your free time.

If anyone has done something similar, I’d love to hear about it. Most recruiters seem to be pretty surprised I’d want to do this.
I am not really sure that this is a basis to say human intelligence is fundamentally different. If you ask a human to draw a picture based on nonsensical input, they probably wont. That might not be a difference in process, but in agency.

So is a single-purpose AI equivalent to the entirety of the Human Experience? Of course not. But can it be similar in functionality to a small sliver of it?
The linked pages read as psuedo-science.

We’ve had recombinant stuff since the late-70s and 80s. For example, yeast are used for the production of human insulin among many other compounds.

Is the scale of production any different?
That would be fine. It took over a year to ramp up, if it takes takes that long to ramp down you'll still likely up ~$1000 on $10k for 30 minutes of your time. I wish I had opened my accounts a year ago.
I'll argue social networks are just a bit more than consistent gateways.

They are a supernormal stimulus. The algorithm feeds you and in many ways hijacks you. There's a reason social networks are dead set against chronological feeds.

They give you this steady drip of "engagement" which often means playing into strong (and negative) emotions.

You don't get that in a true straight content feed. Sometimes content is boring or just not excitable.
If you didn't suffer from the presence of a moral code, gene editing babies for intelligence is something you could do today, or if not, with a month or two of preparations and waiting for suppliers.

I would bet that it is possible to expand actual consciousness into connected hardware (silicon or engineered nervous tissue), and have that hardware expand a metric you would call intelligence.

The most reasonable thing in a third direction would be improving brain development through specific training in childhood and training as an adult. A lot of intelligence comes down to how the brain organizes itself in response to inputs, and a scientific discipline to optimize this could make a lot of progress. Not that work isn't being done along these lines but I think there is a lot of room to grow here.
To me it is a good solution. Again, I’m happy to sacrifice some signal, if that loses essentially all noise.
Do we really want private companies to be in the business of law enforcement?
Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps
This is pretty bad: an auto-generated password from Chrome in point 1 would not pass "simple" password rules from Mailchimp in point 4: so which is it, are the rules simple or not, and are the autogenerated passwords secure or not?

Then there is also talk of avoiding passwords altogether with "any kind of 2-factor authentication", but what would be the first factor in any 2fa scheme if not a password?

So, a bunch of incoherent, silly babble that can't agree on anything.
This Go package fully generated by AI's(Copilot, OpenAI and DALL·E)
> With today's ML algorithms, posting one's knowledge feels increasingly like unpaid labor to these AI models.

I hear you. Also on the other hand your beloved search algorithm of choice often surfaces content not by quality but optimization for said algorithm.
So, the right leaning newspapaer? I think OPs list pretty well ballanced and great source for non-Indians to learn about politics in India.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31006354

To take this a bit more literally, these I-Bonds are free money that HN told me about.
Oh, but designated initializers are so useful!
With innovative bioreactor, stem cells transform into organ-filled embryos
I figure that wouldn't do anything, so when I have the energy to even pick up the phone for these assholes, I usually just fuck with them. My favorite is the scam about renewing your car's warranty, because I don't own a car and never have. So I get them on the line and say, "Oh, no, my warranty is about to expire? Which car are you calling about?" And they pause, confused. "Well, I have two cars, which one is about to expire?" They always respond with, "The most recent purchase, sir." And then I go, "Well, I bought them at around the same time many years ago, I don't remember exactly which one was more recent. If you're calling about the warranty, surely you know the make and model, right?" That's about when they hang up.

One time I got a scam call trying to make me freak out by saying someone bought a $1,000 iPhone on my Amazon account and I needed to work with them to take care of the fraud. I just said, "Oh, no, I bought that! There's no fraud, nothing to worry about!" There was a very long (and amusing) pause, and then the click of disconnection.
A pointer is just a number that points to addressable memory. Pointers don't even point to actual memory these days anyways. They're just glorified indices into OS tables that eventually map to actual memory. You can increase a pointer to be 128 bits big, or 256 bits big if you wanted to. It doesn't change anything, because it's just an index.

Here's a clarification on Wikipedia that expands on this:

> nearly all programming languages are Turing complete if the limitations of finite memory are ignored.

And files are just as finite as a pointer. You can't address a location in a file bigger than sizeof(void*) on a modern computer. If you wanted to, you would need to add special support[1] and doing this is equivalent to what you would do to support a bigger memory range for pointers.

I'm curious, do you think other languages are Turing complete? As far as I know, all modern programming languages use a 64 bit addressable memory space maximum.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4933561/what-is-the-rela...
> This is not C! This kind of stuff is why purists stick to C89.

This personal assertion holds no water.

People hold/held onto C89 because compilers like Visual Studio's C compiler failed to support anything beyond C89 for ages.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c11-and-c17-standard-...

It's my understanding that Microsoft adopted a role in the C standardization committee that was a kin to sabotaging any update beyond C89.
Agreed, it's not only influencers and content creators on these platforms that are seeking easy fame and money, it's also tech leadership...

The biggest problem is that there aren't many "vibrant" community places left to go to other than big social media now, and the can quickly be overwhelmed by other migrating birds.
The cost of banning private jets is too frightening, too terrible to contemplate.

Jeff Bezos would have to wait in line at the airport.

Also, isn’t the US still the biggest single contributor to greenhouse gasses?
Great writing and breakdowns in this back and forth. Numbers don’t lie.
If you eliminate the "G" in AGI to include any mechanical, electrical, or otherwise automated non-human computational processes we can use to augment our own brain's limitations, i.e. calculators, slide rulers, all the way up to Wikipedia, then AI is clearly the answer so far. Even just books and language, augmenting human intelligence by parallelizing thinking across many humans and not losing knowledge upon death, are huge wins.

But for the far future, all of the above seems like a good answer. At least one "something else" is the possibility of nutritional, electrical, or biochemical interventions that can increase brain function without needing to change our genes. Caffeine and beta blockers seem like the best things we've got so far, along with not being in a state of persistent starvation, but there are presumably ways we can do better.
Oh nice, I have high opinions of you folks!

Guy who goes by the name of "Randgalt" online builds some great Java libraries and works there too I believe.
why don't they just build their own payment processor :^)
People overestimate how dangerous hydrogen is. It disperses more rapidly than natural gas / propane / methane, and isn’t a liquid like gasoline.

People always think of the Hindenburg disaster as an example of how dangerous Hydrogen is, but forget that the shell was made of a chemical that is now used for solid state jet fuel.

The bigger safety issue with hydrogen is that it is a compressed gas. Modern fiberglass tanks (mostly) solve that problem by twisting apart when they catastrophically fail (instead of launching shrapnel).

I don’t know how the chemistry works for carbon-neutral methanol production, but you likely already have all the feedstock required for hydrogen generation readily available at your house (water, oxygen and electricity).

Also, commercial hydrogen crackers already exist, and are in test deployment.

The way I think about hydrogen fuel cells is that they have minimal infrastructure requirements (you don’t have to run natural gas lines / tankers anywhere, and water and electricity are more universally available), and their embodied carbon is (mostly) constant with increasing range, unlike batteries, where it’s (mostly) proportional to range.
Look up Drake Landing Solar Community - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Landing_Solar_Community // https://www.dlsc.ca/reports/swc2017-0033-Mesquita.pdf

It is mainly addressing winter heating rather than summer cooling (the cooling degree days are rather minimal - https://okotoks.weatherstats.ca/charts/cdd-weekly.html // https://weatherspark.com/y/2404/Average-Weather-in-Okotoks-C... "Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 13°F to 76°F and is rarely below -12°F or above 86°F.")

That said, there's nothing saying that one can't use a heat pump to as a source of heat in the summer (which would also cool the house) in additional to other sources of thermal energy.
Wow, this is wizardry.
Because you’ve mentioned Google, here’s this: https://imagen.research.google/
Working a Shitty Job Is Linked to Mental Decline When You're Old, Study Says
You are free to make cola or fried chicken at home; nothing about coca cola or kfc’s recipies is actually secret. That’s a myth.

Intellectual property is a fiction. It is an abstraction invented whole cloth be legislative bodies to protect specific industries.
The killer feature here is the recharge time, compared to the ID4 it will charge a similar amount in 20 mins vs 40 mins. That adds up on road trips.

Its also more powerful, and has better tech (buggy/laggy infotainment is a common complaint on the ID4).

> mediocre car from price and features.

> over-priced, non-Tesla EVs.

> a complete rip-off vehicle for price.

> I guess it looks cheap compared to Tesla — but it’s not at all.

You seem to have an axe to grind. What are you comparing to? The ID4 is a couple grand cheaper at best. The model Y would have been $20,000 more expensive than my IONIQ5 (AWD, SEL model) if you include the federal tax credit.
C) you don’t even have to know which genes boost intelligence to know that kids from smart parents are more likely to be intelligent. Akademgorodok was a concentration of very smart Russian scientists and turned into an (accidental?) eugenics program producing a new generation of smart kids. Some of the smartest people I’ve ever met were born there. But once IQ boosting genes are known they can be selected for by sequencing embryos, I.e. pick the smartest 2 embryos from a candidate pool of 100. An average couple with average variance could still produce 130 IQ kids.
It's there for me. I wonder how long that's been there and I just didn't notice?
Link without paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20220804035851/https://www.scien...
(Superblocks developer here)

Component reuse is something we are tackling on our end. We are working on a custom components feature so that you can bring your own components to Superblocks and reuse them across applications. Would that help replace some of the heavyweight tools you currently prefer to build in React?
similarity of the name with soylent green

Remember Soylent, the company and product? They're still around, selling on Amazon.
Same reason Detroit doesn't have useful mass-transit.

Entrenched interests make more money by prolonging the problem. Arguably the solution would be economically superior (vastly so!), but the folks who'd profit from it aren't in power _now_, and government lacks both the technical competency to understand what to do, and the balls to do it.
> yes, I agree, if it can't be done in a way that can be abused, it shouldn't be a product.

What about knives, alcohol, cars, escooters, power tools, rope, bleach?

These are all products that can be abused. Should they also not exist?

There will always be a new product that can be abused. Education and threat of punishment keep a lot of people from abusing them. The same can be true for AirTags.
No, but if they could have state power they could.

Private companies after a certain size (which Visa certainly qualifies) have to be forced to be open and neutral - they'd expand their power to anything they can given the chance.

(Same goes for the government, but at least that you get to vote for).
One of the features I'm interested in (or would like to have) from Trino or Presto is the workload management which can better manage different types of queries and allocate resources accordingly. This becomes important when more applications adopt Trino or Presto as a distributed SQL database/platform, where the impact from different queries or workloads can be mitigated, besides the dedicated resources (CPU, MEM, etc.) can be allocated to high priority workloads. I'm really wondering if/when such capabilities may be provided.

BTW, purely curiosity, I compared Trino with Presto from OSS point of view (https://ossinsight.io/analyze/prestodb/presto?vs=trinodb%2Ft...), both communities are still popular but Trino seems more active than Presto now. I also wonder if two communities may reunion someday again to really boost its impact (comparing to Spark community).
Wish there was something like Read Something Interesting (http://readsomethinginteresting.com/) but with a search index, where you could search only the blogosphere.
Those things all have massive external costs. How much energy goes towards powering computers and other devices playing games? How much time, effort and money goes towards developing them? How much power is used to power the offices where the games are produced?

All that candy needs to be manufactured and transported, and then the waste of the packaging handled, all for essentially zero nutritional benefit compared to other food options.

We should perhaps ban everything that isn't strictly essential for life.
Of course, DALL-E can only get away with not being introspective because it has reinforcement learning holding its hand. Bit harder to curate a clean training set without consciousness.

Personally, I suspect consciousness is intrinsically connected with whatever lets humans learn things by looking at and thinking about a single example.
It's a common metaphor.

Civilian is someone who's never been in the armed forced and therefore ignorant of how things really work in the military and in battle.

So it's basically a metaphor for a someone who's never studied statistics in depth and therefore ignorant of how statistic really work.
They have a clear monopoly in the high-end segment. "Intense competition" with Google has resulted in... few changes to app store cuts in 12+ years.
The King’s English by Henry and Francis Fowler
Unfortunately you're about 15 years past the get off my lawn time for the demand side platforms.
I suspect that with the consolidation of players in the anime streaming and merchandise spaces in the west, we will see western values increasingly pushed into the medium, as many voices are unified into fewer bigger ones with increasing financial influence.

I'm not particularly excited for this as the big players have already demonstrated themselves to be conservative and censorious when it suits in other areas. I think we're on the edge of the hollywood-ization of the medium. Crunchyroll has already been apparently involved in the production of a bunch of programmes, and was directly responsible for High Guardian Spice, which I think few people have anything nice to say about.
this shows how big a difference a good social net makes.

i grew up poor, with a single parent, on social welfare (because the parent could not work since they had to stay home to take care of us kids until we were older)

in germany.

social welfare paid our rent and gave us enough money that we could afford everything we needed. (we didn't need a car, and we didn't have a tv, but that was by choice. they would probably have paid the tv, had we wanted one). i never felt any struggle. when i moved out from home, i never needed money from my parents either. always paid my own way. i was never rich. i just learned to live frugal. and i am not at all scared of being poor again, because i know that there is a social net that i have access to if i need it.
A good point. Incidentally i need to eat like a whale despite sitting on a chair all day long. Brainpower is a hungry business but i dont get it my body needs to store some of that food as fat. I eat all day long! Perhaps we are feeding it the wrong stuff and what we are used to eating is no longer suitable for how we use our bodies in the modern day? But what about the super developed countries of east asia where people appear to be skinny? Is there something wrong with our diet in the european and american world?
Right? That blog isn't even in a webring.
No, but we probably don't want them profiting off of child pornography either.
This Elitch business appears to be wholesale fabrication. Hilarious. Added here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Said_the_actress_... but I don't get the joke.

Tom K Elitch, Tomkelitch, Tom Kelitch, Thomas Elitch. Is it just that "Tom Elitch" owns a business on "Broadway" https://clustrmaps.com/a/307mgf/

There's got to be something clever about it unless it's just total nonsense for its own sake. Ineptias ineptias gratia? :D

Touche!