skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ridiculous. Like I said, goldfish brained thinking. If you read just a little bit and used some critical thinking, you could figure this out yourself but it sounds like you prefer to think what you currently think because it supports your current ideology.
> To ask what something _is_ implies reduction. You want a description of experience in terms of something else. So you are begging the question, having already concluded that it's not fundamental.

This is not true. When people have asked "what is gravity" and they determine that its a fundamental, non-decomposable force within the universe, they are not disappointed. That's still an answer.

"Consciousness is a fundamental property of <X> in our universe" is a perfectly fine answer to the question "What is consciousness". It's just not the answer that most people currently find most likely.
It can also be applied in creative ways! In a company's annual report they state revenue for the year as well as a snapshot of accounts receivable. Divide one by the other and you get a snapshot of how long time it takes the company to collect on its debts!
At the company level, it is indeed more expensive to fix upstream rather thank work around it, but on a macro scale it is much more beneficial.

In my opinion fixing upstream whenever possible even if not the best short-term solution should be considered the price to pay for using OSS.
I like Casio watches but i feel there's lots oft Innovation they leave in the table. Especially the higher end square watches are sometimes needlessly incomplete
Just "Enforcing Memory Limit to 64MB for the free service." on telegram. Looks like they got HN hug of death.
From a linked article;

“Microsoft has been awarded a massive contract to supply the US Army with more than 120,000 augmented reality headsets, MSNBC reports.

The contract, amounting to about $21.88 billion over ten years, follows a 2018 contract to build prototypes of the Army's Integrated Visual Augmented System (IVAS). The new contract will involve building working production versions of the system — a deal that stands to change the face of ground combat.”

Absurdity. $180k per headset delivered? Did they mean $21.88mm?!

Meanwhile DoD is giving Elon shit for asking to get paid for ongoing Starlink service in Ukraine, which has fundamentally changed the way they engage Russian troops and combat positions on the front lines.
I don't care so much when a site with lots of interactivity requires JavaScript, but holy heck, do few things piss me off more than a blog site with articles that require JavaScript just to read text! Whomever writes web software to do that should be ashamed of themselves.

If it's really that hard for you to prerender a page on the server, then just send the text by itself. Can you do that? I don't need you to prerender your header, your footer, your menus, or any of that junk. Give me the text body. Place it in an element your JavaScript code can replace when it boots, if I choose to let it run at all, which I won't if I can avoid it.
If you’re old enough, you might have memorized “the” Windows XP key
US. Maybe it's better in other markets.
Vim Script [pdf]
Why can't we just skip the virtue signaling and just discuss the ideas presented? Absolutely none of the discussion we have here is going to affect the societal process of justice as described.
From TFA:

> "To play an instrument means that you can understand music, which is a high cognitive function. It means you can interact with the instrument, you can coordinate both hands, you can exercise memory, you can count — because music is mathematics — you can test vision because the patient has to see the instrument, and you can test the way the patient interacts with the rest of the team," he said.

I take that to mean that playing the instrument uses many brain functions and so they're able to monitor many things at once.
Thanks for the response. I am considering applying O1 now.
> Sparsely populated rural areas are really the only place where personal autos make sense

This might be true, if rural areas and densely populated uran areas were the only 2 states, but there's a lot of intermediate density in between
> Will this boring alternative you crave, continue to yield that higher velocity, or will it grind to a halt?

So far there are zero clients and multiple pivots. The boring alternative needs only to yield higher velocity to be worthwhile, otherwise funding runs out before market fit and the current architecture achieves zero.

> And second: does 'boring' really fit the requirements? There's only so much you can store in a simple RDBS, it will e.g. lack many intermediate states that your eventstream now does store. Maybe your use-case requires all this data?

Everything is stored in a popular RDBS. CQRS makes logging all data changes easier, but that is the only time intermediate states are used. If we did event sourcing I'd be keener on the architecture.
As someone who also likes to watch Chuck Cook, I don't think Tesla is close to waymo.

Tesla fsd in its current state will either crash or do some serious fuck up if you let it unattended for a few hours or maybe less (based on the disengagements in those videos). Forget about driverless Tesla with the current fsd. Waymo has been operating driverless since 2019.

I do agree that it is progressing very nicely. Imo tesla fsd needs 2 more years and a hardware update and it will be there.
Seriously. Claim Elvis, Madonna, and Oprah visited. And it has indescribable cleansing properties. Wellness is the easiest place to make money because it's selling sweet little lies people want to hear.
Gehry.AI
I will refrain from commenting on the specifics of this situation. But I’m curious if the logical fallacy of appealing to group authority is a new rhetorical tactic or simply an old one that we’ve leaned into. Nixon’s appeal to the silent majority a generation ago sounds quite similar.
Cantor on Infinity and Divine Freedom
No browser supports DASH any more; Edge 12–18 did, but that was lost in the Chromium shift. (Source: https://caniuse.com/mpeg-dash.)

But HLS has wide support on mobile browsers, and on desktop Safari. (Source: https://caniuse.com/http-live-streaming.) So YouTube should in theory be able to support JavaScript-free playback for many of its users.
Ah another thing to assist in the burning of my dick and the flattening of my battery.
If anyone worries it honeypot... well, you can self-host: https://github.com/hackerschoice/segfault
Good to see more of these coming out. I've toyed with https://www.koyfin.com/ in recent months too, quite good for macroeconomic data.
The percentage of wild fish as a proportion of feed has been going down. Researchers and companies are aware of this problem. Duckweed and farmed insect formulated fish feed are being tested and produced right now. It's still not great that wild fishes not fit for human consumption and whose capture is contributing to overfishing are used to support fish farming.
I don’t think it’s illegal to redirect anyone anywhere. Either way, 301s don’t modify the referrer so they wouldn’t be able to tell.
By that definition abortion isn't a medical procedure either, because it makes one of "the recipient’s condition deliberately worse than it was before the procedure".

And there are human rights arguments against abortion that have nothing to do with religion. Most people agree that the unborn acquire the right to live at some point, and the argument is mostly about when exactly. (Even Roe set that point well before birth.)
Energy is extracted via a heat exchanger. The rate of heat flow in a heat exchanger is proportional to the temperature difference between the hot and cold sides. The closer they are to thermal equilibrium, the slower you can extract energy.
Only thing that has worked for me is long walks and podcasts.

I've walked thousands of miles this year thanks to podcasts. This is only way i've found to escape screens and actually focus.
https://fortune.com/2022/10/13/chinese-americans-china-chip-...

This interesting bit at the end:

[..]More Chinese academics are choosing to leave the U.S., citing a more hostile working environment. Over 1,400 Chinese academics gave up their U.S. affiliation in 2021, representing a 22% jump from the year before, according to data compiled by Princeton University, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 2018, the Trump administration launched the China Initiative to investigate allegations of U.S.-based scientists transferring advanced technologies to China. Academics criticized the Initiative for chilling scientific cooperation and deterring Chinese academics from moving to or staying in the U.S.

Gang Chen, an MIT professor who was charged with espionage under the China Initiative in 2021, said the program brought “unwarranted fear to the academic community” after the charges were dropped a year later. The Biden administration ended the initiative in February 2022, citing a perception that it unfairly targeted people of Chinese origin or ethnicity.

Five months after the espionage charges were dropped, Chen helped discover what might be the “best semiconductor material ever found,” according to MIT. [..]
I've seen 10+ of these advertised this year despite not being in the space -- is there some shift that enabled them, like open pydata connectors 5 years ago and now enough steam that several have grown?
The laptop I have does have a "MUX switch" but is controlled in software. As far as I understand, the benefits of the MUX switch are primarily to graphics performance when working with the discrete GPU. At any rate, my laptop (G14 2022) is all AMD and I haven't had any trouble with the amdgpu drivers on recent Linux kernels.
You don't need to jailbreak a phone to set up MDM on it.
> I read 2-3 books simultaneously per topic

What is current topic you are reading about and the books . Curious :)
This post is apropos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33215316
I've used both. But it's going to feel "perfectly fine" to everyone! That's why we need an experiment to answer the question.
> It's sort of unsettling how this twitter "mob violence" echoes the patterns laid out by Hannah Arendt's exploration of totalitarianism.

Except that tweets are nonviolent, whereas totalitarianism is extremely violent. If you wanted to make a subtler point, you started off on the wrong foot. Your original comment felt over the top to me.
F, not C. Alumina melts around 2000 C and boils at 2977 C.
Not at the venue, no. The relevant tokens are saved locally and the barcodes are rendered on-device once you’ve accessed the ticket, which you can do hours/days in advance.

Some of TicketMaster’s API docs for this are publicly available so you can get an idea of how it works - https://developer.ticketmaster.com/products-and-docs/apis/pa...
It already simplifies some things if data is available directly from RAM. And many stores are read-only or read-mostly.
Hey at least that’s deniably dishonest. We are tangibly dishonest when we fund a conference in our sector and win best product in the sector every year!
Whups! Thanks for pointing that out!

Do you think that difference would materially affect whether YouTube or Netflix could exist as a website in a meaningful way without JavaScript?

By meaningful: would it fulfil its core competence of finding videos and streaming them to the browser?
Clearly you've seen my mug collection.
> I'm not providing a reference with this comment

Here is the CDC saying it:

> Before the 18th century, polioviruses probably circulated widely. Initial infections with at least one type probably occurred in early infancy, when transplacentally acquired maternal antibodies were high and protected infants from infection-causing paralysis.

> In the immediate prevaccine era, during the first half of the 20th century, improved sanitation resulted in less frequent exposure and increased the age of primary infection, resulting in large epidemics with high numbers of deaths. The incidence dramatically decreased after the introduction of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) in 1955 and continued to decline following oral polio vaccine (OPV) introduction in 1961. From the more than 21,000 paralytic cases reported in 1952, only 2,525 cases were reported in 1960 and 61 cases in 1965.

> Poliovirus Secular Trends in the United Status:

> * Before the 18th century, polioviruses probably circulated widely

> * In immediate prevaccine era, improved sanitation resulted in less frequent exposure and increased age of primary infection, resulting in large epidemics with high death count

> * Incidence dramatically decreased following inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) introduction in 1955

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/polio.html
How The Wire verified Andy Stone's FB.com Email using DKIM signature [video]
for brain surgeries, the head is immobilized.
WSB has been pretty useless since GameStop happened (imho). It's just memes these days, no real trading talk. I'm sure the actual traders all packed up and moved somewhere, but wherever it is, I sure wasn't invited.
Suggestion: add “is this null”/“is this common?” to your analysis tool. It might take determining that the hashing method is for each dataset “column”, but this kind of trap is everywhere and your users would probably be delighted when they see that’s already identified.
> The system clearly doesn't exist, or we'd see pictures and video of it.

> While this tech sounds nice for industrial processes, it's not anywhere near as practical for domestic heating, where geothermal heat pumps will be more efficient.

A family member had a heat storage system that used electricity to heat bricks about a decade ago. Worked great for home heating with time-of-day rates (especially with some solar to offset the peak rate daytime). And the purchase cost was very low, unlike any sort of ground source heat pump.
A former coworker had a "World's Okayest Dad" mug.
Carl Malamud is one of those good folks from early Internet culture. His recent work on getting copies of legal codes and making them freely available online is some really basic foundational work in support of American democracy. Very much in the spirit of the Internet Archive, a well deserved award.
A nice video about the device: https://youtu.be/WpwpdGyx880
I think the quote you are referring to in the article [a] states "At the time, that [the 500 genes already sequenced] was thought to be about 1% of the total, and given the pace of discovery, it was believed that complete sequencing of the human genome would take at least 100 years"

The 'given pace of discovery' I would read as an extrapolation using (then) available technologies, not as a scientific consensus about what would be possible using new technologies in the near future.
Closed captioning would need to be added to the standard video tag. Which IMO is a worthy addition.
From the Github docs [0]

> Organization moderators, and anyone with write access to a repository, can hide comments on issues, pull requests, and commits.

> If a comment is off-topic, outdated, or resolved, you may want to hide a comment to keep a discussion focused [...]

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/communities/moderating-comments-a...
> Noun. insalubrity (usually uncountable, plural insalubrities) The condition of being insalubrious; unhealthiness, unwholesomeness.
I thought this was the case already?
China chip industry group 'troubled' by U.S. export curbs
Collision avoidance that needs object permanence including theory of mind (for cows). How hard could it be?
no JS

no trackers or ads

no need for a CA

it's much easier to create a browser for it, it's in fact something a single developer can do in a weekend project

it's not controlled by any corporation
OpenBSD Release Songs
Uh, I moved to swap files 10 years ago and more recently to no swap.

I didn't find it necessary to blog about it.
This _is_ the meaningful stuff. Engineers might have the urge, but most don’t have the opportunity, because they need to focus on the currently fashionable framework.

A good rule of thumb regarding meaningful battles is to ignore everything promoted by companies like Google or Facebook - everything they do is either going to be abandoned in five years, or makes sense only in the context of solving problems nobody else have.
I don't think that Germany has many lessons: our hindsight about the first decades after the war time is completely dominated by the the topic of denazification, in all its twists and details, that everything else just happened without anybody really taking note.
This wasn't in infants, children of age to play in the streets.
DeepMind's new matrix result improved by humans
I could be getting paid to cancel people? Please tell me more.
Why spring is the perfect time to get to know your neighbours(AUS)
It isn't clear, but I think only the indictment against the company itself is being put on hold. The CEO, the lawmaker and the intermediary are still being prosecuted?
True - I wish they had a higher end watch with a vibrating alarm, but no luck so far.
Still really interesting. Thanks for sharing.

I heard of a software called Pegasus but couldn't tell if it was legitimately that powerful.
People were literally killed by bombs in Oregon: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1945-japanese-balloon...
Turning to garbage dumps to survive, Argentines feel the pain of 100% inflation
Not very informative, but illustrates the effects of financing the country's deficit by creating money indiscriminately.
Stable Diffusion in Blender
Render images in Blender with Stable Diffusion. It can take simple scenes and make them very cool.
I wonder if swap on zram is similar to what Mac OS calls "compressed memory".
Going by this, what more do we need to make machines conscious, if anything?
Wonder then they can plug in a camera and output the visual from the brain from recall. And would that be called consciousness?
It is not so simple.

I've seen abuse complaints to the abuse contacts of the RIRs (that, in the end, are in the top of the chain of "owners" of those IP blocks) or intermediate owners that lease those ranges or distribute them among their clients. Sending to the wrong targets (specially, in an automated way, there are scripts that does that) will end you getting ignored, and the reports of the IPs that they actually use may get lost because the noise.

And besides that, there are different ways to use those addresses, and the owner of them may not know, or could not have policies to deal with them.

What you do with residential IPs? Will you block/penalize your users if somehow their connection was used to launch an attack? Even if they are not aware of that happened? Different ISPs in different countries could have different policies.

What about big hosting companies? There are more shades of grey there, specially when those outbound IP addresses could be used by several clients. For entire servers to vulnerable web applications in shared servers to ways to dynamic launching workloads with IPs from common pools, is not trivial.

But it should matter for small enough companies, where that activity was launched by their own administered servers, because exploited vulnerabilities or rogue employees. Or companies that take some action because internal or clients hostile activity.

Anyway, besides complaining to abuse reports, you have more ways of action. You can block IPs or IP blocks (if connections are coming from an ISP, country or hosting company where you not expect to get actual users for your service. You can use fail2ban or some WAF to block those IPs as soon as some known attack pattern is detected. Or you can use them to monitor your infrastructure, in the sense that if some of those attempts for an URL get a 200 status code or something like that launch an alert.

Also, using RDAP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration_Data_Access_Proto...) should be better than using whois.
I'm not so familiar with anarchist thinking, so it kind of surprised me to learn about Stirner's "egoist" worldview and philosophy. He takes it to its logical conclusion, which is to be free of any morals and consideration for others, to serve one's self interest as a goal in itself. In a way it's refreshing to hear it expressed so directly, because it does seem like an attitude that's fairly common, maybe even as animal instinct. It helps to contrast and understand my own values and perhaps wishful thinking that humanity can grow beyond it to a holistic philosophy of living together.
Halting Problem == Russell’s Paradox?
Hemlinths enter the body through contaminated food and water, not through the feet. They’re also pretty bad for you, and can make you very sick for years.
Clickbait gonna clickbait, I guess.
how odd to see a write up from skroutz.gr blog being at the first page of HN...
> According to recent research, the dirt outside is teaming with friendly microorganisms that can train the immune system and build resilience to a range of illnesses, including allergies, asthma and even depression and anxiety.

In that light, does it make sense to speak of "boosting the immune system"? If I understand correctly, allergies and asthma are the result of overly active immune system. Depression and anxiety are completely unrelated to the immune system as far as I know. So if anything, playing in mud dampens the immune system of children, albeit in a good way.

Also, the title of the article neglects to mention that this only applies to children.
I subtracted 100 from their position on red hill at 220-ish meters to account for the fact that the tanks are buried in the ground (I don't know precisely where).

>Oahu uses about 225MW on average in residential electricity [0], so this could store an hour or so of excess capacity. That's not nothing, but you might want to 5x or 10x it to really smooth out demand and supply peaks for the island.

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/hi/hawaii/top-stories/2022/08/...

This solar plant & battery system was completed last month. The battery is able to store 144 MWh. This shows me that planners and people thinking about this are willing to invest & commit to power solutions at this scale. I don't know if you are aware or have read up on the red hill controversy. These tanks were used to store fuel by the Navy. They leaked earlier this year and poisoned the Red Hill aquifer and have caused quite a bit of local controversy.

I'm struggling with the idea of writing a letter to the editor outlining this concept, but also emphasizing how converting these tanks to a water storage/ energy storage facility would improve local resilience to drought, bring down water costs, improve environmental conditions etc.
The temperature thing is complete nonsense, nobody uses Fahrenheit here unless we're translating for Americans.

The others are a fairer point, although we do actually sell liquids in litres or millilitres, but for some things it just happens to be some multiple of 568..

Weight is KG, unless it's a person, in which case it's Stones and Pounds.

Distance is fun, It's Miles on journeys, but metric for everything else, unless you're talking about people's height, then it's feet and inches.

It sounds confusing, but when you live here it's not something you really have to think about, you just switch rather effortlessly.
Ask HN: Military Applications of High-Performance Computing
I write software for parallel processors at a hardware/software company you've heard of. I am located in California but many of my coworkers are located in China (roughly half the team).

We are directly affected by the American government's severe new CPU/GPU export restrictions.

It seems to me that America is preparing for a period of cold war, or worse.

It's time to start thinking about contributing to the American war effort by writing high-performance military computing systems.

For example, SIMD particle filters for hypersonic weapons, or low-latency convolutional neural networks for battlefield devices.

So, Hacker News: What company is the best place to do this work? What team?

Does anyone here already work in this field?
Walking outside changes the context and the act.
This is great!

I'm terrible at it.

But, this is great!