skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This led me to wonder why we still need the -12V supply - I know the -5V supply was removed a while ago because it was only needed for ISA slots. According to Wikipedia, -12V is for RS-232 ports and PCI slots, both of which are hardly seen on any current motherboards. It should be safe to use it for fans, but 7.2 watts is not very much power. Looking on Mouser, I see 24VDC fans that consume 1 watt or 18 watts depending on speed, so one could easily overload the -12V bus if they are trying to get a lot of CFM. I don’t see a compelling reason to use 24V fans in a PC.
> when free market capitalism meets moral philosophy

I wish people would stop using the phrase "free market capitalism" because capitalism as we have it today has proven itself to be the enemy of free markets. People need to know that we came to a fork in the road and took the wrong path.

Also, the "meets moral philosophy" part reminds me a bit of the equivalent phenomenon in the religious sphere - prosperity gospel - has also become a thin rationalization for actions and beliefs actually quite contrary to older more-authentic teachings. There's a lot of overlap between the two, and probably a lot more parallels to be drawn.
Maybe my travel is more complicated but I even not infrequently get annoyed with "past me" for various travel-related decisions. I avoid red-eyes but at some price point I won't--or maybe only if it's someone else's money. And maybe I don't have a choice based on my schedule or just what flights are available. Normally I won't do an unnecessary layover but maybe I will to fly my preferred airline.

It gets complicated in a hurry and for the cases where it is relatively simple (and when it gets into very complex international travel a voice interface is going to be completely useless), I can look up my options pretty quickly on a computer.
There is a personal bias I have observed when I have listened to people talk over the last ~5 years, for example:

- Startup founders without any domain experience in extremely risky ventures

- Crypto bros

- Donald Trump

I consider myself - and others view me as - a hyperrational person (possibly often to a fault), and I must admit that when I hear an outlandish claim like the ones spewed by the above, I am sometimes left in a strange emotional state... a stupor?

Like, I don't quite believe the claim because I'm defensively rational, but I feel a certain dizziness and confusion (thinking to myself, "could this actually be true?") until I come back to my senses. The more outlandish and impassioned the speech, the stronger the effect.

It's made me realise we're all built similarly, from the most rational from the most gullible.
Second Strogatz, does an amazing job linking the math to the visual intuition--probably less rigorous than some texts, but the perfect balance for an intro. Took an amazing course based on that book with Charlie Doering, who has sadly passed. He could draw multicolor, qualitatively-correct 3D attractors freehand on a chalkboard while helpfully narrating the system dynamics.
The computer seems to move very slowly, and gets much more time for each move than me. Is this intended, or is it because everyone on HN is trying it out? Might be some sort of client - backend synch issue.

edit: the computer now flagged on my screen, but I did not get any message of a result
Need feedback for my first slack's app
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I totally agree.

I just made a note on my phone today about how in future if there wasn’t some kind of a law to protect “owners” of hardware they “purchased” from cross promotion or added inconveniences due to upselling services I would be quite sad.

For e.g. the experience of backing up your iPhone photographs to a external hard disk could be A LOT better if Apple was satisfied with the money they make from selling the device and didn’t want to sell us their iCloud service.

I so hate growth at all cost mindset that is visible in every business these days. I wish investors would just get used to lower growth rates.
N-Acetylcysteine (NAC) has been studied in relation to a myriad of psychiatric disorders with a lot of positive results. It works as an antioxidant and neuro-regulator. For some reason it was recently pulled from supplement classification in the US, but it's available just about anywhere in Canada. Not sure about other countries.
There’s something about writing that makes it very personal. I’ve noticed when I make information personal I retain it better.
You are also trusting the Oauth provider to never login as you for their own inscrutable purposes.
See my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33720405
I don't think it's that simple. It was useful then because web discoverability was an unsolved problem, and web content was tiny compared to today. A directory sort of fit the need. As the web grew directories became bloated and hard to navigate, search became
more useful.

This is more of a nostalgia or niche link list. It's not the same purpose as yahoo in the 90s.
Ask HN: How to organize work during blackout in winter?
I have a situation: one of my developers is now in Ukraine working remotely. She is in a relatively safe area near a nuclear power plant, which so far has not been targeted by Russian missile strikes and was producing electricity for her town. Today it was shut down, meaning also no water etc in her apartment. Local cellular network is still working, meaning that she has Internet connection.

For some personal reasons she is not ready to evacuate, I also do not want to terminate the contract if there’s a chance that she can work even in such difficult circumstances. We are getting used to the sound of air raid sirens during meetings, but this is new and we have to find a way to maintain the working process during the coming winter.

What would you do in this situation?
What inexpensive technology can help here to survive this madness? Are there any advices that you would give?
Calling a bunch of registry tweaks a pompous name like "Atlas OS" is funny.
It depends on the intent of the rules being enforced.

An example given was a state wanted to spend less on low income benefits. They setup an overly complex computer system that decides eligibility and requires participants in the program to fill out multi page forms 100% accurately on a regular basis or their benefits are suspended immediately. There was no way to appeal this decision, only to re-apply.

Employees of the state agency no longer had any insight into why a form was rejected, and could not speed up the process to resubmit it because the participant had long term medical issues and needed potentially lifesaving prescriptions filled. As a result, many people who would otherwise be eligible for benefits had them denied.

This lead to a marked decrease in spending on social services and was considered a win by the state.
I liked Gary Marcus' post about this - https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/how-come-smart-assistants-...
And apparently he's already stumped and trying to, uh, crowdsource help. (I don't have a link; saw it late last night not realizing what I was looking at, at the time.)
Very cool to see this here, Ben! It was fun hearing the ins and outs of your work on this in the TZ discord, and the final result is fast.

Also, off-topic but as you know, I recently tried out your scc tool and am eagerly awaiting its support for Elixir templates (.eex, .heex)! You said it was a day from done a while back and would go out in the next release. What’s the release schedule like?

https://github.com/boyter/scc
That's akin to asking "what sort of human catastrophe do you think would happen?" A whole host of things are possible in principle on a long enough timeline. If you constrain the timeline, then you'll get more plausible answers but with potentially wide error bars because we don't really understand what "intelligence" really is, ie. current research could be pretty close but could also be pretty far from it.

The fact that we don't know how close we are is itself dangerous. It's like doing gene editing on pathogens without a proper understanding of germ theory and biosafety. That's where we are with AI.
Well, that's flattering, got estimated 2173 FIDE.

Unfortunately, wildly off, I was ~1800 FIDE even when I used to play. Will try a few more games to see whether that was a fluke or whether I should consider getting into chess again.

All in all, great submission, thank you
If someone (a sympathetic public servant) is doi g something to fight inequity, they would not be a "major source of inequity" themselves, no.

That isn't to say that corrupt public servants don't exist, and that they don't look nearly identical if you were to take a brief glance of their actions without looking at their reasoning, but that doesn't mean they're the same people or causing the same end effect.
I though tthat was quite funny and probably better than what most people would write if they wanted to write a parody about space bears

It's only bad if you expected it to provide scientific answers, which was not the claim. IIRC the page said something about it compiling knowledge. which it does in this article
This is the only circumstance in which it would be acceptable to me as an owner of that hardware.
I'd love to delegate that part of driving to my car. Automatically maintain speed limit (+5 mph or so, or I'll be tailgated the whole way home) and following distance to the car in front of me. I'll just cover the brake and tap it if I see something wrong in front, at which time it can revert to manual speed control.

Bonus points for maximum performance acceleration without overshoot to the speed limit if I am the first one stopped at a red light when it turns green.

Adaptive cruise control is awesome, but the implementations I've used are unaware of the road's speed limit.
I remember some system on the coding horrors site or similar that would tell you “password already used” if anyone had it.

That could allow “bad username” if you got the password right!
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Good idea, was gonna share it with my friends but it's not working.
i have seen a lot of people with physical challenges and disabilities discussing how critical these devices have become. they may not solve mainstream problems, but they have contributed materially to the quality of life for a marginalized community, and i hate the idea that they will disappear because big tech hasn't found a way to monetize them. i hope that the remnants of these projects can be open-sourced or sold to companies that will run with them and build and maintain products to support those who may have mobility or physical manipulation challenges, that are benefiting from voice control.
> the car continues to accelerate until braking is applied.

Unless you're going downhill this defies our known understanding of physics.
think there is an underlying fundamental difference here, the factory tuning of an ECU is meant to work okay for most conditions, that be the car and weather or whatever, that process is adding on something, fine tuning combustion but for an electric car, it's totally subtractive, the car would have that acceleration if they didnt arbitraraly block it
This feels like "alertness associated with other positive health traits."

That is, I don't think most people or animals choose to lower their physical activity just because they can. Often lowering any of those is due to onset of sickness and you can observe this in pets.

Reading over the above, I do want to underline that this is still worth studying. I just hate that the reporting on it is painting a one-way causal link.

I also think the amount of psychological tricks that are employed against people is absurdly high. Such that the reasons we overeat or just eat the wrong things are as likely not about cravings you would have absent the effort companies put into giving you these cravings.
They used to have this in Seattle (Car2Go (Merc), and ShareNow (BMW)) but they had a messy back-and-forth acquisition, shutdown, then apparent resurgence?
Maybe people tip a lot more when they get a ride in a Tesla over a ride in a Prius. Or the Tesla owning Uber drivers know the biggest threat to their lively hood is Tesla automating them out of a job. When/if that happens, if they own a Tesla, their car can go to work for them.
> They all tack on extra fees for imaginary purposes.

I can assure you maintaining all the infrastructure so gas can still be delivered in the winter is not imaginary.

It's not like during the summertime all the gas company workers get laid off and nothing happens at the utility.
> It boggles my mind how anyone can think otherwise.

Some AI dangers are certainly legitimate - it's easy to foresee how an image recognition system might think all snowboarders are male; or a system trained on unfair sentences handed out to criminals would replicate that unfairness, adding a wrongful veneer of science and objectivity; or a self-driving car trained on data from a country with few mopeds and most pedestrians wearing denim might underperform in a country with many mopeds and few pedestrians wearing denim.

But other AI dangers sound more like the work of philosophers and science fiction authors. The moment people start predicting the end of humans needing to work, or talking about a future evil AI that punishes people who didn't help bring it into existence? That's pretty far down in my list of worries.
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Usually "yes". Often "hell, yes".

And when spies are actually well worth the trouble, that is usually due to extraordinary circumstances - an existential threat to the nation employing them, a George Washington (99th-percentile competent and honest leader) in charge of the spy agency, or something else that can't be sustained nor reproduced.

But the temptation to spy, fears about spies, etc. - those mash so many human emotional buttons that I wouldn't expect any nation to actually pursue a rational policy in this area.
I think all this work could be useful if only those people understood that the technology is not mature enough to remove people from the loop.

For the case of AI analysing x-ray photos, the obvious solution would be a system that can tag photos with information about what AI thinks is going on there. And this information could be passed to the human.

This could save a ton of time and help reduce cases where radiologists missed obvious things.

My son once broke his arm. I brought him to ER, they made the photo but the two people who looked at the photo said there is nothing wrong with the arm. I asked for the copy of the photo.

A week later the swelling did not subside so I took the photo to another doctor and he pointed out an obvious fracture line.

There are many ways to deploy automation and I wonder why everybody tries to shoot for removing humans altogether when most of the time this is literally asking for problems.
Are you counting research departments in industry as academia?
Two things:

1. Electrons are point particles. "Spin" in the usual sense requires a center and an edge. Electrons don't have that.

2. Electron angular momentum is quantized. All electrons have exactly the same amount. That's not how regular "spinning" works, where the angular momentum is radius times speed, and speed can be any value. And in particular, it can't be zero; there is no such thing as a spin-less electron.

There is a "classical electron radius" which can be derived in non-quantum terms from how much energy it would take to "make" an electron by bringing bits of abstract "charge" together. It doesn't figure into QM; it's just a useful shorthand for looking (classically) at how light interacts with them.

You can also run that radius through the angular momentum exercise... but all that tells you is that something funny is going on with electron spin. But you already knew that from the other things I cited, so it's good only for high school classes and pop-science articles.
So what we've done by promoting "Invalid username or password" is made our login form UX much, much worse, without increasing the security of our product.

Much, much worse? Not at all. It doesn't matter if you've forgotten your user name, email address or password; if you've forgotten your credentials, you reset your password, not keep guessing until you give up. The password reset will also clue you in as to if you've got the right email address.
> I doubt it. I suspect they're thinking of bank loans, but resourceful fintech already have solutions for getting by without a loan. I see similar business models in Africa, so poverty is not an argument against it.

UA24 is prime example, the crowdsoured funds have helped disburse funds collected in both fiat and bitcoin (after a massive influx from various crypto communities early on in the war) for on the ground purposes; Zelensky just got confirmation of the EU and US funds last night and spoke [0] of a website tat was launched for centers for citizens to go that will have access to heat and electricity throughout the country in pharmacies and grocery stores as the shelling continues by Russia and keeps causin blackouts (Russia struck again today causing blackouts all the way to Moldova) .

It's possible, and i really hope such a thing never happens anywhere else, but their is a reason why Bitcoin was the prefered way of getting funds into the country when the UA central bank put capital controls on the first day of invasion: BTC was there since the Maidan Revolution in 2013 and had been battle tested, so when the Russian invasion happened it was battle tested and it was deployed to start doing evac and other emergency services that continue to this day.

In short, despite the inept bleating from so many in these circles: Bitcoin (the network) isn't solely the affectation of techbros and grifters in Japan or the Bahamas, it was battle hardened in conflicts and environmental catastrophe.

I fear, however, that despite these microloans geopolitics plays a much bigger role in getting infrastructure put in places like Africa since China has been exercising it's soft=power colonialsm policy for decades in order to pay off despots and have access to rare-earths. It's just another example of how the technological side of things may have been resolved, bu things like kleptocracy and nepotism prevent it from having the impact that it can and should have at addressing an issue.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCGWEQIrieY
This sadly already exists: https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yyyd/this-motorcycle-airba...
I had fun. The AI stopped responding and I was able to capture all of its pieces in the confusion:

https://i.imgur.com/g6R1FM5.png

I didn't even know the rules of chess allowed for that, so I've actually learned quite a bit!
But in that case, there is still an account (just without login ability), and you are probably even sending an email.

So in the email you can include a link to optional account (username/password) creation.

And if you aren't sending an email, then the user has clearly decided not to create an account.
But they're not blocked from editing — they just need to be logged in. Wikipedia users can use their existing account. New users were given a human-reviewed path for directly creating an account, apparently out of necessity.
Cube solving is a path finding problem.

The way to learn path finding problem is to understand how your actions move you through the space you're navigating.

One of the most effective ways to learn these relationships is to work backwards.

Starting from the goal, take a step away, then step back. Then take two steps away, then those steps back. Then take different steps away and steps back.

As you move farther and farther from the goal you get an explosion of options that quickly requires deduction of strategies over memorization of all paths back to the goal.

This can help ground learning the well known techniques for cube solving.

This visualization might help with that process, but just playing solutions from start to finish (IMO) doesn't.
Not a joke for me, I've found my Airpods Pro 2 in a supermarket, found my parents iPhones multiple times, and found my Apple Watch several times using these features. It's a game changer in my experience.
Why can that not simply be captured as a cost to the user at time of purchase? Why does it need to be a subscription?

Why do they need a fucking green man (circuit chip) in a car I own that obeys only their remote services to unlock this feature?

Basically - Either I own the fucking thing, in which case I have all the keys, or I'm just licensing access. Let's not fuck around with this awful gray area where companies try to weasel out of consumer protections.
An insurance model that uses data on financial stability in a society where a specific race of people have been, through bigotry alone, forced into a less stable position by default, will be bound to perpetuate the original bigoted patterns of behavior. It's not inaccurate to describe the model as therefore racist because it's modeling itself off a risk assessment where certain groups have historically been forced into the fringe and are therefore inherently risky.

I'm sure if black wall street wasn't razed to the ground by a racist white mob (among several other attempts to gain stability, wealth, etc. by black people being destroyed by racist white anger) then maybe the model wouldn't need to "reflect the underlying stats that correlate with race...". But those underlying stats, and those correlations, didn't just happen in a vacuum, hewn out of the aether like a magical and consequentless thing.
Is fitting the index in ram really that important? Obviously it is fast, but if you can get away with storing it on a fast disk like an nvme gen4 then why not?
Microsoft is likely to tie future games in to being Games Pass exclusives, as well as using Microsoft Pluton and TPM chips to use remote attestation in DRM and anti-cheat - so you can't replace your OS or bootloader and still play, etc. (like anti-jailbreak checks on phones).
Last I heard (which was a couple of years ago), they still do this.
You clearly know absolutely nothing about poverty. You can just compare monetary numbers - median incomes in many countries are smaller than poverty line in the US.

But even by objective standards. I actually feel it for working poor, especially immigrants - they don't get much help because US welfare state is completely out of whack. But non-working poor with free healthcare because hospitals have to treat them, food stamps and tons of private food charity, section 8 and other housing help, etc.? By world standards they live in luxury and they deserve none of it.
I thought it was one of the most deceptive books I ever read! It contradicts itself enough that it is often obviously wrong even without conceptual knowledge of the field.
I came to similar conclusions.
Tide is IMO the most ergonomic, but its future is unclear in terms of community/maintenance. Its choice to use async-std ended up kind of biting it, since projects have by and large chosen tokio. I have hope for the eventual “swappable async runtimes” initiative, but it’s probably going to be too late to help in these regards.
It was fine for me until I had forced mate in two. It took 3 minutes to make the penultimate move and I'm still waiting for it to make the last move. In some way, this delivers perfectly on the promise of an AI emulating human players at my level.
The long, lonely wait to recover a hacked Facebook account
I think it can be dangerous in a closed space, such as a garage, near a wall or inside a parking lot.
What "knowledge" is it compiling? Bears never went to space. Where did it hallucinate that from?
The correct response to a criticism you disagree with is "thanks".