skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I was disputing this statement:

> but when a company asks you what your goals are, that's worse.

I made absolutely no statements for or against yearly reviews (in fact, in one of my other comments, you'll find I mention I'm not personally a fan). You're arguing with a strawman.

Meanwhile, please direct your bitterness elsewhere. If you want to get into flamewars and insult people I'm sure you can find better places to do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Edit out swipes.
> Without some solution like this, it's hard to imagine any non-essential neural implants really taking off: who would ever buy a neural lace from a startup — or even an established company like Google who might just lose interest — if there was no guarentee of patches and maintenance?

Desperate people who are willing to try anything to improve their lives.

Unscrupulous actors have been taking advantage of such people for millennia. You can see it happen today with the proliferation of quack doctors and remedies.

If your quality of life is so low, or you're facing death, taking a chance with experimental treatment might make sense in the moment.
The right is incredibly fucked up today. See this article: https://unherd.com/thepost/was-the-fake-boobs-teacher-a-hoax...
There’s other differences - inlining often has a tradeoff where it increases program sizes or compile time but may make things faster. The other ones replace the call but don’t do that, so might be considered safer.
If your argument is that a few years of irrational market pricing is meaningful, then boy do I have some Enron shares to sell you in 2001.
Twitter chaos too much? There are plenty of other options
Define "censor" for me, please. I think we have different definitions...
Letting people take their lives into their own hands is fine for now, while neural implants are largely useless for enhancement. If there came a day when a neural implant provided, say, a massive competitive advantage when working, we’d probably want to regulate.

But I mean widespread neural enhancements are probably as far away as… maybe not post scarcity society, but at least “I can get by on basic income” society. So I’m not too worried.
Sure he would. Jobs controlled his public persona and presence very carefully.

Being available to the world makes you the tail that wags the dog. It’s expensive to keep the mob happy. The big demagogues of our time aptly demonstrate that.
For everyone talking about politicians and their BS: I want to point out that there's a difference between answering the question that should have been asked, and the question you wish had been asked. The former is honest, and genuinely educational if the answerer is correct in their judgement. The latter is a tactic for sophistry/bullshit and potentially deceptive, especially when it pretends to be the former.

The difference is primarily in intent: it's hard to tell externally, but advice basically takes an internal perspective to its recipient, so it's perfectly reasonable to suggest someone do something with good intentions.
> Personally I like the idea that people can take their lives in their own hands

But rhey are not putting ut in rheir own hand, they are putting their luge unto rhe habds of a capricious and cruel, and occasionally fraudulent executive. Wonder, where did we see this play out before?

"renew subscribtuon or we turn off the implant"?

This will be a story of human rights abuses, debt ytades and endentured servitude.
I think of metrics like I do accounting. Accounting is all about measuring parts of the business. You track every dollar sent, lost, owed, etc. Every economic transaction is measured. But nobody wants to just stare at a list of raw transactions. You have to summarize those figures: you group them into revenues and expenses, assets and liabitilies, and you break it down by department, by function. You create a picture of what your business is doing. In the end, all some people really care about is profits, some people want a measure of solvency, others want to know how big your company is. Accountants have actually has thought deeply about metrics and written papers about why the measure what they do and I think something close to the golden rule is: does this information have the capacity to influence someone's decision?

Information is meant to help you make a decision: should we add more servers, should we end this service, can we sell this feature, are our customers satisfied? Every metric should help you answer a question. Ask yourself, what decisions are you trying to make and what information would help you make that decision?
How are personal gripes about phone operating systems even remotely related to the factual matter of being able to su/sudo whenever you want on a desktop operating system?
That doesn’t work on iOS 16.1
is there a place with the most trusted browser fingerprints? so best user agent and GPU and other specs to set to?
We'd implemented a few things that aren't useful on its own. For example we haven't implemented opaque types. However now that inlining C code works opaque types are at the top of our list. With opaque types and inlining we'll be able to specify simd types and use simd instructions without leaving the function.

The next update should be large
> Carmack's ideas around sparse voxel trees were really interesting to me at the time, but now with hindsight I can see he totally misunderstood what artists want/need. They don't want to uniquely paint every bit of the game world, they want tools that let them use instancing and smart materials/shapes. In comparison Unreal's Nanite gets this totally right. Artist productivity is the key constraint in both film and games.

Aren't voxels and instances/shapes orthogonal? Do artists really care if the shapes are textures or pictures wrapped on triangles or pictures wrapped on voxels?

The real argument for Voxels is analogous to the argument for raytracing. It is more accurate at describing how the world works, but we currently don't have the computational power to do it in anything close to realtime in advanced games -- even with lots of optimizations.
Agreed. I meant 'essential' in a weak sense to include all high stakes medical cases, not just literally life and death.

The key thing is that we won't be able to get much benefit from neural implants as an enhancement technology without solving this problem; there's a ton of potential value which will be left on the table because people are reasonably afraid of these risks.
Opening the proprietary information allows patients to take control of their health, and gives more options for doctors to help them, and for groups who might take up the helm of maintaining or removing implants from existing patients. It also allows iteration upon the design, so that it may be improved even if the original company was unable to improve it themselves.
I think the person owns about $250,000,000 worth, not billions, but a lot nonetheless.
The main problem with your analogy is that sexual advances in a boss/employee power dynamic excludes many critical distinctions with respect to law enforcement vs a big tech company.

I'll concede that the big tech companies certainly have an incentive to comply with law enforcement because of their legal authority, however as we all know, big tech companies are well equipped in terms of political influence as well as powerful legal teams that ensure these companies don't have to do anything they don't want to if they're complying with the law, especially if law enforcement isn't issuing a legal command and is merely "telling you what they think".

> This is why it's such a big no even if employees have mutual romantic interests.

In all cases of boss vs subordinate there is a near total power asymmetry in favor of the boss unless the boss is egregiously abusive or retaliatory, and often times even that doesn't matter. A boss also never has a genuine business interest in making sexual advances, whereas law enforcement may have a genuine law enforcement interest in asking for a company's cooperation.
> I'll be interested in seeing if the final figures for lithium batteries are even close to the 1,000 GWh global production figures that people had predicted

Oh no, storage might only be buildable at a consistent 4x the peak rate of nuclear additions instead of 8x. Guess we better give up and use fossil fuels for 20 years while the nuclear industry starts up.

Not only are there a host of ways of covering constant energy demand with VRE, but you still don't seem to be able to comprehend the idea that water can go downhill. Why would we listen to energy advice from someone who doesn't understand ideas that are millenia old like a water tower or that bricks can stay hot for a day or two?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/26/realestate/how-new-york-w...

https://www.hkywater.org/education/i-didnt-know-that/why-wat...

For the handfull of situations where the buildings are too tall for more than firefighting water then batteries are more than sufficient.
PG&E gas transmission pipeline map
> And another thing was making the habit small at the start.

Absolutely this worked for me.

I have had good success sticking with "any exercise today" and "any project work today", even 5 minutes.

Try reading "Atomic Habits", but honestly the main points that stuck with me are: hack the cue, craving, response reward cycle.

1. Make it small, something you can do every day no matter what.
2. Set up a reward for each time you do the task
In the US? I believe the average age of a representative is 75 and most of them have been there for a very long time.
There is. It's the transformer you connect to. Their final point of presence before the product leaves the "store" and enters your possession.
Binance will likely be subject to clawback of the funds FTX used to buy them out. If they can still be fully liquid after surrendering $2 billion, they just might make it - assuming the rest of their balance sheet is legitimate and accurate.
>Compare this to reddit. Your comment is either accepted or rejected. There isn't a grey area.

Not true, not anymore at least.

Used to be that comments downvoted beyond a threshold automatically folded the comment branch, making it less visible. Now it does that for upvoted comments as well, for an unclear reason (untrusted accounts or something?).
"The purpose of a transistor is to protect the fuse."

-old hardware lore
You're not alone. I wasn't able to discern that quote as humor either.
Opiate crisis has less to do with people’s deaths and more about their addiction. The lengths they go to score another fix—stabbing people, robbing family members, selling themselves, etc.

It’s one thing to die from doing something stupid—it’s something else entirely to inflict pain and hardship on others.
I’m using the term “rogue” here for a specific reason. Trump was president at the time and was nominally the head of the FBI. Did Trump give a directive to ask the FBI to ban people for political jokes on Twitter? It seems highly unlikely. A rogue agency is an agency which is no longer following its democratically elected leadership and is instead operating independently. The FBI is now proven to do what we all suspected before - operate as a completely parallel oligarchic institution to the democratic ones that are in place.
> How many years of operational experience do we have?

Yes. Huge problem. Very nice and good faith objection to something that can be done incredibly simply with a few dollars per kWh. What if some hot water or sand leaks out and contaminates an entire country?
Doesn't help. My ISP covers Ontario and Québec with the same address pools — two different ‘primary’ languages, not to mention two different legal jurisdictions. IP ‘geolocation’ is fundamentally broken.

With Firefox, you can (with some difficulty) specify your location, but most still pull something out of their ass.
Turns out, skeuomorphism is fun. However, this totally ignores the fundamental principle of serious software being joyless.
I wrote a sound driver for BeOS, however I got strange glitches at what looked like random times.

The driver tried to output samples at a fixed rate, however after a lot of experimenting I found the glitches were caused when multiple interrupts conflicted (ie occurred at the same time) and the drivers was thrown off in it's Wait() timing call.

The answer was instead of waiting for a certain time to output a sample, to instead read what time it was and output the sample for that time-sample.

Worked perfectly, and also as important reduced the CPU load to only a faction of the first method.
WebKit also pretends to be Chrome on problematic websites. However this site wouldn't hit that logic for either browser.
A lot of people who wanted PR saw the Alternative Vote referendum as a poison pill and voted against it. It's one of the reasons support for the Lib Dems subsequently crashed, as they were seen to have fundamentally sold out.

In any case, a referendum on whether to keep a fundamentally undemocratic electoral system is in itself undemocratic - there is no legitimate case for keeping an electoral system that effectively disenfranchises a substantial proportion of the electorate.
Dupe (509 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33926564
The software industry is fucked from the get-go - you sjould have the right to inspect all software im your body. After all, you have the right to read all patents.

The idea that someone could have code bugs in my body, or a virus running on an implant, or put in functionality I didnt asl for, is basically about as abhorrent as slavery.
What could possibly go wrong? Oh wait, late to the party.
Hahah. Nice mental gymnastics. Utility solar doesn't exist unless it's all in one place and industrial machinery explodes if a joule of energy that comes fron a residential roof powers it.

You're really hunting for somewhere to move those goalposts to now.

Are you going to answer the question or are you going to cry victim?
> I doubt overuse of a “happy button” brain implant is going to kill you

An addiction needn't kill you to destroy your life.

The better outcome for this technology is a user-settable mood regulator, not a user-pressable happy button.
>the site is unusable on mobile

https://archive.vn/azRuX

>It would be like looking through backwards binoculars

The patient is a professional photographer, so he's probably used to that!
If that is what voters want, that is what voters should get.

Depriving voters of freedom to be represented the way they want because you don't like the outcome is fundamentally undemocratic.
Rent seeking is collecting money while adding no economic value. Like landlords.
When he stood up, he had everything he was going to say figured out. Pretty cool to watch. This was a common question he knew was coming then though, so some of it is showmanship.
There are plenty of people on long-term treatment with opioids, like Suboxone, that almost eliminate the major problems concerning illicit opioid addiction.

Plenty of people live normal lives while on Suboxone, where they might have been living on the streets and doing things no one wants to do in order to obtain illegal opioids. A lot, if not the majority, of those people used illegal drugs as coping mechanisms.

Criminalization, lack of supply, lack of purity of substances and lack of public health treatment are really what makes opioid addiction a life threatening/ruining problem. Things like Suboxone address all of those issues, and the successful lives of Suboxone patients say a lot.
For an implant that important, especially one with any sort of network connectivity, I would especially want to be able to see the source code. The repeated very basic security vulnerabilities in Medtronic devices only reinforces this.

The more integral these implants get, the more this feels like "you're not legally permitted to know how this part of your body works".
Reminds me of that joke where the worlds entire computing system is perched upon a tool by a guy that lives in the middle of Nebraska.

Seems the field of people that could get this stuff working (some really awesome hacking) is so small... or rather, breakthroughs come from a few individuals.
In the past the Authors Guild threatened to sue Amazon over providing text to speech in the Kindle. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2009/mar/01/auth...

Not to be confused with the time the publishers sued Amazon over providing speech to text in Audible. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/15/audible-settle...
> average age of a representative is 75

Come on. It's 58. I didn't even have to type to check this, just "Search Google for..."
Do you reckon you have reduced your energy substantially since the 2000s? With no lifestyle compromises? A 25% drop is a lot more than a Pentium.

They're poor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox#History covers most of the actual argument (and evidence) on why energy efficiency doesn't work that way. In an energy-rich environment the efficiency gains would go in to charging phones and tablets, or running extra cores and graphics cards. Or using electric vehicles. Something. Consumption wouldn't be dropping.
I should have thought more about the experiment. I was trying to identify the helvetica ones, looking for example for logos that looked slightly unusual or janky.

I guess it would fit your point a little more if I just looked for whichever I thought was more aesthetically pleasing.

Anyway, I got about 50% (accidentally closed the window, I think it may have been 51%?) so at least if I was the customer, the company would not seem to gain any advantage from licensing the superior font.
Do a Google search for "twitter subsidiaries". They have a heap of overseas subsidiaries to do business abroad, which unsurprisingly, have to work within local law.
It’s not the MAC address, it’s the BSSID of the wireless network you are connected to, and those around you.

Software typically obtains BSSIDs from your mobile OS’s wi-fi frameworks.

The BSSID looks like a MAC address, and in many but not all cases, a given AP’s wireless network BSSID is within a byte or two of its actual wi-if radio MAC.

Google and Apple maintain their own massive geolocation databases of BSSIDs, signal strength, and latitude/longitude.
Amazing:

1. This is the person who buys books from iTunes.

2. Despite deploying their own words to a scroll, the last person buying books on iTunes laments losing a pointless* animation.

* the animation doesn’t semantically enrich the reading experience since it lacks the feeling of the rest of the pages. It merely imitates the paper book experience that might be technically satisfying to see performed once, but is otherwise a perfect example of kitsch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsch
+1 -- it's the best content out there. HuggingFace discord is a great community too!
Are you on Windows? Chrome has live captions now, not sure if it has it on other OSes. I believe you can play local files in Chrome too.
J. Robert Oppenheimer Cleared of ‘Black Mark’ After 68 Years
There are various size options for the models. The choice of which you use trades off accuracy for higher performance.

There is also a C++ re-implementation that performs well and can definitely transcribe in realtime on many machines: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
lets deliver digital rights management inside your body.

Maybe also if you pay a premium subscribtion the happy button can be pressed more often!
I bought skis the other day And the menu showed an option for 1-5% tip. Like who does the tip even go to? Super confusing
http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
What’s so hard to understand about Edge pretending to be Chrome pretending to be Safari, using Blink pretending to be WebKit pretending to be KHTML pretending to be Gecko, all pretending to be Netscape Navigator? I’m the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude.
This is most certainly untrue, a finite state machine can only decide a regular language.

Pushdown automatas, which can decide context free languages, also always halt but there is no finite state machine that can simulate them.

In other words, there is no finite state machine that can act as a decider for the language "a^ib^i" even though there is a Turing Machine that can decide that language (and since it's a decider, it always halts).

Another way of saying this that is more practical is that there is no finite state machine that can be used to decide whether an arbitrary input string is valid HTML, even though a Turing machine exists that always halts and can perform such a decision.

The flaw in your argument, and one reason why it may seem convincing, is that in a very subtle way you're constructing a specific finite state machine after knowing the behavior of the Turing machine for a given input, but this is not a valid construction. You must first construct the finite state machine and then apply the input on it, you can't take an input and then build a finite machine customized for it on the basis of what a Turing machine does. If you could do that then it would be trivial to solve any problem whatsoever, just have one state machine that always returns true for all inputs, and another that always returns false for all inputs, and pick the appropriate FSM for your given input based on whether a Turing machine returns true or false.

Once you fix a particular choice of finite state machine and then apply an input to it, it's always possible to apply the pumping lemma to identify additional inputs that contain some middle portion of the original input that can be repeated indefinitely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumping_lemma_for_regular_lang...
Of course your proposal is not free, it would greatly increase the cost of these devices…
My incurable, rare genetic disorder is called atypical cystic fibrosis and I'm no longer in chronic pain and I no longer seem to be dying from it.

I'm very sorry for what you are suffering. I stand by what I have said, though it's not worth arguing further on HN in this thread.
Both Musk and Jobs are admired by the same kind of people. And for the reasons.
Lets Kill Leadership (2018)
Ah, right, I'm still on Firefox 91 ESR.