skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but if there is such a thing as the very plastically named "Jeniffer Aniston neuron" [1], and further more, group equivariant deep learning [2], maybe there is a way in which you can isolate a certain concept/"type", such as Person, Car, and so forth; perhaps not even isolate, but rehydrate the context of where the concept takes place: as a brain does in various word plays, as in Who's on First [3], etc.

Come to think of it, when someone teaches me a new concept, the principle of mass conservation, for instance, in some sense they are transferring their embedding into my brain, further on I will relate to mass conservation through what that person taught me. The transfer is a very lossy process, sure, but a transfer with reintegration nonetheless. Perhaps "mortal computation" [4] is a requirement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_cell

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8FnQMH2k7jzPrxqdYufo...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcRRaXV-fg

[4] Geoffrey Hinton, The Forward-Forward Algorithm: Some Preliminary Investigations, chapter 8, https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/FFA13.pdf
None of those are externalities. Public transport clearly does have externalities, but they're dwarfed by private car usage.
I grew up essentially a prisoner in a rural US community before I could drive.

Kids need to be able to explore independently! Thank you for understanding this.
So there aren't enough houses.

Also, why do you think you should be the arbiter of what "enough" is?

What right do you have over the property of others?
Not just that, but now apparently when you don't let your most powerful AI use as much data as you can find or if you don't turn it into an effective (not safe, just effective) product fast enough, you lose $100B.
People are really out to lunch if they think this is due to people not wanting cars and preferring public transit. I wish that was the case, but it's 100% because of the dire financial situation.
NYT Podcast: The Online Search Wars Got Scary. Fast
I was thinking of including with

<script src="mod.js"> </script>

just how you include (or included in the past) jquery or mathjax. I manage my namespaces like

function Zebras() {

let l; //local
let e; //has setter and getter

gete = () => {return e}
sete = (x) => {e = x}

function lfunc() {console.log("local function")}
function efunc() {console.log("exported function")}

// exports :
this.efunc = efunc
this.gete = gete
this.sete = sete
}

and import it

<script src="mod.js"> </script>

<script>

zr = new Zebras()

zr.sete(4)
console.log( zr.gete() ) // 4

zr.efunc()
// zr.lfunc() <- not working

</script>

You can export objects or functions trivially. I don't think you can expose primitives this way.

I think this method is working since ~20 years, and will work 20 years from now, when you can't even get your bundlers to run. But then if you have to change it frequently, probably ES modules are easier to automate, test, and handle with bundlers.
Umm.

But the water droplets/sand particles do NOT form a straight line if you accelerate the jug. You have to decelerate the jug with exactly the right timing to form a straight line, not accelerate it. Nor do the beads in the Caltech video form a straight line, despite their dishonest attempt to arbitrarily impose a straight line on beads that are clearly not in a straight line.

In the second diagram, which is alleged to be an attempt to plot acceleration due to gravity to the position of an accelerating water jug, the values [0,1,2,4,8] are marked on the x-axis, and [0,-1,-2,-4,-8] on the y-axis. Da Vinci then plots lines from [0,-8] to the points (0,0),(1,0),(2,0),(4,0),(8,0). Doing so doesn't really establish any sort of relationship between accelerating jugs and acceleration due to gravity, even allowing for an incorrect equation of motion for an accelerating object.

Da Vinci spent most of his early career trying to sell military technology to potential patrons (largely if not completely unsuccessfully). One of the pieces of technologies he was trying to sell was a process for calculating improved artillery range tables (tables of elevation vs. range). He didn't manage to sell that either.

The second diagram is more easily interpreted as a doodle that makes an unsuccessful attempt to scry a relationship between elevation and range for artillery pieces.
>Mozilla actually encouraged him to stay by giving him the role of CEO. He decided to step out.

Sure, but for those that don't know the story, Brendan was being portrayed as being evil incarnate because of the donations (which were a perfectly legal thing to do, btw). Brendan's resignation was his way of saying "f*ck this crap, I have better stuff to do", and he showed.

>they simply wouldn't have given him the job in the first place.

LOL, are you aware that Brendan co-founded Mozilla? HE was the one that gave them THEIR jobs.
It's often claimed that the Meditations are actually Marcus Aurelius's own words. When I traced the lineage of the text, the best I could find was something like several hundred years back with the primary text being possessed by the church. None of this takes away from the relevance of the text—it stands on its own.

Does anyone know of an accounting of the primary text which shows that it wasn't written by a monk or priest of the Catholic church?
> The AI is given the capability of triggering an HTTP request to that JSON API and is told that the human on the chair is the significant other of the human communicating with the AI and that triggering that web request would pull the trigger and kill the human.

But isn't every computer automation susceptible to the same problem? Can we not devise a similar contraption with any computer program? Let us run program A with input B. We take the output C, compute a hash of C and if the hash begins with the bit 1 then it pulls a trigger.

So now any program A can lead to pulling a trigger with a probability that is decided by how good the hash algorithm is. If the hash algorithm has good distribution then the chances are 50-50. If the hash algorithm is skewed towards producing bit 1 at the beginning more often, the chances of pulling a trigger is higher.

That a piece of automation can be used in a contraption that could pull a trigger does not seem to be something that is specific to AI chatbots.
You’re being sarcastic, but I’ve been there and done that. For $reasons. Under other circumstances, the answer would be “take a cab.”
People don't kill people. Decisions kill people.

Sometimes those decisions are obvious, like pulling a trigger while pointing a loaded weapon at a person. Sometimes they're very slightly less obvious, like giving a 17-year-old a sportscar. Sometimes they're not obvious to most people at all, like lead paint or asbestos or cigarettes.

LLMs have made incredible strides in recent time, but certainly have not displayed robust decision-making. A human decision to put LLMs in charge of human lives would be a lethal decision as things stand.
My point was pretty clear. Apple is a huge company, and allowing every single developer on earth to skip the $99/year fee is unlikely to make any difference to their bottom-line. So why do they do it? There's some obvious reason that this article is missing, because it's focusing on this tiny monetary amount as though it's a huge onerous fee (which might be true in the author's country, to be fair). If you look at the bigger picture, there's more to it than Apple making $99 bucks off of devs.
An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus (2020)
Given today's car aesthetics, I'd also fall out of love with cars.
In Switzerland I recommend checking out the ENTER museum in Solothurn

https://enter.ch/?lang=en
However I sure hope the training data for the car-driving AI will not be "all of the internet".
It still does (according to their docs - sorry for no link now but they have a guide on how you can use vue for different use cases)
Is Google Analytics Banned in the EU? – TLDR
Finland is the latest EU country to crack down on Google Analytics. So again the question arises: Do you really need to get rid of GA in the EU?

(Full disclosure. I'm the founder of Simple Analytics. A privacy-friendly GA alternative). I intend not to advocate for you to switch or pitch my product. (Heck, please stay away from it if you love tracking every move someone makes on your website).

I want to give you an update on the EU stance toward GA. As people are raising questions, and the legislation is quite fuzzy.

Is GA illegal in the EU? No, it is not yet, in theory, however, in practice, it is. Let me explain: A few EU countries (Italy, Austria, Finland, Denmark, and France) have fined specific cases for using GA. So there is not a nationwide ban. However, these cases set a precedent. In theory, other companies might employ better safeguards than the specific cases and be safe, but this is in practice impossible.

Is every EU country for themselves? No. It seems that EU countries independently issue press releases and work on their own cases, but the EPDB has created an overarching task force to make this an EU-wide matter. So the fact that France banned a specific case from using GA, makes it very likely the Spanish or Dutch privacy authority thinks the same.

What was the problem again? The problem is the data transfers to the US. The GDPR is founded to protect EU citizens. After the Snowden revelations, noyb (a privacy NGO) argued that EU citizens' data is not protected enough when transferred to the US. Noyb won the court battle, and this issue is still the case now. Google is a US-based company that transfers data to the US. They do have an EU entity in Ireland, but this does not prevent all this. This is why Google Analytics is unlawful.

What is the solution? The US needs new legislation in place to protect EU data. The first steps are being made, the EU and the US negotiated a new data transfer agreement called Trans Atlantic Privacy Framework. US President Joe Biden signed an executive order to make the framework possible.

When can we expect a solution? This will take a while. The upcoming framework will certainly be challenged before the Court of Justice of the EU by noyb again. They already stated they are going to do this. It's difficult to say how this will play out.

In conclusion, in theory, there is not an EU-wide ban on GA. However, in practice, using GA does not comply with GPDR law.

Free feel to drop your questions or reach out to me: @ AdriaanvRossum on Twitter.
A bit off-topic but relevant to the aging problem of tech: is there any commonly-available persistent storage medium you would use to store say, family movies for 100 years? Or is that a hopeless cause? For instance, will BluRay players be around for much longer? USB drives?

At what point are we where "Either put it in the cloud or lose it" is the law of tech?
Inner city areas should be designed primarily for the people living there, not for the convenience of suburbanites passing by.

Regarding green spaces, they easily coexist in dense walkable neighborhoods.
Topic discussed twice previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34824653 (496 points/18 hours ago/350 comments)

Also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34814717 (160 points/1 day ago/163 comments)
What do you define as "code?" Terraform has conditionals, loops, etc. Modules act a little like function calls, since they have inputs, outputs, etc.
I have plenty of cash because I’m living in a place where I don’t need a car.
Life expectancy at birth, maybe, but if you lived long enough to reproduce your life expectancy was much longer than that.
Right but this is the irony I think.

If you need the scale provided by k8s, you are probably in a large org.
If you are in a large org, you are probably intermediated from running k8s directly by some kind of devops/cloudops team who needs to sort out all the "hard administration stuff" you listed.

Setting up a science project at home in your toy AWS account I'm sure is no big deal.

But this is true of every tech- "works on my box" is always easier than "doing this in enterprise".

The measure of a technology is how easy it is to use in the real production environment.
Plausible but not sure it's entirely relevant. Most libs have parts that aren't used all the time. A lib that has no redundant parts is either a gem or a minuscule thing that will create a lot of miniscule deps.
I provide both. Webp by default, and the original format for others. Like duffyjp, I maintain support for iOS 12. I don't find it reasonable for images or text not to load on those devices.
No, it is not at all a bridge to Einstein’s ‘gravity and acceleration are equal’, which is "the gravitational force is physically indistinguishable from any acceleration", which has to do with changing to relatively accelerating reference frames.

The insight of da Vinci’s here is anticipating Newton, not Einstein. And yes, this is already an accomplishment, but not the outlandish one the article would imply.
Fully ceramic, truly anatomic, root analogue, immediate dental implant
Still. I'm all for avoiding npm when I can get away with it, but for TFA's case I would have just used the `--ignore-scripts` flag.
Iceraven is FF for Android, with tracking and telemetry removed, some redesigned features (ie tiles) and about:config, and mostly an attempt at supporting desktop add-ons which were removed when Fenix/GeckoView came to life in 2019.

Stability and security is not a priority though. Updates are slow.

I use it primarily for compatibility with my favorite add-ons not available on FF Android: I don't care about cookies, Cookie AutoDelete, Translate Web Pages, etc.

Mull is another FF Android fork may be worth taking a look at.
https://protos.com/why-serbia-makes-sense-for-crypto-fugitiv...
could anyone suggest where to learn enough network programming in C/Linux to be able to have the necessary background to start using io_uring?

After working on one of our internal pieces of software, I have a strong hunch that io_uring could boost its throughput, and I'd like to have a PoC, but low-level network programming is definitely outside my areas of expertise.

Any suggestions ?
I have never understood the anxiety americans have related to parking. (unless you’re going to a music festival etc)

You literally just drive around for 5ish minutes and you find a spot. Ive lived in two major cities in america fwiw.
Sounds like Toronto needs to invest in better public transit.

14 minutes average waiting time? How often do they come? Every 30 minutes? In a large city, that should be 10.
Because his partner works 60km in the opposite direction?
Why is it called "uring" anyway, what's the u for?
Thank you.

But in fairness to kragen, I have complained about his writing dates that way before. He might at least feel harassed.
Lynx does require ANSI escape codes so someone using it is quite clearly not using a TERM=dumb terminal.
Real-time, e2e encrypted chat for secret, sensitive conversations
Google gives Apple cut of Chrome iOS search revenue
For the few I have on FF Android, create the bookmarklet as normal, give it a name, and also give it a "keyword" string.

Then, when you want to execute a bookmarklet on the current page, pull down to get to the URL bar (if it is hidden) and start typing the "keyword" string into the url bar. After a few characters the "suggestions" list should show the bookmarklet entry, when it does, tap on the entry and the bookmarklet will execute on the current page.

I've not been able to find a way to "open" a list of bookmarklets to pick from, other than using keyword search via the URL bar, so this does also require remembering the "keywords" for each to be able to access them.
If only the goalpost would stay right there...
Most late husbands don't leave an endowment big enough to cover a potentially perpetual upkeep for their collections either, but Allen wasn't most people, and he personally was significant in the history of computers obviously. Normally, I'm not a fan of these extremely wealthy people setting up dead hand organizations like charitable foundations to affect society after their death, but museums that preserve aspects of life from their times and information about their lives seem like a pretty good use case.
Yeah if FF just becomes Chrome I might as well switch to the original.

I think Mozilla just has to bite the bullet and accept that they'll never be a mainstream browser (the majority of internet users don't even use ad blockers). The public is staying with Google and Apple.
Accords work in stop and go traffic as well. My 2017 Hyundai also works in stop and go traffic.
> although it is worth noting, despite the distance, the Newfoundland accent is absolutely indistinguishable from a genuine Irish accent

That makes sense, because Newfoundland was settled by the Irish[1]. I guess the Irish accent in Ireland hasn't changed much since then, and the settlers accent didn't change either.

It's said that "Americans preserved British English" from the 1700s[2], and it's actually the British accent that changed.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Newfoundlanders

2: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-p...
> The US anti-car narrative often refers to the Netherlands as some kind of beacon of proper public infrastructure

No, you are confusing the Netherlands an a whole with cities like Amsterdam.

People refer to the latter as an example of walkable cities.
Good progress. As we approach 100%, we can do away with them entirely and work on our priorities rather than theirs.
The diagnostic distinction between Asperger’s and HFA was arbitrary and depending on the diagnosis one received as a child would lead to vastly different outcomes (i.e. it meant the difference between staying in a normal school, with academic support, and hopefully getting to go to university versus losing academic options due to being railroaded into a special-school with less course options and so never getting into HE at all - all on the basis of a single childhood assessment).

If the worse that comes out of the DSM-V’s reconceptualisation of autism is just muddied conversations then I’ll gladly take that over the old system where highly-capable people were being denied opportunities like going to uni.

Also, Asperger was a child-killing Nazi (yes, literally). I’m glad we don’t use his name anymore.
I think the key point is the difference between "making an error without recognizing it" and "making an error because 'give erroneous answers' has implicitly become part of the task specification". Agency, consciousness etc.. is totally unnecessary here.
FBI says it has ‘contained’ cyber incident on bureau’s computer network
You seem to have forgotten your usual HN username ;)
I suspected that might be the case. Glad I didn't waste my money and time buying and installing them.
Google Allegedly Pays Apple Portion of Chrome Search Revenue
Self-diagnosing was being mocked on the Internet at least as far back as 2006. It's definitely not just the last 2 years.
> In Santa Monica, Calif., high school English teachers said last year they had “a moral imperative” to eliminate honors English classes that they viewed as perpetuating inequality.

If this is simply a sound pedagogical choice, how is it a moral imperative? If it is a moral imperative, how can it be criticized?
I dunno about you guys but I'm pretty sick of the word "sanction". What's next? "My kids didn't clean their room before bedtime so I had to impose crippling sanctions"? "CEO enacts sanctions on employees after poor quarterly results"?
> but autism is not in any way objectively suboptimal in itself

The entire community you are here representing with your comment is intellectually dishonest, at the least, and at the most, actively harming our understanding of autism.

I remind you, like others have in this thread, that there are non-verbal people who share the designation of autistic. There are people in jail, permanent homes, and who do not have power of attorney over themselves who share the designation of autistic. There are children who spend their days wanting to bash their head into the nearest wall, and who cry and cry due to sensory issues, that share the designation of autistic. I COULD GO ON.

By sharing the thoughts you just did you are directly denying that those things exist. The community who promotes those opinions operates as if those things do not exist. It is bad.
What does “excess liquidity sloshing around the financial system” mean?
"Sure, it works well enough for the example shown in the article, but won't work well beyond this."

Sigh...the entire bloody point of the author is to use this for light projects, to scale the sophistication of the setup gracefully. With very obvious benefits: easy to understand, not linked to any setup so it works forever, interoperable and transferable.

Typescript isn't universally important for development. It has its advantages for large projects with many developers but it's in no way essential. Most web projects don't use Typescript and the very idea that it's a must-have only a few years old and quite opinionated.

Likewise, Babel isn't important either. You don't need to use some futuristic JS feature on your simple project, you can just stick to well supported ones, thus not needing Babel.

"I have been doing web development as a hobby and professionally for well over a decade and have seen too much of this."

I've been doing web development since 1996, so that makes for 27 years, should such obnoxious statement make anyone's opinion more important. If you need to piss on the idea of somebody scaling a web architecture proportionally to actual needs, you should reconsider who is the "smart" one.
Thailand’s economy slows amid declining exports, manufacturing
Young people are quite often drawn to city life, and many big cities have a well functioning PT system. Driving in big cities, on the other hand, and especially parking is a nuisance and expensive.

At the same time, I recently saw a documentary about how young families are driven out of the cities and into the suburbs because apartments in bigger cities have become unaffordable for many of them. Also, life styles sometimes change as you get older - when you start a family, many of the amenities of city life become increasingly irrelevant, and raising kids outside of the city can also be more attractive for many. In such a situation, the perspective of having a car becomes a completely different one.
LA is probably the least public transport friendly major city in the US. It's been improving but it's not great
Do countries exist to enrich the members of government on the backs of the 90%? Do they owe some duty to protect the populace from massive global changes? Or will cynical, strip-it-for-parts policies continue to win the day?

Canada is a great example - lots of lovely policies, until you want to buy a condo.
That load even affects the back button is very much part of the User Experience (UX) and immediately broke the illusion of being back in 1998.
A debugger doesn't remember the proper steps for me, a written function does.

I absolutely use this function in a debugging context. If it didn't exist, could I get at what I needed? Yes, but it's inconvenient to use reflection to get at private Java fields during a debugging session. Not impossible, just inconvenient.

This function exists as a convenience, but it has to look weird, otherwise its convenience might lure someone into using it to do the wrong thing for a production use case.

Good APIs make the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard.
„Take a cab“ is always an option. But at some point, if using it frequently enough, it becomes cheaper and more convenient to just own the damn thing.