skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Direct line descendants, that is fathers fathers father etc. While normal descendants increase with every generation as everything is diluted, direct line descendants do not.
Audi has always been funny to me as they’ve been a copycat brand for the 30 years I’ve been aware of them.

So it makes since that their “innovation” is a skeuomorphic digital version of a physical dial that costs more and is shittier.

There’s a gnostic origin story of the demiurge who is like a retarded brother of God that sees heaven and wants to make their own version. But they mess up and make a crappy version that is our world. I think that analogy fits when I see groups try to copy another group and fail, especially when they have high resources. The demiurge was near omniscient in power so it wasn’t lack of resources that made our world suck.

I also think it funny that the gnostic origin story was so pessimistic.

I love learning about different cultures and their origin stories.
I wonder when we'll start putting these models on the pirate bay or similar. Seems like an excellent use for the tech. Has no one tried to upload OPT-175B anywhere like that yet?
> mouse scrolling works in a different direction and requires additional software to be fixed

You can change that in system preferences easily with a checkbox.

> non-standard keyboard shortcuts. All other OSes use the same shortcuts.

You could also argue that these shortcuts are standard to apple computers for decades and so are standard for their ecosystem.

Not disagreeing with most of your points, but thought i'd just point those out.
On a related note, I remember reading somewhere that you should never just put '(C) MyCompany' in code, because (C) is not the copyright symbol, and therefore is meaningless in law. (whether or not you put the date next to it)

It sounds ... plausible? But I've never heard of any legal case that ever covered this. Is it a myth?
To be fair, that specific warning is (probably) due to a different carcinogenic food additive: heat
In the US, if the file has a clear copyright notice then the infringer loses the possible defense of "innocent infringement". So yes there is additional legal protection.
I expect there will be higher cases of psychosis happening on intense retreats, but as anecdotal as this, I had it happen to me (albeit not as extreme as OP) after meditating for much shorter periods (approx 10 minutes up to an hour).

I really did not see it coming. For some context, I don't know of any deep seated trauma that I have and I liked to think of myself as someone robust mentally.

I experienced a deep realisation that our thoughts manifest from nowhere and not from ourselves (words fail me here) and that the construct of 'me' was completely false and was just a reverberation of my environment. I understood there was no me. This was really nice for about two weeks. I started to think that I should be looking to help other people and become a guru, perhaps write a book to help humanity, but then my ego (I expect) came back with a vengeance, kicked my ass and brought me back down to earth with a crash (maybe its a safety system). I experienced huge panic attacks like I have never had before, I carried this constant feeling of absolute dread in my soul, like a sense of impending doom. I have heard it described as the dark night of the soul. Some try to push through this, but I held back as i cannot afford to have a complete meltdown as I need to care for a young family and hold down a job.

I spoke with a well respected meditator about this, and they said the some people are wired to have an accelerated experience and are able to obtain deep introspection with limited time on the cushion.

I would say I am almost back to normal now. I had to stop all meditation and instead focused on health food, sleep habits and lots of exercise. My main mediation type thing is now running, it quietens my mind, but the grounding effect of the movement keeps me in a safe play pen to explore my reality.

meditation is incredibly powerful, in the west we have confused it as being a corporate stress ball that you squeeze or like a lavender scented, candle lit bath while listening to Enya. The truth is, it can reveal incredibly deep seated aspects of ourselves that we are in no way prepared to witness, let alone accept.
Unless it's Arc (at least right now)
I agree, today still better to use Docker that is more mature, Podman is half baked, lack of relevant features and moreover still very Red Hat centric, so a sort of lock-in.
No I am saying young people have gotten the impression that it's completely cured now and can be as reckless as they want which sounds to be incorrect according to the other comments here.
When seeing this, are we meant to assume that not one company in the self-driving space, in the 5-6 years of research and development since this study, has moved to training their AI on anything other than stock, pristine, textbook roadsigns?
> pay out for the damage

I mean, cool, but I was rather thinking about criminal liability i.e. when negligence of the remote driver causes death of another road user.
To add a counterpoint, my Macbook Air from 2011 (model A1370 IIRC) running Linux is totally usable and I do use it as a daily driver (well, not daily but I use it on the days when I need a small laptop, which is several days a week). I suppose macOS cannot be upgraded on it anymore but I never liked macOS and never really used it.

I replaced its battery three times now, and the fracking awful magsafe 1 cable countless times, but other than that everything works, including the camera, and I took enough care of it that it's basically as good as new. The hinge is a bit weak indeed, but it's only noticeable when I'd like to almost close it without totally closing it. I think it's acceptable for a 12 year old computer. It runs about four hours under Linux on a 4680 mAh battery.
Exactly. I came to the comments to figure out what this is. I was intrigued, though.
Thinking for yourself also means knowing your limits. It's OK to defer to experts such as the CDC.
I was commenting to my wife on the topic of teams/orgs prominently one race who generally don't promote or support "outsiders" to their predominant race well.

For example:
_AI teams primarily Chinese, where everyone speaks Chinese at team lunches and in team meetings and where non Chinese are very, very much the minority
_Predominantly Israeli orgs and teams where most managers are also Israeli or of similar ethnic background, where it seems the promotion bar is lower for people of the same ethnic background as in the rest of the company.
_Indian managers who are much harder on Indian employees than on non Indian employees. I've had to report an Indian manager to HR for bullying her Indian engineers before...

I work in a FAANG and I see the pattern in many orgs.
Just a personal anecdote, but at my place of employment we had a wave of layoffs late last year. As part of the process 4 top-level execs "left", although I think saying they were "dismissed" is more accurate.

I am not certain, but it might have been nearly half the people at this level let go. And then there was a trail of layoffs all the way down the leadership chain. Of course the most people let go in absolute numbers are the individual contributors.
The Zulu tribe might disagree with you, I think it's ammunition and manpower. Putin is emptying the jails, which tells me he's desperate for conscripts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Isandlwana
Also Go: "Amateur exploited weakness in systems that have otherwise dominated grandmasters." [1]

[1] Man beats machine at Go, https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/man-b...
Same goes for comments here on HN, any one of which could be generated by ChatGPT.

I asked ChatGPT to write a rebuttal to your statement. It seems to have pretty strong opinions on the matter:

While it's true that advances in artificial intelligence and natural language processing have made it possible for machines like ChatGPT to produce human-like responses, the idea that we would no longer be able to distinguish between a real human and an AI-generated response is not entirely accurate.

Firstly, it's important to note that AI-generated responses are typically generated with a specific purpose or objective in mind. ChatGPT, for example, is designed to generate responses to questions and prompts in a way that mimics human conversation. However, it's unlikely that an AI-generated response would be able to replicate the nuances and complexities of human conversation in a completely convincing way.

Secondly, there are various methods that can be used to determine whether a response has been generated by an AI or a human. For instance, machine-generated responses tend to be more formulaic and less spontaneous than human responses. Additionally, there are techniques such as the Turing Test that can be used to determine whether a response has been generated by a machine.

It's also worth noting that the development of AI and natural language processing technology has many potential benefits. For instance, it can help to automate tasks, improve decision-making, and enhance our understanding of complex problems.

In summary, while it's true that advances in AI and natural language processing have the potential to generate responses that are difficult to distinguish from those generated by humans, there are still ways to determine whether a response has been generated by a machine. Moreover, the development of AI and natural language processing technology has many potential benefits, and we should not be overly worried about the potential negative effects of this technology.
...are you seriously arguing against the very concept of planning in order to take a shot at this solo engineer's hard work?
> Chlorine is an element

Chlorine is also a molecule and it was clearly this meaning that the author intended.
So LLM intellects will need to be carefully raised and patiently nurtured? Seems similar to other biological brains, somehow.

How long was ChatGPT baby talked by people who cared for it, and cared what it would develop into? Where the Sydney creature was dumped onto the raw internet mewling and wet with only the most cursory care. No wonder they act differently, even if they are close relations.
> chatGPT’s conversational mode requires a lot of superfluous language, whereas a Google search does better with only keywords

I was recently travelling in another country and was able to ask ChatGPT for breakfast/lunch/dinner recommendations suiting a particular style within "walking distance" from where I was and it knocked it out of the park. All great, detailed, bulleted recommendations that I may have otherwise overlooked, as I had already done Google searches on this.

It was really an eye-opener, despite having interacted with it already in a variety of different ways.

I will note one recommendation was permanently closed, a lack of it's current knowledge, but I informed it that the recommendation was wrong, it "thanked" me and told me I was correct and that it would not recommend this location in the future.

I have no idea whether any of that is true, but it was quite interesting.
Its amazing when you go camping with no artificial lights or internet and soon after dark everyone is yawning and ready to sleep.
I had an eight-gen (2005–2012) Honda Civic, and honestly I've never seen a car with better ergonomics. Climate and radio controls high up and within easy reach of the driver, different sized/shaped knobs so you can differentiate by touch, big digital speedo and GPS screen high up so they're practically at the base of the windscreen. I drove a ninth-generation Civic while mine was being serviced, and even that felt like a step back.
You complain of others twisting logic, then justify Thanos with "the writers said so".

Also, the only counter argument Iron Man needs is "Why does Thanos get to decide?"

Not to mention, Thanos's response after everyone is snapped back is to remake the entire universe in his image. Like that was possible from the start and he just didn't do it.

We can also argue that Thanos is operating from a place of emotion, not reason. He's responding to the trauma of his own planet. And since his planet fucked it up so hard, he doesn't believe anyone could do any different. Not to mention, we don't even know if his plan would work in the long run. They didn't try it on Titan and it was only 5 years out in Endgame. There's an adjustment period when half of your population disappears.

Did you miss the part where the Joker was wrong in the movie? He expected the boats to blow up, but they didn't. Humans didn't descend to their basest instincts.

A "sophisticated audience" would see Thanos's plan for the bad writing it is. It requires the audience to question no further than the writers' assurances that it would work. With stuff like the ARC reactor, sure, it's magic, handwave away. But population growth is something we do kind of know about. At best, Thanos's plan only delays the catastrophe he claims is coming.

You want a movie to "question classic tropes of good and evil", Black Panther was right there. Killmonger was right. What Wakanda was doing all those years was wrong.
Can confirm, a friend of mine was looking for a lease car, explicitly with knobs for controls like this. I think he went for a Mazda in the end.
Neither is "natural"

And a whole lot of fruit is genotypically modified as well through various means!!
I know from extensive debugging of this issue that docker is the problem. You basically can't run docker (as of 6 months ago...I hope this will eventually be false) on an M1/M2 without causing significant heating and battery drain. Since this is the fault of the OS, maybe Asahi will eventually be the solution.
Yeah, I guess I should’ve added at least another 0
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It's possible they end up walking more. Most of the US is shockingly unwalkable; unless they were in one of a handful of walkable cities they very likely ended up walking more in Europe.
I feel like I'm the only one that uses the manual controls. It bugs me getting into someone's car where the heat is set to 85 degrees and the HVAC goes full blast once you turn the key, but you know nothing warm is going to come out of the vents for at least ten minutes, when the engine starts to warm up (in the winter)
A 'CSS reset' for TypeScript, improving types for common JavaScript API's
Toyota Tacoma - still has all the knobs and buttons just like God intended. Touch screen is small, works with CarPlay, good for podcasts and maps. Everything else, just reach over and touch it. And a Tacoma is the very definition of reliable.

Console view:

https://toyotaassets.scene7.com/is/image/toyota/TAC_MY21_000...
I completely agree with everything you say.

But it somehow bothers me. To me it sounds like a fairytale, but also like you are speaking from experience, at the same time.
Okay, totally makes sense. Thanks!

I wish people didn't have to work during studies. That's one of the biggest reasons of failing.
Microsoft and Sony Square Off in EU Showdown over Activision and Call of Duty
Mobile stabbed the scroll bar but SPAs and infinite scroll put the nail in their coffin.

My other pet peeve triggered by your transit app comment is creeping privacy intrusion. I use a private DNS and can barely go a week without having to tweak my allow-list because an app that use to work fine now is blocked because they added yet another tracker. Looking at you Park Chicago, CTA apps, and seemingly every public service app I’ve ever used.
How many more years? Taking their time given all they'd have to do is remove legislation; not develop new ones.
Ask HN: Mechanical Engineering or Computer Science
Ask HN: Mechanical Engineering or Computer Science

I’m honestly kinda stuck in the middle of deciding over mechanical engineering or computer science with a lean towards mech e.

With my lovely four year experience within FIRST Tech Challenge (as well as an additional five years within FIRST LEGO League) as a main CAD designer and going on to win the Design Award at one of many FIRST Championship visits, my deep love for puzzles and LEGO, and a high attitude towards spatial awareness, my main choice was mechanical engineering, but upon looking around at different salary ranges I wasn’t extremely happy. I suppose I’d be perfectly fine with an 80k starting salary, but feel like I’d want/need to look into other income streams.

Plus, I was pretty disappointed to find out that a lot of mech e jobs with hands on experience are apparently rare; however, feel like I could easily rely on some hobby spaces to cure my want for hands on projects.

On the other hand, with my deep love for computers and software it feels like comp sci could be a good fit. I’ve always loved tinkering with any sort of code. For example, whether it be simply editing HTML or CSS code for a website to play around with the changes or heavily custom modifying stock iOS (and playing around with root access) on my jailbroken iPhone. However though, I still have yet to really write a handful of programs.

So after finding out about how much SWE salaries are and the higher pay ceiling, I was definitely excited to look into it more. Feels like I’d be choosing it mainly for better pay, benefits, and working conditions. Plus, the thought of remote work seems really appealing.

I do love the statement about how one doesn’t need to feel like that aren’t able to switch carrier paths ever. Though I really don’t have the desire to plan on spending the time put towards a partial career in mech e and then eventually switch to SWE down the road.

I certainly already think more spatially, physically, and mechanically, than I do algorithmically so feels like I truly just have to listen to my heart and go with mech e, but at least explore comp sci even more during my spare time. I’m thinking at least a major in mech e and a possible minor in comp sci.

Any thoughts or experience on the topic would greatly be appreciated. Feel free to discuss anything related to the topic.
The running is to bring in line the higher cognition centers to the physiology of body which is what brain should be doing, sort of like syncing up.
I have a little fan on my desk both at work and at home because while I may not be too hot or cold, I do like a bit of airflow. I'm sure sitting still causes a local buildup of CO2 or something, plus mental work needs a lot of oxygen and some cooling I'm sure.
That does not sound right to me. Common law (US/UK/etc.) almost always favors someone's intention over technicalities (e.g., you can sign your name as a triangle but it will still count as a legal signature if you say "this is me signing my name."
There is a lot more on the role of gods and magic in the book "The Secret of our Success" [1]. I'm not sure if all of the studies in there have been replicated, but it's certainly food for thought. One theory is that divination functioned as a kind of RNG for those cases when picking something at random was better than relying on your own bias, such as when and on which flank to attack an opposing army - where being unpredictable is a feature.

Another example from the book is that certain types of shark were taboo to pregnant women in ancient Polynesia; no-one could explain why except for things like "it would upset the gods otherwise". But it turns out that said animals' meat actually contain chemicals that are indeed bad to consume when you're pregnant.

I can also recommend Brett Deveraux' "Practical Polytheism" series [2]. One of his key quotes is "It is safe to assume that people in the past believed their religion." (Actually, I can recommend all of acoup.blog to HN readers, including the latest post on ChatGPT, but that's going off topic.)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Our-Success-Evolution-Domestic...
[2] https://acoup.blog/2019/10/25/collections-practical-polythei...
It's not entirely their fault. The Raspberry Pi foundation has very close ties to Broadcom, who make all of their CPU SoC's. The original Pi was made with super cheap chips Broadcom was struggling to sell to anyone else. Either a batch of SoC's that didn't sell as well as expected, and later fabrication capacity reserved at a foundry that it later turned out wasn't needed.

The Pi foundation basically sucks up overproduction of chips from Broadcom, in return for low prices. But when there is a chip shortage and no overproduction, they don't get any.
Car temperature controls can work really well, but they need to account for IR radiation through the windows. If the sun is shinning in my lap the comfortable temperature for the air goes down, if it’s snowing outside the comfortable temperature goes up.

On top of this if it’s cold outside I may be wearing very warm clothes in my car and not actually want room temperature.
I've got a new Ram 1500 and I haven't had to turn on the infotainment system or use a touch screen one time. I've got the screen completely off except when in reverse (automatically turns on and off as needed).

Most of the inputs are chunky physical things. Drive select is a gigantic clicky knob and there are three dedicated rotary dials just for the climate controls.
The invisible hand of the labor market will solve this issue.
To be fair, it’s not like thinkpads would get that “up-to-date software” ever - their intel CPUs are full of throttling bugs and there are plenty of unanswered forum posts left with hacks like a python script going on every other second fixing the issue..
Stop signs are octagonal all round the globe (except Japan), how could any self-respecting, self-driving car misread that shape and colour scheme?
IANAL, but some quick research leads me to believe one possible significance is in determining damages in a copyright case. "Willful" infringement has more severe penalties. One criteria for determining if an infringement is willful is it it was done with knowledge that the action violated copyright.

I suppose then, the presence of a copyright symbol on a work makes quick work of any argument the copying was done without knowing the copyright existed. Which, if the accused could successfully make an argument for, could result in reduced penalties.

It's not that there's an explicit piece of legislation that gives © power, but rather that it's presence makes for a stronger deterrent in practice.
Author is actually German lol.
The NoAI and CreatedWithAI Tags
Political Atheism, Part I
Would you prefer a four-day working week?
Call of Duty on Nintendo sounds so odd.
That's a very different and much more recent development, two interconnected ones actually. Housing is now an investment for money that should be able to be used in more productive pursuits. Part of the reason for that is the inflationary economy compels you to invest your money in something that will provide a consistent return. Those two things have very little to do with industrial efficiency.