skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't have to have them when they can donate to politicians, lobby and buy advertisements as they see fit.

The problem with corporations in American politics and law stems from corporate personhood.

We may need to revisit the concept of limited liability. When planes fall out of the sky due to cost savings in product development or automated cars crash into trucks due to beta software marketed to the public as "fully self-driving," or unwise securitized lending threatens the financial sector, responsible executives should be held personally liable, not given golden parachutes or a slap on the wrist.
>kanji is more work to learn how to write, but it makes it easier for others to read - not just compared to romaji but even hiragana and katakana.

The reason for this, which I think most westerners won't immediately understand, is because Japanese (and Chinese scripts in general) doesn't use spaces nor capitalization.

What do I mean by "doesn't use spaces no capitalization"? Think of English, but without either: canyoureadthiseasily?ididn'tthinksoeither.nobodywriteslikethisinenglish. A sentence written purely in hiragana reads like that.

Kanji serves the same function spaces and capitalization does for us, they distinguish individual words from each other.

Some words are written entirely in hiragana for brevity or style, but generally speaking the purpose of hiragana is to string the kanji together and add contextual information so the sentence flows well.

On that note, all foreign words are written in katakana, and katakana is also used for emphasis, similar to ALL CAPS or bold writing in English.
> I don't think we are agreeing on terminology.. AFAIK radicals and social conservatives are opposites. One wants changes to match new ideas the other a freeze or return.

That’s not a sensible definition of “social conservative” because by that logic radical islamists aren’t also social conservatives.

> The masons and quakers are examples of groups with tolerance that make them compatible with other ideas, mixes, radicalism and a republic

Social conservatism doesn’t necessarily preclude pluralism. Quakers and Puritans may have been fine living in adjacent colonies, but that doesn’t mean they were “tolerant” of departures from behavioral norms within their own communities: https://worldspirituality.org/quaker-discipline-html/

That’s a good analogy to what America was like at the founding. American pluralism arose from multiple socially conservative and religious groups agreeing to share a country while leaving each other alone.
Yeah. I wish the article talked about "the most boring nonempty quine".
For electron spin, a hibble detector would be a magnet rotated 90 degrees relative to an up detector. For photon polarization it would also be a filter rotated 45 degrees relative to an up-filter. Talking about it in the abstract conceals how easy it would be to realize the experiment.
Or you’re reading too much into ChatGPT getting confused in a way that it _routinely_ does for me in relation to topics that aren’t as politically charged as this.
“ I have full on conversations when I'm alone, with myself, with other people, maybe with myself as a child or at some point I'm thinking about”

I am the same.
> Having a strong support group in your life is probably one of the most important things to success.

This. “It's not what you know its who you know.” Though often the people who give that advice privately are the most invested in maintaining the illusion of meritocracy publicly.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow;

*I shot an arrow into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where;

For, so swiftly it flew, the sight

Could not follow it in its flight.*

Celebratory Gunfire : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire
Just about everything in this situation is disputed, but one theory I've heard is that they primarily publish these updates to establish active business use of the related IP rights (and hence standing/damages in a lawsuit).
Interestingly, the name of the algorithm alone takes up more memory than the executable code. /s
Small embedded devices tend have a serial port of some sort and some ad-hoc protocol or mechanism to trigger metric output. A prime example of this that comes to mind is the P1 port on some of the European electricity meters. This user-accessible port outputs some metrics every so often. Specification for the curious is here: https://www.netbeheernederland.nl/_upload/Files/Slimme_meter...

ARM chips intended for embedded uses also have a single wire output peripheral for tracing and similar purposes that could be used for this.
Discover Credit Cards Will Track Gun Purchases from April
Reading through the 2021 note, it's quite a change of tone.

> Whereas Beijing is hit hard by every domestic outbreak, Shanghai hasn’t had many cases while being the least restrictive city in the country. It’s hard for us fresh arrivals not to smirk at our friends in the north each time we read about new restrictions in Beijing.

I can't help but feel a sense of betrayal in his words. He's very clear in these notes that he feels China is creatively stunted, top-heavy, repressive, yet is still capable of great things. The end of zero-covid was an abrupt end to such a prokect.
It's generational, I think. I've always understood, both as an American and Japanese, the likes of Microsoft Word as word processing programs.

This phenomenon also goes beyond Microsoft Word too, it's typing in general because the IME handles kanji conversions from hiragana/romaji.
That's exactly the lottery. The fact that you can play multiple rounds of "golf" is the privilege that the OP is talking about.
You are lucky enough to be able to afford buying multiple lottery tickets and some hit the jackpot.

Most people will never even have the opportunity to afford one lottery ticket.
> Apple, a China laggard, has finally decided to pull the string and move itself and all its related supply chain out of China.

Is there a citation for that? If so then I have missed it.
That's the best summary of what I find disappointing about the recent swift and enthusiastic uptake of AI generated content. Crystalised something for me.
I fail to understand what's the point in keeping closed source an operating system that runs only on a platform that ceased to be manufactured 30 years ago, besides maybe the usual patent nightmare, but anyway... if you want to get an idea of how the Amiga worked, the AROS operating system is an Open Source recreation of the old AmigaOS that runs on different architectures, including x86 and ARM, so you can run it on a PC or a *Pi board, either native or hosted as a process.

http://www.aros.org/
> taking offense at singular they doesn’t seem to be something common

That's probably because most people don't refer to people as "they" except when specifically asked to. If people went around using "they" as the standard pronoun when referring to known people, there would be much more offense.
It is a little generic, what really helps is if you feed it more information about what you want though, you have to teach it, tell it how you want it to behave and respond, what input sources you want it to take notice of.

Ask it to present you options, ask it to put the data in a table, ask it to ask you questions before answering, ask it to take on a certain persona etc.
Here's a demo from about 3 years ago that does something similar to the experiment in the article: https://compassionate-murdock-82fdbb.netlify.app/

It's interesting to see that these face detection models have been getting a lot better over the past couple of years, making it easier to stable and cheap webcam-based tracking.

That said, if you look closely at the videos in the original article, there's some noticeable delay between the camera moving and the program responding. The original wii controller based prototype that this was based off doesn't suffer from this delay because it used infrared LEDs. It's annoying to have to place those somewhere near your face, but once you have them there the face tracking because basically instant.
Believe me when I say that I make strong habits of anything and everything I come across, including hydration, that offers a reasonable prospect of reducing the chance I will have another kidney stone.
Show HN: Review-GPT has a man page
i'm pretty sure this is the first time i've ever heard anybody say anything positive about goodreads reviews.
Handling circular references is pretty important! Things like closing over an environment in a scripting language usually creates a cyclic reference, for example (stack frame contains a closure, which contains a reference to...the parent stack frame), or any graph-like data structures.

There is also just a cost to maintaining reference counts, which may be expensive if you are cloning and dropping values very often. A garbage collector can mean that cloning or destroying a reference has zero cost instead, along with batching destructors like you mentioned.

I'd also like to point out that technically reference counting is a garbage collection scheme! You can even use a cycle collector that runs occasionally over reference counted objects in order to free unreachable cycles; Python for example does this!
It's actually very nice and refreshing. I've done this too at times for unrelated reasons. It feels "healthy".
Mainly because too many intelligent people go into private business because it is so lucrative.

Ultimately we need to decide how we want to run our country.

Do we want to be run by mega corporations manufacturing consent through the media with vapid bimbo politicians providing a rubber stamp or do we want to take back the power for the masses of private citizens and elect effective politicians who will answer to voters who want not to be dependent on the will of megacorps for their every need.
> It proceeds to say he made about $400000 from the mine in total - hardly a billionaire villain level money.

Just to clarify for anyone else wondering, that’s 400,000USD inflation adjusted for 2021. Converted to South African rand, it’s about 7.2 million.

To put that in context, the average home price in South Africa is about a million rand. So at most they would have been able to buy 7 properties. If they bought in an expensive area, they likely would have only been able to afford 4 or 5.
only two rules in life.

good or bad, nothing lasts. plan on it.

the next thing’s always better. if it’s not, it’s not the next thing.
> On the road to mass production, spirit distillers have run across many pitfalls that look innocuous, minor changes that seem like they couldn’t possibly affect the outcome but nevertheless do.

Sounds like engineering. They ran into a pitfall, which exposed a process that they can now reproduce in mass production. Follow that up with a hypothesis on why and a way to test it and you've got science. So it is a science.
Also I just hate drinking water unless it’s hot.

I know doctors tell us to chug water but it’s just tiring sometimes. In winter for example, I just don’t feel thirsty and I just get bored heating water, making time to drink it etc.

So yeah, drinking 2-4 litres of water can feel unnatural to me.
I don't have access to a WIRED subscription currently, so I only see the first few lines, but then again a flavor for some problems with that article seems to start right at the title and opening paragraphs.

"The Genius Neuroscientist Who Might Hold the Key to True AI"

Karl Friston's free energy principle might be the most all-encompassing idea since the theory of natural selection. But to understand it, you need to peer inside the mind of Friston himself.

The gist of the problem is Karl Friston didn't come up with the idea in question, yet somehow he's often promoted publicly much as if he did.

Variational free energy methods generally are pretty amazing. Thanks to mathematicians, physicist, chemists and so on over the course of the last three centuries or so for giving us that.
Free energy methods in perception and learning are also very interesting, and that goes back at least to Geoff Hinton, Richard Zemel and Radford Neal in the mid 90s (arguably there is relevant prior work in psychology and energy based ANN before that too).
It's hard to believe Friston's application of the theory to brain function (as opposed to earlier in brain imaging) would be independent of having arrived at University College London, where people at Gatsby Unit (Hinton, Peter Dayan, etc) had been working with the methods in innovative and and effective ways for machine learning/artificial intelligence/theoretical neuroscience since the 90s.
Yet if you entered the subfield through Friston's citations, which many people now do, due in no small part to glowing personality portraits like the one presented by WIRED, you might easily come away with the impression that the whole field suddenly manifested out of whole cloth between the ears of this Genius Neuroscientist, some time in the 00s.

Friston does have one real distinguishing contribution to his name though, in being the first person to reach wide attention making vocal and bold claims that the "free energy principle" amounts to a largely comprehensive explanation for how the human brain works.
Good for him if that turns out to be the case I guess, but personally I'm not aware of any demonstrations that it actually is such a powerful explanation for any mechanisms of brain function.

I have no personal knowledge of Karl Friston, but I've heard he's often well liked in personal contacts.
I don't really know enough about the medical imaging methods era of his work to comment on it.
I was wondering about Service discovery

Is there any suppptt for Publishing an event to all subscribes from a Module so all other modules that are interested could get that event payload ?
There is a great discussion of the trade-offs in this podcast episode with Stephen Dolan, who works on Ocaml. Link to the start of the relevant section in the transcript: https://signalsandthreads.com/memory-management/#000752
He's allocating capital to build projects he thinks might be useful. That's doing something.
Watching TV is too expensive and complicated, needs an Automator
Hah hah. Good for you being able to recover. Got permanent tinnnitus from one mistake on not wearing hearing protection once when cutting stone table and i was hoovering the dust. Good thing is, you get used to it. Whatever you thought total silence was, it is gone now. Just have to work your brains towards not givin an f and you should be fine living with hearing damage. Just dont make it worse. You'll remember then the initial anxiety of losing it in the first place.
I drink lemonade regularly (I make my own), but to prevent heartburn, as lemon turns into a base in your stomach and is very helpful with heartburn. Now knowing that it is also good for kidney stone prevention just puts the cherry on top!
Fix Intel CPU Throttling on Linux
You’ve never needed a doubly linked list, tree that could be traversed in either direction or a graph?
I do that except with terminal emulator sessions. One window with few tabs per virtual desktop, as I rarely need to have more than 2-3 projects open at the time it works fine.

But... isn't tmux sessions exactly what you'd need for that? One session per project, then just connect to servers from within tmux windows

There is even switch-tree (default C-b w) that will show each session with every sub-window in it, and even preview window below that showing each terminal (refreshable via space)
I had this experience several times in math classes, but I ascribe it to the professor not telling us where the lesson was going in advance. It was impossible to know if a given example or proof was going to be a quick thing or a major operation that consumed the entire lecture. That uncertainty made it very difficult to structure my notes. I generally didn't have that problem in my economics classes, nor do I seem to have it in work meetings.
The software is called MassMotion: https://www.oasys-software.com/solutions/pedestrian-simulati....

> Given that formation is the (density * speed * wiggleness) I assume boundary variability will have a logistic relationship with density right?

I'm not sure what you mean by this--boundary variability meaning the variance of velocity? I'm also not 100% sure what I mean about my own concern :D--really I'm just confused. I would feel like I understood the significance of the simulations more if, instead of having the same agents pop up at the bottom as just exited the top (i.e. periodic boundaries), agents simply left the simulation entirely at the top and new ones entered at the bottom (with correspondingly new velocities). Left-right boundaries are trickier I guess, not sure what would be reasonable there. Maybe just no boundaries.

There are good reasons why periodic boundaries are used (ensures density is well-defined and consistent, makes analytical calculations easier, etc.). It just strikes me as a obviously non-physical model, and one that could make emergent structures easier to form.
I never said we should put them in prison
They also refer to the liquor that is absorbed by the barrel as the Devil's cut.
i've always assumed the blurbs on books are mostly bullshit, but i still find them useful as a signal of other authors the publisher or author wants to be compared to.

if a book has a blurb from Tom Clancy on it, i just interpret that as the same as the publisher putting a label on it saying "fans of Tom Clancy might like this"
Think of it like a lemon tea. You can in fact get lemon flavoured tea (e.g. lemon and ginger).
Pianists Talk about Glenn Gould: Ax, Fleisher, Bernstein, Durso, Chiu
> As a ratio I’ve failed a lot more than I’ve won but it is not a lottery.

It may not be precisely a lottery, but if most of the successful people are “I’ve failed a lot more thab I’ve won”, then, the ability to afford to fail a lot more than you win.

Especially with the narratives where the failures involve periods of homelessness, etc., possibly mitigate by couch-surfing or other network support—having a network that mitigates in that way is fortune. Surviving homelessness without it in a way that lets you to buy another totally-not-a-lottery-ticket at business? Even more a matter of fortune.
grey area

"sick farmer sued by Ford because he built a home system to control his machines from his bed"

great new civilization ahead!
Ok, but your description belies something different than what I’m saying.

What exactly do you mean by “being” when you talk of “being the subsystem”? What I’m relating is that the very act of “being” (I.e., having a subjective experience) is rooted in the conscious mind. So there’s a natural contradiction that you are somehow “being” the subconscious, because the subconscious is “below conscious experience.” Maybe you have a different definition of subconscious which is why I keep pushing on getting away from wishy-washy usage of the terminology.
The point in this case was simply that singular they isn't a recent phenomenon. This is relevant when considering the (probably incorrect) claim that singular they is confusing for older generations.

In any case, my mention of Shakespeare was an aside and not crucial to the overall argument of my post. So it is arguably you who are missing the point.
Circular references is a big one. There are also performance advantages though. Reference counting turns operations that would normally be just a memory read into a read+write, because of the need to update reference counts. You also need more bookkeeping space: a garbage collector only needs a bit or two per object, while a reference count needs several bits (up to a full word in the worst case).
It's just a thing.

The brains pretty primed to forget dreams, but if you consciously think about them you can encourage recall.

At the same time, who knows how accurate that recall is...
I always say that.
Humans can handle exceptions without having to created incredibly vague or generic terms like "birthing person"
Wow. I was hoping to read some interesting thoughts about AI overpanic, and instead got exposed to communist overpanic :-O
So I Built a Laptop?
I guess we will have to agree to disagree on that point. I often hear 'they' used in that way and have not see anyone take offense to it. Nor can I see any logical reason why people should take offense. There are plenty of languages where pronouns are gender neutral (e.g. spoken Chinese). People who speak these languages seem to do ok without constantly explicitly referencing each other's gender. There's a huge difference, both logically and emotionally, between misgendering someone and simply not making reference to their gender.

By the way, I am totally fine with not using singular they to refer to people who are genuinely offended by it. I just have not actually encountered any such person outside the class of 'argumentative people on the internet'. For this reason I think that 'use singular they if unsure' is good, though not infallible, advice.
> We had two such anti-technology jobs moral panics in the last 20 years — “outsourcing” enabled by the Internet in the 2000’s, and “robots” in the 2010’s. The result was the best national and global economy in human history in pre-COVID 2019, with the most jobs at the highest wages ever.

How much of this economy and growth was real and how much was free money from the FED? We’ve still got all that same stuff now, but the only difference is the free money is gone and things look a lot different.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
it is definitely seems a patterns that alot of people who claim to be "canceled" or complaining about "canceling" are usually very well-off people who usually get thousands of re-tweets/posts and millions of subscribers on youtube or sell-out whenever they make an appearance somewhere...
The Browser Company of New York
Something like yakuake does tabbing, splitting, and is scriptable via dbus commands. There is no strong need to learn tmux key bindings to use locally.
A counterargument: their prices make the "PCB" quality tier available for projects that would previously have been resigned to the lower "ball of bodge wires" or "breadboards/stripboards" levels of quality.

I was recently in a situation where I wanted to fit a new MCU/breakout into an existing PCB designed for a different one. I figured if I liked the results, I could redesign the PCB for a 100% conversion later, but I already had the old boards.

While some of the pinout differences could be papered over in the software, the physical fitment seemed like it would be a tangle of bodge wires or maybe trying to use ribbon cables to tack everything together.

Then I realized PCBs were an option. I could put all the cross-wiring on a PCB about half the size of a baseball card, fab a stack of them for $10 delivered, and have a product that's clean and reliable enough to use without worry.
The incompatibility of open core and profit
How do you make things allocation free?
and until how much degree you call something allocation free?
While I don’t have a computer science proof handy, it doesn’t seem possible for a LLM to “understand” a specific subject from a variety of natural input and also avoid engaging the LLM in the response. You can only intercept the request or output with another layer of processing which would necessarily have a cruder understanding that would have been evident to researchers by now.
You have to destroy some to maintain value of the rest. If you dump them on the market all other funko tank and people stop buying em
Sounds like you've looked into this. Understand you wouldn't promote your protocol but I'd like to learn about it. How can I reach you?