skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Artificially sustained nuclear fission was, in 1923, not-well-understood and thought impossible; radioactive decay had been observed but the idea of chain reaction had not yet been conceived (it would take another 10 years). Natural nuclear fusion we currently know to be possible in the sun, but we don't yet know how to sustain it artificially today. Digestion was not-well-understood in 1823; although they knew that it was somehow similar in input-and-output to combustion, which could be imitated artificially, they did not know how to replicate digestion on the chemical level. Now we do.

Consciousness is irrelevant, as it's clearly not necessary for AGI nor even human intelligence; otherwise you wouldn't say "it's not even possible to determine with any scientific certainty that another human being is conscious."

On what grounds do you believe that there are capabilities of the brain that cannot be replicated by a computer? When I look at the 1.5 kgs of matter in a typical human brain, I don't see anything that jumps out and says "my operation is not computable!"

At least with fusion, the high temperatures and pressures are a clear barrier. Our brains don't need to be held at 3.8 trillion psi and 15 million Kelvin in order to enjoy poetry.

I can certainly argue on the other points as well (breaking free / deciding threat / acquiring means) but you need to pick your goalposts one at a time. I think the first step would be asking yourself: if you were a super-genius but being held by guards in solitary confinement on a remote island with only a supercomputer connected to the internet, how would you earn money?

Those conditions clearly would not have stopped even an ordinary Satoshi Nakamoto from gaining control of sufficient resources to hire private military contractors to arrange his escape. I'm not sure what a superhuman would do, but that's a human baseline.
This is exactly what I think will happen. The internet is quickly going to fill up with AI garbage, and it's going to be more and more difficult for AI to source new human content to feed into it's own model.
There is no chance that those were the three options at a federal public meeting, primarily because that type of survey is not how public meetings work.

It’s certainly the case that public meetings are not binding on the agency, nor should they be. We already have a process for determining the will of the people and it’s not “turf the problem to the 5-10 people who showed up to this meeting on a random Tuesday”.

Public meetings are one part of a larger process.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8YDpvMYk5jA&t=25
Absolutely. Even so, it used to be the case that judges could detain people this way indefinitely. Outside of the US, many countries offer no such legal protection at all, refusing to give up a password is itself a crime, in some cases with penalties exceeding the original charges.

People should absolutely familiarize themselves with the laws surrounding this in their jurisdiction even if they're doing nothing wrong - legitimately forgetting a password and defiantly refusing to share it are often treated the same way by the criminal justice system.
Its a trade-off for us. We had a security system for about a year before we realized it was inconvenient to arm/disarm it, so having a geofence ensured we always have it active when we need it to be. Your point is not invalid though.
I do hope that this article inspires more HN folks to appreciate the stance adopted by Black Lives Matter.

It's a lot harder to sneer when you see what the movement is up against.
Because it's a sensitive issue. The pipelines are Russian, but they lead to Germany. It's easy to use this for propaganda purposes.
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The article notes it doesn't just sit on your skin, but is designed to break down and be absorbed as the wound heals. So the amount of metal is a legit concern.
Well that is true. However, I used Phind and was able to get 10 paragraphs about New East Lake with sources! https://www.phind.com/search?cache=8ff1dcc7-7587-4df8-9e46-6...

At the same time, it uses Wikipedia as a source as well as marketing and blog sources so Phind results should be carefully critiqued as well.
Every now and then I wonder with a twinge of fear how long until GMail makes it to the top of the list of potential axes on some mid level execs desk looking for cost centers to cut.
That's referred to as the "blue wall of silence" in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wall_of_silence
Dash got fixed in 2009. It's zsh (which isn't even POSIX compliant by default) that didn't get fixed until 2015. And almost all zsh users are either powerusers who should know how to update their damn shell, or post-2019-mac users who should let Apple do it for them.
they're complementary! codeium works like copilot, constantly autocompleting what you want to type next, which helps a lot when you already have a decent idea of what you need to get done and need to get it done faster. chatgpt (and chat interfaces in general) help you get some ideas on what to do when you are doing more open-ended exploration, and is explicitly invoked. as developers, we all code in these different "modes" and different tools can be built for each!
For any such tool, two questions are of primary importance:

- How connections between multiple tables are represented and managed

- How derived data is described (queries, workflows etc.)

Typically such tools are aimed at simplifying data connections but normally they end up with some kind of join-like approach which requires high expertise and is error prone. So users have to deal with something they wanted to get rid of when they buy the tool. Plato is not an exception: "No SQL needed". Yet, I could not find any information on how exactly it manages connections between tables and how the unified "virtual table" is defined.

The second question is about how we can derive new data from existing data. Ideally, users would like to have something very similar to Excel because spreadsheets are indeed extremely intuitive: we define new cells as functions of other cells (which in turn might be functions of other cells). In Plato I found "virtual columns" which should be rather useful. This is somewhat similar to the column-oriented approach implemented in Prosto [0]. Yet, what is really non-trivial is how to define (derived) columns by combining data from multiple tables.

In general, the tool looks very promising and I hope that additional features and additional information will make it really popular.

[0] https://github.com/asavinov/prosto Prosto is a data processing toolkit radically changing how data is processed by heavily relying on functions and operations with functions - an alternative to map-reduce and join-groupby
We a right at the point in history were this is about to change. I tried "new Bing" and it understands better than ChatGPT while also being able to use online search. And Google's Bard is just a few months, or weeks, away. Just a few years ago (pre GPT-3) this would have been unthinkable.
General question related to this: are the spiraling property taxes related to similarly spiraling home values?
No, there is no way to have a stable system in Arch. They don’t recommend installing any new packages unless your entire system is up to date. There is also no stable way to get just security updates while leaving the rest of the system stable.
I wonder if some DIY computer vision video set on such a planter box of native flowers could be some indication if sufficiently crowdsourced.
What is the end result? Something like you are to reside in this town an we'll let you out twice a year for vacation and XMas? Want to move to other city - there is a waiting list 10 years long.
Also a big fan of the show -- cool project!
With zero curation, SEO rules.

Ads are frankly a partial solution to the problem of SEO corruption. Rather than giving the top spots to blackhat SEO spammers, you give them to the highest bidder and therefore damage the SEO industry. Lesser of two evils, but both suck.

Ads can also be seen as a degenerate form of curation, where the curation function is just money + some loose content rules. Is that better or worse than the curation being a function of some particular set of values, i.e. do you want Democrats or GOP partisans curating the top Google results?
I'm unsure of what source would be appropriate here. I can't point you to a lack of a thing, by definition.
I think more probable would be NATO sending more powerful weapons (like much discussed ATACMS, cluster munition etc).
Great weather.

A virtuous cycle of good people attracting businesses willing to pay a premium for good people attracting good people.
Writing a Labeling App with Python, Dash and Databricks SQL
What if you would like to write a text labeling application in almost pure Python on top of the Databricks Lakehouse?

I've prepared a step-by-step guide with example app on how to implement such a solution with Python and Dash on top of the Databricks SQL and Delta table.
Hm please don't trust a service such as this over a decent legal firm, you can find always a reliable solicitor / legal support in your neighborhood.
Do you have iPhones? My solution is specific to the Apple ecosystem, but did indeed require some workaround with Homebridge to get it to be truly automated.
Most of JIRA being slow is the backend not the FE. I've had the same issues but you can watch the backend take 3 seconds to return. The FE isn't much of a factor there.
> Plasticity really focused on UX, and license a kernel

Its good that author of Plasticity (@nkalen on HN) had finally switched[0] to use Parasolid (and abandoned previous plans to use Russian C3D kernel) after Russia started full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022[1]... in eight years since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014.[2]

N.B. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30696305

[1] https://twitter.com/nk/status/441096177933905920

[2] https://twitter.com/nk/status/1507672831559151620
Is there a way to try it out without creating an account? What are the security implications of attaching this to my database?
While Emperor is Tweeting, Tesla is crumbling..
But we already know computers can ingest and accurately/permanently store information at speeds orders of magnitude greater than human brains can - to take an extreme example it takes years and years for a particularly dedicated human to memorize several thousand digits of "pi" (and then many hours to recite then again!), yet you can feed the same digits to a computer in well under a second and it will hold onto them indefinitely with instant and perfect recall. So I don't think it really makes sense to compare a silicon-based AI model that's been trained explicitly for, say, 6 or 12 months and a human that's been passively absorbing information for 20 or even 40 years.
- The content is normally static.

- They render consistently on any mainstream platform, without access to external resources.

- They load, scroll, and zoom relatively quickly on mainstream platforms.

I don't think PDFs are terrible to view on mobile. I think it works out pretty well. I prefer viewing them than the mess that is an HTML page with CSS. Usually whoever authored it ddin't do a good job of making it pinch/zoomable and accessible.
Unfortunately, nothing lasts forever. Once you accept that, your perspective on 10 years may change. It's a long time. I challenge anyone to find discussions of this type from 100 years ago. Even if it was recorded (unlikely), did it survive after all of the participants died (unlikely)? Yes, we have 100 year old newspapers, but 100 year old discussions about underwater knitting.
Why? Why is this an axiom?

Example: supermarkets where I live co-ordinate their prices. There are 5 big chains and they all increased prices in tandem (and margins, so nothing to do with increased costs). They get slapped with a 100 miliion euro fine every year or two, but what do they care? It's a drop compared to the amount they profit from the cartelisation.
(Why are you being downvoted?)

I think the important part is to have a minimum of filtering. Humans consume knowledge brought by others humans, but most of the time we cherry pick the true and useful knowledge and reject what turns out to be false (ideally).

I think what AI brings to the table is automation and speed, but the quality is not better. So if AI starts consuming its own content, will that decrease the quality of knowledge* in general?

(*Here I mean the first knowledge you quickly get from a search or asking some AI, not what you could get after hours/days of research.)
The FE is like 5% of the slowness if that. You have a 2 second query and then 50-100ms to render.
SumatraPDF is one of the few reasons why I still use Windows. Glad to hear the relentless focus on speed.
Haha, no it's definitely the theme from "Only You" (it's a cheap no brand thing, not that sophisticated, either technically or musically, it seems)
I know what you're saying, but it needs to be stated that police are also civilians.
Building an EDM Machine
Anyone able to speculate on who the "unnamed third-party" Ask outsourced their search to in 2010?
Code coverage for Go integration tests
This makes sense! (Also, even if I was deliberately cloning liberally, I'd still pass &str to most things).
This is exactly the kind of thing the patent system was intended to prevent. You have to share enough details of your secret sauce so others can replicate it, even if you intend to not license it or charge outrageous licensing fees. That way the knowledge is out there today, can be expanded on by other researchers/inventors, and at a specific date in the future anyone can use it.

It also helps reduce fraudulent claims of new discoveries.
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... so why do you live there?

You choose it same as everyone else that's there now. Sounds like they compete well enough for you?
Call it what you want, still is the worst kind of syntatic sugar, the one that forces me to use a transpiler but its full of footguns, like being unable to use "class" for the "class" attribute and I have to use className instead, or the one that has no syntax sugar for conditionals so instead you write horrible stuff like {isValid && isApproved && foobar && <div>...}
People continue to say that Intel has lost its way, and maybe it has in hardware, but for a long time they have had the best numerical computing software teams outside of NVIDIA. You can look at mkl, their recent updates to numpy, etc. This is totally orthogonal to whether they are good actors in open source, to be clear.
Ask HN: What and where is the best place to start with self-hosted smart home?
For somebody totally new to the world of smart home automation, but is fairly technical and capable of setting up self-hosted services, where is the best place to start? Strong preference for open source solutions but very willing to buy hardware (and software) if it's freedom-respecting enough.
Ukrainians were able to achieve temporary localized SEAD with the HARM missiles. But it's not that meaningful without significantly larger airforce.
How can companies contribute to open-source?
You still can, just have to be excessively nice about it. Huge emphasis on excessively.
HIPPA doesn’t exist. HIPPA is a mistaken acronym that adds the p-for-privacy.

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) - a real 1996 law.

HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) - not a thing.
Surprised to see how many differences in disagreements between Datadog and Metrist if Datadog is down or not.

Anyone from Metrist able to explain this?
Because they will still be readable a hundred years or more from now. Your favorite format, whatever it is, probably won't be.
Allow me to expand and spitball here just a little bit.

1. Technology companies as data creators should have the responsibility of clearly denoting the ownership of the data they create.

2. Data created as a product or derivative of something a user owns should be given the option to be owned by the same user.

3. Rights for data owned by a user should be akin to physical ownership and stewardship, including limited scope of warrant by law enforcement, etc. (Why would we limit the ability for a police officer to search your home, but not the video footage you installed of the same?)

4. Technical implementation including but not limited to advanced cryptography should NEVER be disallowed or restricted by the owners of data.
Seems like the judge signed an overly broad warrant.
I started to do some cpp development again and google is just giving me wrong/outdated solutions or just unanswered question from SO, while ChatGPT is on point most of the times.
It was one of the politically violent periods that people are still alive, and it happened recently enough still working, from. I really don't think using the most extreme period in very recent history is ceding any point....
You are right about the incentive structure being a main problem in science.

But at the heart of the reasons why this structure is the way it is, you find people's utter lack of knowledge about how science does and should work in the first place.

Remarably, nearly all the commenters here betray this very lack of knowledge by talking about it as "philosophy". As if it was some practically irrelevant jibberjabber.

Science does not work by magic though, with people going through some motions of an occult ritual. It's an algorithm, implemented insanely badly currently.
Looks great! I've never used Airtable so miss the comparisons. Is Plato like a faster to use version of Django admin? That's usually how I set up my admin UIs and one of the top reasons I use django.
That mean even more colours for our functions?
I believe you can use a backslash to escape stars, but either way: it took me a while to realize there were a ton of missing stars in this comment that has been parsed as italics (in case this doesn't get fixed before the edit window times out).
Your post can also be used as an argument for how disinformation claims are being weaponized. Hamilton 68 was a key figure in the Russian disinformation stuff. They claimed to have pinpointed hundreds of Russian bots and used this to create an interactive dashboard, headed by a former FBI counterintelligence official, enabling real time tracking of the latest "Russian disinformation." It was repeatedly referenced by both the media and high level politicians alike. This included Adam Schiff, The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN, PBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, and many more. Mother Jones ran at least 14 articles on their "research" alone.

The problem is that this was, itself, all complete disinformation. Their "Russian bots" were largely made of normal, and very real, conservative Americans. [1] Many were of substantial note, including authors, lawyers (one had published a book on the constitution), news editors/hosts, and more. So you ended up in this zone where anything conservative individuals were talking about was immediately claimed to be Russian disinformation, which was equated with fake news. But you'll never see anything about this in those same news sites that ran stories based on the disinformation. Nor is their any grand demand that we shut down Hamilton 68. In fact you can still find their dashboard on the "Securing Democracy" page. [2]

So normal genuine conversation was being censored under the guise of 'securing democracy against state sponsored disinformation' while major examples of genuine disinformation, which did (and continue) completely distort democracy, remain completely ignored. Very little of it has anything to do with integrity, security, or safety. It's all petty politics. And supporting the government banning apps, with no proven misdeeds, is one heck of a nasty precedent.

[1] - https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1619029772977455105

[2] - https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/hamilton-dashboard/
So?

Do you have any argument that these two questions should be approached the same way?
Improving accessibility may be fair (I'm not familiar with the details), but in many cases PDFs are used for scenarios where the authors don't want the individual assets to be trivially extractable. Even if an advanced user can do so programmatically, a static layout is often a feature, not a bug. If the authors wanted the reader to be able to quickly pull out assets and recreate it they would distribute the content in some other format.
async tasks are cool, but the usual PSA applies here:

Be careful to hold your references, because async tasks without active references will be garbage collected. I've been bitten by that in the past.

Long discussion here: https://bugs.python.org/issue21163

Docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio....

"Important

Save a reference to the result of this function, to avoid a task disappearing mid-execution. The event loop only keeps weak references to tasks. A task that isn’t referenced elsewhere may get garbage collected at any time, even before it’s done."
I make this argument all the time and people think I'm an idiot, which is fine. But JSX to me is reason that Svelte and Vue aren't as good. They are faster IMO but with JSX it's nice that you can make a form and then each part of the form can be broken out into separate methods.

The reasoning I get all the time is "Why would you want to do that? That's stupid".

It's just so much nicer honestly. I'm not a react fan at all but that's one thing I miss about it.
I don't think the story is trying to take the characters from cannon, but take the world and completely reimagine the characters. The original characters just serve as foils for their reimagined versions. I never really understood complaints about fanfic authors not sticking to cannon character traits. Isn't the point to create new stories that are loosely linked to the original? Anyway, HPMOR is more pop philosophy novel/religious text that attaches itself to a well known world for publicity than any traditional sort of fan fiction.
> fixing type-os

I see what you did there ("typos").

Your reasons for search usefulness declining somehow ignore the elephant in the room: SEO. Because search as a business tends to be about advertising monetization, that's the system that gets gamed.

Want better search? Or at least a differently-skewed search? Find a way to make it not be about ad money.
Yeah, I think you’ve got it. Poor competitors lose the competition. Sounds like you are better off somewhere else, especially if you want public transit.
Now we just need datadog to monitor metrist. Who monitors the monitors?
This is an interesting piece related to this question

[PDF] - https://www.ponarseurasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Pep...
Reolink cameras are pretty affordable, can be accessed with ONVIF, and you can just put them on a VLAN/Firewall that has no internet access if you're afraid that it's phoning home.

I have a Synology NAS and their free security camera software is pretty easy to set-up and use with ONVIF cameras.