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I am a bit unsure about what you mean by "sciencism," but I recommend watching the original series and reading Dr Sagan's books!

A persistent theme in Dr Sagan's work was the frailty of knowledge, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vMPtpC4wGk and the danger enlightenment faces from fanatics. He also talked, at length, about the shortcomings of religion (and the possibility of partnering with religions against pseudoscience),

This is one of the reasons that the organized religions do not inspire me with confidence. Which leaders of the major faiths acknowledge that their beliefs might be incomplete or erroneous and establish institutes to uncover possible doctrinal deficiencies? Beyond the test of everyday living, who is systematically testing the circumstances in which traditional religious teachings may no longer apply? (It is certainly conceivable that doctrines and ethics that may have worked fairly well in patriarchal or patristic or medieval times might be thoroughly invalid in the very different world we inhabit today.) What sermons even-handedly examine the God hypothesis? What rewards are religious skeptics given by the established religions or, for that matter, social and economic skeptics by the society in which they swim?

Science, Ann Druyan notes, is forever whispering in our ears, "Remember, you're very new at this. You might be mistaken. You've been wrong before." Despite all the talk of humility, show me something comparable in religion. Scripture is said to be divinely inspired--a phrase with many meanings. But what if it's simply made up by fallible humans? Miracles are attested, but what if they're instead some mix of charlatanry, unfamiliar states of consciousness, misapprehensions of natural phenomena, and mental illness? No contemporary religion and no New Age belief seems to me to take sufficient account of the grandeur, magnificence, subtlety and intricacy of the Universe revealed by science. The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on its divine inspiration.

But of course I might be wrong.
Excellent point.

The only way to evaluate if this is a good or bad solution is the actual operational context.

If you had a service that had to do millions of these matches per second with low latency, then this might be a reasonable solution.
AI Poised to Transform Video Compression Landscape
That seems to be a problem in the US right now. more and more states are red or blue. by letting the states gerrymander safe districts and lopsided state legislators we get an extremist problem.
I makes it look like you enthusiastically want a job?

As opposed to ? Only sorta want a job?

It’s funny as there is so much talk about being “passionate about X” but here we don’t want to look very passionate.
There's a TV show called the The First, about going to Mars. No on has computers, only voice activated TVs, and glasses that replaced computers. It's the most realistic next step in computer evolution I've ever seen. It's worth the watch just for the "near future" tech. Oddly enough, I could not figure out how we'd do the voice stuff, but it looks easy for a GPT with a little training.
Great... no danger from being prosecuted for anything in that country... Jesus will take charge of that...
Well, let's try to compare like for like...

7950x = $599
7900XT = $800
64GB of RAM = $150

Thats' $1550 right there, before motherboard, storage, case, cooling, powersupply, etc. By the time you add all that (plus labor, either in dollars or in time) I bet you're in the $3500 range with those specs.

You have to consider the total package... the Studio is 7" x 7" x 4"... that's smaller than a microATX board, never mind some giant dual slot graphics card (Which also draws 300w btw, over 3x what the entire Studio draws).

Lack of noise, heat, and power efficiency has real value. Some of us are at a point where we want stuff that just works, not to fiddle with components and BIOs settings. Plus, frankly, nobody on the PC side has anything even close to Applecare.
Yeah you can say that, but then you just signal that you don't want to be taken seriously.

Not sure how you manage to live in so much denial, but if you can truly pull it off, congratulations! May it work out well for you!
The tech may not be substantially new, but the emergent phenomena definitely are.
On the other hand, there are times when people in the past have tried WY and decided in that situation Y was a bad idea. But your situation is X and it is quite different from what the answerer is familiar with from their experience with W. In this case you know X well, the answerer doesn't, and you know Y is what you want to do in this situation to solve X. The answerer assumes you're trying to solve W or something similar to W and you have to waste an inordinate amount of time assuring them your situation is sufficiently different from W in order to get a simple answer about how to do Y.
For what it's worth, you can openly be a white nationalist (or black nationalist, or any other kind of racial nationalist) on most social media, even here on Hacker News.

However, you will be moderated if you say anything extremely violent/racist on most social media sites. That's a good thing, in my opinion. I can understand if someone doesn't think it's a good thing that that content is moderated.

I'd take the argument that 4chan isn't a site for the far-right more seriously if 4chan didn't have these explicit rules which they don't enforce (or selectively enforce). But it's pretty clear what kind of rules are allowed to be broken on that site and what kind of rules aren't allowed to be broken. Take one glance at /pol/ for an example.
HN thinks crypto is scams and speculation.

Crypto people think it’s getting rid of visa, Western Union, and government censorship.
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There are already pr0n websites that create deepfakes without consent. Chatting in comparison is a cakewalk.
S-GPT, a Shortcut to Connect OpenAI’s ChatGPT with Native Features of iOS
First time I saw an ad in a search result in my start menu was the day I made my linux HD the default in my BIOS and never really looked back. It's really the step too far imo.
It’s been replaced with “publicly funded” which I think will also apply to NPR.
Aren’t you assuming bad faith by claiming that Twitter is somehow conspiring against NPR by labelling the state sponsored media as being state sponsored?
Women are not baby machines or objects of beauty, they're people. Their "greatest value" is whatever they decide it to be. They should form relationships in the way that brings them the most happiness.

Reducing women to objects of beauty, saying their value comes from their fertility, and implying that if they disagree with that assessment it's because they're too emotional is almost the dictionary definition of misogyny. I hope you'll reconsider this attitude.
no creo en brujas, pero que las hay las hay.
> Generative AI is like electricity, only I don't think quite as useful. The point is that, on its own, it has no value what-so-ever. The value lies in what it is used for.

I don't really understand this description - electricity is one of the most useful things in the history of civilization. I think the latter half of what you're saying is true, but it's true of everything. There's nothing inherently useful about my car, except that it gets me places. There's nothing inherently useful about my house, except that it shelters me from the elements.

Generative AI will be useful for creating lots of things (probably primarily code in its various forms). I've used it to write a few Python scripts over the course of the last week that simply wouldn't have been possible for me to do (without a few weeks of teaching myself Python at least - I'm a somewhat-code-literate PM but very much not a programmer). Those have solved real problems for me and added real value to my life.
mmm... has I remember you can... only not in vain...
But what are the differences? Does Blue Sky use another protocol just to be deliberately incompatible with existing federated networks?

Could mastodon instances theoretically be made compatible with AT Protocol anyway, and federate through both it and ActivityPub?
> "Unless you’re offering MongoDB as a service, it’s just as “open source” as ever."

It's not. It's source available, and that's still proprietary.

The reason why the SSPL is not Open Source is pretty simple: it doesn't convey the four essential freedoms of free software [1]. That's it, there is essentially no more to it: it imposes usage restrictions, and that's orthogonality against the spirit.

Whether it is "except this or that" or "AGPLv3 but with this additional clause" is irrelevant: even the tiniest change can cause significant differences, and this is the case: it removes the freedom to run the program as you want, as it imposes restrictions to some use cases. And these restrictions go beyond the realm of the software itself.

In contrast, Open Source copyleft software, like AGPLv3, never go beyond the software itself. It provides guarantees that modified versions of it also remain available for users of modified software (forward carrying guarantees) but do not add a requirement to also provide under the same license other unrelated software (which is essentially a nice way of saying "simply don't do this", turning de facto into a usage restriction).

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms
And that is why police officers use Level 3 holsters.

https://safariland.com/collections/level-3-retention-holster...
I have to thank you for the positive mindset you're trying to teach us here!

Also, as you say, it is very important to not accept bad state -- this is so important I can't stress it enough. Even more, because of how some generic people mindset can easily get you into "learned helplessness" state.
Dude let me share my plan: go build something for yourself, a modest bootstrapped business. If you want to keep being an employee, you'll see your job and other people jobs getting more and more replaced by AIs. Bosses hyped to put AI in the coffee machine. Clients asking to add ChatGPT to their wordpress site.

Either you go build something you want, an island where code doesn't talk back, or leave tech altogether.

I am saddened that I don't even recognise this place anymore. It's not Hacker News anymore, it's AI news. It's starry eyed engineers jumping over each other ready to sell their metaphorical soul. Even I, the Luddite, can't seem to talk about anything else than this bloody thing.

My current plan is to build a small business and retire in the middle of the woods somewhere. Do some Lisp coding while the rest of the world is dancing around their new idol.

/rant, send me an email if you wanna rant about it as well, and discuss your concerns.
GeForce RTX 4070: Nvidia Ada Lovelace and DLSS 3, Starting at $599
We’ve had neutrino sensors for a half century. They just tend to be inconveniently sized and located.
If that’s the only reason, we offer managed databases of many flavors on hetzner. https://www.ayedo.de
I mean the upstream comment is basically saying don't trust clicking any links on the Internet--even on a site that presumably weeds out really dodgy stuff quickly. Indeed, not using the Internet is a solid, if rather extreme, security process to follow.
Subject and writer are idiots. Any electrician worth their master license would not have installed a 125A panel in 2019 unless this woman lives in a converted cottage. Also unless this woman is running a grow house or has a 4000 square foot home they intend to heat with resistive heating she will never use 300A service.
> Get ready for a wild couple of years

I hope it's just a couple, and not the beginning of a century of human decline and suffering puctuated by a mass extinction.
Just got an M2 MBA and it's such a fantastic upgrade from my old intel MBP, but the notch is a bit more distracting than I'd like. It's awkwardly large, and the corner rounding is a lot worse than the notched iPhones imo.

Its saving grace is that the screen is 16:10, and all pixels where the notch lives are bonus pixels, so it's still a net win in usable screen space vs 16:9 laptops.

Still, this is a nice workaround!
this one really annoys me because proton mail uses the "spoofed" utc timezone to show when i sent/received emails, as if i live in the uk or west africa. they also refuse to add timezone as an app setting to correct this issue.
In the article n always refers to the length of the string.
Sounds to me like in a strong job market, the people who bother to set themselves as #OpenToWork are those either having more trouble getting a job, or are already in a decent job and just shopping around.

In a tough market following layoffs, more people in general are going to be #OpenToWork, even strong candidates who didn’t need to openly job shop before, and those looking for work are more likely to take an offer even if it isn’t perfect.

It’s still an interesting indicator of the state of the job market.
> now you can spawn up virtual Timothy, which is trained on a bunch of Timothy's data

Not just no, but hell no.

If I'm going to play with a robot, I absolutely don't want it to replicate a friend. Even more, I would be furious if any of my friends replicated me like that.

When I'm playing with my friends, I'm doing it to play with my friends, not simulacra of my friends.
SSPL license text doesn't set any limits on the scope for source release. Verbatim quote:

> “Service Source Code” means the Corresponding Source for the Program or the modified version, and the Corresponding Source for all programs that you use to make the Program or modified version available as a service, including, without limitation, management software, user interfaces, application program interfaces, automation software, monitoring software, backup software, storage software and hosting software, all such that a user could run an instance of the service using the Service Source Code you make available.

Basically it is saying you need to release the source of every tiny bit in your stack and then some.
> cryptocurrencies invite undesirable people and events.

Many early adopters are salty that nobody would listen to us and investigate the criminals we were pointing out all along.

> cryptocurrencies invite those who think it's a good idea to use them as a proxy to evade securities laws or KYC rules, luring in gullible morons in the process and leading to loss of money

Generally the criminal schemes that actually took everyone's money were so simple as to not even be securities scams. The complex non-deliverable defi contracts were something people were playing around with to make prediction markets and other useful things.

> when you can't get a new halfway-decent GPU for years because scalpers buy up all the stock then the market has fucking failed

Okay, seriously, what system would actually create more cards here, some command economy where gaming is allocated a higher value than other activities? How does the company know how many fabs to buy/lease to prepare?

> promoting outright Third Reich Nazi symbols and edgy far-right memes

I don't see a lot of value in some censorship system that makes that enforceable. Should books not have been invented until we developed a technology to make it impossible to say mean things?
I wonder how "opentowork" affects salary negotiations? It certainly puts the candidate in a lower power position, it's not hard to imagine many companies offering less to people who signal they are unemployed.
Unformalized ritual is an oxymoron. None of those examples are rituals. I mean if you want to call them rituals, go right ahead, but you're using a different definition of the word than everybody else, and the definition you are using is the one everyone else uses for habit.
Simplysafe. At least their you can't disable their current generation of alarms with a $3 transmitter. Criminally negligent but oh well.
Why not just install everything from msys2 to using pacman?
Or welder compressor medically needed air conditioner etc.
They are completely correct. If the DFA fits in RAM, following state transitions will be O(1) and using the DFA for a concatenated string of length N will be O(N). You simply missed a good solution.
As a hiring manager, I’ve noticed most peer hiring managers vastly overestimate their ability to hire.

What I’ve seen happen is that there are two narratives they flip on: I hired this great person and they are doing amazing so I am amazing; I hired this person and they aren’t doing great so I fired them so I am amazing.

Of course, they also tend to be terrible at assessing who is actually good/bad.

I call it the “arbitrary onion”: layer after layer of plausible claims that each turn out to be just as arbitrary as the outer claim.
> cooperate to outpace and then surpass the private sector in a chip fabrication project

You move to seize it. ASICS are manufactured in China and among American allies.
I don't like that. Opsec burden on users is the fault if the protocol. I see this thinking being pervasive in many areas. If it was monero address reuse is not a concern or using kyc exchange logs if the other currency was zcash for example.

Bitcoin is not a cipher it's the whole system so it is valid to say a weakness in bitcoin was used to find the person.
I hear you, but: good software/services require continuous investment. It's kinda hard to set an up front one time price that covers that without it being ridiculously high. You're not buying one copy of a static piece of software: you're buying all the future bugfixes, security mitigations, server maintenance, future integration work (it has to work with the next upcoming version of your phone's OS, or the next version of your browser, etc), adhering to important future tech standards in the space. With a subscription model, those costs can be amortized over the lifetime that you're actually using the software/service, and can increase or decrease as necessary due to economic conditions as well.
Makes sense that social media is the fundamental difference vs ancient times. We had music, drugs, sex (if lucky), drinking, computers, and gaming. For a few years in the 70’s there was a chance of ending up drafted, but that stopped in 75 as I recall. Perhaps the other difference is that people had part time jobs in high school or university - such jobs are gone or filled by “real people” trying to get by. In Europe, there was the wall and the Cold War.

There were stereotypical phone abuse (princess phones in bedrooms) and harsh comments between cliques occurred. But there was (very) little social interaction that weren’t face to face. Computers meant terminal rooms, which were also face to face. I’d like to think that rubbed the rough edges off a bit to be able to interact.

The internet came in the 80’s for the most part but it was textual and non commercial. And access was usually job related and somewhat limited. In some ways, the original HN community probably resembles the late internet/pre web community. No clue what the solution or remediation for social media will be but people should think about what they want it to be. Would be good to see the level of hostility that exists dialed back a bit but that’s up to others.
Cad programs barely work on the systems they’re designed for. I love solidworks, but it’s a real turd if you aren’t using one of the correct “certified” driver for your graphics card.
What you are saying is generally correct, but: If you sample a 1 Hz sine at 2 Hz, you wouldn't get readings of 0, 1, 0, -1, etc.; you would get readings of 1, -1, 1, -1, etc., or if you're very unlucky, 0, 0, 0, 0, …! The _exact_ case is of Fs/2 is, well, an edge case.
In all fairness I'm not sure there's been much research on anything related to guns and safety at least in the US. The would violate the NRAs right to scare the shit out of the public into buying more guns.
Yes i remember! Back in the 80s didn’t he document his journey and had a best seller . I bought that book. Was called “Computing Across America.” Started the whole digital nomad trend of trekking across long distances and blogging it etc etc. Hahaha I mean the guys bike had crazy inspector gadget type gadgets! Like a computer, a ham radio, a satellite link, and a fax machine of all things and then went 17k miles across the Us. totally rad for it’s time lol.
I agree, if Meta had focused on building an open platform and ecosystem that people could freely experiment with, they might have gotten somewhere. It certainly wouldn't have been as dead on arrival. But of course, that's not the kind of company Meta is. They want everyone to pile back onto facebook where they can control and monetize every aspect, except a cartoonish 3D version of it.
It's funny, I spent the time to get a windows app launching in proton as I was having some issues with the Linux version that I didn't have the time/patience to diagnose and fix myself.

The launcher is called proton-call ... I changed Steam to use the version of proton to match what the app expected, and it worked pretty cleanly. All said, I do wish it were easier for a separate launcher or third party to include proton as a separate package.

https://github.com/caverym/proton-caller
Same. I just use topnotch and hide it. At first it bothered me but I’m used to it now.
https://www.python.org/psf/trademarks/ has similar language (but with defined parameters) . I just read the linked (rust tm) doc. It is still in the draft phase and there are links for community comment and feedback.

In other words (at this stage) it doesn't look like they're trying to encumber the general use of the word _rust_ or the act of referring to the language by its given name.
(GPT-4 plus a regular expression)

In this script from a Garfield comic, Jon and Garfield are having a conversation about the internet. Garfield is an American comic strip and multimedia franchise that follows the adventures of Garfield, a cat from the planet Earth, who enjoys lasagna in Jon Arbuckle's house, a suburban domicile.

Jon, Garfield's owner, is trying to access the internet but is unable to find it. He asks Garfield about its whereabouts, and Garfield seems to be confused by the question, as the internet is not something that can be physically found.

Garfield then mentions the time as "twelve oh seven," while Jon's clock shows "half past three." This discrepancy in time indicates that they are likely in different time zones, as Garfield implies. In the context of Garfield, this could also mean Jon's clock is wrong, since Garfield is usually right.

Jon is concerned about whether the time difference will affect his phone bill, to which Garfield replies that he dreads to think about the potential cost. This adds a bit of humor to the scene, as Garfield often has a nonchalant attitude towards everyday human concerns.

Overall, this script showcases the humorous and whimsical nature of Garfield, with the characters engaging in a lighthearted conversation that intertwines elements of fantasy and everyday life.
VR itself is great for immersive gaming and other similar experiences (e.g. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1318030/Fractal_Alchemist...). And some of those can be social, as well.

But that is all orthogonal to the "metaverse" as Meta envisions it, and I really don't see the utility of that.
The first study is a survey of surgeons, which seems rather useless. What warrants the assumptions that they would learn about the long term outcomes of their surgeries?

The second claims to have looked into several studies, which might include ones like the first one. Would be nice to have an actually useful direct study, especially for young people.

As for cosmetic surgery, you brought that up. I don't think it is as worrying, as many of them are reversible, and they don't sterilize the recipients. Somebody regretting to get a nose job is hardly in the same category as someone regretting they cut off their penis.
I love how people keep using ML to depress birth rates.

I think we may have answered the question as to where all the aliens are...they too invented LLMs and soon went extinct due to no one ever leaving their rooms to reproduce for real.

XD