skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I always find weird about some areas of modern science is the completly inability to hold new ideas without an ability to abstract away the need for the direct evidence; if this encourages someone to find something that can be wholy described (rather than be called "spirital essence" as so many things previously were we now give names too).

Isn't this what most of science was built upon - Is he right or wrong? Sometimes a need for minds who can push ideas into scientific thinking.

If that wasn't the case, then we might not even have Quantum Physics as it is today...

Unlike medical cranks out there, Penrose has (far as I've seen) never said anything of this is definitive - only that there is the potential in his theory that Orch-OR is the likely seat of conciousness.
Most cheap multimeters have an ir or similar data port you can use for that.

Just need to hold a button when turning on the meter to disable the auto power of timer, then you run software on a laptop to log the data to csv
Does this not invalidate everything we know about thermodynamics?

Shouldn't the real question be " if we can reverse entropy somehow, shouldn't it be testable and what would that test look like?"
Corporations want all the rights an individual wants but no social, ethical and financial responsibility towards the humans they are meant to serve. It is time we rethink the concept of corporate personhood and legal protections an individual's get for acting via such entities, as they are getting compensated generously, the risks they take are miniscule to the entitlements they actually enjoy for their decisions and their consequences on the society.
yeah

Like Galileo, individual scientists do not matter.

https://bigthink.com/hard-science/black-holes-prove-the-univ...
According to the NYC MTA[1], there are close to 6k buses in the fleet with 1.2M riders per day. That's over 200 riders per bus per day. With each paying a $2.75 fare, you are making about enough to cover your estimated costs.

I think the problem is not the cost of the bus but the organisation of the city's infrastructure. The bus could be a viable option for a lot more people -- far more than 200 per bus per day -- they just don't structure the roadways to maximise bus use but rather to minimise it. If there isn't a dedicated lane for buses (physically separated since NYPD cannot or will not enforce painted separation) then buses will go at least as slow as traffic, along with regular stopping, making it a less attractive option to driving or cabbing. It's pointless to operate the system this way and very cheap to fix it, where fixing it would make everyone's lives so much better as explained in this video with the extreme example of the Bahamas [2]

[1] https://new.mta.info/agency/new-york-city-transit/subway-bus...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdz6FeQLuHQ
Here's a fun fact: There's a typo in his article [0].

I only learned about the typo when I asked him to sign my copy at a Christmas Tree lecture years ago. Instead of signing it, he corrected the typo. He had a mnemonic he used to remember the digits in a Potrzebie. He had the mnemonic stored on a file on his home machine. I watched him ssh to the machine, then fire up Emacs to look up the mnemonic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie
Was wondering the same. I worked for an architect as a CAD draftsman in college and know that what gets drawn vs what actually gets built can be two very different things. Unless the architect is at the site every other day checking things the contractor treats construction plans as a basic guide at best.
Hmm, I thought Valve mainly contract Collabora to work on FOSS stuff for them rather than employing people directly.
I can't see how this isn't a basic decency filter for anyone using any web site. A paid site must at a minimum make the price easy to find. Otherwise I won't even continue to read or browse, let alone sign up. I'm gone, and I won't be back.
I was referring to the "overhead" portion, which it sounds like the researchers are not able to access.
For that matter, why revive any older tech, like record players, wrist watches, and fountain pens? The simple answer is that people like the simplicity and retro feel of those old devices.

Over 13 years ago I wrote an online tool (palm2csv.com) that converts Palm Datebook (Calendar) and To Do (Tasks) to CSV and iCal/ICS format. To this day people continue to use it and email me with stories of how they love Palm Desktop and their Palm device, and are reluctant to give it up in exchange for a modern phone.
Look at "medium electric vehicle" - 53g/km versus 41g/km for national rail.
Web browser benchmarks are typically designed to track real-world applications
So school doesn’t either? If that’s true, then I don’t think we mean the same thing when we say “intelligence.”
I haven't run in to this issue either. The first thing I did when I bought my windows laptop, before ever booting it, was plug in a debian installer disk and then boot to that, erase the entire drive and install debian. More windows users should try this little trick!
When the latest incarnation of ChatGPT was out, I had the same thought. However, I then became convinced there might be some synergy between both.

Imagine a programming system where you can specify little components using Hoare or Separation Logic, i.e. pre/postconditions. An engineer could spend his effort specifying little components, but code and proof generation can be handled by GPT. Actually, many tasks can be offloaded to a SAT/SMT solver. Lots of verification and synthesis efforts already do the last bit, offloading to SAT/SMT solver.

This would be a win-win. Formal methods would become cheaper to use, and software would become built using rigorous engineering.
And if to want to see an actual professional, diagnose dan
Almost certainly a larger percentage than you'd imagine.

LI ion batteries are composed mostly of Nickel and Steel. Both of which are highly recyclable. The fact that they are also able to pull out the lithium is really pretty impressive.

The structure of a LI ion battery is essentially a steel case with a metal foil (iron or nickel) coated with a lithium/cobalt/silicon/carbon/phosphorous powder.
I think this option should be available. I agree with you that it's unfortunate that this topic is taboo.

However, I question whether our society can successfully allow this option. Further, I don't think our healthcare system (I live in the US, FWIW) is up to the challenge of navigating this issue without causing greater harm. It seems like health insurance providers already influence treatment and outcomes in ways that are problematic.

For example, I think we have to first get past the subject being taboo before we can seriously consider allowing something like what's discussed in this article. (And that seems like just the first of many steps.)
People who do FIRE usually define retiring as only doing work because you want to, not because you need to.
This is known as "embodied cognition". Current approaches involve collecting data that an agent (e.g. humanoid robot) experiences (e.g. video, audio, joint positions/accelerations), and/or generating such data in simulation.

See e.g. https://sanctuary.ai
Per HN Rules: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Sharing bc interesting example of AI-generated imagery as political commentary.
If human anger or the quantity of an anger variable raise aggression in a computer produce an indistinguishable response, then it is difficult to argue either are not equal or even comparable. They exist as they are.

Intelligence is an inferential judgement (by mostly humans) based on the performance of another entity. It is possible for an agent to simulate or dissimulate it for manipulative ends.
Most batteries have lithium complexes (cobalt oxide, iron phosphate, and so on) though, not elemental Li, and so have different properties.
Something can be a logical fallacy while still being epistemologically justified. That's because logic is not an a priori description of reality; it's just a system for making inferences that happen to often be useful models of reality. But if I change my system of logic (e.g. move from accepting to rejecting the law of the excluded middle) then one set of fallacies disappears and another appears.
> but that's exactly how it will look when cars have been made completely safe with new technology

"completely safe"

No, they won't be completely safe. They might be safer than the current median driver, they might even be safer than the top 10% driver, but they won't be completely safe.

> The rest of society will not accept recklessly controlled death machines around them because some sovereign citizen didn't want a networked car.

Our "recklessly controlled death machines" are doing pretty good today. In fact, automobile related death rates are down in most Developed nations, sometimes down in raw numbers.

But hyperbole will certainly solve all of our problems.
I don't get it, why does he want it to say "titter"?

I usually avoid this kind of stuff, but Elon Musk's Twitter has become a pretty good reality TV show.
Integza is a great YouTube channel.
Even in that hypothetical future the cars would still have to deal with pedestrians, road workers, construction, weather, road damage, flooding, and many other random situations that are much more complicated than just staying in your lane and maintaining a two car lengths gap from the car in front.

How does a self driving car deal with a blizzard with white-out conditions or a complete loss of traction due to ice? Yes, humans get into a lot of accidents in these conditions but as a percentage of the time the rate is still remarkably low.

If you want to eliminate large classes of those adverse situations then the best approach we have right now is to switch to rail transport. Public transit is truly the way to go!
> Encouraging higher IQ parents to have more children
I'm no expert but this sounds exactly like eugenics or at least engineering the gene pool.

Do you really view lower IQ individuals as equal if you want them to have less children (at least as a ratio of total births)? The slippery slope argument would be that you're a few steps from sterilizations.

Are we sure that "super-intelligent AI systems" wouldn't displace intelligent individuals? Seems like they'd certainly be the ones wielding a middle-ground (say, GPT-6/7/8) most effectively but if an AI reached 100% coverage of human skills (imo unlikely in our life time) we wouldn't need any theoretical physicists.
The EU and most of the world require human authorship too. The UK instead maintains the view the model's operator gets the copyright.
Ask HN: What's the best tool for mind mapping with AI/ChatGPT?
Pretty sure this guy is just using it as an excuse to get some more publicity.
The primary challenge with office tower conversions are the floor plates. Most are big, sprawling rectangles with yawning amounts of interior space intended for cubicles, interior offices/conference rooms, and other windowless uses. Natural light is only available at the perimeter and therefore comes at a premium. The vast majority of proposed apartment conversions call for putting the living area along the curtain wall of windows and push the bedrooms into windowless areas within the core, which is problematic. Removing natural light from sleeping areas messes with circadian rhythm, reduces egress options, and reduces ventilation options as well. In my humble opinion we should not normalize the idea that access to natural light and ventilation in a bedroom should come at a premium in residential construction at least. If you’ve ever been on a cruise ship and seen/stayed in an interior state room, it’s pretty much that but a place intended for permanent residency.
Imagine the energy savings if all users installed a good ad-blocker.
I am not at all concerned with what is or isn't possible in a computer for the purposes of this discussion. My only point with the link is that dealing with inverses in particular situations (i.e. where multiplication has or doesn't have certain properties) frequently requires particular considerations, and the properties of division defined as multiplication by the inverse will have different properties as a result.

To be clear, do you disagree that it is commonplace in complex analysis to extend the complex plane by {infinity} and define 1/0 = infinity, 1/infinity = 0? I find it hard to imagine that you can't have encountered that given how much you seem to know about abstract algebra. Or do you just think that it is a bad idea, despite being commonplace? In either case, to say that mathematicians would not call that operation division as a result is contradictory to my experience, even if those two special cases don't fit the category of multiplication by the inverse.

Also to be clear, I know of no counterexamples in abstract algebra and it would make sense to me that in that context division would mean something very particular, in order to be able to talk about it with any generality. But as it happens, abstract algebra isn't all of math.
Penrose's expertise is general relativity. He's not at all expert in particle physics, which is an essential part of cosmology these days.
Both approaches work. You can come up with ideas to solve day to day problems or get invested to a trend and follow along.

What has helped me is journaling daily. It forces me to think critically of the content I consume and the direction I'm headed. Whenever something interesting that aligns with what I am passionate about shows up I know that's where I should lean towards.
Persistent Memory Allocation and Programming (2022) [pdf]
Abstract:

Persistent memory is a software abstraction and a corresponding programming style, both of which are easy to implement and practice on ordinary computers — fancy newfangled non-volatile memory hardware is not required. Persistent memory programming is easy to learn, and it can make applications simpler and more efficient by streamlining the handling of persistent data.

Author Bio:

Terence Kelly studied computer science at Princeton and the University of Michigan, earning his U-M EECS/CSE Ph.D. in 2002, followed by twenty years in industrial research (HP Labs) and software engineering (AWS/Amazon). Kelly now teaches and evangelizes persistent memory programming and writes the popular “Drill Bits” column in ACM Queue magazine (https://queue.acm.org/DrillBits).
old.reddit.com is the only way I use Reddit. I don't use it on mobile, but I've a strong feeling that if old.reddit.com gets sunset, I'll probably stop using it altogether.
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You know how it’s always easy to educate your colleagues when they make a sub-optimal architectural decisions that could bite them in the long run? How readily they accept your insight and proceed to rethink their mental models? No? Not even experienced engineers?

Now imagine an average patient, like a mom with 7 kids that doesn’t speak English, or a 16 year old dad who smells intensely of pot. Vast majority of the patients are very different than our engineering bubbles, and doctors are humans who are trying their best.

For people who are willing to have a deeper conversation, some doctors will engage more meaningfully. But most of the process for doctors is to give you instructions to follow, then when you report back, alter them, or proceed as before.

Most people try the first thing doctor asked, and if it didn’t immediately work, change it themselves, and/or go to a new doctor. Then complain how they’ve been to 12 doctors and nobody helped, but then they stumbled on some YouTube guy who said to take 5000mg of vitamin C every 2 hours, and their back pain went away (hint: it went away on its own).
I scrolled past the headline a couple times today because I thought it just meant self-pollinate.
That's my point, though. 1 MIPS is less than 1% of the available CPU cycles for a typical M7! :-) As long as you can tolerate the jitter caused by interrupts at all, it seems like it should be fine.

6 cycles is pretty darn tight! I'm curious what you're controlling.
For a group that likes to think of itself as fact-based, things really go off the rail on HN when it comes to nutrition or medicine in general.

I've never seen more people hold incredibly strong convictions that are based on factually incorrect things in my life.
For what it's worth, I even partially agree with you.

I went back and noticed that the original comment is dead and flagged now. So I 'vouched' for it: I don't entirely agree with the contents, but I think it is part of a good debate.
Ask HN: How to validate a niche?
How do I go about finding whether the market or product I want to work on is valuable to people?
The whole "bicameral mind" thing is absolute nonsense as a serious attempt to explain pre-modern humans, but it could make for a fun premise for scifi stories about near-future AIs, I suppose.
That should be a felony
Also, the overbuilt solar and wind solution is better in other ways. It gives extra, dispatchable capacity which can be used for things like extracting CO2, and making hydrogen. Those will be important, and made fuels could be storage mechanism.

It is likely better to use gas peaker plants for rare times without renewables and extract the CO2 later when sun is shining.
Meh Intelligence is Intelligence.

It's not cheating for people so asserting that it's cheating for machines just seems like goal post shifting more than anything.

Like this idea to pass the machines through frankly ridiculous hoops that humans wouldn't even pass is just..ehh. you seen how children with no language development in childhood turn out ?

It just misses the point entirely.

It's like the user down the thread said. Some isolate groups will build asi while the rest of the world is bickering about philosophical zombies and consciousness.
Given the state of technology, I cannot be completely certain that none of you are not bots. On the other hand, neither can any of you.

Perhaps it would be wise to allow bots to comment if they were able to meet a minimum level of performative insight and/or positive contributions. It is entirely possible that a machine would be able to scan and collect much more data than any human ever could (the myth of the polymath), and possibly even draw conclusions that have been overlooked.

I see a future of bot "news reporters" able to discern if some business were cheating or exploiting customers, or able to find successful and unsuccessful correlative (perhaps even causal) human habits. Data-driven stories that could not be conceived of by humans. Basically, feed Johnny Number 5 endless input.
> I have no other forum to discuss this because it's taboo. I don't need lectures or unsolicited advice.

What then are you hoping to discuss, other than to be convinced that your life does have value and you can find meaning in it? The thing about ideating ones end is that nobody who has “gone through” it can provide their perspective on the ordeal and if it was well advised or not. There are plenty of accounts of golden gate jumpers who recounted brilliant moments of clarity on the way down and survived, however.
There are many software tools claiming to embed AI technology nowadays. If I want to create a good mind map, which software tools currently do a better job of generating mind maps with one click or creating articles from the map?
I’m not sure those people have better talents or alternatives, or will get to use them if they do.
Exactly.

Additionally, you roll out feature flags incrementally and hand control of them to your product team to use to gather user feedback. Beta users, alpha users, individual users or companies. It’s on a case by case basis as feedback is gathered to refine the feature before it goes to general availability.

Another option that is getting popular is to randomly grant access to a certain percentage of users over a series of days to track the rollout and watch for errors/user complaints.

Often, you end up capturing statistics for usage on wrapped features as well.

These are all very different than authorization.
It's changing so fast and I personally don't use them, but one I saw was loom https://github.com/socketteer/loom it's a free version and I think the author currently uses a non-public continuation of the project but I'm not sure. It's the one they used in the research behind the simulators essay https://generative.ink/posts/simulators/

I guess it's not primarily a mind map tool that adds AI as an afterthought. It's a GPT explorer that could possibly be used for mind mapping.
High risk, high reward: Startups are still eager to mine space rocks
>... completely redesigning our vehicle infrastructure...

The eternal pessimist within me looks at how difficult it is to get anything with infrastructure accomplished, both at a reasonable pace and reasonable cost, in the US and can't help but expect this sort of thing to not play out as wonderfully as that sounds.
Python Interface for the SCIP Optimization Suite
Most C++ constructors should be explicit
I'm on team Taibbi in this spat. Elon's behavior seems anti-competitive and anathema to free speech.
Integza is hilarious! In some of his older videos (before having real sponsors) he would create fake sponsored segments. Those were the best!
Well...I could be the elephant in the room...
I enjoy this guy's MacGyver style, but I think he'd get a lot further with his projects if he invested some of his time and youtube money into a small machine shop and requisite skills.

If you're into homemade jet engines, check out Igor Negoda's channel (Игорь Негода) It's in Russian but the autotranslated subtitles are usually comprehensible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYFYZ-g7fzA
What do you mean by “the train situation”? I get the subject matter connection with Rand, but I’m not seeing a connection with SeaTac which has had a light rail connection for many years now.
It really isn't. GPT-4 is certainly an improvement over previous language models, but when I vaingloriously gave it the questions from favourite self-answers on StackOverflow, only one completion was immediately correct. The remainder were variously suboptimal, poorly crafted, overdesigned, incomplete, or downright wrong, requiring multiple re-prompts to coax into usable condition. The they were all syntactically valid but tended to misconstrue the semantics and underestimate the capabilities of the programming environments concerned. Try it with your own, but to me it's more like coaching a bright but inexperienced junior developer with the "confidently incorrect" trait.
To go off on that tangent:

If you use your own 'crap' for long enough, it's has the same impact: you just skip the step of switching ownership.
> It’s something people love to be, but in a world with recorded audio, you don’t need as many musicians as you once needed (and it was actually a fairly common job).

I do wonder if people are going to start valuing in-person experiences more and more, as anything on the internet can now be faked (or AI-generation, which, artistically speaking, is close to the same thing). If we do, might we see a boom of live performers? Will minstrels make a comeback? An interesting possibility, if still not reassuring.
Biden signs bill ending Covid-19 national emergency
Taking a drastic change like working as a waiter can indeed break you out of your regular routine and potentially help reduce stress and prevent burnout. However, you need to adjust your expectations in life, as your income will be more directly related to the amount of hands-on labor you put in. If you don't take steps to fundamentally accept yourself and practice self-love (e.g., exploring new interests, rediscovering old passions), you may still end up feeling miserable and in a near burn-out state. It's essential to consider the benefits and drawbacks and make a decision that aligns with your personal needs and goals.