skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible to understand how something works at a low level, but not at a high level. Imagine an electronic machine designed by someone else, with millions of components, completely undocumented. You might understand how the resistors and transistors and capacitors and whatnot each work, but not understand how the machine itself does what it does. You can see that you give it some input, and get some output, but if someone asked you to point at the paths in the machine that cause that to happen, you would not know. You would need a long time to study it before you could understand.

We know how computers work because every part of a computer, every bit of software that runs on it, was at some point designed by a human. There's no single human that understands everything in a computer at once, but if you ask a good developer why some bit of software is not working, or what they would expect it to do given certain inputs, they can generally figure things out.

With AI, we're creating systems to design other systems automatically. We understand the process works, but the systems being designed are complex enough that we don't really understand much about them, except that they work. They are just massive arrays of numbers that feed into equations and then spit out some output. They're not like systems designed by humans, which are usually intended to be understandable by other humans -- they're weird and naturally incomprehensible. The only way to know what ChatGPT will output, at this point, is to actually run it, even if you were to take the randomness part out of it.

Emergent behavior isn't pseudoscience, it's a real thing. Sometimes when a system gets complex enough, it starts to behave in surprising ways. Maybe we can make a brain, using a computer, and this is how you do it.
Nuclear power is vastly more expensive than solar or wind.

Nuclear power plants take decades to build and turn on.

Nuclear power has a non-zero risk of very, very bad things happening.

We have no long term strategy for storing nuclear waste.
A lot of people confuse, say, Switzerland and Sweden, but this does not make it valid to call either by the other name. Likewise, “Open Source” has a precise definition, and people being confused does not make it less so. Of course, a lot of people are not actually confused, but are engaging disingenuously in order to dilute the term, so that they can use it for their own ends.
It's too expensive. Solar and wind + battery (regular and water storage based) are much, much better. Easier to install, expand, maintain, and sunset, and with no incredible risk attached to it that requires state insurance (the society will clean up the mess).

Solar is already CHEEEEEAP and getting cheaper. Nuclear is expensive and not getting any cheaper, in fact quite the opposite.

Market forces are already making this apparent (money talks), but there are still pro nuclear lobbies DESPERATE to hold on.
> They both lost some weight, although the brother who was on the low-carb diet ended up virtually pre-diabetic.

It's been known for decades (outside of the HN reality distortion field) that excess accumulation of intramyocellular lipids in skeletal muscle is the primary underlying mechanism driving Type 2 Diabetes, so that's pretty much the outcome you'd expect.
Fukushima was literally older than Chernobyl, commissioned a year before Chernobyl began construction (1972).
Meanwhile in Minnesota the largest nuclear plant in the state shut down for repairs because it had been leaking radioactive water into the ground. They also didn't inform the public for months after it was discovered.
Taxpayers are "spared" when a new tax doesn't get added on top because a project got it's funding elsewhere.

I can't speak for the city level taxes in sf because I don't pay those, but I know that in California sometimes taxes can expire and the voters don't renew them.
totally, I think the social credit score system in China, background checks for employment, no-fly lists are all things we should look at when building such systems. Ultimately though it's not going to be fair, I don't really care for subway performance arts as practiced in urban metro systems and I'd vote to eject and ban the artists, whereas someone else might find that to be an authoritarian overreach
> Arguing against it, in my opinion, borders on arguing that vaccines don't work.

This is an interesting opinion. So vaccine research has produced a number of successful trials, the research is keeps furthering more knowledge, we develop new techniques, new models, new successful predictions, and new products which yield more successful trials. I consider this a healthy field of science and engineering.

Now how does IQ research fair next to vaccine research. The first IQ test was authored in 1908, not to measure intelligence among populations, but to assess learning disability. Since then IQ researchers have been trying to prove that IQ differences exists among populations. They have created and standardized new types of IQ tests that are supposed to show this difference exists. They have spent the past 100 years doing this, using fancy statistical methods, but have so far failed to convince the other fields of science (especially other fields within psychology), nor have they convinced policy makers (though they were pretty close during the eugenics craze). They have no theory of behavior other then this hypothetical general intelligence. They have no models that predict behavior, they have no products other then their intelligence tests, the tests are constantly criticized, have no successful double blind trials to show for them selves. The techniques are the same as in the 1970s, just plain old pen and paper tests with some factor analysis to spot the correlation they were hoping to spot (some would say, preconditioned or biased to spot).

If I were to be generous I would categorize IQ research among string theory as a scientific dead end. They had a theory, it didn’t go anywhere, and now the rest of the field has moved on. However given the history of IQ research and their ties to the eugenics movement, I’m not gonna give them this benefits. I believe IQ research, with the exception of Alfred Binet him self, was always about putting people in racial categories to show that one group was superior to another, with a made up construct they call intelligence.
One brief and illuminating trip through UCC-4 and it appears you are correct. Thanks for the explanation.
But… why would they answer B or C when they were just told the right answer was A? That doesn’t make any sense. They don’t need to ‘figure’ anything when they’ve been told that there are zero. That’s not even a puzzle, that’s just series of statements.

That’d be like if you told me a tree was 10 feet tall, then asked me how tall it was and I said “10 feet 1 inch” because I figured it had grown at least an inch in the interim. Why figure when you should already know?
The best part of the fold-in was the comically cynical idea behind it that collectors of Mad Magazine had to ruin their issue to do the fold-in thus forcing them to buy another issue to keep in “mint condition”. Was a meta-satire on the collecting hobby that required collectors to not actually use and enjoy the collectible.
> Customer service

> Linux

You're not the customer if you get it for free.
The irony being that the ship canal in Seattle was created after the roads and cars already existed, so it’s not like boats were there first and drawbridges came later.

There are some special laws about when the bridge can open during the week, but not on the weekend.
Asteroid impact? Is the reaction even going to be critical at that point? Assuming you mean something smaller like a meteoroid, I think most US plants would either be okay, or you have other problems to worry about (like if any people are within multiple miles of the plant in every direction).
Now I will have to spend the rest of my life to try to forget that heated driveways are a thing and pretend everything is going to be fine
>instead of reducing your salt

Salt is not to blame, it turns out

https://archive.is/pWUI0
The Forcepoint article reads like a parody of ChatGPT hype:

"""
In conclusion, this kind of end to end very advanced attack has previously been reserved for nation state attackers using many resources to develop each part of the overall malware.
"""

What did he produce? Some glued together code that searches for documents, encodes them into already existing images using a freely available steganography library, and upload those to Google Drive.

The author then cunningly persuaded ChatGPT to apply the advanced obfuscation technique of CHANGING THE VARIABLE NAMES.

Nobody should be worried about this, there are teenagers on 4chan who can produce more dangerous malware.
Agree ... I don't know where the name comes from, but I've become used to it since I use C-h l frequently.

I asked chat gpt about it, and what it said seemed to match what I found when I googled it:

> In Emacs, “Lossage” refers to a section in the GNU Emacs Manual that describes how to recognize and deal with situations in which Emacs does not work as expected1. For example, it covers issues such as keyboard code mixups, garbled displays, running out of memory, and crashes and hangs1.

> There is also a command called view-lossage that displays the last 300 input keystrokes2. You can use open-dribble-file to record all your input on a file2.
It's still not that impressive, more a result of computational power than anything fundamental.
While one who has at least dabbled in coding is preferable, a great manager can be effective even if they've never written a line of code in their life.

I'd much prefer a manager who knows how to manage but not how to code over a manager who knows how to code but not how to manage.
Pretty dark take (by all means feel free to correct me), but I am sometimes wondering if the fact that dam failures kill everybody and most of their families at once helps its public image since there's few remaining affected people that can spread awareness.

(not saying that hydro is a bad choice; it looks to be the best when possible thanks to load following and ability to double as storage)
Or ChatGTP it for you:

Me: Summarize your understanding of this sentence:

The politicization of everything and the rise of ideologic overtake of universities, contaminated thinking accurately about the models of reality reducing every intelligence based and genuine debate to banal disputes of privileges and subjective preferences militarizing discourse with false accusations and mining the victimhood mindset.

ChatGTP: This sentence appears to express concern about a trend where everything, including universities, is becoming politicized and ideologically driven, leading to a reduction in genuine debate and an increase in banal disputes over subjective preferences and privileges. It suggests that this trend is leading to a militarization of discourse, where false accusations are made and a victimhood mindset is fostered.

PS: that style of writing uses a technique to filter attention retention on interpretation. Stretches your "interpretation stack"
Ambient mode is a dark mode specific feature. If you don’t use dark mode then it’s not going to do anything.

Completely hiding it in normal mode isn’t the best choice, but it is somewhat understandable.
Appreciated! If you explain them more thoroughly while sticking to the site guidelines (e.g. curious, respectful conversation, without swipes or snark), all should be fine.
Slint already supports rendering just the dirty regions of the screen. SPI is a major performance handicap though — they could use PIO on the RP2040 to implement an 8 or 16 bit parallel bus (and then they’d need a display with support for parallel IO), and that would help a ton.

Here’s Slint running on my own backend for the Teensy MicroMod (has an NXP i.MX RT1062 processor) using DMA and an 8-bit parallel bus using FlexIO:

https://twitter.com/charlesstrahan/status/163002622435647488...

I’d say that’s fairly smooth.
Not unreasonable given that renewable capacity is already growing at breakneck speed. For example, Germany upped its use of coal recently as natural gas became less available after shutting down nuclear plants before their designed end of life.

With regulators looking to tip the scales against non-renewables for emissions reasons, there is a huge push on to rehabilitate nuclear as a pragmatic solution to the forecast storage and base load issues over the next 50 (ish) years while we build out renewables. Proponents say modern nuclear reactors are net-better than coal and opponents point to the tail risk. Personally, I am pro nuclear but I certainly see the opposing viewpoint. I think it’s a tricky issue because humans are wired for identification of harms like tigers or 3000 people suddenly dying in a catastrophe. It’s much harder to grasp tail risk harms like 5200 excess deaths from pollution and harder still to turn that into action.
I would even have both repositories on GitHub and see about triggering a workflow in my username repository to run, so it only runs when it needs to.

EDIT

https://blog.marcnuri.com/triggering-github-actions-across-d...

Or you use something like this, build your blog in CI, get the top X posts in its CI workflow, and send it as JSON payload to the GitHub repository with the README you want to upload.
It's a rather facetious commentary on the "now it is gen 3's turn for a disaster comment", by implying that if that progression holds, the so too should the scale of damage.

The gen 1 disaster left land uninhabitable, the gen 2 disaster just took some cleanup, therefore the gen 3 disaster will be a non-issue.
As I mentioned in my comment, a leak means that no other company (your competition) can use it, and you get to integrate all the improvements made by other people on it back into your closed source product.
Twin studies provide evidence that there is a biological component to intelligence. They do not tell us how much more biologically likely it is for high-IQ parents to produce high-IQ kids—which is usually what people mean by the “heritability” of IQ.

In plain English: the twin studies show us how similar twins are, but they don’t tell us how true the movie Idiocracy is.
Nations that want to invest into solar, wind and storage should do so and illustrate to other countries that such investment will out compete those who would invest in nuclear. This would be a good thing.

What nations who currently invest into solar and wind are doing is to also invest in a lot of fossil fuel reserve energy, like natural gas. This is the official strategy of Germany, and is also the primary strategy of UK. In combination this is what caused the insane energy prices that Europe suffered this winter.

This is why I want a EU ban against building new fossil fuel capacity, especially natural gas. Solar and wind is great, but not if they are combined with natural gas, oil or coal. I loose a lot of trust in politics when green party politicians are advocating to maintain programs to subsidizes fossil fueled power plants while at the same time advocating to shut down nuclear power plants.

In term of insurance for accidents, here I would also advocate for a law that is technology independent. Any damaged suffered to third-parties because of a commercially operated power plant should be covered by insurance. Hydroelectric plants, nuclear power and all plants emitting green house gases would be impossible to cover but the symbolic gesture of such law would be interesting.
For those people unfamiliar with a pretzel, imagine eating something that is making you thirsty.
> But chainsaws are definitely more dangerous than CPAP machines or many prescription-only drugs.

The elements of direct and indirect dangers are more apparent and immediate with a chainsaw than say, unscrupulous use of an SSRI, a bronchodilator or a high-potency NSAID like diclofenac.
This guy should look into replacing the fuse/relay for that module. Sometimes the relays can get stuck. Thats what happened to my leaf as it would get a TCM error and drain the battery every 3-4 days. Finally figured it out after a year too lol.
I'm ignorant in this area, but does Europe (EU) have a nuclear agreement to party in the space together? If every nation operates their nuclear facilities independently then it's not crazy to compare them directly.
It could very well increase the rate of casualties (with people falling off roofs when installing solar, for example) as well as fatality rate... though I'm not sure if that takes into account casualty/fatality rates for uranium mining, which is something I'm too unfamiliar with to make any quantitative staatements.
How does coconut water deviate one's septum or cause sinus infections? What's the mechanism behind this?
A perfect example of the baseless, conspiratorial speculation that seems to plague discourse everywhere.
There's a whole process. In the US, "Bulk Handling Systems" seems to be the leading company in the sorting of recyclables. There are shredders, shakers,
air separators to pull out the light stuff, DC magnets for ferrous metals, AC magnets for aluminum, multispectral vision sorters for different plastics, and even AI vision guided robot pickers. Most of the sorting is done with big, simple machines. The robotics just picks out unwanted stuff missed by the earlier steps to give clean product that can be sold. That was
a big insight in this business - you need some machine intelligence, but it's a small part of the overall system.

It's simpler and cheaper to machine sort the stuff at one location than have lots of little bins into which people mis-sort stuff. Most of the cost is out collecting the stuff, not sorting it, and single-stream recycling simplifies the collecting.
If there was already plentiful parking at your destination then the whole "cruising for parking" discussion is moot anyway, right? The concerns were about congested commutes to denser downtown areas where parking is difficult, or the date night into the city from the suburbs, etc. Difficult/expensive parking disincentivizes car trips there, and shifts them to public transit, ride share, and commuter rail, which are better suited for cities. If you weren't encountering difficulty finding street parking or paying steep garage prices, then of course you wouldn't suddenly be sending your AV on a joyride around town or letting random people use it as car share.
The creator is a reactor operator... I do hope for its sake that the Big Bang is a source of clean energy...
Just a note that Flowx label their ECMWF forecast as "HIRES" when it's the open-data >40km resolution 6 hourly data with limited parameters and not the actual HIRES 9km resolution 1 hourly.
> I can’t replace it myself because it’s a coded part.

Can you please explain this? Why does it need ‘coding’? It’s not a VIN specific part I’d think - i.e. engine controller.
Also have you explored Ross Tech VCDS tool? You might be able to identify the coding on your part and use it on a new part. Replacing an ecu should be straightforward imo.
Right, but Who doesn't?

Does anybody believe that Russian, Brazilian, Chinese, Japanese Indian etc etc etc (pick a meaningful economic competitor) education is worse than American?
The Ory stack doesn’t hide any features behind a paywall. Their documentation is subpar, for sure.

It’s a decent product but setting things up can be a bit dull.

One has to thread multiple Github repos and their incomplete scattered documentation together.

But once it works, it works.
In normal math 1/0 is undefined but in a math where 1/0 is defined to be inf the 0*inf is still undefined.
> But… why would they answer B or C when they were just told the right answer was A?

Because there's a decent chance the initial statement isn't true.

[EDIT] To clarify, it's the difference between a seasoned test-taker understanding implicitly that they're looking at a (very simple) logic puzzle, not a question about reality, and someone taking the question at face-value (and assuming the first statement's some kind of trick, or simply an error). In a sense, answering it "correctly" demands that you act dumber.

[EDIT 2] I just checked, out of curiosity, and in fact the person who answers it "wrong" is closer to correct than the person who answers it "right", in actual reality. In a not-unreasonable sense, the "moron" who gets this wrong is more-correct than the trained monkey who answers zero. There's a zoo, evidently within the borders of Munich, and they do have elephants.
Nobody that has this poor an understanding of Copilot’s behaviours should be so vocally against it.
Submission title is missing (2020)
>Merkele government was played by Kremlin.

She (and Schroeder) wasn't some puppet put there by Putin, the German people voted for her, several times over actually. It's their fault and their responsibility for the choices they made. That's how democracy works.

Next time choose your leaders more wisely, but sadly, I feel like no lessons have been learned in Germany and the voters will double down on their flawed ideology over reality.
> we can define mathematical objects for every gap (impossibility), but most of them will turn out to be inconsistent with our existing mathematical objects

Is the short answer it's not parsimonious or useful?
Oh, this is a recently unearthed gem:

The Mad Magazine TV Special | 1974 | 16mm | 2K Scan

6,763 views Premiered Sep 9, 2022 #Animation #MAD #MADMagazine

Mark Kausler animated the ‘Spy vs Spy’ segment on this special. He managed to get a copy of the special on 16mm which is what we used to scan.

Film scanning done by Blackhawk Films: https://www.fpa-blackhawk.com

An animated adaptation of the notorious satire comic magazine. The skits include a look at a modern American car factory, the inner workings of a hospital, a spoof of The Godfather (1972), Mad Magazine's X-Ray vision and Spy vs. Spy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUQiXGA-0Tk
What I'm hearing is that I should do a self-driving startup whose fleet heads out in the morning to take all of the prime parking spots in the city and then have an app for people to bid in auctions for access to the spaces come prime shopping/restaurant/bar hours!
I'm not sure why this is downvoted, it's actually correct. Solar panels are quite often put on roofs of buildings, and falling off buildings causes deaths. Wind turbines are about a dangerous as you think they would be, and especially offshore ones can get iffy. Solar and wind are not really any worse overall than communication towers, etc, but they are still worse than nuclear, as nuclear requires many fewer installations.
You should distrust every analyst and trust their analysis iff the argument is sound and you reach the same conclusion by doing the same analysis process based on data you trust.

Faked data is a big problem as that pretty much requires at least some trust; but the analysis part of any decent paper should be something which should be convincing even to a "hostile" reader who doesn't want to believe the author.
> I’m not going to carry a week’s worth of groceries in a backpack. A bicycle trip of 15 miles takes a whole lot longer than a car trip of the same distance.

The problem is solved by cars but only because it was created by cars. People used to have bigger families and walk to the grocery store.
Yes, but then where is the story of struggle and sacrifice of having to use a metal key each time to unlock the car?
Because machine leaning models likely have zero intellectual property rights protections. LLMs are the output of an "algorithmic process". Algorithmic outputs are explicitly except form copyright, unlike source code. (Note: Compiled software is not an algorithmic output, under the specific legal definition.)

Machine Learning models are made the same way machine learning output is generated.

In other words, the old model is training data to the new model. Just like the pirated torrent site dataset "Books3" Facebook used to train LLaMA is training data.

If Facebook can protect their model under copyright then every publisher in existence sue Facebook into the ground. They can't have it both ways.