skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Genuine question, since I dont really follow him outside of elections, but in what way is he center right? I'm not american and I'm an immigrant/poc so I'm not especially biaised to the right but he always came off to me as pretty centrist and "liberal". When did that change?

(The 2020 election was the last time I really heard about him, and the most controversial takes he had was some very mild reservations on lockdowns and school closures... at a time when the entire world reopened schools except for the USA, which is why it didn't register like a hot/right wing take at all to me.)
Don't forget about this: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-fired-employees-abusi...
Discover how scanning technology is revolutionizing document scanning on the go in my latest blog post. From capturing documents on your smartphone to leveraging advanced features.
Yeah maybe. But I've found cache problems have always ended up costing more time than the cache ever saves.
The "not encrypted at rest" part seems to be pure speculation: "As shown in the screenshots, this means that Google can see the secrets, likely even while they’re stored on their servers." Is there some actual evidence for this claim that I'm not noticing?
Maybe you're misunderstanding. My point is that maybe meat production in itself isn't something that really needs to be reduced because there's 1) ways to reduce its carbon footprint, 2) it's worth the cost it has on emissions because of its high utility.
crashes on my intel macbook, didn't on an m1 and an m2
I would theorize that this is related to poverty though (and all of the issues that stem from it) and not DNA & genetics. It's also been shown that our environment does change our DNA[1][2]

[1] https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/environmental-infl...
[2] https://developingchild.harvard.edu/science/deep-dives/gene-...
Class war disguised as a culture war. The old gits still play the same games.

And no I don’t care about ageism; not when the elders hid climate change from the young.

Tacit ageism against next generations constantly wrapped up in equivocation and appeals to authority embedded in long dead mens political documents.

Generational churn of post war shell shocked paranoids that went stupid drinking lead, huffed leaded gas and other crap before bans on industrial messes needs to go faster
Digital Humanities pioneer Dino Buzzetti has passed away
for Cruise employees

I was disappointed today when I opened the Cruise app to see that the service was still only available 10 pm - 5:30 am in one region of San Francisco. Upon reading the fine print I notice that the service is only running 24/7 for Cruise employees. This tweet is really misleading.
Three cities:

* 24/7 in San Francisco, over most of the city for their test riders, over part of the city at night for paid customers. (I see their cars all over at night, and occasionally during the day, through every kind of street & congestion.)

* evenings in Austin, downtown/campus central area

* evenings in Phoenix, central area

They've given hints Dallas is next. The maps & hours declared on their website have sometimes lagged actual availability in their app.

GM doesn't quite have "limitless" financial backing – it doesn't have its mid-20thC dominance any more! GM was bankrupt as recently as 2009, and has been lagging other companies in some important ways. But yes: it's an important project for GM, which strikes me as a reason to expect rapid progress in tech and rollout will continue, rather than a reason to expect a slowdown.

Though SF is where they have the largest fleet, & most testing, bringing on the initial Austin zone/service supposedly took just 90 days from project-start to 1st rides. I used to live in Austin, & was there (& noticed Cruise's cars operating there) a few weeks ago. The central zone they're covering is one of the more congested & idiosyncratic areas to drive – as opposed to newer/wider/calmer roads further out.

I've driven a bit in Sydney; don't recall it being any harder than SF. I've walked & otherwise travelled lots of the busiest parts of London, Tokyo, & Beijing. There's more of everything, including megawide avenues, giant intersections, & narrow old alleys – but nothing totally different from what's already been mastered among SF's hills, alleys, illogical intersections, dedicated streetcar/bus lanes, unruly traffic, assertive pedestrians & cyclists, and erratic jaywalkers/skaters/derelicts.

Here's an illustrative video of a self-driving Cruise navigating San Francisco's North Beach – a difficult area any time or day – on a busy St Patrick's Day night with streets filled with cars & revelers: https://twitter.com/kvogt/status/1641123102858919953

Can't speak to Delhi, or Kiev, or Moscow, or Havana, or Port-au-Prince. Everyplace has its difficulties. But autonomous cars are working well, right now, in tough places, as the whole stack of sensors, logic, data, & computation keeps getting faster, better, & cheaper. Remaining political & social challenges are likely bigger than technical blocks.
There is nothing crappy about stability. One of the most annoying things about more modern languages is this assumption that in so much of the ecosystem that I will go install the latest version of cool-lang compiler. I really like being able to build software with the tool chain that comes with my distro. Maintaining endless versions of all these things is a hassle.
> appreciate the irony of an immutable store of data needing a garbage collector

You cannot have exclusive immutability without a garbage collector.

Have you ever used a programming language with exclusively immutable data that didn't have garbage collector?

Try implementing one. You'll see.
Covid-19 State of Vaccine Confidence Insights Report (2022) [pdf]
You should write this as a blog post...
You used a lot of fancy words, so Ugh had to think a lot. Ugh is now tired.

Let me try this. Ugh uses stupid words because he is not as clever.

If an athlete catches a ball, does he remember, somewhere, somehow, every possible trajectory of every possible permutation of “ball” and every possible response to it?

Or does he learn patterns of movement, generalized reactions to “ball-like things” flying “in my general direction”?

It’s of course hard to describe non-verbal abstraction which is why we usually resort to easier subjects. I don’t however see your fundamental point: how else besides abstracting, by “compressing”, does an “athlete” learn?

I suspect a lot of people get sidetracked by modality. You see it with LLMs. It’s only text! Yeah, well, it’s tokens and everything can be tokens. See the latest transformer based audio generator Bark. I don’t see why movement is different. It’s about the structure in the data, not the shape, context, use or “community” of it.

Edit:

> We don't call someone intelligent because we can point to some lossless compression algorithm implemented by his neurons, we call him intelligent when he produces the behaviors we desire in a given situation.

“We don’t call a car red because of particular wavelengths of light activating sensors in our retinas, we call it red because it looks that way”. I’d be careful about attaching importance to how we use words in daily life. There are so, so many shortcuts we take.
You're opposed to even using LLVM just because of its pushover license? Isn't even RMS okay with that? Doesn't the usual guidance go like "copyleft free software is good to use and contribute upstream to, free but non-copyleft software is good to use but bad to contribute upstream to, and non-free software is bad to use and contribute upstream to"?
Pseudoscience is when people use scientific-sounding words and phrases in non-scientific writing, particularly in support of a prescriptive belief system. That is what this is, and no rational person could argue otherwise. Could it have been explained with more specificity? Yes, as has been done above, admirably, by codeflo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35709930. But it is nowhere near shallow to call a spade a spade.
Yeah well we shouldn't be celebrating legalized sports betting either, especially on mobile devices, but here we are.
What's the battery life like?

I like the hackability but ESP32 seems like a terrible choice in terms of sleep current usage.
How to talk about LLM privacy: a guide for data scientists
Looks good at a first glimpse. Please don't write "it's free". That's a non-message many companies give, Google of course one of them. We know that it means you pay by providing your data. Other models could be "run by volunteers" or "fully funded by donations".
I had a german teacher insist we write umlauts as two little dashes instead of dots, because "they're not trémas" (French for diaeresis) which are written as two little dots. The wikipedia article above seems to say they're the same. Was I lied to all these years ?
Rmemeber that whatever you mine up there is valuable because of the position further out of our gravity well, not just because of mineral content
We are not amused! Not but that part of the TOS, which I wasn't aware of. I don't see where it says so, though, except maybe the part of the guidelines that say to "Avoid generic tangents".

I do see how it helps keep the contents focused and useful, though. So... Ok, I guess? I'll just have to express my sense of humour as part of something useful, not as the only thing. Thanks for pointing this out.
That sentence doesn't imply anything about whether they're encrypted at rest or not. Even if they were encrypted at rest (but not E2E encrypted), Google can just decrypt the secrets to see them. The problem here doesn't involve encryption at rest in any way and there's nothing being claimed about whether the secrets are encrypted at rest or not.
Without RTTI your code will be cleaner
Can God create square circles?
In this example data can be read by the third party because the encryption key is entered while logged into the remote server. For my personal backup I ended up doing a daily rsync over ssh to a server in my house to an encrypted and compressed ZFS volume. This server then makes a daily snapshot and uses the ZFS send mechanism to transfer the snapshot incrementally to a third party OpenBSD ZFS VPS. This way the third party has no way of determining the key. It is done by shell scripts run with anacron on Debian systems. I can share the scripts if anybody is interested.
It is being pedantic, but yes, to be more precise, it's animal products. It doesn't really change the conversation about how these aren't really found in food that vegans can eat (without fortification).
Why and how to write code for humans?
AudioGPT: Understanding and Generating Speech, Music, Sound, and Talking Head
Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (2011)
Looks cool. Very kind of fringe use tbh. How did you intended this to be used?
I’d be interested to see this expressed as a Lie (pronounced “Lee”) Algebra personally.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_algebra
> They seriously believe that meat eating is wrong

I seriously believe that meat eating is right. They can voice their beliefs, and I can voice mine. I don't really see the issue.

Are you saying vegetarians are tired of people telling them that what they believe is wrong? :)
Pro-grade stuff, yes, but you can build decently nice cabinetry out of the affordable Alder or other whitewood boards at Lowes or Home Depot, especially if you're going for paint, not stain. Also, nice birch plywood has come back down to reasonable prices per sheet. (Use edge banding on plywood to give a pro look - it's easy to iron on and trim with a razor knife.)

Part of the trick to doing this on the cheap and easy is recognizing that many times (e.g., bookcases, or cases for cabinets (order doors from an Internet shop) the precise dimensions matter less than consistency between the pieces. I did a bunch of built-in bookcases a few years ago after my table saw died, and had Lowes cut all the 3/4 Birch ply down to about 9 inches. They won't do or guarantee precision cuts, but I just had them set up the saw once and rip out all the strips from several sheets of plywood at once, so all were identical width, which I could then easily cut to length with a power miter saw. I saved thousands of dollars over the quotes I got from local carpenters and cabinetmakers, and the result is very close to what I would have gotten from them. (BTW, another pro tip is General Finishes "Milk Paint", which is expensive, but worth every penny - put it on with a good brush and the stuff self-levels so well it looks very close to a pro sprayed finish, and comes in a wide range of colors.)
Frankly, I can't understand such movies aren't monetized more. I can imagine there' some money to be made from ads, especially from movies most people will never watch anyway.

My teenage daughter will most likely never watch The Seventh Seal. Unless she stumbled upon it on Youtube or something.
I don't think Google will use those secrets to look into your other accounts, but they can be politely requested by some governments to divulge the secrets, and not tell you about it. Then those governments would have no problems looking into your other accounts. And I'm not talking only about the US government, other governments can have dubious standards for requesting user data, such as failure to parrot the "facts" approved by their ministry of truth (China, Russia, and everyone in their sphere).

Not to mention Google can be hacked.
You're completely right, and as a baseball fan myself I deeply sympathize, but it's not so much MLB that is the problem (today) but the patchwork of cable-based Regional Sports Networks (RSNs) that have contracts for exclusive broadcast rights from MLB that were inked years ago. In a lot of cases teams even have ownership stakes in their own RSN. So now all the local broadcast rights (and $$$) belong to these RSNs instead of MLB themselves. And most/all of them broadcast exclusively on cable and offer limited-to-no streaming options.

There's been some hinting from MLB that they know blackouts are painful for fans, but without being able to alter/cancel the RSN contracts they're up shit creek, legally speaking.

What's interesting right now is that Diamond Sports Group (Bally Sports) just recently declared bankruptcy and they own/operate the RSNs for almost half of MLB teams. They are behind on their rights payments and MLB is trying to forcibly get broadcast rights back so they can presumably stream on mlb.tv. If that happens it could give MLB some power and put the issue more front and center. Maybe. Here's hoping.

And I don't mean to white knight MLB here, they made this bed for themselves by making exclusive deals with RSNs in the past. But now it's not as easy as MLB just ending blackouts by decree. Not without a lot of lawsuits.

But someday it has to happen. For the good of the game and fanbase. Please be soon.
Part II:

http://madmonarchist.blogspot.com/2011/05/monarchist-profile...
It pains me every time I find a great programming language and then find out that it runs on the JVM.
I thought we already pay wiretap charges? ISPs charge you to collect all of your data don't they?
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Different species of Tree kangaroo down my way, but loss of the pristine scrub they used to live in being a driver to new behaviours, would not be a surprise.

I've witnessed the loss of many (most) of the larger trees (thus no more high canopy) in a forest reserve in the southern part of range lands in the Whitsunday region. The problem is IMHO, a fungus and you'd think relevant bodies would like to know ... no they don't, and rather then express interest and concern, it's more don't mention any particular tree killing fungus by name since I've not had it confirmed in a lab ... I was then speaking with a guy near Mackay to the south, who was recounting his Tree Kangaroo problem in his open shelved shed - they love it and I couldn't help but laugh as he recounted his woes cleaning up all the shelves after them. #1 project he had was to be able to lock it up.
I think Reddit is tracking my phone?
I got permabanned from Reddit on my Android Google Pixel phone and whenever I would create a new account it would instantly get banned.

I tried reinstalling the app but it still banned my new account. I'm not familiar with App Development so I was curious to see if anyone could explain to me how they are tracking me and if I can do anything to get rid of it.

While on the topic of app development, I heard that apps can track more things about the user. For instance, there are ways an app can identify the IP of a user even if they are using a VPN but a website is unable to. Would appreciate if anyone could clear that up for me.
Thanks
First, you tell me why you think it's okay for strong AI systems to be built from and toward the ethos of "Believe everything you hear on the Internet"
I've wanted exactly this for quite a while, awesome project! do you plan to keep it free? Or is functionality going to paywalled soon?
Preservation has nothing to do with copyright. Buy a book, and preserve it yourself. Done.

Oh, but you're only arguing against copyright so you can freely take others work without remuneration. IF you're a creator, and you believe that copyright shouldn't exist - everything you produce, please... put it in the public domain and see what happens.
So, the question I always have, is, can the grid even support this... surprisingly the answer is yes, but just barely:

"The record high level of finished motor gasoline consumption was about 392 million gallons per day in 2018."[1]

"Petroleum liquids–12.69 kWh/gallon"[2]

So, that's 12.96 * 392 Million kWh/day --> 5.08 Billion kWh/day

Smoothed out to the same rate every hour --> 211 Million kW

"At the end of 2021, the United States had 1,143,757 MW—or about 1.14 billion kW—of total utility-scale electricity generating capacity"[3]

So, in theory, we could run everything, and charge the cars when the demand was lower, at night.

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[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=23&t=10#:~:text=In...).

[2] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=667&t=6#:~:text=Co...

[3] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...
The article goes into detail about the experimental setup. According to the article they are going to use cuprates mounted on a balance. The deviations in the balance are going to be read using laser interferometry. They are using cuprates so they can easily switch between a superconducting phase and an insulating phase. This is to measure if the virtual particles have a buoyancy force.

The reason why they want to test this is explained in the paragraphs above it. It also explains why this method was chosen and what the difficulties are.

I have no idea why you would categorize this as a human interest story.
Silicon Valley startups brace for a summer of pain
Kick the Cat
I feel for you. Here, GCN+ (or GCN+ Eurosport as it’s officially branded as a partnership being both owned by Warner Bros. Discovery along with BT Sport) has literally everything - from all the grand tours, to classics and even the most insignificant 1.2 and 2.2 ranked events. And all for a fair price. I didn’t even consider that in other territories the rights might be snapped up piecemeal style. That’s a shame.
That title is clickbait. I don’t see any indication the system is ‘hidden’. They wouldn’t call the process countryd if they tried to hide it, and the iOS release notes often state

Some features may not be available for all regions or on all Apple devices

(https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213407)

Given (FTA) “Currently, Apple uses hard-coding techniques to restrict iOS features in specific locations”, it looks more like a refactoring to me (“we have several places where we try to determine the country a device is in. Let’s do that well in one place instead”) that makes the ‘feature’ less hidden.

Now: feature or misfeature? It depends on whether one wants Apple to act like a law abiding citizen. I would think almost everyone will say that depends on the law they’re abiding to, but opinions will differ on what laws they should fight. For example, should they prevent searches for abortion clinics or change country borders in maps depending on location?
Can humans answer that? Isn't that a totally random question to use to determine whether something is "fundamentally defective"?
The year in the title means: it is so good, it is worth reposting here.
https://github.com/kingToolbox/WindTerm supports it.
hate your name. Stop stealing the base English namespace.
Aha, thanks. But, if the 2FA secrets were end-encrypted as the top link suggests, Google then wouldn't in fact have them - so the ggp-comment accusation that the link "overlooks" this factor is nonsensical.

(And if Google were denied access to the cleartext 2FA secrete this, way, then briefly compromising someone's Google account – say by hacking or abuse of legal process – wouldn't automatically compromise all other 2FA-key-protected accounts.)
Celiac disease and Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity are very different beasts in terms of their effects. The latter is more likely to triggered in the presence of (as you say) non-trivial amounts of gluten; Celiac disease is an auto-immune disease that, while not normally at the level of anaphylactic shock, can have very unpleasant effects in tiny amounts.

And even within Celiac disease there are a lot of variations. My mother has been diagnosed as Celiac for 50 years (back before most doctors had heard of it, and she almost died from malnutrition pre-diagnosis). She obviously avoids anything that has any mention of wheat, or has been cooked in the same oil as glutenous food; she generally avoids anything that mentions "possible cross-contamination" on the label but doesn't have to be a total stickler. I don't think she's had a serious attack in many years. A friend of mine was diagnosed as Celiac maybe 10 years ago, and is incredibly sensitive - despite his best efforts he seems to end up with horrible symptoms every couple of months or so just through tiny amounts of contamination.

The FDA limit for claiming something is "gluten-free" is 20 ppm; I believe that level exists partly because it's very hard to detect anything less than that anyway, but it also fits in well with what most Celiac sufferers can tolerate.
So that's whats inside the ROG Ally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9a3oAiN2ik

edit after a little more reading, those chips would be nice in a small formfactor netbook style linux device.