skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is possible with just from measuring blood flow imagine what we could extrapolate from electrodes implanted deep in the brain.
User level salt rotation approach to privacy preserving analytics
I think this is the best argument against "telemetry" in apps. If there is no way to measure people's reactions to such annoying prompts, there would be no way for a product manager to justify it by saying "metric X went up by Y% when we showed this popup".
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On the contrary, the legal mechanism is vitally important.

If every venture that involved gathering together a group of people to bring sufficient capital, labor and IP to bear on a problem or opportunity ALSO faced the personal ruin of its participants should it fail or cause injury or death or despoilment, it would be extremely difficult to convince such organizations to form.

It is vitally important for such organizations to have limited liability for their participants i.e. for society to indemnify the participants against potential harmful outcomes from their endeavor.
No, the executive writes and releases a budget for PR reasons which Congress then receives, tears up into little pieces, and writes their own.

If the presidency and Senate are controlled by opposing parties the Senate wins.

Remember when Trump's proposed budget just defunded Meals on Wheels? That didn't actually happen because it's not real.
I would recommend constructing some spectrograms from specific sounds, especially simulated ones, to help you connect the visual with the audible.

For example:

- Sine sweeps (a sine wave that starts at a low frequency and sweeps up to a high one) - to learn associate the frequencies you hear with the Y-axis

- Sine pulses at various frequencies - to better understand the time axis

- different types of noise (e.g. white)

Perhaps move on to your own voice as well, and try different scales (log or mel spectrograms, which are commonly used).

With this, I think you can develop a familiarity quickly!
Was that really what this thread was about? It's just a way of visualizing how wasteful it is because most people just don't realize what 50,000 tons of electronics per year thrown out means. Or what 100 trillion watt-hours means.

It's 99.7% of machines based on the characteristics of the current most efficient miner.

I gave all the relevant waste metrics. Power, weight. And to help visualize, the quantity of the current best-in-class miner.

This is legendary pedantry. You can multiply and divide out to get any of the three measures of the scale of waste from the others. This whole thread was about you disliking 'P' in 'P=IV' but having no issue with 'I', 'V' or the idea you can multiply them together.

Gonna go ahead and end our conversation here.
I feel like this (along with many discussions about urban housing) slightly misses the real issue. A lot of these discussions center around how to make housing affordable in cities and whether denser construction leads to lower housing costs or higher housing costs. But cities don't exist to minimize housing costs. They exist to maximize opportunities: job opportunities, dating opportunities, friendship opportunities, cultural opportunities, and so on. They exist to bring as many people together as easily as possible.

The way that an urban economist would put it is that fundamentally cities are job markets. I would put it a little more broadly and say that cities are opportunities markets. For that reason housing in a dense urban environment will never be as affordable as housing out in rural North Dakota.

If you build more housing in a city, more people move there, and the city becomes more desirable as a result, is the city better or worse off for having built the housing?
Enforcement on car inspections is lax. You might receive additional citations or an increased fine for having an expired inspection, but a lot of New York drivers (who I assume are not unique) will simply ignore tickets or pretend that they never received them (which is easy when they frequently come in the form of a letter tucked under your wiper, rather than a digital record).

There are plenty of cars in my neighborhood that are patently unsafe by the city and state's standards, or are modified in ways that wouldn't pass inspection. Many of them belong to cops, who drive into my neighborhood to police it from outside of the city.
GrapheneOS has no Google Play Services. OpenStreetMap works great without it. Google Maps in the mobile Tor browser works well too.
I could be misunderstanding of course, but IMO this article is basically misleading or incorrect. If everything else is the same, a JSON API is strictly more flexible than the corresponding HTML API because JSON is a strictly more flexible serialization format than HTML. You have a database on one side of a network and clients on the other side. If you bind your data to a specific client on the database side of the network, your system is less flexible.

N.B. I am not making any claims about whether any particular HTTP API should serve JSON or HTML, I’m just saying that JSON is a strictly more flexible option.
Architecture schools in the 1980s kept analogue computers around to test air-conditioning and heat-transfer models. They were air-pressure driven hose coupled plugboard machines, with X-Y grids of paths, and functional elements to represent load, moisture, drying, cooling, heating. The boards were huge, 2m by 1m grids.

Beautiful devices.

The water model of the economy in Pratchett is based on a real machine. I believe a dozen were made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC
If by marketing department you mean Audi, Porsche, BMW and VW, the yes. Probably the best in the world.
I can't access this page. Can anyone else? I can open Twitter, but this page just shows a something went wrong page.
I think more so 'renewables are the only answer' will go down in history as the useful idiots.
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As text generation technology matures, many people are building obvious applications, such as summarization and document answering. What other domain-specific or vertical AI projects are you working on?
It kind of does because you can see the problems with capital controls in China.

Foreign investment drops off because, hey, who is going to invest if they can take their money back out?

It's also going to limit foreign investment outside the country.

It also screws with exchange rates and interest rates because of the Interest Rate parity law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interest_rate_parity
Top bar doesn't have any kind of background on Windows. Is that intentional?
That is a rank ad hominem.
> entering a bus or train requires a turnstile, tap, or other impediment that slows access

In Hamburg, where I live, there is nothing like that.
This is the crux of it: NYC's finest make up a disproportionate fraction of license plate forgery and defacement cases. Enforcement cannot occur, because to enforce these laws would be to ticket and fine their own (or their owns' families).
Imagine being able to ask questions and get answers back based upon understanding, and not upon a curriculum or agenda. I have found this method to allow me to consume information much faster while skipping over the often tedious topics.
> They gave scientists and industry 25+ years to develop ways to save excess renewable energy (e.g. by hydrolysis) and electrify industrial processes. Nothing happened, instead the industry lobbied the gov'ts for more Russian gas.

That's absurd. First, it was actually politicians like Manuela Scheswig who promoted Russian gas even though nuclear was better. Second, you can't simply blame "scientists and industry" for the effects of bad policy. If politicians turn off nuclear energy and simply hope that "scientists and industry" would readily figure out how to store vast amounts of energy, then that's naive. There is no justification for basing your policy on wishful thinking about non-existent science fiction technology.
In what world are landowners not hurt the most by SF turning into cyberpunk bedlam?
While it's still not as good as Chat GPT 4, Bard has gotten significantly better recently. I tried at launch and was seriously underwhelmed, but tried a few queries this week and came away pretty impressed.

I don't understand why they launched with such a hamstrung and small model. Everyone's first impression was basically "Google's AI sucks" and that is going to be tough to shake.

I mention this because the linked thread is almost a month old.
This is the first I've heard of this and quite fascinating, although at first I interpreted this as nonfiction, but eventually I figured out this was fictional short story!

https://ojalart.com/associate-editor-pamelyn-castoa-featured...

https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/encyclopedias-almanacs-tra...

https://www.academia.edu/29162442/Case_Study_The_Eclipse_by_...
Funny you should mention that. The UK has avoid giving children the chick pox vaccine in order to keep up natural immunity. Thus ensuring shingles in later life.

I spoke flippantly. There are specific diseases people do recognize cause specific issues.

But even in a case like shingles a society like the UK calculates it knows all the consequences. For instance I’m not sure anyone can say whether fighting shingles for decades makes our immune response less flexible in targeting other pathogens.
and revealing/affording further API navigation via hypermedia controls (e.g. links)

I haven't a hard time understanding the utility of this, the article gives an example (removing ability of transfers), but why would a webpage need those hypermedia controls in the response if they are already encoded in the API of the business logic? for ex: The business logic tells the presentation layer, "if X field is true, disable transfers button".
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> Why would it need to be free? It could be an ordinary investment that's paid off over time.

If the Bitcoin rig isn't free then the villagers don't get shit for years while it gets paid off. Then they're just sharecropping Bitcoin.
It's the blockchain and NFT hype train all over again. Shoehorning it into places it doesn't belong, bad implementations to boot, and actually making things less performant, less secure, and more expensive in the process.
Scientists Detect Brain Activity in Dying People Linked to Dreams/Hallucinations
Either those numbers are obvious nonsense, or this is yet another way California is dysfunctional. In Finland, a typical 8-story midrise is ~50% more expensive to build (per square meter) than a typical single-family home. Construction costs only start rising significantly after 10-12 stories.
And if there's a medium amount of power?
For people who can't afford the ticket, there can be special prices. For example in my hometown, people with low-income pay less. Kids from low-income families pay nothing.
That's not a justification.
That’s utter bullshit.

To correct the metaphor: you don’t paint the target yourself, the target paints itself and it’s quite lucky if your arrow is somewhere in it.
We are not measuring what YOU personally believe is "useful productive" work. We are measuring if there is a way to extract economic value (payment) for stranded energy.

> So if there's a small amount of power, you get no yield from mining.

You are going in circles. The amount of mining you can do is exactly proportional to the available power. It does not suddenly go to zero. If the yield or profit is greater than the costs, it is economically worthwhile.
They should be paid a fair salary by the government for doing the work. They should not be being paid by anyone else.
Xenophobia and racism are moral decay, and you are actively promoting them.
Not unusual... I have two metal towers running through the back third of my property. The flickers love to bang on them, it really amplifies the sound. I assumed it was more a mating/attention thing.
When I read about ultrasonic cross-device trackers in advertising [1], I installed "org.woheller69.audio_analyzer_for_android" and "hans.b.skewy1_0" (automatic ultrasonic detection) and started scanning through TV channels after running some test tones. Suffice to say I didn't find any, but the entire process was quite fun. There's also "org.billthefarmer.scope" which is an oscilloscope with a spectrum (not spectrogram).

1. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-th...
I'm glad that chemists are researching this. We should also stop using plastic wherever possible.

Let's start with single use packaging of things. WAY too much stuff relies on cheap, disposable plastic that could be shipped/packaged in another, more sustainable material. It will mean more expensive, harder to handle materials, but if we can at least use materials that biodegrade, are fully recyclable, or are inert (e.g. glass), we'll save future generations a massive headache.
And give up water resistance?
Demo of scat: cloud-based RAID 5
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Haha I know, I run Linux dual booted 50/50 with Windows now and often game on it.

It still has a lot of janky behaviour though - like Chrome tabs on Wayland not being draggable (off/on the window), no dark mode support on Chrome, workspaces per monitor don't exist and I have yet to find a terminal emulator as nice as iTerm2.

All-in-all though, I am pretty happy with it and will continue to use it. Happy to see a growing focus on desktop usability and hope to see that continue to grow in the near future
One could call the desktop environment (OS frontend) an appliance, and we certainly redesign appliances and scheduling software frequently.
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The first crewed mission to Mars should be all female
It’s not the markets fault if it doesn’t sell what you think it ought to sell.

Edit: rephrased to not be unnecessarily offensive.
Conscious thought. In biological terms it has a superhuman cerebellum but no cerebral cortex at all. It can't assess what it's doing.

GPT4 will produce stuff, but only if prodded to do so by a human.

I recently asked it to help me write some code for a Garmin smartwatch. The language used for this is MonkeyC, of which there isn't a huge amount of examples on the internet.

It confidently provided me with code, but it was terrible. There were gaps with comments suggesting what it should do, bugs, function calls that didn't exist, and many other problems.

I pointed out the issues and GPT4 kept apologising and trying new stuff, but without any improvement. There wasn't any intelligence there; the model had just intuited what a program might look like from sparse data, and then kept doing the same thing. It didn't know what it was doing; it just took directions from me. It couldn't suggest ideas when it couldn't map to a concept in memory.

A human with an IQ of 80 would know if they didn't know how to code in MonkeyC. If they thought they did, they'd soon adjust their behaviour when they realised they couldn't. They'd know where the limit of their knowledge was. They wouldn't keep trying to guess what functions were available. If they didn't have any examples in memory of what the functions might be like, they might come up with novel workarounds, or they'd appreciate what program I was trying to write and suggest a different approach.

Presumably we'll make progress on this at some point, but I think it'll take new breakthroughs, not just throwing more parameters at existing models.
It sounds like positive feedback loop. Some reason (usually jobs) results in higher density, which results in a shortage of housing and higher prices, and that’s an incentive to build denser housing so that more people can move in. The available workforce might attract more employers, and the loop continues.

You might as well ask how cities get started and grow larger. Contrast with farmers.

A positive feedback effect will keep going until there’s negative feedback counteracting it. That’s almost tautological. The specifics will be more interesting.
It seems plausible that there is at least a moderate correlation between low IQ and watching these videos.
For all the times that I’ve seen woodpeckers at work. I only see them banging as hard as they could during mating season, as to make as much sound as possible to signal vitality. All other times I’ve seen them at work they’re calmly chipping away at a tree like a woodworker with a chisel, and no way near there max strength. Almost all articles I read only seem to mention that a woodpecker hammers as hard as possible all dag long which just isn’t true.

Also for anyone hearing a woodpecker banging metal, it’s the sound signaling during mating season. Dampen the metal and he’ll find another place.
I think this did actually happen but specifically starting in 2020 and I am only talking about traffic violations and not general crime. The article even mentions it and I have posted links to NHTSA statistics showing an increase in road traffic deaths per mile that started in 2020 and then continued to increase.

People blamed cars, pandemic stress, and decaying roads but I don't think it's any of those. I think the pullback in policing roads is a big part of it. Road rage incidents have increased in some regions too, I assume all regions, but these aren't necessarily counted nationwide.

I think it's possible that the empty roads in 2020 caused people to become accustomed to speeding and driving without other drivers on the road and caused people to degenerate as far as dealing with other people on the roads. I say this because speeding offenses increased since 2020 so maybe all these things are correlated. People became accustomed to not having to follow road traffic rules, and following sociable and safe driving, and get annoyed when they have to now. Police aren't enforcing it either. Just my thoughts.
Given Musk's track record, is he even in the race? https://blog.cheapism.com/elon-musk-promises/
It's not just money, but SV leaders actively empowering a brutal dictator.

“The more I think about it, the more Saudi almost feels like a startup,” Adam Neumann, the WeWork founder, told the audience of the Miami conference hosted by the kingdom.

Venture capitalists Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen were pumped up, too.

“Saudi has a founder. You don’t call him a founder, you call him, ‘His Royal Highness,’ but he’s creating a new culture, he’s creating a new vision for the country, he’s got a very exciting plan to execute, and the people in the country are fired up to do it,” said Horowitz.
I don’t contest that if the point is money the bitcoins are… probably better? The risks involved with bitcoin custody being their own can of worms. But at least fuel serves a purpose (especially in remote areas!)
Also iPhone/chrome
Ok, I'm sorry dang, you're right.

Thanks for the warning.

We need your type of work ethic and desire to maintain a healthy community, along with discipline to be a stickler for enforcement of law and order in public office in some of these cities... they'd be maintained well like Hacker News is maintained well...

And yea, if only we all could just keep our heads down and just code & do software, not worry about politics crime and social issues and be left alone & unaffected by their consequences.. Those were the days not long ago huh dang. I miss them too.

I'll heed your warning and back off the politics posting going forward
Many things that you may have wanted to do with a kernel module can now be done more easily and safely with eBPF.

https://ebpf.io/get-started/

Nevertheless, the OP is a classic guide and worth a read.
Not to be too glib but I’m sure that these places would rather just have USD if that were an option
Are you meant to have a smaller registration plate (same registration as your car) on the bike rack? That's how it works in Australia.
People said the same shit about crypto. People said the same shit about the internet. People said the same shit about computers. People said the same shit about TV.
Great fun. After a long argument (and a John Cleese reference which went completely over YudBot‘s head), I finally convinced him. Only to stumble into a bug at the payment end. I initially proposed payment in Nimbis (the standard rate of eight Nimbis to one Pu being understood).

And from then on it was not possible to revise payment to US dollars.

So my order will forever remain unfulfilled :-(
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These results are predicted by LLM Scaling Laws and the GPT authors knew it before they started.
> surrounding, containing, harming, weakening, and ideally destroying Russia is the ultimate goal

No. Russia has done this to itself.

Russia would have been far better off had it not invaded Ukraine, but Putin's vanity was put ahead of Russia's best interests.

The Ukrainian defeat of Russia is the best result for everyone, including Russia.
You don't even need AI to influence public opinion detrimentally.