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> advancing science comes from trying different things and not from reproducing someone else’s work to prove it works.

I disagree with this. If scientists aren't reproducing the work of other scientists, then science cannot advance. Reproduction of results is one of the main mechanisms by which science separates reality from fantasy.

Of course, if reproducing other's results is the only thing scientists do, that also does not advance understanding. But that doesn't take away the extreme importance of reproducing the experiments of others.
Temporal has been amazing to work with so far. We've been looking forward to the .NET SDK for a while now so we can maintain parity with our Java and Node ecosystems.
Check out https://esm.sh/#cli for a minimalist yet full featured solution that amends your import map for you. It does require Deno.
The brain is definitely not doing gradient descent. That is the biggest issue with using artificial neural networks as a neuroscience modeling tool. The fact other learning algorithms have not come close to gradient descent performance in most cases has therefore largely kept neuro theory as a niche in modern academic research -- despite its entanglement with the early development of artificial neural networks.

Not taking a stance on whether "intelligence" can emerge out of gradient descent but it's certainly not biological.
No, you don't, but if you're taking all the data at a "subatomic level" you will have so much memory required than unless you have some kind of memory I haven't heard of, it will need to take that into account because the memory alone will have a volume of significant light-time dimensions.

You need something like 3 petabytes just to model the neurons. There are 100 trillion atoms in a neuron. And he said subatomic, so you need some significant factor of that, plus you have to save some state.

So 300 trillion petabytes+ might be a memory the size of the moon. I think relativity does matter at that scale. Also, you will probably have to mine silicon asteroids and invent an AI factory to make the memory, and power it with what, fusion?

So yeah, just model the brain at the subatomic level, bro, it's easy bro, and you're just a naysayer for saying it can't be done, bro.

But, please. If you have a solution to this, don't post it on HN, file a patent. Not just for the model, but for the revolutionary new dense memory, the location of silicon asteroids, the planetary memory factory, the power source for it, and so on.
I've read this before. That's why I think the question "do animals have consciousness?" is meaningless, because "consciousness" usually implies "like ours."

They have something that probably bears some relationship to ours. Some birds have a "theory of mind" where they know what you know, e.g. whether you saw them hide the food.

It would be possible (maybe someone's already done it?) to enumerate the N tests of "consciousness," where if an organism has all those N, then it's "conscious." Someone would object "oh, but humans can do so much more than those!" and that's true. So if you increase N enough, only humans are "conscious."
Yeah I know. This is really scarry, but it still works pretty well and each month you can hear news about some scams for money on auction or local offers portals similar to Ebay, where people pay for something, never get products and money are lost as action was done over the weekend money went to the fake account registered for some homeless guy, who register account and sold access to some cyber criminals. For example they sold 12 Iphone 14 for very cheap price, and before it was reported to the police and bank company to block accounts, money was not there already. They track money, and its already exchanged for crypto or took from ATM by another poor guy (recorded by bank cameras), who was hired just to withdraw money for percent of amount he withdraw. Sic stories but works.
Oh hi!

I'm working on a second book: Practical Math for Programmers. Some details at https://pmfpbook.org/

Every weekend I livetweet my notes and research on the new book over at j2kun@mathstodon.xyz, e.g., https://mathstodon.xyz/@j2kun/110283189611214753

Happy to entertain any ideas folks have for topics! Got a long backlog to go through, but there's always room for more.
What has been your bad experience with it?
There is a much better solution but it requires investment. [1]

This is what we have in Switzerland in the city's where there is zero room for garbage.

The cost here is around 50k to 150k depending on size and if there is a compactor also built in. No smell and no mess.

[1] https://youtu.be/xhbhvdvTWUg
You can set Edge as the default browser and links will open in Edge.

You can also buy an Android phone with Edge pre-installed by default like a Microsoft Surface Duo.

Microsoft has been trying to co-opt Android since Windows Phone failed. And they are able to do so because Android is relatively open (certainly more open than any mainstream consumer operating system has ever been). For instance, Microsoft added support for running Android Apps on Windows 11 and they added the Amazon App store to Windows rather than the Google Play store. Done completely without any involvement from Google. That is unprecedented openness for a mainstream OS. That's not to say that Android is perfect in regards to openness but the iOS/Android walled garden false equivalence that gets pushed around here is baseless.
What would be a better idea, then?
Is there any way to connect these new code focused LLMs into VS Code in order to replace Github Copilot?
In what way is that not "taking it into account?"
I’ve been down that road, friend. Thanks.

I’ll drink coffee today with my remaining cash, and I’ll await a response from Google to explain themselves to me.

**Google, you have until today. I tried reaching out to you repeatedly and it’s all fallen on deaf ears. Last chance, scumbags.**

After today when google inevitably doesn’t respond, I’ll know for sure that this society is corrupt. I will be further cemented in my position: this society is doomed and I have zero desire to be part of it.
The score has to be in relation to other articles. Or else it's too random to have meaning. ChatGPT doesn't even given consistent scores from session-to-session for the same article.

And the context length limit prevents that relation from extending to more then a few articles, if that's your method.

i.e. Your method doesn't actually produce a meaningful score that can be ranked in some linear order with the 1200 other articles.

At most it would make sense to rank a discrete score in relation to the few other articles it remembers.

Anything beyond that should be placed in 'score ranges' from 5 to 7 for example, not given a discrete score.
They are many libraries that use tagged template string to allow this, the most interesting to my eyes is the one made by preact dev. It's just named htm [0], it's made by preact but it can totally be used with react.

The most interesting thing of this one is that uses no custom syntax for js variable, so @attribute something when you must pass an object as props.

0. https://github.com/developit/htm
ChatGPT insists a BLE module can do Bluetooth classic
Yeah, at their core they’re both trying to guess/generate what comes next. Differences: Being trained towards conversations versus code. Hyperparameters set to stop differently. “Wrappers” that form the prompt.
It sometimes impossible open Gmail on Edge browser, it resets to HTML version and I can’t do anything. Last time I had to upgrade and restart Edge. Anyone has similar experience?
Thanks for that info! Still just learning about this stuff.
For the client-side, the spec is comprehensive in allowing the authenticator to decide whether backups are allowed. In this case it's iOS not exposing that to you as a user. I get why you'd want this, but trusting Apple to store your single-device passkeys for high-stakes credentials but not trusting them for syncing them is somewhat of a very specific threat model I'd say, and definitely not in Apple's own interest to support, to your detriment.

RP-side, it's true that RPs can't opt out of credential syncing, but I think that would be weak at best, as the authenticator can do what it wants. The RP can use attestation and the DPK extension to effectively bind authentications to the same originating device.
As near as I can tell, there's nothing really "open" about OpenAI. I think that they include that word in their name is about marketing, and really does help to make the word meaningless.
Nice that there are still everyday phenomena that we’re still discovering the reasons for. Our universe is an infinite wonderland of emergent behaviors
This wind-and-solar religious argument isn't necessary and I'm guessing it's based in European poltics. I'm OK with wind and solar but not at the scale where it's the only option... And that's because it doesn't work at scale... As Germany found out you can't meet peek demand with just wind and solar:

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-failure-...

They have "dark doldrums" and have to revert to natural gas and diesel power plants (which is why BP and American energy companies push wind and solar). On top of that you can't just cover the entire countryside in massive wind turbines or solar panels. You've got protected species and you've got NIMBY. Why push the endless political pissing matches when you could easily develop nuclear power too? Do both. Let nuclear power handle the doldrums.
What does this mean for the future of editors like emacs and (neo)vim? Right now the Copilot plugin for Neovim works pretty much the same as the one for VSCode, but as LLMs get integrated more into IDEs and new workflows are built around them, will the old-school editors be able to keep up? I'm a little worried because I just switched from VSCode to Neovim a few months ago!
I reckon 1) could be solved by price discrimination. I would happily pay twice as much for BART if it meant riding in a train car that was only occupied by other people willing to pay twice as much. By tiering service, you still provide transit at all for everybody who needs it at the current price, while meeting more of the demand of people who people who avoid public transit for perceived safety/classism concerns.
Yes, being able to choose my own password manager is indeed an important feature to me. I'm pretty sure that feature is not unique to closed platforms, though.
Using Poozle and Appsmith for building internal tools
Does that differ much from electronic transfers as done currently between banks?
This reply neatly captures that functional programming tends to consider performance/efficiency in terms of number of reductions. Sadly other programmers tend to view it as wall clock time and the two don't correlate very well.
The madness is people in charge of nuclear facilities being able to cover up accidents with the complicity of governments. Windscale is now called Sellafield because it had acquired such a bad reputation that the UK government decided to just give it a nicer name as a PR move. In addition to incidents described in OP's article, operators dumped ~200kg of plutonium into the Irish Sea in the 1950s, as well as other waste byproducts subsequently. These quantities are probably small enough not to present any great risk to life or local ecology, but using a small sea as a dumping ground without the agreement or even awareness of neighbors hardly builds confidence. There have also been numerous smaller scale incidents over the years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield#Incidents

I'm pro-nuclear and share your optimism about small modern reactor designs. But any nuclear proposal that doesn't include safety and transparency as core values that take priority over all other considerations deserves to be rejected. There's a reason that people have grave doubts about the integrity of the nuclear industry, and it's not technical but social. There are way too many nuclear proposals that lead off with happy talk about the benefits, and defer discussion of safety, transparency, cost and so on until those issues are raised as objections. It's a PR strategy and I automatically distrust it, because that 'good vibes only' mindset is likely to embed itself in the subsequent management of the plant and lead to cover-your-ass style decision-making.

tl;dr I like nuclear technology, it's the operators I don't trust.
That's assuming the AI really wants to make a lot of paperclips though
What is the purpose of http://example.com? Why not just use http://neverssl.com?
This is a creationist/"intelligent designist" publication from the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Science_and_Culture...

They are pseudoscientific neo-creationists with a very poor grasp of what evolution means.
Oh I don't look at the keys, but first it's ugly, and second at some point there will be holes in the key caps :)
Source (CES 2023): https://www.youtube.com/live/OMxU4BDIm4M?feature=share&t=137...

Textual rehash: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-brings-chiplets-zen-4-...
For Bluesky to thrive, it needs sex workers and Black Twitter
This is anti-evolution, intelligent design propaganda.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Discovery_Institute
Did you read the tweet?

They had to add this because browsers now often auto append https:// to manually typed domain entries anyway. So it loads on https, then redirects to a http-only subdomain.

This way you can still find any captive portals needing you to login/accept T&Cs/etc. Which is what neverssl’s core purpose actually is.
I’m sympathetic to the argument but the us vs them mentality here seems counter productive.
Did you actually read the post? It's quite clear, and doesn't break the purpose of the site at all. It actually makes it work in more places.
But obviousness and political feasibility are at best very loosely related.
Super cool. While I don't see it being a primary way to create content, being able to make small adjustments, tweaks, typo-corrections on the fly seems like a great UX improvement.
Japan ranks 68th in World Press Freedom Index, lowest in G-7
A habitable zone is simply defined as the region which is most likely to be able to sustain the conditions for life in the form that we know of it.

Of course we don't know if other chemistries of life are possible, but that doesn't mean we can't define a habitable zone based on what we do know and expand it later if necessary.

As for looking at moons far from the star, it's barely a reliable means of confirming liquid water even within our own system, good luck detecting liquid water on an exomoon orbiting a far out exoplanet.

Mars is in our habitable zone and has plenty of evidence of having had liquid water flowing on its surface. The evidence of it having had conditions which could sustain some Earth-like life on it has only been increasing, making our current idea of habitable zones pretty promising. The fact that it currently doesn't have any liquid water on the surface has little bearing on that.
Look for DNA in wastewater.
This fixes the main problem with Vulkan, which is that there were no big tech companies pushing them. WebGPU has Apple, Google and Microsoft all committing to support it in their browser/OS.
"Mysticism" is a belief that everything and everyone are different manifestations of the one (law, origin, something that's beyond words and imagination). Science is a belief that there is one universal law of nature and that everything is its different manifestations.
And Azure. But aside from C#, .Net, Typescript, and Azure, what have Romans done for us?
How would you even enforce this? I think crypto is a huge waste of electricity but this is not the answer.
Don’t think so; you might want to look at Purism, which I think is quite a bit closer. https://puri.sm/
Makes me wonder how you could apply this to social media.

What if you had a social media site where you could only see the same set of people? (Say, 150 people - Dunbar's number)

This isn't perfect by any means, but how would you fix it from there? Would you make it mix the population every few months? Maybe just comments/reactions are restricted to your cohort but you can see all posts? Would you mix the population based on some kind of score? Could that score be multi-dimensional?
> Might not be as bad as the crypto snake oil bazaar

I think it will be as bad as with cyrptocurrency, if only because so many of the people involved come from the cryptocurrency crowd.
All of these reasons can be seen as justifications for reducing reliance on cars altogether. Public transportation is a viable alternative and introducing friction for drivers, while not the primary intention, can directly correlate to _reduced_ emissions and congestion [0]. If a driver is going to violate traffic laws and put others at risk because of their impatience, I'd argue that keeping these individuals off our roads is far more important than pandering to them. Socioeconomic status does not dictate one's ability to park legally.

[0] https://www.intelligenttransport.com/transport-news/143883/l...
Yes, I'm not saying it's not possible, but real time abilities were likely one of the least important aspects of Julia's design... So why shoehorn it into something it's not been designed for
That's exactly what I want, ideally at a per-passkey level.

It should also be able for relying parties to express that desire (whether opt-in or opt-out by default). As it is, I think it'll just make banks and governments less likely to adopt passkeys.

That's sad, because all in all I think WebAuthN has the potential to have a very positive impact on security globally.
I bought it back in the days when it first came out, loved it a lot. Helped me a lot as a “self-made” programmer. Shortly afterwards I actually started a formal pure math education in my 30s at uni, but with a second child on the way that journey stopped after only completing the first year. In the meanwhile there’s also a third kid. Still, really fell in love with mathematics during my career as a programmer and when the kids are bigger it will be a hobby that gets more attention again.

Suffice to say. Love the book. Will it make you a fully fledged mathematician? Of course not. Can it teach more or better, sure, what not? But it’s a great introduction anyway and it may inspire many that otherwise might not be inspired. Mathematics is really fun if you’re not afraid to feel uncomfortable all the time. Luckily most good programmers probably have that same feeling all the time anyway. I can only hope for more books like this, I have some space reserved for them on one of my dusty shelves! Big thanks for the author to write this book!
It also allows easy loading of micro-frontends, if that's the architecture you're shooting for.

https://single-spa.js.org/docs/recommended-setup/
Accelerating Neural Self-Improvement via Bootstrapping
YMMV but both my macbooks occasionally display evidence that they were awake while they were asleep (e.g. if i close the hing at 10pm and open it at 8am, it might show 2:14am for a few seconds before catching up, but also they show new unread messages even before connecting to wifi). Weirdly my 2013 macbook is much much better at going to sleep and waking up with nearly the same battery capacity, whereas my 2019 (work laptop) will often run down 15-40% of its battery over the weekend while completely closed.
> One of the main drivers of NIMBY sentiment is the threat of having to share free, public parking with people who would live in new developments.

This has a really easy fix: mandate a new reserved, dedicated parking space for every new residence. For single-family homes, this is basically a no-op because driveways exist.
> So if you're an organization that need these higher level security controls, this is actually what you want.

I don't think that explanation makes sense. Let's say I'm an organization that needs these higher level security controls, but I want to push everything to be opened in Chrome instead. (Because I think that Chrome is more secure, or whatever.) Well, is this going to help me, or is it going to fight me? Can I make this work with anything, or is it Edge only?

I'm betting it's Edge only. And that makes the whole argument suspect.
How much should CEOs be paid?
> But they work with basically zero training.

I must be a fucking idiot then, because no amount of engaging with it ever got me past "what the fuck, where did everything go, why is that there, how do I do X, why did it do Y when I did Z?" One of the most confusing programs I've ever used. Up there with some very-painful-learning-curve video games (think: Paradox games)
What happens if you have a workflow in progress that you want to change the implementation of? Eg. If I had a workflow that was waiting for 30 days but then decided I wanted that interval to be 7 days instead?
A good quip but an imperfect analogy. As WinModem victims may remember, the WinModem DSP was in software. No part of a CNVi radio is in software. It is only a question as to which circuit board contains which parts of the wireless stack.
Simon Wardley: Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones (2018) [video]
I'd reformulate it like this:
"Most new trucks and cars will be electric in 10 years"

The keywords being "most" and "new"
US mines more bitcoin than any other country. The big thing now is using natural gas from oil wells that are not connected to gas pipelines (it's not economical to connect them), so instead of flaring the gas off into the sky, they fuel a generator to power a bitcoin farm using essentially free electricity.
I don’t disagree with the desire/demand statement - but again who’s is going to step into that gap, that can run large trade deficits, has the deep financial/borrowing markets to fund those deficits, has rule of law etc.? China? Nope. Europe I guess - but doesn’t really offer any advantages over the dollar, who else? No one…
I believe so, I remember an article on hibernation+luks being more difficult to set up
Only times I've run into dependency issues with .NET are when a library expects certain native DLLs to already be present on the system, but that's pretty rare (and fairly easy to solve).
C# is great. Also VS Code.. how many Microsoft haters on HN daily drive it? I'd have to assume quite a few!

The Remote SSH extension has been a game changer for how I do development.
> it just said I already had a registered key on this device

Is this Android? Because, before this change, there was no way to register a real WebAuthn-based passkey with Google, at least when I was trying with chrome (it did not prompt the webauthn popup, just the OS-native security key popup).
I'm editing this comment to be more of a question.

I'd like the understand the reflex to immediately assume this is a lie. The information is readily verifiable as we are a public company and 3rd party sites like data.ai will verify this.

What is your impetus to make such strong accusations from what in my view can only be your intuition? I don't think you have taken the time to try to diligence your claims.
We could call it a "new standard" that's so new the format hasn't been recognized by the wider industry. Although there was that Cooler Master case for mainboard only that can turn it into a headless server, so it's beginning to trickle into mainstream awareness.