skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Precisely what I expected from "well-known children's franchise goes public domain".

The main thing I've learned from the Internet is that, while most people aren't terrible, the most terrible people have the most time on their hands. In a room with 100 people, one of them is the most depraved asshole. And that is the one whose actions will be most important.
I went to a Zadeh lecture, and he said that it was responsible for some big improvements in auto-focus cameras.
Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning
+ a lot of pollution
Ever read the notice of any over the counter drugs you took?
Depending on the map you're referencing this is in the Permian Basin. Maybe there's some taxable revenue from oil/gas.
Mail is too fragile: accounts can be banned, admin can die, storing old letters can go south.
> for us to survive as a species

An incredibly strong feedback mechanism exists (see article above).

Societal problems, yes. Extinction to the human species? I think that’s extreme hyperbole. What would the mechanism even be, to eradicate all humans, across the globe?

Climate change is real, things will be bad, etc, but the possible end of the species is an incredible claim, that doesn’t follow logic.
> Can live processes be moved into or out of a jail?

That might be possible on DragonflyBSD. They have support for freezing a running process to disk and restoring the process again (potentially on another machine) [1], and they have support for jails, so I don't see why you wouldn't be able to freeze a running process on the host and restoring it in the jail or vice versa.

[1] https://www.dragonflybsd.org/features/#index9h2
> It looks more like a slippery slope bias to me.

I have no idea what you’re talking about.

I’m simply making a point that humans don’t always behave reasonably in a way that would achieve their stated goals. I tried to use an analogy to make this easier but you seem confused. I could have replaced “acid” with “murder.” Would that have helped?
Imagine if Elon brings back Vine....
This cartoon is a great overview of the legal aspects of entrapment.

https://thecriminallawyer.tumblr.com/post/19810672629/12-i-w...
Gnome-Web if you're on linux and it is fine. It is a little light on features, but it does the basics. Falkon is another for the QT/KDE crowd. There are several forks of chrome and firefox, if that's your thing.

I'm trying to ungoogle and switched to Vivaldi without enough research. Its a really nice browser and I really like the community around it (like their Mastodon service), but I basically jumped from one corporation's browser to another.
No idea. It might just be they are lower priced than other places that attracts miscreants wanting domains in bulk.
I agree: fixing the global biocide of Bayer & monsanto is probably even more disastrous and should have even higher priority than climate change.

There MUST be more sustainable ways of farming than killing the biosphere.
Ask HN: Is PhD in AI worth it if I'd like to conduct my own research?
One acquaintance of mine, a teacher of informatics, offers me to enter PhD studies in AI at one local (EU) math/CS center where he has some connections. Because not many CS/math graduates currently want to proceed to a PhD and they're interested in AI and want more PhD students in this field.

He's the author of this [1] article on quantum fuzzy logic, which had received some international recognition, is obviously attached to it and would indirectly like me to build upon it. It seems decent to play with, but I wouldn't like to dedicate a whole dissertation to it, because there's more fundamental research to it. I'd love to apply to Michael Levin's lab at Tufts for some research assistance etc with some experimental ideas, but would like to build some minimal hardware and software prototypes first.

My background is in cognitive psychology/neurobiology and I have been teaching myself programming/CS during recent years. Initially I wanted to proceed to PhD in neurobiology and my supervisor recommended me for PhD studies. Currently I have
developed several research lines in biophysics (and any CS etc required for it) for my own personal interest, and I was thinking it may be more efficient to start a business to fund my research and conduct it on my own or with relevant folks, rather than trying
to fit systematized research attachments of others.
Alternatively, I'd like to be paid for learning stuff I have a moderate to strong interest in, rather than hopping from one random job to another.

This teacher of informatics is prone to making generalizations about how the brain should work with such logic (though his logic was tested only on phoneme recognition) and doesn't seem to realize that <i>you are not your beliefs</i>. Can you imagine an AI generating such a statement, negating essentially any corpus of knowledge it was trained upon? And yet a human brain generated it.

Also from some indirect source I've heard that he's also supporting some racist war,
though it has never been a topic of interest or direct discussion. And I wouldn't like to discuss my research interests full scale in such context.

Should I enter these PhD studies or better find a random job to continue on my interests in free time?

P.S. What do you think about this article on quantum fuzzy logic?

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jmva.2009.04.011
Yes, but they conclude by their metrics, assuming the reporting is accurate, that it's safe:

"It should be noted that either myocarditis or pericarditis is a rare event, with an average incidence of 39.4 cases per million doses administered in children aged 5 to 17 years within 7 days after BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccination."

Of course, 39.4/1,000,000 versus Whatever COVID-19 does to kids, assuming reporting for that is correct as well.
This is a really thoughtful comment, thank you. I agree with everything you've said with one exception, and I appreciate the additional context I didn't know about.

I would say that it is very reasonable to argue that "...they are so distant from anything that might actually remotely justify the action...", but that does not imply that "...there is a very good reason they aren’t highlighted..." is the actual reason Ni'ihau isn't highlighted. I'm still pretty convinced it's because it's inconvenient, awkward, uncomfortable...not because those events and the context they were part of made a bad justification for trampling the rights of 125,000 people.

As I think about it more, the thing I'm stuck on is more like...Ni'ihau and the stuff you mention, and the context that makes for, all make the people involved seem more reasonable, less kind of...crazily racist and afraid...a little less cartoonishly evil. And a lot of people these days don't like that. They want an "other", an enemy that is simple and easy to hate. Clear right and wrong. Red and Blue, D and R, Tory and Labour. And I think that's childish and wrong and bad in almost all circumstances. Pointing out Ni'ihau amidst the self-flagellation about Japanese internment in WWII makes that sort of person look at something he doesn't want to look at, but that he looks at it is good for him and for the rest of us.
Text version:
https://spacenews.com/software-problem-blamed-for-ispace-lun...

tl;dr: The landing site was changed late in the mission planning sequence (after the Critical Design Review). As a result of the landing site change, the lander went over a crater which caused the distance to the surface to change significantly. This was detected by the laser altimeter, but the altimeter reading was discarded because of the rapid change (assumed to have failed).

As a result, "the lander was still about five kilometers above the surface when the lander’s computer believed it was on the surface. The lander continued to descend at a slow rate of about one meter per second under its thrusters until it exhausted its propellant. The lander then went into freefall, crashing into the surface at a speed of more than 100 meters per second."
Except that's not what's happening. Some low-level flunkies are getting thrown under the bus. This guy happens to be a slightly-less-low-level flunky.

None of the people actually responsible have received so much as glance in the direction of their wrist, much less a slap.
I use firefox everyday for several hours and I have never seen this before. In the US.
> It's one of the first technologies in history that enables completely private exchanges of currency.

Monero pre-dates dead drops?
The project already used frame interpolation (through DaVinci Resolve) to double the number of frames in the video. Plus a low-tech "inside the wall" panned and blurred frame. Given the set-up, fancier scene reconstruction to build a 3D model of the environment could be combined with texture reprojection to improve the interpolation and allow the "inside the wall" frame to be perspective corrected, but that would be much more involved on the software side than what was done here (and beyond what I could do too).
Genuinely curious the motivation here
If things today are similar to they were ~10-15 years ago when I was in college, deciding not to cheat was actually pretty tough. So many people were cheating in every class I was in I felt like I was handicapping myself by not also doing it. I had to actively ignore obvious cheaters in a lot of situations since our honor code indicated that if you saw it, and did not report it, you could be in similar trouble, so I had to give myself plausible deniability. Very stressful. I guess I could have tried just burning it all down and reporting every instance I saw, but that felt like inviting trouble and way more hassle than it was worth to just keep my head down.
Immunity not having challenges, especially early in life, is a sure recipe for a miserable life full of allergies (and probably more, autoimmune problems are a vast domain).

Not sure I would want to take a small risk of topic discussed with almost sure chance of this. Maybe some form of risk is unavoidable, and part of life. Of course only till we fully crack our dna manipulation without any side effects, but thats 22nd century stuff at best.
Also, the lesson is broader than this. In the real world, "cheating" is fraud. The lesson I'm saying educational institutions have a valuable social role in teaching is: follow the rules. I know that's naive and passe, but it's also important and a lesson most people actually learn well, to all our benefit. People who think they are entitled to cheat and get away with it are bad for society.
Have you use vercel before?
I've been there, my wife and I have a real affinity for that region of Texas. We were married in Marathon and make the trip out there from Dallas a few times a year. Sometimes Marfa sometimes Marathon sometimes Alpine etc.

It's definitely a unique area, the people who live there either have lived there for generations or live there because they don't want to be found (for various reasons). Marfa gets especially strange because it's full of rich people, artists, and grad students but also literal cowboys and bandits.
Maybe if you lived in some 3rd world countries - you could find more utility for it. Hyperinflation is the default for some countries, being able to keep some evil dictators from your money might be a good thing.

F.x. instead of your money funding illegal wars in Libya you could save some of that wealth and try to build a better future.
But CCS2 is much worse NACS! Tesla would definitely prefer to use a single plug type worldwide if the common standard wasn't so bad.

They've opened up their network in Europe and clearly want more partners in the US. This business is already profitable and it's a great way to monetize their powerpacks and grid products (esp. Autobidder). They would be the first company to benefit from such a simplification and reinforce their lead.
gretap.

But why run Wireguard+gretap when you could just run tap-mode OpenVPN?
Variable Fonts Directory
It's only a 75% success rate if you include the superbowls prior to the claim being made. Obviously the guy looked at the results of the superbowl prior to making his claim.

It drops down to 67% [1] when you look at only after 1978 and since 2000 its 10/23 (43%) which really implies its headed towards 50% (i.e. uncorrelated). The big difference here is that you can get outliers in your data when you have a small sample size (i.e. 50) but as the number of football games approaches 5000 those outliers go away.

But in support of your point: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_indicator
Flashback, my grandad used to drink lager and lime! Rose’s lime juice is like sausage rolls and arctic roll. Iconic.
Self-contained single-file assemblies do not require this. Simply specify corresponding properties in .csproj or as arguments to dotnet publish (-p:PublishSingleFile=true --self-contained -r {RID}) and for pure C# projects you will get exactly a single executable file that does not require any dependencies to run except what is expected to have on the average target system (glibc, openssl, etc.).

Other than that, it seems that due to other languages, there is misconception that Native AOT is a panacea that is superior in all areas to normal single-file executables that use JIT. In fact, on average, JIT produces faster code because some optimizations are only possible with tiered and dynamic PGO compilation.
Glad to see that paper airplane culture is still alive, haha. I was looking forward to this day for a while!
Yes. They don't want you to be able to poke around but the real security boundary is the VM, not the database server.
> What are they supposed to eat

I answered that unlike what you are trying to accuse me of, I think there is nothing wrong with eating fish, the problem is inability to do anything else of significance but eat fish, talking about the dietary preferences is a diversion, so can we put that to rest already?

> What about what you said makes them unintelligent?

Can you please point me to cultural, scientific, technological, architectural, philosophical achievements of orcas that are typically associated with human-level intellect?
If the launch capabilities are unbalanced (as they are!) then no, anti-satellite missiles aren't an option - at the moment noone can afford to launch an anti-satellite missile for every satellite that SpaceX can sustainably launch. Like, it was no problem to launch 1500+ satellites in 2022, but at the moment I don't see a credible capability for China or Russia to launch 1500+ anti-satellite missiles per year.
According to wikipedia: 44 people in the US and one big company that owns 30:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-21#Civili...

Numbers from 2012 tho... But probably won't be too different now.

More than 11.000 were made, wow.
Again I'll say the same thing I said to someone else: if it was this simple and this easy, it would have been done by now.

I've been working with or at telcos for more than a decade and I am still regularly amazed (not in a good way) at how complex, messy and byzantine a lot of the internal systems are, never mind anything that needs to talk to another equally (but differently) byzantine telco somewhere else.
These days I find it fairly risky to think that it's reasonable to believe just anything you read on the internet because a website says so.
If you're looking for lo-fi, try Lynx.
This is kind of amazing given that obviously, GPT-4 never contained such tasks and data.
I think it puts an end to the claim that "language models are only stochastic parrots and cannot do any reasoning".
No, this is 100% a form of reasoning and furthermore, learning that is more similar to how humans learn (gradient-less).

I still don't understand it and it blows my mind - how such properties emerge just from compressing the task of next word prediction. (Yes, I know this is oversimplification, but not a misleading one).
The tech to look out for in this space is called NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields).

Just do a quick search on that term and you will find a whole bunch of videos that reconstruct 3d scenes using digital stills. I just saw a paper a couple of days ago showing advances in reconstructing human expressions that change over time using advanced techniques.
Yeah, I've just read the wikipedia article[1] and it appears a lot "realler" then I thought. Headquarters, even. Bullshitting is the best way to learn.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS
In middle school, I put a lot of time into a paper for a history class, at least three times what anyone else did (probably more). I got a B for the class. The teacher said it felt like the paper was copied, because the writing was "too professional" and that middle school students don't write like that. The teacher was wrong. I just happened to have worked really hard because the topic was interesting to me.
Have you looked at something like Slippers[1]? It allows you to have a set of components that you use in Django templates. I'm using Bulma, not Tailwind, for my project and I like how it creates an abstracts over e.g. CSS classes.

[1]: https://mitchel.me/slippers/docs/introduction/
> Technically, it's possible that he just studied very very hard and his code and grammar improved.

As an early procrastinator (rehabilitated perhaps?) I've had a history of doing very well on finals through cramming.

In your student's case it might very well be more likely they are cheating, but those unlikely but possible students who study extra hard to recover their grades for a final deserve the benefit of the doubt.

How unlikely can academic recovery get? I spent an entire semester completely lost in a second level Macroeconomics course...

... I was able to read and write chapter summaries of a semester and a half of content (about 15 chapters, corresponding to the first level and the second level courses) in a single weekend and aced the exam, with the highest marks in the class.

That was the hardest I've ever crammed in my life and I had trouble speaking in the hours that followed the study session.

I later got a recommendation letter from that prof, totally worth it.
This is a bonkers idea! I fucking love it, man! I bet I could do this with a single device on a rail and use NeRFs to actually make the effect. Could even do more complex camera flight. Love the idea.
Bitcoin will be imported with immigrants to the 1st world.
Funny, I had this talk with my kids a few weeks back. I settled on a weed being "something growing in a place the speaker doesn't want it" - and that it was completely subjective.

I think it's also arguable that something can only be a weed in a human managed landscape. We have hills around us that no one manages and I would argue that nothing up there is a weed.

This also segues into what is "nature". My kids like to say "be kind to nature". I don't care if they pull up the grass in the hills around us, but I do care about them pulling up grass at the park. Arguably a park isn't anymore "nature" than the houses and streets we build. It's all fake nature - just an organic version of astroturf.
I can see this in Minsky time period AI research, but surely with the number of people getting into AI and coming from a purely practical right now I would expect that mindset to be diluted. As someone not in the know I could very well be wrong.

In response to the coming apocalypse, this isn't the first time everyone has a vague sense of potential doom about the future. I believe this happens during any time of fundamental change, making the future uncertain which we interpret as apocalyptical. Back during the 30 years war that apocalyptic belief manifested as God being angry with us, today it's with the (very real) problems our rapid industrialization has created. Not to minimize the problems that we face - well minimizing only in that they probably won't lead to extinction. The various predictable factors mentioned have the potential to make life really shitty and cause massive causalities.

While framing these issues as a matter of extinction may feel like a way of adding urgency to dealing with these problems, instead it's contributing, on an individual level, to fracturing our society - we all "know" an apocalypse is coming but we're fighting over what is actually causing that apocalypse. Except that there will be no apocalypse - it's just a fear of the unknown, something is fundamentally changing in the world and we have no idea how the cards will land. It's no different than a fear of the dark.
Korea's GDP per capita (PPP) overtook Japan and the UK, so yes, if Canada belongs, so does South Korea.
The Mars Project – Wernher von Braun
I just came from Lobo a few days ago, checking it out. The owner is very nice and very German, the land has plenty of electricity and now a working well + pump, but if you wanted to actually build anything here, it's going to be a massive amount of work. There are also lots of bees to avoid!

The biggest issue for me, other than the massive amount of work and capital required to build something here, is that you are RIGHT on the highway. It's not a freeway, but there is enough traffic on that Big Bend route to Marfa that every minute or two during the day, you'll have some truck hauling it at 75mph past you.

I think you could demo most of the land and turn it into some fun outdoor concert venue with food trucks and bathrooms, but you won't be able to draw more than 100-200 people max because you would have to eat up so much of the land for parking.

I really can't think of any killer use case for Lobo, which is unfortunate because it's actually quite gorgeous there. You can see the mountainous border with Mexico in the distance and I'm sure it's stunningly beautiful at night.
As someone with 10+ Alexa devices between homes I honestly didn't realize anyone was actively working on Alexa anymore. It used to be mildly useful for playing music and setting timers but it has degraded in almost every aspect since inception. Also, its suggestions are beyond useless and get in the way of actually using the devices.
It's definitely interesting .. for the CVS data set, their numbers indicate that it's twice as likely for a 0 to 17 year old to get Myocarditis or Pericarditis from the vaccine (.0046%) than the CDC says the IFR rate from covid is (.002%) for that same age group (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...).
“I’m literally never going to stop misusing this word”
Can we edit the title to be /month?

m is usually minute, I went in expecting a vulnerability writeup, although the sub-header made it quickly clear it was a write-up of a product.

Good clear write up of the product and it's journey though. Nice "boring technologies" of wordpress and rails.
Google would probably prefer if Safari and Edge did not gain market share. They're both developed by large corporations that pose a major threat to Google. Firefox, not so much.
According to a weird definition of "really backfired," because they would without question have been hit a long time ago with credible antitrust if they hadn't kept Firefox afloat (though user-hostile enough to keep people on Chrome.)

There's such a marginal difference between the quality of the two browsers, and Chrome is held back in what it can be by the necessity of furthering Google's commercial interests. The only limit Firefox has had is that they can't abuse the trust of their users. Firefox had to voluntarily (and often aggressively) inflict a huge amount of reputational and functional damage on itself to reduce its market share to the place that it has.

edit: it's important to say that they didn't really backslide technically; it's user-hostile (management) decisions that have hurt the browser, not anything to do with the skill of Firefox developers.