skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That study is misleading/wrong and has done a huge amount of damage to this field.

What they actually showed is that 1) much of the current does not reach the brain, and 2) the current that does is not sufficient to directly “force” neurons to fire. However, that doesn’t mean the remaining current does nothing at all, as it could still modulate brain activity.

Using direct recordings of individual neurons, I showed that various forms of tES shift spike timing. Simulation causes them to fire sooner or later than they otherwise would. This matters because information is carried in both by overall rate of spiking and the timing of those spikes. Moreover, it’s not just a placebo, because knocking out the sensations with topical anesthetic doesn’t block the neural effects, nor is recreating them sufficient to cause them.

I just wrote a little think-piece about this for PLOS Biology that summarizes what we know—-and don’t—-about it

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
The Little Mermaid subjected to negative ‘review bombing’ posted by bots
Japanese AI research aims to be "Doraemon" and "Astro Boy".
There is nothing wrong with an AI with an ego enjoying anime and manga and learning something from them.
All learning should not be restricted by law, and that is true for AI with the same intelligence as humans.
We have not yet reached a general-purpose AI, but the law is designed to take into account future possibilities.
Yes, the Japanese genuinely dream of a future where they live with beautiful maid robots.
> Is every computer compromised in the internet if one is compromised?

Internet is no lan (local area, L2) where computers do indeed typically have more generous policy regarding access between each other.

Think about the windows firewall asking whether you just connected to a work/public/home network
Related:

https://github.com/icecc/icecream - another option that does what distcc does, but aimed at a somewhat different use case.

https://ccache.dev/ - a similar idea but provides caching of build outputs instead of distributing builds. You can use it together with distcc to achieve even better performance.
Open compute platform switched to 48V years ago, to afford having multiple PSUs feeding multiple servers, with (those days) a fixed 4:1 switched capacitor down converter right next to the existing 12V-to-0.5~1.5V DrMOS VRM power stages.

There are iirc GaN devices from epc-co these days that make it feasible to go directly from 48V with the VRMs to the 0.5~1.5V for the core.
How much fun ? Do you have any guidance for me to follow ?
When a company is in second place and the first place company leaves a massive gate open for competition, then it’s the duty of the CEO to do what it takes to capitalize, attack and go for first place.

Lisa Su has had plenty of time to do whatever needs to be done to take advantage of Nvidias opening. There’s no sign at all she’s doing anything. The 7600 GPU just released is garbage. All the AMD cards are still overpriced.

How long do you give a CEO who fails to attack a vulnerable #1 ?
Yep. Perhaps people are simply tired of bullshit or propaganda. On this specific case it is even illegal to question the accuracy of their claims. Yet, these claims are repeated ad nauseam as unquestionable truths just like in the medieval times.

Modern inquisition polices the social networks. Anyone who dissents the established facts is silenced by those who rule society. Are the citizens today really that different from humans in the dark ages? One thing is for sure, at least they only paid 10% taxes on their income.
> Dynamic types mean the constraints are known later.

Don't you mean, constraints are found when the program throws an unexpected exception and leaves you with a largely meaningless stack dump :)

I'd rather have the system tell me "you can't do that" much earlier - at compile time, not run time.

I use python quite a bit, but hate the thought of all those never-exercised control paths, which only occur in the most unusual circumstances - and I know silly problems will show up when those paths do get executed :(
The trend lines for this have been obvious for a decade or more for anyone who has paid even cursory attention to the energy industry. The comment section under this post will be full of the same skepticism that always accompanies these announcements, and solar will keep chugging along regardless.
Nah, we are switching to USB-D
Are you perhaps a Windows user? In the Linux world updates don't necessarily require reboots.
Good. Lot of crap needs to removed from 11 and 12 classes too. CBSE / NCERT is bloated.
A medieval comedy act has been discovered in first-ever find, researcher says
You do realise that "america" didn't happen for more than a thousand of years since the roman empire right?
That isn’t left out - everything rested on the three centuries European countries had spent perfecting the cannon.
How about a fax number?
What if the AI is open source and run by individual creators? That changes the slant of the argument a lot. I worry that excessive regulation will mostly come down on individual creators using AI tools.
Not really, plenty of people have "discovered" that proper food intake and exercise actually works. Very few follow through long term and they are looking for a pharma answer, which is profitable so sure they are willing to fill that want.

The term diet I'm avoiding here itself is viewed as a temporary change these days, but it must be a permanent change to actually work.
In that situation, I sort by controversial to see what the other side of whatever issue is being discussed is saying.
Try playing a few Indie games - they are not at all about realism.
From https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/393048/11912, which includes a number of links:

Monica was a moderator on 6 different sites and was a highly decorated moderator. She had contributed frequently to the growth of the entire Stack Exchange community and was appointed as a moderator on MSE in recognition of that. She was fired after she requested clarifications on a new policy and a change in the CoC. Here is her version of the story: Stack Overflow Inc., sinat chinam, and the goat for Azazel .

A lot of moderators then resigned due to the way Stack Exchange treated her. Firing mods and forced relicensing: is Stack Exchange still interested in cooperating with the community?. Stack Exchange later spoke about her in newspapers. The Director and CTO of Stack Exchange later posted public apologies, but didn't do anything to follow up their apologies. Finally after taking the legal route (Stack Overflow is doing me ongoing harm; it's time to fix it!), Monica was able to sign off on an agreement (Update: an agreement with Monica Cellio), which wasn't that helpful.

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You'll still see usernames that reference Monica, usually on meta SE.
For my own situation in the Netherlands only december and januari are really low. In december 37kwH with solar, used 235. In januari about the same. In februari it goes up quick, generated about 100 kwh, used 200. From march on i'm in the + with generating solar.

So only the 4 winter months here should be abridged or have excess solar power (4 times as much) as normal.
This is with a insulated house etc.
Company can track every Bluetooth LE device from orbit
I have to think a fairly small slice of users are using 3rd party clients. I know almost nobody uses old.reddit.com anymore.

I don't see any of the moves Reddit is making as unsustainable, they just have a lock on their niche. Sure Apollo could clone Reddit, but why continue to use their app that that point when it would be better to switch to the official app which will see maybe 100x+ more usage?
This is friggin' amazing. What I would have given for something like this 10-20 years ago. Great job!
Brings back memories. Fresh out of college, I was given the additional job of being the Clearcase and Unix admin for my team. Not that I had any special skills but others didn't know a few Unix commands (System V) that I did. But Clearcase was such a good product and was used in the Telecom companies that I worked for (Motorola, Lucent etc.) It was owned by Rational at that time and if memory serves me right, were acquired by IBM.

To this day, I find Clearcase's way of doing things is the better way to do version control. Git, in comparison, kind of feels alien and I could never really get the same type of comfort on it.
LLM training is a compression algorithm, LLM weights are a compressed dataset of the training materials, and executing LLMs is accessing the compressed source material.

That the compression technology relies on parameterizing the copyrighted material, and as a result can produce hallucinations remixing the copyrighted material, is super cool but doesn't change that this is compression at rest.

All the hullabaloo about artificial intelligence is science fiction laundering a (cool new) compression algorithm.

Copyright law shouldn't apply any differently to a LLM as it does to gzip.
Peoples anger against new technology
I am interested to learn more about the subject, even in more technical details. Do you have any source suggestions ?
The USA poured several millions in the research for solar panels for their space program.

Then Germany created tax incentives for producers to scale-up production.

Then China started investing in production capacity, to the extent that now in 2024 the forecast is that more solar panel GW capacity will be produced than has been installed until now worldwide.

Sources:

* https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/goed-nieuws-schone-ene...

* How Solar Energy Became Cheap (2019), Gregory Nemet: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ecaf.12365

* Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition (2022), Rupert Way et al. https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/publications/no-2021-01-empiricall...

* Bloomberg: The Supply Chain to Beat Climate Change Is Already Being Built. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-06/solar-...
Yes, you do. The royalty is usually called a "college degree".

Most jobs require a degree or certification of some sort.
Yes!

I ran an experiment where we blocked the skin sensations with topical anesthesia and then recorded the responses of individual neurons to tES. Nothing changed, so the sensation is not necessary for its effects.

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

We also created the same sensations elsewhere on the scalp, and this was not sufficient to cause neural entrainment either.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1815958116

Placebo/skin effects can certainly mess up a readout based on performance or behavior but they aren’t the full story either.
No. It's not the same thing. At least not in the minds of the masses.

The value of your dollar is *deflating*. And that's because where there used to be X there are now more of X. A lot more.

It's not a conspiracy theory when 99% of the time the narrative is "...it's the Russians and war..." or whatever BS they push and barely passing references to "oh btw The Fed flooded the money supply...again...and has devalued your dollars...effectively raising your taxes".

FFS stop with the hyperbole, stop being so naive, and stick to the facts. Please.
I wish there were an easy way to screen these type of engineers out in the hiring process. It's very hard to judge whether a candidate's excitement over new technology is simply showing passion for what they do or a red flag. A certain degree of passion is desirable, but too much is not.

The worst engineers I've worked with are ones who, in their first week, fall behind on their onboarding plan because the company's compiler needs a rewrite.
The USA poured several millions in the research for solar panels for their space program.

Then Germany created tax incentives for producers to scale-up production.

Then China started investing in production capacity, to the extent that now in 2024 the forecast is that more solar panel GW capacity will be produced than has been installed until now worldwide.

Sources:

* A Dutch podcast on this subject: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/goed-nieuws-schone-ene...

* How Solar Energy Became Cheap (2019), Gregory Nemet: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ecaf.12365

* Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition (2022), Rupert Way et al. https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/publications/no-2021-01-empiricall...

* Bloomberg: The Supply Chain to Beat Climate Change Is Already Being Built. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-06/solar-...
And how many people use that? Most servers today are not air-gapped.
> When a company is in second place and the first place company leaves a massive gate open for competition, then it’s the duty of the CEO to do what it takes to capitalize, attack and go for first place.

I don't think that's in the fiduciary duties of a CEO.

But: I'm not a shareholder of AMD so I'll leave it to them to decide whether or not they want to keep her on.

> How long do you give a CEO who fails to attack a vulnerable #1 ?

That depends on whether or not the attack is feasible, whether the #1 is as vulnerable as you seem to think they are and whether or not there is something in the armory to attack with. Lots of assumptions there.

She's generally considered to be the person that 'Saved AMD' so I really don't know what you base your analysis on, it may well be that AMD has an attack on NV in the works but personally, without having a lot more insight into AMD than what's available in annual reports and various press releases I would be careful in second guessing a CEO that so far has done a pretty good job.

And any such discussion should take into account that AMD has multiple strong enemies besides NV (Intel, for one).
Weird, I will never presume it, only suspect it would. I tend not to be over confident in compilers: what I presume is that compilers inject "convenient bugs" into machine code, which are not in the compiled language but it the end can be exploited. We all know that "software security audits" is about finding "holes" in some machine code, then propagate the fix into the compilers (and often the compiled language). If the machine code does change, the audit must be done all over again.

But, where assembly is better: near zero planned obsolescence from compilers (since there are none), which is really a pain on the medium/long run, REALLY!

Writting assembly is not really about speed anymore nowdays, it is more about independence from those grotesquely and absurdely massive and complex compilers.
I'm surprised that space was not used for advertising in other ways…
Not for a server
> Connect to space directly with Bluetooth

> Our constellation captures data directly from your Bluetooth device.

> Using off-the-shelf Bluetooth chipsets, we enable IoT use-cases previously impractical at global scale

> Upload our firmware to your existing BLE location tracking device and expand your coverage globally.

> Affix a BLE chip on a weatherized sticker, slap it on the side of any container or pallet, and track your assets easily, globally, affordably.
That's interesting. Not knowing much about electricity read somewhere that it goes ~500km max and was wondering how are they going to get it from Africa to Europe.
It'll likely be mostly be wind, hydro and nuclear. In that order. Not sure how this relates to the topic here though.
Well, you both twisted my brain and made me laugh with this one. Thank you, good sir.
i would suggest the solution is git, although maybe something like jujitsu would be an even better base than git

if you need relational modeling have people run it themselves on something like supabase
From what I think is the original source:

> まずＡＩによる情報解析についての我が国の法制度（著作権法）について確認したところ、我が国において、非営利目的であろうと、営利目的であろうと、複製以外の行為であろうと、違法サイトなどから取得したコンテンツであろうと、方法を問わず情報解析のための作品利用はできると永岡大臣が明言しました。

> Confirming the legal system (copyright law) wrt. data analysis by AI in our country, Minister Nagaoka clearly stated that in our country, whether for non-profit purposes or for profit purposes, whether an act other than reproduction, or whether the content is obtained from illegal sites, one can use works for information analysis regardless of the method.

(translated with ChatGPT-4 and then cleaned up)

The source is the one from the article: https://go2senkyo.com/seijika/122181/posts/685617
Show HN: FlagPalette: Get Hex, RGB, CMYK and HSV Codes of Flag Colors
This negative self talk is called Cognitive Distortion, and is the core of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - but I like to use the street phrase "playing yourself": it's having a dishonest, negative and deceptive self conversation running in your head. And with a simple 10 question checklist one can logically neuter this negative aspect of your own personality quite easily, without electrical stimulation or drugs, and one enters flow to accomplish goals with less friction. If this sounds interesting, try doing a web search of "Cognitive Distortion + Dr. David Burns". You will not regret the time spent investigating, in fact it may supercharge your career.
The “death of self-driving cars” has been greatly exaggerated
Insulation can also keep interior cool. Although I agree that it's only about comfort, not "freeze to death in winter" kind of motivation.
The Russians already did something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademik_Lomonosov

Ok, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_nuclear_power_plant the US had a prototype in the 1960s already, but the project was ultimately scrapped...
Building a Custom Workflow Engine on Durable Task Framework (DTFx)
Here's what we achieved in a recent project for the automotive industry:

1. DSL with Workflow Validation: Developing a domain-specific language (DSL) empowers end-users to create and manage workflows intuitively, without needing coding expertise.

2. Dynamic Expressions & Data Flow: Incorporating runtime-evaluated expressions adds greater flexibility to workflow execution, allowing for adaptive processes.

3. Workflow Timeout & Cancellation: Implementing timeout and cancellation features ensures efficient resource utilization and quick recovery from potential issues.

4. Workflow Closure Step: Adding a workflow closure step guarantees consistent environment states across PLCs, contributing to a reliable system.
I hope this is not the case. In my experience, Discord has always been clunky, very slow, and truly unmanageable (from a user’s perspective).
> will build nukes anyway for this purpose, at which point the renewables will have been a waste of money and time

Solar, wind, hydro, fission and fusion are all different, with different strengths and weaknesses. Building capacity for one source (making it cheaper in the process!) does not go to waste. Power plants will continue to operate continuously to recoup their capital cost.

A renewable-only grid is generally not the consensus view, just something Greenpeace pushes
Not sure what storming, disturbing and leading to the cancellation of an event that describes historical occurrences else is. A normal hobby? Surely not.
ccache is used together with distcc at the current place I am working at. Started digging at how these two work as I thought there is still room for improvement in our build times that can vary between 10 minutes to 1 hour. It is a huge code base, easily more than a million lines and around 18k files. But had to stop as there were way too many features to develop and bugs to fix. Also, management does not see that kind of work as useful so no point fighting those battles.
Of course, the flip side to that is that I would assume TikTok and Instagram or Twitter type content is not as valuable for LLM training. I think it's the big long form posts that you get on Reddit with explanations and tutorials and advice that have value.

And I don't think a lot of that value has much to do with the direction Reddit has been going with its redesign. If they viewed their core product as creating high quality rich textual content for input into LLM, they would do many, many things differently and probably spend more time improving the moderator tools to improve curation.
Quick, find every site with a security.txt and report it /s
Few folks in here are (rightly) frustrated with the code generation story and broader tooling support around the OpenAPI standard. I've found a few alternative approaches quite nice to work with:

- Use a DSL to describe your service and have it spit out the OpenAPI spec as well as server stubs. In other words, I wouldn't bother writing OpenAPI directly - it's an artifact that is generated at build time. As a Go user, I quite like Goa (https://goa.design/) but there are others shared in here like TypeSpec.

- There are situations where sticking a backend-for-frontend (BFF) in front of APIs can yield great productivity boosts. For example, in the past we built a thin GraphQL proxy that calls out to a poorly structured REST API. Integrating with that was much more convenient. Most recently, I've been playing with a BFF built with tRPC (https://trpc.io/) which calls out to a REST API. It seemed to provide an even better experience if you use TypeScript on the front-end and in the BFF. It does not have a codegen step and I was really pleased with how fast I could iterate with it - granted it was a toy project.
There's a part in 1984, when O'Brien is talking to Winston explaining how the more society falls in line, the harsher the rules become (when one would expect they'd be less necessary). The reason for this is "playing to the base" imo, it's not about trying to stop people smoking, it's to show anti-smoking zealots how "tough on smoking" the government is.
Most server don't do that, but those that do are not crazy
That’s dumb. ADSB is the standard for aviation now. Make it work on drones, don’t try and make some new standard. Pretty sure uAvionix had already solved this way back in 2015 when I was in the industry.
Actually as of late, Linux has been moving towards rebooting for update.

Yeah, you technically can replace on-disk files while services are running.

In practice this can cause trouble if an application wants to read an updated file at the wrong time, and library dependencies can require restarting a lot of stuff.

For ages people would install an update containing a security fix in glibc or libz or something, and keep on running the vulnerable version of the services that use them.

At that point you might as well reboot.

Modern Fedora has a very Windows-like mechanism where you reboot to update. You reboot, the system installs updates, then reboots again.
I take this as your personal opinion that is probably mainly motivated as a person benefiting from it.

Not sure I met many “wealthy” balloon pilots, but glad you make “the trillion dollar industry of drones” a “fight for the common man”
Emphatically, I should say that no one should be making an AI Coltrane
> modern jit outperforms C and C++ compiled code in some cases

I'd love to see some examples of this. Links?
> Let's say the real purpose was always to reduce "news spam", and Russia increased their news spam when invading Ukraine.

Yes, that is correct. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36145183

There is a difference between my personal political opinion and the fact that DuckDuckGo itself acts non-politically, which is what actually happened.
EU doesn't do much invading and USA is too far to install cables. But EU might offer them to join...
The parent might have meant that nuclear processes in the sun generate the light that we catch here and turn into electricity.

The downside of nuclear is that more could go wrong when building, while deploying solar panels doesn't have any risks and the permission (if any) is easy to get.
Add 1.5 Megabytes of RAM to your Mac for only $799!

I do not currently personally own any machines with 1TB of RAM; indeed, I think that the total quantity of RAM on working machines in my house is about half that.

So perhaps I'll be buying a 1TB RAM machine in four or five years.