skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't prove anything. What it does clearly prove, though, is that the Earth is flat. Think about it: have you ever successfully landed with a parachute on a spherical object like a soccer ball or large marble? See?
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Worth noting that the story is possibly apocryphal or exaggerated for effect

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-powered-drone-tried-killi...
>then why would it disappear on the long drive home?

Thinking is expensive, so it's optimized with reflexes.
I blame stress and netflix/vod binge watching more than any chemical.

Go in some place where people live more outside, typically a city with warm climate close to the beach and you will see people spending less time in front of a screen, fucking all the tine and having lots of kids while being generally exposed to the same chemicals That is my experience having moved in different parts of europe.

You have to take into accounts that women are finally fertile a small amount of time in each cycle.

Having said that I don't think this need to be fixed. We are way too many trying to have such a wasteful standard of living for the planet to handle. I somehow regret having given birth to 2 kids in that regard.
Guess Aldi is a startup then
Would love to hear more about this. Have a blog or anything written about the series of events?
Urgent Care diagnosis won’t ever be replaced by an AÍ because there are too many factors at play (including liability). People who believe tech can replace doctors in open-ended scenarios don’t have any idea of how doctors perform triage and diagnosis.
I just wonder why giving birth in the hospital is so normalized; if there's no warning signs during pregnancy or close to birth, wouldn't it be better for everyone involved (mother, child, health care system) to deliver at home? No emergency / stressful trip to the hospital, no roadside / parking lot births, no stress of being in a foreign environment, and you still get taken care of at home by a rotation of midwives.
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This is super cool, congrats on the launch. Have you considered sharing to Product Hunt?
This reminds me of the fact that many foreign subway systems have outer doors (so you can’t just walk onto the tracks) and inner doors. Most people won’t just walk onto the tracks in America but the outer doors address inattentive people, tired people, and people who want to do the wrong thing.

In a lot of places the outer gate is only chest high which isn’t insurmountable but is enough of a barrier to avert 99% of the bad cases. I think the analogy to automatic braking holds.
> There's no magic there, no spirit

Just for the sake of argument. If there was "magic" and "spirit", how would you tell? What properties would you expect to observe?
I think they have a great point though, accurate measurement of the types of incidents is just as important if not more than the total.
is there a similar service in NL or Europe?
NTSHA is really an institution that's lacking in the EU, the recalls and safety bulletin are a feature I would like to see in the EU.
My biggest question has always been, and probably always will be, how non-sentient matter can become sentient.

Now, I'll have to set aside things like panpsychism for now. We'll have to assume that individual atoms are non conscious. Clearly consciousness is not a binary on/off type thing, it's a sliding scale. If individual atoms are 0.0000001% conscious, then that changes everything.

Assuming they are not, what is it about gathering these non-sentient atoms together that suddenly gives rise to self-awareness? If I gave you 2 billion atoms and told you to make them self-aware, what could you do?

Is it the structure of the atoms? Is it the intercommunication of the parts of the brain? Is it the information density? Is it the resulting electrical activity that we can measure as brain waves?

Clearly, we can hook up an EEG to a patient and determine whether they are conscious or not. The brain is still there. The atoms are still there. They are still in the same structure. But the consciousness is gone.

I have been diving deep into this recently due to the rapid pace of AI development. We need to understand what causes this to happen, to determine if it can happen in machines. I don't really see a reason it can't, depending on which theory you go with. If you read about the integrated information theory of consciousness, that leaves the door wide open for machines / AI systems to become conscious, if they haven't already.

If this has anything to do with information density, then AI will rapidly become "more concious" than humans. But it will still lack qualia. The pain of a headache, the smell of a rose, the redness of a sunset. I am not sure what type of consciousoness that AI would even have. The subjective experience would be vastly unfamiliar to anything we understand.

Ok, I've gone on long enough about this. I'm already too confused as it is. Maybe we're not meant to know.
Isn't this overreacting a little bit over a single Ask HN? Are you surprised people look for jobs on a news board from a startup incubator, of all places?
It's useful if you want array-like semantics (e.g. O(1) lookup) on Unicode text strings, because you have a fixed size for every codepoint, unliked UTF-8. Python for example uses it internally.
I always wear a parachute during paragliding :)
The paper is archived here:
https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1515/angl.2010.009

The first three stanzas translated by gpt4:

A little tale I will tell you,

I trust it will please you well,

At it, you shall have good fun.

But where it was I dare not say,

Perhaps another day,

It might turn me to blame.

Now pay good heed everyone,

How a yeoman came riding along,

He found a very fair way.

He looked beside him light gliding,

He found a hare very fair sitting,

Upon a fallow land.

He marked well where she sat then,

He rode to the town as fast as he could,

The way then did he pursue.

The first man that he met with,

Was a husband named Howkin of the hall,

A good man and a true.

The yeoman said with laughing cheer,

'Does any gentleman dwell here,

Good man, as God save you?

Over there I have found a hare sitting,

If you have any greyhounds, bring them with you,

A chase there shall you have.'
> auto-vectorizers are just not as flexible as the proper SIMD-tools

What is a "proper" SIMD tool?
Traffic safety would be greatly improved by a system whereby cars could automatically communicate their speed, rate of acceleration / deceleration etc. to each other. Has anyone considered using brake and parking lights as a way of doing this? I could imagine that by rapidly flipping on / off some of the LEDs, it would be possible to communicate simple information to following vehicles with capability to read the signal, while to other vehicles without such capability they would flicker so fast as to just look like normal brake lights.
Market capitalization is a function of share price, specifically share price times number of shares.

You buying 5 shares shifts the demand curve for the share to the right, resulting in an increase in the price. (absent a simultaneous proportional increase in the supply of shares).

While it may not feel like your purchase of 5 shares gave Apple capital, your demand was surely part of the aggregate demand and supply that determines Apple’s share price at a certain point in time, and hence informs Apple’s market cap.
Hot hand fallacy.
For my "todo" workflow this isn't so good. But it could be tweaked to match it.

When I add a todo, I am usually getting interrupted by someone else, or my own brain, and the todo is a cache of my short term memory of something I need to do. I want my todo writing experience to be fast

Currently there is a spinner to wait for the AI suggestion. 5000ms is too slow. I want to leave the TODO app before I lose my original trail of thought. Even if the AI suggestion is instant, it is a context switch to even read it and consider it.

I think what would be better is a suggestion, maybe as a subtext or popover when I *READ* the todo list. Reading the todo list means I have some time free and I am prepared to crush some of the list. I might even have time to "groom" the list. This would be a great time for AI to help me.

Another thing you can do with AI is let the user tune what kinds of suggestions.

For example the AI could create "tiny habits" (probably a trademark so watch out!) style todos. So replace "go to the gym" with "put on my gym trainers" and so on.

It might be you want it to split todos, or suggest a todo you already have (I have about 50 todos at the moment. Some of them are reading lists for AI, a skiing trip prep list, some bank stuff, and so on, all different urgencies) it is likely I will add the same thing twice.

I also think the table stakes for a TODO app is feature parity with Microsoft TODO. If it can't do all that stuff (it isn't too much) then I would rather stick with Microsoft and forgo the AI.

This is where perhaps your AI thing could be a chrome extension that works with the established todo apps. That would make me much more happier to use it.
California spent $17B on homelessness – it’s not working
It isn't a binary choice, you can disable the function for situations it's not suited for. Nothing should be forcing us to enable harmful scenarios just because.
I don't know. If you think the interesting part about consciousness is that you can write, then maybe you actually don't have consciousness?

I think it's more likely that you are just as conscious as everyone else and you just haven't noticed how incredibly weird it is that you are aware of anything at all.
> "a [] software"

I hope your translator didn't come up with that.
I'm not sure what the exact amount of force is, but I took a more performance oriented driving course that included some hard braking at highway speeds.

It's fairly violent. In normal driving we never do this, it would cause someone to rear end you and it's not necessary. So we have lots and lots and lots of practice braking at a moderate pace. Braking fast in normal day to day life is maybe a 70% force. We're used to trying to think how much pressure is the right amount of pressure.

What they told us is basically to try to break the pedal off. I think it's the easier way to remember, if the crap hits the fan, just put your foot through the floor and get stopped. The less thinking and modulating, the better.
A link to the official guideline would be nice. Asking for a friend.
I heard a similar sentiment from a high performing colleague from a company my employer partered with. He said something along the lines of "if they (client) wants me to make constant PowerPoint reports, they better pay extra for an intern in the contract because I am not wasting time on that".
Doing it locally is better, for mine.

eg

https://gitlab.com/hal88/junkcode/-/blob/master/c_template.c

single file, chmod +x, compiles itself and executes the binary, can easily give the -S flag to gcc or clang (uncomment one line) or better yet run objdump on the binary.

The great thing is it still works if you include a bunch of local headers that are a hassle to supply to godbolt. Latency locally is a win.

The #if 0 trick for the compiler lines and #else for the code is a good one. Got it from Rusty Russell of iptables fame iirc. Write your script in C, why not?
Language Modeling: The First 100 Years
Early versions of Opera (maybe 20 years ago or so, I don't remember when exactly) had real MDI, where the tabs were subwindows rather than actual tabs. You could arrange them however you wanted, tile, cascade, etc.

For me, it was the pinnacle of browser UI. Everything that came after that (including of course later iterations of Opera, which removed the MDI) has been considerably worse.
Radiation-hardened Quine (2014)
Automaker implementation and the chosen hardware to do the implementation on. Meaning that, for example I drive a Honda which has a camera and a radar. The camera is for lane assist from what I gathered and the radar for ACC and AEB.

If I accelerate into traffic and get close to a car while accelerating, it will start flashing a warning light and if I still don't stop accelerating or braking, it will intervene, but if the other car accelerates it doesn't do anything. So the radar setup is quite well done and it gives very few false positives.

The lane assist system is a bit bad though because once it identifies the lane markings it does not take into account potential hazards that want me to change a lane or exit it for a few seconds to avoid road hazard lights or something similar.

The point I am trying to make is that there should be a high standard to what drives the AEB and it should not rely on cameras, which seems to be what automakers want to implement driving assisted features to save on more advanced tech. And somehow I don't think they're gonna pony up for high-speed cameras that can replace a radar at accuracy.

Maybe the intention is good, but most likely the implementation will suck.
At that point I had 3 years of experience and a masters in Econometrics. A year later I got a much better offer in Amsterdam.
(1) profit is up. No analysis is required to explain a fact.

(2) profit is up because current winners have built enduring technological, organization, and market advantages that cannot be replicated by competitors in any reasonable time frame for market competition to discipline prices

(3) Because the current winners are stable, no one (in finance, business or government) gains by backing competitors, which amplifies the effect.
I read the name and description and thought it had something to do with .po (gettext) files but it's not even that...
Moot point, following Descartes definition you can only ascertain you own consciousness, you can't even determine if another person is conscious.
I have a dumb question. Do advertised salaries in EU include tax or are tax deducted. Because I'm the US you get paid $100k but there are taxes and healthcare costs that need to be deducted.
Full-stack simulation of a ride-hailing app such as Uber or Bolt
> Seth's belief in a materialistic explanation for consciousness and the human condition is something I subscribe to, too. My view is that we are simply very complex, giant state machines...

professing your articles of faith about what we are is not "explaining" consciousness, you're simply doing what the Vatican does.

but since we're announcing our views, my view is that Materialism is completely wrong, rather, matter is something our consciousness imagines to explain perceptions like momentum and collisions. In my view, the nature of the universe is informational, mathematical, and computational, and the fact that what we call electrons repel each other does not require material existence, just as what you see in a video game does not require material existence, just computation.

There could be an isomorphic material universe underlying our informational mathematical computational universe, but it's not necessary, and an abstract universe is much closer to abstract thought, so while I haven't explained consciousness any more than you have, it seems like a better way to go to me.
Hmm, perhaps you could also mandate better braking systems in trains while you're at it. :-)
There is a serious cottage industry around standards (not just ISO). Selling the standards themselves is part of an overall architecture for selling "certification" of compliance with the standards and ancillary consulting and training services and, in some instances, selling standard-compliant solutions.

While obviously standards don't have virgin birth (some costs are involved) it does smack as rent extraction: By definition there is only one standard so you can't ask for competitive pressures to lower the price.
aw damn creepy drawings
Kaspersky was spying on international citizens for over a decade, providing data for both the FSB and GRU.

...and now they're complaining about counter surveillance by the FBI?
(Only open to contracting)

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Yes! I was surprised how simple it was. Obvious once you know how. I never really considered multidimensional storage until looking into Machine Learning recently. My only brush with it is relational database tuning, but that is very different, as the number of "dimensions" are small and they are usually not homogenous.
Well, an index into a string is not necessarily another string, nor a character.
People sharing their experiences with "Who wants to be hired" on the other thread inspired me to post here.

Location: Switzerland

Remote: Yes (hybrid or on-site for a good fit)

Willing to relocate: For a good fit

Technologies: React, TypeScript, Remix, Next, Node, Django, Python, Tailwind, SQLite, OCaml, Nix

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josef-erben-90a002b1/

Email: josef@erben.systems

I am currently bootstrapping a product (https://www.performance90.com) but I am open for employment if it's a great fit. I have 8 years of experience as an engineer and 3 years as an entrepreneur. As an engineer I feel at home in the TypeScript and Django ecosystems.

Blog: https://www.joseferben.com/

Github: https://github.com/joseferben

I have my own LLC and I am also open to contract work.
> It's evidence that there's some interesting algorithm hardwired into my brain meat. There's no magic there, no spirit

Magic is just a name for things we don't understand. If you say there's "something" to hand wave it away, but can't define it, how is it different then calling it "magic" or "consciousness" or "spirit"? You made no progress, you just pointed out you know as little as anyone else.
Everyone already knows that the more money California spends on homeless, the more of them will come to California.

It's a service. The state/city that provides the best service for homeless people - that's where I will try to go if I don't have a home.

Politicians don't seem to understand this. Or maybe they do, but they do the wrong thing in order to drum up politically correct votes.

Take San Francisco. It spends $400m on homeless each year. With $400m, you can probably just buy a small apartment in Idaho for every single one of them. Problem solved. Are you homeless? Make your way to San Francisco. The tax payers in the city will buy you a home in Idaho - no questions asked.
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As someone currently living in Switzerland I'm curious, is it a remote job?
Location: Slovenia (can adapt to another timezone)

Remote: Yes, independent contractor

Willing to relocate: No, but can travel

Technologies (fullstack):

10 years in Java, Primefaces, MS SQL, Typescript/JS, Wildfly, HTML, SCSS

3 years in PHP, MySQL, Typescript/JS, React, HTML, SCSS

In between: Python, Redis, Git, Docker and platforms like Digital Ocean, Hetzner, Stripe, Braintree, Paypal

Resume/CV: on demand

Email: ksimphony@gmail.com

I am independent contractor looking for new challenges. We can easily start with part time job to minimize the risk for you and me and it may develop into a fulltime gig later on. I worked for 10 years in a coorporate Java ecosystem followed by being a technical cofounder in a Twitter-like social network. Beside programming I managed teams of up to 5 people, loved to work closely with UI and UX and got my BSC and MSC inbetween.

I would love to have a quick video call to see if there is a fit :)
I really, really liked a lot of Opera's ideas. I think someone on that team really understood good UI design principles, at least at the feature level. If memory serves it included an IRC client at least, and maybe even an FTP client? Can't remember about the latter, but definitely the former.

Perhaps a bit "bloated" for its time, but it was always pretty sleek to use. In fact I don't exactly remember why it never became mainstream. Maybe it had too many quirks or lagged behind others in terms of the new features, which... isn't entirely its own fault.

Looking at it now, it seems to have an identity crisis now. It looks like it has Whatsapp integration, among other things, which is the absolute last thing I'd ever want my browser to have an integration with.
I think OpenAPI needs to step up its game with its code generators, because that too has been an issue for me; I've seen a few issues pop up over time.

It's only useful for generating types; most generators' APIs are stubs at best, which means it's pretty much useless for evolving API specifications.

JSON has its limitations, in that its type system is different enough from other languages that back-end generated code often feels awkward.

I think that the foundation should take ownership of the generators and come up with a testing, validation & certification system. Have them write a standardized test suite that can validate a generated client, making sure there's a checklist of features (e.g. more advanced constructs like `oneOf` with a discriminator, enums, things like that).

And they should reduce the number of generators. Have one lead generator for types, then maybe a number of variants depending on what client the user wants to use. But those could be options / flags on the generator.

Of course, taking a step back, maybe OpenAPI and by extension REST/JSON is a flawed premise to begin with; comparing it with e.g. grpc or graphql, those two are fully integrated systems, where the spec and protocol and implementation are much more tightly bound. The lack of tight bounds (or strict standards for that matter) is an issue with REST/JSON/OpenAPI.
If you're in

Denmark

Finland

Ireland

Netherlands

Sweden

23andme will ship to you.
> UTF-16 code units, on the other hand, are an implementation detail of UTF-16.

Would that it were only so. Instead, UTF-16 ruined Unicode for everyone with the abomination that is surrogates, and almost nothing that deals with UTF-16 actually asserts well-formedness, and ill-formed UTF-16 cannot be represented in UTF-8 or UTF-32.

UTF-32 and UTF-8 code units are truly implementation details of their encodings, as other encodings don’t need to know about them in any way. UTF-32’s code units are a trivial mapping between scalar values and 32-bit values (not four-byte values, given the big- and little-endian variants), but that still causes UTF-32 code units to be semantically distinct from Unicode scalar values. U+12345 is a Unicode scalar value and doesn’t have any “size”: it’s an abstract value. 0x00012345 is a UTF-32 code unit, a 32-bit value.

If you’re talking about encoding of Unicode scalar values, you talk about code units. Even when talking about UTF-32, the code unit/scalar value semantic distinction is worth maintaining.
In one of the world's sunniest and most remote cities, next to a gorgeous coastline with fabulous beaches, world class surf and a very outdoor culture . . .

> The total fertility rate in Greater Perth dipped from 1.76 in 2018 to 1.66 in 2021, spot on the national average.

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/baby-d...
7 cannot be a measure of bytes because a UTF-16 point takes 2 bytes, so the number has to be even. Did you mean 14?
Yeah we write "a(n) [] AI" now.