skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't initially; but as you noted, it didn't help much anyway.
Efficiency of the discharge part, yes. But that's a less than factor of 2 effect that can't overcome the two orders of magnitude superiority over batteries in cost per unit of storage capacity.
It probably doesn't use backpropagation of gradients. Instead, the cortex appears to be a prediction engine that uses error feedback (perceptual reality vs prediction) to minimize prediction errors in a conceptually similar type of way. If every "layer" (cortical patch) is doing it's own prediction and receiving feedback, then you don't need any error propagation from one layer to the next.
Thought-controlled walking again after spinal cord injury
Yes, that's what a thought experiment is. A cat can't be alive and death at the same time, either.
I really like the Tau being evil being even in the lore, they're not often seen this way by common imperial troops (at least the less brainwashed ones). Its like every faction has a special ability, and for Tau its fantastic PR.

Strange as it sounds, imo the least evil faction is the Tyranids. Though they're (or I guess technically it, because they don't have individual minds) intelligent, its an entirely different form of intelligence which makes them more like a force of nature, no more evil than a tornado is.
There's more than enough evidence of that in a billion different places. And we're not exactly suffering from not having those records of the past, either. If keeping records long term were actually important we'd have done it well before the sites end up deleting all their content. This is just a fear of the unknown with no concrete examples of cases to justify it.
years ago I moved back to my hometown in South Dakota after a few years in Washington. my mom asked me to pick up some groceries for her and gave me her credit card to pay for it. I bought the groceries and, additionally, the first Red Bull I'd had in at least a year, using her credit card. within an hour, I got a notification from that one Google app thing where you answer survey questions for Play Store credit (not sure if it still exists), asking what my opinion of Red Bull was.

to reiterate:

- I had just moved halfway across the country

- this was the first Red Bull I had purchased in at least a year

- I made the purchase using a credit card other than my own, which was in no way connected to any bank account that was connected to me

- there should have been nothing connecting me to my purchase

I uninstalled the app immediately after that. sure, maybe it was some strange coincidence, but there's been far too many strange coincidences like that to make me anywhere near comfortable with this shit.

another time, years ago, I was talking to someone about how I needed to get a new pair of cheap earbuds, and within a couple hours an Amazon ad for this specific thing appeared in my Twitter timeline.

additionally, I just got married a couple weeks ago, and my wife and I immediately started seeing ads for sexual stamina tablets in our social media feeds—thanks, evil advertising apparatus, I thought I was doing okay :/
Microsoft to move top AI experts from China to new lab in Canada
I just think idiots who touch fire should be burned - particularly lazy idiots whose high paid job in fact requires them to be extremely careful and precise in their actions, and who refuse to take responsibility for their actions afterwards.

It's not that they need to inspect every nut and bolt of the bridge, they just need to not walk over the bridge - or at least, not immediately start driving unreasonably heavy loads across it.
It is imperative to control material incentives for all entities, both individuals and organizations. Entities will pursue incentives; money is no exception. Therefore, if we have designed a government so that it profits from protecting citizens from the ravages of corporate greed... that still counts as a good system.
We don’t know in adults, kittens stimulate milk production from it is the answer from science, that’s not speculation.

Adults continuing the behavior from kitten hood is speculation not a scientific consensus.
How long though? I.e. when you have more money, don’t you start valuing your time and dignity more?
PFAS was military tech before it came to 3M.
I liked the analogy I picked up somewhere (I don't remember where, maybe I synthesized it from some of Eliezer's writings), that words are handles, pointers to associations[0] - both factual and emotional ones - and poetry, specifically, is an art of using words to pull those emotional associations in a very calculated way, effectively executing code in your readers' brain to achieve the desired effect.

--

[0] - Today we'd say "tokens stand for their embeddings in the latent space". Funny how those old articles about pointers to areas in concept-space, fuzzy boundaries, associations, etc. suddenly map pretty much perfectly, 1:1, to how LLMs and other generative transformer models work.
I’d certainly like to see a return of the UX of Usenet, nothing that came after equaled its effectiveness. Unfortunately, that UX is difficult to translate to mobile devices, because it basically requires to be keyboard-driven.
One data point does not make a trend. Post-Disney is when the trend started. Also a downward trend... of sales.
This puts screen real estate in your pocket/bag. Also gesture and eye control.
This was my queue as well, now I am here. I'm excited to spend far less time on Reddit.
Oh come on now that's not fair. No matter how utterly woeful and corrupt tech journalism had been (and horrific is the adjective I'd use) drawing parallels to Jim Kramer is just unseemly.
This must be the biggest-paddings-between-blocks website ever. At least for mobile.
China was able to pressure the west to do so because western companies:

- "need" to operate in China

- The Chinese government requires majority state ownership of enterprises

I don't think the conditions are the same in Europe, especially given the historical precedents of Safe Harbor/Privacy Shield/etc.
Being profit-driven is a fine model for a business. However, it doesn't make business sense to alienate developers and users in service of that goal.

Reddit has always struck me as a company with no creativity. They have this huge diverse community and can't seem to find a way to monetize it in any way other than the most basic advertising model.

They always seem to do things in conflict with the community rather than in concert with them.
Doesn't look like being a green cloud will be a differentiator for very long.

"Amazon is the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy and is on a path to powering our operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025"

https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/environment/renewable...
“Wait… I’m seeing column constraints in this white paper for PostgresSQL you sent me… how do we make this trustless??”

Exaggerating… a little bit
All that says is that the iPhone was a uniquely good business and opportunity that will likely never be matched by any product for the next few decades. There isn't anyone claiming the Apple Vision Pro will be as big as the iPhone in terms of sales or importance. It could however be a new modern computer that takes over many functions performed on a Mac today. The TAM will expand based on its capability, much like it did for the PC during the 70s and 80s.
> In fact, I think that sometimes, companies consider high pay, a license to humiliate.

This is easier to think if you haven't had or don't remember low-wage work.
He tried to invade and occupy the whole fucking country. Not just "the eastern part". He went for Kherson, he went for Odesa, he went for Kyiv. The fact that he failed doesn't diminish the fact that he tried.

JM was just wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVmmASrAL-Q&t=27m27s

Putin gave his speech about wanting to be Peter the Great, how Ukrainians are just Russians who've been convinced otherwise by the evil West, and Russian state media went around praising Putin for "solving the Ukrainian question" (yikes, and yes that's a quote).

None of that fits into JM's worldview.

No geopolitical doctrine should take for granted that all geopolitical actors are rational, especially dictators. This ought to have been obvious after WWII.
Wait, what kind of drinks from what kind of high end restaurants are coming with straws?

And why don't you just ask for a drink without a straw instead of removing it later?
Coincides with the iPhone, then the beginning of Android, and the rise of mobile overtaking desktop.
Why can’t users just register their own keys and paste them into various clients? This seems like an easy way to have avoided this situation.
I read the whole thing in one sitting. I found it interesting in a slice-of-life way. Basically a journey to maturity and self-discovery.

You might jot down your aimless years after college, for your own future reminiscences if nothing else.

But everyone, I believe, has a story to tell, something of value. We tend not to tell our stories anymore, because we’re too busy and overstimulated and no longer need to fill up the hours around the cooking fire.
The market share of these services in the EU might end up being affected by the passage of the Digital Services Act and its sister bill the Digital Markets Act
Before you get mad, understand that John C. Dvorak does it just for the clicks:

https://youtu.be/gOHzHVF-4Mg
> I just can't understand why they feel the need to keep publicly stating things that are either outright untrue or at least misleading

I can only think of one reason: they’re panicking.

> It's reddit's ball, they can take it and go home any time they want.

While this is true, Reddit knows they are dependent on their users for their survival. That’s why they are panicking.
> “Amazon, Google and Microsoft are really good, but US authorities have the right to see the data stored on non-American citizens."

Unfortunately Mattias, they don't care if they have the right or not. American citizens are routinely subject to surveillance, dragnet and otherwise. I'd be very surprised if any of your data centers stay out of view of our unconscionable surveillance apparatus.
> selects the optimal algorithm

Here's the catch: how does the "system" know which algorithm would be the best? It could try encoding it with multiple algorithms and see which one is shorter, but that's extra CPU.

And the "system" can be called acompression algorithm itself.
Off topic, but this site has literally 6 advertising blocks in the article and still it asks for a subscription.
I am running a multi million user platform, but in no way i need to have such a destructive monetization model. My users would flee. My platform would die quickly.
Nothing odd about it. These apps are frontend; building a backend of a reddit scale is a completely different task.
I've been forced out over Partygate report, says Boris Johnson
John C. Dvorak is an admitted anti-Apple troll who went all in on click-bait to drive advertising revenue: a pioneer, if you will. [0]

Eventually, he pissed of his editorship about 5G advertorial and was fired. [1] [2]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMQv0j29WHA

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20181007013846/https://medium.co...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18157869
i32 is used for Unix time, resulting in overflow sometime in 2038. If that was changed to u32, overflow would happen instead in 2106. 15 years is close enough that such a change would actually "make or break" timekeeping on human timescales.

Using i64 for nanoseconds with the same origin (1970-01-01), we could cover roughly 1677-2262. Using u64 for nanoseconds we could cover roughly 1970-2554, or more generally about 585 years of timestamps from wherever a new proposed origin would be. Likely we don't need nanoscale precision for times far enough in the past, so I guess "far enough" is the definition worth arguing over here.
>I just think idiots who touch fire should be burned - particularly lazy idiots whose high paid job in fact requires them to be extremely careful and precise in their actions, and who refuse to take responsibility for their actions afterwards.

Are we talking about lawyers or the AI researchers?, because they certainly want to portray themselves as a modern day Prometheus
That your own personal opinion, which is contrary to the growth metrics.

Nostr community is about true freedom to write just about anything.
Additional context that Christian was referencing the _app_ being "noisy", as in the _noisy neighbor_ effect, when a client is misconfigured to cause more activity and bring more a burden than it should [0]. Reddit interpreted this as "noisy" = "we will complain and raise hell", but this was literally immediately worked out as a miscommunication in the transcript [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing_issues#Perform...
[1]: https://gist.github.com/christianselig/fda7e8bc5a25aec9824f9...
Hey Dries, what was the most challenging part of building Plunk?
For context for anyone reading this, Mearsheimer is one of the most hardcore anti-nato theorist's in the International Relationship world.

He IS credible, don't get me wrong. But he does also represent the extreme end of the "Realist" school of thought so definitely isn't what you'd call "balanced".

Just make sure you balance his theories out with some other options, don't take him as gospel.
There absolutely is, for example physics
The fear was much more real back then. I too grew up with a family computer, but I was the only one being able to both break it and then fix it afterwards... Fortunately, there was nothing that couldn't be fixed by reinstalling the OS, and I quickly picked up on the advice to have separate "System" and "Data" partitions, so you don't lose anything important if you need to wipe the OS.
I suspect the hardware engineer would explain the great favour he’s doing you by handling all the handling of all the weird splits between things like hours, minutes and days for you in hardware logic, rather than you having to waste previous cycles of your MCU’s core to do that sort of thing. But it is indeed a real pain when you want dates in more abstract than human forms…
Discord, Usenet, IRC, and Hacker News, are the platforms that'll get flooded as Reddit rots. Hence, find a way to invest in one of them. No need to develop anything new, just support the things that actually work.
Third Party Apps like Sync, Apollo RIF etc.
Wow. I read that book in college. No idea a backlash like that developed... That is crazy if that is how skewed university's have become. Guns, Germs, and Steel is an incredible academic work. Dang.
I always found McNeill's "Plagues and Peoples" a much better read than Diamond's book on semi-overlapping topics.
If you know them, they know you too, and they are sharing with you for a reason. But if you’re unsure how best to support them - ask this:

“Would you like me you think through potential risks and pitfalls, or are you looking for emotional support?”

If they answer the former, go right ahead and challenge them. If the latter then share your hopes for their success. Sometimes they know they have blind spots and they need your help before investing too much effort in the idea, sometimes they just want to share their enthusiasm.
You’re polluting hacker news with this main stream news garbage. Hacker news is meant for tech, science, engineering, and startups, not this irrelevant banker.
A lot of european companies would. You’d be surprised how often saas clients told me to _never_ allow client data to get anywhere near a us company. People around europe are very privacy aware.
"We must respond to defensive fortifications that put missile batteries up outside our sovereign borders with extremely violent, extremely aggressive, expansionary excursions to conquer territory and move our border CLOSER to said missiles"

The logic makes zero sense, I'm sorry. It's still a "well, I wouldn't have to do X if you didn't do Y" mentality that completely and utterly shirks any sense of responsibility for one's or one's country's own actions. It's hogwash doublespeak used by BOTH abusers in messy interpersonal relationships, AND by international politicians playing realpolitik.
I feel compelled to back you up on this one. You mention your experience with cast iron, and 20 semi-pro internet chefs jump all over you to gaslight you with "you just didn't season it properly bro"

No. I polymerized it with the grapeseed oil. I tried it with sunflower oil. I polymerized until my apartment swirled with smoke. I wiped it down with nothing besides a paper towel and water. I followed youtube guides.

Nothing worked, and that goddamn pan would lose slickness in the heavily-used center every other day. Plus, I'd leave it unused for a few weeks while traveling, and upon returning, it'd be covered in rust! This happened with at least 3 different pans from 2 different manufacturers.

Low-maintenance my ass.
https://atproto.com is the future
That's exactly my point. It's far easier to adopt NACS as the North American standard than J1772, CCS Combo 1 or anything else. It requires the least change.
And yet they're making statements that it's either not a thing, or that they're outraged solely by the terminology they use about it.

If they don't like calling trans men "men", fine, they don't have to. But there are people who identify as men, act as men, think of themselves as men, are treated as men by everyone around them, and yet can get pregnant. This is an objective fact. So either they don't like the fact or they don't like the words. Neither sounds like a good use of their time.
So you also think RIF and Sync devs are wrong? They also have opted to shutter their apps due to the unreasonable pricing, without "crying" as you put it.

And you think that Reddit handled this appropriately, to the point where you would "support" them? So you support the libel, alienating your userbase, moderators, and 3rd party developers, and straight up lying to the community?

Not even getting into the actual API changes and how badly they were introduced, this whole thing was an exercise in how to permanently alienate their most vocal and engaged users. It's truly masterclass in what not to do in a PR crisis.
It sounds like it's layering on the European aspect to get government/EU backing. Fair enough, I hope they succeed.
"You peasants cannot be allowed too much power..."

They are so short-sighted...
Also IIRC right around the same time they totally abandoned "don't be evil" and started doing ads inline with search results, basing much of their future revenue on tricking unwary users.

[EDIT] They might also have switched from their text-only ads to being a more ordinary, crappy web advertiser not long after, which started to partially align their interests with webspammers, which may explain why they didn't mind yielding the whole middle (if that makes sense) of the search-result space to them.
All of the noteworthy Reddit apps already announced they're shutting down on the 30th.

It's absurd he's even pretending that these developers are leaving because they "don't want to work with us." Selig posted so many receipts of him going above and beyond to play well with reddit, and never even had any qualms with the idea of paying for API usage. Steve Huffman pretending that we didn't see all of this is so spineless and pathetic. Everyone at reddit should be embarrassed to work for him.

I hope their IPO tanks.
> Now compare that effort and overlay the mobile handset business. This is not an emerging business. In fact it's gone so far that it's in the process of consolidation with probably two players dominating everything, Nokia Corp and Motorola

I've never seen someone be so right and so wrong at the same time.
That specific part is not in the piece, you're right. I believe it was in an interview I listened to recently, I'll see if I can find it.

However, it is true that Votgle had already applied for a COL prior to the ruling being made and that the design was already certified by NRC. The fact that a senior NRC regulator said that Westinghouse should have changed their design beforehand according to a rule that didn't exist yet is... insane.

Not to mention that the head of the NRC at the time is publically for a global ban on nuclear energy, was the sole veto vote against Votgle, pushed for the new aircraft strike rules personally, and was asked to resign by several NRC commissioners due to his unprofessional behavior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Jaczko
You and your wife's phones are almost certainly tied together in multiple databases that adtech companies (especially the quieter tiers below Google/FB themselves) maintain and sell. And then you get re-targeted for ads you or her see, or ads based on things you or her see (retargeting was a really big thing back when I was in the industry, since behavioral prediction wasn't quite living up to the hype - so just re-show stuff you already think is relevant! I'm sure you've seen stuff like "here's thirty other lightbulbs" after you buy one lightbulb on Amazon in the past decade.)

Here's how it worked ~12 years ago: At some point you almost certainly have used the same home internet connection. A cookie associated with some account(s) of hers gets associated with that IP. Same for some account(s) of yours. Find IPs that over small time frames only have a handful of distinct users to filter out coffeeshops and such. Bam, likely family or roommate connection. Some sticky "supercookie" stuff or similar gets set so this can be both resurrected even when cookies expire (through like Etag cache headers or whatever) and then there's a lot of behind-the-scenes ad network offline-cookie-syncing.

One of the companies in that web partners offers ads on FB, another runs ads on Google, she searches and click something on your wife's phone (at this point regardless of network), it gets tied to you too.

It could be more innocuous but tracking same-household, cross-device for retargeting... all that is really old hat at this point.

I intentionally moved my career pretty far from ad-tech in the past decade, but from what I've heard in adjacent convos and such is that the newer developments include some of the newer platforms like smart TVs into all that old cross-device fun, too. Both as data source and ad display destination. A lot of TVs phone home about what you watch, even - like https://clinch.co/clinch-partners-with-samsung-ads/ There's a million ad-tech companies out there, they aren't all just writing real-time-bidding algorithms for traditional display ads.
Those features are all much better provided by The Internet. Including finding and ordering a specialized physical book if you need.
Usenet still exists.
Have a beer, bro
I think I agree. There has to be a cost. I cuts down spam and raises a cost for mildly the mildly annoying.

What if, and this is based on the principle of making it cost something, crypto got incorporated into the idea effectively forcing one to pay to send a message on a given forum.

Hardly perfect, but with one of the anonymous coins it might not be a bad balance ( assuming we can get past the current slew of news that battered crypto ).
Depends on what the actual risk is:

> Using our regression discontinuity approach, we find that being eligible for the zoster vaccine caused a 1.3 (95% CI: 0.2 – 2.7; p=0.022) percentage point absolute, and 8.5% relative, reduction in the probability of a new dementia diagnosis over our seven-year follow-up period[0]

1.3% absolutely reduction seems like a big deal.

[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.23.23290253v...
Very true. And when that happens i will gladly switch.