skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paralyzed Long Island man gets feeling back after A.I. surgery
The difference being that a donation is one-off.

Running a node is continuous.
extra territorial expansion of US national security apparatus is essential for the maintenance of the rule based order
“Exercise is healthy” is very, very far from “Bro science”.
Now this was a great and memorable comparison, thanks.
After a layoff I went through a recruiting/contracting firm that converted to full-time at my job. After that I kept an eye out on recruiters, and male or female it was the best looking set of people I'd ever seen in person.
This is a terrible result. It shows that companies can set up humans to take the fall for their immoral decisions. The emergency braking that Uber turned off would have saved the victim's life.

At least Uber's self driving division got the death penalty. Would have been better if the state had fined the entire corrupt enterprise into bankruptcy.
>> Research often requires venturing into the unknown and unexplored.

Oh, in that sense I'm clueless too. We all are. What I'm pointing out though is that many people in machine learning research don't really understand what's the point of research, or even what's the point of a research paper. They copy each other's writing style and produce the same kind of low-information-content paper.

There's been a huge influx of new people to machine learning research in recent ish years. I think it started around 2012 and the ImageNet results. I did my Master's in 2014-15 (part-time) and I was surprised by the number of people in the machine learning class I took, and how many of them had nothing to do with computer science or AI, and were instead coming from backgrounds in business or more rarely science. At least I'd expect the people with the science backgrounds to know how to write a paper, but it seems most people who come to machine learning from, say, physics or biology, bring with them a facility with calculus and continuous mathematics, but not much in terms of scientific methodology.

Hinton hints at that in the rest of his comment I didn't quote:

What we should be going for, particularly in the basic science conferences, is radically new ideas. Because we know a radically new idea in the long run is going to be much more influential than a tiny improvement. That's I think the main downside of the fact that we've got this inversion now, where you've got a few senior guys and a gazillion young guys.

Well I guess the "gazillion young guys" need a bit of time to figure out how to write good papers, and review them.

>> I do want to add one thing though. A good paper is hard to recognize. A bad paper is easy, but a good paper may be indistinguishable from a bad paper. This is the "paradox" of research and something people need to take to heart. That is if we want to align our job descriptions with our actual jobs.

That's true, and part of the reason why reviewing is hard work. I still find it very hard to reject a paper. What if I'm the one who doesn't get it?
Maybe we can build longer-range power lines that are cheaper. Buckminister Fuller thought we could use semiconductors to build a global power grid which could move energy from renewables all over the Earth. (Buzzkill: you still need to build a right-of-way for power lines and will have problems permitting. Europe has dreamed a long time of getting renewables from North Africa but Africans could well cry imperialism.)

Better particle accelerators, MRI machines, fusion reactors. (If we can greatly strengthen the magnetic field the reactor gets smaller are more economical.)

Better magnetic field sensors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID

Possibly better logic gates post-Silicon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephson_effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_single_flux_quantum

Better magnetic levitation rail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev

When I think of all those things I think the RSFQ logic gates are most likely to be revolutionary.
Actually this strobing glaring light tells you all you need to know about that guy. This is exactly the way they treat the environment at SpaceX in Boca Chica. Utter contempt for everybody else.
> It’s no better than saying “the rich are not paying their fair share”.

We (the people) want certain services of the government we elect — services that cost money.

If you tax the rich less, the poor and working class will therefore have to carry a larger burden. That seems pretty straightforward.
I'm having a very hard time understanding this comment. Perhaps my cognitive decline has begun.

Update: I see I should rewatch "Life of Brian".
Are LLMs The Kodak Moment for Programmers?
The question still stands. Looks like material itself is cheap and can't handle a lot of current.

* You can make charger cables out of it but it will make no practical difference, actually marking things worse due to subpar mechanical aspects.

* In-device interconnects, motherboard-level - maybe. Tiny bump in efficiency.

* CPUs etc - highly unlikely, we are talking dozens-atoms-level stuff, going to be really hard to replicate superconductor properties AND the usual semiconductor stuff

* Networking - this one could be great. No signal repeaters, faster (optical cables are slow due to weird curved path light takes).

Out if ideas. Anything else? Hi-power applications are more straightforward - better electric engines, etc. World-changing power transmission stuff...

P.S. Cold Fusion exists, just not practical atm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion
It has been my observation that it is not that only people of unscrupulous character become wealthy, but wealth tends to make you progressively more unscrupulous, i.e. not care about anything but yourself and your family unless you are legally compelled to do so.

In my mind, I've come to call this relative wealth toxicity. We all know of power toxicity (power corrupts). I think wealth has a similar effect on human psychology. The "relative" part is because a modern-day middle class person is, in absolute terms, is wealthier than a medieval lord, but do not behave like one. It is the relative power and the rarified social status that wealth brings, that results in the toxicity.
And you gave a sizable donation, right?

https://ffmpeg.org/donations.html
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I don't quite understand: constantly, for days? It seems there would be a finite # of buds to burst, and especially at the frequency (4-6 hz?) and relatively finite size of the dark greenhouse...I'm really surprised this is a phenomenon for more than hours. There must be a TON of buds?
"Exercise helps post-COVID cognitive decline and insomnia" is absolutely bro science, and especially since it can make the whole situation much, much worse.
I don't get it. DNA is about people, Indo-European is about language. DNA tells nothing about what language those people spoke thousands of years ago.
Two key properties of superconducting materials are that electrical resistance vanishes and the magnetic fields that are expelled pass around the material.

If there was a viable low cost superconductor that worked at temperatures up to 50 degrees Celcuis and atmospheric pressure, the implications would include:

- way less heat generated in electronics, so faster and more efficient CPUs, GPUs and memory.

- power transmission without loss. Very long range power transmission becomes viable and low cost (buried cables near roads?). For instance, solar energy transmitted in real time from where the sun shines to where it is dark or cloudy.

- a major obstacle to fusion power is removed as superconductors make it much easier, lighter and smaller to use magnetic fields to confine plasma

- medical imaging and scanning gets much cheaper as, for instance, MRI machines get smaller, lighter and simpler.

- mag lev trains could become the lowest cost way to travel by rail. Maybe even cars and trucks become maglev and roads are replaced by magnetic rail.
Seems probable seeing the kind of attacks of his political views in this thread. I'd too keep a firearm for voicing social justice opinions in a country fubar:ed by grief.
In another comment I spoke about how many more people are able to reach 60+ years of age, and that the amount of people living longer have exponentially grown. Our world population reaching another billions milestone at faster timeframes. Scarily, life expectancy was always at around 20-30 years for a large portion of history for humans.(most who reached 15 years of age were capable of living to 50 years albeit they were considered to be outliers) Around neolithic times, we had moved towards increasing population density and promoting growths. This time period was odd as it lowered the overall life expectancy because there were more humans that died from other methods as lifestyles changed from hunter-gatherer to more sedentary lifestyles. Hunter-gatherer lifestyles required loads of land for a single human to survive, which the neolithic era had been able to fix with the introduction of farming. Due to density, more people started attacking one another for variety of reasons and heavily relied on farm crops to sustain increased human populations. Societal growth of centers such as towns and cities then countries continued. Excluding many outliers, life expectancy only started to rise in the 1950s and has kept further increasing past 50+ years and 60+ years.

So yes there is something special about reaching 200 years of age. As it will singal a milestone no other human has ever reached from all of history. On the other hand, life expectancy growing at an alarming rate is putting a lot of strain on resources and land availability.
> What does that mean?

If one added that specification, it would change the meaning that David Kelly seems to have intended. (It would change it to what the poster understood.) Kelly does not seem to restrict the matter to mice, as Uli Bayer does not seem to.

> This isn't what the title says or implies

It is what the submitted divulgational article from the University writes, and the title follows.
Interesting. I didn't notice the side notes at all because I immediately zoomed my view to only see the main text as I do with all web pages in this day and age.
I really hate to start quoting basic wikipedia articles but I have some other stuff to do and I don't want to leave this dangling, from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_field

This is the second sentence in that article:

"Electric fields originate from electric charges and time-varying electric currents."

> I keep bringing the circuit theory in because it is the reason why people can't believe how electricity actually works.

Circuit theory is simply a very useful approximation and how 'electricity actually works' is highly counter intuitive because for starters we got the flow of electrons wrong (they flow from - to + and not the other way around). Still, conceptually, everybody that does electronics for a living will model the flow from + to - because of convenience. But strictly speaking that's not how it 'really works'. But nobody cares they just have a job to do and the tools that suffice for that are the tools that will be used.

Finally: the QM reconciliation of EM and Gravity is for now an unsolved problem so there is a fair chance that in the long run you'll be able to make the argument that 'EM is not really how it works'. But for now it's good enough.
> You are excited that it's dated to 'now'.

Yes, I am. That's very convenient for me.

> Were you around when Microsoft decided to drop the UX they'd been using for a few decades and change to "The Ribbon" ?

I was, and you're right. Microsoft functionally owns the chrome for vscode and it isn't as configurable as far as I can tell as emacs at that layer. There's certainly a possibility they will make a decision later to mess everything up.

But for now, my previous observation stands. I have to do less configuration out of the box to get vscode into a daily use work configuration than a naked emacs install.

I highlight this because it's not an unsolvable problem for emacs. It requires making a recommended default configuration that will be more correct for the 95% use case and advocating that configuration on the install channels for the tool.
Spotify has had a terrible product from the very beginning, I couldn't be bothered to use even when it was free. I could not find half of the artists I was interested in, and of the other half they would only have one or two albums, usually something weird like a live album or remix album. Unless you are a fan of top 20 pop it's just a waste of time.
At my school (UK, a while ago) they dealt with differing abilities of kids in math class by having easier and harder questions in the textbook, so the teacher could explain the new concept simply enough for the slower kids to get it and then the faster ones could try to solve much tricker stuff and so not get too bored.
The same with IA, so many papers that giant companies claim achieving, but that nobody can see, reproduce, or even test, and this goes totally fine. At least there, in the LK-99, they are giving the recipe.
Sounds like a good application for treesitter
Why is that so hard to believe? It’s a global organisation.
Presumably the Russians have included it in the agenda of their 10 million++ person troll farm, the TRUE source of all negative rumours about Western nations (the Canadian government and journalists dismiss all sorts of things as being "factually" only Russian trolls, and the majority of the (online) public absolutely loves it!

Look at Japan, across the board, as just one example, now look at the US - you genuinely think there isn't substantial incompetence and corruption here?

Watch out for propaganda, it comes in many forms, from a variety of sources. One of those is your own consciousness.*
It's like a repeat of c++ or python. If you can find folks & tooling for what you want to accomplish then go for it. I don't think founders who actually have paying customers concern themselves with what works best per cent of compute spend rather what allows them to improve the product, while as an outsider it may seem that they can reduce costs by choosing X over Y.
I do not understand this comment. In what world does "stirring" fluid in a cup imply any sort of dispacement of the cup itself?
You are willfully misrepresenting the situation. The issue isn't that she wrote "men cannot be mothers", it's that she is telling a trans woman "you are a man". If people were running around and telling feminine-looking men "you are a woman" it would be the same situation and handled the same.
This style and format is not for everyone to say the least but this deep dive from Some More News just dropped a few days ago

https://youtu.be/69AtkAHkKEc
At this time, a friend shall lose his friend’s hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before around eight o’clock.
I don't think diagrams are meant to be copy-pasted from a lot, so I'm not worried about that.

For editing, I'd just use a conversion tool, and edit it in a fixed-width editor rather than directly in code. Yes, it's an extra tool, but I don't think it's that outlandish to edit pictures in a tool for editing pictures.
I signed up for it, and I'm not expected to code anymore (I only do so in my free time nowadays - which actually made it even more fun!). But my company expects the engineering managers to be basically at the same level as senior/staff engineers when it comes to experience & knowledge. Part of my work is coaching people, which now I cannot really do in many ways.

But I'm on a good end anyways, since I have a team of people that I know I can trust with things. So I'm here mostly to find out what would be the best way for me to approach this. Thanks for all the advice!
Over time things break down and don’t work as well. Some organs cope with this better than others. This is how I read it.
Further, my rich friend just made enough on his/her investments to cover the entire meal before we were even seated at the table, ha ha.
The polonium is not the only thing decaying in the tobacco, is all I meant.
It's not "nonsensical" at all. Even with warrants, authorities will abuse their power. I've seen a story here on HN about police submitting literal blank pages to judges and getting the warrants they want. Don't tell me this warrant bullshit stops anything.

I refuse to grant them any power whatsoever by using subversive technology like encryption. Their only choice is to increase their tyranny by treating all encryption as proof of guilt, undermining the freedom of everyone, including yours. Will you tolerate the increased tyranny or will you oppose it? That is the question.
I generally don't read the claimed scientific breakthrough articles on HN. This is exactly the reason. Unless these science breakthroughs can be put to good use then they might as well not exist.

And as you mention, they need to be reproduced and commercialized (i.e. mass produced or at least affordably produced).

People are allowed to dream and hope, but I'd rather not give into marketing and hype. To each their own.
Great stuff!

ffmpeg is infrastructure-level important, and tools like this keep it going.
Cookiecutter-FastAPI-Worker-Project
Time-saving project generator for Python services.

It creates FastAPI APIs with built-in support for asynchronous background workers.

The template comes with structured logging, Dockerfiles for testing and deployment, and essential tools like black, isort, flake8, and mypy for code formatting and linting
Uh, guys, we should think about spending more on defense in the US
Spherical 'minibrains' to be grown on the International Space Station
The main clue is knowing that Jack Harlow is from Louisville Kentucky, so he is basically guessing that the picture was also taken there and just confirming it by checking if the license plates and logos match those he can find for that area.
I guess that's why stories are so important - they contain this information - how and why things happen(ed), instead of just what happened and when
Moore's Law is not engineering, it's economics.

The limits of physics can be surpassed with parallelization.

Moore's law is a reflection of the private and business market's desire/need for ever greater efficiency.

There is no limit.
The data is from Open Street Maps. Their data is world wide, but quality of coverage varies wildly.

Austria for example has very good maps in OSM, South Korea on the other hand has much lower quality maps (probably fewer people there using OSM)
The core issue is there isn't a 'emacs.tiny' package that contains a small subset of emacs features.

This makes it difficult to install emacs on a resource constrainted environment like a embedded system, and hard to justify installing on a server. (Yes we can use tramp but it's not always a option)

It's a real shame and why I still need to know vi and vim.
DNA analysis allows to follow migrations and with it the migrations of languages.
Hunting Down Facebook's Top Boomers [video]
Please be more precise. You should say ChatGPT if you mean that product. Also specify which model, GPT-3.5 or GPT-4.

Short answer is they use different models.
I thought most of those file conversion sites were just ffmpeg on top of nginx or something?
Emacs for You (Emfy): Tiny init.el for beginners to quickly set up vanilla Emacs
AI's Scariest Mystery
Yeah, that couple hours a year is a real killer.
There are microplastics in the contents of those bottles. Just by opening those bottles you're releasing countless microplastics into the air. Even if we'd manage to collect all those bottles, it would still pollute.

Yes, governments are among those responsible.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61146-4

Microplastics generated when opening plastic packaging

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237900-just-opening-a-...

Just opening a plastic bottle can release thousands of microplastics

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/15/micropla...

WHO launches health review after microplastics found in 90% of bottled water
This article is more than 5 years old

Researchers find levels of plastic fibres in popular bottled water brands could be twice as high as those found in tap water
Same here, and to that I don't think I know of any municipality logos, pretty sure that is not a thing. And all license plates in the country are going to be the same.
With proper syntax highlighting it's fine. But this is why I have moved away, it's hard to read without good syntax highlighting. I don't know why extensions aren't handling it. Web-mode does but only the first level or so of nesting.
Does Web3 infrastructure even matter if there are no apps?
> The government is the people

The government is the majority.

> Time and time again people vote for services even if it means higher taxes (especially on the rich and on corporations). This is because some things don't really work if they're only funded by individuals.

Uh, I have a simpler explanation. People vote for things that are good for themselves and come up with contrived arguments for why that's moral.

> To turn your point around, can you point to any large nation with low taxes and good outcomes?

This is overly simplistic.

> Do you have good examples to the contrary, like not one-offs but large, complex societies working via voluntary contribution alone?

Have I advocated for this?

> Is your argument that corporate services would outperform government services?

I have not made that argument once. I've made the argument that government spending is wasteful. Unsurprisingly the government choosing private corporations to execute government services is also wasteful.

It seems you think I'm a libertarian because I don't like giving my money away?

> complex societies working via voluntary contribution alone?

I'm glad you think society is complex, so do I. Can you give examples of large completely centralized successful societies?
My dad tells me that when he was in high school, students who fought would be given heavy boxing gloves and put in the ring until they were too tired to fight anymore. The heavy gloves prevented any significant injury and were exhausting to use. He says it usually put an end to the the fued.

There are obvious problems with normalizing that kind of thing, such as giving extra social advantages to people who are aggressive and good at boxing, but it doesn't sound like an entirely bad idea.
It helps to map migrations and thus spread of languages.
Every single time i open up the tutorials on how to learn emacs, a million other priorities come along. I know there are die hard fans of it, and I'd love to learn it, but with VSCode, vi, tmux, and all the MacOS tools i know, I'm not sure I'll get around to learning it before i burn out completely from engineering
> Translation is free and instant for web pages.

And also very often quite incorrect, and you don't know where.

I think the general idea of a "universal language" Wikipedia, that gets flawlessly rendered into local languages, is laudable.

But I don't think anybody would ever edit in it directly -- what I want to see is that when somebody edits Wikipedia to add a new sentence, it attempts to translate into the "universal language" and prompt you to select from ambiguities.

E.g. if you wrote:

I saw someone on the hill with a telescope.

It would ask you to confirm which of the following was intended:

[ ] "with a telescope" modifies "I saw"
[ ] "with a telescope" modifies "someone on the hill"

And it would also ask to clarify meanings, e.g.:

[ ] "saw" - spotted visually
[ ] "saw" - dated romantically

It would be a real dream to have translated outputs that were guaranteed to be correct, because the intermediate representation was correct, because the translation from someone's native language to that intermediate translation was verified in this way.
Your governments also recommend driving everywhere by car. You're kinda missing the point.
X to Close – The origins of the use of [x] in UI design. (2014)