skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is an approach demonstrating an alternative to randomness, from Peikoff’s “Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand”:

The law of causality affirms a necessary connection between entities and their actions. It does not, however, specify any particular kind of entity or of action. The law does not say that only mechanistic relationships can occur, the kind that apply when one billiard ball strikes another; this is one common form of causation, but it does not preempt the field. Similarly, the law does not say that only choices governed by ideas and values are possible; this, too, is merely a form of causation; it is common but not universal within the realm of consciousness. The law of causality does not inventory the universe; it does not tell us what kinds of entities or actions are possible. It tells us only that whatever entities there are, they act in accordance with their nature, and whatever actions there are, they are performed and determined by the entity which acts.

The law of causality by itself, therefore, does not affirm or deny the reality of an irreducible choice. It says only this much: if such a choice does exist, then it, too, as a form of action, is performed and necessitated by an entity of a specific nature.

The content of one’s choice could always have gone in the opposite direction; the choice to focus could have been the choice not to focus, and vice versa. But the action itself, the fact of choosing as such, in one direction or the other, is unavoidable. Since man is an entity of a certain kind, since his brain and consciousness possess a certain identity, he must act in a certain way. He must continuously choose between focus and nonfocus. Given a certain kind of cause, in other words, a certain kind of effect must follow. This is not a violation of the law of causality, but an instance of it.
My completely uninformed hypothesis is that it is edge detection, but on a depth map rather than a color map. A figure in the article even shows a situation where a depth sketch succeeds while edge detection on a color map fails
Most people are powerless to do anything so they associate themselves with movements to feel as if they are part of something meaningful
For six tickets in a year?! Just take away their license.
Especially not purely RGB cameras. There’s a reason why you automatically focus to something that’s moving or fluttering. I think DVS camera would have bridged a huge gap in perception sensing but unfortunately there’s not enough demand for it to scale so most manufacturers dropped it.
Part of this is the ever increasing amount of tags and elements in HTML files. Instead of being a document markup, it's a page markup, and it's difficult to discern where one stops and the other begins, although the W3C has tried with the addition of article and section elements. But then I suppose the raw HTML code was never meant to be read by other than devs in the first place, so there's that.
Current in a conductor does not involve the potential energy of charges (electrons) being concentrated. This should be clear by the fact that currents cause magnetic fields, but do not give the conductive wire a charge gradient (or an electric dipole moment).
> six speeding tickets and red-light camera violations, or four speed camera or red-light violations, in a year

That does sound like people who are completely oblivious to the law.
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> The neoliberal view is that you can prove your point by forming subcultures that do better than the surrounding culture.

Asian and other immigrant groups have done that and you can see the results. (In a country overrun by “white supremacy” poor Asians have almost three times the income mobility from the bottom quantile to the top quantile as poor whites in the US.) It works, so long as you can keep your kids from becoming Americanized.

Another example is Mormons. They should be poor like Appalachians. They fled persecution to arid parts of the country nobody else wanted. But Mormons today are disproportionately likely to be middle class or upper middle class.
Has potential, future projections look optimistic despite shortfall.

Tellingly though, right now today:

Out of the 27 commercially operational CCS projects worldwide, 21 inject carbon dioxide into oil reservoirs to force out petroleum

which isn't any kind of net reduction, just upslope reduction to slow an ongoing increase.
Watch out, you don't want to get sued :)
Buttercup > butternut
AI can “safely” read breast cancer screening images, a Swedish study suggests
I'm in upstate Sao Paulo and we are having a mild winter. Cooler than prior years. Northern Argentina and Chile are having above normal temps alright [having El Nino next door], but the eastern [high elevation] SA [Brazil] is definitely cooler.
Security Proof of Threema’s Communication Protocol
Everyone in academia knows that academia is shit.

People are warned well in advance by peers, professors and everywhere online, and yet they still do it.

Then, once the sunk cost creeps in, you can't help but partake into the rotten system and wish to keep it as such.

Just leave and do private research, it's not worth it
FalconLite
Gonna need a banana for scale, boys.

Edit: Is it possible to replicate the structure of this material using carbon nano-tubing? Someone mentioned packing ceramic like materials into silver tubes as a means of making cables; can that be done with carbon nano-tubing?
I've been meaning to build some utility websites like a simple forum and a simple pastebin and the like for a while just entirely without javascript, kind of like the old days. I want a simpler web with less bloat.
That's right. But allergies are usually related to trees or insects. I think with warm weather trees are confused and they start pollination.
Yes they should, as in reality they are comparing Linux to Apple.
Im from US, and we always had a vegetable garden growing up. Names were much the same from my point of view. Gourds were mostly hard and ornamental, squash is an edible gourd, and they weren’t really too much of a thing until the internet made everything popular.
Slow?
Yes, I don't use Sass or LESS anymore.
You can do this by deleting the default value (should be 'C:\Windows\System32\Windows.UI.FileExplorer.dll') under the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InProcServer32

though IIRC a tool to escalate privileges is needed to be able to modify the key.

The tool I posted elsewhere in the thread has an option to restore the old context menu but its overkill to create an ISO and do a complete re-install just for that xD.
Not trying to be rude, but what makes you believe that a universal cure for cancer would enable eternal life?
A Bet Against Quantum Gravity [video]
The difference between the data in the image, and the information? If for instance you upscaled text so large that it became blurry and unrecognizable, you lost information.

Our cortext is all about interpreting what we see. Almost before our brain proper has the data, nerves have begun extracting information (edges etc). Probably because it was the difference between hitting and missing the animal with the spear. Or seeing or missing the tiger in the grass.
Hasn't Steam Deck pretty much solved that problem by shoveling such insane amounts of money into Wine/Proton that it is able to pretty much run everything you want in terms of games?
looks great, love the clean UI
The key is that you can always dump dollars into US bonds. Any alternative currency needs something similar, until they have that sink it doesn’t really matter.
Does that mean the patent should start from 1999?
They didn't steal money, so they don't face jail. They stole reputation, which is not a crime that the laws deal with.
And which measurable, enumerable qualities of those things set them apart from not having experiences or not paying attention so that I can determine whether or not an AI, or a camera, or an animal, or another human, is "having experiences" or "paying attention"?

Because it's still equally nebulous.
Line drawings work because they represent the centers of symmetry for surfaces and volumes. They trigger the same center-neurons that the original shape would.

A hand could appear on you retina in different sizes and orientations. According to distance, the size will grow and shrink.
But the center of symmetry will stay the same.

This goes further. There's also a center of symmetry between edges, and higher-level features as well. Our brain has no issue detecting these.
I had to have a HomeBridge server already and was running it from a Pi Zero W -- I just decided to bolt it onto the back of the printer and make it pull double-duty as the CUPS box.

A little party trick -- depending on the printer, you might be able to get an "in line" power tap/Y splitter for the power cord to run the Pi and the printer off the same outlet. (My printer takes a normal C14, so I just split and slapped a USB brick on the other end.)
There were people like this all over the city. Literally thousands of people who actually live there walk passed them every day. I did as they did, figured the people that live there know better than a tourist. Did you want me to kneel down next to each one, my kids next to me and give them a shake? What are the odds someone passed out on hard drugs, likely with mental issues is going to react well to being woken by a stranger?

I invite people in my community into my home. Do you expect me to invite homeless addicts into my house?

Homeless people are a "nuisance and inconvenience" to the community. To argue otherwise is to be disingenuous.

These are just from yesterday

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/homeless-man-accused-of-fat...

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/pittsburgh-police-arrest-suspect...
> Abolishing agriculture subsidies won't cause a reduction in meat consumption ... can continue to grow without the subsidies

Without subsidies animal ag is deeply unprofitable. Removing them and taxing the negative externalities "properly" would mean the price of such products would be a multiple of what it's now, so it would be out of reach for most of the population.

> that be will be vastly easier if abundant energy

Yes, it would. But we don't have it at the moment, and it will require a lot of fossil fuels and time to get there.

At the same time EROI of fossil fuels is falling down. It's at 5 IIRC, down from more that 100+ at the start of the previous century - meaning that previously for every 1 barrel of oil invested into extraction you'd get 100-150 barrels back, now it's about 5 barrels. Soon it could become unprofitable to extract more oil, as it would cost more energy to get it out of the ground that what would be gained, no matter how much is still in the ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_energy_gain#Examples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WPB2u8EzL8
Upvote for King Gizzard
New Relic agrees to $6.5B buyout amidst job cuts
Apparently the studios don't mind the joke.

Meanwhile, Valve has to emulate Windows and DirectX to make SteamDeck usable for its target market.
Wrong country. The fines are abdolute, not relative. There are fines that are relative to your daily income, but not traffic code violations.
There was a science fiction story of a race of aliens that had to draw what they found instead of photographing it. A photograph was flat and uninformative to them, almost completely lacking in meaning. Their science was based on interpretation at the root.

An interesting concept to put in a story anyway.
I agree that it’s technically complicated, but I don’t understand what you mean by dangerous in an emergency situation: nobody besides emergency services should really be speeding on NYC streets to begin with, and this seems strictly more accommodating than just taking these drivers’ licenses away (which is well precedented).
> When energy flows from one and of a wire made from a superconductor to the other end, then no heat is produced? Where did the energy go then?

Just to make an analogue. Imagine that you're stitched some reactive engine to some cart without wheels and trying to move it. Lots of friction, so lots of energy will convert to heat. That's basically insulator. Need a lot of energy to go through it.

Now you add wheels to the cart. Well, it moves quickly now. Though still you have some friction and some heat. That's conductor.

Next: you add wings and don't need wheels after lift-off. Only air friction. Still some energy converts to heat, but speed and efficiency much higher. That's copper, one of the best conductors.

Now remove air, you're in the space. Well, no friction, you can accelerate as much as you want. So this is superconductor in a nutshell.

There's nothing fundamental about resistance. Yes, most elements are not superconductors, but some are superconductors and they require not very exotic conditions. So there's nothing groundbreaking about inventing room-temperature superconductors, physics won't be rewritten because of that. But lots of practical applications, of course, so it's incredible useful invention if true.

I don't know how much CPU efficiency can we squeeze theoretically. There will be losses, even if everything is superconducting. Radio waves, for example. And it's not clear if it's possible to make everything superconducting.
Works with windows 11, I have it on an unsupported gen 6 intel desktop + a newer laptop. This version is a fork of the original thats no longer maintained but they didn't update the readme.
I could not fit the whole title in, it is: 'Cancer-killing pill' that appears to 'annihilate' solid tumours is now being tested on humans
I’m on board. And while we are on the subject how about restricting the horn from working inside city limits. I have had the idea for a while that your car horn could be programmed to just get quieter and quieter the more you use it, perhaps gradually shifting pitch to sound a bit silly as well.
What does "Technologically-assured trust" entail, is this related to "Cryptographically-assured trust"?
Works with windows 11 too.
1, Return is not a glyph.

2, Never the less, people do actually expect to use even that.

And they're not even wrong. It's not their fault that it breaks things.

In Windows they get away with it beacause for most users there is no such thing as a command line which is actually at least 2 little programming languages combined with special syntax (the shell itself and readline, and maybe even the tty line discipline and stty settings count as yet a 3rd little dsl in there, maybe even the terminal emulation counts as yet another!).

All input, including entering filenames, even when you have to type them, goes through fully managed input widgets that allow almost everything, and they catch and reject the few things they must right on input.

I've written things that take user input and url-encodes it for the matching filename myself, so that the user can do whatever they want, yet the the filename remains convenient and safe, yet still directly human legible & meaningful unlike base64 or random hashes.

That interface with I guess no less than 4 different layers of special syntax which is a shell, is useful but it's really not something to expect anyone but a programmer or technician to have to deal with. All the cases where a "bad" filename breaks something are just examples of the application's internals leaking out and being exposed to the user, which was always wrong since that's also the basis of all security exploits.

It's like taking that urlencoded data I mentioned and dropping it directly into printf, segfault, and complaining that the user should know better than to include %d in a text input.
Windows breaks all the time for lots of people. My brother has a weird issue with his computer where it gets temporarily stuck in a boot loop if "fast startup" is enabled in Windows. After I figured this out I turned it off and it was fine(and booted faster!). Then Windows update happened and the setting was switched back on again. I'm not sure how to solve it other than periodically making sure it hasn't magically been turned on again.
No, it was more of a shortened version of I hope we solve aging, cancer, brain diseases and the like. I guess I should've been more clear.
Moving goalposts?

So no longer .NET, rather .NET version XYZ.

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

=> NET Framework 1.0 is an integral component of Windows XP Media Center Edition and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. Installation CDs for the Home edition and the Professional edition of Windows XP SP1, SP2 or SP3 come with .NET Framework 1.0 installation packages.
> I have to think about labeling a input (why is this not an attribute ?)

If input labels were html attributes, forms would be much less versatile. It would merge 2 visual elements into one, which would make it hard to adjust the display (think of inputs with right-aligned labels to their left, or checkboxes with labels to their right). And a "label" attribute would mean a plain text content... Seems awfully restrictive to me.

Granted, HTML has a complex history and several layers, like anything that's been in use for decades. But it hasn't changed much recently, and (thanks, MDN) it's easy to learn learn enough to identify what is possible with HTML5 and dig later if necessary.
I think Carbon13 and the other "climate emergency" accelerators would be interested in some capacity, at least as a starter. They've got a fairly strong network of Family Houses & trusts.

I think you'd get seed money, and a network large enough to raise some serious capital in future rounds.
And also the universe itself is often seen through the lens of contemporary technology.

Are we living on an island that floats on a giant turtle’s back? Or are the heavens like giant clockworks? Or maybe it’s all a computer simulation?

These cosmological speculations are separated by thousands of years, but they are all simply a reflection of what the person finds most awe-inspiring in their everyday life.
> Problem #1: What about all the other features?

Is this necessarily a problem in the argument? If we consider e.g. color, and construct a blurry image that has a color distribution very similar to a real face, but doesn't fire the edge detection in the same way, we can still recognize it as a face. This could just mean that a sufficiently close match to other examples of the same class on any one of the strong "dimensions" of the image our brain processes is sufficient to make us recognize it, no? The author makes it sound like if edge detection is what makes us recognize line drawings, this implies that our brain discards every other feature in attempts to recognize visual input, but I don't think that's a sound conclusion.
> The feedback of the people seeing the polished demo was fantastic, but now I'm sitting here with my 5 GitHub stars on the repo, after I put like 2.5 extra months of work into it. Maybe it led to more people noticing it, and finding it useful. Maybe not.

Those 2.5 extra months could save orders of magnitude more (for users) if it does find success. The problem is those 2.5 months often don't translate into higher likelihood of success.
Too easy.

Try you only have a single bootloader and a little bit of source code and building all the way up to a complete linux distro

https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap

(checkout the builder-hex0/fiwix work)
A friend introduced me to him at a bar, they were old friends. I had no idea who he was but kept thinking he really looked familiar. Very nice guy!
Do you have a source for that? I'm trying to find anywhere that agrees with you, and every source I can find says PTFE is itself also a PFAS.
I've been using default Gnome and PopOS's Gnome version as daily drivers for years, probably like 10 years or so. I also keep a Windows partition for gaming and use Windows at work.

Can't say I've had any problems.
not everyone who is rushed to the emergency room arrives in an ambulance.
Ah, the risk canard. Those wealthy people are so at risk! Why they're more at risk than the single mother who takes a bus to work, because of their highly leveraged position and the extreme table stakes of those so lofty!

Or that's a myth, everything is setup for them to succeed, and they've captured value that we should all be sharing in because we don't fully account for externalities or the accumulation of capital. As a human being everyone should have a piece of the pie, and we can remove force from the system if we choose to - and we will one day.
That kind of story also tickles my nostalgia bone heavily, but I see how up close it's a nightmare. I've seen, less than ten years ago, an industrial plant where the SCADA boxes were running NT 4.0, with plans - plans! - to eventually upgrade to Windows XP, hopefully before the hardware died. Part of the software stack ran on an ancient version of QNX, running several DOS applications on several terminals concurrently. (My guess is that QNX being a RTOS allows it to handle multiple instances of the quasi-realtime DOS application gracefully.) The hardware interface to the SCADA system was a proprietary ISA card that is no longer being built, and of course there is no replacement for PCI or PCIe. The licensing dongle is attached to the parallel port, and the way the software talks to it is so peculiar it has to be a "real" parallel port, a USB-to-parallel adapter does not work (at least not reliably enough to be useful). At least none of these machines were connected to the Internet.

If any of that had been my problem, it would have given me nightmares at the very least, and probably driven me mad. But since that wasn't the case, I just enjoyed the nostalgic and quirky setup. Not something I got to see every day, that's for sure.
This depends, I used to work at a biotech company and when the dogs there were retired from their trial, the employees would typically "adopt" them and try and give them another good couple of months.

They usually didn't make it very long but it's something. This was dogs though, so advanced stages of the trial, early stage vermin definitely didn't get the same treatment.

Side story: I did IT there and could access just about any building on campus, but whenever I had to go to the animal testing building to do whatever maintenance it was, I had a security guard escort and loom over me wherever I went. From what I was told they had an animal rights group infiltrate and attempt to release all of the animals a couple of years before.
Had a quick skim. Hmm, Teams, OneNote and Remote Desktop considered bloatware, gaming apps not. Not sure of the target demographic for this. Perhaps worth considering very carefully before running in productivity or office environments, assuming you have access.
That's a good point. We appear to have no way (and probably can't have) to discern passage of time from a static experience of a single infinitesimally short moment, as our only experience of time is through memory that we can't know whether is a static snapshot or dynamic.