skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Consciousness" means "an existing stream of experiences".

Those seem equally nebulous.

> "Free will" means "a feeling that one could've made a different choice"

That doesn't seem like the ordinary definition of the term, either in philosophy or in everyday usage. I would think most people would define "having free will" as not just feeling that one could have made a different choice, but rather it actually being physically possible for a different choice to have been made.

> "qualia" means "specific characteristics of experiences that one can attend to"

I think those are also equally nebulous.

> One need not "insist" on anything to believe they are unique characteristics of our identity.

The insistence is necessary, and invariably comes up. As soon as I say to someone "given your definitions of these concepts, I don't think they exist" they will say "well, I've started with the foregone conclusion that I cannot deny the existence of these things, so either you're plainly wrong, or we need to tweak our definitions and understanding of these things."
The pill that cures cancer is made from superconductors and designed by AI. Get it delivered by self driving car.
Every one of your points is irrelevant because Infosys's revenue and partners have no bearing whatsoever on how much Sunak's family, or the person who signed the deal, benefited from the agreement.

You might as well argue steal
whatever I like because it's a tiny percentage of GDP.
"We might have to operate in a cruel and unusual fashion, otherwise, some users might not actually be afraid enough of violence from the state to get help."

This is an unfortunate binary we've backed ourselves into. I can imagine tons of other methods the state could use to drive compliance other than outright incarceration and the threat of entirely destroying your life.
> Fundamentally though, a billionaire should not be a political leader, too much opportunity of corruption or the appearance of it.

Quite the contrary, the richer a person is, the harder they are to corrupt (both in theory - need more money to sway them - as in practice - much cheaper to corrupt someone else), and the less they care about being corrupted (they can afford to follow their principles, e.g. Musk buying Twitter even though it doesn’t make financial sense, or Gates giving his wealth away).
How is he going to divest? Divorce his wife?
Dumb question (please don't mad)

Why don't we put springs under massive buildings like skyscrapers that anyway move a little bit with wind?

Maybe the millions of tons compressing the springs a little bit could result in some electricity?

Or under roads and airport tarmac?
Fair point. This I think goes along with the idea of a functional alcoholic. People can be functional and fine for a very long time, until they aren't. This likely has less affect on the community during their 'functional' phase. I am for the most part against public use and intoxication.
Sounds like a great idea to get reactionary leaders elected from people who don't want change.

Change works much better with carrots than sticks.
yea, I was also surprised at the lack of apps. I guess we can take a shot at llama-7b, maybe a base model and a storytelling fine tune. we'll have to look into which compiler is best, I do want to tinker with the mlc toolchain. will post to HN when we get it working!
There have been several false reports of high-temperature superconductors during previous months. There seems to be backlash to the high-temperature superconductors claims now.
Sure, you can tap stuff with a hammer, and then get bored. If you want to listen to FM radio, an actual radio is cheaper and gets better reception, if you want to listen to walkie talkies, a scanner is better, or getting a cheap baofeng or a similar radio is even cheaper and works better. Yes, you can play with getting satellite images, but in the end, you look at weather reports online.

The great power of SDR is, that you can capture signals to your PC, so if you're eg. reverse engineering a temperature sensor, you can use the tool to get the signal onto your PC. Then you're done with the first tool and need a few other tools to do all the other parts (demodulating and getting binary data, finding what each bit/byte does, what sequence is used for what, how the checksum is calculated, etc.

I mean sure, it's fun to play with for a few hours, but after you've listened to the local taxi frequency and tried to get some satellite data, you get bored and put it in a drawer somewhere.
It's like the apocryphal 13th floor in hotels, people should be born in either 1968 or 1970. Otherwise I might make a fool of myself by mocking their username.

Same as anyone born on April 20th.
i honestly didn't read half of this post. i have no interest in engaging into this sort of conversation. have a nice day.
Many people will never return to taxis and will even prefer to pay a premium for uber.
> Or… just decriminalize it altogether, including forgiveness of past use.

They kind of have done the first part, in effect, “marijuana” and “hemp” being legally distinct, and it being possible to get all the pharmacologically interesting bits for which marijuana is sought in forms that are legally “hemp”.
The two times I have tried that (one for Uber eats, one for a tea delivery place) I have not won the investigation. Both times I did not receive the item I ordered and for the tea place I didn’t receive any item at all. Charge backs are not the recourse people online claim they are, in my experience they do not give customers the preference.
Yeah. And the people you network with in a HUMINT job aren't hanging around doing drugs for the most part. They are working in industry or government. Probably a fair amount of drinking but mostly no time for other drugs, or if they do them, keep it discreet.
Has anyone ever had SMART stats actually usefully predict the death of a drive? The vast majority of uncontrolled (ie, not death by age and natural causes) drive failures are crib deaths with no warning I feel like.
How do you see wether someone has eaten edibles?
Ask HN: Small Language Models instead of LLM. Does it makes sense?
Everyone is talking about Large Language Models like ChatGPT, LLAma, BLOOM etc that can do any task with text transformation. I did many tests of them for changing style, locale, grammar correction etc and saw that quality is quite average. The performance is so slow and unstable to use them in scaling business.

I tried to make several small language models using 3-5 million of parallel sentence dataset to make specific linguistic transformation and see much potential there. The difference in performance between ChatGPT4 and my small models is almost 1000 times.

Anyone do such things ?
So fkn funny.
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Those are not the exclusive range of options, so presenting it that way is a bad argument.
I've seen (in one case personally) plenty of cases of councils being taking for a ride (quite possibly by private jet), e.g. case below on the BBC recently. Thurrock Council "invested" £655m in solar farms which then went on luxury goods ("including a yacht and a private jet"). The council ended up bankrupt (to be bailed out by the taxpayer).

At government level, it tends to be less obvious. I often wonder about how the honest people in government carry on, being close to the action (maybe like working for an aid agency and having to accept that X percentage of the aid is going to be diverted along the way).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66340991

Edit: in the same vein, I see "War is a racket" has been submitted today.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36960480
Yes, that makes sense to me. Lot's of people are simply bad at taking photos, including myself. The isle of pink cats argument doesn't make sense to me though, I'm confused as to what that was even trying to say.
> At this time, there's practically no reason to use the native
backend. The backend exists mainly to make sure that it's possible to eventually
add functionality that cannot easily be added to the Git backend.

From the README, no advantage for now.
No, we should not invent a euphemism to dodge the bad associations with the real thing.

There's no such thing as "being transparent" about telemetry in OSS because I don't feel like reading a README for every single command that I apt install to see if it has anti-features.
There are Mormons outside America?
A lot of people who are starting out using git don’t understand how git works (what a commit is, what a branch is, what you can do to them). And they start to blame the CLI tool and start to hope that using the GitHub Desktop app will make everything make sense. This is the most common context where people say “you have to learn the git CLI.”

(Here’s an example from a few days ago from someone who proposes using GitHub Desktop in order to avoid learning git commands: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/15b7pra/s...)
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In my experience a properly seasoned, oiled, cast iron pan isn't materially different than a non-stick for cooking eggs (which is one of the stickier things you can do). It's much more flexible. You can bring it to 450-500F without killing adjacent birds, and you can put it into the oven. High heat capacity, better sear on meats. And you can use metal utensils. No matter how you damage it, an hour in the oven with a thin coat of oil and it's good as new.

I cook a lot, and I have no interest in non-stick cookware.
You should try reading articles before commenting.

Scratch that, you should try reading the headline before commenting.

You should at least read the first two words of the headline.

How far must the bar be lowered?
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> This is not telemetry, it is just additional local logging.

I agree.

> I don’t understand why it’s being framed as telemetry. Just say rustc is (optionally) logging more by default and the compiler people are writing tools that can analyze those logs if you choose to upload them.

Any kind of metrics mechanism can look like the start of telemetry. I wanted to preempt that misconception by explicitly stating the difference, before any conversation or implementation occurs.

> Separately it sounds like rustc needs to do a better job collecting crash data that can be easily attached to a bug ticket.

I agree.
If this pans out fusion energy would be completely viable with enough investment. Right now tokamaks don't really have a pathway to being commercially viable and are basically 40 years away. For starters, If you can cut the cost by 2-4x you are right in the ballpark of what you would need to build a working tokamak fusion power plant. You would need to do better than that for fusion to be a viable power source but tokamak fusion was always only a magnitude away unlike other hypothetical fusion energy alternatives.
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Then how come git-lfs even exists at all? There's clearly a demand for it. Whether it's good practice is up for debate.

> Keeping the blobs out of your source repos has been the preferred way for a long time.

This is just appeal to tradition.
Even more impactful imo would be having a primaries system rather than centralized decisions about who gets to run under what label. Nothing like this is possible in the US: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-65102128
Are those workers at home or are they at other job sites with closer deadlines? In other words, is the squeaky wheel getting all the grease?
The issue with the UK is that the opposition is even worse.

Proportional voting doesn’t change that.
55k on average is ignoring the entry cost of a model 3 (especially with incentives) - also average is just a bad metric for affordability.

An extreme example: https://electrek.co/2023/07/24/brand-new-tesla-model-3-less-...

That's also an outlier, but less than 30k isn't which makes this post somewhat misleading (at best).

The Model Y was also the top selling vehicle globally across all categories for Q1 2023: https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/26/23738581/tesla-model-y-ev... and in 2022 was the best selling car in the US: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-y-2022-best-selling-to...

Ford's cars are probably too expensive because they ignored the EV market for a decade and it takes time to scale up production and reduce costs.

> "The big problem for EVs from a price standpoint is that the whole industry has decided that the only way to cater to American tastes is to make their EV fleet out of trucks and SUVs, eliminating the economical sedans that might be affordable."

I'd guess this is because Ford can't profitably make an affordable sedan (they can't do so without losing a lot of money) so they need to make a more expensive vehicle with better margins, Tesla did this too of course - they just had a decade head start while the legacy manufacturers did nothing.
Then you're not looking deep enough at problems that people have or you haven't been in the field long enough. There are tons of issues out there, and I wish I had a department full of me's who could work on all of the problems I want solutions to.
I think explanations of stack vs heap are off-topic for ownership and borrowing. Values on the stack are owned too. Even zero-sized values that aren't stored anywhere can be non-copyable and have a single owner enforced.
Nobody in Web development? -- maybe.

Nobody in system (storage / network / compute) or any other specialized highly-reliable system -- unlikely.

In highly reliable systems this is already being done, except it's usually an afterthought, ad hoc, functionality added without any system or framework, and so it's hard to judge its performance because it's often partially interactive, and very uneven across different components.

Any system that advertises itself as "HA" (for highly-available) will have some sort of a protocol for complex error recovery, except it's usually not a single program that's explicitly written with the purpose of definition and documentation of recovery process, instead different bits of this functionality are embedded in many different places across the entire surface of a program.

A very common example that I had to implement myself multiple times: HTTP errors. These are usually very poorly reported by the HTTP client libraries. TLS handshake failed? -- you get some numerical exit code instead of proper error report, and so once you realize that this error happens every so often, you start writing code that digs up the internal state of the TLS library at the time of the error, finds the certificates involved and tries to trace down the chain of events leading to the problem.

Similarly, various parsing and de/serialization errors... this stuff is usually atrocious in popular libraries. And in order to figure out why some JSON didn't parse the way you wanted, you need to write a lot of code to investigate and report the error properly. The most common cases I've encountered is when a client program expects a server to reply with a structured error message, but the message comes back botched, or an HTML page is sent instead etc. A lot of these things are quite predictable after some time of using the client, but in a situation where you wanted to properly report an error that was supposed to be encoded in some JSON message and instead you got an HTML page -- typically you end up reporting a wrong (and useless) error of failure of parsing HTML as JSON. To prevent that, you'd need a complicated recovery scheme that would anticipate such errors.
> the richer a person is, the harder they are to corrupt

That is quite a lot view of non-rich citizens. A lot have morals as baseline for corruption, beyond the cash / assets we hold.
Good to know about INTERSECT and EXCEPT.

MySQL can use computed columns to index individual JSON fields or serialize the whole thing to a varchar for a broad search, but that's not at all the same as indexing with hierarchical structure preserved, which is what was being described. You cannot index for arbitrary path searches like you can in Postgres.

The storage of booleans is a separate issue from syntactic support. In MySQL, true and 1 evaluate as equal. In Postgres there is a type mismatch without an explicit cast. Therefore MySQL does not truly support booleans.

INTERVAL is not the same as a range type. Postgres supports intervals as their own type as well, eg., '18 months'::interval.

Range types allow for useful exclusion constraints for scheduling and assigning finite resources. Since you mistook ranges for intervals, I HIGHLY recommend you take a closer look at ranges. They are VERY useful to have in your data modeling toolbox.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/rangetypes.html#RANG...

You can "work around" the lack of array types in MySQL with comma-delimited strings… kinda.

The list of things you can "work around" in with MySQL is long, but not everything can be "worked around" without reinventing the wheel. Eventually it's worth examining whether or not it's worth "working around" instead of using a solution that "just works".

MySQL has improved by leaps and bounds in the 8.x-era, and 5.5-5.7 were both huge improvements on the dumpster fire that came in the decades before. Thankfully the famous MySQL gotchas page isn't directly relevant anymore, but that's a very low bar. (Yes, I admit I hold grudges with regard to data integrity.)
I'm not saying it as a campaign promise, I'm saying it as an uncomfortable truth for us who think about these things. How to sell it to the public is PR's job.
Yes, given the Cu atoms seem to be ~8 Angstrom apart the flat bands are to be expected. So its not clear what "special" about these, given if you just had dilute Cu impurities in some otherwise insulating I'd imagine you'd have something similar for the Cu d-bands.
I'm not a scientist but how does this demonstrate anything? It just looks like a magnet is moving some metallic object. Can someone explain like I'm a five year old?
> - Consumer devices that don't heat up as you use them

And now I’m imagining a superconducting toaster. Such frustration!
Anyone who claims science can be “settled” immediately discredits themselves. Science is never settled, even the hard sciences, and we have only just begun to study the effects of THC. Lots of things considered 100% true a decade ago (like it doesn’t have physical addiction) have been proven as misguided myths or lies.

“Very very very settled science,” what an absolute joke. No one engaged in the scientific pursuit of truth uses phrases like this.
Would they have signed the same deal if North Sea operations were being shut down?
In fact, according to her tax disclosures she doesn’t even expect to stay in the UK…
Most groups are an out and back type thing. Maybe keep showing up at the start and be back for chatting afterwards?

The bold thing to do is to start your own run/walk group. My local one started with someone who lived outside the city and wanted people to run with in town.
> the richer a person is, the harder they are to corrupt ... and the less they care about being corrupted

Perhaps by outside forces, but what about corrupt practices that furthers their own private interests in exclusion of the e.g. country they're leading?
"Percentage of the article that is generated by AI: 63%"

I appreciate the transparency, but just raises questions for me. What parts were generated by AI? What edits were made to correct the AI? Why did they feel AI was necessary?
> the richer a person is, the harder they are to corrupt

to a certain point

obviously if the only thing a person cares about is "more money" (which, in a billionaire's case, is self-evident), you can assume they'll do _anything_ for _even a little bit_ of money

see: extremely wealthy people never tipping
Oh this looks great! I’ve crudely been querying the iMessage’s chat.db to export convos to txt files so this is a much more elegant option
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Normally I'd say IN MICE, but this appears to be in a Petri dish, not even in animals.
In fairness, if I was born in 1969 I would be deeply torn between using it in every single username I had for the sake of comedy, or avoiding it precisely because people tend to make assumptions and actually being born then is never going to be anyone's first thought.
The M1 is just as significant as an ESP32 or Celeron in the scheme of things.

Isn’t the introduction of the 4004 in 1971 a better comparison? while that was still 24 years since the Bell labs discovery, we have much better scientific, manufacturing, logistical and mining ecosystems within industry and research today.

If there’s a compelling reason to do so, governments will find ways to accelerate the development of those ecosystems from decades to years (probably more like a decade).
It's because they're all made with THC distillate!

No different than early vape pens.

No terpenes? No CBD? You're just gonna be high.
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Now that reverse engineering alien technology is public knowledge they can finally start releasing this stuff.
Germany's coal use is at an all time low. If you're really going to conferences, you need to be better informed. I've posted the data many times here, but if you can post so many words without bothering to do a brief check for easy to find data, then I'll spare myself the time.