skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Some people think, hey, there's this ultimate barrier, which is we have subjective experience and [robots] don't, so we truly understand things and they don’t,” says Hinton. “That's just bullshit. Because in order to predict the next word, you have to understand what the question was. You can't predict the next word without understanding, right? Of course they're trained to predict the next word, but as a result of predicting the next word they understand the world, because that's the only way to do it.”

When Geoffrey says they understand the question, are these models really understanding the question or isn't it just "transforming" in the sense that some type of lookup is happening where it says, "given something that looks like this, I should say x next". Is he just arguing that he believes humans do the same thing?

Personally I don't think we do this because somehow we now we're wrong long before we give an answer, even when people give false answers? People give false information out in order to try feel important, be helpful or to avoid being redundant etc.
I mean, this is just my guess; I could be wrong. But the vibe I get is that you basically have to do something non-trivial via the web (log in, create something, delete something, whatever) to show that a human is paying attention to the account and not just an automated system. Don't rely on automated means like IMAP, regardless of what actions you're performing with those.
Moncton neurologist asked for help, alleges was threatened with discipline
I'd very much like it if Nix and NixOS were rewritten with lessons learnt so far.
Coke machine turned Beer fridge (2020)
Can someone explain why this article is being flagged?
Having come from subversion, the staging area is by far my favorite part of git in day-to-day use.
Not to mention many atypicals can worsen amphetamine psychosis. This whole study seems like an utter waste.
Censored and then "rationalized"

Gustave Le Bon was a French scientist who wrote extensively on crowd psychology. He left behind a number of important works, being the first writer to thoroughly investigate the psychology of socialism. For a long time, noted Le Bon, psychologists regarded belief as voluntary and rational….” But a shocking discovery was made. Psychologists discovered that mass belief is an unconscious process, “under the influence of mystical and affective elements independent of reason and will….” We do not fully understand why people believe irrational things, noted Le Bon, but they do.”[36]

According to Le Bon, the decisive role of the unconscious means that the decisive factors in belief are: “prestige, affirmation, repetition, suggestion and contagion.” These factors sway the mind independent of reason. “The power of these influences on the genesis of beliefs” is “proved by their effects on the actions of even the most cultivated men,” noted Le Bon. Man is not so much the “rational animal” as he is a “rationalizing animal” whose irrationality is supported by seemingly logical arguments. Le Bon wrote, “We have arrived thus at this important philosophical law: Far from presenting a common intellectual origin, our concepts have very different mental sources and are ruled by very different forms of logic. From the predominance of each … are born the great happenings of history.”[37]

https://jrnyquist.blog/2023/07/23/about-the-s-word-a-polemic...
That's certainly an important point, though I would argue that it's just a consequence of there being many different levels and directions of observation.

"How does this pill work?" -> "You put it in your mouth" comes from observing at the level of your mouth, or alternately observing the intake process. It's not the most insightful detail to observe about the pill, but it's probably the most practically useful!

You could of course put the pill somewhere else, and maybe it would work there too or maybe not (it probably depends on where exactly you put it).
I think most car manufacturers do. Factory service manuals are rarely free or cheap.

Tesla and these guys are the exceptions.
I always pictured her laugh as nervous, and it irks me to no end to see it turn into such a meme. As far as I'm aware the laughter in question has no documentation in video form, but if it did I doubt it would be as raucous as OP supposes.

> Neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran states "We have nervous laughter because we want to make ourselves think what horrible thing we encountered isn't really as horrible as it appears, something we want to believe."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_laughter
That's exactly what a dog would say.
I've met people IRL with these views... "Science Fundamentalists" who replace their lost religious dogma with Science and who have no concept that everything we know right now is the best possible explanation with the data we have available, and that it could fall apart with a single new data set or proof. The "racist dog whistle" is new though, so I hope you're right about the satire
We already do rate limiting. We don't need a captcha that can be automated away for that.
> Before this happens, Google will give you an opportunity to take an action in your account by:

> Sending email notifications to your Google Account

> Sending notifications to your recovery email, if any exists

Further up it says that reading an email counts as being active.

So if you have IMAP access does that count when you simply read that email?!

I have gmail accounts with IMAP that haven’t logged into the web interface in years. I can’t be the only one in this boat. This is very ambiguous and troubling.
> If by “explaining how” you mean “deflecting (often preemptively) responsibility for”, yes.

There's no reason to think you can't do both of those with the same statement.
> it is both acceptable, and in many places good for people to be punished for nothing but speech

I think part of the issue is that the internet is practically only speech. Spam is just a lot of speech. Doxxing is just speech of a specific privacy. Advocating violence is just a form of vigorous . Rape threats and revenge porn… It’s all basically just speech.

It’s difficult to say we should have a free speech culture when we also have spam filters.
Strange behaviour coming from legal scholars though, one would think?
Didn't Larry David appear in a FTX commercial and in the commercial famously didn't buy into what they were selling?

Aha! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWMnbJJpeZc&ab_channel=TheWo...
I came here looking for this exact comment.

That offer would feel more like an insult to me than an incentive.
Huge missed opportunity to make a Snellings Museum of Smelling
Tracking badge data, Amazon scolds workers for office absences
If you simply try to take a design and make it take a single cycle while using the same area, yes. But usually you can trade off area (and power) for latency, by essentially having redundant logic throughout the operation. That's the point being made: the CPU manufacturers don't really consider it worth pushing this tradeoff (which is often quite non-linear).
Terrible idea?!? Have you ever ridden a motorcycle? Or an electric one?

I've been riding for ~40 years and I don't think I've _ever_ met someone who rode an ICE bike for the fuel/emissions efficiency. It's for the fun and adventure. My stock Energica does 0-60 in 2.8s. WAAAY more fun than my 30yo 1100cc.

Pretty GOOD idea from where I'm sitting.
Sorry but unless the core business is making statistical predictions, then you're wrong. Other industries (like health and finance) still need robust applications with like 99.99% uptime.
I don’t think that’s their point.

The kind of person who isn’t going to work when not stared at all day by a manager is also probably the kind of person who is going to try to LOOK busy at the office without actually having to do a lot of REAL work. Surfing the web, playing games, chatting with their friends, whatever they can get away with when someone’s not watching. Or maybe doing their real tasks really slow.

They’re just not a hard worker.

Where is an employee who tends to do a good job is going to try to do it whether they’re in the office or not (assuming that’s possible for their position). They don’t really need to be monitored at home or at work. They would do basically the same either way.

So all you’re left with is you need to check real productivity instead of the appearance of productivity. THAT’S what matters, not where the employee is physically located during the day.

Some people are exceptions and will work significantly better in one environment or the other. But if you have an employee who took remote work to mean “watch TV and occasionally jiggle my mouse“ i’m willing to bet they weren’t a good employee in the first place.
See https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
This title was really fucking with me for some reason. If anyone else finds it initially incomprehensible, it could be reworded as:

"Climbing team deny accusations that they passed by an injured guide (who later died) from another team, in order to break a record."
I imagine it was nervous laughter that unsympathetic journalists accidentally or willfully misinterpreted until it turned into a meme. People laugh in stressful situations all the time, and the original CoinDesk reporting doesn't give any details about her laughter besides that it was "audible". Given that the press was seated directly in front of the parents, I see no reason to suppose her laughter was particularly loud or disruptive, just audible to at least one journalist from CoinDesk.

Here's the original CoinDesk report that the meme spun off from. It's pretty obvious these people were stressed out of their minds, and understandably so:

> They appeared to oscillate between dejection and defiance, at times holding their heads in their hands and clasping their hands. Bankman-Fried’s mother audibly laughed several times when her son was referred to as a “fugitive” and his father occasionally put his fingers in his ears as if to drown out the sound of the proceedings.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/12/13/inside-sam-bank...
The experts began by saying "Don't wear masks." The CDC and the Surgeon General told all Americans to stop wearing masks.

I was one of the few people who thought for myself, read the studies, saw that all evidence in Korea and China pointed to this being an airborn pathogen, and learned how the electrostatic field in melt-blown fabric attracted covid particulates to it and filtered them from the air.

I was one of the few people wearing masks, staying safe, back in February when everyone looked at me crazy for wearing masks, because I was going against what the experts said.

I don't see how you can go through that period where the experts are telling you the opposite of the truth, and then continue to believe them.
Highly intelligent? How?
Wouldn’t that require kind of an idealized transmission line, not just a superconducting one?
Crowd funding projects by selling equity?

Have we re-invented pre-regulated-to-death stock markets?
If you (or others) come up with a way to build a system to poison AI/LLM/other models to make them useless, count me in to help.
Which is also where you get pointless busywork. Doing things on your computer to pretend to look productive because if you were to just sit and think or take a five minute break a micromanager would yell at you or nosy teammate would rat you out as “unproductive“.

Even if you’re thinking through a heart problem or just finished something mentally draining from complexity.
Do they not go out of their way to make it difficult? I had to scrounge google which led me to a forum thread for Triumph bike manuals. Only managed to get a link to a website associated with Triumph where they let you pay on a per day basis to look at manuals. Spent almost an hour making folders and manually downloading every individual section.

My takeaway is that they want their bikes to get serviced at dealers rather than allow people to more easily work on their own bikes.
Motorcycles are the best vehicles as far as acceleration and weight/power ratio is concerned, they fare even better in the price/quickness and price/fun ratio.

A 45,000$ Kawasaki H2R has won a drag race against a RedBull F1 car, an F16, a Gulfstream G600 a Bugatti, a TeslaP100..[0]

By orders of magnitude the Kawasaki was the cheapest vehicle in that race and smoked them all..but that bike can only be driven to the limit by the 1% of riders, the ones with the best skills and massive balls.

What's the point of an EV motorbike? 0-60mph in 2.2s is not enough? Want 1.5s? Cool but what's the point of numbers for numbers sake if people aren't ever pushing it to the limit?

Also what's the point when you can only do it once before it overheats?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnTL4wDAbK0
What about Newtons laws of motion? Settled science? Was it racist to come up with a more accurate model?
What does the younger generation remark have to do with anything? Do you think the younger generation not know what sunk cost is?
Yes, very sympathetic IMO. Publishing parts of opposing witness Caroline's diary at his request, an act that was viewed as witness tampering [1].

Allowing him to speak at DealBook summit after he lost customer funds: "The DealBook Summit included Sam Bankman-Fried, who said he was “deeply sorry” about the collapse of FTX. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Andy Jassy and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine also spoke." [2]

In general you don't give a storytelling platform to your enemies. Ever seen a NYTimes article titled "Vladimir Putin: In His Own Words"?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/technology/ftx-caroline-e...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/technology/ftx-caroline-e...
This can work long term, as long as your system is not a group of humans. But certainly, making what appear like small adjustments can sometimes tremendously lower required resources.
Transcoding UTF-8 strings to Latin 1 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512
At some point say 'ooh, is someone making popcorn?', then leave, make popcorn, and come back and share.
Calling something a racist dog whistle is just a way to bully people into silence
I find the atheist to be the largest proponents of determinism. Most religions Embrace some idea of a soul, free will, and agency.

On the other hand, almost every atheist I know believes in some form of material determinism. For them, individual Behavior is entirely driven by the physical makeup of an individual and their interacting environment. They deposited if you had a sufficiently accurate model of the universe you would be able to determine every action they would make.
Often these sorts of "safe way to keep food" articles focus too much on repeating what the recommended advice and not actually looking at why. This one does a decent job, especially compared to most, with attempting to explain why or go over certain scenarios. In particular, the bit about how long the eggs stay of a certain grade in different conditions was great. Still, it lacks any sort of measure of what the actual risk is. E.g. if I walk outside every day my risk of getting skin cancer is actually higher, and it's easier to explain why, but that isn't solid reasoning on why I shouldn't walk outside. Not that I think you should leave eggs unrefrigerated, but if you're going to write an article about why you should it should talk more to what happens if you don't than divining the right message for the readers to take outright.
Not a lawyer, but as I understand it's not legal to break copy protection. It's legal to archive media for your own personal use. Recording VHS and even sound recorder from a phone is more-legal than putting a box/dongle between a FireTV stick and your TV in order to break and bypass HDCP.

Outside of straight-up piracy, it could be argued that youtube-dl was bypassing YouTube restrictions.

Also if someone had that attitude towards a service I was offering, I'd go out of my way to block their access; I choose the restrictions on my platform that I offer to others, and people that actively go against that can go use someone else's platform or host their own since they're so sure they must know better :p
Thanks for reminding me to fix it! It should be working now.

Turns out in a system upgrade the version of php was updated and I hadn't gone through and updated the web server config links to the new one.
Agreed it doesn't look great. But to be fair, it's probably GDPR cookie regulations that drove them to it.
Ink pens enable handwriting of optoelectronic devices on nearly any surface
>This is the strangest story.

Not if you reject the premise that he's "highly intelligent", though this would mean questioning the hallowed Hacker News axiom of "rich = smart".
Hm. I might have to look into this when I get a newer car. Still 'rocking' a 00s Honda at the moment.
> rooftop domestic PV costs can be unto 10 times more expensive on a levelized cost basis ... compared to a ground based utility/grid scale installation

Your "can be" hides a lot of sins. Looking at the data you quote domestic PV also "can be" 1/2 the cost of of ground based utility installation.

The truth is between those extremes and will vary a lot depending on situation. But here is something that doesn't vary so much: the difference between the retail cost and wholesale cost is around a factor or 3. Translation: utility solar has to be around 3 times cheaper than domestic before it makes sense to a household.

I don't think it's terribly surprising there are a lot of places that factor of 3 tilts the balance in favour of domestic PV.
Some people like those, some of the time. I too enjoy a good Conan or Hardcore History podcast but many other podcasts I listen to are basically audiobooks where, if the voice is good enough, I'll listen to them. History of Rome is a prime example, it's essentially a very long audiobook where the reading voice makes nearly no difference to me.
A lab leak would mean there was a lack of proper control.
Voices are not protected by copyright.
Two wrongs don't make a right :p

That's between YT and the video uploaders; people using yt-dl are not using it to rebel against YT.
The book would still be written by a human. This product seems like AI generated spam...
I wouldn’t wish forcing someone to watch their child lose their freedom on my worst enemy.

I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve prison, but that doesn’t invalidate her pain either, it would be a terribly cruel experience for any parent.
“Reason is the slave of the passions” as philosopher David Hume said. Amazing how many rationalists completely overlook this easy to remember maxim.
Given that G states that "doing a search" is considered to be "activity" it shouldn't be too hard to rig up an automated account shaker which at large but not too large intervals - something between 16 and 22 months - logs in on some headless browser, searches Google for a random thing and logs out again.
Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper
Sarcasm? The science isn't settled regarding whether there was a lab leak.
That funding still requires corporate patronage, which is overwhelmingly from companies that are monetizing via proprietary software

Where is this community funding supposed to come from? Would OP here really personally donate to a team making a secrets management tool?

It's turtles all the way down
I would not care one bit about your office buddy.

Working from home I can take my kids to school in the morning, sometimes even pick them up, have lunch with my wife, always be home for dinner, live in a very nice low cost area, and I even get to start work much earlier than I would if commuting.

Your idea would solve nothing.
It says they would change their approach. It does not say they would change their position.

So while some may have been more open to letting employees work from home, others may have just decided they would’ve used different arguments against it instead now that they know the ones that used didn’t hold up (as widely forecast).
Ask HN: Where is the best place I can be homeles and work on a startup?
what are the safest cities in the USA to be homeless and work on a startup?

i want some place where I:

- wont get shot or stabbed

- wont die of extreme climate (frostbite, heat stroke, etc)

- have access to some kind of basic services in the public infrastructure (internet/public library/soup kitchens etc)

Where would you recommend living if one wanted something like this?
> > My stock Energica does 0-60 in 2.8s.

Should I be impressed? That's the same of a 1999 Yamaha R6 selling for less than 1000$ [0]

And the R6 can do it all day, you'll run out of tires before you run out of clutch and gas.

The Energica does it once and then it's panting and overheating.

And as always the point in motorsport is that every noob squid and every idiot is capable of going fast in a straight line, the light supersport bikes such as the Ducati and the Yamahas will smoke the Electric motorcycles in corners because the latter are heavy due to the batteries

[0] https://accelerationtimes.com/models/yamaha-yzf-r6-n-a

Sounds like you've been had.
What are you talking about? How does a unified memory architecture change the bottlenecks of AI inferencing? The fastest AI servers in existence today only exist in heterogeneous form.
I agree but I’m talking in the context where you can’t vertically scale anymore.

I also don’t think it’s worth the trouble “never using joins” for an existing project. Denormalize as necessary. But for a green one I honestly think since our access patterns can be understood as you continue you can completely get rid of joins.

Again, assuming your new project can’t fit on a single machine. If it can you’re best just following the “traditional” advice, or better yet keep everything in memory.
> in situ lentiviral transduction of the striatum of Flox-tdTomato Ai9 mice reporter of Cre activity

ok, now I understand what the scientists that were complaining about the naming of the "'sonic hedgehog' gene" were talking about...
“Sorry boss, you need me for a meeting in London tomorrow? Earliest I can do is next week.”
It’s actually worse than that. He was forced there by Sarah Harrison and Assange.
> is this a good idea?

Yes, if it isn't Mac only
I enjoyed reading this book a few years ago: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Solid-Modeling-Martti-Ma...
So practically, how does having this understanding affect the way one thinks about certain probability distributions?
“Thirty years from now we will laugh at our generation of humans, putting products together by hand,”

I guess people never thought the titanic would sink, or Japan would be going backwards (they have robots), but here we are.
Is there a pronunciation key for the name?
Larian have had huge success with crowdfunding and showed how customer investment can bring great success to a game.

Then of course there's Star Citizen...
Not a very satisfying answer (feels like if a satisfying answer to this question was possible, maths would look very different) but I think the trick to not getting annoyed by it is to shift your perspective rather than try and redefine maths. It's not that division is a badly behaved operator; it's that division isn't an operator. It's a shorthand for multiplication by the reciprocal. Since the reciprocal of 0 doesn't exist, we can no more multiply by it than we can compute 5 + the sound of one hand clapping. And we don't fret over how the addition operator's inadequacy there is unsatisfying!
I recently found out about another project called jj: https://github.com/martinvonz/jj. It takes inspiration from Pijul and others but is git-compatible.
Sounds like a great way to DoS someone out of being able to use their banking app.
Does it support the function-calling API? https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updat...
This article would be more clear if the & symbol were clarified. Right now it looks like Rust borrowing in Python. Maybe I’m too dumb and didn’t read it right and missed the definition. Anyway the big picture idea is cool and resonates with the idea of a bidirectional HashMap.