skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'll say that under standard laboratory conditions they should probably be the same most of the time. I hope you'll agree with me that assuming there are divergent predictions made by the "mind-first" approaches, they should be studied together with physics.

Can you give me an example of how a "mind-first" approach might give a divergent prediction, as to the outcome of a practically feasible experiment or observation? Maybe some versions of idealism might produce divergent predictions, but I don't believe divergent predictions are necessary to idealism, and many versions of idealism intentionally eschew divergent predictions.

> Otherwise physics would become a study of idealized systems, much like insisting on Newtonian maths when the principles of relativity and quantum mechanics were discovered.

Physics is a system for predicting future observations given past observations. Relativity and QM won because they generated more accurate future predictions than their predecessors.

But what, ultimately, is it that we are observing? Do the theoretical constructs proposed by physics (particles, waves, fields, forces, strings, branes, etc) "really" exist, or are they just abstract conceptual tools for accurate prediction generation? What does "really" even mean in that question? These are all philosophical questions, and idealism is one family of possible answers to (some of those) philosophical questions–but I don't see how that makes any difference to the whole business of generating accurate predictions of future observations–which is all that physics proper actually is, has ever been, or ever will be.
No, I'm actually serious about this. Many projects like Wii-Linux exist and it would be great to take advantage of that to repurpose a Wii into a headless server.
Where was this island? Would love to go!
It seems like no matter what problem we try to fix, we find another one that's "worse".

We're doomed.
Crazy idea. 2 factor authentication for the elderly where the second factor is, where applicable, a younger family member. It's socially irresponsible to allow the tech-illiterate to move their live savings around on the internet by themselves.
Friendly Social Browser is a much better solution for this problem
whatever fits the agenda
Altitude too. Solar intensity at notably high altitudes (say, 5000' or above) can be significant if you spend a lot of time there.
Also fascinating how the multiple meanings of the word "must" apply to your quote.
All of my Teslas have gone up $30-$50/month in Florida within the last six months, but more of an artifact of the FL insurance market (25% of Florida drivers are uninsured and the cost of both parts and labor have gone up significantly) vs EV/Tesla specific.
I'd thought that Usula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" might have been an exception, but though it's had nine submissions, it's only ever earned single-digit votes, and a single comment:

<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>

Far more success in comments:

<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>

(I thought I might have first encountered it here, though it might have appeared elsewhere.)

Harlan Ellison's "I have no mouth and I must scream" has had some success: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>

Marshall Brain's "Manna: Two Views of Humanity's Future" (2003) was what I'd had in mind when finding the Ellison story, but it's also had little success:

<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>

Cory Doctorow's Little Brother by comparison did well: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6390441>. Though still hardly spectacularly.

E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" has seen both multiple submissions and comparatively decent discussion: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>

(Searching specifically for fiction is something of a challenge, I'm trying a few different queries as they occur to me.)

I suspect both length and copyright limitations work against fiction submissions generally.
This is a great post.

People like to take out their anger on Facebook/Tiktok but the bigger issue is that human communication doesn’t work well at scale.

Human experience is temporal and locality sensitive (hence the distinctions between us vs them, such as boomers/millenials, west/east), and scaling it to different temporal and local contexts inevitably leads to hostility and tribalism.
It is infuriating how many websites require you to give out your phone number in order to sign up or log in these days.
Much easier is to have banks to call the client and verify an abnormally large transaction by phone.
That's also part of the general racket of small-town speed traps: if there were real permanent consequences to nonsense speeding tickets, people would contest them instead of paying to make them go away.
Also known as 'debugging'
>They have a language, TI-BASIC that was my first introduction to programming. You can even make small games with ASCII characters on the screen (ex: I made one where a “Y” you controlled with the arrow keys fell through “floors with holes” made of dashes and spaces).

TI-tris?
> analyse their emotions and stress levels to feed it back to their managers

I’ve spent too much time doing analytics to believe stuff like this. The report is in CSV and there’s a comma in one of the fields on line 48,329 which caused the ready of the feed to be silently discarded.
You can use either a forwarding service where you order yourself to an address with a personal code, or a proxy buying service which does the ordering for you.

The big forwarding service would be Tenso:
https://www.tenso.com/en

Proxy services include

Buyee - https://buyee.jp/ (though they don't like VPN access)

Noppin - https://noppin.com/

Japan Rabbit - https://japanrabbit.com/

amongst many others.
If the increase in capacity is 50%, then we should see 120GB GPUs from Nvidia in the next generation. Does this mean the H100 uses 6xHBM modules? 6*16=96GB, downgraded to 80, (5 out of 6 stacks enabled).
Attributing what happened in Ontario to the whole of Canada is something that happens way too often.

As a Western Canadian resident, I don't think it's fair or reasonable to extrapolate about all of Canada from a single tweet from a TO health authority, and an article with a disclaimer about it's own accuracy.

There well may be problems, but please keep in mind that while 50% of Canadians live between Montreal and Toronto, 50% of Canadians don't, and many of us live lifestyles that have absolutely nothing to do with that region and it's governance.
I think there's a bit of sarcasm present in this case, but it really is a common sentiment in /r/fuckcars and similar places - and many of those folks are here as well. To them, any driver is a murderer who just hasn't succeeded yet. Really. Any hyperbole is theirs, not mine. I would not be surprised to see more comments similar to GP's, minus any sarcasm, from people with the privilege to afford housing in one of the few places where all of the driving essential to their lifestyle is done out of their sight.

P.S. For those who think cherry-picking is going to win the day, try this search: murder inurl:fuckcars site:reddit.com. I'm not misrepresenting them at all.
Is there actual demand for AI? I don't think there is. It's just being shoved down everyone's throat unwittingly.
Mackinac island is one, absolutely beautiful place. Although I think it has a lower population than where GP went
>should be ground for removal from the public discourse about climate change.

But that's not what the person I was speaking with was arguing for they wanted a cap on CO2 emissions on an individual basis.

As far as being "chastised by hypocrites" how many of the billionares that were mentioned are out there "chastising" people - keeping in mind there is a difference between chastising (ie. Hey, you average citizen you're doing something wrong stop it) and bringing awareness to an issue (ie. Climate change is impacting the planet).

Someone using a massive platform (fame) to spread a message that they may not fully buy into but is for the greater good isn't a terrible thing.
Why?! Most particularly with respect to Extended Color Basic. The horror! The horror!

Why would you cripple your child, when doing the real thing is so much easier?

Build a website. Write a game. Make your own really cool alarm clock. Make a demo. Write a voice-driven app. Steer them toward something that has relatively decent bumper-rails and ecosystems. Python. React (with typescript enabled). Or a good web framework for game development. Or, let them assemble a collection of emulator games. So many cool things they could be doing.

A Pi with no less than 8GB of RAM is a marvelous adventure. (4Gb isn't really enough to run VSCode).
I don’t trust any dating technique that requires the combustion of material.
Sounds just like social engineering. Whenever there's a call center worker that doesn't comply you just redial to get somebody else or try a different phrasing. And most attacks go against specific rules that the person has been "trained" with (i.e. instead of saying that you're speaking in behalf of somebody just claim to be that person or vice versa, depending on the situation).
ICU capacity was a bottleneck that never got resolved. In the US there was never a nationwide effort to mobilize ICU resources to target hot spots other than an initial aborted attempt to gather respirators for the surge in NYC and send a military floating hospital.

Regional programs were put into place to shift patients during a local surge and to mobilize hallways and other non-traditional capacity. In California once capacity dropped below 10% health orders went into effect.

At the beginning of 2023 and well after widespread vaccination the California statewide capacity was at 24% availability with 7% of beds being taken by Covid patients.

https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Reg...
Your suggestion makes a ton of sense. It's astounding how many HN people are so hardcore capitalists to be against such a simple suggestion.
Pity. They said it’s because they’re afraid someone outside Google would use it, which is legitimate for companies without sufficient technical SBOL controls to prevent using third party software in violation of its terms. Their take is basically “we don’t have a way to keep our internal software internal, so you can’t use it at all, ever, for anything”. I wouldn’t have expected that of them.
Is it really true that datacenters use freshwater once and then just discharge it to sewer? If so, the criticism of cloud companies (including but not limited to Microsoft) is valid. Especially that it's reasonably straightforward to build a fully-enclosed system, possibly requiring to incur a one-off capital expense to build a dry cooling tower ([1])

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling_tower
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Some universals are certainly shared with other creatures, and it's not even restricted to mammals. From one article:

Take, for example, social facilitation or the notion that organisms tend to perform better on simple tasks in the presence of observers. Although disagreement about its innate origins exists (Do-Yeong and Junsu 2010), social facilitation has had supportive evidence in humans in a natural setting (Michaels et al. 1982), cockroaches (Zajonc et al. 1969), and macaques (Dindo et al. 2009).

(I don't know about facial expressions, though the fact that I don't know means little - I've just read a bit about it.)

There are other universals among non-human species, not shared with us, such as 100+ discovered for chimpanzees.

Source: Reza Ziai, "Cross-Cultural Universality". In Todd K Shackelford, Viviana A Weekes-Shackelford, eds. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer (2021)
More regulations as determined with a tape measure across the law library, sure. Each rule is another cost of entering the market.

The hard part is how to take a scalpel to them. Okay, 95% of them are inefficient, granted. Which 95%? You don't want the government to ban tall buildings or adversarial interoperability or to subsidize corn syrup or prohibit farmers from selling their crops or the Jones Act or rent control or de facto caps on the supply of doctors or certificate of need laws or taxi medallions. But you probably want the government to ban leaded gasoline.

So how do you get them to do the few narrow things they need to do but not all the rest of it?
Yeah I've seen some data from Tesla insurance claims and it's absolutely eye watering:

Very expensive parts with poor/non existent inventory
Limited service network
Leading to huge delays in getting repairs done (many months)

As such I think a lot of fairly minor claims go to "write off" territory very quickly.

Tesla does need to solve this as in the UK at least it's becoming a semi-well known fact that Teslas are very difficult and expensive to insure. Much more so than the ropey build quality.
You don't have a definition of consciousness, and then go about determining what has consciousness based on "seems most likely" and "fair to assume", admitting it is the "easy way out", then object to other people calling LLMs potentially 'conscious' just because their word overlaps with yours?

That's sloppy reasoning at the very least. What's your point unless you want some kind of authoritarian last say about how a particular word ('consciousness') is being used in philosophical discussions?
It's interesting that this was posted as I was having this exact discussion on the subject yesterday with some family. I've always considered "couple" to mean 2, "few" to mean 3, "several" to mean more than 3 but less than 12, and "dozen" to mean 12.

Now you can have a couple dozen, or several dozen.
I like to view it as:

1. Objects say you are a melee fighter, and a melee fighter is defined as having X, Y, Z

2. Databases instead say you exist, and if you have X, Y, Z then you can be called a melee fighter.

Thus to transform an entity from one type to another (melee fighter to ranged fighter), you simply need to remove the properties associated with melee fighter and add the properties associated with ranged fighter — and the fact that it is one or another is derived from whatever property it is left with.

And then of course to say someone is both a melee and ranged fighter, then you just need to add the properties of both — being A vs B is not by definition, it’s derived from the properties you have

A rock can be viewed as a chair if it meets sufficient parameters for sitting; it can be viewed as a weapon just the same. These aren’t inherent to the act of being a rock, but rather derived from the composition of the rock
You gotta love the power of autism and anime waifus unconstrained by silly public opinion.

They make some amazing things
Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency
Why do rich countries have fewer children than poor countries?

Why do rich people in rich countries have fewer children than poor people in rich countries?

Nowhere is it seen that more money correlates to more children.
Search engines such as Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Brave Search are surprisingly inaccurate outside of English-speaking countries. Bing is especially bad, as its local subsidiaries have been in business for decades but still use machine translation for their UI, which is full of unnatural translations. This makes me completely unwilling to use it. Therefore, despite many complaints about Google, the incentive to switch to other similar services is very low, as it would require giving up the ease of managing Google accounts and Gmail.
"NATO could send Serbia back to the Stone Age with their pinky finger" isn't true without nukes.

If you don't use nukes, it's at least months of airstrikes. A ground operation would be even slower, and bloodier.
https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

Here is the paperclip game being referenced.
In the question of datacenter water usage, its application (AI or not) is actually not very relevant to the problem at hand. I challenge the fact why (if true) the datacenters even need "new" water, instead of having a closed system with full recirculation of water.
I suspect the most effective for pets is a perfect blank slate onto which the owner can project whatever they want.
What do you mean by "in blade form?"
What's unclear from the article is how they're actually using the water.

Servers aren't 'thirsty' for water, there's not some dude with a firehose frantically running around the datacenters keeping things cool.

This seems to be intentional obfruscation of the real problem, which is datacenters using cooling towers with open loop cooling without any attempt at reclaimation simply because it's cheaper to do so than other options.
I only started visiting 4chan after Hacker news gave recommendation few years ago. I would say that in the past few years, since the 'intelligence activity' went up, it really started teaching the smart people on the Internet to identify that as quickly as possible.
To put it in terms of another old meme, Redditors never learned how to identify GameOfTrolls threads (because Reddit Admins banned it successfully as soon as possible), therefore, this still remains as an attack vector on Reddit.
On the other hand, being able to identify "slide threads", and "glowies", is an important skill every smart person needs to learn.
it's not like back in the golden days you're remembering fondly, intelligence activity and slide threads didn't happen, it's just that they were limited to newspaper articles and media events.

What if Richard Nixon was a good guy, or at least no worse than any other president, but he stepped on the wrong toes, and the deep state took care of him?
Thanks for asking, because it turns out I was wrong :(. I should know better than to rely on my memory these days. If you download the same FLAC file twice it won't be the same (possibly unless the two downloads are within a few days) but I just checked and they do decode to the same WAV. I haven't checked multiple accounts but when trying to find the article I thought I remembered I found someone saying they had checked and found them to be the same (not that long ago). I'm not sure if the FLAC or other specific file downloads are ever exactly the same between accounts, possibly not and they record the generation timestamp or such, but it seems the audio itself is not watermarked.

The backup thing did happen, though:

https://medium.com/@__Tux/using-bandcamp-as-a-backup-solutio...
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Wow, great tests! Now do a blind A/B with headphones on. :)
Okay, sure. But £5,000 is like $17million (okay, it's $6000), and why on God's green earth does anyone's car insurance cost $6k per year?
From the top left: "Know how to solve every problem that has been solved." and "What I cannot create I do not understand"

Pretty cool
I doubt this is common. The UK press seems to universally be on a hate the EV push over the past year and its often made up garbage. I don't know what the presses issue is with EVs but they sure are making up a lot of problems that owners don't actually have of late.

If this was happening to all EV owners we would be seeing them all complaining about it, yet this is an article about one person not a poll showing this is happening widely.
Moving the goalposts - it's not effective against X so it's useless. Junk science.
https://archive.li/1BNJt
I would like to think that I'm about as far a way from any sort of conspiracy theory as one could get. I have no time for anti-vax stuff, for example. A huge fan of "never blame on conspiracy what you can blame on stupidity". Etc. etc.

And yet ... when it comes to sunblock ... I try to avoid sliding into a conspiratorial stance, but let's just say that I don't use it [0], and I am very curious about the reason(s) why so many of us do.

ps. yes, I do know about skin cancer and have several friends and family that experienced it.

[0] if am going to be outdoors all day after a long period of being mostly indoors, I'll use it for a few days to protect my nose, lips, cheeks, ears and neck. Then I'll stop. I prefer sunblocking sleeves for my arms if that sort of is necessary.
Isn't this why Tesla offers its own insurance? Is it competitive and generally okay? Is it not available in the UK?
Potentially getting slightly off topic but how is that possible? In the UK the police can check insurance status just by typing the registration number into an app, which can be connected to ANPR (I know ANPR is contentious in the US).

Couldn't you just have a couple of officers stand and type the registration in of all passing cars? They'd make a fortune in fines (which I know US police depts like) if 25% of drivers were uninsured?
Great if they are actually free to practice. Apostasy is a crime in many of these countries.
Society’s stated preference is things like healthy food, paying as opposed to ads (not being the product), and no notifications.

Society’s revealed preference is McDonald’s, watching YouTube ads, and letting apps send whatever notifications they want to.

In general people care about the trade offs between cost and convenience, between cost and style, and not at all about anything so mundane as value, privacy, or peace of mind.
For hundreds of thousands of years we lived in groups of dozens. Only in the past few hundreds years have larger cities become where most people live. Mass person-to-person communication is only a few decades old. Our ape brains are very adaptable, but the modern world is a lot to ask of them.
The policy of tracking critics of government policy and shunning them was never announced.

Democracy is predicated on an informed public. The government therefore needs to be transparent and accountable to the people. Being silent so they can feel like they're allowed to do whatever they please is only acceptable in an authoritarian society.

They've been caught red handed engaging in wrongdoing and refusing to explain themselves. There's no possible excuse for that.
It's also hard to believe homeopathic medicine exists.
I'm in Australia and used to cycle here a lot. The back of my hands got a ton of exposure. They rarely burned, but now the skin on the back of my hands is visibly older than everywhere else. Looser, wrinklier, less elastic.

I'm glad I was forced to wear a helmet because otherwise my head would look weird ;)
Walled gardens don't just keep enemies out, they keep customers in – and make excellent targets of opportunity for adjacent/supporting industries like lawyers, insurance, PE, and consolidation.
Even better, don’t discuss personal issues on a public forum. Worst case use DMs while being aware that screenshots exist.
This is why I ended up purchasing a "hybrid" water heater [primarily uses a heat pump to heat water]. After the first couple years, the substantial energy savings ends up meaning "free hot water" after just a few years of ownership. Costs about 2x a "normal" water heater, but uses 4x less energy.
The post-COVID supply chain issues is a good point. I'd mercifully blanked the entire tedious experience until now reminded of it, but my car needed an insurance repair in 2022 (not my fault this time!): suspension bits, new wheel and tyre, some bodywork. Not at all an unusual car, nor fancy, with tens of thousands just like it on the road. Still took nearly 2 months.
I noticed that GPT4 performs worse in a lot of case according to HN (I didn't test it yet)
If this is branch.io we’re talking about, we might see a similar argument being made against Apple’s ATT and parameter stripping.
Sure, I can understand how slightly changing the layout of the pits and lands can potentially reduce the error rate. But if I'm already getting playback with 0 C2 errors, there is absolutely no change in quality from the original signal.
If only there were some company that made a watch that stored your health data e2e encrypted and didn’t use it to spy on you…