skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew someone who was like Denys after a stroke. They spoke well, in grammatically correct sentences that made sense even if the content was not rooted in reality. There was not much coherence between sentences or in longer statements but it was more like quick gradual shifts not hard jumps from topic to topic.

So not unlike early LLM chat in areas where the model had not a lot of data about.
Perhaps, but Brazil certainly has an excellent aerospace industry. Meanwhile, here's a UK-based distributor selling unverified parts from two weeks ago: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/engine-ma...
"We don’t treat each other well because we haven’t taught young people for several generations how to be considerate to each other in the small circumstances of life, how to sit with somebody who’s suffering from depression, how to disagree well."

Absolutely classic Brooks. Make up some imaginary past, lament how today's kids don't get it, patronizingly explain how he does get it. Several generations ago we were casually accepting cruelty to women, minorities, poor people, and we sure as hell were not considerate to people suffering from depression.
I'm not sure about your angle here, but I thought IQ was calibrated to have 100 as the average value?

So wouldn't 80 mean that someone is... kinda dumb?
> in basically all western countries there is support structure in place to feed the poor, so that no one should go hungry.

There is no such support structure in the UK. There are the informal 'food banks', but they are overstretched and ad-hoc. So, unsurprisingly, people do go hungry. So, prima facie, there must be cases where the shoplifters are right and the law is wrong, at least until you have put an adequate foodbank system in place.
Are corruption and engineering skills in Brazil that different to India? Nobody bats an eye-lid about flying on Embraer jets
For photovoltaic cells there are other factors which limits this further. For a single p-n junction the limit is around 33% for normal sunlight[1], though it's too early in the morning for me to calculate it at the proposed ~2700K temperature. By stacking junctions you can get higher but then other things kick in[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley%E2%80%93Queisser_limi...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar-cell_efficiency#Factors_...
There is a gradient, I think

I’m fine with for example cooking lobsters or prawns and other seafood that needs to be basically cooked alive. Because they are less sentient and less closer to human. I’m not fine with cooking chicken alive. There is a grey area about eating dogs and cats. I am generally fine with that, other people aren’t.

Monkeys are closer to human.

I think some amount of experimentation is necessary and can be good for science experiments. Monkeys are not human after all, never will be; but they are close.

I think excessive and useless experiments are bad.

But there is a gradient and I guess it’s hard to define. I don’t think sacrificing one monkey is evil. I also don’t think that needlessly torturing it is fine. There are gradients.

You can’t make parallel with experiments on human in 2nd world war though; that is a mockery of those people actually tortured back then. Saying that they are on monkey level

(I am not who you are replying to)
Thanks for mentioning that.
"I’ll often go to a party and leave and think, “That whole time, nobody asked me a question.”"

Clearly not
I don't see that as a personal attack. It is factual. No teenager - except the richest ones - can afford buying a new smartphone every year, neither do their parents.

And most of those that can afford it would still want to buy other things instead when they already have one, which means only the richest of the richest ones really do that.
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Doesn't look like it, given the amount of times it keeps being pushed as "alternative".
Question for anybody who knows: what is actually the best way for younglings to experience computing these days? USB sticks were the thing when I was growing up because PCs were ubiquitous and people would accept trying it out as long as you promised it wouldn't harm their precious Windows installation. Is that still true, though? People seem to have more phones and tablets and stuff that can't boot from USB. Are things like Raspberry Pi the way to go?
Autistic individuals have increased risk of chronic physical health conditions
Nah mate the invisible hand of the free market, which is very akin to a god or a children's book fairy will automagically take care of it, that's if you believe hard enough
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I don't see a single logical argument in your comment about why "nothing about this is redeemable". You just seem to imply that everyone who disagrees with you is wrong.

So I ask, why are they wrong?
The video above is the "Apps & Tools" showcase. Here's the desktop/console games showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAS_pUTFA7o
Approval != safe. Some authentic parts break, some inauthentic parts don't. There is probably a correlation, but it's not immediately clear what it is in most let alone all circumstances.

The aero parts business is supposed to be a chain of trust, similar to the chain of custody you'd have for court evidence. It's there so you can ascertain provenance of parts in case something goes wrong.

Inspections are there to "prove" that parts are safe to fly, or at least as close as you can get vs the cost to inspect, overhaul, replace etc.

Any level of certainty has a cost attached to it. The fact that they found these parts and that investigations are ongoing is certain level of proof that the system works. The other, more drastic, form of proof is that the number of crashes per year due to faulty parts is kept low.

As to "fake" parts, we don't know the whole situation yet; they may be genuine parts but just may lack certification. This is what the investigation is for.
I hesitated between flagging and upvoting the submission, flagging for the, unsurprisingly, bad comments. And upvoting for showing the topic on the front page, because as all those ignorant comments show this discussion is necessary.

I settled for upvoting. But the take some peiple, I assume highly priviledged, people on HN have when it comes to short term damage done for potential, or even dubious, long term benefit is problemetic at best. Has something of Lord Farquart...
These words are applied to living people. Applied to machines they create states of belief outside the cognoscenti what is going on.

It's as if we called programming "magic" and programmers "wizards" and then kids ask "is Harry potter real" and somebody says "yes"

It's not hallucinating. It's an analogy. But analogies are not definitional. We're going to wind up in conversations about AGI and use of imprecise analogistic language will alter how people discuss this problem.

Sorry you think I'm irratinal. I think you're being obtuse and not considering real world consequences of the ontologies used outside of the field.
> If you are buying a replacement part you would want to buy one with the same specs as the part you are replacing.

But without the paper, you cannot know for sure if the spec is the same (you can't see the difference between aviation grade screws and regular screws with naked eyes for instance).

> Manufacturers will test their parts so that buyers can see if the part is usable for their needs.

Manufacturers want to sell their parts, they don't want buyers to “see if the part is usable for their needs” (if the buyer doesn't buy, that's a missed sale).

I mean have you never buy anything? Sellers want you to believe their product is good so you buy it and they make money, that's how it works. And customers being disappointed by false marketing promises is routine stuff, including in the B2B sector.
:) Maybe we need more of this kind of attitude, I don't know. But I'm
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To return a feel of stability and contrast with your main competitor at a moment everyone is reassessing it’s technological choices.

Epic actually shows its business model is doubtful.
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I wonder the same thing. See this video about "the Beatles in 1,000 years" for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z2vU8M6CYI

It's a parody but I wonder how close to the truth it is...
That question is relevant how exactly?
I think you mean bronze age.
I happen to think Mastodon is good enough as it is. To me it doesn't really need faster growth. It won me over and it won over the hundreds of people I'm following. I get a lot of value from it that I never got on Twitter, despite Mastodon's flaws.

The service itself is improving slowly and quite conservatively which is a really nice change of pace from the warp speed enshittification I have been used to for years now. On the other hand, there is also a wide range of high-quality third apps for it which Twitter now completely lacks (and basically every other walled garden platform, e.g. Reddit was the latest casualty) of you need a different experience.
As with all Hype Cycles; stick the buzzword into your company name (see "dot com" for examples) work it into every sentence of every conversation that you have and benefit from the torrential flow of investment chasing said buzzword.

Ignore all else and get the company name infront of the cheque books as quickly as humanly possible. Product-market fit, MVP, bootstrapping and stealth are naughty words that have no place in Hype Cycles.

No further strategy required, however, for the advanced entrepreneur - be aware that all cycles have a bust phase - and this time it is not different.

(unless you wrote blog posts and "content" - in which case copy the article you wrote about Product Strategy in the Age of NFTs a couple of years ago and swap the crypto for ai - you will get lots of clicks and nobody will notice)
The way I conceptualize dream versus hallucinate, they're basically the same thing here and I see no reason to switch. It's not like the software has a sleep schedule.

And hearsay is usually a lot better than LLM output. I wouldn't use that word.
Adding more cells won’t help for two reason. Let’s say the extra cells would help absorb, they can only capture 40% which means you’ve got exponentially increasing costs chasing after all the heat you didn’t absorb (+ physical location of where to put the cells). The real reason though is physics, namely the 2nd law of thermodynamics. If you could keep adding cells to capture the heat other cells couldn’t, you’d basically get really really close to a perpetual motion machine which we know is impossible. That’s because a good chunk of the unabsorbed heat is either reflected from the cells or not absorbable from the source.

TLDR: Adding more cells won’t help due to economics, geometry, and fundamental laws of physics.
The OP's assertion lacks foundation, and hence can correctly be classified as "baseless". If the OP has proof then they should come forward with it; if the OP lacks proof then ipso facto it is "baseless".
"If all the world’s cats went vegan, it would save more emissions than those produced by New Zealand"

Cats are obligate carnivores. So that's not going to happen without synthetic meat, and then the carbon emission debate is still there.

There shouldn't be a debate around what we feed pets until we've converted the industrial and logistical network that produces and supplies pet food to a sustainable one. You know, the human-made environmental impacts.
Even beyond insurance, the system is fucked. My wife finished her master's program and started working under supervision. But, of course, the only places which offer supervision are (generally) community mental health centers. So my wife was fresh out of school, with a client load of 55 people, getting paid $20/hr -- and those 55 people were generally the people with the least resources and support, thus some of the most challenging non-inpatient clients you'll find in mental health.

Beyond that, she learned that these community mental health centers, despite being nonprofits, are still aiming to constantly reduce costs; in her first six months, she saw many support structures for both clients and clinicians cut. This included laying off most of the case management staff, expecting the counselors to pick up the slack. She rarely even had time to keep her (legally-required) notes.

She lasted less than a year before quitting. She's not sure she'll ever go back.

Counselors are being squeezed from both sides here: They either burn out early, or the insurance companies fuck them over in perpetuity.
So when people told the staff the models were racist you think they just "asked it to be less racist" I think they did a little more than just adjust the input data, they also modulated the logic behind the Weighting methods. No?
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> stuff that infuriates the public is precisely the stuff that's most strongly in the public interest to disclose.

I tend to pretty much agree with this. At least in so-called democratic nations.
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“Start accepting”

Huh. Weird. I don’t really even hide that I’m always working towards my own goals. This includes keeping an eye out for opportunities that better align with them. And I’m a firm believer that having a discussion and seeing what options there are is healthy and good. There have been many times in my career I’ve spoken to recruiters and come away with a better appreciation for where I was.

Didn’t realize this was not a normal approach.
Judgmental comments like this don't serve open and honest intellectual discussion. It is full of moral judgement and shaming meant to suppress the other side. It only shows this commenters privilege to hold luxury opinions at the cost to others. We should learn from the moral policing that happened w.r.t covid discussions that lead to poor decisions with bad science.
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First of all, get your entry-level license. If you're in the US (or have someone who can receive mail for you), this is relatively easy and inexpensive, and can be done completely online.

Avoid sinking a lot of money into a transceiver immediately before you've been operating for awhile and know what you're really interested in doing. You also do not need a rooftop antenna for HF (3-30 MHz; the frequencies that most often travel far) - a wire across your backyard can be quite effective.

Since you're here, I recommend getting started with digital modes like WSPR and FT8. They require a lot less power to make some surprising connections, and will teach you a lot about how propagation works and adjusting antennas, and because of the low power requirements, can be done with relatively inexpensive equipment. Some "old timers" grouch about how they're not "real" ham radio, but ignore them.

Edited to add: A good starting point that doesn't even require a license is to get an SDR receiver like the RTL-SDR and hook a long wire to it as an antenna, then listen for WSPR or FT8 signals with WSJT-X, and whatever else (other digital modes, Morse Code) with fldigi.
Stupid question, what do I use it for?
Unity did open the pandora box, to some extend of course.

In the realm of c++ abominations, you also have the star citizen 3D engine.

But if you don't need 3D, you better off using a 2D GFX toolkit and just be careful with the OS interfaces usages. Look at nuklear 2D GFX, everything in one C/c++ header file, and I bet it does a good enough job for already tons of apps.
There's a somewhat famous movie in Spain called the Miracle of P Tinto[0]. It's a very surreal humor kind of movie, if you fancy that.

The plot starts with the star character who wants to form a family, but when he asked adults how to have kids, they would all pull up the suspenders and sing "tralari, tralari" to evade the question.

And so the poor guy did exactly what he was told: pull his suspenders and sing, for years, to no avail.

I think LLMs are a bit like that: because they can't escape the world of text, they can't go beyond the reality that text is trying to be isomorphic to. Which means that LLMs are forced to infer answers in the context of its training data.

If LLMs were told that in order to have kids you, well, you know, right? Bees and Love? Then LLMs, asked about sex, would infer that the answer has something to do with apiculture and flowers.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Miracle_of_P._Tinto
> All of the paper work and liability reduces competition and results in much higher prices for literally the same exact part.

Yeah, true.

Stops people from dying though, so who’s to say if it’s good or not.
Sadly, TinyCore [1] is hardly mentioned anymore when tiny distros are discussed, although still in development [2]. Maybe it's still just for a small niche of users, even after 15 years, but you can start with only 17MB's and add only the desired extensions [3].

[1] http://tinycorelinux.net/

[2] http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,26201.0.html

[3] http://tinycorelinux.net/14.x/x86/tcz/

(not sure what their beef is with https...)

I do miss the times when their microcore was around 6-8MB's
3/4/5 is considered a wood working trick - that many beginners would not know (according to youtube, at least)
If the policy isn't also to blame, what's to stop the same mass intrusion of males happening again next year?

Your 'gender identity' is literally the words you say or the box you tick when asked what your 'gender identity' is. A policy that welcomes 'non-binary people' is a policy that welcomes any man who says he's 'non-binary'.

Women at the event were saying they were literally barged out the way and hurt by men pushing past them. Everyone is well aware of who the men are in this situation, but policies that prioritize declarations of 'gender identity' over reality have the effect of pressuring women to ignore their natural instincts, lower their personal boundaries, sit silently in their discomfort, and basically just be nice and accepting.

I'm glad to see the pushback against the hordes of disrespectful men taking advantage of the situation, but it will all be for nothing unless the organizers fix their policy to keep these men out in future. Women deserve better.
Right after the IT-alert the quality of my mobile internet connection plummeted for almost an hour, my ping from Italy to Netherlands was between 100 and 600ms (usually it's 30-55ms).

My guess is that some people weren't aware of the test and started calling their relatives asking questions.
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There are specific frameworks to help you prepare. Google STAR it stands for Situation Task Action Result. Formulate a bullet point list under each and then turn that into a story
Battery life, screen quality, performance.. It has of course all this super annoying bloatware you can't remove but some of the extra features were actually quite good and I miss those now (close all apps, how to create screen recordings and screenshot, etc).

Yeah it was a forced by a US policy on a wider Huawei ban, which I think is more a "protect our companies" motivation.
And is here a showreel of using Unreal,

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/events/state-of-unreal
Animal trials are not wrong in and of themselves. There are ruls and best practices around them so, with the goal to minimize animal suffering. Neuralink constantly ignores those.

And no potential benefit justifies these things, because the same benefits can be had by not taking any short cuts. What Neuralink does is ignoring rules, and they din't even have anything to show for it.

Sad so just how many people on HN actively look for excuses and justifications were none are to be found, "move fast and break things" is really strong in some people...
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Coral has quite literally been dying due to heat this summer: https://www.vox.com/climate/23868423/florida-coral-reef-blea...
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To put a finer point on it, this is the logical conclusion of running the profit maximization algorithm. Corners will be cut and prices will be raised.
It doesn't seem to annoy people who buy cars. In fact usually cars that were released 5 years before had most of their quirks known and ironed out through a midlife revamp or the model or scheduled preventive replacement of known parts breaking at a specific mileage. Just released one tend to be more of a problem to first gen owners reliability wise.

I rely on my smartphone for work, I'd rather buy a 4y old model known to be reliable than a brand knew one that ends up preventing me to call 911 or whose screen die randomly and unexpectedly.
This is more like "what transformers do" rather than "how they work".
> they've never taken VC funding

They have taken investment from Jeff Bezos decades ago.

https://archive.ph/3v3QS
But honestly, why pay those poor folks for it, if the same can be had for free?
> The 4A doesn't get security updates anymore though, right?

Correction: 4A does not receive _some_ updates, namely OS level updates.

Other things like the recent 0days for Chrome are handled via the store and have already been updated.
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To be fair, hundreds of people have died for the current regulations.
I was thinking the same the other day, and cannot agree more.

A bi-annual release cycle should cut waste in half.

Companies keep polluting the world, as if we had another alternative to live on.
Clearly having no ethics nor moral is at least as bad if not much worse, take the nazi eugenics programs and their other scientific experiments on humans. We learned a lot of things but at what price
In french we use "fabuler"[1] that can be translated to "make sth up". I don't know if it's the same in other Roman language.

[1] https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/A9F0016
To be fair to Brooks things were probably extremely polite in the academic housing district around the University of Toronto in the 1960s and just as polite and good mannered in the affluent up market parts of the Philadelphia Main Line of his later youth.

He inherited a blinkered world view and didn't get a lot of family stories about being front row at a lynching.
I was about to have a knee jerk reaction to this comment, so I read the article. I wish I just had the knee jerk reaction and skipped the article.

The article is 10 thousand useless words surrounding the fact that 12 monkeys died due to Nueralink research. They didn't tell us for what they died, if any mistakes were made, and for all but one we don't know how they died.

This seems like a case of bleeding hearts bleeding.