skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that there are good reasons to distrust this sort of 'evidence'.

Firstly, I don't think dating (dendrochronoloy or luminescence (whatever that is)) is valid. It is unverifiable guess work.

Secondly, how does one date something intangible like a footprint? Oh the grass and pollen.... please. I don't think you can date a secondary trace of something like this. Its like a detective using dust to see the oil on a criminal's finger print. Nice idea, but highly unlikely to be practical.

> "People can argue against any single dating technique," he said. "But it's the totality of the study, the congruence of the ages from all three different dating techniques, that really make our results exceptionally robust."

"exceptionally robust"... if you say so.

> Jolie, who is of Oglala Lakota and Hodulgee Muscogee heritage, says technology is transforming his field. But there's something else, too: more Indigenous people are involved in research into these early Americans.

Ok - so there is a modern angle too. Amazing how history cross-references as it does and with such good timing. Well, not that amazing ... if you think that the history we are presented is simply the history for today (not yesteryear or tomorrow's history). We get the message for our timeline as we need it. The underlying message that this history supports is: its time 'we' gave the history and land back to the people 'we' stole it from, brothers and sisters. Except, that no one alive now committed the crimes that they are being accused of - so we are going to commit new crimes on account of stories that manufacture consent to the crimes..
Just curious, with so much runway do you still work? What motivates you?
What are pedophiles' activities? Did you mean abusers?

I don't think they meant it would be 100% effective. And real child pornography may deter future abuse. Research is inconclusive.
That's a very common pattern amongst people who a) fluently speak more than one language, and b) share a great deal of (assumed / sub-conscious) social context.

Out of curiosity: are you never / sometimes / always conscious, as you are doing it, that you are mixing languages? From my knowledge - and observations - some people (at least situationally) are and some people aren't, although I've never seen an explanation of what determines that. Do you have any ideas?
I am going to disagree strongly there. The alternative way to scroll is, in most cases, the mouse scroll wheel. And that gets tedious (and strenuous for some people) really fast when the document gets large. I absolutely need the ability to use the scroll bar to change my position in a document.
There were no charges filed in this case. The prosecutor correctly ascertained that the allegations were false and the whole thing was a waste of taxpayer money.
Dropbox AI
Any network of sufficiently complex connected nodes develops characteristics of complexity that mirror intelligence.

This was always the conjecture of the “ghost in the machine” and mech futurist sci-fi writers.

Would you be willing to provide some reading about this? I’d love to see 1-2 things that could help me (and others) know more about what you know.
Coherence Is Overrated
Several times I've travelled with three to Chile, always one is a new purchase, the other two usually work + personal. And 2-3 smartphones and a camera, same flight. Never really had a problem. I guess if they all were BNIB they'd ask questions, but none of my friends have had issues with their gear or their shopping, yet it's usually a different story with places like Argentina or Mexico. They do ask in Chile about possible odd luxury items that stand out, like art or golf clubs, not so much about personal jewellery tho.
> Maybe, just maybe, those traditionally suppressed lifestyles were suppressed because those societies had memories of what happens when they are not suppressed.

That would be more plausible if we saw that all mature cultures ended up with the same or similar norms. But we don't. Instead, we see a rich variety of norms across history and cultures, but also many examples of territorialism where specific cultures try to impose their idiosyncratic norms on others. And maybe there's good to be found even in that (uniformity is easier to govern), but it does run against the pluralist principles of the modern west.
I'd hazard that, with cars, you are traveling far farther from your local area than most people could ever do in the past.
You are way overestimating the layoffs' impact on Mac shipment. And sorry to inform you that many people laid off are not developers and more likely use Windows over Mac, and even among developers roughly half use Windows or Linux on a PC. (People here seem to think almost every developer uses Mac, but that is very very far from the truth.)
Who needs backup when you just rsync every 10 minutes?
My partner and I are having our first kid. We were given a sheet with a timeline of the various appointments and check-ins. Each appointment had an associated QR code where bookings could be made. No other details, e.g. contact details, were on it. Not a problem for us, having smartphones, but it did give me pause; surely there are folk who don't have a phone that can scan these, or a phone at all. What extra BS do these people have to go through to do something that would take me 5s with my smartphone? This is only one example, but still, it is an example of how disadvantaged people are even more disadvantaged because of the expectation that everyone has a smartphone. Probably just an oversight on the sheet author's part but is it one born out of their expectations around smartphone adoption? Maybe

That said, maybe there was a sheet without QR codes and the nurse made a call that we looked like we had smartphones and gave us the QR code one. Can't rule that out.
I did. I’m aware. But I thought the comment worth writing anyways.

I’m sorry it wasn’t enough of a response to the article for you, but that wasn’t my intention in writing it.
I think the kind of person who checks out programming languages in their free time probably does more coding on their own, so languages that appeal to them are the ones with concise syntax that's easy to type, even if some people find it cryptic. Rust and Haskell also may appeal to these programmers more than people with your opinion.
Good point. "Hallucination" is about incorrectly perceived input, not incorrect output.

When people hallucinate they don't usually react to it verbally at all, they just observe it. Not the case with LLMs. They just keep on saying something, because they are designed to produce answers.
Rock Spiders. Be a dull world without 'em.
If you’re a fan of a popular artist you should probably expect to pay this. Not sure if that’s the case here but tickets are usually more affordable at first but then they get scalped instantly. It’s most of the reason I haven’t gone to a concert in recent years

TS recently caused Ticketmaster to crash because so many people were ordering and Ticketmaster couldn’t handle it. TS is huge

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/11/taylor-s...
The Youtube overview video included within the Github is a great watch and exploration with RL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcYLT37ImBY
If that were true then they wouldn’t go to the effort of making it draggable
Show HN: Redirect users to different URLs based on number of clicks
Wait what? Do you still see ads even if you pay?
With the alt text, copying and pasting actually works as you expect.
Heata revolutionizes data center management with a sustainable solution that harnesses thermal energy waste to provide free hot water. Instead of using expensive and energy-intensive cooling systems, Heata transports heat from processors to the boiler shell, providing a radical shift towards sustainable computing. The company's diffuse data center model processes data at local homes, reducing the need for energy-intensive locations. Participants benefit from lower bills and contribute to combating climate change. Heata has satisfied customers like Surrey Heath's mayor, Helen Whitcroft, who appreciates the innovative solution that aligns with their carbon footprint reduction efforts.
Yeah, I think the key downside for Microsoft is they can't just make them exclusive to Xbox cloud gaming and they have to treat the Activision titles as if they were buying them from a 3rd party studio.
> The share of Black residents dropped from 60 percent to 40 percent; the share of white residents increased from 15 percent to 33 percent. The neighborhood became less socioeconomically diverse

Doesn't this mean the neighbourhood became more socioeconomically diverse? In the US especially, socioeconomics are often tied to race, and the dominant race reduced by 20%, a minority race increased by 18%, and I assume another race increased by 2%.
Usually they're fortified with a low enough amount of vitamins that it prevents pellagra, beriberi, etc. Not necessarily enough to address other problems.

And if you aren't eating a lot of enriched flour you might not be consuming it in fortified foods at all.
If you can somehow build an actual physical test that costs 1 cent to both synthesize and validate a chemical you’re still looking at ~1 trillion dollars per candidate.

Simulations might be that cheap someday, but that’s still checking plausibility not running an actual experiment.
> If the apple in my head

The apple (or a "mathematical" whole number) in your head is not part of any sort of reality that I meant. The difference between any given apple and, say, the number 3, is that, while both do actually exist in nature, the number 3 exists in a subtly less direct way, it exists as the thing that is common between three apples and the three horses you might want to feed these three apples to; and the fact of the (almost) physical existence of that common (i.e., the number) can be proven by you being bitten by the third horse if you only happen to have two apples instead of three.

(I'll need more time in order to address the rest of your points.)
We did the same but with German/Swedish/English. Kid learns american english from youtube and movies and the main language in Swedish schools is English anyway... The Swedish teachers are complaining quitely that the youth talk more English than Swedish the last 10 years.
Yeah, this is what I was seeing. Edited GP to remove any insinuation it wasn't genuine - I did not intend to mean this was disinfo, more so maybe that CNN was just getting lazy in sourcing their media.
You can't see the appeal in some circumstances for a house/apartment vs a hotel room?
Funny I thought capitalism was anti-monopolistic.

Wtf is going on with the institutions that are meant to prevent this?

It’s the death of ownership. Everything you consume is now a subscription.

Gamepass will be the new norm.
Wine 8.18 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS
ripgrep for contents
Also I think the general low resolution of the photo left me with the impression that the towers lacked any texture on their surface, which is what made me think it might've been CG.
DOJ sues eBay for selling 'rolling coal' devices; fines could hit $2B
From another perspective, I think designing and building your own programming language is an incredible way to gain depth of knowledge and not simply breadth.
Parent said that the academic consensus is based on scientific evidence. My point was that the academic consensus can also reflect authority rather than evidence. Evidence for pre-Clovis human presence has been known for a while but its validity has been questioned by consensus opinion.

I did not say anything about the beliefs of indigenous people. I also did not question the available DNA evidence nor historical migration from Siberia.
Royal Rife advocated radiotherapy though, not this sonic stuff.
War misinformation is everywhere, so Twitter is cracking down on nudity
That suggestion is more feasible, but far from what was being proposed.
They are talking about sponsored content that the content creator records and shows in-video.
Yes...ha ha ha...YES!
Insurrection is freedom fighting, if you win.

If you don't win, it might be insurrection or terrorism.
While in one way you could look at it and say possession shouldn't be illegal the problem is that to possess it someone must have created it. If there's a market in it some people will engage in it to satisfy that market. Thus, possession of real CSAM has an indirect victim.

I had previously proposed that if the abuser has been caught that the victim should get the rights to the images and once they are an adult be allowed to legally sell them (thus a list of legally permitted images), but the AI image revolution has changed that. Have AIs sign their images, CSAM with a proper signature is legal.
https://www.rac.ca/simulated-emergency-test-2023-operation-d...

> The Simulated Emergency Test (SET) is a Canada-wide exercise in emergency communications, which is administered by Radio Amateurs of Canada’s Community Services Officer and Section Managers.This year ‘s event is known as “Operation Dark Skies” and will be held in two parts which are described (here).

Our club will be on the air.

https://www.skywide.ca/acs/
something about being hungry and something something about being foolish
Are you saying I might see Torrin's Passage 2 now?
Definitely. I have a couple use cases for it at <dayjob>.

Thanks for sharing that link. https://www.url2png.com/ is another I know about.
If you take your own measurements you can do a lot more than what this site is doing, but with the disadvantage that you have to take your own measurements. For example, you could:

1. directly observe signal integrity with your own GPS receiver

2. compare the location your receiver reports with the actual known location

3. compare the location your receiver reports on GPS with the location a different GNSS network reports.
To the contrary, XP and Vista' soft, round buttons and edges always made me think of a Douglas-Adamsian dystopia. Win2000 was bare bones, square and functional.
Painmaker: It's riddled with features.
In a perfect world, yes. In reality, a friend lost his phone and forgot his Apple password. They were able to help him recover his data after he proved his ID to them.

For most people, data loss is much more of a risk than privacy loss.

I'm a member of the EFF. I backup all my own data. I have Advanced Data Protection turned on. I keep my handful Dogecoin in a hardware wallet stored in a safe deposit box. I am perfectly competent and willing to take responsibility for irrecoverably losing my data. Most people are not you and me, and defaulting to perfect privacy would cause much more harm than choosing best-effort.

> Yes: Purism with their Librem devices, including Librem 5 GNU/Linux phone.

I think they meant other vendors making devices targeted at the general public. There's always been a demand for devices that trade convenience for security for the relatively tiny market of people like you and me who value that choice. No way I'd set my older relatives up with it.
I'd prefer 'sandboxes' at an even lower, function-level, such as with Austral-lang's capabilities: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34168452

There you can more exactly specify what a function may do, instead of relying on blunt categories like "filesystem".
> Tyranny does not begin with violence; it begins with the first
gesture of collaboration. Its most enduring crime is drawing decent
men and women into its siege of the truth

""" we often start a lesson with a clip from the opening scenes of
Spielberg's Schindler's List (Spielberg, Zaillian, & Keneally,
1993). When asked about the film most people recall a scene of
horror, of Nazis shooting children. But in fact, the first scene
is a careful choice by the director. It is a mundane shot of a
small, innocuous table with a bottle of ink, and an official
asking a line of Jews, "Name please?!". """ [0]

[0] http://www.icicte.org/assets/icicte2019_5.4_farnell.pdf
The IRS Decided to Get Tough Against Microsoft. Microsoft Got Tougher. (2020)
Have you seen a room wired with a second lightswitch specifically for the bedside? I'd be interested to know if anyone's done this.
There you go.
Put an AI in a virtual world catching Pokemon.
Next thing its in a robot body walking around catching humans, got to catch them all.
15 years is a long time though. I suspect we're not far away from being able to sell a 100$ device, that can AI reconstruct and upscale a super compressed video feed, so that you can stream with lower latencies or even with worse connections.

Nvidia seems to be leading the way here.

But imagine in the cloud, they only needed to render games at 320p, and then they'd stream it compressed at low bitrate using H266 (assuming it's out in a few years). Then your "console", only needs to AI regenerate and upscale the feed, and it ends up looking photo-real or close to it.

You could even explore methods of compression on the video that the AI is best as reconstructing from.
To a first degree, yes. Its answers made sense, they comport with other things I've read and other people I've talked with. I have seen nothing that appears incorrect, either grossly or subtly. If the information I got from this session is factually wrong I would love to know, but so far it seems accurate to the level of understanding I was aiming for.
I'm glad the age of proxy void rays and queen walks is gone, but there's a lot to be desired from the process. My main grievance is that the community members who form the balance council are under some insane NDA, they're afraid of even discussing what is in the NDA, let alone what they're working on.

You end up with a design by committee with minimal community input, which feeds the cycle back into balance whine shitposts and YT reaction videos. It's arguably better than nothing, but far from healthy.

I miss David Kim.
Ok, and it is not anti-competitive because microsoft isn't anywhere close to being a monopoly.

Thats the answer to the question. This answer was already given to you.
It seems very cruel to the child to force bilingualism for the sake of being bilingual. I was raised speaking 5(!) languages, and over time that has attritioned into speaking only 3, but each language had its purpose: mainly in speaking to a different group of people in my home country, for official documents, or was the language on all the interesting TV shows.

The hard part about a new language, if you intuitively understand the grammar, is vocabulary. The author himself admits that his own vocabulary is not expansive enough, foisting than upon a child can't possibly help. The inability to have deep conversations is deeply harmful: there are many Chinese couples in my home country that raised their children only on English, much to the detriment of their Chinese/Hokkien/Cantonese, and the parent and child are now unable to hold deep conversations about important topics, which led to big disconnects in familial relationships.

I don't think that this will cause long-term harm, but I do think it's a massive waste of time.

There is this obsession with language learning that I've never quite understood in the US. The supposed cognitive benefits have, to the best of my knowledge, mostly failed to replicate, so it only lives on as a popular myth.
by definition, any public predictable signals (sustained edge) in stock price time series have been exploited already - thereby nullifying them.
This is true in general. Look [0]. Especially for women who are slightly overweight, BMI underestimates body fat. People complain that BMI isn't accurate, but it's not the dunk they think it is, more accurate measures often paint an even worse picture.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2877506/
Yes.

IT folks that use Apple, wouldn't surprise me if new hires get something from a previous round of layoffs.

Regular consumers, between everything else being more expensive and/or seeing store financing rates go even higher, are more likely to repair their existing device to get by or just stick with a non Apple laptop.
Especially considering that most of HN is probably just excited about using this information to train AI as look at it themselves.
You must not be sensitive to lag or low latencies. Some players have no issue playing a 30fps games with dips into the 10s for example. Others do.

For me, it's just simply not up to the quality I can enjoy the game at.
Ever pray to Jesus?
Definitely a great new modality

Benefits - Can target tumor noninvasively with active imaging. No damage of nearby blood vessels.

Cons - Sound waves can only penetrate a few centimeters into the body. Also need a liquid medium to travel, ie. Can't target brain tumors because of the skull, can't target lung tumors due to presence of air.
Same with Google Talk (as in, was good, then killed by Google). This is their text chat and voice chat app before crapware like Hangouts. Not tried Duo or Meet.
Depends. Is that the actual ticket price or after scalping?

But, yes, that does seem to be where tickets now land. A quick look shows most bands I would want to see are all in the $150 range. And that's why I simply don't go to big concerts like these.

The issue is that music artists basically make zero money except touring and merch. I presume this is why people like Siouxsie Sioux are doing touring gigs with on the festival circuit. So, while I find the prices extortionate, I also don't fault the artists very much.
> I would pay good money for a window-unit dehumidifier that could be used either in apartments or without having to pay for installation and ductwork of a whole-house dehumidifier.

All/most window AC units I've seen have a mode labeled something like 'dry only', which I take to mean 'dehumidify only'.
Dust devils are also another thing. I’ve spent tens of hours driving in the southwest and mountain west and have seen several. Years and years living in, and hundreds of hours on long drives through, tornado ally and adjacent still-tornado-heavy areas, and I’ve never seen a tornado.
> How the hell is this any different

it is significantly different because back then Microsoft was close to being a monopoly in the relevant market.

Thats the difference. Microsoft is not that in video games right now.

Giving stuff away for free or cheap and bundling is completely fine if the company doing it isn't even close to being a monopoly.

> than the anti-competitive behavior that Microsoft was brought to court for in the 90s?

The anti competitive behavior that they were brought to court for was not bundling.

Instead, it was for being close to a monopoly while also engaging in bundling.

Bundling is only anti-competitive if the company doing it is close to being a monopoly.
Considering how low population densities were back in those days I’m not sure violent competition was really that necessary.

Even during the neolithic when farmers from the middle east started migrated into Europe they seemingly just lived side by side with the local hunter gathers for hundreds of years. As the farmer populations were growing at an extremely fast pace (for premodern times) eventually they started moving into the areas inhabited by hunter gathers but according to current evidence these societies just merged and there was no large scale genocide or something like that.

Back in the Neanderthal days population growth was much slower so this process probably took much longer but it’s not inconceivable that climate change and some sort of assimilation were the primary reason why the Neanderthals went extinct instead of violent conflict.