skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Photonic crystals bend light as though it were under the influence of gravity
Scientists have theoretically predicted that light can be bent under pseudogravity. A recent study by researchers using photonic crystals has demonstrated this phenomenon. This breakthrough has significant implications for optics, materials science, and the development of 6G communications.
Are you saying that if we don’t build solar panels, we won’t have to use electricity generated by gas and coal?
as a UK English speaker I'm not sure I've ever heard "lay on" used to mean "hire" as M-W claims, and the OED doesn't seem to list that as a sense. The usage in this sentence is the sense the OED defines as:

"To provide for the supply of (water, gas, etc.) through pipes from a reservoir; to provide (a telephone line). Hence, to make arrangements for, to provide (refreshments, entertainment, transport, etc.)"

and which M-W defines more briefly as "provide, arrange".
A praise of Hacker News' cache settings
I hope this often overlooked goodness never changes: When you read an article from hackernews and go back to the front page you always get the version that you started with without realoading or forcing display of posts that came up in the meantime. The user is in control when to see updates (just reload). This allows usage patterns like reading just "one front page per day" and prevents getting lost for people with ADHD.

More sites used to work like this and i considered this basic cache setting but everything i checked now completely loses its state on back navigation or worse forcefully hides the things that were on the page when it was last seen to pump up engagement but totally destroying any sense of groundedness and persistence.

A nice side effect is when you read an article on the train and lose internet you can still go back and scan post titles that are interesting to read when back online. This behavior seems to be more and more broken everywhere else and its painful to watch.
The not-so-tiny negative that some professionals here in CZ mention is disreputable Chinese vendors.

"Oh yeah, we will give you 10 years warranty for your panels, buy! Cheap!"

Only the necessary seals are shoddy and the panel dies much sooner from water incursion. At which moment you find out that the producer has gone out of business, so no recourse.

This is not a fault of the technology per se, rather of humanity as usual, but I can see why several such incidents in your proximity will cause distrust.

The solution would be "buy from reputable vendors only", but IDK how many Chinese vendors are reputable and if they didn't decide to entshittify their products right now.
90-something-percent of the novel was spent following some frustrating character or just otherwise not going anywhere, just for all the interesting things to happen in basically the epilogue, and for every novel to have some frustrating deus-ex-machina be wheeled out at the last second, because of reasons, I guess? It all felt frustrating and pointless. It was like the fiction equivalent of that person who goes “nah space marines would win because uhm actually they have the xyz”.
Hangman with AI Generated Pictures
Could it be you are answering to a different comment? Edit to rehash my point: drivers will say they don't follow the speed limits because "they are stupid" but all in general, if somebody thinks a rule is stupid they shouldn't keep voting for the creators of said rules. Ignoring rules should be punished and there's an obvious lack on this side, if the people can safely ignore rules they aren't really rules are they. Anyway having those speeding rules means you as pedestrian seem to have a majority right now, and if somebody wants to fight against that majority they should motivate a different majority. All democratic innit.
lol, I checked out r/antiwork and nobody there seems to be rooting to abolish wage work altogether. Most are just complaining about their job and commenters tell them to fight for their rights or search another job.

That seems pretty similar to people interpreting "defund the police" as anything else than "abolish the police in it's current form"
All three OSs being MacOS, Android and Plan 9?

To answer the question, I reckon VS Code does everything you asked for.
> we find a final solution using genetic engineering or nano bots

Why would such solutions be immune to the bacteria evolving escape?

Or does the 'final' bit means you accidentally kill us all by genetic engineering or nano bots?
Ask HN: How is Tether still holding the peg?
Crypto is down for a while now, seems all cash has left. Still the 1$ peg of tether holds. How?
I think it is mostly a confusion of identity.

We are used to the people pushing against technological progress being someone other than older and somewhat tech-capable men.

These people have been holding out and formed their arguments back when they first learned about renewables, which was twenty or more years ago. Technology has continued to progress but their positions ossified early.

Now that the future they denied is here we are seeing vanilla guilt-backed rationalizing. We just aren’t used to seeing it from these guys because they were always excited back when technological progress generally proved them right.
> Twitter is dying

Could you quantify that statement?

All the stats I've seen show that Twitter usage is growing.

Happy to be shown different stats, I just hope that you're not causally spreading "trust me bro" facts.
Nearly all UK uniform cops also carry tasers.

And I've seen cops in my local shop wandering up and down the sandwich aisle, packing pistols. Really, if they're on lunch-break, they could just leave the ratchet in their desk (this shop is literally across the road from the station).

Basically, if there are cops with pistols in my local shop, it should be safe to assume they're chasing an armed criminal, and that therefore I should leave not just the shop, but the the whole area.

I complained; complaint rejected without investigation by the Chief Constable (and he was pretty rude about it).
Creators can mark specific sections in the video where they want an ad to play. I assume this dynamism also plays a contributing role.
Yes, because instead of wind/solar+storage+grid capable of handling the peaks, we would be building nuclear. Using much less concrete and much less diesel for construction trucks.
You didn't answer a simple question — is it immoral or not to be a free loader (i.e. decide to not produce any "wealth")? Why do you think so?

I'm not judging, just want to hear your reasoning.

> We are already placing all kinds of obligations on owners of money, or owners of anything else. Are all these automatically immoral?

Absolutely not. Taxes in general are definitely moral. As long as people agreed on them (by any democratic process for example) and not forced (for example by being slaves and giving away their produced value).
Instead of racking servers I write JavaScript that describes how the servers would be racked if they were real servers. Instead of editing ad-hoc text files in /etc/ now I edit yaml files that embed what those files had in them.
If you're twice the width compared to a regular person, then that's just not feasible.
Of course they don't. Have you seen an aeroplane flapping its wings? Those that do usually are in the process of falling out of the sky. No, what an aeroplane is is a glorified lawn dart - making it bigger and strapping oversized hair dryers powered by gasoline doesn't make it fly.

/s, but only so much - that's how the "stochastic parrot"/"glorified autocomplete" responses read to me.
London is the 4th Welsh city by population
What’s the best way to assess pressing quality? I have always been a big lover of vinyl and I have somewhere from 50-80 of them, and I don’t even know if the 180g means anything. Any tips would be appreciated - maybe there are some studios that do it better than others?
All seem valid to me. The inputs to training are the "sensor" through which LLM "experience the world". Maybe interpolation or extrapolation would be acceptable too.
Sydney's famous melting ice cream truck is back for Sculpture by the Sea
In the UK, SW contractor easily can pay over 50% of tax and can't deduct any business expenses on top of that.
> There is no docker
I would say it's a huge plus
I agree that confabulate is more accurate and descriptive. But in general usage "halucinate" is a commonly understood word and "confabulate " is not. Using the latter runs the risk of sounding off-puttingly technical or obscure.
Ok, suspicion confirmed after watching: The code snippet itself is basically useless but is a segue into how memory and caches and table walks are arranged as well as "tip of the iceberg" tool and technique recommendations, including cachegrind and gdb and presumably Godbolt, who gets an early mention.

For embedded, this might do something nonawful on a device with memory management e.g. Cortex-A. This exercise is left to the reader.

Moral of the talk? Most of computing is extremely complicated, and you can hand-wave and abstract much of it away unless it's directly in your field. In this case, that would be a compiler engineer or low-level kernel developer.
> it's to figure out how to solve the problem

Using this excuse for people who want to actively take your civil rights away is absurd. It's so tiring to argue against authoritarianism apologia time and time again.

>The legislator is not an expert in the issue

They have an entire team who can find experts on the issue. Yet they choose not to and go out with this haphazard blunderbuss this is.

So yes, treating the legislator like an idiot is exactly the right thing to do.
This benefit is hypothetical as long as you are not selling your land.

So, up to the point where you would actually sell your land, LVT is simply a liability. Even if eventually you sell are not guranteed to actually make the amount implied by the LVT you have been paying.

Let's think about what structures and incentives and ways of thinking we would foster here. Everyone a property speculator! That worked out so well with housing.

Meanwhile the people who just want to raise a family in peace and stability can now be priced out of their homes because their neighborhood got too "good". And that's just the goldilocks analysis.

In grim reality, city councils can use this to soft-evict anyone, anywhere without giving a reason by simply raising the estimated land value. The corruption is going to be off the charts.
Err I think you made my point.

What's changed your life is the internet connected device in your pocket.

However that change is more visible in social history type records than simple lists of technologies etc.
And basically all because of how we shoupd be heating our homes in the future. Quite pathetic actually, but every time I am in the more rural areas of Bavaria (a state I love, I am one of those with a healthy amount of regional partiotism of the absolute not serious kind), I remember the days of my youth: Without FW and AfD, all those opinions (from anti-semitic borderline hate speech to blatant racism and sexism, the pursuitbof short term profits regardless of costs, the disregard for nature if a dime could be made...) all existed to the same extent, they were only covered, and welcome, by the CSU as it was. Lately, there is split happeneing, were those more radical elements are drifting a bit further right. The same happened to the SPD when Lafontaine split of Die Linke after his fall-out with Schröder.

The next federal elections will be "fun", I just hope us Germans, as a whole, do the same thing that happened across Europe lately: prevent the more extremenright from getting the power of government (I know the post-fasiscts won in Italy).

That being said, I do think that most of the pro-AfD votes come from people deeply affraid of the change they see happening, affraid that someone will take away things from them. Not that this is the case, but it sure seems like it sometimes (I can see it myself). Unless a true pro-democratic coalition forms (explicitly incl. media), we will be stuck in this situation for the time being.
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The more I learn about how the actual mafia and crime syndicates work, the more I realize the police are just a gang backed by the power of the state.

We need structurally different institutions to play their role.
This is what I've been calling it as well. Confabulation is much more appropriate as a term.
>And I am pretty sure that was no fossil fuel lobbyist. It was just a guy who is against things. And there are plenty of those.

That's how all propaganda functions. Fossil fuel/nuclear lobbyists pump ideas into the heads of the easily duped via mass media at a range of different intellectual levels and then the readers will absorb it like it was their own idea and echo it back.

The only difference between the upper and the lower intellectual levels of propaganda is that the upper level of propaganda might rely more on logical consistency, misdirection and attempts to make the reader feel smart while the lower levels will rely more on repetition of a simple message.
Something I've never experienced since moving to Europe is all the strange ISP outages, slowdowns, or otherwise interruptions that required me to acknowledge that there is a company taking my money to provide me access to the internet.
Unlike property tax, land value tax punishes you for leaving valuable land (e.g surrounded by lively business buildings) intentionally undeveloped or underdeveloped.

The only problem that I can see with this approach is landscaping. It is valuable to have a nice park in the center of a city, if only for the cooling down that it provides, but parks don't make money and land value tax would incentivize people who own them to bulldoze the park and build something in its place.

Perhaps this could be solved with certain exemptions. But these are subject to the usual corruption, e.g. someone leaves a really bad parking lot in place and his friends in the town hall simply categorize it as a park.
It's the same in many automatics as well
Not sure your point. The very first sentence says both:

> Thirty-two percent of U.S. adults say they personally own a gun, while a larger percentage, 44%, report living in a gun household

If my wife owns a gun and I "don't," we both still have access to firearms. 44% of households have a similar dynamic. The American population is more armed than Europe. And it is close to half the population. I'm not making a value judgement. I own guns. Multiple of them. I guess I'm not sure what your point was. Mine is saying that nearly half of all households have a firearm.
On a related note, are there promising models / techniques to detect these sort of instances?

Say for instance I summarize something and want to check that the result doesn't contain hallucinations (confabulations :)) or more specifically that the summary contains only information present in original text. What's current state of the art for something like this and how well does it perform? I've read some about entailment models and fine tuned LLMs for this sort of thing but haven't found many great resources.
Okay, I agree - not all of the UBI receivers are gonna be free loaders.

Let's narrow down - is it immoral to be an intentional free loader (decided just do nothing) or not?
You zave no idea about energy consumption along a supply chain, if you actually believe any of this.
Buttplug is an open-source project for controlling intimate hardware
Similar suggestions have been made over and over, and they've never stuck. "Hallucinating" has already hit mainstream media. It's probably going to stay that way out of sheer inertia because nobody outside of a small group of nerds on hackernews is going to sit down and think about whether "hallucinating" or "confabulating" more accurately describes the nature of the error. The existing term already captures the general idea well enough.
Even if all humans suddenly vanished, many artifacts for those "beliefs" will remain: coins and bills will still be there, and the documents, books, and computer data with laws and LLC documentation will still be there too. So I don't see how you can call them a "shared delusion"; they're real things that people invented, though ultimately they're just shared agreements backed up by some kind of documentation rather than word-of-mouth communication.

The ideas that "homosexuality is perfectly ok" (in some societies) or "homosexuality is horrible and those who practice it must be punished or even murdered" (in some other societies) are shared "delusions" (aka "ideas" or "opinions"), though these ideas usually also result in actual laws (written in books). So I guess you could say that peoples' shared "delusions" (ideas) about how a society should operate are then codified and written down in the form of laws to be used to enforce those ideas on others.
> Therefore, solving the BB(3, 3) problem is at least as hard as solving this Collatz-like problem

I don't understand why this is surprising, in fact it seems trivially provable. Aren't all BB(x, y) problems reducible to Collatz-like problems?

BB(x, y) problems are trivially converted to the halting problem:

- find all machines with x states and y symbols that halt, set all the non-halting ones aside.

- run all the halting machines together one step at a time until they've all halted. The number of steps you've executed is the value of BB(x, y).

I believe Conway presented a reduction from the halting problem to collatz-like problems, so finding BB(x, y) for any value of x and y can be reduced to a collatz-like problem with this two step reduction (BB to halting problem to Collatz problem).
The situation on the ground is very different in Japan. Rarely do you have mass shootings or gang and drug violence. Those problems are a daily reality in the U.S.

American police officers would never wear a tie. They’d (rightly) fear that someone would try to strangle them with it.
For example, they were really into Georgi Lozanov's "Super learning" which on the surface simply seems like a memorization technique to help learn things like foreign language vocabulary like are common now with tools like Anki, but Lozanov was also a self-described "parapsychologist" who believed that such techniques would expand human capabilities and allow clairvoyance!
Is it easy to got from back end engineer to tech YouTuber? Watch Marko's journey [video]
It's what I've been doing up to now, but dealing with git submodules is very painful this way :-(
The includeIf approaches on gitdir or remote URL are better in that respect.
Friends run a band professionally (aka music is their job), they say it's scammy in how they charge their fees, leading to very small or zero revenue compared to other platforms. They say Bandcamp is good at selling physical merch including vinyl, but not digital music
From memory, the Georgist belief is that whoever collects the tax will spend it, and the spending will distribute the value in a way which is...not necessarily equal, but is closer to equality than the status quo was.

The wealth transfer is a feature rather than a bug, in this case. Speculators sitting on unimproved or underutilised land are seen as literal rent-seekers, and taxing them is seen as reclaiming a natural monopoly at the same time as removing the leeches who're sucking up big chunks of a city's growth.
The problem with "Engineering Managers " in our software verticals is that we mostly get people who are shitty engineers and shitty people managers.

What are the JDs of "Engineer Managers" ? And what are their REAL responsibilities.

Their responsibilities are basically improve and maintain the performance of whoever they "manage" . But for some reason we decided that shitty engineers that decided they dont want do do development are the ones looking for management positions. And they get good at playing the politics game.

My wife works in a non tech position and had a manager, who studied for people management and understand in the long term what makes people perform (hint, it's not keeping them sad, overworked and getting all the shit politics).

Good managers filter the shit from you. Push back on stupid deadlines and double drippings, and act on your needs as a person.

And they may not know shit about the technical side of things, but they trust you do your job.

I think Industrial Engineers with some specialization in people management make the best managers for Software Dev.
Yes, I identify as someone with reliable heating and power who eats real food, has many children and like to go on vacation from time to time.

Btw, it's not me being deceived but eventually you'll figure that out, I am sure.
Germany’s repeated renewables efforts were long subject to the fact that Germany was Russia’s European project to keep fossil fuels going as long as possible.

No other European country with as much technical competence has inexplicably failed so hard at renewables over and over.

Now Germany is experiencing a transition in market conditions that is uncomfortably quick.
You don't answer again :(

Is it immoral or not to be a free loader? Yes or no? In your opinion.
> If we are to believe an LLM is at least sentient and intelligent on par with an octopus, much less a human, then we have a moral imperative to fight for LLMs to be recognized as protected sentient thinking beings with awareness and agency and admit that AI industry is built on systematic abuse of those beings.

That would be coherent. As would saying neither the octopus nor the AI has it, so it doesn't matter.

> Of course, no one does it, because it would be ridiculous. It’s time to admit that people who insist that LLMs “think” are simply trying to make ML seem mysterious and magical in an ill thought through (because see above) attempt to attract more VC money.

First: I've definitely heard people say we should. In fact, there was a rather famous case last year of someone violating their NDA to expose what they claimed to be abuse of an AI, which they wanted to prevent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaMDA#Sentience_claims

Second: "Ridicule" is not a good standard for knowing the truth. There was a rather famous doctor who was ridiculed for saying that other doctors should wash their hands between performing autopsies and helping midwifes birth children: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_reaction_to_Ignaz...

We simply don't know what consciousness even is yet — depending who you ask there are 13, 22, or over a hundred different definitions — some of which (like "has qualia") aren't even really testable, and until we are all on the same page and using one of the testable models, we can neither assert that any given AI has it, nor rule that out.

This also applies to the octopus: as we don't know what consciousness is, perhaps they have it, perhaps not.

Worse: perhaps the answer varies from "yes, no, maybe, I don't know" depending on which of the many available definitions you're using.

--

“We’re not listening to you! You’re not even really alive!” said a priest.

Dorfl nodded. “This Is Fundamentally True,” he said.

“See? He admits it!”

“I Suggest You Take Me And Smash Me And Grind The Bits Into Fragments And Pound The Fragments Into Powder And Mill Them Again To The Finest Dust There Can Be, And I Believe You Will Not Find A Single Atom Of Life–”

“True! Let’s do it!”

“However, In Order To Test This Fully, One Of You Must Volunteer To Undergo The Same Process.”

There was silence.

“That’s not fair,” said a priest, after a while. “All anyone has to do is bake up your dust again and you’ll be alive…”

- Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett
When educating the general public about the risks and limitation of LLMs, I think "hallucinating" is a useful term - it is something people can understand and it conveys the idea of LLMs being somewhat random and unreliable in their responses. I'm not sure "confabulating" is so easily understood or accessible.
Yes, and also a good counterexample to some of the "thinkism" touted in AI, i.e., this is a result based on carefully curated data not just some machine just "thinking up" something.