skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the outside, it's very very difficult to tell what the actual motivation is. As a kid on the spectrum, I learned very early to shut up about everything genuine in myself, because peoples' social reactions were so painful. I still have to unlearn that decades later.

I did things similar to what the kids you mention do, and I think it was out of a very strong desire to "make incorrect things correct" rather than "make unjust things just". Both of those urges are out of the mainstream, but if a person acts in a way that matches both, then there's strong social pressure on everyone else to treat it positively.
That's not an admission; that's their perspective based on their function in the org.
Which people can get from eating squirrels: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

> Culinary preparations include scrambling the brains with eggs or putting them in a meat and vegetable stew referred to as “burgoo”.
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The vocabulary does not seem extraordinary to me. The only oddball words are actually neologisms of Illich’s (e.g. “pleonexia”) which are quoted and explained.

I doubt someone like, say, Orwell, who complained about the stultifying use of language, would have any objection to this essay.
Reading this all I'm seeing is "we'll research these things", "we'll look into how to keep AIs from doing these things" and "tell the US government how you tested your foundational models." Except for the last one none of the others are really restrictions on anything or requirements for working with AI. There's a lot of fearful comments here, am I missing something?
You have examples of cultures with high birth rates but you aren't telling me whether those birthrates increase or decrease with better healthcare/reduced mortality rates.
The problem is key management & key storage.

Smartphones & computers are a joke from a security standpoint.

The closest solution to this problem has been what people in the crypto community have done with seed phrases & hardware wallets. But this is still too psychologically taxing for the masses.

Untill that problem of intuitive, simple & secure key management is solved. Cryptography as a general tool for personal authentication will not be practical.
Well it piqued my interest in non RISC V things.
XP has vbscript in the command line, giving you more processing power than a standard calculator... Not that people would have time to code, but maybe there could be an advantage to be had. A custom Linux build would be easier to lock down, I think.
So what about using libraries that don't use pledge?
Microsoft says GPT 3.5 has 20B parameters?
Seems like most are design patents. For all the graphs and charts it would be nice to know what percentage are design patents vs utility patents.
Yes, well said.

Is it awareness and an application of injustice, or awareness of certain rules that are being applied only partially - the rules could go further.

Because justice and riles are assuredly not the same thing. Who knows the truth to determine what is just for others?

Ultimately, justice is best expressed by the golden rule: Do not treat others in ways that you would not like to be treated.

Dogs are at a different level to people too, so that is a further 'justice complexity' to be navigated by the individual.

Perhaps autistic people struggle with some of the nuances, and prefer the rules rather than the idea of justice or doing right. I think most people are like that.
I actually rebuilt a computer with an RX580 instead of RX570 this year (as well as a Ryzen 7 1700), because everything else is way more expensive at local stores (vs 140 EUR for the 580), to the point where current gen hardware doesn't feel worth it: I don't catch myself wanting to play any of the modern games that look "amazing" (can't tell characters apart from the scenery in some visually cluttered games), but rather ones that have consistent performance/art style and don't make the fans spin up much.

That said, it's kind of a shame that not many games let you actually pull back the graphical fidelity if you want to, despite the engines themselves often scaling back even to mobile devices. Maybe I'll upgrade in 3-5 years when Wirth's law will catch up way more. Then again, I can kind of understand companies wanting their games not to look "badly", no matter the graphics settings; it just means that indie games are for me, not AAA titles.
> All we wanted to do was sit. Onawasi seemed to feel the same way. He had spent the morning hunting, and certainly deserved the chair more than we did.

This implies a morning hunting or standing next to the coffee machine does not make a difference. Only the way they sit after that.
The phone in Tomorrow Never Dies does have full color HD streaming video from the car as it's remote controlled, look at your own link (and the one pointed out by a sibling comment). The monochrome green UI is just what you see on start-up.

Secondly, the Bond movies are set in the modern day (or close enough). So unlike say 2001 A Space Oddesey the gadgets Q comes up with aren't an attempt to foresee technology development in the distant future.

So the fact that it uses a UI in common use in the mid-90s is to be expected.

Generally speaking (there's some exceptions) no technology in the Bond universe is too outlandish to pass as potential modern day advancements in some top-secret MI-6 laboratory.
Go ask American conservatives today how they feel about groups that allege to publicly challenge the uniparty regime here, like "Patriot Front". Every conservative I know views those groups as honeypots for dissidents being operated by the regime itself (FBI, FBI informants etc).

They have their own substack and medium feeds that are unshackled by conventional reporting standards and frequently contrast deeply against regime narratives, be they COVID, Ukraine, Jan 6th, etc.

They have their own social circles, which they ideologically police to make sure that those holding regime viewpoints are not invited to private social events.

The way you've described the culture of dissidence in the USSR and Russia sounds eerily familiar, taking a look at US dissidents today.
> It doesn’t say anything about probabilities. It says that if two models give the same predictions, you should chose the simpler.

Which is where it becomes probabilistic. The answer to what it means for one model to be "simpler" than another is part of information theory, and that is essentially the flip side of probability theory. Information is (unsurprisingly) counted in bits, and one way of defining "a bit" is as amount of information that cuts your uncertainty by half.

> If the models make the same predictions, neither can be said to be more true than the other. But if there is a difference in falsifiable predictions, this can be used to determine which model is best - but then occams razor does not apply. The most correct model wins, whether or not it is the simplest.

The point of applying the razor is that, if there's no evidence to support one model over other, your best bet is to chose the simpler one now, because when new evidence comes to light that will favor one over other, it's more likely to favor the simpler one.
While I don’t use social media, nor am I prone to personality obsession like the author, there’s definitely something to be said about following an “authority” on Twitter and the like. Whether they’re an artist whose work you enjoy, a top expert in a field you’re interested in, or simply a person whose writing on some topic you appreciate, surely there’s an individual whose insight you’d find valuable enough to “follow”?
Well, if it were only to run software written in the 80s, an emulator would do (modern hardware compensating the inefficient execution many times over).
The 15C is a collector's edition. It's not going to be in production for long. I bought one and they people who made it (Moravia) did a great job.
So the owner should be on a leash?

(coming back to this I realize that laws and rules are what put people on leashes.)

And this would mean the owner who don’t put their dogs on leashes are also the problem.

Also

“More than 4.5 million people are bitten by dogs each year in the United States”

That’s a lot…

https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/pet-owners/dog-bite-pre...
"What will this cost me?" - Now it will cost you "the other bystanders will think I'm autistic", after normies absorb this headline.
In the Netherlands in high school I also had to have either a Casio or TI calculator.

For simple maths a normal calculator is good enough, but you need a graphing calculator for more advanced math.
UK. I haven't used or carried cash here for about 3 years. Other than a really inconvenient time someone gave me some for one of my kids and I had to pay it in.
Is the EU patent system any better?
I didn't expect to find hock vs hawk that interesting. I wasn't sure which was correct, so I looked, and...

Hawk is a verb: to sell on the street. Ex: He hawks goods on the corner.

Hock is a noun: debt or pawn. Ex: He got his watch out of hock.

Thanks nathancahill and Merriam-Webster!
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Keeping a cardioid or supercardioid mic close to your mouth reduces room reverberation in the audio which makes it listenable. The person in this video is using an RE20, a classic dynamic microphone widely used in radio broadcasting. In fact in this video it's a little further away than usual, so I think he is trying to play it down. As to the gold microphones that some YouTubers are practically making out with, they keep it so very close for the proximity effect which boosts the bass in their voice. The RE20 has a switch to approximate that effect without being so close, which sounds likely to be on in this video. The tacky gold plating on cheap microphones is not worth anything. The best microphones are grey or black, but you might see a little bit of the gold-plated condenser through the grille.
This, really. Sometimes, when reading math papers, you find that they end up being very hand-wavy with the notation, e.g. with subscripting, because "it's understood". But without extensive training in mathematics, a lot of it is not understood.

Programmers will use languages with a lot of syntactic sugar, and without knowing the language, code can be pretty difficult to understand when it is used. But even then, you can't be sloppy, because computers are so damn literal.
I don’t know about as a percent of total hires, because staff+ engineers tend to stick around a bit longer. But in my current bigco it’s a bit north of 10% and I’ve seen it go as high as 20%.
Curious what stopped you.

Consider that narc'ing people for victimless crimes is something that can be done to you as well, and you definitely will make enemies and earn a reputation by casually reporting people to the police... so maybe just "leave people alone" is a good default policy.
It was funded by Epic - so it's unlikely to be a timed exclusive.
I don't have a dog, but i've known many and never a dangerous one. In the UK its very common to have large parks with dogs just running around; I'm not aware of any cases where this has caused a problem.

I've no objection to the rule. My issue is with how the rule is being interpreted. If someone were to ask, 'please keep a leash on' i'd expect people to be polite enough to do so.

But that's the gravity of the situation here. In almost no universe is the guy we're talking about one of these fringe youtube dog owners you're having some fantasy about.

This is the problem with these abstractions: they invite people to have fantasies of catastrophe rather than engage with the reality in front of them

And what are these fantasy scenarios but just another mechanism by which a brutal system of values comes to be imposed?

Consider the police coming out here and enforcing such a value on this guy walking his dog. Concretely, which is worse: police discipline or a dog in a park ?
> Just speaking for myself, obviously: if it were me living with my family in Israel I'd move out.

The thought has occurred to me.

But here's a few things worth remembering:

1. Would you be comfortable leaving all your family to go to another country? Most of my family is here.

2. It's not like I can necessarily leave, other countries usually don't just allow anyone to move there and become a citizen. I'm lucky in that I work in high tech and can probably get a job working in most countries, but many people aren't so lucky.

3. I do genuinely think a Jewish state needs to exist, because while I don't particularly care about being Jewish, much of the world most emphatically does care that I am and has tried to kill the Jewish people throughout most of history, and antisemitism definitely appears to be on the rise.

4. Almost any country I move to will be doing deeds that I don't love. It's not like the US or any other country has exactly clean hands.

5. If I and others like me leave, while it wouldn't cause Israel to disappear as you said, it will only push Israel to being even more extreme as the populace will be ever more extreme. The population of Israel is rising, but it's largely driven by the religious population, not by secular leftists.
And who is in charge of making sure those laws are executed on by the Federal Goverment?

Hint: It's the President and executive orders are the President's directive on how the Federal government should execute on laws.
This is useless just like everything they do. Masterfully full of synergy and nonsense talk.

Is there anyone hear who actually believes this will do something? Sincere question.
Seconded - and it’s almost 100% Apple Pay for me so I rarely carry a card here either.
I wish! I don't think Kagi could handle even a small fraction of that kind of volume right now. But perhaps if Apple could help out....
The flip side is that men are failures at crying for help.
Squirrel brains, cow brains, human brains ... mammal brains in general.

More interestingly it's rare - you have to eat infected brains that have a variation that side steps not one but two prion defence mechanisms that most humans have ... which suggests that almost all humans have ancestors that engaged in enough cannabalism to develop layered defences against brain transmitted diseases.
Bakhshali manuscript
There’s some cool stuff in here about providing assistance to smaller researchers. That should help a lot given how hard it currently is to train a foundational model.

The restrictions around government use of AI and data brokers is also refreshing to see as well.
There are a number of complications. Two of them are that firstly, when when the wind direction is within about 45 degrees against the direction you want to go, you have to tack, and secondly, a reasonably efficient sailboat is fastest when it is on a reach, with the wind coming from the side.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/186515/why-is-a-...
Terraforming planets is science fiction. We’re a long ways from there. We don’t even have industry in space yet.
That's what human proctors/supervisors are there for at exams.

Exams problems are designed to make use of only basic scientific calculator features, I doubt you have the need, or the time, to start sneakily writing VB scripts to try to gain an edge, while the proctors are not looking.
Norway. More than 90% av all payments are done electronically, per 2021.[0]

[0] https://www.norges-bank.no/bankplassen/arkiv/2021/husholdnin...
Perhaps they're just using words that they think every person with a well-rounded (as opposed to exclusively vocational or STEM focused) education and/or interest in humanities would/should be familiar with?

I mean aside from, say, pleonexia (greed) and iatrogenic (harm caused by medical intervention), I don't see anything out of the reach of an average well read person - and English isn't even my first language.

I mean, what would the difficult terms be? Paternalism? Credentialism? Interlocutor? Cascading? Certitudes?

(We want them to take down those "difficult" words, and then we go off lamenting how "Idiocracy was a documentary")
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It's not only emergency vehicles, it's also stuff like mini-vans and lorries that keep us well-fed. It's about who's going to pay for those highways once the personal cars are gone? How are you going to keep a Western logistics network in place without those highways and roads? No, extending the railway network to its past glory days (like the left-hand map in this photo [1]) won't work and will definitely not happen anymore. Do we really want to go back to stuff like this [2]?

[1] https://64.media.tumblr.com/81242bedb09cc3087fc0855deb381f50...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e02ilyAatbM
Thank you for taking the time and effort to produce these summaries. The comments on HN are such a useful resource, often exceeding the value of the cited sources!
Saw that too. Insane, predatory almost. The Swiss or Netherlands based shops seemed to be the most reasonable way if you wanted to buy the HAT.
> Scientists believe the Pasteurella bacteria generally lives harmlessly in the tonsils of some, if not all, of the antelopes. An unusual temperature increase to 37C, however, caused the bacteria to pass into the bloodstream, where it caused septicaemia

"... except because it will be efficiently removed by its immune system (that knows perfectly what is a Pasteurella)" is the part of the phrase that is missing here.

It this does not happen... the question is why this year is not happening.
Ooh, I did this too a while ago: https://eliben.github.io/lsystem/

This has some pre-sets you can examine that draw well-known fractals
On the other hand, when I contribute to OSS it is probably because it has a direct impact on my finances in some way...

I don't think many of the companies who contribute development to OSS projects do it purely out of the goodness of their hearts. They are using said products and the alternative is to recreate the project internally
ATX boards exist but are not cost effective. The economies of scale of the x64 ecosystem make it impossible to beat. Are you really interested in a 1500$ board and CPU combo that runs slower than an average Best Buy laptop? AMD and Intel are incredibly _cheap_ for the power you get.

https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/04/18/adlink-ampere-altra-...

https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/06/30/64-core-risc-v-mothe...
> Attack will be from outside of the ecliptic plane, so likely undetected.

It won't be. There is no stealth in space, and telescopes are really good. Once there will be a lot of man-made objects in space, it will be trivial for a state actor to continuously track the exact position (and complete history) of every single man-made object large enough to have an engine in the solar system, and I would assume that everyone with major space interests would do that.
It also runs and looks good on a GTX 1650 with low settings which was a 150$ card from 3 years ago. Which I think is more their point.
Not so much the vocabulary but the excessive use of adjectives and the overall verbosity. It took ten paragraphs for me to understand anything new about who this guy was and what his worldview was.
> you'll understand how very, very, very dumb computers actually are

That’s not true for any post 1995 desktop CPU.

They just adhere to that model and pretend that that’s all they’re doing but in reality there’s layers of supercomputers inside the CPU: micro-op cache, branch predictor, reorder buffer, rename buffer.

They extract hidden parallelism out of the code, run it in blazing fast multiple instructions per clock cycle (!), and pretend that nothing out of the order happened.

CPUs are extremely complex and extremely smart. They can have errors in their implementation where the unseen branches that it executed can be accessed by some processes, etc. But there’s nothing dumb about CPUs. They are made of a million man-hours of engineering.
It is. Here[1] is one source.

[1] https://www.elle.com/culture/a12445676/the-leftover-embryo-c...
I'm not GP, but I agree with their statement about it being more compassionate.

It's a safety issue for the dog. I recently saw an off-leash dog get freaked out and run out into a busy road. (The dog didn't get hurt luckily, but it was a horrifying experience for all involved.)

Sure, your dog might be "better" than that. But it's not a risk I'm willing to take with my dog.
You clearly don't understand how dogs function. The sweetest dog could bite someone if it is scared, startled, in pain, sick. They can be unpredictable and most people do not know how to read a dog's body language. I say that as someone who loves and has dogs.
Graphing calculators have a lot of features, and since students also use them during lessons it would be very difficult to suddenly use an entirely different interface during exams.

In the Netherlands we also had to have calculators during exams, because some questions just need a calculator to be solved. Especially for stuff like calculus plotting graphs is really useful.
If the laws are not enforced, then people don’t obey the laws. That’s how you get both dog bites and white collar crime.

Your assumption is that my “wanting to bring the disciplinary arm of the state“ is based on the rules, and not on my compassion. That’s where you’re wrong. I was using the rules of the state to enforce my compassion, not to enforce the rules. in this case, the rules aligned with my compassion.

And in fact, I would not call police if I saw someone shoplifting. And that’s what people don’t understand about those of us with Asperger‘s. It is a sense of right and wrong not based on rules, but based on right and wrong.
I can't stand Dave's garage. There's no garage - he's a Microsoft millionaire who became a youtuber bragging about his empty golden tech life escapades fueled by the well-paying position as a programmer at Microsoft in the past.

Now he made a shallow acolyte video which seems like it should have been a paid marketing by the IBM mainframe division. I hope he got payed well, otherwise Dave is even more self-unaware that I thought. I get this is what Linus Tech Tips would do for a living, but really, a senior programmer with gobs of money is doing this superficial reporting on a what IBM told him on his trip there???

Seriously, this video (and YT comments it has) is a naive uncritical sucker reverberating most of the standard phrases from the mainframe sphere, although admittedly, with nice high-def shots of the machine components. I expected more serious adult commentary, not a teenage boy fan ravings.

Mainframes by IBM are a niche expensive product that is an interesting concept and history, but it is not an "amazing machine" to be put up today. There is no perspective for most young people working on mainframes, they will be phased out eventually. It's a solid product for the captured audience, which is like 2 banks and card payment processors, but that's it.

"Woo, they don't rely on ECC, they have multiple independent modules, because cosmic radiation, so cool" Get real, this is not an important problem, ECC works already, and good software has to account for occassional HW errors anyway.
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There's a quite decent documentary on the life and work of Mike Alpers put together with a lot of early family footage if you've an interest in the Kuru story.
MHz->GHz wars. This caused Intel and AMD to chase hyperdeep pipelines with terrible stall characteristics and awful cycle efficiencies.

You're misremembering. Matrox cards were also terribly slow in DOS and anything adjacent to 3D. I own several models with SGRAM. Even GeForce 2 GTS: 25m transistors. G200: 10m. Voodoo2: 4m.
Caching and bidding might be why Google tries to correct users’ searches.
In the Netherlands, I almost never use cash and could live my life without ever having cash on me. There are some places (not many, but stil) that surprisingly don't even accept cash, like certain cafes and shops.