skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a better metric than question answering will be question asking or self talk

Will it become curious or contemplate like a human?

When does it drive by itself, rather than requiring a prompt to do anything?
1. The whole thing has a "one weird trick to fix your economy" vibe to it. On that ground alone, it feels like snake oil. (If you want to argue that "vibe" is not an intellectually rigorous criticism, I will admit the truth of that point.)

2. Why land, specifically? Why land only? It's not the 1800s anymore, and land is not either the primary asset or the primary source of wealth. Why single it out as the thing to tax? It feels like a theory stuck in the past. It needs to explain why, in 2023, land is the one thing that should be taxed. I've seen handwaving, but nothing that feels all that solid. (The one argument that has at least some merit is that no more land can be created, unlike everything else. True, but so what? There's a maximum number of bitcoin, but Georgism doesn't say to tax them. Why is land the one magic thing to get taxed?)

3. It is easy for the rich to have a smaller proportion of their assets in land than it is for the middle class. (Unless they rent - and then they wind up getting charged for the tax without having the benefits of owning the land.) LVT - if it's the only tax - means that the rich can easily wind up paying little or no tax. I'm not of the "confiscate all the rich's assets" crowd, but letting them pay almost nothing doesn't sit right with me, either.
If your voice is the twin of a celebrity's, but you don't benefit from the likeness (for example, not being paid for voice acting where your identities could be confused), you'd probably have a strong defense if the celebrity tries to extort royalties from you.

The rest is shades of grey. For example, if you're an incredible voice imitator and plan to do shows, negotiations would be wise. Even Weird Al asked for permission when he didn't had to, legally speaking.
Another major factor in aging is the fact that DNA (or chromosomes?) has protective bits on the end of each strand which get worn down over time. Once the protective bit is gone, the DNA itself takes damage.
I seem to recall an announcement from Western Digital(?) years ago about a line of hard drives with a direct ethernet interface. Does anyone remember the same or what might have come of it?

The market is saturated with solutions for middle-boxes that make hard drives talk to networks, but nobody seems to be directly addressing the problem of we just want storage network accessible.
Humans seem to naturally anthropomorphize anything which exhibits systematic yet unpredictable or capricious behavior: Pets, machines, mountains, oceans, weather, planets, ex-wives, etc. We give them names and project a sense of agency to them, because they must obviously act certain ways some times on purpose. It's the reason we have gods, fairies and superstitions. It's why we name our cars and our storms. It's just what we do.

So to me, it makes sense that as we understand something more, being able to predict what and why it does something, the less likely we are to think of it as having some sort of inner being.
This is incredible, but I can't help but wonder where they got the new part of the face and the eye?

A donor can't just donate that like they can with blood or a kidney. Is it only done with donations after death?
They'll just invent a better idiot.
I understand your original point was about a neural structure involved in humanization, and not of facial recognition, but am responding to the point you let the interlocutor derail this to.

> > "We haven't yet found a specific neural structure for recognizing faces" is far from evidence that no such structure exists.

> proving a negative is, famously, quite hard.

Whether structure or not, we do have very strong evidence that a mechanism of facial recognition exists as there are people who lack this mechanism to various degrees.

This article posits that we have indeed discovered a specific neural structure involved in facial recognition: https://www.aipc.net.au/articles/the-neuroscience-of-facial-...

> The brain has even evolved a dedicated area in the neural landscape, the fusiform face area or FFA (Kanwisher et al, 1997), to specialise in facial recognition. This is part of a complex visual system that can determine a surprising number of things about another person.
What is the ETA?
Meanwhile my new EV keeps feeling more and more like a quiet and comfortable tracking collar.
> BUT YOU COULD NEVER TRUST THEM! EVER!

The end conclusion of basically any software service!
Depends on the brand. Yeast does not naturally produce B12, but many brands of nutritional yeast are fortified with B12.
Hm. Gives a bit of truth to the Amish claim that having themselves be photographed steals a bit of their soul. Your voice is (was) unique to you.

Recordings moved the needle to your voice (when saying new phrases) is unique to you.

These voice cloning of the last few years means that your voice (as long as it is never recorded and remixed) is unique to you.

A far more difficult proposition.
> BSTs however are not good for disk based storage.

The listed reasons also apply to in-memory storage – searching a btree node is faster than doing the equivalent amount of pointer traversals for a binary tree. Of course this comes at the cost of increased implementation complexity, but unless you're using C, you're probably not implementing your own tree-based map.

You can then use different variants such as packing more entries into interior nodes by only storing values in the leafs (assuming you're making a map and not just a set, that is). If you then link neighboring nodes, you basically have a skip list.
The question I was really asking was answered by this: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/159856/why-is-bl...

I.e. surfaces which are good at absorbing radiation are also good at emitting, which I didn't know.
In order to predict what happens next we need to create a model of the world. We exist as part of the world so we need to model ourselves within it. We also have to model our mind for it to be complete, including the model of the world it contains. Oops, I just created an infinite loop.
It seems like they found that the CASA effect was real when the technology was novel. Once you get comfortable with computers, it wears off.
it seems that somewhere in the thread you went from arguing against my position to arguing in favor of it
No offense, but it isn't hard to look up how people live in cities and countries with good transit infrastructure. A good starting place might be Netherlands (biking infrastructure coupled with buses and trains) or Switzerland (massive rail network). Here is a wiki page with more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_share
This may be weird, but the main thing keeping me on my Galaxy S10e (and the Android phones earlier and Palm/Handspring even earlier) is the Note Everything app. I find this a very convenient app to keep text, photo, and voice notes in. It also allows you to backup everything and then reload it in a new phone. I have notes in there from 2010 and before.

It keeps its info in a SQLite database, so, if I had to, I could move it to an iPhone, but it would probably take a lot of work which I am not willing to do now.

If there was an easy way of moving the notes, maybe.
Around the world – World exploration browser game
1/3 of the population in one year? That's insane. I've only taken antibiotics once in my entire life, and can count on my fingers the amount of times someone mentioned taking them in the last decade. Are doctors prescribing antibiotics for the flu?
If you wonder about toddlers, wait til you have teenagers.

In fact I've observed (after working with a number of world-class ML researchers) that having children is the one thing that convinces ML people that learning is both much easier and much harder than what they do in computers.
You can be tracked without the EV. License plate readers, cell
tower logs, electronic payment transactions, etc. Laws are for preventing tech from being a panopticon. The tech is inevitable.
In Firefox it behaves strangely too. I noticed if you pop out the video player with the picture-in-picture mode it looks correct.
For soups and stews, a useful approach is transfer into smaller single-serving containers to freeze. Then you can take out one serving at a time to thaw and reheat while the rest can stay frozen for many weeks.

You just have to cool it first so you don't overload the freezer with too much energy at once. We cool the pot, then divide and refrigerate the smaller containers overnight before transferring to the freezer the next morning.

We put our whole soup pot into a cold water bath to rapidly cool it. When the water warms appreciably, drain and replace with cold water again. Sometimes we put ice or those sealed gel ice packs into the bath to really accelerate the process.
You can cheat with URLs to watch all of them. Grab the ID from the gif thumbnail URL, throw it in something with HLS stream support with this URL: https://stream.mux.com/<id>.m3u8 (Safari and iOS browsers work, on Windows and Android you might need to get creative with something like VLC).
Fedora has had Wayland-enabled Firefox for several years at this point.
I don't recall exactly (it's been a while since I was handling the colo contracts directly). I just remember that it was really good value.

You're probably going to have to contact folks for quotes for most colo providers. They're doing "enterprise sales", so they want to talk to you, see what the needs and opportunities are, then quote you based on your needs.
> At some point, they will get some basic rights

I don't know how to express how deeply stupid this sounds while still being polite and constructive.
I think this quote from the article sums up how zoning and its purpose has changed over the years.

> The legacy 1961 zoning created an invisible city with a loose shape, like a dress bought a few sizes too big, that the physical city had plenty of room to grow into. The Bloomberg administration has left behind a building envelope that’s more like a corset, pulled tight to the city’s body, cinching around places that were already small and boosting its curves.
>This is because the semantics of the Wayland protocol have taken over some of the functions previously handled (on X11) by a separate piece of software, called a "window manager", which contributed heavily to the look, feel, and behavior of a particular desktop GUI.

Window managers can be separate with Wayland too. It just seems like the Wayland people don't want to unify under one implementation and have separate window managers.
Different Ways to Perceive Time
Super cool! I like the fluid movement with the robot
I'm not convinced that this material-reductionist view wouldn't just be functionally equivalent to the way a majority of citizens live their lives currently.

Now: a chance encounter with someone of a different faith leads a citizen to respect the religious freedom of others in the realm of self-determination.

Future: a young hacker's formative experience leads to the idea that citizens should have the basic right to change out their device's recommendation engine with a random number generator at will.

Those future humans will still think of themselves as exceptional because the AI tools will have developed right alongside the current human-exceptionalist ideology.

Kinda like those old conservative couples I see in the South where the man is ostensibly the story teller and head of household. But if you listen long enough you notice his wife is whispering nearly every detail of importance to help him maintain coherence.
That bitch: but he hasn't thought of the EFFICIENCY!?!
There's 2 ways to get a window to show up on a Linux desktop, the old way is called X11 and the new way called Wayland. These protocols handle putting stuff on the screen as well as input from your mouse and keyboard (and touch screen if you're one of the 2 people that have one).

Mozilla has been working toward making Firefox work with wayland for a while, seems they've finally gotten in to a shipable state.
NTSB may want to consider regulating the size of new trucks and SUVs, which are disproportionately causing deaths and damage, instead of inventing new problems for themselves.
I don't have a definite answer. It might be a mixture of analogies to other creative "scenes" (music / cinema), it might have been improved by the fact most competitions were later projected on large screens etc!
Another writer mistaking LLMs for AI.

As a programmer, I'm paid to solve novel problems, things that can't be solved by just glueing existing things together. But that's all LLM-generated code can do. And it's a qualitative problem, not a quantitative one. By its very nature, an LLM cannot come up with something novel. Which is why all of the examples in this article are highly formulaic and derivative ideas based on existing stuff, interesting as they may be to the people asking for them.

I can get quite well-running scripts from GPT for well-defined, menial tasks that I know would be easy to do, but just can't be bothered to fight with the mechanics and syntax in order to get it right. But for solving new and specific problems, that doesn't work.

Plus, technologies and languages evolve. If LLMs displaced programming, it would mean that progress has stopped. No LLM is going to come up with a nifty new technique or feature. It can only regurgitate what many ceative people first had to come up with.

You can have LLMs do your boilerplate, your helper scripts or your clearly defined, self-sufficient algorithms for you. But a real-world application is already impossible because an LLM will always be incapable of covering the big picture, of assembling parts into a whole that doesn't only work and make sense, but is also performant, secure, maintainable and extensible. LLMs won't kill the craft of programming, it will just lead those who fall for that to producing loads of crap that doesn't fulfill any of the above requirements, and then end up having to be trashed and redone from scratch by "real programmers".

The Go analogy doesn't work for the same reason. Go has well-defined rules everybody has to follow, and clear goals. Attacking this algorithmically is the extreme opposite of the idea of general artificial intelligence. That doesn't mean it's easy, but it's not even remotely a related problem.

There's a reason why the people swooning over GPT-based coding are always script kiddies, not professional developers.
> Presumably that's a huge win for you if you started (or have equity in) the company - and if not, you can just... not accept the buyout offer?

The issue is that this will not raise the working standards of the workers already working for the abusive employer, not that this can't be leveraged by a privileged few.
This is about how Firefox, KDE, any app you run draws to the screen.

In the old world, they talked to an X server that implemented the X protocol. It's not KDE drawing stuff to your screen, it's X, but KDE is a little special in that it can move windows around and draw title bars and borders. This is called a window manager.

Two big issues with X, this was defined in the early 90s by a consortium of Unix vendors and is somewhat of an overly complicated nightmare.

It's also a security nightmare, any app can snoop on any other app.

Wayland is an attempt to simplify things. The server, called a compositor, is much simpler and is implemented as a library, usually by former window managers that now actually handle drawing stuff to the screen. Applications can no longer snoop, they must ask permission.

If you run an older app designed for X, it uses an almost invisible compatibility shim called XWayland, basically a tiny X server that takes in X draw commands and converts them to Wayland ones. Firefox enabling Wayland support means that on most modern systems, it no longer has to use this shim.

Wayland is a step forward for desktop Linux, but like any big change there are some annoyances. The asking for permission model means things like screensharing tools or apps that do weird shit like macros or capturing keystrokes need to be updated to ask permission. Nvidia didn't really support Wayland well until very recently because they got into some weird argument about driver APIs that took years to resolve.
I think you misspelled "Ridley Scott," but... yeah.
I've only ever watched his videos on fitness (weight training, recovery, endurance), substances (alcohol, weed, nicotine, caffeine), and sleep.

He has some amazing and very knowledgeable guests on for his fitness videos. The substances and sleep videos also seemed to be very high quality.

Maybe he does participate in some quackery, but everything I've watched seems sound.
> especially if an external event caused the incident

this has a trivial solution - you convert the times of external events to UTC as well.

for example, the Super Bowl is going to cause a spike in traffic. the Super Bowl this year had its kickoff at 23:30 UTC.

> It's much easier when your logs match your clock.

part of the point of UTC is that "your clock" shouldn't be viewed as privileged or universal. because other people have different clocks.

what you're doing with this Arizona trick is basically inventing "UTC, but slightly different and more convenient for me specifically"

you get used to doing this "they usually match, except 4 months of the year they're off-by-one" trick. but then you're on a business trip to New York, and now you have to remember that it's either a 2 or 3 hour difference, depending on the time of year.

or, you hire a remote engineer in Adelaide, which is UTC+9:30 or UTC+10:30 depending on DST. do you want that engineer to be doing half-hour addition & subtraction in their head in order to correlate log timestamps in Arizona time with their local clock? also keep in mind they're in the southern hemisphere, so they have "summer time" reversed from the northern hemisphere, and they do 6 months on and 6 months off instead of 8 and 4 as the US does [0].

every desktop environment I know of supports adding a second clock with a different timezone to the system tray. on my work machines I have one for my local time, and one for UTC. it's very easy to look at the latter when I want to know "what's the current time as far as my servers are concerned".

[0] https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/australia/adelaide
Or each successive comparison is just compounding and reiterating the same underlying assumption (and potentially the same mistake) whether it's true or not.
We need more of this: https://www.euronews.com/2023/10/02/blade-runners-fight-back...
delicio.us or whatever how many periods were
Same with my nephew. He also has autism and the first thing the speech therapist did when he was 3 was teach him simple sign language. It became such a great catalyst for communication. He's nowhere near his his age (now 6) developmentally but within ~6 weeks he went from completely non-verbal to actually vocalizing the simple words he learned the sign language for.
I would like to see a GPT that has the latest knowledge of the libraries I want to discuss with him.

E.g. if I paste rust code with a serde invocation, the bot should look at doc.rs to find out the correct usage of the library. Or even better: scan the entire github repo, so that it is up2date with the crate.
There's probably variation among babies. One of my nephews would examine his feet if you asked them where are his shoes, even before walking. He got so proficient with signs that it delayed talking; he preferred signaling and grunting :/
Knuth isn't wrong, he is taken out of context. Knuth doesn't say programmers shouldn't worry about performance. You still have to define in the problem and the requirements and fulfill those reqs.

> There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3 %. A good programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been identified. It is often a mistake to make a priori judgments about what parts of a program are really critical, since the universal experience of programmers who have been using measurement tools has been that their intuitive guesses fail. After working with such tools for seven years, I've become convinced that all compilers written from now on should be designed to provide all programmers with feedback indicating what parts of their programs are costing the most; indeed, this feedback should be supplied automatically unless it has been specifically turned off.

He says we need better tooling that continuously tells us which parts of the program are taking the most time and why. Yes! We do need this.

page 268, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/356635.356640 Structured Programming with go to Statements
Show HN: Caretaker – A GitHub action to automate Project (beta) work
Hello people! :)

I wrote a GitHub Action that can automate specific processes involving dealing with issues for ProjectV2.

Amongst others, the following:

- moving issues in "columns" aka setting status
- this isn't just moving issues ( for that there are other commands ). There is a feature that can be executed via a cron job called "scan". It will move through all Open Pull requests and in a given time moves all associated issues into a desired state, like `In Review`.
- then, upon update of the pull request, it will move associated issues back into `In Progress`.
- the scenario here is that you don't have to remember to set the state for your tickets, it can be done automatically so everyone can see what's going on at a glance of the board. I think that's neat. :)
- slash commands
- I'm working on adding more, for now `/assign` exists which assign the pull request to you if you comment it on the pull request AND ALSO it will assign every connected issue to the user.
- automatically assigning issues to projects upon creation
- creating issues from pull requests ( Pending feature )

And I'm adding more stuff here to help manage projects and issues. Caretaker comments back on pull requests and leaves reactions to comments it processed. Those can be disabled.

All of this can happen on Action Triggers so Caretaker doesn't need to be hosted anywhere and doesn't require any webhooks.

I hope someone finds this useful. :) Please feel free to leave any feature requests! I'm happy to extend this thing and make it a useful tool for developers who, like me, just plain forget to move that dang issue into review. ;D
15 minutes per day on average
True, but they did say the experiment was done with people who had been using computers regularly.