skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a theory (with no data to back it up; would be curious to get people's thoughts) that people with a religious or spiritual world-view, who believe that there is such thing as a soul, and that the mind is more than just a collection of neurons in the brain, are much less inclined to think that "AI" will ever reach a sort of singularity or true "human-like" intelligence. And likewise, those who are more atheist/agnostic, or inclined to believe that human consciousness is nothing more than the patterns of neurons firing in response to various stimuli, are more convinced that a human-like machine/programmed intelligence is not only possible, but inevitable given enough resources.

I could be wildly off base, but seeing many of the (often heated) arguments made about what AI is or isn't or should or could be, it makes me wonder.
He says better known as and throws out this, "Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft". lol
If anyone is interested, I wrote a small utility to time-lock data, to be able to self-restrict myself in terms of Screen Time etc. passwords: https://github.com/aerbil313/timelock
If real prices reflected the production costs, the cost of meat would be 3X, 4X the cost. Milk is alreaded traded at a loss by the supermarkets. You'd also see most small medium sized farms gone within 5-10 years and see mass unemployment in many those same isolated villages

Countries like Brazil will become even bigger agri superpowers and finish converting all of the Amazon into a giant pasture for beef.
I think WASM support is decent these days but if all the rendering is in software that might explain it.

You also mention GPU acceleration, but I believe WebGPU support is still a bit spotty, if that’s what you’re using. WebGL 2 is widely supported and WebGL 1 is nearly universal.

Edit to add: I hope I’m not being overly critical -- the app looks very nifty and it’s cool that you were able to bring it to the web at all!
On Software Engineering Hermeneutics
"Did you agree with your egomaniacal boss who thinks he is a brilliant engineer and programmer when he made one of the biggest blunders, or did you know better?"
It reflects Musk's own bias. If he actually gave a shit about competence and quality, Teslas would be more functional outside California. But he doesn't and won't, so until he crawls into a hole somewhere and disappears, Teslas will continue to be over hyped garbage.
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38622248
Was actually referring to bigger countries in EU (and smaller countries in east-EU). But would apply to US as well.
I use it every day. Thank you for creating Sioyek.
Except this is just like in outsourcing, where it seems like pure cost savings, until you need to hire more people to manage the low inconsistent quality from those cheaper workers.
> My main concern as a sysadmin in a company is user training and telling folks to use the non-standard ports.

Could you ship and manage SSH config files for your users?
It is consistent when the apps are consistent.

But it will not appear if the app opens the webpage as its own View (instead of opening Safari). In that case, there is no button and the user has to hunt for how to go back. And the user has no way of knowing whether an app will open Safari or will open the webpage itself.

iOS requires users to build muscle memory in learning how to use each app. Android requires users to maintain a back stack in their head to remember what came before. Switching between the two is very jarring.
> I don't bother using adblockers,though

Do yourself a favor. That's really the end of this discussion.
Can you clarify? Is showing a list of high-profile people that have great influence on social media like mark zuckerberg somehow wrong?
Free electric vehicle charging at work? It's possible with optimum solar
Should send it to the investors. The charlatans know they're charlatans. They know vertical farming is bull. They don't care. It's the investors who should do their due diligence. They should know better. Alas, a fool and his money...
>That's crazy; my 2018 Skoda (a cheap car, for anyone outside Europe) manages this

Yeah, but you're not seen as a hip modern well-off planetary savior, if you don't buy Elon's latest hype. How's the hyperloop going?
This article and discussion are specifically regarding base autopilot, not FSD.
Come now, a rewrite of their charter by some American social studies grad to make it more palpable to the public does not change their original intent.

We saw it in their actions on 10/7: they want the mass murder of civilians. Their leaders have called for global jihad time and again.
half female, half male phenotype.
> but at least AI has actual use cases and actually will solve problems.

Maybe some time in the future but the current generative "AI" can not (let me repeat: can not) solve anything. I am sitting here astonished watching the entire world lose their minds over a stochastic parrot.

Did y'all not learn anything from the crypto bubble? Mostly it's the same hustlers, ChatGPT got rushed to the market the moment the crypto craze sort of ended with the collapse of FTX. Someone is making a lot of money here... but it ain't you.
Interesting story about where blame is placed, and your move to Obsidian. Thanks for sharing.

I've actually done something similar to your Obsidian repo: I put all my notes into markdown and publish them with mkdocs[1]. This gives me the same editorial control and freedom from blame as your notes, but mine are public by default, so I can still simply reply with a link. I just can't post anything that is sensitive, which hasn't been a significant drawback yet. I have considered moving to an Obsidian based system, but have yet to find something compelling enough to make the switch. It looks like an awesome app though and is still on my radar.

1. https://danielhoherd.com/tech-notes/exiftool/
ICO fine for MoD data breach that put lives at risk during Afghan withdrawal
Mind boggling that folks responsible for evacuating high priority Afghan government workers etc didn't know about basic email privacy practices.
I read a little about this system on jeeps. It seems to only happen under 1 mph, and stems from previous novel (faulty ux) shifter designs that led people to be run over by their own cars.
(1) will happen if the following is true:

A. Intelligence is substrate independent I.e. there’s nothing mythically special about biological neurons that allow them to “be intelligent.”

B. Intelligence is economically valuable

C. We don’t destroy ourselves first e.g. via nukes or asteroid

We know for a fact that you can produce human-level intelligence that runs on very, very little power, and you can train that intelligence up to human-level in the course of 10-50 years of navigating the real world. Why do we know that? Because evolution did it already.

Now is there something so remarkable about the tissue we happen to have in our brain that means it is literally impossible to replicate this success? I can’t seem to find what it is.

Is there some reason to believe that the human brain is the absolute upper limit of what type of intelligence is possible in this universe? I can’t seem to find why that would be the case.

Obviously everyone who needs to agree on the commercial incentive already does agree on the commercial incentive (see: bottomless VC and soon govt funding), so that’s a moot point.

So explain how if these things are true: it’s possible, there’s immense incentives, and we have time enough to do it, that we don’t end up accomplishing it?
I have no idea how this is considered ethical when consciousness and sentience itself is not yet well understood. But maybe a lab-grown BPU made of human brain cells having a better power/performance ratio than the new SoC integrated ML chipsets around the corner justifies the potential enslavement of an bioengineered lifeform.

npm install brainslave
Mexican president hands over first locomotive for Isthmus of Tehuantepec project
Everyone will eventually agree on this point, except for alt right weirdos.
Garlic nor turmeric isn't basically wiping your guts clean, I know form my own experiences since I come from the culture where during harsh winters copious amounts of raw garlic is consumed to prevent getting sick (doesn't work that well once you are properly sick but prevention works wonderfully... but the smell for others ain't that great TBH). You can have very frequent consumption of those 2 and gut being overall in very good shape. Maybe our bodies can handle those and repopulate bowels from cervix for example.

I know when I took a course of some general antibiotics, my bowels and everything related changes, for the worse, for some time. Nothing like that even with copious amounts of those 2.
Everyone tries the window at least once :-D

Unless you are truly an expert spitter and the car is not moving, then spitting out the window is going to end up streaking the tobacco juice all across the exterior of the car. If the rear window is open, it might even go onto the back seat of the car. If you aren't moving then it will usually land somewhat vertically on the body of the car, or straight back (horizontally) if you're moving fast. It's always super tempting to try, but nearly impossible to pull off
A recall has a specific, legal / liability definition, regardless how it is logistically being adressed.

Hint: Not everything is SV-like "we'll fix it in production"...
Who the hell is going to get a grant for studying the effectiveness of any of these things? Much less, who the hell is going to publish this in any reputable journal?

The evidence will be anecdotal at best.
OpenCola
If I were trying to prevent people from looking at the health risks of glyphosate, I'd flood the Internet with articles and sites like this to make sure nobody takes it seriously.
Grocery booker. It monitors things based on a weight pad and automatically orders then through online grocers when they are low and the total adds up to a certain amount.
> As pointed out, opening and re-closing isn't uncommon, especially in winter.

Where is this pointed out? Opening and closing the doors at highway speed is not common, winter or otherwise.

I'm fine with "nannifying" cars when it gets these results. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...
Exactly, FSD isn't comparable to theranos because theranos wasn't out there actively being the root cause of accidents and injuries like FSD was.
> I don't understand what are you suggesting given that Israel didn't control the Strip (no military control), and that Hamas doesn't care for the economy?

The Gaza Strip has been under blockade for decades and the West Bank for half a century. There are border crossings with Egypt and Jordan, but those require Israeli approval. Palestinian workers are excluded from most of the economy except where they provide cheap labor to Israeli businesses. Meanwhile, Israeli settlers have illegally taken Palestinian farmland and, in conjunction with the military, sabotaged Palestinian farms’ water supplies and done things like chop down orchards which take decades to recover.

> True, but again remember the alternative was having a war like this one.

Or making peace, supporting more democratic groups in Palestine, etc. Again, my point isn't that Israel is the only bad actor here but rather that the path they've chosen seems almost designed to ensure conflict continues by removing so many of the options for the average Palestinian and giving them as many reasons to hate Israel as possible. Every night-time raid, every person abducted off the street and mistreated, every business destroyed builds a grudge. Every opportunity to build personal accomplishments or wealth removed ensure that those grudges are likely to lead to a violent outcome or support for people who are doing that violence. I don't think war is inevitable in general but I don't see any way this trajectory doesn't lead to more of it.
I thought they meant hermaphrodite but then saw the picture. They mean luterally half, right down the middle.
> More and more oil and natural gas reserves have been discovered and much of it in just the last 10 years (including off the coast of Gaza, go look it up).

>

> This means they are not running out like most people think.

You seem to be missing the point - I never said anything was running out. You seem to be arguing about our current civilization. If you imagine a future upcoming civilization (post-apocalypse, whatever), having progressed to an iron age stage, how on earth would they even discover those deposits hidden deep beneath the sea? They would have no reason to drill there in the first place.

The easy-to-extract close-to-land-surface deposits are long gone. Humanity would have to somehow progress to industrial stages without the help of fossil fuels that we've enjoyed, which seriously restricts growth. And thus we're talking about much wider timescales than what we've so far experienced.

The other reply had a very interesting idea regarding wood gas and that could be an option for a cool future cyberpunk civilization that would allow for somewhat constrained population growth (assuming balance is found and it doesn't lead to another Easter Island).

> But they will never run out, just become more expensive to extract.

You are very much correct here. It's more expensive (= complex & energy-intensive) both to extract and to discover in the first place. A future civilization wouldn't make these discoveries by chance, like we happened to discover oil. Unless we'd store a Rosetta Stone type thing for future civilizations instructing them how to do so. And even then they'd require tools that would likely not be viable without first having fossil fuels.
If you can buy one from 30 years ago kept in a collection. With current ones you have some parts that are still built like a tank, but other parts just fall apart. You can't buy dumb AND quality cars outside of the maker/restoration scene.
That's for sure. Still, if you want you can always use older tech, like they do with film cameras now.
A half-backed GUI app to learn writing Chinese characters.

When I was in Chinese class I developed a pencil and paper system that enabled me to memorize writing about 10 words per day. It's simple: I should be able to write a single word in about 15 seconds. I usually memorized a 20-word list at once. Set a timer for 15 sec * len(words) and speed through it looking at a list of definitions/pronunciation. Pencil down when the timer goes off. Grade harshly, a single mistake means the word is wrong. As I'm grading I rewrite each word I got wrong. Then drill again with the list of words that I got wrong again. Repeat until no words are left. Occasionally restart with the entire list.

I wrote it in Python using PyQt6 and standardizing on importing Pleco flashcard CSVs since many of them are readily available for most textbooks. I have lots of ideas and little time to improve it, but it is useful already.

https://git.sr.ht/~zacstewart/renzi
thanks! yes, if you want to have multiple categories, you'll have to click the "advanced" button which allows you to pick multiple individual subreddits from a category into a single newsletter.

it's a good idea to allow multiple categories directly though, but thought i'd keep it simple!
I'm tempted to do something like that in Go.

I don't feel like I need a tree-based to do app for my personal stuff, but I just plain don't understand how people are okay with the feature->story->task list on Azure Devops. This clearly needs to be a task tree/graph!

What I feel all those apps are missing though is dependencies. like "I can't do task E until I do C and D and those other trees". Technically Task Warrior does that, but then it shows them as a flat list... My dream app would be one that combines dependency tracking and tree-based tasks.
> Compared to what.

I guess that was a question.

Reading TFA, compared to not using glyphosate.

Garlic, f.e., does not deleteriously deplete the soil's microbiome. After being cooked it provides a lovely aroma / flavour (compare and contrast glyphosate).
You are wrong. Just checked Django part. No annotations, `__all__` in serializers, exists+get instead just calling .first(), etc. It's no way a good Django codebase.
He was also in Men of a Certain Age, a great show about 3 guy friends approaching the age of 50: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06NbS1aPzI0, with Ray Romano and Scott Bakula.

Sadly there's only 2 seasons of it.
Yeah. I've had my Model 3 for 5 years now (great car) and bought the FSD package. It's nowhere to be found and I want my damn money back for the FSD package. It'll never come to fruition during my ownership of the car, so I just pissed that money away. This wasn't some kickstarter, it's something they actively sold just like other features or packages.
archive.is + adblocker + reader view in FF and it's just like an actual newspaper. Just text.
I feel certain there was no shortage of people mentioning the impracticality of these schemes when the company was soliciting for investors.

"Told you so" is cheap afterwards.

Does anyone actually value it beforehand? Or is it no longer considered socially acceptable to avoid obvious mistakes?

Is the difference "spending someone else's money?" Were people investing their own funds major participants here, or was this a darling of "fund managers" who are looting other people's purses?
https://mitta.ai. I also built it, and it's Open Source.
This is one of the confusing idioms. I found that page that explains all but, anything but and everything but:
https://jakubmarian.com/all-but-vs-anything-but-vs-everythin...

A lot of native speakers tend to use them inappropriately.

An interesting song if you are learning english that shows some of the common horrors people commit is Weird al "Word crimes".
Elon being Elon again - has he paid the Twitter folks and office rentals yet ???.
Well, touring harleys have that for years (like since 2014)
I am sure college grads (from decent Indian colleg) can solve this one.

The problem is they have done leetcode style of puzzles all their college life. - mostly control flow, numbers and DP / greedy / graph patterns.

Which is such narrow area of computer science.

They don't understand basics of - operating systems (eg: VMs), compilers (eg: compiled vs source code, optimization), languages (eg: type systems), networks (eg: NAT, firewall), software engineering (eg: writing modular code, version control).

All these things are as Computer Science as leetcode algorithms. These are in the syllabus, at least in a primitive form. But these kids are only tested on leetcode puzzles.

Ask anything deep on these and watch these DSA-generation kids struggle.
> but it is still baffling that nobody thinks its a good idea to get one of your bigger costs down

Bean counters can rarely distinguish between different types of cost. Labor costs can scale with automation and tech, but energy input can typically only make incremental efficiency gains, which decrease over time. So you really need to look at energy input vs your competition.

Even those willing to pay a premium for “local farming” are doing so because of the supposed environmental benefits. But if energy to grow indoors exceeds energy for regular farming + transportation then you’re bad for the environment in addition to wasting dense city space. Unless you’re in a highly unusual electric mix region.

> Right now, the economics for vertical farming make the most sense in the Middle East, where extreme heat prevents the growing of crops in fields, food security is a pressing issue and energy in the region is cheaper, says Rabobank’s van Rijswickl, as well as former Infarm employees.

LOL, case in point. Wonder where that “cheap energy” is coming from. This article is waaay to soft in their assessment.

In general, it’s not that hard to do back-of-the-napkin energy and CO2 calculations. No amount of buzzwords and green-tinted concept art changes that there are real physical quantities at play.
Autonomous has a definition, and it's easily understood by normal people:

>denoting or performed by a device capable of operating without direct human control.

This is in direct contradiction to how Tesla says FSD is to be used:

>Full Self-Driving (Beta) is a hands-on feature. Keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times, be mindful of road conditions and surrounding traffic, and always be prepared to take immediate action.

The fact that we are still arguing about this, when there are literally autonomous taxis driving around San Francisco, is really strange.
No idea. But as for the upcoming super election year: while only the imagination is the limit, I'd bet on the usual stuff (e.g., something wrong with vote counts, etc.) with war themes and some AI thrown in. But no one can still agree whether any of that actually matters in terms of voting behavior. And as polarization deepens throughout the globe, there will be less and less moving voters so the effect may diminish even more; hence, perhaps a "root cause" analysis would be more prolific (i.e., the effect upon elections may be indirect). In addition, I'd presume that the purveyors try to maximize effect by either focusing on those particular themes that become the leading topics in a given election or alternatively trying to change a given focus to some other (false) issue.
Take a guess :)
Hah, yes, I should have clarified since that is way more confusing now than it used to be.
Martin Kleppman on the Second Edition of Designing Data Intensive Applications [video]
Martin Kleppman, best known as the author of the fantastic book Designing Data Intensive Applications, talks about modern data systems, his current work on collaborative software and, most interestingly, the second edition of DDIA.

He mentions that in the new edition, there will be more information and focus on cloud services, and some "dead" technologies like Hadoop MapReduce will be omitted.

In general, however, Martin is happy that most of the book is still fundamental knowledge and ages pretty well.

A bit not as well known is the fact that Martin is doing research in collaborative, so-called "local first" software (think, CRDT) where local devices play the central role.

In general, I think Martin Kleppman is a terrific writer and teacher.
Turmeric and garlic primarily destroy microbiota that are widely considered pathogenic in excess in the human microbiome. Most spices have their roots in bioactive compounds that have been (or evolved to be) beneficial to humans when consumed, either as anti parasitical, or antagonists against harmful bacterial overrun such as h. Pylori, yeasts, and others. We probably evolved to find those compounds tasty, and maybe reinforced their tastiness through cultivation.

Glyphosates have no such history with humans, but have proven useful to reduce the labor cost of agriculture.
> I'm just guessing here; but the reason why it's not implemented in userspace, not written in Rust, not using IOMMU, BP is allowed full DMA, the system is split into AP and BP in the first place, etc etc, is probably because of lags those stuffs introduce - difficulty of meeting and maintaining required realtime constraints.

That doesn't seem likely. All those technologies (except userspace maybe) work fine for realtime constrains down to microseconds.
If your constraints are in the nanoseconds (wireless signal processing stuff?) you probably have to use some local SRAM anyway and thus not need to touch the system memory.
There's a New Bot in Town
Argentina plans to dollarize (get rid of their own currency). While other countries have taken this step — including Ecuador, El Salvador and Panama — none have been as large as Argentina.
I think IBM still uses stacked ranking for employee reviews. Goodyear and Microsoft have settled lawsuits because it's been shown to be discriminate against minorities. https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-magazine/pages/0603bat...
Well we already know alt right weirdos have their heads so far up their own asses they can lick their nostrils clean, so we'll just keep marginalizing them and their insanity.