skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s possible that all physical processes involve a sensory component. Maybe the subatomic particles’ fundamental drive is to shift to be more comfortable or to pivot away from pain or discomfort.

I don’t know what the experience of a bit in memory flipping feels like. Maybe rapid changes in charge are excruciating, maybe they’re blissful.

Do we at least know what a neuron looks like in states associated with pain? There might be more information in this case to work with, to ensure there is no hell on earth that’s being mass-produced.
That logic doesn't pass muster. Imagine if a state passed a similar law and then started piling fines on newspapers for misleading reporting.

Clearly, the mere fact that the newspaper is a corporation doesn't dissolve its speech rights (nor should it).
When you’re in growth mode you don’t want profit. All profit must be reinvested.
My brain immediately translated the headline into "One in five young Americans is a trollish little asshole."

It's well known that actual belief and poll answers do not align, but here in particular I feel like there's an impish desire to give the "wrong" answer, and that's what the poll is measuring, rather than simple misinformation.
There are papers written about this.

https://openreview.net/pdf/0c9a0f445d430a4d2bf9a08078c435091...

Without a loop - an LLM takes a fixed set of tokens and produces a fixed set of tokens. It has some internal state.

So without a loop an LLM cannot be a general purpose computer (Turing machine).

Turing machines are simple. They need 3 things - infinitely long tape, ability to have internal state, and conditionally write and move tape based on what is on tape.

So if an LLM had access to infinite memory, all it needs is to implement a subleq instruction which is quite simple, and run itself in a loop.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-instruction_set_computer

One instruction set computer

See this paper from DeepMind which talks about compiling existing code into transformer primitives https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.05062.pdf

So the smallest ML model that can do arbitrary math with () * / + - operators and floating/int numbers is not that complex.

Perhaps few 1000s of params. One can compile existing code into transformer weights.

Now that you mention, I’ve been nerdsniped to building it.
Did you learn anything from that exercise? Are you a better programmer now for having seen that solution? Because if not, this seems like a great way for getting the fabled "one year of experience, twenty times"
> But these kids will get better, same as we did.

Education standards in America has been falling no matter which way you look at it. That will have to reverse first.
> expect it to be free forever.

Where does it say he expected it to be free? In the article, there's a tweet that says "So I paid Google a lot of money for a long time for a plan that included unlimited storage"

To me, the bigger problem is that companies are allowed to offer "unlimited" anything in their marketing copy.
If you’re on any social media, then you see ads. If you use any search engine, then you see ads. There are ads even on Wikipedia. You can see them even if you use all of the adblockers.
> My car's gone the opposite way. When trying to find it in the parking lot, with the old one, you just pushed "lock" on the keyfob twice and listened for the horn honk. The new one makes a nice, elegant but not very loud "beep" sound. Useless for this purpose.

Good for everyone around though, because you're not polluting the soundscape with a completely unncessary honk. Where I live, honking within cities is allowed only in emergency or dangerous situations. Not that anyone follows that law though.
Just write zero as a protest for the dark patterns.

Zero is common in many countries outside of USA by the way. In California and other states you cannot claim workers are being paid below minimum wage.
I'm not sure what you're talking about, because the modern flagship phones all have the architecture you're saying they should have but don't because of the "people with the power".
IS there some reason to believe you wouldn't have the exact same problem in a pre-Covid world where people are being regularly exposed to colds, flus, RSV, and every other respiratory virus on a constant basis in their 20s and 30s? Why would losing naive T-cells to Covid adaptions be a bigger issue than losing naive T-cells to the zillions of other infections?
There was some circuit made from genetic algorythms which was self-assembled.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220530143751/https://folk.idi....
So defrauding someone is free speech? This is a hollow argument. Consumer rights should come first in any scenario because consumers are the vast majority.

The fact that this is even up for debate shows how much power corporations have in the US.
A lot of these stories feel like symptoms of a breakdown in trust. Authorities, institutions, and media of types have been caught lying; so from individual perspective with limited context, never been to the camps, never watched the trials, never met a survivor, there's not much to hang a belief on.

I have caught myself in some similar doubts about certain current events, it was only in connecting to real human people from both sides who lost loved ones that I remembered, ah, yeah, this stuff does happen.
He charged extra saying there would be a robotaxi network for cars sold in around 2016/2017. It's almost 2024: the cars are getting close to EOL. If the law is struck down couldn't it be done in part?
Google charges USD 0,15/GB for egress traffic out of GCP. That's USD 36864 for 240TB. Am I right?

EDIT: Actually egress seems to be 0,08. So roughly half of what I wrote.
There is a difference in what you answer on a poll and what you believe. The most obvious answer is when you are asked a controversial political question and even though you don't agree with it your political party does so answer it according to what is in your best interest and not what you actually believe.
The US Government has demanded that Starlink MUST CARRY and provide service to support foreign nations.

Foreign nations think that they're going to use Starlink to commit further genocide; that they run the show for this American company.

"MUST DENY"

If you cut off Internet service to emergency service personnel (with the red crosses) here, is that a war crime?
I still have a drawer full of phone holders and bluetooth receivers that I used in my previous car with a "dumb" radio. All of the holders were annoyingly rattling when driving over potholes and finicky to insert or remove the phone. From all the bluetooth receivers I tried (3 of them), none of them had a decent microphone, which meant making phone calls a no go, and the first 2 of them had poor power filtering resulting in a high-pitched hum (I suppose it was from the alternator).

Now I have a car with wireless Android Auto and when I start the car I immediately get a google maps view without having to search for the app, including two recommended destinations (usually places I go to frequently, or the last searched place on Gmaps). The whole interface is easier to use while driving, because of the limited feature-set and larger screen than on the phone itself. Same story with calling, it just works - I can answer calls from the buttons on the steering wheel and the mic is decent and in the right place.

Can we stop pretending that every innovation since 2010 is evil? I get it that it locks in you in Google's/Apple's ecosystems, but their solution is simply working well. For me the alternatives don't cut it, and I believe that their shoddy practices (data collection, monopoly etc.) should be fought with legislation and not by refusing to use their stuff on principle.
Meanwhile, Musk is suing California claiming that restrictions on false advertising are a 1st Amendment violation [0].

He wants to be free to lie claiming that it is fully autonomous.

And here is a 2 million recall for safety issues on the same system.

I used to have a lot of respect for him. Now, it's just repulsion.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/tesla-fights-aut...
It's just as much software engineering as it is "politics". Baseband vendors could put in as much effort as aviation manufacturers, but they won't. The status quo of overcomplicated, insecure, buggy software is hard to change. So the only tenable approach is one that relies as little on baseband vendors cooperating.
What happens when it wants to mate?
Vertical farming is based on the premise that land is no longer available. Technology can be used to free up land from understanding where it is wasted. We waste ~160 million acres for biofuels[1]. 60 million acres just in the US[2].

A small fraction of this land can be solar PV, or even zero[4]. You can drive about 150 times as far from a solar-powered electric car compared to using corn bioethanol[3].

Switching to EVs starts a virtuous cycle of (1) accelerating renewables (EVs are parked >90% of the time, have flexible demand, perfect for solar/wind), (2) freeing up 160 million acres of land and the associated water usage, fertilizer, etc (3) Freeing up water usage, 47.5 trillion gallons (just in US!), 40% of water withdrawals[5,6]. Availability of this 40% water allows us to farm a lot more land than whats possible currently. EVs + renewables will also free up 40% of global shipping, stop 10 million deaths from air pollution and save us trillions in fossil fuel subsidies [7,8,9].

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[1] For bioethanol and biodiesel combined, total land use worldwide is at least 155.47 million acres: https://hungermath.wordpress.com/2015/10/29/how-much-farmlan...

[2] The US uses 60 million acres for biofuels (most of it for corn). That’s 25 million hectares. This is about the size of the United Kingdom: https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/biofuels/recordisplay.cfm?deid=35...

[3] https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/us-corn-biofuels

[4] Solar land usage can be zero from agrivoltaics and from not using farm land at all, covering water bodies (lakes, reservoirs) or land along the highways.

[5]https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=50698

[6]According to the U.S. Geological Survey, electric power generators are the largest source of U.S. water withdrawals and account for about 40% of total water withdrawals in the United States: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=37453

[7]https://qz.com/2113243/forty-percent-of-all-shipping-cargo-c...

[8]Air Pollution Kills 10 Million People a Year. Why Do We Accept That as Normal?: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/opinion/environment/air-p...

[9]https://www.axios.com/2023/08/25/oil-government-subsidies
AirPods to macOS bi-directional profile is a lot better than AirPods to non-Apple host, so it has to be.
Sqlite developers go to very great lengths making sure their software works reliably. You can't just introduce some transpiler in-between and expect that it'll work. It's a different software and it should not even be called sqlite IMO.

The only proper way to use sqlite is to use FFI.
Very nice, I never heard of that site before.
A possible addition, for hardware devices, could be a field reporting their environmental footprint, that is, how much waste is produced by simply marking a product as obsolete forcing users to ditch it instead of opening it so that it can be repurposed by the community by installing lighter OSes and apps, or reused in completely different contexts (example: old phone -> IoT terminal)
Exactly. Different jurisdictions. To clarify, I was talking about The Netherlands only.
> According to a 2022 survey from the Pew Research Centre, Americans under 30 are about as likely to trust information on social media as they are to trust national news organisations.

A real “be careful what you wish for” tale. When I think back to the advent of the World Wide Web, breaking the mainstream media’s hold on information distribution seemed like such a wonderful possibility.

Fast forward a few decades and here we are: corporate controlled social media networks are indiscriminately pushing absolutely anything that keeps eyeballs engaged in front of their users who treat it all as fact.

I can’t quite say I’m nostalgic for the days of mainstream media domination but it feels increasingly like we jumped from the frying pan into the fire. At least it was accountable: you might not like an article the Washington Post or the New York Times published but you’d know who wrote it and you’d know who published it. If you didn’t want to read it you could just not read the paper any more. Now we have faceless anonymous social media accounts pushing any old crap and the networks themselves holding up their hands and saying “who, me? Oh, that’s nothing to do with me!”.
The issue is that the "young" demographic mentioned in the article is ages 18-29, and high school must have changed quite a bit in recent years if students have not actually heard about the holocaust or WWII.
While I'm sure there's homeopathic preparations that use witch hazel, the witch hazel you buy at the drug store is not homeopathic because it actually contains witch hazel in a usable concentration. Homeopathic preparations are, by definition, diluted to the point where there's little or none of the allegedly active ingredient you started out with, the nature of that ingredient allegedly being imprinted on the water.
They've skated by with this sort of completely insensitive handling of customers for years and my (completely anecdotal) recent experience is that less technical people are starting to take note. I have friends who have never cared about investing their entire digital lives in Google who are suddenly asking about de-Googling. I hope it prompts a change, but in the meantime I never recommend to friends or family they put anything solely in Google they can't afford to lose.
I trust cloud just fine--I just don't trust unsustainable business models.

You can store data on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure and pay per GB per month. They price it at a level that's profitable to them, and I pay for it.

"Unlimited, at fixed (or no) cost, forever" is not a sustainable business model. If you're one of the outliers, you risk issues like in OP. If enough people are outliers, then they'll eventually have to pull the rug out.
> You think he opposed being tormented for his own good, but would have happily endured it for some other (purely hypothetical) person?

He was against moral legislation, such as laws against homosexuality and laws promoting marriage, but, again, speeding laws are not moral legislation. They are there for public safety, not public morality. That said, putting aside the law, he was a believer in morality, and I’m confident he would have opposed putting others’ lives at risk for one’s own selfish reasons.

> Speeding is, by definition, a victimless crime.
Over 10,000 people in the US die in speeding-related accidents every year.
Technically I think they fixed this by having cars auto-shift from N to P if the car is not moved for longer than N seconds.
The cloud should be treated as a cheap microSD
I've had good results with Claude. Sometimes better than chatGPT. Never been censored, but that's probably just cause I ask it to teach me about stuff.
Obligatory "Lena" (Miguel) reference:
https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
Recently I've met some intensely stupid kids in the city of Berkeley who keep showing up at city council hearings to shout and bang drums and demand that the city pass a pro-Hamas resolution condemning Israel. It's jarring because half these fools are somehow mixing the Palestinian scarf and rainbow flags, unaware, apparently, that Hamas would throw them off the tops of buildings for the crime of being gay.

Young people are spending way too much time on tiktok and hardly any at all on critical thinking.
Once all the Germans were warlike, and mean

but that couldn't happen again.

We taught them a lesson in 1918,

and they've hardly bothered us since then!
The worst part is that, FOH wants tips for doing almost nothing, but when BOH wants to share in the tips, you might as well have told them that you killed their parents.
I remember when the CHP used to do rolling traffic breaks in Los Angeles. The officer would flip on the lights and use the PA to tell everyone to stay in their lane and not try to pass. They’d slowly accelerate to 20mph, and it worked beautifully for turning stop and go traffic into consistent flow. Unfortunately, few drivers think about what they’re doing enough to learn that lesson and it’s very labor intensive (and probably not what the officers want to do).
Of course, when you don't define your X, you can use that phrase for anything. That's trivial logic.
"With enough will" makes this sound like Ayn Rand fan fiction.

That's just something you tell yourself to make yourself feel better about trusting the black boxes your life depends on. But it simply isn't true.

People devote their lives to specializing n these things. Yes, "with enough will" - and time, and money - you could pick one or two subjects and do the same. But that still leaves you as a dilettante at best when it comes to everything else.
> For example, if Amazon/Apple/Netflix puts their newest show at the top of the "Featured" list, is that an ad?

Yes, if you can't disable that feature. They're clearly pushing it regardless of my preferences.

> What if it is related to another show you watched?

Yes, if you can't disable that feature because they are most likely pushing the cheapest crap they can that keeps me watching.

> What if Facebook suggests trying a new shopping-related feature?

Yes, if you can't disable that feature because I can't tell if they're just trying to be helpful or steer me toward something with higher margins for their benefit.

If I can't opt out then it's an ad
It is not a myth.

Roma people and other ethnicities were also targeted by the Nazis and sent to extermination camps. They have perspectives on those events as well.
> Where's the benefit of dying

This is what happens when your religion rewards you for dying in war.
It gets worse.

In one survey from 2020 of GenZ + Millennials in the US (, 63% did not know that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. In the same survey, 11% believe Jews caused the Holocaust.

But wait, it gets even worse. Top academic institutions in the US don't have moral clarity the calling for the genocide of Jews, as we witnessed over the last couple of weeks.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/survey-finds-shocking-lac...
My other response is that air quality is relatively bad in cities compared to middle of nowhere.
Yeah there's a bunch of 6500 series CPUs with various changes! I'm hacking on a SBC that uses the 6507 at the moment, this particular SBC was a replacement for some industrial control board using random logic sequencing (no CPU). The cut down 6507 saved space and let the designer get everything into the allotted space on a two-layer board.
> it has yet to be proven that most forms of healthcare are not parasitic in nature. I.e. that whatever increases in longevity and quality of life are not due to modern medicine, but confounded because both have increased at the same time.

So what are the increases caused by? And what does it mean exactly for something to be parasitic? What is "both" referring to in your comment? Do you mean the relationship between lifespan and healthcare is correlation, not causation?
I don't understand?

> The environmental impact of AI is already huge and we have an uncertain energy future.

This seems like an argument FOR them doing what they're proposing.
Simone Giertz is usually years in advanced compared to Tesla.
See Truckla vs. Cybertuck: years of advance, and a much more attractive car.
That seems optimistic to the point of absurdity.
Show HN: I made a tool to turn a Spotify artist profile into a website
Hey! I wanted to share Noise with you, a tool that allows musicians and artists to create a free website from their Spotify profile.

You don’t have to be an artist to try it out! You can play with it (for free) and for fun by making a Noise for your favorite artist. Feedback is really appreciated!
The one I'm working on is still in-progress: https://aiconstrux.com to build software with AI.

I plan to sell it, yes, but I also want it for my own use.
What sort of influence do evangelicals in small towns wield compared to tech giants?
I can't understand it either. As a squishy science graduate and a technologist I find this category of experiments revolting from both angles.
Again: Egypt could open it's border tomorrow if it wished to. Egypt doesn't wish to. Hence the agreement with Israel.

> The nakba is largely why we have these problems today

Not quite, the displacement happened, but that's a symptom of the cause: the wars declared by Arab states after 1948 mentioned in the comment you're replying to.

Likewise Poland and France still own land gained from Germany after WW2.
People have no idea how efficient farming is. In 1260 the price of wheat was 6- 8 shillings (~1/3 pound sterling) per bushel (60 pounds). By the early 20th century, it was about 1 £/bushel. At that point the US became the efficient grower and dominant currency, and so switching from pounds sterling to dollars at the rate at the time of $5/£1 is appropriate. Today wheat is $6.50 per barrel. Put another way, the price of wheat in the dominant currency has ~tripled in 750 years. That's an inflation rate of ~0.1%.

Put another way, a typical Saskatchewan dryland wheat farm is about 5,000 - 10,000 acres per employee or operator in size. That 5,000-10,000 acres will produce enough calories to feed ~100,000 people. (Those acres will also require ~$10M in capital and ~$1M in annual operating expenses)

Put a third way, modern agriculture can provide enough grains and legumes to feed somebody for around 30 cents per day at bulk prices.
Technical Writing: How to Start
Its a mouse based game. You put down walls that the ball hits.

Object of the game is to get the ball into the box.
This project came about because I wanted to search over things like HN comments in my browsing history. First attempts were via CLI tools, which required making a request to fetch HTML. This doesn't always work and correlated with an increase in CloudFlare captchas from my IP.

Thus this project: Create a full text index of web pages as you visit them. Works with plain HTML as well as JS-heavy pages.

Mentioned earlier in another thread [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38624807
I actually did exactly what you suggest a couple years ago.

https://github.com/iamjackg/esp32-phomemo-gameboy-printer
If they don't know, the answer would be don't know, but not making up their mind that its a myth.
Not the parent, but I read "buying the normal book" as buying actual paperbacks.
We'd have to compare against a similar poll from decades ago to figure out if this true—it could be it used to be that 40% of kids didn't believe in it.
Google is an advertising company first and foremost, so I doubt that'll happen.

But, this kind of stuff is a big reason they want remote attestation so badly.
Startup idea: SaaS portal to trigger FBI raid on RAID disks, acting as a free replicated permanent archival storage. Retrieving the data is out of scope of the MVP.
In addition to the constant barrage of tip requests, the percentages keep going up (tipflation). My dad taught me over a decade ago that you tip 10-15% based on service. A few years ago, it became 15-20%, then 18-22%, and now we're expected to tip 20-25%, and at more places than before.

I'm not opposed to helping people out with tips (it's not the waiter's/waitress' fault they're paid garbage), but when companies are making record profits by jacking up prices and gimping on paying their workers more, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
https://github.com/iansinnott/full-text-tabs-forever