skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, my personal opinion is with the rise of neural nets we've basically proven that "consciousness" is an illusion and there is nothing there to find. But for the sake of argument, lets assume that there is something called consciousness, artists have it and neural nets don't.

How are you going to demonstrate that consciousness is responsible for what the artists are doing? We have undeniable proof that the art could be created by a statistical model, there is solid evidence that the brain creates art by simulating a mathematical neural network to achieve creative outcomes - the brain is full of relatively simple neurons linking together in a way that is logically similar to the way we're encoding information into these matrices.

So it is quite reasonable to believe that the artists are conscious but suspect that consciousness isn't involved in the process of creating a copyrighted work. How does that get dealt with?
Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence with Gene Editing May Be Possible
Where Teens Used to Hang Out Before Technology Took Over
This argument is essentially "a broken clock is right twice a day - so if your clock is broken, don't bother fixing it".
Ehh, hard disagree. I rented a Tesla for a few days. I didn't have time to spend an hour learning their UX before driving off in it, and I expected the Coca Cola of EVs to have intuitive controls. Huge mistake, I came away with the impression that Teslas are designed by people who don't actually drive cars, and I was thrilled to get back to Carplay and sane Honda ergonomics.
Games with an element of pain have a long tradition.

Me and my classmates used to play “who can hold the scalding hot pipe the longest”.

Earlier there was snap-dragon, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap-dragon_(game) and many, many more.
But the point is a lot of managers fool themselves into thinking those who "look busy" are, and for those managers, it's a harsh awakening.
That's hilarious, well spotted!
Thos has been a thing for a long time. Like you I'm not watching a show until I know it's a contained thing or at least 2-3 seasons are out.
The unsung geniuses who uncovered why we sleep and dream
except that the stack you're swiping between is not represented in the layout of the icons - it's on how recently you've used the app.

ie: if i have photos, calender and safari all on the same row of the home screen, and i open photos, go back to the home screen and then open safari, if i swiped left to right (to go backwards) on the bar at the bottom i'd go directly back to photos, not to calender
Actually installation is an Achilles Heel of VapourSynth.

Its not a normal pip installable package, instead its kinda like a seperate Python runtime. Installing plugins without 3rd party software is kinda finicky too, and they are spread all over the place.
I really wanna see something like this in VR. I’ve got the sense to un-flatten 3D objects shown on a 2D screen and I have an inkling that if you showed me a 4D object in simulated 3D space I just might be able to understand it.
> I always assumed anti-fraud had something to do with it.

The banks must have had a good PR campaign going because I was under this impression for a long time too. Something didn’t click when I learned that mistyping a single digit in an ACH transfer means your money is gone forever…
The military doctrine, plans, aims we talked about publicly were unfortunately quite different from the reality of what happened. I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing - I'm talking about the unnecessary and unjustified invasion of Iraq. Yes there hasn't been a world war - but in Iraq there are continuing tribal conflicts. We didn't create an era of peace there.

This article says 300k civilians died in the immediate wartime, more died in the aftermath. For example, see https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/20/iraq-broken-...:

With little doubt, the United States broke Iraq. U.S. forces succeeded in the campaign to topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein... But what followed turned into a debacle for U.S. grand strategy, and a traumatic nightmare for much of Iraqi society.

The war, driven by the hubris of the Bush administration and a supportive Washington establishment — as well as what has to be described at this point as a vengeful post-9/11 bloodlust that permeated American society — is now widely seen as a generational American mistake. ... According to Brown University’s Costs of War project, many of the 306,000 estimated deaths in the Iraq war were of civilians killed by “direct war related violence” between 2003 and 2019, a span of time that saw Iraq convulsed by waves of insurgencies and counterinsurgencies, and its cities ravaged by terrorist attacks and airstrikes.

The consensus now, even among formerly hawkish Republicans, is that the United States should never have invaded Iraq 20 years ago. ...

“Iraq quickly fell prey to chaos, conflict and instability, experienced an uncountable number of deaths and displacements, and the erosion of health, education and basic services,” wrote Iraqi academic Balsam Mustafa. “Behind the statistics, there are untold stories of agony and suffering. The structural and political violence would spill into social and domestic violence, affecting women and children. With every life lost, a whole family is shattered. From day one, the conditions were forming for the emergence of terrorist groups and militias.”
They’re using that as the base of their system. But they are still disabling Android Auto and CarPlay despite the fact it works perfectly. Other car makers have proven that.

They appear to think that using Android Automotive will give them access to a good App Store (?) and thus things will be good enough for people.

I await the fallout.
> It's pretty much like this war has been lost, but nobody wants to admit it or even admit it existed.

i didn’t hear no bell. (bell sound is a subscriber exclusive.)
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That might be for other reasons, because according to a study I've seen, Costco basically runs their stores "at cost" and wants to just make money off of the memberships

(https://minesafetydisclosures.com/blog/2018/6/18/costco, though it's from 5 years ago so things might have changed)
Let's remember definitions.

Thermal soak heat protection: the protective material absorbs - soaks - the heat, becomes really hot, and after the process need to dissipate the heat. Also - which is important - the heat capacity of the material should be enough to absorb the whole heat flux going into it. Also - thermal conductivity of this protection should be such that the protected material behind it won't get too much heat. For this kind of protection to work you want small temperature differentials - less heat flux - and small time of heating - otherwise the material will become too hot. However - as materials have varying thermal conductivity - the thermal soak is always present to some degree.

Radiative protection: the protective material heats up so much it stops accepting more heat, because it radiates heat back with the same speed. After the process the surface of this material is really hot. Important requirement - low thermal conductivity, as the high temperature on the surface shouldn't get behind the protective layer. Also known as refractory protection. Space Shuttle thermal protection is an example.

Ablative protection: the surface of the protective material releases its material in the form of gases, and this gasification process cools down the material. The material gets consumed, that's the main problem with this cooling approach - neither big thermal capacity nor small thermal conductivity are needed. Early Merlin engines used ablative cooling.

According to Wikipedia, SpaceX uses ablative protection for Crew Dragon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_entry#Thermal_prot... -

"A second enhanced version of PICA—called PICA-3—was developed by SpaceX during the mid-2010s. It was first flight tested on the Crew Dragon spacecraft in 2019 during the flight demonstration mission, in April 2019, and put into regular service on that spacecraft in 2020." .

Also from Wikipedia, tiles of Starship are made of silica - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_rocket#Starship_space... -

"Starship's heat shield, composed of eighteen thousand[131][132] hexagonal black tiles that can withstand temperatures of 1,400 °C (2,600 °F),[133][134] is designed to protect the vehicle during atmospheric entry and be used multiple times with minimal maintenance between flights.[135] The tiles are made of silica[136] and are attached with pins rather than glued,[134] with small gaps in between to allow for heat expansion.[2]"

which makes them a kind of radiative or refractory protection.
I will admit it is not a perfect match, but both have a laugh track and both remain very popular. I think I may have been trying to get an agreement from several generations of sitcom enthusiasts.

How about Big Bang and Scrubs? Both are kinda silly and both kinda got bad the same way.
It is new for 2023, but this guy ain’t the first. The Data Colada guys are also getting sued:

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/8/9/23825966/frances...
The wow signal of terrestrial genetic code
Normally code generation via templates is a part of the build process, but this is not always ideal for all uses. For example some template is simply too slow to run, or needs some specialized dependency which is otherwise not required. Or a particular code can be manually written, but you want to further document how that code could have been automatically generated. Cog templates are intended to persist, so that the output can safely replace the input and be directly checked into the repository without any additional dependency, making them useful for such situations.

(This concept is not that unusual, by the way. CPython itself has a preprocessor called the Argument Clinic [1] which was in fact inspired by Cog.)

[1] https://devguide.python.org/development-tools/clinic/
Thank you for this neat little trick. Going to use this for Webdesign when I transition the loremipsum blocks to content where info is missing/unclear. [ask client]

Love the written by a human sticker
Can we take a moment to respect the poetry of their respective names: Solal is shining light on Shadi's practices. Sun and Shade. :chefs kiss:
I had a look through frontends. Plenty let you sign in/connect some existing account, but I saw none that offered the ability to create an account. The Farcaster page on clients[0] seemingly reflects this by saying you use that app to create an account and then use an alternate frontend "once you've created an account". Given the 2.0 star average due to reviews claiming that the app requires a $12 payment then often doesn't work[1], I'd be hesitant to use it even if it was available on desktop/web or compatible with my phone.

If there's something I'm missing and there is somewhere to create an account, would you be able to link me in the right direction?

[0]: https://www.farcaster.xyz/apps

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/8PC1Jit.png
The moon has been altered by human activity. Are we in a 'Lunar Anthropocene?'
This is like saying you need to perform your own appendectomy because you care more about your body than the surgeon does. Do you also fly your own jumbo jet when you travel? Grow all of your own food?
I agree. I’ve had them as rentals before, they’re pretty amazing.

The latest is the Bolt appears to be dead, only the Bolt EUV will survive.

But it doesn’t matter. Like you the lack of CarPlay makes it a non-starter and I wouldn’t recommend it in the future to anyone for the same reason.
have you had a look at https://www.pulze.ai/ ? LLM API that provides the highest-quality LLM responses through intelligent routing, beating GPT-4 and any other single LLM across all prompt categories.
There is a wearable system for researching infants' linguistic environment called "The Language ENvironment Analysis system (LENA)". This review collects and analyses available data[1]. I just took an average AWC (adult word count) per day, and roughly calculated how much linguistic input infants get during their first 4 years. Of course, it's just a kind of a Fermi estimate, but the scale should be about right: 10000 times less input than GPT-3.

It would be an interesting challenge to create a "baby-like" dataset. I guess a system like this could help collecting it.

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28824021/
I've tried something similar with a little side project, https://catchingkillers.com. The witnesses, chatgpt chat bots, wouldn't have much of an attention span and start making things up. I think this added to the fun of the game. You had to question each witness to get verification on what another chat bot said.
This site itself is really nice to read and easy to understand. I wish Apple's docs looked as nice and were as easy to read as this.
A billionaire and a novelist offer two versions of tech's future. Who's right?
Ask: What Does Ggml Do
Just wondering, what does it do, and why the model providers didn't already provide it, if that's such relevant.
I like the Marvin3 reader on iPhone. Haven't found something I like on the desktop though.
If your company has a habit of firing people that share information, or punish employees who work smarter instead of harder, it’s a sign that they might be out of touch with value creation and will eventually be punished by the market.

Being fired from such a place might actually be a blessing, not a curse.
These numbers were for Jan-Jun of this year.
I'm not arguing in favor of homeopathy at all, quite the opposite! It's nonsense, banning it is good IMO. Just pointing out that the nonsense has origins in something sensible.
Pay per click is also user hostile. We’ve all accidentally clicked on the wrong thing or, especially with touchscreen devices, clicked when we didn’t mean to. I really don’t need my misclicks costing me a bunch of extra money.
My last 3 cars have all supported Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. First a Honda, then a GM, now a Hyundai.

All three had some issues with cord becoming disconnected. In all cases this was a car manufacturer problem because they aren't giving enough thought to the sizes of the phone and how they will lay in the inadequately sized phone compartments.

I had periodic Android Auto crashes on the GM. Since it was only on the GM I chalk it up to bugs on GM's side.

If they can't even properly integrate to the Android Auto standard why on earth would I believe they can build an entire enfotainment center that is safe, stable, and anywhere equivalent to Apple Carplay or Android Auto?

Ridiculous. I hope they enjoy not getting any of my money in the future.

GM stock short coming in hot.
Why the distaste for port knocking? It seems like it would reduce untargetted attacks to zero.
The idea was present in "Colossus The Forbin Project" 1970. The computer starts out fairly crude, but learns at an exponential rate. It designs extensions to itself to further accelerate it.
Google claims it's called Gemini because they merged the google brain and deepmind team to work on it. The twins are the two teams.
It reads image sequences with imagemagick or ffmpeg, but in place repair is not its thing, no.
As well as old bronze lady:

“Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Google Scholars numbers are horrible and should never be relied on. It is extremely easy game its citation numbers, and its crawls too wide and find to many false positive citations.
While I hold privacy in high regard, your standpoint on trust is pretty extreme.

With your own "trust can be broken", you could conclude that you should distrust "with reason" (hey, it was broken) — basically, flipping it is an equally sound stance.

As a rule, I trust people, keep private stuff not easily aggregated (eg. I might talk some stuff over lunch, but will not email it to the person so they have it on record), and I am quick to distrust people once they fail me. Legal protections do matter, because they discourage misuse of unintended data sharing.
On the first entry:

>Drill-down navigation is stateless

I've been encountering this a lot lately, but: this seems the opposite to me, it's deeply stateful as screen N depends on what you did before, and you can go back to it. It literally keeps track of some internal state in order to be useful at all, i.e. the list contents depend on state N-1, because if it didn't it would be awful.

A stateless UI would be, like, a one-step modal. It exists or it doesn't. Particularly strongly "stateless" if it's transient and you have no way to "resume" it.

I've been in and around quite a few discussions using the term "stateful" to mean WILDLY different things through the years, and in a giant burst lately, and it has largely led me to conclude that almost nobody agrees with anyone else what it means and few are aware of this.

What does "stateful UI" mean to you all? I find the variation fascinating.
Do you need to keep it 100% of the time in airplane mode? Couldn't it be queuing stats to upload them once it leaves AP mode?
Source article: https://www.motortrend.com/news/general-motors-removing-appl...
How would you compare the 6502 to the 6800? I cut my assembly teeth on the 68000 in the Amiga but always heard plenty about the 6502 due to the C64, but would love more perspective on how it compares to other CPUs.
The infotainment screen in my Tesla is great. Just the other day I had to drive a relatives car and used google maps navigation on my phone, I was amazed at how subpar google maps navigation is compared to tesla (lacking ability to quickly overview route, missing lane based navigation, screen never auto recenters as you drive)
I made a demo similar to this about a decade ago

If you allow a user to bind a key to a rotation in each dimension, it makes the structure slightly more intuitive
It’s not just the goal it’s the whole point. I’m not saying it will be achieved but that is the reason it exists and every promised capability is predicated on full reusability.
They have pretty much all been ported, and much more! VapourSynth can do a lot more than AviSynth can.
A few years ago Apple said that 95% of car buyers want CarPlay based on some industry survey.

I’m actually surprised 9 to 5 Mac got a number as low as 80%.

Tesla is the only real brand to be able to get away with it, and I suspect a lot of that is because they were the only big electric car brand for a long time (people never seemed to consider the volt/bolt or leaf).

Rivian is trying the same thing, but they’re very small. I’m not sure about other relatively small manufacturers like Lucid.

Of the major brands it’s now Tesla, who is slightly special and has good developers, and GM. Against the entire rest of the industry.

They’re doomed.
> Apple defenders love pointing out that there is choice, that folks can go to Android. But what if Android were just as lawful-evil malevolent a force?

There were non-Google and non-Apple choices out there (I used Windows Phone for awhile and kind of liked it), and people still didn't want them. I personally don't care what other people buy, but I don't want the choice taken away from me to buy into what I see as a much saner platform than the free liberalized non-evil overlord choice that would be forced on me for what people would claim for my own good. Consumer choice should really account for something here.
Unsafe to subscription based profits.
Alcohol withdrawal is potentially much more dangerous than withdrawal from most other substances. Withdrawal is always miserable of course, but seizures, blood pressure, elevated pulse, hallucinations, etc. can be fatal in the case of alcohol without treatment. You also have to consider that the first product that alcohol is metabolized into, acetaldehyde, is extremely toxic, attacking multiple organs and also causing lovely things like dna damage.

The thing about most (not all) illegal drugs is most of them have some sort of positive usage outside of abuse. Opiates can be effective for pain, benzodiazepines for acute anxiety, stimulants for ADHD or narcolepsy, etc. Alcohol despite its useful social role (I'm not telling you all to be tee-totallers) is basically just a poison that has a small handful of short term nice effects and a long tail of effects that are a disaster.

Anyway, I question the math in the other post about heroin because it's essentially ignoring the dangers of a bad supply. People do safely take other (prescribed) opiates safely. I imagine that alcohol would be a lot more dangerous if we were back in prohibition times with like bath tub gin.
It ignores mentioning that many of the biggest e/acc proponents openly support AI potentially replacing humanity, seeing it as the next evolutionary step that might obsolete humans.
(1) I remember the times when Breaking Bad was new content.

(2) Once somebody asked Quentin Taranto in an interview: "So, you haven't managed to produce anything better than Pulp Fiction by now, how come?" Tarantion answered: "You mean, somebody has managed to?" Some things just end up being exceptionally good, and you can't produce another comparable specimen on demand.
Is that really possible anymore on modern vehicles that come with fancy screens?
Hope you're not affected by the infamous MBP GPU plague. I have had the internal GPU permanently disabled on mine (GPUmux), which leaves only onboard Intel GPU (garbage)... so my affected MBP also does not load the webpage.

Dual Xeons with RX580 doesn't break a sweat — about 20% GPU load.
depends who the customer is, I'm a customer of AWS and I expect 100% availability, mostly because my customers are everywhere in the world and there's no available window for downtime
They say Von Neumann talked about a tech singularity back in the late '50s (attested by Ulam), Vinge popularized it in the mid 80s and Kurzweil took it over with his book in the aughts.
kindles have cellular modems
They think people are willing to pay 135 a month in software subscriptions for their car.

That's what they think their research shows.

They are so far gone it's astonishing
Starship has another advantage over Shuttle orbiters - orbiters were about 80 tons when landing, while Starship is about 120 tons empty, but has much bigger size - diameter and length, which makes it braking higher in the atmosphere where the heat flux is smaller.
I was classically trained to add `TK` meaning “to come” (sic.) as a placeholder. Allegedly the letter combo TK very rarely occurs otherwise.

Wikipedia article —

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_come_(publishing)
And a couple more points:

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War

* 9/11 members were known to be in Iraq (we ignored the significant Saudi presence in actuality for the 9/11 attack)

* In the days immediately following 9/11, the Bush administration national security team actively debated an invasion of Iraq.

* The false claims of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq

* "A study coauthored by the Center for Public Integrity found that in the two years after September 11, 2001, the president and top administration officials had made 935 false statements, in an orchestrated public relations campaign to galvanize public opinion for the war, and that the press was largely complicit in its uncritical coverage of the reasons adduced for going to war.[70][71] PBS commentator Bill Moyers had made similar points throughout the lead-up to the Iraq War, and prior to a national press conference on the Iraq War[72] Moyers correctly predicted "at least a dozen times during this press conference he [the President] will invoke 9/11 and al-Qaeda to justify a preemptive attack on a country that has not attacked America."
if the fat lady ain't singing, she's definitely warming up