skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone is this thread immediately went to mind readers as interrogation. But what about introspection? Many forms of teaching and therapy exist because we are incapable of self analyzing in a completely objective way.

Being able to analyze your thought patterns outside your own head could lead to all sorts of improvements. You could find which teaching techniques are actually the most effective. You could objectively find when you are most and least focused. You could pinpoint when anxious thoughts began and their trigger. And best of all, you could do this personally, with a partner, or in a group based on your choice.

Also you can give someone an FMRI as a brain scanning polygraph today. But there are still a ton of questions about it’s legitimacy.

https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...
If they could continue without your knowledge, but with more people - maybe your knowledge was not as valuable as you think?

Also they greatly reduced bus factor. Looks like a win for the manager.
It's 15 pounds.

Can someone give the gist of it?
Well, somewhat. The amount of precision that the physical worlds demand in the construction of the fuel pellets, and the amount of energy involved in using them, guarantee that you need an extremely expensive mechanical process for the fuel. So, while physically you probably can extract energy from the pellets, it'd be like a steam train powered by gold bars instead of coal.
> If you have a Neuralink, no problems, you can directly upload a trace of thoughts.

Except that someone with a jailbroken Neuralink could upload a filtered and arbitrarily-modified thought trace, getting ahead of all those plebs. Cyberpunk! :)
Anyone familiar with Brain computer interfaces would not be surprised by this article. People have been capturing brain waves for a while and using it for all sorts of experiments. This is just an extension of what has been done before. It’s still not applicable to anything outside of a lab setting.
I'm optimistically going to assume that model training is per-brain, and can't cross over to other brains. Am I wrong? God I hope I'm not wrong.
The fix here is banning these sorts of potentially abusive uses, not hoping the technology itself doesn't develop.
What does “DWIM” mean in this context? My first thought is “do what I mean”, but I suspect that isn’t what you meant.
FYI The base model that this one uses had some bug in their code which had inflated their baseline results. They are investigating the issues - https://github.com/duanyiqun/DeWave/issues/1
Holy crap, I have overlooked this for quite some time. Apparently added in April or something. Was stuck on nightly because of this. Thanks.
A lie detector?

If it can extract words from my grey spaghetti then maybe it can extract my intention too.

That's probably incredibly obvious and I'm silly for even bringing it up.
Thanks for sharing this gem.

I don’t know what’s funnier, than trying to force a P.Eng to sign off on stuff with all the legal liabilities that comes with it, or them not blinking twice when making some kid, who apparently isn’t a P.Eng a principal engineer and not understanding how that’s an issue.
He would have laughed about the joke.
That’s fair. To clarify my frustration comes from a place of “love”. When a partial or complete outage happens I get severe HN withdrawals.
> That's called a "Cube" in Magic the Gathering.

It wasn't super clear to me from that article, but does this mean everyone drafts from the same cube (like you combine cards and then everyone draws from them)? Or does everyone make their own cubes?

I think a difference there (vs a limited number of cards in the game, period) is being able to realistically know all the cards that can be played. There's not this surprise of "what, I didn't even know this ridiculous card exists" -- everyone's seen all the cards, dozens if not hundreds of times -- but it's up to them to create new and interesting combinations of those same cards. It's more chess-like in that way and less of an arms race.

> You don't draft booster-cards from all of MtG. A Draft is innately around the ~300ish cards of some set. Lost Caverns of Ixalan only consists of 291 cards.

Right, but that only lasts a few months, right? Or is it weeks now? Getting 291 unique cards would require many cases of cards (and thousands of dollars, probably?)... I tried that for one cycle and then stopped after realizing how expensive it gets, and how quickly too.
For computing devices being smaller typically means using less energy as well, so it’s a bit different than a power generation facility where the whole point is power.
> we find evidence that life is more likely than expected

The easy steps for abiogenesis keep getting easier and easier.

Meanwhile, we keep having absolutely no idea of the difficulty of the hard steps. Yes, technically that means life is easier than we expected, by some completely insignificant margin.
> I can tell you that the industry beats it out of you with a club.

yep, i can say i've seen this over and over; more than anything incentives are for the next okr or whatever to be completed so they can move on to the next one asap.

i've seen pr's sent out for review that literally didn't work or crashed immediately on use... as if the expectation is qa will report whatever needs fixing but thats fine cause its "in qa now" so development is "done".
> or give up your license for life

Is this not default? They have clearly proved that are not fit to participate in road traffic.
Helplessly naive but that's the best the cinematography can do about anything - a happy end.
Or it means they don’t have enough resources to run a trial for every case they believe they will win.
, and so give out plea bargins to reduce the number of trials
Thank you for the link. I've been trying to find any discussion whatsoever. This commentary inspired me to submit a support issue.

I intend to start some drama with GH over this. ReactJS will win if we do nothing.
Hypothetically if the world's scientists were to all prove that blacks were inferior to whites, what good would come out of that? I can't think of a single good thing that would come from that- the world would be worse for knowing such a fact.
The enshittification already happened. The most recent incorporation of other IPs, like the upcoming Dr Who, is a series of last gasps. While sales have followed along the aging income growth of existing players, the inverse pressure of exiting players is past sustainable levels. Other forms of gamba have eroded the MTG gamba allure.

Re: Youtube - Tolarian Community College - which is very good at capturing the state of the ecosystem.
Yeah, in my experience developers who go above and beyond (especially in agile sweatshops) are generally rewarded with more responsibilities and the compensation never scales. Promoting these types into new roles is costly bc they can't really be replaced.
A key distinction may be what you become the go-to for.

Go-to for correctly operating a dated tool deep in the bowels of the machine? Cog.

Go-to for all questions related to the machine, its history, future, and all machines like it? Not cog.

Boiling it down, is your recognized expertise high or low in scope?
Bing is already free if people are “exploiting” it
The idea was that youtube/google was rolling in so much money that the super users using ublock/utube-dl/invidious was so small Google won't waste their time bending over to pick up this penny on the floor.

apparrantly the money lost seems to be big enough for them to care (or they run out of actual features to code so tossing this problem to engineering to fix).
Yeah, well. I'm a software guy, not a hardware person. But think about it if the hardware guys were like "move fast and break things".
It's amazing how much space the hardware people (Asics) have given us the
to experiment and explore on their incredibly robust platforms.

Maybe some of them needed to be mature and conservative.
I didn't know the slogan, but the slogan quite literally doesn't say what the parent claims it does, does it? Otherwise it would be "Death to Israel, death to the jews", no? I tried to google the Arabic and either google is really bad at arabic or that word is mostly used in the quran.
Gongkai sounds like what happens in piracy scenes, or perhaps more specifically the game modding and ROM hacking scene. People innovating and modifying without giving a crap about who-owns-what.
Sounds like there is a need for identity verified reviews. Ie the account doing the review has provided some government issued id during their registration process. Then add in another criteria that they can’t post reviews unless their account is say 3 months old (or some timeframe).

You could still record unverified reviews, but hide them and their ratings by default until the user explicitly wants to see them.
Could LI have selected a competitor?
Becoming the go-to person in a given area or process will quickly get you to "senior" which is what the article is talking about. It is easy to get stuck at this level as you say but the trick still works to get to staff the flavor just changes a bit, you have to be more of a generalist.
Yes, dang: we ARE all related...
technically they all individually have ends that never met
It doesn’t sound like an either or. One could potentially think too much
Israel does not view its current military operation as collective punishment, so certainly it would not go to the UN and ask for its permission to do something it does not think it’s doing.

Leaving your disingenuous framing aside, yes, Israel has brought complaints to the UN before. See: https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-complains-un-over-hezbol...
Just putting this here for alternate baseX: https://github.com/qntm/base2048
There's also the construction of the pellets[1], which uses deuterium and tritium as fuel, and capturing the released energy.

[1]: https://lasers.llnl.gov/news/papers-presentations/2016/decem...
Supplementation of 2,000IU/kg and 10,000IU/kg seems like a lot to test in humans rather than mice in the study.

Most I’ve seen is 50,000IU once per week for 4-6 weeks then do another blood test and go back to a normal 1000-2000IU/day dose.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8709011/

There are some more studies in humans that show higher levels of vitamin D are correlated with higher levels of testosterone and other androgens.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21154195

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20050857/

146 studies on vitamin D per examine.com.
https://examine.com/supplements/vitamin-d/#references
I’ve been using voice GPT chat a lot and I keep wondering why companies haven’t replaced their customer service reps with it.
It’s Apple.
I had such high hopes for FirefoxOS but it got Mozilla-ed
> It wasn't super clear to me from that article, but does this mean everyone drafts from the same cube (like you combine cards and then everyone draws from them)? Or does everyone make their own cubes?

A cube is 360 (total) cards that you tell all your friends about. Some of these cards are repeats (ex: 4x Elite Vanguards).

You bring those cards, you shuffle them up, deal out 15-to-each-person, and then start drafting (pretending this random-deal of 15 is "like a booster pack").

> There's not this surprise of "what, I didn't even know this ridiculous card exists" -- everyone's seen all the cards, dozens if not hundreds of times -- but it's up to them to create new and interesting combinations of those same cards. It's more chess-like in that way and less of an arms race.

Then keep to the same cube. Make everyone in your group know what cards are in the cube, ask questions about those cards before playing.

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The "owner" of the Cube is responsible for "balance patches" (Hmmm... Red is too strong. I'll replace some of these powerful Red cards with weaker ones). So its not completely static. But the general plan is to build a set that your group can "recycle" and grow to become experts in.

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> Right, but that only lasts a few months, right? Or is it weeks now? Getting 291 unique cards would require many cases of cards (and thousands of dollars, probably?)... I tried that for one cycle and then stopped after realizing how expensive it gets, and how quickly too.

You... look at the cards before entering a draft. Ex: https://www.magicspoiler.com/mtg-set/the-lost-caverns-of-ixa...

All of this information is published ahead of time. Some, more competitive, players even playtest / draft when the spoilers are released long before the Pre-release. Using computer software to emulate a draft.

The only money you put down in each draft is the 3x Booster Packs per draft (or if you're in an official event, the entry fee which also includes a bit extra for the prize-packs)

Draft-players don't "collect" the cards. You usually sell the cards after the draft.
In 2020 or January 2021 the federal Supreme Court affirmed the execution of a convict when it was demonstrated that their court appointed attorney had ignored exculpatory evidence that the accused had been elsewhere at the time of the crime. The process was considered more important than the result.

There was a lot in the headlines at the time and though this made the news other things quickly drove it “off the front page” (don’t know what metaphor we should use for that expression these days).
Hard work is often pointless.

Also it is more beneficial to look like you are hard working employee than actually be one.

In IT scope of the work is endless, there is no point to rush. If you finish early you'll get next ticket.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess the curse they're hoping for isn't "they'll be doomed to stub their toes regularly".
Was there more emotional rhetoric than is otherwise used in politics?

Personally the “hitler mind controlled everyone with his speach” theory that I was told in the 90s just isn’t convincing. Facism was in the zeitgeist around the world.
Huawei Pushes Forward with Ambitious Plan to Dethrone Android
Resources discussing autonomous AI agents?
hey guys, i was wondering if anybody has compiled a list of resources/blogs/articles discussing autonomous AI agents?
Hylemorphism is how Aristotle further subdivides the category of substance.
> The article linked says the laser energy is 2 MJ. So even a 100% efficient laser would only have a 2x gain. And some quick googling gets me 80-90% as max feasible laser efficiency.

This doesn't sound right to me. The NIF's laser efficiency is less than 1%, so an 80% efficiency laser would be ~100x gain.

Edit: Actually, I'm not positive I'm reading this right. It says the laser was less than 1% efficient in 1996, there may have been upgrades since then...

Edit 2: There has not been.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility#:~:....
This sounds like Sam Harris logic. The most dangerous groups aren’t the most hateful or those who the most ambitious goals, like “destroy America”. It is those who are both powerful and have some stated or non-stated plan to do something.

The US and Israel are much more powerful than these groups.
Pseudoscience like eugenics is just feelings packaged as science.
Great royalty free alterative to MISRA C: [1] Embedded System development
Coding Reference guide - Software Reliability Enhancement Center, JAPAN

[1] https://www.ipa.go.jp/publish/qv6pgp00000011mh-att/000065271...
How many people in the whole world are paralyzed or locked in? Ten thousand? Less?

How many people in the whole world are tinpot authoritarian despots just looking for an excuse who would just love to be able to look inside your mind?

Somehow, I imagine the first number is dramatically dwarfed by the second number.

This is a technology that, once it is invented, will find more and more and more and more uses.

We need to make sure you don't spill corporate secrets, so we will be mandating that all workers wear this while in the office.

Oh no, we've just had a leak, we're gonna have to ask that if you want to work here you must wear this brain buddy home! For the good of the company.

And so on.

I'm blind, but if you offered to cure my blindness with the side effect that nobody could ever hide under the cover of darkness ( I donno, electronic eyes of some kind? Go with the metaphor!) I would still not take it.
“In non-athletes”
Yeah, I assumed it was made by Comfy's author, as maybe a next evolution of their project. I was feeling happy for them.

But since it's not made by Comfy's author, it's definitely not cool to name your project by using their name.
winget Mozilla.Firefox
Judge the Project, Not the Contributors
> and with Frontpage people could easily generate web pages that looked fine in IE but were a complete mess of impenetrable HTML for other browsers

FrontPage wasn't a Microsoft product, and was doing its whole thing with the "_vti_" directories before Microsoft acquired them.
Does “inferior” mean statistically less likely to be good at logic games? Because I don’t believe people’s claim to humanity is defined by that.
Paying attention to our feelings is probably how we become more 'logical'.
problematic employees need to be fired as soon as possible or they ruin everything they touch
Yes: the class is the form; the data values are the matter. A superclass is a genus and a subclass is a species. I have long suspected that the creators of Simula had a grounding in Aristotelian metaphysics.
> > and Source Hut

> Not a very serious option if you're looking for anyone from the 21st century to contribute to your project. No, the email workflow doesn't get better by just screaming "it's not that bad!" over and over again.

Perhaps the maintainers of the respective project consider filtering out contributions from "hipster programmers" actually desirable for the project. :-)
For making this speech, and the anti-fascist film in which it takes place, Charlie Chaplain was surveilled and persecuted by the US government (FBI, CIA, HUAC, and more). He was effectively exiled out of the country that had been his home for decades by the time this film came out in 1940.

In this speech he mentions 'a system' that generates war. That was enough for him to be branded a communist, hounded, smeared, and exiled.
I think someone would've said the same thing about megaflop computers before the IC was invented.
What you're talking about exists: it's called DANE: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_...
You can change the font in your browser, or use reader mode. Reader mode has been an option since last decade for every major browser, built-in or with an extension.
> I used his media host/imgur alternative in the past, and it spontaneously just disappeared one day. I'd rather that not happen to my source code

Git is decentralized.
Quite the weird verdict.

In the EU and its individual member states titles like this are also protected, but typically those protections are limited to explicit cases where it’s used in conjunction with a name.
E.g. “ir. John Smith” or “Anne Smith Eur. Ing.”

Using it a random descriptor like in this case is generally fine, with perhaps the exception of specific professions such as doctor (in the medical sense) and lawyer when it’s used to imply you’re allowed to provide medical care and legal aid respectively.
This comes up over and over on different platforms. It's sad to me how many services that are built on open source software don't allow you to use a custom domain. It's not that hard. Let's Encrypt makes it almost trivial.
“Nobody gets it’s the software”

If they didn’t get it’s the software, they wouldn’t catch up.

You didn’t say they were late to the party, you said they don’t understand what needs to happen. My point is they understand exactly what needs to happen they just didn’t have the technology to even start to tackle the problem until recently.
Well yes, and that is obvious today, at the time they were reputable fields, just look it up.

And if you read that in history, what does that tell you about the present and the possibility of it being the case with some fields today?

My point is obviously not to defend those fields, but to say that pseudoscience maskerading as science isn't a thing that can only happen in the past.

It's a bit strange to learn about the fact that it happened before yet not accept the possibility that some of the things we call science today, aren't.
DWIM does in fact mean Do what I mean, a DWIM gun is basically like the Imperius curse. Can't remember if I got it from @cstross or Vinge.
Like all fusion reactors in the world currently, NIF was made for research, not as a prototype for a power plant. As it stands, NIF is the only non-bomb fusion device to reach the fusion breakeven point. If we are ignoring the research angle though, and are appraising the potential for commercial power production, Helion's design has a similar issue to NIF. Where a tokamak and similar designs create constant power, NIF and Helion's design have to generate power from sequential nuclear explosions. However for the purpose of research, NIF is indispensable; We can finally see and measure the behavior of true power positive fusion (without setting off a bomb).

edit: breakeven means the reaction put out more power than the fuel took in. It does not mean the plant as a whole puts out more power than it takes, we aren't even close to that.
Looking forward to the day Amazon buys Rust
I think this book is probably the single best resource I've seen on the topic: https://www.refactoringui.com/

It's a really easy-to-use format (one quick tip on each page, with clear examples).

It's from the people who made Tailwind, a CSS framework that's basically a reimagining of Bootcamp for the Javascript/component era.

Check out some of their templates: https://tailwindui.com/templates

These are lookalike "modern" designs that you can pay to use, or just draw inspiration from. Imitation == flattery and all that.

Along similar lines, check out the free Next.js templates: https://vercel.com/templates/next.js

If you want to build up from components instead, Tailwind offers a component library too: https://tailwindui.com/components

For React, I prefer the astoundingly good MUI framework (amazing components with lots of customizability, a good enough default look, and great documentation): https://mui.com/ If you end up going this route, using their Figma kit (https://mui.com/store/items/figma-react/) plus the Refactoring UI book from above should allow you to whip up a pretty standard-looking, "pretty enough" design in very little time. And then implementing it using the actual MUI lib would just take a few days.

There's also Ant Design: https://ant.design/

And Chakra UI: https://chakra-ui.com/

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For more theoretical stuff (i.e., less visual but still very valuable), the UX research group Nielsen Norman still has a treasure trove of valuable advice: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/top-ten-guidelines-for-home...

You should know the basics of accessibility (beyond general usability, this alos means alt text, header levels, contrast ratios, readability, screen readers, keyboard navigation, special considerations for the hard of sight and hearing, etc.): https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/ or at least use an easy checklist tool like Microsoft's WCAG analyzer: https://accessibilityinsights.io/
I would agree if I didn't think there were really strong incentives and precedents for abuse of the technology.