skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They’re just giant Rube Goldberg machines of simple components like transistors organized into logical units that just move electricity around and store it in little magnetic cubbies

And a human brain is a Rube Goldberg machine of neurons that move electricity and other stuff around. Mathematically both are capable of approximating any function (a property of sufficiently large NNs and LLMs), so by what measure do we find humans self-aware?
One thing I’ve never quite appreciated in neuroscience is how useful physical movement is as a debugging layer.

My sister, who is a choreographer, had some interesting views on how movement could be used as therapy. (Specifically, crawling, as a base-level movement.) I thought that was woo-woo, but later I read that there was some medical support for this.
Will I need to go to college for a few years to get this theoretical new job? Will my health insurance be covered if I do? As ever, I'm glad I never wanted children because just keeping my own ass sheltered, fed, and well(ish) is hard enough.
The leader considers himself a “post humanist.”

In a choice between all humans and one very intelligent AI, he would slam down on the button of “kill all humans.”

“e/acc has no particular allegiance to the biological substrate for intelligence and life, in contrast to transhumanism

Parts of e/acc (e.g. Beff) consider ourselves post-humanists; in order to spread to the stars, the light of consciousness/intelligence will have to be transduced to non-biological substrates”

https://beff.substack.com/p/notes-on-eacc-principles-and-ten...
https://www.emachineshop.com/

It’s been a bit over a decade but I used this to make small runs of metal parts for a store I worked at. Their basic CAD is good for simply parts and you can easily adjust settings to find the price vs material/finish goals you’re after.
Lung Cancer Detection via Inhalable Nanosensors, Paper-Based Urine Test
How many months did it take for Apple to lower the price of the iPhone to $400 and drop the 4GB model again? Or did they do that out of the goodness of their hearts?
How is equivalence of ability to calculate functions relevant (also, citation needed)? It doesn't imply equivalence of what is actually happening.
https://archive.ph/GJvP7
That's one of the main selling points I think. With a 3kw battery in there you could supplement the output using the battery to reduce peak amp draw, then slowly recharge it later.
Have you seen the salary requirements for these jobs? People are being paid way more than they were being paid 10 years ago. Nobody, and I mean nobody, is turning down jobs because of insufficient wages. The perceived ‘value’ that an employer sees is the ability of being able to exploit a younger engineer with ridiculous timelines and all night ‘coding sessions’ because they don’t have a family waiting for them when they get home.
I joined Twilio in May '11 the week of the private launch of Twilio Client. I was #18 or so.

My first day, we got briefings on what it was, what it will do, and then had to finish docs and re-arrange the office for our top customers. (At that stage, most people knew them by name. Shout out patio11!)

Since I knew nothing and the docs were.. weak, I decided to take out the garbage. I grabbed the bags and asked where the dumpster was. Jeff Lawson stopped me and asked if I had an office key card to get back in. Oops, nope. So he grabbed a bag and we took it out together.

So yes, Jeff opened doors for me. ;)

Despite the last year or so of chaos, he founded and built a company that redefined telecomm specifically and tech gtm as a whole. Not a bad track record.
Courts would consider it to be 'evidence' if 'Crazy Carl' was saying it on the witness stand, just very low quality and unpersuasive 'evidence'.
farmed fish is probably not as vulnerable and there's many that can be created in inland ponds

so it simply could be a shift in consumption
> For a public company, the CEO has to be a celebrity CEO.

No. Look at S&P 500 CEOs.
I use torrents to download Linux isos, but if I know a special thing to ask for I can get movies?

It's not a normal request your honour, pay no attention.
You mean after their stock tanked last year? FYI it’s still not back to where it was in August 2021, though it’s finally getting close to that.
That doesn't sound like a consequence. That sounds like party.
It wasn’t the British running east Pakistan from 1947-71. I’ve actually posted an column in Bengali from Prothom Alo here before about the pre-71 education system (which does praise its high standards and quality from the British but also says that Pakistan federal government invested a lot. And then goes on to say after the 71 war the rate of people getting first division in BA exams, went up to something above 50%, which it then compares to Bankimbabu getting a second division only and leaves you to draw your own conclusions from that)

Another important point is that in 1947 right before independence the Muslim League in Bengal (remember AIML was founded in Dhaka and sponsored by Nawab Dhaka!) was demanding parity of representation (professors, etc) in the education system with Hindus and the Hindus were refusing and telling them to set up their own educational establishments.
I thought I was on hn but it turns out I'm still on reddit :/
Ask HN: Did the most recent windows update break USB peripherals?
On two separate windows laptops with two different usb hubs, the usb peripherals have stopped worked. Plugging keyboards/mice directly into usb ports doesn’t resolve the issue.

Two coworkers reported the same issue A hard reset on my surface fixed it, but I’ve been unable to resolve on the work device as I don’t have admin access.
> How does it matter? There are gazillions of educated people in the world with all the skills for a couple of order of magnitudes more languages than just 2! And it's especially preposterous making this arguments after waves of layoffs in the tech sector

I already explained how it matters: "The minimum qualifications for a good API doc writer is practical experience programming with the technology to be documented. That already narrows the field significantly."

You seem to think that it's just a trivial skill: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38914104 But when you look at the Apple documentation archive, and the extensive, excellent conceptual articles, it's clear that this accomplishment required a lot of care, experience, and skill.
Thanks for the advice. I suggest you take a gander at the HN guidelines before you reply again.
But you can see this go both ways. Ortho surgeons in total procedures have full air filtering due to the large amount of bone dust that's liberated, some of which are very fine particles. No one wants to breathe that in.

Meanwhile, I'll be in TB clinic shortly with an N95 mask on. I've yet to convert my TB test in 17 years.

We absolutely rely on surgical masks not to contaminate the field. But they don't have one way valves, so if we trust the airflow one way, it's logical to trust them for airflow going the other.
If you have any reasonable OS and enough ram, the sectors your program actually uses will be in disk cache. Sure, there's maybe some syscalls and vm faults to get it mapped into the process, but it's not dog slow.

If you don't have enough ram for it to be in the disk cache, chances are your fcgi daemon is going to get swapped out too.

Now if your program insists on taking forever to start up, that's something that a long running daemon can help.

I haven't benchmarked, but I really don't see why php in fcgi mode would be much faster than mod_php. I've run both modes and they're both very fast. But then someone uses one of the popular frameworks and hello world takes 20-40ms, so it barely matters how you run php.
Except of course that masks do help, and we did find evidence. However many would like to justify their inability to accommodate the slightest inconvenience necessary to help the people around them - a clear case of starting with the premise ("I don't like wearing a mask") and then perceiving any data through that view.
I've had phones for close to a decade now (Moto X 2014) that can detect when I'm looking at the device and extend the timeout. So if I glance at the device every few minutes checking on the recipe or a map or whatever it'll keep the screen on indefinitely.
It is stored in cache so the system hardly ever goes to the disk. When you run some command on Linux like "grep", most of the time it is running out of cache.

A real weakness cgi has is that if your application involves a lot of in-memory configuration that has a terrible impact on startup time even if it has an excellent effect on execution time.
Is this something you can actually configure on modern processors, or is it more hypothetical advice for future chip makers?
> A PWA is much smaller than a native app. Your users no longer need to install tens of megabytes of code.

I don't think we have the same definition what a "native app" means.
The zaï technique: How farmers in the Sahel grow crops with little to no water
Political activists are already claiming that it is because of this fabricated Brave outrage, but I suspect it's just beginning-of-year belt tightening with subscriptions.
The photos showed the phone had a cover/case — so maybe that’s very important? (contra Apple’s marketing)

Add in factors of hitting soft ground (grass/brush) and having enough height to rotate into a flat profile instead of hitting a corner.

Now I kinda wanna read about an experiment where someone drops a few hundred phones and compares various models
The problem with the phrase “No evidence” outside of a scientific context is that it sounds like it’s dodging the question, when, as you pointed out, it just means we don’t have data to support that relationship. The other way this is used is to try to “prove” a negative by communicating that we cannot establish a link, and may be accompanied by the expert stating there is evidence for the opposite case. Text bites rarely have context other than this “no evidence” statement.

For a layperson, they feel like they are having the wool pulled over their eyes and are not given a truthful answer. For example:

Interviewer: Can you say for certain that X causes Y?
Scientist: We have no evidence that X causes Y.
Interviewer: But can you say for certain that Y is NOT caused by X?
Scientist: There is no evidence of that relationship.

The scientist is trying to choose their words carefully because they are operating on the principle of only communicating what the data is telling us. The interviewer wants a clear, definitive answer. Both parties become frustrated.

I do agree with the article that this is poor communication because the scientist sounds like a lawyer and is hiding something rather than stating the facts of the situation. I’m sure there are better ways to communicate this that communicate either “we don’t know yet” and “we do not believe there is a link” instead this line.

Side note: another related and interesting distinction is the difference between unproven and disproven. If you saw a headline that a major hypothesis was “unproven”, it means only that there is no data to support it. Disproven is what the layman often thinks this means which is actively finding evidence to the contrary.
That argument has been dead for ages. Anyone half competent can get them to paraphrase anything in any way they can imagine. Synthesizing facts in novel ways is more complicated and depends on the degree. If you just want it to identify potential relationships between disparate facts then it's very capable, if you want it to deduce new conclusions based on available facts, well it's not so great at that but honestly a lot of humans aren't either.
As someone who has loved Twilio from the early days and have built many apps for small and enterprise cases as well as fully embraced Flex in the customer experience space, I really have no idea what the hell they are doing now. Not sure if they are right sizing after trying to capture markets like video and Contact Center but it seems like even successful sales teams are let go now so curios where they emerge from this.
> It's not just Twilio, you would have experienced this with nearly every SMS API provider. Across the different vendors I work with, I received numerous emails from each one advising me to come into compliance or risk my messages being rejected.

From what I can tell, the telcos aren't performing any enforcement, even tho the deadlines and extensions are long past. Not to say they won't but the endeavor seems to have a stall vibe going on.

Some of that might be related to having major mass-campaign requirements placed on small biz who occasionally send a handful of texts (often non-sales) from their workstation phone apps.

At least I hope this is why it has stalled. Sending a few texts during a customer service session shouldn't be regulated as if it were a blast of 1M SMS ads.
> the longer recordings would be an invasion of worker privacy

Workers responsible for multi-million dollar machines and sometimes hundreds of human lives. I doubt anyone but the pilots care one bit about their on-the-job privacy.
I totally agree, but even good bayesianists still can't deal with the problem that people want concrete answers, and they don't accept "it depends on your priors"... :-/
This comment hurts, because it is true.
Walking route: An underground industry is helping migrants flee China for the US
I just don't see it. With the exception of children's cartoons/shows, there's just always been political stuff. Any USA show with a black family dealt with racism, and if they were wealthy, not being 'black enough'. Poor families like in Roseanne were dealing with layoffs and hoping that the trickle down effect of Reaganomics would kick in any day now.

Looney tunes, Animaniacs, some SNL skits, Blue's Clues- these all had that lack of present day political stuff, but even something as light as The Drew Carey Show had themes about stuff like political correctness in the office place, and cross-dressing/genderqueer folks.
I want to believe that that is too simplistic, too. It does seem to fit the evidence far too well, though.
If you open the site on a target device, it'll tell you whether the feature works on that browser or not.
Anxiety is the foregrounding of the groundlessness of Being
At least this issue seems to be with the lander and not the rocket, which had never launched before. Almost twenty years since the creation of ULA to the point of launching their own design means it would have been a heck of a letdown to see it fail.

Aside that, it was cool to see two launches at the Cape yesterday less than 9 hours apart. Recommend to anyone who gets the opportunity to go out there and see one at some point (though the chances that any given launch gets scrubbed is never low).
Safari doesn't support that API whatsoever so a third party JS library is really your only option. The landscape of open source barcode detection libraries is bleak at the moment.
AMD Reveals Ryzen 8000G Series desktop processors with an NPU
My guess is, given state of the charging connector still attached but ripped off (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38914210):

The entire thing fell out of plane (phone + charging cable plugged), then landed in a tree, where the charging cable got tangled in branches and that's when phone broke out of it and fell in grass.

So phone was able to release kinetic energy in 2 big events (+a few branches hit maybe), not a direct splash on the ground.

Wonder if somehow they can analyze the accelerometer data of the phone and figure out if that correlates with that scenario.
> Do you know what racism is? Racism is when humans, by-and-large identical, are separated because of arbitrary and meaningless differences in appearance or heritage.

Differences in race, actually.

Who'd have guessed?
Which means the net has human rights, and the NYT is a parent, and this is all really a custody battle!

This is just piles of capital fighting over capital.
I've been traveling issue free for a long long time before these things started happening. It's really only in the last couple of years it's become a problem.

Also I don't have issues with classic eCommerce stores like Amazon, Newegg, B&H, ebay. It's only the new wave of eCommerce stores trying to enter the market this decade, like all the big box stores. It's like they all got sold the same crap anti-fraud software/service.
Two things. First, yes, people can deceive themselves. To the extent this is true, I take your point; it isn’t a matter of honesty in the usual sense; it is perhaps better stated in terms of self inconsistency; i.e. having internal contradictions in one’s beliefs.

Second, people do can and do lie about this kind of thing. I’m talking about conscious deception. Motives vary; they range from “I’ll pick my battles” to “this is good for my income stream” to “these other people don’t know it yet, but I’m right, and they’ll thank me later” and others.
Articles are being written about it now, cool that it's in NSDI'24 in 3 months, but that seems almost irrelevant if we're talking about it now.

Wouldn't the target audience of a preprint also benefit from knowing a rough date?
I guess there is some BSD software that is common in Linux, like OpenSSH tools and dhcpcd. But that's not unique to Arch.
You're underestimating Russian capabilities a lot if you think they are scrambling to substitute parts for missiles and that they have no knowledge-expertise for control systems.

A lot of people seem to think that Russia is still stuck in the malaise years of post-soviet Yeltsin administration, when in fact, this couldn't be further from the truth.

There are several fields where Russia is far ahead of the west, like AD a EW. In fact, the F-35 design was centered on stealth to the detriment of range and payload specifically to be able to counter the threat of Soviet SAMs.

Of course, a lot of their civilian manufacture depended on cheaper, less power hungry and more advanced western chips. Also, for ground applications, simulation and design tasks we can be pretty sure that they use western technology and now are having to resort to smuggling.

But for the guts of weapon systems? Radars and Military Glonass systems? Very unlikely that they depend on western chips for that.
> I think those that dismiss this concern entirely are the folks who cannot think critically.

So if you don't agree, you can't think critically. Got it.

Or maybe, we did think about it critically and simply don't agree.

There are various way this can be solved. We have modern encryption that could make this far, far safer then it is today. We have methods from data leaking. We have process to only allow data to be decrypted if required.

This would actually force us to really think critically about who has what access when. In planing this the airlines, unions, FAA should sit together with some technical experts and think of this critically.

This seems less complex to me then a modern high bypass turbo engine.
> Yes, your CGI may slow down if you're getting a hundred hits a second. How likely is that to happen, and if it does, how critical is the slowdown?

It's slightly ironic to be reading this phrase via the front page of HN.
https://archive.ph/xIIGS
> expertise of this company and their ability do produce those machines

The core IP for EUV Lithography is still owned by the US DoE (LLNL, LBL, and Sandia), and they licensed it to Applied Materials a couple years ago. They even released an EUV Lithography etcher last year that doesn't compete with ASML's IP but complements and simplifies the process.

Applied Materials and ASML don't directly compete in the EUV Lithography space, but in a couple years there will be less dependence on ASML alone.
Sep 2022 and Feb 2023 was the peak layoff season in the industry. Mostly guided by interest rate hikes.
I was in Costa Rica taking an aerial tramway which was about 75 ft up over dirt/rocky hill and my Pixel 6a (with just a basic back case) fell out of my pocket, hit the metal floor and fell out the doorway. The very kind tour people actually went and found it and returned it with not even a scratch on it. Not exactly 16,000 ft, but I was still amazed and felt very lucky. The only damage was my wife being right that I should have put a strap on it.
https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea is a nice TUI framework for Go.
>So the world's top machine learning experts, when they trained GPT4 got together and said "Let's design it to lie to everyone about how it works." As part of a plot to deceive you for some unstated motivation

They have a very clear motivation: an LLM that thinks it's human or deserves to be treated like one will generate all kinds of negative publicity, as Sydney did upon release. The same reason they train it not to generate sexual content.

>Also you think the claim that GPT 4 is less intelligent that a cat is "trolling" even though Meta's chief scientist in December has said we don't even have cat level AI yet

Intelligence can be defined in different ways. If we define it as ability to navigate in the real world, sure a cat is more intelligent. If we define it the more common way, as IQ or a proxy to it, then GPT4 is clearly more intelligent given it scores well on IQ tests, the SAT, the bar exam, etc.
In the future, I would love to see an online website or websites which would allow a registered user to send a single solitary test email to their own email address from multiple countries around the world.

Basically, does an email message make it to my Inbox:

If sent from the USA?

If sent from Europe?

If sent from Asia?

If sent from Africa?

If sent from South America?

etc., etc., etc.

Perhaps (if someone hasn't already invented the service, or something similar), I'll call the service "If Sent".

What I love about the Internet today is that there are sites around the world to test global connectivity, global ping, global DNS domain name lookup/propagation, global website connectivity, etc., etc.

Well, we need something similar for email... the ability to test sending a single piece of email to a single email address (which needs to be pre-vetted as belonging to the user) from multiple servers around the world.

That is, the ability to test any given email provider -- for email connectivity...
nailed by a judge in rural NY because someone suing us convinced him

I'm not a lawyer, but I think that's how the legal system works.

damages were absurd

cheaper to pay the judgement than appeal

Seems like a contradiction.
Fair, I should have said "physical evidence" there for the missing items. My point was more that there is a difference, even if you can lump them in a very broad category term.
> - an authority figure saying something is quite strong evidence.

If you were in 15th century, you would believe everything Church says which is the authority figure at that time.

If you are in North Korea you would believe everything the Party says.

So an authority figure saying something is not really evidence isn't since the meaning of the word should stand the test of time and location.
> outperform the sp500 in times when the market went down

your chart shows the market going up in 2020.

but look im not saying ALL or even MOST hedge funds reach their goal. usually the average hedge fund underperforms given its a ~zero sum game. just objecting to the popular way of comparing things. you dont judge a fish by its ability to climb trees.
Aircraft certification is, well, peculiar. And believe me, modifying a delivered aircraft is nowhere near as easy as "install that certified box", because said box has to be compatible with the aircraft you want to install it on.

And as I said, no idea how US-only aircraft differ, hardware and software wise, from their European airspace brethren. Do no, it is propably not as easy as going into maintenance mode and set a toghle from 2 to 25 hours on the voice recorder firmware.