skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ability to distinguish sounds in an L2 that is not in the L1 is absolutely possible. It comes with a combination of massive input and being taught the tongue positions to allow the person to begin producing the two sounds. If someone says they can’t distinguish the sounds mostly it’s because they haven’t had enough comprehensible audio input.
Lots of anti-religious sentiment being echoed here.

Marx said the right thing for the wrong reason when he described religion as “the opium of the people/masses”. I definitely believe that religion can be effectively misused to pacify people who are suffering injustice. I would imagine in all major religions there are “clergy” (I hate both the word and the concept it represents) who tell people “it’s OK if you’re oppressed and poor while bad people literally get away with murder, everything will be righted in the next life”. Or, even worse, they use religion to whip people up into a frenzy and justify religious wars and genocide. All while amassing wealth and influence for themselves.

However, as a practicing, fairly conservative Muslim, I know first-hand there are many religious scholars who live very modest, even impoverished lives while being a force for good and fighting against all forms of injustice. In fact, I would say the majority of dedicated scholars are not wealthy and not OK with injustice.

The problem isn’t organized religion, it’s that we live in a time, perhaps unprecedented in history, when the world is generally rotten. The existence of charlatans and hypocrites is a reflection of that reality, and the ones who ally themselves with dictators and corrupt politicians are the loudest and most visible.

Let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water.
Yeah it’s definitely an interesting move
The source isn't available and purely business-wise Opera would be fools to create a competitor by releasing it. You or I might make that decision regardless for the public good, "business be damned", but I don't see an investor company doing that.

And who knows if it's actually any good. It was around form the mid-90s to 2013, and I'm betting the "wtf per minute" is pretty high. Probably better invest in Servo or that thing the SerenityOS people are working on.
NYC first to designate social media as environmental toxin
If it's open source, why do I have to agree to a bunch of terms and conditions that look suspiciously not like a standard open-source software license when I try to install it?
A felony charge is harder to prosecute. Maybe they didn't think they had enough evidence to win
Ask HN: Is Indeed broken for anyone?
Is anyone having luck with finding jobs through Indeed? Everytime I use Quick Apply it seems my resume gets sent to some black hole, because I have gotten zero responses through Indeed. But when I apply for that same job directly through their website a week later, I get a response the next day
Sorry - it wouldn't let me reply to your last comment...

>> Nuclear, all nuclear, has the down side of needing local power. If you have to shut down in an emergency you need to keep shit running (this is what killed Fukushima in part)...

Wouldn't that be true of any power source? If you do a full shutdown, the power to run everything has to come from somewhere? (Palo Verde handle maintenance shutdowns by having 3 reactors, 2 running and 1 down for refuel/maintenance).

Also, given the death tolls from any major hydro dam failing, I'd guess the numbers would be a wash (pun intended). More specifically, why would we assume things won't get safer over time? As for solar - how much space we can dedicate to it near cities could become a problem? and some places aren't really well suited to it (nor are some places suited to nuclear or hydro). According to other comments it also seems to be getting more expensive, and installs are slowing down.

I don't have a problem with solar, hydro OR nuclear ... Hell, I used to live near one of those methane producing garbage dumps, IIRC. I think the future is gonna require a balance. I
Uh… what? Did I miss something important? That sounds like a profoundly terrible move.
This is really interesting research. It’s fascinating to hear about how these experiments are designed in the first place.

If anyone is interested in this topic, I highly, highly recommend the book “Ways of Being” by James Bridle. [0]

It covers such a diverse range of ideas about intelligence, including neural network–style intelligences, that I think pretty much everyone would find something of interest.

One of the takeaways is that these intelligence-seeking experiments have been poorly designed for so long, that they tend to reveal way more about the humans running the experiment than the animals being researched. And part of that is due to how uncomfortable we are with admitting that animals have completely different (not better or worse) ways of being and thinking than us.

It makes you aware of the limitations of our hierarchy-and-comparison-based concepts. For example, even a simple phrase from this article:

> Although spiders can’t literally count one-two-three, the research suggests some jumping spiders have a sense of numbers roughly equivalent to that of 1-year-old humans.

The experiment doesn’t really prove that spiders can’t count, and surely if they did count it wouldn’t be by speaking out loud like we do. Saying that their faculties are equivalent to 1-year olds only really serves to diminish them. Not that I’m blaming the author, it’s just so easy to accidentally slip into these very limited ways of thinking.

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58772732
hehe! I see it as great marketing, possibly decreasing churn (although Kagi subscribers seem among the most enthusiastic I've seen around!) and just generally continuing with the tred of goodwill towards users (the opposite of the usual treatment of users from big tech)
It was all downhill from his peak work with Global Tetrahedron Pictures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMByDfFMPcE
The poster above me pretty much explained it. The article suggests that Amazon won’t let the police to ask for videos anymore, which does not sound bad. In reality, Amazon was giving the videos to the police without warrant and, I am assuming, without notifying you. Now, that’s bad. So Bloomberg covers this up.

Also, they call it “modifying public safety stance”? How about calling it “stopping privacy violations”? Also notice, they interweave the real information into the article so that they could say, well we actually told you all of this. But they are artfully trying to create a misdirection.
Not needed by most people even on bleeding edge hardware. One can take Windows into the weeds as well.
At $50K/yr, that's 1.25MM that society gets to pay to punish the theft of $950*3 worth of Amazon packages.

The insignificant fear of losing an Amazon package makes unbelievably comfortable people absolutely hysterical. It's got to be performative, it can't be real.
Unfortunate name; it clashes with the builtin zshell editor.
> If every bug that Rust could have prevented is enough to allow people to sue me to oblivion, then SQLite and Curl will also have to be pulled from the market.

If your software blows up, in a way Rust would have prevented, and caused damages, isn't it kind of fair someone say "Hey maybe you shouldn't be using C"?

My point was simply -- if your software is not in a place where damages occur, fine, who cares, write it in C. But if it is, and Rust exists, and could work just as well in that environment? And if you must still write in C, that's still fine, until you start selling software and causing your customers damages.

> But C projects shouldn't have to be perfect on that front. Just close enough. Maybe 10% or less.

Why?
ICEs would be heavy rail
Gasoline may be a lot more energy dense, but ICE are about 20% to 40% efficiency while electric motors are about 60% - 80% efficient. So the differences aren't as great as you might think.

If we hadn't just jumped at gasoline and money hadn't flowed so readily towards that tech, there's no telling how far battery tech would be today. A lot further than it is now, I have no doubt.

The fact is that big oil has killed off again and again any threat it perceives against its absolute stranglehold on us. We've been stuck with gas engines because of greed, and only now in the 2000s are we considering alternatives because of the damage that's been done by big oil.
Does the $950 follow inflation?
I like the no-income-limit free fillable forms, but its not quite open yet

Free File Fillable Forms will open January 29, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. EST

https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...
People are generally associated with where you were born/grew up/attended uni, and unless he claimed to have thrown off all that, I think we can't move the goal posts. So I think the best you can do is "Swish scientist and mathematician while under decades Russian patronage" and not really Russian. I would accept it if he had forsaken his Swiss heritage or something of that sort, but he didn't. Maybe Swiss-Prussian-Russian mathematician?
My results got so much worse since they started using the brave API for search results I had to cancel. Was a great product but I am back on self hosted search.
Am I actually reading that they spent 33.33% or $220k of their investor money on printing t shirts?
>> Jon Jones

I lose all interest in watching drug cheats - the victory means nothing.
https://markmanson.net/screw-finding-your-passion is a pretty good read about finding passion
So they raised $670K (https://blog.kagi.com/safe-round) and spent almost $223K of that on printing dog t-shirts to give away?
Take this with a grain of salt, but I don’t see any cloud experience, I see lots of “used” which tells me very little about how proficient you are. It’s hard to tell if you’re a junior/senior, you don’t demonstrate you have good knowledge of best practices or design patterns or show team leadership skills, DevOps? Agile? Kubernetes? Not to say you don’t posses those skills but your cv doesn’t demonstrate it that well… that’s to say the 1st page didn’t and I have a stack to get through and all this work I’m still expected to complete by close of business because I’m tech lead AND hiring manager, next.
You could do this to an emulated 68k Mac as well, software written after the PowerBooks shipped should all be ok with being held in sleep most of the time. A few things would need hacks like cursor blink (don't do it) and updating displays like clocks (wake every minute?). Interesting.
Redefining terms doesn't change a metaphor to literal truth.
That's most definitely a US centric view. There's a much bigger world out there
> allowed ... use a computer without obtaining a CS degree

That was Apple, with a lot of help from Xerox.

DOS/Windows was a usability disaster for a long time for regular folks without an IT department. Remember CONFIG.SYS, IRQs, and ex{te,pa}nded memory?
May be a sign that they don't need those funds badly.
This isnt one of what you described though.

I've literally done this before.

This is an extremely simple product that could be written in a morning by someone competent.
They're supposed to, but Harry Reid went on record that as a gang of 8 member he was denied access.
I use it, and it can work, but I have a very niche technology CV. Companies lie on their salary range on there 100%. I haven't seen anything I'd be interested in, in about a year.
Perhaps you missed clicking on the link?
That is, of course, unless the horse, is the famous Mr. Ed.
It's that there's no community cohesion. Atheists don't gather every Sunday to meet with each other and be friends and get to know each other even if they don't particularly like each other. There's no atheist pastor that meets with everyone and proactively does couples counseling and group therapy. There's no atheist diplomat peacemaker to mend things after there's been a fight. there's no central thing that everyone can come together and agree on.

Yes, organized religion goes too far and gets perverted and it's bad. but we've thrown the baby out with the bathwater in abandoning it.
> You don't just clean a filter and say I KNOW there is 12 months more.

Yes, you definitively do.

I am located in a defacto dust free location, but I use an air purifier to keep my pollen allergy under control when spring arives: This shitty DRM is telling me to change filters after X hours, because it ASSUMES it is clogged, even though it has no idea of the reality? No idea if the air is like in New Delhi or like in the north of Sweden?

Hell no! Thank you, but I can decide that on my own.
Why is their logo the letter g instead of k? Have they considered the risk of a trademark violation lawsuit from their competitor, Google?

As one of the 20K paying members, I feel embarrassed that I hadn't noticed this until now. Because this article presented the idea of wearing a Kagi T-Shirt, I suddenly started to care about what the logo looked like. Also, yes, I am excited to rep Kagi search.
I’d prefer exponential backoff. Double the sentence each time. But given the choice of three strikes or a slap on the wrist, I’d take three strikes enforcement.
I wrote this part of the documentation: https://kopia.io/docs/advanced/actions/#windows-shadow-copy

If you have problem using it, please let me know.
are you setting the headers to make the sites think it's a browser??

edit: User-agent: bernard/1.0"

I bet thats going to cause issuses.

Id fake a browser user agent for off domain sites.
I wonder if they were close with the manufacturer.
I am a happy customer.
The capital costs of setting up the infra are huge, but once they're in place they're reselling electricity at a 200%+ margin with virtually zero manpower required.
> Say a company sells SaaS and relies on open source nginx which is found to contain such vulnerability?

Then that SaaS company would be liable (unless they purchased nginx)? If you take someone's FOSS and create a product with it, then of course your customers will look to you when that product has a defect.
Would be about one month of their revenue at current if you want to believe my quick estimate.
Ghostwriters Emerge from the Shadows
Stephen Wolfram Proved the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
"Grain" refers to small, hard, edible seeds. They include not only cereals, but also peas, beans, sunflower seeds, flax seeds, mustard seeds, buckwheat seeds, chia seeds, etc., etc. Grains can come from a huge variety of both wild and domesticated plants.

While grains are less important to hunter-gatherering societies than they are to farming societies, grains nevertheless have been a part of the human diet since long before agriculture.

The big difference here is that most hunter-gatherers ate extremely diverse diets. Their diets were not dominated by a couple species of cereal grains, like later diets were. Instead, they were eating a huge array of different grains, nuts, fruit, tubers, mushrooms, fish, insects, etc., on a seasonal and regional basis.
The product is great. I love that I can pin, raise or lower the importance of specific websites. I average about 800 searches a month, and I have only had to go to another search engine maybe once or twice a week. This product feels like what the web should be.
Asbestos in drinking water: An overlooked health risk?
Next do ads being everywhere and being a huge waste of electricity!
Interesting. Hope that means it's within the power of the AP vendors to fix it.

In the meantime, WPA3 is required for 6 GHz -- so I guess we just sit that band out.
I always feel like these papers are excuses. Like: Whoops, we found out they are intelligent, while what really happend is that we over estimated our own intelligence and downplayed the lifeforms we can't understand.
I switched to them a few months ago, I was previously using duckduckgo (and Google before that). As most of you have probably noticed Google search results have seriously dropped in quality the last few years, but especially in 2023. I'm no longer able to get meaningful results for almost any topic, especially if it's technical, the only results are AI generated (?) / obvious SEO spam websites. It takes me multiple different search terms and clicking through multiple results to find anything semi relevant, and even then it's a shallow article maybe summarising what I'm looking for. Unfortunately DDG seems to be going the same way.

Whereas Kagi reminds me of the 'old' google search. The results are meaningful and relevant, not diluted with pages of generic article results. They also offer a lot of great customisation options like being able to block or boost certain sites in results. They have some built in lists for common filler sites. I can't comment on the AI variation but I hear that's progressing well.

I wouldn't call myself a power user of Kagi, but even then I'm getting far better results than other search engines, definitely worth the price per month.

I'm not affiliated with them in any way, just thought I'd share my anecdotal experience.
And it is for the consumer to decide which path to take. Not the product itself.
Especially ones that do not have their name. As someone who has heard about Kagi, but not actually visited their site or used it, I had no idea they had a dog mascot.

If I saw one of those shirts in the wild, and I hadn’t just read this post and seen the pictures of the shirts, I would have had no idea it was a Kagi shirt.
The most incredible thing for me is that Apple decided to call these huge phones "mini".

Sadly there hasn't been a "normal sized" (for me) phone in many years. I didn't buy the mini because it was still too big. I'm now eyeing the flip phones, once they (samsung or apple, I don't care) release one with flagship specs (to accompany the flagship price) I might go for that...
I'm a happy paying customer. Kagi is the first non-Google search engine I've used where I don't feel the need to constantly cross-check the results with Google.

For all the people gawking at the expense of the free t-shirts: AFAICT those of us who are receiving them are paying customers; it's not like the money is coming right off of the top of their venture funds.
They cannot be for real... Is this a troll post?
> Vienna, by contrast, spends far less and has a massive, well-maintained social housing scheme, in which something like a third of the population lives.

And on top of that, it creates a very effective price cap on rents in the non-social housing sector, because people could just go and live into marginally lower-quality housing instead.
> ACH, our current interbank system, is incapable of real-time settlement.

This might be nitpicky given the outcome is the same, but: That was once true but is no longer the case. Nearly-instant and same-day ACH are available now, but not widely and not typically available directly to consumers.
You shouldn't hate or love any language, just like you shouldn't hate or love one screwdriver over another.

Rust overall has a limited lifespan, just like most other languages, because at a certain point high level languages (or really probably just Python due to its prevalence in ML community) is going to get mapped onto extremely efficient machine code through pattern recognition, and you get all the advantages of fast development and fast execution, as well as memory and type safety (the latter enabled by ML powered type checkers, and intelligent unit tests that may very well likely be auto written for you).

The reason to chose Rust today is when you have critical code that is worked on by many people that also needs to be fast. The structure of the language is pretty good for keeping things clean and consistent (unless you get lazy and start using a bunch of unsafes... which is somewhat unavoidable if you end up extremely performant code that touches Kernel stuff, see Amazon Firecracker).

If you personally can code extremely well in C, learning Rust gives you no real advantage other than just expanding your skillset for potential niche jobs. And even then, most competent companies in hiring would recognize that if you are very proficient in C, you can probably pick up Rust pretty easy.
Only if you don't attach them to the handle.
> I'd suggest that the people who make "full use" of vsc-over-ssh are satisfied with vscode, so it would be unwise to target the full featureset.

Wha...? This is a killer feature. I'll put up with a lot of crap to use it. That doesn't mean I wouldn't switch to something nicer in other ways if it also offered this killer feature.

It's hard for me to understand why there are IDEs under active development not trying to offer this feature. It is so much better an experience to have the network split into the proper place: between the UI and the heavy computation. Having the UI too far away undoes whatever responsiveness work has been done and more. Having the heavy computation too near means it's hard to develop and test the far environment, take advantage of its compute, etc.
Xiaomi air purifiers do exactly that. Go by hours used.

At least in the older Version 3 that was still the case.
The t-shirt doesn't have their name on it. I don't see how it will help spread their brand.
> the single most destructive force in our society

I have no faith to speak of, but more and more I think we sorely need the role of a church to provide fellowship, reflection, community, and reinforce shared values. I certainly don’t believe any of the major religions are perfect at these tasks, but losing these as focal points or objectives has been a great loss to society.
Nyc Of all places has no room to talk about energy inefficient digital ads.
> "Your summary is dumb."

I didn't provide a summary of the article, just quoted from it's Conclusion (== Summary) -section verbatim:

"The company is chasing trends and extracting the most money possible from its declining users"

For me that is not a good enough reason to stop using Opera.

Also the Hindenburg report is from 2020. Not very trendy. If Opera really is more "evil" company than say Google, Apple and Microsoft I would think there would by now be more information about the "alleged" misbehaviors.

Maybe they mended their ways, because of that report?

I'm using Opera, Firefox, Chrome and Edge. Chrome and Edge seem to give me more adds than Opera. I think it's good there are more browser-choices regardless of what Hindenburg-report said in 2020.

Certainly it is good to bring up reports of alleged unethical behavior by corporations. But Opera is a very small company compared to Google, Apple and Microsoft. Trying to bash them now because of a report that came out in 2020 just seems a bit odd.

Here's another quote from the article which seems over the top to me:

"You should not, under any circumstances, use Opera Browser or any of its derivatives."

Why not even derivatives? Under any circumstances?
The author's mistaken. It never died, he just stopped watching them. Beyond those mentioned in TFA, Stallone, Statham, Diesel, and Johnson have been making movies all this time. In terms of franchises, Bond's been around for 60 years and always includes at least one fight scene. Mission Impossible's been around for 40, Rocky/Creed and Rambo. New classics include Bullet Train, likely going to get a sequel. The list goes on.
If there is a moral code regarding killing in which atheism comes out as the stronger, more compassionate philosophical system, it would be the one that points this fact out, without an afterlife or any sort of reincarnation this existence is the only one you've got.

And to deprive someone therefore of a meagre 90 or 100 years, the only glimpse they'll have out of potentially hundreds of billions of years underscores the preciousness of life and why it should not be taken.
Lie, as in make an offer below the minimum salary in the range? Are the ranges usually extremely high like $x to $2*x ?
how let the VCs out?

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