skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Reasoning is a cognitive process

You could have a non-cognitive view of reasoning, or an embodied one. NNs are a-cognitive systems, they do not engage in reasoning of any form.

Reasoning concerns inference across truth-apt propositions (eg., A->B, A thef. B). NNs have no propositions, nor are any parts truth-apt, true or false. NNs are statistical systems which select answers by weights found from optimisation. No process either in optimisation or prediction is an inferential one in the sense of cognition.

I also deny that the "world" as used by frankly just philosophically incompetent ML researchers, whose gross lack of familiarity with basically anything outside pytorch, is even relevant to the sense of "world" that propositions bare a truth relation to.

A world in the relevant sense isn't the state space of the training data -- this is an insane supposition which makes the claim "AI has world models" actually circular. The relevant sense of world is the cause of the training data. If the training data is about an abstract game then you collapse the distinction since the rules are the data.

The famous "NNs learn WMs" paper is just this: choose a system whose data is just a restatement of the system; rather than a measure of a world.

NNs do not form representational models of the cause of their measurement data because all they do is induce (ie., compress by function-fitting) across the measurement space. They model the measurements not their causes. This is only "predictive" of features of the causal origin of measurement data in rigged scenarios, and in general, fails catastrophically to be predictive.

Consider running a NN across photos of the sky: it is impossible for this process to produce newton's law of gravity. The weights are just models of the pixels, and these are not distributed according to this law.

Worse, in general, there is no function from the measurement space to properties of its causal origin -- so it is impossible to build representations by induction. (eg., there is no function Photo->Cat|Dog, the distributions of pixels in photos is ambiguous, and changes over time).

Reasoning, as in cognition, is an (logically) inferential process which considers propositions that bare a truth relation to the world which is the causal origin of concepts which the proposition comprises (created by a biogenerative process). It is the activity of an agent with an interior subjectivity and ecological rationality. Reasoning is done by an agent about something of interest to that agent, with motivation towards a goal the agent has, in the service of the agent's preferences, etc.

If reasoning is an abstract pattern, then rice falling to the ground is likewise "reasoning".
It works wonders, even when totally stopped up, although you may have to push it along a touch.
Hate to break it to you, but just about every single early employee (except Elon) had a decade+ of experience in aerospace.
This is definitely a tangent, but the thing that bugs me is that I think it's not really so much a Rust problem as a general desktop app problem. It feels seriously wrong to me that we're embedding Chromium or linking megabytes of crusty GUI library code (some old enough that it has its own "future-proof" string type invented when Unicode was still 16-bit) into the app's address space instead of something that looks more like "open the NeoNeWS+Tk socket and utter a few TLVs, and it Just Works" (maybe C programmers need to remember to call fflush(), though). Instead we're expected to be impressed when Electron adds native Wayland support.

And I mean... it's not wrong to be impressed at the effort or the people involved, but I'm not sure what we're actually doing here.
Year 15 seems particularly grating: English had letters for ch, th, and sh. Should have just started using those again. The kicker being that the single consonant for "ch" was <drumroll> just c.
Goodluck collecting it from him
This suffers from hindsight bias, at the time it was impossible to know if Arpanet or flying cars was the path forward. A better comparison would be the total sum of investment : payoff ratio, and is not something we can see from where we are now. Only in the future does it make sense to evaluate the success of something. Unfortunately, comparison between eras is difficult to do fairly because conditions are so different between now and Xerox.
Old streetcar suburbs are much denser than typical American suburb today due to increased setbacks, lot coverage rates and other factors. But yes, even streetcar suburbs get subsidized back then. The subsidy is just more productive in it opening economic mobility with cheap, carbon neutral transport, depending on your views on rail transport.
A better framing might be "the 7th iteration of 'The International', which happened in 2017"
It doesn't even have to be anti-US, all it needs to do is make the factions inside the US fight each other even more. Push two sides that are both "pro-US". That is, after all, also how CIA overthrows governments...
USV defaults to UTF-8, which prevents the issue of Unicode buffer overflow-- presuming you mean the typical kind where Unicode flows into ASCII.

The primary USV library implementation uses Rust, which is notably good at UTF-8 and conversions between operating system string encodings (such as ASCII) and UTF-8,
This is part of why we built https://garnix.io/
CPAs main purpose is to be accountants. The tax filing part is a natural output of their other accounting duties.

Large corporations will have CPAs on payroll + contract with big Corporate Accounting firms to process their books for them. Small mom+pops will hire their local CPA to do the same.

Which, leads me to an idea a much smarter friend once gave me: the tax code of the USA is centered around and made for businesses and business owners. And a large portion of the entire tax/accounting industry exists to service this need.

edit: also a CPA should charge roughly around $250 for your level of complexity? $2000 is closer to the fees for a small-medium business
They can be both an ally and not officially recognized as a country due to complicated political and diplomatic reasons.
I'm very excited about this test! A few observations that will hopefully get you excited:

1. Starship is, by far, the most powerful rocket ever launched. At T-0 its engines thrust with over 7,000 metric tons of force--twice the Saturn V. Imagine bolting together two Saturn Vs side-by-side and launching them--that's how much power will be in tomorrow's launch.

2. Starship is on the critical path for the next US crewed moon landing--the first in more than 50 years. Why did NASA choose to depend on Starship? Of all the proposals, Starship offered the most capability (100 tons delivered to the moon's surface) for the lowest cost (about $3 billion). A less powerful rocket would have been enough for NASA to land 2 astronauts on the moon, but NASA took the long-term view that funding Starship would enable far more ambitious plans for much less money.

3. For this IFT-3 test, Starship will attempt to move cryogenic (super-cold) propellant between two internal tanks while in orbit--something that has never been done before. This test will allow Space X to develop the ability to refuel Starship while in orbit. With orbital refueling, Starship will be able to travel almost anywhere in the solar system.

4. Starship has thermal-protection tiles, like the Space Shuttle. Ultimately they hope that it will be able to survive re-entry and return to its launch pad. If Space X succeeds in re-using Starship for a reasonable cost, it will dramatically reduce the cost of space travel.

Sadly, I'm on the US West Coast, which means I'll have to get up at 5 AM to tune into the launch!
> Everything you create lives in your filesystem.

We reached a point in the consumer tech circus where storing text files locally is considered a “feature”.
> Once the new store raises prices, why can another cheaper store not come in and do the cycle over again?

Well, then the first dollar store can lower prices to prevent that. Doing this requires a large war chest. The store needs to take a loss for months to years until its competitor dies.

A Dollar Tree or a Dollar General can do this easily against a locally owned store. But once a Dollar Tree has moved in, a Dollar General won't, because both companies have the resources to back an individual store indefinitely, and neither will make any profit. So there's no use. Having one corporate-owned dollar store in a small town is a very stable minimum.

> My contention is the cheaper store’s success is not the root cause, the cheaper store’s success is the symptom of a sufficient portion of the local populace losing purchasing power.

Completely disagree. The cheaper store's success is a symptom of abuse of the market by a larger company. In places without discount stores, people get along just fine, and in fact protest against the opening of such stores in their town. These stores don't open stores in places where "the local populace has already lost purchasing power" and are seeking somewhere new to buy things, they open stores in places where they can create and enjoy a monopoly position due to the relatively small size of the local population.

This isn't something you'd see in an urban area. But there are countless examples of this happening across Eastern Oregon or Nevada.
Interestingly, George R. R. Martin still uses WordStar 4.0 [1] to write all of his books. It even predates WordPerfect 5.1 by three years (1986 and 1989).

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/14/george-r-r-martin-writes-e...
“When I cite a schedule, it’s actually a schedule I think is true,” Musk said in a response to a question at Code Conference. “It’s not some fake schedule I don’t think is true. I may be delusional. That is entirely possible, and maybe it’s happened from time to time, but it’s never some knowingly fake deadline ever."

Which sounds convincing until you realize the cargo missions are already supposed to be delivered.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2016/06/02/elon-musk-hopes-spacex...

And it's fun to make fun of how poorly the space industry holds on to their timelines but really I would much rather have the launch go well and deliver the most output possible, private or public. Mars transfer windows come about every 2 years, it's not a tragedy to miss one or two of it means we get to maximize the payload and make sure we have triple checked everything that needs to be checked.
Incinerating what money? They are no longer raising funds for SpaceX in funding rounds -- just doing funding rounds for employee liquidity events.
Benchmarking Samba-1
You've inadvertently described why most people hate software updates.

No, it's nothing as serious as chronic medical conditions and I certainly do not intend to make light of them, but the underlying motives are the same.

Also see: https://xkcd.com/1172/
Foreign money to "domestic" lobbyists blurs that boundary a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association#Rus...
If you use a CPAP with a humidifier, it’s clearly advised you use distilled water. However, when you clean one, how are you supposed to clean the tubing. Using distilled water would be both expensive and difficult.
I feel like this is what you'd expect to happen though right? Just from a base intuition on major societal shifts, you'd expect housing prices and availability to outstrip the local ability to afford them. You'd then expect mounting pressure to see more housing built to reduce the rate of price increase and raise the amount of supply. You'd then expect to see developers start making plans and getting the necessary approvals and permits. Finally after all of that happens you'd expect to see stuff start going up. And you'd expect this whole process to probably take something close to a decade to play out wouldn't you? My company just built a brand new HQ, in the middle of a big field. It was a 3+ year process from the moment it was announced, and I have to figure it was another year before that in the planning. I wouldn't really expect that building huge tracts of housing, whether in the middle of downtown, or out in the suburbs would be a much shorter timeline. You have all the permitting and planning to go through, land acquisition, infrastructure improvements / agreements to improve as part of the construction depending on your local setup, public hearings if any zoning changes are required, and then the inevitable delays that come with massive projects like that. And you'd expect all of this to happen in a slow ramp, starting with one project by one developer and expanding as demand continues to climb.
> voting should just be mandatory tbh

Then you get Brazil. Literal clowns and jokes for candidates.

> i dont understand why people seem to refuse to participate in democracy

Participating in democracy means actually going to meetings, trying to get on the agenda, watching and reporting on the business of the government. Voting is literally the smallest form of participation available.

Further, even if it wasn't, I'm a free person. I didn't ask to be born in your democracy, I don't feel required to participate in it, and even your system of participation explicitly denies me the right to say "no."

> and it's mandatory here

My view is all this does is give politicians a false mandate. They're forcing you to pick from a slate they've likely manipulated and introduce the majority mode of "least worst of."

Is that what my forced participation is to boil down to? Giving full authority to the least worst person that got sent up that year? What about this makes you feel that you have participated in anything?
> If you truly believe in the principles of free speech, no matter how offensive and evil and cynically motivated (...)

No, nobody truly believes that. Whoever is trying to sell that is trying to manipulate you. We have exceptions, provisions and considerable case law which adds a lot of *) to the first amendment. The 'principles' you're referring to have never actually been a thing outside of political emotional speeches and Republican rallies.

None of us have been alive when America was in a hot war to see exactly how far free speech stretches when actual lives are at stake. We're in a cold war right now and people should adjust their expectations. I'm not shedding any tears when a foreign corporation has its 'free speech' rights restricted. If it wants free speech it should move to the USA.
I believe so, it seems like almost all (or all?) solutions listed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39696038 use flakes underneath.

I think the flakes problem come from two things:

- flakes are labelled experimental for years now (I think it might be almost 5 years now) which creates confusion with new users, but they are universally used nearly everywhere now
- there seems to be some bad blood[1] between https://determinate.systems/ company and the long time Nix users and developers who are accusing them that they are using Nix for their benefit with not contributing back. From my understanding Determinate Systems introduced flakes and probably this why there's some resistance to it by some.

But to answer your question, pretty much everyone adopted flakes and guides that don't use them are most likely old.

[1] https://discourse.nixos.org/t/introducing-flakehub/32044
Homebuyers need to earn 80% more than in 2020 to afford a house in this market
https://library.tsu.ge/data/file_db/anthim/10_80354.pdf
> The CCP accessing their data. The CCP pushing propaganda by silently altering the recommendations.

But I contest that people are freely and knowingly giving that data to the CCP. It's been a common topic for years at this point.

The US government isn't saving their citizens from the CCP. They just don't want the CCP to have the data that Americans want to give them.

Regarding propaganda, it's obvious that it's content Americans want. They would leave the platform if they didn't.
There are a lot of compliance warning labels that don't really mean anything. When I first visited California, I was pretty alarmed by the Prop 65 warnings plastered all over everything. Now I can't even see them anymore.
Lisp usually means "a language in the Lisp family", more than it means "Common Lisp specifically", these days. I don't have a strong opinion on whether that's good or bad, leaning slightly in the direction of good. Just sharing the observation.
No, that misunderstands things. The technical iOS features are a relatively small part of it (Yes, there's a user dialog you have to pop up to get an IDFA, that's great!). But apps COULD pretty trivially work around that. There are a million and one ways to fingerprint a user that don't rely on an IDFA and it's impossible to restrict that kind of activity through OS-level features alone (see: https://amiunique.org/ ).

So why don't apps just work around it? Because they have to agree to terms with Apple and SAY that they won't. And then Apple has the power to kick them off the store if they do it anyway.

In addition to that, they have to list what data they collect and what they do with it when they get it. Basically they have to make a bunch of pinky-promises. Some of those pinky-promises Apple just shows to the user as a list of "here's how this company is going to use your data". Other things are just forbidden outright.

Whether a company can collect and sell certain kinds of my data to a third party is not something that can ever be controlled through an OS level feature.
I feel like the dimensional complexity of the problem space is disproportionately larger at each level than the gap in capability over that evolution. Each level of capability you described was science fiction stuff before they were achieved. They’re not in any way horizontal achievements.
Is there some major change we can make to our society, on a political and perhaps even social level, that might prevent these infections from spreading?

I want to blame the tap water, and also don't want to let the Neti off the hook here. And the Amoeba clearly isn't intelligent enough to be the culprit here.

Upvotes for whoever comes up with the most extreme response they can think of.
Those are indeed other words.

I said that it's incorrect to describe the bad things the government does as being driven by "voters acting tactically". It's not even rational to vote. Changing what I said so that you can disagree with it more easily is also dishonest.
Oh, Claude.. You can't do this to me!

A few days ago, I decided to give Claude a try , so I created an account, verified my phone number, and successfully logged in. After a warm welcome from Claude and presenting myself, I entered my very first prompt, which reads: "What do you know about Hacker News?". I pressed ENTER, and after a second, it replied:

"Your account has been disabled after an automatic review of your recent activities that violate our Terms of Service. Please review our Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy for more information."

I contacted the support team, and after a day, they replied and redirected me to a Google Forms to fill, which I still didn't fill.
As someone else also pointed out, this video about the differential is fantastic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI
> You might guess that the “CRYPTO” scent — which is also referred to as “Eau de Binance” — would smell like the final day of a tense hackathon where no one has had time to take a shower. Or maybe it smells like Sam Bankman-Fried’s jail cell. But that’s the stereotype that Conlan is trying to work against to make the crypto space seem more inclusive.

Nothing says inclusivity like "100 bottles of the perfume, which isn’t actually for sale — instead, women can sample the scent at pop-ups at _a mall in Bahrain_."

A+ for effort
What temperature kills these amoebas? I use tap water, but I bring it to 203 degrees F (and let it cool) before using. I can't seem to find an answer.
In absolute terms, Houston is building significantly more new homes than Austin, but Austin is growing its housing stock by a larger proportion. https://constructioncoverage.com/research/cities-investing-m...
The hottest tape water you have and then vinegar is what I was told (and use). I use cleaning vinegar specifically.
After reading this, I feel like I can say I don't have a very active inner monologue at all really. I haven't given much thought to this; like the article mentions, I just kind of assumed everyone was like this. It would explain some things though. If I examine my own thoughts, it's almost robotic in a way, and I wasn't always like this.
Breaking an image up into lines is similar to how television cameras/displays and raster scan CRTs operated (IIRC TV dated back to the 1920s?), though wrapping the image on a drum was clever and not found in television technology. I wonder how they synchronize lines between the transmitter and receiver though (all video standards have hsync pulses, while I didn't see any such here). I'm not sure how fax machines worked/work either.
ok its fixed videos can now be viewed!
delegated it to Youtube instead
It wasn’t too complicated. 95% of the country couldn’t read it write. And printing was impossible.
It's hilarious that you think youtube pranks started and are over-represented on TikTok. Got any more pearls to clutch? You're just reinforcing how out of touch you are.
Neil Young Will Return to Spotify, Ending Protest of Joe Rogan
Large-scale ‘sand battery’ goes online in Finland

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32006791

2 years ago | 287 comments

A sand battery could transform clean energy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33465272

1 year ago | 143 comments
Who made these allegations of plagiarism? Do you have any references?
I don't think there's any country that can withstand someone having direct access to manipulate more than half of the population
Hence demanding it to be done by hand from original integer entries.
It replaces two questions

"what time is my colleague available"
and
"what time is that in my timezone"

With just the first one
Yeah, that sounds like fundamental team dysfunction that no amount of engineering tooling or gatekeeping will address in any positive way.
That link only allows you to request the LexisNexis Risk report on you.

Do you have a link where one can opt-out of data sharing or deleting associated data? I cannot find anything on the LexisNexis site allowing for that.
it'll ruin what remains of the competitive integrity of first person shooters too

Google ruining every part of the online experience, piece by piece
I think I was thinking of the reMarkable 2 tablet somewhat when I wrote that but I was thinking more in general. I know Kobo also has a new eink reader that's supposed to be good for note taking.
> failing their way to success

Sometimes that's a pretty valid way to operate. Seems to have worked out super well for SpaceX so far. ;)
Pilot seat movement at center of Latam 787-9 dive investigation
If the device has a mean time to failure of say 5 years when running close to thermal limits, then running it at 20 degree C lower operating temperature turns that into 20 years as mentioned in the sibling comment[1].

Thus expected lifetime quickly becomes long enough that it's effectively not an issue for CPUs and GPUs if you provide sufficient cooling.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39697289
You mention two telephony lines were used for comms between station and site. Was the quality of audio for remote broadcasts better than a typical phone call?
Yeah, this is also good for donors. When you donate money to a professor's work through a university, the university ends up taking maybe a 30% cut. But if you donate to some independent institute that's controlled by the same professor, the university gets no cut.

It's annoying organizationally, though, since employees can't just hop between the sides. So it makes it harder to have a sane reporting structure, and encourages the pseudo-flat "nobody technically has a boss but also nobody is empowered to promote you" academic style.
That's awesome news. Hopefully that data points them to a way to fix it