skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yet sophisticated MRI scans detected no significant differences in brain volume, structure or white matter — signs of injury or degeneration

In case it wasn’t clear: Neuroimaging can’t visualize every possible problem. They performed one type of testing and didn’t find anything.

That’s not the same as concluding that there are no problems.

It should go without saying that a clean MRI isn’t proof that other neurological symptoms aren’t real, though I see some other commenters jumping to conclusions.
Same! The camera is the only part of the phone I want to spend real money on.

Beyond personal preferences, I live and work in an area of California where people could greatly benefit from easily accessible phones so I'm interested in what's possible.
Once you make an interface accessible, it becomes much harder to change that interface and add new functionality while maintaining accessibility.

This is why tech first finds an interface that works and makes money, and then turns around and makes it accessible.
Saudi Aramco CEO says world should abandon 'fantasy' of phasing out oil
I think you are up for a surprise if you read the Wealth of nations. Adam Smith was a moral philosopher and was pretty preoccupied by the negative consequences of the division of labor.
> all we have are degrees of plausibility we evaluate in our ignorance

Okay.

>argument from ignorance fallacy,

You just conceded we are both ignorant, but I'm the only one making the argument of ignorance fallacy? Double standard?

> Which is not to say that they are conscious either, but I never made such a claim.

Perhaps your objection is the way I phrased my comment. I should have said "ChatGPT being conscious is roughly as plausible as a "hello world" program being conscious. Case in point these model responds much like a "Hello world" program when asked if they are conscious. Claude has been finetuned to say 'I don't know if I'm conscious' Gemini and ChatGPT have been finetuned to say they are not, these models are complex in some ways and not very complex in other ways, they show no sophistication or complexity in ways we would associate with consciousness."

Like, the trick is to distance yourself from your own opinion so as not to be accused of "arguing from ignorance" right? Talk about plausibility instead of directly making claims? But I don't remember making claims either, to be honest, so I'm not sure how I'm the only one making the "argument from ignorance fallacy" allegedly?
Thankyou for that. I had not found the Sage journal when I was looking for this in the past.
It actually does not depend on the density, because mass is on both sides of the equation. Your head is in fact pulled on less than your feet. For an extreme example, look up "spaghettification".
One person's over-complication is another person's simplification, it's only "hacked together" if someone else wrote it, etc, etc
https://www.uptodate.com/contents/what-to-do-after-a-tick-bi...

> Even if a tick is attached, it must have taken a blood meal to transmit Lyme disease. At least 36 to 48 hours of feeding is typically required for a tick to have fed and then transmit the bacterium that causes Lyme disease.
I made the mistake of reading the story synopsis awhile back and the dark Forest prob gets talked about on YouTube all the time now.

It seems like the ending doesn't go well for humans though which is sad. I typically like scifi that has a positive spin. I do like hard sci-fi or sci-fi with expansive world building like ring world, mote in God's eye, revelation space, and rendezvous with Rama to name just a few.

Spoilers:

It seems to me that the major achievement of the book is in making the concept of dark Forest mainstream. The concept of being silent and not attracting unwanted attention is hardly new though. The spin is on how it might be best for any species to simply launch some planet killers in the direction of anything that makes noise. Of course I don't believe that.
To add to this, for me it really helps to look at any piece of software that I want to run pretty much the same way, as a self-contained bundle, not unlike an app installed on a phone.

I can give them resource limits the same way (CPU/memory limits, except easier than cgroups), as well as set restart policies and have a clear look at what's executing where, with something like Docker Swarm it becomes like systemd across multiple nodes and scaling up/down becomes easy, especially with load balancing for network calls. Software like Portainer also has pretty nice discoverability.

Speaking of networking, I don't have to worry about tunnels or firewall configuration myself, can just expose a web server that acts as a reverse proxy and give everything else custom private networks that span across nodes (with something like Docker Swarm again, though Consul and Kubernetes have the same functionality, details aside).

I can have custom port mappings (regardless of what the software uses, I might not even care about digging in some configuration file to change it), which is especially useful when running multiple separate instances on the same machine (like different versions of PostgreSQL, or separate instances for different projects), or hostnames in case I don't want to expose ports.

I can easily have custom persistent/transient storage paths or even in memory storage (tmpfs), when I have persistent storage then suddenly backups become easy to do and I can be very clear about all other directories being wiped and being in a known state upon startup/restart. It's also immensely useful for me to escape the sometimes weird ways how software on *nix uses the file system, I can just mount my persistent files in /app/my-app/database/var/lib/postgresql/data or /app/my-app/web-server/etc/apache2/sites-enabled and know that I don't care about anything outside of /app.

I can also treat Docker as lightweight VMs, except a bit more stateless, in that I can have container images that I base on a version of Debian/Ubuntu/Alpine or whatever, ship them, and then don't have to worry about a host OS update breaking something, because only Docker or another runtime like Podman is the actual dependency and most of the other software on the node doesn't come in contact with what I'm running. With rootless containers, that also improves the separation and security there a little bit.

With all of that in place, suddenly I can even move apps and all of their data across nodes as necessary, load balance software across multiple nodes, be able to easily tell people how to run what I have locally and store and later use these images very easily. Are there pieces of software or alternatives (e.g. jails) that do a lot of the same? Sure, but Docker essentially won in ease of use.
It is the theory telling you it is wrong and it is gentle in doing so because it seems those singularities are always on the other side of an apparent (as opposed to event) horizon.

The following paradox is never taken seriously: if I watch an object fall into a classical black hole I will never see it actually cross the horizon. That makes sense for a classical black hole because it lasts forever, but a semi classical black hole does not last forever so the viewer on the outside probably sees the object that fell in get destroyed when the black hole explodes at end, not to mention destroyed by the extreme tidal forces that will exist around the hole at the end of its life.

If the classical picture of what falling in looks like from the outside makes no sense than I think the idea that you fall through the horizon in a finite proper time and then hit the singularity in the future of that really makes no sense. I think the outside observer who sees you torn apart by tidal forces near the apparent horizon and turned into radiation is probably right.

That to me is a much more important “paradox” than the silly bet about information loss because if you throw out unitarity you throw out quantum mechanics. That people can pooh-pooh firewalls but believe in the no-unitarity fairy is just beyond me. (e.g. my PhD thesis was about an alternate way to compute quantum mechanical density of states and unitarity turned out to be the most important guiding principle in that)
There are a lot more tick-borne diseases than just Lyme.
This a pointless nearly unenforceable rule to make people feel better. Sure, if you generate something that seems like a real event that is provably false you can be caught, but anything mundane is not enforceable. Once models reach something like Sora 1.5 level of ability, we are kind of doomed on knowing whats real in video.
yes but that's very hard and doesn't scale, (can't be cheaply shot from multiple angles etc.)
You might be interested in Adobe’s “Content Credentials” [1] which seemingly aim to clarify exactly what processing has applied to an image. I don’t like the idea of Adobe being the gatekeepers of image-fidelity-verification but the idea is intriguing and it seems like we’ll need something like this (that camera makers sign onto) to deal with AI.

EDIT: I think these should also include whatever built-in processing is applied to the raw sensor data within the camera itself.

[1] https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/content-credenti...
This is a rehash of official docs, which are both clearer and more detailed. Suggest reading official docs. See “boot” section in rp2040 TRM
Embarrassing for Musk to be so fragile, and embarrassing for Lemon to have been naive enough to think having a show on X would end any other way.
> passes tests

Okay, so you are just kicking the can down the road to the test engineers. Now your org needs to spend more resources on test engineering to really make sure the AI code doesn't fuzz your system to death.

If you squint, using a language compiler is analogous to writing tests for generated code. You are really writing a spec and having something automatically generate the actual code that implements the spec.
Post some example PRs.
There was a big article a few years ago on how a cheeseburger is one of those foods that was practically impossible to make in the old days.

Getting all the ingredients in one place is logistically difficult...and in winter, well, no.
I think one of the greatest predictors of life satisfaction is how much agency you believe you have.

If you believe you have little, that you're just a leaf floating on the surface of a river getting tossed about by the current, you will be profoundly miserable. We are active beings and our brains have evolved to help us do stuff, and believing even before we try that we can't do things is a recipe for existential dread and depression.

At the same time, stuff does happen to us outside of our control. We may think we have agency over something and discover to our frustration that we simply don't. Believing that we have complete agency over everything that happens is magical thinking and leads to toxic guilt and self-blame whenever anything bad happens to us or others we care about.

I think there's a sweet spot where you should believe you have a little more agency than you actually do. When you're wrong, it's better to have guessed that you could affect an outcome and failed, than to assume you couldn't and miss an opportunity. A tablespoon of frustration is easier to swallow than a tablespoon of regret.

I'm surprised how rarely I hear people discuss this because if I've learned anything in the past five years of therapy, it's how central our internal beliefs about how we interact with the world are to our emotional health.
TBF most of the characters are not average, they're mostly super scientists, or super detectives or super whatevers selected for their intuition and problem solving. It's a series of fun scifi concepts (almost autistically) communicated by a bunch of cardboard scifi sherlock holmes. Which is fine by me since I don't care much for characterization.
I believe this update also made copy/paste functionality from terminals unreliable. I usually use iterm, but i got the same behavior when i switched to the builtin terminal app. It used to be that highlighting text with the mouse automatically made it available for pasting into another terminal -- no C-c required. Now sometimes it behaves that way and sometimes demands C-c.
That's great to know actually, especially the low-quality/distorted images bit.
I use both also but not together.

Can you elaborate on any synergy or connection you are referring to?
The sophons were definitely weird/fantastic but I do really like his breakdown of interstellar war in the context of no FTL travel and how it would behoove a civilization to invest enormous resources into something that can travel close to light speed and disrupt technological expansion
It depends how easy it is to do. Last I heard there's no reliable way to detect fakes.
Real estate lawsuit settlement upends policies that helped set agent commissions
Something weird with the keyboard, it shifts off the screen on both chrome and Firefox on android
That's true. It doesn't really simplify the server implementation, because you still need to basically re-implement WebFinger for clients that don't accept image/*, but it makes it possible to implement a really simple client that just makes a simple GET for an image resource and either gets it or doesn't, without needing to implement any client logic for WebFinger. I don't think there's really any performance benefit to "one less HTTP request" since you still only even get that case if the client accepts a direct image AND the image is served directly in response to the well known query (instead of serving a redirect to a file store or something where the image really lives), but it might be nice if WebFinger had a method of providing "shortcuts" to resources so this was possible without implementing a new WebFinger-like protocol on a new well-known url.
This is how I interpreted it:

Green - non engineers employed by the "the company"

Yellow - In house engineers, or engineers employed by the the company

Lavender - Vendor engineering external to the company
i think you're missing the humor. i felt that the book is filled with a touch of humor about how we come to the conclusion that we actually know something.
I agree, but SSE is a more complex protocol that requires additional handling on both client and server, with capabilities that may not be relevant for your use case (multiple event types, event id). For JS clients and JS servers it is not particularly onerous to implement, but for other ecosystems can require a fair bit of code. JSONL streaming is very easy to implement on both ends, so all else aside I think would be preferred if all you really want to do is stream JSON values.
> The first pass on it is unlikely to be the best, or even the last one.

And just like a prototype that would never end up in production, we'll remain with the first implementation we could think of cough copyright cough
Its not that they arent important when looked at by itself, but it just isnt as important as other things. Nobody cares if a car has poor ui if it doesnt actually work. Get it to run first, then make the ui nice. IIRC theres a phrase for this: make it work, make it right, make it fast.
I'd say it's probably actually useful if you want to cram a lot of debugging info on a display like this for a small IOT device or something in the field.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3527
I have noticed that Smith's writing is often mischaracterized by those with a mythology they want to promote.
Oh sure but when I get in a k-hole I'm a "menace to society" and an "unfit parent". /s

For real though, I can't think of any other CEO publically stating that they do drugs to benefit investors without effectively bankrupting their business by the end of the day.
One argument I found interesting is that the apparent "massive acceleration" in technological progress can largely be explained by the fact that most "productive human years" have actually been lived quite recently. I think the latest estimate is that "109 billion people have lived and died over the course of 192,000 years" and half of them were in the last 2000 years. It's probably even more extreme if you only count adults (due to improvements in infant mortality).

That simple fact dominates more complex explanations like increased specialization, long-distance communication, organized education, and preservation of knowledge.
Relevant backstory:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38089356 (4 months ago)

Jury Finds Realtors Conspired, Awards Nearly $1.8B in Damages (wsj.com)
The R101 was a British hydrogen airship with 50 passenger cabins and a smoking room (despite being filled with hydrogen) - but the smoking room was lined with asbestos for safety.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R101
The claim was made years ago, the issue was the set of math that you need to understand to be able to judge the claimed proof was brand new theoretical ground and it was over one thousand pages of dense mathematical reasoning. I hope this write up is much easier to understand and now a few other mathematicians can read this and perhaps understand the thousand pages more easily.
Yet the NOVA classifications are inherently contradictory.

"Processed foods" involve salt, sugar or oil added to unprocessed or minimally processed foods. Many premium ice creams are merely milk and cream (considered unprocessed or minimally processed), sugar and salt. Yet all ice creams are considered ultra-processed. Take that, ice cream!

Fruits in sugar syrup are considered "processed", yet sweetened juices are considered "ultra-processed". Huh?

Salted nuts are considered "processed" foods. Yet "salty packaged snacks" which would include salted nuts, are considered "ultra processed". Do I have to roast and salt the nuts myself? Where is the processing here? Is the package the problem?

Soups are considered "group 2" foods, which are unprocessed or minimally processed foods combined with oil, sugar or salt, but canned soups are considered ultra-processed. Yeah, OK.

Like, you can kind of see what they're going for, but when you start looking at all the edge cases, it devolves into lunacy. The actual mechanisms of ultra-processing need to be defined, not these examples which simply don't hold.
There are lawyers in CA that blanket courts with these things for physical places. And others doing the same for online.

https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2023/05/15/ventura-c...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gusalexiou/2023/06/30/website-a...
That's a fair point, and that line of thinking made it readable for me.

But I doubt there's anyone on Earth that hyperintelligent.
Sounds rather like grandpa TV than dad TV

It's good TV but Spielberg and Hanks are aiming at sexagenarians as their primary audience

Dad TV is imho Stranger Things, Andor, True Detective, Ozark. Something more nerdy and/or gritty than the black and white "good old simple times" stories

If the average dad age when baby is born is 30 in USA and you are "dadding" for 20 years then average dad is sth like 40
Show HN: Pipedream now has 2000+ API integrations
>I still find it somewhat silly to reject the idea that a corporation (run by human beings) shouldn't intentionally be evil for the sake of maximizing profit, but I do understand that this is a fairly common Friedman-esque point of view.

On a very general level, the idea is that not every part of a complex system has to incorporate all the principles of the system as a whole. Individual parts of the system can have limited roles and responsibilities. That's fine and it has nothing to do with being evil.

Defense lawyers must defend their clients to the best of their ability whatever horrible things they may have done. Juries, judges, prosecutors, they all have their specific roles to play.

It's the justice system as a whole that should result in justice being done. If everyone involved tried to pursue their own interpretation of generally desirable societal outcomes, the justice system would be unfit for purpose.

And here's the asymmetry again. Those designing the system as a whole have to think about societal outcomes as part of their job (as does every citizen). Those acting in a specific defined role as part of the system can only do that in limited ways or under exceptional circumstances.

Corporations are run by people, but these people act in a limited role that is defined in such a way that pursuing specific societal outcomes does not necessarily boost the likelihood of their personal success or the success of the corporations they run.

If there is a conflict between certain societal outcomes and making a profit then those executives willing to prioritise profits will be the ones running the successful corporations. That's why it's so futile to bet on corporations acting against their self-interest in significant ways. They are systemically incapable of doing that (on average - exceptions are always possible).

That's why I'm saying that if we want to make corporations act in desirable ways, we have to make laws rather than appealing to the conscience of those running the corporations.

>I don't mean to put words in your mouth, but the only way I can resolve this asymmetry in my mind is to have a framework where corporations doing things that are bad for society is okay, because the government is supposed to stop them; but if the government is unable to fully stop them from being bad, then it's STILL not the corporation's fault, but the government's...

The question I'm asking is who can fix a particular issue, and if the issue isn't getting fixed then I'm assigning blame to those whose job it is to fix it.

Corporations collectively can't fix an issue when the only fix is not exploiting a particular economic opportunity. If one corporation stops exploiting the opportunity, another one will.

That said, of course I do blame corporations for stuff all the time. There's nothing wrong with that. Blaming them is sometimes effective consumer power. It can take away the economic opportunity as the reputational damage may outweight the benefits. Blame can also help build momentum for a change in the law.

But if laws are made and they have giant loopholes in them, then I blame lawmakers for doing a shoddy job.
Early Foundation books are literally just dudes smoking and mansplaining galactic events to one another. You don’t need a CGI budget to actually film foundation - you only need a room and few good actors who can carry dialogue for hours.

From my part I find the narrative device of smoking&mansplaining a … curious … choice. But never the less the books are surprisingly good!
I have been a tech lead on a11y remediation projects, downstream from you. This is all accurate.
The XKCD comic about this [0] helped give me that same perspective. It's fun to introspect and think about the things WE do at work every day that end up in front of customers that could make a similar comic.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1741/
How a 54-minute speech led to the creation of multiple billion-dollar companies
I wonder if she understood the solution though? Understanding the principles she explained and being able to leverage them in a meaningful way to solve the present problem are two different things. It felt to me like she just framed the problem and Luo Ji solved it but I guess we'll never know how much she didn't say
I must be, because I don't recall any such parts being played for laughs.
i wonder if there's legal precedent for management induced mental illness as other physical workplace hazards have