skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you try to alter the style of a calendar, in order to be able to read the text more clearly, if making the style of the date readable turns the title into garbage (because there's no semantic information, only they happen to share the same visual class), then someone is going to have a hard time using your website because of your decisions not taking into account their needs.

(This is a slightly tweaked real life example; it was adjusting the style for printing so that the calendar was accessible offline.)
Counterpoint: As a teacher (public middle school in the US), I can tell you that today's students routinely ask to use the bathroom when they don't need to. They go there to use their phones, meet up with friends, or just to avoid doing work.

Without some sort of structure in place (the simplest of which is "no bathroom breaks in my class, period"), a significant portion of class time is taken up by students asking to leave or asking to be let back in (the doors are required to be locked at all times in case a wild shooter appears).

So something that lets kids go a couple of times a day during classes but prevents "abuse" might relieve some of the time and cognitive overhead of dealing with bathroom breaks for teachers.
Yes but the question is whether there are repeating non empty patterns. I don't think you've answered this? I don't know but I think that's a fascinating question.
>You seem to think of knowledge as something that has to be expressed in language to exist, whereas I do not.

I think that's an independent issue. Whether or not beliefs must be linguistically expressible and whether or not values can be derived from facts alone are two separate questions.

>Values are rooted in biology. Facts are not prescriptive, but our biology is.

I don't see why biology is prescriptive. I have biological impulses to do things all the time, and I often don't follow up on them because I know that what I ought to do isn't entirely dependent on what my biological state is.

Suppose I have some kind of impulse to murder someone. Indeed, humans do sometimes have this kind of impulse. It's probably an impulse that one could tell some evolutionary story about---through some long chain of reasoning, this boils down to some kind of reproductive drive. Even if that's all true, that's all fine---but I have no trouble seeing that I ought not murder someone (barring extenuating circumstances), regardless of how strong my biological impulse is to do so.

Suppose you were sitting around, bored one day. And you asked me, "Hey, what should I do today?" And I gave some detailed description of how evolution has sculpted you for reproduction. You would probably say, "Yeah, yeah, that's all true, fine---but what should I do today?" and rightfully so, because my explanation of evolution is a total non-sequitur, and doesn't seem to answer your question at all. And I don't see why blowing up the time scale from "today" to "my entire life" changes the fact that my description of evolution is still a non-sequitur.

>You can find all sorts of words and facts to try to justify meaning, but meaning itself is ineffable; it is felt. Individualism will only get you so far.

Sure. I still think we can talk about it and think about it to some extent, if not to a large extent. Just like I have no trouble justifying why I'm walking down a particular road if someone were to ask me---I have to get to the train station, so I can take the train to my job, so I can work, so I can earn money, so I can put food on the table, etc. It's true that these words don't convey the full experience of what it's like to be me, but I don't that has any bearing on the truth of those words in establishing why it is that I do what I do.

>I think they were getting at how people chase after a simulation of meaning instead of acting in a meaningful way. I think you can seek truth without getting lost in language games.

Well, I think the existentialists wanted to act in a meaningful way and seek truth without getting lost in language games too. What I'm objecting to here is that this entails a rigorous approach to seeking truth as opposed to seeking meaning (in the original poster's words)---to do so seems to lead to getting trapped in abstract epistemological thought and losing touch with the reality of needing to act in the real world.
I feel like Google has trained this behaviour into its long time users

Previously writing human like sentences would not yield good results

Now its more like <key word> <key word> reddit
If that was profitable, the service you describe would not have shuttered.
I think he meant it in the sense that its a mutation that propagates indefinitely. But yeah its a loose analogy.
This is just a more explicit form of other downward pressure google can wield building on deranking you in search, and other shadow tactics on YouTube.
Efficiency is brittleness. When you cram your time with this or that, you give up resiliency to random shocks, and you shut yourself off from random opportunities.
I mean, seems highly role-dependent. If, in practice, your role is to investigate and fix very difficult problems, that’s precisely the sort of commit history one might expect.
I built something similar for Prisma recently: https://github.com/irreducible-io/prisma2d2/
Tetris Reversed is unearthed after being forgotten for a decade
He should have added it but with a shutter sound and a screen flash for every shot taken.
Is this true? I’m not saying it isn’t, but I buy Blu-ray’s pretty regularly and my player is offline but hasn’t had any issues. I mainly buy older films, so maybe I’ve just been lucky in avoiding protection used for new releases.
This is not even true though. There are plenty of controversial content creators who have direct sponsorship deals, and if Google was really interested in maximizing ad revenue, they would not only allow but actively encourage similar ad targeting on their own networks and platforms.
Many have streaming digital checkouts, too. Either through themselves or through broader networks.
How did you manage remembering or recording ideas and inspiration such that you could recall them sufficiently when getting back to work?
And very occasionally it's a serendipitous name!
Avoiding table salt thoroughly could potentially lead to iodine deficiency. It was somewhat common in the past so most table salt over the past century has had iodine added to it to avoid this, but it's cropping back up a bit as people avoid salt or prefer to use "natural rock salts" common in fine cuisine, which are not reinforced with iodine.
I don't necessarily need 4k Blu-ray quality myself but DVD quality is unbearable in my opinion.
Wake and sleep, workout and rest, prospers in balance. But this also means you can't just hang out in the showers and expect solutions. You have to work on it, then rest.
it's possible! encouraging people to go to the library is a net good on society.
I just googled a bit and found his race report from that event, dated April 1995:

https://www.mattmahoney.net/barkley/bark100.txt
I noticed with Fight Club. It was available for streaming on Hulu in 4k, and I had a blu-ray in 1080p. Comparing the two versions, the blu-ray looked a lot better. The resolution wasn't quite as high, but the colors were much more saturated.

I guess it comes down to bandwidth considerations; a blu-ray has between 25-50gb to play with and there's basically no reason not to fill up the disk. With streaming, there's a direct advantage to reducing bandwidth costs.
Its the universe!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ycvlJ9XMd94&pp=ygUWc2ltcHNvbnM...
I started picking up blurays and DVDs at record stores that also stock them. I got into record collecting during the pandemic as many did and more physical media is not a big leap from there. You can find good movies sometimes for cheaper than on Amazon or itunes.

I was just learning to rip blurays onto my disk server. I did this a lot during the DVD era, but the tooling is now slightly different. (Still ffmpeg or mencoder and the like, but now libaacs. And matroska is much more of a thing.) Sometimes I'm picking up higher res copies of stuff I already collected from that era.
That said random forests are an internal ensemble, so I guess that could work.

In my mind an ensemble is like a committee. For it to be effective, each member should be independent (able to pick up different signals) and have a greater than random chance of being correct.
Or not a primitive but just emergent phenomena.

I.e. an intelligent computing engine which learns to model both its environment and itself, with some degree of access and control of its internal processes including when it considers itself.

At the point of clear, continuous practical self-awareness, how could it not be “conscious”? It will experience it’s self’s awareness of it’s self-awareness.
I agree. I never even thought about "select what you want first" as a problem until someone else pointed out.

Programmers seem far too sensitive about wanting everything to work one way. SQL is a very powerful DSL. It has its quirks but nothing that ever enraged me. I don't really care that it doesn't work like some other stuff I use, I just accept that I'm learning the language of a particular domain. This doesn't mean that I don't think there is always room for improvement. Of course I think FROM first would be a little nicer, but so much nicer that I think its worth changing a whole battle-tested standard? Not at all. The pain is so minimal I don't even feel it.
What's crazy is that the landing page doesn't even mention Mac at all.

I'm getting very annoyed by things that don't mention they only work on Mac until you go to install them.
I had the exact same experience switching to the 15 Pro Max last month. I was adamantly anti-iOS and pro-Android, using Samsung’s latest flagships (S10 Ultra, S21 Ultra, Fold4), until our carrier had a pretty amazing trade-in deal and I said screw it, let’s give iPhone a shot.

It’s just so much better. Apps work better, focus modes and Shortcuts are incredible, sharing contact and experiences (SharePlay, shared albums and reminders lists, etc) are just a perfect experience.

The Watch is also orders of magnitude better than Android Wear (or WearOS, whatever its latest name is).
someone didn't read the article!
For me just jotting down four words in any notes app or email draft contains enough information to pick it back up later.

I eventually settled on a shortcut on my phone's home screen that opened up an email to my work email. So all I had to do was press that shortcut, write the note and send it. Then come Monday I would have a couple notes from my self waiting in my inbox.
Yeah - and now the APIs can do vision too.

About time to build Teddy from the movie "AI".
It is not a bloated Boeing thing. It is a FAA thing.

https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/airworthiness_certific...

"Amended type certificates typically take 3-5 years to complete. By comparison, the certification of a new aircraft type can take between 5 and 9 years."

Boom doesn't get to ignore FAA certification, neither would the organization making brand new engines for them, which are not included in that 5-9 year number (although it could go in parallel). I'm not pulling this out of thin air, there is a huge amount of history of developing planes and engines that you can look at (I'm more familiar with the engines side). It is not cheap, fast, or easy... so yes, I guess I am saying it's complicated, haha.

Separately, look at the market for rocket launches in the 2000's. There was no one innovating, people were using decades old tech and not pushing anything new because they didn't have too. There was a place for SpaceX to come in. If you asked me then though, yes, I think I would not have thought there chances were great, and for similar reasons, but I think I would have thought it was possible.

The difference is there is no market here. You don't have governments and commercial entities lined up around the corner to get a seat to go from NYC to London a few hours quicker. You do have competitors that are the last survivors of 70 years of competition (on the engine side) that have not been resting on their laurels and are some of the most technically competent companies in the world in any field. Boom is not in the same position SpaceX was. Look at Boom's last 10 years and SpaceX's first 10 and give an honest assessment if you think they are comparable.
Quantum key distribution solves the sharing problem and will arrive sooner, for a certain budget.
I...think you may be misreading them?

They said that they put exactly the same queries into Google as ChatGPT.
You think. Let's be clear about what's a hypothesis vs. a confirmed fact.
Switzerland laws don't have an overall prohibition expressed that directly. Moreover the videosurveillance and system surveillance are treated separately even if some common laws apply.

The intent of the surveillance and the communication to employees is more relevant thant the technical means.

> In short, a surveillance system is prohibited if it is intended solely or primarily to monitor the actual behaviour of employees. However, the same system will not be prohibited if it is used for on legitimate reasons, such as ensuring safety or enabling the organisation or planning of work. However, the system chosen must be proportionate to the aim pursued and the employees must be informed in advance

https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home/datenschutz/arbeit_...
I intentionally use screenshotting time-tracking software because it's nice to not have to worry about trusting my clients: screenshots add one more layer of legal proof that I'm actually working if they ever try to stiff me on payments.
All software development? You can work at 25% pace and get away with it at most places. Sandbag, attend lots of meetings, be "blocked" by things often, etc. It's not about literally producing nothing, it's about working from 11-2 (or whatever, depends on what these people try to get away with)
> Most Blu-ray discs require an internet connection to play on most players and PCs

No they don't. It's not even in the spec (it is in the BD+ and UHD Blu-Ray specs, but no disc has ever been released that used it for anything other than interactive extras).
I have recently read that surrealist painter Giorgio De Chirico might have been suffering from Alice in Wonderland syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico
I adore the idea of a podcast/blog search engine! And results can be streamed via RSS, wonderful! I use Feedly to subscribe to important RSS feeds, including specific Hacker News authors.

Current database is a bit light: it didn't have "Science Vs", a popular podcast. Added.

For comparison, https://www.podchaser.com/ only has podcasts but it's more fleshed out.
Partly because no one wants to be dependent on another company. Look at what happened to Reddit apps when they began charging for their API. Netflix with a monopoly and their own movie production would be an impossible negotiation position for production companies in another 15 years.
I think part of this is that the user would not try 10.21- 10.2 again if they have already seen it fail, but a graphical update alongside denotes that this thing is "new" again.
Teleforking a process onto a different computer (2020)
We’re essentially talking about the Fermi paradox. I think speculation is expected and the channel is upfront about their cited research.

Your comment could apply to any one commenting on these topics and so I am confused.
This has never been a serious problem. Why is it suddenly a problem now? And before you answer, the attitudes and dispositions of the students are a symptom, not a cause.
> how does a net new innovation factor into this framework. New pharmaceuticals for previously untreatable diseases for example. What slice of the fixed money pie do those get?

Whatever slice the free market determines. And any "slice" that anyone gets is constantly changing, since money is exchanged constantly. So thinking of a fixed supply of money (or even a non-fixed supply of money) as having some fixed allocation among everyone is simply wrong. That's not how it works.

(Note that common descriptions of the wealth of wealthy people, say Bill Gates, are misleading since they always give a dollar figure--Gates is worth $50 billion, let's say. But the vast majority of that $50 billion is not money. It's assets like stocks, bonds, real estate, etc., and the $50 billion figure is just an estimate of the sum of the prices all those assets would fetch if Gates sold them on the market. It is certainly not a measure of money that Gates has stuffed under his mattress or is otherwise hoarding.)
Does this count as a quine?
Conducting some research to see how many people use AI to perform daily work duties. My particular focus is on the tech sector.

All responses are anonymous and all questions a multiple choice.

Results will be shared after I have collected and analysed the data.
backend architecture design and algorithms
Sounds like SPARK Ada and Frama-C.
If you're looking for a visually appealing design, then it's hard to beat a real cat. The internet agrees.
Disappointed that scrolling to the bottom did not lead to the content at the top of the page.
I don’t think that’s true; it might be the case that mailing out dvds is profitable, but too low revenue for modern Netflix to bother with. I mean, it was possible to build a business on it at some point…
> Sure DVDs won't last forever

"No termination date. I didn't know how long we had together... Who does?"
So what about Edina, MN? They're doing the same tracking there, and it's not Fresno.
all exploits we've analyzed from npm and cargo (granted, github sourced ones) had code to break free from docker. and some even from virtualbox vms if run with the vscode helpers.
Add on: ask your local library if they have: Libby, Kanopy or Hoopla
I'm on a non-tech-related Vancouver discord server, and I can name 10 people on there who work in tech and actively try to do the least they can get away with at jobs, or work multiple jobs secretly, etc. and not one of them complains about money. You can no-true-Corporationsman it if you want but there are a lot of people who are naturally actively shady like that.
I clean up thoroughly before any guests come. Not because I don’t want them to see a mess. But rather because I feel a lot better when things are tidy and clean and being in a better mood means more enjoyment when friends or family come.

My wife and I invite people over often because it helps us keep the house clean and benefits us overall :).

I agree with the sentiment of this quote though.
> Rather build a platform to leverage AI to deliver value to users or businesses.

By focusing on "today" problems they risk being leapfrogged by the next thing that solves more known and unknown problems and grants new abilities. Could spell instant death. The AI-birthers are gonna chase the fine-tune dollar anyway and maybe we won't even see any more jaw-dropping improvements from here on out but we will see what happens.
I believe Haxe was made to replace flash. Not sure why it isn't more popular, but it has a lot of folks from the game community that use it.
I had suspend problems until 6.8.0. Now I have 100% CPU usage by bwrap and still occasionally green glitches on the screen. Not impressed with my thinkpad...
[Stephen Wolfram sits up.]
> So why say anything if it’s just an opinion if not a call to action seeking to censor certain opinions?

Why not? I could make an argument that cultural change happens through conversations like this, but honestly I think people are just intrinsically motivated to share their opinions whether it makes any difference or not.

> And my comment likened both, so to suggest the intent of the word censoring is somehow different is semantic nitpicking rather than any productive discourse.

The difference between censoring someone and disagreeing with their opinion is NOT a nitpicky detail. It's literally one of the major differences between totalitarianism and democracy.

The position that censorship is the only way to get people to stop saying things you disagree with, is an absurd, extremist position.
Why would you expect corrective effects to occur?
Agreed. On modern TVs 480p looks rough.
There's a third class too, perhaps the most important one -- facts which take time, money, and/or skill to assemble.

E.g. a summary of the minutes from your local city council, a respin of government economic statistics that answers a topical question, or a news investigation into a topic.

I'm ambivalent as to the business model that sustains that third class, but I resolutely think one needs to exist.

And Google, as currently constructed and operated, is not it. It doesn't originate content.

Ergo, passthrough of Google revenue to some entity that can / does do that seems reasonable.
No, the frequencies used are pretty much in the middle of commonly used terrestrial bands.

The specified non-terrestrial 5G bands are in the MSS part of the radio spectrum:

Apple's solution uses Globalstar, where the phone transmits on 2.5 GHz and receives on 1.6 GHz (I think that must be the newly-specified 5G band n254). Iridium uses 1.6 GHz in both directions (no 5G band assigned); Inmarsat is on 1.5 and 1.6 GHz (band n255), and Echostar (formerly Terrestar), which is used by the Motorola Defy, uses frequences around 2.0 and 2.2 GHz (band n256).

Since there's pretty much always a line of sight to the satellite, the usual rule of "lower frequency means better propagation" doesn't really apply, and in a vacuum, all frequencies propagate equally.
I think it's vasopressin deficiency that is claimed to drive those symptoms.
The real problem is that they're stuck living in Fresno. There's nothing the school can do to solve that.
Seems like they share a root:

cack
(slang) faeces (feces); nonsense or rubbish: "what a load of cack" could equally be used to describe someone talking nonsense or as a criticism of something of poor quality. Also spelt "kak" as used in Afrikaans and Dutch. Derived from an ancient Indo-European word, kakkos, cognate with German word Kacke, Welsh word "cach" and the Irish and Scottish Gaelic word "cac" which all mean 'shit'.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_British_terms_no....
I have a pretty extensive blu-ray collection (almost 500 movies now, about 40 complete series). I almost never watch blu-rays directly, because I don't want to muck with physical discs. Immediately after buying a movie, I remove the DRM with MakeMKV, and put it onto a Jellyfin server.

I know it's (probably) not strictly legal for me to break the DRM of my movies, but I think I'm ethically in the clear; I'm not distributing the movies on ThePirateBay or anything, I just watch them within my home network...I think it would be pretty hard for anyone to demonstrate any damages from my habits.

Streaming is absolutely more convenient than physical discs, but it's also objectively horrible for a company to be able to arbitrarily remove my media. With my discs, I always have a physical copy, so it's more failure-proof.

That said, maintaining a server is a huge pain in the ass, and it's something that really is limited to geeky people. Sure, as a software engineer I know enough to install NixOS and Jellyfin and I even get some kind of masochistic enjoyment from fixing things when they inevitably break, but I cannot imagine my mom going through anything like this, so for her the media landscape has gotten only worse.

Blu-rays really aren't being produced anymore, so I suspect that the only sustainable preservation effort will end up being piracy, and this has been an issue long enough that the large media companies cannot pretend to not understand that.
Astronomers Demand Radio Silence at Moon's Far Side; Resistance May Be Futile
Was this the original TPS report?
>Most Blu-ray discs require an internet connection

That's only for BD-Live which is very limited for a few releases. Most studios only released a couple of films that way and ditched the whole thing years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray#BD-Live