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> Goff knows what he’s proposing sounds “extravagant”, but, he says, new ideas always sound extravagant, especially in the West where we’re “trained” to be sceptical of anything that smacks of religion. We don’t often think of our “secular bias”.

> He cites Occam’s razor – the idea that the simplest explanation is usually the best. What makes greater sense to you – the God of the Bible or one of the other world religions, the meaninglessness of an atheistic universe, a multiverse, a flawed designer god, or a conscious universe? Perhaps, none. Perhaps, it all seems nonsense to you. Perhaps, humanity will never find an answer.

> “Why believe in a supernatural creator that stands outside the universe if you can just attribute consciousness and intention to the universe itself? The physics just gives us the maths, there must be something that underlies the maths. I argue it’s a ‘conscious mind’, and strange as that may sound it’s no less extravagant than the other options.”

What the heck, man. I'm really not qualified to comment on the whole fine-tuning argument, as suspect as it seems to me, because I don't know a lick of physics or anything about the calibration of the universe's variables or whatever, but to excuse the leap made here with "Occam’s razor" is simply incredible to me.

Can we not agree by now? Minds evolved. Their evolutionary value is obvious. Someone shared an amazing article on HN recently about chemotaxis in E. Coli recently. It's an incredible illustration of how, from the _obviously purely physical_ nanomachinery of the cell, there seems to emerge a creature with genuine "interests" - that is attracted and averse to things in its environment according to their survival value, and even possesses a "memory" and other seemingly proto-mental capacities.

So now we have this Goff fellow positing a minded universe as an explanation for fine-tuning. And it is meant to serve as an explanation in that minds have "certain goals and aims". But the "goals and aims" of minds are explained by the fact that they are the products of natural selection. In a meaningless physical universe without values, values will be manifest within the perspective of creatures created with implicit imperatives (reproduction, homeostasis, survival, whatever we want to say is being selected for). The idea that the whole universe has a mind which has values (goals, whatever), values which in turn serve to explain fine-tuning (it's just what the universe wanted!), seems to me to be insane, because where the hell did that mind come from, why does it have goals, why are its nature and provenance it so radically unlike all the evolved minds that we actually know exist? Occam's razor???
Aren’t they not at all far from us, in any dimension whatsoever, except that they are not literally us?
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Could also have be that the neighbor have a not compliant WiFi device that send out deauthentication packages, then it would also work better during rain.

And the same upgrade would often fix it
I picked up remapping Caps Lock as an extra Backspace. Turns out Backspace is a very common key while typing sometimes and it can be very nice to avoid the hand movement/extreme stretch. I don't think people often realize they use Backspace far more than Ctrl or Escape, because it is so common it starts to be a very "unconscious" key.
Never understood why people would spend their hard earned money on a garbage car marketed by a garbage man.
I have two theories here, and I don't know which I believe more. It's probably a combination of both:

1) Tesla executed a remarkable 0->1 strategy, working from the Roadster (high-end luxury price, low volume) to the S (high-end luxury price, moderate volume) to the Y and 3 (low-end luxury price, high volume), creating an apparently-successful car company that only sold luxury-price vehicles. Detroit interpreted that as "everybody is ready to spend low-end luxury money for electric cars." In fact, there's still a limited number of people who can spend luxury money for cars, and Detroit is winning those back from Tesla. That's not the same thing as "building cars for people who can only spend 25K or less for a car."

2) Detroit really only builds huge cars, leading Americans who don't want huge cars to buy imports or (recently) Teslas. These buyers have greater than random overlap with the set of likely electric car buyers. Detroit tries to build huge electric cars, but those buyers tend not to want huge cars, creating bad market fit.
I think we all know that, when someone writes "C++ is three orders of a magnitude faster than Python" they're not including native libraries.
Lockdowns make sense if emergency rooms cannot keep up with the emergency rate. Other than that*, we'll see a lot of people going back to WFH on a temp basis and lots of masks and hand sanitizer.
That oven works fine for roasting raw coffee beans as well. Raw beans keep a very long time if stored correctly, pity though they tend to be sold as a luxury product and thus priced to match that description. A popcorn popper of the 'modified heat gun' type (aluminium cup with slits in the bottom through which hot air is blown) also works well for roasting coffee.
I consider myself a history buff yet I didn't know until this morning that Raoul Wallenberg went to the University of Michigan. It seems to me to be a blasphemy to allow this to happen.

A few years ago the City of Detroit over protests allowed the boyhood home of Charles Lindberg to be torn down. As a result a lot of people didn't even know that Lindberg was from Detroit.
We had three Mat+s, and since one already spelled it Mat, the third became Mattt.
Some more details at https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/30/furygpu_xilinx_fpga_g...
Sure, but you also have to take the toponymic pov where it does
OK, but that doesn't have anything to do with the ability to understand things, either. You only need enough elements to perform whatever the unknown algorithm is that allows understanding. There's no reason to suppose a series of progressively superior understanding-algorithms that require more and more components.
Yeah, and there are several long used and relatively efficient ammonia generation methods for direct electrical conversion that uses nitrogen from the air and water with renewable electricity.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2021.5808...
Cool! How is it mounted? And U assume it's permanetnly connected to power?
How do you explain that Bing has only 10% of the search market share on the desktop?

Windows has over 70% market share on the desktop. Windows comes with Edge as the default browser and Edge has Bing as the default search engine.

But Edge only has 12% of the Desktop browser market share.

It looks like 6 out of 7 windows users switch to Chrome for some reason. If not for the cleaner interface - why?
What do you think is harder to make, a song which 1000 people like (avant-garde art, your favorite underground band...) or one which has 800 mil views on YouTube.

> a very simplistic formula.

Go ahead, make one, get 100 million views, make a cool few $ with little work.
No, that's not certain at all. The total number of confirmed human cases in the world is under a thousand [1] in 20 years. That's not enough data to get any kind of mortality statistic for an influenza variant.

Chances are >99% of cases are so mild they were never tested. It's pretty surprising this one was detected at all. It's only the second confirmed case in the US despite tons of confirmed animal cases in poultry and migratory birds.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/chart-epi-curve-ah5n1.html
That is amazing, and also kind of a durability nightmare. I wonder how they designed the needle assembly to withstand the rigors of 6-year-old operators.

I must've been 12 or so before my parents would let me even touch the record player on their stereo. Not without reason, to be sure: the stereo's 8-track player had been irretrievably broken before I was born when one of my siblings decided that it looked hungry and fed it a peanut butter sandwich.
Cells mutate and become cancerous all the time, but the immune system is usually able to recognize this and shut down the errant cells before it becomes a problem. It's only when the cancer gets lucky with the right site of mutations that it's able to evade the immune system and grow unchecked.

Early diagnosis would obviously be a good thing if we can reliably tell which cancers will become a problem. My concern is that most patients may have a hard time understanding this distinction, and we may end up with people demanding screenings and treatments that they'd be better off without.

In case anyone thinks these fears are unfounded, keep in mind this is already a problem with thyroid cancer. Thyroid cancer is very common and frequently harmless, but increased screening is leading to more people being treated for it, and it's unclear whether this is a net benefit.
It simply means he didn't put his own money into the fund.
Polestar joins Tesla to get away from the car lobby
Oh. Duh.

I suppose I should have said it was a new-to-me use case for that feature.
Working with pure bytes is one option that's being researched. That way you're not really constrained by anything at all. Sound, images, text, video, etc. Anything goes in, anything comes out. It's hard to say if it's feasible with current compute yet without tokenizers to reduce dimensionality.
You're not going to call cops if your car gets stolen or you get robbed / assaulted / raped? What's the alternative?
I use my own email service.
I would tell you if I could, but as you might expect from the type of person who would respond this way my dad hates talking about or dealing with anything medical. I doubt he even remembers these things. He does do a yearly checkup and I’m not sure if that includes a biopsy these days (it definitely has in the past.) I basically have to catch him a day or two after his checkup in order to get any information and even then I just get the minimum amount of information possible.
Tildes is not part of fediverse.

As for fediverse a lot of depends on the server you chose, for example https://beehaw.org is much friendlier.
If you're digging into sqlalchemy and enjoying it, you would probably enjoy the source of Ecto, the kinda-sorta-but-not-really ORM that's commonly used with Elixir.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1

> It's only the second confirmed case

We know it doesn't transmit very well in humans. Luckily people have been working on that:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/controv...
Like Ivanti's Pulse VPN? Who hid a CentOS 6 in an appliance, unpatched, way past EoL?
Is the image analyzed in the phone or in the server?
The trick is to mix it with (already legal) high CBD/low THC weed, both to just dilute it, but also because CBD counteracts some of the negative side effects of THC, such as paranoia.
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There are lots of reasons someone might want to upscale something, not just "holding onto everything".

I painted something on my iPad over the last few weeks. I'll be upscaling it so it's high enough resolution to do a large print on my wall. It's not something I need to "just let the image go" for.

(And, of course, there's nothing wrong with holding onto things...)
They have hundreds of patents, though. One key patent - which IIRC is on the verge of expiration - does not mean that it's possible to build a saw that doesn't infringe one or more of the others.
So, your theory is Keto is being suppressed to avoid a modern-day societal collapse?

That's a pretty serious intellectual leap.
This reminds me of when I took my PS5 to my family's house for Christmas vacation. We both have the same SSID because I set up both access points but they changed the password when they forgot it because they're a bunch of bozos.

My PS5 controller refused to connect to my PS5 and I couldn't figure out why. I gave up and after a few days tried again only to realize that the PS5 controller can't connect to the PS5 wirelessly when the wifi was connected but the password was invalid. I still don't know why it was a problem or if it still is a problem but it was a monster to debug. lol

The reason I didn't fix the wifi in the first place was that I didn't have a spare USB C to USB A cable to hardwire my controller and I was playing a singleplayer game. I think it was last of us.
There's nothing problematic about this, except that it's GPL plus conditions. AFAICT, only the second condition would be in addition to the GPL, but I didn't spend much time thinking about it.
This flu has a 60% mortality rate. If it becomes airborne you can bet there will be lockdowns.
>> Do you have price-performance numbers you can share on that? Like compared against local or cloud machines with RTX and A100 GPU’s?

Good question, the account is muddy --

1. Electricity is a parent company responsibility, so while that is a factor in OpEx price, it isnt a factor for us. I dont think it even gets submetered. Obviously, one wouldnt want to abuse this, but maxing out Macbooks dont seem close to abuse territory

2. The M1/M2/M3 machines are already purchased, so while that is major CapEx, it is a sunk cost and also an underutilized resource most of the day. We assume no wear and tear from maxing out the cores, not sure if that is a perfect assumption but good enough.

3. Local servers are out of the question at a big company outside of infra groups, it would take years to provision them and I dont think there is even a means to anymore.

The real question is cloud. Cloud with RTX/A100 would be far more expensive, though I'm sure performant. (TPM calculation left to the reader :-) I'd leave those for fine tuning, not for inference workloads. Non-production Inference is particularly bad because you cant easily justify reserved capacity without some constant throughput. If we could mix environments, it might make sense to go all cloud on NVIDIA but having separate environments with separate compliance requirements makes that hard.

Jokes aside, I think a TPM calculation would be worthwhile and perhaps I can do a quick writeup on this and submit to HN.
Are you certain I’m the one with the “bias” here? Let me quote ODNI from a couple of year ago: “ There is no one explanation for these incidents. Instead, there are many different possible causes including environmental as well as social factors and preexisting medical conditions.” Unless you believe that ODNI is full of Putin stooges, there isn’t a lot of room for any “bias” tinfoil here.
GPL doesn't requrie you to release all your changes publically. It requires you to offer source code to anyone you've given a binary to
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That's pretty much it. I built something that will find trends. Any thoughts on this?
I'm not sure why everyone is 100% sure this was a state-sponsored security breach. I agree that it's more likely than not state-sponsored, but I can imagine all sorts of other groups who would have an interest in something like this, organized crime in particular. Imagine how many banks or crypto wallets they could break into with a RCE this pervasive.
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Ask HN: Can anonymous unions of dining philosophers work without keys?
"Happy Birthday but 13 classical composers are fighting over the last slice of cake" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utvhon1epgo

"Anakin- Automatically Kill Orphans" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39873861
You won’t want to live your life normally if there is a 60% mortality rate airborne virus around.
The folks that live the longest in your studies were all born at the beginning of the tumultuous 20th century rather than some optimal fishbowl experiment.

If, for example, one of them was visiting a market in NYC around 1924 it is unlikely that bananas were on offer. Much has changed in what we eat and how it is produced and an infinity other confounding factors.

Science does not put forth an "optimal diet" to begin with. It is unlikely there exists such a thing but rather diets carry various tradeoffs for differing populations.
My guess is that a ransomware group is behind this. Even if the backdoor had gone into production servers it would have been found fairly quickly if used at some scale.
Different regions had different pricing. This prevents a game being resold in another market. It also tends to cut down on counterfieting.
LINQ is an interesting example because it exists in two forms, query syntax and method syntax. You might consider these "mini-paradigms". Most users know one or the other. I've rarely met people who are equally proficient at both. But almost anything you can accomplish in query form can also be done in method form, and the industry has settled on method syntax as the standard.

Why do you think that is? I think it's because method syntax fits more neatly into the larger C# paradigm of imperative code. Using both requires the developer to pivot to a different mental model (declarative coding), so we try to standardize on the one that fits best in the bigger picture. This is what I mean by cognitive load. Most devs can surely handle both, but why make them do extra mental work when that effort is better spent on the problem domain.
Found a even better article which goes even deeper explaining why did ADM-3A put the arrow keys on hjkl

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/always-more-history/
> The ciphertext is encrypted with chacha20 using the first 32 bytes of the ED448 public key as a symmetric key. As a result, we can decrypt any exploit attempt using the following key:

Isn't this wild? Shouldn't the ciphertext be encrypted with an ephemeral symmetric key signed by the privkey? I guess anyone with the public key can still read any payload, so what's the point?
Mattt, pronounced Matty.
Not familiar with the specific studies being discussed, but there are techniques available to infer causal relationships from observational data (generally referred to as “causal inference/statistics”). The specific method depends heavily on the question you’re trying to answer, but the general idea is to identify sources of variation in your population that are unrelated to the variables under study, and then to exploit that variable to create a situation where you’ve got a “proxy” control and treatment group. A classic example is discontinuity regression, but other methods exist.
Google to destroy browsing data to settle consumer privacy lawsuit
"xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained" covers it well

https://gynvael.coldwind.pl/?lang=en&id=782
It will be interesting if/when they make cheap optical blood alc sensors.
Am I allowed to peel my orange?

... sounds like a smartass question; that's probably not where the line is drawn.

Here's a website that describes something they call a whole-food diet: https://www.verywellfit.com/what-is-a-whole-foods-diet-22419...
The ancient world before computers had stacks or heaps
> the rest of the world.

Much of the rest of the world but not all.

The UK is following the US in pursuit of a diet consisting entirely of ultra-processed 'food'.

"Ultra-processed foods account for 56.8% of total energy intake and 64.7% of total free sugars in the UK diet. Free sugars represent 12.4% of total energy intake, and 61.3% of the sample exceeded the recommended limit of 10% energy from free sugars. This percentage was higher among children (74.9%) and adolescents (82.9%). Prevalence of excessive free sugar intake increased linearly across quintiles of ultra-processed food consumption for all age groups, except among the elderly. Eliminating ultra-processed foods could potentially reduce the prevalence of excessive free sugar intake by 47%."

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/10/e027546
Now let's see the results of having one of these bots debate another one, a verbal version of Robot Wars (BattleBots on the western side of the Atlantic). Gentlemen, prepare your chatbots!
Do you have a source that backs up your claim? If that is really the case, then I would share that information more widely.
This is called NOBUS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOBUS
>It seems that we now have a clear proof that it's actually helping versus certain type of attacks (including source-code supply chain attacks).

So would have a vpn or using a bastion host with a custom non standard ssh implementation...

At some point you have to make the choice to not implement a security measure and I would argue that should stop at vpn+standard software for secure access.

If you are a bigger company, probably add SSO and network segmentation with bastion hosts and good logging.

Port Knocking doesn't add any security benefit in the sense that there are known non avoidable security risk aka your transmit your password(knocking) in clear text over the network.

You also add another program with potential vulnerabilities, and as port knocking is not as popular as e.g. sshd, wireguard, maybe it gets less scrutiny and it leads to a supply chain attack?

Security measures are also not free in the sense that somebody has to distribute them and keep the configuration up to date, even if that person is you, that means syncing that connect-to-server-script and keeping it in a secure location on your devices.
I was too, but the past few years their government server blocks have been pen-testing servers without authorization.

It is apparently a free service they offer people even when told to get stuffed.

=)

My spastic ban-hammer active-response list i.e. the entire block gets temporarily black-holed with a single violation:
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Martial law, not lockdowns.
It causes a big smear of interference but one of the higher regions is inside the 2.4GHz band.
My guess is that this was generated using GPT4?

Free GPT I get https://chat.openai.com/share/f533429d-63ca-4505-8dc8-b8d2e7... which has exactly the same problem as my previous example and doesn't consider the string of all whitespace.

Sure GPT4 is better at that, it wasn't the argument made.

The example you gave absolutely was the code I would write on a first draft since it does cover the edge cases (assuming we aren't dealing with the full UTF charset and all that could be considered a space there).

However this is code that is trivial to write in any language and the "Is it that hard to input a prompt into the free version of ChatGPT and see how it helps with programming? " argument doesn't hold up. Am I to believe it will implement something more complex correctly. This is also code that would absolutely be in hundreds of codebases so GPT has tons of context for it.
You can as well find yourself on a host that doesn't have SSH or network that filters SSH traffic for security reasons.