skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve read about that car/crow behavior many times but I’ve also read that it might be a bit exaggerated https://theconversation.com/are-crows-really-that-clever-212...
It was a case study in some vitamin packaging. Radically different than introducing a new chemotherapy molecule.
Terraform-AWS-Nuke-Bomber
This map has issues. Where caspian sea? I dint found it.
>If you want to learn one of the oldest assembly languages you can still find a modern computer to run it on check out IBM Z assembly.

6502 assembly on the Commodore 64 was good fun.

Pretty simple ISA.
> But The Times found that the combination of six-day workweeks and round-the-clock schedules has caused controllers to develop physical and mental health problems. Many avoid seeking professional help because doing so might jeopardize the medical clearances they need to work.

This is happening frequently to pilots and cabin crew as well, all over the world. Regulators have allowed a lot of flex in rostering in recent years, maybe a bit too much.
This is discussed in LWN comments, in fact. But the problem there is that the protocol used to communicate the fact that the file is read-only to the application (errno==EACCESS or equivalent on other platforms) does not provide any useful way for the system administrator who makes the file read-only to add a notice explaining why permission is denied, in a way that it is also communicated to the app - so that it could display it to the user.

So the proper solution to this whole thing would be for the OS to provide such a facility: "permission X is denied to Y because Z". This seems like a useful facility in general, come to think of it. But it would have taken more time and effort, and would require buy-in from more parties, some of whom might be very hostile to this notion (e.g. I don't think it would be an easy thing on Linux). No wonder that this isn't an option that is even contemplated as realistic.

And so instead we got yet another easy-to-make crutch in the tower of crutches and duck tape that is modern software.
I don’t agree with this take. A more accurate and precise way to describe the effects of automation is that it creates more human-centered jobs, some of which may require higher IQ but many that do not. Your average massage therapist does not have a higher IQ than your average Amazon line factory worker, for instance.
I would start by learning Python - specifically the pandas and numpy packages. You’d also want to brush up on mathematical concepts needed for data science, such as linear regression, probability, calculus, statistics. It’s a mesh of everything.
“Material consequences if he didn’t get paid by Tesla” sounds so scarily close to communism “To each according to his need, from each according to his ability”. It shouldn’t matter whether he needs it or not. It was an agreement that was made, an agreement I think was pretty fair and one that most corporate CEO’s in America today would not take but Elon took it, won that agreement and now people are balking up at payment. Promises made, promises kept or society does not function, “need” is the absolute last thing that should ever matter in this calculus
Sure there's several roadmaps to get back to something approximating representative government but they all have to get through legislative bodies that have been well and truly captured by corporate interests and oligarchs. The issue isn't that we don't know what representative government looks like, it's that we don't have one and there are no clear incentives for elected officials to make supplying one a priority.
What in the world is this?
Liberation Tech List re-launches
Liberation Tech email list used by Arab Spring activists and US and European hacktivists relaunches
(For more info see blob URL blob:https://share.riseup.net/aa6e18af-338a-4610-9d62-7f479a8d5311)
Musk is the soul of Tesla for better or worse. Tesla currently has a market cap 10x greater than Ford ... if Musk leaves, sanity returns and Tesla would drop dramatically.
Pico.sh – Hacker Labs
I too switched from biochem to CS: it was such a relief to work in a field where I felt that, as in math, you can get by remembering axioms and rules and derive the rest, without all the arcana of biology. (My mentor in biology bought me a copy of Barrow & Tipler as a parting gift, as if to say, CS and biology are not so different.) Today I’m not sure I still feel that way. Programming is more an empirical than logical discipline that ever before, as programs are too complex to be objects of pure reason; and the layers of stuff one needs to know keep growing in both directions, from SIMD to OAuth.

I’m so glad to come across this writer though. I was going to send them a note to tell them they have a real talent, until I noticed the long list of New Yorker and Atlantic publications, and thought: they already know. :)
Thanks for this etymology. I went down a deep wiki hole!
This is awesome. However, this is more for us generally technical people to go deeply technical and not likely to kids of today (perhaps in 100+ years as you said).

I have not written down but have bits and pieces of a long-ish story that I have been narrating to my 7-year old. And follows a similar cyberpunk post-human-collapse dystopian kinda scene -- a young brave 7-year old girl and her droid companion. This is to blend in and cross-over with her own story that she had been making up since a year or so - a mini-world of her own where every living thing is a clone of her -- a cat - yes, cloned from her; dinosaurs - yes, her clone.

Edit/Suggestion: I've an idea. Just don't specify this as for kids but for a generally smart young-adult.
Less "adversary" as evaluated by a specific entity, more "bad actor" as evaluated by the collective. Which is the intent. Of course nobody issuing sanctions specifically intends them to be criminal penalties for local (target) residents, it's nonsensical anyway as the issuer(s) generally don't have any kind of criminal authority in the relevant jurisdictions.
One would hope that specifically-contracted partners and authorities wouldn't be engaged in such activities, though Ocean Cleanup's site is ... somewhat vague on this point.

Might make for a useful pointed inquiry, as such gaps and loopholes are a stubbornly pervasive aspect of similar initiatives.
Until evidence is supplied otherwise, no I don't. Incidentally I've worked in several manufacturing environments ranging from boutique hand-built to global scale mass production lines. Any outfit that has their shit together already has fitment and assembly issues thoroughly debugged before a process gets to production. You probably don't want to make assumptions about what I don't know. So what are you shilling anyway?
Linus Torvalds on Security, AI, Open Source and Trust
Also: Orangutan uses a spear to fish as local fishermen do (https://primatology.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/orangutan-photo...)
Hopefully this has already been researched to quantify the amount of life using plastic as a habitat. Intuitively though it just seems like it's going to be such a tiny, tiny fraction that the concern is basically not worth thinking about compared to the problems of ocean garbage...
Don’t DM them, give positive feedback publicly, negative feedback privately.
I presumed it was a wrapper around an existing model and not a new one
Instead of having two people at the exit(s) to check receipts, they can scan items at registers.

“Another approach is adding a receipt-scanning gate at self-checkout areas, which Safeway has done at multiple locations in California, in addition to shutting down self-checkout entirely in some stores.”
Apparently it's a PWA. Just go to closingdoors.nyc
One of my past employers hired the author of the post and put him in charge of our kitchens and facilities. He lasted a couple of years in that job and then quit for greener pastures. I'm not sure why he had accepted the job, and I never noticed any compounding transformative effects of his time with us.
a mediawiki page describing the existing Android app, with many useful links

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete
The fundamental challenge of most engineering disciplines is attempting to create a model that represents a useful subset of reality but can be easily reasoned about and is, in some sense, reliable or reproducible. Perhaps what makes computer science unique is how unusually successful it has been in wrangling physics into a machine that appears to execute the laws of mathematics. Physics does rear its head from time to time (e.g. rowhammer and "single-event upsets"), but it is truly impressive how little we have to consider the physical nature of the machine nowadays.

However, other engineering disciplines do also try to build similar abstractions with varying levels of success. We've managed to build simple books of electrical standards that can be used by electricians around the world to build and reason about power systems without having to understand the weird quantum mind of an electron. I suspect we'll get there with biology too, we're just a century too early.
This won’t happen because the cost/benefit ratio of attempting this is extremely high.
> Not, though. According to Wikipedia:

I would argue that the definition I provided (convicted of a crime AND particularly (but not only) whose sentence is...) is relatively compatible with the definition you cite. I continue that it's my definition I provided and so perhaps I am not the only one whose use of the word differs from Wikipedia.

> it is really hard to usefully draw any conclusions other than “person convicted of a felony at some point in their life” which is hardly useful.

It is indeed hard to usefully draw any conclusions other than "person convicted of a felony at some point in their life" and I would argue that's the point.

If you want more information, then guess what? Felonies are public record and are often available online. Go find it instead of expecting it to be directly told to you. That's kinda creepy though, so perhaps you shouldn't advertise that you know what crimes your neighbors are convicted of.

Is it hardly useful? No, it's very useful for specifically legal purposes... which only make distinctions between types of felonies when stating what the felon can or can't do. Can't buy a gun. Can't live within some distance of a school. Must tell others your criminal history. Okay, and it's good to know that someone is required to (not) do some action merely by a word: they're a felon, so they're not allowed to do this or that. That's very useful for legal purposes -- can't sell a gun to this person, can't provide a loan for this person to buy a house at this address, whatever.

It's not very useful outside of legal purposes, and it shouldn't be. As long as the person has already gone through the justice workflow, why should it matter what their crime was?
This sort of historical and emotional incontinence helps no one. You talk as though white urbanites were unfairly prejudiced or deserved the uprooting and destruction of their neighborhoods. That's simply not true, but I don't expect you'll believe me even if I explain with abundant sourcing, so I won't bother.
Richard Dawkins: in defence of scientific truth
yeah, disagree. IMO for better or worse, Apple's MO has always been establishing a "premium" image aka the Apple tax and letting things trickle down. Specifically targeting low end phones is a race to the bottom and cheapens the brand. It's like when all the luxury brands started making diffusion lines. Maybe great in the short-term but they are all the losers now.
> It’s no secret that the pace of iPhone upgrades has slowed in recent years.

Gurman lists various reasons, but I feel like the biggest one by far is that the pace of smartphone development was incredibly exciting from 2007 to like 2017 (the iPhone X). Maybe a little later, but at some point you've got a fantastic camera and a very fast device with a great screen, so why would a normal person upgrade?

I think the cheap iPhone is one valid path, but you could also take the completely opposite direction, go all-in with on-device AI, with tons of RAM, a massively upgraded Neural Engine, etc. Find another big leap forward to offer.
That's pattern recognition, any dog can do that, you don't need an abused dog for that.
Or they can just jump in the cloud services. That’s the only thing that’s keeping Amazon out there, and most of Microsoft and Google.

But then again, their cloud would have some weird limitations
Well, if you watch their videos most of what is caught is from the fishing industry, but it's probably a difference in durability. Plastic from rivers etc. are going to fairly quickly break down into (polluting) microplastics because the plastic is pretty thin, so it's best to stop that at the rivers, while a lot of what they are catching in the garbage patch is from the fishing industry because it's all made of thicker plastic and would take a lot longer to break down.
But in this scenario, wouldn't you want to break those tools precisely because they are going around the centralized config from which .conf is supposed to be generated?
A headline I thought I would never get to see.
Yes, that's part of it.
For today's 10,000 https://simcity.fandom.com/wiki/Microwave_Power_Plant
Also from startup land. I only have points 1 and 3. The salary is laughable unless you have no other option. I can make more or less a personality test seem however I want it to seem so they're about as useful as Rorschach tests and polygraphy. The no ADHD or depression requirements: well fuck me, I'll stick to failing at foolish things rather than bother with an antiquated, potentially dangerous, soon to be automated orchestration process rife with opportunities for human error, and instead take a train or ship. It's arguably safer and definitely greener.
It becomes very limited quite quickly though. One quickly has to move to the pasteboard editor functionality, where you basically have to recreate everything yourself in a canvas, as the normal buttons and other graphical elements are not supported inside a canvas since they are native OS widgets.

I started trying to build a complex enough GUI and just quit. There are bugs and the documentation is extremely terse. You have to rely on blog posts by one developer who has sorted it all out, but it's still really difficult to get an explicit handle on the concepts and functionality. Very, very few people use the pasteboard editor for complex things or even simple things. You'll be forging a path of your own for sure.
I hope they’re spending significant effort on creating an ai assisted phone. But if they don’t fix speech to text, it’ll be mostly wasted effort
> Yes he does, and has said it a lot

I'm sorry, but I strongly disagree. You are reading things into his writing that he is not saying.

> he says only the activity of the neurons are real

No, he says that the activity of the neurons is your conscious experience--that the real conscious experience you have is the activity of the neurons--or, if you like, the conscious experience is "made of" the activity of neurons. That's not the same thing as saying your conscious experience isn't real. It's just saying your conscious experience is not "made of" what many people think it's made of. It's not made of magic "consciousness stuff" or "mind stuff" or "soul stuff".

> that there is not an additional "mental state" or what he calls "double transduction". He simply dismisses that it happens

No, he looks at the actual evidence from cognitive science about what actually goes on in the brain, and concludes from that evidence that there is no such "double transduction"--because there is no evidence for any such thing. In other words, "double transduction" is a testable hypothesis about how our minds work, and we've tested it, and found it to be false.

> He very clearly does not believe in the phenomenon of consciousness.

Nonsense. I gave an explicit quote from a paper of his that describes various kinds of conscious experience. He believed all those things were real. What he didn't believe is that they were magic.

> He should have loved panpsychism

No, he shouldn't have, because he is, as you say, a physicalist.

> he is an eliminative materialist he sticks with physicalism.

Physicalism is not the same thing as "eliminative materialism" about everything. You are simply misrepresenting Dennett's actual position.

At this point I am wondering whether you are a physicalist or not. If you are, you should be agreeing with Dennett, because his views about consciousness are the only viable option if you are a physicalist.

If you are not a physicalist, on the other hand, then of course you will disagree with Dennett, but you should be clear about what you are disagreeing with him about. You are not disagreeing with him about whether consciousness exists. You are disagreeing with him about what kind of thing consciousness is. His position was that consciousness, really existing consciousness, is a physical process that goes on in (at least) human brains. Your position, if you are not a physicalist, is that consciousness, really existing consciousness, is some kind of non-physical thing. But his critics were simply unwilling (or perhaps unable) to frame their disagreement in these simple terms, so instead they misrepresented his position.
Sora is a thing. It literally walloped everything else in the field to the point the second closest video generation model looked like a broken nonfunctional mess compared to it.

GPT5 might not be the thing we are all assuming it would be. It might not just be a chatbot but an actual AI that can "see" and "talk". By that point, I don't care if performance wise it isn't a big improvement over GPT4 (though it should as we know these models improve significantly when trained with another modal of data, e.g. text+image was much better than text only)
See I read that Postgres did that and thought “what a great idea!” I’ve seen so many stories of people who changed something important at runtime in their DB/router/managed switches/whatever and then forgot about it until after a restart “broke” things 2 years later and the change is lost forever.
Am I the only one that finds acts like receipt checks, and showing the camera watching you on the self checkout, to be hostile towards consumers?

I understand it is in response to theft, but has no one thought about the detriment this does to the consumer using self check out? The very nature of the self check out and all of its problems are driving people to hate them, and in turn resent the retailer.
Saigon is a massive city and has garbage collection infrastructure, yet people still dump trash into the rivers that run through the cities. It is actual culture to just toss trash onto the streets, into the gutters and into the rivers.

I used to live alongside Truong Sa river and watched people dump their trash into it all day long. There is even a govt run group that goes up and down the river all day long picking up trash.

I've been following this group for a while now... they do cleanups all the time...

https://www.instagram.com/sai_gonxanh/
In today’s news, Microsoft outbid Amazon to maintain the index.
> 'Close call' without 'accident' still means there wasn't an accident.

Close calls are a very important signal for how safe the system is.

Good safety systems are redundant and require many failures to result in a crash. Here, we got down to the last link in the chain: weather was clear and the departing pilots could see there was an obvious problem while there was time to stop.

> since the one in place is incredibly safe with many years of statistics to prove it.

We've gotten to this safe system by chipping away at problems we see-- both from actual accidents and close calls. The only way we reach and keep (and perhaps surpass) this level of safety is to keep (carefully) correcting problems.

(And yes, there is risk of changes making things worse. We need to do our best to avoid that and detect it quickly if it happens).
You already have something like this (production ready) through effect systems in Haskell (ex. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/effectful)
Tips and Tricks from a Crossword Prodigy
I asked my wife how she pronounces Ivan (she's from South America). It's pronounced E-van because the I is like an E in English.

According to wiki:

> Evan is a Welsh given name derived from Iefan, a Welsh form of the name John. Similar names that share this origin include Ivan, Ian, and Juan.

Juan is extremely common in South America. It's not surprising that people would choose a variant of it. For example the Spanish singer Juan goes by the stage name Ivan.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_(singer)

Or simply they like the name.
Maybe our known universe truly is a single electron behaving similar to scan lines on a TV at Planck scale in a higher dimension. Planck is the hz rate in this parable.
The thing that got me interested in biology and geology later in life was finding out / realising that there is a continuum between them and also with chemistry and physics (both of which I loved at school).

I don't fully understand why they are separated and taught as separate things, I wonder what the rationale is, apart from expediency.
How about they make a new mini. Give me something worth upgrading to.
Someone brought up the topic of JS and screenreaders upthread.
Screenreaders can work fine with JS. The pain points are:

1. Use of JS to reimplement standard HTML widgets. This has broken my screenreader more times than I care to remember.
2. All of this user-irrelevant garbage, like the dialogs, the social media buttons, and so forth.

I remember a few years back trying to pay my electric bill. Yes, I was
using a JS-capable browser. I couldn't actually pay my bill, but there
were plenty of "follow us on Facebook" and similar.
Like seriously, folks, I just wanna send you money.
Really, this should even be something I could do without JS.

Another example: we do online shopping at https://www.fredmeyer.com.
Their website is absolutely terrible, with all of the busyness, some of it user hostile.
Seriously folks, I just want to give you money for product, not follow
you on facebook.

Some sites get it really, really right. I play chess on lichess.org.
That site requires JavaScript. And I don't see any way that it could
possibly be avoided. But it works beautifully with my screenreader.
It's snappy too, even under Firefox on a Raspberry Pi.
I used to be a hard core "screw JS" guy. I've softened my stance, because
I know it can be used correctly and to great effect.
Vine existed before. There's nothing particularly magical or defensible about a short video platform like TT except the content that can be exported and current state of its graph of users who can always choose to message their friends their other network's identity.
I follow the assumption that they all are of varying degrees.
But that file gets read at startup. So making changes there is a valid way of making changes.

What you really want is to prevent postgres from writing to that file.

That’s more complicated than just making it write only for everyone. Adding an option to stop postgres from doing what you don’t want it to do makes sense to me.
I don't really see how Apple differentiates themselves as a cloud provider to make it worth the massive amount of work.
But if you are calling Win32 APIs, you can call Win32 APIs MultiByteToWideChar/WideCharToMultiByte to convert between UTF8 and UTF16. No need for iconv.
Why are we still using disposable coin cells instead of creating open standard, rechargeable self protected alternatives?

It seems like people use 100yo standards a lot just because there is no modern equivalent aside from proprietary stuff.