skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These "gaslighters" seem to show up to many discussion to say "what's the big deal, it's always been that way" when it obviously hasn't. I guess it's people who want the change and are trying to justify it?

Anyway, a good analogy is photo radar. Speed limits are set knowing everybody speeds. We could now easily enforce them everywhere. But if we do, we need to raise them to an appropriate level, not the "we know you're breaking them" level. Same with what you're saying about privacy, as the cost of invading it goes down, we need different controls, we can't just be cool with it because it was always hypothetically possible to hire a private investigator to stalk someone.
Was created by an all-knowing, all-powerful entity
Emerged naturally, but will inevitably create an all-knowing, all-powerful entity
Both, it's a cycle
Neither, it emerged naturally (or always existed) and will not necessarily create an all-knowing, all-powerful entity
Who cares, HN has polls?!
Holmes got 11 years for her fraud.
Could've been any posix-like tbh.

Yeah the code def needs some love, but itʼs pretty decent given that it'a academic.
I don’t think most people (besides some naive readings of that research) should come to that conclusion. The proper conclusion is that it will offset some of the calories burned by exercise through reduction in NEAT (non exercise activity thermogenesis), but not all of it. So a 600cal exercise may only have an effective net calorie addition of say, 400cal, due to reduction in NEAT.

The problem becomes when people do the naive calculation of exercise calories (Eg, I ran 2 miles so I burned 400cal, so I can eat 400 extra calories), and come to the wrong conclusion.
Isn’t noise sometimes intentional?

I actually like places where you can talk without too many listeners, even though they are packed, because of the noise floor. Not being able to understand the other parties can also be a benefit.
If that's the case, then what is this charity going to do with all this trash? Send it back up the river to be dumped again?
On what basis do you say that it is the most probable? It seems highly improbable to me that a mind could exist before living tissue exists, when every single example of a mind that we have studied depends on living tissue for its existence. It seems even more improbable to me that this mind could somehow intricately shape the universe. Through which mechanisms? Magic? The idea that lifeforms as we know then today were created whole cloth by an intelligent being of unclear origins and properties poses more questions than it answers.

On the other hand, there are plentiful examples of extremely simple lifeforms in nature, and there are also non-living things in nature that display phenomena that early simple lifeforms could have utilized (e.g., membrane-like structures that are spontaneously formed by phospholipids). There are still a lot of questions and unknowns here, but not nearly as many, and scientists are on a general trajectory of answering them at a fairly quick clip — whereas theological questions about the creation of living organisms are largely just as unanswered today as they were hundreds of years ago.

A different but popular notion is that a creator created the universe (effectively by sparking something like the Big Bang), but the lifeforms that followed evolved as scientists believe. This, to me, is far more plausible. As yet, we do not have any other good explanations for how the universe came into existence, and so this deistic hypothesis is as good as any other I have heard.
>The logic is: “Only communist governments know who their citizens are.”

The logic is actually "That which I wish to control or destroy, I must first enumerate/name."

A Government that exists only to administer (and not control the populace), has no need to know who all it's citizen's are. Merely to know who is involved in the limited processes being administered.

Sadly, all common sense around that seems to have evaporated since 2001 in the U.S. It seems like only those of us left who experienced the pre-9/11 world are doing a terrible job at instilling a picture of a government that's not all "Big Brother is watching" in the younger generations. The gluttony of Law Enforcement and the IC for a Single Identification Number to unify and enumerate every flesh and blood person wandering around cannot be overstated.
It's interesting to hear that Cpp is faster even though there is an overhead of moving data from WASM <-> JS/TS. I'm not yet ready to "take the leap" to learn Cpp + Metal + XCode + WASM because those are some big hurdles to jump through (especially just in my free time), but you do raise some good points.

I'm certain you could turn this knowledge into a blog post and help many more engineers who are silently struggling through this path. Self-studying graphics programming is tough!

It should pop up first on YouTube if you search "What is WebGPU Suboptimal Engineer", but I'll link it here[0] in case anyone else wants to watch it. (No need for you to actually fact-check it. I didn't mean to put random work on your plate on a Sunday haha.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIur9NATg-I
No, you're not. :) Emoticons aren't emoji.
I'm more than half the time figuring out the environment. Just as you learn a new language by doing the exercises, I'm learning a bunch of stuff while I try to port our iptables semantics o firewalld:
[a] gitlab CI/CD instead of Jenkins [b] getting firewalld (requires systemd) running in a container [c] the ansible firewalld module doesn't support --direct required for destination filtering [d] inventing a test suite for firewall rules, since the prebuilt I've found would involve weeks of yak shaving to get operating. So I'm simultaneously learning about four environments/languages at once - and this is typical for the kind of project I get assigned. There's a *lot* of exploratory coding happening. I didn't choose this stuff - it's part of the new requirements. I try for simple first, and often the tools don't support simple.
Actually leave html rendering to Servo https://servo.org/
Long story, but basically there is a push in California gov't to deemphasize rooftop solar, in favor of big solar farms. (I've heard this is a favor to construction unions).

So we get paid very little per watt now, and it no longer balances out if you say use 20kWH from the grid and feed 20kWH to the grid (like it used to).
OIDC has for sure caught on. I've worked in multiple roles where very smart identity-centric people consider it the best option.
Proclaiming things is very easy.
> the height of at-home shopping

I wondered that, too, but I did see that Amazon revenue has continued to grow since 2021. Of course, it’s possible AWS and other divisions are compensating for a decline in physical goods sold. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to find revenue numbers for specific divisions.
Peopleware by Tim Lister and Tom De Marco. Software is mainly about people.
Author of Penzai here. I think the answer is a bit more nuanced (and closer to "yes") than this:

- If you want to use the treescope pretty-printer or the pz.select tree manipulation utility, those should work out-of-the-box with both Equinox and Diffrax. Penzai's utilities are designed to be as modular as possible (we explicitly try not to be "frameworky") so they support arbitrary JAX pytrees; if you run into any problems with this please file an issue!

- If you want to call a Penzai model inside `diffrax.diffeqsolve`, that should also be fully supported out of the box. Penzai models expose a pure functional interface when called, so you should be able to call a Penzai model anywhere that you'd call an Equinox model. From the perspective of the model user, you should be able to think of the effect system as an implementation detail. Again, if you run into problems here, please file an issue.

- If you want to write your own Penzai layer that uses `diffrax.diffeqsolve` internally, that should also work. You can put arbitrary logic inside a Penzai layer as long as it's pure.

- The specific thing that is not currently fully supported is:
(1) defining a higher-order Penzai combinator layer that uses `diffrax.diffeqsolve` internally,
(2) and having that layer run one of its sublayers inside the `diffrax.diffeqsolve` function,
(3) while simultaneously having that internal sublayer use an effect (like random numbers, state, or parameter sharing),
(4) where the handler for that effect is placed outside of the combinator layer.
This is because the temporary effect implementation node that gets inserted while a handler is running isn't a JAX array type, so you'll get a JAX error when you try to pass it through a function transformation.

This last case is something I'd like to support as well, but I still need to figure out what the semantics of it should be. (E.g. what does it even mean to solve a differential equation that has a local state variable in it?) I think having side effects inside a transformed function is fundamentally hard to get right!
> Was created by an all-knowing, all-powerful entity

But what's the god of that entity? Let me guess: it's turtles all the way down?
The robots replaced the frontline laborers, yes. But someone now needs to maintain, build, and engineer new robots. Hence they said the laborer's job was replaced with one that requires fewer people at a higher skill (and probably pay) level. Or at least that's what I picked out from their comment.
I got into a back and forth last week here on HN with some who refused to believe someone could have an early memory. Apparently because they can't remember before kindergarten/first-grade, nobody can. It was bizarre. My first memory is at 18 months old. Many, many others report memories before ages 3-4. "No, not possible." Uh, why is that impossible? It just takes one to show it is possible
Caffeine supplementation: what does the scientific evidence show?
Also, the other points made aren't the reason VC was conceived.

> And just like the existing system, it continues to exclude millions of people who can’t get government ID

VC is a technology for convenience, not solving social problems. It's basically just to enable technologies like Tap to Pay but for your Gov IDs.

E.g. rather than having to carry your drivers license you just carry your phone. It's almost as if the article misses the entire purpose for which VC is designed (but then again, what can one expect when they're criticizing DIDs yet -actually- talking about VC throughout the entire post)
What’s offensive about goddamn? "Damn" is not even vulgar, is it?
> It does, I did the math when I was offered a 100k+ position in the US.

100k+ has been close to the floor for entry level for a while now. Did you do the math on how much you'd earn over 10 years?
It seems to be sensitive to exactly how it was scored. Humans did better at certain types of tasks and GPT better at other types. And either way I wouldn’t say this is “empathy”
First Headline: "Gulf Stream Slowdown Could Begin as Early as 2025"

Second Headline: "JPMorgan wants ‘reality check’ on phasing out fossil fuels"

So JP, have you had your reality checked yet?
35 Years Ago, Nintendo's Riskiest Product Launch Changed Video Games Forever
I will never upload photographs of my government-issued photo ID for any reason. I will never utilize any gov-backed digital ID.

I will go down screaming, fighting, kicking, biting, and faxing my tax returns to the IRS, really doing everything lawful in my power to drag the whole system to a halt if digital ID gets forced on me. I don't care if I have to write a script that's going to trade bitcoin 800 times a second on 12 different exchanges, I don't care if I have to make my tax return 200,000 pages long and deliberately reorder the stack so that every single sheet is out of order, and it's all in a font that was deliberately chosen to be incompatible with OCR systems. If the US government will let me submit my tax returns in Farsi, Urdu, or Esperanto, or some other obscure language that the IRS would need to hire someone to translate, I will, just to add all of the absolute maximum pain, inefficiency, and suffering into this process.

Keep pushing this shit on people who don't want it. Malicious compliance is like reflected DDoS attacks with huge asymmetric I/O sizes: I alone can easily force the government to waste 10,000+ hours of effort for each hour I put in, and what's more, I can and will write tutorials, open source all of this, and advertise it everywhere if digital ID does get forced on society.

Problem with this? Stop pushing digital ID or start pushing to let me renounce my American citizenship without posessing another citizenship.
Reading https://www.livescience.com/which-animals-use-stone-tools, the criterion for “entered the Stone Age” weirdly seems to be having a “recognized archaeological record of stone tool use”.

Thats lie saying “it hasn’t happened if we don’t have it on video”.
Yes but they definitely have centralized id - the 'Alien Registration Card' itself. Technically, lawful permanent residents are supposed to carry it at all times.
I find it ironic that people, like the parent poster, who are actually trying to be helpful and informative are being downvoted for it.

Windows is an adequate operating system if one bothers to learn to use it properly.
“Don’t create the torment nexus”

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/torment-nexus
I am curious; ChatGPT suggests

- the science fiction novella "The Rememberers" by A.E. van Vogt, originally published as "The Book of Ptath" in 1943.

- the species known as "Trills" from the "Star Trek" universe, particularly in the series "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine."

Edit: the first suggestion seems to be a hallucination
The Pawn embedded scripting language
LOL. I'm pretty sure Alex Jones isn't writing for Nature.
My then two to three year old asked me questions about things that happened up to a year prior. Their memory was impressive.
Probably a guy named René, who was the first person I worked with who actually seemed to give a shit about (a) the craft of software development, and (b) teaching a relatively new software engineer to care as well.
Elixir wouldn't exist without Ruby, so I have nothing but gratitude.

My question angles more toward learning functional programming first, and I doubt it'll ever happen at bootcamps (though - my understanding is that's exactly what happens at Berkeley/MIT with Lisp/Scheme in CS101 (I'd argue with decent results)) - so it's very much a hypothetical.
That’s just categorically false.

China needs US companies for their survival. They have neither food security nor energy independence, and the they’re critically dependent on American companies in several aspects of those areas.

You can’t just look at market size, you have to look at margins, and for China they haven’t been able to build brands that can get great margins outside of some exceptions like DJI. In many cases China is massively subsidising these companies with cheap loans, hoping to build up a profitable industry in the long run. How long can this last? If you take shadow banking into account China has an insanely high debt to GDP ratio.

China is also becoming an increasingly hostile place for investments, and bad for attracting talent over the long term. If you’re a world class talent in a field you can go to the US, become a citizen and build a life there. You can’t become a citizen in China and when you’re a resident you have very few rights.
The Bubble Sort Curve [video]
> Okay, name me one instance (1) where a citizen of a western country had their identity censored in any sense by their government.

Eugene Shvidler‘s sanctioning by the UK poisoned his identity. A UK-US dual citizen living in Britain who had Russian business dealings.

The sanctions are devastating to personal freedom. Beyond the direct financial impact, they make it very difficult to travel, engage in charity or use digital goods.

You might argue he deserved it for making money in Russia, but the lack of due process is astounding.

His commercial behaviour predates any legal prohibition and he didn’t get to argue his case in front of a judge/jury before a punishment was installed.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/jul/19/sanctions-regime...
skip to 3:00 if you just want to see them jump...
IQ is sort of useful to measure humans because we have roughly comparable skills. It’s not applicable to AI at all in terms of measuring job fitness.

If I need someone to move some furniture it might only need an IQ of 85 but that doesn’t mean AI is doing it any time soon.
and

>$1 million fine

I and probably a ton of people would gladly take 18 months for whatever he managed to stash away from that $100Mil.

>“Today’s sentencing should send a message to other entrepreneurs who may be tempted to cross the line into fraud

And the message is fraud away, at most you will get gently slapped on the wrist.
Yes and it’s not at all obvious to me that being a jack-of-all-trades farmer (builder, mechanic, etc) requires less intelligence than learning Python.
some State governments do not recognize it as a valid ID for legal purposes.

Do you know which state governments?
There are also other careers with which you can make a good living.

Not everything can be for everybody.
I think what what helps here is that gpt4 will be closer to the average human than a random human and so its responses will, on average, be more relatable. I think that when youre paired with tge right human and your biases are both in the same direction from the mean that synergistic effect wont be beatable by an LLM, but it doesnt surprise me that it will out perform humans at being the best on average. Heck, id wager gpt3 would be better as well.
"Humans are, on average, even bigger assholes than computers"
In the US, significant fractions of both the Democrat and Republican parties are against anything that resembles a single national ID, for different longstanding reasons. And the legal hurdles are high enough that it would require both parties actively working together to effect material change, so even if one of them had a change of heart it wouldn't matter.
How quickly can the FBI get everyone in the country to patch their servers, rearchitect their industrial control systems, etc.? I don’t doubt there’s a political angle here but he doesn’t have a magic want to change everyone’s funding and priorities even within the federal government, much less the private sector. Think about all of those companies where they’re notoriously stingy because they’re still pretending IT isn’t core to their business, to at nothing of the ones where the CIO was selected for being the CEO’s favorite golf buddy or the owner’s nephew, and ask how many of them are going to react to a request from Wray by changing their plans and budget versus saying “if the FBI cares so much, they can pay for it”.

I suspect that this will come up legislatively over time - everyone is watching Russia’s electronic warfare against Ukrainian infrastructure – and it’s a good time to write to your representatives about what you think policy responses should be. For example, I’d like to see it be harder for companies to deploy the “nation state-level attack” excuses without some barrier to entry greater than “we’d been slacking on patches for 18 months”.
I'd suggest working incrementally from areas of your existing strength. Tweak whatever code base you are most familiar with, starting with a tiny change, and see how the assembly changes. I use objdump -d and git diff --no-index for this all the time.
Who thought buying Monsanto was a good idea to begin with?

Lawsuits were bound to happen. Monsanto has been highprofile for ages, and not in a good way.
No. We need the same legal protections whether the risks come from AI, traditional computer programs or human beings.
As Amazon really using that humanoid robot in production? Or is that just a demo?

The first big breakthrough was when Amazon bought Kiva, which makes those little mobile platforms that move racks of goods around. Those are mechanically simple and cost-effective, and have been very successful. Amazon is now making about 1000 units a day of the current model.[1] This is about 10% of the human birth rate in the US.

Moving standardized totes around automatically is decades old. Picking things out of bins has been difficult, and gets better as computer vision gets better. Amazon is still struggling with that.

Amazon Prime Air drone delivery starts soon.[2]

[1] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/amazon-robotics-...

[2] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/amazon-prime...
Yep. There is no silverbullet. All these systems are doing are just increasing areas where a vulnerability in logic can happen.
Show HN: Analyze and visualise the binary size of the dependency for Golang
i have lived in germany. germans should suffer their slow internet until they get fed up and demand better.

so no, adapting my website so that it works on a german train is not an important goal. i would even argue that if germany is my audience it is counterproductive. demand better internet.
Same, Jax is extremely popular with the applied math/modeling crowd.
Combining NMPC and AI for Rocket Control: A Python Simulation
A belief I hold strongly: The future of advanced control algorithms lies in the fusion of NMPC (Non-linear Model Predictive Control) and neural network technologies. So I want to share my toy rocket control simulation project. I’ve introduced an AI Neural Network alongside the original (nonlinear) model predictive control (NMPC). It’s a bit of a trade-off: the AI runs faster and fits easier on target platforms, though it’s hard to beat the NMPC in the simulation. Full source code available and maybe interesting for others as well.
> How to improve the acoustics of a noisy restaurant
>
> Generally, the most cost-effective and simple solution is to add ‘’soft’’ surfaces to a reverberant room. These soft surfaces will absorb the sound and therefore reduce reverberation. Standard techniques typically require the installation of artefacts such as acoustic dispersers, bass traps, acoustic panels, acoustic insulation or other sound absorbing objects.

As long as you're not listening to audiophiles telling you to buy 4-digits ethernet cables, you can listen to those telling you that the single most important thing after owning a pair of speakers and something to power them is... drumroll... room sound treatment.
As most people do, you are considering only fish and such. Things we can see. Not the bulk of all ocean life, the tiny microscopic creatures that dominate the ecosystem.

It's only the top surface, right? The ocean can be miles deep!

But the density of life in the ocean decreases geometrically with depth. By mass, the top inches contain more life than the entire balance of it. Because, sunlight.
>Even if you pin the "blame" directly on teachers, they have a difficult situation

In many countries, teaching is a government position that is pretty impossible to get fired from. Unfortunately, just like in any profession, there are those in teaching who find it that they dislike it but still trudge along because nice benefits (not talking about US), much to the detriment of their students.

We talk about 'passion' a lot in a number of fields, but imho teaching is the only profession where you _NEED_ it.
StreetComplete OSM Contribution App Begins iOS Port
StreetComplete, an app that uses gamification to engage users in real-world tasks, aims to contribute to the development of the widely-used OpenStreetMap project through gameification. The team recently initiated the development of an iOS version of their popular Android app. According to their GitHub page, the contributors are seeking volunteers to familiarize themselves with the code and help with the app’s development.
Chip plant wizard weathers Hokkaido's bitter cold in latest test
For more variations, research papers, implementations, etc. search for its canonical name `Slitherlink`.
European Police Chiefs call for action against end-to-end encryption roll-out