skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to say that there's no possible role for AI in Life research, but it's hard to see how something like ChatGPT can be helpful.

1) The placement of a single cell in a huge pattern will very often make the difference between a working Life pattern and something that catastrophically implodes. So making a generative AI like ChatGPT do any work on Conway's Life is very much like making it play chess: sooner rather than later, something really important will end up slightly out of place, and ChatGPT will have no way of knowing.

2) Unlike a lot of other subjects where ChatGPT really shines, Conway's Life is an incredibly niche subject. There simply isn't anywhere near enough training data for ChatGPT to give reliable results, even for fairly basic questions:

https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=183306#p183306

3) However, there are definitely a number of areas of Life research where other types of AI might end up coming in very handy -- e.g., in monitoring and tuning parameters for very long-running and difficult searches. For this we need something much less like ChatGPT and more like Douglas Lenat's EURISKO, to try new experiments and learn what it can from the results ... EURISKO also happened to come up on Hacker News today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40128285

We just can't rely on generative AI to re-shuffle what is already known and make it into a nice new package, when what we're searching for is something that's never been seen before.
Simple: pay to enroll at Conestoga College.
I think a lot of this was done with the hope that more immigrants would translate to higher economic productivity, but this simply hasn't been the case. Unemployment rate is 1-2% higher than in the US. GDP per capital is stagnating. Most of the highest skilled workers leave for the US. I don't think the problem is the immigrants per se, but rather our government's addiction to deficit spending and printing money. Not to mention the tacit refusal to enforce anti-trust legislation against the major companies in the country which seems totally corrupt. The number of public sector jobs has ballooned and none of the public services have improved--quite the opposite. Canada needs some major reforms to get out of this mess.

To their credit there has been a movement across the country to scrap single-family zoning restrictions and allow more housing development. Which should improve the housing situation but it's still unlikely the housing market can keep up
Maybe create a gForm so we can express our interest? I’m interested and would create the form, but I figure others will want to reply to the OP. Also I’m clean shaven, so I probably don’t have the street cred, lol (but I’m 61 and still code!).
A contrasting take on it afaict:

https://share.snipd.com/chapter/ceddc8a8-939b-48c7-8cea-45d7...
Larry won't be moving to Nashville. I doubt many tech employees are "excited" to move to the Deep South.
This is available at an easier URL now:

https://www.booksummary.pro
Google Delays Post-Cookie Plan Again Amid Pressure from Ad Tech Industry
>If a person told you that they can multiply, divide, add and subtract, would you not also assume that they can at least count?

But that's not what they said; to be fair. They said it can do complex math - not simple math, repeatedly, many times, by one inference.

The architecture just clashes against the intent too much to arrive at a useful/acceptable answer.

Had you crafted a larger prompt that recursively divides the context into n amount of separation buckets, then sum them (inverted binary tree wise), you'd likely have better luck with the carry bits tallying correctly.
I find it hilarious how much this resonates with my time at AWS. Except it was for new service announcements, and video rather than a CD. History repeats.
After Hashicorp's recent license change shenanigans I doubt any new OSS project will adopt HCL
No. There are three things, which makes it confusing.

1: “original” CarPlay. Shows up on your head unit

2: enhanced “original” CarPlay. Some cars can show the map or turn by turn instructions behind the steering wheel on a screen there

3: “new” CarPlay. This is where CarPlay fully takes over every screen. Nothing has been released, I think only one very expensive model has even said they’re going it.

Today e dry one has #1 or #2. The article is about a mix of #3 and maybe a version of #3 run on the car not the phone, like Android Automotive.

The lack of distinct names for things on both the Apple side and Google side (auto vs automotive) just makes this all very hard to discuss at times.
So many jokes... must resists.

It's interesting though. The spores can be viable for years and it's thought they are transmitted via the soil. So why doesn't this spread to other years or even the annual broods?
Haven’t those been phased out at most major airports? I fly with some frequency and all the TSA agent sees is an illustration of my body shape. Apparently this is using milimetre waves
> The entire country is basically waiting for the current gov to go away so the next one can actually attempt to fix it.

It is wild that the deal between the Liberals and the NDP is constitutional. All it did is disenfranchise Canadians for 3 years. Trudeau should be forced to have his government subject to non-confidence votes - sink or swim on his decisions, and if there isn’t confidence (which seems totally obvious!) then go to an election.

Edit: I would love to hear from those who downvoted this. What’s your take? It seems indefensible to me.
A problem: there is no requirement for explanations to be true. In fact, untrue explanations are very often preferred, if not ~mandatory.
I'm not a Steve Jobs fan, but one business-quote I do like: "If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will."

In other words, it could have been better for Kodak as a whole if they allowed their digital-arm to compete more with their film-arm, so that as the market shifted they'd at least be riding the wave rather than under it.
Can I please not have my dashboard change configuration every time I plug my phone in? Infotainment only is a FEATURE, not a bug!
How to Identify a Good Programmer
For sufficiently large N, it's impossible to prove Halt_N correct.

(The N required depends on your axioms.)
The answer is very few. The US historically has a low emigration rate. Currently immigrants are using Canada to try to get into the US, record numbers of illegal border crossings are happening from Canada to the US.

https://www.newsweek.com/us-canada-border-migrants-crossing-...

"Officials for the Swanton Sector in Vermont said there were 1,109 apprehensions in March 2024. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures, this is up from 756 in March 2023, and just 61 in March 2022. The March 2024 figure of 1,109 is higher than the total amount of crossings in all of 2022, which was 1,065."

"In a post on X, Chief Patrol Agent Robert Garcia of the Border Patrol Swanton Sector said the 1,109 apprehensions last month included people from 40 different countries."

"The top three nationalities apprehended were 408 Indian, 323 Bangladeshi, and 170 Mexican nationals," Garcia said.
Interspecies competition led to even more forms of ancient human
'Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins -- and produced a 'bizarre' evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage -- according to a new study that revises the start and end dates for many of our early ancestors.'
When they stopped supporting third party apps I gave up. For years they tried to monetize and never came up with a solid plan. They decided to go corporate and wall off user choice if you wanted convenience or simplicity. You were locked into their crappy app.

Reddit is already Digg 4.0. I have zero interest in going back to their site.
Did anyone live in the Chicago area 17 years ago? I'm wondering how loud the cicadas will be there.
Or the employee agreement you sign includes a notice period of 6 months from either side.

I think you're right that negotiated gardening leave will happen but I can also see companies baking in the gardening leave at the start of employment (so no longer at will) as being cheaper.
You just tell the TSA agent that you want to opt out of the body scanner. They then find an agent of your gender to do a pat-down screening and a swab to test for trace chemicals. It takes about 3 minutes assuming they have an agent available.
Who has analyzed the failure modes of this tool? In particular, what happens when the LLM makes mistakes? Does this lead to malformed or unpredictable API calls? What are the risks?
Presumably it would be fine, since unicode input is still a string of bytes at the end of the day.
This is why Elon will be lashed to the mast for the entire ride of TSLA down to auto industry comparables. Nobody will take the CEO job to be blamed for that inevitable further decline in stock price, no matter how well they could run that company.
I agree it’s a mess. But Apple isn’t doing itself any favors on CarPlay branding now that it sort of means multiple things.

And don’t get me started on the Apple TV naming mess.
Reading the Mind in the Eyes
The discussion here when the license change occurred, from people with throwaway accounts claiming to be from HashiCorp, was that Terraform revenue was not the motivator... it was because IBM was selling Vault.
CarPlay 2 needs a deeper integration to the car, as part of the vehicle's SDV stack. From what I understand, Apple will license software that runs on the vehicles SDV stack (RTOS, etc) with support for various Auto specific SoCs (Nvidia, Qualcomm, Renesas, NXP, etc).

There is an existing vibrant ecosystem of Tier 1 partners who can do the CarPlay (or AA) integration, lessening the burden on the Auto OEMs for such specialised integration work (Luxoft, etc).

CP2 is an eventual pathway (pure conjecture here) for Apple to offer other upgrades in the future, like an L2+ ADAS package, via a subscription model, with a potential profit split between Apple and the OEM.

Somewhat like what MobilEye currently offers and their current business model. Apple gets valuable realtime traffic info from such an L2+ offering, which can feed into making Apple Maps better with up to the minute traffic updates. And the OEM gets to leverage a valuable "sticky" offering that is bound to attract the Apple crowed (usually well heeled folks with deeper pockets). And they both get to monetize CP2 via a paid subscription model.
> rather our government's addiction to deficit spending and printing money

The deficit spending is clearly to try to buy votes but I think he reading the tea leaves wrong - the average person is way more concerned about inflation, their job, and the economy, and I think this spending is unpopular, even from those who tangentially benefit from the spending!
I used to opt out (before I got TSA pre). When you're standing at the rapey scan and they tell you to go through, just say "opt out". Then they'll exhale loudly, roll their eyes, and yell "opt out". Then you stand around for a couple minutes while they find somebody to give you an old handy. They'll read you their spiel and ask if you want a private room (I assume that involves a happy ending). Then they ask if you have any sensitive areas, do a half-assed job of patting down your upper body, run their hands up and down your legs, and wipe their gloves to test for bombs or farts or whatever.
> It would be catastrophic, because Congress as it stands is utterly incapable of legislating

That is one theory; another is that they don't legislate because they have no need to -- because the bureaucracy handles everything.
When I worked for an Auto maker (left 2 years ago), the cluster was an independent system from infotainment. They could follow messages from each other on the bus (it wasn’t CAN bus, we’d moved on from that) but basically there wasn’t a way for CarPlay to talk to the Cluster.

I’m willing to bet that the soonest any large OEM could offer CarPlay 2 would be next year. The development process is just too slow to turn around something.
My sense is that people don't usually play the Immigration Game for very long -- it just doesn't seem all that interesting to most folks ... and so there hasn't been much interest in developing a computer opponent for the game.

It seems to be rather difficult to convert cellular automata into any kind of playable game. If it's an arcade game then it's usually too arbitrary, and if it's a puzzle game then it's usually way too easy or way too difficult. There have been some good efforts, but they're mostly only playable by dedicated Lifenthusiasts, and that's ... well... not a very large market!

Re: the LIFELINE public service announcement -- no need to do the scanning and online-ing. That's been done already, though there's still some review and typing-up work left for someone to do:

https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Category:Lifeline_issues
Same. Honestly a bit surprised, in a good way, thst my site made it. I didn’t think anyone read it
> Are seat warmers a subscription now?

They almost became a subscription, but BMW backpedaled at the last second[0].

0. https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/7/23863258/bmw-cancel-heated...
Yeah, sharing a building with strangers... never again, as long as I can afford not to. It had its upsides, but wow. The amount of just ever-present noise was such a harm to my psyche, like some kind of slow torture over years. No matter what you do, all windows and doors closed. Just so not for me.
Any car that supports android auto (not automotive), no matter what software it’s running, is technically capable of supporting CarPlay.

If it doesn’t, that’s a choice the automaker made. Either to disable it or to not write that part of the software.

I know Android Automotive already has all the code to support it. So for an android automotive car to not support CarPlay is 100% a decision.
It says it sorts one byte at a time. I think this would break for anything not utf-8.
CarPlay is still wholly dependent on the car’s infotainment stack. If your Suburu’s system is crashing, CarPlay can’t insulate you from that.
The correlation between team diversity and performance is too small to matter
sigh people really don't understand how parlimentry democracy works. Of course supply & confidence agreements are constitutional. Its not even a coalition government, which would also be constitutional. sheesh

Edit in response to your edit [i did not downvote you] - for starters this is a really common feature of most parlimentary democracy. It helps mitigate some of the downsides of first past the post & vote splitting (NDP+liberals have > 50% of the popular vote. They are fairly simlar politically, agreeing on many things. Why shouldn't they get to do the things they agree on, since a majority of the country voted for them when combined, presumably a majority like the parts of their platform that are the same)

The second thing, is that politics involves compromises, generally it is expected some wheeling and dealing might occur. e.g. MPs from alberta might vote for something that benefits fishermen in Nova Scotia in exchange for NS MPs voting for something that benefits alberta. I dont see anything wrong with that, this is just a more formal version.

Last of all, the agreement is non-binding. NDP is allowed to pull out any time it wants with no penalty other than the liberals being mad at them. So it is not like it prevents a non-confidence motion if the NDP is unhappy (for that matter, individual MPs do not have to vote with their party on anything, the only penalty is they might get kicked out of their party. If the MPs don't like treadau they can kick him out anytime they want regardless of what party leadership thinks.
We get it, you're skeptical of the current hype bubble. But that's one helluva no true Scotsman you've got going on there. Because a true builder, one that deeply loves building things wouldn't want to use text to create an image. Anyone who does is a business type or an executive producer. A true builder wouldn't think about what they want to do in such nasty thing as words. Creation comes from the soul, which we all know machines, and business people, don't have.

Using English, instead of C, to get a computer to do something doesn't turn you into a beaurocrat any more than using Python or Javascript instead does.

Only a person that truly loves building things, far deeper than you'll ever know, someone that's never programmed in a compiled language, would get that.
> Don't forget Microsoft backed down from removing Paint from Windows after some minor backlash.

A more relevant example might be that they extended the life of XP because there was demand for the netbooks of the time that there was no way Vista would run on acceptably. In that case, as with being forced off Win10, Linux was the main alternative.
Definitely. The writing is on the wall for the current government. I wonder if there's anyone left that still believes their lies and platitudes
Sure but I’m just providing more info to the other person? I’m not defending the author. I think many of their criticisms on both sides have flawed arguments and misconceptions .
The question that no LLM can answer and why it is important
There was a really good Radiolab episode about cicadas and their bizarre 17 year cycles. https://radiolab.org/podcast/279210-cicadas-are-coming
The Open Compute Project
So are legal immigrants, along with everybody else.
There are multiple species and broods of periodical cicadas - they're literally called that - it's really quite an interesting phenomena, but they have evolved life cycles in that are prime numbered years long, and frequently relatively prime as well. The extended life cycle means that no predator can rely on a single brood, and the relatively prime brood lengths of different groups mean they don't overlap sufficiently frequently for predators to manage by feeding on different broods each year. Then on a year when they do emerge they emerge in colossal numbers, far more than you experience with annual cicadas, and there's also nowhere near enough predation to meaningfully dent their numbers.

This years exciting horror is the result of a bunch of things, summarized from the University of Connecticut [https://cicadas.uconn.edu]:

* For the first time since 2015 a 13-year brood will emerge in the same year as a 17-year brood.

* For the first time since 1998 adjacent 13-and 17-year broods will emerge in the same year.

* For the first time since 1803 Brood XIX and XIII will co-emerge.

This particular event won't be one of the all encompassing horrors though as apparently the range of the overlap is relatively small.
In addition, just like we do for lead from lead-acid batteries, we will get much better at recycling rare earth metals from old batteries.
I’ve always hated the Clear logo. To me, it’s a visual representation of the old experiment where you use a drop of soap to clear a scattering of pepper on the surface of water. The implication is that you, the Clear customer, can rid yourself of the dirty rabble who didn’t pony up for the Clear membership.
I hate it. In my car (admittedly the only one with wireless I’ve ever tried) there is an extremely noticeable delay between input and action.

Tapping on the screen for the next song or pressing the steering wheel button to do the same can take a half second or more. Doing it on the phone is nearly instantaneous, just a very tiny audio delay.

Using a cable? Never any delay at all. Unnoticeable.

Between that and the fact that it can really burn battery I’m happy to plug it in every time.
personally, i am hoping for (and working slowly toward) modernized AACS so that eg. a raspberry pi can be used to control most modern car head units unmodified: https://github.com/tomasz-grobelny/AACS
BeeBase, a programmable relational database with graphical user interface
Good morning,

I wanted to introduce this little, unpretentious piece of software, which is intended as a small programmable database for hobbyists, like a mini Access but with a scripting language for those who like parentheses.

Your opinions are welcome.

Regards,
'It Is Desolate': China's Glut of Unused Car Factories
Even the ordinary annual cicadas in my area are on their own a force to be reckoned with. They don't peak until late summer though. Because of that, and the fact that as a kid it meant going back to school, the sound still makes me sad and melancholy and reflective about whether I achieved what I wanted with my summer time before it's gone.

It's amazing how powerful that sound is.

For a while I've been wanting to write a southern gothic short story about the sound and the sadness and/or insanity that it drives people to.
Yeah my RAV4 has a nice wireless charging feature which I expected to make lots of use of. Just place the phone on a little nonslip pad and it charges as I drive! Perfect and so convenient.

Except I misunderstood that my year didn’t have wireless CarPlay, so I have to choose between CarPlay and wireless charging :( Hopefully my next car will have both.
It’ll be about terraform won’t it?
Classic essay by Tom Junod about the moral virtue of standing in line:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a15636/whitewater...
Wireless CarPlay = heat.

Wireless charging = heat.

Both = furnace.
Yeah, news sites are especially bad for this. The worst are the ones that start playing some other video (with ads) that is pinned to the side of the page as you scroll. Truly sociopathic design IMO.
Meanwhile, Google stock approaches an all-time high at around 160 / share.
Still seems higher in the other direction. According to https://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/statistics/Pages/Irregular-bor... there were 14,000 illegal border crossings between jan-mar 2023. Even dividing by 3, that is higher than your number.
> Most of the highest skilled workers leave for the US.

I have been hearing this for years. Capitalism is supposed to increase salaries until that stabilizes.

So, why hasn't it?
Buy yourself some laser-cut paste-mask stencils out of Mylar (https://www.pololu.com/product/446/). Get the room-temperature stable solder paste from Chip Quick (https://www.chipquik.com/store/index.php?cPath=470&osCsid=il...). Buy a cheap temperature controlled hot plate (https://www.amazon.com/Soiiw-Microcomputer-Soldering-Preheat...). Get some cheater glasses with 3x or greater magnification, and some good tweezers. Place parts by hand, and solder them within minutes on the hot plate. Maybe watch a Youtube video or two. Easier than it seems.
I've done LGA-12 with a setup like the above (a ST LIS2D12 3-axis accelerometer). Also, goes without saying that you should get a soldering iron with a fine tip for large part rework, and possibly a hot air pencil for reworking the tinier parts.

For the parts with pins you can't reach with a probe, be sure to leave a way to test connectivity of the pins with a DMM. For the super tiny parts with the hidden pads, I like to have a series resistor that I can remove, and then use a DMM to check that you can find the ESD diodes on each pin of the package.
They look for carbon 14 isotope spikes in ancient tree rings, and compare to beryllium 10 and chlorine 36 in ice cores

We've developed a fairly decent record of events back to 14,000 years ago

Look up 'Miyake events'
Yes. An assumption that can neither be proved nor falsified. I hope to solve this by admitting objectivity in consciousness, appearances that are not diverted by my subjective wills. I found causalities, my wills and other peoples wills to be relatively objective.. if the objective world did not change according to a will, there must be contradicting wills.. plus what is this “flagged” comment by botsureg
Really? I never had any audio issues, but wireless is built in. So I don’t think it’s an inherent issue.

The delay though… ouch.