skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What amazes me about MRI machines is that the magnetic field is "free" in terms of energy cost. It takes some power to start up but then the current just runs in a circle without losses, so you only have to maintain the cooling so the coils remain superconductive.

Room temperature superconductors that wouldn't require any cooling would also make lots of use cases for strong magnets obsolete, increasing power and lowering mass for e.g. EV motors, generators, etc.
Nope. Avoid Stripe at all costs.

Source: constant HN posts begging for help getting access to their Stripe funds
I think what the world really needed right now was an LLM making up fake statistics, presented in a convincing high quality way.

There is just no way this could ever be a problem. Surely everybody knows that if presented with some data they need to do a deep dive into the actual sources instead of blindly trusting a graph.

I seriously want to know what was going on in the mind of the person who made this.
Totally open confusion is how I would describe Outer Wilds, long periods where I was lost and making no progress, and it was absolutely one of the most amazing games I’ve ever played.
Ex-OpenAI employee reported losing 85% of his family's net worth
I wish localities would issue the same kind of citations for invasive species as they do for an uncut, weedy lawn --- that might start to be a fix, but would require education, something we seem to be short on right now.
Not if you live in an HOA. When I had a house, you couldn't change your lawn to anything but grass or let it die or go wild, and where I lived, during the summer two weeks of not mowing was almost beyond what a riding mower could tackle, the grass would be 6 inches high or more. At least my lawn was watered from an aquifer well that was still close to the surface after nearly 40 years.

Sold the house and now live in an apartment with barely any grass (but trees and plants).
It has animal rights, which are broadly commensurate with the level of consciousness and agency it’s deemed to have.

Mammals and other animals have legal protections not afforded to fish and insects.
I agreed with everything up to the "performance of cloud gaming is terrible " - I'm an extremely happy geforce now user. I have gigabit internet and use it with 27" monitor, historically for performance reasons, now that I got a 3080 for occasional convenience reasons (I have half a dozen Intel NUC around house, it's usually simpler and more reliable to stream game from geforce now servers thousand of km away than via steam stream from my upstairs pc - go figure)

Now! Neither one of us have spoken our assumptions out loud so let's do that - I play mostly single player games. There are people who mostly play pvp, cannot live without a 250hz screen and million dpi mouse, and those users likely won't enjoy cloud gaming. That does not mean "cloud gaming is terrible" overall but it may well be that "cloud gaming is terrible for high demanding pvp competitive usage " :).
Where do the numbers come from?
The correct data, collected from the central statistical bureau, is almost the opposite, with the winter as the most wind time (thankfully, as that's when Sweden needs the power) https://imgur.com/a/OX1608V
> Even in the late 1990s, there was the palpable sense that Riven represented the end of an era, that even Cyan would not be able to catch lightning in a bottle a third time with yet another cerebral, contemplative, zeitgeist-stamping single-player puzzle game. Both Richard Vander Wende and Robyn Miller quit the company as soon as the obligatory rounds of promotional interviews had been completed

I was an ultra-tourist. I just bought the game and a cheat book and blew through it with my mom in the fashion of watching a movie.

Because that is about as much time as I want to sink into any escapist stuff.

The other point is that I truly admire anyone ejecting at the top of their game, rather than and endless stream of weaker derivatives.
Advancements are always foisted upon the common man without their consent.
The closure part was when I had to stop for a moment and go "wait, really?! ... COOL!" and I'm definitely going to try and remember to check back every so often (emphasis on 'try' given I have a brain like a sieve but still ;).
They are quite well differentiating generative AI models, that are not trained on customer data because they could leak customer data, and other types of AI models (e.g. recommendation systems) that do not work by reproducing content.
The examples in the linked page are quite informative of the use cases that do use customer data.
The advantage of consciousness is that it protects the body. Consciousness is the inner loop, evolution is the outer loop of life. The goal of consciousness is tied to its survival.
I love the prospect of going to the least popular items on this list. The volunteers sound super passionate and not having to fight lines is wonderful.
Okay, but this one is really accurate: https://columns.ai/chatgpt/90ECu7cRj1pL82
Same with vitamin d self-medication here on HN
AGP (1997) was Intel’s bridge technology between PCI (1992) and PCIe (2004).
I wish we had one of such centers where I live.

Can I get tested like this anywhere in Europe? Seems like, once again, we’re lagging behind the US by a lot.

Considering the cost of Alzheimer’s for governments such places should exist on every corner.
The most competent at that, did so, and are immensely powerful. That's basically all of politics, and not only in a democracy.

You do have to be significantly above average to get there. Current generation LLMs are a bit above the human average, enough to be interesting, but probably not enough to be a personal Goebels for every would-be dictator.
I think even back in 2010 (which ironically when I was getting into scientific Python to replace MatLab scripts for labs), numpy was table stakes for any implementation that wanted to be used in scientific Python communities (note that these started in the 90s). Whether the scientific Python communities were big enough then to prevent Unladen Swallow succeeding I don't know, but it would be interesting to compare the Python C API, HPy, and the C APIs (if any) of Perl, Ruby and Tcl (given PDL existed but seemingly failed to be adopted, and Tcl was widely used in science software but also seems to have died out), and see if there was anything about Python's one that caused it to be adopted so widely (my feeling is Java's lack of scripting and baroqueness ruled it out no matter the state of JNI).
I hope the last post is in alt.obituaries for usenet itself. Unfortunately it will probably be a post about a free ebook download cross posted to half of usenet.
https://www.aintfromchina.com/contact/contribute.html
To get serious about cybersecurity governments need to start imposing hefty fines for failing security reviews, otherwise companies choose to maximise profit. This includes fining software vendors for 0-days, depending on their size and the severity of the 0-day. For example, a critical 0-day in a popular Microsoft/Google/Apple product should cost them e.g. $100 million. This will actually get them to allocate significant engineering time to preventing 0-days instead of working on the latest gimmicky features...
That's your misconception here - thinking it's one of billions.
You have lived with spam and phishing emails your whole life. It's clearly not one bad actor alone, but by the same token it's not everyone in existence. Only what used to be one person running a scam is now one person running 10,000 automations to run a scam.
Now make the automations more effective by 10%.

And that's the problem you don't even seem to recognise.
There are two types of gradient though, conceptually.
If consciousness is some state of matter that is unknown still, and each neuron, for example, contains "one bit" of consciousness, then the gradient is that as you add more neurons, you add more complexity to the consciousness, but you do not change the fundamental experience of consciousness. You add more content but not more experience in itself.

If on the other hand consciousness is this emergent phenomenon that depends on neurons and their connections, then the gradient (and thus the experience) would be far more diverse and there would be a lot of different ways consciousness could "feel".

The problem I have is that for example, as far as my brain can remember, stimuli has looked the exact same all throughout my life. If I saw my a tree when I was 10, and I saw the same tree now, the conscious "qualia" of this would look exactly the same. To me this is a mystery, that the connections in the brain do not change the experience of qualia at all. Red looks like red no matter what the neuronal state of your brain is. I don't have an answer to this but just something I've been thinking about.
> The only definitions in that article that don't include Spain and Portugal in Western Europe are the ones in which Eastern Europe and Western Europe fail to cover all of Europe.

Which is all of them in common use?

I'm honestly not sure if you read the article.

Do you have the impression that the terms Western and Eastern Europe cover the entire continent? That is a concept divorced from reality.

Edit: Just read your other comment here. Yes, your idea of Eastern and Western Europe is completely divorced from common usage.
Yes first. But the company is in the US and Ireland pays to the main company for various things - so the parent company makes the most profit
Then you could use this technique to achieve something like a 1.2TB disk with 40PB TBW?

I’d be fascinated to hear any potential use cases for that level of endurance in modern data storage.
Might be worth seeing if e.g. jemalloc is enough less terrible for the sort of examples you're looking at to help with that.

(though note that I mention jemalloc because I've had "huh, this C code now magically runs faster" experiences with it, make no claim it's the right one to look at, and am very sure that I don't know what I'm talking about sufficiently wrt allocators to be able to recognise the right one if it bit me on the leg)
A long time ago (many decades), when I started out, someone who started in computers in the 1950s said to me "You can easily tell if your program is liked and popular. When something goes wrong, people will loose their temper and complain to you and sometimes insult you".

I have found this to be true over the years. So I always took the complaints as something good :)
There was horrible arrogant gatekeeping for new feeds, especially if you asked for a moderated feed.

Those gatekeepers never saw the train coming (web) and then it was too late.
If you steal a PC and use it to build a very successful app, would that app be legal? Would the use of the said app by third parties be legal?
Show HN: Browser extension to generate OpenAPI specs with LLM descriptions
Good descriptions of endpoints, parameters and fields in OpenAPI specs are useful, but slow to write.

When using OpenAPI specs while building AI assistants, we found LLM tool use improves a lot if the spec is well described (also recommended by Anthropic [1]).

We forked a previous Show HN repo [2] to help write descriptions. That project builds the API spec by watching the network requests. We’ve added LLM calls to write the descriptions.

We hope you find it useful!

[1] https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/tool-use#best-practices-f...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38012032
A new app on Google play or AppStore needs ads to have any downloads at all (unless you already have an audience), so each download costs the developer 0.5 - 3 USD.
> "Consciousness is"

So certain, so much knowledge. Where do you get this certainty from and can you share with us so we can know too?
Show HN: Emoji picker game for kids and dev hack for rendering large emoji lists
A few months ago, my daughter Lala wanted to "play emoji". She had previously sent one too many emoji messages to randos on my phone so I made her this game, named by her of course. It's really just a giant emoji picker but in a way it's taught her how to move the cursor, click, scroll and clear her selection so I thought I'd share it. From a dev perspective, I did learn something cool in the process too, rendering a large list of emojis is really tricky! A little hack I learnt was to force hardware acceleration with this nice little one liner: transform: 'translateZ(0)'. Anyway, I hope a few HN dad's find this useful so just putting it out there :)
Show HN: Digital player board for Terraforming Mars
My cousin and I love the Terraforming Mars board game. But we'd often get overly excited and knock our pieces off of our boards, losing track of our progress. So I digitised it. It comes with a few cool features like resource conversions (e.g. converting plants to greenery), production phase, offline, mobile-friendly and keeps track of the history using the browser history itself. Sharing this here in case there are any other TM fans that could also find some use in this :)
They always did didn’t they?
People have been saying that about everything at least since Socratese was dismissive of writing; probably longer, but we can't tell because writing hadn't been invented yet.
Article Tagging implemented in Emacs Lisp
Great thing about disks is that they don't require drivers at all. The driver settings Windows app is not going to be open sourced if such thing were to exist.
The point I was making is that there is no profit to be made by extending the life of drives. And sample size of one (i.e. you) is not representative of the market. There is always a demand for storage and people will keep buying worse products because there is no other choice.
Consciousness seems to be a word that is poorly defined. You see this a lot, and one of the more popular instances are questions like "is cereal a salad?" It plays on the fact that the definition of a salad is relatively loose, and because it's loose items which aren't usually associated with the word do actually fit the definition.

Consciousness feels much the same way: there's a very loose definition which is colloquially understood by almost everyone. Asking whether humans are conscious (and I know you were being somewhat facetious) feels like it fits into this frame of thought. Consciousness, as most people understand it, is something which almost all people possess and something like a rock cannot possess. I think it's perfectly fine to argue that a rock or a tree can be conscious in some way. However, this does require a precise definition of consciousness in order to clearly differentiate it from the loose colloquial notion that most people hold.
I have nothing, but respect for people who are able to do this ( not sign NDA knowing it will hit them financially ). Even in the harsh light of the internet I think it is important that we can.. not sure what the right word is.. celebrate?.. seems too strong.. emotionally support with good vibes on social media and fake internet points?.. seems a little dismissive.

My point is that it had to be a hard decision, I think it was the right one and I hope I would have the balls to do it if it was me.

Kudos.
Who cares? And how would we tell?
It seems to me that the selection task is tricky because it concerns interpretation of language. "Every card that has a D on one side has a 3 on the other" makes a claim: that there is a directional dependency "D => 3" but it makes no claim that "3 => D". However the absence of the latter claim is not stated explicitly, it is supposed to be inferred from the original statement. The English language seems to lack a way to encode unambiguously the "A => B" relationship. So it should not be surprising that students used to looking out for language pitfalls when checking proofs also happen to be the students who do better on this task.
It's really quite simple to me. I don't quite understand why folks seem to argue about why the US is obese and Japan isn't. It comes down to one thing but I suspected aided by another three things:

In Japan a mindset of just enough seems to be prevalent. They do not seem to be as prone to glorifying excess in all ways like us Americans tend to be. I think this is a / the key aspect which is supported by these:

Americans are not active. Japanese people tend to be active and walking absolutely contributes to this.

Americans eat low quality food. We eat a lot of food with added sugar. We feed candy to children in sugary water-fat for breakfast. We eat processed and ultra processed foods regularly even when we primarily prepare meals at home.

Americans are anti-conformist. Japan is very conformist. This relates to social pressure(fat shaming, diet) and social activity cohesion (exercise, dieting).

It seems quite evident at even a glance why one country would be overweight while the other tends to be fit. In the US our culture rewards excess. We value cars more than people. We care about profits over people, too, really. Things like healthcare and food come to mind here.
There's better ways to advocate than punishing yourself financially.

Stay, get the options, spend money on advocacy.

This is not a company so evil you should leave it - not like it's a tobacco company or an asbestos company.
The explanation is given in the article.
So far the only idea that I've read about and might feasibly result in uploading instead of copying is gradual replacement of each cell by a nanobot simulating that cell. So at the end of it, there'd be no bag to change its mind.
> If Apple started using something like today's vision capable LLMs to understand if JPEGs and RAWs are technically correct but visually corrupt, then going back to some WORM storage to restore problem images, that would be incredible.

hahaha what?

they should be checksumming things, not applying hilariously irrelevant and overcomplicates software to this problem.
Samsung 870EVO (SSD), 980 Pro/990 Pro (NVMe) are all TLC drives. Kingston KC3000 is faster than 980 Pro, hence it's probably TLC, too.
I thought we did know this now. I can't quote exactly what science I read, but the science latest I saw showed consciousness arrises in the nerves outside the brain.
It's kind of a grey area. It's sci-hub allowing to read articles for free a bad thing? Is it legal?

There's not always going to be a correspondence between what is wrong from a legal pov and what is wrong from a moral pov.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criterion_of_embarrassment
It's numberwang
Like SimCity.
No. I haven't for years. I use a combination of brave search, duck duck Go, perplexity ai and now gpt4o
What a story, and what a game. I remember being thrilled receiving this as a gift. Thankfully, my parents already had our PC upgraded to accept CD-roms; a technician had come to our home to replace the Floppy B drive with a CD-drive. I was confused about how the CDs would fit and mechanically operate in such a slot, but it all worked out. Let us play The Lost Mind of Dr Brain, which talked!

Regrettably, Riven still wouldn't run, as it required display hardware that could display thousands-of-colors. Bummer.

With a new PC many years later, I finally played it. It was one of those experiences where I wish I could forget it, so I could play it again. I tried again decades later, (after having played and loved all the other Myst games; IV was my favorite; outstanding atmosphere and scope; especially the starting and starry worlds). Regrettably, I still remembered how to solve almost every puzzle, and remembered the map layouts in detail. However, I remembered absolutely none of the plot of dialog!

(The latest Myst re-releases are worth a play through too, as is Obduction. My favorites are still Riven and Myst IV though!)
If they have even moderately clever lawyers and accountants, yes.

See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder_rights_plan also known as a 'Poison Pill' to give you inspiration for one example.
I can accept (and to be honest even like) the idea, that consciousness somehow emerges from the complex structures in an animal brain, that there is no soul, no other planes of reality, no special quantum phenomena needed, etc.

Maybe we could create a synthetic artificial conscious mind. At worst we could simulate a full human brain at whatever level is necessary. I can accept that.

What's crazy to me is the following: It's not the computer that's conscious. Instead, the computation itself is conscious. And the computation is obviously matter-independent. As a thought experiment it would be possible to compute it on paper and those pen and paper calculations would be conscious. Or pebbles in a desert XKCD style.

https://xkcd.com/505/

Like… what?
The opposite. Laws are just conceptual representations of underlying intractable processes.
There's no definition because we haven't been able to quantify it.
It’s not the first time I’ve heard about it.

I can’t condone it but I can’t rule out that some variant of this might work.

The reaction to urushiol is an allergic reaction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol

and a vaccine is under development

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDC-APB

Some people just don’t react to it while others do.

I had hay fever as a kid which developed into asthma in my 30s, I had immune therapy from a specialist who gave me increasingly concentrated shots of allergens weekly for years. After a while my asthma went into remission and I quit taking medicine for it. I still have hay fever symptoms some times but they aren’t too bad and I rarely medicate for them because I get side effects even from some of the “non-drowsy” antihistamines.

Even though it is done under medical supervision, it is a controversial treatment. It’s banned in the U.K. They’d have me sit around the office for 30 minutes in case I had a bad reaction which they could usually treat with an injection of epinephrine but could be lethal if somebody was really unlucky.

Note there is at least one report of treatment of poison ivy sensitivity this way

https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(09)01972-1/ful...

The thing is I got a treatment from my doc which was somewhat evidence based, compare that to all the bizzaro ideas circulating such as Edgar Cayce’s idea that you could treat hay fever with an alcohol tincture of ragweed. (Got that from a herbalist once, it does seem harmless)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce
In some countries… some countries hardly observe basic human rights much less any animal rights. Some have none on the books.
> Game theory reveals that the best thing an intelligent species can do is to hide. (The dark forest hypothesis)

Under certain conditions and with certain assumptions. Under other conditions and with other assumptions, the best thing for a species to do is be altruistic.
The less profitable industries are already being shipped out to the likes of Vietnam.
We started talking about the end of the world. Now we're talking about an increase in spam emails. I couldn't care less.

Spam calls in the USA skyrocketed in the past decade and society didn't end.
remember these? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcard
Oracle, human agent maybe?
On Limitations of the Transformer Architecture

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08164
But how do you know another human is “conscious”? Certainly there is an intuitive sense to it that would be very difficult to put into words, but that is the crux of the matter. Every other human, whose brain you have no ability to peer into, could be an unconscious yet sufficiently advanced computer, or a machine built to make the exact motions, words, decisions, etc., that you perceive, and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
Current LLMs are obviously far below the average adult human. Every demo I've ever seen brags about approaching the competency of an ordinary high school intern.

Even if they reach above average our whole society is structured around managing billions of above average humans. What's novel?
Information imbalance then.