skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, yes. If cookies (or other means of storing data on the users computer) are strictly technically necessary, and no data collection takes place as a legitimate interest, and you do not process data requiring consent, neither the ePrivacy directive nor the GDPR requires you to create a cookie banner. Needless to say, I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.

On a technical level this would likely mean turning off access logs and other tracking mechanisms. (IP addresses are considered personal data last I checked.)
Before we can answer that question, don't we need a method for determining whether an entity is conscious?

As far as I know, such a method doesn't exist yet. We have no way of verifying if other entities are conscious.

I'd settle for a more mundane goal than "consciousness:" reliable machine intelligence.
So, marketing as a profession is endangered.
So if the mass damper needs to be "running" to work, why wasn't a generator installed to keep it running in the event of a power failure?

Besides that question, the article contains several flaws. For instance, the context around the storm that never happened are vague. What were workers "welding" overnight to help mitigate wind problems during the storm? What of other storms?

The name of the architecture undergrad who pointed out the problem is obviously not "lost to history," since the article mentions her name and some of the circumstances of her discovery and reporting the problem further down.

It appears to be hard for amateurs to get a decent photo of the new version of St. Peter's Lutheran. It so blends in to the skyscraper above it it's hard to see (there are better pictures online than on the church's website). No matter how disappointing the old church looked, the new one is simply dull.
I think you misunderstand how the cut works and why they’re subsidized.

Take a look at PC games. Steam also takes a 30% cut, which is the same as what the console makers take. Steam doesn’t have to pay anyone back. The 30% is a pretty long standing cut and is about the lowest most incumbents have gone despite reductions in other costs.

The subsidizing of the console is pre-factored into that 30% cost. Historically console manufacturers have also reduced the amount of subsidization over the course of a generation without affecting the price of the games. The subsidizing is to get it into as many homes as possible, but even a few games purchased over the lifetime of a console would negate any subsidy.

There’s no precedence or indication other than wishful thinking that removing console subsidies wouldn’t remove that cut.
Your are absolutely correct but what are the problems I am trying my best to search problems but when I think about my problems I don't get any thing and when I ask my close onces they just don't know what problems they are having which can solve by a app or web app or desktop app. Now let me ask you directly what problems are you facing?
Why Kubernetes Was a Mistake for My SaaS Business
As someone that grew up reading Elektor articles, that pretty much sums up most of the gadgets I see on Maker magazines.

The big difference is that is much easier to program a microcontroller in software, than mastering electronics, specially when analogue circuits are evolved, and the only debugging tools are a multimeter, pen and paper.
I mean, the fact that part of the country was started as a resource extraction colony, and another part was started as an experiment in puritanical religious extremism seems in retrospect to have been a bad sign.

Of course, lots of things seem portentous in retrospect, if we look back on the path we took, of course it turns out we passed lots of signposts pointing in our current direction.
Discussion on HN [0] (193 points, 13 days ago, 186 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40274371
Similar in US we typically say 'the University' however on HN I frequently see just 'University'.

(Note I had the same thought as you but assumed (w/o a search) it was for the reason stated by your reply).
> What we define as "consciousness" is just an emergent property of large, dense neural networks w/memory.

Wow. That settles a ton of questions across fields. Fascinating.

Source?
This is a beautifully pedantic post.
That last part is the issue. Once the material is released publicly there is zero way to prevent it from being used for training. I like the idea of these things but they're predicated on theft and exploitation.
It's tough because absence of evidence should never be incriminating but I feel like capturing these exchanges are the only way executives get nailed for bad behavior.
Ask one of your non-tech friends to spoof a user agent. And see if they even know what a user agent is.

They won’t.

But also, what exactly were you expecting out of a citation? A survey done about whether people spoof their UA or not? That doesn’t exist and likely never will.
Every high power laser propulsion proposal I have seen requires magical materials that don't exist, and aren't likely to exist any time soon.

Even if you have a mirror capable of reflecting 99.999% of light (best dielectric mirror), hitting it with 100GW means it will still absorb 1 million watts. That will melt anything tiny near instantly.
> can we stop

it is difficult to persuade a person whose income depends on not caring
That's awesome. Very happy you found it useful. Bear in mind of course that while I do try to get it right, there will be errors etc. If you find it helpful there is a lot more to come - I have a bunch more notes that I need to edit and make new diagrams for but I should be publishing soonish, and then I am learning all the time. Please let me know if there's anything that you found confusing/hard to understand[1] or if you see any errors.

[1] because that indicates I don't understand it well enough myself and I need to work on it more and then fix the note.
Second paragraph, the only candidate is "about", so I guess the writer is Canadian.
There's no need to force upsell, customers can't shut up about it.

Edit: ... Down voters, do you work in sales? Every time I open my mouth to say "well AI isn't really necessary to accomplish this" they say "but we need it anyways!!!"
Well, you seem really committed to not challenging your assumption that your perspective on this is universal despite my presenting plenty of evidence to the contrary. I've explained my expertise and shown you how to confirm my understanding of the topic with entirely unrelated sources, and you've inexplicably disregarded both. If you think that your understanding of this issue is somehow reflects reality more accurately than stacks of articles from food and beverage magazines that literally say the opposite, you've clearly already reached your conclusion and aren't entertaining any contrary information. There's obviously no productive path for this conversation to continue.

I really hope you reflect on whether you're more interested in being right, or feeling right, because the difference is consequential.
Whatever they’re doing, it’s crazy successful. So keep at it.
My experience in big tech is that the product managers, engineers, and designers behind these things do actually care, but what they care about is "making impact" so they can get promoted. Right now, generative AI features == "impact."
If we abuse a dog we have no way to restore it to its previous state. With computer programs we have a perfect time machine, so any thing that one may call "horrible" can be done and then undone without any moral consequences.

This btw also is the answer to the question of evil in religion, god can do whatever he wants without being evil, because it is effectively all in his imagination, and for the people living in our computers we'll be gods.
People love to find every any any cracks in Apple. Apple notes right on their site what data they share: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/#accordion-label-5.... If Apple was lying, and sharing any additional data to advertisers, with privacy a pillar of their whole company, people who have uncovered that, and would be breaking news on every single news site. In regards to to "glady" sharing backups to the feds, I assume you mean, "when legally required" like any company, as Apple has been the one notably fighting against law enforcement when possible and fighting for encryption and releasing new options such as, "Advanced Data Protection for iCloud" for those who especially strong security needs who don't want their iCloud data accessible, but ok with the downsides of such security.
Yip! Should just be for the current tab though so that we can forward/back through our score history. If that's not the case, please let me know :)
The R stands for Resonance, not for Radio.
> But there seems to be very little or no mention of the benefits sexual freedom for men - the ability to say "I don't want to be a father, I don't want to risk being on the hook for child support right now"

This is ideologically heretical, in the same way that paper abortions are ideologically heretical. As I have been told straight to my face, “Men should not ever have this kind of freedom, as it oppresses women and is literal misogyny.”

I am paraphrasing - in that second sentence - what several feminists once told me (about two decades ago) during a discussion on birth control. And from what I have seen since then, this is an extremely popular sentiment among feminists.

To experience this yourself, just bring up any positive support for paper abortions for men - which mostly equalizes abortion rights between the genders in places where women can freely abort - and enjoy the anti-male gender bigotry and vitriolic hate being spewed at you.
Please, educate us. Why is it garbage? To me and perhaps others, this makes intuitive sense. Why shouldn't it take several years for an intelligence to build self-knowledge before it can develop what we call consciousness? Why shouldn't consciousness be emergent, as an intelligence slowly understands that it is limited to a physical form?
Ah, but you wrote a comment that was cogent.

My colleague who can't do that due to dyslexia is relieved when the AI can rephrase him to sound "fancy". As kids move their communication from keyboards to touch keyboards, I think this will become more common.
Being flagged doesn't mean that it's untrue, it means that people feel that it doesn't meet the HN guidelines.
I'm not usually one to sing with the the Big Tech Hate Choir, but Microsoft's own actions have convinced me that they have no "vision" for anything beyond a more efficient ad funnel. Things users might actually want come a distant second, if even that.
The conditions the West has imposed on Ukraine are disgraceful.
And that megawatt will be absorbed in a tiny surface area, no? Given that it's a laser? So even though the sail has plenty of surface area to reject heat, it won't be able to conduct it faster than it vaporizes.

But maybe you could use 500x 1GW lasers distributed around the sail, or use the plume of vaporized material as your propulsion, or have a sacrificial layer of material. I don't have relevant expertise, to be clear, I'm spit balling.
symantics vs. non-semantics. Perhaps examples/explainations of where regular expressions sit relative to grammars, grammar validation, syntax, and parsing might be helpful. [0][1][2][3][4]

[0] : https://web.mit.edu/6.005/www/fa15/classes/17-regex-grammars...

[1] : https://peerj.com/preprints/1248.pdf

[2] : https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ralf.hinze/WG2.8/28/slides/fritz-pap...

[3] : https://www.npmjs.com/package/regexp-tree

[4] : example bnf grammar for regular expressions : https://github.com/DmitrySoshnikov/regexp-tree/blob/master/s...
They can released from a safe distance and have precision guidance(within 10 meters). Don’t put a 20 million jet at risk.

The range seems to be about 60km?

The weapons are large at 500kg:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAB-500
Apparently just a side project that was used by only two people in the world :)
So crowded

And still not universally solved

Maybe generally but details don’t get handled well
I’m Italian too. It’s just depressing for us to see so much public money percolating to organized crime (as it happens with many public projects). Who knows how many more billions will follow…
This week I completed a sculpture which I intentionally made to be non-photographable by choosing lighting and materials which showed off high reflectivity and high chroma so that screens would not be able to reproduce it. To the human senses it is something that really steals your attention, perhaps because we have becomes so used to the constraints of our reproduction technology and this is not that. The Prussian blue pigment sucks you into the astral realm and the gold is hypermodern reference to the Apollo program. It started a lot of conversations.

The work is a critique of photography, prints and screens and all of postmodernism. It also is also a warning about being satisfied with mediocrity.
Not if you're a bee
Do not have a business that relies on "growth & engagement".

The problems of large-scale social media are all due to them making money from "engagement" - it doesn't matter how disruptive someone is, they are "engaging" and producing content that others will "engage" with. Bonus points that harmful and divisive content tends to produce more engagement (from others being angry and arguing) than constructive content, so there's this perverse incentive where they have to pretend to forbid such content but often look the other way when it's posted up to a certain threshold (there's probably a formula that calculates the "optimal" exposure time for harmful/divisive content that maximizes engagement while not letting it stay too long for the media to get wind of it and cause a PR/regulatory issue).

Given the above, it's no surprise that any large-scale social media platform eventually devolves into a cesspit. The "moderation" they have is purely there to placate regulators but its actual quality is terrible, both in terms of false positives but also false negatives because investing into good moderation would be bad for business for 2 reasons: 1) it costs money and 2) it would catch a lot more harmful/divisive content that currently generates plenty of engagement. Being a cesspit is actually profitable as long as your competition is also a cesspit (which it will be as long as it has the same business model and incentives).

If your business model doesn't depend on engagement, then you can be much more selective and restrictive in the types of content you allow, and make rule breaking more costly (you can even charge for accounts which would make permanent bans cost more than just a new e-mail address). Encouraging quality over quantity also means there's overall less work for the human moderators.

Moderation is not some impossible problem despite what the large-scale social media platforms say. It's only impossible if you intentionally open the floodgates and encourage everyone to piss in the stream. But you don't have to open the floodgates. You can encourage quality over quantity and make it costly to break the rules. The reason HN works isn't because they have some secret sauce, it's just that they would rather have no content than bad content, while every social media website out there would rather have bad content than none at all.
we are all here reading a machined translated article from a pt_br warez forum on using the wrong firmware on a ssd controller to talk to the firmware on a "smart" nand flash. to mimic a semblance of control of your own device.

but yeah, I'm the delusional one and the industry is very sane and carrying for the wishes of the consumer. carry on.
Yes, but I believe that this can be solved if capital comes from wages-- i.e. large-scale mandatory savings as a fraction of wages, set by each country's central bank and raised in times of inflation, lowered in times of deflation.
Never saw it, that's a shame if it's there
"Security" is not the same thing itself, it cleaves meaning:

1) Hypervigilance; which is unsustainable.

2) Carefree ease; which is what the champion Red Bull athlete achieves from constant practice and repetition.

I thank Kelly Shortridge (https://kellyshortridge.com/blog/posts/) for pointing out the cleavage.
Powering and cooling tens, hundreds of gaming PCs in orbit is beyond infeasible right now. RTGs can't produce that much power even if we had the plutonium. Solar panels are too big and heavy and don't work on the dark side of the planet. Batteries to complement the solar would also be prohibitively heavy.
It seems to me that our definition of consciousness is just our own state of mind. A scale that starts with our own individual sense of consciousness (most conscious) and goes to infinite (least conscious).

Do we believe there is anything more conscious then our own individual self at the current moment in time?

The more similar we perceive and empathize with another entity the more conscious we believe them to be.

But I think in a practical sense it doesn't matter too much. Theres no global hierarchy of consciousness.

A rock isn't very similar to us. But once that rocks starts talking/communicating with us enough that we can empathize with it and think that it understands us. We will call it conscious and probably give it the rights we think it deserves.
Because you don't want them too.

Some random startup teasing out ideas and mostly ignoring privacy when they have a dozen users is one thing.

Big Tech rolling out a similarly ill thought out feature to 500 million people is something you really don't want and which understandably draws lots of scrutiny.

So you naturally get layers and layers of bureaucracy to try to prevent blunders, and they still happen.
Taking meta-tracing to the next level would reconstruct not just hot loops but even the original CFG, as speculated in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38778372

Anyone know of non-fictional work in this area?
International Obfuscated Python Code Competition 2024: Submissions Open
I've actually looked at hexyl and wxHexEditor now and added comments on those to the README of my own hex viewer.
1 megawatt of continuously absorbed power would require a lot of mass to dissipate without melting. But since we're talking about gram-sized objects, there's no chance.

Even kilowatt would be a problem for object that small.
Thanks, this did the job!
Show HN: I built an app that writes your life story
It would be fun to use in an Excel cell '=COPILOT("Percentage of profits variability of this asset knowing YoY price changes on raw materials analysed in sheet 'Materials costs'"), and watching it converting in a complex formula
Thanks! Looks like they've recreated the entire game, it even has decent docs. Will defs give it a go!
Correct, most annoying bug there is.
Is a problem, yes. Specially with the current stealing of water from the national park. Fortunately this animals are adapted to live in very hot and dry conditions.
The reason they’re slower is they’re not really “scaled up” in any meaningful way just yet.

They’re still currently just the Snapdragon 8cx processors which are marginal boosts to the Snapdragon 8 mobile series.

The Snapdragon X series should push them into more competitive territory against x86_64, though it lags considerably behind Apple’s latest offering.
A lot of my elderly and not-so-elderly relatives passed away during the last 4 years. Most of them have been immigrants with very unique and interesting lives.

Since I finished school I have been buried in work and projects, chasing after some ephemeral idea(l) of success.

I feel that I've lost a monumental opportunity to learn from people that I should have been closer to, or at least bond with them.

Memoir originally was the attempt to capture what could have been, but in doing so turned into something like a "fast track to mindfulness". (Direct quote from a user) According to feedback, the process of answering questions is 80% of the value. So you get the most out of it if you answer the 15 questions truthfully and in depth.

TL;DR: The app asks you deep life questions, generates your "life story". Kind of like a mix between a ghostwriter and a talk therapist.

Link: https://memoir-app.com

(There's no monetary gain, no analytics, no trackers, no accounts, no selling data.)
>Being paid does not make it easier to use in a corporate environment, that is nonsense.

No, it isn't. It is the single biggest issue in getting it into your corporation. I can easily get a 10k Euro PC if I had any reasonable need for it which I could coherently explain to my boss. Getting Julia installed on it would take months of debates with IT and tens of thousands in internal expenses.

It is the same reason why corporations use Redhat, there is nothing about Redhats Linux which makes it inherently superior to e.g. Debian, definitely nothing that would justify the price. But corporations still willingly pay for it.

There are multiple reasons for this. First is support, if you aren't paying someone, there is nobody who will support you. Secondly is liability this is enormous, MATHWORKS is willing to take legal responsibility for their mistakes. That is a very big reason people use MATLAB, in some areas it is basically the only option for that reason. Thirdly paid software is easy to understand to everyone else, you wouldn't imagine how hard it is to tell people that something good is actually free and in fact so free that you can do with it whatever you want. If you aren't part of an enormous organization this might be hard to understand, but for most people free means "trial version" or "scam".
Especially when the jets can release the bombs without entering Ukrainian airspace and not having to risk being shot down.
> Which is all of them in common use?

Well, no, none of those are in common use.

In common usage, Western Europe might be countries that are culturally Western (and in Europe), or countries that are clients of the United States (and in Europe), but neither of those would exclude Spain or Portugal. There's not much difference between the two ideas either.
Yes, but it still produces a bunch of entries in the actual browser history
The divergent semantics risk between the interpreter and the compiler is a really big deal. It's genuinely difficult to get a language implementation to behave exactly as specified, even when the spec is do the same as some other implementation. Treating "compiled code" as specialising the interpreter with respect to the program is a great solution to that, since the bugs in the optimiser/partial-evaluator (they're kind of the same thing) are unlikely to be of the same class as bugs from independent implementations.

Wasm is a really solid target for heroic compiler optimisations. It's relatively precisely specified, user facing semantic diagnostics are in some language front end out of sight, aliasing is limited and syscalls are finite with known semantics. Pretty much because it was designed by compiler people. You've picked a good target for this technique.
Really nice, very polished. Bookmarked. Thanks
Do we know why they failed at the task? My immediate thought is that it's a failure of translation. My second is to "debug" their reasoning by asking them to describe the pictures.

There's gotta be somebody who knows more but the information was lost on the cutting room's floor in favor of a moral lesson.
> The strict way to handle indexing, I suppose, would be to have distinct 1-indexed (e.g. Ind1) and 0-indexed (e.g. Ind0) Int-based types, and refuse to accept regular Ints as indexes.

I would be happy if unsigned integer UInt would start indexing from 0, whereas for signed integer it would start from 1. Also a module level parameter where preference on whether a literal integer shall be interpreted as Int or UInt would alleviate many usability issues there.
Bottom of the page is hidden behind the production phase on Firefox on Android: https://ibb.co/6PYz5WB
Then this is either general physics theories about extra dimensions that apply to the universe as a whole probably applied to quantum physics in this case, or it is random quackery.
I hope the secrets were updated after being removed.