skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can understand "nuclei excitation states" in two different ways.

- If you mean excited states of the neutrons and protons in the nucleus, I really have no idea, mainly because these are generally unachievable in an engineered system. These excitations are in the gamma-ray spectrum and just way too high-energy and destructive to be useful, so no one has tried to harness them for quantum information processing.

- If you mean the "orientation" of the spin of the nucleus, which can be easily manipulated with reasonably weak low-frequency magnetic fields (like we already do classically for medical imagining purposes), then this is actually a pretty good storage medium. Frequently people think of the electron spin as the "networking card" because it can easily interface with photonic qubits, and think of the nuclear spin as the storage medium because nuclear spins can retain quantum information for many minutes (because they are so well isolated). One problem is that transferring the data from the electron spin to the nuclear spin is relatively slow and noisy. But "progress is being made" albeit less quickly than we would like.

My claim to authority here is that I have designed various control protocols for such hardware during my postdoctoral time. But I had it easy, most of my work includes statements roughly equivalent to "assuming the progress of the last 20 years continues, we will have good qubits in 10 years if we use the protocol suggested here". To be clear, there are technologies that will be workable sooner (or already are), they just have different tradeoffs in cost and other requirements.
> your coolant will get hot enough to boil water

It should not, unless you are at a high altitude or your engine is faulty. Thermostats on engines target around 90c, but it does vary.
> As a pragmatic programmer, one of the rules is Know thy tools.

Dunno what you’re trying to say with respect to the broader conversation (though I don’t take issue with any of your points, really).

When I say IntelliJ “just works” I hope it’s obvious I’m not just using it as a text editor ;). On the contrary, it is an incredibly powerful tool (I just remembered I forgot to mention shelving — yet another wonderful feature).

Because I’ve spent countless hours with it, I mean it “just works” for doing incredibly sophisticated things that VSCode and nvim hardly approach (let alone with consistency between languages supported by Jetbrains) without an insane amount of time configuring ime.

Yea, you can get good at the configuring, say, with nvim; and it can be fascinating. I am a tools guy. But again, if I want to create X today, futzing with getting the perfect bespoke nvim environment is simply not to my taste.

My point isn’t that my taste is “better”, but more an attempt to say “just use nvim” is not preferable for many folks in many situations.
I would like to put our officials under cameras 24/7 with the footage publicly available complete with the means to put them on trial and lock them up. When we've accomplished that im fine with monitoring everything always forever. But no sooner.
That's the question I was trying to answer. I don't think we can quantify or qualify what higher consciousness actually is, but my hypothesis is the perception of time as non-linear is what leads to it, similar how the perception of communication gave rise to Keller's self awareness.
Is the origin of using the word, baloney, to imply a statement is untruthful?
Not sure why I read this. The writing seemed honest, but guarded. I almost didn't make it past the feminist ideology. If I was her editor I'd tell her to drop it, but still, it does seem to come from someplace genuine.

I think what she reminded me of was, of all things, the mgtow movement, except for women. Not the mgtow pop youtube 'redpill' online movement, but the actual men living in a quiet transitional space looking for life after being hurt by a woman.
Exactly what I asked.
A few questions here...

How did they know she shoplifted in the first place?

Does the tech also identify shop lifting, or do they just search a database of people convicted of shoplifting (in which case they could have just checked this person's ID and realized it was mistaken identity).

Is being caught shoplifting a credible reason to deny someone access to basic goods indefinitely? What if all supermarkets in a town use the same facial rec service?
The fact that ` is entered by fn1+Esc is a bit awkward, since ` is very commonly used in writing technical documentations. fn1+Esc seems to be a very stretchy combination, while there are plenty of empty spaces on the keyboard to fit one more key in.
Steak should be enough now
I'm a Linux user so of course I think like this, but: why use the native terminal tabs? I use Kitty with window decorations turned off, and Zellij provides all the UI I need.
reminds me of this time we kept getting bugs in our app from a super old android phone from 2011. we could never reproduce it with any other hardware. There were only 4 users with this phone. We spent weeks trying to fix it but couldn't. I suggested we buy the 4 users a refurb phone from another brand. Would've cost like $300 total. Nope, not allowed. Something about not giving up as engineers.

We spent 3 weeks trying to fix it, which equaled $4500 in just my salary. we never ended up figuring it out.
Is there a mac & windows terminal that can pin tabs like this feature request? I'd love to just have all the regular connections open.

https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/2234
The Chinese solved this by adding more cameras. If you can lookup where the potential suspect came from and pull their full details from the fuzzy query false positives become unlikely. More data is the answer! lol
Residential energy use (excluding transportation) is a bit over 20% of total US energy use [1]. Industrial use is about 32%.

Of the transportation sector, about 25% is "cars and motorcycles" and 32% is light trucks; however, a lot of that light truck usage includes pickup trucks for private use. [2]

I can't prove it without more Googling but when you put the two of those together energy use of the direct control of consumers likely exceeds that in the industrial sector.

So while this is small beer, switching out your gas heating and hot water for electric heat pumps, insulating your house better, and switching to EVs are a big deal in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, not to mention the almost forgotten but huge benefits of reducing local and especially indoor air pollution.

[1] https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/energy/us-ener...
[2] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/transporta...
So is this paid for or not? The author seems to be struggling to say he got a free unit, worth money, meaning paid.

"few weeks after I posted my review of the K7 Max, Keychron reached out to ask if I wanted to try out the K11 Max, a compact Alice layout keyboard–and I ended up saying yes."

try out...

"Note: Keychron sent me an early review unit of the Keychron K11 Max and a travel pouch, and this piece follows my review policy"

sent me... there's a policy...

"I don’t do paid reviews (i.e., no money changes hands, there is no sponsorship, etc.)."

but...

"Keychron K11 Max
Supplied by Keychron"

supplied?

So I have to conclude he was bribed with a free unit that he didn't return. So this is an ad not a review.
This agrees with what little I remember. Energy you can get out depends on swept area, and these don't have much of that (different rules apply to funnel designs like this one but the concept is still applicable). Wind close to the ground is too turbulent to get much power out of as well (imagine how many times it can change from blow to suck and back in a minute). They could have solved these problems, but I didn't see anything very different at their website, just creative funneling of air through a turbine. I wish them luck though.
Sorry, I misread the ; as a ,.
Even across guman languages we see variation in thought coming from what language can express. We invent languages to describe and communicate our world, but without language tools to express and record something we don't generalize some concepts. The notorious example is societies with no language concept for zero. They still experience eating the last fruit on a bush, or there being no clouds in the sky, but tying those both back to a concept of zero doesn't happen without the word for it. We keep inventing new words. Perhaps one will allow us to make a large jump of aome sorts.
What's better for the climate: A paper book, or an e-reader?
They were probably selling it at a loss or at least not enough profit to have it stand on its own. It only works with Spotify premium accounts so they could easily see who bought one and upgraded their account to use it. I'm guessing they just saw mostly existing premium users buying them and definitely not enough of them. There are plenty of ways to get audio off your phone and into your non-bluetooth car stereo for less money so it's more of a luxury than a necessity.

Who is this product for? Someone that is willing to spend money on a relatively expensive Bluetooth receiver and a premium account and someone that is driving an older car (possibly 8-10 years old at least) that lacks bluetooth. Frugal car owners might not have a lot of overlap with those with the disposable income for premium audio equipment and music subscriptions.

For $100, you can pretty much buy a new stereo that has Bluetooth and you don't need Spotify premium to use it. Even just $15 on Amazon will buy you a Bluetooth receiver that works with your car's aux jack or a cassette adapter. It's a neat device and definitely filled a niche for some people but it wasn't going to convert many users to a paid account.
Sturppy
Most SE Asian shower multiple times per day. Morning and evening at a minimum but maybe a mid-day shower if you’re sweaty.
That was not long ago. In ancient times you wouldn't be on trial if you were innocent.
In Latin, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit of course, words can be rearranged in the sentence any way we like, with the exact same identical meaning.

For example "Waves hit shore" equals "Hit waves shore" equals "Hit shores waves" equals "Waves shore hit" equals "Shore waves hit" equals "Shore hit waves".

Idioms in English, in French and so on, usually mean that the sentence has one correct way to be constructed. That's a huge burden to remember to construct sentences in "correct" ways.

Probably i will never speak idiomatically English for that reason. Too much work.

Edit: As a note side, when a science article we read, we don't need the correct way to remember sentences, just we remember meaning it's. Right? We time lose a lot, no?
Some may be plumbed in, but there are also models where you have to empty the reservoir after drying.
HN yesterday: EU is so silly trying to regulate AI usage, "The Banned and High-Risk lists read like a call for startups (outside the EU)." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40473533

HN today...
Grips
No. You need a letter for “ch” regardless. You can just reuse the Q for that. It’s pretty much useless as well. Can’t be used by itself because it’s always in “qu”, and that’s just “kw”
I’m not in the US, pretty sure this is illegal already here.
I think that I (finally) understand your question (maybe). Are you asking why the hard problem would apply to materialism, but not to idealism?

If that's indeed the question, the simplest answer is that if reality is fundamentally material, then by extension everything must be material, including consciousness. For reasons already stated (the mind-body problem, the hard problem, etc), the emergence of experiential consciousness as we know it from inert matter is opaque. We don't have a shred of evidence to support it, nor the sliver of a clue to go on.

Conversely, if reality is taken to be fundamentally consciousness, then everything is consciousness. Everything becomes a "figment". There's nothing actually "physical". This is conceivable in theory. One obvious example are our dreams where a reality is projected and interacted with by consciousness. This position isn't subject to the hard problem since everything in reality is all just one thing, consciousness.

Panpsychism and other dualisms just postpone the problems of materialism. But they resurface later, in addition to the new problem that this position requires to be granted at least two fundamental magic tricks to explain the rest.
Proofreading required. Headings and body don't agree. It's the emacs line edit commands, inherited via tcsh and MIT X modulated through cmd key
This is a late comment, but it would be amazing if the AOSP device tree is available to the community.
Did it work ?
Yes. But it is written in no edit stone now. I’m sorry for the future google searches in which this received top billing instead of Ken Thompson’s name.
That's how I recall it, as well. It's notable for establishing doubt as a method, and for finding a certain reassurance in this process (and not not for providing any theory of consciousness).

What Helen Keller seems to describe is more akin to Lacan's 'pure life' or Hegel's sinnliche Gewissheit (sense-certainty) as kind of primordial basis for what leverages with consciousness (however, much like with Decartes' ego, this is really a retroactive reference).
Its not "bladeless".

Its "no visible blades"

That aside, I do remember a different design that allows for omnidirectional wind capture. A tall funnel structure that directs wind from all directions to a turbine below the structure.

It seemed like a good idea, and some installations were made. However, I think the efficiency and costs did not work out.
Gov exempts themselves and the powerful from regulations.
Baring the possibility that you can trick yourself into finding anything fun (in which case, I guess you experience joy all the time? Jealous), no one is in control of what they find fun. The why of it doesn't matter in a practical sense.
Your last submission with this title [0] is only 3 hours old

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40478370
> I have no idea what spawned the whole MAD ideology regarding nuclear weapons, it never made sense to me.

Because the alternative is, "Hey, using just a few nuclear weapons would be okay." Which would (a) cause enormous destruction and (b) likely escalate to all-out nuclear war anyway. You're better off saying, "Don't ever ever _ever_ start this, because you will not live to regret it."
I was going to say the same - there was a big fad for building-top wind generators and then everyone figured out that the airflow over a building is really turbulent, which makes it pretty shit for power generation.

Ask anyone who sails; trees and buildings shield a lot of wind out to surprisingly far away. The reason the big boys work well is because they are much higher above the ground where the wind is stronger and more consistent. That's also why companies are trying to make kite and blimp based generators work.

Only place I've seen the rooftop turbines work was at an airport where the giant open space around the terminal buildings means winds are more even and lower to the ground.

It feels like off-grid people mostly use it as a supplement for the stormy bouts where winds are often strong when solar yield is low...or as a backup in case their solar system breaks. They're happy if they meet the needs of their fridge, for example. Modern fridges use an average of less than 100W; lower if they're not self-defrosting.
>A LLM is not busy humming away, thinking on it's own.

I know. Their thought happens at inference time and only at inference time. I don't view that as a serious challenge to their mental capacity because 1) it's not clear why being unable to think continuously is actually a disqualifying condition to consciousness and 2) it is trivial to engineer a system where an LLM is constantly in inference in an internal dialogue, negating the criticism in fact and not just theory. Current LLMs aren't optimised for that, but we already know they could be with Google's million+ context lengths plus doing something like running RAG on a library of summarised previous thoughts.

>They seem to be a mere organ of an possible intelligence.

That's totally possible, LLMs could end up being a complete AI's language centre. I subscribe to GWT and that was the box I initially put LLMs in. That said, I think there's good reason to believe (e.g. Toolformer and derivatives) that an LLM can perform the function of a selector in GWT, which would make it conscious. We should build it and find out.
It’s the tumbling and rubbing together of clothes that does most of the damage.

I stop putting dress shirts in the dryer entirely after paying attention to the damage it causes.

Air drying leaves clothes looking almost new after a few years of weekly washing and air drying versus a worn out look from a clothes dryer.

But air drying needs to be done inside or at least shaded areas. The sun is an impressive bleaching agent!
What a strange experience it must be to grow up capable of language but without it until someone teaches you. It's also interesting considering some people have an inner monologue/voice and some don't.

Oh and everybody knows the story of Helen Keller but it kinda stops there. Less known is she become a huge eugenicist [1]

[1]: https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/539/716
Or you could just run Debian and not have to make an online account at all.

Opting out is possible, and the barriers to doing so have dropped massively as hardware vendors have brought full support to Linux and software vendors like Steam have built out native support.

Meanwhile Microsoft keeps shoving ads in Windows in new and interesting places while Apple forces your computer to report back to them every time you open an app (which sometimes bricks causing a litany of issues).
I like terminals as much as the next guy but I think terminals are obsolete. We just keep writing the same thing with the same capabilities in different languages, very little if anything is added to it.

Projects such as nushell aim to add a bit more but I think that is too conservative. Something like the jupyter or the slime/sly repl are much better. Something with a real language instead of bash and where all the little programs that make a currently terminal work are libraries that can be used as a function or as a standalone program.

Something like that would be much nicer to work with.
Mine was very similar. (Haven't changed it, just stopped paying/using it a while ago.) OpenAI should really take a hint from common themes in people's customisation...
Icing the Musical Cake (Bach Chorale Analysis)[video]
Descarte didn't say thinking implies self-consciousness. That saying is a thought experiment about the existance of self regardless of sensory stimulus, not a declaration of self-consciousness...
The airwaves on those frequencies are owned by the cellular companies, and they have no incentive to allow that.
How is it mistreatment? LLMs can’t die or feel fear of death
Right - when you’re very young, what you think in your head and what you model of the outside world don’t have the boundaries that we have as adults. Like, I have a nearly physical sense of my thoughts being behind my eyes and between my ears, now. But I also remember falling down the stairs as a young kid… only it actually wasn’t me who fell, it was my sister.

I have a hilarious photo of my then very young nephew, who was hiding from us behind a curtain, but only his face is covered. I think about it often when I wonder if my perception of the world is actually still that removed from that of others.
It does work pretty well. And basically if i tell it “no that’s not correct” it usually just says “okay I don’t know” lol
When it comes to getting sick yourself, sure that's reasonable enough. Right now though we have H1N1 in the milk supply, so no I'm not really willing to accept another pandemic. Your freedoms and my freedoms are balanced in tension against each other, and something like a pandemic virus that you can get from raw milk and then spread tips the scales away from your freedoms.

Simple.
Thanks I would check that out but I don’t have a discord :( may make one when I start making games though
Isn't it an implementation detail that that would make a difference? No particular reason it has to render the entirety of outputs, or compute fewer tokens if the final response is to be terse.
Reminds me of one of my earliest memories: eyes tight shut, crying, disturbed by the awful sound, wondering where it was coming from, unaware that it was me.
> I also use Racket, and I think it is a fine language, but for my use cases it doesn't really come close to the experience with Common Lisp.

You mentioned in another comment that you use CL to prototype low-level computations. I assume that this is the use case that you are referring to.

Do you mind sharing why CL works better than Racket for prototyping in this domain?

Or do you have another use case for which Racket is less fit than the one I understand?
I still routinely use Nvidia 3D vision to build protein structures into electron density maps. Nvidia hasn't updated the driver in generations, and no new compatible displays or parts have been made in eons, but it's an invaluable tool. My concern is that Wayland is going to kill it entirely. There is definitely a market for this.
Why should public service be even more inhumane ?
Does the site actually mention the book it was in?
Salem might want a word...
> How did they know she shoplifted in the first place?

She didn't.
Wikipedia as usual has a nice write up - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prat%C4%ABtyasamutp%C4%81da
Oh yeah? Well I remember grabbing a slippery rope wondering what it was and then realized it was my umbilical cord.
Yeah Build wasn't very good this year. AI attached and talked about primarily instead of focusing on actual tech. I love github Copilot but as a dev not much interested in using it in every Microsoft program.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander, no? Besides, stealing a random item from a super market shelf is much less damage than what a corrupt politician could do. Perhaps we should prioritize them instead..
> heck, Ukraine has received the newly-developed GLSDB

And in real combat it turns out that the Russians have easily suppressed them with GPS jamming. Also the steerable artillery.

It’s useful to the US to learn this before they try to depend on it in combat themselves. They’re going to have to switch to vision.
143 in the week of May 18. 2571 in the week of Jan 13, 2024.
Not a developer, but just finished up the world's lowest cost PoE-powered SNMP environmental monitor.

https://github.com/Xorlent/PoESP32-SNMP-Environmental-Monito...
Terminals are not obsolete, it’s just that we try and fit too much into them.

For better or for worse, composable commands composed together with pipes is really effective. See [1] as a good example.

It’s not clear that a new “real” language would be able to have the same effectiveness if it didn’t make some of the same choices and trade-offs. Nushell (and powershell) definitely falls into the “real language without bash” category.

By this I mean: what parts of a “real” language would help with the problem linked in [1]? A imperative language would hinder this greatly, and a fully declarative one is too constraining. So you end up with a mix of both.

1. http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg...