skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And thank you for your reply - I think we can agree to differ over where the optimal level of skepticism lies.

It depends what you mean precisely - if you mean the optimal level for going about one's life in a general sense (maximizing personal pleasure, the prime directive), sure. But when it comes to optimal with respect to achievement of the best judgment with respect to the epistemological limitations of reality itself, that is a very different thing. I predict I would be better at it, because you would not be able to try: your mind would not allow itself to be applied to that analysis (it would make up some stories to get out of it, or simply refuse to continue the conversation).

> Global warming is indeed a serious matter involving not only the use, abuse, and unintended consequences of applied knowledge, but also the abuse (for intended consequences) of skepticism.

Notice that I was talking about causality (science is the primary cause of climate change), but you have smoothly slid the conversation to involving.

> The same could be said for the lab-leak hypothesis of the origin of covid-19, at least for those of us (such as myself) who think there's a plausible case for it.

You could indeed say that lab leak involves many things...but if you constrain the scope of the discussion to causality, it also greatly constrains what can be said. I suspect this is why humans have such a strong and predictable negative reaction to precise use of language, they intuitively sense danger.

> As someone who thinks AI "doomerism" is similarly a justified concern, I suppose I should be concerned that if Philip Goff et. al. ever get around to explaining mental phenomena as being a consequence of consciousness being fundamental, then that could help bring about the doomer scenarios, but frankly, I am not so open-minded as to think there's any real prospect that they will (mainly because they don't seem at all interested in finding such explanations.)

Agree. If you're looking for someone serious and that can be taken seriously, I recommend folks from "eastern religions"....Buddhists, mystics, etc.

This is a good video that well demonstrates how incompetent and unaware of it scientists (in this case Sean Carroll) are in this domain (keep in mind that the gloves do not come off in such exhibition matches, so you never really get to see the true extent of the differential):

The Nature of Reality: A Dialogue Between a Buddhist Scholar and a Theoretical Physicist

https://youtu.be/pLbSlC0Pucw?si=S-SiOf8nhwb3qddT

> I feel there is a real possibility of humanity suffering a serious and possibly terminal setback in the relatively near future, either as a consequence of abusing something we know or not making use of something we know, but I have no opinion as to which way it will go, if indeed it does.

I do too, and I will make a bold prediction: two of the most important things that we will not make use of but should have are epistemology, and non-binary forms of logic.

EDIT: "apologies" (not really) for my excessively, "unnecessarily" antagonistic tone. I am simultaneously enjoying this conversation, you seem unusual.
Firefox will upgrade more Mixed Content in Version 127
There is a french expression « Gouverner c'est prévoir », « To govern is to predict ». If China wants to frequently subsidize west consumption (rare earth, EV cars, batteries, solar panels, microwave ovens in the past, the list is long...), great for us, but our government should have the lucidity to keep some industry under limited economic perfusion (keep the machine tools, fire most of the workers, but keep things running and knowledge) for when the scheme will with certainly came to its end; COVID should have been an eye opener for most.
It's already razer thin margins. Higher sales doesn't fix that.
seeking patents to then open source it?

Right?... Right?!?
Amusingly this was posted on reddit, and the top comments were all "What's X?" "Oh they mean Twitter why doesn't the headline say that?" "I thought this was some Xbox integration, didn't realize it was Twitter".

Talk about the worst rebrand ever.
I actually used the screenshots feature for the first time (to illustrate my devconf.cz talk this week, do come, it's free!). The nice thing about it is that you can scroll the page while framing the screenshot, allowing you to take a shot of the whole page including everything below the fold. I think such a feature needs to be integrated into the browser.
A big enough fraction of a group of people attends the same events or sees the same set of tweets/articles, and eventually a decent fraction of that fraction comes up with the same ideas.
Not the OP, but I'll say, whenever designing a fresh board, this sort of convenience built-in is nice. Individually, it's not a huge deal, but when you start adding things that are sometimes built in (external crystal vice internal? flash? PDs on USB or a bus?), you appreciate when it's one less component to allow spacing for, that might be out of stock at a given order etc. Also note that QSPI flash has a number of connections, you have to check the datasheet etc to know what to wire where, if you are changing MCU footprint you have to re-wire it each design etc.
I wish there was an option to disable the spawning of the "you have been updated" tab. I never read it, and, worse, the tab which was active when I closed Firefox will no longer be active, forcing me to go through a couple of tabs to find it again, while reloading all the tabs which I click through while searching.

It's really annoying.
I've been doing that for six fucking years and not a single thing has changed. The base memory and storage has not changed in that time. During that same amount of time:

- Macs transitioned to Apple Silicon, got rid of dGPU memory

- Baseline Macbook Air models increased in price by $100

- AI became a realistic and usable technology

- Gaming is slightly feasible with GPTK

Of course we shouldn't be starting at 8 gigs of memory. This is highway robbery and the only thing you can say in defense is "buy something else then"
We didn't need AI for that, but it surely helps a lot making it easier possible.
Comparing ESP32 to RP2040 is like comparing oranges to apples.

If you need a lot of IO - you're probably not looking at ESP32. It's just cheap and has WiFi builtin.

There are many options for other MCUs, that compare favorably to with RP2040... though majority aren't for the hobbyist market.
If I ever have a company phone out of a employee's sight like this, eg border searches, from China to Canada, it's thrown in the garbage after.

There's no way wiping should be considered enough.
They're essentially unlimited. They make up 68ppm of the Earth's crust. If we used all of that to make stuff, we'd run out of room to put the stuff before we'd run out of rare earths.
Or their response if you gave them your phone and pin but it's a wiped/reset phone.
I think it's appealing to nerds to believe that a long-tail disaggregated phenomenon like EV V2G is going to save the grid, but the apparent truth is that the grid will be saved by central planning and top-down command and control. We see this in California. We have a million EVs registered in the state, but our grid-scale, CPUC-regulated battery stations are still larger in terms of energy storage, and unlike the EV fleet the availability and responsiveness of battery energy storage stations is assured.

Load shedding like that in the article is a vanilla feature of electric grids everywhere. Large consumers get discounted power in exchange for agreeing to disconnect during grid emergencies. Because the number of such customers is small, that feature is easy to regulate and you can ignore the game theoretic shenanigans that would emerge from widespread V2G with millions of individual participants.
But Wikipedia is also full of lies and omissions, though. You're going to have to work to synthesize some plausible version of the past from the politically motivated sources either way.
the thing with "I have xyz ingredients, help me plan a 5-course meal for every taste bud"... I get the idea, it just doesn't feel like that's how people actually interact with computers. similarly with the bed time story thing. why would anyone waste time with some AI generated thing when they can just reference the works of a chef or author that they already know?

appropriating all of this information through legally dubious means and then attempting to replace the communication channels that produced it in the first place is hubris.
On the first point - I’m not sure there’s a difference to internet users between 1 billion junk articles on a topic and 1 trillion junk articles.

On the second point - this is precisely what I’m talking about when I say if reputable sources start churning out junk, they will lose their reputation. This is a negative publicity event for google. If it keeps happening, people will no longer trust the information coming from google.
yes! I did the same thing, although I never got a 486 and jumped to a amd k6-2 with Blender when it came out. Never had the math co-processor either, although it would have been nice.
> How do roads prevent you from going outside.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/05/19/a-crosswalk-too-far-v...

"In the Boston suburb of Burlington, Massachusetts, the AMC movie theater is right across the street from the Burlington Mall. But if you're planning to travel between these two destinations on foot, you're in for quite a hike. The closest crosswalk is more than half a mile down the Middlesex Turnpike. That means crossing the road -- if you're going to do it 'the safe way' -- requires a 1.2-mile journey, and it's definitely not going to be a pleasant one. Local resident David Chase reports that only one side of the street has a sidewalk."
Now I want to go ask one of my AIs to produce some clearly fake content so that I can get boosted on social media for complaining about awful AI.
Sure, but robots won't exactly be cheap either.
How is slop threatening Guardian?
Because accustomization and normalizations removes the awe from what at first were amazing achievements. It’s the standard expectation creep effect. What’s novel or exciting today is boring tomorrow.

Try showing today’s phones to someone in 1994.

——-

As to the article’s example of headphones as an example of a product that has interesting variation - I am not getting the same impression.

The headphones all look essentially the same with a slightly different case style - in other words if those headphones are exciting then a phone can be made exciting by buying an artsy case. Problem solved.

Actually, personalized phone cases are way better than the manufactures providing a non-customizable case like the headphone cases to. Both are wrapping a tiny bit of visual style around a standard product. But for phones one can choose from an almost unlimited number of variations if one so chooses, for headphones it’s only a couple options per brand.
It's time to rethink what counts as a "safe car"
Carbon3D use micromirror arrays IIRC.
This is next generation blogspam. When you search for something technical hoping for a link to a reference manual, and you get page after page of low-effort blogpost tutorials? Now some of those are so low effort that they aren't even written by people.

Bookmark your favorite reference sites and use their search. We're coming back around to the pre-Google era of search engine result quality. Who knows, maybe human-curated web directories[0] will come back into fashion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ
What do you reckon of the first song ("dialectic (accept it) - Yolkhead Radio") here?

https://suno.com/radio/song/e48c0ee8-24c8-459b-8d91-469dbd6f...
The word "spam" existed long before it came to also mean unwanted marketing content.
Do Plants Have Minds?
> Firefox will now automatically try to upgrade <img>, <audio>, and <video> elements from HTTP to HTTPS if they are embedded within an HTTPS page. If these so-called mixed content elements do not support HTTPS, they will no longer load.

This is not so great for radio streaming as a lot of them still use http shoutcast servers (often with direct ip instead of domain name, so no https there anyway).
Bowling has been in a long decline. If I had money to get into the PE game, I probably wouldn't choose to invest in bowling, but hey, if someone wants to shovel a bunch of investor money into renovating bowling alleys, that can only be a good thing. The way I see it, there's two likely outcomes:

- The PE guys prove bowlings alleys aren't dead, and inject a ton of money and interest and arrest the decline, leading to a growth in the sport

- The PE guys don't arrest the decline, but end up injecting a ton of money renovating these locations, they eventually sell them at a loss to enthusiasts who now can keep these places running for a lot longer.

Either way, it's a win.

Pretty tired of the trope _PE == bad_. I wish HN could develop a more nuanced discussion of these ideas. Sometimes it's a wonderful thing to get someone else to prove viability.
Considering it takes 1,000 years for 1m of peat to build back up, I'm not sure it's reasonable to call it renewable.
No country can refuse entry to it's own citizen.

They must admit a citizen, but they can then arrest them immediately.
YES!
TL;DR: its more powerful yet cheaper than most of MCU market, well documented and very straightforward yet extendable on many levels

I agree with the post in 100%, I use RP2040 for both hobby projects and my keyboard startup project (arrowmechanics.com in case sb was interested).

IMHO What RP foundation did is the greatest breakthrough in the world of embedded tech projects since the popularization of atmegas.
>"A complex system exhibits emergence, according to the new framework, by organizing itself into a hierarchy of levels that each operate independently of the details of the lower levels.

The researchers suggest we think about emergence as a kind of “software in the natural world.” Just as the software of your laptop runs without having to keep track of all the microscale information about the electrons in the computer circuitry, so emergent phenomena are governed by macroscale rules that seem self-contained, without heed to what the component parts are doing.

Using a mathematical formalism called computational mechanics, the researchers identified criteria for determining which systems have this kind of hierarchical structure."

[...]

>"Indeed, the degrees of freedom, or independent variables, that capture the behavior of these systems at microscopic and macroscopic scales have precisely the relationship that the theory predicts."

Related:

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization (a.k.a. "Self Organizing System(s)")

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39860388

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

And they're all related!

Magic!
Journalists always overlap their coverage. Even 'exclusive' stories will get articles describing the exclusive coverage. A story/theme being covered from multiple sources is hardly evidence of conspiracy in a vacuum.
> Firefox will now automatically try to upgrade <img>, <audio>, and <video> elements from HTTP to HTTPS if they are embedded within an HTTPS page. If these so-called mixed content elements do not support HTTPS, they will no longer load.

Really interesting, and I think it makes sense, why show a padlock and mislead the user if not all content is properly going through HTTPS?
On the front page now,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40646477

The release notes mention this update.
That's excellent! I'll keep that in mind.
It seems like LLMs would be great for this: "Is this email trying to sell me something?" "Is it from an acquintance?" "I have these mailboxes, which is the most appropriate?" with some additional metadata.

Well, as long as it doesn't fall into prompt injections.

Sadly I don't know of existing solutions to do this.
Thats for first time offenders. Repeating ones are going to be dealt with increasingly aggressive tactics.
Ok. One thing I'm worried about is that the tooling is made for hobbyists only. Is there a way to do everything from the commandline with FOSS tools and without installing e.g. the Arduino-IDE?
"Wow, so many of these people disagree with me, it might be because they have a huge dangerous blind spot because of a lack of knowledge and/or experience and/or have trouble seeing things from the outside"

...is a thing I experience on a regular basis (and that I only really gained confidence in once I actually saw the mistakes cause problems, e.g. password managers)
That's the case with great majority of the limited minerals.
Just so you're aware, LastPass has had some pretty bad security issues, eg. on the latest https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/lastp...
GP’s smug superior attitude over non-technical people and general lack of perspective is enough nerd cred for me.
This is a very long document (it's a dissertation) but the opening pages noting that Ptolemaic Egypt had a police force, in direct contrast to many other cultures in antiquity, is fascinating.

I've read of something else it mentions, that dealing with issues was often down to prosecutors (something we'd today expect to lead to miscarriages of justice) or the wronged person (ditto.) That seems a nightmare of potential for false accusations, especially among people with different economic statuses.
... and because they designed the chip to be a jack of all trades, which he really likes.
I wonder what people here think. Would self serve BI work for something which is more context specific? So for example self serve BI for your own sales. What would it take? Why not?
If you anticipate the need to update the bootloader, you would use a multistage bootloader approach where the first is never altered (as the bootloader should never be altered) and its main function is to select which updatable second stage bootloader to load from multiple options (multiple so that even if one is interrupted mid-update by the application, there is a valid fallback).

My gut says if you're worried about this in the bootloader, it might be doing too much.
This book seems to pathologically want to keep its contents secret.

Having read the marketing website and GitHub code I am still unsure what chemical and biomolecular subjects it covers.

The file headings are arranged by the math topics and the toc file back references the directory names.

I guess I’ll have to build it to know if the book covers protein folding?
I couldn't agree more! Hypothetical: I wonder how they would react, on looking at my cell, if before leaving home I removed all my pictures and contacts, erased my internet history and removed all files? Would they think I'm hiding something or just being careful with my private data?

Instead of, "Don't leave home without it!", leave home without data on phone. :)
Peat is worse than coal with regards to co2 emissions, so I will vote to keep it in the ground.
Part of my personal definition of slop is that it's unreviewed.

If someone uses ChatGPT to help them write and iterate on a well researched essay about a topic and verifies that the details are correct, I don't see that as slop.

People with English as a second language are getting a huge boost from these tools. That's great!
Norway just moved up on Russia's "countries to invade" list
Burning topsoil is kind of insane. Peat is not renewable on practical human timescales.
Wow, Norway is going to go from rich to richer. They already have put $1.5 trillion (!) into their national pension fund with oil:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
You don't.

When I actually have these conversations with security guys, it's because they've either missed their window on contributing to part selection (in one case because that team hadn't been hired yet!) or no one consulted them in the first place. In both cases the solution is to write some guidelines and get the EEs to use them during part selection in the future.
No.

Their implementation so far leaves something to be desired.

Agents enable iterative changes to the environment. In contrast, LLMs are just "one shot" outputs and cannot edit what they have already done.

I think this "iterative" paradigm will ultimately be successful because iterative improvement is also what humans do -- we are agents "storing" most of our "knowledge" in the "environment" and then making small iterative changes and improvements, with an overall goal in mind. This isvery much in line with the influential "extended mind" thesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_mind_thesis

The bandwidth of working memory and attention for tasks, especially new ones, is extremely limited. So we offload much of our cognition - working memory especially - onto our environment: think about how you write an essay or do a math problem or write a program.
For what it’s worth I’m viewing it fullscreen on a phone.
Norway is so interesting.

They purposefully setup a sovereign fund & political structure that incentives long-term thinking.

Great video below on how they think about energy, use and raw materials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO8vWJfmY88
True browser-centric digital gurus don't restart their computer unless there is a power cut. They also don't shutdown their browser either.
I got called a bot once here on HN when I wrote a very detailed and informative post on what I think almost anyone could only call an insanely esoteric topic.

I took it as a compliment, though I don’t think the poster intended it that way. I think they thought I was cheating/using chatGPT/literally a bot.

Nope, just that kind of nerd.
Hi, I tick the three elements in the set (my last Haskell was a few years ago, though). I opened the link last week and saw some positions in London (and Australia, for that matter) and now there aren't any positions showing there (just a couple ones in California). Is it a glitch, or have you fulfilled all positions outside California already?
There was a POV ray render of a McIntosh tube amp that I used to show people and nobody knew it was computer generated.
Yea. This is more of a printer head. It'd be neat to have a bunch of these in one printer and drastically speed up print speeds.
I only ask because there are hundreds of cool niche languages now. And, even thought this looks cool, time is time, and I'm just wondering if is worth committing any effort to learning/using/playing with.

Is there any feeling that this has legs?
My utility keeps sending me google thermostats for free despite having ecobee. I keep giving them away but they keep sending them!
Would you be willing to pay for a gmail plugin that takes a stab at this? something like Mailman [1] but with an LLM layer for detecting AI slop?

[1]: https://mailmanhq.com/