skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
James Randi was notoriously biased, stubborn, and dismissive of any evidence contrary towards his views.

His Million Dollar Challenge has been criticized for its lack of transparency and fairness. The challenge was not conducted under the auspices of an impartial third party. Instead, only Randi himself and his organization set the conditions and judged the outcomes. This raises questions about bias, as Randi had a vested interest in maintaining his stance that psi phenomena do not exist.

Despite the fact that several participants in the Stargate Project, such as remote viewer Ingo Swann, produced results that were statistically significant under controlled conditions, Randi dismissed these findings outright. He did not engage with the data or attempt to replicate the experiments. Instead, he simply declared that because psi phenomena _cannot exist according to his understanding of the laws of physics_, any positive results must be due to fraud or error.

Furthermore, Randi's challenge required 100% success rate for claimants to win the prize. In any scientific experiment, such a requirement is unreasonable as it does not account for statistical variance. Even established scientific phenomena cannot always be demonstrated with 100% accuracy due to various factors such as measurement errors or environmental influences.

Lastly, the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. The fact that no one claimed Randi's prize does not conclusively prove that psi phenomena do not exist. It could simply mean that the conditions set for the challenge were too stringent or biased. Or... the sheep-goat effect really does exist, and the attitude & beliefs of the experimenter affect the result.
I believe this self-references proposal won't cover structs that point inside themselves. Instead it would only allow you to store references that point inside other members heap allocations.
> As long as your kids are enjoying the experience and you're ready to stop if it becomes too much for them, you're probably doing good.

I’m sure you meant it in the kindest way - that respects your kid’s interests and abilities.

But being raised in a more rigid culture, this was not the case for me, and having a forcing function helped me develop foundations in areas I’m not naturally strong in.

I was a gifted child, and the way most gifted child lose their luster is they are given too much free rein to ignore things they’re not good at because they’re so exceptionally good at their narrow areas.

Many of the brightest kids I knew who amounted to nothing had this problem: they’re smart but they always give up when they encounter anything that doesn’t come easily to them. Maybe there’s ADHD involved but the core of it is that humans always want to do things that come easily and avoid things that are hard. I know many of them suffer depressions and end up in manual data entry jobs and jobs where they are underemployed.

But you need structure and persistence to do well in anything. In my case it was math. I did well in elementary school but high school math didn’t come easily to me (my giftedness was in languages). I was going to resign and study the humanities — nothing wrong with that, that is a worthy pursuit of its own - except my dad knew it was a cop out and I wasn’t giving my best. He was right, and he had the backing of the culture. He told me he would support me in anything I chose to do, but he was more concerned that I “gave up too easily without trying my best”.

So instead of giving up, I gave it my best shot and used my languages skills to get good at math. Math is one of those foundational skills that pays dividends in life, no matter what you choose to major in later. I kept trying and failing (it didn’t come naturally to me) but somehow after reaching a certain level, math clicked for me and made sense. It’s all about incremental improvement and pushing through the troughs.

(I now have a PhD in numerical optimization — not bad for a humanities and languages kid.)

Kids (and adults)don’t know what they’re capable of and many give up too eagerly because they “have lost interest” (common refrain). But I say adopt a growth mindset. Sometimes there are paths that are open but parents close them too quickly. We still have limits, and I for one will never be a world class mathematician (because I’m not naturally talented) but I am a far sight better than that kid in high school who thought he couldn’t do math.

Would I have done better going into the humanities? Maybe but I wouldn’t have the job I do now which allows me to do the breadth of things that I do and to emigrate to the country I’m in.
"In shabby trainers, Joschka Fischer, once a street-fighter of the hard left, was sworn in as Hesse’s environment minister."

They did not look shabby:

https://images.noz-mhn.de/img/21445393/crop/cbase_16_9-w1200...
Ask HN: Are any commercial databases worth it?
As a developer I've been using PostgreSQL for around 20 years, and while it started out as having inferior performance to the big players, in many ways it has slowly caught up. There are now other impressive databases like CockroachDB and TiDB that can also hold their own.

However, some recent performance struggles with Postgres (the details don't matter to this post, so I won't bore you with them) have made me wonder whether I'm missing out on anything. Are there general-purpose RDBMS products that are worth choosing over Postgres today? Or are they all roughly at the same level?

As far as I know, the commercial database space has been significantly reduced the last decade or two. The two remaining top players are Oracle and Microsoft, while earlier giants like DB2 and Informix probably mainly survive as legacy software. Then there are niche players like Vertica and VoltDB, which I know little about.

I've used Oracle and loved the incredible feature set, but then there's Oracle-the-company. Similarly, I've used Microsoft SQL Server and enjoyed its excellent performance and extensive feature set, but it's been many years, and I don't know how it stacks up today. DB2 was also a pleasant experience, but it's a long time since I used it.
"Tesla in self-drive mode slams into police car responding to fatal crash": https://youtu.be/ukq6h55GnvE
We describe QM as magic informally, but it isn’t of course.

A classical computer is only exploits a little bit of physics, so I don’t think it is obvious that we’ll ever create a classical computer that matches (however we pick the metric to match, efficiency is harder than raw compute) human intelligence (however we define that). But a machine intelligence could be designed using all of the physics we understand including quantum mechanics.
Read TFA.

There's a reason I posted it.

Also visit a Costco or Walmart next time and look at the "Made in" tag.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210515022514/https://www.jbis....

"In the nearly 60 years of space flight we have accomplished wonderful feats of exploration that have shown the incredible spirit of the human drive to explore and understand our universe. Yet in those 60 years we have barely left our solar system with the Voyager 1 spacecraft launched in 1977 finally leaving the solar system after 37 years of flight at a speed of 17 km/s or less than 0.006% the speed of light. As remarkable as this, to reach even the nearest stars with our current propulsion technology will take 100 millennium. We have to radically rethink our strategy or give up our dreams of reaching the stars, or wait for technology that does not currently exist. While we all dream of human space flight to the stars in a way romanticized in books and movies, it is not within our power to do so, nor it is clear that this is the path we should choose. We posit a path forward, that while not simple it is within our technological reach. We propose a roadmap to a program that will lead to sending relativistic probes to the nearest stars and will open up a vast array of possibilities of flight both within our solar system and far beyond. Spacecraft from gram level complete spacecraft on a wafer (wafersats) that reach more than c and reach the nearest star in 20 years to spacecraft with masses more than 105 kg (100 tons) that can reach speeds of greater than 1000 km/s. These systems can be propelled to speeds currently unimaginable with existing propulsion technologies."
There are geopolitical and economic advantages gained by the west through denying China access to ASML’s semiconductor tooling. Western aligned semiconductor companies have the leading edge semiconductor market locked down, and forces China to use semiconductors that aren’t bleeding edge for their own internal use, militarily or otherwise.

I’m speculating that the vast manufacturing knowledge transfer to China through offshoring is seen as a “bad thing” by western politicians, who then sought to limit China’s ability to do the same with semiconductors.

China will likely figure out EUV eventually, by hook or by crook. There’s only so much you can do to keep that knowledge contained, considering the amount of people who have the knowledge.
China tends to offer these countries loans and even subsidies so they can build that infrastructure. Trade off is that China will control that part of that country’s operations for the foreseeable future. It’s how they came to control many ports in developing countries.
When I'm in the demo, it lags to <30fps while I'm on any part of the city. However, once I leave it for the water (with the whole city in view), it surpasses 60fps. Why would that be? I expected having the whole city in view would drop the FPS rather than raise it.
The Physics of Breakdancing, a New Olympic Sport
Right. You have to represent it as something that can write code/graphs. I say a little bit here https://www.jonathanmugan.com/WritingAndPress/presentations/...
I think you have identified the crux of my objection to this piece. The OP is mostly talking about cases where a truth about someone is so much more widely known than other truths about them that it becomes overwhelming in perception of that person.

The problem to be solved here is not the liability owed by the reporter of the truth, but rather the way in which our reptilian brains fail to balance that truth against an undoubtedly bigger picture.
The cop was responding to a fatal crash.
Nothing about the described scenario is remotely unique to Freenet. By a long shot.
I turn old mini pcs into airplay 2 receivers with https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync , using wired Ethernet multi room playback worked like a charm.

Debian is rock solid platform, I never have to tinker once they are setup. Depending on the speakers and what location I use USB dacs and speaker amps(these have gotten SO good in the last 5 years, topping, smsl etc). All of the pieces are interchangeable , flexible, and reusable.
> "...a critical safety gap between drivers’ expectations of the [...] system’s operating capabilities and the system’s true capabilities"

Just s/driver/user/g and it sounds like a lot of contemporary LLM hype.

IMO, Tesla's not an outlier -- in today's stock-price-is-king world, it's common to see such overselling in various domains.
The first one can also be extended with this corollary:

Quit complaining about every little thing, including the fact that people will always complain about every little thing.
Great article and explains very well the reason that AI should be renamed PSI... Poorly Simulated Intelligence.
“secure access to females” ok lol. this is masqueraded as science but just projecting their desires and the exclusion and frustration the researchers are feeling interpersonally.

given how popular the choice of linguistics is amongst the excluded crowd, they should have spent more time socializing.
Ah, thank you for the clarification. Maybe this disambiguation was already somewhere on the website and I missed it.
>... the 65-year-old divorced mother of three is a devout Christian who starts every day by reading the Bible while her coffee brews, and who relies on her faith during testing moments, such as the many market upheavals...

God will make it go to $2000.
The article is a waste of time and doesn't deserve to be on the front page of HN. Every mega-rich has their own "profound learnings" - morning yoga routines, cold showers, intermittent fasting, reading a book a week, you name it. It's all the same recycled advice that doesn't resonate with the average person dealing with real-life challenges. Replicating their routines won't achieve anything. We should focus on practical solutions and insights that can genuinely help people improve their lives.
Similar experience here, too. Virtually every time I have worked with, trained, or reported to someone with a CS degree from Stanford or Harvard, they have approached their work with a narrow mind and little empathy for others. This has been true in the military, public sector, and the private sector. I don’t know what it is about these places.

I read something a while back that did color my understanding of folks somewhat, and that was that there are a lot of people who come into the technology field for the money, not necessarily because of their lifelong interest in tinkering with computers. That to me is nuts, but I guess it’s to be expected. Maybe the sample size of my experience with these folks is overrepresented with people who are in it for the money and not curiosity and creativity. I don’t know.
I think you can convince just about anyone to hate given time and the right circumstances, but it's even easier IMO when it is prescribed to groups. Then in-group dynamics reinforce the behavior.
You can argue for fines and prison sentences but on HN that won't accomplish anything. Here the only workable solution is a technical one, plenty of expertise available and people able to implement stuff.

I do security by not having things I don't need, printing documents and deleting the data. It's not perfect by it self but it is something we could model in hardware quite well.

One-way tubes seems pretty easy.

For access one could give each employee a query quota and if they exceed it have someone else increase it temporary or permanently.

One could also make a dumb console that displays data on a screen, db tables, pdf files, images.

Could build some business logic in hardware. More often than not the need for access is triggered by something. If the customer calls you some of their information can be displayed. Accessing it in the days after that isn't dubious.

It takes a lot and makes things more complicated but in the end you do get nice small data sets to work with.
I don’t know if people are ignorant or just misinformed. Do you really think China wasn’t already actively building and/or stealing this tech while still doing business with American companies? This has been their MO for a decade now and people are still trying to claim America fighting back is somehow helping China. Such a ridiculous take.

I’m not in a spot to dig it up, but processor tech was something the party decided was a national security issue long, long before any sanction was even whispered about.
...because the officer was parked, using their vehicle to block the scene of a fatal motorcycle crash?
The October 7 sanctions seem to be a change to a shock and awe strategy. I am not sure that it worked for the bigger players. Both YMTC and SMIC seem to be making new technological breakthroughs still.
>>> Nor does technological “leadership” guarantee military advantage.

Going further, nor does technological "leadership" guarantee a better quality of life.
People do things for shits and giggles all the time. SpaceX literally launched a model Tesla for absolutely no reason other than advertising both themselves and their sister company.

Doubly so if they can now become “the furthest man made object”. That’s massive free marketing.

It may also be exponentially easier to do so in the future, lowering the expenditure needed to make it happen.

It might not be reasonable right now, but, once again, the bar was set at always. That is an exceptionally high bar with very little reasoning behind it.
Sorry if I gave that impression, but it is wrong.
"I feel" indicates that this is a not very certain assumption by me, and "We wouldn't be where we are" meant that I believe this is a contributing factor, not the only reason, I even gave one of many others (unfair distribution) few words later. shrug
This is seriously amazing! Could have potential for parkour-like games, or even for exploring randomly generated liminal spaces.
I'm one of the very few people who genuinely loved Windows 8
Exactly.

Graduates of a computer science program don't know specific commands around versioning software that they can learn in 10 minutes on the job. Gasp.

Algorithms, mathematics and logic are timeless, tooling is not, and it baffles me that people can't distinguish between the two.

EDIT: Furthermore, where did they pull this statistic from? I didn't realize that the census also included questions around git knowledge.
Uhhh. Look I think this is sort of an intractable problem. Technology is advancing. Humans are terrible. No technical or political solution is going to stop atrocities. That's of course not to say we shouldn't try to educate, prevent, serve justice, etc.

But... Are you implying that random people being unwittingly exposed to CSAM is somehow going to cause a reduction in production of CSAM? Because good lord, I'm not sure I can understand that train of thought.
I don't think Biden is a polarizing figure in himnself. He ran and won on being not-Trump.

But because Trump is a polarizing figure, not-Trump is too - just by being not-Trump, not due to any inherent polarizing-ness.
Disagree, I'd like my son to lean towards Elon Musk.
I'm not boycotting it because I'm under the illusion that it will affect Elon in any way. I am avoiding it because it makes me feel ick whenever I get in it and am forced to think of him. I also I don't want other people to think I support him.
Right, but I think it's the spurious connections to intelligence/consciousness that people object to. You could replace most instances of "consciousness" in the emperor's new mind with a different word and the arguments would be just as strong.
You're getting answers about the asteroid belt because you said asteroids, but I believe your question is about the Oort cloud (comets) since you said surrounding the solar system.

From wikipedia;

> Space probes have yet to reach the area of the Oort cloud. Voyager 1, the fastest[60] and farthest[61][62] of the interplanetary space probes currently leaving the Solar System, will reach the Oort cloud in about 300 years[6][63] and would take about 30,000 years to pass through it.
you can't ensure that something isn't manipulating the request send by the browser, so its an valid concern. NEVER trust the client.

And its documented in the changelog of the function. I would catch it, send an response that is explaining that the password is invalid and implement a check that limits valid characters to be outside the non printable range.
This game is also great on the quest 2 and 3.
Jokes aside star trek tng is full of positive messages and role models.
People often hold the impression that I'm "very busy" working on "important things" and hesitate to reach out when they should. I understand this, but it goes against my most important role: helping others to be healthy and productive (which are largely synonymous in my opinion). I understand Jensen's anecdote to mean that he is both thinking carefully about what he chooses to do, and doing what is important first -- even when the work is slow and tedious (like picking dead moss with tweezers).
Trust me, a minimum of a bipolar world is much, much better than a monopolar one.
The 1930s in Britain were a great time for Utopian communities. Jonathan Meades did a documentary about them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wujXeI6rj6U (review: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/feb/02/wonders...)
It's not ECC vs DDR5. There are ECC DDR5 Dimms and non ECC DDR5 Dimms. It's a bit complex because DDR5 has internal ECC, but that doesn't protect against errors on the datapath between the RAM and the memory controller (embedded into the cpu), and it doesn't have a mechanism to report errors AFAIK.

ECC without reporting puts you in a weird place where the observable error rate is less, but any observable error will be a multi-bit error. With reporting, you would likely replace a dimm that regularly has single bit errors, and your system would typically halt on any two-bit errors, and three or more bit errors may or may not be detected. Advanced operating systems may let you kill only the processes affected by the two-bit errors, but afaik that's only for mainframes and maybe commercial unix (Solaris? AIX?).
Huh? This entire subthread is about Freenet and moderating the medium. The analogy is that if USPS were trying to do so, it would be absurd.

It also highlights why I think this is nearly intractable. Distributed, censorship-resistant designs lend themselves to resiliency and permanence. I just have this gut feeling you don't get both. And frankly I think the people trying to shove the cat back into the bag are a bit naive.
Double jumps work for me.
Deinit in O(1) seems to be a big attraction of arenas.
Sure, that’s theoretically possible. You just need to eliminate resource scarcity (and/or human nature) and then your plan will work. Shouldn’t be too difficult.
I would look more at their undergrad, a masters doesn’t really mean much. It’s a short program and mostly focused on more advanced topics, not standard coding skills.

(Full disclosure: I have a masters)
That’s horrifying
> If you want to challenge that notion in court, be my guest.

I mean, you do realize that there is a class action against Tesla for misleading customers with the names of their products, right? This is actively being fought in the courts. That alone should prove that people feel misled by the marketing.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-must-face-vehicle-owner...

> There is no credible case to be made that any Tesla driver is unaware of Tesla's stance, that the driver assist features cannot provide autonomous driving and that the driver must always remain engaged.

You’re free to believe what you want, but this is far from the closed case you are portraying it to be. In short, that’s just like your opinion man.
Steam predates MS selling games within their first-party OS-bundled apps, so it's not the exact same situation to begin with.
It's more that the courts would presume that the software was working correctly for the purposes of the evidence provided by it for the prosecution, unless evidence was presented otherwise by the other side. But of course when that's the default it's quite hard to get the access to collect that evidence, especially if you're an individual with limited funds (even more so if you got bullied into paying fines beforehand).
It seems pretty obvious to me that any useful definition of intelligence (if we even need one to make progress) is going to have levels. We're not all on equal footing at every task, and we're not even on equal footing in our abilities to _learn_ a particular task. It may be a parsimonious position but it seems totally at odds with reality?
They were cheeky enough to include it in a footnote on "academic pranks"
How is this different from what LLMs do (by reading written works)?