skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, perhaps. And I didn't mean to suggest that I was special in any way, but... When I discuss this with people in real life, it is very rare that I find someone who relates to this way of describing how I think. Most people are just stuck in literal wide-eyed disbelief and either tell me they think in literal words, fragments or sentences, experiencing a real "inner voice", or they tell me that they visualize things somehow.

Sometimes people seem to not be sure how to describe the experience of thinking... Which I suppose explains a lot! /laughs
I may be mistaken, but it looks like it would only works for completely static scenes with pre-baked lighting.
Sorry - again, only HS physics - does that imply they have mass when moving ? (hmm - can you even have a photon at rest?)

thanks!
This heavily cited but then retracted paper also involved University of Minnesota: https://www.science.org/content/article/researchers-plan-ret...
He has discussed this in recent interviews and talks e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chat...

> his critique of BF Skinner’s “Verbal Behavior” had been wrong after all

btw, this is in no way proven (or true imo).
In general if the incentives are already aligned to solve a problem I don't worry about the problem. It is likely to solve itself without any intervention.
The goal was that I didn't want to be lugging carpet in the snow & enjoy programming. Annual income was comparable, being average height & under 120 pounds made it difficult to work 40/week
Quite possibly. The simplicity of this design is what allowed us to complete it in the time frame we were given. Q-Octo has similar dimensions but drives ~4x faster, has 3x the battery capacity and likely provides more torque to the wheels. Improvements to the design are already in the works!
Flashback to 2020:

Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25199216
I would do that if Idid not have real life responsibilities, mortgage, kids.

I could live even on basic income, my family not.
> Or are papers sometimes retracted for being egregiously wrong, even if their methods were not intentionally misleading?

There could be a mistake the authors made which led to a wrong interpretation. Like, someone might write another article commenting on that mistake and wrong conclusions. But that wouldn’t be a reason for retraction. Something should be incredibly wrong for authors or journal to do that. Retractions due to fraud are much more common.
Considering, that this is all based on data and personal information of people, the people in general should have the right to dictate Facebook what they can and cannot do with that data and what happens with the products made using the data. It is laughable, that they act here as if they are doing something friendly or fair. Same is true for other companies like Microsoft and "Open"AI.
This whole article and discussion reminds me of the key idea that physics is a model and map is not the territory. Reality is just its own thing, to me it seems pointless to debate if something is really wave or particle or quubaz, the question should be what insights and predictions you can get. Conversely just because you can model things with waves/particles/x doesn't mean that they are waves/particles/x.
I think this needs to be qualified a bit. You can make numerous observations of a single electron over a period of time and see a wave like pattern emerge, or you can take a single observation of numerous electrons and see a wave like pattern emerge, but you can never take a single observation of one electron and see a wave like pattern.
> There is no definition of AH anywhere,

Meanwhile:

var
regs: Registers;
begin
with regs do

AH came from Registers.

Overall, I'd say the author fell in between the computer generations. After things started to look high-level, but where a lot of the interesting stuff was still very low-level.

One of the first things I learned to do in Commodore-64 basic was poke53280,0 to change screen background color. It was low level for everything, and there was no expectation of the address or the value "making sense" as such; it was just hardware control.
It was a common BS claim in the Reagan years, as to why we didn't need to invest in renewables back then. "Why bother, soon all this nuclear energy will basically be free".

This has nothing to do with what anyone actually said. Just ask any 60-something, mild conservative. The meme exists, even though the actual quote was slightly more mealy mouthed.

It was always nonsense anyway. Electricity generation is mostly a deregulated market in most places, so nobody would spend billions on a Nuclear plant that wasn't guaranteed to make back it's money. It was always a thought terminating cliche.
Yup, but that's because, well, the public transit in NYC is just a lot better than almost every other US city (and, let's face it, has a higher proportion of "normal people" riding it).
Depending on kid age, scooters are also potentially a good option.
Complaining is the first step and a necessary one. But complaints need to be turned into critiques and more steps need to be taken.

I'll state that as an American I'm quite unhappy with this as I know the regulations will also affect me and the truth of the matter is that I have a much smaller voice in this matter due to not being a European citizen. I do have additional worry since it was not that long ago which we saw the results of authoritarianism in Europe (though it did result in the strengthening of my country). And my concern is that authoritarianism creeps, often with good intentions but poor foresight. My biggest fear is that we did not learn the great lesson from WW2, in that Germany did not in fact go from good people to the entire country being evil and back to being good people. If we can't understand this process and see how it actually happens (with the details) it will only repeat, led by people that have. But I don't know how to get people to understand subtleties, and that seems like a major issue in a world growing increasingly complex.
so how far will this spread?

perhaps 911 call centers, or crisis intervention lines?

maybe phonesex lines so the voice is always pleasant even if the employee is having a bad day?
> I would fire up my crypto miners if electricity was free for a few hours a day

I dunno, if electricity was free only for a few hours, I would use it to charge batteries, and then use that stored electricity later in the day when it's not free.

If electricity was free most or all of the time, and/or if I could store more than I could use, then sure, I'd probably use it for unnecessary things that some might consider wasteful (not crypto mining; I'm allergic).
https://x.com/_pinheira/status/1803155896081518754
> Noam is alive. And well. His wife has just confirmed it
Not yet, but I'm trying to leave retail marketing web development to work at a local water utility. It's difficult to find a position I'm qualified for, though. If it pans out, it'll be a 25-30% drop in income, but with the benefit of a short commute, good long-term job security, and the peace of mind that my work helps keep the community alive and in clean water.

My best to all those out there pursuing peace of mind and happiness.
I can understand software work can be tiring. But I can't imagine it being so tiring I'd rather do a factory job (maaaybe if it was a bread factory or lego factory or some such). How is it?
iOS 18 could 'sherlock' $400M in app revenue
Physicists find a new way to represent π
> but don't come with an off switch

But they do. Often literally.

Negative prices usually happen because of laws requiring minimum utilization, or subsides, or because they are so small and rare that it is not worth having someone on place to turn the switch.
https://x.com/_pinheira/status/1803155896081518754

> Noam is alive. And well. His wife has just confirmed it
Just ask any investment banker ever.
This is a bit misleading. Pumped hydro needs vertical relieve, but in places where vertical relief exists the potential is very large. It does not need to be on or even near any existing watercourse (although it can be piggybacked onto a reservoir that is, by adding another reservoir at higher elevation.)
You probably wouldn't have been flagged if you'd said something like, "I remain skeptical. Could you demonstrate your ability to tell what lizards are thinking?" In my experience comments are usually flagged for tone rather than content.

If my comment was overly provocative, I apologize. I was trying to get a laugh out of you. It's a passage from my favorite book. Based on past interactions, I thought that book fell into your area of interest, so I thought you may have read it and get a chuckle out of the reference. But perhaps that was overly familiar on my part.
It's not kids neglecting to lock their lockers, it's that if it becomes known that hundred to thousand dollar phones are in lockers, they will get opened and stolen.

I think setting clear policy with personal expectations of no phones out in classrooms, with personal repercussions of not following that policy is fine. No need to use bans to make schools any more prison like than they already are.
We'll confirm more details closer to launch, but we have a way of doing what we need to do safely, while respecting user privacy. Our caq at launch is higher than some other networks (depending on whether you're comparing us to all networks or other upstarts), but the ltv of our users are inherently also much higher. Agreed we're making some big claims and we need to refine/add the details (as mentioned in a diff response this wasn't a self-post on HN, didn't find out til this morning, and we don't have all of our messaging ready for a real marketing push yet, lol).

I hear you, though, and while I believe we have the right stuff in place to tackle the issue, I hope when we release more info you continue to keep us honest and call us out if we're wrong :)
This topic is mostly new to me so I'm sure this is a dumb question, but what is the benefit here? I would have thought farmers could just manually sample soil moisture levels to get pretty much the same data. The article also mentions the SMAP satellite that can already read soil moisture from space. Is this fluorescence a more reliable early predictor? Is it an easier way to get the data we need?
I tried inverting my PC screen, but having it upside-down hurts my neck after a while. Got any other suggestions?
I hope you realize there’re many different labs with different attitudes. I have one of my degrees from Ghent and what you describe never came up. AFAIK there wasn’t even a requirement to publish a paper for a PhD student to graduate anymore.
Love it.

Any chance you are going to share the source code?
It's a self inflicted situation by dependees. Tools in widespread use, JupyterLab for instance, has users tossing dependencies onto the pile, offering next to no guidance on dependency version control, as if expecting them to have to ponder such issues is unreasonable.

Well, if that's how you're going to behave, foregoing entirely obvious and solved engineering problems, you get to glue all the pieces back together when reality asserts itself. I don't imagine for one minute numpy folks didn't know what this would look like, and they did it anyway. Good on them. Breaking changes are necessary. That's unqualified. Necessary. If you can't afford a big blowup in your work then manage your work.
I happened to be writing a desktop app that does something similar to this; I saw https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lF8fEn20OaU and many related videos, so I wrote up a simple QGraphicsView/pymunk app that implements these. The code is a dog's breakfast and will be under development for some time.

I see some videos which suggest that the developer actually set up the map and the physics such that specific songs get played, although I think there is some trickery to simplify it.

At the moment I'm working on a subproject which is generating the audio sounds for various bumping events, having found musicpy/sf2_loader a quick way to generate samples.
Yep. So much compute and energy thrown away because proof of stake wasn't figured out sooner.
Probably my every job in life was "lower paid" and no it didn't mean it was easier and chilled.
> Isn't it a bit whishful thinking to think that storage will come down in price and nuclear won't?

My understanding is that the costs around nuclear aren't due to the technology being expensive (something that yes, we would expect to get cheaper over time), but because of the -- IMO necessary -- regulatory and safety regime surrounding nuclear power. Costs that I wouldn't expect to change all that much (and maybe even increase with time).

With storage, the cost is mainly the technology. As the tech improves, the cost decreases.
I also enjoyed Crystallography a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallography_(book)
Title of article reappeared with modification: Let’s Celebrate Noam Chomsky, the Intellectual and Moral Giant
Joined Amazon as an SDM and left in 3 months. Took a 30% pay cut, looking back after 3 years, couldn't be happier. At Amazon, felt like I was in a Squid Games like environment, with the Leadership Principles thrown in your face to justify any and all actions. Switched to a healthcare related company, where people seem genuinely driven to build products and care about your colleagues.
Definitely a good move but out of the blue (after ten years) our old startup group is getting back together and the CIO is creating a role for me. Seems they won't take no for an answer.

However, I hired into my current job for stability and learned there is no stability despite repeatedly being assured that it was. The startup will yield about five-plus years of work until we sell (options). The pay bump will be nice.
Oh yes. This will work just great. No miscommunication is going to happen as a result of this at all.

Can we stop enabling corporations to operate in a "gaslight the proles" fashion? I know for a fact that actual emotional state is tracked as a characteristic metric for callers. And I love the touch of couching it as a "worker protection" while leaving completely unaddressed the matter that it is often the corporation in question behaving in a disruptive or degenerative way that ends up leading to highly emotionally agitated customers.

I do not want a box on the line trying to rephrase feedback from me. When I am pissed because a corporation is making my life untenable or difficult, I want the message heard loud and clear.

In fact, here ya go: make an AI that'll measure the emotional activation of a caller, and route the call automatically up the chain to an exec, so they have unquestionable feedback on how well they are doing straight from the aggrieved.
> I think setting clear policy with personal expectations of no phones out in classrooms, with personal repercussions of not following that policy is fine.

When's the last time you've been in a high school, it's like giving an addict a pile of cocaine and telling them to wait until after work to use it.
I replied to a comment about normal people being fired over mistakes like these.

Who is supposedly at risk of being fired if not the person who wrote the document?

Should Altman fire himself or what are you talking about?
Jacobin one reappeared with modified title now: Let’s Celebrate Noam Chomsky, the Intellectual and Moral Giant

heh
Show HN: I created a to-do list powered by voice and AI
Joint Audio and Symbolic Conditioning for Temporally Controlled Text-to-Music
I don't think that's generally the case, AFAIK the example of the matrix exponential example a bit further up would not be really distinguishable as a type from a regular matrix (with exponential elements).
This has been a constant source of friction between build vs buy, esp. when talking about day 1 operations, which is why at OpsVerse (https://opsverse.io/), built out ObserveNow, a fully managed, OSS based observability platform built for enterprise scale. So you don't have to tie yourself into a walled garden, can run pretty much any exporter to bring in data to the system (or take out), and always have access to the tooling that powers your platform without needing to babysit the observability platform itself as you grow.

And since it's purely ingestion based pricing, in general it works out a LOT cheaper as well.

explicit disclaimer: I work at OpsVerse
Nuclear elicits outrage from customers forced to pay for it because it's so expensive. How do you propose muting them politics?
I meant they support the standard. If you have the source code. I didn't mean that Safari can install them directly from Chrome's store.
If you want to be pedantic yes. But its not like grid operators back in the control rooms are disconnecting solar farms because the grid is oversaturated. They instead tell the fossil fuel plants to reduce their burn rate. They have to work around the instability from the renewables. That's why grid scale storage is such a key component of the future energy economy.
> it sounds like they made zero net profit on years of business there after the fine,

The fine was levied June 6, 2024. Per the court record in the article.

But let's talk about the profits.

> As a “conscious wrongdoer,” BNSF “will be stripped of the net profits obtained from its unauthorized interference with another’s property,” Lasnik <the judge> ordered.

> the Tribe has the initial "burden of producing evidence permitting at least a reasonable approximation of the amount of the wrongful gain"

I find it unlikely that they will return the majority of the profits to the Tribe, beyond the fine.
Those are the ones most people who started reading fantasy in the last century remember. I started reading in 1979 and there are quite a few other good unfinished series out there.

There are also quite a few modern ones which start awesome, then fizzle out into never-ending soap operas once the author realizes they are on the gravy train and those are even more disappointing IMHO.

Books need endings :)
"Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from being punished for saying things" I'm sorry but there's no universe in which this makes any sense.

Either we say that people are free to express their opinions, or we punish people for saying things we don't like. Can't have both at the same time.

The other guy used the argument "but the US constitution guarantees freedom of speech" yeah so does North Korean, argument invalid.

I don't understand why this step "if people can be punished for saying something then they don't have freedom of speech" isn't an obvious logical statement.
Soaring birds use their lungs to modify mechanics of flight
Looks like while some people agree with you, it's not the most common use.

> The name derives from the maximum permissible five floors of combustible construction (Type III or Type V) over a fire-resistive Type I podium of one floor for "5-over-1" or two floors for "5-over-2", as defined in the United States-based International Building Code (IBC) Section 510.2.[1][4] Some sources instead attribute the name to the wood framing of the upper construction; the International Building Code uses "Type V" to refer to non-fireproof structures, including those framed with dimensional lumber

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-over-1
As I understand it, Miami is about only a few feet above sea level now. I don't know if those types of sewers could even be constructed.

In a few decades Miami will be underwater, but before that happens, the aquifer that supplies it will be extremely contaminated.

"Local sea level has risen about a foot in the last 80 years, with 8 inches of that total in the last 30 years, the Herald reported in May. The second foot will take only 30 years; the next foot, 20 years, according to estimates by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The average elevation in Miami is only 3 feet."[0]

[0] https://phys.org/news/2024-06-miami-preview-future.html
Exactly. I think it's worth considering that people are using "threatened" in two slightly but meaningfully different ways in these discussions. It seems superficially reasonable to defend yourself militarily when "threatened"; but that's only true if that threat is military. However, it seems pretty implausible that either Putin's regime was threatened, or that they thought they were militarily threatened. However, as you point out, it's a lot more plausible they feared cultural contamination.

Putin's regime wanted heavy-handed control over its neighbors; and the Maidan revolution demonstrated not only that this control wasn't as strong as it appeared, but also that it might be possible to break free from that oppression for others too, including perhaps Russian's. That example was the threat from which Putin was "defending" himself.

As much as Chomsky's well-reasoned talks are worth respect, he never really addressed that well. Putin's defense vs. the NATO threat was about as reasonable as a colonial power's "defense" vs. their subject's freedom; and it's also being executed about as reasonably, too. But to hear Chomsky describe it this is basically irrelevant; anything opposed to American overreach is reasonable - even when it's clearly not, and it's not even clear there's any overreach in the matter at hand.
If anyone told you that they were lying to you.
Fantastic. On mobile atm, so midi ill investigate later. Have you considered making a .vst3 plugin?
This genre of musical sandbox is a really satisfying and fun rabbit hole. You can even take it to production (mainly ambient music production, that is). My favorite for usage inside DAWs is Droplets, which works as a plugin but also has a web version: https://fynthesizer.github.io/Drip/

There are other plugins for this, each with its own personality. For example Bitwig's Ricochet is a totally different take on the same idea, where they managed to make it usable for more rhythmic purposes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFvIYkTGRzA
I was mostly OK working in defense. Good money. Until Reagan took office. His nonsense spooked me. The politics of the day drove me away. No more gravy train. Trading peace of mind for money and job security.
He tells her of his decision for them.

That seemed clear enough, from what he said.

Were you asking the details on that? If so, I'd be mildly interested as well.
arguably you can reduce even more latency by keeping the model on-device as well, but that would mean revealing the weights of the fine-tuned model.

If the user preferred reduced latency and had the RAM, is that an option?
i visualize pi as a black hole.

it is a degree of curvature that loops back to where it started, vs a spiral curvature
Things that move at the speed of light carry momentum, even though they have zero mass. For something moving at the speed of light, the momentum is the energy divided by c. (You can't have something with mass moving at the speed of light.)
Safer always means "not immediately harmful", I think I'd rather have a broken glass injury than multi generational hormonal issues.
Did it need such an emotional charged headline?

So you submitted an app to the store and it was rejected, and for some reason you won't share the email that was sent with the reason why it was rejected?

You say that you can Google search for other people's apps getting rejected for failing to fill out required fields. Is this what you did? They rejected you for not providing a value for a field?

This somehow translates to a whole company treating indie developers like trash?