skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, Wave/Particle means that we have observations consistent with waves and observations consistent with particles.

I don't think you really have to go beyond that - except that is not how things behave in the macro world. The problem is trying to map Wave/Particles to the macro scale. Just don't do it.
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Occam looks like a concurrent Pascal, not like a Forth. The transputer had a 3-element hardware stack but it was used more like a cache for the workspace (kind of the memory stack). You can still find around the manual "Transputer Instruction Set - a compiler writer's guide" that explains how you would do that (section 5.3 Expression Evaluation).

Apart from Occam, there where C, C++ and Fortran compilers. Targeting the transputer is not more difficult than any other stack machine (like the JVM, the .Net CLR, CPython or Pascal p-code).

The weird/interesting thing about the transputer is that it is also an operating system: two task queues (high/low priority), preemptive scheduling and communication through channels (that can be one of the 4 serial ports or memory based).
Humans infected with it obviously don't sacrifice themselves to cats

Not a cat owner, I see.

But yes, genetic collateral damage is always a possibility, but that's (also) very different than the idea that people eating cordyceps will one day soon start sprouting fruiting bodies out of their ears (and/or craving brains).
It's not like their drones run on Black Magic or Wizardry. Surely someone can just buy that $50 drone, take it apart, see what components they are using and how much their costs are, and start from there?
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I guess I just get floored that such complex behaviors can be encoded. Like how some people seem to 'just know' how to draw and I can't draw a straight line with a ruler...
Modern civilization is multi-special.

From a calories-per-unit-of-labor standpoint, dogs and cats have now clearly eclipsed humanity, using their emotional intelligence to create a post-scarcity Marxian utopia where they can mostly do whatever they want all day while humans toil for them.
That's the whole thing, though - shove a large enough lead-acid battery into the boat/car's electrical system, and you won't need to discharge the battery very far at all. 60W on a 100Ah 12V battery is nearly a full day's worth of battery life.

Now consider that the real power draw is probably well below the supply's rating, so it's actually 40ish watts on a 1200Wh battery. Now we're pushing 30 hours.

Now consider the real sickos of the "rich boat owner" class. These people have large engines in their boats, and those engines have alternators. All cars have those, too. That's a power source already integrated into the boat itself. A simple DC step-up regulator wired into the boat's existing electrical system is a much more elegant solution than a second set of batteries and a second power source to charge those batteries.
From the article it sounds like they made zero net profit on years of business there after the fine, which should be a sufficient deterrent assuming they reliably prosecute every violation.
People are angry that their economic systems arent compatible with having families either with current salaries or time committment careers require. Most people (women in primis) find themselves sacrificing basic quality of life to have 1 or 2 children. Government solution to such societal issues is to import workers in mass ("they will pay social security contributions for the elderly") which suppress wages down further increasing the cost-oppurtunity of having children. Replacement theories fit nicely, at least on an economic point of view. Businesses interests get cheap workers on one hand and childless consumers with more disposable income on the other hand. Entire societies dying is just an aftereffect

Short-termism of our leaders will lead to a systemic collapse just like in the Soviet Union.
5-over-1 are increasingly common and not the same thing as soft story buildings.

5-over-1 refers specifically to the wood construction of the top 5 floors. You can have a soft story building that is not built out of wood and even more vulnerable to earthquakes.
Have you ever looked at vcvrack.com? It’s free modular synth software, and I’ll bet the community would love to see something like this developed into a module.
I don't get the story... Why is the student so zealous in guarding the imagery?
I've been getting those for a longer while now, but didn't realize how bad this scenario was until now.
Isolated this is a zero sum game in favor of buyers (someone has ti take the electricity), but longer term, this shows there needs to be better greater electricity storage solutions available, i.e batteries or similar.
I don't understand this bit:

> Apparently their login mechanism lets everyone login as you as long as you click a huge "I verify this is me" button even if they are on the other side of earth, so one fumble with your phone and you grant some random person access to your account

Can I enter an email address on their site and click "I verify this is me" to steal an account? What does the "fumble with your phone" refer to?
One thing that helped after losing a parent was the advice a close friend gave: you will never lose this grief, there will be days in the future where the feelings flood back and you feel just as bad as you do today. But those days will happen less often and be further spaced out as time goes by. And there will be more good days between those days as well.

I found the advice strangely comforting. Like many, I did not want to let go of the grief. In my grieving mind that would be tantamount to no longer caring. Knowing that the grief would never truly leave however, helped me move on. I’ve found the friend’s advice to be true. Like you, I was able to integrate the grief as part of a new life. The person lost has always remained a part of that new life.
I guess the coloring is faked to make these images look better (or in the case of electron microscopy to have color at all). Would an AI be able to produce these colors given an EM image?
"If they found a zero day in these application whole Internet will go up in flames."

Don't move the goalposts. I'm certainly not saying that nginx is insecure. I'm saying that if you think any piece of software written after the 80s has reached the point where it won't have 0 days anymore you just haven't been paying attention
> ask them for the files exported into a format you can open

They already do that. That's not the problem.

If the original Photoshop file has 200 layers, and 60 of those layers have effects that use advanced Photoshop-only features, then no other art program can open the source material. Period.

At best you can get approximations of the original Photoshop render if you open the image in another program. But generally what you get is garbage if it's not a recent version of Photoshop.

The point of getting the Photoshop original with the layers is that I might be able to make a tweak to one of the layers and have it re-render a result that is better for what I need. Something that is difficult or impossible if I just have a JPEG.

And asking the artist to do the work in a program that doesn't have all of those features is roughly equivalent to asking a software engineer to use Mac/Windows/Linux (pick one they don't know) and to write all of the code in Visual Basic/Perl/PHP/JavaScript/C/C++/COBOL (pick one they don't know). Yes, technically anything is possible in any environment, but it might take 10x as long and be 100x as painful--with a result that may not be as good due to the tools not being as good.

Artists are professionals with an acquired skill set. You can't ask them to work using unfamiliar tools and expect them to be happy or productive.
Lost my 18 year old son just over a year ago, I am frozen in time, everything I did was for him to shine and be his authentic self, which he 1000% achieved in his short incredible life. I will never get over him, I will never stop talking about him and I will probably never not cry for him. There is a million stages of grief and they can beachhead attack at any moment and then let you breathe and the sucker punch you so hard you ponder “the other side”.
I uploaded it here. I haven't tested it in years though-
https://github.com/0xDigest/odoshi
This is the level of obtuseness we're talking about here, that's necessary to defend this sort of reasoning:

> Well, a straight dude technically could marry a guy! It could happen!
Is this still true after the recent signin page updates? I tried it and didn't seem to get those
I agree it looks like what the OP is saying. And I do agree with the siblings, in that it's completely wrong.

You could have said the same about IE during most of the time it lead, with the exact same rationale.
Same way I am convinced of relativity without having recognized experiencing the effects. Deduction and consistent observation. That's just me. Getting people to believe in things, is not a hard problem.
> Verfaille, agreed with the retraction. She now has four retractions, by our count.

Maybe I just don't understand biology, but there seems to be something up here.
A small caveat is that the idea of friction suggests resistance to a necessary change, and the concept drives one towards more flexibility and power.

In my experience, it is simplification that reduces friction: accepting constraints and limitations, focusing code and architecture. Removing degrees of freedom reduces execution risk exposure.

The main feature is the working state: how to keep that accurate, working, and and replicable. Avoid long transactions, splayed-out invariants, backup intervals, complex restart procedures - any exposure to being outside the working state, or in some provisional or pending state.
Getting these emails as well
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I was contemplating the feeling “I miss my parents” just this afternoon. Bit by a tiny shard of glass. They died 18 and 11 years ago and still there are moments where I would like to share a story or have a little uplifting chat. They would have loved their grandchildren. My sister who has done so great. Life is living and letting go.
Such a clickbaity title.
tl;dr: genetics influences how much coffee you consume. Unsure if coffee is good/bad.
Most of the buildings of this style that are going up around me have steel framed first floors and wood above. The elevator and stair shafts are concrete block to help protect fire escape routes.
Booking.com delete account process is also just a single "feedback" form that goes into a blackhole.

There does not seem to be a way to actually delete your account.
I guess there’s two possibly related questions. One, should military drones be available to consumers and two, why does price matter. On the first, you don’t have to make them available to consumers and probably shouldn’t for the highest end drones.

But B2C is a forcing function that pushes costs down. Military budgets aren’t infinite, and better manufacturing techniques mean more drones in a shorter period of time independent of cost.
There's two years of uranium ready to use in reserve plus five years more in reserve to enrich plus all the other producers. There's never been any issue with uranium, not even remotely. I'm not even sure the Niger coup will last that long.
More ETH, more problems (but not for long)
During the winter, the solar panel are efficient just for a couple of hours every days. Meanwhile, this is the moment of the year where the global consumption is the highest. We've yet to see a battery system able to hold enough power to balance these months of under production.

Why would you store electricity produced by Nuclear energy? You can adjust the production to match the needs.
Can’t help but think making a list of people by karma just encourages karma farming
This is also why, in a zombie apocalypse type scenario, GPS would become inaccurate past the point of usability within a few weeks, maybe a few months max.
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Which theyve actually used very very rarely.

Nuclear reactors are already very cost ineffective when used as baseload. Theyre ridiculously cost ineffective when used for load following since it's basically curtailment.

This is why most countries tend to use gas or hydro/pumped storage for load following (or, increasingly, batteries as theyve been plummeting in price).
So, just to make it clear, the main difference in this paper is adding a small amount of noise to each update? I'm a little frustrated that I read through the whole paper and still am not sure about this.
Population does not matter .what matters is population and the average resources footprint.

China and India having 2.5 billion if they are subsistence farming is a much faster different thing that China and India with some approximation of western lifestyles.

Demographic decline does seem endemic to urbanization, but urbanization is hand in hand with western consumption rates.

Net economic activity will probably increase in net, but with, uh, bumps.
I think your lobotomy timeline is off? As I understand the history, lobotomies became less common in the 1950s, once antipsychotics and antidepressants were available, and by the 1970s were rarely used. By 1984 it would not have been part of standard practice in the US.

"Not neurotypical" is a very wide category, and the vast majority of such were neither locked up nor given lobotomies.

On the other hand, ADHD kids in the 1990s were indeed forcibly medicated, as in, some schools coerced parents to give Ritalin to their child in order to attend school. IDEA 2004 included the 'Prohibition on Mandatory Medication' to prevent schools from doing that: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/34/300.174 .
"Solving" rather than solving. It's an IV drip for a terminal patient.

Immigrants quickly take on the fertility characteristics of the host population, because they are subject to the same pressures and incentives. So immigration has to be perpetual. In the mean time, the source countries' fertility is slowly coming down to and below replacement as well. So it can't last forever.

The only thing that is "solved" meanwhile is keeping wages depressed, which helps businesses. Allowing wages to rise might help improve native fertility.

Edit: I should note that in the last few years Japan has modified its residency laws. As well as getting hundreds of thousands of "technical trainees" (in reality, pretty much enslaved factory workers) from China and Viet Nam, it's also getting hundreds of thousands of caregivers from the Philippines, and, for some reason, Brazil.

So even Japan is accepting immigration these days, albeit very reluctantly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#/media/F...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#Foreign_...
Shades of the 1968 Minsky tentacle arm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuXQPdd0hjI

It had 12 joints, though each had a hydraulic actuator rather than a tendon mechanism (i.e. not three muscles lke this model). But as an undergraduate he had fiddled with the actuation of arthropod joints and claws: https://cyberneticzoo.com/underwater-robotics/1968-minsky-be...
Negative prices make storage very practical
I was recently in Spain and this was the only kind of building I encountered that wasn't a palace or bureaucracy building.

It fostered such a sense of being in the middle of something alive and it spread out for miles in every direction. It was so easy to find my way around the hotel because the sights were familiar but unique, but once I moved a little bit away it was all a labyrinthine mish mash of the same. I loved it and I love the 5 over 1
Looks like people have no experience with CA audits or security controls
Probably too many grad students with high expectations and no careful review. PI will be "on" the paper but only do a cursory review.
Thing is, it seems to me like some sort of 'master control' needs to know what signals to emit. Which sounds like it has to have a 'blueprint' of what the entire organism should 'look' like?

I always think of some lil control room going "ok..we need a heart and 2 lungs...send out the heart signals, and send out 2 lung signals" (electrical or chemical or whatever the signals are)

Just amazing such 'simple' organisms manage to co-ordinate all this stuff...

Thanks
Sometimes, when I'm undertaking the arduous work of assigning probabilities to everything I could possibly say next in a conversation, I wish that I weren't merely a stochastic autoregressive next-token generator. Them's the breaks, though.
Can’t believe someone wrote that whole article without getting to some basic answers.

What’s the probability of a major collision? What’s the probability that ISS significantly damaged?

It says there’s no consensus from the models, so we can’t know what any of them predict?
I think there's variance in people's degree of compositionality, as well as how quickly they can pick up on novel relationships. Testing "intelligence" in humans has always been kind of fraught in the first place, but any capability we may care to measure is going to permit degrees, and there will be some variance in humans on it. We should expect this. There's variance in goddam everything

We should also expect machine learning systems to have somewhat different properties from human minds. Like computers are more likely to accomplish perfect recall, and we can scale the size of their memory and their processing speed. All these confounding variables can make it hard to make binary tests of a capability, which is really what ARC seems like it's trying to do. One such capability that AI researchers will often talk about is conceptual compositionality. People care about compositionality because it's a good way to demonstrate that an abstract model is being used to reason about a situation, which can be used in unseen but perhaps conceptually similar situations. This "generalization" or "abstraction" capability is really the goal, but it's hard to reason about how to test it, and "composition" (That is, taking a situation that's novel, but a straightforward application of two or more different abstractions the agent should already "know") is one more testable way to try to tease it out.

As you point out, humans often fail this kind of test, and we can rightly claim that in those cases, they didn't correctly grasp the insight we were hoping they had. Testing distilled abstractions versus memorization or superficial pattern recognition isn't just important to AI research, it's also a key problem in lots of places in human education
In addition to the sibling comment, the recent rise of 5-over-1s is largely attributable to the use of fire-retardant wood in order to comply with fire codes.
>You (and I) have no idea if the universe is or not a computer.

You actually cannot just say "Man, the universe is so complicated, so it is possible it could be anything!"

That's a non-sequitur and not sound reasoning or logic.
> There are religious bookbanners today and they have very little overlap with the anti-social media crowd.

I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree on that. To me it doesn't matter whether there's any actual overlap between the groups. It's the censorious impulse they share. Believing that they have the right to make this type of decision for others is what makes them the "same kind of people".
Like Hawaii!
The carbon dioxide because of the energy consumption will further speed up climate change.

And a genius like chatbot is useless if it's used for mindless and malicious tasks.

The genius is also still in question.
Einstein expressed something new and didn't just repeat existing knowledge.
I am not sure his death is confirmed though. Apparently he had a new stroke.
This is not really what maintainability means to me. To me, it just means you have a good memory.

To be able to maintain something you need to be able to transfer the ownership of the piece of code to someone else. You need to be able to amend the code easily to extend or to remove functionality. It means that the code can be easily split into pieces that can be given to multiple developers to work simultaneously towards a common goal.

Haskell scores poorly on any of those points.

It's very hard to transfer ownership because Haskell programs have too much bespoke syntax that anyone but the original author will not be familiar with. Haskell programs are very hard to understand by executing them because there's no chance of a good step debugger due to the language being "lazy". Haskell programs are always "full of surprises" because they allow a lot of flexibility in the interpretation of the same symbols. The problems C++ programmers complain about when faced with operators overloading are the kind of things Haskell programmers call "Tuesday".

"Pure" functions are a lot harder to modify to add functionality. Typically, such modifications would require swiping changes across the entire codebase. One may argue that this preserves "single responsibility" constraint, but in practice it means a lot more work.

Objects and modules were advertised as a solution to code modularity -- another necessary quality for maintainability. While Haskell has modules, it doesn't really have smaller units of encapsulation other than functions. If two programmers are tasked to work on the same module, they aren't going to have a good time.
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This is exactly what I learned in a philosophy of science course in college.

Not this specific topic, but that approach. Science is a model, and as soon as you're generalizing past experiments and observations, you're outside of where you should be.
I'm assumed that was why the karma scores for the top ten users aren't visible - you can karma farm your way to the top ten but after that you're blind: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

Maybe psychologically that helps people think "why bother?"
LOL - yeah, I remember seeing the spider ones and going "probably better then I could do stoned" :-P
> I guess you meant to say "doesn't force"

Yes, sorry.

> It would be perfectly fine for someone to refuse to bake a cake for a mixed race couple.

It would be legal to refuse to bake a cake celebrating an interracial marriage. Not "fine"—it would be morally wrong, and if an establishment did this I would boycott them for it—but it would be constitutionally protected speech.
Gentleman, the reasoning of the social conservatives:

> Marrying someone of the same sex is an ideological choice, you see, completely divorced from being, y'know, gay

This is how stupid they think everyone listening to them is.
I have a lot of these going up in my area, maybe 8 within a block or so, and I don't hate them.

They're simple and modern, which many people I know hate at the moment, but I really enjoy the ground-level retail they've brought along with them.

Now more than ever, we can't really be picky about our housing. It looks fine, it's fairly inexpensive to build, and it provides mixed use.
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Had a lot of fun with this. Also a good laugh when trapping some balls and hearing the midi-engine go apeshit and eventually crashing.
the dark roast is just destroyed. why would you drink that?
Email login: so a message is sent to the email address and one careless action grants the other party the ability to login/continue.
What if it was a radar station!?