skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We are likely talking past each other here. By "searching" I don't mean how inference is currently carried out by efficiently analyzing the context window using weights trained on large data sets fine tuned on specific goals.

> I mean the process by which novel information is discovered, which is why many proponents of AI will concede that it's not currently capable of "doing science" or making novel discoveries.

Huh. I think those are the same thing?

But then, I say that AI can do science. Not that I would recommend specifically an LLM for this, but what was AlphaFold doing if not science? Or even GOFAI having been used for the four colour theorem back in the day.

> Not sure I understand, we have a pretty good understanding of what qualia actually is, even if it can be difficult or awkward to talk about conceptually.

Hm. How to rephrase…

Can you create a testable definition of it?

> The gap between having a subjective experience and not having one is a large one, just ask anyone who's alive but under general anaesthesia that induces loss of consciousness. Qualia is simply what arises from the quality and character of having a subjective experience.

Purely from asking them questions, how will you differentiate between each of these cases?

1) A person under general anaesthesia that induces loss of consciousness

2) A person under the influence of a paralytic agent without anaesthesia, who is fully aware of their surroundings but unable to respond

3) A brain-dead person

4) A person with locked-in syndrome

5) A person in REM sleep who is currently dreaming but unaware of the surrounding real world

6) A person in deep (non-dream) sleep who also has no awareness of the surrounding real world

7) An unborn foetus (any species)

There are people with locked-in syndrome who later recover, who report that those around them treated them as if they were non-conscious.
Its not clear to me if it supports OTLP
Adsp-218x family of harvard architecture DSPs. Each 25 ns clock cycle = 1 MAC, 1 data fetch, and one instruction fetch. All instructions 1 cycle long. And many other gizmos like reversible address bit ranges for DFT in place, separate register bank for IRQ handlers. And all laid out by hand.
Have they changed to be more of a general tech news science in recent years? I remember them being much more technical review focused years ago, but I might be remembering incorrectly.
Anyone know the story behind the name? Couldn't find anything in the docs.
Ask HN: Would the c64 have sold more with BASIC commands for graphics and sound?
It is strange that the built-in BASIC did not have any such commands.
https://www.apple.com/feedback/notes/

Or more generically…

https://www.apple.com/feedback

…if you have bugs to report that aren’t for Notes.
Yup, I think characterizing a micro-saas as a software based point solution is fair.
We want to make our software available to any system without every library maintainer being a packaging expert in every system.

The user experience is much better when working within tkese packaging systems.

You can control versions of software independent of the machine (or what distros ship).

Or in other words, the needs of software development and software distribution are different. You can squint and see similarities but the fill different roles.
Hey man I'm into meditation too. Nice to meet you.
So because people don't know how to use it, run it or even build it properly?

Do we even know what 'it' is? What does anyone mean when they say 'AI'? A lot of problems start from everyone using the same word but meaning different dreamed up magic.
Reservoir Routing and Its Application to Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Balance
Happy you like it, let me know if you have any feedback or ideas on how to make it better!
what element was "bad faith", that the query was nonsense? Point me at anything that would legally or even ethically constitute a "shakedown" as alleged by OP, who it appears in the subthread to have misread the license?

like, answer the question instead of evading, surely it cannot be that hard.
I'm interested in hearing more about the history behind Debian and zlib! I did some searching and the closest thing I could find was a nod to the same incident in the Upstream Guide[0]. Do you know of a place where I could read more about it?

[0]: https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide#No_inclusion_of_third_...
It is funny how many people who, if Putin's Russia did this, would immediately understand what is going on here and not make complicated excuses about law or the subtle nature of free speech, instead when Brazil does this pretend that this is something different simply because they so vehemently disagree with Musk and his politics.

Of course most of those people also disagree with Putin's politics, but to them Musk is the "near enemy", which is more dangerous to them than the "far enemy".

If one sees any fundamental psychological drive in an average American's positive reaction to this news other than pure tribal/religious desire to annihilate their political opponents, one has not yet put on those nice sunglasses from They Live. Don't get me wrong, of course there is the occasional actually principled rational person, but overall the vast majority of reactions to this fall along tribal lines, even here at the orange site, which maybe once was full of geeky libertarian types but has clearly for a long time now been overrun by a different sort of person.
You don't know or understand how it's supposed to work. Every plant is supposed to be routinely inspected, and not be allowed to operate if it is not sanitary. If the inspection process didn't work for this one plant, it means it is not guaranteed to work for any plant.

Basically, it has been left up to the goodness of the plants to operate themselves how they like. That's how it is expected in the third world.
Because OS packaging stuff sucks. It adds an enourmous barrier to sharing and publishing stuff.

Imagine that I make a simple OS-agnostic library in some programming language and want to publish it to allow others to use it. Do I need to package for every possible distro? That's a lot of work, and might still not cover everyone. And consider that I might not even use Linux!

A programming language will never get successful if that is what it takes to built up a community.

Moreover in the case of Rust distos are not even forced to build using crates.io. However the downside is that they have to package every single dependency version required, which due to the simplicity of publishing and updating them have become quite a lot and change much often than they would like.

The funny thing is that in the C/C++ world it's common to reimplement functionality due to the difficulty of using some dependencies for them. The result is not really different from vendoring dependencies, except for the reduced testing of those components, and this is completly acceptable to distros compared to vendoring. It makes no sense!
i.e. the paper[0] states that first "discharging" produced 7.09kg of H2 out of 8.71 theoretically possible

the efficiency is super low, but again, according to the paper, "most of the energy input was due to thermal losses at the reactor surface (83.9%)", which also benefits from square/cube law.

[0] https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/se/d3se0...
I've worked at a place like you describe. Supportive team, cooperation, understanding, etc. Despite whatever disagreements it was pretty great. For about 2 years.

Then the stuff like irrational business decisions, difficulty getting people on board to address issues, all this institutional inertia, people saying no to everything that could possibly improve things internally. It weighed down so much that I just couldn't handle working there anymore.
The form would look like this:

CREATE PERSISTENT DISK
----------------------

Replicas: W
Zones to split replication across: X
How many replicas must complete a write to allow the VM to continue: Y
How many zones must complete a write to allow the VM to continue: Z

With the above settings, you can expect approximately:

Write latency 5-95%: 0.5-2.5 milliseconds
Mean time to committed data loss: 37 years
Mean time to failure to write: 3 years
Mean time to data loss of data over 1 minute old: 18327 years.
Cost: $0.18/GB/month

The user would set those 4 parameters, with help text for guidance and a big red warning if you set the parameters to something insanely slow/unreliable.
Does AI encourage cheating in schools?
Exactly my thoughts. I think people who make arguments like Chiang's are unwilling to examine our own decision making process, and in particular are unwilling to entertain the idea that it is as mechanistic as an artificial neutral network.
I'm in the same mind. As much improvement as Linux GUIs have made over the years, there's always just been that last bit of polish they are missing that makes them feel just a bit klunky in comparison to an Apple OS. Does it affect performance, no, but it just has that OSS feel to it. I totally understand the $$$ differences involved, and modern *nix UIs have come a long way, but it's like that last mile problem they just can't quite get there. It does not make it unusable, it's just the thing that always makes it noticeably different.
Another interesting project allows you to do a similar thing with Hugo. I'm a bit nervous to use these myself but seems useful for some limited, non-serious use cases.

https://github.com/Izumiko/hugo-encrypt
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Art is made by people therefore not everything we perceive is art. It’s not personal.
that's cool! so this is the turbo-* vision part, but the *-pascal part is not included?

is there one of those anybody knows about? I have the source to a turbo pascal BRIDGE.PAS card game player I used to enjoy playing. (it's not a good bridge player and it has a scoring bug, but I know how to fix it, and I can run it in dosbox if I want so I'm not desperate in that sense, but I'd rather run native)
You don't stop testing when you stop selling X. You stop testing when you stop supporting X.
686000 euros are not taxpayer dollars.
The MBAs must not be made to read The Jungle as undergrads any more.
the US Army Is Paying Youtubers to Recruit You [video]
It's free for local use from npm.
I’ve seen this before as well, but as a parent with two kids who loves to wonder about this very question, I can assure you a five year old (a kindergartener) is much, much smarter then a dog. They are filled with ideas and imagination, math / reading / writing capability, creative drawing and of course a massive spoken language advantage. Sure, they’d still lose in a fight, but then they’d (correctly!) tell their parents what is happening and we’d call animal control :)
Yes but once people mess up and choose the wrong thing it’s very hard to go back. There are plenty of examples of countries where bad actors have taken over all institutions and what then? There are not takesies backsies
> the PrintT operator is defined in TLA+ like so

No, it is defined like so: https://github.com/tlaplus/tlaplus/blob/0dbe98d51d6f05c35630... This is the same strategy that Haskell uses for its primops, a placeholder file and implementation in another language. I guess you didn't understand my point that it would be easy to extend TLA+/TLC to more primops, like memory, a Java FFI, and so on, making it a fully featured programming language. I don't care what "the TLA+ language" is, C++ implementers regularly toss the spec in the dumpster and just like you have C++/LLVM and C++/GCC there similarly is a dialect of TLA+ for each implementation.
If you would know Romanian I would share with you links my parents share with me and have you defend that bullshit to prove that my parents are the correct ones when they fall for the online bullshit like medical stuff (or you will claim that this less educated people are wrong when they fall for medical bullshit but when is about election they are correct).

Latest link from my father was a clip from some TV channel where some pretend doctor was claiming something super vague that is scientifically incorrect, this time I ignored it since I was not in the mood to try to find evidence that the guy is not a real doctor, that the vague shit is bullshit and find scientific shit to clarify things, and all would need to be in Romanian so he can understand.

For this old generation if is on TV or internet and some scammer pretends is a doctor and uses a few medical words they will fall for it, is the same with politics especially blaiming bad stuff on various groups, that stuff works well on the internet.

Give me an example where your or a friend uneducated pessant parents were actually correct in this kind of topics then their educated children that know more languages and read more media.
AlphaFold is really impressive and made scientific advancements and discoveries in the field of protein folding, and is now even expanding into more molecules and biology, but it was explicitly trained to do just that. You're not going to see AlphaFold write compelling science fiction.

We can build models that are specifically trained and fine tuned on scientific fields to make advancements in them, but that's different from what I'm talking about, which is building a model that forms its own hypothesis, designs its own experiments, and contributes to the wide and deep wealth of knowledge that, crucially, goes well beyond the scope of its training data.
Didn't get what you're saying. What is "and more" part of Tumblr?
Programming language package managers are more for development than deployment.
The "keypress" behavior is not a bug in my opinion, it's a well-established behavior across platforms.

You could do the same thing with a button+mouse on a desktop. The dot for the typed character appearing immediately is different from alphanumeric keyboard behavior, because you can't register any key press before releasing the touch (or key) there, due to composition.

In my opinion, this is sensible behavior and your vision sounds like it would be a nightmare in reality to me, accidentally pressing neighbouring keys or tapping instead of swiping all the time.

Is this any different on Android? I've used Android for most of my smartphone life.

And I can't remember how often I was relieved to be able to cancel an accidental tap by swiping away, when I accidentally tapped a link while scrolling for example.

This is even the default for mouse buttons, no?

It happens, while rarely, still regularly, that I notice I pressed the wrong button just after the mousedown, but before the mouseup. And since I can remember, I was happy that the UI was made so I could then just hold the mouse button and move out of that button to cancel.

Just verified your description of the lock screen code buttons. Not a bug, but the behavior you describe would feel buggy to me.

There are plenty of UX annoyances on iOS though, that is not what I want to deny. I also prefer GBoard over apples builtin onscreen keyboard.
Doesn't the picture at the top give a good summary?
In Rust, it is frowned upon to pin to an exact version. We do encourage people to specify what semver version range will work. We don't have great support for depending on and verifying multiple-major version ranges when a library broke compatibility but not in a way that affects you.
To Defend Democracy, Is Brazil's Top Court Going Too Far?
Japan wants its hardworking citizens to try a 4-day workweek
> Unless I missed something, you have yet to share the science that supports your view.

There you go:

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9368251/

- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026427512...

- https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/sweden-covid-and-excess-... (Sweden being "notorious" for not having mandated lockdowns)

Comparing excess mortality in Sweden and Germany (which had numerous lockdowns):
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/covid?tab=chart&Metric=...
Only if you’re on beta builds afaik
https://archive.is/plQFT
> For other languages like Python, there is not a need and you should not do that.

Normally I would agree, but when it comes to cuda and rocm, and the one that intel uses... you find that you have to pin torch/audio/video, and then you have to start pinning its dependencies (and their dependencies etc etc) or else you start getting random build or runtime failures...
Is it time for the red shorts now?
> Did you try Accessibility > Motion > Off?

There is no "Motion > Off" but there is a "Reduce Motion" toggle. Seems to be turning things that were slowly animated into even slower fade, like when you switch applications. Doesn't seem to actually affect much, animations inside for example Apple applications is still there, no matter if that toggle is on or off.

> There's a pretty useful manual built into the device itself called Hints I think? Did you read that?

I've browsed through it, but I don't think it's in no way extensive? I tried to find anything documenting the "Hold on spacebar and drag to move text cursor" in the Tips application (that I'm guessing you're referring to?) and found nothing, which is one of the features I "discovered" purely by accident.
They already have that in iOS/iPadOS 18 fwiw
I use a full passphrase with alpha/numeric values instead of a numeric only passcode. I've never seen a sluggish entry on that. Does it behave differently with a numeric only entry? I definitely experience the calculator sluggishness, but never entering my passphrase.
Namely adult content. They began heavily moderating this kind of stuff, leading to a mass exodus, in particular to twitter which was amenable to it.
> CarPlay is a thing because carmakers just can't seem to make a decent "radio" with a touchscreen no matter how they try

But CarPlay is 100x worse than Android Auto, even though Apple is supposed to excel at UI and UX, this was the point I was trying to make, not that car makers such at UI/UX.
Humans have consciousness, and free will which is expressed through intention which forms a causal chain. Photography on its own is usually vapid but it’s subject can be meaningful.
Theory (apparently well-debunked?) about why Claude might be lazier in August
Welcome to capitalism fellas.
If I understand the problem, just move all your DI registrations to a shared extension method:

public static ConfigurationExtensions{
public static AddMyApp(this IServiceCollection services){
services.AddScoped<IFooService,FooService>();
}
}

//In console app:
var consoleBuilder = Host.CreateApplicationBuilder(args);
consoleBuilder.Services.AddMyApp();
...
//pseudocode - in real world you'd put this in another class or method called by the commandline code:
if(webHostCommandLineSwitch){
var webBuilder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
webBuilder.Services.AddMyApp();
...
}
Yeah, I thought about that, and unless you form a nonprofit with explicit governance requiring the release to all code, and the CLA is to the nonprofit, it would be difficult to guarantee. Even the nonprofit route isn't a guarantee, which is why I would evaluate each organization separately for their history and governance. It would likely take some time for a new organization to develop the reputation.
On the other hand, it is nice to know that there are other people who share your predilections.
Two helping words: Cast Iron.
Let’s not misrepresent Kent over a single incident of sending too much after a merge window. He’s extremely helpful and nice in every interaction I’ve ever read.
On the other hand, the choice might have bad in the beginning but it is hard to go the better route now, meaning a rewrite to switch to the better way would cost way too much time and resources.

In this case ignorant people would be way better for the company because they wouldn't care. I've gone into a job that was like that and it bothered me a lot that I had to work with a shitty foundation but there was nothing to do about it so the job sucked for me while a junior was just grateful for the opportunity
Rome didn’t even have a navy when it started the first war with Carthage, who were the dominant naval power of the Mediterranean at the time. During the first war Rome had the navies that it managed to build wiped out more than once before the Battle of the Aegates, which it probably wouldn’t have been able to rebuild from if it had lost. They’d been fighting a losing war for nearly 30 years at that point.

Rome also lost every major engagement in the second Punic war prior to Scipio’s campaign through Iberia and North Africa, which very nearly never happened at all. Cannae was probably the most comprehensive military defeat ever at the time, and is still one of the most famous routs in history.

It is possible that Rome could have survived if it lost either of those wars, but it certainly wouldn’t have risen to be the most dominant empire in European history. Rome could have very easily fallen after Cannae if Hannibal had been reinforced, which he very nearly was.

Speculation about what would have happened to Europe without the Roman Empire is just that, and I’m not trying to say it’s a good or bad thing, it’s just fascinating to think how close it came to being something completely different during that part of the republic era.
I missed that, thanks for pointing it out.
I do a lot of stuff with blue/purple gloves, and I can unlock my touchId device wearing those. Doesn't matter why/how. The fact I can shows how it is easy to bypass.
Aww, nerd courtship.
Aren't you basically giving away your eternal polluting chemicals to a poor guy who just needed blood?

I understand it can happen unwillingly but doing that on purpose is... shady. Got to be an horrible person to willingly poison another.
> What I bet hasn't decreased is the extent to which people say they want to be unique.

FTA:

> In our study of over one million participants surveyed from 2000 to 2020, we found that need for uniqueness was lowest among participants who took the survey most recently in 2020 compared to those in 2000.

So it seems that the desire for uniqueness has decreased, unless I'm reading this incorrectly. That's a surprise to me just based on my observations and possible biases.
Debian is going to look as ridiculous for doing this as Alma Linux is for insisting btrfs isn’t an “enterprise file system” due to it lacking RAID 5/6.
> I always had flagship Androids before my switch to a 12 mini.

And I had budget Android phones (Motorola Moto G) before my 12 mini, yet the iPhone is worse on most points besides the display and sound.

> Where do you notice it? Do you play games or use compute intensive apps?

Anywhere where there is an animation/sliding/transition. Everything feels like it's moving in molasses.

But it's very much not a Apple-specific issue, designers nowadays seems to make animations in general way too slow. Which is fine when it can be configured (like on Android) but Apple doesn't like customization (or used to at least), so we can't.
Remote work is bad for worker well-being
People are notoriously bad at predicting what makes them happy. Remote work is another example of this. The flexibility of remote work sounds great on paper, but you miss out on the rich social connections that are essential to well-being. Even if you are introverted and/or swear you are better with remote work, you are likely not the exception and somewhat deluded :)
> "with significant emissions occurring in the first 3 min of operation"

I'm guessing that's because once the catalytic converter heats up it burns most of the carbon particulates.
I had low energy a bit along the ME lines after covid+shingles and it's not really that it's not known to be a thing with doctors - they've all heard of it, but with no tests, treatment or known mechanisms there's not a lot they can do apart from maybe test for other stuff or hand out general things like vitamins/antidepressants/painkillers. We need greater scientific understanding of what is going on really.

I got tested for other stuff - low T which I thought it might be or prostate cancer which the doc thought but neither of those. I'm recovering a bit through normal passage of time.