skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t that distinction more philosophical than not?

Like the Feynman diagram is in any case that a photon is transmitted between two charged objects, whether that photon is “real” or “virtual”.

I know there are physicists who interpret this as there being two distinct things, either particle-like excitations (photons) and more general excitations (not photons). These usually don’t think of Feynman diagrams as representing anything real.

But I also know there are some physicists who consider virtual photons “real”. And in that picture of reality, all EM interaction is “light”.
They've explicitly been trained/system-prompted to act that way. Because that's what the marketing teams at these AI companies want to sell.

It's easy to override this though by asking the LLM to act as if it were less-confident, more hesitant, paranoid etc. You'll be fighting uphill against the alignment(marketing) team the whole time though, so ymmv.
> You yourself seem to have internalized the idea that it is the end of the experience.

The previous commenter didn't say the end of "the experience." They said the end of "experience" (no the). If you want to be pedantic about the semantics, that's a pretty big thing to add, don't you think? One is the end of all sensation and the end of a particular set of sensations.

And no, it doesn't require that people not universally fear death, it requires that people who see death as the end of all experience don't fear death, which appears to be tautologically false since they adopt an irrational and negative belief about what the post-death state is.

> Nothingness has evidence. Memory and consciousness both appear tied to the body. Suggesting that’s equivalent to anything else because technically anything is possible is at best a god of the gaps argument.

The wordplay is interesting here - I didn't mention memory, only consciousness. Memory does appear to be an embodied phenomenon in your brain. Regarding consciousness, I'm not filling the gaps with a god, I'm suggesting that denying the existence of the gaps is as bad as filling it with a god.
Sure but "not cooking" isn't really a viable way of cooking food, whereas "using an induction hob instead of gas" absolutely is.
Travel - it seems that if this app takes off, catching up with people as you travel is a solid use case.
If the border is open it doesn’t matter who is moving.
Viewing an ad is not “giving back” in any meaningful sense. Modern adtech primarily benefits the infrastructure providers, rather than providing a service to its “clients” or a revenue stream to site owners.

Adblocking is the only meaningful objection that the consuming public can raise to the inefficient and wasteful adtech situation. Depending on how you feel about your obligations with regards to civil society, you might view it as a moral imperative.
That is fair...

But if all I need to do is generate the report I proposed...why would I embed that in a Ruby script (or a Python script, or a Perl script, etc.) when I could just use a bash script?
Governments have become absolutely addicted to have real-time access to everything we do, think, and see.

Mad respect to anybody who goes against the grain, and puts their own livelihood and freedom at risk, to help support privacy and freedom.
Overcast is popular, but I would say its UI has also become worse over time:

https://overcast.fm/

But its less about discovery than tracking your library and playing them back.
Amazon's page (and URL) covers all angles. All hail SEO!

https://www.amazon.com/River-Runs-Through-Norman-Maclean/dp/...
I, and most people, do not buy a car for the software.we just want a car that has a battery instead of gas tank, keep everything else the same
I wonder how much of this is due to the fact that to a pig, a dead pig is just another meal.
I think Fifty Shades of Grey has had more commercial success than The Martian. It was originally published as an episodic piece of Twilight fan fiction (Master of the Universe)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_Shades_of_Grey
One trick to get out of this is to wrap any function with an asynchronous interface with pollster::block_on which turns the call back into exactly how it would have run if it had been synchronous (which leads to no color leaking).
When Maruska sings « Стежка гуляет, по-дорогому »

a) is it the 1989 cross-curtain equivalent to "Pretty girls walk like this"?

b) how long has гуляет had multiple meanings? (I'm pretty sure I recall a folk song where it seemed where a "walk" on the river bank could well have been ambiguous; probably not «ой, Маруся
Гулял по холоду со мной.» though...)
You only need to enforce like 1% of the illegal crossings and the 1% facilitating the economy of crossings will be gone.
To clarify it's actually been talked about a few times, but with specific focus on substrands/topics in EA.

Here are two that I'm aware of:
https://techwontsave.us/episode/198_how_effective_accelerati...
https://techwontsave.us/episode/138_dont_fall_for_the_longte...
Maybe us, animals, don't have an instinct of survival. That's a bit of an assumption.

Maybe we have another very strong instinct and survival is just the observed side effect but not the operating driving force. Indeed, animals take mortal risks constantly.

It could also be that they we a variety of instincts in fight for domination and survival is just one of them but not the strongest one.
https://www-ft-com.ezphost.dur.ac.uk/content/b112fe68-7b86-4...
128GB sold out already. I'd prefer a 256GB variant.
There are, for example, over 30 cities in the US named Springfield.
Consistently making things up/lying to boost the stock price
Requiring numerous large interfaces is a True Truth about your code. You didn't make anything go away by just giving up. You just forstalled any other future options. The complexity was there regardless.

I suspect it is likely you did not do the interface minimization, which I didn't have time to go into. You should not hand "a file system" to your code when it does not need it; if all it needs is to "read a file by file name" then the interface it receives should have only that.

If you have the occasional module that takes 25-50 inputs, I just pay the price for that particular module. If every module in your system is taking dozens upon dozens of inputs, you aren't building a "modular monolith", you're just building a monolith with extra random cuts in it, which is the worst of both worlds.

You can take an architecture diagram and drop an arbitrarily complicated line across any bit of it. The resulting code will also be arbitrarily complicated, but you can do it. (See also what microservice architectures tend to become anyhow.) But if you keep dropping lines across your architecture and they're all really, really complicated, the problem is your procedure for drawing those lines, not the utility of a separated architecture.

This is one of the reasons I'm not a big fan of rigidly following "clean" or "hexagonal" or any other particular architecture, because even as they have good ideas, rigidly following them inevitably involves drawing overcomplicated lines across the architecture. They're useful ways to get started but true design taste requires an inexpressible understanding of where to cut things that none of them can hand to you as a rigid recipe.
Show HN: I created RFID Poker table with chip tracking [video]
> if you're reading this linked twitter post, don't do it

Fixed.

There are 100s of better ways to get rich. A lot of people do it for (besides the $$$) the enjoyment in different ways so telling people to not do it is just so wrong.

If you lose the freedom and are told to do this or that then it's just another job.
The Math Doctors
Python or go
OK, then I have some sort if AI clone who roughly acts like I'd do. What does that have to do with lifespan extension and (if I'm not a delusional tech billionaire) why would I want that?

Actually, how would that sort of "immortality" even be fundamentally different from the traditional way of becoming "immortal" - by having your children or contemporaries carry on your estate in your name, according to their interpretation of "what you would have wanted"?
How should I use your link to reach this conclusion despite the tracks I gave?

(also note that "ridiculous" is quite strong and disrespectful)
The Bell Curve wasn't simply descriptive. It contained "policy implications based on these purported connections [between IQ and race]." It opened by saying that if you want to hire good employees, you should hire by IQ... and then connected IQ to race, implying that racial discrimination is justified. On examination, many of the sources were directly tied to white supremacist organizations.

The Bell Curve is a singularly poor example of a scientific description of the status quo attracting unfair attacks.
Allocating Student Study Time: "Massed" versus "Distributed" Practice
Let's normalize using python instead of bash
You're making a bold assumption that an alternate, extremely uneconomical, OS would be more secure. This is far from obvious.

Now, if the phone's original OS were open source, it would be easier to make bugfix patches when old vulns are discovered.
Flutter is a resonance. That of a combined aeroelastic system not simply mechanical inertial-elastic.
This project is a command-line Sudoku Puzzle Generator written in Python. It allows you to generate Sudoku puzzles of varying difficulty (easy, medium, and hard) and optionally generate an answer key in a separate PDF.

The script generates Sudoku puzzles in PDF format and can also generate a second PDF containing the answers (solutions) for each puzzle.
It's a tricky balance. Once the signal to noise gets bad enough, even if the cost of ignoring individual events is low enough, the cumulative cost of ignoring so much overwhelms any positive value. Twitter now seems bad enough that it's like living in an interesting area with horrible noise pollution and high crime rates. Over time it just sucks the life out of you. It might make sense to try and change things if it were a public good, but it's not, and Elon seems to want it this way, so it won't improve, so for many people it makes more sense to leave.
How have the Phonak's been? I only learned of them recently - I've been wearing Oticons for a few years and have never been super impressed.

I may be ready to drop $$ for my next pair..... do you work with an audiologist or did you do everything at Costco?
My grandmother would walk 4-5 miles to visit us, well into her 80s, and the route included a rather substantial hill. She lived into her 90s.

Similarly, my grandfather was docker, and then a very active gardener walking to his allotment a few times day, a good few miles round-trip, and lived into his 90s as well.

They were all what might be 'underweight' by the BMI measurements these days. War diets, perhaps, but they were both healthy and fit. Not sure I buy the restricted diet idea for longevity though.
Yes, at a trading company, where important central systems had a multiweek testing process (unless the change was marked as urgent, in which case it was faster) with a dedicated team and a full replica environment which would replay historical functions 1:1 (or in some cases live), and every change needed to have an automated rollback process. Unsurprising since it directly affects the bottom line.
Oh that’s good to know. Thanks.
Except for the last paragraph of your reply, what’s different today?
> do full-body work-outs a lot, eat a really clean diet, avoid drugs

Could it be that older people were less likely to be able to avoid physical work (even their chores were far more of a workout), were relatively more religious and conservative than current generations, and grew up with fewer processed foods and more home cooking by stay-at-home moms? What I mean by this is are you just describing people who were born in the 1930s? The fact that the ones that are left are mostly typical would be expected.

> keep using your brain actively into your 80's and 90's.

This could be seen as a symptom of aging well, rather than a cause. People whose brains don't work well aren't studied as examples of aging well.

The person I know who most fits this description is my dad, he had a swimmer's body in his 60s, worked out every morning since high school, has kept a dead center BMI his entire life, has never done a drug and probably only had a sip or two of beer, always had a gym guy diet that has gradually become more vegan, and was a math major and computer programmer, plays chess etc..

He's totally falling apart in his late 70s and becoming very frail. Seems like he's having nerve and neurological issues, and having problems with his connective tissue and with arthritis in his hands and knees. I don't know how you eat, work out, and think yourself into avoiding that. Half of his joint problems are caused from having been athletic, just like my super-athletic Army grandpa, whose knees would bend backwards for the last years of his life from football when he was young.

Protestantism isn't a law of nature. You aren't automatically rewarded for sacrifice and suffering, at least while you're alive.
Maybe my brain has been too rotted by listening to Noam Chomsky in my youth, but government spending and capitalism are two sides of the same coin. Everyone in washington is a capitalist, maybe withstanding 1-2 representatives. Large corps are constantly communicating with our leaders, far more frequently than their private constituents. To think that there is some secret, powerful office of the government where they are trying to dismantle capitalism through the use of welfare is a bogeyman. Welfare is there to prop up the ideology of capitalism as it smears against the rough road of reality.
That used to be true, but automation is real. Low cost labour simply delays automation.
This website doesn't check whether your profile link matches the city you typed in their website. It means you can place any other user wherever you want as long as they have a link in their profile (moved you to Taiwan as a test).

It's also a big buggy since you show up in both places now.
2 HN users in Honolulu! Aloha!

I love this! Everything worked great for me. Thanks for making it.
Every year till now

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/02/business/tesla-sales
Personally, I think there are too many things in modern American society that involve diffusion of responsibility, presumably so that people avoid negative consequences. If you're going to suggest that a system gives 1/10th of the responsibility to 10 different people, the one who made the system is the enabler of that and IMO should suffer the consequences.
I think I misread the original recommendation as being the other way round i.e. to use #!/usr/bin/env bash instead of #!/bin/bash.

That's why env is generally preferred as it finds the appropriate bash for the system.
One time when I was playing Rez¹ my consciousness seemed to split. There was the me playing the game, and then there was the me observing the me playing, spectating my own gameplay. By the time I had reached that point, gameplay seemed almost automatic. The enemies seemed to practically fly into my reticle, to be shot down immediately upon appearing. I realized I was somehow blocking my conscious focus from commenting on how I'm playing and offering corrections, leaving my unconscious free to actually do the work of targeting and shooting, as well as my conscious mind free to sit back and enjoy the ride. It was an unprecedented experience of total concentration on a task.

A further mindblow occurred when I realized that this is a thematic element in the game. In the upper left corner of the screen is a "system log" that describes what you're doing and names the things you're shooting down, that can be said to represent the mind's "narrator". But you almost never look at it because you're more concerned with what's happening on the screen. Steering your attention to the log means you'll lose focus on the actual gameplay.

Rez is like that. It's almost a metacommentary on the experience of playing it, and experience in general, sometimes. Everyone should play it.

¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rez_(video_game)
When they first came out, pre stack overflow, having comments at the bottom with people’s example snippets, tips, and tricks was INSANE! It was so helpful. Shout out early PHP users who helped me so much.
practice of the art of the corporate grift does take a toll on one's soul. Usually only pyscho/sociapath can do master this and do it for a long time without any emotional/mental consequences.
I'm confused by the use of Greedo as an illustrative example. The only reason people care about that is because George Lucas had the brilliant idea to change it. If you publish two versions of your story depicting two explicitly contradictory versions of an event, then people are going to pay attention to it, nothing to do with modern audiences?
The GP is pointing out [bad bash, good bash] and not [good bash, bad bash]. It was unclear to me at first as well.

You two are in violent agreement.
OP did not say collapsing; everyone agrees with the current situation of severe weakness.

Consumer spending as dropped dramatically, deflation is occurring, population is decreasing millions per year and set to accelerate, foreign direct investment is down 10x, inept foreign policy has strengthened China’s neighbors relationship with the US, entrepreneurs are demoralized, etc.
Pretty cool! I’ve seen similar implementation in the Elektor 2011 issue magazine.
The US navy uses the commercial brand of these speakers; LRAD (long range acoustic device) to ward off pirates at seas. LRAD is the company that makes them for defense purposes and they patented the name and acronym. But parametric speakers are used everywhere even museums and apparently for trolling Rick roll too! :)
By "alternate" I don't necessarily mean some obscure os, but any os in general , in fact I rather specifically had in mind Android or Linux. By alternate here I meant the fact of being able to install any you want instead of being stuck with whatever ancient Android version and Linux kernel the original came with. Ie if your phone came with an ancient Android, you should be able to without OEM support install a newer Android or a recent Linux or anything else you'd like.
Vitalism is the establishment of a culture that seeks to create a "new man", prizing "courage, daring, and the overcoming of previously established limits". Which is literally one of the pillars (actually, the pillar that me off) of so-called "foundationalism".
That's a job I would have liked to have.

I know internet searches make all of this so much faster, but this article reminds me that it's not like it was _not_ possible to get information pre-Internet; it just took more time. And considering how much the Internet has changed our entire way of life and the stressful always-on-demand way society expects you to be today, I often wonder if the positives really do outweigh the negatives. I'm not so sure.

The fact that we had to go to a library to research something or pick up the phone and ask someone who would do that, slowed the pace of everything down, which means we "got less done". But when I think of how much effort we now spend trying to mitigate the exponential rise of stress and anxiety, maybe being slow was a feature, not a bug, of happier living. Why are we obsessed with "getting things done"? Unless what you're doing is trying to curing cancer or the like, then I'm not sure that "getting more done" is particularly helpful to you or to society in general.

If by "getting more done" that meant we were able to work less and enjoy life more, maybe it would be worth it. But we're working more hours than in 1980 and unless you're in the top 10% you're not making that much more money than in 1980 (counting for inflation and purchasing power). So what has it brought us?
The examples right up top are great and give my example-first learning style a chance to really see what’s going on before diving in too deep.
Hmm, I wonder if anyone has a simple pipeline for extracting data for "voice cloning" type models from the combination of original audio and transcribed text. It should be possible to chain this with some post-processing to replace Lex's voice with something more pleasing, and maybe throw in some automated rewriting of the transcript to remove the fluff.
Funny that I'm also in Springfield and faced this issue. I didn't think it was such a common name.
Not true during crises, eg covid related manufacturing.
both

> Sodium Acetate is the sodium salt of acetic acid

it's salt made from vinegar
While I do believe the ever increasing “more money for a trillion dollar ai company scheme” is not infinitely viable, in what world are us investors running out of money?

> Hopefully the participants don't experience any down-rounds or devaluations along the way. (It happened to many over-valued startups like Klarna, and Stripe and OpenSea.)

Klarna is a debt as a service company. They were made to exist in an easy money world.

Opensea is a fraud as a service company. They existed in the crypto (more specifically nft) craze.

Stripes down round was due to changing economic winds, nothing due to the softening of their business

None of these are analogous to OpenAi.
> however, it's also better to take advice from people who win instead of those who can over articulate their failures

I didn't even articulate it well. Nobody wants a car, they want what the car gets them? It works even for a house or a beer
> As RL researchers mentioned in our earlier discussion, this feature poses a risk. First, it is more difficult to scan compiled Python files than plaintext files, as they are packed into a binary format, making them unreadable without specialized tools.

This is a strange claim to make, given that one such "specialized tool" is provided with Python's own standard library (the `dis` module).
import os

os.system('mycommand | sed 's/ugly/beautiful/g' | awk -F: '{print $2,$4}' 1> something.report 2> err.log')
> up-front, no-strings cash

Intel has to build the foundries before they get the money. They haven't received any cash yet.
What matters is the field gradient. The field inside the core of the MRI is pretty homogenous, so if the metal is in there when it's switching on/off then it's fine. They will put a precautionary shield over embedded shrapnel, but it's not a big deal- it'll just wiggle a bit, and can cause some image distortion. Heating would be caused by imaging gradients, which are very small precise fields layered over the main field. Imaging gradients can switch very rapidly, which is what could cause heating, but they're so weak (fridge magnet range) that it's a nonissue.

Likewise if you're more than about a meter away, the gradient has also dropped off and forces are much smaller.

Imagine a bubble around the entrance to the core: that's the danger spot where field gradients can be >3 T/m. Fun fact: take B^2/(2*u0) and you get units of Pascals. Magnetic pressure and fluid pressure can be thought about pretty similarly, except that free space is very impermeable and things like iron instead act like "holes" that can create strong flows between areas of different magnetic pressure. You can have a 3 T field separated from you by air, but if you stick a steel rod into it suddenly both ends of the rod will be at 3 T.

3 T works out to about 500 psi of magnetic pressure. If you have a small, 5 mm iron sphere in a 3 T/m gradient, the pressure difference across it is only ~2.5 psi. Size matters a LOT. 2.5 psi may be a slight tug; 50 psi may pull a wire straight through you. And 10 psi may be fine when it's embedded in you already, but given a distance to accelerate it can go pretty fast.