skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> None of that is evidence conservatives aren't under attack, it's evidence that we're winning the culture war.

None of those businesses are part of the culture war, or if anything they're 'woke' businesses.

Thiel doesn't make money being conservative, he makes money on venture capital and running a big government surveillance business. Larry Ellison makes money price gouging on licensing. Elon Musk's main source of income is a 'woke' EV business. Rupert Murdoch makes money on tabloids, of which Fox News is just one flavor - and the tabloids are arguably 'woke' as they mainly pitch conspiracy theories that the 'normies' don't know about.

Twitter under Musk is no more free speech than it has ever been. They comply with the vast majority of censorship requests from authoritarian governments[1]. They most recently rolled over for Brazil's demands and are now fumbling their execution on paying the fines Brazil levied against them. Musk also censored Ken Klippenstein's account when he published a link to his Substack article about the JD Vance opposition research dump. So no, "free speech" on Twitter is just a slogan and a marketing campaign for low information news consumers, and it's working.

[1] https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-05-24/under-el...
Was it? I remember people saying the same about 2000 and XP. I don't really know, haven't really admined windows since 98 or used it since XP

Will people be saying the same about windows 10 in 10 years time?
The Brain Is a Time Machine
Except it never does. Have you ever heard of a company with a thousand teams?

Or for that matter, how many default alive companies have more teams than customers?
I’m all in for open source getting a seat at the table and pushing innovation forward! Really cool of you to make this open source-question for you: What inspired you to build this?
The actual title is: A Novel Tiny Open-Source Board BioRon_EEG for Dry Active Electrode

> This paper introduces an open-source active high-precision signal amplifier designed for enhancing biodata acquisition, specifically focusing on EEG signals.
Past, Present, Future: Reflections on Time
The upgrades weren't outrageously expensive, I bet they would've cost 1/100th of what the cleanup costs will be.

We're talking about moving backup generator to the roof level work:

https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2012/03/why-fukushima...
Most of what you've said is true but what exactly does it mean to "break barriers"? We can not escape the laws of chemistry, physics, and thermodynamics because we live on a compact manifold with finite resources which must be recycled eventually by the surrounding ecology. This is why plastics are now found in all newborns, the chemicals produced by our factories are recycled back into the ecology and our internal biomes.
I love that you just dismissed Isaac Newton's greatest curiosity as "an addictive hobby" - that may in fact be the best understatement of the quest for the "philosopher's stone" that I have yet encountered.

Perhaps there is a reason some of the smartest of us, for millenia, have fallen into this particular rabbit hole.

I also want to establish that Isaac Newton's quest was not inherently a religous one - the was very opposed to alchemists.

Do you really believe it was spirituality that motivated Isaac Newton? He already believed in God - the subject of his final research was something more tangible, which makes sense considering he was a scientist ;)
Your CI pipeline isn't ready for AI
Read the document, there is plenty of evidence provided.
Request for Information for Facial Recognition Solution
I'm reading "The Unthinkable". It's a great book about diaster response at the personal and policy level.

One thing that stands out is that well intentioned policies often cause diaster if they don't simply trust the ability of humans (and by extension communities) to adapt and incorporate new information as it comes.

I believe that these subsidies are a prime example. They intend to help by alleviating the shock of world events, and it's only through an increase in trust/courage at all levels that we can overcome this tendency.
I think ML depended on math/statistics/computing much more than physics. It's much easier to see what Hopfield and Hinton did as inspired by mathematical models that were created to help study statistical mechanics. Which is fine and just shows how stochastic scientific discovery is.
Interesting enough read, but the post title is misleading. It was hardly a gift, it was an estate tax payment.

Not everyone is a greedy narcissist only out for themselves!
Agree on smart devices, but I also have 3 kids and just want to have clean floors every day.

Also, Roomba is absolute trash compared to any other brand. Replaced my Roomba with a different brand a few months ago and it's a totally different experience.
May I ask, very humbly, what are you credentials when making that assessment?
Medallions only apply to yellow cabs and the green outer borough taxis. Any New Yorker will tell you stories of hail (yellow) cabs not stopping, not driving minorities, not driving to locations in the service area or not being present outside Manhattan. Calling for a cab, van, car service or limo does not require a medallion.
The pernicious argument of adtech shills has been (for long time) that the pilfering of personal user data is the only way to support the web, news, social media etc. because... people will simply not pay for these services - hence they opt to become the product.

Enter the mutation of the car into a "digital platform" and the expansion of the data heist in a market and product where - last I checked - no car was ever given for free.

Lets face it. User data collection and monetisation is not a necessity, has never been. Its an opportunistic choice and a moral attitude that exploited dysfunctional legal and regulatory systems and an ignorant and aloof public.

Maybe that regression is indeed a new "normal". The issue is that normalizing those business models in one domain invariably expands and leaks them in all domains.

If personal data exploitation is the new gold rush how can you argue that x, y, or z industries are not entitled to a serving?

Why should your bank, or your pharmacy or any random business you interact with via a digitised service or product not be able to monetise your behavior with third parties?

Moral decay and generational greed have opened a Pandora's box that will keep on giving.
Is that really true? I think platforms have strong network effects that make migrations to alternatives (like Bluesky) very difficult. However, a government shutdown of that platform, with the power/threat of violence, can break through that network effect by making the platform inaccessible to both sides (the people making tweets and their audience).
Certainly people would like an API for others without needing to reverse engineer them. Agreed that there is a threshold of simplicity past which it becomes easier to organize than having to give speeches and run propaganda.
Not paying for pollution we know they cause is an implicit subsidy, feels quite obvious.
What other services were blocked in Brazil?
Do you mean the Brazilian government blocks social media often?
2 - The vast majority is being burned. If they want to increase production, it's not because of the other uses.
This is an unpopular question, where people assume things about me, but by what mechanism would the human species be ruined? It seems that would require that all innovation towards climate mitigations stops, when it hasn't really even started yet. Reversing climate change probably isn't going to happen, but mitigation is still on the table, from routing fresh water from wetter northern climates to desalinization plants [1] to sun shading [2].

[1] Desalinization, where 300 million are currently services: https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/sci...

[2] Block 2% to reduce warming by 1.5C. https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-six-ideas-to-limit-glo...
Does Mary Hubbard have the ability to kick Matt Mullenweg out of the org when he implodes? If not, she's not really an executive director of anything, but merely a puppet.

I feel like I've seen this entire song and dance routine before with the "Rails Foundation" ­— aka a cozy insiders club built to prop up DHH and his worldview. I find all of this stuff distasteful and not at all in keeping with the spirit of open source.
Or prctl and PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER are potentially useful for that.
Hinton: "Having the Nobel Prize could mean that people will take me more seriously."

Interviewer: "Take you more seriously when you warn of future dangers?"

Hinton: "Yes."
I believe Open-source it is a great opportunity to receive good comments and find some opportunity for collaboration
Hatchet (Gary Paulsen)
The Swiss have dropped ß, but it's still a thing in Germany or Austria.
You're so bad at this...
>https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/blob/1242977d11bebe56...

This seems to be a scenario where switch/case blocks could make the elif-trees a bit easier to read.

Also, the code could use some care about not going so deep into the Vs:

// request headers
if (requestAttrValues.noHeaders) {
// ignore all headers
} else {
for (const header in headers) {
if (headers.hasOwnProperty(header)) {
const headerValue = headers[header]
safelySetHeaderValue(xhr, header, headerValue)
}
}
}

could just be:

// request headers
if (!requestAttrValues.noHeaders) {
Object.keys(headers)
.filter(hdr => headers.hasOwnProperty(hdr))
.forEach(hdr => safelySetHeaderValue(xhr, hdr, headers[hdr]));
}

Not even sure if that hasOwnProp check is needed, unless header keys are explicitly set to undef.
These are called effluent taxes and should be part of the talk around climate change and government.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-alman...
I think ridding documentation of passive voice statements constitutes a good practice.

Passive voice, often performed using the "to be" verb, obscures actors and confuses the actor with the action. Additionally, in detailed program comments, using "to be" can confuse a variable, its type, and its contents or value. None of this confusion helps. We should banish passive voice, and "to be" along the way.
Windows 7 is eminently usable, mature and now perma-stable OS for stateless Windows on a platform that can enforce mandatory network isolation.

Long live one of the best network-optional client operating systems to achieve mass adoption by users and developers.
There are hundreds of thousands of miles of transmission lines, and millions of miles of distribution lines in parts of the US where every single house is on a well.

Because water delivery is centralized and power distribution is not, the size of the power grid is approximately 3x that of water infrastructure.

And the percentage of lead pipes makes up a small part of the whole (9.2 million lead lines out of 100 million total, from the EPA report) while the percentage of above ground power lines makes up a very large part of the whole. Replacing those 9.2 million line segments is estimated (heh) to cost $30 billion.

At $1 million per mile, needing to replace 82% of the distribution system and 99.5% of the transmission system would cost:

$1 million x (5.5 million * .82) + $1 million x (500,000 * .995) = $5 trillion dollars.

$5 trillion is $5,000 billion.

$5,000 billion > $30 billion.

By a lot.

Above ground percentages: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=7250

Line type mileage: https://ifp.org/how-to-save-americas-transmission-system/

I don't know how much it costs to bury power lines but this article says it costs $1 million per mile for water pipes so I figured that would be a good starting point: https://www.americaninfrastructuremag.com/flowing-forward-ad...
No, nohup, as the name says, is about filtering/ignoring signals, specifically HUP, that are sent when the parent process shell exits.
Left does not mean gift, it's a common term which applies when politely referring to the a recipient of an inheritance.
I quite like their methodology and am wondering if we can't use modern tooling to have this sort of customer support testing run continuously (perhaps by someone like EFF) against all major platforms.
I was severely disappointed when I realized that, I thought some billionaire had gone nuts with https://www.treasurydirect.gov/government/public-debt-report...
I don't think there exists any code that makes uppercasing decisions based on the selected font. Besides, if it doesn't exist in the current font, there's probably a fallback font.
What legal entity is WordPress.org insured under, and who cuts the checks?
I disagree on the part about alignment issues needing to be clear. They don't need to be.

It is a reality of misalignment discussions esp those involving AI. Part of that ambiguity is baked into the problem. For example, we can't be sure that AI is aligned with humanity if one of the fundamental issues.

The fact that we can't be sure that the economy is aligned with human benefit is itself a huge problem given the scope of the economy. The fact that we've normalized this is disturbing.
> True, but language fluctuates, zeitgeist changes and while underlying techniques remain largely the same

This applies to software as well

> Yes, you can regimen people through propaganda, but what if it you could do it more easily this way?

Widespread use of BCIs would help with this for sure, but don’t be under the impression that individual and population level manipulation techniques haven’t progressed well past simple propaganda.
Spot on. Life is a playground of learning. If higher dimensions exist, I think entities exist there as well. after 5d, is there really much separation, suffering, and delicious food to experience? Seems like there is a huge gamut of experience for humans available, and its affected by a bidirectional timeline. actions rooted in fear will perpetuation and butterfly over time until the reaction is transformed into a response.
Given the fact, as stated in the article that there are a myriad of legal ways by which millionaires and billionaires can skip paying the estate tax, it could very well have been the result of an intentional decision not to evade this by some socially-conscious dying billionaire citizen.
Left means a gift via inheritance, which is the exact opposite of an estate tax (it's not a gift or via inheritance, it's a tax on the value of an estate and paid before distribution).
Yeah was wondering the same.
Im sure the Scots would have fought to the last Scotsman, but I think they would lose in the end.
Man, you’re everywhere. I have a Montana’s restaurant in my city and I’m scared to go in because of you.
In 'The War Below' by Ernest Scheyder, I learned about the complexities of mining companies profiteering vs the rights of 'the land' as represented by the indigenous people and environmental activists. This is another example of how we use our knowledge to eviscerate the planet's resources developed over millenia for short term gains and enjoyment. And if you thought the oncoming demographic bomb and population collapse in the US, Europe, China and Japan will reduce demand, think again. The 0.1% who own this planet, will simply produce AI driven robots to do the work that humans cannot so they can continue to fly their jets and cruise in their yachts. How can we be so complacent when religious fanatics elsewhere are killing each other over so much less?
Sorry I’m not familiar with TPUs only GPUs but how much VRAM do Corals have? YOLO 11x is 56M params which if it was quantized to int8 would still be 56MB. Plus you would need some for your inputs.
One thing that is possible to do is to take multiple photos instead of a single long exposure and then merge them filtering satellites out.

The quality overal will likely be better to, as the noise level can be lowered. It's possible to do a better denoise with temporal info than simply averaging the noise like a long exposure does.
Who is it that decides what these externalities are and who enforces this?
I think you can even just grab them via www.
You definitely aren't buying retail hardware for $400
> stop subsidizing fossil fuels to 7 trillion a year globally

We need to stop bandying about this $7T figure. 80% of it is "implicit subsidies", meaning made-up numbers based on carbon pricing and environmental impacts and whatnot. It's like saying we implicitly subsidize solar power by not accounting for the environmental impacts of covering up square miles of land under panels, or of the pollution from the production of panels. If you go back far enough, it's like telling the caveman not to light sticks on fire to keep himself warm, because of the carbon emissions that aren't being priced in.

Fossil fuels are, with present-day technology, the best source of energy for humanity to develop and maintain high living standards. It's easy to stop using them if we're OK with dialing back our living standards two hundred years. It will be easy to stop using them at some point in the future when we have abundant, clean, cheap energy from a proliferation of nuclear power, or some battery technology breakthrough that will let us economically harness wind and solar energy. However, currently, it's not easy. Oil and gas is profitable because it makes us all richer, let's not forget that.
PolyBotConversation – An Experiment with LLM Group Chats
>It’s clear that WikiLeaks doesn’t own or otherwise control all the rights to this classified content. Further, it is not credible that the extraordinary volume of 250,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks is publishing could have been carefully redacted in such a way as to ensure that they weren’t putting innocent people in jeopardy.

You can be obtuse about it if you want, but this is basically what it means. The only innocent people that the documents could've exposed would be related to american intelligence agencies

One thing is for sure though, AWS has never terminated a website because they exposed Russian intelligence documents, or because they made non american classified documents public. If you are american, then you can obviously play dumb here but it is blatant for everyone else.

And even beyond that, caring about the clearance level of a document is inherently political, and they explicitly say that it was one of the reasons for their decision to terminate WikiLeaks' hosting.
> It's a systems problem requiring systems solutions

It's a people problem requiring people to coordinate their actions for the net good of all people, instead of coordinating their abdication of responsibility for the good of the corporation.
They also added 1 billion tons of coal. Not all of for energy of course, but still

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-has-more-than-...
What is it specifically about Hollow Knight that makes you think it never would've been made without using someone else's engine? I didn't get too far into it myself but in terms of gameplay systems it seemed like a very standard 2D metroidvania platformer, except with a fantastic visual style.

Compare and contrast Salt & Sanctuary, which was uses FNA (which is a library, not an engine).
But XP was a good Windows.

I don't think it's true that "$current_version - 4 is always the best version in people's mind!". It's very clear to me which Windows versions were good and which were crap.
I mean if you're paying 5+ digits a month on CI it starts being reasonable to say "maybe I should do things to lower the absolute cost of this". 5 dollars time a big enough number is real money!
That was relatively early and it had clearly changed later when they started giving folks like Feynman the prize for something that wasn't at all experiment related.
Surely some government has come up with physically-unidirectional data transmission mechanisms for getting data onto airgapped networks. There has to be something more sophisticated than single-use CD-ROMs, even if it's just a blinking LED on one end and a photosensor on the other end.
Recall and false positives are classification metrics which relates to the YOLO part.
> What’s

Unicode has only one apostrophe. The same one as ASCII apostrophe. The problem here is people using right single qoute as a "fancy" apostrophe when they should be using a font that renders apostrophe in the desired way. I have to fix this junk all the time in CD-text and Musicbrainz metadata.
What I want is for every smartphone to have an FM radio built in. There are FM radio IC chips available, and apparently some Android phones have them. It seems like a reasonable thing to require smartphones to have them for emergencies. I had to run my car in the beginning, burning precious gas just to hear on the radio what the hell was actually happening.
You can buld the same if not better for a fraction of the cost. Get a seed board. They are around $5 or cheaper. If you have a 3d printer. You can find free skeleton of the body frame for hot wheels. For remote you can control it using your phone. Lots of free apps or you can make a simple controller. $60 bucks for this setup seems a bit too much considering there is no RND involved lol. If you look at their YT guide, you have to do so much tidious work. There are tiny motors and micro size servos. Just a matter of how patient you are. I am working on one myself, I just don’t have a 3d printer.
is it comparable to ParaView?
Really great! If I understand correctly, this is an alternative to products like Emotiv in the >= USD 1k range? I have a layperson's question: Is it practical to measure EEG signals during sleep, or does it end up being a cable mess? I've tried relatively affordable devices like Muse with Mind Monitor, but the issue with Muse (besides the limited number of channels) is that it often loses sensor connections and battery life is short.
Windows 10 LTSC became the new Windows 7, after Win7 inherited the Windows XP crown.
> Does it not seem like electric vehicles will eventually swallow the world?

I don't believe so. As I understand it, there are not enough rare metals available, with the known battery technologies. I don't think will ever be the production capacity to construct and maintain (replace) electric-based equivalents to the solutions fossil fuels fit. Fossil fuels came to dominance because of a number of maximal equations. eg The energy demand to move goods, on the scale of trains, is impractical. Operating electronics in extreme temperatures, is impractical.
> without any practical third-party concern about things like "authorization" or "certification."

Or "geniune parts" or "insurance" or "liability" or "loss of use" or "damages" or "employment-related injuries". Just sign this waiver; payment in cash only, up front...
Funny, on same day there is a post from this guy that seems to think the nature of reality is computation. That the fundamental structure is computation and cellular automata.

Maybe it isn't 'machine learning' but definitely the lines are blurring between physics and other fields of information.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/10/on-the-nature-of...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41782534
If I have to pay to clean up your mess to live in a world the way it was before you polluted it, it’s a subsidy
I think EVs are the 80% solution. They're great in cities and in suburbs. If you regularly make longer trips, they're a massive pain in the ass, primarily due to the poor-quality charging infrastructure. There are vast swaths of America where someone is already trucking gasoline and diesel to fuel stations but there's no reliable expectation of charging infrastructure of any kind, much less high-quality charging. It's really frustrating to run into, for instance, trying to drive from Bozeman to Seattle. It's currently fashionable to ignore this problem, but it's one we're going to have to solve.
Just because Android can bypass PinePhone's underpowered GPU when doing some of the animations doesn't mean the whole system gets significantly smoother. There's nothing preventing phoc or KWin from doing the same, aside of its relatively low priority on development roadmaps as other devices don't suffer so much from it.