skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That car is signaling an intention to merge into your lane once it is safe for them to do so.

Only under the assumption that the driver was trained in the US, to follow US traffic law, and is following that training.

For example, in the EU, you switch on the indicators when you start the merge; the indicator shows that you ARE moving.
Of course it does. It’s probably still less than a few dollars a month
Sure; but I feel that its a bit unfair to poo poo Google's strategy when, at least, they have a strategy; and there are AI features Google has released that I've actually seen normal people mention once or twice. Their AI call handling thing and the "ask Gemini to summarize a youtube video" feature come to mind.

Bringing up Google's imagegen features as something no one wants is reasonable: But Apple is releasing a copy-cat app under the Apple Intelligence banner. Is Genmoji a gimmick? That's an Apple feature, not Google.

So, again: I think the assertion that "Apple is late but does it right" is totally invalid when applied to AI, because there is no way to do it right, because no one wants it. You can at least be first and capture some vaporware market hype, but Apple is going to have a come-to-jesus moment next year when they have little new to announce, because they're still releasing features they pre-announced in 2024.
To be clear, my objection is to the premise, not to the offered solution.

To your question, could you clarify what exactly you mean by the rack "going down"? This encompasses a lot of different scenarios, I'm not sure which one you're asking about. The obvious interpretation would break all the connections the program has to the outside world, thus preventing the problem by construction.
I do not disagree.

Modern cash systems involve anonymity and do not inherently keep track of the ownership history of money (as I noted). This anonymity is a fundamental feature of cash and many forms of currency today. Sure, early forms of currency might have functioned in small, close-knit communities and in such contexts, people were more likely to know each other’s social debts and relationships.

My point about cash being anonymous was meant to highlight how modern currency differs from the historical concept of money as a social ledger. This contrast is important because it shows how much the role of money has evolved.
> Language is infinitely productive. Using a finite number of sounds or symbols, humans can produce unlimited utterance chains to communicate novel and complex ideas.

We maybe disagree, in the sense that it seems to be mixing indefinitely bounded expressiveness with actual unlimited expression production that could potentially be in a bijective relationship with the an infinite set of expression.

We human are mortals and even at the whole humankind scale, we will produce a finite set of utterances.

The main thing bringing so much flexibility to languages, is our ability to reuse, fit and evolve them as we go through indefinitely many inedit experiences of the world. So something like context change tolerance. But if we want to be fair with crediting admirable unknowingly extensive creativeness, we should first consider the universe as a whole, with its permanent flow of novel context, which also include all interpretations of itself through mere mortals as ourself.
Keepass and logseq for me
The article is surprisingly balanced and sympathetic, the headline doesn't do it justice.

It puts forth an interesting thesis: autistic people are let down by the authorities and as a consequence feel justifiably threatened by them.

Surprised to see this appear in the Financial Times of all places and not in the liberal press, if the FT admits that the government is suffering a legitimacy crisis it's serious.
indoctrination is not required. nor are priests. the story just needs to make sense, and if it does people will accept it.

how are the commonalities a stretch? they are self evident: somehow some entity created the universe. somehow this creator is communicating with us, not just once, but multiple times, and they will communicate again in the future. everything else is the content of that communication, and for that there is no need of any further commonality even though there still are many.

i am not addressing animals because that is completely out of scope. our understanding of the consciousness of animals is still very limited, and even if it is shown that animal are potentially capable of such higher order thinking, as long as we can't actually able to communicate with them, we won't know what they are thinking. the question if animals have a religion is therefore unanswerable for the time being.
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This is basically exercise physiology 101.

I'm not saying that to be snarky. Just as an FYI that it can be kinda hard to even describe how one came across this knowledge. Like asking someone how they know LC circuits act as a resonator.

And I guess exercise science is even less popular than physics. You can find the latter on Wikipedia, and a bit of the former too:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_physiology

There is a lot of great YouTube content about exercise physiology too, if you can cut through the "bro science" ecosystem.
You can see someone's profile and top-engagement tweets logged out, but if you want to see anything recent or specific you need to be logged in, which means there's the friction of a second Twitter account, at least.
how are you going to authenticate the user? now you need to solve that if you didn't have a web login before.

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Guess @dang decided to rate limit my account again so I can't post replies :-)

> Some token that every account gets generated? It's really not that much to ask honestly.

How is the user going to know this token when they visit the website on their laptop? Keep in mind that the Google requirement is that you link to this delete page from the play store, where the user is not authenticated with your app. You can't just generate an URL containing this token.
I’m just speaking to my experience with this crop. Actually their communication issues I haven’t encountered in the work place otherwise. It’s about what specifically was poor, which isn’t easy or worth expressing as a comment on HN.
The typing version is still useful when you want to communicate that the result conforms to a certain interface, which doesn't include mutability in the case of Set, but not the exact type.

Edit: I see that he imported the typing Set, which is deprecated, instead of collections.abc.Set, which is still useful, so your comment is correct.
i mean the point of language is to communicate, saying "i have autism" is usually done to give context to someone's behavior or how to interact with them (though obviously autism is very different person to person). i think this is a tricky conversation because someone could argue the "stolen valor" of autism might cause issues when someone says they have autism, but doesn't, and then the person interacting with them uses it as a learning experience in how to interact with autistic people in the future. however i'm not really sure this holds up as a decent argument, because as it's said all the time and i said earlier, you can't make assumptions about how to interact best with any given person who has autism. you have to ask, "is there anything i can do to make you comfortable or help?", if it's appropriate to do so, and see what they in particular need.
Not when most households are getting 30Mbps up and 300Mbps down or more. Now several at once would strain it for sure.
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Given the film-noir vibe and recycled-future look, CRT's might have been an intentional artistic choice.
I hope it can live on inside F-Droid somehow.
Yes, they could, that's not much different than a single company distributing the archive to multiple storage centers though. My original comment was about it being more cost effective for a single company to do that than coordinating with a bunch of disjoint entities.
You’re the one choosing to use it.
That's a bummer! Can anyone suggest an alternative way I can get files from my macOS laptop to my Android phone? I "just" want to put my folder of music files and m3us there so I can play them (with PowerAmp).
This is a great point. We have a generally tendency to typify in binary[black and white] terms. It overrides our ability to express nuance and un this case pushed out a larger category (if we even wanted to still categorize) of ambiverts.

MBTI speaks more on our drive for categorization than it does on the people being categorized.
To be fair, you're making the most used mobile operating system in the world and can't be bothered to make API bindings for more than one language? Or at least make the process easy so that someone else creates them? I am not an Android developer, but that seems also part of the problem.
This argument is wild to me because anti-war types and protestors aren't, largely, against the military existing or being effective or good at its job. They usually just disagree with the aims or conduct of a particular campaign, or disagree about the cost-benefit ratio. Most people know a military is essential and want it to function properly
The AI tool report shown to the dean with "85% match" Will be used as "proof".

If you want more proof, then you can take the essay, give it to chatGPT and say, "Please give me a report showing how this essay is written to en by AI."

People treat AI like it's an omniscient god.
Often this will be resolved by the network being quiet long enough for a reboot - with connection tables in intermediate firewalls timing out etc - rather than the actual reboot.
I guess it depends on what dielectric constant they need and the serviceability. Even deionized water can be a dielectric. I think Novec makes multiple non-toxic non-flammable dielectric too.
Anecdata: I have no issues with my simple git workflow that I’ve used at the previous 3 companies I’ve worked for. As long as communication is solid across teams/people, merge conflicts and rebasing isn’t that big of a pain to introduce an un proven tool to an org.

My thought would be that most people are happy and it’s the <5% of people who complain the loudest that are heard.
That was actually one of the key constraints in the LOCKSS system, since it was designed to be run by libraries that don't have big budgets.

The design is really very good.
> conception here is that one's layered abstractions is basically an informal mathematics... which is formally structured... which is a formal grammar. It's your internal language, using internal symbols instead of English names

Unless we're getting metaphysical to the point of describing quantum systems as possessig a language, there are various continuous analog systems that can compute without a formal grammar. The language system could be the one that thinks in discrete 'tokens'; the conscious system something more complex.
I have coins that originally had milled edges that are now completely smooth.
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I don't find these excerpts in the linked article. Are you consulting an other document than the one pointed here?
> (aggro question)

I think it's because he doesn't have a time machine and doesn't have time to donate to rewrite someone else's project that the owner expressly doesn't want rewritten.

n.b. it wasn't arbitrary
Right now, it takes skill and labor to move descriptions between representations for business goals, engineering (where we have frameworks and linters, etc.), and external/customer facing documentation.

The customer is faced with an output from the design process. I think that we can turn that around now. Let customers edit part of the documentation, and let the AI adapt the system to their need.
You are required to pay attention all the time. That's what the "supervised" in "FSD (supervised)" means.
Has this been investigated in detail by physicists? Does it hold up in theory?
> for no real reason other than to further tighten control they have of the supposedly "open" platform

I think you're overlooking the obvious motivation of "maintain a lock on a substantial profit stream".
Right. The speed limit itself is arbitrary.
> MySQL and Oracle store a compact delta between the new and current versions (think of it like a git diff).

Doesn't git famously _not_ store diffs and instead follows the same storage pattern postgres uses here and stores the full new and old objects?
I think burn out on free projects is a real thing. Heck I get burn out on old projects and I’m being -paid- to maintain them. Good will and accolades only go so far and passion runs out eventually, especially if you’re only one person and there’s no one there to give you respite for a good recharge and you’re facing a hostile entity like Google.
I think you're doing it wrong. You don't need private. You just need to find the right "release groups" and the right software to use.
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Thats awesome!

You could make it so you could control it with a light pen. It would integrate over a window of a single scan line?

A slightly more complex device could retrigger and sum into a bucket brigade and integrate over a region.
They may not be wrong with their primary point, but they neglected to provide an argument to support it. Instead of bothering to argue, they just provide a litany of freeze peach dog whistles. Anyone who doubts that ideology's value would rather have an actual argument laid out.
The funny thing is that before that we taught light bulbs how to think(thermionic logic), and before that we taught magnets how to think(relay logic) and before that we taught levers how to think(gear logic)
What kind of trigger did it have? some kind of key sequence or certain day of the year?
some people are locked in because of third party software which isnt available on linux and dont want/cant afford a mac, others just want to stick with what they know regardless of how hard microsoft keeps repeatedly pounding them in the ass. i think unfortunately most people will just accept that they need a new computer for windows 11 at face value and not question it.
... Are you me? I followed essentially the exact same path.

I got into electronics (and to some degree, computers) as a means to do something cool. I don't have the drive to memorize data sheets spend hours playing component golf. I just want my circuit to work, even if it's not the most efficient way possible to do it.
> the teacher can produce no proof

For an assignment completed at home, on a student's device using software of a student's choosing, there can essentially be no proof. If the situation you describe becomes common, it might make sense for a school to invest into a web-based text editor that capture keystrokes and user state and requiring students use that for at-home text-based assignments.

That or eliminating take-home writing assignments--we had plenty of in-class writing when I went to school.
The US economy was booming before the ZIRP began though, and that was on the strength of the technology industry.

Immigration does fix two particular problems though, especially targeted immigration of skilled workers rather than refugees:

1) It balances an aging, shrinking population which usually stifles innovation and depresses wages (both of which are happening in Japan right now).

2. It increases the talent density of industries. Talented people exist in every country and culture in the world. Attracting them to your country with a wage higher than their home wage is a good way to snowball a competitive industry (because these talented people make things successful leading to more opportunities for more talented people).
In some cases students have fought such accusations by showing their professor the tool flags the professor's work.

Don't know why these companies are spending so much developing this technology, when their customers clearly aren't checking how well it works.
You mean model collapse, because schoolchildren will soon base their writing on the awful AI slop they have read online? That's fearsome, actually.

We are seeing this with Grammarly already, where instead of a nuance Grammarly picks the beige alternative. The forerunner was the Plain English Campaign, which succeeded in official documents publicised in imprecise language at primary school reading level, it's awful.
Microsoft has a metaplan to take control of the entire path from server instance, to hardware chipset, and host all thier applications, leaving a tablet like device that rejects anything out of band with this secure chain.

This is looking close to last opportunity to migrate out, and participate in rebuilding a user centric ecosystem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Sphere
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To me the point of the phrase was to counter prejudice and gatekeeping. "You can't be autistic because I know another autistic person who does the opposite," is a sentiment that autistic people in my life have encountered. It doesn't extend to researchers because (arguably) researchers aren't in the business of telling people that because they are uncomfortable with behaviors associated with autism.
> (snarky response)

This is what we call "Put up or shut up". It's easy to bash someone for not wanting to spend many hours of their time to work they have no interest in, just because some third party is now demanding it. The change is absolutely arbitrary, also. There used to be no way to grant apps access to specific folders. This is when the app was written. This still works. Google's own apps work that way. But now Google has also implemented additional ways to access the filesystem, and they are demanding people who don't even work for them to rewrite their projects.

It would be understandable if they demanded new apps to adhere to these new policies. But blocking older apps, that were written when there literally wasn't an alternative available, to do a full rewrite or be banned from updating? Absurd.
Another angle to look at intelligence is that not all species need it, or need it to same degree. If you are a cow, or a crocodile, then you are a 1-trick grass-munching or zebra-munching pony, and have no need for intelligence. A generalist species like humans, that lives in a hugely diverse set of environments, with a hugely diverse set of food sources, has evolved intelligence (which in turn supports further generalization) to cope with this variety.

At least to our own perception, and degree of understanding, it would appear that the ocean habitat(s) of dolphins are far less diverse and demanding. Evidentially complex enough to drive their intelligence though, so perhaps we just don't understand the complexity of what they've evolved to do.
I'm not sure your point? I am advocating for magit/a text editor plugin. git itself is not a TUI either like say lazygit is one. if someone were to rip out everything except magit and throw it into a TUI I'd be down to use it but as it is I only use emacs for magit because magit is just that good.
I'm having trouble with this assertion. Light travels slower in water than in air, by your assertion that light is the limit of causality; then surely we can create a paradox with ftl right in a pool.
> to introduce an un proven tool to an org

Your org doesn’t have to adopt the tool. Nobody on my team needs to know or care that I use jj instead of git. The only people who do know or care have themselves switched when I showed it off to them.

I’ve worked too many places where I’ve helped fix too many coworkers’ broken git repos to believe in a simple git workflow. Basically everyone uses the same fetch/branch/commit/merge-to-main approach and people still constantly run into problems. None of the people with some claimed simple workflow are doing anything meaningfully different than what everyone else is doing.

It’s just astonishingly easy to internalize all the fixes and band aids we’ve adopted to smooth the sharp edges and forget how often we have to work around them.
> the root of all that? Privatization

Honesty, it's German politics doing precisely this that's part of the problem: flippant diagnoses too broadly applied from afar.
I think so? Couldn't find much information about its support on GH
> I think ['The Secret War' by Brian Johnson is] an earlier version of ['Most Secret War' by R V Jones]

Most Secret War is R V Jones' memoir of his personal involvement in radar, aerial navigation, aerial surveillance etc. in British military intelligence. I read it a long time ago but I don't remember it as a dry read at all - dramatic times after all.

Brian Johnson was involved in writing and producing the BBC documentary and a book. So it's not an earlier version of the same thing. The documentary is on youtube I think - a good watch, but I'd recommend reading Jones' original book.
at this point gaming is easy enough on linux that i'm happy enough to just go without the handful of games that don't work at all. modern games are so bad that most aren't even worth playing anyway.
And it's guaranteed not to happen if the efforts don't continue.
Seems like the easy fix here is move all evaluation in-class. Are schools really that reliant on internet/computer based assignments? Actually, this could be a great opportunity to dial back unnecessary and wasteful edu-tech creep.
I'd say it's the smartphones success that lead to smart bring a euphemism for everything. smartphones worked so well, It led to everyone and their mother attaching smart to everything.
The article demonstrates that good, simple prose is being flagged as AI-generated. Reminds me of a misguided junior high English teacher that half-heartedly claimed I was a plagiarist for including the word "masterfully" in an essay, when she knew I was too stupid to use a word like that. These tools are industrializing that attitude and rolling it to teachers that otherwise wouldn't feel that way.
The only linux thing is always the kernel. Userspace isn't linux by definition on any* system. That might seem like a pedantic point to make, but I would like to point out that gnu utils aren't required to make a system "Linux", and whether you're using a drop-in replacement like uutils or go a more different route doesn't make it any less "Linux".

Android Apps are and mostly always have been restricted to the Java virtual machine (or its modern equivalent) exactly because that makes them portable between sometimes quite different base systems from different vendors. If you insist that makes it less of a Linux system I'd like to know what you think of flatpak apps on top of immutable distros. I hope you agree that, conceptually, they're quite close actually.
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I understand why they might have chosen 1/8 oz. I don't understand why they chose not quite 1/8 oz. That's the puzzle.
That is correct. Each version of a file is a separate blob. There is some compression done by packing to make cloning faster, but the raw for git works with is these blobs.
"Rotating seals can never be perfect,"

No seal is perfect, everything can deteriorate. Why would the seals need to rotate like a Wankel? I think this would be more like the end seals on traditional automotive transmissions. Leaks aren't really that common of a problem there.

There seems to be a lot of different dielectric fluid options. It seems flourinared hydrocarbons are increasingly being replaced by other options. It's possible their proprietary fluid is something else. It would surprise me if their fluid is highly flammable.
To make the web distributed-archive-friendly I think we need to start referencing things by hash and not by a path which some server has implied it will serve consistently but which actually shows you different data at different times for a million different reasons.

If different data always gets a different reference, it's easy to know if you have enough backups of it. If the same name gets you a pile of snapshots taken under different conditions, it's hard to be sure which of those are the thing that we'd want to back up for that particular name.