skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They likely have a high level plan to get to AGI, since this would help to give their research direction.

They probably have ideas and a research direction, but it's probably going too far to call whatever they have a plan to get to AGI, since no one knows how to get there. At best you could probably say they have a plan to search for a path to AGI.

> I suspect stage 1 is to get current models to assist with making AI breakthroughs.

That's sounds like a sci-fi trope.
Cats can drink a small amounts of salt water, my cat is quite happy drinking our salty swimming pool water.
I think this is all the evidence you will need https://mjhibbett.bandcamp.com/track/the-theory-of-a-dinosau...

The Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction event occurred, as far as we know,

Sixty five point five million years ago

But even the interval of error in that estimated date

Is longer than it took us humans to evolve from apes

And if in that time we mammals managed to conquer space

I believe the Dinosaurs could have done the same
Yes, the distinction between theory and hypothesis can be important, but a distinction should also be made between popular science and rigorous peer-reviewed literature. Popular science is meant to be easy for the general reader to understand. Often that means using simpler words, as long as they are still accurate in a general way.

In this case, I believe theory is an acceptable word to use. The MW dictionary, for the definition of 'theory', says

2a. "a belief, policy, or procedure proposed or followed as the basis of action"

3a. "a hypothesis assumed for the sake of argument or investigation"

Seems to me that the usage in the article fits either of these definitions well enough.
Only ‘Fants
I believe the results of this policy should have a measurable effect on the number of complaints/customer support cases and they are definitely taking notice of that.

But it's not that anyone will take action. This is exactly the expected outcome: Pay less for courier wages in USA/Europe, and keep the much cheaper (and probably outsourced) customer support hotline busy.

On the contrary, it would be more likely to take action if the complaints are not high enough. This means that they could squeeze the schedule of their couriers a bit more.
I view them as completely separate issues. We need 230 immunity in some form or else the whole telecommunications system falls apart (although I am a fan of Trump's plan to make it apply only to sites following the law and removing only illegal content, as this censorship nonsense we have been dealing with for the last decade or two implies the platform knows what they are publishing and is editorializing which should make it liable, just as a newspaper is liable for what it publishes).

What is charged for distribution is more of an antitrust issue to me (i.e. 20% is clearly ridiculous unless there are a bunch of reach/network effects the platform offers due to it having market power. mitigating that market power is almost always a good idea).
Gophers don’t give a flying fig about fences. Seriously, as someone who struggles with gophers all the time, I really want to know how they controlled them!
More discussion in a later dupe thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42105400
You consider it a "massive win" going from - per capita - the 4th richest country in the world [1] to one so poor you have an ~82% food insecurity rate and ~53% in extreme poverty [2]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Venezuela

[2] https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/02/venezuela-un...

That would be worse than Qatar turning into Venezuela. Venezuela was richer than Qatar - by quite a bit.

I think people fail to grasp how good things were in Venezuela before 71.
> But why are scams, rug pulls, pyramid schemes and outright Ponzis so wildly popular when relatively legitimate gambling like blackjack and roulette are available?

You are mathematically guaranteed to lose your money playing roulette. Nobody ever got rich playing it unless they cheated somehow.

But you have a small chance of winning buying a meme-coin/stock/option.
To be USFC/FIDE legal, the board has to size with the pieces. Even though it's not likely to be used in a tournament, it would just look odd being sized differently.
when it comes to marketing the only thing that'll work is finding your true voice

i made this video because it reflects my sense of humor and is the kind of content i'd appreciate

anything outside business as usual will draw polarizing reactions

but in a noisy world that's the only thing that'll work

https://x.com/thdxr/status/1848794269848637510?s=46
Here's the actual study:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor...
Ask HN: Google suddenly locates me in a wrong country, what to do?
Hey all,

I'm suddenly being detected as located in a Eastern European country (I'm in Canada). This is more than just a minor annoyance:

-Google searches yield results in a foreign language, products are being shown in a foreign currency;

-I'm suddenly unable to order groceries online, as the stores use googleapis to locate me and their sites just lock-up trying to show me the nearest store; blocking googleapis results in all sorts of weird errors or messages as "sorry, we don't deliver to your location"

What could've possibly generated this? on the bottom of https://google.com, the erroneous location is justified by "based on your IP" - but my IP belongs to a major North-American ISP, with whom I've been for 20 years. Weirder yet, it's a fixed IP (second I had in the past two decades, the first one was something like 1.2.3.4, changed a few years ago to 1.2.3.5 - so rebooting the router/modem is useless, as it will get the same IP).

I reported the error twice last week, using Google's very simplified form - but nothing changed.

I'm stumped. Any suggestions? Right now I'm even considering switching ISPs (which I really don't want to, as I'm very happy with my current one), although, from time to time, on the bottom of google.com's page, the location is justified as "based on your previous activity" - what the devil is this? if I look up something in Mongolia, Google decides that I'm suddenly located there?!

I really don't understand what could've lead to this -- and, especially, how to get out of this situation.

Also: I don't browse/search logged into my Google account; as a last resort I logged into Google, manually set my location to where I actually am and ran a search: nothing changed, still being detected in Eastern Europe "based on my IP".

The only thing I can do is force redetection with "Update location", but that: a) is only valid for the current device (I have several in my household) and b) lasts only a limited time.
This was posted here a few weeks ago. I was particularly intrigued about preloading pages when you hover over a link. That's a pretty decent indicator that a visitor wants to click that link, and if there's lots of server side caching, it's mostly harmless. I decided to implement that on my blog, and it seems to be a bit faster.
It was around 60% in the UK https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/half-a-million-new-company-...
On the tactical level, absolutely. But the poster child at a more system-wide strategic level is the classic bogeyman of a Java codebase ruled by XML config and dependency injection of overly-abstract components. And many parts of our codebases remain rigidly hierarchical, like trees of UI components. What would it take for us to be able to deliver new features as a completely independent vertical slice? Micro frontends get some of the way there, perhaps?
That's cool! Great work!
Add cats to the list as well.
Memorized inherited tacit knowledge around campfires may had been our own specie's cultural medium, but other ways (with slower bitrate) can easily be entertained.

Vocalizations and their evolution were banned from discussion in the Royal Society because they did not leave a fossil record, so even meta-science was harder back then.
How is this a breach of privacy?
Weirdly grating headline. A "lack of shortages" is not a good turn of a phrase. That's an "abundance", or synonym. "An abundance of PS5 Pro means some scalpers..." would be 5 characters shorter, and read better.
What Made Us Unique [pdf]
Where is the evidence the Mongols took issue with this view?

I think if you eat all neighbouring civilizations in a few decades, you're definitely a civilization.
Austrian legislation largely encourages clandestine ops and this brings a lot of offices, officials, fancy equipment and money to Vienna to this day.
Same thing reported by author of:
https://default-filename-tv.neocities.org/
They can fight fire in Antarctica but they can't seem to solve the rampant sexual harassment
We purchased an Inglesina hook-on chair cover which was great as it allowed the little ones to sit at the table with us, instead of feeling separate with some of the bigger high chairs. It was a pain to clean, so we also got a Wunderland cover for it. We used this from around 6mo to about 3.5y for my older, and 6mo to 2.5y for my younger one.

Magna-tiles have been a big hit for both from about 2yo and on. Lots of knockoffs on Amazon, but we haven't had any issues with the 2 sets we purchased.

For books I really connected with "Hunt Gather Parent".

Aside from that, I'd say top thing is patience and sometimes just being quiet and not interfering when they're playing.
Rent in old buildings (Altbau) is capped. The problem is that many landlords don't care and there are no penalties. You can charge back the extra rent but then your landlord will probably not extend your contract...
I was recently bringing up a custom board with a W6100 chip and it’s funny how closely my experience paralleled this one.

I also had (a different) issue with SPI communication (the W6100 uses a little different protocol).

I still couldn’t get any Ethernet packets to send/receive with a real machine, so I did basically the same debugging step: bought an off the shelf W6100 dev board and planned to use their arduino library to compare against. That’s where I left that project.
to save any interested parties a search: groups of 10-15 octopi have been dubbed 'octlantis' and 'octopolis' after being discovered off the coast of Australia. this is remarkable because octopi (including gloomy octopi) were previously thought to be largely solitary creatures which only interact when mating. octlantis features social hierarchies, disputes, and dens fashioned out of the shells of their prey which the creatures have been recorded evicting each other from. interesting stuff

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/octopus-city-obser...
I'm going out a limb here and saying "your ears interpret them in terms of their relationship to thirds and everything else is a fiction"

Although:

a) I have only given this a moment's thought and...

b) The term "fiction" here is relative as all music theory is a fiction to some degree.

c) "Ears" here is short hand for a weird mixture of maths, physics, brain structure and learned cultural expectations.

I'm kinda clutching at a valid idea here though - despite the above flakiness.
How is the cause of death determined for 250k people?

EDIT: I got curious and looked up the CDC guidelines https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf

> based on sound medical judgment drawn from clinical training and experience, as well as knowledge of current disease states and local trends

> the disease or injury which initiated
the train of morbid events leading directly to death

It goes on to suggest that if Covid was present they strongly recommend including it. And even if you did not diagnose Covid it can be a good assumption to make.
Spoilers: This comment will be mostly about US politics. Hah, speaking of grifts and cons.

Considering JD Vance is a pro-crypto dude chosen by crypto billionaires, and we got a Doge-promoting as douche-in-chief, maybe a rogue superpower run by inept oligarchs will force a memecoin to be global currency very soon now.

Somehow the idea of IRS accepting crypto for tax payment doesn't feel that impossible...
0.00000001% of animals are fossilized.

99.9999% of animals are extinct.

We had almost nothing, but a lot of it was inferrable.
Save the Web – Obsidian
It is entirely possible that if elephants could speak and had versatile hands like we do, they would build a developed civilization. They certainly seem very intelligent and deliberate.

A genetic project for the 21st century: try giving them voice and hands. See what happens.
If you work from home you can spread monitors out, so you switch positions while working on a problem without losing focus the same way you switch back and forth on a dual monitor setup. E.g. Have documentation on monitor one at a standup station in one corner of the room, the other monitor with code a few feet away at a desk, email on a laptop in a separate room, etc...

And drinking more coffee helps a lot. You have to get up to make the coffee, then to pee it out. The caffiene in sufficuent quantity makes it hard to sit still. You talk faster so people think you're more productive too.
I don’t really understand what you’re proposing. How would we fix things to “not run away”. If we’re not trying to value fix to be more objective, what guiding principle should we follow?

On the wealth weighting, I’m a fan of a 100% inheritance tax tbh. I’m in the “top 1%” and I don’t plan on giving my kids more than a great upbringing and education. I’m not giving them any additional cash injection. I think that solves a lot of the wealth weighting problem by shortening the lifecycle of capital holds, but I don’t know if I’ll ever live to see it (or some form of it like inheritance caps).
Right here - network is expensive. Another issue is cost estimation.

Servers have prices, rack space has prices, engineers have salaries.

You now literally have people hired now to work on how to calculate infra costs on aws (finops). Spot prices fluctuate. So what are the real savings in FTEs?
To play devil's advocate: have a look at the way plants in a forest communicate with each other - even across different species! That's a complex network, in which individual plants could be analogized to neurons.

Do I think forests are conscious in the same way that we are? No. I do think "consciousness" is not a binary, and that we have poor tools and insufficiently-developed models for understanding it.
Their main point has always been to be a condom between people and companies like Google, Microsoft, etc. Not just payment information, but other tracking and data as well. I think that's a fine niche for them to be in.

What products would you like to see them to build?
And in Leonard Richardson's somewhat silly "Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs" http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/let-us-now-praise-awesome...
TBH, I've really want a passthrough one-button 8-channel recorder for a long time. It's great for rehearsals of small groups.
> minimum wage shelf stackers

Why do you conflate these things? There's plenty of people doing a lot of fundamentally important jobs getting low pay and also lots of people doing the office equivalent of "stacking shelves" making a killing.
> extremely likely

I think you misspelled "unlikely"...?
So when there is less ornate and difficult language to parse for the brain, there are more cycles available for imagination? Indeed z
a thin line to balance.
"scientists dropped a few local gophers on two pumice plots for a day"

I bet to this day no other gophers believe the story those gophers tell at the pub. :)
Someone did that with an ATTiny85 years ago:

https://hackaday.com/2014/08/29/bit-banging-ethernet-on-an-a...
wow, that's amazing! I'm gobsmacked you can make something like this with CSS, that is so cool
is there already a "networking from scratch" type of content somewhere -- not focussed on implementing it in hardware -- but maybe a tool for interactively playing with bits, bytes, packets, frames, etc to simulate each layer of the stack and see how 2 or more devices on a network including switches and routers might communicate with each other
> we are creating zones with 4 desks each group is separated from the others with furniture and green plants on top of the furniture.

Those are called "pods". It's true that they reduce some of the awfulness of open office plans, but I still wouldn't work at a place that did this.

> In general we are software developers so the office env. is typically quite

You're lucky to have devs who are actually quiet when working. That's something I've never actually experienced.
Why are you following them?
> Mine didn't look very good after I'd worked through it.

Counter-anecdote: other than maybe the odd banged corner, mine are pretty much pristine.

> Good shelf life, but 24 years of use? Not a chance.

Did I miss something in the article? Why would anyone expect them to last for 24 years of continuous usage?
Same. For me, usenet was "social media", long before social media was a thing. I remember in college hanging out in a newsgroup for people looking for a pen pal, and later exchanging letters with someone on the other side of the country whom I never met in person.

Pretty crude by today's standards, but also a lot more genuine and less risky. At that time there were a lot of people on the internet like me, college kids discovering it for the first time.
FYI: can reach directly via https://duck.ai
> There are weird structures that we discovered and haven't yet made sense of as well.

Do you mean biological structures? Or do you mean physical/geological/natural structures? If the latter, can you give some examples? Specifically of structures we haven’t made sense of that could be “intelligent design”, as you seem to be suggesting.
If it's that easy to upload a video from your camera roll to YouTube (Two clicks) it's not that hard to imagine that this can happen by mistake or by someone who doesn't know that it uploads as "public" by default.

Maybe they just wanted to send this video to a friend and didn't have the technical understanding that this will then be visible for everyone searching for it on YouTube.
https://archive.is/MN9bp
How about antique electron microscopes? Does 50 yrs old count as antique? They're kinda pretty.
Fujifilm also uses _DSF0001 for Adobe RGB images.
US Prices and Wages by Decade, from the 1700s to now
Why is your swimming pool water salty? Do you fill it from ocean water? I’m asking because most people fill from the municipal water supply which is not salty.
Only 24 minutes? Seems like everyone's got their office in their backyard
This screen is 190dpi; Carta 1200/1300 and Kaleido 3 in black and white mode are 300.
Forgot to mention: asking Google "what's my IP" shows my correct IP, but the bottom of the page places it in Eastern Europe. Every other service linked on the results page locates me correctly i.e. in Canada.

Also: in my Google account, "Where you're signed in" shows my Air, my iPhone, my Pixel and my Chromebook in the correct location (Canada, $MyCity).
I had an autonomous vehicle almost hit me. It didn’t understand to yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk when turning at a light.
I walked into their office and reported it (there’s no other mechanism that I know of). They shrugged it off.

Autonomous vehicles can be done safely, but nobody and nothing is perfect so without robust error correcting and reporting systems they’ll never be safe.
I had the same question. The linked paper says they used gopher enclosures:

> In 1982, an individual pocket gopher (Thomomys talpoides [Richardson]) from a nearby clearcut was placed in a 1m2 enclosure around a single L. lepidus individual for 24 hours
The future of AI regulation: From data to algorithm deletion
I am seriously worried about AI being merged into search. Below you will see a very simple query I made to ChatGPT. Spoiler alert: the answer is wrong. There is a branch of Umpqua bank in Point Roberts. And there is no credit union. So instead of the correct answer, I get the sort of answer I would get from a friendly uncle who was determined to hide some ugly truth from me.

The worst part is that I see no evidence that this kind of wrongness will ever get better.

ChatGPT:
You said:
are there any banks in Point Roberts?
ChatGPT said:

Point Roberts, Washington, is a unique community because it's located on a small peninsula that is part of the United States but accessible only by land through Canada. Due to its small size and unique geography, Point Roberts doesn't have many large-scale businesses, including full-service banks.

However, there are some options for banking in the area:

ATM Services: There are ATMs available in Point Roberts, which can be used for withdrawing cash, but they might not offer a wide range of services like in-person banking or loan assistance.
Local Credit Union: There is a branch of the Point Roberts Credit Union. It's a smaller, community-oriented institution that offers some financial services, including savings accounts, loans, and other basic banking services.
Nearby Banks in Blaine: For more extensive banking services (like branch access, larger ATM networks, etc.), many Point Roberts residents and visitors go across the border to Blaine, Washington, which is just a short drive away. Blaine has branches of major banks such as Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and U.S. Bank.
If you are looking for specific services, it might be best to contact the credit union or check with larger banks in nearby Blaine.
Except in regard to the first trigger (Biden's gaffe) -- there's just not much logic there, being as it came rather late in the game (Jan 2022), whereas the decision to invade had essentially been made several months back (before Putin started moving his 170k troops into place).

But we can definitely see the precipitous withdrawal from Afghanistan as being a much greater factor.
Maybe he knows something that voters obviously don't --- that electing a dictator won't be good for anyone --- and this will soon weigh heavy on the economy and the stock market.
What happened to kbuildsycoca6? It's not updating icon cache anymore.
The Libertarian Coder
From the article:

Key information

Current M4 chips offer 4-12 CPU P cores.

M4 P cores are arranged in clusters of up to 6, sharing L2 cache and running at a common frequency.

P core clusters can be shut down, idling at their minimum frequency of 1,260 MHz, or at one of 18 set frequencies up to a maximum of 4,512 MHz, as controlled by macOS.

Their instruction set is “technically” ARMv9.2-A, but without its Scalable Vector Extension (SVE).

They use 1-2 mW when idle, rising to peaks of 1,400 mW (floating point) or 3,230 mW (NEON vector code).

macOS preferentially allocates them threads at all QoS higher than 9 (Background).

Threads running on M4 P cores are mobile, and may be moved to another core in the same cluster frequently, and after just over a second may be transferred to a core in the other P cluster, when available.

Thread mobility makes interpretation of the CPU History window in Activity Monitor very difficult.
Sandboxed environment as an alternative to virtual machine or docker container
"Of course Reiser's wife would go missing, have you seen how often things end up missing in his file systems?" used to be funny for a moment.
Supporting coworkers, employees, and friends in this time
The real answer at the end of the article is, "Maybe, we don't know yet, but we will soon."

> Some of the criticism of the Quagga Project could be put to rest next year. That’s when Annelin Molotsi, a molecular biologist working on the project, plans to sequence the genome of the re-bred quaggas.

> “I think it will answer a lot of questions,” Molotsi said.