skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh cool, they have a new location! I missed poking around after shows at the Somerville Theater.
The Dawn of GUI Agent
Their "Happiness" marketing was always bullshit.

Ask the Lhotshampa (ethnic Limbu, Gurung, and other Janajatis) who were ethnically cleansed by the Ngalop majority 20-30 years ago.

It's a banana (tsampa?) monarchy that only exists as a buffer between India and China, and it's entire economy is basically owned by Tata Group (who owns and manages Bhutan's hydroelectric dam used for exports) and Indian construction companies (who build all the roads and resorts in the country).
I'm not convinced that cutting an internet cable - even a vital one - results in more actual death and human misery than actual bombs falling on urban centers.
The availability of experience does not cause directly the perception of vacuity, nor does it hinder internal solidity - they are independent.
The Bolt isn't exactly a good looking car though.

It might sound silly, but not everyone looks at things through a utilitarian view.
I think the pushback is b/c this falls on common stereotypes about modern software being bloated and unnecessarily fragile. Those are justified stereotypes often enough, but spacecraft software is such a different animal that it just doesn't really apply very often.
> Pretty much everywhere but the US has the option of getting an electric car for under $25,000 from BYD or Renault.

The US is afraid of competition in the automotive industry and the current import tariffs and taxes on cars are a bit of an elephant in the room here, too.
Also, when I've been unhappy in my job and ultimately quit as a result, a pay raise has always been offered in an attempt to get me to stay.

However, at the point I'm actually quitting, I've already told them the reasons why and pay is never on that list (if it were a pay issue, I'd have asked for a raise instead.) Offering me a pay increase and ignoring my actual problems tells me that the only thing my employer can offer me is more money, and any further discussion of the issue is pointless.
Kinetic energy is a function of velocity squared, low speed breaking damages the pads way less.
I like the idea, but I wonder how this works in practice. If I grant ACME Inc. access to my “profile picture,” for example, won't they just copy the file and store it on their own servers (be it for performance reasons, tracking, ease of development, whatever)? How does this keep me in control?
? Seriously?

Cables getting cut is only dangerous because it’s an escalation that may lead to bombs. There aren’t thousands of civilians dying because Finland doesn’t have high speed fibre to Germany.
I wonder what % of the "60-120m" viewers were from Europe vs America vs Asia
You can, in principle, formalize any correct mathematical proof and verify its validity procedurally with a "simple" algorithm, that actually exists (See Coq, Lean...). Coming up with the proof is much harder, and deciding what to attempt to prove even harder, though.
Yes, they can't charge him again for the same physical act.

His federal guilty plea appears to admit to 375 swatting calls. So I don't think the state or local courts can subsequently charge him for any of those calls - they would need to find evidence of some separate calls.
Intel's Core 200 Family Poised to Mix Arrow, Lunar, Meteor, Alder, Raptor Lake
Aptera is coming up on their 20th anniversary of being vaporware. It's a vehicle with a potential market of potentially hundreds of nerds. Unfortunately, an idea that appeals to so few will never be a viable mass-production automaker.
I actually thought "Blue Mushroom Man" in Poor Traits was alright, although the other "poor traits" were really weird.
Yes, and EREVs are obviously superior as a hybrid architecture yet most of the ink gets spilled pushing PHEVs, so it's pretty clear that people with PHEVs to sell are pushing the narrative.
> demonstrated contextual awareness, self awareness and hatred.

I’m tired of these claims. We can’t even measure self awareness in humans, how could we for statistical models?

It demonstrated generating text, which people attribute to a complex internal process, when in reality, it’s just optimizing a man-made loss function.

How gullible must you be to not see past your own personification bias?

> The amazing thing about the above is it’s always some random arm chair expert on the internet who knows it’s just a text generator.

The pot trying to call the kettle black? Don’t make assumptions in an attempt to discredit someone you know nothing about.

I’ve worked with NLP and statistical models since 2017. But don’t take my word for it. If an appeal to authority is what you want just look at what the head of Meta AI has been saying.

Example: https://aibusiness.com/responsible-ai/lecun-debunks-agi-hype...

Either way, you can’t just “teach” laws to statistical models and have them always follow. It’s one of the main limitations of statistical models…
Use email aliases

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There is a point where this kind of aggression, left unchecked, may ultimately lead to actual bombs falling on urban centers. It's already happening in Ukraine. The global peace we all enjoy in the West is based on the idea that the price of aggression is higher than the benefits.
Yeah, it seems like they take the seriousness of the threat into account when determining the response, but not the plausibility of the threat.

If there's a 1% chance that the house contains a deranged gunman threatening to shoot his family and then himself, that probably shouldn't be met with the same response as a 30% chance of the same... There are probably a lot of situations where it's a tough call though.
I suppose one could say "observed" as a sense-neutral alternative to see / hear. Might be a worthwhile language shift, similar to using "they" as a gender-neutral alternative to "he" and "her".

We usually talk about the inclusion benefits of neutral language. It can also be valuable by making specific terms more meaningful when used appropriately. If I know you usually say "they", then when you choose to say "he" I get more information -- there's a clear gender expression. Similarly, if you usually say "observe", then when you say "see" I know we're specifically talking about vision.

Of course, it's an awkward transition. It's hard to get used to "they/them" and saying "I observed a delicious aroma" sounds like a robot impersonating a person.
I'd prefer if the devs added resilience to network outage over having navies fight each other...

Especially as navies are just fundamentally not constructed to defend extended things like a cable: starting a war over them is the best way to ensure every cable is cut.
That Chip Has Sailed: Critique of Unfounded Skepticism Around AI for Chip Design
4 of the trips were 3000km each.

Longer trips are actually easier in an EV because you have no expectation of being able to power through without stopping for breaks. And it adds the option of charging overnight at a hotel.

It's the medium distance trips that are harder in an EV. A 500-800km trip is something people without kids expect to be able to do without any breaks.
Memory safety doesn't require a special approach. We have abundant experience that says it does not interfere with writing code. It is only C and C++ that lack it. Nobody else in any other language is running around saying "Oh, no, if only I could have memory unsafety back!" No other language community is rushing to put it back into their language. Nobody else even wants it back.

You argue like we live in some hypothetical universe where only some bizarre academic language has recently invented the idea in a world where nobody else has even heard of the idea, and it's solving a problem we don't generally have. But the truth is, we already have memory safety... everywhere except C and C++. Those languages stand alone now. They are the only ones where it's an issue. And they have demonstrated in as concrete an engineering way as it can be demonstrated that it is a problem, on numerous levels.

You're not arguing against some new fangled idea that has no evidence. You're arguing against something that is completely normal engineering practice in place almost everywhere, and the rest of us look at you arguing against it as if you're arguing against that source control is a stupid idea for people who can't keep track of the changes they've made, by gosh, just sticking random prefixes and suffixes on my files is enough for me and it ought to be enough for everyone. We're not hypothesizing about it. We've been living it for decades. We're not asking the world to change to be memory safe... it already has. Except C and C++.
Ignoring phase synchronization concerns, a cell phone can transmit about 3W of power, so a million of them would be about equivalent to the 3MW of the HAARP transmitter. Frequencies are different, HAARP is in the MHz range, cell phones are GHz, so while I bet your cell phone array would have less effect on the ionosphere, I also bet it it would cook a mean hot pocket.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_Active_Auroral_...
Problem: Young bhutanese are fleeing the country and its a huge problem.

Government: "we're doing such a great job, people want to leave."

That's the conjecture, or is it more comedy?
> So there are legal standards for what exactly blind is, and certificates.

In the USA, people are not yet required to provide identification when signing up for "free" services. There are real concerns around privacy.

A certification of blindness is exactly one of those privacy concerns, being a medical issue. You think it would be a good idea to give that private information to the criminal organizations of big tech?
That's just true, but people were wrong before when they thought we were good (and they may be wrong now about why we're a bad example).

There's a reason that when we (anyone, really, but even the US) let the policy nerds set up a democracy somewhere else, they usually don't model much or any of it on the US. The system's not been regarded as especially good, as systems of democracy go, since not later than the early 20th century, as it became clear that not only does it have serious problems, but some of those are extremely resistant to repair.
There is a point where this kind of aggression, left unchecked, may ultimately lead to actual bombs falling on urban centers. It's already happening in the Ukraine. The global peace we all enjoy in the West is based on the idea that the price of aggression is higher than the benefits.

Also: Internet cables today, essential power distribution cables tomorrow. Infrastructure is fragile, and human lives will eventually be at stake.
No, it is just that that one was not the context to discuss the details of sought education. That one did not go into specifics does not mean the specifics are not available in good amount.
There was a ton of effort and money especially during the dot-com boom to rethink datacenter communications. A fair number of things did happen under the covers--offload engines and the like. And InfiniBand persevered in HPC, albeit as a pretty pale shadow of what its main proponents hoped for--including Intel and seemingly half the startups in Austin.
Chinese EV imports could threaten national security through technology dependence and harm American auto manufacturing jobs. Safety and environmental standards may also be lower. I think that view is rather narrow.
Symbolicregression.jl: Distributed High-Performance Symbolic Regression in Julia
The actual problem is that Provider real POV is actually: "We already do the bare minimum required by the law and you are too insignificant to damage our reputation. It would actually cost our shareholders money to do more so please go die in silence somewhere else and stop bothering us. Replying to you costs us money too."

This kind of article is actually useful because it raises the risk of actual reputational damage thus encouraging companies to do more.
You're correct - a hospital could indeed find alternate funding for residency slots. Medicare funds something like 70% of them today, the rest are funded by state/local government or non-profits.

But, the fact that hospitals don't fund their own seems to prove the underlying assumption - that offering a residency is a net loss to the hospital. If that weren't true, they'd fund the slots on their own.
Because despite ZIRP being long over, there are still plenty of people/companies making money off "engagement" - aka wasting a human's time. Automation/scraping/etc would go around that.
> if the thief could use an AFU exploit to tell the SE to only trigger the reboot after 300 days, the entire feature becomes useless

Then why not simply hardcode some fixed modes of operation? Just as an example, a forced choice between 12, 24, 48, or a maximum of 72 hours. You can't cheat your way into convincing the SE to set an unlimited reset timer. I'm sure there must be a better reason.
If "having a government identity" was a solution to the identity problem, it would be solved.

It is not solved.

That is at most the beginning of a solution to the problem.

And in practice, it is little more than the beginning of the problem, as the government's definition of blindness is very unlikely to be a precise match to "has problems completing our visual CAPTCHA", and if multiple governments have standards there is no chance they will match.

Do not underestimate the resilience and resourcefulness of scammers. They aren't just some individuals here and there who decide one day that they could make a couple extra bucks spamming people, and just sort of start sending out whatever scam strikes their fancy. They're international businesses with engineering teams, and a constant feed of low-level operatives who can scam governments about how blind they are if the governments leave any hole in their system. They're thousands of people dedicating their full human-level intelligence to the task of defeating your system and extracting the value from it. They are not as easy to defeat as "let's just put the obvious certification in place", for the same reason that the CAPTCHA problem isn't solved with "Let's just issue everyone official identities".
Bullet strikes body of a Southwest Airlines airplane at a Dallas airport
Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights
There are changes in other spheres too which we must expect to come. When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues. We shall be able to afford to dare to assess the money-motive at its true value. The love of money as a possession -as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life -will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semicriminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease. All kinds of social customs and economic practices, affecting the distribution of wealth and of economic rewards and penalties, which we now maintain at all costs, however distasteful and unjust they may be in themselves, because they are tremendously useful in promoting the accumulation of capital, we shall then be free, at last, to discard.

John Maynard Keynes, Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (1930)

However Keynes goes on to say the "only" option is to hitch our wagon to these psychopathic criminals, regardless of where their rocket toboggan is going, without consideration of alternatives, nor of Regulations (such as mentioned by Adam Smith) or even holding higher standards of conduct to the Mammon-addled, in order to better blunt some of their more charming aspects.
Yeah, there was a lot of debates when they started relying on cell networks for alarms systems (mostly for the elderly) as a way to not have to maintain the copper.
There is no quiet deprecation. Literally nothing is deprecated in this announcement.
Isn't GDP a particularly bad indicator for a society that's largely subsistence agriculture? They grow things and then eat them - does that even figure into GDP?
I read this article after it was linked on Amos Wollen's substack this weekend. Thoroughly convinced. I have been preaching shrimp rights to everyone in my life. 15,000 shrimp will be given a death with dignity by my donation.
It boils down to applying western logic to a non western country. I get a little suspect that the statistics aren’t telling the full story.

I do think the government optimizing for happiness doesn’t equal optimizing for fulfillment, which isn’t always the same thing.

So people leave, despite perhaps a generally good happiness vibe. It’s like people who leave a Western European country for the US, because they feel their home countries can’t provide the experience they’re looking for.

Then again, it’s perhaps all a facade
At least it's a testable measurable definition. Everyone else seems to be down boring linguistic rabbit holes or nonstop goal post moving
Ring alarm system, and Yale door lock.

I use ring-mqtt, so I can see the individual door sensors in Home Assistant, and have automations setup that include them.

Edit: I also have some older Ring door sensors directly connected to Home Assistant via ZHA, and use those to monitor my garage door’s position. Because I’m using RATGDO in dry contact mode, I don’t get door position from it. So I created a “synthetic” cover entity in Home Assistant that incorporates the additional sensors and the status from RATGDO to show the “real” status of my door. It includes time outs, so if someone stops the door half way, the entity will switch from “closing/opening” to “open” if the door isn’t closed after the time out.
Best of luck. I've been in this grind for about 35 years now, very similar history.

Two suggestions that might help:

* switch careers
* freelance full-time

If you have any other talents or fields of interest, try finding work there (mechanic, electrician, trades, administration, technical writing, etc.).

As a freelancer, you can keep doing what you enjoy, but the scenery changes much more frequently, which might alleviate the ennui.
I love articles like this that challenge the status quo of morality. I find my self asking the question, "Would I rather save a billion shrimp or one human?" and I honestly think I'm siding on the human. I'm not saying that answer is "correct". It's always good to think about these things and the point the author makes about shrimp being a test of our morality because they're so different is a good one.
A big part of that market is being addressed by used EVs, which are getting much cheaper right now as they age out of new-car-buyers' households. https://www.kbb.com/cars-for-sale/used/tesla
> It's absolutely significantly different, especially for certain types of classes and problems.

How is it different?

A flathead screwdriver isn’t good for the class of screws that have a hex head, but both flathead and hex screwdrivers are still screwdrivers.

Looking things up on Google was considered cheating in the early 2000s

> Because school is hard, I was a kid, homework takes a ton of time, and I would rather be playing video games

This is a reason to NOT resist. I was asking “why on earth would you resist the temptation”
I've set two automations: 1) When airplane mode is activated, lock the screen. 2) When airplane mode is activated, turn it back off. That'll give me the most opportunity to either track it and/or lock it down remotely.

I can remember to disable the shortcut whenever I fly and need to enable it.

If they pop my SIM (my provider doesn't use eSIMs...) then there's a PIN on it to prevent use in another device.
I can't comment on all the shortcomings and this may be reflective on my lack of experience with different implementations, but doesn't using GraphQL basically just enable a tonne of unoptimised database queries to occur that, at scale, could cause some serious load issues?
This article is an interesting case study in the difference between "monarchy" and "dictatorship". The way I think about it, the differences are as follows:

* Under monarchy, one person is chosen to rule "at random". Under dictatorship, there is a competition where the most ruthless person gets to rule.

* Under monarchy, the people believe the monarch rules by divine right. Under dictatorship, the dictator rules by fear.

* Monarchies are more stable, meaning the ruler can plan with a long time horizon. Dictators are more likely to siphon resources while the siphoning is good, since they fear a coup.

* Lacking popular legitimacy, a dictator is forced to consider the self-interest and loyalty of their underlings. This leads to extractive and regressive policy. See this excellent video explaining the game theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

* Under monarchy, criticism is kept in check while maintaining rule of law, via lèse-majesté laws which make it illegal to criticize the monarch. Under dictatorship, criticism is kept in check via repression. That same repression makes the dictator less popular, which triggers more criticism, and thus more repression, in a doom loop.

Monarchy is an imperfect system. A lot comes down to the person who is "randomly" chosen to rule. But I do wonder if monarchy should be considered an option in countries where democracy has been consistently dysfunctional and the population is poorly educated -- Haiti perhaps?

Most successful democracies were monarchies at some point in the past. Maybe it's just a phase of development a country needs to go through -- in order to achieve mass literacy and civics education, if nothing else.
Consider the possibility that the artists behind these pieces were not trolling, but genuinely trying to express something, or craft something beautiful. Mocking their failures is a little bit liking making fun of a small child’s fingerpainting.

I completely agree that this stuff is ugly, much of it atrociously ugly. But it’s likely the artists knew no better, or at least could do no better. It’s also ugly to mock others — and we do know better, and we can do better.
Of course, just like pro athletes don't have to do steroids but it's obviously a competitive disadvantage
Speaking as someone who has the entirety of my heat for this winter stacked up in totes, prepping by storing bulk materials is not really something to be done lightly. Unless you turn this DIY water buffer into something you use in your every day life (ie thirsty? time to go to the basement to get a glass of water), you will get bored of maintaining it long before the municipal water supply fails.

Also 55 gallons of water is ~450lbs, so it's not going to be terribly easy to move with an [appliance] dolly. You probably want pallets and a pallet jack (and a smooth concrete floor).

Personally I'd suggest getting an RO filter for your every day drinking water needs, and setting up a rain barrel collection that you can routinely use for outdoor garden/plants. Then if you suddenly need drinking water, you should be good just boiling the rain water. And if there is some large scale catastrophe with some kind of chemical/radiological contaminant in the rain, you can run it through the RO.
That’s probably the most common reason for anyone to be in school.
> if businesses had their way, would the Internet be run on Novell, with millions of Novell admins all around the world constantly needing to fuss with things just to keep it running?

No, I doubt it. The businesses that make all the hardware and software that powers the internet are perfectly fine with it being an open protocol.
And two million less jobs for Americans. Huge benefit!