skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computer industries have correlated psychometric selection effects with a bunch of subcultures. Many of these select for e.g. what is colloquially referred to as "autism", although that term refers to several probably-unrelated things in different contexts.
They can try to influence, but they are not successful all the time. I would bet the American public does not have the stomach for government spending on risky trials that more often than not fail to result in a medicine.

I don’t think any government in the world does.
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This is an important distinction. Anyone with chess experience would never try to move their king 5 spaces, but LLMs will do crazy things like that.
This looks fantastic! Please make sure to let us know when it's available in the Americas as well, I would love to use this.
Emailed them, thanks.
My nit is that we don't actually have evidence supporting the idea that it stops at or around 25. As far as I know, the brain continues to have observable changes throughout your life.

(The person I replied to didn't make this claim directly, but it's an oft-cited myth that it seemed like they were referencing.)
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I second this.

Also i would like to add:

You bring up a text input box implying I can try your product - Well I input the text once, click submit and I am being met with a logon screen. Ok sure let me log in, annoying but it is common bs practice. Now I need to input my idea again, already bad but fine lets go. Now - after I login, and input my idea not once, but twice - I understand that in order to even try the product I need to actually pay! You need to make this clear before letting me jump through hoops.

If you are going to put an input box and a submit button, make sure those are functional and not a trap to lure people in to give you money or their mailing address. Either give one free generation or make it ot clear before sign up that money is needed to generate anything. That is an instant block from my inbox account plus a very strongly worded response right here.
@kristjankaim is correct - this sure isn't Nabokov. Example: "Immortality of Dostoevsky’s art is unquestionable; his art will likely continue to live on."

Wait... which is it?
Sounds good but doesn't add up. I think his writing's legacy is due more to the time it was published, it's translations into other languages and boosters like Freud who thought BK what the greatest novel ever written. That opinion gets echoed a lot, but thinking about literature in a ordinal sense is a little absurd. For me, the ruble ammouts in BK were almost meaningless. I just assumed 3,000 or 5,000 rubles was a shit ton of money, but def less than a million dollars today.
Think like a Plumber, not a CEO
Humans judge if other humans are intelligent without going into philosophical circles.

How well they learn completely novel tasks (fail in conversation, pass with training).
How well they do complex tasks (debated just look at this thread).
How generally knowledgeable they are (pass).
How often they do non sensical things (fail).

So IMO it really comes down if you’re judging by peak performances or minimum standards. If I had an employee that preformed as well as an LLM I’d call them an idiot because they needed constant supervision for even trivial tasks, but that’s not the standard everyone is using.
In summer of 1997 I interned at the Santa Fe Institute. Barry McMullin was there as well, using swarm (an early cellular automata library) to reimplement and extend the original autopoiesis algorithm. His report: https://www.santafe.edu/research/results/working-papers/comp...

And a later study by him: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15245628/
Fair enough. I find he mostly tries to stick to the exponential bits and avoid things that are about to level out. Like he focuses on compute per dollar that can run a lot and not on Moore's transistors per unit area which is already getting close to atomic limits.

Where I find him to go off the rails a bit is anything that's not an exponential extrapolation, like I've never really seen the nanobots thing.
Net neutrality ensures equal access, protects consumers from conspicuous data caps while no investment is put into infrastructure, prevents ISPs from throttling things they don't like, and increases competition.

You didn't actually say what rules are bad, and we'd probably agree "hey this rule in this law is BS" - that's very different than "net neutrality is BS"

Feel free to go into detail about why NN is bad for consumers, I think you will find many ardent defenders here.
There are definitely some neat skips available.
The watchers would be able to blackmail/control anybody who engages in private activities that they don't want to be public. So who watches the watchers? And who watches them? No. Privacy is 100% required in a free society.
Nice work, love to know more about the technical bits: what framework did you use for 3D scene, objects? how did you handle camera movements to track the ball? What library for sound as that was a nice touch. How did you do physics? Thanks!
If a consumer is unwilling to trust safety ratings because the consumer doesn't care about pedestrian safety, the problem is not that the safety ratings don't match the consumer's priorities, the problem is that the consumer's priorities are wrong. The consumer should care about pedestrian safety, and making pedestrian safety part of the safety ratings and using those ratings to determine insurance premiums is a reasonable way to give the consumer a financial incentive to care about pedestrian safety.
And if it ever does, I could set up a nice little side-hustle disabling them.
The glowing line represents a timeline of Netlify's milestones that you have to follow in order to discover their journey. No particular reason for the physics-based gameplay except to have a bit of fun.
Really smooth, clean work. Didn't get a chance to monitor memory and network, but seemed pretty light, kudos!
Most Jews are white people. There are more Jews in certain industries, but in general disproportinate representation is not as great if you compare to other white people in general. Not saying there still isn't some in some places, which I can't totally explain. (Also why are so many doctors from the Indian subcontinent right? Why are black women over-represented in home health care and latino men in kitchens? Anyway, this is now just an offensive stand-up routine) White people have a lot of power in the USA, wealthy white people have most of the power for sure.

On the issue of foreign policy towards Israel specifically, rather than sociological mysteries in general, I posted articles (from Palestinian and Arab scholars and activists sympathetic toward Palestinians!) making solid arguments for why this is not the explanation of US foreign policy towards the mid-east, and thinking it does is a distraction from what's really going on and how to change it (which I want to as well).
One is surely sediment erosion. All the small gravel that would usually end up in the delta being collected behind the dam.

I.e like here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_of_the_Elwha_River...
Covid caused cancer tumours to shrink in mice
Its in regards to the discussions taking place in this thread: https://lwn.net/Articles/998196/
Honestly, I don't get it. Maybe I don't know enough about the fediverse?

Doesn't the fediverse already have a mechanism where each user can set a profile, which everyone else has a common view of and other people can't change? Couldn't a parallel mechanism distribute public keys in a similar way?

What's the issue here - that the server where you have your account can replace your keys?

I know SSL's "certificate transparency" tries to detect replaced and mis-issued certificates after the fact, by putting them all into an immutable log that can be searched by domain name. It doesn't stop the attack, but it at least makes it detectable after the fact. Yet if the entries in the log can be deleted, so there's no longer a log that would prove an attack had happened, wouldn't that prevent the log fulfilling its sole purpose?
It would be possible to employ an expert doctor, instead of writing a script.
I'm pretty sure the article resolves the implicit dependencies at the point of the declaration. (Did I misunderstood it?)

So, you don't have a `data HashMap datatype`, you have a `data HashMap hashAlgo datatype`, where hashAlgo is decided implicitly by the context. That's the entire reason it's called "implicit".

Every other usage of the data knows how to hash your values because of that `hashAlgo` parameter. It doesn't matter where it happens.
Very different rent but this reminds me of the story of the US musician Sixto Rodríguez. Who became very popular in South African without him knowing. I recommend watching the documentary "Searching for Sugar Man"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searching_for_Sugar_Man
The Official Preppy Handbook (tongue in cheek, of course, but its observations are often basically accurate) describe a dedicated office as a fixture of (what Fussell would classify as) upper-middle-class homes. Nb that class has historically had more flexibility on working from home than the rest of us, and generally been accustomed to looser restrictions and more freedom to set their own agendas (this has shifted with the intrusion of MBA- and finance-types into the strongholds of this class, like universities and hospitals, but that’s another topic) That account was published in 1980.

My background is a mix of Fussellian mid- and upper-prole and regular ol’ middle, and an office space, if only a roll top desk tucked in a corner, but a room if space allowed, has always been a feature of my parents’ homes.

Pre-computer, that’s where paperwork and mail and other records that needed to be stored and worked with too long to live on the kitchen table (see: home space use studies, which spawned the misguided trend of building desks into kitchens in American houses) went. When desktop computers became a thing, that’s where the family computer went. (Yes, kids, even when we got the Internet at home, it was still located in a physical place you had to go and remain to keep using it—what a change smartphones have been!)

This version of the home office as a hub for personal document and important-paper-stuff management is basically dying, which is why it may seem surprising they ever existed. I don’t even need a laptop for most of this stuff, let alone an office—nearly everything important happens on my phone, and that’s becoming more normal. I don’t even need a kitchen table for it.
There are systems to allow salmon to go over dams. From ladders to cannons.

I hope they are right about this dam not needed for flood prevention. Spain just lost hundreds of people and suffered billions in damages because these kinds of policies.
Well the other posters answered, but in a nutshell because his record on consistency is non-existent.

Tax Reform, Immigration, Syria, TikTok, most of his original cabinet picks, he wanted to hang his vice president, Wikileaks and government leaks in general, the list goes on, his positions are about as fluid as any person I know.
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Note that “PII” is American terminology, and it has a much more restricted meaning than the European term “personal data”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_data
I'm serious, too.

But given the wildly untenable opinion statement of yours that this now long-flagged thread started off with -- and the obvious irrelevance of any economic performance measures to the Russo-Ukraine conflict -- we see that the entire thread has been utterly silly, from the get-go.
Not bad. Solves a problem. I’m sticking with Plausible but if I was stuck with GA4 I would definitely use this.

You should consider a self-hosted option with a one-time payment.
Sounds like the people who live there might beg to differ with you.
It's crazy you've cited Hexops as an example:

1. It's a game studio not a project (CEO here :))

2. It's very much still alive and well today, not 'cancelled'

3. We never even used WebGPU in Rust, this was before WebGPU was really a thing.

It is true that we looked elsewhere for a better language for us with different tradeoffs, and have since fully embraced Zig. It's also true that we were big proponents of WebGPU earlier on, and have in recent years abandoned WebGPU in favor of something which is better for graphics outside the browser (that's its own worthwhile story)..

But we've never played /any/ role in the Rust gamedev ecosystem, really.
Seconded.

One of my kids explicitly said that he really didn't care what we did, he just wanted to spend time with me. Which reminds me that we haven't done that much together since the summer ended...
Western philosophy at the time ended slavery, serfdom and challanged religion and god-given right to rule.

All of which Dostoyevsky tried to defend.

Don't get me wrong - early western democracies weren't perfect or even close. But it was still an enormous improvement over what came before.
Welcome to America!

(Also don't sign-up for Medicare Advantage because it has lifetime limits.)
There is no world. The grid state is not a world, there is no causal relationship between the grid state and the board. No one in this debate denies that NNs approximate functions. Since a game is just a discrete function, no one denies an NN can approximate it. Showing this is entirely irrelevant and shows a profound misunderstanding of what's at issue.

The whole debate is about whether surface patterns in measurement data can be reversed by NNs to describe their generating process, ie., the world. If the "data" isnt actual measurements of the world, no one arguing about it.

If there is no gap between the generating algorithm and the samples, eg., between a "circle" and "the points on a circle" -- then there is no "world model" to learn. The world is the data. To learn "the points on a cirlce" is to learn the cirlce.

By taking cases where "the world" and "the data" are the same object (in the limit of all samples), you're just showing that NNs model data. That's already obvious, no ones arguing about it.

That a NN can approximate a discrete function does not mean it can do science.

The whole issue is that the cause of pixel distributions is not in those distributions. A model of pixel patterns is just a model of pixel patterns, not of the objects which cause those patterns. A TV is not made out of pixels.

The "debate" insofar as there is one, is just some researchers being profoundly confused about what measurement data is: measurements are not their targets, and so no model of data is a model of the target. A model of data is just "surface statistics" in the sense that these statistics describe measurements, not what caused them.
Or just back to the retailer and tell them why you're returning it. If they put up an argument (which they likely won't), then at least in the US, I think you could sue to be compensated.

If you didn't see and agree to the TOS prior to purchase, and you find the TOS you discover later to be unacceptable, then I'm confident that you'd win in court.
IMHO it gets even better when you can use regular expressions and write a 'modal' parser where each mode is responsible for a certain sub-grammar, like string literals. JavaScript added the sticky flag (y) to make this even simpler.
His works will live on regardless of the culture or the time it was written. As long as there is Poverty, Guilt consciousness, Morality his works would be relevent.

I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

This cannot be put an expiry at..
I read a fascinating article on this dam removal last week! https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-other-side-of-the-wor...

The article tells both sides of the story of the dam removal in as fair a way as I think is possible. Many of the locals were against it and there was a strong advocacy group that fought for it, including a tribal constituency.

I came away from the article feeling I understood both sides better but with less certainty about what was the right choice.
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Lucy's Legacy
I tried signing up for the free version, but I keep getting an error toast.
> seabirds have a magnetic map and compass that they use to navigate home, but it doesn’t discuss how this knowledge is inherited.

It’s not something that was decided by one ancestor and then inherited by everyone else.

It was something that certain birds had a tendency to prefer. Those birds thrived and reproduced at a higher rate, while birds without that preference presumably found less suitable homes.

It’s just natural selection and normal genetic variance. Some offspring every year will be born with slightly difference preferences due to the influence of various genetic differences. Some of those differences will be more beneficial for finding a good “home”, others less so.

There was a recent report of a very confused penguin showing up on a beach far from their normal habitat. Apparently this happens every once in a while. Those cases did not win the genetic lottery (though hopefully it made it back to a more suitable climate)
Are you a bat, by chance? Maybe a tortoise?
Thank you for the kind words. We’re glad you enjoy our work!

We’d love to create a longer game someday, but making a living as a small indie studio in the gaming world is definitely challenging. Never say never, though!
Maybe. But I guess at the end of the day I'll take being a non-victimized sucker. :)
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Even if you set that aside, email sits in your personal collection, not in your teams.
Thank you so much. This is a great game for my 6yo, it made his day! He loved it. We spent months looking for web games for 6yo without ads, dark patterns and distracting details, but this was the first one that really fit. I wish there would be more similar games.
> Doesn't the fediverse already have a mechanism where each user can set a profile, which everyone else has a common view of and other people can't change?

Your instance admin can change it. The goal of encrypting DMs is to protect against honest-but-curious instance admins, especially since often multiple have access to the stored DM contents on disk.

> Couldn't a parallel mechanism distribute public keys in a similar way?

How do you validate that the public key you're seeing is your friend's, and not a snooping administrator performing a MitM attack by substituting the public key with theirs?

> What's the issue here - that the server where you have your account can replace your keys?

Yes, partly.

> I know SSL's "certificate transparency" tries to detect replaced and mis-issued certificates after the fact, by putting them all into an immutable log that can be searched by domain name. But if the entries in the log can be deleted, so there's no longer a log that would prove the attack had happened, wouldn't that prevent the log fulfilling its sole purpose?

Consider https://defuse.ca/triangle-of-secure-code-delivery.htm#:~:te...

The goal is to ensure everyone has the same view of which actor has which currently-trusted public keys. Additionally, the deletion of past log entries requires a legal takedown request. What this process actually looks like is out of scope for my specification, but I imagine it will usually involve lawyers.
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Something wrong with the way Dostoyevsky wrote them, according to someone who died in 1977.

I had to look up what "soulful" even means because I see it used so infrequently: "expressing or appearing to express deep and often sorrowful feeling" — while I cannot guess what would appeal to someone who would hire a sex worker as that isn't my thing in the first place, nor can I guess to the lived lives of those who so work, what I can say is that "observing someone being openly sad" doesn't pattern match my ideal for a fun time either when reading or when getting off, even though that is an entirely sympathetic and believable personality trait for a character who is a sex worker.

Especially believable in the case of characters that Dostoyevsky, who died in 1881, would have written about — not only because of the stereotype that Russia is even more grim than Country/Blues paints the USA, but also because while things like chloroform for childbirth pain relief had been used by Queen Victoria this was only in 1853 for the first use on the 8th child, but still advised against it for the 9th child in 1857*; or that likewise "it's a good idea to wash your hands between autopsies and assisting midwifes in childbirth" was only even noticed (and not immediately well received) in 1847.

* including by religious figures even though she was the head of the church
Of course it's applicable, it means "I read the data out of my runtime". Doesn't mean it's what you should do. Like GOTO, mutable variables in global namespace, and so on.
> in general the over-representation is less compared to other white people in general.

Genuinely curious about this. It would basically mean that Jews are under-represented among white people, and this sounds... well, implausible. Jews are about 2% of the US population, can you name any high-profile position in which less than 2% of the total white representation is Jewish?

For example, in the current US cabinet there are 26 members, of which about 13/14 are arguably white, more or less in line with the percentage of whites in the general population (between 60 and 70%). Of these, half (7) are of Jewish descent. That's a ~15x over-representation.
More and more hospitals are owned by for-profit corporations that own many rather than administered by municipalities and non-profits. They're all about profits, rarely outcomes, as the evidence shows.
This proposal seems like a powerful subsidy for Microsoft and OpenAI. Why can they partner while Google and Anthropic can't? It is strange to penalize a non-monopoly partnership like this.
We collect only what’s necessary to make calls, create tasks, and handle the services you use. No fluff, no unnecessary tracking.

Also, users also have the option to delete history related data quickly at any time (e.g. transcripts, summary, tasks details)

Further, your data is encrypted both in transit and at rest, and we don’t sell or share it with anyone. Hence, why the service is not free.

Good point about Judicial Warrants, we will implement an autodelete so that if the user didn't delete their data within X days, it gets deleted automatically. Hence, when Warrant comes, we are sorry we don't have the data anymore.
A dissing with two of my favourite authors as protagonists, thank you!

A small extract of “Transparent Things" by Nabokov that I love so much: how a Caran d’Ache pencil is built. An incredible travel through space and time!

https://thenabokovian.org/node/53398
Honestly I just don't write shell scripts anymore, bash or otherwise. By the time any system I use is up, Python is available. I don't know if I've found a true need for shell in anything application level. I'll even fire up a Python shell for something simple like mass renaming files, simply because the string manipulation is so much easier.
(a) WebGPU -> Specification or browser API

(b) WGPU, gfx-rs/wgpu, wgpu.rs -> Rust crate implementing WebGPU

(c) wgpu -> the prefix used by the C API for all WebGPU native implementations.

(d) 'wgpu' -> a cute shorthand used by everyone to describe either (a), (b), or (c) with confusion.
Specifically, it's a rendition of the daemon from the cover of the 4.2BSD UNIX System Manager's Manual[1].

“Cover design by John Lassetter [sic], Lucasfilm, Ltd.”[2]

[1] https://archive.org/details/smm-4.2bsd/mode/1up

[2] https://archive.org/details/smm-4.2bsd/page/n1/mode/1up
I like the sound of running water from a fountain. But if I hear it inside, I assume there’s a leak and I go looking for it to fix. Maybe the beavers just need to visit the zen garden.