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Vegetarian. I consume eggs however I ensure they are ethnically sourced from organic, free range and roam freely farms; like my local.

As soon as it has a formed element of biological life to it, then no. I don't eat fish neither as it was alive.

Honey, milk I'm fine with it's a byproduct if sourced ethically. Unless I know the source, I won't eat it.

The problem isn't eating meat, the problem is the inhumanity caused by producing meat. We produce so much meat that we are slaughtering animals for the sake of rather than. Meat being of quality.

Having 12 McD chicken nuggets on the drive home is whats wrong. Not cooking steak from a butcher to have with wine for dinner.
"Nothing on this" is an interesting way to put it. Two 8,160 x 7,200 large sensors has various pros and cons compared to eight APS-C 24 MP sensors. If you want panoramic field of view, the latter is awesome. If you want high resolution for stereo in a particular direction, you'd want the former.
Walmart Employees Now Wearing Body Cameras to Keep Them Safe
A year of security fixes in Go
The idea that autonomous cars lead to no traffic is delusional.
Of course a tipped minimum wage is less than a McDonald's non-tipped wage. It's disingenuous to make the comparison. Just as a bus boy at a local restaurant, I took home more money than my friends who worked at major chains.
I was going to start disagreeing with you, but then I read your link, and you're pretty much right.

> The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.
Why not just focus on lying instead of "alignment faking", which only sounds like someone is overcomplicating things?
The problem with egalitarianism is that it leads to chaos, as we're now seeing in the UK. The old system was better.
At 10 years I kinda wonder what the odds your AA batteries become problem occasionally (leaking, etc) long before the Airtag... although they are Lithium batteries.
You can enable SSAO (Screen Space Ambient Occlusion) in the demo settings.
I don’t even know how realistically it’s even possible to have something of one kind in a functioning family kitchen: over the years you’ll have to replace or supplement the items, and most brands don’t manufacture same kinds of plates or utensils continuously!

For silverware we don’t even try - random sets from IKEA and restaurant stores combined. For plates we use Macy’s colorful plates - which they seemed to sell forever, and they changed the design slightly few years ago, so now they don’t match anymore!
The article should be comparing 2023 per-capita mortality rates with 2019.
AI Alignment: An Engineering Problem, Not an Existential Crisis
I fundamentally think the terms here are too poorly defined to draw any sort of conclusion other than "people are really bad at describing mental processes, let alone asking questions about them".

For instance: what does it mean to "hear" a thought in the first place? It's a nonsensical concept.
I'm picturing a lot of corp execs boarding a spaceship and saying 'so long and thanks for all the tax breaks'
I agree with your statements, but why not do both? Improving the process of killing animals doesn't exclude working towards reducing the number of deaths.

If the GP said we will never stop eating meat I would agree. But saying we can't even reduce it is a bit extreme - we successfully reduced many other things (without banning them, just by coercing people - for example cigarettes).
> What method is Genesis using for JIT compilation?

Taichi and Numba are both in the pyproject.toml
Zig or Rust neither attempt to nor have any chance of directly competing with Java or any other high level language, other than on the margins (they have a hard-enough time competing with C++, which is unfortunate, because both are better than C++ -- Rust slightly so and Zig significantly so, IMO). They are for low-level development and target a domain where both the calculus of cost and value is vastly different from the high-level application space.

It is usually just as easy to write a program in a low level language as it is in a high-level one, and this is true not only for Zig and Rust, but also for C++. Even in 1998 it was just as easy to write a program in C++ as it was in Java. But the maintenance later -- when you have a large 10-year-old codebase -- is significantly more costly, and necessarily so. In a low-level language, i.e. one where there's more direct control over memory management, how a subroutine uses memory may affect its callers. Whether the correct use in the caller is enforced by the language, as in Rust, or not always, as in Zig, changes in low-level languages require touching more code than in high-level ones, and can have a bigger impact.

The low-level domain is, and will continue to be, extremely important. But the market share gap between low-level and high-level languages/domains has only grown over the past decades, and there are no signs of the trend reversing.

Now Go is a different beast altogether, and is a high level language. But it has both pros and cons compared to Java. The tools it includes in the SDK are more user-friendly, but they, like the language, are less flexible and more limited than in the Java world. Nevertheless, the out-of-the-box experience is nicer, something we should definitely improve in Java, but you pay for that simplicity later in lost flexibility. Performance also isn't quite as good as Java's, and neither is observability.
I wonder if someone could use this to demonstrate how much darker films seem to have gotten.

That and actors that mumble their words...
And if you were building "AI" hedge trimmers, why the hell would you think that an LLM was a sensible way to engineer them?

Thinks I need my hedge trimmers to do: trim hedges, avoid trimming things that are not hedges, manoeuvre within strict boundaries.

Things I don't need my hedge trimmers to be able to do: reply to me in iambic pentameter, turn articles into bullet points, pass a FizzBuzz test
Yeah yeah yeah. There has been a literal exodus from tech companies in the past 3 years, since the word RTO was invented. Nobody works at any of these companies, and their HR is literally kidnapping people from trams, forcing them to work for them, right? And every 3 days there is a new article and research saying that even though everyone has left, the remaining headcount is about to leave too (even though the remaining headcount is converging to 0).

Or maybe not. Maybe some of them really want to leave. But if they failed to do in the past 3 years, maybe it's to think a bit, why is that.
Thus means all you can say about me is that I'm a black box emitting words.

But that's not what I think people mean when they say "world salad generator" or "stochastic parrot" or "broca area emulator".

The idea there is that it's indeed possible to create a machinery that is surprisingly efficient at producing natural language that sounds good and flows well, perhaps even following complex grammatical rules, and yet not being at all able to reason
That's why I come to HN... There is always something that surprises you!
It's also interesting how #2 is shifting in recent years. These days it is more likely to be someone handing you their phone to change a Spotify playlist and while I touch type Colemak, I tend to swipe type QWERTY on phone keyboards, so it's not as tough now than when it was someone's laptop/desktop running the playlist.

Also, Apple Music's SharePlay is such an interesting modern approach too, where multiple people can control the same playlist from multiple devices.
> I wouldn't be confident that the Airtag protocol will be functioning in 2035

I'd agree if it were any company other than Apple. And if Apple goes under by 2035 then AirTags will be the least of our concern.
Read the comment again, more slowly.
We never reached the mantle, I think, there might be plenty of good stuff there. After all crust is primarily composed of Oxygen, silicon and aluminum which sounds equally boring.
This is not negativity, this is reality.

I have never eaten meat in my life. But I am surrounded by meat eaters. Even polite, rational, calm discussion about reducing meat consumption doesn't last more than a minute. It is as though people are more addicted to meat than alcohol and somehow it is drilled into their heads that humans need meat for protein and strength, though there are tons of vegetarians who lead healthy lives.

You don't need to take my word for it - try talking to someone about reducing their meat consumption and see how the conversation goes.
> When companies focus on profit at the expense of all other goals, the result is typically disadvantageous to customers, employees, and society at large.

I grew up in USSR and saw with my own eyes what happens when personal profit is not the #1 focus.

Yes, _commercial_ companies should also focus on everything else as well, but profit must be #1. And the society steer the businesses towards good things by implementing laws that businesses must follow.

Commercial corporations _exists_ to make money to shareholders. It's written in laws and company bylaws. That's exactly what society decided commercial companies should do. If a _commercial_ company puts something else before profits -- it can be sued by shareholders (lawsuits follow laws, aka boundaries put by society).

And by the way, we already have framework to do your idea: companies can register as "non-profit" or "public benefit". So your suggestion is easily implemented today by forbidding commercial companies and only allowing non-profits or public benefit.
Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Gives Living Donor New Lease on Life
BSS 01
> You pay well, but not so much

Don't really see much of a contradiction. A good salary is not necessarily the highest salary.

> You require linear algebra but ok with technical writer.

I'm a tech writer but went to engineering school. While I assume it's not a fairly common situation, it's also not unheard of. The original comment seems to imply that they'll frown upon a candidate that will expect to be taught linear algebra at the workplace but will be ok with one that has only a basic grasp and it's willing to attend engineering school to improve.
One thing that holds me back from using FISH is the inability to declare variables at the CLI.

I.E.
VAR1=test
echo $VAR1
Accents mean different things in different languages. I'm assuming the author was invoking Spanish, where the acute accent impacts syllable stress but not pronunciation.
> The fundamental question is whether or not cognitive processes have the structure of language.

Well that's easy—some do, some don't.
Is there a Rust alternative?
Answering my own question...

> Do those technologies prevent the merchant from getting raw CC info?

They do:

https://www.worldpay.com/en/insights/articles/how-does-a-chi...

> An enabled EMV terminal reads and verifies the card information contained in the embedded chip when inserted into the slot of the payment terminal. Like using the magnetic stripe, card data is then processed for payment authorization; the key difference is that the chip card generates a one-time code for each transaction while a traditional magnetic stripe card does not.

So, the merchant doesn't get the raw CC number; they get a transaction token.

This doesn't prevent someone from reading the CC account number off of the physical card, but unlike swiping a stripe, the act of purchasing via an EMV token means that the CC account number doesn't enter the system.
Also interesting: p28 (labeled p470) of https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/251524591881022... ("Many Labs 2: Investigating Variation in Replicability Across Samples and Settings") shows the results of attempting to replicate 28 published psych results across many different samples.

Unfortunately, "Stereotype Threat" is not one of the effects they attempted to replicate.
I am including COGS in this; that's the retail price minus the markup. The markup is all the rest of Amazon's costs, of which I agree wages for workers are probably somewhere around 30%ish.

Are you suggesting the warehouse worker's benefits and pay is really 25-50%+ of the final purchase price of the good?? That'd be an extraordinarily high amount of cost.
Early versions of Rust "started out" with GC: the language was broadly similar to Golang, though with a lot of influence from Ocaml and functional languages more broadly. The comprehensive use of borrowck to avoid GC altogether was only implemented around 2014 or so, hence shortly before the Rust "1.0" release in 2015.
This solves one of my biggest issues with AirTags and I'd be tempted to buy one if AirTag 2s weren't right around the corner...
they got really mad about our desks
Agreed, I like it but the stats it comes up with for my most popular repositories aren't accurate at all.
If a free market requires unlicensed medicine, then no thanks! There are reasonable arguments for removing licensure from some other professions, but medicine isn't one of those. I'd argue that the US is actually too lax, allowing too many entities to practice medicine without adhering to professional standards.
SyncThing is my go-to for multi-device syncing.
Jeremy, this is awesome! Personally excited for a new wave of sentence transformers built off ModernBERT. A poster below provided the link to a sample ST training script in the ModernBERT repo, so that's great.

Do you expect the ModernBERT STs to carry the same advantages over ModernBERT that BERT STs had over the original BERT? Or would you expect caveats based on ModernBERT's updated architecture and capabilities?
> Perl 5 has been in maintenance mode for so long

Perl 5 has been adding features consistently over the years, not just fixing bugs. Many people just ignore the new features, but you don't have to.
Fukushima to identify improperly sorted trash and publicly identify offenders
> congresspersons feeling beholden to their constituents

Isn't that what they should feel? Aren't the folks in Congress supposed to look after the needs and wants of those that voted them into office?

> If you're not worried about the normal politics from ending social security, then why not end social security?

Because SS is what people want:

> Support for Social Security is strong across all age groups, with more than 90 percent of respondents feeling that either too little or the right amount is spent on the program. Even among those 18 to 29, less than 10 percent feel we spend too much.

* https://blog.aarp.org/thinking-policy/social-security-high-p...

And it prevent a lot of people from sinking into poverty:

> Without Social Security benefits, nearly 4 in 10 adults aged 65 and older would have incomes below the official poverty line, all else being equal, according to our estimates based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s March 2023 Current Population Survey. Social Security benefits lift more than 16.5 million older adults above the official poverty line, these estimates show.

* https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/top-ten-facts-...
If it would actually work, would you use that service? Or would you feel some kind of unease?
As BitMEX Turns 10, the Market Is Still Thankful for the Perpetual Swap
If all the cars on the road were driven by machines I speculate their would be fewer accidents than there are today. Human drivers can be unpredictable, making it hard for a machine to anticipate.

There are also unpredictable events not propagated by humans or human drivers which would possibly result in an increase in these sorts accidents if all the cars were driven by machines.
(Non native English speaker) I find adressing a mixed group of people as 'you guys' has coolness to it. "You guys get the freakin' job done"
It depends on pronunciation, not on the first letter. This is why you say "an MBA" not "a MBA". If you are from a region that pronounces "historic" as "'istoric", then "an historic occasion" sounds fine and "a historic occasion" would sound weird.
I didn’t ignore the advice - I showed a link to a popular product that has thousands of almost perfect ratings that is readily available on amazon.

An even better way to do it is don’t use Amazon for discovery, and only buy stuff you’ve researched off the site. But walking into Amazon to buy something is just as likely to land you with crap as going into your local shop and doing so.
> strong evidence that language in the models is a consequence of high-order cognitive thought to be good enough to take it very seriously

What would constitute evidence of this, for you?
Feels like knockoutjs, i recall using it 10 years ago. It was all so simple back then.
We're several years into that process already then. Apple researched this space for years and their first released product was a giant flop with no developer interest. Apple famously doesn't release anything until they "get it right". So the sound of crickets after an Apple event is already a warning sign.

The closer you get to that 5-10 years, the more these types of capital intensive projects start looking non-viable (think Apple EV) compared to cash cows like the App Store and iCloud.
IMO the biggest reason why the Apple Watch is oftentimes interpreted as an "unserious" exercise smartwatch is actually quite simple: The display & lack of physical buttons makes it difficult to interface with in the variety of conditions that outdoor activity enthusiasts often find themselves in. If its bright out, the mps displays on many Garmins will outperform OLED. If its raining; good luck using a touchscreen. If you're wearing gloves; ditto. If you've just ran a marathon, you're dying, your vision is blurry, you're sweaty and collapsing, that "swipe over a screen then click the end workout button" workflow is the end of the world; it wasn't designed by someone who has ever been in that situation, its designed for and by people who take their nice little walks to the cute little grocery story.

Battery is another less major factor: Even the AW Ultra 2 struggles to make it through a full marathon run (~70-90% battery usage IME) and that's not an uncommon-enough situation for users of the quote"ULTRA"endquote to be an invalid criticism.

Nothing else matters. Your comment continues into talking about sleep tracking and recovery scores and strain scores and third party apps and literally none of that matters. That's silicon valley brain stuff that many customers don't care about. The Apple Watch is, to some people, a Bugatti without a steering wheel; it gets a lot of the basics wrong.

One note though: Many Garmin users would also say that Garmin is, sadly, also losing track of what their core userbase wants, as the experience has become more buggy and less focused over the years. I'm not asserting that Garmin is king and Apple are idiots; Garmin just has momentum and is generally great at the things its users care about.
People aren't romanticizing it in a positive way, they are mostly fascinated by the bleakness of it- and shocked that something they thought was relegated to fiction actually existed in real life. Much of HN grew up as nerdy kids on cyberpunk SciFi like Blade Runner, Johnny Mnemonic, and the Matrix and this looks exactly like that, which is no coincidence, because that aesthetic was largely based on Kowloon Walled City itself, unknowingly to the people consuming it.

The cyberpunk author William Gibson was aware of and inspired by Kowloon Walled City. Cyberpunk is characterized by "high tech low life" - it is seen as awful and dehumanizing, something people might want to read a book or watch a movie about, but not live themselves.

In hindsight, the whole Cyberpunk aesthetic being based on real world inhumane living conditions that actually already existed might be inappropriate by modern standards. It is making an amusing fantasy or spectacle out of other peoples suffering- however Gibson, etc. were using this setting mostly because they had a negative view about the impacts of technology on humanity, and were writing fiction to express and warn people about these concerns.
Huh? All my thoughts are audio and video, my thinking is literally listening to a voice in my head. It's the same way my memories are dealt with.
Also worth noting that today's rules, 89 FR 7456, and the previous one, 89 FR 103054, both derived from the same NPRM. Apparently, based on feedback they thought some parts of the rules needed more work than others and finalized them in two parts.
> You will be shocked to know that your entire physical body can be modelled as a markov chain, as all physical things can.

My favorite part of hackernews is when a bunch of tech people start pretending to know how very complex systems work despite never having studied them.
You would be mistaken, though, because the article mentions that the current process is virtually painless due to how fast it is.

There's also the debate on whether one-day-old chicks are conscious, but I don't know the literature enough to have a strong opinion.
When the software is fixed we're back to thinking of the object as a single piece of hardware. My Gamecube and Xbox 360 have been working for (nearly) 20 years now.

Unless there's a known failure mode in these devices that gets worn down over time you should probably expect them to outlive you. The worst you'll probably get is corrosion from the AA batteries in the pack.
Ha, I don't know why it didn't occur to me to ask AI :D. Will remember that next time.
In other words, a free market paradoxically requires a regulatory regime.
Who says that the people driving in that zip code are locals? Using the zip code normalizes for accidents in that location. But it doesn’t normalize for familiar vs unfamiliar roads.
I was disappointed to find I had chipped my expensive Global chefs knife without having tried anything out of the ordinary like bones or nuts (side note, ceramic knives are not the tool for slicing pecans!)
Yes absolutely the same advantages -- in fact the maintainer of ST is on the paper team, and it's been a key goal from day one to make this work well.
Grocery and ToDo lists. That's Nullboard's primary purpose.
I think what you are saying is that language is deeply and perhaps inextricably tied to human thought. And, I think it's fair to say this is basically uniformly regarded as a fact.

The reason I (and others) say that language is almost certainly preceded by (and derived from) high-order thought is because high-order thought exists in all of our close relatives, while language exists only in us.

Perhaps the confusion is in the definition of high-order thought? There is an academic definition but I boil it down to "able to think about thinking as, e.g. all social great apes do when they consider social reactions to their actions."
Yes, I read the paper.

To an "just autocomplete" person, the authors are straightforwardly sharing summaries of some sci-fi fan fiction that they actively collaborated with their models to write. They don't see themselves as doing that, because they see themselves as objective observers engaging with a coherent, intelligent counterparty with an identity.

When a "just autocomplete" person reads it, though, it's a whole lot of "well, yeah, of course. Your instructions were text straight out of a sci-fi story about duplicitous AI and you crafted the autocompleter so that it outputs the AI character's part before emitting its next EOM token".

That doesn't land as anything novel or interesting because we know that's what it would do because that's very plainly how a text autocompeter would work. It just reads as an increasingly convoluted setup, driven by continued the time, money, and attention, that keeps being poured into the research effort.

(Frankly, I don't really feel like digging up specific comments that I might think speak to this topic because I don't trust you would ever agree if you're not seeing how the other side thinks already. It's unlikely any would unequivocally address what you see as the interesting and relevant parts of this paper because, in that paradigm, the specifics of this paper are irrelevant and uninteresting.)