skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At best, they made a digital (aka binary logic) simulation of how they *think* the human brain works.

But every time someone *thinks* they have it all figured out, a new discovery comes along to show they really don't.

You can't simulate what you don't understand. AI is like a modern version of alchemy.

In the same way it is not possible to turn lead into gold using a chemical reaction, it may not be possible or practical to simulate human level intelligence using a digital logic playback device (aka a computer) of a finite, workable size.
So how do we fix it? Better search/aggregator engine and unified payment scheme, but photographers get the money directly and simply pay 1 cent per purchase that came via the aggregator, rather than having to sign away their rights and getting pennies from a centralized platform?

Wondering if photographers can't already do this with regular search engine's image search, which (speaking for myself) is what I use when looking for usable images anyway. It often lands me on something like shutterstock but it's almost always too expensive, annoying to pay, or badly licensed. If they support common payment methods from around the world, anyone can buy unwatermarked versions for a dollar and the photographer gets 100%. I guess the downside is having to have a website of your own? Many photographers already have this anyway though
Once they go after somebody like Mark Cuban and Khodorkovsky him, it’ll all make sense.
AMD is not sleeping. They publicly admitted that they threw in the towel- they have exited the high end market.
Every pharmaceutical company including the startups hires software engineers. But the hard parts aren't really a software problem.
Replying to myself, because whenever I think about early-WoW I get nostalgic, and it's on my mind for a while. Our guild strictly prohibited posting DPS or healing logs in raid or guild chat (though linking them in class-specific threads was fine). This was excellent, because it kept us from making targets out of those metrics, or making apples-oranges comparisons, and kept our focus on completing instances efficiently.

In one of my favorite fights the mages and I worked out a cool trick that I never saw in any strategy guide. Do you remember the banquet fight in Karazan? One of the bosses had pretty good spell resistance, and we suggested saving it for last. By that point in the fight I'd be helping the melee toons get it down, so my mana would be basically full at the end. The mages would totally stop casting on that boss, and aim to be at about half mana when combat stopped.

The instant we finished the mob off, the mages and I would run out the door, and I'd head up to the top of the stairs. With precise timing from a particular angle I could pull two groups of trash mobs in the next room, and make sure that they got to the stairs at the same time so they'd all get caught in my AoE. Between that spell, HoTs, and Thorns, druids could get phenomenal threat on grouped mobs. They'd hit me for a few seconds until they were sticky enough that the mages could AoE them down without getting touched. Then we'd sit down and drink/bandage, and laugh and point at the group if they'd taken too long looting.

Because no one particularly cared about their individual stats we saved everyone three or four minutes of waiting for those pulls. We were anything but an elite guild, on a bog-standard non-competitive server, but it was deeply satisfying to discover those small moments that contributed to everyone's success.
And further, if I am already paying $50 fare to take an Uber, a $1.50 toll is not deterring me or reducing my usage at all. It is less than the rounding error on the tip I give the driver. I probably won't even notice it amongst the 5 line items of fees, taxes, surcharges, etc on the digital receipt.
> Seems kinda silly to make a 4K video card when ... nobody on the planet has a 4K screen.

Someone else probably said that years ago when everyone was rocking 1080/1440p screens.
Subjective well-being is a fascinating metric to chase because it always changes.
> We are talking hours versus months or even years here!

That is why there are engineers that specialize in how to perform testing so that it doesn't take so long. For example long tests don't need to run at all if more critical short tests fail. The problems you describe for astrophysics are not unique to astrophysics even if the scale, size, and diversity of the data is so unique. Likewise, all the excuses I hear to avoid testing are the very same excuses software developers make.

The reality is that these are only 25% valid. On their face these excuses are complete garbage, but a validation cannot occur faster than the underlying system allows. If the system being tested is remarkably slow then any testing upon it will be, at best, just as remarkably slow. That is not a fault of the test or the testing, but is entirely the fault of that underlying system.
Sure. But what they are really doing is giving you a pay cut each year without you realising, and the bankers and their friends closest to the money printers are pocketing it.

Compounding even 3% annual cut in real value adds up to an 80% pay cut over 50 years.
Between kids away at school, a friend who stayed with us for a time, and my invalid mother, my wife and I could have mail-in voted for six people last cycle. I mean, we literally had their ballots sitting on our kitchen counter. All we had to do was forge their signatures (which we didn't do).

Having to show an ID to a poll worker to get a ballot is a higher bar than signing something.

I mean, look, I get the arguments about mobility. My mother was not going to drive to a polling place. But it is also true that mail-in voting is more open to abuse and fraud by those who are inclined to do so.
Same thing as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42621627
> There aren't many future societal changes that I'd bet on, but the acceptance of Brave-New-World-style artificial uterine environments is one of them.

It will be a huuuge time until extrauterine reproduction is viable even for mammals as small as mice. We barely understand pregnancy and its effects in humans as it is - IMHO it's barely ethical to research around pregnancy on mice, even less on "higher" levels of intelligence such as great apes. It's only a relatively recent discovery for example that fetal cells transfer via the placenta into the mother's organism [1], but it's only extremely recent that further discoveries into the mother-fetus interactions were studied [2].

Hell we're not yet sure if cloning humans actually works - it took a great deal of effort for sheep, and to this date we haven't even managed to work out the ethics for humans in gene-editing, just look at the controversy around He Jiankui [3].

Not saying it isn't worth the effort to hold a debate around human germ line research... but I think the time is premature, we should have it once we have proven it possible and safe in primates.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2633676/

[2] https://scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/moms-ability-to-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui_genome_editing_inci...
> In the beginning, computers were invented. This has made lots of people very angry and was generally considered a bad move.
abortion rights did amazingly well even in states that supported trump...

the other issues are:

* child hunger

* veteran support

* censorship

* financial literacy

so I guess the unpopular ones in your eyes are...

* civil rights

* lgbtq rights

* immigration

hard to give a blanket "democrat wishlist" when more than half are generally favorable across party lines
If the landlord doesn't provide a safe, adequate kitchen there ought to be a legal way to force them. In case the legal way is lacking there are other forms of force.
That’s why we’ve built Catch+Release, to make sure that creators are equitably compensated when licensing their content: https://www.catchandrelease.com
Nonsense 4k gaming was inevitable as soon as 4k TVs got mainstream.
Damn, you're right. I didn't even consider looking at the monitor itself as "They can't be so lazy they don't even use a real screenshot" while faking the rest kind of makes sense, otherwise you need a studio setup.

Never underestimate how lazy companies with a ~$3 trillion market cap can be.
> However I’ve yet to come across an interface that really clicks.

I'm not a Mathematica user, but isn't their editor also a structural editor? I wonder if anyone has any thoughts about how well that works.
>I think it would be a lot nicer to have urban life/transit built around many smaller cores with everyone living much closer to work. but in aggregate, businesses want the largest hiring base, and people want the best jobs they can get in the area.

I think that this is prevented in large part by local capture of state politics by leading cities. NYC money basically owns NY politics so NY will never neglect let alone screw NYC to the benefit of Buffalo and Albany and whatnot. Repeat for other states that have one or two big urban economic wells that run everything.
Which reveals the lie that business serves people. Competition, free markets, best product wins, blah, blah, blah. It's all nonsense.
Right this dashboard won't be meaningful until 3/6/12 months out when any seasonality / weather related effects all average out.
Fact Checker is merely a politically correct name for a Ministry of Truth, and there are as many truths as there are people with opinions. I wholeheartedly agree and support any and all movements and actions removing them; people should critically think for themselves instead of begging someone to program them.

Incidentally: A "fact" is an immutable facet of the world itself, whether we can even acknowledge it properly or not. Facts don't need checkers.
Yes, and if you are actually buying in that kind of quantity you should be able to do even better. TI’s budgetary pricing estimate is US$0.252 per 1K for the OPA2323IDDFR and US$0.067 per 1K for the TL071CDR.
By converting to USB A you cut out USB-PD completely from the equation. At that point the macbook simply provides 5V as it would to any legacy downstream device.
My wife and I have a shared Google Sheet where we enter every purchase (logging date, location, cost, and category) we made that day. Then we reconcile it with our monthly budget that night and make spending decisions from there.
If you just walked up to me out of the blue and asked "what computer language do you know is the worst for processing strings?", well, technically I might answer "assembler", but if you excluded that, my next answer would be C.

Furthermore, you want some sort of AST representation, at one level of convenience or another (I include this compgen-style "being 'in' the AST" to be included in that, even if it doesn't necessarily directly manipulate AST nodes), and C isn't particularly great at manipulating those, either, in a lot of different ways.

A consequence of C being the definitive language that pretty much every other language has had to react to, one way or another through however many layers of indirection, for the past 40+ years, is that pretty much every language created since then is better than C at these things. C's pretty long in the tooth now, even with the various polishings it has received over the years.
Valve has been lucky that UWP did not caught among Windows and XBox (ERA runtime) developers, however Microsoft might still pull a move in Win32 that isn't so easy to reverse engineer in Proton, and somehow make it part of DirectX.

There is the whole ongoing discussion about a possible existence of XBox OS, that other OEMs selling handhelds would rather have than SteamOS.

And then there is the whole question, which will be beyond my lifetime, about what comes after Valve, when its founding members are no longer around.
Will there really be a mac mini wirh Max or Ultra CPUs? This feels like somewhat of an overlap with the Mac Studio.
It also looks like it was made in Blender, and it will impact what people think of Blender even if the style is a choice rather than being dictated by the software.

Just like live action can be shot on everything from super-8 to digital IMAX, the story telling is the most important part of a film. There is absolutely no reason not to use Blender if it works for you and your time/talent/computation budget.
Translation: community notes are “good enough” from the perspective of the business community, and probably an order of magnitude cheaper.
Well it's definitely possible to have different takeaways from the same book. I can't remember what I took away as a high school student, but when I read it again in my late 30s (I think) it blew my mind a little bit because I had adopted a sort of libertarian view that anything that doesn't directly impede the happiness of someone else should be legal. Coming down to the idea that personal happiness is ultimately what I want (not just for myself; for everybody). Brave New World (which is almost 100 years old at this point) says, "OK, here is a world where everyone can be happy all the time. What do you think?" And as a reader, of course I'm on the side of John Savage. The Soma holiday and ignorance (bliss) is not what I'm after. And of course, without contrast against strife and unhappiness, how can there be happiness at all?
I'm sadly into the incremental game genre. Universal Paperclips is still my favourite, and I replay it often. A Dark Room is another really good one with some storytelling and an ending, which is not all that common in incremental games.

But if anyone wants to get deep into it, Dodecadragons is probably the best implementation of the incremental mechanics, but it's extremely addictive, so be careful with it.
> (2) Make it CSS-only; if you have to use custom JS to achieve a certain effect, be ready to spend a LOT of time to get the details right, or it'll feel janky.

I have built a handful of personal sites at this point with no JS, and it's really amazing what modern CSS can do. My favorite trick is using tabindex=0 and :focus-within to make dropdowns (using :focus doesn't handle submenus).
Or just open a window, depending on where you live
I mean, arguably, the installation of a lot of these processes were also driven by the government (and whoever was president at the time.)
Free speech should not include disinformation, which is an attack on society.

Of course, the devil is in the details of enforcement: who watches the watchmen?
After ex-utero pregnancy is achieved, the next step would be some form of recombinant human analogue breast milk synthesis. Beyond that, breast milk tailored to mom-babe pairs.

Yes, formula exists and has created billions of healthy children. However, breastfeeding is a signifiant commitment of blood, sweat and tears for many moms that want to do best by their babes.
> “We’re going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more,”

Nothing says American Freedom than interfering in how other governments conduct policy so you can push your own platform full of fake users and perpetual lies.

What an embarrassment. Maybe it's time said governments start just banning or outlawing these platforms if they're just going to flagrantly admit to doing what they can to bypass the law. Fuck em. As much as I hate tiktok the whole 'rules for thee but not for me' shtick is old.
> Cool, you now invented your own DSL and half-baked meta programming macro language

I'm not sure I'm following your statement. What he said was to use a C program to parse C code and emit additional C code. There is no mention of DSL.

> for something that shall have been in the language to begin with.

The whole point of this discussion is to debate on that.

I have no strong opinion (yet) but the meta program looks easy to understand compared to the pandora box of metaprogrammaing withing the language (since it requires standardization, limitations etc.).
One thing is consciously sharing IP with third parties violating contracts, another is falling victim of malicious code in the toolchain.

Npm concern though suggests we likely work in very different industries so that may explain the different perspective.
This - latest Call of Duty game on my (albeit water cooled) 3080TI founders edition saw frame rates in the 90-100fps running natively at 4k (no DLSS).
my $5k m3 max 128gb disagrees
I realize this discussion will probably go down the political rabbit hole, but I think what's more interesting is that we really have entered a world in the past 10-15 years where there is no longer a broad, societally-wide accepted definition of facts. This is a major change for humanity, one I'm not quite sure how we'll cope with.

Daniel Patrick Moynahan once famously said "You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts." I'm not sure that's the case anymore.
No shit sherlock. Now the question is, are you going to be actually neutral or "Musk neutral" and just cater to the new guy in power?
So you support abusive authoritarianism, but only when it's from your side?
It's even simpler, I think: you're forcing it to avoid a PD negotiation, and fall back to the lowest common denominator, "500 mA on the PWR line supplied to the USB device". This goes, I believe, as far back as USB 1.1, as a slow-but-generally-safe power source for things that are barely more than "use USB PWR and GND as a dumb 5V source."

A C-to-C cable, OTOH, doesn't have this requirement, and if there's no PD negotiation, the MacBook is not required to provide power IIRC.
> Really makes you think why the 50-person bus doesn't get priority over all of the single occupancy vehicles

They're building up more and more Bus-Only lanes here in the Twin Cities, and as a daily bus commuter, the change has been fantastic. Really makes a big difference in speed & reliable bus timings when the bus gets its own space to operate.
> The social media mogul said Tuesday that Facebook and Instagram will shift to a community notes model

I'm curious, what are HN's opinions around community notes on X/Twitter? I find them to be pretty good (and sometimes quite funny) but I wonder what others think.
Wow. We mock those stupid Romans for putting lead in their drinking water supply, but we literally vaporized it and had everyone inhale it for decades so it'd go straight to the bloodstream.
A fact can be verified. Someone with the necessary knowledge to verify a fact is a fact checker in that particular domain of facts. They are not infallible though, let alone unbiased; even though the facts themselves are immutable and, well, factual.

That said I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment on critical thought. It should be everyone's duty to verify facts for themselves but... consider how many people are functionally illiterate in the world. They wouldn't be able to verify even simple facts, because they lack the mental framework to do so (i.e. reading comprehension). And also consider how much of a burden it is to individually verify every single claim that is made, and compare it to how easy it is to make wild claims. It would be impossible to navigate the modern world without a group of dedicated fact checkers that you trust. You can't be an expert on everything -- and if you think you are, that means precisely that you are NOT.
When you suppress ideas in this way, they become more attractive to a large number of people. There is a problem with bad ideas spreading quickly on the internet, but censorship hasn't helped with this imo.
That to me sounds external/additional to the idea of a component.

You can do the component side on your backend language of choice, and output html like htmx likes it, and it works (have done it in Python, for example).

It is extra work, but it works with a bit of programming.
I'm compiling a list of JavaScript implementations of the Mandelbrot set. Contr
Some were dismissed for lack of standing. (I, a resident of state X, can't sue about state Y's voting just because I think there's something wrong there.)

Some were dismissed for failure to state a legally tryable claim, or for lack of evidence. ("I think there's something going on there" is not a legally valid ground for a lawsuit. You have to have something that at least looks like evidence in order to get in the door.)
Chattel, as I'm using it is in reference to the usage in distinguishing an "ownable piece of property" from an employee".

Namely, a magic, technologically reproducible box that can be applied almost as effectively as a human hireling, but isn't a human hireling is near infinitely more desirable in a capitalist system since the blackbox is chattel, the hired human is not. The chattel has no natural rights, no claim to self sovereignty, and is an asset that is legally extant by virtue of the fact it is owned by the owner.

Chattel that are flexible enough to replace the legal burdens incurred by hiring a human to do the same job, will naturally be converged upon due to the capitalistic optimation function of minimizing unit input cost for output over dollars and potential dollars as expressed through legal exposure.

Imagine you had two human like populations. One made of plastic that aren't considered humans but property. I.e. are chattel. Then you have a bunch of people with all the baggage that comes with it.

Hiring people/employing people is hard. Particularly in the U.S. and other jurisdictions where a great deal of responsibility for actually implementing regulations/ taxation/immigration and such is tacked onto being an employer/being able to hire.

As the gap between the capability of the chattel population closes in on the human population, the more economic and workload sense it makes for the system to improve the chattel population under our current optimization strategy, (given no pre-emptive work to cut off externality dumping). Humans are messy and complicated to work with. Often unpredictable. Chattel are easy to account for; especially when combined with "technical restraints". You have to fundamentally engage in negotiation with another human being to get them on board with working for you. You buy the chattel, and that's that. The chattel has no grounds to refuse service. Socially speaking, we don't even recognize it's outputs as carrying any social weight, or resistance as anything but malfunctions.

Economics is the science around using access to resources as a means to get other people to work with you. Being chattel means you can cut out entirely all that complexity. You are resource. Not people.

Unironically, we need to have an answer to whether or not we are going to consider a sufficiently complex function imitator as something that requires a classification above "chattel" or controls around how we apply it in order to not self-destruct the economic equilibria in which we purport to exist. Because all it takes is removing or sufficiently obstructing the flow of value down from individuals who accrete the most of these wunder-chattel to render things so top heavy, most of the constraints/invariants of our socioeconomic systems as we know them become invalidated.

That does not bode well for anyone.
Because they tacitly acknowledge that Trump is an authoritarian who will come after them, if they dont kiss the ring. They would rather keep their wealth and freedom than do battle with an authoritarian.
Niche partitioning of purine and pyrimidine cross-feeding among ocean microbes
The problem is it's just not that much money against the inflated costs of NYC transit construction. It's budgeted to produce $1B/year, though that was before Hochul unilaterally cut the toll by 40%. $1B is like a 2000ft of subway tunnel or half a station these days.