skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then the pay is not good enough.
This is what progmo don’t understand most engineering isn’t for qualities the end consumer wants! Easier to produce doesn’t mean better. And yeah 90% of the time when it is gmo it’s as you imply using roundup ready (tm) seeds to spray more now legally cited as carcinogenic glyphosate
However, bits, information and software have the same problem as math that was mentioned in the article. And that is that they are abstract and relational, unlike the concrete qualities of experiencing color, pain, a dream, etc.

So I doubt that any amount of bits will do any good, just like no math equation is going to become conscious. What would it even mean for an equation or bits of information to have conscious experiences?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19149192
I don't watch TV, or follow social media. I do follow some forums that pique my interest. For me, this seems like the only way to avoid getting sucked into it.

For a lot of people that would be hard to do, though.
Try OpenSuse, it has the best hardware support by far.
A Multimillion-Dollar Payday, at the Carwash
I agree with almost all of these points, and de-smarted my home with the exception of my cameras on the exterior, and even those I would consider getting rid of.

There was no convince in most devices. Smart locks were slower than keys. Smart lights were more problematic to use than a light switch. My life has been better after I got rid of them.
dang, the author includes an entire privacy section on his site about this device. He then contradicts it downthread. Try clicking 'Privacy' in the footer... oh right, you can't.

The website doesn't use HTTPS, includes trackers, and it might be the case that the author hasn't figured it out that without mitigations, wifi can be tracked just like cellular radio.

In short, it's the scammiest looking project I've seen posted to HN in a long time. At least they aren't taking money yet so the author can continue to shoot himself in the foot in comments.
Probably a result of tiling the soil. Disturbing the natural ecosystem of it. And pesticides too presumably.

Something like permaculture could help. Chop and drop. Mulching on the spot.
It is a cool idea
> is there such a thing as a network block layer you could temporarily break by disconnecting it

Yes, nbdkit (assuming a Linux or BSD host for your VM) can do this kind of thing. I gave a talk about this topic at FOSDEM earlier this month: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2019/02/04/video-take-your-loop-m... The bit about testing is towards the end, but you may find the whole talk relevant.
Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
And would you recommend it? I've decided to get one and so far my only two requirements seem to be:

1. It should work with OpenVPN

2. It should support SOCKS5 (Proxy)

PIA, Nord, Mullvad, ZorroVPN, ProtonVPN look promising. On the other hand, SigaVPN is based on a not-for-profit model so I was not sure about it. What is your personal preference?
There is no consensus distinguishing the two.
Congrats on the release! This is a very useful tool for bootstrap devs, such as myself.
I think it would be useful to separate this in problems that are Linux's(!) fault and problems that are someone else's fault(e.g. nvidia, the hardware market, intellectual property laws, the user himself).

(!) With "Linux" I mean GNU/Linux distros.
>why do most people who turn vegetarian out of conscientiousness seem to very disproportionately do it for environmental reasons? ...are you then still not doing it for selfish reasons, or at least species-selfish reasons?

You seem to have answered your own question there. It shouldn't be surprising, although yes, it surprises me too I guess. (I became vegan because..how to put it..Humans have no right to treat animals as if their lives are nothing, as if they're just things for humans to eat, if we can easily avoid it. Which I can. I'd rather not be killed, and want to avoid pain, so I figure non-human animals want that too.)
I wonder - along the lines of PG's prediction - if those startups will also be patenting their meat-substitute products and what effect that will have on the pendulum swinging back to non-patented real meat / animal products.
AI Taking Orders at Fast Food Drive Thru in Denver
"This is a somewhat poor analogy, but it's sort of like a Chinese citizen (closed-source user) becoming a citizen of a democracy"

I like that analogy (even though I am still looking for that pure democracy/open source government).
In Linux you have the freedom to do allmost anything with the system, but you have to know what you are doing, as the system usually does not stop you, when you are about to do anything stupid.
Windows makes me mad, when it tries to manage me. Like "Yes I really want to use this computer without firewall or antivirus, because it is not connected to the internet and never will be because it serves another purpurse."
To do this you need to mess with obscure registry settings, the default behavior of windows is enforcing it and nowdays also updates, because most users don't know or care what they are doing and are used to be told what to do.

So I believe it is good that I can do anything with my system, but everybody started as a newb once so a more beginnerfriendly version could be helpful.

But Linux main problem is hardware support, and fixing
broken audio/graphic/wifi driver is something which can drive away very experienced people. (it drove me to ChromeOS for my laptop)
Wans't Tor initially developed by NSA/CIA as well?
Why Do So Many Men Have Red Beards but Not Red Hair? (2015)
+1. I'm reminded of a tweet of yours from a few years back!

https://twitter.com/chrisgseaton/status/619885182104043520

Try doing something like that at compile time.
I thought the author was advocating for panspsychism, where all matter has a least a minimal amount of consciousness (or consciousness is what matter is non-relationally).

Neutral monism means that matter and consciousness emerge from something which is neither (like math in the platonic sense or something we have no conception of).
I do this with x2go.
Thank you, interesting. I shouldn't rely so much on anecdata.
The loss of MCO is actually a very interesting story about both engineering culture (engineers noticed a problem but the organization didn’t respond to investigate/fix it) and the conversion to metric. The root came from NASA deciding to use metric on this project and a contractor using the wrong units. But it’s the kind of thing that the process should be able to catch and handle. It bugs me to dismiss this failure as “haha why doesn’t NASA use metric” because not only is it a direct result of NASA switching to metric, there are really good engineering lessons that get ignored.
It sounds like you're attacking the parent commenter's morality as a way of defending your own actions' morality.

However, it's entirely possible that both parent commenter's actions AND your actions are immoral. In other words, the claim that "ignorant meat eating" is immoral doesn't make "aware meat eating" moral.

I think one argument you could make is that animals are somehow not worthy of the same just actions we deem humans to worthy of. But, if we value animals to the same degree we value humans, most ppl would deem your actions to be immoral.
That's unfortunately true.
Wait, you are confounding some things. A software design is good when it allows all of its parts to be elegant and meet the requirements. In no way does that say that a desktop OS is required to be designed badly.

Linux is powering servers and high performance computing because it is good at these things: mostly static hardware configuration, set up once during system installation high performance, modularity and the ability to inspect a deeply running system of you are an expert. It ticks all the boxes for these specidic environments.

On the desktop, not so much. For example, the concept of device files is hindering use cases that should "just work". When I plug in USB headphones, a new audio device is created. Fine. But I need to enter the device file name or ALSA device string onto half a dozen programs to use it. All I would want is to have the audio rerouted automatically. Pulseaudio was touted as the solution to that problem, but ar what cost? We're now literally stacking audio systems on top of audio systems and sacrifice to arcane gods to have it work.

When I plug in a USB drive, I now have to look up its device file name in order to mount it manually. The software stack required to automount it from a desktop environment is atrociously complex, because it requires root privileges to mount a device not listed in /etc/fstab with a user flag. And because any number of drives can be connected in any possible order, no entries in fstab can be made.

This clash of UNIX-like concepts and modern user expectations is what is holding Linux back. The underpinnings are not bad. They were just designed for a different task.

So, yes, you can build a user friendly OS. Yes, it can have a clean design. But it won't be called Linux anymore.
> "The core principle of Tor, "onion routing", was developed in the mid-1990s by United States Naval Research Laboratory employees, mathematician Paul Syverson, and computer scientists Michael G. Reed and David Goldschlag, with the purpose of protecting U.S. intelligence communications online. Onion routing was further developed by DARPA in 1997."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Histor...
But not all of that biological matter is conscious (or at least we don't know that it is in the way the article proposes), and that includes your nervous system.
"you usually don't get .exe or .dmg"! Absolutely! Apps are integrated and not simply add-ons as they are in Windows or Apple land. When I want to install say libreoffice or wireshark I simply ask the system to install them. I absolutely do not browse the internet and download something, extract it and run some "installer". When I update my system, all apps and the OS are updated in one go."

I think a lot of this is learned, or conditioned behavior ... there are a great many UNIX packages that could very easily (and very nicely and conveniently) exist as static linked, single file executables.

This is how a lot of software distribution worked in the 90s - for say, some Solaris tool or whatever. Granted, the distribution mechanism (some .edu FTP site somewhere) was totally insecure, but the packaging mechanism was great.
This is an interesting essay, but as someone who agrees with Brentano that intentionality is the mark of the mental, I have to disagree with the second half of this passage:

> Our own consciousness is also usually consciousness of something -- it involves awareness or contemplation of things in the world, abstract ideas, or the self. But someone who is dreaming an incoherent dream or hallucinating wildly would still be conscious in the sense of having some kind of subjective experience, even though they are not conscious of anything in particular.

I have no way to prove this, but I firmly believe that even in extreme states of consciousness, we are still conscious of something, in the sense that our attention is directed somewhere... our mind is always attending to something in particular. That "something" could be a bizarre fragment of a bizarre experience, but it's still something. I don't believe it's possible to be conscious without our attention being directed somewhere, even when the content of our experience appears to be maximally diffuse and unfocused. (In those cases, the content just is the object of our attention, the thing we are conscious of.)
Nord.
You are right. I was being needlessly snarky in response to his proposed use cases.

My main point, though, was that it is reasonable to expect something marketed as a phone to have LTE/cellular capabilities. I don’t think “Show HN: an ESP32 with LCD display — think of all the possibilities!” would hit the front page.
Even if your account is compromised,do they store the DNSSEC private keys for your domain? That maybe the issue here,requiring domain owners to generate the signature on their local computers seems to be a solution. What am I missing here?
Fair enough, but the GP comment still breaks the guideline I quoted. No? Plus it breaks the one asking people not to snark.
This issue of Windows update and other lock in trends is 80% of the reason I just (in the last month) switched to a Linux desktop. The other 20% is that the ui on Linux has finally progressed enough that I could consider it the least worst option. That is a first since I tried many times and wound up reverting to Windows.

So far the only thing that really bugs me is that I have to apply fixes in the terminal. Like installing a printer only to find the scanner function was installed but wasn't configured - and the only way to get it to work is read a few forums until you can figure out which of the myriad installed utilities will actually return the info you need to configure the driver, etc. It's often a few, because the first half dozen results are wrong!

Strangely enough, I don't find anything in Linux to rival Notepad++, WinSCP, or AutoHotKey - just the type of thing I was expecting to find new and improved. Those programs just have a better UI, and great functionality, to get things done without going full command line commando or buying into a the resource bloat of full ide. Right now I am using both sublimetext and visual studio code, because they both have things the other lacks. I could just use np++ for everything before. Doubling my ram made that less painful than it would have been otherwise. Obviously a very personal itch, but one I suspect a number of people who are on the cusp of accepting a Linux desktop might have.

But I trust Linux's stability since I have had zero issues in decades of administering my servers, and don't worry about updates the way I do on a less informative OS. Specifically, once you are used to apt, the list of packages that will be installed tells you a lot about what might break or not on your system. And there will always be a way to revert to older libs if necessary, which might not be true on a locked OS.
Poor HTC. 3D phones, bitcoin phones - you can tell they are really thrashing in the market now that Apple and Samsung have it sown up.
That would be a form of strong emergentism, which is kind of magical in that properties that don't exist and can't in principle be predicted from earlier states come into being. But it's not like we get to make the rules of what's real. Something about existence is deeply mysterious, so why not consciousness?
>> ! X.org architecture is inherently insecure - even if you run a desktop GUI application under a different user in your desktop session, e.g. using sudo and xhost, then that "foreign" application can grab any input events and also make screenshots of the entire screen.

>A linux user would say, "So that's not a bug, that's the power of the root user. Don't do that or lock down your root access."

It's actually recognized as a huge problem and one of the driving forces behind Wayland.
I have a MacBook that is malfunctioning under MacOS (it's running at 60-80% CPU usage when idle, known problem, no fix available). I tried installing Linux on it, couldn't get it working at all.

I have a Dell XPS15, specifically chosen because the XPS line is supposed to work well with Linux. Numerous problems, all related to drivers. But the main problem is that every time Windows updates it wipes out GRUB.

I figured that my problem is that every laptop I've bought has been designed for a non-Linux OS. So I've ordered a Purism laptop, which should arrive any day now. Hopefully actually buying a laptop designed and built to run Linux will provide a better experience.
Back when I was a kid, after a heavy downpour the roads would be crowded with earthworms. You really had to watch where you step to avoid stepping on one of those suckers. Fast forward today and I RARELY see a single worm out on the road after a similar downpour.
If diversity results in such a benefit, if it "financially works", then why is there a need for this artificial injection of diversity? And where's the data to support this?

If you created a renewable fuel source that cost half of what traditional fuel does, you'd own the market in a heartbeat. You wouldn't need campaigns to convince people to save 100 a month. So why do we need to convince people that diversity is a good idea? You can only blame the big bad white man for so much.
I pulled the trigger, and I'll be sure to blog about it once I've used it for a while. I will admit I was a little worried how choppy the demo video of the dev-kit looks[1], but we'll see how it works once I get it.

I'm a little bit worried that their "Chatty" messaging app[2] (which is what the default Matrix client will be) is based on libpurple -- which is a library that has a pretty gnarly history of security issues[3]. It is using a plugin that the Matrix developers wrote[4], which I trust more -- but I'm still queasy about it.

I'm currently working on a Matrix-Signal bridge so I can continue using Signal once I switch to it (it won't have a native Signal app out-of-the-gate and I don't really want to run an Android emulator).

[1]: https://puri.sm/posts/massive-progress-exact-cpu-selected-mi...
[2]: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty
[3]: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qkve5v/secure-mes...
[4]: https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix
So, in essence, he is happy because you are his IT guy? Wouldn't that be the kind of thing your parent post is talking about?
I am the creator of Photopea. It is not fully open-source. What do you mean by running a webapp from a command line? I never heard of it (I also don't use a command line).
"it's not filling the function of a phone"

At the very minimum, it matches and surpasses the capabilities of a landline phone (since it works at home where there's WiFi.)
I get the base OS along with a very long list of apps with any distro. For example Arch, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse etc - all will curate a lot of apps for me. If I want to go off piste I download the code and crack on. I have several compilers to choose from LLVM, gcc int al out of the box.

tarball installs is pretty much close to the state of Windows app installations. You have to find the bloody things, download them each time and hope you have found the right one and not a trojaned one. Each one needs its own update routine and will not be updated when the rest of the system is updated.

The Windows and Apple software distribution model is archaic compared to all Linux/BSD etc distros.
In the US, invasive worms are converting forests from fungal decomposition regimes to bacterial decomposition regimes.

Not a great development for mushroom foragers.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/invasive-earthwor...

Fun stuff.
Heil Lee!

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Principles.html#PLP
My "problem" with this is that I don't know how to separate activities into fun vs. enriching. I've gleaned a ton of valuable advice/information from Hacker News and similar sources, and also wasted an awful lot of time on them, and it's difficult to know which I'll end up having done on a given day.
I wonder what volume ‘a spadeful’ is? Presumably not a garden spade?

Edit: 20x20x20 cm volume. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Typically they wait a few years before they "reimagine" it.
Look at the “shared responsibility model” - if someone got in through the host then I guess they’d investigate. If you leak your SSH private key it’s on you.
Lines of code is not a great metric to equate to the effort of auditing the code.

Harder to meter: how understandable is the code? More verbose, but more easily understandable code will be far easier to audit.

Personally, I'd rather a million lines of code that are clear and obvious than 500k that are obtuse, terse and/or obfuscated.
I’m really interested ingetting a weekly “digest” for each of my subreddits. That way I can just block reddit and stop wasting time but I can be sure I won’t miss anything important. I just want to see the top ten posts of the week for each subreddit.

I guess that wouldn’t be that hard to code up. I think they have an. API.
> 42% of fields studied had poor earthworm diversity

> 21% of fields lacked surface-dwelling worms

Seems pretty clear to me. Some vs. none...
> You clearly have never used Linux in any form.

Can you please edit out personal swipes from your comments here? This one would be fine without that first sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How will it handle complicated orders? At McDonalds sometimes I order my fries with no-salt and then have them manually add extra salt. Or I want Big Mac Sauce on the side in a small container. Or I want a double McChicken with extra mayo and a slice of cheese on it.

Something tells me this won't work as intended. I guess it might for people who just say "Large #3" ...but come on...everyone customizes, right?
Please give me an example. The Linux kernel is about a week old on this laptop. The current version of Windows server is called 2019, the last one was 2016 (rofl)
Closed source software is not opaque, people study how it works all the time.
Going by the same reasoning, making meat does not in fact require that, lab grown meat exists, but as it stands, much like the phone example, the current methods prove cheaper, and easier, and faster.
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
"Since order and ingredient category does matter for some cocktails..."

I'm skeptical that ingredient order makes any difference in a cocktail (unless you're doing things like setting them on fire, etc.) ... could you provide an example ?
Fortunately the post-boomer “sanity” generation are not going to accept imperial units other than pint (for beer), regardless of what people pining for a past in which they were relevant may want.
NordVPN, its very good.
I don't really go for the R&D argument. Look at iPhones, they have only gotten more expensive. They should be cheap by now using your logic. Hell, they are removing things more than adding...
I use Algo[1] on a variety of VPS providers. It supports IPSec, but I only use Wireguard through it. Supporting OpenVPN is an explicit anti-goal for Algo[2].

I generally strongly recommend against using VPN providers on false advertisement grounds -- VPNs fundamentally cannot provide strong anonymity properties, but that doesn't stop many providers from listing anonymity as a selling point. In terms of the property VPNs can provide (privacy), you're better off maintaining as much control as possible over the service: you don't want to be tied to someone else's weak cipher or insecure protocol choices.

FD: I work for the company that made Algo, but have nothing to do with its development.

[1]: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

[2]: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo/blob/master/docs/faq.md#...