skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is significant that the room, even as a system, does not use language.

A hashtable lookup cannot be what it is to "act in the world with words".

When I say, "do you like what I'm wearing?" -- regardless of what has been written in any book, at any time, I do not want that reply.

I may want those words. But the reply I want is to use your judgement of taste and experiences of the world to tell me your opinion. The words dont answer the question if the reason they are used is incorrect.

A hashtable lookup can, basically, never be a reason to use words.

And hence the Chinese room reveals much much more than simply a circular point. And the systems reply fails to say much much less than it needs to.

The systems reply needs to explain "by what system" the system's use of language counts as a use. "by what system" words are born of understanding, not "mere reterival".

To do this, you need to specify the whole world, experience, etc. as "computational systems". And thus the systems reply simply fails against this example. It isnt sufficient to say "maybe" you have to say, "and this is how!".

And worse, the world is clearly not a computer -- as any non-trivial definition (eg., universal turing machine) cannot simulate properties the world has (non-determinism, chaos, etc.).
Building the World’s Largest Dry-Stone Wall Maze
HN has long declared itself an "Everything is Fine" zone.

While you are here it is important to remember that "Everything is Fine". Suggesting that things might not be fine is a good pathway to being flagged or at least downvoted. Since everything is fine, the only motivation you would have for suggesting it's not, is to create trouble for political reasons, which is clearly against HN guidelines.

It's pretty clear that Everything is Fine because most of us have invested our lives on future prosperity. We're working hard on tough problems because tomorrow will be far brighter than today. The funding our companies receive is based on the promise of future economic growth.

If it were some how the case that everything was not fine (and again, to be crystal clear, Everything is Fine), then many people here would be thrown into a very uncomfortable emotional place, since it would call into question nearly all of our assumptions about the world that give us meaning. But of course we are comfortable, because Everything is Fine.

Are their problems? Of course! Otherwise we wouldn't need startups and we wouldn't need VC funding. If you see a problem the answer is simple: why not find the solution and pitch it in the next YC round?

All problems are just opportunities for startup disruption, waiting to be solved. They're exciting! So don't worry too much, and most importantly, remember that Everything is Fine.
Honestly, not much. I was a little buzzed and was throwing out thoughts.

I was imagining local caches of assets or large content, like a web proxy.
https://dagger.io

https://cuelang.org
For anyone else who wants to dig into the full terms and conditions: https://bloomtech-catalog.s3.amazonaws.com/Tuition%20Refund%...
> Honestly that sounds more like social anxiety than introversion.

For intoverts, social anxiety stems from the fact that they do not fit into the very nature of "social events". Otherwise introverts are very good in other aspects e.g. put them in a "slow-paced social gathering" and they will be perfectly fine, infact they will enjoy it. But social events are fast-pased, this is where it is a mismatch for the intoverts.
NPM flaw allowed 'an attacker to publish new versions of any NPM package'
> How is this any different than, say, someone finding your bank account password? Or a phishing email?

It's different because you have recourse to your bank when someone steals your credit card/bank account info (credit card and ACH transactions can be reversed), and because banks have processes in place to protect their clients (locking accounts, additional scrutiny on large transactions, etc.)

> If that really worries you then there will be centralized services for you to use with systems in place to prevent this.

Those services are called banks, and they already exist for regular money. So why do I need or want crypto again?
I love the direction Cloudflare is going. Consumer products like WARP[0], 1.1.1.1 DNS. Dev tools like registrar[1], R2[2] and Workers. The only thing that holds me back is the inability to deploy Go based Workers. Once that is possible I will migrate my Go backend sites[3][4] away - where sensible - from DigitalOcean back to Cloudflare Workers. I already happily use Cloudflare as registrar, nameserver and analytics.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/1111-warp-better-vpn/

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/products/registrar/

[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-r2-object-storage/

[3] https://golang.cafe

[4] https://whoismining.com
Is there evidence to your claim, or are you just partaking in the incredibly banal "China is going to overtake us in ____" doomsday porn?
as is traditional in brief economic analysis, time is not accounted for here.
The ultimate sin is when a websites app doesn't support a password that the website does. Another favorite is when the change password requirements are higher than whats supported.
Ooh that sounds like a fun idea :D Maybe soon.
I'm in Burnaby. It was really rainy and windy for a couple days, but I haven't been meaningfully impacted so far.

For sure it was a major storm with some major impacts, but I think most people in the lower mainland weren't severely impacted.
At some point, you need to do work to make money, especially when young.
What if, however, your "job" was working for a blockchain instead of a company? Or a decentralized company?
What if that blockchain turned evil? How could you stop it if no one had control? Everyone is just a cog.
> It is crazy to me; who would expect anything else that our opinions being your own and nothing more?

Rumor mill journalists will mine social media and forum comments and write entire articles about "so and so FAANG employee gives hint at future merger" when some dev comments how much they've enjoyed using some library recently.
I also wouldn't say that anyone is entitled to a safe investment option, but they are entitled to non-interference—which includes the various rules and regulations which keep people (and especially those with less resources) tied to the US Dollar even as it's diluted at an ever-increasing pace. And without those rules and regulations anything remotely like QE would be a quick route to economic (and political) suicide, rather than the slow-but-inevitable decline we see today.
in all fairness, at that point, he has usually written quite a bit. ;)
Or you could have invested $1000 and then lost it all because it turns out the company you invested in was a naked scam.

Accredited investor laws exist to protect common people from the endless amount of scams we see crypto have today.

If you don't like the laws then petition to have them changed, but simply ignoring them will probably result in the SEC knocking on your door.
Can’t wait to install Windows on this!
you might want to loosen that tinfoil hat.

Private sector does really well in a lot of spaces, but despite being public infrastructure, most highways and roadworks built in Canada are already built by private sector employees working under contract.

Those public sector employees foaming at the mouth? Those are the ones who are responsible for making sure that the roads, highways and infrastructure are fit for purpose, including safety. But hey, why would we want anyone providing oversight of private corporations right?

You want emergency, purpose built solutions built by a mission oriented team? May I point you in the direction of the Canadian Military Engineers (you know, government workers?).
From https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bc-floods-rail-impact-1.625... it looks like some lines are out and others remain to be inspected once things clear up. So maybe all, maybe not all, but enough to be a big problem.

A dairy farmer in Abbotsford is quoted as having only 5 days of feed. Consider the economic damage if farmers have to kill livestock, and can't even get them to a meat packing facility to recoup any part of their losses.
https://www.turris.com/en/

https://docs.turris.cz/

New version coming out next year with 10 gbs ethernet and wifi 6. Made by an established internet company: https://www.nic.cz/
> Transparency is key in maintaining the trust of our community.

and yet a security incident where it was possible to publish any npm package without authentication is nine paragraphs down, and isn't alluded to at all in the page or section titles. I'm not sure that's entirely in the best spirit of transparency.
> Just a thought: for someone living in the 90s, wouldn't something like Facebook have been also very difficult to conceive? "What's the value of having friends I see daily online?".

It's probably easy to say with hindsight, but I honestly don't think so. The stereotype of teenagers (especially girls) spending too much time on the phone is older than personal computers, let alone Facebook. AIM and ICQ were quite successful in the 90s, and LiveJournal launched in 1999.
It looks like we will be in another La Nina year, which means wetter northwest and drier southwest.. unfortunately.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/us/la-nina-california-dro...
This is dumb. Node and npm had years to solve this issue. Really disrespectful towards the entire ecosystem. I get it: open source, bla bla, but get your horses together and fix this already
> The users here truly come from all walks of life.

Boy is that true. I was amazed by this thread, which I ran across the other day, having completely missed it at the time:

Ask HN: Non-tech professionals on HN? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28788540 - Oct 2021 (207 comments)

Among others, I noticed (in their own words) a NASA nuclear space engineer, an underground mining engineer, an uneducated
French house-husband, a California farmer, a cultural historian, an Anglican priest, a bassoon player in a professional orchestra, a manager at a Chicago pizzeria, a helicopter pilot, a voice actor, a dermatologist, a carpenter, a consulting hypnotist, and a retired neurosurgical anesthesiologist. That was fun.

Edit: a professional conductor? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31577957 - I feel like someone should keep track of these...
You don't get the entire wave-function as output; the wave-function is not observable. Different measurements might reveal information about certain components of the state, at least probabilistically, but those same measurements will always destroy some information. See the No-cloning Theorem.
> My code editor catches 90% of the errors

With or without strict mode enabled?
ENS domains follow the nft interface.
I know everyone complained about the shared bar, and I do understand the complaints, but I guess I've always had laptops with relatively big screens, and as a result I never felt a lack of real estate due to the bar.

I will acknowledge it would be nice if you could have an easy way to hide it though.
Fundamental. Make it easy (or at least possible) for honest people to be honest. Worrying about theft from your partners... Well, at least you should think about why your business interests aren't aligned...
Increased politicization and homogeneity in NSF grants
I'm guessing its your point, but to spell it out, canada has oligopolies or monopolies, it doesnt have competitors at least in telecom and banking. From what I understand (like the recent Kansas? railway acquisition) CN and CP may actually be more in competition than some other industries. There is some complexity because part of the tradeoff for being granted oligo/monopoly status is the requirement to allow others on their network (e.g. for telco so maybe also for rail - I know they have to let Via, even if it's on a low priority basis). But overall, the business environment in canada is much closer to some kind of aristocracy or feudal system than an actual competitive landscape. Maybe that's true everywhere and just not as easy to see.
Amongst other things this is why enterprises that use Node regularly have internal, private NPM registries with some delay behind public releases.
Ah you're right! Thanks!
So would this be like creating a public webpage called “help troubleshoot my router”, and having that webpage serve up malicious JavaScript which attempts to attack my routers local web server?
Your impression may come from the fact that many people don't talk openly about their finances to random people on the internet.

For me, Fidelity is a non-starter, for reasons that are none of your business.

It's nice that you like Fidelity. But it's a good idea to recognize that your finances and life situation are unique to you.
> ...learn interesting thinks about other peoples careers.

This is a very good approach.
Appsmith founder here. Congratulations on launching Budibase! I think it's a beautiful product.

Like MJshanks mentioned, there's some overlap in the usecases but there are significant differences in the platform direction. Budibase is more no-code, while Appsmith is geared towards developers aiming to build complex applications.

Appsmith is a more popular and mature tool with high quality documentation, video tutorials and stellar community support. The GitHub stars, issue list, and size of Discord community reflect this. [0]

1. According to users who've tried both, Appsmith's UX is simpler and enables building information dense UI. Appsmith has drag and drop to build absolute UI vs. relative positioning in Budibase. This does make Budibase apps more mobile responsive than Appsmith ones. Links to comments by other HN users [1] [2]

2. Appsmith is a more powerful platform with a high ceiling and low floor for entry. You can build simple apps quickly by auto-generating them. In Appsmith, you can write full-fledged JavaScript anywhere on the platform. This ensures all your business logic is always expressed correctly. You can map over data, merge data from different data sources, trigger conditional workflows, and conditionally control widget properties all with a few snippets of code.

Few more feature differences:

1. Appsmith has more UI components and support for 100+ charts

2. Built in git sync for version control

3. Real-time commenting and real-time editing(WIP) to enable collaboration between users

4. Appsmith has organizations/workspaces to help freelancers manage multiple projects

5. Error logger and linter to debug issues

Honestly at a more fundamental level, it's just great to see all the different products that have come out over the years that are trying to tackle the same problem space. When we started out initially, we didn't find any open-source alternatives (Budibase wasn't open source then), and so we embarked on building it. And now it's great to see so many different products, which gives users more choice and power over finding the platform that fits their needs best.

[0] https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28991242

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304152
The nutrient profiles in my calculator are copied from various academic publications. Those profiles typically come with less discussion of how they were designed than I might hope, but I assume it's from review of trials of the form mentioned in the other reply to your comment. For more profiles, I've never used anything from

https://cdnmedia.eurofins.com/corporate-eurofins/media/12142...

but I suspect from the author's bio that it's trustworthy.

For probes, see

https://github.com/hydromisc/hydromisc/blob/master/doc/senso...

EC probes should last basically forever if correctly excited (zero net DC). pH probes are consumables, but my $10 probe is still happy after a year continuously immersed. As process fluids go, hydroponic solution is pretty mild, neutral-ish pH and decent ionic content.

I bought the potassium nitrate from MBFerts in combination with other fertilizer salts, so if I'm on a list it's probably "cannabis growers" and not "mad bombers". If you'd rather not use it, then a quick experiment in the calculator shows you can still hit a decent profile with just calcium and magnesium nitrates.
> generally its the philosophers that are presumptuous enough to tell other fields what they should do or think

I'm sorry but in my experience, this is not at all a one-way street. It is very common for me to hear engineers and other STEM-types to complain about modern art or about the supposedly obscurantist, sophistic style of various disciplines of the liberal arts. However, these complaints rarely come from Engineers who take an active interest in the fields they criticize.

Admittedly I'm mainly speaking about general people I work with or whom I (sadly often) encounter on the internet. But there are some eminent names who are just as guilty. In addition to Kaku, as bakuninsbart mentioned, I could also bring up, off the top of my head, Stephen "philosophy is dead" Hawking and Richard "Shakespeare would have been better if he were educated" Dawkins.

I think I could come up with many more examples if I started looking. On the other hand, we fortunately also have people like Murray Gell-Man, who has gotten us to quote from the most experimental book in all of English-language literature every time we talk about elementary sub-atomic particles.
agreed, if they made it to be eg. expressionof() - which to be fair might happen in the future - then it would be just as usable as nameof()
Qt apps actually integrate great with plenty of hosts. VLC, Krita, Kate, Kdenlive, etc. work great on Gnome & XFCE & Cinnamon & LXDE & Mate and on Windows and Mac too, and of course on KDE. Maybe not native great but still great (in a world of Electron apps, I no longer expect apps to integrate native great). Gnome apps look bad anywhere other than Gnome. They look bad even on other GTK based DEs like Mate or Cinnamon.
After you pass a certain threshold, it makes zero sense to trust your assets to code that _you, personally_ haven't 100% authoritatively verified to be bug-free. Traditional financial institutions don't work like this; if there's an obvious "bug" in bank logic that lets someone take all of your assets, it gets rolled back. Doing away with this protection is fine, but the big bucks will stay away.
If you have a domain already, you can get a certificate for free from Let's Encrypt and just repurpose the certificate. You don't even have to run an out facing HTTP server as they have a DNS-only challenge.

I have a similar setup where I have something akin to "my-home.network" and manage a wildcard cert from Let's encrypt through a local cron job. My router intercepts all the DNS requests to the domain and returns local IPs on the local network. Machines that need HTTPS can get a copy of the wildcard key and do something like "hostname.my-home.network" and get HTTP.
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This is good to know. I wasn't aware of this website. However, you can't live off of 7.12% on a limit of $10k electronic bonds.

I do wish savings accounts still had high interest rates and there wasn't so much incentive to invest in riskier assets like stocks.
on point.
With long-lived ones, gosh, a ton. When you hear a researcher talk about "logical qubit" or less formally "long-lived qubit" they mean a reliable abstract computational component. When we talk about "physical qubits" we mean the unreliable real implementations like the one from this article. A rough rule of thumb is that you need a 1000 physical qubits to make one logical qubit.

With 100 logical qubits (i.e. 100k physical qubits), you can start thinking about running chemistry simulations on the edge of what is possible with classical supercomputers. That is what I am excited about. There are also optimization problems, and some pretentious claims about quantum machine learning, which I am certain would be fun, but I am not as excited about.

With 100 physical qubits, you can start testing non-trivial control schemes, circuit compilations, error correction methods, and many other building blocks.
I will note that just about any old technology is 'not buildable today'. Nobody today 'can build' a Ming Dynasty iron-smelting furnace, because we don't have detailed instructions for how to do so.

But with a lot of work, we can figure out how to build a pretty close approximation. The more precise the tolerances, or the more parts something has, the harder the 'figuring out' step is.
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Hi every1!
Wanted to share this idea since one of you could build it and it has the potential to go viral imo :)

Happy building
I see, so what?
I hate that Homebrew uses /usr/local. At least on M1 they had to move it to /opt but I always install it to my home directory in ~/.brew. I can override the paths and not have to worry about file/directory permissions.
In-Depth with Nvidia CEO on Competition, Software, and the Omniverse
I am more amazed that there are so many routers than the number of vulnerabilities!
people certainly seem to be eating better and less sedentary in 2019. oh wait..
Read the article! This is discussed in detail, in addition to the effects of USD being a global reserve currency. Most of the commenters here appear to have not read the article.
Satisfied Omnia customer here. It’s a decent router with enough performance to host a small website and Logitech media server in lxc containers as well.
It'll still be an uneven playing field if you're able to invest in early-stage companies. Now it will just be populated with well-marketed stocks for worthless companies that the rich will use to extract money from the gullible.

With the benefit of hindsight it's easy to see how you would have made a killing on Uber. But what you're not seeing the money you might have lost on Theranos, or Juicero, or WeWork, or any number of other hyped-up but ultimately worthless companies.
Just needs some integration with InTrade....
Congrats on getting them to use a password manager, now everyone can see all of their password by typing in the master password they stuck to the side of the screen.

I'm only half-joking sadly, people just don't understand why password exist in the first place, so they comply maliciously.
> The proper example to pick is personal computing circa 1982. When you look at the envisioned uses of personal computing, the advertisements really reach: it helps your child learn. You can store recipes on it. Balance your checkbook. Write documents. And (whispers) play games.

Okay so what is the "play games" of crypto today? It seems like the only equivalent is "criminal activity." Unless you count speculation on crypto itself, but that isn't a "use." Computer users in 1982 were not buying IBM PCs, leaving them boxed in their closet, and then re-selling them for 10 or 100x the price in a year or two.
I love bingo cards as commentary. I became 'well known' in the nuclear industry for passing out 'Nuclear Renaissance Bingo' cards at a national meeting during a keynote whilst pretending it was official.

Since then I've recently revived my bingo card generator. It defaults to nuclear things but you can actually write your own options and then share the URL with your custom options encoded into the URL. Fun for zoom meetings for sure.

https://whatisnuclear.com/bingo.html
I'm not sure what you are "no"-ing. I agreed with the parent comment.
That last part is interesting to me, how would you test the nutrient solution after circulating? Would you just pay a lab to run the analysis on what's left or evaporate the solution to increase concentration and then try to precipitate the ions left in the solution and weight those?