skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, I think this is entirely a different discussion than I was trying to have.

We had one person pretty confidently claiming that "sentience" meant XYZ, which was a definition I had never heard before.

Now we have this, which acknowledges that it's a non standard definition, but suggests we should proceed to use it anyway because, gee, it's hard to get evidence, and what if your objective is [insert objective] and you don't want [insert inconvenience due to strict definition] to happen, so let's use a definition that blurs the lines between speculation and evidence. I have a number of problems with that, but it's a different conversation anyway and it loses sight of what I was asking about.

About six comments up this thread, if anyone can remember that far, we had people putting octopuses, lobsters and even amoeba in the same category. At the bottom, the reason for doing that boiled down to people deciding it was okay to redefine sentience in a way that lowers the bar to include them all.

Trying to get to the end of what was driving that conversation leads to things like this, that aren't quite focused answers, but are just invitations to detour in any number of directions.
> Things are more disturbing nowadays because people go through violent routes to get their drugs.

What?

People seem to buy drugs online with cryptocurrency and receive it in the mail, an option which obviously didn’t exist in the 70s.

I have some friends involved in the treatment/recovery space. It’s actually very challenging because the old technique of cutting ties with the user/dealer social circles is much less effective when reordering drugs online for delivery is just a few clicks away.
Most probably it will be as alien to people in 3500 years as the babylonian gods are to us.
What would the talking point be?
Study: Half of smokers wouldn't even quit at $68 per pack, 1/3 at $135 per pack
This is not just the US but also China, India, Japan, South Korea and the U.K. It's serious enough that OPEC+ is threatening "response".
> Kind of annoying having to whitelist every website I visit on NoScript these days but worth it imho

In case you didn't already know, uBO does integrate a script blocker, with the advantage over NoScript that it supports per-site rules. I wrote a Twitter thread about this as an introduction a while ago: <https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1379819815657996290>.

Also, a negative interference when using another script blocker extension along uBO is that these can prevent uBO from redirecting blocked resources to local neutered ones[1], beside making managing rules more complicated since the ruleset of two extensions have to be investigated when trying to unbreak a site.

* * *

[1] Redirecting to neutered local resources is useful to prevent site breakage and also to defuse anti-content blocker mechanisms.
> We are only responsible for ourselves.

Not when your actions have consequences, which they do. Violence following alcohol abuse, or loss of family members due to alcohol abuse, is a thing.
Fight it yourself. Find a solution that's easy for developers and users and everyone will use it. It's very simple, actually (though not easy).
Regardless of the left/right false dichotomy, if either the EU, national governments thereof, or the UK were to start looking after their electorates' interests rather than doing the bidding of faceless globalist puppet-masters, it would be a start.
I think that developers are constantly surprised and frustrated when writing data to IndexedDB takes much longer than downloading it. High transaction cost turns out to be one of several performance surprises with Chrome IndexedDB. If a developer discovers these one-by-one, then they will probably need to redesign a few times if they want IndexedDB to support a data-intensive or offline application.
Vercel raises $150M Series D
Nature has no say in Meta Worlds!

Long Growth.
that sounds like a really messed up thing for you boss to do to you
I'm on a 1080 rig. It was bad, it was't that bad. But I also pause animations too.
And perhaps counter-intuitively: slower development speed often means reduced reliability.

If your development and deploy cadence is slower, you end up batching up more changes in any given deployment. Larger changes => higher likelyhood of something in them being wrong => harder to debug due to delta size => wider effective blast radius.

Fast testing and robust build validation are some of the more important guard rails that allow to move fast and be more reliable at the same time.
I wouldn't fight for any advertising to exist - I want it all gone.
Can I contact you? My email address is in my profile
Static linking is always an option. It even can benefit from LTO and PGO this way.
No, the UK government requires you to have no clue (but be chums with a minister or Tory MP) before it spaffs torrents of money your way.
There is a reasonable possibility that in 50 years the absurdity will be how taken back by cocaine and it's paraphernalia is if we do go the way of more and more drug legalization. We will look like pearl clutchers or a smug living version of Reefer Madness.
"Sadly, it seems the Linux world just can't wrap its head around the idea of managing applications with the same simple mechanisms we use to manage regular every day files. It would seem that Linux Desktop users just love having inflexible management tools do it instead. Well, there is AppImage, but unfortunately its use is not wide spread."

Seems to me they love treating application management like one manages dependencies in a software project. There are a lot of parallels with the paradigm. Its clear where the notion came from. And I think in the context of unix/linux history it makes sense. If I were an MIT grad student in 1978 there probably isn't much difference between a library and an application practically.

But that was over 40 years ago. There is a clear distinction now and the overwhelming majority of PC users are not MIT grad students. Applications should be easy to install. People don't care that there is more than one version of some dependency. They don't care that your repro doesn't have what they want. They have work to do.
> "Would that I had the magic wand on this," Granholm [U.S. Energy Secretary] told Bloomberg TV, laughing in a response to a question on what her plan was to raise U.S. oil output. "That is hilarious,".

So... magic is real.
There is QMMP, which has been my daily driver for many years, and is still under active development.

https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/features.php
If you lose your wallet key do you have to move out?
>Shouldn’t I be equally skeptical of Paxlovid now that it’s having its own super-promising early trials?

> No. For one thing, this isn’t amateur hour anymore. The ivermectin trials were random people who bungled their experiments or just plain made them up. They had sample sizes of (going through the first few on my notes) 25, 116, and 66 people. The Paxlovid trial was run by the best scientists Pfizer’s money can buy, and had a sample size of 1,219 (it would have been 3,000 if they hadn’t stopped it early).
It's not just "the little guy" in Argentina - it's everyone and everything. Everyone always demands increases to their flow of money in Argentina. It's no surprise that they get inflation.
The tool that flatpak uses for sandboxing is bubblewrap, that can be used to sandbox distro packages fairly easily. None of the desktops do that though.
The flat under mine is used as an office, and the ground floor has a cafe-delicatessen and also a Domino’s; this type of mixed use seems reasonably common here in Berlin. How much difference would it make if American cities just started to allow residential buildings to be used this way?
This no longer whips the llamas ass.
Fish Poop a Big Player in Ocean Carbon Sequestration
Milkdrop!!!

For so many years, I remember wishing I could learn how to make these visualisations (usually whilst absolutely hammered). Never acted on the impulse.
The problem is that it's really really hard to gulp down 3 bottles of liquor.

Plus unlike G you are not involved in the preparation, a better comparison would be having a substance called super-duper-liquor that you'd have to dilute yourself with water in order to make sure that it's indeed 3 bottles of liquor needed to send you in ICU.

If you screw up the dilution of the super-duper-liquor you can end up in ICU after just a sip, and you'd not notice because it doesn't have a taste or a smell.

Plus let's face it, humans were never made to deal with liquid quantities in mL , we were made to deal in liters or even deca-liters, because that's the measuring unit of the most important liquid for humans: H2O

Few mL of water aren't good for anything.
Especially when He pays colored men to write flamebait articles about race
Reminds me of cloud to butt.

https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt
Serverless at the Edge with Cloudflare, with Rita Kozlov (Director Cloudflare)
cancel keystone pipeline, hamstring oil and gas companies, then blame these same companies for high prices. thanks for the incoming red wave in 2022!
I guess I'm having the same struggle as nfin.

> The main condition is an environment without oxygen and the presence of proteins, which happen both in sealed oil-garlic containers.

This seems such a general condition... in first approximation, sealed containers with anything at home are sealed containers with proteins...
Pretty pointless to call it "winamp" if they're not targeting that kind of user.
Stripe ‘Happy’ to Stay Private After Reaching $95B Value
It easily took 10 seconds to fully load and render on my desktop. I imagine it takes quite a bit more if you're on mobile.
Basically road pavement damage is proportional to weight of vehicles that run over them (and - to a lesser extent - to the amount of vehicles).

Having more electric vehicles actually increases - on average - the weight of cars, and - indirectly - road damage (how much is to be seen in practice).

For commercial fleets, trucks are already so heavy that - as you say - provoke the most damage, but they are heavy because they move things that "you/we" need or want, and that "you/we" actually pay for in the end.

So, if there won't be any more income from gas-guzzling cars, and taxing the electric cars is politically not viable, what remains is that the costs will be put on comnmercial transport, which means ultimately that final users will pay more, much more for transport of the goods they buy.

The traditional approach was to tax indirectly (via car related taxes) the - in theory - more affluent part of the population (that could afford to buy and maintain a car), if this source of income ceases to exist, the only way to replace it is to tax more "what remains".
I was also caught off guard by this horror. I was expecting a really lean and to the point website that reflects the qualities of the original Winamp.

This really DOESN'T whip the llamma's ass.

Here's the original website in 1998 for reference.

https://web.archive.org/web/19981205015145/http://winamp.com...

The more I look at it, the more I hate the modern web. It's madness.
If only we had wings and could fly we really wouldn’t have these sorts of problems to this extent…

America is a country of 330+ million people, with an economy built on the foundation of oil. Not to mention the fact that selling a commodity vs building out infrastructure aren’t even in the same sphere of activity.
Writing a Genetic Algorithm in Nx – Numerical Computing for Elixir
Do you have any recommendation for all of those practices: books, talks, external vendors? Buy vs. build?
Wait, there's a scroll wheel, i thought it was a looping video...
>the well established definition

Well, I don't think so. I like to think I've studied enough philosophy to be at least somewhat reasonably acquainted with the term, and it wasn't striking me as "well established." And I did a bit of googling yesterday that also seemed to suggest the "well established definition" being used here is not consistent with any of the normal definitions. And just now I consulted the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and now I'm convinced it's not even remotely close to well established.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I haven't seen anything cited here to back that up, or even just an appeal to any informal, working understanding of the concept that makes me think "oh, of course, that's the definition." And normally I wouldn't ask for such a thing, except for the fact that, to me at least, a lot of people seem to be confidently wrong about what it is.

>Is it when the nerve cells responsible for emitting pain signals develop? When a fetus is capable of responding to pain? Is it when the circuits develop to route those pain sigbals to the part of the brain associated with conscious perception of pain?

Pretty sure it's the last one.
> right now, you have to check the JSON file you linked to check how much access a flatpak program gets

In general, GUI package managers w/ Flatpak support show you the permissions, as does the CLI upon an attempted install.
Just updated my SQLite table of "Things_Wont_Work_With.txt"

..."It has been estimated that in its pure crystalline form, six grams of botulism toxin, about one teaspoon full, would be enough to kill 200 million people. The lethal dose when consumed orally is around 30 billionths of a gram..."
All other examples of things being done electronically that were done physically go here.
I don't entirely disagree with this point, but i'd like to point out that running a program as a tarball/appimage downloaded from the dev's website places entire trust in the project's infrastructure, where on the other side of the spectrum distro packaging relies on strong vetting from a distro's community.

Flatpak/snap is somewhere in between where on the main repos (eg. flathub.org) anyone can publish a package for anything without being affiliated with upstream. It incentivizes users to just search for the app name and download whatever comes up as a result. That's a pattern we've known to be broken for years: from Windows users downloading the first link Google suggests (usually a sponsored link bundled with spyware/adware) to Android users downloading anything the Play Store suggests (usually spyware, see how many flashlight apps there are and what permissions they require). F-Droid in the Android ecosystem strikes a balance because there is strong community vetting for all packages published, so it's like a distro-agnostic repository following the distro packaging threat model.

I believe there are ways to mitigate those issues (eg. namespace enforcement on flatpak) but i don't think downplaying them is doing any good.
I don't see a viable plan to be honest.

Eg. Site assets need to be copied to be used on a site.

If i can't copy it, it can't be used/uploaded into my CMS and by definition it has no use-case for this.

Then there's one thing: art. But if you use it, it becomes a jpg and can be copied ( eg. An avatar). I also can't display it in my wall.

I just don't see a practical use-case?

Care to give an actual example where you don't expect all applications to move away from
simple jpg/PNG to a Blockchain viewer where you can still screenshot ( which would be ridiculous to think)
If the price goes down: "I opened the strategic oil reserve to lower the price for you!"
If it doesn't: "I opened the strategic oil reserve to stop the price going higher for you!"
"Pollution is icky, but you Republicans can still trust me to crank oil out of our ground."
I might be imagining it, and there might be another cause, but I stopped using Elementary after the latest release after many things moved to Flatpaks because I kept running out of memory. (On Endeavour/Arch, installing everything natively, I no longer have the problem.)
> They're already used extensively with offshore platforms, so why invent the wheel?

Because that's Tesla's business. Plus halo effect - you don't want to board a spaceship by flying on a helicopter designed 30 years ago.

Remember that battery weight scales linearly with number of passengers, so building a larger battery operated helicopter just needs more motors and batteries. We don't have large e-copters because it costs a lot of money to certify one for 20 passengers and, until now, there is very little demand for that.
Lawns do have a flood control benefit in areas with lots of rainfall or that are prone to intense rainstorms. But so would the same land left to grow wild.
I have had the least issues with AppImage. It does not fit every use case. It does not need to. If you can ship an AppImage, please consider doing so.
> It's very easy to think you really understand something when someone's explaining it to you. Kinda like watching a show on Discovery. Then when it comes to solving problems, there's a fair chance that you're exposed.

I didn't think about it though, I didn't assume I understood anything. Just that one day there is a test, I went to the test and answered everything as well I could. I didn't get everything right, I did a lot of stupid mistakes, but I got enough things right.

I think that if you need to practice to do well on the tests then you don't understand the subject well. There comes a point where you feel you have perfect clarity of a topic, I just reach that level very fast. I am not always correct when I feel that way, but it was good enough.

> Did people really explain things to you at university? Where I went you were expected to read a lot on your own, and then you had a few hours of tutorials where you could ask some questions.

Right, higher level courses makes you do more independent work. But the courses people take for physics, CS or engineering are still very well explained. The courses you take to prepare for math research didn't go as well for the reasons you explained, I still passed them but with worse grades and started doing math research, but after I solved my first research problem and wrote about it I realized I didn't really like math that much and learned programming and got into Google instead. I figured that if I have to work on something I don't care about I can just as well earn a lot of money doing it.

Just explaining things here to make my position more understandable. I always hated teachers who grades after how hard you work or how many boring practice problems you solve etc, so I have a strong distaste for any argument along those lines. "But you need to work hard to learn!", no you really don't. That is my point. Don't make me do boring stuff because you had to.
> A company’s messaging or social media app is interoperable, to prevent users feeling forced to use one or the other because that’s where their friends are

Am I wrong or is this revolutionary?
That's right, it makes the problem worse.

The first time I noticed that trend was on macOS, where applications bundle most of their libraries, and binaries compiled for multiple architectures.

Then we had Electron apps that ship with their own full copy of a browser and dependent libraries.

When NPM was designed, they observed that resolving colliding versions of the same dependency was sometimes difficult. Their answer was to remove that restriction and allow multiple versions of the same library in a project. Nowadays, it's not uncommon to have 1000+ dependencies in a simple hello world npm project.

Our industry is moving away from that feedback force that was forcing developers to agree on interfaces and release stable APIs.
hi animesh, that would only be the case if you are trying to retrofit htmx on top of an existing JSON API

if it is greenfield development, it is much better to simply return SSR HTML and avoid that complexity

you can join the discord for more immediate help:

https://htmx.org/discord
That sounds serious, but if they are no delaying it by much can we assume it's not too serious?
more American towns — and cities
No it s just bad and unremarkable. People are so bored that they re watching reality shows on social media most of the day
ah yes, there's always that stickler for the "rules." What would we ever do without that person chiming in.
50 million? Given the USA's consumption, that doesn't feel like much.

That aside, what's worrisome is that just days ago there was a climate agreement. Again. But - once again - the economy comes first. When is this cycle going to stop?
I can't even keep up with Kim Stanley Robinson. He writes 'em faster than I can read 'em.
The reason why Argentina has inflation is just very inconvenient to central bankers. If the pool of money increases in size, prices go up, end of story. Central bankers like to think that they can use sophisticated measures to control the economy, but it looks like they can't beyond a few simple things. Print money and you raise prices, end of story.
> if developers actually used a small set of common runtimes instead of picking from one of a gazillion slightly different rebuilds

All the runtimes on Flathub are built on top of the standard fd.o runtime, so the OSTree-level dedup should generally work for them.

> Unfortunately (and ironically) it's ill-suited for games, which need to have the latest GPU drivers available, which is antithetical to the whole idea of a stable, universal base system.

I believe there's an extension available for the latest Mesa builds, so you can opt for the bleeding edge and then just remove the extension if things break.
Context is limited, but selling oil out of a reserve isn't increasing U.S. oil output.
I agree with both of you, but still kinda feel like this is wizardry in action...

Because it comes from that special perspective of being able to xray through the entire stack, all the way down the physics of the electronics driving the thing while keeping the context of all the other layers in mind to see how different parts can be manipulated to get the results you want. I get the most enjoyment out of my work when doing this with higher level layers, but being able to do it at the hardware end must feel exhilarating, because that's really how it all works.
That was a wild read. I want more articles in this style.
Said using lingo older than yourself.
Hmmmm. Why are we needing to get oil from the reserves? Is this due to politics or demand or both? Could this lead to global conflict?
And this is why doing anything about climate change is such an uphill battle.
A lot of office space and future development in general is probably going to shift to mixed use in the future(adding the residential to the commercial specifically, a lot of offices already have the cafe/restaurants). It’s highly appealing but from what I have seen it is also very expensive for the consumer.
We do exist :)

Cheeky shoutout for my side project https://www.musictaco.co.uk/ which lets you find where to buy a digital album the cheapest online. You can track your favourite artists and it will email you when they release a new album too. Feedback welcome!
Are you saying doing this would create more towns and cities, or that some towns and cities are already doing this?
Dying to know what it does with unrealistic things, like a frog-legged apple crawling through a dragon's ear.
Well, it would be if there's actual enforcement. But if GDPR is anything to go by, it'll just be words on a page.