skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When people start claiming that we are experiencing 'a world gone mad' or 'group hysteria' or, as in this case, "Definitional Collapse", it makes me wonder if that person's context or worldview is one of those that is under pressure.

I can’t find it, but I remember someone on HN sharing one of the earliest movies from the early 1900s of a farmer born in the 1800s critiquing “modern” (1900s) city life.

I can see how cultural/technology change takes some flexibility and effort to learn how to survive or thrive in a new environment and how that is probably annoying as you get older.

I’d imagine it’s like you mastered, excelled or did well at a game and now someone’s changing the rules. I’m sure it’s also embarrassing or isolating if the rules of the game change but you don’t/won’t adapt and fewer people want to play the game of life according to your now less popular rules.

But in watching that old video and watching my progressive friends get older and start to resist change, it seems more like a natural evolution for many to at some point firm up their beliefs and take aim at those who keep changing.
Yep. Everyone showed us who they really were during that time.

We are a silly and foolish people. Blundering comes naturally to us.
> Steven Gonzales Monserrate is an anthropologist and a PhD candidate

Maybe this person should stick to studying skull sizes or whatever it is an anthropologist studies these days. I'm sorry to say, but what a load of horse shit.

Yes, data centers use energy. Essentially all of the big cloud providers have committed to carbon neutrality, most of them are pretty far done with getting there, and essentially all of them already source the vast majority of their power from renewables at this point. That's not just because it is greener, but also because it is cheaper.

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc. each maintain nice web pages on how far they are with these plans.

- Amazon is shooting for 2025 for 100% carbon neutral energy. https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/environment/the-cloud...

- Microsoft plans for carbon negative by 2030: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/01/16/microsoft-will-b...

- Google claims to have been carbon neutral since 2007 and plans to be carbon free by 2030 as well: https://sustainability.google/commitments-europe/

That's a trend with many other manufacturers as well. E.g. lots of automotive manufacturers. If there's a deep conspiracy where these companies are lying about what they are doing, that would be news worthy of course. But, I suspect that most of these companies are simply getting very good at managing absurdly high degrees of energy and water efficiency and cost.

Kind of counters the message of the article / the author's world view of course. So, instead this author is dragging in all sorts of things: waste problems, hypertension in people, "computational whir of data centers is not merely an annoyance, but a source of mental and physical harm". I mean, what the actual F** is he going on about here?! What's the point here? Modern technology is bad? Is there a point at all?
Lit-up fishing nets reduce catch of unwanted sharks, rays and squid: study
In the last month:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30223538

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30128198

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30071730

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30004468

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29725018

And the fairly related discussions, where the original topic was not asking for recommendations, but that was what a lot of the discussion ended up about:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30345201

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30248203

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30051054

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30025276

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29997776

For one month, that is starting to feel quite repetitive.
So if I claim it is true that neural nets are not conscious, the burden of proof is now on that claim?

The burden of proof is on the person making an assertion. The original claim was not an assertion, it was that they "may be slightly conscious". The article linked here is the only one that made an actual assertion, which is that the original claim was categorically false.

In short, I agree with you. The burden of proof is on this article to demonstrate that neural nets are not conscious.
A small improvement: use a vowel to encode turns, and consonants to encode segment lengths. So each shape would be encoded by a "word", e.g. "bakitux". Brains have dedicated "word-processing units" and those are much faster than number-processing units.
This is the theme of a Greg Egan short (is there a scenario that guy hasn't come up with? Truly an SF beast). The body is grown at an accelerated rate with a relatively "dumb" brain. The brain has the capacity to carry out normal bodily functions and not much else. After a year, the original brain is transplanted into the body.

That said, this is more like "very-hard-to-reach golden fruit", not low-hanging fruit.
Given that pretty much all of the recent Microsoft's open-source projects under the .NET umbrella, including ASP.NET Core, have been a resounding success in terms of communiry adoption, I don't think they're very shy about comparisons.

I expect some of the comments under this post to age very badly.
I consistently get around 8 to 10... I get approximately the same performance if I try to use my gut to match shapes or if I mentally rotate the shapes one at a time. The focal length distortion is a bit too extreme for me. I would prefer if it the shapes were a little bit more isometric-looking.

With the current focal length distortion, shapes look as if they're a few inches from my eyeballs so it's kind of hard to visualize without counting the blocks.
anything that requires a giant runtime to run is a big NO for me

that's why languages like GO makes more sense for that kind of use cases

microsoft not wanting to support CoreRT back in the days was their biggest mistake ever, shame on the people at microsoft who lobbied against it, shame!
They seem very polarizing to the adult community. I loved video games from all kinds of companies when I was younger and had hours a day to play games. But as an adult I can't imagine buying a non Nintendo system. The few hours a month when I actually want to play video games and have the time I'd rather load up some guaranteed fun, versus sit through huge chunks of AAA game story plot points just to shoot the Nazis, monster, etc or spend those same hours researching indie games that might be as fun as whatever Nintendo has put out recently.

Only thing really worth taking the risk on these days is music games, but the good ones are few and far between. The international Bemani community has seemingly fully committed to the arcade rip and Konami doesn't seem to care to try and bring them back to the home console since they aren't cutting into arcade unit sales.
Isn't that because the creators of TubroTax had a lawsuit against the government because the IRS modernising their software-based filing would cut into their commercial efforts?

Ah yes:

https://www.reuters.com/article/legal-us-otc-intuit-idUSKBN2...

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/07/720941665/la-city-attorney-su...

It was a bit of a different construction, but the premise of "we want to make money and prevent a government service from being accessible using software made by the government".
I had completely forgotten the design trend of "we threw some silly putty at the wall and this was the resulting shape."
> expending energy

One thing I noticed out of many of the list items given in the post here:

> Only use Tor
> Always use a VPN
> Never use Google -- only DuckDuckGo
> Disable JavaScript on your browser
> Watch all incoming and outgoing network calls regularly and scan for abnormalities
> Encrypt your laptop and any external drives
> End-to-end encrypted communication only
> Don't use Gmail -- use ProtonMail
> Never pay with cards. Use cryptocurrencies.
> Turn off all location services from your laptop and phone

Is that these can actually be solved with technology in a way that these are thedefault and popular behavior (as TLS 1.3 is in HTTPS).
So it's important that we realize that these technologies (or something like them) are important anddesired by everyone, but just need a bit of development to work. Https and signal are great examples. Many of my parents and grandparents are on signal now, because it's better than most other apps (whatscrap, Facebook msg, imsg, etc). Is the Loki network and Session better? Sure. Of course. But grandparents aren't using it yet because not everyone they know is on it yet like signal, just the tech knowledgeable, or many of their grandchildren.

But ultimately, None of this should require any effort whatsoever.

The rest of the points about concealing your name or not is more obviously a choice by the user, as they have to provide it knowingly - so it's less of an issue because they're more likely aware of their choice.

> Don't buy domain names
I'm not sure I understand this one - anyone have an explanation?
archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20220220161748/https://www.nytim...
That's a good point, and undoubtedly true for some. But I honestly believe that the discoverability of knowledge that Internet search enables is the most powerful and beneficial tool humanity has ever made. It certainly is for me personally.
It isn’t a coincidence that Tax Day (April 15) is about as far away from Election Day (November 6) as it’s possible to be!
Midwest houses are cheap because the Midwest economy isn’t that hot. You just can’t get a good job very easily in Toledo Ohio anymore.
'cogito' is a stumbling block in itself really.
IMO this would be more enjoyable if the shapes were more different morphologically, and fewer (ideally no) close pairs which differ only in the length of a segment by a single block.

After the first couple of wrong guesses (though I'm pretty sure one guess was correct - could be the bug https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30408567) I started to count segment lengths rather than relying on mental shape rotation.
Is there a consensus on whose software we should be using instead? I get that they're all bad, but which one is least bad?
The null hypothesis is that things aren't concious until there is evidence that they are.
You're asking for a refutation, and ordinarily that's a good thing to aim for, but in this case was the original claim clear enough to be refuted? I think we don't even have a good definition for consciousness and we certainly don't have agreement over what would constitute evidence for it from the view of an outside observer, and the original claim doesn't attempt to provide any evidence, and so doesn't even imply an epistemic position. How can one refute something which is so vague?
If I claim "no advanced automobile will ever develop the ability to run like a horse as an emergent phenomenon"

Does that mean that I regard running as outside the realm of scientific inquiry?
Well you shouldn’t. They are not the same. Brains are not (ML) neural networks. Neural networks are just a mathematical approximation of one part of how the mind works
I'm sitting here in rural Saskatchewan right now, absolutely loving life. We got this property dirt cheap ($1 for the lot, $300 in gas to move a free mobile home to the lot, ~$4000 to trench water and gas). Until last week, the only downside was the lack of decent Internet for being able to work from out here, but... thank you Starlink! Last week we went from tethering to a distance tower, to 250Mbit downlink measured this morning.
When was the last time someone in a televised “town hall” asked a candidate about simplifying tax filing? Honest question — I really can’t ever recall it.
What do you use as a custom DNS?
At the moment Unity has one size that fits no one though
The government here (Spain) knows the money I make just as any government knows about its citizens.

When I'm to do my taxes, I get an auto generated draft and the only thing I have to do is click the "Accept" button.

You only have to fill your taxes manually if you're self employed or have some sort of earnings other than your job, in which case, the company that does you accounting, does the taxes for you too in 15 min.
great idea but the UX is very poor, it's not intuitive at all
Scamming is BOOMING. We are talking entire developing countries getting onboard. The noise ratio is very high on all these services. There are hundreds of "alphabays" running RIGHT now with millions of people using them, right now. This isnt 2013, those big take-downs of high profile sites did nothing but diversify, fracture the community.

Sure, if u piss off the wrong agent and they spend a few years on the case you may get busted. But the vast majority?
Russian history has proven over and over again they will never likely be an open and forthcoming ally of the “west” for very long.

If you restrict 'The West' to being 'Europe Only' rather than the 'US plus Europe' as has been the case since 1945, you'll find that Russia has been an ally of countries in Europe more often than not.

Like the British, Russia has also tended to act as the Balance of Power over the years, working with France/Britain against Germany in WW1 and WW2, and with Britain and Prussia against the French during the Napoleonic Wars.

Hmm. I had never thought of the 'Balance of Power' bit before regarding the period since 1945, but that seems to be the case since then also, in balancing the current hegemon (the US) as it did before against previous hegemons, Germany and France.
Pipe§Net (2006)
Simple passwordless authentication for web projects
"...narp?"
Yep, that's it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Island
did a similar assessment when i was conscripted into the singapore armed forces - guessing it was a way to filter people into the air force pilot program.
These two children should have never been born. No one should be born with Tay-Sachs, a genetic disease.
Experts in AI.

The statement "Experts largely agree that current forms of AI are not conscious" connects to two pieces of expertise: expertise in consciousness and expertise in AI. It is plausible an expert in AI might have the background to state with confidence that AI is not "conscious" in any meaningful sense of the word.
> It doesn't even have to be your mistake

This is the crucial piece. It doesn't matter how careful you are; everyone who knows you has to be careful too. I have a... well, I hesitate to use the word stalker, because that makes them sound more motivated than they really are. But someone on that spectrum, anyway. After a few years of being harassed I managed to elude them. Then they found me again. You know how? They pieced together two pieces of information posted publicly by other people. That's all it took.
I found this interesting, played for a bit, but at no point did it feel like fun to me. Just felt like hard work and reminded me how bad I am at this task.

(I do really like other shape matching games, just not in 3d apparently)
First, Thank you for taking the time to review the video. As someone who is betting a startup/living on kubernetes I have more clarification/opinions:

1. Of course kubernetes was developed to get customers to GKE and for profit reasons. 99% of the open source developers are paid programmers. Hence there is an alternative cost to their time. I am not sure why this is wrong. At least they did not fork an open source project and offered it without credit to the original companies, like other cloud providers.

2. The way google develop open source products is community first / tech later. But this is stated. For example, kubeflow - it was started as a community project, got the requirements/community in place first, and than was redesigned I think 2-3 times. The one thing about google / GCP is that they are doing the initial R&D, but fail to follow - I.e. they expect the community to pick up. I assume that this can be attributed to the internal promotion cycle inside google (where engineers are expected to rotate), vs tech reason.

3. Of course kubernetes will be maintained by on perm companies (e.g. VMWARE/IBM). The predecessor to kubernetes was open stack, which was also developed by on perm hardware companies (e.g. CISCO / HP). You still need money to pay engineers.

Moreover, I think that you are missing the key attributes of kubernetes, which morphed from its original goals. Kubernetes is about 3 things:

1. Scalability - you can run it on you laptop or IOT device up to the cloud (e.g. k3s).

2) Distribution - Kubernetes as a platform is permission-less and widely spread. I.e. If you want to extend it or develop on it, you do not need anyone permission, and you can assume that it would exist on your customer cluster. It is my belief that AWS have about 5% of IT workload, and is hitting a wall (see the latest sessions on AWS conference, which is catering to more legacy companies).

3) Automatic operation - Kubernetes control loop allow machines to manage machines (both software and hardware). I.e the carrot of the cloud is offloading management of your infra. The stick is that you pay 20x more on your hardware. Kubernetes give you another way - which is encapsulate the IT knowledge in a automatic robots - called operators, and let those manage your application. The problem is that this feature is not widely known. (and it is my goal to change that).
I hate Intuit for the reasons mentioned here. I’ll need to choose business accounting software soon and QuickBooks seems have a grip on that market, what are the alternatives I should look at?
Yay, I'm learning :D

> trying to join the 10 teams together

oh no

(insert https://webcomicname.com/ here)

> rather than picking a solid foundation that they already owned and handpicking what needed.

Mmmm.

I wonder if a close alternative (notwithstanding lack of context to optimally calibrate ideas off of) might have involved leaving all the engineers alone to compare notes for 6-12 months with the singular top-down goal of "decide what components and teams do what best." That could be interesting... but it leans very heavily on preexisting competence, initiative and proactivity (not to mention conflict resolution >:D), and is probably a bit spherical-cow...

> The 500+ was an online marketplace. They had that many people because that was a condition imposed by investors.

*Constructs getaway vehicle in spare time* AAAAAaaaaaa

Sad engineering face :<

> I don't think it's impossible to notice, but it's hard... you can ask during interviews about numbers of employees, what each one does, ask for examples of what each team does on a daily basis.

Noted. Thanks.

> Honestly 100, 500, 1000 people for a company is not really a lot, but 100, 500, 1000 for a single project is definitely a red flag for me now, and anyone trying to pull the "but think of the scale!!!" card is a bullshit artist.

That makes a lot of sense, and also filed away.

Also, I recently read this which resonates quite strongly with the economy-of-efficiency scale problem (which I totally agree with): https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/01/26/swcbbs/, and the update, https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/01/27/scale/
>Those would be be the banks that cryptocurrency true believers think they are going to be replacing entirely, though, right?

I am not sure how to answer here, as I am not sure what people want at times. I think I have the same question as you. Banks, like some other financial entities, unsurprisingly are more complicated than the average enthusiast wants to admit.

>It needs an entirely new legal framework.

I can't disagree there. I think we ideally want a different legal framework with or without decentralized currencies. The incentives are not aligned however (in my opinion). The illicit activities are too good and too profitable.

> They will see that they are cryptocurrency funds and then permanently close my bank account.

If I may ask could you communicate to me (discreetly or here), which region has that approach? In the USA and (some of) EU to my knowledge and experience that is not the case. You tell them where the money is from and they are happy. I hope that is not an impolite of a question.
Even C#, a formerly Windows-only language, has Main(string[] args)
It's called graviton. Also from what I hear internally (at a subsidiary), price of service is mostly correlated to carbon footprint as power is a large factor in pricing. Yes there are profit percentages / etc but it's not a bad huristic.
> Here's a hint, if you want to refute an idea, refute the actual idea,

Science doesn't work that way - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
This is Business Insider, after all.
An Italian Hyperloop, even older than this paper. Here's an article about it from January 2005:

https://www.affaritaliani.it/economia/88314.html

Patented in 2003 according to the Economist (2011):

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2011/01/06/...

I guess I am the last one to learn about it; it even has its own site:

https://www.pipenet.info/sito_e/index_e.htm
Foe anyone interested, there was a port of Webkit/Blink where the web objects retained by javascript are garbage collected outside of V8, using blink GC to destroy those objects.

The way it works its through smart pointers, where for instance you say how the reference to that object is retained according to the object that it references.

The good side of this is that other programming languages besides Javascript can deal with blink objects the same way Javascript does (This feature was called 'oilpan').

It's this feature that makes possible for my project to have web-based applications in Swift, for instance, and would allow to plugin the Lua VM or Jit in the same way and still be able to be a first-class citizen of the webkit API as Javascript is.
Nothing is really meaningfully agile because "agile" isnt really a meaningful thing. It's something everyone projects their desires onto.

Fast feedback loops were never part of the core stated values.
Seems like the fact that its built in C# isn't really the main point. The main point it that it runs on asp.net infrastructure
(in an ironic demonstration of what I mean) I'm not sure I understand what you're saying - but is it that you can only call a process 'thinking' if it's producing some output that's not derivable from its input, nor hard-coded in the definition of the function, as it were?

Perhaps that's way off, I was just starting to think along those lines as I came to your comment, and it seemed it might fit, that we might be thinking along the same lines.
Wow, are we even experiencing the same world?

Democrats are in favour of giving the government lockdown power because of a flu with sub 1% mortality rate, promote cancel culture, promote racial discrimination ("positive discrimination") and limits freedom of speech ("hate speech").

20 years ago I was often debating against republicans who were against gay marriage and cannabis legalisation.

Oh, how the tables have turned.
Java was designed to support 80s style OOP. While many mainstream languages do the same, it isn't particularly modern. I haven't followed Java's evolution in the recent years but as I recall it is the last language to adopt anything new.
Why would I be mad at the guy who stabbed me? He is simply a collection of atoms following fatalistic processes. I'm furious at the knife and knife makers for not providing me with a stab-wound-free epidermis.
What about the new elementary school and sewer lines they are going to need to convert an industrial zone into residential property. It’s not like Japan where we feel comfortable sending our kindergarteners off to the train alone to go to a far off elementary school. Oh, ya, we don’t have a train anyways so it’s even more complicated.
>Is it because you might share the files with someone that they have to consider anything put on Google drive as being redistributed under copyright law, and thus subject to copyright restrictions?

That is a civil matter that falls upon the copyright holder, not Google.

Google is no more guilty than the makers of VCRs were when you recorded something without permission.