skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a problem with the notion of social obligations in general, in a society where there's actually a working mechanism by which these can be determined by consensus. But none of our existing societies are like that.

The elites are not monolithic, yes, and there's violence between them, too. But that violence is used to settle the question of who gets to exploit the rest of the population. Ditto wars.

Now, the elites did adopt the "mutual obligation" language (among others - "divine right", for example) to claim legitimacy. However, when one looks at the actual obligations involved, and especially at the history of them being fulfilled or ignored, and the consequences of ignoring them for either side, it's fairly obvious that the "contract" is very skewed and ultimately based on coercion.

The concept of a nation is different from the concept of a country, or a state. Nations are indeed relatively recent - unlike states. It's an artificial abstraction that allows the elites to channel popular discontent away from themselves and against "foreign enemies", which is why nationalism and populism go hand in hand so often. Whenever politicians start to talk about "national interests", it means that either someone is trying to rob them, or they're trying to rob their subjects.
This almost feels like some parallel of the Marxist claim that proper capitalist competition should asymptotically reduce margins per unit sold to zero but for creative industries.
It would be great if we could sort on each of the respective fields.

And some fields need to have a "<" or ">" factor -- for example, I don't want to see any results that have less than 100 drives in the fleet. At those small sample sizes, they're still just testing them and not really buying them for real work.
I liked the ad. (even though I dislike Facebook and Zuckerburg with at least a bit of passion)

I see a ton of comments about how it encourages people to escape the depressing real world.

How many of you play deeply immersive video games? I don't, but so many of my friends do. It depresses me sometimes, for the same reason that people find that video depressing. I really don't see the difference.

That's not to say immersive video games are bad, or even that taking a break from often-shitty reality is a bad thing. I just think perspective and balance is needed.

My biggest issue with the concept of Meta-verse (which to me is nothing different Second Life almost 20 years ago, albeit the tech has improved), is that it will be owned by a company that values engagement so much higher than the overall well-being of its users. If it was anyone but Facebook (and it's still freaking Facebook, despite their renaming of the company when they were in the middle of a publicity crisis), I'd be a lot more excited about it.

Still, whoever put this video together deserves some kudos. I thought it was very well done. I think the "wouldn't it be nice to die?" angle was undeserved and highly biased.
ProtonMail + Simplelogin/AnonAddy (alias service)
The vaccine mandate is only one of their complaints, the other is they want the government to resign so they can appoint another. THAT is why Trudeau won't talk to them and also why the emergency act was used.
Something along the lines of your last question is the key: can a product be liberating?

Super Bowl ads are overwhelmingly going to be brands or products, because of the economics - I agree with the that far on what the price restricts things to.

But if you believe a product is liberating, then you would have to disagree with the author, I think. Sticking with a famous Super Bowl example: was the Macintosh liberating? Were cell phones liberating? (If you take the AT&T commercial that Wikipedia tells me aired in 2003 at its face value, where Gilligan from Gilligan's Island uses a phone so they are all rescued... yes? ;) )
I would grant a commercial selling a lifestyle like scene with family or camping or adventure as … touching on a topic that could be called “liberating”.

I know they are selling me a car but that’s about as close as it gets for a commercial.

I also wonder what that phrase is supposed to mean.
I'm surprised at how everyone adopted it. It sounds like the mean jokes me and my friends who spent too much time online would make in high school. And even back then it was inappropriate. It's like 4chan culture became mainstream and everyone bought in because they didn't realize where that 'fun internet culture' came from
Ask HN: What search engines do you use to book hotels and find fun places?
I'm booking a trip in a major city. Want to minimize costs while balancing against a good location in that city near fun stuff.

What travel search sites do you like in your experiences?
Which in turn is a clone of Sketch.
I'm willing to bet any code thought up in a dream isn't as amazing as it seemed in dream life. Like when you have a nightmare, wake up terrified, and then realize in reality the dream wasn't all that scary. The emotional impact was part of the dreamscape, and just as disjointed and "whacky" as dreams tend to be. Some nights you can think nothing of a dream about the whole world being blown up, while another night you could be frightened out of your wits about a shadow creature that just appeared but didn't actually do anything. Same with "insight."

Keep a dream journal, where you write down your dreams as soon as you wake. You'll quickly notice how random they are, and how some things that seemed clever or amazing at the time weren't very.
"A sense of awareness." Does that work as a definition of consciousness? Also "sensible inwardly," and where we might get into trouble: "knowing."

Do you think AI has a sense of awareness?

I can't see one reason to ascribe a sense of awareness to any current form of AI, as world-changing and amazing as it is already. Even the I in AI tugs at me because I feel it might be a metaphor taken literally. As in, McDonalds is a hamburger empire but surely not a real empire. AI "knows" something in a way similar to how the dictionary "knows" the definition of a word. Beware of taking metaphors literally; there be dragons (but not real dragons)! AI has advanced beyond symbolic processing, it processes information in fantastic new ways, but it strictly speaking understands nothing. We take the processed information and we understand it (or don't). But maybe there's a case to be made that I'm being unfair, and it's actually justifiable to say that AI "thinks" without being conscious, aware, or sentient.

On panpsychists, if their heady intuition is somehow not deluded and a form of awareness or consciousness is a fundamental quality of matter or in some other way ubiquitous, maybe like "The Force" in Star Wars, that's clearly not the way that people would mean conscious here. An appropriate way to discuss AI in that context would be, "AI is slightly conscious just like everything else." And if consciousness were somehow a quality of all matter it still wouldn't mean that, say, a chair is conscious as a chair or a tokamak as a tokamak, or even a carrot as a carrot, but rather that the matter that makes up those things and everything else has some kind of awareness.
Although your account has posted some good comments, it's also posted enough bad ones that, combined with the trollish username (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...), I've banned it.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
ok that is VERY encouraging to hear!

thanks for letting me know about that

EDIT: found it: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/61231
> But if you were where Meta currently is, which is presiding over a hugely profitable but ungovernable, unwieldy, widely detested derangement engine ruled by a sociopathic algorithm and an overbearing cadre of psychotic power users, reviled and abandoned by younger users and in every sense but the most literal a haunted space station overrun by goblins and skunks, you too would want to live in the future.

Wins the Internet.

Story time:

I just deleted my "Featured Collection."
Facebook scraped my GitHub page for my face, and automatically attached it to my account (where I seldom go, so it's probably been there, for some time), as full public (everything else on my account is "friends-only").

So, they grabbed an image of me that I NEVER UPLOADED TO FACEBOOK, and then shared it as "full public," on my timeline.

I'm both impressed, and horrified.
The UK is losing thousands of pubs every year due to people not drinking as much as they used to. The pandemic made things worse, I hope things will get better though, I've missed my nights out drinking!
> Crypto is not private by design.

Bitcoin is not the only cryptocurrency:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zcash
Even so, as mentioned, the problem is that they detect the fraud and yank the site.
Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?
How many motivated students who regularly attend class out there actually get a poor education?

Sure, lots of students fail, but how many are specifically for poor instruction?
Simple judyrecords continuation search from command line. Requires sed, netcat, stunnel and flex.

setup:
flex -8iCrf 045.l;
cc -std=c89 -Wall -pedantic -pipe lex.yy.c -static -o yy045;
flex -8iCrf 046.l;
cc -std=c89 -Wall -pedantic -pipe lex.yy.c -static -o yy046;
stunnel 1.cfg
echo 127.39.100.156 www.judyrecords.com >> /etc/hosts;
usage:
1.sh query > results.htm
1.sh < results.htm >> results.htm

#!/bin/sh
# http/1.1 pipelining: only allowed 3 req then connection closes :(
x0=$(printf '\r\n');
x1=www.judyrecords.com;
x2=$(printf 'host: '${x1}'\r\n');
x4=$(printf 'connection: close\r\n\r\n');
case $# in :)
;;0) # get next page
x5=$(sed -n '1{s/.*x3 //;s/ .*//p;};
/Go to next page/{s/.*href=\"//;s/\".*//p;}');
x6=$(echo "${x5}"|sed -n \$p);
x5=$(echo "${x5}"|sed -n 1p);
test "${x5}" -a "${x6}"||exit 1;
sed "s/ *//" <<eof|nc -vv ${x1} 80|yy045;
GET ${x6} HTTP/1.1
${x2}
cookie: ${x5}
${x4}
eof
;;*) # get cookie (x3), then get 1st page
S=$(echo "$@"|yy046);
x3=$(sed "s/ *//" <<eof|nc -vv ${x1} 80|sed -n "s/.*session=/session=/;s/\;.*/${x0}/p";
GET /addSearchJob?search="$S" HTTP/1.1
${x2}
${x4}
eof
);echo "<!-- x3 ${x3} -->"|sed "s/${x0}//g";
echo "<base href=https://${x1} />";
sed "s/ *//" <<eof|nc -vv ${x1} 80|yy045
GET /getSearchResults/?page=1 HTTP/1.1
${x2}
cookie: ${x3}
${x4}
eof
esac;
exit

1.cfg:

debug=debug
pid=/tmp/1.pid
foreground=no
[ judyrecords ]
accept=127.39.100.156:80
client=yes
connect=54.39.100.156:443
options=NO_TICKET
options=NO_RENEGOTIATION
renegotiation=no
sni=
sslVersion=TLSv1.3

045.l:

/* chunked transfer decode */
/* do not use when carving out attachments, e.g., PDFs */
int fileno (FILE *);
xa "\15"|"\12"
xb "\15\12"
%option noyywrap nounput noinput
%%
^[A-Fa-f0-9]+{xa}
{xa}+[A-Fa-f0-9]+{xa}
{xb}[A-Fa-f0-9]+{xb}
%%
int main(){ yylex();exit(0);}

046.l:

/* URL encode */
int fileno(FILE *);
#define p(x,y) {putchar(37);putchar(x);putchar(y);}
%option nounput noinput noyywrap
%%
\x20 p(50,48); /* space */
\x21 p(50,49); /* exclamation mark */
\x22 p(50,50); /* double quote */
\x23 p(50,51); /* pound sign */
\x24 p(50,52); /* dollar sign */
\x25 p(50,53); /* percent sign */
\x26 p(50,54); /* ampersand */
\x27 p(50,55); /* single quote */
\x28 p(50,56); /* opening parenthesis */
\x29 p(50,57); /* closing parenthesis */
\x2A p(50,42); /* asterisk */
\x2B p(50,43); /* plus sign */
\x2C p(50,44); /* comma */

\x2F p(50,47); /* forward slash */

\x3A p(51,58); /* colon */
\x3B p(51,59); /* semi-colon */
\x3C p(51,60); /* less than */
\x3D p(51,61); /* equals sign */
\x3E p(51,62); /* greater than */
\x3F p(51,63); /* question mark */
\x40 p(52,64); /* cuneiform */

\x5B p(53,91); /* opening bracket */
\x5C p(53,92); /* backslash */
\x5D p(53,93); /* closing bracket */
\x5E p(53,94); /* caret */

\x60 p(53,96); /* backquote */

\x7B p(53,123); /* opening brace */
\x7C p(53,124); /* vertical bar */
\x7D p(53,125); /* closing brace */
\15
%%
int main(){ yylex();exit(0);}
I didn’t say meaningless, I said he didn’t communicate clearly. He can always add more tweets on the subject to remove ambiguity.

Suppose you walked past a billboard that just said “Jump.” That’s grammatically correct and would be meaningful with context, but sitting alone you simply have no idea what idea was supposed to be communicated. Perhaps you missed a different sign, perhaps it’s art or an in joke, but sitting alone it’s simply ambiguous.
I was gonna say cool for FP guys but alien to the Python world, but then i saw the f(..., x=1) syntax and decided you're a genius. Really nice idea.

In practice i worry about static checkers and IDE param hints though, how have you fared with these?

Not your fault at all, but mypy/pyright have very poor support for wrappers like this, and in IDEs it's common for their arg hints to devolve to a copout (args, kwargs) as well.
He reinvented himself in Silicon Valley. Some say he's running from his past
Apologies then just your reply seemed to indicate that you were agreeing with these screenings and the termination that follows them being eugenics.

My litmus test for eugenics requires an ideological and social engineering component.

Simply telling parents well if you bring a child to the world they’ll die within 2 years and suffer greatly isn’t that. Neither is offering them other tools such as using a sperm or egg donor or adoption.
Based on an article that was shared here a little while ago[1] I like to think that Minecraft is one of the metaverses that already exist.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29083271
Meh these "feel guilty" articles don't really convince me. We have nuclear power which solves basically all of this. I guess I'll keep streaming porn on my iphone 13 as the ship goes down although the guys in charge of the ship know what the solution is and how we can patch the hole. Embrace the absurdity.
It’s not in the linked article but there’s significant more information from the source:

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2022/02/a-walk-throug...
I worked through whatever the length of the queue was in 2017 over the course of a summer and a long driving commute :)
It's so sad that the choice is between a Giant Douche and A Turd Sandwich. Why can't someone make a good phone?!
Would you please stop using HN for ideological battle? We ban accounts that do that and you've been doing a lot of it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This one is also mostly owned.
The OP to which I declined to reply says: No one should be born with Tay-Sachs, a genetic disease.

I agreed with a reply to that suggesting such an extreme and unnuanced statement amounted to eugenics since the only means to actually ensure that no child will ever be born with X genetic disease would require rather extreme measures that go far beyond providing testing and options.
I used TaxAct for many years and had no real issues with it. A few years ago I started having a CPA do my taxes because my tax situation got a bit more complicated, and I didn't trust myself to even answer TaxAct's (or TurboTax's) questions correctly.

> The least sophisticated firm just said: send us everything in a zip file. That sounded appealing until they started following up with a million questions.

That's super weird. Every year I answer a 2-page questionnaire (about 30 yes/no questions), sign an engagement letter and some authorization docs, scan those, zip up all my tax documents, and send them over. My CPA rarely needs to ask any questions of me at all, and sends me my completed return for approval in early April. It's not cheap ($1700), but the peace of mind plus the lack of need for me to do much of anything, is very much worth it. I'm fairly certain I'm saving money overall, but even if my tax bill ended up being exactly the same were I to do it myself, I'd still pay to have it done for me, with a much higher expectation of correctness.
I'm aware of the Chomsky hierarchy. You can express more in a language with a grammar than one described by regular expressions.

What's weird in troff: macros aren't particularly easy. Also the necessity of mixing "semantic" macros (.PP or whatever for "here's a paragraph") with fine-grained typesetting directives. There's also some property of .troff that although the language is enough to write old school file viruses (here's something about a TeX virus: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/73506-che..., can't find the troff virus citation), I don't think anyone has ever been able to write a troff self-replicating program. It appears you can't write a macro that puts a '.' at the beginning of the line or something like that.

I'm also aware that Stevens typeset all of this books with troff. It's very capable and unlike some other word processing systems, you can keep troff files in version control systems meaningfully.
Archived: https://archive.ph/aT3Um
Cash tipping can also fall into this, and is hardly an obscure corner case.
Because the tax firms lobbied to bar the IRS from doing so. Other countries I've lived in make the common case this easy.
> Developers are expensive. If a new IDE shows up and they can deliver stuff 5% faster, that means you can have 5% less programmers! Of course the IDE has a price, but it is almost certainly cheaper than 5% of a developer.

Dev work is nebulous enough that very few companies seem willing to invest in dev tooling.

I've heard nothing but good things about JRebel for example and how it keeps people focused instead of sword fighting during long builds.

I am aware of one company that uses it, and they only allow it for senior devs.
Honest question – how do you know this? Have you actually traveled around a decent chunk of the wold and seen this for yourself?
> The vast majority of people in the world live shitty lives.

I'm not sure this is even close to true. How shitty your life is or is not is based on an individual's perception. You can have a person who should be happy - wealth, relationships, fame and are so miserable they nearly killing themselves daily with alcohol and other drugs. You can have a person, who by all abject means of judgement should be miserable, and has somehow found a way to be happy with their life.

> Metaverse doesn't seem so bad for some.

This is probably true, but the question is, will it really be all that different than real life anyway?
I'd be pretty okay with him being trapped in his own VR nightmare for eternity though.
That's a very broad brush you're painting with, and I disagree with it. A lot of bullying victims cope by withdrawing, avoiding social contact in unfamiliar situations and going to great lengths to avoid conflict.
>GNU/Linux, then?

You can install a terminal emulator like termux and install a GNU userspace bash, coreutils, etc.
Preferences are unfalsifiable.
I just saw it as use VR to reconnect with old friends who aren’t part of your day-to-day physical life any longer.

But it seems like that take is a lot less cynical than most other commenters on HN.
There is life after death. I confirm it.
Planting your own vegetable garden is authentically liberating. Going for a run is authentically liberating. Learning a language is authentically liberating. Reading a book is authentically liberating.

I can't really give you a definition of "authentically liberating" but I know it when I see it.
Even were this not the case—short of an arrest, there is no way for the federal government to “serve you” in a contactable manner—whereas my sense is that this is not the case in Estonia and a growing number of spam nations, ie the government can mandate that citizens be reachable digitally (e.g. portal login is sufficient). The IRS has no inexpensive and scalable way of proving that the person on my end of the Internet is the person with the SSN in the filling (login.gov is great but not pushed throughout all the service branches).
Nintendo already has developed their own emulators for various platforms. For example, the one for SNES is called Canoe, it was used for the SNES Classic (just a little ARM Linux box), and now on the Switch.
> 3. Pay and get paid in cryptocurrency. Have smart contracts send you the money (think Richard Heart’s Hex origin address, but actually anonymous).

My first question about this plan is "what are you getting paid for and how do you advertise your services"? You need to never meet the people paying you in person, and ideally you are selling some purely digital good. So, something like underground illegal programming or hacking or such? Is there anything else that would work?
The interesting thing about the ad is that it's aimed at people in their 40s and older who are nostalgic for their youth. My assumption is that no one over 40 has absolutely any interest in VR (sample size: my parents).
You can't (easily), the chip detects it (if you disconnect the old cells and then connect the new ones) and self-destructs itself. You need to do this without interrupting the power. https://hackaday.io/page/247-replacing-lenovo-laptop-lithium...
If there were, I'm sure they'd do something horribly mean like force the refund to come out of the developer's pockets, even though the reason the refund is necessary is 100% Google's fault.
I don't see how this follows at all.

The human is necessary to the argument. The argument, briefly is "a human with a Chinese dictionary and translation instructions doesn't 'know' Chinese, therefore a computer with a Chinese dictionary and translation instructions also doesn't 'know' Chinese."

It isn't an argument that no computer can be conscious, but an argument that a convincing simulation of consciousness is not sufficient to prove consciousness.
Give me a choice between the Wild West and the Walled Garden, and it's yeehaw pardner all the way.
Phone calling is part of the problem and does not solve the issue at hand.

The central issue is that video conferencing software assumes face to face meetings. However if you use video conf for demonstrating anything it all goes to hell due to choppy video and compression.

If you ever extend your software to have stop start system let me know. It will spread like wild fire on developing countries
I roll BJJ with a man formerly stationed there - when speaking of it he goes with the “obvious” American way where the “th” sounds like the “th” in “the” with the “ule” a bit like the German “öl” as pronounced by an American, rather than the suggested Swedish-style pronunciation suggestion by other HNers.

I’m not finding it off-hand, but if you’ve ever seen the Hellboy movie I believe it sounds as the professor pronounces the “Thule Occult Society.”

Perhaps I need to finally learn the IPA for this comment...
Ah, there's a second, earlier (and more charismatic, in my opinion) video.

The panther statue is at 2:45. I'm glad I didn't imagine this, I started to feel the Mandela effect.

https://youtu.be/PfdvAVkg1X0
I personally like the move to having the fun colors and plastics be your phone case, though that doesn't really work for the translucent plastic.
This might assume that only things that are measurable could be true.
Reading sequentially can be hard here, especially depending on throughput and how well you can or can't shard (e.g. how wide is the radius of possible side effects).

E.g. what if one event is something like "credit here, debit there" - you need to process it sequentially for both sides!
Super interesting. Can you share screenshots or video of how this all comes together?
After letting criminals and homeless take over, does she actually think anyone wants to return to the city?
If Facebook in its current incarnation is any indication, the metaverse retirement village is going to be like the Matrix except they're going to harvest old people rage instead of energy.
I never saw that tweet