skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The salmon have adapted to the fish ladders

That's a strange use of "adapted", there. The logic here seems to be:

"Sure, salmon and trout numbers have gone down -- but not all runs have been completely wiped out. Therefore, they have "adapted" and there's really nothing to worry about. All so-called scientists talking about a 98 percent reduction in return counts since 1880, and warning that some runs are on the verge of extinction due to the combined effects of habitat reduction and climate change -- they have no idea what they're talking about, really."
We used to print out a few dozen photos a year. Now my wife takes that many photos at lunch time- then backed up to 3 locations forever.
I can think of couple of reasons for it

- they get money for selling static/public IPv4 addresses right now and they wouldn't want this money going away when IPv6 arrives

- can't imagine how the world will look like with shitty insecure routers everywhere and everyone having a public IPv6 address, ISPs might provide NAT connections to protect non-tech people

If I'm not mistaken, one of the largest ISPs in my country has begun to roll out IPv6 but it was either broken the last time I checked or it had some form of NAT on it.
> Americans and the West have lost their appetites for war and imperialism.

Let's wait for at least 10-20 years without invading other countries before even start talking about end of imperialism.
I would love to have co-slept when ours was little but we were pretty anxious about accidentally hurting them. Maybe next time.
The 6th century Indian Buddhist logician Dignāga's ideas about evidence and deductive reasoning remind me a lot of the analytic philosophy of the early 20th century.
"Good" is very subjective. Google has investors, customers and users to keep happy. It's most likely not possible to please all parties maximally. It's only natural that they optimize for profits, investors, and customers. The non-paying customers fall further down the priority list every year.
I think the platform matters a lot less than the domain. Make sure that your blog and feed are on a domain that you control. Then you can always switch platforms later if you find that your current one isn't working for you. After that the most important thing is just to start writing.
Wow amal, what are you thinking here? That the fault lies with Europe? You might want to reassess what is happening. Look how refugees heading into Russia are being treated. And remember this is the doing of Russia not Europe.
In the case of Canada, the right to freedom of assembly is enshrined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It is the highest law of the land and supercedes all other laws and acts, even the Emergencies Act, which by law must conform to the charter.

That is why despite claims by the government and the police that these protests or occupations are unlawful, no one - not a single person has been charge with protesting illegally. The most the police could do was charge the leaders with mischief.

Instead of charging the protesters, the police have been rounding them up, driving around in circles, and then letting them go free. This is not because the police are being kind. It is because they don’t want to risk a court challenge of charter violations which would set a dangerous precedent that would risk the future credibility of the government and the police in similar situations.
> As for the remaining possible cases, they’re served about as well and more compatibly by older techniques.

Noteably none of the alternatives deal directly in HTTP resources. HTTP PUSH could have/should have allowed sending new http resources directly. HTTP could have become a way to allow a page to be reactive, as new content was streamed at it, and this would have been a near ideal fit architecturally, building on what the web is and what http is, to meet with modern apps which have incoming new data streamed to them all the time.

Instead we have this long list of un-HTTP non-resourceful hacks, to have a separate eventing system. Because HTTP2 built the tech then failed to let the page use it. Technology like RFC 8030 demonstrate what that better future look like & is widely used, just, as you say, not by the page directly. This is a fuck up, a huge missed opportunity. I disagree with your assessment that backwards compatibility means we should stick to the same ratty old non-resourceful options we've been stuck with: we should & ought to use better. That good tech was impossible to use directly by the page was a sin that prevented this technology from receiving adoption & attention.

It feels like everyone is fixated on the cache-digest problem, which indeed is hard, but it's just not relevant. There's so many other interesting & good architectural options that this tech opened up. Just, the web never empowered developers to use them.
No. I meant that C++ should have never been born. For high perf software C should be enough, while Go could work great for generic system binaries.

Today's low end machines are not a Pentium 2 or 3, but a Raspberry Pi B+ with 512 MB of RAM (very low end, a real life machine would be a Pentium 4 with SSE2 and 1GB of RAM or a Core Duo with 2). Enough for Go and statically linked binaries a la plan9/9front.
do you have to install and configure each language into emacs or org mode? or is just having them in your system path enough?

I'll get into this if I don't have to twiddle with each one individually but I know emacs enough to suspect that's how it'll be.
Then I'd ask that you read my comment and take it on board as personal feedback. Asking a rich question can be valuable for all of us, but what you said comes across as largely dismissive snark. Since you say you didn't intend it that way then I hope this feedback is useful for you.

As an example, I've tried to take my own advice and asked the rich question here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30409278
Almost everyone is making native mobile apps — two copies of the same thing, for Android and iOS — but for desktop, it's suddenly something infeasible? Why so? It has always been other way around in my mind — my phone is an auxiliary limited communication device that's awkward to type on. Yet for almost every IT company with a mainstream product, phones are first-class, and computers are an afterthought. How so?
Returning Values and Errors
"China clears space junk, but at what cost?!"
Apple 1 Original 1976 listed for $1,500,000
Heh. In the early 90s I studied journalism and graphic design at college, and interned at a small town newspaper in the summers. It was a great learning opportunity - I did everything from writing stories to selling ads to helping run the giant press, including plating, inking and manhandling the 800lb rolls of newsprint onto the machine.

Then I went into tech, specifically the web, and literally haven't seen a press in person or stepped into a newsroom since then. If I could, I would go back in time and transfer to UIUC in 1992 instead and go help Marc and Eric develop Mosaic, but what can you do?

Anyways, as someone who has done the dirty job (The ink! The ink! Everywhere!) of printing, I really have no illusions about the long lost art of book making going away. It's an inefficient, dirty, dangerous, wasteful business that is, honestly at this point, simply making more landfill.
mRNA for Covid was built on what was learned from trying to use mRNA for Cancer. I personally think mRNA is going to really help a lot of people in the future.

My kid passed away at 12 from Bone Cancer and my sister (not biologically related to my son) died from brain cancer qat 15. There is no treatment for Bone Cancer that actually makes survival any better in the past 35 years. This is a potential first treatment that might change the percentages for kids and adults. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.64261...

Kid Cancer cures requires a lot more time because kids' cells are always growing are much harder to come up with safe treatments. There was a 20+ year time when not one new chemotherapy was used to treat kids till St. Baldrick's funded research finally introduced something new for kids. If we get something that works on Adults it will take 10+ years to go to kids. If it works on kids then the research will help adults in a year or two. That the world focuses 90%+ on adult cancers is very frustrating.
>You could then get a "station" based on a single song

Apple Genius did something similar and it mostly worked not badly because it was drawing from songs in your collection already.

You're more likely to like songs in specific genres and time periods and songs that are popular generally. Once you get beyond that, it gets harder. And the situation is probably even harder with video unless you basically watch superhero films.
You can argue that consciousness has an important role in evolution. That creatures which are aware of their own existence have a greater chance of reproduction and survival. What if we create an AI and give it the goal of maximum reproduction, would it be more effective if it can 'think' about itself?
No, that doesn't work. See https://cs.stackexchange.com/q/602/86141 for an explanation of why it's impossible. If you tried your method with concrete numbers, you'd see that it would always say the delay is perfectly symmetric, even when it actually isn't.
I only see a tiny “code” link on iOS, rest of the page is blank (gray).
look at the pipelines for BioNTech and Moderna (both of which predate the diversion of their resources to Covid 2 years ago) and you'll find exactly what you worry is 100 years away, already being done. Not kidding.
There is no right answer. I started at a small company and have zigzagged between small and large companies my whole career. I prefer small companies. You’ll never know what’s best for you until you try it out.

It’s very different from a FAANG, though. You have much more responsibility, in my experience, and not everyone can make the transition successfully.
Yep. This is the problem. If I switch platforms, I have to start all over. If I stick with Google/iPhone, I just log into my account on the latest and greatest device, and voilà, all my stuff populates on the screen. Apps, conversations, albums, playlists, etc.

I don't think there is an obvious way to legislate against this short of banning this feature, which is probably worse than the status quo.
I started the slow process of de-googling my life a few years ago. Google is so bad these days, it's not that hard to replace all the google things. Except one – YouTube.

Gmail -> Fastmail

Browser -> Firefox / Safari

Phone -> iPhone

Google -> DDG

Google Calendar -> Fastmail calendar

Google maps -> Apple Maps

The list goes on and on.
That Fossil doesn't support rebase is a fiction, since it supports cherry-pick. All that's missing is a script around cherry-pick, which is all rebase is.
Fastmail also integrates really well with custom domains, much better than GMail ever did.

Overall, moving to Fastmail from GMail was one of the best things I've done in my online life.
> keyboard frequency on anonymized accounts can be de-anonymized

Whonix uses Kloak to mitigate this [1], but unfortunately it isn't available in Qubes-Whonix.

> Mixers and tumblers will eventually leak

Don't use mixers and tumblers, use Monero and/or Monero atomic swaps.

But, you are right that it is futile to maintain defense against a determined 3 letter agency.

[1]: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Keystroke_Deanonymization#Kloak
The study was not powerful enough to conclude any of this.
Meanwhile the X-37 is doing...whatever it is it does.
Thanks, here's how it looks on my device

https://i.imgur.com/ZlfwKQj.jpg
Scholars once feared that a search engine would destroy intelligent reasoning.
Caro's The Power Broker, a biography of Robert Moses, was pretty great as well, even if you don't have a particular interest in public works.
Pravda (Russian: Правда, IPA: [ˈpravdə], "Truth") is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, formerly the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda
It also serves as a convenient staging point for Operation Boxtop, the resupply of Eureka and Alert.

Alert in particular plays a very important role, and the intelligence it collects is vital.
It's true. Even your comment suggests Ukraine is not a sovereign nation, else you'd acknowledge they are free to join any alliance they wish.
In other words, "fear that the information might be interpreted in a way that doesn't fit our agenda."
Yes, but measuring one-way latency is impossible unless the endpoints already have synchronized clocks, so this isn't avoidable.
"I think consciousness is just emergent from complexity, so what I have to say is valid, but people who suspect that's not the full story, well that's pointless to debate, they should use my framework for discussion"

sheesh. weak.
Does anyone else feel their brain “heat up” when doing intensive thinking like this?
I remember seeing some Twitter thread about how this social media site was a Mastodon instance which was failing to comply with the license, did anything ever come of that?
>Today, the electricity utilized by data centers accounts for 0.3 percent of overall carbon emissions

So The Cloud, arguably the peak of human technology, uses contributes a tiny fraction of our total carbon emissions. Is curbing this technology in in any major way a productive way to reduce our emissions?

These emissions are all electricity usage converted to carbon emissions. Would it not be more productive to focus on transitioning all power generation to solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, etc?
The problem with any of these measures is that we do not know how severe the bugs are.

But you are certainly correct, average (or median) time does not tell us how many bugs were fixed.
Is there a chance it would be more efficient to run a relatively fast processor and race to idle instead?
Visual Basic 6.0 chiming in from the 90s.
So this article does not actually defend its claim, it just gets mad that some AI researcher expressed their opinion, makes an unsourced (albeit probably correct) claim that the criticized opinion is a minority position, and wishes really strongly that people would be less excited about this thing that they are not as excited about.

Meanwhile in academic philosophy, it's totally OK to conjecture that, say, subatomic particles are ‘slightly conscious’ and nobody tries to tell them that they are not allowed to have an opinion.

Here's a hint, if you want to refute an idea, refute the actual idea, don't just tell the person in so many words that they don't have the social status to say it. Yes this post wound me up a bit, how could you tell?
Interestingly there's a Web Assembly port of DeSmuME (https://github.com/44670/desmume-wasm), so it works (to a certain extent) entirely in a web browser. You can ban from the stores, but as long as browsers are allowed, it'll never be banned completely.

The greatest scam of Google and Apple is convincing millions of developers to learn Swift and Kotlin to make apps on their stores that can be swiftly (pun intended) removed from their stores. Though the average developer is unlikely to ever be banned, why even risk it?

Think about the performance hit of apps that don't need to be native apps being ported to Web Apps. Let's be extreme and say it's equivalent to a Native App for a device 10 years older. Alright, so a modern Web App is equivalent in performance to a 2012 Native App running on a flagship. That's iPhone 5 and Galaxy Note 2. Make this conversion once and optimize your app and you'll never need to worry about your app being pulled ever again. Not to mention you can write your app once and it'll work on all platforms.

At least in the case of this particular app it can be sideloaded, so it'll be fine in the end, probably.
The famous ones may, but it ends up taking into account "what do we want you to see/listen/look at" much more into account.
There's some kind of law of conservation of complexity. Often we don't solve it, we just move it around or repackage it.
It looks more and more like the western world is acknowledging Russia's prior aggression in the region, and their current aggression that sees them amassing upwards of 200k troops at Ukraine's border.

Suggestions otherwise are conspicuously in-step with Russian propaganda.
TIL about `git read-tree`. Thanks! I think it will prove very useful for me. That said, the easiest way to reorder commits is to `git rebase -i $some_base` and then reorder the `pick` lines in your $EDITOR into the order you want.

> In git, every commit is a snapshot and not a delta. (Repeat that three times.)

Yes, but every commit also is notionally a delta. That the delta is reconstructed as needed is not terribly important. It's best to accept a commit as both, a reference to a state of the world, and as a delta to the recorded parent(s).

Lastly, I avoid `git reset --hard`. I often have extant changes that I don't want to lose. Instead what I do is `git rebase -i --autostash`.
You should try xfce.
Are you saying that the app is named after Pravda, which is named after the Russian translation of “truth”?
Lineage compatibility would also be useful since it enables to use modern Android on post market phones.
Same way I feel when someone here tells me I should dither my PNGs or something to save the planet. Not eating a single steak would offset my entire life of using the internet.
As for the targeted therapies. This is precisely what started being trialed a few years ago. In people, not just in mice.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03072-8
I kind of doubt it was actually the first. It's definitely an interesting/cute thing to notice and write up but I think the weird longevity of this particular piece owes more to the pioneering clickbaity framing (x86 is not really an octal machine, it's not surprising that people 'hadn't noticed' because obviously they had, etc) than the observations themselves.
It is pointless to debate with someone that invokes ideas outside the realm of scientific inquiry... that is definitionally true isn't it?
As a technical leader, I view this in terms of costs. If most of my teams know how to write, build, and deploy in X, I prefer that language over Y. If X is tedious to write, debug, or someone has to become a ninja in building and deploying, perhaps X is less attractive.

And of course, we also must consider if the language is a good candidate for specific problem being solved.

We wrote mobile logic in C++, primarily so we could easily port it between iOS and a different Linux device.
> Today qt.io refused registering an account because they didn't like said domain.

Did their form say what wasn't liked about your domain? I'm curious because I remember a time, you may as well, when lots of account forms only accepted domains from known residential ISPs and would try to guess domains used by freemail providers.

These days, I'm curious why a group like QT would care.
Ask HN: How does TurboTax get away with dark patterns?
Intuit, the owner of TurboTax is one of the largest players in tax e-filing. How do they seem to employ so many dark patterns with little complaint from consumers? TurboTax employs user hostile UI patterns that attempt to get consent to release filing information to Intuit and 3rd parties, switch to more expensive plans, and open new Credit Karma accounts (another Intuit owned property). I don’t understand why consumers are not more frustrated.
> Money is a way to exchange work. Work is analogous to energy. Therefore, money is analogous to energy.

Money is a medium of exchange. You can use it to exchange anything. But that doesn't move energy; it exchanges the token for the object. You cannot move energy using money; you can only move it using a conduit that conforms to the laws of physics (and we have plenty of those).

It is not energy itself: you can mint as much of a medium of exchange as you want to satisfy the constraints of your economic system. That's why there is no capital limit on the number of dollars in circulation, and why there is no one "count" of how many dollars exist: the dollar is an abstract source of liquidity that facilitates exchange. Its value comes from its ability to provide that liquidity, and from the Men With Big Sticks who will hurt you if you threaten it (the thing we usually call "fiat").

These are basic economic facts, the kind you learn in an "econ 101" class. Bitcoin's profitability is no more of a threat to them than any profitability is: tokenization of energy spent is valued because we've chosen to value it, not because it intrinsically violates the laws of thermodynamics. Economic actors can make "value" decisions based on anything, including Bitcoin's artificial scarcity and proof-of-work. But again, this does not a perpetual energy machine make.

The "other way" you're looking for is called a high-voltage power line. We've been using them for quite some time, and they don't require us to tokenize energy (i.e., waste it) in exchange for future energy produced elsewhere.

Stepping back a bit: I re-read your comment, and I think "analogous" is where the misunderstanding comes from. Analogies are weak abstractions. In a weak sense, money is analogous to (potential) energy. But this isn't a useful sense when talking about actual energy, the kind that power plants produce. Unless you actually move that energy with the token (via power lines, or any other means), all the token represents is the energy's production. It can't represent anything else without violating the laws of thermodynamics.
> The current mindset in California is to cut down life style and eat bugs.

I live in CA, the valley specifically. I get why you have this image in your head, but I'm telling you it's not true. There are loads of normal people out here, with a select few very loud voices on certain topics. The problems those loud voices cause societally is likely more than their worth. This is true across the political ecosystem from what I've seen. It's not worth judging large groups of people by the loud and thorny voices among them.
> Any doofus and their cat can have an opinion on whether machines are conscious.

Please try a little bit to read the source before commenting. The originator of this opinion is Ilya Sutskever, co-founder at OpenAI and cited 269k times. He's one of the top people in the field. https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1491554478243258368

I take Ilya's tweet more like a musing, an invitation to think what if, rattling the box to get interesting reactions.

In my opinion he's not necessarily right or wrong. Today's large neural networks might be conscious if they didn't lack some special equipment - a body, senses and action organs, and a goal. They need to be able to do causal interventions in the environment, not just reply to simple text inputs. I think embodiment is not out of reach.

Look at Yann LeCun's strong reply:

> Nope. Not even for true for small values of "slightly conscious" and large values of "large neural nets". I think you would need a particular kind of macro-architecture that none of the current networks possess.

https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1492604977260412928

The neural nets need the 4Es of cognition: embodied, embedded, enacted and extended.

> The four E’s of 4E cognition initialize its central claim: cognition does not occur exclusively inside the head, but is variously embodied , embedded, enacted, or extended by way of extra cranial processes and structures... they constitute a form of dynamic coupling, where the brain body world interaction links the three parts into an autonomous, self regulating system.

(MJ Rowlands, The New Science of the Mind: From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology)
It's a bit more useful, but the breakage has to be seriously impacting my use of the system to roll my own kernel outside of the distro's packaging (the only one I've done is manually applying a fix to a Gentoo kernel and even then I just throw the patch on after the normal stuff).