skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that you bring up the egg. It reminds me of one day in my cell biology class in undergrad when we talked about why there are even eggs and sperm at all. I remember it only vaguely but I think maybe it was something about how small differences in motility and mitochondrial count between similarly shaped and sized cells would put selective pressure on them to differentiate. Maybe it's just a useless thing I don't really remember, but there's a part of my brain that wonders if it would yield some insight into what you're describing.
Hey that's a really good point. Thanks!
Hackaday has some similar DDC projects, which include interfacing with a microcontroller:

https://hackaday.com/2014/06/18/i2c-from-your-vga-port/

https://hackaday.com/tag/i2c/
There Is No Liberal World Order
The potential benefit is developing novel viruses. That's it. They will likely be infectious. Hopefully, ahem, your operating protocols prevent the release of that virus and you study it in model organisms to figure out metabolic pathways to fight it before such a real virus occurs naturally.
Not sure your analogy holds?

Building planes that fly didn't require us to understand how birds or insects fly.

Getting directions from Google Maps didn't require them to figure out how hamsters navigate a maze.

Now, if you want to build a computer that passes the Turing test, perhaps you need to understand how humans work. Maybe? But it's not clear that this knowledge is necessary to build something smart enough to drown the universe in paperclips.

The latter reminds me of Edsger Dijkstra's aphorism: "The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim."

(Now, it might turn out that we need to understand how humans tick and how genetics interact with the brain in order to build a successful paperclip optimizer. Probably not, but it might turn out that way.

I am just saying that this would be a surprising empirical fact to learn. Not something that we can just assume based on armchair reasoning from analogy.)

Now to get slightly off-topic:

> I hope to be proven wrong, but we haven't cured cancer or discovered the secret to fusion yet, so...

Oh, we can totally build fusion reactors right now!

First, a fusor is a bench-top nuclear fusion device. The main downside is that no one has figured out how to get more useful energy out of it then we put in. So probably not what you had in mind.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor

Second, we can build a nuclear fusion device that does generate useful energy:

You take a huge tank of water, some steam turbines, and a supply of fusion bombs.

You take one of the bombs, explode them in the water, and use the turbines to generate electricity. Repeat as needed.

It's a very simple system, and we had the means to make this work since the 1950s. Of course, it's also a completely ridiculous design that approximately no-one would want to use in practice. Especially when you already have more conventional nuclear fission reactors.

But something along very similar lines was seriously considered for spaceship propulsion. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
One possible reason why: customers might want to be able to upgrade their hardware/OS/whatever and retain their 5 9s.
Technically as of January 2021 hospitals in the US are supposed to have price transparency now. https://www.cms.gov/hospital-price-transparency

While it's a step in the right direction, most people don't know about it, the accuracy is questionable, what insurance will cover isn't clear, and what random additional fees will be added are unknown.
because many times people want to be able to run new drivers (e.g. with new hardware support) on an LTS kernel.

lots of vendors support this, and most do it by maintaining a version of their driver that can work with a wide range of kernel versions that detect and adapt to what APIs get added/renamed/removed.
The main point is selection at the level of individual sperm. Sperm are very cheap, but carrying an infant to term is very expensive. It is an absolute requirement to avoid carrying an infant with genetic disorders, to whatever extent possible. So the male creates a million sperm, and the female puts them through an obstacle course. A sperm with genetic defects probably won't even survive in the harsh environment, let alone win the race. So you're guaranteed that the winner of the Fallopian race is at least basically healthy, with basic functioning metabolic machinery and so on.
the job of the Fed is a proven impossible one. Their job is to nudge the entirety of the economy towards one or two of the Fixed Exchange Rate, Free Capital Flow, and Independent Monetary Policy at any given time, but never all three at once.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
I think at some point other limitations come into play that prevent it being an arms race. It would be quite funny, but unfeasible, for most of the male's physical development to go to their reproductive organs. At some point it would weigh you down, you wouldn't be able run fast and you'd get eaten...
For what it's worth I agree with you both: you, green new shoot on HN, and also the other commenters disagreeing with you. Because I think there are studies that shows psychedelics are safe you but they're safe within a certain context of analysis done in the study. I think you're right we don't know if there's any cause between taking psychedelics and cancers. Glioblastoma is a connective tissue cancer of the brain I think and I think it's not inconceivable to consider that psychedelics in that they induce a proliferation of new neurons and connections and so they could somehow effect an overgrowth of connective tissue (btw I know connective tissue is different to neuronal connections...heh :) but still it may be connected ;) in various ways). Whether it's conceivable or not doesn't really matter cuz there's plenty of things that occur in the body which aren't conceivable at some point in time. So I think the best we can say is they're probably safe but we don't really know...and that's just the way it is. Even so the risk albeit a personal thing is low for causing something as disastrous as that aggressive tumor and the fact that we don't know doesn't make it in any different to the infinite number of other possible causes of glioblastoma or whatever severe acute illness that we don't know are causes either. I think your point is valid and correct and people have maybe taking it in a way that may have abandoned the nuance with which it was delivered.

Also I was interested by your other comment suggesting I think that B6 could increase indogenous production of HT-something in the body... Did I get that right? Could you maybe point me to the direction of more of that type of information?
'AI people' is a fairly broad term, and the field is so hot these days that there are plenty of people trying all kinds of different approaches.

So there's plenty of scientists and engineers who are trying to understand how the brain works and how to combine that with eg deep learning.
All the more reason to get some oversight into the system. The CDC reported 24.5K homocides in 2020 [0], so one company's EDRs represented 6X this figure. I find it difficult to believe that each and every one of those 164K represented a true life/death scenario that would necessitate a breach of privacy by a government agent without any due process.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
The Nintendo switch input command seems to work absolutely fine.
I wouldn't mind paying a small amount every month for it honestly. If it just did chat and was really light and fast.
> I don't need to complement them, and I don't sink hard earned money into hedges I don't need.

> You enjoy your tulips, I'll enjoy my hilltops an friends.

If only all people who are not interested in crypto would be like this.

It does not have to be for everyone, but if it is so useless, I wonder, why it makes so many fiat enthusiasts so anxious to the point that they attack crypto enthusiasts.
I think that is just further proof that police are abusing this process.
So are humans not GI then? We are terrible at predicting the future, in general. "Frustration" is the feeling of things not going how you thought they would or should.
Firstly, as I hope was clear from what I wrote previously and you are responding to, I am not defending the stupidity of the reMarkable cloud service and keep the WiFi off in the same way that I do with my Kindle. To me, fewer features and a “simple” device is not a negative but a positive as I want a device that only does note taking. If you are happy with the Apple ecosystem – like plenty of my colleagues are – there is nothing inherently wrong with an iPad as an option. It is however arguably less hackable and less supportive of FLOSS, which to me were things I cared about when I got my reMarkable about three years ago.
I've always picked _where_ I want to live first, _then_ found the job around that.

Fresh out of college I still wanted to be an (actual) rock star so I moved to Los Angeles instead of SF. Instead of bussing tables when I was trying to "make it" though I had had a couple of nice tech gigs where I learned a lot.

I wanted to shift my focus to learning Chinese so I moved to Taiwan and found some remote startup tech roles. As a side effect, I've managed to escape the treadmill entirely (since a "good" salary in Taiwan is about $35k-$40k USD/year). My goal wasn't to _save_ money though, it was to learn Chinese.

Figure out exactly what you want first than go down that direction. Emphasis on what _you_ want, not what society wants. Maybe you want to spend more time with your family. Maybe you want to work with some cool esoteric programming language with a small team. Maybe you want to career shift entirely and pursue a career as an English speaking stand up comedian in Asia (OK, maybe that's just me ;-)).

The point is you're already set financially. Even if you lose ALL of your money tomorrow, you'll _always_ be able to earn in the top 10% of _any_ region by picking up random Wordpress website fixes at the bare minimum.
I've never seen a device that supported CEC where use of it wasn't toggled inside a menu. Both sides of the wire need to accept it.
People in Eastern Ukraine did not have to protect their money from Puting until very recently. Now people are taping cash to their bodies in order to evade the war zone without getting it stolen.
I have a Wacom tablet and pen (Intuos 4) and it always worked perfectly on Linux.

Sice I use 2 monitors, years ago confining the pointer to one monitor was a matter of 1 command in the command-line, but since some time KDE allows me to confine the pointer in the settings GUI, so even that inconvenience went away.
Mainframe itself (the "fridge") is a distributed system, as well as human brain is. It's all the management tooling that makes it appear as a single system.
During the construction of the machine, would there come a point where it gains a sense of self like yours? Or, would it gradually happen?
We know the limited range of conditions and requirements for how it started. We can replicate the chemistry of life - what I'm getting at is that we can rule out acts of God or magic. Successfully sparking the chemistry of life from scratch is still a profound and interesting endeavor, and might have value beyond things like the Drake equation and where to look for likely extraterrestrials.

I'm just saying the answer is sufficiently bounded that it's not very mysterious - there's not a lot of room for anything radically weird. We're not going to find out that the great spaghetti monster visits planets every hundred million years and deposits special life building nanobots. Panspermia, weird multiplanet exotic chemical exchange from massive impacts, etc are all possible contributors to the origin of life. Whatever the answer ends up being, modern science is 100% capable of replicating any chemical or physical occurrence that played a part.

It might require impractical scales of energy or mass - I personally suspect you need an ocean sized laboratory to achieve the variety of chemicals and sequences of processes to get the right mix of molecules that combine into replicators, and you need a lot of replicators before you get dynamic life that starts evolving. Complex amino acids have been found in asteroids and space debris, so maybe the spark was space junk?

It's a neat question but we're not looking for elan vital or anything fundamental anymore. We know what the mechanics of life are at a subatomic level, so the particular occurrence of life on earth is now a mystery similar to the interstellar origin story of matter in the solar system - we lack specifics but have a great general handle on how and why things are the way they are.
It feels so fast. Even in the browser. Modern OSes just feels so sluggish by comparison.
Ah, sorry, I probably wasn't clear enough: you can't just count direct dependencies (or install size) when considering something's importance, you also need to consider indirect dependencies (which I think jmillikin is underestimating). I'd also argue in many cases the GNU parts have only been partially replaced, if at all (mDNS name lookups for example).

My example of mDNS is deliberate: doing a name lookup of blah.local can either go though glibc's NSS (musl explicitly does not have NSS), or explicit calls to resolved (glibc only because systemd) or avahi (non-glibc only). Unless everything calls out to avahi, you've can't rely on blah.local working on non-glibc systems.

I used imagemagick as an example (which inspired that xkcd comic) of a project which is a common indirect dependency, and vim (compared with busybox vi) to show the effect depending on extensions (you could use neovim and vim instead, but busybox was suggested as a complete replacement of coreutils). I'm not suggesting either of these are systemd or glibc only.

As to why not systemd/linux: the set of systems where systemd runs is a strict subset of where the GNU software is used, and so you have GNU/Linux systems which are not systemd/linux systems (also, systemd is linux only as far as I know, where as glibc does run on non-linux systems (Debian's GNU/kfreebsd) so it does make sense to have that distinction, where as a system running systemd could be called a systemd system with no loss of generality).

EDIT: It's also worth considering another piece of data: the author is one of the Alpine linux maintainers, they presumably wrote the article for a reason (likely bugs reports either due to people being unable to install/run specific software, or behavioural differences from GNU tools).
> Very loosely paraphrasing their paper, general intelligence is the ability to adapt to novel situations and predict the future better than any other algorithm could do.

The 'better than any other algorithm' part seems to make this into a pretty weird definition?

By that standard only John von Neumann [0] was intelligent, because every other human wasn't as smart as him?

I suspect any reasonable definition of intelligence has to work on a 'good enough' basis, not on optimality.

The paper you linked is quite interesting, and I'll be reading it now. I suspect your summary was perhaps a bit too brisk, and their more careful longer definition survives this trivial objection?

[0] Replace von Neumann with your favourite genius.
You are ascribing a utility optimisation to evolution that doesn't happen. There is an arms race happening on the selection because those who successfully procreate proliferate, and it can be difficult to undo changes. It doesn't matter if it's wasted energy or complications to have egg level defense mechanisms, if this trait evolved once because for whatever reason that selectivness was increasing chances of passing down those genes, absent négative sélection pressure and a viable genetic pathway out it's gonna stay there.

If there's a evo geneticist around, one thing I'm wondering is whether some of these traits might have evolved as a heck from the male side. E.g., if I have mutations that increase selectivness of the females against everyone but me, passing those mutations would bias later generations to select for my gene line. I'm not sure whether this is feasible or likely, but it's an example of evolutionary benefit without any real benefit if possible
> would you argue that without violent enforcement nobody will stop at red lights?

No, I would not. What the hell are you even talking about violence?

If you could argue that you were "ill" "confused" "old", etc. and then they could not use repossession and eviction as an ultimate penalty for collecting taxes owed, then what do you think would happen?

EVERYONE would be very soon become "confused" and you would lose the ability to collect property tax.

To argue this is immoral is simply basically to argue that taxation itself is immoral.
"valuable" isn't enough - the rent and the person working there must be paid.
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Can you elaborate? It seems to me like the minimum set of features I want from package management
> It's up to Fedora to support Go 1.16 on its own.

It may be worthwhile for someone to maintain a list of Open Source projects with an EOL cycle that turned out to be too fast for a popular Linux distribution, along with notes about where to find (potentially valid) security patches. For example, before long, https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce will undoubtedly announce a security problem that's only fixed in 1.17.x and 1.18.x. If someone is already volunteering to maintain a tree of 1.16.15+backported-security-fixes, it might not be immediately obvious where to find that.
The Modos Paper Laptop
If you took the time to build this, then travelled back to the 1800's when people had standalone DVDs, and plugged this thing in expecting it to work, it would not kill my buzz: I'd find it quite entertaining to watch, really.
Roborock Drink Delivery is awesome
Video about the new Roborock robot vacuum feature: Drink delivery
Yes, it had that flavor to it, which prompted my response. Like minds as consciousness radios - we don't know how cognition works, but we know the brain is doing it. I'm arguing against mysticism, not curiosity or wonder at the awesomeness of the universe.
The Central Subway is 2.5km long tram line that SF has been building for 12 years now, at a cost of $1.6B.

Prague built 35km of tram lines in 14 years after 1893 and another 45km during the next 20 years. (Different era and tech, but still it was building tram lines through existing streets)
My understanding that this clustering is more to handle external factors. It allows mainframes to be placed in different buildings anywhere from the same campus to up to 200kms away ideally providing enough distance to deal with natural disasters.
That proposal is _really_ convincing as well.
Awesome answer, gold star for you!

This is the kind of post that I come to Hacker News for.
Could there somehow be a pattern deep within the chaos that biological life propagates?
Yes.
Here's the thing: It doesn't matter.
Let me back up a bit.
To start with, corporate defamation is ... complicated to begin with.
There is no liability for defaming a large class of people.

If i say "all people wearing blue are pedophiles", i can't be sued by anyone wearing blue because i defamed them :). This is because defamation is, at the core, about injury to reputation of individual people. It's really hard to meaningfully injure the reputation of individual people with general statements (it's not impossible mind you, but for the average joe it's pretty hard).

So first you have to be able to identify what is defamed, exactly.
Second, corporations have no reputations in any easily definable personal sense (and remember, defamation is about injury to reputation).

Why do I go into all of this? Because it's at the core of what standard you would have to meet to be liable for defaming a corporation.

Generally three ways to prove defamation of a overall:
Prove the person knew that the statement was false and defamatory, or
Prove the person acted with reckless disregard of the truth or falsity of the statement in making the statement, or
Prove the person acted negligently in failing to ascertain whether the statement was true or false before making it.

The first almost never happens.
The second almost never happens.
The third is what gets most people.

The third is also, it turns out, not available if the defamation was of a public figures.
In fact, for public figures, you have to prove one of the first two by clear and convincing evidence (which is higher than the usual burden of proof in a civil case, which is preponderance of the evidence).

So if ubiquiti, the corporate plaintiff, is held to be a public figure (or some other variant, like a limit purpose public figure, etc), as long as krebs was only negligent (an idiot) rather than malicious (deliberately ignoring the truth of falsity), it still wouldn't be defamation.

Ubiquiti is almost certain to be held to be some sort of public figure - they even sort of out themselves on this by pointing out they file 10-q's with the SEC and expect all their interactions to be with the public.
> Those servers will be like hobby email servers today.

Nobody relies on these for real communication. Maybe as a toy. But everyone would have a gmail as backup.

> Eg a real business. Like Gmail, Outlook

If it’s a for-profit business, that does change things. But please let me know of any business you know of like this that isn’t spying on you, isn’t selling your data, and is still reliable. I can’t think of any.

Actually to lower the bar, let me know of any mastodon server that is run like a legitimate business that a user could potentially sue for breaking contract.

> self moderation is a lot of work

Not in my experience. Simply don’t follow people that you don’t want to follow.

> People want always available servers not p2p

Always-available is not mutually exclusive with p2p. see: relay servers. I don’t need to rent my account from a relay server, they can just seed my data for me. Heck they don’t even need to be able to read my data to seed it for me.

> “Why… When you can be left alone” is probably the attitude of someone not meant for social media.

And not being able to see possibilities beyond the fediverse (a completely failed project from adoption and UX standpoints) is not an attitude meant for hacker news. Innovwtion should not stop just because some techy hacker people have made a solution. We shouldn’t be precious about these things just because we see the builders as one of our own or something.
Here's a definition from Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter:

Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence
https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3329
Good luck trying to get five 9s when you're limited to a single DC. Cross-DC SYSPLEXing (GDPS) got us to five 9s and beyond without breaking a sweat. Our systems can never go down, ever.

From VISA with love.
From an app dev perspective, sysplex is very similar to a single system image, especially when they are using the Db2 database.
In severe cases, they fall into the unable to secure benefits / care for themselves category. In the absence of consistent policy, they're at the mercy of individual psychiatrists who have sole discretion to place them in long term care, or turn them out on the street. In America, life is like a box of chocolates.
Snapchat is privacy. You can send a snap and it's deleted -- and importantly your mom can't find the pictures of you smoking weed.
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"Emergency" does not imply "life or death".