skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The funny thing is that we think of each human as a general intelligence, but really, the only interesting intelligence is humanity as a collective. An isolated human will never learn speech, reading, writing, or math. We are just neurons in a swarm that managed to figure out how to rapidly train new neurons as they are produced. On each generation, the swarm learns more about the universe and expands into it.

I think computer AI makes as much sense as all our books and tweets and talking producing an aggregate intelligence "one level" above us. If our consciousness is formed from countless neurons propagating signals, for all we know, all our propagating signals to each other will form a consciousness above us. One that can't communicate with us any more than we can with our neurons. One that can't read or write English any more than we can read neuron propagation signals. For all we know, maybe our society is already conscious the same way we are, it just thinks slower.
If definitely should in my opinion, though legislation seems to fall behind there because the tight grip on hardware has been there for decades now.

Although, I don't see any technical reason why Google wouldn't be able to put Chrome on Xbox and PlayStation. Nintendo is very browser averse (probably because every time they stick a browser in something it's full of holes and leads to jailbreaks).

Hopefully, the Steam Deck will open people's eyes at what could be. So far its sales don't seem to be dropping off.
It has got to fuck up your body too. You are either asleep or sitting at a desk. Maybe sitting in a commute too.
Anecdotally, I know some scientists who prefer Sci-Hub even when their institution has a subscription to the journal. The login procedures (and possibly VPN setups when working from home) are too much work when Sci-Hub is immediate.

I'm sure that publishers will try and fight back, just like with music copying.
I’m working in it

https://www.networksfromscratch.com/

It’s nowhere near done, but I’m steadily working on it.
Thanks for that link. The documents listed under June 9 and 10 present the positions of the two sides clearly and in detail.

I have no idea how the case will be resolved, though my personal sympathies are with the Internet Archive.
Yeah that's what I assumed too.
The "dismissive" tone is not because we believe that technology advancement is impossible.

It is because we have been hearing for over a decade about how crypto is going to deliver massive value "in the future".

There is only so much time people will be willing to listen to vague promises of future innovation before they take a look at the actual technology of today and realize that most if not all of it is of little value other than gambling.

My advice to anyone that actually wants to make real products or advancements in identity would be to avoid crypto. Build the product on top of a generic store layer. It will be obvious to anyone with software expertise that Blockchain could be interested in that storage layer of the product would benefit from it.
There are also open source tide and wave models, which is what researchers use and are fairly accurate. Not sure how much this commercial product differs, but I know the Navy etc. use the open source ones with in house adjustments.
If you get it from the author you've no more idea whether it's infringing copyright (in UK, it's more liberal with Fair Use under the USC) than if you get it from scihub.

If we're going to allow authors to do that then we could reduce the workload by uploading all the papers to central servers, like some sort of hub, and just letting people download them.

The real problem here is that scientific works are not artistic creations and shouldn't be covered by copyright. Also USA exporting ever longer copyright terms.

Limit what counts as an artistic work (or what counts asa derivative, extracting data is not artistically derivative).

Limit period of copyright to 20y like for patents.

Bosh.

Entirely my own personal opinions.
I have never done a 70h week. probably 50h the top. I think it would be impossible for me. I mean I could be physically in an office for that long… but that is not the same thing.
A little empathy goes a long way. Maybe there are more differences between Germany and Austria than meets the eye.

As for their grandparents, there is nothing easy about growing up in the epicenter of massive global conflict, particularly when you are on the losing side. I'm thankful I did not have to experience war like my grandparents did, and they were on the "winning" side.
> or a post like "How do I use x to do y....?" , many would start with "Why do you need to do x?" Or even worse "Why do you need to do y?"

Quite often this falls into the trap of the "XY Problem", where the initial premise starts off wrong. "How do I use this hammer to change the flat tyre on my car?" is best answered with "You should use a wheelbrace. Why do you want to use a hammer?" because it's important to find out how the person asking the question got to that place to begin with.
I've been using Safari privately almost exclusively for 15 years. Most everything works OK, but I keep Chrome around mainly because Unifi web management doesn't work in Safari (it might work now, it's been a while since I tested).
Tesla files to use a new radar and everyone is confused
Is there a human-readable version of this page?
I just found out this now and I'm upset. I've been a paying user for a long time and won't use attachments anymore. Might as well consider migrating to a different password manager to migrate my attachments. Thanks for letting me know.
> Why there isnt some "not sexy" statup that provides technology to build artificial lakes / water reservoirs?

The technology already exists. Bulldozer, excavator, concrete, explosives. Not not-sexy enough for you?

> Just patch them in random places to collect water,

Not sure what "patch" means here, but water is becoming increasingly regulated, and in a lot of places you can't just randomly build lakes and dam water even on property you own.

> plant some trees and it should help. Make it in a way that it just requires a small plot of land, so a group of people can acquire the plot, or even better - force the muncipiality to provide one.

Should help with what? I feel I'm missing the context you're replying to.
I'm no APL programmer however like you want to learn it one day. I'm thinking BQN or J would be my preferred choices as they are open source.

I have been listening to arraycast podcast since it started though which is keeping me interested.
Well for me, I have 30+ years of software engineering for billion dollar companies to look back on.

Pardon me if I don’t find your input valuable. I’ll check back with you in twenty years to see if you matter. ;)

I’m not sure what you mean by “sound cool” but you have a lot to learn. Julia’s types are not like templates or generics in other languages, they can basically fit into any method-shaped hole. So, at a call site, there’s no way for me to intuitively reason about the data at play, because some_method() can be literally anything. Combine that with a lack of interfaces, and it’s just mangled up code all over the place.

I’ve worked on codebases that stretch longer than my working career, I’ve worked on code where 100+ PhDs had left their mark in gnarly R/Matlab voodoo, I’ve worked on code that transacts hundreds of billions of tax dollars in a year, and much more.

Julia is a specialized tool for HPC, and the illusion that multiple dispatch without interfaces can be used to build reliable, understandable, engineerable systems will die as surely as the sun sets each night.

I’m not sure your background, and maybe HPC is your expertise or whatever. It seems like you need some better coworkers to learn from, or at least more variety in your intellectual diet.
I would think their customers would also be pissed that their contract service is now gone.
> what you going to do harvest your own (you're not allowed!).

It's absolutely legal to harvest rainwater in the UK for private use. Some councils even encourage it!

Source: https://www.anchorpumps.com/blog/rules-harvesting-rainwater/....
I think you're right.

When you hear about the problem the first time, they just tell you "and then the moderator opens a door with a goat behind it". So you assume that the moderator usually opens a door - where in your case just happens to be a goat behind. You don't know about the show, so you assume it could've been the car, but just wasn't. So, with this assumption, it doesn't matter whether you switch. And then they tell you that the moderator always shows you a goat, but the damage is already done, your mind has made the decision that it doesn't matter.
Or maybe businesses forbid attachments in the first place or maybe they haven't realized and are okay with what being now locked in the service.

Isn't the bitwarden client opensource enough or the implementation free that someone could come in and modify the export functionality or add the functionality to the API ?
Use Yattee, it blocks ads and improves your privacy.

I have a developer account and just resign their ipas to install it. Looks like you could install it via TestFlight as well.

https://github.com/yattee/yattee
> one of the parent rights robots was reading some petition to use DDT in the fields, because he was bit by a horsefly while watching a baseball game.

Inject them with a hefty tot of DDT and they'll never get bitten by a horsefly again.
Personally, even if my opinions have not shifted at all (which barely ever happens), I practice having to express them again so that I find more eloquent ways of doing so. Once they solidify enough, I might write an essay I could mention I wrote, but in most scenarios I wouldn’t refer someone to my own quotes out of respect.

I hold others to the same standard, so for the record I’m not reading links to your own comments.

Imagine people talking by a water cooler; yes I know roughly your view, and you know mine, but it doesn’t mean you should mandate me to hear quotes of yourself recorded at this same water cooler in the past instead of responding.
The only thing I need from Firefox on iOS is the ability to sync bookmarks and browser history, while providing some degree of sandboxing from the usual intrusions. What I DON’T need is multiple (versions of) sub-par browser engines, which this effort doesn’t seem to address: give me singletons of Gecko, Blink, and Webkit, each optimized for the platform in question.

Even then, from a technical perspective, I’m not so certain that there’s ANY benefit to the user; I’d rather see some headway made on wasm3 support than to let Brussels or London dictate architectural considerations.
I think the root cause of a lot of these data races is that Go has no way of marking variables/fields/pointers/etc. as immutable or constant. This makes it easy to lose track of shared mutable state.

It's not just data races--it's also logical races, which are near-impossible to detect or prevent without something like transactional memory.
I would be surprised that anyone can claim a copyright violation for an author sharing his paper with someone over private communication.
You can use 1Password or other password managers. At least 1password works like a charm on both mac and iPhone across browsers just as good as keychain.
To paraphrase Bill Wurtz.

Open. The journals. Stop. Having them be closed.
>70h per week, I really can't imagine a world where I could accept this.

I can think of several. The grandiose ones: your kid has cancer, the kind that might be fixable, but there is no treatment, and you have to design one. You have a viable theory for nuclear fusion or carbon sequestration and need to get funding for and then perform the experiment. There is a verified meteor/comet strike and there's some hope of saving people underground, but it needs to be built and stocked.

In reality, you don't need grandiosity. This life is 'acceptable' to a lot of people, especially small business owners, the store owner/operator, or car mechanic, who effectively lives at their store. For others there is "paying your dues", doctors doing a residency, grad students doing slave labor on something only tangentially related to their degree. For others, like farmers, they work like this for some part of the year, every year.
After great pressure, Apple gives in to ACM requirements in App Store case
> or even that banner offering a website visitor to use the native app.

This is something that works just fine for me over on Android, in Firefox mobile. Actually, i assume that the mobile browsers would offer all of these capabilities, assuming apple allows access to, and documents their apis appropriately.

Why is it that we somehow defend apple having proprietary/exclusive Apis that nobody else has as good? It's essentially the same game as it was with internet explorer.

I think if apple just opened up their eco system the other browsers would support these features before long, or app developers would include them in their apps instead of relying on browsers.

It's not like apple is the only one with capable engineers, they just stop everyone else from using their stuff to the fullest
Perhaps attachments isn't an enterprise priority over things like SSO support and other features that have seen changes and additions?
While the facts presented in a scientific paper may not be copyrighted, the actual form and content of the paper clearly is, both common-sense and legally. Papers contain prose, artistic representations (figures), potentially photographs, and other stylistic elements that are clearly copyrightable.

Whether works funded by government dollars should be copyrightable is of course a different question.
Ah, the never-ending quest to define platform features as anti-competitive in order to make Apple worse.
Yeah, I cannot imagine dealing with mail in a browser full time. The UX and speed are HORRIBLE vs. a native client.
Hi, author here.

I'm surprised (and delighted) to see this back on Hacker News. I'm happy that people find value in the article, and the process writing it forced me to put my thoughts together and helped get me through an emotionally difficult time.

To address a few questions from the comments.

1) A common opinion is that I gave up too quickly, that I was just burned out, or taking the money would have let me figure things out later. This was simply not the case. An experienced mountaineer knows if a mountain is climbable with the team, gear, and weather he has. This one was not.

2) I would have been 100% fine with the team and investors going ahead without me, but AFAIK, neither side ever discussed it.

3) We were absolutely not viewing contract information, and would not have been able to do so even if we wanted to. We anonymously logged when functions were called without storing user or input data of any kind.

4) Six years later, I'm doing well. The Disrupting Japan podcast is going strong. I took a senior role in corporate VC for a while, and ended up at Google.

I was overwhelmed by the attention and positive response I got from this article. The asymmetry of value of money and time was one of my main learnings, and I'm glad to see it resonates with so many other founders.
> But back to the topic, while there is a (fortunately getting less and less relevant) branch of Java which is very into needless abstractions, the language is a very small and easy to pickup one, allowing very readable and concise programs.

How often do you actually just use the core language without one of the frameworks, though? I guess it largely depends on what you do. For example, if you use Java for web app development, one of the more popular frameworks out there is Spring or maybe Spring Boot, which will force you to deal with a large amount of abstractions.

So while the languages themselves might not be that dissimilar, the ecosystems and frameworks/libraries around them, which actually shape how you'll use them most of the time (depending on the context), will most certainly lead to the differences being more pronounced.
Stem Cell Therapy has a fairly obvious use case though. Ten years in, the most popular use cases for crypto appear to be speculation, financial crime and money laundering.
Europe's Top Prosecutor Brings in More Money Than She Spends
Not being a native speaker sure feels like a major disadvantage. Attempting to articulate your thoughts in a foreign language takes substantially more effort, which could have been spent doing actual work instead.

Picture trying to do some fine work while wearing thick gloves. You are not going to perform at your maximum capacity.
You could use your browser's Reader Mode. Firefox and Safari users already have it, and Chrome users can enable Reader Mode in chrome://flags (and then restart the browser for the new feature to be available)
The problem is scale. If society only had 400 people, the 390 people that were not scammers could remove the 10 people who are scammers from their economic system manually.

If you create a online store, one million strangers could connect to it. You need a way to understand who is a scammer in that situation.
Ah, that explains it. Link flagged.
> Yeah I trust them

Has the trust been stress tested yet?
And I dislike the trope of working being orthogonal to quality of life. Sitting in front of the computer working on my own thing is the ultimate enjoyment. That's what's giving me a quality life.
When I didn’t have disposable income, I don’t remember worrying about the performance of things I couldn’t afford.
I had this problem a few months ago, but because Sci-Hub doesn't have supporting information currently. Yes, I understand normally that is free anyways on journals but for whatever reason this journal (owned by Elsevier ofc) did not have its SI available without a subscription and my institution did not have access to this journal. So no, just use sci-hub is not a valid alternative as it stands today and because of its legal jeopardy means we probably shouldn't become reliant on it.
Naver is just syndicating the article from Maeil Shinmun. They do this a lot, and split the revenue with the original publisher.
> I passed Con Law in law school, and it is.

Maybe after I take that course I’ll agree with you. I don’t think that’s a great option for most.
> This is the main reason that I'm glad he pulled the plug:
>> and the team ready to quit their day jobs

Me too. I'm happy to report we all ended up on good terms with each other once all the drama settled down.
There is a certain company that may or may not be bought by $43 billion, depending on its ability to determine how many of its users are actual humans.
Tara AI Is Hiring for a growth lead to handle inbound and SEO
Official GitHub Actions Toolkit is abandoned
"Qwontatative Easing" - hyper-inflate a crypto currency by algorithmic printing.
I feel like I'm going to be fighting the fight to dispel this idiotic headline for the rest of my life. You posted a link to subscriber-only content that isn't currently searchable on archive.is, but I'm going to guess it's the thing about inter-LOA transfers not being fully auditable within GFEBS.

I was in the 1st CAV Comptroller's office as a budget officer when this headline first started circulating. It was during the initial GFEBS onboarding, and the push to produce GAAP-compliant auditable financial statements was coming out for the first time in the DoD. You have to understand what that entails. Historically, before GFEBS existed, all purchases and funds transfers were recorded in one of many distinct information systems that were independently procured and not interoperable. Many of those were just "receipts in a filing cabinet somewhere."

The effort to get records from all of these disparate legacy systems into GFEBS, which is the government's custom version of an SAP ERP procured from Oracle, involved manual export of records into a human readable form, then that human typing them into GFEBS. For paper records, it involved digging into filing cabinets and doing the same thing, manually transcribing records into GFEBS. We were asked to do all of this in the same year the sequester happened, which involved having the entire civilian budget office staff furloughed. That meant soldiers had to do it. Except those soldiers also had to do stuff like train to be soldiers and deploy to Afghanistan.

So yeah, we didn't meet the deadline. I'm very sorry that the three-person staff I had couldn't find and transcribe every record from a universe of legacy systems that largely may not even be accessible without special hardware, plus filing cabinets in the attic of the division headquarters, while also being asked to do their normal job, too.

It's not that the records don't exist. It's not that no one actually knows where that money went. It's that transcribing into the current system of record involves probably millions of labor hours that Congress doesn't want to fund, but wants us to do anyway. Rumsfeld isn't wrong here. It's inefficient and stupid and shameful that we have this universe of legacy record-keeping systems that don't use any kind of standard format and don't interoperate with each other digitally. But fixing that involves more than just paying Oracle a bunch of money to produce one ERP to rule them all. The existing records still need to be transcribed, and there is no way to get around the human labor that requires.

But it's quite a far cry from "receipts and approval records for transactions only exist in a complex web of outdated information systems that don't interoperate and require manual human labor to transcribe between" to saying $X trillion "disappeared." The money wasn't lost.
I actually think the Java ecosystem is part of why people dislike it. Java seems to attract a lot of extremely heavyweight frameworks (like Spring) that are too complex to fully understand and too heavyweight to make sense for most projects.
> It's almost like crypto has become a living thought experiment in how many times people can be scammed and keep on believing.

When cultists put their all-consuming faith in a prophecy, experience shows that the failure of that prophecy tends to make their faith more ardent.
THIS. And it's regulated (though often under-regulated) for damn good reasons. Properly designing even a "little" dam is far more difficult that most people appreciate. And both construction and upkeep (which is necessary, forever) are really expensive. Maybe start reading here: https://practical.engineering/blog/2021/10/14/what-really-ha...
To get press and earn legitimacy, make a hacking challenge: put up pcaps and a $1 million prize if anyone can break it.
As a sufferer of very severe migraines, a little caffeine is daily requirement but too much is dangerous.

I vacilate between “you’ll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands” and “but I don’t take much.” (150 mg is starting to be too much in a day.)
>My team and most of my investors are pissed,

I know it is childish, but I always enjoy this difference between US and British English.

In British English when someone is annoyed they may be described as 'pissed off'. Describing someone as being 'pissed' means they are drunk! These US articles paint such vivid surrealism in my mind. In this case I love the idea of all of the investors being permanently inebriated.

There is a lovely part of the 'special relationship' where the US doesnt care what the UK thinks of them, and therefore the UK has great fun at their expense. I suppose that is a win win situation? The US projects an image of being the leader of so many things, and the rest of the world jokes about how arrogant this is.
Regarding YouTube ads on iPad: App called ‘Vinegar - Tube Cleaner’. Incredible. Best few bucks I’ve ever spent. It replaces the native YouTube player with the standard iOS video player which means you can also do system-wide picture-in-picture from the YouTube website. And I’ve not seen a YouTube ad in videos since I installed the extension.
MIT has some of the smartest tech people in the world. I wonder if some of smartest malware comes out of MIT somehow?