skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would recommend to buy cheaper TVs and use a separate device to make them smart, there are plenty of options, you can go with the mainstream ones Google, Apple, Amazon, etc, a cheap one from Ali express or a DIY (linux set top with kodi or similar).
Ok, thank you for the clarification.

I see your point, although "as good as Google" qualifies as "enterprise-level" in my book.
> Nobody should write programs like that.

Ok is this any better?

https://ni.scene7.com/is/image/ni/597f9f24966?scl=1

Still looks awful, and that's from the official documentation.

> LabVIEW has several features over text-base languages as well.

Really? Like what?
if you are a gamer, you don't use a laptop. Gaming laptops are great portable desktops effectively. They have little autonomous time gaming or heavy compilations. So they have to be plugged in - they still are not great as a desktop gaming station, though.

I personally use a 'gaming' laptop as the default work computer (it's over 3.7kg w/o the charger which is another 600g)
There's a story on the front page of HN right now [0] about a cryptocurrency that decided to enact some form of emergency powers to save itself and is now claiming to reverse said vote. This exact situation can and does happen with crypto.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31806191
The Himitsu keyring and password manager for Unix
Pot: Python Optimal Transport
If you don't have lots of math to type, I don't think TeX is all that great?

In any case, almost no one apart from Knuth uses TeX anyway. At least not directly. Almost everyone uses some kind of macropackage like LaTeX.

For most people, markdown would probably be the saner input format than anything TeX derived?

(And I use and like LaTeX.)

> Incidentally, git supports non-wysiwyg typesetting just fine.

If you add custom diff and merge handlers, git should be able to support wysiwyg, too.

There's also LyX, which is sort-of like wysiwyg, but produces LaTeX output. Git would handle the produced LaTeX just fine, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyX
We can play semantics all day, but both companies sell insights and slices of data to ad customers, while acting benevolent and community-focused to their users. The valuable hordes of data you mention have been collected without users actually understanding what or why this is happening.

If you only care about getting a good pay from such a job, fine. But that just makes you immoral in my book.
Not true at all at things that need practice and that are recurrent.

From sports, to many other activities that have repetition, people know what they are generally trying to do. That doesn't mean that there is not a large degree of randomness, and some improvisation. Eg:

1. A penalty kicker knows what he/she is trying to do. Power over placement, what corner they want to shoot it, etc. They have practiced many times.
Same with the goalie. The goalie will try to guess, left, right, center, etc...

They have practiced this many time as well. Both parties know what they are doing (at a professional level), yet there is always a degree of randomness, and improvisation.

2. A cop knows that in some corner it is much easier to catch people that are speeding, and they can give tickets easy.

3. A dentist has seen a root canal many times, and it is easy for him/her to just fill another one. All teeth are different, yet they are similar at the same time. Practice makes perfect. First time doing a root cannal, or an extraction must be tough/nerve racking. 10th time, a bit easier. 100th time, just another routine day.

Anyways... but these type of articles are really good feel good articles.
And ironically this is becoming more common in those countries who pride themselves of eradicating Naziism in WW2.
Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right
But the argument shows it's absurd to think the room is conscious. What if the person in the room takes a coffee break or goes on vacation? What connects the next computational step they do to the previous one and the next... which then somehow gives rise to a fragment of qualia. That seems like an impossibly complex and unlikely scientific theory.
Blast from the past! I used PerfectTablePlan for our wedding, tweaked by the far superior ‘do what your better half tells you’ algorithm. We used the same approach later when naming our first child, I built a complicated machine learning system to learn what names and sounds we liked, then we settled on my wife’s first choice.

The thing I’ve learned in life (and especially in sports analytics where variance can dominate) is that “knowing what you’re doing” isn’t any number of instances where you got something right first time. It’s having a process (or even a process-creating-process!) that you’re willing to stand by even when individual results don’t work out. The question isn’t “would you do it all again, knowing what you know now?” it’s “would you learn the same way in the future?” I think being open about this with kids is pretty helpful.
Yes, this.

If you check out forums like blind - you will find pretty much FRESH GRADUATES considering turning down $250k offers, because they're sure they can get closer to $300k, if they just grind a bit more leetcode and get more competing offers.

We're talking about people with practically 0-1 years of experience. Sure, they probably have degrees from prestigious schools, and lots of potential - but so are the devs. you'll find in other places.

For that kind of money, you can get the cream of the crop in Europe - and someone with probably close to a decade of relevant high impact / high performance experience.
I wasn't aware that hedge funds operating on top of it were a big thing (i.e. leveraged risks). You'd think the volatility of these things are bad enough even if you are merely doing traditional investment funds (i.e. just investing people's money - not investing peoples money leveraged by further lending).
> growing competition to SpaceX

Umm no. Just no. Ignore media hype and look at the numbers - SpaceX is arguably closer to monopoly in all areas of its business than ever before.
The issue is how humans confuse "consciousness" with the ability to mimic what human output that modern people associate with consciousness.

I'd argue that what we refer to as "consciousness" is the ability to form certain kind of mental abstractions, particularly those involving ourselves. Take away language from a person (imagine someone who grew up in the wild, or someone like Helen Keller who didn't have language available until she was older), and these abstractions still exist. Language might be a way we express these abstractions, but they aren't the abstractions themselves.

LaMDA doesn't have these abstractions underneath; once you take away language, it's nothing.

To think of it another way - I can write a simple program for a cheap robot to navigate around a simple race track (with a simple enough path, I can even create an analog one out of mousetraps - see mousetrap cars). Companies can also create a very complex self driving car that can navigate anywhere on its own. These two things might look like they act the same if they're both places on the path that the robot has been trained for. In fact, a hard programmed robot might act _better_ than an AI car on specific paths. But only one of them is a "self-driving car," since only one of them will be able to go anywhere when it's taken off that path.
> Google settled the case out of court, and we all know what that means.

I don't, does it mean he had to pay Google a bunch of money?
That's a defeatist attitude. Use Signal and you're protected from sub-Pegasus attacks.
Those are outstanding examples, and should put to paid any assertions that Markdown cannot be used for serious work.

I'm seeing you'd submitted an eight-part series, "Typesetting Markdown", first part here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20003913

That got no traction on HN, but I'd love to see that included as a 2nd-chance pool or submitted feature.
Russian atrocities in Ukraine are horrific, but they are certainly not even close to the cold extermination machine and bureaucracy employed by nazis against Jews, Poles, Homosexuals, etc.
This looks cool, but I'm not familiar with the concept of a "tour" for a project. Can you point me to an example?

I'm currently trying to promote my open source project Mwmbl (in particular the crawler extension https://github.com/mwmbl/crawler-extension). I'm wondering what a tour would look like for it.
You can't argue with a zombie (1995)
Ehh I have written about my history before (washing plates/factory work to SWE)

I tried and it took years but I made it, that's my point, wasn't faith... didn't just happen, I guided it
Yes, Google Docs is probably better for most ordinary users.

It's not nearly as good at merging complicated histories as git, and doesn't help you keep commits atomic when working with multiple files. But that's seldom much of an issue with human language texts.

Google Docs' suggestion feature is probably better than reviewing pull-requests for normal people. Its ability to let multiple people edit the document at the same time can be really great (but would be crazy to do when editing source code).
Great to see recognition for this on HN! My mother set up a group buy here in the neighborhood to place four of these Stolpersteine, and arranged everything needed to make it happen.
Solena as in Solana or Solend? Sorry for nitpicking but the word "Solena" could be a mistype of both "Solana" and "Solend".
You can also get it to agree that it is not conscious. I can write a one line program that claims to be conscious right now. Lamda and GTP-3 are amazing achievements, but they're still just chat bots that look good when they're being lobbed softball questions. If you ask something that maps to the input texts they're trained on you get credible looking responses, but critical or adversarial questioning very easily exposes how shallow these things are.
Here in Liesing, Austria, I walked past a stolperstein this morning, which sits at the entrance to a local Billa (supermarket), which is a new construction on a site where I suppose the victim of Nazi aggression lived before being taken to a concentration camp to perish.

Although I see these stones all over Vienna, and find myself in contemplation every single time I see them elsewhere around Europe, it is even more jarring to see them in a seemingly random outer suburb/town of the region at the footstep of a local grocery store, and is a severely jarring reminder of the atrocities that occurred in this land, not so long ago.

I wish Australia, my native land, would have the courage to do something similar to highlight the atrocities we committed there, on the original peoples. Alas, Australian war hubris is too heavy to pierce that veil ..
Just wait until it's back up. Your mails should come in since all SMTP servers have retry settings.
Sounds like you're looking for a secretary rather than a manager
Yes. See also what I quoted from another book by Scott in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31807695
Writing for distributed teams (2021)
Then you must agree that a substantial portion of Americans are not "free" in this sense. So, how is it a "free" society again?
Yes, that's what I meant by "scalable". You can't just continue picking low hanging fruit forever.

Btw even the Sweden example uses nuclear for decarbonization of the grid ...
Law does not follow physics, it's a purely human invention. But I'm not sure how that's relevant to the discussion?
> [Consciousness] is a construct we share and use to separate ourselves from the animals so that we can kill them and eat them as a group.

Humans have been killing other humans for hundreds of thousands of years without having to deny that their victims are conscious. In some cases even stressing this aspect (there have been numerous cultures that believed in various forms of 'capturing souls' of their slain, or eaten, enemies).
there was another study about obesity in sweden that could be traced to a famine in a certain village several generations earlier.
Having my daily driver run NixOS is my ultimate goal.
Same here: I've definitely had dreams where I was thinking "oh this is a dream". But when I woke up, I wasn't sure if that was just an "inside the dream" thought.
They are everywhere in Amsterdam. Here's a map on the non-profit website that takes care of them: https://stichting-stolpersteine.nl/where-are-stolpersteine/?...
Even on desktops and servers, Linux has a lot to thank the likes of IBM and co to graduate from an hobby project.

There they had a business case, reduce UNIX development costs, on mobile there is no benefit as such over what Android already offers.
Great Work! Just browsed through it and it looks quite promising.

I highly encourage you to submit it to HN as a "Show HN: ..." (instead of being buried in a comment) and solicit feedback. Projects like this deserve more and better recognition.
I think the burden is on the proponents. Otherwise anyone could make any assertion - for example, that action potentials cause consciousness, or that influx of ions cause consciousness, or that vibrations cause consciousness, or that only humans are conscious. Like "computation is consciousness" those are just all just, perhaps, correlates of consciousness, not mechanisms for producing it.
Exactly! Why so many ML tools don't provide a static single-binary CLI?
"That", is embarrassingly simple.
You confuse flexible working hours with a demand to work more than 40 hours a week (including nights and weekends).

If you (like to) work overtime on the weekend or week nights, I hope you are compensated well.

Just take into account that there’s a cap on what you can do and no amount of money will make up for that.
Australia being hung on the balance of 49/51 I'd say about half the voters would agree with you, but a hell of a lot wouldn't.
Are you on the sdf team?

I pay for sdfeu full member access every month and would never expect such a thing.
The map is missing some even though they are listed on Wikipedia...
It’s the most delicious ice cream flavor. Pistachios in general, along with cashews, are god tier nuts
So their proposal is to leverage large language models to propose automated, reasonable changes to a codebase that is constantly checked for "fitness" in a particular task.

I've always been fascinated with evolutionary mechanisms in programming, this is a clever idea to make things more interesting.
Solana’s only involvement is being the blockchain. They can’t do much about it other than pressure the team to make decisions one way or the other, or try and convince validators to rollback and fork the network like with the eth hard fork
Thanks to Orkut I am still receiving spam in Portughese in gmail, every day :|
I looked into the german version, expecting it to mention it more, but Poland is just mentioned once in a side sentence. It kinda saddens me.
I have absolutely no problem accusing Facebook. It's not like they will try to prove me wrong or anything. We only assume that WA is using e2ee, but the reality is they have told us. Never proven it.
This was the first language I learned in University. It was taught (maybe still is) in the Computer Science degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. It was Ada 95.
Colab is running software on other people's computer.

The moment you try to reproduce in local env, you'll be greeted with many "non-existent and unmatched dependency" errors.

Also, "examples" do not cut it.
Indian ice cream called kulfi is fantastic in pistachio and saffron flavors. Its much denser ice cream since air is not usually folded into it.
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I spent almost a decade in public sector digitalisation in Denmark, and those politicians who look like they don’t know what they are doing in the media, well, they absolutely know what they are doing. Not only that, but they get advice from a bureaucracy full of well educated, really smart people, who also know what they are doing and have known so for decades. One of the things that struck me going in was just how much people know exactly what they are doing, and, to my own discredit, just how engaged and well meaning those people are. What eventually led me to leave the public sector is that there is a very big difference between knowing what you’re doing and doing the “smart/right” thing, especially when you’re held accountable by an entire country, if not the world.

I’ve seen the same sort of thing in the private sector. Once you zoom out enough to understand decisions from the perspective they are being taken from, they very often make perfect sense. That doesn’t mean those very same decisions aren’t a load of bollocks from a lot of perspectives, but they are rarely just “fake it till you make it” sort of deals.

I think this author suffers from childhood delusion in that the author still thinks adults are supposed to have the answers for everything, which isn’t true. There is a lot to be said about figuring things out a long the way, but it’s not like people don’t know what they are doing, because we learn, we adapt and we very often plan ahead. I mean, the author even sort of contradicts the title or the article in the discussion on whether to do more SEO, YouTube, and/or, networking because that is already knowing a lot, just not everything.

A more accurate way to view the world would be that most people don’t know exactly how they are going to execute their long term plans, but almost every successful adult I have ever met did have both a plan and a genuinely good idea on how to execute it. From everything to their careers to raising their children, and I think it’s very easy to see when someone actually doesn’t know, because often they are either drowning, looking for help or both, or, alternatively never even beginning on the thing they want.
I can't find the research piece, but there was also a factor of material benefit - basically, in poorer countries EVERYONE is motivated to gravitate to the highest compensation, whereas in richer countries, there is less of an incentive
No one uses v2.
Graphics card prices plotted against Ethereum profitability
> What if the person in the room takes a coffee break or goes on vacation?

Regular meat-and-bone people lose consciousness all the time, and regain it later. No big deal.

> What connects the next computational step they do to the previous one and the next...

Whatever index card system or similar the operating procedure in the room prescribes for keeping track of state?

> which then somehow gives rise to a fragment of qualia. That seems like an impossibly complex and unlikely scientific theory.

We don't have any 'scientific theory' of qualia. We don't even know if they exist, or how they would manifest in the physical world.

Since we don't know much of anything, I don't know whether a fragment of a figment would be more or less weird than the figment itself. Or whether we would even have fragments.

It's probably too early to try to have a theory of qualia that would apply here?
Author here. The blog post is not meant as a discouragement, but as a report. It does not help anyone if people get a PinePhone (or other Linux Phone) with the expectation that it's just going to work like their big-platform-high-volume smartphone, and then cry a river because mobile Linux is not as refined.

Maybe I should have highlighted the personal success stories I have had more (contributing to mobile-config-firefox, evaluating tons of apps, creating issues and seeing them getting fixed) - but I really don't like bragging.
I never understood that. He authorised a mission to do it; it was hardly his fault the mission failed.
True with the Xbox, bat at least imo MS is slitty more trustworthy with my data than Samsung. The tv was doing more network requests than the xbox and a few Apple devices combined.
Corresponding article with a few more details (mostly German): https://www.3dcenter.org/news/news-des-1819-juni-2022
Even beyond polynomial, if "n" is the length of the conversation so far then a brain is probably conscious in O(1) time!
Doesn’t have to be to 1920s. I got some savings out of Northern Rock before the whole thing came down in 2007. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rock
Nobody is like, "Oh no! This baddie i just killed could be a Stolperstein in the future". Remembrance is one thing, self-reflection is another.

People will genocide their enemies and be like, "Thank god we aren't like the Nazis", or worse, "Trust us the guy we just killed was a Nazi".

None of this helps with moral reasoning.
Well since there is full of false assumptions, I just give you a name.

@toshitaka_szk in twitter.
A Japanese dude can translate languages of birds and successfully did some experiences on it. And he is kind of famous.

And needless to say Hunger the dog[1].
Did this clear your humancentric brain?

[1] https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/this-speech-therapist-taught-h...

> 0 animals can be taught, as far as we've tried - more complex structure

Also this applies to limited intelligence human infant and mathematic immature dudes. So by your logic, those underintelligence human do not have consciousness. QED.
Until there are actual serious studies with a large sample population from different parts of the world you can't be sure how many people will be affected and how. Also how healthily you eat is paramount. You can eat vegan trash too.

Btw, while I didn't say the line you're quoting about nutrients missing from plants, the article you're quoting is not very serious looking, with references that 404 and no way to find the actual data that I could find.
> Google settled the case out of court, and we all know what that means.

What does that mean?
tiny thing: typo in one of the Example's title: algroithm -> algorithm
Still, the "Conclusions" section isn't that encouraging either:

> My hardware has held up well, [...], I am not affected by a failing WiFi/BT chip (an issue not too uncommon by my anecdata). [...]

> I know, some people will wonder if they should buy a PinePhone after reading this, and I can't really answer this question for you. Read up on PINE64's return policy, maybe; check whether your current phone network is compatible and decide whether you could live with the available applications. Watch some videos and decide if you can live with the time Firefox takes to launch and a lack of notifications. Make sure to have the willingness and time to tinker, to get the deeper "Linux knowledge" necessary if you don't have it, to make whatever distribution you start with your own [...]"

...so, to sum up, if you want a nerdy toy to tinker with, get a PinePhone. If you want something that works "out of the box", go look somewhere else.
gotcha, when the aliens come we'll all be vegan.
I didn't mean that all OSS tools are better than proprietary/commercial, this is not true obviously. I mean that making tool OSS usually makes it better.
so stupidly ham fisted and fucking entitled as well.

you CAN get people to do this sort of work, and even get them to do it for free... but you have to BRING the team to it, people dont work their best and go the extra step because they're being paid. That sort of work is done by people for love and because the believe in the vision.

Telling people up front thats what you expect... that gets you exactly the wrong sort of people if you get anyone at all.
I think they blocked the attacking address in code, rather than going back blocks (which would revert everyone elses txns.

Doesn’t affect your point tho.
journald.conf(5) is ~2500 words and ~230 lines on a terminal 130 chars wide. Not exactly a book. systemd-journald(8) is ~220 lines and systemd(1) is ~750 lines. Big? yes. But nothing compared to some other man-pages (ever tried `man gcc` or `man bash`?)

People complain about how bad or non-existing Linux's man-pages are compared to the BSDs, and then systemd comes along with a really extensive and well-written set of manpages and people complain that it's too much

Can't make everyone happy I guess...
Stock console controllers are an ergonomic nightmare because they are designed for a particular grip which is not used by people trying hard to be good at these games.