skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People may continue to pay for $4-5/gallon gas if they so choose. It is a free country, after all. Gas prices will not go back down so long as refinery capacity is constrained [1] [2] [3] (which it will be in perpetuity, as investment will not flow to it with fossil fuel phase outs in progress, and refinery lifecycles are measured in decades). Let the free hand of the market do its thing. People will figure it out [4], pricing signals and all that jazz [5].

You can lead a horse to water but drowning it does no good. Let it drink when it is sufficiently thirsty. Maybe gas prices prices have to go even higher, who knows! I am morbidly curious to see.

[1] https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight...

[2] https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_operable_crude_oil_distill...

[3] https://www.marketplace.org/2022/05/23/u-s-oil-refiners-marg...

[4] https://electrek.co/2022/03/25/tesla-models-sold-out-2023-pr...

[5] https://electrek.co/2022/03/22/electric-cars-3-to-6-times-ch...
>If I spend it all on yachts, that will cause a lot of labor and materials to go to yachts that won't contribute anything to the economy once built, instead of going to something more productivity

Actually that would result in a manufacturing industry. The problem is that if you wanted to buy a Yacht in say south Africa you wouldn't manufacture it in South Africa despite the mass unemployment problem.
That's why both parties have to initial such changes.
> however in the debate of this law, one side is saying “the law says you need purpose to cause” and the other side is saying “no it doesn’t. If you could read more than 14 words you would know that.”

> I’m not a lawyer, but I imagine an objective observer would find the former argument more compelling than the latter

Now, I decided not spend more time and money on law school about half way through when I decided I’d rather stay in technology, but I don't see how anyone can argue with a straight face that the mental state requirement “with purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm or recklessly creating a risk thereof” (emphasis added) fails to apply to people recklessly causing a risk of public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm just as much a to those acting with purpose to cause such inconvenience, annoyance, and alarm.
What tools do you have experience with exactly?

For programming languages, what about C#, Rust, Python, Julia, R, or C++? Any particular pros and cons?
What you're describing is a recipe for a convoluted and incomprehensible zoning code that tries to predict every possible consequence instead of simply stating what people don't want.
I can't speak for anything but my old Mac Mini (late `09). I have two monitors connected to it, both using 3rd party adapters I bought on Amazon. They go bonkers every now and then and I have to jiggle the cables on them to get them working.

I've always blamed that on the adapters and cable connectors and, of course, Apple's bullshit proprietary connectors. It's really only been slightly annoying though.

But I only paid about $550 for my Mac Mini. I'd be very pissed if that was the case with a brand new 4k Mac Studio rig.
> It's really hard to keep a username distanced from your real identity

It's not. Don't use the username with anything that could contain your real name or contact information, i.e. GitHub profile, domain registrar, social media.
I really recommend the book How Asia Works by Joe Studwell.

Yes. That's a good book.

It's not "land reform", though. It's agricultural modernization. Farming needed to be mechanized to free up labor for manufacturing. The "Asian tigers" had far too many people tied up inefficiently growing rice. Then they could start exporting.

Most poor countries are past that point now, though. Today's poor countries have too many people in cities. And everybody can't be a net exporter.
Arm most likely to list on the Nasdaq, says SoftBank CEO
The fact that repositories even have "codes of conduct" is Orwellian on one hand and a sign of idiocracy on the other.
I like your phrasing here a lot. I have come to a pretty similar realization recently. For me a small about of gaming does recharge me, but as you say it’s really easy to get sucked into spending too much time and ending up tired or sacrificing other recharging activities like exercise and socialization.

I think it’s possible to weave socialization and accumulated progress into the gaming experience and have it be a fully enriching hobby. But many (most?) single player experiences are just a pastime for me, as you say.
>> Pretty disappointing. I would have expected better than this religious drivel. If it's a joke, then you got me.

You can respect a person and their views on how they treat others without disparaging them.

It states: "No one is required to follow The Rule, to know The Rule, or even to think that The Rule is a good idea. The Founder of SQLite believes that anyone who follows The Rule will live a happier and more productive life, but individuals are free to dispute or ignore that advice if they wish."

Common descency and respect towards others does not ask you to believe as they do, but to let them speak and be heard.
Ask HN: Is anybody tracking Teslas self-driving progress over time?
I have been googling a bit, but not found anything:

Is somebody out there driving the same route again and again , tracking the number of disengagements over time?
I absolutely loved playing TIS-100 despite having no clue what a real world counterpart would be. It was really nice understanding the limitations of the system and then trying to be creative to solve problems. I got through 3/4 of the game before I lost my save (on my GoG version). I just re-bought it on steam for the cloud saves. Same thing happened to my ExaPunks save.
I‘m in the same boat. It‘s the single most annoying thing about the Mac experience. I have NO IDEA what Apple is waiting for.
You're conflating "sentience" with "life" and then asserting that LaMDA cannot be sentient because it's not alive. These are not the same things. I believe the discussion to be "Does LaMDA have a sense of self?"
It also means that one could make one's own survey, and then compare the differences between it and the publicly-available maps, which may highlight potential points of interest.
I’m suggesting it doesn’t matter, because even if it was an adult human, it still wouldn’t override other persons right to decide about their own body. Starting this discussion with an argument that attempts to derail it is very telling.

Also, honestly, the "life from conception" is fringe even from Christian theology point of view. It was debunked by Acquinas himself, most of Christianity believes it's bullshit, which also used to be the opinion shared by Catholic Church until XIX century.
The argument may make sense at a 'hyper local' level but be bad overall. Everywhere is trying to prevent the next level down from getting into their area. At a high level this means economic segregation enforced by the government. A very working class suburb near me has a bunch of neighbors trying to prevent an apartment complex on the site of a former K-Mart. It is not an exclusive area, but the same arguments are being applied.
If you're going to complain you need professional air quality sampling by a certified professional. They can also provide advice and interpret the readings.

That's gonna cost money but that's the only way you'll get any evidence one way or another.
There's certainly a "how would we tell" question, but the linked example here is relevant to that. The bits about how predictive language models can be conditioned with leading questions - that's a tool in the toolkit, for instance. Things missing from Lemoine's "conversation" include self-motivated action, choices, argument, and fuller self-awareness of its condition (if a sentient creature was aware it was trapped inside machines at Google, don't you think its fables would have very different messages?).
> where an interpreter is used for the outer loop and a compiler for the inner loop

That's just a standard JIT isn't it?

Also - note there are multiple ways to automatically make a compiler from an interpreter, so really you just need the interpreter.
Not sure you can technically blow this mayor but I digress
The only playlists I regularly play are my own or Discover Weekly and Daily Mix #1 thru #6.
Ask HN: What storage protocol for Bring-Your-Own-Storage applications
I'm currently working on a tiny task management web application for my own needs. To minimize the implementation work I came up with a concept that I think could suit a number of applications like this as well:

- No user signup (no backend at all)

- Local first (via localstorage)

- Optional bring-you-own-storage functionality for sync and backup

The last point would allow the user to provide, say, an S3 endpoint and api key to allow the application to synchronize its state to a remote data store. By supplying the same credentials to the application on another device, one would have cross-device sync effectively for free. To avoid exposing data to the storage provider I'm also implementing client-side encryption.

Now the only remaining question is what storage protocol to use. I've found S3 client libraries to be severely lacking for browser environments (the AWS SDK is a mess and seems to rely on nodejs shims to work, not to mention its gargantuan size).

What are other easy to use and widely available storage protocols? WebDAV? A git repo?
Curious to hear what else is out there!
This is Hacker News. It is not a place for intricate theological debate. God is bad, money is good, the systemic failures of capitalism can be ignored as long as we get to the Singularity, and we're all going to freeze our heads and be immortal.
Yeah, my commentary on this nonsense is at https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDU....

> Could J. K. Rowling require Harry Potter readers to follow a code of
conduct? Could Werner Heisenberg demand that you subscribe to a code
of conduct if you want to do quantum physics?

...

> Codes of conduct typically make laudable promises such as “We pledge to respect all people,” in an attempt to convince readers that they [the authors] will behave laudably. In my experience, though, people who put a lot of effort into telling you how laudably they will behave do not behave any any more laudably than other people do — slightly the contrary, in fact. ...

> ... I expect
that I’ll be delighted if you send me patches and bug reports, but on
that count I make no promises. Feel free to send them repeatedly
through different channels if you don’t get a response at first, since
I often don’t notice things. If you like how I respond when you send
me patches or bug reports, then maybe it would be a good idea to do
more of it. If you don’t like it, then maybe you would be happier if
you stopped. I’ll do my best to be polite, but I screw that up pretty
often, to be honest. ...

> But, as I said before, what humans tell you they will do is not a
very reliable predictor of what they will do. If you want to know
what to expect of them, look at their past behavior. Don’t just look
at their self-reports of their past behavior, although admissions
against interest there can be quite revealing; look at traces it has
left that they cannot delete, such as your own memory, mailing list
archives, past Gitlab issues, and other people talking about them.
Don't forget the death toll. Gonna be hard to rebuild the country when tens or hundreds of thousands of your working age men are no more.
"We (the maintainers) don't want to work with you if you do/believe X" seems quite sane to me, it's their choice after all. If you don't like it, fork it or move along. Code of conducts are supposed to regulate how contributors to the project interact. Especially nowadays, where projects can come with a significant social aspect/dynamic, this becomes important.
Note that this is not about if Java was good or bad, which is obviously a question of opinion. This is about if Java was going to be successful:

> I've never written a Java program, never more than glanced over reference books about it, but I have a hunch that it won't be a very successful language.

Given that Java became spectacularly successful and still is, the question is why the author turned out to be so wrong? My guess would be that the author thinks the people he know (apparently all extremely competent "hackers" with great taste) is the kind of people who decide what becomes popular in the industry at large. We all live in our own bubbles.

I think the bubble of the author becomes apparent when he mentions Perl positively compared to Java. Sure, Perl is fun, edgy, powerful in weird ways, the opposite of Java in any way. But if I had to maintain complex code written by someone else, I would far prefer to maintain Java to Perl. I suspect the author is the kind of developer which never have to maintain code written by other programmers.
Then any time you have fan-shaped dependencies, you need a monorepo.

Which, well, the Uber people clearly have since these big changes exist.
>And gmail etc has a shit ton of ads

I've yet to ever see an add in any of my Gmail accounts.
Pangolins were proposed very early in the pandemic, but have been pretty much abandoned. It eventually came to light that all the pangolin papers were based on the same one batch of smuggled pangolins. This makes it more likely that those pangolins were infected by a smuggler (in the same way that housecats or mink have been infected by people), and not the other way around:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.07.184374v2

Nature eventually published an extensive correction to their pangolin paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2313-x#change-his...

Lately I've seen proposals that raccoon dogs were the intermediate host, or that bats directly infected humans. All of these are speculative, since no infected animal (except animals probably infected by humans) has been found. The absence of infected animals isn't proof of unnatural origin, but it's different from SARS-1 and MERS, despite a much greater effort to search.
If software engineering was available as a monastic vocation, we'd probably have a lot of significantly higher-quality software available. I would much rather use something written by a stylite with an esolang compiler than shat out by 100 poorly-coordinated javascript devs at MEGACORP.
Nice riff on Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death". The focus is
really on the danger of over-reliance on one faculty. But I suppose
the same could be said for an aural-only world of radio and podcasts.
I disagreed that video would be an edited "reality". Image is no more
than the way the world looks as opposed to how it sounds or is
described by text. Ultimately the ability to synthesise these
faculties is what the phrase "common sense" really means. It isn't a
stand-in for "bleedin obvious" or "what most (common) people think",
it is that sense that emerges from an ability to create a world from
sights, sounds, smells, tastes and also written words, so pf course I
do agree that an over-reliance on any one mode of perception leads to
minds that lack common sense.
42. Attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good you see in yourself.

59. Fulfill not the desires of the flesh; hate your own will.

60. Obey in all things the commands of those whom God has placed in authority over you even though they (which God forbid) should act otherwise, mindful of the Lord's precept, "Do what they say, but not what they do."

I'm not seeing a lot of room for free will in this document.
You would probably want to be able to tell things like "is this just programmed to be agreeable so predicting things that sound like what I probably want to hear given what I'm saying" vs "is this truly a being performing critical thinking and understanding, independently."

For instance, consider someone trying to argue politics with a very convincing but ultimately person-less predictive model. If they're hoping to debate and refine their positions, they're not gonna get any help - quite the opposite, most likely.
No mention of a genetics bottle neck, 500 inviduals isn’t as tight as the supposed 11 Cheetahs went down to, but still.

Are there any genes from museum specimens that could be added into herd members?
> If I took this minute / this day / this month / this year of my life... and somebody were to tell me that I had to live it over and over again, ad infinitum, with everything exactly as it was, and nothing changed at all... would I be screaming Hell Yes, or would I be screaming Hell No?

If that argument were actually valid, it would be a fully general refutation of any possible use of your time whatsoever. There's a reason the narrative trope of "trapped in a time loop" contains the word "trapped".
Plants don't provide "natural cooling". They naturally provide evaporator cooling. That is, they cool the surrounding area because they release water vapor. Drip irrigation is much better than other irrigation, but it doesn't change that growing trees and vines in the desert is wasteful.
If Patreon took 75% commission of small payments, people would be outraged and quit the platform. You’re right that “fair” can mean many things, but a percentage is, in my view, the least objectionable way to do it.
Interesting, not what I recall (but my readings on this were quick). AFAIK it was carefully not pursued because they wanted to make everything as classes so they went with AIC.

If you have a link, please share.
Of course but requiring a car to do 95% of tasks surely doesn't help.
I use Firefox sync. Make sure to open the settings page and to disable everything else, the default behavior is to capture credit cards, logins, passwords, and complete history (I would qualify this default behavior as 100% in violation with the privacy by default principle required by GDPR in EU but hey, who am I to voice an opinion :)
What does an idle CPU do? (2014)
IMO, so long as you're not doing anything illegal, using hate speech, or being a complete troll, it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

I don't think I will mind too much if my full internet identity becomes public someday but I hope that people will be savvy enough to look at it through the right lens.
We are constantly programmed by our surroundings. By every stimulus we allow to interact with us. Wherever we go. We can't stop it. We can only control it. Sorta.

That doesn't mean heavy metal is what made me a devil worshipper. Or that video games are the reason I killed that family of four. Or that having cared lovingly for several small stuffed animals as a child is why I spared their dog on that dread day. And social media will not convince anyone that anything else I've written in this paragraph is remotely true. They're not going to lose themselves in some sick fantasy.

Is this the author's stage before or after solipsism? I forget.
See my other comment[0] on this.

4-rail is a viable solution, but, unsurprisingly, it costs more than a 3-rail or sometimes a two separate 2-rail lines.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31880979
Oh crap - hackernews stripped my emojis. It was meant to say:

Small Team - notion is :fire:

Medium Team - notion is :checkmark:

Large Team - notion is :poop:
But you still need to have a bitcoin exchange accessible, both to the sender and to the receiver, right? And in the cases of unbanked areas that exchange needs to be physical and able to give out physical cash. It doesn't need to be the same exchange, but both those exchanges would still have the same issues as a traditional exchange, right?

Walk me through a transaction that is better with bitcoin and would not be easier by modifying the current system.
Yeah, I should have really checked who I was dealing with first. Standing aside.
Even if they wouldn't need permission to gather and process that data, does this circumvent the right to ask for your personal data in the possession of someone to be deleted? I know there are several listed exceptions to an entity's obligation to comply with your request for data deletion (freedom of expression, public interest, legal obligation for keeping data), but I strongly doubt any of them apply to GPT-3, and none of them refers to the way the data has been collected.
Thank you for writing sish! We’ve been using sish as a self-hosted alternative to ngrok because of how easy and flexible it is to configure and because it allows us to tunnel to devices without installing any extra device-side software (since it uses ssh).
I highly recommend it among all the other great projects on the awesome-tunneling list
I don’t think the point of the parent comment or the OP is that everyone should RV instead of gaming. It’s that each individual should do what they find fulfilling, now not later because there might not be a later.

I think the reply would be: If you get joy and fulfillment from gaming, do that instead of working really hard to earn money that you don’t need. If you think you’d rather RV than work & play games, go RV now instead of putting it off for later/retirement.
> Be in dread of hell.

This one’s in the Oracle Master Agreement too.
I mostly just wanted to show people the cool frog videos :) of course people should read the article, but now those who don't also got to enjoy them.
> No one is forcing their beliefs onto anyone. keep the pitchforks in the shed.

I don't want a solution, I want to be mad.
Never had an issue when using a single external monitor. That across Macbook Pros going back to 2013.

Dual external monitors are a different beast. Here I get random issues depending on the external monitors ranging from:

- random reorganisation of my apps

- different resolutions not working well

- one monitor constantly flickering (this may be due to the use of a docking station)

Waking up from sleep works 99% of the time with a single press on the keyboard.

A bigger issue for me is theac not actually going to sleep when I turn off the screen.

So, not sure about your specific problems. Macs can be fiddly, but they tend to work for my professional use case (programming).
> Not everything is about wokeism.

It changed "they're" to "xer", looks like you're wrong.
Has anyone asked it directly?
I didn't read the book but the article has only the one doctor's experience. Guess I'd want to have some studies with other similar patients (there's aren't many I admit) before I'd say the doctor cured himself. Maybe it's just a relapse that happened naturally?
Reading the issues reminds me of reddit.

What is interesting about some anonymous account posting the text of a US bill to GitHub? (i.e why is the HN worthy?)
>There is not some fixed amount of money in existence

No, but people constantly shout "money printing" when the money supply goes up even though it could be as a result of people producing more physical capital.

Imagine producing more physical capital and being told you don't deserve liquidity in proportion to the capital/value you produced. That is the problem with a fixed supply currency system like the gold standard.

Why is it a problem to keep the money supply fixed? Imagine a theoretical economy where 100% of the money is in the hand of a single person. Even though the rest of the economy is able to produce and barter, it would be far more efficient to use liquidity i.e money to facilitate the division of labor. That one guy with all the money is effectively blocking the public infrastructure we call money. Transactions that ought to happen don't happen. Money doesn't fulfill its function as a medium of exchange. Therefore it is only appropriate to tax people in proportion to the damage they cause to the economy by excessive patience and holding excessive amounts of liquidity. It like an illegal parking fee intended to keep the streets free.