skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think there's still a problem in our society or species in general that people simply do not read things thoroughly.

There are many, many problems with our species, but we can’t change that. We can only adapt to it.
The same behaviors will get you mugged in safe cities and unsafe cities.

Wonder like a local. Look casually disinterested just like you're walking home from work.
Speaking from many painful experiences, DRY is underrated. Duplicate code is a major liability, and due to the natural entropy of code, duplicate sections will slowly drift apart over time.

Yes, sometimes you may discover that you prematurely DRY'ed the code, and it was just accidentally similar. Easy, you just un-DRY the code. This is a trivial operation. In an IDE it might be a single keyboard shortcut. Going the other way is a difficult and error prone process.
…which is why they work really hard to hide it from the court. That’s the point of parallel construction.
I love this.

Like... it's not my favorite music, but it is not obtrusive and the fact that I have no choice in the order or selection of songs removes a huge time-waste temptation for me.
Then you may have also missed the various responses to those criticisms and things that were done to address them.
https://www.seekpng.com/png/detail/350-3502039_-name-stock-p...
The set of utilities specified in POSIX is, erm, not entirely sensible[1]. Though POSIX is more helpful than most large standards I’ve seen, it still ends up mostly having partial implementations (are there any completely 2008-compliant systems, I wonder?).

[1] http://www.landley.net/toybox/roadmap.html#susv4
There are some specific structures and incentives that create situations that make it easy to groom children. We can work to correct those.

For example Scouts relies (desperately) on volunteers. So unfortunately the “trusted adult” is perhaps sometime TOO interested in volunteering. And the Scout group sadly doesn’t think deeply enough cause they’re just happy to have a parent volunteer. You can see how this can create a dynamic that attracts the wrong kind of person that want to groom families to prey on children.
A shame german carmakers didnt care much.
> That’s why building a series of EPR would be a good thing long-term, as it would provide some justifications to train new engineers and a refreshed skilled workforce.

Also very true. The most difficult is most likelihy to build the first one, reacquire the supply-chain, engineering, knowhow, then, you can build the next ones at scale, certainly with both an economy of time and money.
The L2s and high transaction rate chains don't look much better.
How would you characterize a powerful force that sucks you into an illusion and bends your will to its agenda?

Feel free to wax florid and metaphorical.
But if there are no more tickets to be sold because it's already full, then more people won't be able to get in, right?
I hope they support W10 as long as the hd webcam is a requirement in W11
Meh, I don't buy it either. Why would anyone ask me what features a nuclear power plant should have?

The only frame of reference that I can speak to is I'd like cheap, safe, and clean electricity.

If I were a nuclear engineer I'd have more opinions about what could be done to make it cheaper, safer, and cleaner.
Uploaded files must deviate from „everything in one file“ regardless of using S3, right?
How (and why) would you store user uploads within the binary?
Yes, it’s now a major business for the big PE firms (which today are really diversified investment managers) with AUMs that can significantly exceed that of (traditional) corporate PE. But its their credit vehicles that invest in credit. So their corporate PE funds might do buyouts or growth equity or whatever, but won’t generally be direct-lending or buying securitized debt.
Solving that doesn’t sound nearly as difficult as a full PoS (or proof of anything) scheme.
Might be a dumb question, but if I joint hospitals and prices, and filter to the couple nearby hospitals that I care about, and I get 0 rows, that means they're violating the transparency law, correct?
That's the point.

A lot of people view companies as fundamental and bankruptcy as bad because companies are the biggest "things" you can point to in the economy. But the economy itself doesn't think in those terms (it doesn't really think in any terms, not being alive). The fundamental assets in the economy are land, labor, capital, and information, and a firm is just a way to organize those factors of production to do something useful. Over time the optimal way to do things often shifts so that whole companies become obsolete, but the incentive of everyone involved in a company is to make sure the company keeps existing.

The role of a P/E firm or corporate raider is to buy the company, strip all the assets off, sell them to other companies that will use them more efficiently, lay off all the employees, and force them to get other jobs. Which sounds utterly cruel if you think of the company itself as a thing whose existence you want to preserve, but if you think of the company as an organization of convenience which should be dismantled and reconfigured when economic & technological conditions change, you are just paving the way for other companies to flourish.
High recommend for The Flaneur - A Stroll Through The Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White.
Sounds similar to a Lindy Walk as defined here ([it] isn’t just a beeline from Point A to Point B; there should be no set destination, with turns made at random to stimulate the mind): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/style/lindy.html
I don’t know how it set the stage for Roe, but EARN IT is a privacy-demolishing act that absolutely builds on the model proven out by FOSTA/SESTA. F/S did nothing to meaningfully address sex trafficking, and that doesn’t seem to disappoint its authors. Instead, we just see more shackles being put on free expression and privacy, and more government sponsorship of criminal monopolies.
WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including arsenic, which is known to the State of California to cause cancer. For more information, go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.
Money->safety is not a provable claim
I can think of plenty of ways to profit that don’t require burning an honest validator’s stake as the source of profit.
Support for WASI on Cloudflare Workers
I like the series "Software Architecture Monday" by Mark Richards

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdsOZAx8I5umhnn5LLTNJ...

Currently 140 videos, each a 5 to 15 minutes bite sized introduction to different software architecture topics from specific patterns to more conceptual and management things. I especially like, that it is pretty much completely free from the usual YouTube clickbait nonsense ala "If you DONT use X NOW, you are DOOMED!!!"
> Wow. You call copyright infringement "stealing"

So does the US government. So does the EU court system.

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> > I don't like what Sony is doing here, but
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> but give the company a pass for removing the content they paid for

I didn't give the company any passes. What are you talking about?

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> Really hard to take this comment in good faith

What you're reacting to isn't my comment.
Inexplicably linked though. If you have a lot of one, the other is inevitable with even a modicum of effort.
It's very difficult to determine transactions, addresses, etc on LN. I've searched far and wide I can't come up with accurate usage.

If you have suggestions for where to look I'd love to check it out!
> At the same time Schmidhuber's tone and anal-retentive attitude explains why he is considered so annoying.

The people calling him annoying are generally hangers-on trying to display that they're part of the group - people who took a class once 20 years ago and think they need now to come explain.

He's a lovely man, and he's 100% correct to be angry that people are getting rich and famous while not citing him. It's an ethical disaster.

I really wish HN people wouldn't pile onto him this way.

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> The field is full of huge egos and overly simplified narratives from a singular point of view.

Stop it. Primacy in publishing is a core topic in science. If these people were at universities, and not Google or Facebook, they'd have been fired for what they're doing.

Schmidthuber doesn't actually have a huge ego. He's just saying "guys, stop re-publishing my papers and claiming you came up with it."

You should really be deeply disgusted in Hinton right now, not explaining Schmidthuber's ego. Hinton is being a plagiarist *and he knows it*.

This isn't an accident and it isn't the first time.

Hinton is committing fraud, according to academic doctrine. This is an automatic termination at most universities on Earth, even through tenure.

It's time to stop making excuses for these rich men cherry picking other peoples' work for their and their employers' gain.

Schmidthuber is, if anything, being remarkably calm and polite, for having been robbed blind by megacorporations of credit and wealth for decades.
Ask HN: Prior work on minimum requirements for a recognizable consciousness?
Hi HN,

Is there any prior work in psychology or AI on what the minimum requirements for the average person to recognize something as conscious are?

Like for example what additional features would a Roomba need in order to be viewed by the average person as conscious? Is it just that society needs to be told that the entity is conscious, does it need to demonstrate some amount of free will, do we need to recognize that it has some similar biological machinery to us? Does it differ between cultures? Does it need to have a physical form or can it just be a software like Alexa?

Someone must have studied this, I just can’t find the right keywords to find it on google.
The year the fund started (e.g. a 2022 vintage fund is a fund that started in 2022) https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/vintage_year.asp
So sorry this happened to you, very troubling as a parent.
I remember such a stroll Eddy St. in the Tenderloin one fine midnight.

No muggings, but a number of fellow citizens were very curious about whether I would like to buy stuff from them.
There’s a lot to be said for serendipity. I occasionally do walks where at every intersection, I randomly select a direction to go (left/right/straight—I use a dice app on my phone to keep things random). It takes me places that I might not otherwise go.

Another thing I did along these lines was I had a project when I lived in Santa Monica where I walked streets end-to-end in alphabetical order. I got up to the D’s as I recall. I started this in Oak Park, IL where I live now, but it fell by the wayside when I went to grad school and then had kids. The next walk on the schedule would be end up being about 7 miles, assuming I walked to and from the start/end points as well, and I’ve been procrastinating taking that time for a walk, but maybe I should just do it as the shoe commercials say.
I have much sympathy for this view point.

However I think the main issue is that said person was using a "professional" twitter handle to engage in this sort of stuff. Sadly I suspect that the furry porn bit was added to make them seem more deviant. When it should be more a case of inappropriate.
A single source of truth is even more critical for data. It is the principle behind normalization.
a thousand euros for a linux ultrabook is a bit of a stretch. there are many alternatives AND I can run both operating systems via dual boot.
I'm not American
I'm all for passion, but I tell my (also young) friends to beware of donating your passion to 100-billion dollar (or otherwise) companies with 50% profit margins without adequate compensation. You can use your money for causes like Effective Altruism too.
I don't think we're remotely pricing in something like commercial real estate detonating in the financial markets yet.
The users agreed to share their data with everyone that uses Instagram. Because that's how the site works.
FOSTA requires you to play police and report. How is that not privacy related?

As for the Constitution and privacy, does nobody remember the Tenth Ammendment? The enumeration of rights was not exhaustive and never meant to be. To give a satirically extreme example there is no right against being flayed alive but that doesn't mean a law perscribing flaying everyone alive, not as a punishment would be constitutional! The Third Ammendment in spirit was also basically about privacy. Taxation is legal so it wasn't merely about lost rents, and also applied to houses. In times of war requiring you to let soldiers borrow your barn to keep out of the rain would be technically valid by the plain text.

The whole "not listed" argument also forgets the natural rights epistemological doctrine or conceit that all rights are pre-existing for there to be a violation of them, and something greater than the law. This helps to define the law itself as potentially wrong and serve as a call to action.
That video is marvellous, when you compare it to today's technology and how it's used. The angsty "does it mean we'll all have to learn to type?", the female BASIC programmer working from home on her terminal with printer as a display. Great stuff.
Meta is dumping Facebook logins as its metaverse ID system
I wish theming would go back to being something we as end users do to our whole system, not something forced upon us by app developers (or their corporate overlords).
> When you make an extra copy of a song, you commit intellectual property theft

Don't forget "piracy"--associating copying information with looting a ship and killing everyone on board. I'd love to see an end to this ridiculous modern usage of this word.
But "early Rails hype/philosophy" is the only thing you've said specifically about Rails. I think I know what you mean though. There are strong philosophies in the Rails (and more generally ruby) communities. Opinionated coding, and software craftsmanship is lauded, more than in other language communities I think.

As a result, rules of thumb like DRY are drummed into new developers. The overall effect of that is probably better code quality in general, but yes probably more instances of them being over-used.

But if Rails has the problem of folks over-using DRY, what are other languages communities doing? Just not doing so well at telling people about DRY in the first place?
Nothing, the vendors can block/choose where they want to advertise their products in.
> No prob with size_t and char* I think. They'll nicely solidify to 4 bytes on 32-bit platforms. I'd need to test for maximum though in size_t .len case.

I mean on 32 bit platform the offset to union tag would be different depending on the struct the union holds, unless I'm missing something
A decade ago, some geniuses at the gcc steering committee decided to switch gcc from a simple C dialect to c++. Now you need at least a c++98 compiler to compile gcc (then linux). It is probably one of the biggest mistakes done in the open software, ever. Why, well we all know the abysmal gap in complexity between simple C and c++.
My personal rule of thumb for this type of situation is to use the counting scheme “one, two, many” and to try to defer commonizing before you get to “many” instances of the repeating pattern.

It’s really easy to make assumptions about what you are going to need later that turn out to be completely unfounded (or even - years later there is no “many”, just the one or two usages you already have).

And I think folks shouldn’t freak out over a little bit of duplication, as long as it doesn’t get out of hand in the codebase, and you make sure to come back to refactor later when you do have many common usecases.
Have you read _Schlock Mercenary_?
This is one of the better posts on a blog that is consistently great - I recommend reading the whole thing.
Engineering Stackoverflow
I understand if it took until the Vive for you to want it, but the gap between the Oculus DK2 and the Vive was only two years. You could see the Vive was not “far away” from the DK2 when using it, it was incremental improvements quickly within reach. And since then the Index and Quest have continued to make huge improvements, and it feels like Meta’s headset pipeline will continue to advance dramatically over the next handful of year.

Magic Leap, meanwhile, 4+ years later, still feels like we are several breakthroughs away from getting the kind of device quality one would need for a mass market device.
1) The object you launch going the wrong way will not have substantial delta-v capability. There are many slots across a wide range of orbits. A hypothetical defensive satellite would only need a few dozen meters/second delta-v to avoid the object. With in-orbit refueling, the orbital satellite has the advantage over a promptly launched weapon.

2) Laser weapons are available for shipborne use today. Airborne defensive lazers targeting Air to Air missiles are currently undergoing tests as part of the 6th generation fighter program. The "sci-fi" you are alluding to is now just a question of power output and weight. If the goal is to disable command and control of a potential impactor satelite over the course of ~30 minutes - the power output requirement needn't be more than a few KW. With a few dozen KW ablative heating of the impactor could push it off course.

The key enabling technology is in cheap, re-usable, heavy-lift. Given this, it will always be possible to put a satellite in orbit with more delta-v capability than any mobile and disposable satellite weapon.
I guess the only way to 'fix' this kind of stuff is to go down the Nintendo route of highly restricted multiplayer interaction (friend-codes, no chat, etc.). And they probably will have to do that. Once the media and especially regulators get them in their sights (as COPPA violation in the US), Roblox will play ball real quick.
> As long as iCloud backup is a) on by default, and b) isn’t clearly marked as being readable to Apple, it is a back door in practice

Tough to disagree.
That’s the thing. The US system is expensive not only due to inefficiency but also due to a willingness to pay for things other countries don’t.

If you happen to have a kid with a rare disease, that matters.
> so please donate today.

Nope. Hundreds of millions a year in donations from Big Tech and revenue from other sources is plenty for the Wikimedia Foundation. [0]

[0] https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais...
also ONNX.js, which is great for interop: https://github.com/microsoft/onnxjs
> If I want to architect a peer-to-peer application that needs to achieve consensus, what are some of the provably correct protocols/algorithms?

None. Ever.¹ Proof: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/tds/papers/Lynch/jacm85.pdf

[1] Assuming that peers in your application can crash.
You can also visit any other tourist destination you want, without that extra hoop, including places in Italy
obviously, latency is the big question. it's fine to say "let's aggregate memory across multiple systems via a coherent layer on PCIe", but you're talking about taking away 50ns DRAM. enthusing about PCIe 7 bandwidth is not an answer...

and when is CXL-over-fabric coming?
Ansible dominating only in easy installation over the other two tools as it has 'agentless' architecture.

Chef and Puppet follow master-agent or master-slave architecture.
I remember Richard Stallman warned us of this sort of thing for many years.
what I really dislike is some linux user trying to brush those things off as a non-issue, it sure is for non-seasoned users.

and this to me is the biggest hinderance to its wide adoption. it caters to a specific crowd.
I think that's true in some states, but not others.
do you guys have a whitepaper about how you do crypto?
Just abiding by the 9th would eliminate a lot of the Federal gov bloat we are currently experiencing.
By the title alone I would have to say I disagree
You are totally downvoted, but I agree. From a foreigner perspective there is only right and far right in the US.
For me it's the plain old mind daemon screaming "Why aren't you busy?! You are certainly missing some super important obligations!". Curiously, it doesn't activate when I'm actually wasting time. It's the aimless walking that activates it.
It is, period, flat out.

Things don't lack durability simply because you speculate that one day something might go badly.

Past performance is, as an issue of fact, the single best indicator of future events.

You say "it happens all the time with DRM content," but I just asked a Discord with 12,000 people, and of the roughly 60 people who responded saying "I buy music online," zero of them have had it happen to them either

Anyway, as a nuclear power fan, I hard reject anyone saying "ignore the statistics and make decisions based on my spooky stories about the future."

I actually have lost large parts of my physical collection several times, due to theft.

It's really boring hearing "the things that have happened to you would never happen, and you should fear a thing that I claim is really common, even though it's never happened to anyone you've asked."

If it's so frequent, can you name a single album that's been taken down from Amazon without running to a search engine for help?

Can you even do it with one?

Oh.
We live in a capitalist society. Anything that costs money pushes away those who don’t have money. The city needs money to support the non-tax paying tourists, you can think of the fee as a tax. I think it’s a good solution even when considering the downside that the fee is only significant for those with less money
I think they indicated it will be, for example, they indicated that link previews would not be available, if I recall correctly.
Not only that, congress mandated that Yucca Mountain is the only allowable site, and has also prevented its use…
The last time I heard a physicist evaluate nuclear, it didn't look like any notable improvements happened in the last 20 years.
It's absolutely part of the investment structure. It's no different from buying a house that you would rent out for yield. If your yield outpaces the costs (maintenance, taxes, utilities, AND the mortgage rate) then you are basically have an arbitrage. This is no different from what PE does and is why they typically leverage ~50% of the acquisition price.
First, I want to ask, "okay, and then what did you do?" That kind of feedback, to me, isn't a sign to give up, but that the idea needs more thought at a minimum.

Second, read BlueTie's response (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32013983) because that is also important but usually comes after they build the product on how to turn a viable product into a company/startup. There's a series of steps. Features < Product < Side business < Lifestyle business < Company/Startup.

For me, that usually means the idea is an incremental improvement, but if you built a full product for it, it wouldn't be attractive enough for existing users to migrate unless it could be sold as a plugin. Unless it is a ridiculously trivial process to adopt the new solution (i.e. a plugin), you won't overcome inertia.

To be a viable product, you can't be 1-10% better than existing solutions but need to be 20, 30, 50+% better. You must overcome loss aversion and sunk costs (time and money). The improvement needs AT LEAST a significant step-wise improvement for a vital feature of the existing solution.

If anyone looks at your idea and the existing solution and says, "Yeah, it's better, but ..." or "Eh, the current way is good enough." To be a product, there HAVE to be people who say, "I can't live without this feature!"

A good example is Anki. By most measures, it is terrible software, and every couple of months, you see a new flashcard program on Show HN. Most of the time, they are a flashcard program with a better UI, collaborative flashcard decks, or some other piece that's usually objectively better. These are almost always features, not startups. Now, if you took several of them and had them implement all of their ideas into a single product, you might have enough value to overcome inertia.
This is this just criminalizing libel or does the prosecutor need to prove someone has been offended ?