skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really doesn't. The vast majority of economic activity in our system is driven by coercion and need, not want and certainly not freedom. People don't show up to jobs where they take orders from idiots for an exact lower bound of 40 hours per week (but, in practice, often more) because they're freely choosing to do so.
Except if you get a fake one
Raise a human in a machine-like environment (no contact with humanity, no comforting sounds, essentially remove all humanity) and you may find people to act very robotic, without regard for its own existence in a sense.
The Possible Relation Between Ancient Monuments and Geophysical Anomalies
“Our process works by using solar power to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, concentrating CO2 from the atmosphere, then combining CO2 and hydrogen to form natural gas”

Tell me if this sounds familiar. How about we store that natural gas underground in the same areas we’ve been taking it out? Sounds kinda like a natural for energy storage and a little carbon sequestration.

(Can’t be sure with myself whether I’m serious or sarcastic in this one. But I definitely want carbon out of the air…)
Beowulf Cluster. I just died and woke up in the 90s
I'm familiar with what you mean - whenever I travel it takes 2-3 days for my internal compass to acclimate to wherever I am.
Same for me, I think it often correlates with curiosity which I enjoy a lot in myself and those with which I converse
People can still be social when working remotely.

People can be satisfied working remotely without having social reserves and social skills/circle.

I definitely consider myself closer to someone who sees work as a piece of their life than someone who completes tasks for money. I love working remotely.
Stock appreciation... I was one of these people who saw 7 figure TC and I was just a senior IC. So, you're wrong. It's extremely common in SV. You have to be past $3.5m income to be in the 1% here. You think it's only execs at big companies making $3m+/yr?
Oh, the hills are definitely saying that. Don't take it personally though, they say that to all of us.
I had to switch from textgenerator.app.nz to https://text-generator.io it's because facebook randomly blocked my entire app.nz + subdomains from being shared on facebook.

I have no idea why app.nz is blocked, its a shame because there's some free products i've been building there to help kids read (readingtime.app.nz) and their creativity (joydrop.app.nz).

Maybe the app.nz domain was used for bad things before i bought it, that's my only stab in the dark at why they might have blocked it. Moving domains could help in these situations where you have been false positive flagged then obliterated by some internet police style company e.g. FAANG or stripe etc.
As someone who wears tshirt and jeans every day, I'm not exactly qualified to comment on others' fashion choices. But if I wanted people to take me seriously, that wouldn't be my first choice of outfit.
There's more to whether a word is appropriate than its dictionary definition. It could be the wrong level of formality. It could have innapropriate connotations. It could have subject-matter specific meanings that aren't included in a general purpose dictionary.
TikTok is Chinese malware masquerading as a friendly social media app that people use for giggles when waiting for the bus or loafing at work. It’s a Trojan horse firmly embedded in the US with no oversight or regulation. And the amount of data it grabs behind the scenes is astonishing.
I’m getting downvoted but that is the answer. You vaccinate people against it even though it’s not a wild disease.
It's not clear who was the first to have said it, but there's a quote that is 100 percent on the mark: It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

We've been brainwashed into believing in the supremacy of private wealth--that we somehow have no choice but to accept the self-asserted superiority of the small number of people born in access to capital. We don't. We could end it in an afternoon if we got our shit together.
France is buying out the remainder of EDF (France’s commercial nuclear fleet operator) for €10 billion, so we’re going to get another chance to observe the experiment.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/19/france-to-p...
i’m wondering how safe mexico really is once you want to spend some of your money, buy a nice house or car, etc.

with thailand i’ve heard stories of “farang prices” where you pay 10x for medical care compared to locals.

a friend of mine in laos had to travel to thailand every time he needed care.
Thx for posting the 12ft.io link to the content,
Yet another business unable to access their PayPal funds (Eric July) [video]
If the designers wanted the game to end at level 29 they could have forced the game to end there. They didn't, instead programming a game that allows users to get continue indefinitely even if the designers themselves were unable to pass level 29.

Sure you could make a no hypertapping or rolling category for Tetris. Calling better techniques a glitch seems wrong, though speed runners often disagree on what exactly constitutes a "glitch" anyway.
Yup! I remember the Debian developers would often play it together, I suppose because it was one of a small number of exciting open source multiplayer games which worked on Linux.
>The machine shop at my university was free.

It wasn't free, it was paid for by the university and it's revenue sources. There is a difference.
Yep. My grandchildren will inherit my Costco bottles of meds.
Offtopic, but i never understood why people seem to think that what the dictionary definition of the word "literally" is the part that determines whether or not it is ok to use it figuratively. Every other word is allowed to be used figuratively, and it has nothing to do with its definition.
It's not that extraordinary when you consider all of the many science fiction literature filled with convincing conversations between humans and sentient AIs. It's a very common theme in scifi, and this chat bot obviously has some of that in its training set.

Which is not to say that it isn't impressive. It sure as fuck is an impressive chat bot, at least based on that one sample conversation that was released. It's just not sentient.
Lack of problems is a form of death. The brain exists to solve problems, and by having a lack of problems, it will dream up problems and create them without you needing to seek them.
Or:

Nearly 150,000 children we're orphaned today when their parents were tragically lost in a catastrophic data importation process. Heartless DBA's were nonchalant as they spoke to the children of their parents being merely "redundant backups".
IMHO when people discuss networked Tetris, it's now the reference implementation.
> Absent an ancestral tradition of healthy cooking, people gravitate towards the cheap convenient slop sold at every corner: rice + industrial produced meat, wrapped in 5643 different sauces

If you think rice is a significant part of a standard American diet...
> Does the central valley use Colorado river water?

No. Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountain water goes to L.A., Western Sierra water goes to the Central Valley and S.F. The Imperial Valley area of the lowest part of S. California uses Colorado River water.
e: Keeping below comment for posterity, but given that this is his official twitter profile photo I'm going to retract it.

> But if I wanted people to take me seriously, that wouldn't be my first choice of outfit.

You would wear the most serious outfits at all time so no publication can ever take a picture of you to make fun of you?

Sounds exhausting.

But let's be clear - it's not like he picked out this photo to be used by this author, this was their choice to make fun of him.
I couldn't read the article either because of the paywall. As an anecdote, I remember when we lived in Colorado, they wouldn't allow collection of runoff from the roof of our house into barrels, e.g. for gardening, because that water was already accounted for downstream.

Now in North Carolina, we can't shed rainwater enough, fast enough, and our gutters overflow all the time. We spent $4000 on drains to prevent the lawn from being swampy. There doesn't seem to be a happy medium. :)
> It even has USB-C ports on BOTH sides of the device, which seems to be a Pro-level feature for Apple.

Not trying to nitpick or anything but Apple used to offer USB ports on both sides of their non-Pro laptops, but in the new ones they offer Thunderbolt ports rather than USB C. My understanding is that they only offer ports on one side to let them only need to use one Thunderbolt controller. (The Pro machines with 3/4 ports have two, one on each side.)
In my experience, I ordered a fake USB3 capture card (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001773724519.html, check the 1-star reviews, also debunked by Marcan at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30906127), filled out comprehensive documentation of it being fake USB3 and unable to capture stable footage at 1080p60, and AliExpress sided with the seller. I had to file a chargeback to get money back for the fraudulent product. Unfortunately the product maintains a 4.8 star rating, either because of fake 5-star reviews, or because most buyers did not actually evaluate that the product is truly USB 3 or captures stable 1080p60 footage.

Is Amazon better at compensating customers or removing fraudulent product listings?
Definitely Java, 3 billion devices run Java.
> with thailand i’ve heard stories of “farang prices” where you pay 10x for medical care compared to locals.

Which is still next to nothing, isn't it?
I experienced this with chess, to the point where it affected my sleep and I had to stop. I'm a remarkably bad chess player too.
Both 'Democrat party' and a definition of racism that strips it of any notion of prejudice or animus (compare that to, say, one you might find in a dictionary) are very much politically-inflected jargon.
I can't remmeber where I saw it but arm chromebooks run android apps (esp games) better than x86 as most apps are built for phones.
Superconducting power transmission was first implemented back in 2014 [1]. Some progress has been made since then [2].

I bet we'll eventually see more of that, with superconducting materials steadily becoming more pliable and affordable, and liquid nitrogen being pretty cheap. Maybe we'll see hundreds of miles of such lines. It looks to me more realistic than land in Western Europe becoming cheap enough to install a gigawatt of solar panels here and there.

[1]: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/182278-the-worlds-first-...

[2]: https://energycentral.com/news/shanghai-opens-world-leading-...
I'm not sure that's an inside-out acquisition as Larry Page would not have control of Excite in any meaningful way.

My point was more that if a guy wants to start a company to create passive income to fund his massively ambitious research projects, he would need the foresight to know the company would be massively successful, like throw off enough cash to pursue projects that would appear frivolous successful, and I don't think the Google founders had that foresight. Obviously I wasn't there, but trying to sell it to multiple suitors (they were also open to selling to Yahoo as late as 2002 afaik) indicates they didn't. My understanding is nobody knew search would be as lucrative as it it today.

Not to say you're fabricating your story, I'm sure they said that, but perhaps it's some revisionist history.
It works because it increases your water retention!
>There is also a somewhat of divide between introverts and extroverts between which they prefer, but of course - there are many in either camp leaning the other way too.

Yeah, as an introvert, seeing the constant assertion that only extroverts want to work from the office is very frustrating. It is because I am an introvert that I want to work from the office. Sure, I struggle with interacting with people in general already. But I will have that trouble whether I'm at home or in the office. But here's just a small list of the additional troubles that pile on WFH:

Having to speak out on a public chat channel, where everything I say will be recored for a legally mandated long time, seen by who knows and potentially misinterpreted because of a lack of tone (slack).

Having to interrupt someone without being able to see if they're busy (IMs).

Being self conscious of the existence of a camera and not knowing if people are or aren't looking at me (web conferences)

Not being able to get tone and body language feedback from the people I'm talking to (any text based medium)

Accidentally speaking over or interrupting someone because of latency (web and audio conferences)

Having to specifically put effort into promoting myself and my work because it's less visible now

Not having the chance side conversations with my mangers, skip managers and directors. I know a lot of people doubt these happen, but I've had enough of them, and am convinced one or two major changes in my career have been in part because of those conversations that I would not have otherwise had. This goes hand in hand with the item above.

I am 100% behind having more choice and more flexibility, but I really wish people would stop pretending that the divide on this is extrovert/introvert. I'm far enough along in my career to understand the importance of speaking up and being seen and therefore to put the effort into doing it, but make no mistake, 100% remote requires me to put more more effort into it and for my personal form of introversion, it makes things much much harder on me.
Chat program: Rocket Chat

NextCloud is a cloud solution I found relatively easy to set up and host but I only really use it for file sharing

Video Chatting: Jitsi. I haven't set up my own instance, but it has worked well for me all the times that I have needed it.

All three come with web interfaces, so no app is needed but RC does have a desktop app.
Seems like you're outside the US, so I can share some fun little garage facts:

(context: I live in the american quintessential "suburbs", cul-de-sac and all.)

Around my parts, garages are ironically barely, if EVER, used for the cars! Something that surprised us when we moved here. Many houses around here are good examples of american excess; I've seen a couple houses with like between 4-6 cars(!) and all of them are just parked in the driveway (remember with all that space we also have room for like 6-8 cars in a driveway parked 2-by-2 behind each other). People just park all ("all" lol) their cars in the driveway, and then the garage is used for any number of things:
- "shops" for wood/metalworking, or crafts
- table/chairs for those "garage startups"
- giant freezers for meats/breads/etc for larger families
- massive amounts of STUFF -- I've seen way too many garages here that are just filled with hoarder-levels of STUFF. It's disturbing.

Personally, our garage is a 2-car garage, and we put our 1 car in there, and I use the rest for my little hobbyist carpentry area. Not enough space for a full workshop, but when I need more room I pull the car out to the driveway for a bit, then put things away and pull the car back in when I'm finished. That works well enough for me for now.

American suburbs are a bizarre place for sure. Hope that clears some stuff up!
very extraordinary because the ability to produce text doesn't imply sentience at all. Sentience is self-perception and self-awareness, not the abiltiy to churn out language tokens.

Imagine instead of lambda or gpt-3 we take ten thousand years to walk through every possible conversation manually, write down and assign a percentage to every possible branch of conversation in a hash table. Call it the world's slowest, bootleg neural net. Is the hash table API sentient?

We perceive a dog to be sentient because it has intentionality, self-awareness and something resembling an internal state of mind, not because it can talk or not. Even a snail is more sentient than a chatbot.
Actually, "devs" are typically not technically qualified either. You have to really understand how things work, not just be able to write a program.

But you're basically right. And now there seems to be a meme going around that it's elitist and inappropriate to expect people to have any technical understanding at all before they start dictating technical decisions around security, and all you need is a willingness to learn the alphabet soup of requirements and mindlessly apply the checklists.
No, that apple doesn't shit on privacy - so saying that they all do is BS.

Implementing the features that apple does in a way that's private requires effort and money, it isn't marketing. Safari uses Google as the default search engine, but it also puts a lot of work into fighting Google's tracking, irrespective of what happens in the search field.

We can talk about how US businesses are generally shitty to the end of time, but we don't have to pretend that just because Google and FB shit on everyone's privacy that every corporation does.

iMessage is E2E even in China, apparently. The non-E2E services that apple still has are not-E2E in china or the US or the EU.
thank you - I hope so too. When people are separating and fighting over kids, that can get intense too. This tragic story has stuck me for a long timehttps://nypost.com/2021/11/26/texas-man-shoots-partners-ex-a.... If people understand their rights better, they can avoid taking things into their own hands.
The problem is that the term “microservices” was so much catchier than “service oriented architecture” that people went overboard with it. Macroservices are a much better idea imo.
time to cut mexicos water before anything else then. not like they can fight us on it.
What do you mean by "pretend ecological issues?" Climate control isn't an ideology it's a necessity created by failed policies. Climate change doesn't care about your political or economic ideology.
Name an activity and there's a competition for it.
MOFFBUZW does sound like a logo Dall-E 2 would spit out.
I'm looking forward to the product maturing a little. If they can fix annoyances like this, improve port density and provide a better Ethernet port (that doesn't stick out) I'll start buying 'em.
By that logic, couldn't any number be deemed rational by just declaring it as a unit?
I enjoy wearing my Twilio t-shirt. It’s still one of the comfiest ones I have.

I wouldn’t want the swag if I were not going to use it, so best to give high quality stuff.
Do they even pay for their water? And can they sell it if they don’t want to use it? If neither of those is true, higher prices don’t do anything.
You have it backwards. Solar panels are a fungible commodity good with no differentiation besides quality and cost. The financial incentive points strongly in the direction of longevity.
I wonder if pre-historic humans could do such adventures? or at least cross one big ocean with their boats? They managed to put up in group large sets of materials together (big stones) so why not a boat...
Why order from a company that is already struggling to deliver?

They'd better get e-vans from EU/Asia

The Peugeot e-expect for example: 200 miles advertised vs 150 for Rivian EDV 700

https://www.drive-electric.co.uk/reviews/peugeot/e-expert/
If Google did believe lambda was sentient, what would they have done differently in this case?

Exactly!
I was in the Stanford Symphonic Chorus in the 1990s, and there was one woman who had a helper dog. We did Carmina Burana.

The dog came on stage with her, and slept right near the tympani's. I was amazed.
> if natural gas was in short supply

You are aware of the situation in western Europe, yes?
Lived in the Bay Area and got sent to Cocoa Beach, FL for a work trip.

Didn’t care to get out much., but figured I’d stroll to the beach to watch the sunset.

Got about halfway there before figuring out where I’d gone wrong.
> Our very existence is the problem, and our insatiable appetites for reproducing and consuming. The sooner we show some humility and realize that we’re the problem, and our system of forever growth is guaranteed to destroy the planet, the better.

Until we find evidence otherwise we are literally the only valuable thing in existence. So yes hyper-growth is the path forward. If it ruins the planet we'll fix it later or come up with enough of a stopgap to get us to the next milestone.
Intellingent != sentient
I used to waste money buying cheap computers (new) but aside from battery, can get good buy from buying old flag ships.
I don't see a template for it, but can Vercel support a flat file CMS like Pico or Kirby? Something that writes to a text or markdown file?
What does the AI do in its spare time?
There's the beginnings of an Abbott and Costello skit here.

"I went to the pier to meet the Peerless but the cotton didn't appear"

"Did you talk to Captain Pierre?"

"Captain Pierre of the Peerless? No, the captain of the Peerless was Captain Pearce"

"Well did you talk to Captain Pearce?"

"Yes, on the pier."
...
> I wish they resolve it, because it's slowly driving me to vscode.

The good news is that their new Fleet product has it all in one again.

The bad news is that it’s not anywhere near production ready (not at a point where it can compete with any of their othet products anyway).
I am/was a member of Hacker Lab for the past ~four years.

It's one of the best things about Sacramento. My only regret is that I didn't join sooner.

It's basically a library for makers with a plethora of equipment I would never justify purchasing for myself, or even have the space for. A co-working space. An event space. There were weeks I spent 50+ hours there.

Sacramento library does have a "library of things" and its own makerspace, both showing the library is on the same page, but Hacker Lab is/was a 24 hour space and was light years ahead of any other option in town. Makerspaces are a natural extension of libraries.

I learned lots, built lots, started many projects and made many friends.

I don't have many photos handy, but here's:

* Adding LEDs to my mudguard in the electronics room: https://imgur.com/a/VU7mupx

* Building a sidecar for my dog with the welder etc: https://imgur.com/a/BeM8MFg

[] Sacramento Public Library - Books are just the beginning

https://www.meetup.com/Sacramento-Public-Library-Makerspace/

https://www.saclibrary.org/Books-Media/Specialty-Checkouts/L...
GoodbyeDPI: Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility
I'm not really familar with SSC's writing, and the NYT article is paywalled. For that matter i had not heard of Chris Murray either.

But it seems really unfair to infer that someone believes X because he praised someone who believes X, especially without further context.
Ha, yeah. I had the same experience, around the same time, also on a Beowulf cluster.
LOL and the most prominent copy on the front page:

> Divorce almost never ends with a 50/50 split of everything you own with your ex-partner.

Yeah maybe that why lawyers typically get invovled.
True! And you might not even have to redesign most of the power plant, just the final stages of cooling. You could even avoid suffering lower Carnot efficiency during the day by using a daily thermal store.

Other problem, even without redesigning significant parts of atomic power plants, they're economically uncompetitive with PV.
I’m a member at a local community run (not for profit) hack space, and I have been a member at commercial (for profit) maker spaces. The community run model has a vastly better vibe - better equipment - and is a more open and hackable environment.

In my experience, hack spaces, like most of the best things in life, are better when they’re not a for profit business.
> really expensive during the day

Doesn't really seem to fit with having surplus power.
Remote works great for me, it has for many years, no complaints.