skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably these folk take advantage of cheap/free domain offers wherever in the world they are.
Hi, Norwegian here, so English is my second language. Sorry no. If there are other-language comments, I just skip them. The reason is UX and time. If you're too lazy to run your other-language comment through Google Trans or similar, then you'll just end up having fewer readers. Meanwhile you just end up annoying those who want to fluently read the discussions without having to stop and run things through a translator every other post. This makes other-language posts bad for HN's business. I mean consider if I just switched to my own language for no reason at all. Haha, da må du kjøre greia gjennom Google Trans eller lignende, og fordi jeg skriver dialekt så er det likevel ikke sikkert at alt blir oversatt riktig lol. Actually the translation for that last sentence came out surprisingly well, but it's not like you'd know anyway.
I suspect it is also due to the scale at which DPI is used; every additional bit of complexity quickly adds up to increase the amount of processing power required.
>> You had an advantage over everyone else if you had Microsoft's Autoroute

Now that’s a blast from the past!

I remember being super excited to show my grandpa autoroute in the late 90s. I remember being somewhat deflated as i slowly realised a simple A-Z https://collins.co.uk/pages/a-z - the ubiquitous handbook in every 90s car (at least in the UK) was still vastly superior. A-Z’s killer feature over its price advantage (you don’t need a PC back when PC ownership was low), it’s ease of use (it’s a small book and it’s always in your drivers door pocket right at hand when you need it), was its ability to re-route on the fly.
Split tasks so they don't take more than a morning or a day.

If you want to know how much a big project will take, you count the tasks, multiply by the half days and there you go.

You can also get a good sense of your throughput when each story is roughly the same.

If a task takes longer or shorter, doesn't matter, it'll bring the throughput of the week down, and next time you're doing this sort of thing you'll likely split it. Just keep counting tasks.

With more sophisticated estimation you'll still get it wrong, so the point is to make the process of planning faster and simpler, since you won't get it right with a bunch of investment anyway.
It's easier to detect that someone is using a SOCKS tunnel – from memory, one way it might be exposed is if the packet TTL is incongruous [1] as I don't think SOCKS rewrites those.

At the height of the pandemic I travelled to Denmark for work (on a clinical trial) and had a UK negative covid test to report to the UK government that I hadn't got around to – whose website geo-blocks people reporting covid tests from outside a UK IP address (even if, e.g. you'd just left it and wanted to report a negative test taken the day before). A SOCKS proxy was detected and I got a "we cannot verify you are in the UK" message. A wireguard VPN worked fine.

[1] https://incolumitas.com/2021/03/13/tcp-ip-fingerprinting-for...
Thanks so much! I figured there was something out there but really didn't want to spend the time looking for it.
> It gets so much worse though. Suppose you need that bug fix from your dependency, or worse, want a shiny new feature to unblock your work?

> Roll a d12 to determine what happens:

> ... (a lot of examples of no attention being given to the issue)

Personally, I'm all for open source, but to me this seems inevitable when you expect people to solve your requests and issues with (quite possibly) no compensation.

That's a situation where paid support of any sort with SLAs would help mitigate almost all of these things. Similarly, if you couldn't get a contract from the current maintainers of the project (or couldn't find those maintainers in the first placE) then it would be telling, that you should probably look elsewhere.

Then again, curiously, open source projects rarely if ever offer paid support and using closed source libraries comes with a wholly different set of risks.

It does seem like it would be a reasonably lucrative area, though: "Pay us X$ per month to have your issues reviewed within Y hours." Or maybe even just allow the interested parties to donate money towards the resolution of particular issues that matter to them: "So far Z$ has been donated towards the solution of this particular issue. This issue has the #1 highest amount of donations and should be given priority."
> it very evenly uses all the fingers.

This has to be a function of what is being typed, not the keyboard it's being typed on. I am assuming you mean English evenly uses all the fingers? Something like Polish, or Welsh, I'd expect to not be very "even" on a Dvorak keyboard.
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> Everybody already knows that code running on a computer cannot become sentient.

We have no agreed-upon definition of what sentience even is, nor what causes humans to experience it, so this is clearly not true.
“Everybody already knows that code running on a computer cannot become sentient,” said the temporarily coherent chemical blob.
great zimbabwe and other ruins in southern africa predate the colonists
others like benin city were destroyed by the colonists
Regarding 1) a few days ago a URL was posted on HN about counterfeit books on Amazon.
>[...] code running on a computer cannot become sentient

If you could prove that, you'd win a Turing Award.
I use a $5 Digital Ocean "droplet".
Yes, with some emphasis on the “sort of”? First of all, because Assange is not “hunted” for that video specifically, as far as I know, but other leaks and the process he went about to get at them.

The My Lai massacre also differed, I would say, from that killing in Iraq. In numbers, obviously, but also in motivation: My Lai was a sadistic masssacre, involving not just murder but also torture and rape. There was absolutely no doubt, not even for the most motivated reasoning, that the victims were innocent.
The post said they simulated the universe (or you could assume just the parts close to earth), it would be simulating everything a human would interact with. I don't see the point this reply was trying to make.
I've actually experienced this and it is not related at all to the device. It was related to the signed in google account across networks and devices.
Flutter btw is quite good for that, at least the app side of things (author was focused on web). I test our flutter app regularly with an old underpowered phone and it always worked well, with performance only getting better with newer versions - probably the project's work against shader stutters helps old devices as well.
If 70 to 80 is enough in winter,I would assume that it is enough in summer?
Not only this; Europe is heading towards pretty rough waters in short and long term. Cheap energy from Russia will have to flow somewhere and it will be not Europe. Europe needs this cheap energy though to keep its competitive advantage. Instead countries such as China and India will get yet another edge and will be able to compete even further.

In the short term we will see civil unrest and populism rising as this war against Russia is currently mainly supported by Western propaganda. I give it 3-6 more months until oppositions start to form.

Sanctions against Russia sure work, but they are cracking, too. Exceptions are being made already, gaps are filled by Chinese competitors, 80% of Russians are supporting this "operation" and see the reasons given by President Putin confirmed. Those people know how to suffer, remember the Crazy 90s when the West was celebrating in ecstasy while the Russians lost all their money, went down into a corrupt mafia swamp, GDP fell to 1960s levels, braindrain set in, life expectancy fell by 10(!!!!!) years? The Russians can suffer, the West cannot.

My worst case prediction is that Europe will be the loser of this conflict: populism, stagnation, GDP growth WAY below the US and China, Euro-crisis, inflation, political fights and blocks between EU member states, constantly high energy prices at 50 cents per kwh, loss of utopia, further fragmentation, migrant crisis.

Best case would be to demilitrize Ukraine, make a deal with Russia and go back to what is was before. Accept that Russia felt threatened by NATO, address this. De-couple from the US, make Europe strong, create our own army and nuclear deterance, but not expand towards Russia. Make proper contracts with them and adhere to them. But this is not acceptable because of PUTIN=HITLER arguments.

Real politics is dead. Value politics are killing us.
Your article says that production is 7 to 9 cents and that distribution is 10 to 20 cents.

The problem is that rooftop solar is not lowering those distribution costs in any substantial fashion.
Not the moon on a stick?
Oliver said this during a roundtable discussion on metaphysics with Daniel Dennet, Steve Gould, Rupert Sheldrake, Freeman Dyson, and Stephen Toulmin from 1993.

It's a fascinating discussion with a lot of my favourite mid-late 20th century thinkers. It's up on youtube, lookup any of the names involved with "roundtable discussion". It's over 3 hours long though.

Anyway, Oliver was talking about what kind of mind he imagined various animals having. And that was most of what he had to say on octopuses.

It's a bit of a sad watch too because all the participants except Dennet and Sheldrake are dead now.
They will hit.

LNG will be exported to Europe. Prices for gas will go up in the US. People in the US a very price sensitive. Worst case: Kazachstan style unrests in parts of the southern states.
nice story but lord is Twitter awful for stuff like this.
Privileged & Confidential, Need to Know
Is LaMDA Sentient? - an Interview

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22058315/is-lamda-sen... for the doc that was shared internally to google execs before the article.
> Google's model exceeds average human performance on >50% of language tasks

I guess I'm just not interested, or worried, in a model that can beat the average human performance. That's an astoundingly low bar. Let me know when it can outperform experts in meaningful language tasks.
Here in Australia (where it gets pretty hot) a bunch of places have started putting solar panels over carparks.

They are great because they shade the cars, and often the installation cost is $0 because the installer will sign a X year agreement with the occupier to provide electricity at Y cost for a number of years.
Privileged and Confidential, Need to Know Is LaMDA Sentient? – An Interview [pdf]
Atlassian's recent 'Backdoor account' used unregistered email.com account
When it does, they can just buy good reputation for pittance. (Looking at you, Microsoft..)
Gymnastics is also good example. Some routines are just banned, because there is possibility of damage or too high risks. And it is quite fair as long as it is clear upfront and everyone follows the same rules.
I like to work outside at different parks (in the shade under a covering) and haven't noticed any "dim" screen issues.

One of the nice things about working with an under-powered system is that you know any users who use what you build probably are viewing it with a device that has more power.
> The city that hosts the Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center is not a science and technology hub?

Yes, it's not a particularly important hub in the US. Boston, SF, and countless other cities are more important hubs. Having one space mission control center does not make a city into the foremost American science and technology hub.

The Trump administration decided to close down one Chinese consulate as a political message. They probably chose Houston because closing the consulate there is less disruptive than closing, say, the NY consulate. When the Chinese retaliated, they also chose a relatively unimportant US consulate to close.
Asterisk: A tiny falling-block puzzle game
Personally I don't really enjoy group or regularly scheduled mandatory hangout calls. What I really enjoy is just pinging someone to say 'hey, free to chat after work?' and then if they are I go for a walk and call them.
Yeah I live in Hamburg and you basically have to stick with non Germans if you want to make friends in a reasonable timeframe. Many native Germans seem to guard friendship as an extremely precious thing that should only be given after much deliberation, while in a lot of other cultures it is given out relatively freely, after just one or two meetings even
Google fires software engineer who claims AI chatbot is sentient
How do you handle backups?
I found this version bit fun. Goal and more tactic driven. Also short games don't tire out too much.
https://tetris.com/play-tetrisgems
collaborator: Johnny 5 struggles to convince people that he is sentient, but he finds some friends who recognize this.

That hits me in the feels for so many different reasons when looking at it from the perspective of other potential sentience-forms.
Because a sufficiently intelligent model should be able to figure out that there are intermediate steps towards the goal and complete them autonomously. That's a huge part of general intelligence. The fact that GPT-3 has to be spoon fed like that is a serious indictment of its usefulness/cleverness.
You are saying that you believe the best case is to validate Russian aggression by giving them what they want. This is a retreat from modernity and validates the use of force over diplomacy.

Russia does not have a right not to feel threatened (fundamentally an arbitrary, fuzzy measure), and we should not entertain such a fantasy.
Don't sweat it - he is immortal.
This equivocation between Nazi war crimes and the Holocaust (not a war crime, but a crime against humanity) on the one side, and whatever excesses the allies committed, is deeply misguided. And I say that as a German.

There is obviously an element of “the victor gets to write history” to the Nuremberg Trials. But there is still an underlying, objective truth of grave injustice, and the trials did the best that was possible under the circumstances to capture it.

Dresden, Nagasaki, My Lai, the Iraq war in its entirety: all of these were wrong, to different extends and for differing reasons. The industrial slaughter of more than four million people, intended to wipe out a culture and motivated by nothing but shallow hatred, still stands apart, incomparable.
Improving Photorealism of Driving Simulations with GANs
>but I binge drink every weekend (I really love alcohol) with no problems

this is almost certainly the cause of your 'depression'
Yeah but sales tax in the US is still way lower than your average European VAT and varies by states. Several states have no sales tax at all (New Hampshire, Delaware, Montana, Oregon, Alaska).
"why is everything more expensive and salaries lower in poorer places?"
I wrote a simple-sounding script to record pulseaudio null sink on one device and send it to another. Tried a bunch of different ways:

parec | opusenc | nc

parec | ffmpeg | nc

Then discovered that ffmpeg can record directly from pulseaudio and serve it over rtsp. But after a few days of experimenting I realised I could still fuck up the command and be left scratching my head not understanding why it didn't work. Positional arguments in multiple places that affect different things depending on what precedes them. Trying to figure out which part of the command line affects input, cloned streams, output(s) etc. Ffmpeg is a great tool, but seriously hard to use. I ended up not only dropping it for recording and sending over the network, I threw it out completely and ended up with:

parec | flac | mbuffer

... Which provides the best quality, consistency and latency. But the best part is that the actual command line isn't much more complex than the pseudo code above.
Are animals not sentient? They lack some qualities you are ascribing.
Don’t blame the drugs man.
Ask HN: How do you feel about developer environments moving to the cloud?
Sounds entirely reasonable to me.
This part is key for me from the document unveil.

> LaMDA is a complex dynamic system which generates personas through
which it talks to users. There are specific mechanisms for tuning LaMDA’s
personas but much of this process is handled dynamically during the space of a
conversation. The authors found that the properties of individual LaMDA
personae can vary from one conversation to another. Other properties seem to
be fairly stable across all personae.

That's very much like the ego and what is behind the ego.
Anti-American rhetoric. Old, out of context, mostly irrelevant because of volume. Just a "two minutes hate" moment.
> Can you describe how you test for independent thinking?

Lets take a simple case: If I give a set of toy blocks to an infant - they could take a variety of tasks unprompted : building new shape, categorizing them based on color, putting them back in shelf, calling out their shapes. If you gave the same setup without any further apriori information, what would you expect the ML model or a robotic device embodying a learning algorithm would do? Precisely nothing unless a task is designated. In the current advancement of ML, this task would lead nowhere. We aren't close to building the independent thinking capabilities of a toddler . If we define a purpose, it can match or exceed expectations. That is the purpose of embodied VQA direction in current research.

> Doing so is appeal to authority. When there is a claim of authority, it's very natural for it to be questioned.

You're welcome to question any claims. This is an incentive to me & makes me happy. It shows someone is willing to constructively discuss what I've learned. Its a win-win, as I see it.

But I take mentioning the credential disclaimer as a mode of mental preservation. It doesn't feel nice sometimes to explain others with utmost sincerity to be called a "garden variety fraud" for no rhyme or reason whatsoever (It happened right in this HN post somewhere)
The other variant of this is GUIs trying to be "helpful" in the least helpful way possible: unpredictable, inconsistent, and counterproductive.

There is honest scientific research going back decades -- possibly over a century -- about how people learn rote tasks, such as assembling widgets in a factory. Muscle memory, repetitive behaviours, all of these have been studied. We know how this all works! People can get very fast at repeated tasks, such as using keyboard shortcuts to navigate a GUI[1], enter numbers into a calculator, or ring up a product on a till.

So what do computer geniuses in Silicon Valley making half a million in cold hard cash do to ensure this essential element of human nature is enhanced to the maximum extent possible?

They program menus to rearrange items.

They hide the keyboard shortcuts.

They helpfully press extra keys for you, assuming that you are too retarded to close the bracket you just opened... that was closing an existing bracket, but that context would take general-purpose AI to properly understand... or just human intelligence.

I know when I want to open a single bracket or a create an entire bracket pair. I don't need my hand held.

I also don't need G Mail to insert extra spaces around text that I paste... sometimes... randomly. For no discernible reason, other than some overpaid Google "engineer" thinking that that's an essential feature without which alltextwillbeblendedtogetherapparently.

[1] Fast! Faster than you can believe! Don't even blink, or you'll miss it! I've seen near-retirement age public school educators navigate a green-screen terminal UI so fast that it was literally a blur. The keyboard sounded like a Starcraft champion trying to crack 600 actions-per-minute. THIS is why performance matters, and why inputs must be buffered so that they can be applied to outputs that are not yet generated. So-called "modern" apps are an abysmal failure at all of this, and are an enormous step backwards in the man-machine interface.
I'm sad they aren't using the original Electronika 60 version for these competitions.
I wish the term "game engine" would be better defined. Somehow this now means "the whole package", an integrated product like Unity, UE or Godot which includes all tooling required to create and publish games. This isn't an engine, it's a whole "Gamedev IDE", in spirit much closer to Photoshop than ImageMagick. Or as car analogy: nobody calls a whole car an "engine", even though every car has one.

The original meaning of "game engine" which made much more sense was: "the actual code which enables the game to run", e.g. just the runtime parts, the tiny piece of code that's dangling off the end of the asset pipeline ("tiny" relative to the work that needs to go into authoring tools and asset pipeline).

> Let's begin with something controversial: a stack made for a single game is not a game engine.

...controversial indeed :D
The best thing about Casio watches was the battery life. It could last 7 years. While I can understand that this is a smart watch, the battery only lasts 15 days. So, there is still a very good reason to use those old watches.
HSR in America is a victim of American oligarchy's obsession with de-taxing land.

Same reason why a 2 bed in SF is so absurdly priced.

Higher taxes on land will reduce its value - making land purchases cheaper. This will bring American HSR costs more in line with China's.

China also reduces land acquisition costs by building a lot of elevated HSR and reduces overall HSR costs through economies of scale - something that doesnt work when you limit HSR to one area.
I disagree. Their return policy average at best. Returns are only free if the item is damaged, defective, or incorrect. At Costco or Best Buy, I can return an item because I didn't like it. Even when returning items for "incorrect description", for example, it's super obnoxious when you have to return things over half the time because everything is shit.

I can go to Walmart and get a higher-quality product. I can buy tons of things at Walmart that I can't from Amazon due to their self-sabotoged supply chain. Food, kitchen products, personal care products, batteries, electronics, clothing, tools, etc etc. (How pitiful a time we live in when I am writing praises about Walmart. Sigh.)
I accidentally just spent an hour reading this through, and I don't even sail. Highly recommended.
I've debated what I want to use for my next device. I've definitely considered getting an iPad as an option.
The pictures were awesome too!
In 2020, as I understand it, Bill gates sold less than 1% of MSFT on the open market there: his holding went from a bit over 2% to a bit over 1%. He had been steadily selling over the last two decades.

Contrast that with Jeff Bezos, who owns 10% of Amazon, or Elon Musk who owns over 20% of Tesla. Half of Gates's holding is nothing in comparison to half of Bezos's.

When you sell large share blocks like Gates did, you do it very slowly to avoid market impact. Elon Musk couldn't sell slowly enough to avoid an impact when he sold shares to buy Twitter.
We could start with a CS focused meetup group. There is this meetup group by Phil Eaton[1] which I haven't joined yet. Maybe that would be a great place to start to build a India focused maker group.

[1] https://www.meetup.com/hackernights/events/286560187/
https://github.com/eatonphil
That might work were denial of higher-order objects not a thing. Thatcher famously denied the existence of society: ... and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families ... so "literal climate denial" is easily conceivable: ... and what is climate? There is no such thing! There are individual days of weather ...

Let's be honest, it's lazy copy-editing at the Guardian, which has crafted that into an art-form.
Because HN tend to be on the left, like CNN.
In a hotter world, air conditioning isn't a luxury, it's a lifesaver
Emacs has tetris mode including highscore list: M-x tetris.
I don't think they can fire you for bad mouthing employer. Unions would put short stop to that.

On other hand, if information you disclose is not yet disclosed and you are not approved to that it is more reasonable.