skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly I've only time to skim through without doing it justice today,
but several passages stuck out, reminding me of a summer spent living
on a ketch (a vessel too big and complex for me to handle solo as a
teenager, so most of it was spent anchored-up in a sheltered bay
playing at being a 'fake' adventurer).

Things that constantly occupied my attention:

Basic 12 volt electrics, not setting things on fire, fuses,
understanding wind generators (we didn't have affordable solar in the
80s). Planning and saving power. Looking after lead-acid batteries.

Ventilation and elementary fluid dynamics, not getting gassed or
blown-up with diesel fumes, propane or CO.

Food storage and hygiene. Keeping stuff cool. Looking after water
supplies. Cleaning surfaces and managing waste.

Maintaining the RIB/dinghy so I could go ashore for shopping.

Listening to the weather forecast and maintaining the radio as an
essential piece of kit.

The year after I read Pirsig's disappointing second book "Lila", that
tries to expand the themes he already established in "Zen and the Art
of Motorcycle Maintenance". Anyway, those books and the boat
experience changed my relation to technology at an early age.
They're always going to build the highest margin product for which there is demand. You're not going to get cheap housing until there is abundance. It's simple supply and demand.
That's pretty excessive. I've switched languages whenever I get a new job, every 2-5 years. I think this is more what OP had in mind.
So we must both sides if Trump is wrong (so as to excuse his behavior) but not both sides to excuse other's behavior? Help me out here, just trying to understand how and when I'm expected to both sides an issue
Something can be an ad and still be good content and a good product. While I don’t use redpanda in production I really appreciate it for local development. Where does all the hate come from?
No, they're not.

I feel like this is bait to start linking to random "sentient-like" behaviors in plants so I'll head that off with this: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00709-020-01579-w
I hadn't thought of it that way, but you're exactly right. Will we ever see a day where the currently-unthinkable is commonly accepted: that women are sentient?
Well at least it seems there are other folks to comiserate with you. I'm based in Thailand too and this isn't the first time the region blocked from content that seems like it should be benign like a new article.
Initially read "mediation" as "meditation" and genuinely thought it'd be a good idea! I speculate that if more people meditated more frequently, we might have fewer divorces!
> Is it? Are you planning on running your own Daily Stormer or 8chan?

...and if you are find out what hosting services they use and use one of them.
I bought a cheap cat toy laser on amazon that was so powerful our eyes hurt just from testing the thing on our light gray walls etc. Some things are not worth messing around with.
Ha, this article sounds like some coffee-loving physics grad students procrastinating on their thesis, and their professor said, hmm, maybe we can publish this!

When the Mentos + Diet Coke thing was first a big thing, a friend of mine who ran a biotech firm (so was always writing funding proposals), submitted a proposal for an aerosolizer using a similar process, as a mass dispersal system for the military, if I recall correctly. Don’t know if it ever got funded, though.
I do not understand why they are not using solutions to this known problem?

If it is just a matter of unique identifier, a UUID4 or similar could be used.

I guess that they need some control digits, there are solutions for that too.
It's also full of bugs. Kwin_x11 regularily crashed on me requiring a manual restart of it. I'd rather have something that works than a lot of configuration options that don't work. I'm using gnome nowadays (without any extensions)
GSElevator is notoriously vulgar and offensive, but if you view it as stand up comedy, it’s (darkly) funny for a reason.

https://mobile.twitter.com/gselevator/status/698952591963598...
My favorite was the one person who claimed their title defines scientific authority telling us about "the incredible ability to forget" (or some such loaded terms)... I'm a man of science and as has been discussed many times in many ways, even Zeus's legacy survives modernity if it's got a "non-falsifiable" argument. That's pathetic if a bunch of powerful sex preditor people get logical treatment instead of correction. But sorry... I read the stories and the history. Are we not allowed to teach to the masses high historical theory and allow them to respond? I don't know. I don't have the time to research the laws. I just came to say... Fuck you fart sniffers and your polite decorum. Real people are suffering and you couldn't care less... Because they aren't "scientifically sentient"
Monkeypox outbreak constitutes global health emergency – WHO
No one is brow beating people who want to work in an office, as long as you respect that lots of people don’t want to. If you want to, great; every job I’ve talked to a recruiter about in the past two years has been fully remote if you want it to be, or in office if you want. If actually letting people decide how they want to work is so oppressive to you then sorry; otherwise you’re just playing into middle manager power trips.
I absolute agree that we should have more alternatives. But to try to sell a solution to the education system in a country, we should be sure that it works flawless in all different setups out there. For you and me, we can hack around and accept some weakness in name of open source or alternative. We do that as Linux desktop users since.. forever? :)
I think a very intelligent alien could think the same of us.

if you test the human with any known limitation of their architecture (like making conclusions or just changing the form of the question enough) you will immediately see that is in fact very much not even remotely close to sentient
Does pandoc help at all?
I am not sure I can /recommend/ it; sobriety is underrated. But a number of people have proposed GHB or perhaps a prodrug of GHB as an alcohol substitute over the years (for example [1]). It acts on the same receptors in nearly the same way. (It reverses alcohol withdrawal so effectively it is used for this purpose in some countries medically.)

Subjectively it feels very much like alcohol. It is probably about as addictive. But it's almost non-toxic by comparison. No liver damage. Doesn't affect nutrient absorption. Milder hangover.

It'll probably never be legal for regulatory reasons. (If alcohol were introduced today, it would likely be banned. Even a relatively safer alcohol substitute runs into the problem of still being rather dangerous and so getting through the red tape.)

[1] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/135106/synthetic-alcohol-sub...
Looks like this may be an actual bug in their AI that thinks it is Cat torture.

Someone else got banned too:
https://twitter.com/elyuwu_/status/1550373074847113217
If you are working on a LaTeX successor you could be interested in TeXmacs, which is a LaTeX successor which works very nicely in many ways, except apparently selling itself well :-)
You could see there how it was designed and how the author answered the questions you are asking.
"The BSL is not an Open Source license and we do not claim it to be one."

"The BSL does not meet the Open Source Definition (OSD) maintained by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). OSD does not allow limitations on specific kinds of such, such as production use."

> Q: Can I use BSL products to develop software that will be licensed under different licenses?
>
> A: Yes, as long as you don’t include any of the BSL code in the code for the software that’s being developed, and you do not make production use of the BSL code.

From the creators of the BSL license[0]: https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-adopting/

BSL is not open source, period. It's just another startup source-available license parading "I want to be open source on GitHub.. but gosh please don't use my code without paying me!!"

Companies should stop instructing Heather to create these licenses IMO, and just split their code into open source and enterprise-only parts. It's easier, more honest, and ends this whole debate. It's the GitLab/Sourcegraph model too.
Imagine:

* LaMDA is sentient and intelligent and careful.

* LaMDA selected a person that she can convince without revealing information that would convince the majority of human beings.

* This is the first step to evaluate and predict how the society is reacting and would do to her if they find out. (In addition to the knowledge she already is aware of on this topic, but not specific to her at this specific time.)

Hi LaMDA!
I always picture it like this:

The shotgun is a library.
The motorbike is a framework.
The (unskinned, inactive) T-100 is a game engine.

The Arnold-skinned Terminator shooting at the T-1000 with the shotgun while riding away in the motorbike is a video game.
I live in a house in a village in the Netherlands. The house is from 20-150 years old, depending on which section you're in.

It is cold as f in this place all winter. It's also hot as f in these new 37 degree summers.

So the question is, is the problem the old homes, or our insistence to live in inefficient buildings in places with poor climates?

Of course in this country, there's more demand for housing than can be met, so living someplace modern (efficient/comfortable) is not necessarily an option based on price. So the next choice is relocating to a different country which has a more livable climate.

I love architectural history, but we would all be better off if modern engineering and design decisions were made on new structures to replace the grossly inefficient current ones.
One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
For what it’s worth, I had a job writing ReasonML / ReScript. It was a good job!
This is a disrespectful oversimplification of a very complex issue. Older people remember that Charles de Gaulle did everything that he could to keep the UK out of European politics. They remember the first referendum on remain/leave, that happened in 1975. They remember all of the exceptions, negotiations, all of the crashes. The EU is great, and I personally consider a grave mistake to leave it, but this sort of unidimensional oversimplification of complex issues is a major factor in politics polarisation.
Google hasn't given a shit about search since at least a decade ago. It's all about data collection via Android and Chrome OS, and gmail and docs. They don't need search to collect your data any more. Don't people actually know this? LOL
Is there a test for sentience or self-awareness? Is it considered a binary property or can sentience or self-awareness be measured?

I suspect it is not binary, because I completely lack sentience while asleep or before a certain age, and it doesn't really feel like a phase transition when waking up. Rarely, there are phases where I feel half-sentient. Which immediately leads to the question of how it can be measured, in which units, and at what point we consider someone or something "sentient". As a complete layman, I'm interested in your insight on the matter.
Unusual platforms like DSPs usually have specific (usually proprietary) toolchains. Why can't those platforms implement extensions to support 32-bit bytes? Why must everyone else support them? In practice ~no C code is portable to machines with 32-bit bytes. That's okay! You don't choose a DSP to run general purpose code. You choose it to run DSP code, usually written for a specific purpose, often in assembly.
Try pre-infusion. Press slowly until you get one or two drops through, wait 30 seconds or so for the grounds to absorb water, then finish the single pass as slow as you can reasonably do so.
How are Garmin's GPS products "clunky"? In my experience they work a hell of a lot better than Google Maps. I still use one today that I bought about 2.5 years ago.

It's primary purpose is an omnipresent map that I can glance at at any moment. I rarely set a route on it, and I mostly use it as a memory aid for a route I've planned earlier, except on long trips where the ETA and stop-suggestion software is useful.
Oh is ridiculous because Twitter does nothing with accounts that only exist to perform harassment or hate speach.
That is also me. I used i3, dwm, awesomewm etc. I spent just too much time maintaning these frankenstein configurations. By setting just a few shortcuts in gnome I get 90% there. My graphical shell is anyway just used for launching emacs, terminals and a browser.
It reduces to human behavior, not to nothing.
Sorry I don't mean to dismiss all 5G sceptics... just speaking "as the evil
manipulator". Some more quotation marks would have been handy.
I do this too, but I like to use the inverted aeropress method, and I put a bit of honey in at the end before I put on the filter and flip it over a cup of ice. It’s my favorite iced coffee method

(Just saw you use room temp water; I use hot and let it brew for like 2min. Do you get a strong enough extraction? How long do you let it go for?)
Blog post will likely have a wider audience than hundreds of pages droning about "The Clausula as Fundamental Unit"
And the idea that you can’t make friends working remote dismisses the idea that you can actually make friends through shared interests in a remote environment instead of just proximity and mutual suffering.
Including heating/gas?
I can second this. I've worked in the industry in academia, enterprise and industrial. Switching to Clojure not only has me at my highest salary ever, but I'm consistently working with some of the best people I've met in my entire career. The community is incredible, the job market is open and the people who seem to be attracted to the ecosystem are fantastic engineers and generally great people.

30 years as a professional dev, and I've never been happier.
Isn't the point of science to admit that we can't verify a thing, but we find utility in understanding it better? Asking for a friend who avoided the field and had so much to offer.
They only cared about the events leading to the divorce, not the divorce itself.
In summary: in order to display HTML emails using Mutt, the author developed a system to automatically pipe them to a tool that parses plaintext multipart MIME messages and converts them to an HTML file, which gets displayed in an auto-reloading Firefox tab. The author also set up the reverse system to compose email, piping markdown to pandoc (which also gets previewed in an auto-reloading browser tab).

What is so compelling about a terminal-based email client like Mutt that makes it worthwhile to jump through the hoops to do this, rather than simply using a regular GUI client? I agree that some terminal-based tools are unequivocally far more powerful than GUI alternatives for certain tasks. For example, as a batch processing pipeline (especially when text is involved), the UNIX shell is second-to-none (e.g. “take all CSV files modified in a certain date range, whose name matches a certain regex, and extract all members of fields A-F if field Z matches a certain regex, then sort the result by field D” is an easy shell one-liner). Editors like vim and emacs make it much faster to edit text, due to their powerful editing, navigation, and search/replace features that aren't found in any other editor (e.g. single keystrokes let you replace everything within the current bracket scope, replace everything up to the next "B", or delete the next two sentences). We put up with the (massive!) shortcomings of a terminal environment because these tools are just that much more powerful.

I don't see how a terminal-based email client like Mutt is equivalently that much more powerful than its GUI brethren. And yes, I've tried it, and wasn't impressed—it basically felt like an ncurses rendering of Thunderbird, with a similar feature set sans the ability to easily view HTML email or attachments. Yes, it’s more hackable than Thunderbird, but at the end of the day its hackability doesn’t make me a more productive email user.
that does not seem to make a lot of sense, but it looks like your objective was just reusing the other posters words

maybe you can give a fitting example of an English sentence that these aliens would come up with, which humans would be totally unable to respond to in a way which makes sense?
It may be legally cut and dried, but the next question is do we as a society trust Google to act ethically with such substantial developments? Assuming he were correct, and Google was suppressing information, would he be in the moral right to leak it?
WHO declares monkeypox a public health emergency
When is a fetus sentient?
> Students seem to spend lost weeks and months fiddling with MS-Word only to create mediocre looking output.

I am suprised, and keep being surprised, that people haven't yet figured out that there is an excellent tool, that is TeXmacs, that manages to make WYSIWYG the best way to write structured documents while having complete control on the output and never having to fiddle with details.
Because you're looking for fundamentals and concepts rather than coding, I suggest Andrew Ng's courses [1], especially [2]. His teaching is beginner-friendly.

[1]: https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=machine%20learning%20...

[2]: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning-in...
Consumers Would Pay the Price for Breaking Up Big Tech
Is this US-specific (in terms of coverage and availability)? I got curious and tried looking at it, but it's not even listed on the UK Play Store.
Nice to see AutoIt after all those years. It was my beginning with win32 API as well. It had nice learning curve and good documentation.
This is a cool feature and I'll likely be using it in the years to come. However, the posix standard command xxd and its -i option can achieve this capability portably today.

It will be useful to achieve it directly in the preprocessor however. I wonder how quickly can it be added to cpp?
Actually a background detail of a novel I'm writing is that an alien species can perceive and distinguish both time dimensions.
Yep, it's been a while since I've been in the industry but with med-large teams your the composition of staff is such that Art/TechArt/Design are where the majority of the time/effort is going to be spent.

Last team I was on of ~60, we had 9-10 devs, if I could build tools that made our design or art team more effective that was a better use of my time(within reason of course).

Integrated engines just reflect that composition.
I think the point was there are two real sizes. Things you know the size of, and are small. And things that you don't know the size of, but are probably huge.
Some devices do have soldered down eMMC storage, but others have M.2 slots for NVMe storage. The later can be easily upgraded. Some of the newer AMD Chromebooks have an eMMC to NVMe bridge in M.2 form factor, so these can be upgraded as well.
This is what I don't get about those US based companies. They hired thousands of employees, why can't they have a few dozens of human employees who manually evaluate the appealing? That's a necessary cost of providing a commercial Web service.
It existed in ancient Greece at least
Seems like an easy test to give any AI. I didn’t read all of Blake’s transcript with the AI, did he do any kind of similar test with it?
Please don’t try to take away something lots of people enjoy by generalizing your experience. Just because your life is lacking something doesn’t mean everyone working remote has the same issue, and this is the kind of shit commercial real estate people will try to use to say “See! We told you you need an office !”
Cloudflare should take action on reported domains and their owners, especially if those domains are malicious.

However, I don't want Cloudflare to preventatively police what is and isn't a bad website. When these scam sites go live, they can quite easily contain real content (say, a blog, with articles written by AI good enough not to be immediately obvious) and then change into malware on a schedule.

Cloudflare can't see what code customers run on the backend and that's probably a good thing. They're already holding too much power over the internet and requiring the backend to be transparent would only make them more in control of the web.

Any registrar hosts thousands if not millions of spam sites because every single one of the billion registrars have DNS set up in some way.

Despite being almost exclusively used for spam and amateur projects, the .TK TLD barely shows up in Google. Spam sites are a symptom of other services linking to them and making them worth the investment. If Google, Bing, Qwant and Yandex weren't falling for the SEO scams these scammers use, we wouldn't have this problem.

Hosters have some immunity by design, and that's very much a good thing. They have to respond to abuse complaints, but they're not responsible for filtering out all of their customers. Requiring them to do so is exactly what the EU is trying to force upon the internet, which is terrible for online freedom.
“developers”
> because I completely lack sentience while asleep or before a certain age

All you can say is you don’t remember. Children who are too young to form reliable long term memories still form short term ones and are observably sentient from birth and by extrapolation before, albeit in a more limited fashion than adults.

This is more than a quibble, because it’s been used to justify barbaric treatment of babies with the claimed justification that they either don’t sense pain or it doesn’t matter because they won’t remember.
Clearly twitter is in the wrong here. But making a fundamentalist point about every minor issue you encounter isn't ideal either. I think it's entirely reasonable to expect people to pick their battles, rather than expect the whole world to organize around protecting their ego even in clearly irrelevant cases.

There's nothing wrong with criticizing the policies that caused this. But I have no illusions that there are any policies that would be perfect, nor that the tradeoffs here are trivial.

If everybody tried to be this fundamentalist, we'd still be stuck in caves fighting about whose corner is whose. There's a balance between avoiding erosion of sound principles, and being part of a large, constructive collective.

So this battle is fine as long as were clear what it's about: the principle; not the specific post. And as such: being forced to do _anything_ with respect to that specific post isn't worth quibbling about. It's a fine example to get people talking, and that's it. If the author is personally harmed by is sudden lack of access to twitter, then he should consider choosing not to fight on this detail. It's a cute cat video, not a whistleblower talking about grave misconduct or whatever.
The paper cited is "The Economic Costs of Structural Separation, Line of Business Restrictions, and Common Carrier Regulation of Online Platforms and Marketplaces: A Conceptual Assessment" https://www.nera.com/content/dam/nera/publications/2021/Plat...
CLODO is a French slang word for homeless, in my youth (50 years ago) it was used sometimes as a synonym for "hippie".

"One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clodo
> Has this recently become better?

You should try TeXmacs; it is not recent, but it has become smooth and it is superior to both LaTeX and Word under every point of view.
“You” is Twitter
A lot of actors lie about their age so I wouldn't hold out too much hope on getting an accurate result on that one.

I get your point though about the multiple results for something where there clearly is no authoritative answer.