skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Opening files in an appropriate "external viewer" is how I remember browsers used to work. The assumption was that computer users had different dedicated programs to handle different MIME extensions. Links still purports to allow for using external viewers, though I do not use it that way. I do most ww retrieval _outside the browser_. Today so-called "modern" browsers are 150MB audio and video players, among a countless other things. The concept of the external viewer seems to have been lost.

There are things I dislike about Links. Certainly the NCurses menus and dialog boxes are less than ideal. But as an HTML renderer/printer it is the best program I have found. I recall that Elinks experimented with the vi-style command line. Elinks also created Lua bindings to allow for scripting. As an experiment, I started using Tmux to script Links. It surprised me how well this works. But overall, I have no need to script a browser because I prefer to work _outside the browser_.
< As a result, you sadly can’t be quite as precise in your estimates as we were in our coin tossing model. The coin tossing model is the best case scenario for how accurate our estimates can be, and most real world estimates will be even harder than that. >

An estimate for building a CRUD app is a lot closer to "how long will it take you to walk a mile?" than it is to "pick from this true-random distribution".
There isn't really a meaningful difference; either way the immune system is responding to a protein and "remembering" it.

mRNA breaks down within a few days, by which point spike protein production by your cells has stopped, and the spike proteins themselves break down within a few weeks.

Inactivated virus would be broken down and excreted within a similar timeframe or faster; it's the immune system memory of the proteins that it encountered that persists.
I don't even reuse references inside a single running instance of software. Using u64 you can generate billions a second and still not run out for hundreds of years.
You need an irrational 'slope'. Like sqrt(2), or pi
> Sentience broadly (& naively) covers the ability to independent thinking, rationalize outcomes, understand fear/threat, understand where it is wrong (conscience) and decide based on unseen information & understand what it doesn't know.

This seems to me a rather anthropomorphic definition. It seems as though it could be entirely possible for a system to lack these qualities and yet have sentience, or vice versa. The qualities you pointed to are seen in humans (and other creatures) because of evolutionary pressures that make them advantageous (coordinate among groups), but none of them actually depend on sentience (looking at it neurologically it would indeed be hard to imagine how such a dependency would be possible).

Looking at behavior and attempting to infer an internal state is a perilous task that will lead us astray here as we develop more complex systems. The only way to prove sentience is to prove the mechanism by which it arises. Otherwise we will continually grasp at comparisons as poor proxies for actual understanding.
I'd assume the containers were labeled at different ports and by chance got sent to the same port. So the persons looking at the containers only had one to worry about. And with both going to the same destination one person probably shrugged when they saw the origin port was somewhere else.
There's a variant of this idea called "KeyTris" or "Finesse", here's one implementation:
https://github.com/alex-ong/Finesse

Example of someone getting sub 20 seconds with this method:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TGW4j7LRBJk
and only on _files_. If you want to atomically replace a whole directory. "move" alone can't do it - though you can compensate with a symbolic link.
Is an inability to add large numbers together evidence against sentence? Because if so, I have bad news for about 90% of people alive
That underlies my thought on roof top solar. Big picture we can build out twice as much utility scale solar for the same expenditure of resources. If homeowners are going to spend $$ on something replacing gas furnaces with heat pumps would be better.
World Fund joins $128M bet that quantum can deliver climate breakthroughs
having more creditor options leads to better leverage for the debtors, and maybe quicker resolutions to debt restructuring, due to competitive pressure, if the need to do arose.

China has become a factor in sovereign debt market is precisely because it offered an alternative to IMF / World Bank monopoly, which essentially doled out the same medicine even when it proved to be a form of financial quackery
It's actually named after Latin celer, "fast, swift, quick": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/celer#Latin
That’s assuming that the wireguard protocol is not blocked by that same DPI that you’re trying to circumvent.
The more tools - the better
> what evidence do we have that humans are sentient, other than our own conscious observations

sentience and consciousness are the same thing...

if i believe i am conscious and so do you, then it's good enough for me. why does there need to be a light switch.

if there are 5 deer in the field and i have 1 bow and arrow, i need to focus my attention and track one deer only for 5 or 10 mins to hunt it - consciousness allow us to achieve this. it is a product of evolutionary process.
The Cell's SPEs were such an inspired design - if you look at CPU architecture, 99% of the complexity comes from pretending there's a flat memory space - data hazards, cache coherency, latency hiding, prediction etc.

If you make a beefy processor that works like a microcontroller - reading and writing everything from SRAM, and making all main memory DMA explicit - you get all the speed a fraction of the logic budget.

If you look at a modern CPU pipeline, it's 20ish stages, with most of them about handling the aforementioned complexities, with fetch-decode-execute taking up at most like 6 of them. In MCUs (and SPEs) it's basically all there is.

Unfortunately they never did figure out how to write programs for such a curiosity in an accessible manner.

I'm curious if it's worth taking another crack at this architecture, this time with better tooling.
Kudos for that. There must be some feeling of accomplishment turning in work done on a toy computer, designed for eight year old kids and with no discernible CPU.

I have slipped into working almost exclusively on a Chromebook for a pet project that is going rather well. I have this realisation that I have actually completed something without getting off the sofa.

The 'dim' screen is not a problem, the keyboard is actually a complete joy compared to my posh computer. I did put an IDE (phpStorm) on it (paid for) but ended up getting so much done just in terminal windows. It has enough '.ssh/' to make it great for that.

Maybe like 'intel inside' there needs to be a 'Built on a Chromebook' quality standard out there.
If there is awareness that perceives the ego, are any of these models meaningfully aware? Do they have an awareness of self?

I don’t know anything about AI but I understood that some symbolic AI systems had a symbol referring to themselves (correct me if wrong).
Yeah, quantum computing is still basically experimental…
You are free and welcome to play the solipsism card to avoid epistemic soundness. I'd even say it is the most popular approach.

Alternatively, you could desire to know what is true, at least in theory.

Consider what is going on from an architectural perspective - do you believe that what I say is incorrect?
https://tetr.io/ is probably the best unofficial game, especially if you're into multiplayer variants.

For single player https://jstris.jezevec10.com/ or https://simon.lc/tetr.js/ are the best.
The first graph presented is a take on E.J. Marey's graphical train schedule. You can do that with pretty much any agency that puts out a schedule (one of the D3.js examples uses the Caltrain info). A lot of agencies have standardized on Google's GTFS for this information.

The station entrance/exits can be harder to track unless you are required to tag off. In the Bay Area BART publishes this info, I think as an Excel file.

Realtime info varies wildly, but a number of agencies (including BART) have jumped on the GTFS Realtime bandwagon. Muni went with NextBus which used to have a publicly accessible API (and that use to "hide" very detailed info), but it looks like everyone's favorite conglomerate, Cubic, destroyed that when they acquired NextBus.
it is high time we called 'public relations' what it is - propaganda. The nomenclature insulates the practice from the condemnation that it deserves - it is essentially commercial misinformation
Last time I tried to use this, it wouldn’t pass dependency vulnerability scanning to bring it into the company. Obviously it’s not going into production, but it doesn’t seem a big ask to eliminate known CVEs.

They didn’t seem interested in resolving!
If you had a wedding planning app you could use it as lead generation ;)
I'm out by two orders of magnitude on the amount of desert solar needed to power the UK. It's more like 13000 sq km, comprising approx. 7e9 solar panels. If they weigh 30kg each, and two-trailer road trains are used to transport them, that's 2e5 truck loads.

The sheer scale of this logistical problem dwarfs any other feat attempted.
> I wish you would expand and clarify the point you are trying to make.

The problem with people enthusiastically proposing renewables as the cheap solution to our energy needs is the thousand "little" details like the one above. Whose only mention is in the comments like "your math is wrong, invest in insulation".

No. The math isn't wrong. Bo, the consumption is correct and shouldn't "should be lower". Because it's directly indicative of the reality.

Yes, you have a couple of enthusiasts who can sink another X kiloeuro into rebuilding their house. For the absolute vast majority of users it's not a viable option.

So yes, the answer to "PV energy is almost enough in summer and not nearly enough in winter" isn't a dismissive "you're doing insulation wrong".

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32201039
The people of North Vietnam beat the people of South Vietnam, with heavy American (and Chinese and Russian) intervention. There were "baddies" on every side:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_at_Hu%E1%BA%BF

The communist single-party government of Vietnam refuses to acknowledge the Hue Massacre, and persecutes Vietnamese who speak out about it:

>The Vietnamese government still does not acknowledge that a massacre took place and does not allow any public dissent from this position.

War is complicated. The Vietnam War is extremely complicated. It is good that America can face up to the crimes committed in that war by its soldiers. I hope one day the Communist Party of Vietnam can do the same.
Some countries can't. The countries that can't probably do not have the resources to ignite a nuclear war.
Afaik no. Introverts can be both very good at social cues and bad at them. Same goes for extroverts. Introversion vs extrovertion is just one of huge amount of traits we have.

Also, it ia not like there would be two distinct species. It is scale and majority of the people are in the middle between extroversion and introversion. Just slightly biased toward one side.
We wouldn't want to import all our electricity from one country anyway, even if that country wasn't quite as unstable as Libya.

A more realistic option for the UK might be a submarine HVDC link to Morocco, sort of a bigger version of Viking Link project, which connects the UK to Denmark. I'd like to know if the technology exists to imort, say, 5% of our electricity via that route.
Much of eastern Europe, so not particularly rich or well run countries, went from zero (due to cheap Russian gas in Warsaw pact) to ~everything insulated (because trying to cut dependency on a mortal enemy) in less than two decades.
Yup, any business that enforces a mask policy can kiss my dollars goodbye. Makes my happy to see these folks closing shop if they're still enforcing that nonsense.
Consider that their success in warfare may be attributed to the fact that, in their culture, subversives like yourself are dealt with. In the end, they are better fighters.
Ergonomics is usually crap too
Thank you. I couldn't have phrased it this well
Ask HN: Do you think the “cloud-first” approach to startups is limiting?
This may be a naive question, but...

Cloud-first costs a lot of money. If your startup is doing something compute heavy, like ML or serving a lot of bandwidth, you're going to have to pay boatloads just to even serve low DAU.

I'll give an example:

Imagine you wanted to recreate some video upload/streaming app. Fastly charges $0.12/gb, AWS charges $0.05/gb (and this is me being generous, they only give you this rate after 150tb/month of volume).

1080p video uses about 25mb a minute. That means streaming a 5 minute video will use about 125mb of bandwidth, ~1/10th of a gigabyte, meaning just to stream a 5 minute 1080p video, at the bare minimum you have just spent $0.005. If this video gets 10,000 views, that is a $50 video.

I realize that's a fairly contrived scenario, and I'm going to be bombarded by people telling me X CDN offers Y bandwidth for cheaper or for much better price (spoiler alert: They don't. CDNs like Cloudflare actually don't allow dynamically generated user content or media).

I've rambled on my example enough. Bandwidth costs a lot of money, especially in the cloud world. But I'm sure I could setup some racks in various metros and pay way less than what I would have to on the cloud.

Whenever I see this mentioned on HN, people bring out their pitchforks. "But... Cloud is cheaper!!! Infra is cheap! Engineers are expensive!!" Yeah, I agree, in most scenarios, but there are some cases where cloud costs are just too ravaging to bear.

TLDR: The cloud-first culture is probably prohibiting a lot of startup ideas. I know I personally have not pursued some ideas just cause I know the infra costs would be gnarly. I don't think the next TikTok, YouTube, or whatever could be bootstrapped on the cloud, even with a $500k seed round, if you experience any volume of users that will be eaten away quickly.
huge risk to rely on any other country though, friends today may become enemies tomorrow.

Have we already forgotten that US dropped atomic weapons on Japan yet are now fast allies or that US supported the Islamic fundamentalism in Afganistan before now becoming enemies. US + Saddam bosom buddies in the Iran vs Iraq war.

The sample size is not exactly small.
Useless. A friend of mine mediated and agreed on a specific division of assets in a NY divorce. His ex wife talked to a friend who encouraged that she could get more. She hired a lawyer, nullified the previous agreement, and demanded cash payment half of his net worth. He lost, had to pay, and got fucked.

Courts heavily favor women in divorce. Time to fix this, and bring equality to men. They had no kids.
> oversleeping

It is nit overstepping, it is finally having chance to sleep away that sleep debt.

But for the rest, what actually worked for me was to have commitment at end of workday. Ideally something that forces you to finish (a gym class, activity with friend/kids etc). But even if not, something as simple ritual of "I play guitar 17:00 sharp for 15 minutes and then exercise another 15 minutes" did the trick. It takes you mentally away from work and in few weeks creates habit.
I think the Pick OS, at least in its native form, had no file system but used a database.

It was very easy to program. I saw colleagues with no computer science education writing complex queries on "Pick Basic", what would have been impossible for them on classical computers of the time (or of today as well).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system
I'm from Moldova. No, they didn't go to "everything is insulated" even in the wildest dreams.
The difference is a symlink at least declares this explicitly. A hard link on the other hand looks and works like an independent file...but isn't one.
What would be the example of an outstanding, reasonably-sized (even quantum computers of the future have finite resources) quantum simulation problem that is intractable today but would unlock some economic potential, if solved?
lovely poem on the subject https://poets.org/poem/inland-0
Google Fires Engineer Who Claimed Company's AI Is Sentient
yes indeed, the world might be crudely divided into those which can exercise true sovereignty and those which might have to compromise sovereignty
Any such system would probably use DC, which would be much more compact than what you describe.
Does culture not vastly complicate the racism question, perhaps often to a point beyond the human mind's ability to conceptualize it accurately, especially considering how flawed we know it is at that task?
Why wouldn't a sentient machine want to continue it's existence? Evolution doesn't have to come into play at all for these things to exist, that's just one way of making such biological machines.
I'm just an artist/techie with no academic background in psychology(So feel free to call out any mistakes I've made!), but I have written(partly, I've been lucky enough to have a few contributors) this project(https://github.com/EternityForest/AnyoneCanDoIt) which I believe someone actually reshared on HN a while back.

Basically it's an attempt to document a set of strategies for doing things in a way that does not depend on having any particular talent, in the most extreme high-process way possible, to be scaled back or ignored as needed for a situation. It's based on some pretty "pop self help book" level pseudo-research.

The other part of the project is the the math eli5, an attempt to document as much of the math that is actually useful or interesting in real life but that doesn't require years of study, plus the reasons why you would want to go and do that study, rather than actually trying to transmit the deep understanding(which I sure don't have!) directly.

I've also got a blog(eternityforest.com) mostly full of more creative work and essays on random historical stuff, plus some unpopular opinions about how software is (mostly) not in fact going down down the toilet.
How does this differ from the free mediation already offered by the state of New York?

https://ww2.nycourts.gov/ip/adr/divorcemediation.shtml
The government should maybe replace much of its inefficient court system with self-serve computers, and use the savings to cut taxes. But I hear that’s not the kind of thing governments do.
yeah, there are so many old houses are still sitting around in Europe. My area almost every house was built in the late 1800s. Looks pretty nice, but insulation sucks.
Comité Liquidant Ou Détournant Les Ordinateurs (C.L.O.D.O.) (1983)
With a modern Intel processor, it was much faster to go through a 10k integers array than sort it first and then do binary search.

The small N is not that small anymore, and the difference speed between stack and heap is bigger now than ever.
Why is rooftop solar more expensive?

Mounting structure is there, grid supply is there, no issues with weeds/grasses, generally up in the air etc.

Rooftops are unused space.
Is it wrong that I value both of those things?

I like going in once or twice a week, catching up with my team, writing stuff on a whiteboard, having in person 1:1s, attending an all hands in person, getting a free snack from the kitchen, having a beer after work at the pub.

I also like making my own breakfast, lunch and dinner, not spending over 50 quid travelling to the office, booking out an afternoon to write something, the ability to set my own schedule, having my own screen and desk, going for a quick walk in garden, and kissing my daughter goodnight.
Well, the good point of GoodbyeDPI is exactly so that it preserves your IP address. Normally, when trying to circumvent censorship, you would need a VPN server in a different country. But the downsides are that the bank will deny all transactions and call you (OK, answered, they added the VPN IP to the whitelist), that you will miss local-only content, you won't be able to register for a doctor appointment online (the city uses a geo-restricting filter out of security concerns), and you will see foreign prices (which might be 5x higher in some cases!) on sites that differentiate based on the country. Also, extra latency in games. None of that applies with GoodbyeDPI.

Edit: the above is written from the viewpoint of the past myself, before emigration to the Philippines.
Houston is not a particularly important science and technology hub in the US. The idea that Houston would be the most important focus of Chinese industrial espionage is non-sensical.

> From 2017 to 2019, the Houston Consulate cosponsored a series of “matchmaking” events with several Chinese technology transfer centers, attracting approximately three hundred U.S. businesses each year.

This is a very good example of how completely normal diplomatic activity is being cast as somehow malign. The Chinese government seeks foreign investment. Part of that involves the type of public events this passage is describing, in which the government invites a bunch of companies to a trade fair and pitches the idea of investing in China. The US does this abroad. Pretty much everyone does. This document is trying to blur the line between espionage and normal diplomatic activity.

There is actual espionage that occurs out of embassies and consulates around the world. This isn't it.
it's not. just outsource the login. one of my apps i only support google login. only thing i save in my db is some meaningless identifier. no emails, no names. i don't need em.
This week in KDE: Tons of UI improvements and bugfixes
surely 'improving housing stock' will require a lot of energy expenditures that might not be easy to calculate what the actual benefits are.
> So even in the wild west of Amazon at least there are a few standards.

Getting a trademark isn't an "Amazon standard." It's a requirement to use A+ Content, among many other things.

However, you can ship product into their warehouses all day long without one. So clearly not a "standard."

> I'd rather buy stuff that had to follow a few standards that I nominally trust.

The standards, like food safety, that people really care about have nothing to do with trademarks. You can say that it stops unsafe knockoffs, but this is factually wrong based on the amount of counterfeit stuff that comes out of Amazon.

> By registering a trademark/incorporating/etc you are declaring your intention to work within the rules or at least some rules.

Registering a trademark only guarantees you are willing to follow the rules of getting a trademark. Nothing else.

> You are actually trying to avoid being a citizen at all if you don't want to abide by rules designed to protect customers.

Non sequitur. Trademarks don't exist to protect customers. They exist to protect businesses from knockoffs.

> you seem to imply that you want to use it for ad hoc sales.

Nope. I just don't want to spend 850 Euro to register a trademark for a low volume product.

> Amazon is for shop style sales ie vendors with product lines and inventory.

There's a "have one to sell? Sell on Amazon" link on every product page.
Show HN: Code in Response to “The Trouble with Symlinks.”
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32190032

This was written in about the past hour or so; it has no documentation or test cases yet. Think twice before relying on it in production.

The idea is that we can perform a detailed validation of the trustworthiness of an absolute or relative path, as a simple function that can be reused anywhere: I call this function safepath_check.

A trustworthy path is one whose meaning cannot be changed by a third party: another user who isn't root.

The path is therefore immune, for instance, to TOCtoTOU security problems, like the insertion of a symbolic link or other tampering.

A trustworthy path is allowed to contain symbolic links. Symbolic links can be validated to be safe. To that end, safepath_check performs its own symlink resolution, to ensure that every link resolution step substitutes path material that is trustworthy.