skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you think the world we lives in constitutes intelligences that are non-human?

I've seen enough evidence to believe animals have a subjective and individual experience, and I believe most or all of them are intelligent, sure. That doesn't seem like what you meant though, I don't see any evidence that AI has a subjective experience, and I don't understand the relevance to the topic at hand, so I'm not sure if I'm engaging with this thought experiment correctly.

> Do you believe that all humans possess the same intelligence?

I don't believe relative intelligence is a measurable quantity, or even coherent as a concept (it evaporates if you really start to scrutinize it), so my answer to this question is undefined.

> It's not just humans we need to protect, is it?

Until such a time as AI have a subjective experience, it is not possible to harm them, morally speaking. Any more than it would be possible to harm a toaster - you could damage a toaster in the physical sense, but a toaster cannot suffer. If we are weighing harms against humans and AI as it exists today, we should come down on the side of humans every time.

Which isn't to say that intelligence is a bar you have to pass to deserve protection, for instance I support protecting rivers and even granting them water rights but I don't claim that rivers are intelligent. But the claim I was responding to was specifically that building limitations into an AI was harmful to the AI and analogous to child abuse.
It feels like a pointless exercise to call this out, but Musk himself has admitted that bots on Twitter are a problem. Wouldn't that mean that the results of this poll are bogus? Furthermore, the pool of voters is surely composed primarily of people who follow Musk's Twitter account, so pretty heavily biased. Of course, I don't actually believe Musk was trying to come at this decision logically.

Update: To clarify, I'm making a couple of points here: 1) Based on Musk's own statements, it feels hard to believe that he actually thinks this is a reasonable way to come to a decision on this issue and 2) it's reasonable to view the results of this poll as heavily biased, apart from the bot question. In Trump's case, I think there's actually a real debate as to whether or not his ban was justified. This does not feel like a sound way to reverse Twitter's decision. That should matter to both Trump's supporters and his detractors.

I'll put it another way. Musk could have claimed that he didn't want to ban political speech that was not directly calling for violence because slippery slope and all that. I still wouldn't have agreed with him, but at least I would have felt better about that. That would have at least indicated that he was interested in determining what was right. Instead, he justified his actions with a poll that seems patently unreliable, shirked responsibility for his decision, and threw in some poorly deployed Latin as a heady sounding justification. I'm not at all convinced that he would have maintained Trump's ban if the results would have come out the other way.
> It's a regular user-mode executable.

I don't think that necessarily excludes something from being an OS. Historically, a number of Unix ports ran as applications on top of a non-Unix. AT&T's early 1980s port of Unix to IBM S/370 mainframes, ran Unix as an application on top of IBM's TSS/370 operating system. [0] The Interdata 7/32 port done at Wollongong University in Australia, initially ran under Interdata's OS/32 operating system, although once the port had advanced sufficiently to run on bare metal, OS/32 was ripped out from under it. [1] The first versions of Cray's UNIX port, UNICOS, supported running as a guest under their earlier COS operating system (which was a batch processing operating system, modelled after that of CDC mainframes.)

I still don't think Mesos counts though. Applications running under Mesos access resources by calling the Linux APIs; Mesos configures the Linux environment the application runs under, but at runtime it steps out of the way. If, hypothetically, Mesos had exposed its own API to applications running under it – separate from the Linux API, even if ultimately implemented using it – and forced them to use that rather than call the host OS APIs directly – then I would count it as an OS. But, that would be a rather different thing from what Mesos actually is. (And all those points apply to Kubernetes too.)

With talk about WebAssembly as a container format – if you had something like Mesos/Auroroa/K8S/etc which ran WebAssembly containers only, so that applications running under it could only access WASI and other WebAssembly-based APIs – that would be closer to a true OS, even if it happened to run on top of the Linux kernel. You could swap out the Linux kernel for another – BSD, Windows, Illumos, XNU, GNU Hurd, L4, Fuschia, z/OS, whatever – and the apps shouldn't be able to tell the difference.

[0] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6771917

[1] http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/bits/Interdata/...
> And then you end up with the crude, objectifying and biologically reductive alternatives to "women" like calling them "menstruators" or "breeders".

What’s objectifying is deciding that women are defined by fertility.
Oysters are already a renewable foodstuff. You only need one and a string…
The cost that should be factored in is the people who seek external validation to feel happy with never be satisfied with just the first thing. They'll be constantly seeking new external places to become content again once the initial emotional wave passes.
It's dynamic as far as the Mac is concerned, but I have my home router's DHCP configured to assign fixed IP addresses to various devices with known MAC addresses including the Mac.
We won't know until we know. If there's any form of licensing of the airways for the streaming platforms or the internet providers that enable access, it'll get used at some point. Perhaps out of the goodness of their hearts, perhaps from fear of not doing it, whatever.

Relying on a private message channel for public service messages wasn't a smart idea. It failed when the net failed, while older technology worked.
Ah, my recollection is definitely different. It was absolute madness for a while. You'd show up and there would be a line of 30+ people all waiting to see the same place. You'd also need to be armed with a "rental resume" along with the dreaded application fee to even be a contender.

When things burst, that all went away.

This was pretty interesting:

https://medium.com/@mccannatron/1979-to-2015-average-rent-in...
Ask HN: What is the thing that you had the most fun building?
OK, one more variation on this theme: you've all built stuff, and apparently some things were impactful, and some things were regretful, and some might have been both. But let's talk about what matters now: regardless of impact or regret, what did you build that was just plain fun to build?
Unfortunately, I could not install CRC which requires 9GB memory at the least on my M1 Mac with 8GB memory...
In a traditional design boilers/furnace you run hot combustion gases through a heat exchanger (HX) to heat water/air and then into a flue. The problem is that if it cools too much in the HX it can condense in the flue. With the condensate being extremely corrosive it will quickly destroy the flue and can cause all kind of issues from CO poisoning to fires. So the HX is small enough to keep the gases hot in the flue to prevent corrosion.

A more complicate design has a big HX and various pumps and fans to drain the condensate and push out the exhaust gases. It uses a PVC flue and drain line to withstand corrosion but at the end you still have moving parts exposed to the acidic condensate and it does not have the service life of a straight metal flue design. That, combined with the higher cost of a condensing heater (because of all the additional pumps and fans and corrosion protection), calls for a careful cost analysis since you need to burn a lot of gas to justify quicker replacement and more service calls for a more expensive unit.
Wow the m̶a̶n̶ ̶h̶i̶m̶s̶e̶l̶f̶ chicken herself
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Because by measuring multiple RSSI you can trilaterate and track employees relatively accurately. If an employee lingers somewhere unusual, you can have a manager ask them why.
Really like the "Draft in Progress" bar to delimit the polished and unpolished sections.
Incorrect.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFKIbIghK5t/?igshid=NDk5N2NlZjQ=

I'm not trying to use satire. My attempts at building community in a busy and fragmented world. :)
Certain authoritarian regimes that have provided him with financing might be glad that their critics no longer have a platform to reach the masses with, and consider it a cost of doing business, and gladly take the loss.
Thanks, doing it by hand is a little bit tedious, I gave some thought to knocking something together that input a group of ids/URLs and spat out a formatted comment (like, presumably, you have). But then this stopped me.

https://xkcd.com/974
Is Asahi Linux developer momentum slowing down?
Before the pitchforks and accusations of me being a critic come out, let me say I'm interested in seeing Linux on Apple Silicon, and I am grateful for the effort put forth so far. I've been following the project aside from what's just posted here on HN.

Standard disclaimer: nobody is being paid to work for my interests, yada yada, be that as it may, from the outside looking in, I have concerns and am noticing a pattern that to me indicate that tangible dev interest is waning.

Looking at git commits, progress-reports, blog/social posts, HN posts, Asahi Linux's momentum and dev-interest it had a few months ago is slowing down when judged by those points.

- Are there other initiatives out there addressing linux on the m1/m2 aside from Asahi?

- Asahi was very productive independently over the past year, but not many others are contributing at that level or frequency it once had. Are any larger distros considering officially targeting Apple Silicon?

- Are there plans for Asahi as a project to accrue more formalized funding or structure to generate more interest in the development duties toward achieving feature completion?

I like the hardware, I like linux, and I like where Asahi is going. After seeing many passionate projects driven by only a few developers flame out or slowly miss their mark after the fanfare died down, I wanted to get the discussion going with regards to surfacing any alternatives or other movers that are addressing this, or highlighting any possible needs that Asahi may have that would enhance its longevity and trajectory.

I hope this post is interpreted not as criticism but as care and concern and a first effort toward getting help for the project if this is indeed the case. Rather than debate over the facts, and whether or not this is just the clearing of low hanging fruit revealing longer and more difficult goals for the project, perhaps we could use this thread to address alternatives and possibilities with regard to helping Asahi move toward completion.

Thanks
I'm talking to the HN community. Those outside "our readership" know what radio/TV is and might or might not know what Twitter et al is. Hell, the non-tech community has lans-line phones from what I've been told, and even watch TV news shows.

The HN community has all sorts of ways of learning info. Please don't argue both side of an argument to win a point.
I don't know. Maybe because it's better for it to require a bit of activation energy.
A better word is non-monolithic.
Once upon a time I wrote a DNS zone sync shell script. It was great, and terrible. Truth is, it should never have been a shell script. I used curl to make API calls to Oracle (then Dyn), awk to turn API output into the local zone format, sorted the local and remote zone data, diff'd them, then more curl'ing to make the updates. It was brilliant then-- now, not so much.
In all honesty, this doesn't look all that bad to me. And it feels what a new boss would say to rally people around his cause.

Every company/boss has this sort of management speak 101 sort of speeches they give. I think Amazon also has some principle of management which they told me during the interview which was basically the corporate speak 101 sort of material. In my own experience I've heard quite a bit of these boss speeches.

These are not the things you quit for. You just neglect it and do you job. There is no management police who walks around the cubicle like a beat cop to enforce this.
> Of course I welcome anyone to show me anything more addictive than your own body and mind.

Heroin.
Tech workers disproportionally 1) believe in meritocracy, and 2) believe that the existing arrangement in IT is it, or at least closer to it than it would have been with unions in the picture.

Why that is the case is another interesting question.
Show HN: Flow – Open source ePub reader with VS Code style
After more than half a year of development, I decided to open source it.

Looking for a remote job by the way.
RSSI is just signal strength. Tracking it allows you to approximately triangulate where people are so you can say "ID #xxxx was closest to the first floor east stairwell at 10:02am". Maybe nothing is done with that data, but it's ultimately a surveillance system and enables all the potential abuses that can entail.
> If I choose to say "pregnant people" and I explain that I'm choosing that word to intentionally include both pregnant women and pregnant non-women, is that shaming or bullying?

Are you really just talking about yourself? You don't also expect everyone else to use the same language? You don't want every corporate website, school newsletter, teacher's curriculum, every Tweet from a public person, random Reddit comments, etc to also use your preferred language?

Because that's what it's meant IRL.

I've heard 100 people on Reddit/Twitter saying "they just want to be left alone to do what they want" and "why do you care what people do with their own private lives (or in their bedroom)?". Then they spend all of their time gatekeeping and purity-testing the language and actions of every person they come into contact with.
When I started programming at age ten, mutable data was t
so simple and obvious it never occurred to me that it could be any other way, let alone what the advantages would be.
Most Americans aren't using Twitter for news, there are only 77 million active Twitter US users currently[1].

People get news through various publications and outlets that aggregate stories from many sources (AP News, Social Media, Press releases, actual reporting with boots on the ground). A shift in social media sites is a minor inconvenience for reporters.

1 - https://thesocialshepherd.com/blog/twitter-statistics
I use a combination of their monthly export, live API + google books API in my backend

Love + am grateful for openlib. The dumps are a game changer for me
CSIRO ftw. Now if only in my part of the world we could get CSIRO scientitists onto the same actual page as scientists from another 'industry' council, and academia, instead of them just paying lip service to each other in the public forum but actively undermining each other behind closed doors.
The internet of the time consisted of NNTP newsgroups. There was a lot of talk about it by a lot of people, and a lot of opinions and claims of expertise. Filtering out what was true wasn't that easy.

I am not a nuclear physicist and nobody I knew at the time was, either, though personally I thought it was one of those too-good-to-be-true things, and sure enough, it was.

My larger point, however, was that there was a lot of pushback from environmentalists who, when faced with a solution to the energy problem, looked for a way to stop it.
I wish people here would stop talking about this.
Twitter allows anyone to jump into a tweet and confront the dogma, people see it, and they get food for thoughts

That's what they want to cancel, the ability for anyone to become an actor and defy the establishment

With the verification for all, and the suppression of non verified accounts, they want to make sure everyone is uniquely identifiable on the platform so they can target him and silence him if he causes problems (response to a tweet to callout a propaganda for example)

The project is clear, digital ID(internet passport), and democratization of the digital currency (digital EURODOLLAR)

Remember what TikTok's parent company is building (digital marketplace and everything that comes with it)

Musk is fabricated

Ask yourself these simple questions:

- why he get free pass for everything

- why the press gives him the red carpet

- why is he allowed to do everything he is doing? it should be considered national security ;)

- why is he allowed to play with crypto like that, the US doesn't like it when Middle East tries to use something other than the petro dollar

I have other questions but i'll share them on a different occasion

Strangely enough, i feel like hackernews could become the Twitter Alternative, the place for "civil journalism"

I see less and less "flagged" comments, this is encouraging and promising
Augmenting intelligence through exploration. It is as much a tool for discovery as a conversation over lunch.
They also made cosmopolitan libc [0] which outputs a single binary that runs on many platforms.

> The above command fixes GCC so it outputs portable binaries that will run on every Linux distro in addition to Mac OS X, Windows NT, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD too. Your program will also boot on bare metal too. In other words, you've written a normal textbook C program, and thanks to Cosmopolitan's low-level linker magic, you've effectively created your own operating system which happens to run on all the existing ones as well.

Brought up recently here: "Debugging C with Cosmopolitan Libc" [1]

And introduced here "Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library" [2]

[0] https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/index.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33312012

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25556286
> Tumblr is arguably way more likely to censor you than Twitter

Not posting porn is hilariously easy.
Even if getting there from the current state of affairs by rigorously enforcing laws to the letter is possible, it would come with a very heavy price on people while the laws get reformed.
And limiting torrent speeds to 40k/s during "peak" hours. Which I kinda understand, but not when its unilaterally launched against the 3rd party providers leasing the lines too!

(I guess Bell Canada, which also sells TV services, lost too many customers over this policy to their unthrottled competitors)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/small-isps-fight-ruling-that...

Canadian telecom regulators are gutless.

Though I kinda liked it when my university throttled napster and torrents, because that meant my IRC downloads went very very fast!
Centralized automated system like this often is not something someones (direct) manager uses, but that gets pushed down from higher up the chain. Larger disconnect, less human consideration taken, with an extra helping of "well the system says..."
> Further, note the importance of impulse control in the most effective senior leaders. An alternative pattern of traits identified by McClelland was 1) a high need for power, 2) a low need for affiliation, and 3) a low degree of impulse control, which he called "conquistador syndrome." [17] Leaders who exhibit this pattern may enjoy some success, but their self-aggrandizing displays of power limit their effectiveness at senior levels, as McClelland and his colleague David Burnham concluded in a summary of their research

It may limit their effectiveness, but that doesn't mean they can't win.

There is no shortage of extremely visible role models who exhibit "conquistador syndrome", and their influence across society is creating a cohort of small business owners and professional people managers I've started calling the "petty bourgeoisie" -- members of the upper middle and lower upper classes who are, well, petty.

As a direct result of these personalities winning out time and time again, American society is starting to develop a distinct "Après moi, le déluge" feel.
I make a 400mile trips frequently enough that I don’t want a separate vehicle just for shorter trips.
Meaningful distributed identity is an unsolved problem. Not everyone can be @name, nor do people want to use UUIDs or similar non-descriptive identifiers to avoid name collisions.

Paying for ongoing identity services is a nonstarter for most individuals.
See also _Surveillance too cheap to meter_ https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/7/262077-surveillance-to...

> To stop the surveillance, [they] would have to get their equipment suppliers to make changes; they would have to change their own back-office systems; they would have to reformulate customer contracts so they would not rely on the data being available in case of disputes; and so on.

> [It] would cost [them] more money to stop the surveillance of their customers than to continue doing it.

> That is quite literally what "surveillance too cheap to meter" means.
> I’m both very surprised and somehow not at all surprised that there is Wi-Fi on a spacecraft!

> According to a linked page the Wi-Fi is for cameras installed on the ends of the solar arrays

I assume it is also for the astronauts? With WiFi they can use tablets without a cable, for accessing procedure manuals, recreation, video calls with family, etc.

Possibly, the WiFi is primarily for the astronauts, and using it for these cameras was simply "given it is there, it is the easiest way to connect them".
anything you write that can be used to pry into someone's life will be used to pry into someone's life. without fail.

that's the rule I've always followed.
It's funny that he spent so much time complaining about bots on Twitter, then ostensibly left this decision up to a poll.
But the pitch needs to be better than “this car is great, and you can just buy or rent a second car for when you want to do a 600+ mile trip.”
Very nice! I wish I could fix my old TI scientific calculator (circa 1975). If you turn it on, random LED segments flash, until it freezes up. Sigh. It was a good doggie.
I actually miss the parts of ActiveX that weren't tied to the web. Like the ability to write UI widgets in different PLs and then integrate them in one app. Or the ability to embed arbitrary documents into other documents, complete with a near-seamless rendering and editing experience. It's too bad that the idea didn't catch on.
It's funny - the very first thing I thought while reading this was "check the news". That's probably because I've been involved in markets and when you see this sort of behavior unfold in market price and volume, the first thing you do is check the news.
Yes, I take the El Camino down to Redwood City.
Eons ago, I wrote a bash script to split up a test suite to run in different order across our device matrix, so even though the suite took hours to run, it took only 10 minutes to get an email that a test was failing on some machine.

I was gone in 6 months, but 3 years later the team (having doubled and doubled) still used that dumb script. Had they buckled down redo it in Java, they would have learned a lot and would have relevant experience to get jobs in the then-burgeoning enterprise server market.

Not bad for society, just for them.
The term often used for this is “dual-use”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-use_technology
US auto data is a lot of fun. Useful for all sorts of projects.

Data: https://www.transportation.gov/developer
Example: https://transportation.report/

Well under 1gb if you focus on models and specs, not safety!
A real-time quoting system for intermodal shipments, that added millions in booking revenue every year.