skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Impressive.

URL: https://qntm.org/responsibility

Summary:

> This story follows Tim and Diane, two scientists who have successfully built a quantum computer. They use it to simulate a universe, and eventually discover that they are in fact living in a simulation themselves. They realize that any changes they make to the simulation will be reflected in their own universe, and must be careful not to do anything that could be harmful. They also discover that the simulation is part of an infinite tower of quantum computers, with their own universe being near the bottom. This realization is both exciting and daunting, as they now have the power to play God, but must be careful not to do anything that could have disastrous consequences.

Could it be using ChatGPT behind the curtains?
This is insightful, thanks.
> an HVAC with ultra-high-quality filters and a continuously running fan

That isn't going to do a thing about CO2.
Sure...

@echo off

pause

robocopy "C:\Users\o\Desktop\2023" "D:\2023" /e /mir /np /v /tee /r:0 /w:0 /log+:"C:\Users\o\Desktop\log_robocopy.txt"

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@echo on
"Apparently these public schools (Eton, Harrow, Winchester, Westminster, Rugby, Charterhouse and Shrewsbury) were intentionally designed to turn out sociopathic narcissists with a penchant for violence and cruelty"

My time at a public school (60s) was irredeemably vile, but this statement is utter bollocks. The cruelty was systemic & structural, but unconscious and well intended, "it'll make a man of you - as a 9 year old - to run 15 miles at 4am and be beaten if you're in the last 10". It was a failure of rationalism, evidence and common-sense rather than wickedness. That's not to say I wouldn't now beat my old masters unconcious if I bumped into them in a dark alley all these years later - but I wouldn't ascribe calculated wickedness to them, or a dark desire to further Empire.
NextJS hosted on Vercel + MongoDB Atlas, all within the free tiers. I pay about $10 a year for the domain and that’s it.
It’s much faster than that in practice, but of course it comes down to how well your backend is written. I’ve been using HTMX lately and I can blink and miss the UI updates.

I wish I had numbers, but in my experience it’s far better than you’d expect. Basically take the length of a REST call you’d have to make anyway and add a few milliseconds for the rendering.

It won’t be the right choice in all cases, but it’s a great option in many.
From TFA it's not just the 980 Pro 2 TB but also all the newer 990, so it's problematic.
It depends on what you're building. Choose the best tool for the job. Every time. Don't just default to your favorite.
At least they had more of the native population survive. and in some countries there it's up to almost 50% of the total.
Personally I don't think generative AI will be a marketable skill the same way mobile development was a decade ago or web development two decades ago.

Using an existing generative AI model is relatively trivial, just an API call, and so it doesn't have the complexity needed to create barriers to entry that'll justify high wages. Training a generative AI model does have that complexity, but it also requires compute & data resources that are beyond the means of an indie developer or small startup, and so you pretty much have to work for a well-funded company that can afford oodles of servers and petabytes of data. That limits the pool of potential employers, which again keeps salaries down.

I think it might be much more like the economics for say aerospace engineers or petroleum geologists, both of which are very difficult technical fields, but do not have the bargaining power to demand high wages the way software engineers do. Hell, even like embedded software engineers, which arguably is harder than web/mobile development but paid significantly less because there are fewer businesses competing for those developers.

Robotics potentially has a lot of potential, particularly if standardized hardware platforms emerge that could put the hardware aspects within reach of a lot of startups. It definitely has the domain-specific complexity, and yet will likely be structured as lots of small firms for individual markets searching for a common skillset rather than a few big firms trying to hire a very specialized skllset.
Maybe I'm from a different era, but I still think that the best default position is that anything somebody has listed about themselves online may be a work of fiction that we shouldn't be expected to take at face value in most contexts. If encryption is not immoral, encrypting your personal information is also not immoral, even if you also want plausible deniability. Privacy is not unethical. If a persona and pseudonym is the best route to that, you aren't hurting anybody.

As a person who prizes the idea that what we say and do are more important than who we are, I disagree that honesty and ethics always align. If some dishonesty maximizes peoples' actual wellbeing, then that dishonestly is probably actually more ethical than the honesty that compromises and hurts people for no gain other than ideological purity.
Possibly... though I suspect other factors also got in there with the past two years and the labor market.

The article (from 2016) finishes with:

> “If someone can get a $5,000 or $7,000 raise by going down the street, why wouldn’t they?” Eisenbray said.

> “For companies that aren’t paying as much as their competitors, they’re going to see their best talent move,” Kropp predicted. “In this segment of the market, people will move for 50 cents or a dollar an hour difference.”
I asked them one time and they said they have no relation to Kee (who ran the shareware processing site), and just bought the domain when it was available. No connection to the old site. (I also used to get the occasional check from the old Kagi!)
Github employees personally reached out to various packagers (I know both Cargo and Homebrew for certain) asking them not to perform shallow clones on their index repos, because of the extra processing it was incurring on the server side.
aka a protocol for transferring hypertext from server
I don't know what you're driving at. Is it perfect? Of course not... what alternative do you suggest?
In theory, a 3rd party insurance equivalent to AppleCare could be constructed for some technology products, but this is hampered by short product lifecycles, lack of BOM transparency (e.g components changed within a single product generation) and ability of firmware updates to change product behavior and invalidate previously collected data on reliability.

Open-source SSD firmware would provide more transparency on performance and reliability.
You for sure wouldn't want to build a spreadsheet type app with htmx because of that aspect. Many other types of web apps can benefit from the simplification of the architecture, however. And like my paging example, many times you need to go to the server anyway. But sure, like anything, I wouldn't use htmx for every situation.
This seems a bit of a broad brush. You can hardly fault someone for getting a PhD because of something like graduating into a recession, because they actually wanted to into academia but changed their mind, or so that they could immigrate.
Lisa’s Family Photos
It wasn't as nefarious as it seemed at first, but the fact is the systems of investment currently in place do not allow for plebs to manipulate it in their favor. I was only an observer rooting for the common man, but I still have a difficult time seeing Robin Hood as a useful tool when they were not able to execute basic buying of an EFT on an open market.
I'm only on the second update, and it seems like this guy speed-ran addiction:

> I can't stop crying. Fuck heroin. Fuck my life. I guess I don't need to say that since heroin pretty much fucked my life for me in under two weeks, I just want to die.
> Most plausible post-apocalyptic Earths would be far easier to live on than Mars.

thank you

how are we supposed to build a second home on a dead, ruthlessly hostile planet until we demonstrate ourselves capable of stabilizing the biosphere and building a sustainable long-term civilization here

Earth is easy mode compared to Mars
Reddit offers sort-by-controversial

It seems to me as if using Reddit is the simplest thing that might work.
Interesting aside here in that claiming that the malvinas are colonised.

I mean, in a sense yes, yes they are, you could say the same thing about Taiwan or Gibraltar, Ceuta or Alaska. Sure the other country claims that it's theirs, but the population living there is less convinced.

There is some deep glossing over here, Argentina is not some ex-french colony saddled with huge debts/currency obligations. There are some hints as to where some of this debt problem comes from:

> Although politically unstable and dominated by a backward landlord and comprador class, the South American nation’s rapid growth, large immigration flows, and incipient industrialization created the conditions that could challenge the colonial status quo.

Perón made a good go of equality, thats great. But he pissed off the church, the USA and combined with drought, that caused economic havok. But, Perón managed to pay off a whole bunch of debt and nationalise loads of infra.

He fell from grace, and the landlord class fucked shit up.

Don't get me wrong, the CIA trying its best to "influence" things didn't help.
Am I reading this wrong, or does the author really keep mentioning "attempts" at things that will do absolutely nothing to CO2 levels? Non-venting range hood? Box fan with filter? These will do nothing for CO2.

The only way you're going to bring down CO2 levels in your dwelling is to bring in outside air. The best way would be installing a heat recovery vent that will save some energy. The simple way would be to open two windows and stick the fan in one for a short time (blowing in for turbulence to clear out the corners of the room).

Leaving your windows open with passive circulation for a longer time is going to cool down all the stuff inside, wasting much more heat.
Google works on Blink-based iOS browser contrary to Apple's WebKit rule
Google's advertising has actually helped other search engines be safer and more useful. Google search acts as a magnet for all the crap you don't want when searching.

Brave search, DDG, Searx, etc are all cleaner and therefore more useful.
Show HN: Webapp.io - Free firecracker-based full-stack hosting
Not an American so maybe I’m not in a position to comment but millions of people are still persecuted by communist China
Hey HN,

We recently finished our firecracker-based webapp hosting platform.

It's like if Vercel and Docker had a baby: You write VM configurations in a language that looks like a Dockerfile, and every commit creates a preview environment which can be "promoted" to a production site.

Here's an example configuration:

```
FROM vm/ubuntu:18.04
RUN curl -fSsL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash
RUN apt-get install nodejs
COPY . .
RUN npm install
RUN npm run build
RUN BACKGROUND npm run start
EXPOSE WEBSITE localhost:3000
```

This product combines our firecracker-based hypervisor (200ms cold starts) with a global CDN written in Go (using Caddy for TLS termination)

We can offer everything for free because we charge for the DevOps side (CI/CD & preview environments) - we have no intention of getting users and then upselling people for hosting.

We're obviously very excited about this launch, and would love to hear your feedback.
In Canada and parts of the US, Engineer is a protected title.

https://engineerscanada.ca/news-and-events/news/who-can-use-...
It's not supposed to be sealed, it's just supposed to have draft. (the flue always vacumming from convection)
Meta also announced a $40B stock buy back this week. These excuses about needing to save costs reek of bullshit.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/02/01/facebook-parent-meta-ann...
What part of blockchain programming? Knowing how to use the web3 API through Infura is just an ordinary programming task; knowing the finer points of smart contract security and all the corner cases in the EVM or Solidity is a lot deeper area.
I built exactly this board for a homebrew (S)NES controller. Simultaneous L+R inputs are converted to neutral and U+D are converted to U.

Even with the interlock a player can gain an advantage by buffering inputs.
+1. Not even sure this is “eligible” for an hn post. It actually makes less sense than the CNN ones I saw earlier, and boy those were terrible takes.
That's the same problem as before. Outside of maybe fundamentalist religious people who think their religious text is the final word on everything, everybody agrees that "science" is the best way of finding out the truth. The trouble is that they disagree on what counts as science (ie. which scientists/institutions/studies to trust). When the disagreement is at that level, casually invoking "science" misses the point entirely.
Maybe sort by trending, where it is not about absolute popularity but about the speed at which a post gained votes.

Also, since we are on this topic, I always thought someone would execute better on slashdot's karma system, where you upvoted on different axes for humor, insight, etc.

Having said that, I would leave hn as it is. It is nice to have a stable platform on the web.
Back when HDD would fail really a lot warranty was working. I'd happily fill an online form, Web 1.0 style, and then send my Seagate (I'm in Europe, was sending them to the Netherlands IIRC) disks and a few weeks later I'd receive a new drive.

I probably still have a few screenshots of these forms somewhere.
I've had a few CO2 meters, and learned not to trust any <$100 as they don't really work. I look for meters that use non-dispersive infrared diffusion sensors (NDIRs), like the Aranet4. I've found the TIM10 desktop model from co2meter.com to be accurate (AFAICT), uses NDIRs, and only US$139.

I also have other air quality meters. (I collect measuring devices.) I wish there was a do-it-all air meter.
Fundraising expenses are a huge problem with large charities, but it doesn't follow that fundraising annoyingness is a huge problem. It's not a customer service problem with donors; it's a "using too much of proceeds on fundraising" problem.
Hmmmm - the subheading of the page says “Migrate or transport exabyte-scale datasets into and out of AWS”, and in the diagram they repeat it. Either AWS is being deceptive, or the FAQ is wrong. Someone who cares that has a corporate AWS account should check or get documentation corrected? More interesting to know how AWS respond…

Q: Can I export data from AWS with Snowmobile? Snowmobile does not support data export. It is designed to let you quickly, easily, and more securely migrate exabytes of data to AWS. When you need to export data from AWS, you can use AWS Snowball Edge to quickly export up to 100TB per appliance and run multiple export jobs in parallel as necessary.

Interesting since there is obviously no technical reason the export can’t be done from AWS. ⸘Technically you could export exabytes using tens of thousands of 100TB Snowball Edge devices‽

The snowball “device” is pretty neat:

* 45-foot long High Cube shipping container

* [each snowmobile container] comes with a removable connector rack with up to two kilometers of networking cable that can directly connect to the network backbone in your data center.

* AWS can provide the auxiliary chiller if needed based on the site survey findings [if temperature exceeds 85F/29.4C]

* A fully powered Snowmobile requires ~350KW [sic] Generators can be provided by AWS if needed

* Snowmobile pricing is based on the amount of data stored on the truck per month. Provisioned Snowmobile Capacity: $0.005/GB per month
Earth Pulsates Every 26 Seconds. No One Knows Why. Do You?
KeePassXC does not seem to have this feature or bug.

https://keepassxc.org/
True BizarreByte. I love how htmx let's you easily add animation indicators on actions, because many times it's too fast due to the small chunks coming back and getting placed so quickly in the DOM
Hey HN! Co-founder of webapp.io here. Looking forward to your feedback :)
Google created an AI that can generate music from text, but won’t release it
Compute power is absurdly cheap these days, especially for something as simple as SSR of web pages
the CIA has a great history of implying that they did regieme change, when they only really managed to do it once in Iran. The rest of the time they were just spaffing money at anyone angry.
If developer time is worth just $50/hr, that's just 20 hours to pay for itself.

Pugetbench says 448 seconds for the Threadripper 3990 to compile unreal vs 889 seconds for the Ryzen 5950X. That's over 7 minutes saved every compile or just around 170 compiles to pay for itself.

If you do just 5-6 compiles per day, that Threadripper pays for itself in just one month (not including any other system costs).

Most devs are worth way more than $50/hr and the payback time for them would be much, much shorter than that one month period.
Being tighter or looser doesn't help much if the filters aren't tuned right. You can get too much spam in your inbox and too much good email in your spam folder at the same time.
Not Argentina. Less than 3% of Argentina’s population is indigenous. In terms of the fate of its indigenous people, Argentina is quite similar to the US or Australia.
The browser won't help you avoid putting it in the login form at google.com.fakehackersite.com which can then just relay that to real google.

I think this is still an improvement over SMS, and personally is something that risk wise I'm happier with than the idea that if I lose a yubikey or it breaks down it's game over.
No, repos of packages are not used, at all. Crates don't even need to be in any repository, and the repository URL in the metadata isn't verified in any way. Crates can link to somebody else's repo or a repo full of fake code unrelated to what has been published on crates.io.

crates.io crates are tarballs stored in S3. The tarball downloads also go through a download-counting service, which is how you get download stats for all crates (it's not a tracker in the Google-is-watching-you sense, but just an integer increment in Postgres).

Use https://lib.rs/cargo-crev or source view on docs.rs to see the actual source code that has been uploaded by Cargo.
> We all assumed that

Uh huh.
Remember all the press about property theft, particularly on the lead up to the midterms? That timing was no accident. And then the Walgreens came out and admitted it was completely overblown?

The biggest type of theft in the United States is wage theft, which this is an example of. Ask yourself why the media so rarely covers that.
> Of course a certain level of disclosure is required by the SEC if you want to be traded publicly…

This is what I find confusing, there isn’t some magic switch that gets pulled when you are required to disclose financials which protects you from the downsides to being open.

If your product can be trivially copied, like an AI email writer, I’m going to guess the problem wasn’t how open you were during the development process. Everyone has come out with their own “Do X with AI” at this point with zero hope to monetize beyond charging for compute time as the market is fully saturated.
This is exactly how it is…The Northern people largely vote according to tribe and religion, competence be damned. No surprise they’re the poorest and most decrepit region…yet they keep voting for the same set of nincompoop leaders.
I wouldn't say "really-smart-person" but reasonably smart person who believe they are way more intelligent than they actually are. People who mistake competence in one area as expertise in all areas.
Probably this one https://rive.app/
Could make a nice alternative to something like Electron...
Are you at least happy for them, or sorry that happened?
You see same set of problems in a movement of super wealthy men, esp if you are a female.
Who said I'm going around saying that? But it's still a reasonable alternative to the form of capitalism currently practiced in America. So you are incorrect in saying that nothing is being proposed.
My problem is opening links from apps. Sometimes I want a link in Slack (or other desktop apps) to open in my personal profile and sometimes I want it to use my work profile. With Brave/Chrome, the link will open in whatever profile window is active. I can't find a way to make this work with Firefox.
> That isn't going to do a thing about CO2.

It should, because of the V in HVAC.
If your words will get you cancelled then maybe you should just keep them to yourself.
> the firmware update last week

Link to specific firmware version please?
> I'm always taken aback by this fascination and heroification with John Carmack (or similar figures) on HN. I love Doom and Quake too, but that doesn't qualify him any more than any other random senior engineer to work on something totally different.

According to Sriram Krishnan, John Carmack was at Facebook's highest engineering level and achieved the top possible rating of "redefines expectations" for his level three years in a row. They had to create a new tier for him. Nobody else has ever reached that level. He replaced a "hundred person team" and maybe was better than that team.

I have no inside insight to the matter, but this seems like something beyond a "random senior engineer".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXbSOiqnQxQ&t=711s
A reason to keep doing it is to maintain the value of openness within the internal culture through praxis. If it was only being done for marketing purposes, then it wasn't ever a value, but a strategy.
In the US, certain fields are protected via licensing boards and required degrees. One cannot just become a Civil Engineer, for example, simply by adding that title to their Email Signature.
Wow, I didn’t realize the scale of these things.

There are fewer than 4000 people living on the islands.

When there was a referendum about whether to keep the current association with the UK, 3, three people voted no.

One, who cares about a tiny amount of land and a few thousand people, it should not be a big international issue.

Two, self determination of a population should be important. When 99.8% of the population votes for keeping the status quo, maybe just let them.
This reminded me of one my favorite essays on the subject, "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee" by Honoré de Balzac in the 1830s

https://voxpopulisphere.com/2016/01/17/honore-de-balzac-the-...
Do you have an example or a tutorial of this please?
Is there somewhere we can view the source code? (the link leads to an 'Add shortcut' button)
This comment was misformatted, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34648802
If you think the UK is still in the EU then I have some bad news for you
I wish for once on this website that people would just harangue me for making bad jokes instead of dumping their well-actuallys.
AFAIK with gas furnaces the air touching the flame never touches the air that goes into the house, they run them past each other on top of a thin filter to exchange heat. So the CO2 produced from the flame should not affect CO2 in the house, provided the system is not malfunctioning.
This has it backwards. crates.io has always hosted the crates themselves, but has used Github for the index. In the future, with the sparse HTTP index, crates.io will be the only one in the loop, cutting Github out of the equation.
This is really good. Well done!
> The article would argue that, rather than being the aggressor

I doubt the article would be able to argue that logically. One doesn't invade a place who's entire population has been attached to a country for greater than three generations.

I think given the article writer would realise that this would be the same argument that justifies the 2014 crimean invasion, or the trouble in Sudan(both of them), or indeed the troubles in Northern Ireland.