skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I find reading the text back in a different font often helps, particularly switching from mono-spaced to variable or vice-versa, though I'm not sure why. Perhaps I remember the shape of the words as correct because that is what I just typed, and when all the words have a different shape I'm forced to think about it differently. It is why I often immediately spot a typo without even really looking after hitting "add comment" here, or flip down to look at the preview of a stack exchange post. The effect seems less pronounced when both texts are in view the whole time as with some markdown editors I've tried, which is why I think an unconscious "it looks like what I saw as I typed so is correct" thought is a factor.

Some time ago I tried having my posts read back to me via TTS but found the low quality voices and mispronunciations of actually correct phrases irritating enough to run any productivity gain. I should try that again, as I get the impression from posts here & elsewhere that freely available TTS options have improved significantly in recent years.
It's getting there though. One VC that I'm intimately familiar with during their last LP meeting made the point of 'only looking at companies that do AI'.
Over two decades, as you pointed out in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11559869.
It's... hype cycle with bubble characteristics.

Obvious comparison is crypto. Unlike crypto I'm more willing to view this in a positive light because there's something real behind all the marketing, however we're starting to get sucked into the bubble-like loop of big promises -> practical applications not living up to those promises -> even bigger promises.

If it's a tech demo, then writing sonnets is impressive and cool. But when you're promising to disrupt entire industries, "hey, I can write sonnets" is not going to cut it.
All my stuff is in zip lock bags in storage boxes.

Avoid drawers which take up a large volume as they’re mostly empty and tend to end up all over the floor when they inevitably fall over.
Someone commented something similar on reddit a while ago, and it is a very good argument to be honest. Still, you might find some situations where the tool might be useful and it's already deployed, so people can use it if they want
Just wondering if something like a YAML file would be a simple enough graph database for you or if you are looking for something complex?
> This seems like a good counterargument, however on thinking it over I don't think it's valid.

I'm not really presenting it as a counterargument, just a thought, because at the end of the day we're talking about predicting wether we can find future solutions to future problems.

> Based on that chain of thought, I don't think it's valid to draw historical comparisons beyond the last 500 years or so. Perhaps not even the last 100 years.

If I were presenting this as a rigorous counterargument, I'd go beyond what you allude; it's not 500, or 100 years of history that we can draw on to predict what will happen in the future. It's 0. We haven't had problems like the ones that will come, we don't know what the theoretical solutions could be, and we don't know wether we'd be able to implement any of those theoretical solutions.

We could get lucky and metaphorically "draw heads" from now until eternity, and pointing out that in the past we've sometimes "drawn tails" can't disprove it, you're right.

All I'm saying is we've failed plenty in the past, so it's worth considering that perhaps we could fail in the future too. We are more capable, though the problems are bigger. We could get lucky, but we could also get unlucky. We don't know.

> Faced with a truly civilization threatening resource shortage in the next decade or century, we could literally move asteroids to solve it. With that in mind, can you really claim it's valid to compare ourselves to neolithic hunter gatherers and say we face the same kind of existential risks over resources?

Here I need to point out two things:

- Until it's done, having the capacity to mine asteroids will only be theoretical.

- Yes— even if we manage to move asteroids. I think it'll be valid comparison for as long as we exist.

We are living beings in an environment. We can use energy in clever ways to gain the resources we need to survive and perhaps grow in that environment. The demand for resources and the supply we can access might grow as our population, complexity, and capabilities grow, but we'll forever be grappling this core mechanic of survival: we need to make sure we don't run out of X, else we risk all this we've built to come crashing down.

One thing I brought fourth on my third point in that original comment is that perhaps the solution to this timeless question isn't always in the supply of resources. Perhaps we shouldn't always figure out how to get more of X, and instead figure out how we can need less of it. But I'm going now beyond what you just asked me in your comment, sorry.
I’m not American nor live in America. But as a resident of cities whose shape pre-dates the car across several dense European countries, I can relate to those fears.
Hopefully ok to hang Ian Bell’s Elite pages off here:

http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/index.htm and

http://www.elitehomepage.org/archive/index.htm (file archive)

Bit of a time capsule, but some interesting curios in there.
I'd put it at middle school. In highschool plenty of students rely on Cliff Notes or whatever the current equivalent is.
An Introduction to Lambda Calculus
I do a lot of proof reading for my own and other people's papers and decks. When I started out I found I was incredibly hit and miss at spotting issues. I now have a few rules that help me catch (most of the) issues:

Start by finding somewhere quiet and reading the document out loud yourself, you will catch so many issues this way (though you still risk your mind filling in blanks or missing your common errors). Ideally this will be to someone else, they can help you find issues or question where things aren't clear - but even alone you will get value if you take your time.

As others have said, I then use a 'read aloud' tool such as the one in review in Word, sadly PowerPoint doesn't have the same tool.

Do a search for things you know get missed - one for us is double spaces and using a hyphen or minus sign - in place of a long dash —

Search for all common abbreviations and replace with the full word

Make sure there is a single date format throughout the deck

Check bolding, alignment and fonts

...

The list could go one, but I find that just concentrating on one thing at a time really helps - don't try to look at a whole page and find all the issues. And don't stop - make sure you keep reviewing as the final edits go in, the worst thing is someone pasting an update in from an email and messing with fonts/alignment etc. Just before you submit.

And give yourself time - maybe 20 percent of my time is spent writing a deck, 80 percent is spent editing, refining, validating and getting levels or approval.

The point of a great paper or deck is to be respectful of your audiences time. Make sure that you don't offer them the chance to get distracted by something - you want to keep their focus on delivering the answer you are looking for.

In the past I've seen so many meetings thrown as people get hung up on errors in the materials which eats into their confidence with the presenters - wasting time and focus.
> I would not want my electricity company to "move fast and break things", and I like that they reserve loads of their people's thinking power and productivity on boring stuff like "risk mitigation" and "preventive maintenance".

What about embracing solar / nuclear instead of maintaining the rent-seeking status quo and preventing adoption of renewable energy sources.
Why not use an open source license that requires payment for commercial use? Then technically companies have to pay for their use and should have no problem justifying the expense if it is small.

In this model there is probably a use case for an aggregated subscription service where a company pays one fee every year to an entity which redistributes it to open source projects proportionally by some usage metric. This is similarly to how artists are given royalty for how many times their song was used in a movie or played on the radio.

The license used would need to support the aggregate service mentioned above.
I wonder if C3's contracts with large enterprise customers are the value? As in, it takes a heck of a lot of work to get an enterprise customer signed up for anything, and these guys have done it, so all you then need to do is buy them so that you can actually pour the tech into the contract? Point being they don't need to have anything special in themselves, in terms of AI product.

As for the rest of the AI investment idea, the question is where does the surplus accrue? Does it land at OpenAI? Does it make devs more productive and land in their pockets? Or does it land at their employers? This is the unobvious thing about every innovation that one needs to tackle.
> The user experience with basic auth is not so good.

Apache actually also has an OpenID Connect module (it's certified and everything), which you can enable to have it work as a relying party: https://github.com/zmartzone/mod_auth_openidc

Basically, the actual UI will be handled by another system that you might be using, for example, in my case that might be a self-hosted Keycloak instance: https://www.keycloak.org/

I'd say that Keycloak is a pretty good solution in general, because it does some of the heavy lifting for you, maybe its shorter release cycle not being the best thing ever, though. I think IdentityServer also tried to fill this niche, but they went full on commercial recently, without OSS offerings.

As a sidenote, I also use mTLS for some personal resources and basicauth is still wonderfully easy to setup without a single point of failure for handling the authentication. A caveat might be that in practice people who try to use mTLS for app development shoot themselves in the foot, because that doesn't play nicely with reverse proxies etc.

Oh and also, to reduce needless disk IO, using a single config file approach as opposed to .htaccess can make Apache a bit more performant and easier to reason about: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#allowove...
Pictures of urinals was not what I was expecting on HN on a bright Sunday morning but fantastic article!
Because music is as messy as humans, and whatever we catalogue is arbitrary at best.

See Every Noise: https://everynoise.com/

Is modern chamber music different from modern classical, and why? How different are Polish free jass and free imporvisation? Canadian black metal and Norwegian black metal and Dutch black metal?

To some, there's no difference. To others, there's a world of difference.

Here's more on the difficulties: https://everynoise.com/EverynoiseIntro.pdf
> Some snarky hedge-fund analyst probably thought that the sports-bra-ification of AI would happen

im sorry, what? i dont understand the reference to sports bras.
All file transfer protocols that copy files one by one suffer work poorly with many small files. The more latency you have, the worst the slowdown. rsync is great for this purpose because it can do batch transfer efficiently, including compressing the data on the fly.
Could you make an intro ;-)
There has been a turn in consciousness research in the last in the decade towards some kind of panpsychism for precisely your sentiment: a completed physics should also be a completed phenomenology. David Chalmers has written extensively and seriously entertained panpsychism in recent years.

Galileo’s Error, published in 2019, by Phillip Goff traces the history of the mind-body problem and illustrates how we divorced our consciousness from the physical world during the development of early modern science and philosophy.

Last century, Ernst Mach and Bertrand Russell argued in favour for neutral monism, a stance which holds that the mental and physical are two sides of the same coin. It seems like these ideas are coming back after a long stretch of dogmatic physicalism.

Panpsychism gets a bad rep for sounding like it has associations with vacuous or flimsy New Age beliefs, but it means a totally different thing in the context of philosophy of mind and consciousness studies. It is the claim that consciousness might be a building block of the universe.

The main problem with panpsychism is not that it is incredulous, but that it currently lacks a compelling explanation for our individual subjectivity. If consciousness and mental properties are ubiquitous in the universe, why do I have my consciousness and you have yours? The main motivation to believe in panpsychism seems to be its incredible elegance and self-consistency. That alone does not make it true, but it might be a very big hint on where to look for answers.
I really dislike my Siglent. The measurement UI is horrible and the probes are iffy. I’m still mostly using a relatively ancient Agilent 546xx (can’t remember which model) and some decent Keysight probes and will probably sell the Siglent.

The Rigol UI is painfully slow. I didn’t buy one because of that.
I was pretty active in the BBC Scene at the time and had a front row seat to a whole pile of the backstory here, and yet I do not recall anybody that pulled this off in a stable and reproducible manner (T1 + some 6845 register hacks).

The problem was that timing the switch point in software was fraught with trouble because you just might end up making the switch at the wrong moment which caused it to jump vertically (or garble a part of your screen). The other problem was that if you wanted perfect timing it was possible but that left you without enough cycles to run your game. Braben & Bell solved this to the point that it was considered stable enough for inclusion in production. Similar hacks had been done on the Atom prior to the BBC so it wasn't as if the knowledge wasn't out there but no game publisher had - as far as I know - seen fit to release a game that used it.

It would be great if you could answer this and point out exactly where this was used prior to Elite on the Beeb, that would set the record straight on this once and for all.
> Once again, the poster behaves

Why are you writing this way? You’re in what is now an extended conversation with a person who is sharing their perspective with you, and you’re coming at it like you’re trying to humiliate them in front of an audience.

You’re not jousting in some epic debate chamber, you’re in the replies of a message board. Calm down.
A bra company mentioned blockchain and its stock price rose. It's in the article.
Thats not the point the article is trying to make:

> AI will change the world, it will make us question what it means to be alive, and there is a chance it will make us a multi-planetary species. But I’m not convinced that just being a company that sells AI will deliver judicious year-over-year returns.
Stay the hell away from the USB-C ones. They are toys. And yes your friend is right: spend on a Metcal. The PS900 is decent if you don’t want to spend on a higher end iron.
Sonnets by themselves, absolutely agree.

Sonnets as an unprogrammed free extra? Interesting, at least.

I’m not sure how many stops there are between this and the end of intellectual labour. For example, Go AI went from mediocre to superhuman much faster than many expected, while self driving cars have been much slower than (I at least) expected.
> the solution is hidden behind "subscribe to wired to keep reading"!

Archived copy: https://archive.today/ziE8c
> And why do some 'capture eyeballs' more effectively than others?

Who cares? It doesn't matter.

There's a lot more dexterity, agility, speed and intelligence required to compete at the top levels of Starcraft than in football, but football pays more because football captures more eyeballs, not individual football players.
Sadly most Monty Python jokes are lost on the young crowd today. :-(
> Sure there are janky features but modern JavaScript is a pretty nice language.

“Janky” is an understatement. Recently I’ve rediscovered that in JavaScript comparing two arrays with == and === returns false, unless they’re the same object. At the same time there is no built-in function to correctly compare arrays for equality. This is a C-level foot gun. Not the only one I might add.
I have several bands who do release the same song several times. EG live albums, some do new versions and now without the limitation of record or CD length multiple takes of the same song in the same album
> The US/NATO will creep out of Ukraine within the year, just like Afghanistan.

This wild fantasy of Russias supporters that NATO is actively involved in Ukraine is so hilarious, if NATO was actually involved the war would be over in a couple of days. NATO's capabilities are so beyond anyone else's that NATO's table scraps are fending off Russia.

> NATO is pumping a lot of misinformation right now because it's their only strength

NATO is helping the Ukrainians kill the fascists that are invading their country and raping and torturing their civilians. But if you wanna call that "misinformation" go ahead.

> They don't have the cards.

And what is the cards then? T62's?, soon longer range cruise missiles will likely be provided by the UK and you'll see the real pain start for Russia.
> If anything, I wouldn’t be surprised if the outrage over Hogwarts Legacy increased sales of the game. I don’t know if I would have heard about it at all if not for the outrage machine.

It wasn't in the file I have of upcoming games until that happened, so you can definitely also include me. It'll be on Switch later in the year, I'll be waiting for then.
In my opinion, it's unlikely that p-zombies are physically indistinguishable from conscious beings.

It's like saying "a computer that works, but where the CPU is replaced by a piece of stone is physically indistinguishable from the real thing".

We have not yet found a physical distinction. It seems likely that there is one.
Agree with this. LTspice will cost you a bit of sanity too but it’s worth it.
Having potential and having your stock rise just because you slapped AI in your product are two different things.
same. I've been running NextCloud for years on multiple installations (even on a small RaspberryPi under k8s at home) and it works perfectly.

Recently I read up about OwnCloud's OCIS and I really want to try it out, it sounds like it could scale much better than the PHP behemoth that is NextCloud (where all you can do if you have performance issues is throw more CPU and memory at the VM)
Err don’t!
> ...some gay character who is essentially 'straight acting'...

I often see (edit: readers) mention that a story has gay/straight characters, even when (to me) there is no opening in the plot for characters to express their romantic inclinations. What exactly are you looking at when you perceive a character as $orientation?
VRAM is accessible via an aperture in physical address space (I believe it's bank-switched for GPUs with more VRAM than the aperture size), which normally isn't directly accessible to user-mode applications, much like most hardware on Linux.
Panic in the Skies
Any tentacle monsters tend to just get in the way I have found.
> Emacs is an attempt to preserve and further develop the legacy of the lisp machine

I don't think that is true, given that GNU Emacs either was based on principles of general Lisp implementations and it violated / did not support much of the MIT Lisp Machine (GNU Emacs: it's not a computer, the Lisp power was weakened, low-level Lisp was replaced with C, weak GUI, not GUI-first, it's not an operating system, ...) ideas.

> A spiritual successor to Emacs will not be a text editor, it will be a software environment that continues and further develops the principles the lisp machine operating systems were build on

I would think the first part ('software environment') is a useful goal, but the second part ('principles the lisp machine operating systems were build on') is not useful, since the Lisp Machine operating system is very foreign to modern users and very different what people know how to develop and use. That idea is also not supported by the user community. It would lead into a very small niche.
If you aren't multi-homed that doesn't matter at all though.

For a home network I'm guessing you are pretty unlikely to do the multi-homing from the house, more likely you will either just have a single upstream or if you are connecting it into your own collocated infrastructure you will do iBGP and let your actual edge BGP routers handle the multi-homed upstreams and sync the full route table etc.

I was tempted to do this once before when I was running my own hosting company but it was prohibitive cost wise to get the circuit I wanted. :(
> but the burning problem that datalog does fix is Prolog's semi-decidability, or in other words, its tendency to enter infinite recursions.

Prolog's built-in search is not semidecidable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decidability_(logic)#Semidecid...

As you observe, Prolog gets stuck in left-recursions. But iterative deepening for Prolog is semidecidable (among other fair methods). This indeed is restricted to the pure, monotonic subset of (full) Prolog together with all pure, monotonic extensions.
I have been to several developing countries. There was definitely more poor people there.

However, even if SF beggars might end up having more dollars in their pockets at the end of a day than someone in a developing country, the quality of life that they get is not so different. No shoes, spending the day sitting on a street, begging, sleeping on a cardboard box somewhere. SF weather is more benign than other what most developing countries have, granted.

My point is: I expected more from the wealthiest nation in the world. They have more than enough to dress, feed and shelter every one of their citizens, many times. Developing countries simply don’t. The fact that you are putting them together in the same phrase kind of makes my point. “Better than a developing nation” is an incredibly low bar to apply to the US.
If we want to move the needle in a meaningful way (CO2 wise), heat pumps and solar panels need to get better, cheaper, easier to install, and more available.

Where I live, driving a heat pump is more expensive than burning gas, from a purely economical POV. Our cost ratio per kW/h for electricity:gas is 3.5:1 right now, but COP for consumer heat pumps in real-world usage is just 2.6 (Yeah they all claim a COP of at least 3, but those are as realistic as ICE fuel economy ratings.) Those ratios need to at least match in order for a heat pump to make any kind of financial sense.

Those heat pumps for a mid sized house cost €15k right now. On back order for 12+ months.
This is very often the case. Some places in Oregon have a lax policy of tolerating substance abuse as long as it's not on premises, but many places that offer shelter are faith oriented and they often have a more hard lined approach in addition to allowing open substance abuse usually comes with many other issues (more fights, etc)

I donate my time on the weekends at The Arches Project which is basically a (failed) effort to reduce the impact of homelessness in Oregon. We spend literally hundreds of millions of dollars to build facilities to provide some beds and daily meals and the overall impact it has on solving the problem is insanely minimal.

If you go to the website to volunteer you'll find a PDF that basically dials back their stated public mission from "reduce homelessness and promote permanent housing / stability" to something closer to "have less people die from cold weather and starvation".

Those are great goals, but I think if the vast amount of people knew we were spending hundreds of millions of dollars and accomplishing so little they would (a) be more motivated to reallocate that money better and (b) be less convinced the problem is being solved inspiring alternative solutions.