skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did not mean qualia, I knew qualia. I meant that my experience is not matter. Matter is matter and charges are charges, my experience right now is neither. Your perception, the act of you experiencing life right now is not matter.

> We looked insanely deep into the brain [4], there is no magic going on.

Indeed all computation and input collection and such happen in the brain. I just don't understand how I can experience anything if I'm composed only of matter. How come there happens to be a mind? Indeed the electrochemical charges from visual receptors in the eye will be transmitted and computed and memory and dopamine and all the neurons will fire regardless of whether I'm only matter or not. But how can the experiencing consciousness, 'me' arise from matter?

> only a simulation can be conscious, not physical systems

This is what I'm talking about, only that I don't see why simulations are not physical systems.

> yes, you are electrochemical charges, we all are, what else could we be?

It's nonsensical and unscientific to completely rule out the possibility that we can be something else as well, especially when we can't study it directly, like in the example of soul.
Printing to an eink tablet — that’s intuitive!

I bet someone can even make it into a thing and market it as “smart paper”.
The person in question is definitely a good example of someone you SHOULD take with more than a grain of salt. From what I could gather (mainly from /r/mycology) he's not really well respected in his field, and seems to be rather a salesman who draws premature conclusions and evangelises them. The Netflix documentary with him also had my "this sounds too good to be true" sensors going off more or less constantly.
No. That's just some people who registered a website and put up their organizations definition. The website milk.com doesn't get to define what the word milk means, either.

To some people Open Source means that the Source is publicly viewable. It doesn't say anything about your rights to use it commercially. This is why people often bring up definitions such as "libre", "free as in beer" or "free as in speech"
i've been using textmate and bbedit since college for notes, essay drafts, as a scratch pad, my first programming editor... everything! i still use it as a scratch pad and for random text/code editing (especially big regex-based changes) almost every day. i finally felt like a big-boy programmer when i'd earned enough to justify upgrading to the paid version and i hope it lasts another 30 years so others can find as much use in it as i have.
Their point is that tourists can only do that for 1 or 2 weeks, not for the entire summer.
I’n more worried about America’s obesity levels and opioid epidemic.
In the header it should probably say "How it works" ("s" missing right now)
> What you really just lose is patience for BS :)

41 here and I agree with most of the comments from the elder. One thing though I think we older people have to acknowledge is that we might have changed the BS bar. It feels a bit to me like saying that there is no music like the one from 20 years ago.

I am trying to be positive and that is something I say to myself :)
When they bet on bonds, they essentially bet on the government not to default. When they bet against bonds, they expect a sovereign default, which would be terrible for everyone involved.
Then the company made a huge mistake letting them go, unless the company was just FULl of extremely talented engineers.. which statistically just isn't true.
Nginx/Apache config is not an easy task. I would call this an incredibly hard problem to solve. I certainly never trust that I've done the config correctly until I've tested it carefully. The way this eventually works is you tell the AI "I want Nginx config that has these properties" and the AI generates config and tests it against Nginx until it has the requisite config and it's tested.
> "rules against leaving the premises when off the clock."

If you are not paid for that time, they have no right to require anything.

Wtf is this attitude to employees as if they are property.
That said, one should be interested in the weights and convolutions of Einstein's brain, instead of ignoring them for the sake of virtue-signalling about the people in the cotton fields and sweatshops, to the extent that said convolutions may well be in fact the very thing that could have lifted people of equal talent from the very cotton fields and sweatshops they lived and died in instead.

In other words, that quote has a very real "think of the children" vibe to it, and we all know how often that is used in earnest.
TLDR: The AI Act, first proposed in 2021, will govern any product or service that uses an artificial intelligence system. The act will classify AI systems according to four levels of risk, from minimal to unacceptable. Riskier applications will face tougher requirements, including being more transparent and using accurate data. Think about it as a “risk management system for AI,” said Johann Laux, an expert at the Oxford Internet Institute.

Some things are outlawed completely: Social Scoring systems, predictive policing, most facial recognition except in detecting specific terrorist activity, anything that uses subliminal manipulation or that could harm vulnerable people like children.
Space-based ADS-B: what is the potential for US air traffic management?
Also you can usually find them in abundance at a discount, due to the “purchased but not used” phenomenon of home exercise equipment :)
Yes, but that's history. This is about the future. You want to have your cake and eat it too. If you want the 3rd world to industrialize, welcome to missing your climate goals.
> Are they worse off? Also yes.

There's no time in human history that I'd rather live in than the present day.
This is a very interesting site. I'd love to see the analysis extend beyond 2016.
As a long time macOS user, I’ve seen a lot of praise for BBEdit.

However I find it unusable without a way to enable Vim keybindings.

It’s great that BBEdit is still going strong 30 years later. But could the team throw us Vim users a bone?

Even Panic’s Nova has Vim bindings built in.
I’m not sure this is a good metric.

> look around you and count how many products or services you use regularly that you wish are better digitized or “software-ized.” Unless and until that number is 0, there will be more developers, not less.

Even before LLMs, fully digitized markets are regularly disrupted by better iterations of software.

More developers will be needed because AI is increasing the addressable market of software.
To be fair, having a constitution that’s nearly impossible to change or update may be helpful during years when authoritarians are in power.
Not directly related, but I'm curious how much revenue all the Amazon affiliate links will generate for the author.
But complementarity doesn't have to be binary, which is the point under contention here. It is a scientific fact that gender and even sex in human populations, while having a strong binary tendency, is not in any way an absolute binary.

Binary complementarity is no more woven into the fabric of the universe than any other symmetry that you see in nature. Gravity is unipolar, electromagnetism is dipolar and the strong force is multipolar. In fact, if you look at electroweak theory (which breaks into E&M and the Weak Force) the bipolar character of the E&M field is less fundamental that it might appear.
100k while living in SF is peanuts. Paying, say, 500k per officer and increasing the number of police would be tremendously easier and cheaper than fixing the systemic housing problem. If we still can’t find good candidates at 500k I would be very surprised. Also need to follow through on prosecution of course. And, again, not saying this is necessarily what should be done, just commenting on whether it is physically possible to make SF nice if we decided to ignore progressivism completely.
My favorite proportion, enforced by various bits of TeX documentation set up to be printed on either side of the pond, is 210mm wide (A4 width), but 11" high (letter-sized height).

It's a workable compromise which ensures that all versions of a document have the same pagination/index.
>There were other dubious bits of advice too, like pushing with your legs first, then torso, then arms, but if you try to actually do that in reality it feels extremely awkward. And watching the pros do it on TV it doesn’t seem like they’re doing anything like this.

This is the proper way to row. Iirc its about extending the length of your stroke while having consistent pulling
No, a good thing would be at the least holding steady at replacement levels (2.1). Where we’re at and the rest are heading, we’re seriously fucked. If you don’t think so then answer this:

how are we going to get fertility rates back up to replacement or higher once all countries have dropped below?

Everything you can think of off the top of your head has already been tried and failed.

By longevity tech I mean we need some scifi level inventions like extending lifespan and healthspan by >50% so we can move the retirement age to 120 or higher while we work on the other solutions like perfecting cloning, artificial wombs, or creating artificial eggs, or the really hard sociological problem of getting people to reproduce when they don’t want to.

Saying we need to reduce our population by 50% is ghoulish and shortsighted, it’s like saying you need to reduce your number of limbs by 50% to lose weight. It’s about as much a solution as suicide.
Which puts our rate at #11 among nations. There are far worse places to live.
Show HN: Small lib leveraging Pyodide to convert RST to HTML
Hey everyone,

While developing, I realized that there aren't great existing JS libraries to convert reStructuredText (RST) to HTML. Without WASM, I would've either tried to port the docutils code or pre-compute the rendered HTML.

It's exciting to start to leverage these new tools, and I hope this small demo gives you inspiration when thinking about client-side libraries :)
Is it because of visa constraints? Working hellish hours is unhealthy and often highly counterproductive.
> 51% mob rule

How is this distinguishable from democracy?
If all the major employers in the area cut wages down to $80k, wouldn't the cost of housing be forced down too? Who can buy a house for 2.2 million when making $80k.
And on a side note, there are many companies in the area that pay $80k and less, oil change mechanics for example. So it's not like you MUST pay that SV wages because cost of living is high.

I have a feeling it is due to high demand for those workers.
I think that's probably right. A ton of B2B opportunities in market niches that aren't well-served today. (Or could be served better.) I assume a lot of people would consider that boring but a well-targeted B2B coming from people who really understand the market space has a lot better odds than becoming the next B2C company that everyone is talking about.
Can you expand on the "at least half" part?

On an income of $200k in California, for example, your tax rate is something like 8% (marginal). If you total it up with federal taxes, it's something like a 27% tax rate.
Some might even say that an analysis of the compositions by those who took up music writing after the advent of Garageband etc. proves the harm of such tools.
Resize the browser window? I've seen UI magically appear when I do this. Worth a shot.
There's an efficient ratio between the drive and recovery. At 20spm a 1 second drive means 2 seconds on the recovery (so a full stroke is 3 seconds). Try rowing that rating at a ratio closer to 1:1 and you'll really notice the inefficiency. You couldn't do that for an hour and maintain a decent split. As power and rating increase, you want to maintain a ratio. I don't know if it's always 1:2, but there's still an efficient ratio. A similar idea might be being in the wrong gear on a bike. On flat ground with no wind, if you're in the wrong gear you might be able to pedal at a very high rpm, but you'll probably notice that you are not moving efficiently. So avoiding rushing the slide isn't as much about free speed or checking the boat, but being in the right gear. Definitely not a physicist - so maybe not the best analogy, and maybe I'm misremembering how my coaches had explained it to me.
If someone taps you on the shoulder, they are performing an immoral action by grabbing your attention?

I think you have an irrationally radical take on this. I can understand disdain for targeted or excessive and intrusive ads -- I use an ad blocker too. But to say that advertising as a whole is immoral seems overblown.

What constitutes an ad? Can I put a yellow label on my can of beans I sell, or is that too vibrant and might catch your eye in the supermarket? Should all products and signage be black/white to protect your delicate attention span?
What works surprisingly well are ordinary folding tables from Staples/OfficeMax, bolted together with brackets for stability. You can create a workbench of any desired shape, size, and depth that way. Once you keep them from swaying side-to-side by fastening them together, the effective load capacity goes way up. Best of all you don't have to feel bad about drilling into them.

Trouble is, I don't think they sell anything but the plastic ones now. Working with anything more ESD-sensitive than 6L6s is a bad idea with those.
It's possible to think it's not ok but also so vanishingly unlikely to happen that it's not a useful comparison point for quality of life in Europe vs America.

For me, "never get sick or have any kids or anything" is a much stronger point against life the US - these are issues almost everyone has to confront.
Why can’t you do that with YouTube? Changing the channel is as easy as closing the tab and you certainly can leave the room or mute it during ads.
This might be the most nonsensical piece from Wired to date. I get they want to cash in on the crowd that likes to inject Elon Musk hit pieces into their veins, but usually they’re better about pretending to know what they’re saying. Twitter and Musk have been very upfront about this release.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1656570790039678976?s=20
Microsoft Wants Firefox to Ditch Google, Switch to Bing
I wouldn't call it delightful, I'd call it diaherra
Sure, I believe there is no evidence to support the hypothesis: "the species we encounter derived exclusively from random genetic mutations competing via natural selection", or even the weaker form: "random genetic mutations have been responsible for the development of new functionality in Life".

I used to buy into the Evolutionary Theory, or at the very least believe there was actual observational Science behind it commensurate to the scale of the claims atheists make. Hell, I even studied biology at a top university. I suspect you may be less familiar with the opposing view, I recommend the "Creation vs Evolution" lecture here: https://www.thenarrowpath.com/topical_lectures.php#Creation_... . While the site as a whole is rooted in Christian fundamentalism, the lecture itself makes no arguments based on Scripture or Faith.

Now, I believe in the parts of evolution we have observed. Which, in CS terms is something along the lines of: "the backing data-vectors of life forms are subject to stochastic gradient decent mechanics which can result in population-level changes tending towards local maxima in fitness, via a process we call `Evolution`". That said, I have seen no evidence to support the claim that those data-vectors were initialized randomly, or that Evolution is capable of optimizing past these local-maximas.
Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but it's stuck loading each time I've given it a try.
> It'd be like buying a robot to go to the gym and move weights up and down — sorta misses the point.

As a lazy writer who never skips legs day, I appreciate this comment. It inspires me to write more than snarky snippets online.
WiFall: Device-Free Fall Detection by Wireless Networks
Corporate ass kissing scum...
An "order" would involve far more requests than just one however...
> wireless

I hope someone goes down this rabbit hole... is it possible to make a wireless e-paper display that does not need any battery? I am wary of batteries because I have managed to "swell up" two old android phones by keeping them constantly connected to power and using them to take timelapse videos.

proompt: can a supercapacitor power an e-ink display?

Google Bard:

Yes, a supercapacitor can power an e-ink display. E-ink displays are very low-power devices, so a supercapacitor can provide enough power to keep the display running for a long period of time. In fact, supercapacitors are often used to power e-ink displays in devices such as e-readers and wristwatches.

Supercapacitors are different from traditional capacitors in that they can store a lot of energy for their size. This makes them ideal for powering low-power devices, such as e-ink displays. Supercapacitors also have a long lifespan, which is important for devices that are used for extended periods of time.

If you are looking for a way to power an e-ink display, a supercapacitor is a good option. Supercapacitors are small, lightweight, and have a long lifespan. They are also very efficient at storing and releasing energy, which makes them ideal for powering low-power devices.

Here are some additional details about supercapacitors and e-ink displays:

* *Supercapacitors:* Supercapacitors are energy storage devices that can store a lot of energy for their size. They are made up of two electrodes separated by an electrolyte. When a voltage is applied to the electrodes, the electrolyte allows electrons to flow between them. This flow of electrons creates an electric field that stores energy.
* *E-ink displays:* E-ink displays are a type of electronic display that uses a layer of electrically charged microcapsules to create an image. The microcapsules are filled with a liquid crystal material that is either black or white. When an electric field is applied to the microcapsules, the liquid crystal molecules align in a way that either reflects or absorbs light. This creates the image on the display.

E-ink displays are very low-power devices because they do not require any backlighting. The only power that is needed is to create the electric field that aligns the liquid crystal molecules. This makes them ideal for powering with supercapacitors.

Supercapacitors are a good option for powering e-ink displays because they are small, lightweight, and have a long lifespan. They are also very efficient at storing and releasing energy. This makes them ideal for powering low-power devices, such as e-ink displays.
I use the simple fan+filter ones at work, I've always found them to work fine.

Although the comparison is against normal lab air conditions, which aren't great, as opposed to something like a home lab. At home I just open the window.
> I have had the same problem with vacuum sealers.

A great example! My sealer is very cheap, and doesn't work reliably. But I use it almost entirely to package dehydrated food that I take backpacking, and getting a good one isn't worth it to me.

Instead, after I seal the food, I just leave everything out for a couple of days to find the ones that have leaked, and reseal them.

This is fine for my use case -- not ideal, but not a big problem. If I used the sealer more widely, it would absolutely be worth investing in a good one.

But then lets talk about toasters. I've yet to find one that is reasonably decent no matter what price point I've tried. So I just buy the cheapest one I can lay my hands on.
Sublime Text 2 (its first cross-platform version) came on the scene around that time and I think drew away a lot of the crowd that had been waiting for TextMate 2.
Ask HN: Look for a user friendly pivot table tool
Hi, I'm looking for a pivot table tool that is as easy to use as Excel Pivot tables and generates SQL queries by itself, hiding them from the user.
I have already checked:
1) Tableau has a weird UX for Pivot tables
2) Metabase is better, but also not as good as Excel
3) Power BI is too complicated and requires Microsoft Workspace (?). We use Google Workspace.
4) Apache SuperSet - haven't tested it yet.
Minimal politics, at least as far as I could tell, and lots of collaboration. Since PARC made its own tools there was a fair amount of cross-lab communication but really I just talked to other people in ISL (intelligent systems lab). I was just a kid.

The labs seemed to be renamed and organized from time to time so maybe there was politics I was too naive to see.

It was like google’s reputation 15-20 years ago: although Jeff ( my colleague today) and I didn’t work together we knew each other, also later knew each other from Stanford KSL/CSLI and later worked briefly together and work together today. I later worked for Doug Lenat at MCC (another research lab) whose office had been down hall from mine. And I still see other former PARC colleagues who are all over the Valley. So not an ivory tower.
Yes. In Texas, you need to be pregnant, have a child under age 18, blind, disabled, or over 65 to qualify, in addition to the income requirements: https://www.benefits.gov/benefit/1640%7D
Isn't Linux the most deployed OS in industry (by practitioners)? Are the Linux hyperscalers hiding their FS secret-sauce, or perhaps the "aesthetic ideal" filesystems available to Linux good enough?
image labeling, although even then they had some oopsies with classification in Google Photos
> making users supply their own API key is the best solution

Ah I like those applications, I like to wave at them as I close the tab.
I mean, they're still not wrong. Over 95% of US schools do have active shooter training [1] which is what the commenter was referring to.

1. https://everytownresearch.org/report/the-impact-of-active-sh...
perhaps UV?
The US has a large number of fairly undemocratic institutions such as Congress (supremely gerrymandered in many states), the electoral college (frequently favors the person who lost the popular vote) and the Senate (which rewards the same number of reps to 39,000,000 people as it does to 500,000 people).

These institutions offer routes for extremist positions to take power which they could then entrench with a more malleable constitution.
> nextjs is not js..... same way spring boot is not java

does spring boot bring it's own dsl and compiler?
So, for those who just want to get the Vitamin D, from the article:

1) Obtain fresh Organic shiitake, maitake, button, oyster, shimeji or other mushrooms.
2) On a sunny day in June, July or August, slice the fresh mushrooms. Place them evenly on a tray exposed directly to the sun from 10 am to 4 pm.
3) Before nightfall, cover the mushrooms with a layer of cardboard to block moisture from dewfall.
4) The next clear day repeat exposure to the sun from 10 am to 4 pm.
5) Remove the mushrooms and finish drying (if necessary in a food dehydrator until they are crispy).
6) When thoroughly dry, store in a glass jar or sealed container. Adding a tablespoon of uncooked rice as a moisture absorber will help keep the mushrooms dry. The mushrooms should be good for a year or more, depending upon conditions.
7) Take 10 grams daily per person, about a small handful. Rehydrate in water for one hour. The mushrooms will swell. Then cook as desired.

For the rest of us:

1) Obtain mushrooms.
2) slice the fresh mushrooms. Place them evenly on a tray exposed directly to the sun from 10 am to 4 pm.
3) Take them inside before nightfall, so they do not get dew on them.
4) The next clear day repeat exposure to the sun from 10 am to 4 pm.
5) Remove the mushrooms and finish drying (probably in the oven on warm setting).
6) When thoroughly dry, store in a sealed container.
7) Eat about a small handful a day. You can rehydrate in water for one hour. The mushrooms will swell. Then cook as desired.
nicenewtemp84 believes that large companies layoff engineers based on skill.

The truth: Eenie meenie miny moe
I was told they they just stopped this policy
I'm 5 years old and I think Tchaikovsky is better than music today