skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> consciousness/intelligence

intelligence (noun)

(1) the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations, the skilled use of reason

(2) the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (such as tests)

(3) mental acuteness, shrewdness

consciousness (noun)

(1) the quality or state of being aware especially of something within oneself

(2) the state of being characterized by sensation, emotion, volition, and thought

(3) the totality of conscious states of an individual

These two things are very different and entirely separate concepts. Thinking about them as the same thing has caused immeasurable amounts of confusion when trying to classify LLMs recently. Animals can be intelligent, plants can be too, even single celled organisms, or a single if statement as long as it encodes a decision based on reasoning. It has nothing to do with consciousness which is so loosely defined that it can't even be measured. And it's also the term that should've been used in the title, of couse any hominid or living being for that matter obviously makes intelligent decisions constantly to get food and evade predators.

I suppose it is a result of thinking in an anthropocentric way as you mention because humans typically make intelligent decisions using consciousness, but it's far from a universal requirement. People always assume that AI stands for 'artificial consciousness' and it drives me up the wall.
An everything app for the western market certainly has a >$100B value
maybe a relic from forums?
The point is that it has nothing to do with homosexuals.
I think keyboard, monitor and chair are worthy of the highest price tags you can afford. These are the things we are in contact with continuously for a large majority of our waking hours. Get the best ones money can buy.

I had a Kinesis freestyle for years and upgraded to the 360. No regrets.
Thank you for bringing up Typst, it is completely awesome, SO useful.
If I go cut trees in the forest, it'll just be for the money, because I like computers and sitting down.

For someone that loves physical exercise and the outdoors, and has an appreciation for falling trees, it'll be their passion.

I can describe a situation where I decide to not cut trees if I don't need the money without passing judgement on others that do it for love. Assuming they are connected was your mistake.

It's possible to share something about one's life candidly even if it's different without thinking less of the other.
> To me it's obviously cleaner to divide a system into components that can later be swapped or modified independently.

But where do you draw the line? What's "one thing"? - The size and complexity between cli tools doing one thing varies by orders of magnitude, some of those programs are much larger than this Fossil "monolith". Should a component have more functionality if separation means 10 times slower performance? What if it has hundreds of such features? What if separating those features means a hundredfold increase in complexity for setting up the software as it now has distributed dependencies? Should you have a separate audio player when a video player could already do the job out of necessity? Should a terminal support scrolling if you can already get that via tmux?

The Unix philosophy is bad for judging individual programs.
You can work as hard as you want in a minimum wage job and still not be able to make rent in places with low housing supply.
What Lies Beneath? The Scientific Understatement of Climate Risks
Aaron Swartz was a legend before even turning 18
Lisp is the source of almost everything that makes programming easy, welcoming, forgiving of mistakes and inclusive. (Except the ability to use infix syntax to calculate a formula, which goes back mostly to Fortran.)

It should be taught to small children in schools. All kids should know how to correctly use macroexpand with an environment argument inside the body of a macrolet by the time they finish eighth grade. No elitist secrets!

At least Excel has lambda now. That means every MBA who finds it in a reference manual and starts using it is ahead of most of his or her peers that went to CS.
Public transportation is definitely planned, although it's a lot of work. Cars + trucks + trains are the minimal set of transport methods to allow anything to go anywhere.

I love tooltips! Thank you for the suggestion, I have opened an issue.

>I feel like there's almost enough here that you could do steam/itchio.

I think it's way too early for this. As people say the last 20% takes 80% of the time. There's a lot of systems I've neglected for an actual release. It probably needs a few years more work before any kind of "real" release for players instead of developers.
Three small QoL tips for people who have issues with their iCloud sync

1. In Finder, enable the Status bar. This shows the current iCloud progress.

2. If iCloud sync is stuck, run `killall bird` to restart the iCloud drive sync process.

3. Disable `Optimized Mac Storage` in the iCloud system preferences. This forces your mac to always upload and download files.

One thing I haven't figured out is how to see iCloud sync status without having to open Finder, e.g. for a custom menu bar item.
Solus – an operating system designed for home computing
AOSP is a distributed as a bunch of git repos, but Google uses an in-house VCS called piper.
Even there, the most solid study would be the twin one, which is here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7440690/

The two population cohorts are 11-year olds and 17-year olds so regardless of what they say, we're still just measuring shoe size.

I'm guessing they published these two groups because their adult cohorts showed zero difference and that's not a publishable paper.

In fact, they admit it

"Two previous studies taking this approach, each with a sample size of about 35 sibling pairs, failed to find a significant correlation"

Right before they say "chill, let's cheat":

"We reexamined this empirical issue in a Human Connectome Project (HCP) (Van Essen et al., 2012; Van Essen et al., 2013) sample of 1,022 young adults"

^ it's a shoe size study from here out so of course they find something.
> This looks like a very useful utility, but why would you use iCloud if problems like this are this frequent?

The reason is implied by your question: problems like this are not that frequent. Not that it’s an excuse for the complete lack of feedback when they do happen.

> Compared to Dropbox, for instance?

Dropbox is fine, but not without its problems either. The client is a resource hog, a far cry from the seamless experience it was ~5 years ago. It’s also not really integrated into any application. But for me the kicker was when they decided that I didn’t have the storage space they gave me as freebies anymore. If I cannot trust them on that, I won’t trust them with my debit card.
These new games have made leaps and bounds in running a better simulation and getting away from being grid-based.

However I do think that Simcity 4 being grid-based, and the pre-rendered graphics it allows add to how beautiful the game still is, 20 years later.
Cities: Skylines looks good, but I suspect it will age much faster.
I often think about WASTE I reflect on why filesharing never decentralized. Bittorrent needed trackers and we're still in the slsk era and still sharing on the mercy of the four letter organizations.
Microsoft is a better example with git vfs and now Scalar.
“Anyone should already know this” is a very weird and illogic criticism towards learning material. Nobody is born knowing this, so surely such material is useful for everybody at some point.
> For my purposes harbor freight is where sears used to be

That's very contrary to my experience. I have a lot of tools. Most of my hand tools are Craftsman from Sears back when they were around. Nearly all of them are very adequate quality for a non-professional (i.e. used only on weekends, not full time). Sears hasn't been around for a while but I still have all the tools, all work great.

I went through a phase of trying to save money and bought a lot of junk from HF. Nearly all of it was an exercise in frustration and I've thrown it all away in anger. Soft metal, bad tolerances, pure junk. The only HF tool I have left is a cement mixer. It's not great (the belt keeps popping off) but for my limited cement needs it's been tolerable.
All aspects of the game need more work, I think anyone that ever worked near the video-game space could help.

- 3D assets

- Audio assets

- UI/UX design

- Low-level graphics shenanigans (platform support, debugging
tools, dos-and-donts, optimizations)

- Simulation depth (logistic chain, economics, city services..)

- Mod support

Any help with these would be greatly appreciated
Nice! That level of simulation detail is the sort I've always wanted to see in city sim games, with people modeled as rational agents with internal state.

It would be fun to see the kinds of emergent behavior that arises. Maybe even hook an LLM up and let it drive some narratives.

I like to think too that with sufficient fidelity a simulation of this sort may be useful in real world city planning/economic modeling/geopolitics.

Will be keeping a close eye on this :)
It's difficult to talk about the problem of these diversity efforts without sounding like a bigot. But I'll give it a shot.

In the last 3-4 years the amount of, what I will term, "bullshit diversity" has spiked dramatically. The internal politics involved (at least where I have worked) do nothing but create division among the employees. No one will voice it but the term "diversity hire" gets thrown around in one of several reworded forms regularly. I have been at two companies with Chief Diversity Officers whom I lovingly refer to as "Chief of Racism". It's not uncommon for these people to go into company meetings throwing around all sorts of language implying preference of one race over the other. They never say it outright, but imply it with "poorly performing diversity metrics" and "efforts to reach out to marginalized communities". It's nonsense in the strictest sense. Perhaps it's some savior complex.

I think these diversity efforts are doing the exact opposite of what they intend to do. I, and likely many others, view these bullshit positions as manifestations of identity politics. Due to the riots in 2020 companies are focused on driving home this non-sense language about inclusion wherever they can. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth, like other diversity initiatives, and personally I'm glad to see this position being rendered moot.

I have no idea how to say "diversity of thought doesn't exclude diversity of traits". I've tried before and have been labeled everything from right-wing extremist to white supremacist. The zeitgeist effectively prevents actual discussion on what diversity means. I am puzzled how simply selecting on race/sexuality/whatever somehow brings better engineering/sales/leadership to a company.

All I know is I never hear this charlatans talk about how this improves the quality of the product. The metric they appear to be chasing is putting brown people in company photos (for the optics) and this seems like the opposite of the alleged intention. I've worked with engineers from all background, races, and other traits. A common thread seems to be everyone is tired of this. It would be nice if this noise was relegated to Tumblr and Twitter where it belongs.
Mao's Great Leap Forward
The Khmer Rouge's Killing Fields
Stalin's gulags

Plenty of numbers if you know history.
I use git in Termux all the time. It's fine. You just enter commands like normal. I have no idea what the parent to your comment is on about, especially having "written a book".
I very much disagree with this idea of productivity being good in and of itself. I don't think that is controversial here. To the contrary, I think your view is controversial.
Not really.

https://gitforwindows.org/
You can get a Ryobi HP+ Brushless drill for $50. It's a fantastic unit for all but the heaviest users.

You can't tell me those couldn't be made in the USA at a premium of $49 per unit. You could literally pay $50/hr, produce only one unit per hour, and still come out even.

The outsourcing arguments are lazy and outdated. Companies screwed up outsourcing it all, and the US is unable to regain its foothold. Labor costs are negligible here, even if US were twice the price.
> It's a matter of quantity.

A large data set of highly biased, uncontrolled data is still useless. You can't model yourself out of the factors that have not been recorded. And believe me, the data you'll get on patients that try experimental medication will be very, very incomplete.

It also won't be a large dataset. How many people have squamous cell carcinoma between now and the moment of approval and are willing and wealthy enough to buy this particular medicine? 100 seems too much already.

> The mechanisms that were in place at the time did their job.

Barely, according to wikipedia.

> Second, the response to Thalidomide was overblown and indeed downright hysterical. "Better to let 100,000 people die of neglect than allow one person to suffer an awful drug reaction" is not rational policy.

Thalidomide was never going to save 100,000 people. It did cause 2500 birth defects in West Germany alone, though, plus an unknown number of abortions. Given that it was legal in 46 countries, the number of people with birth defects must be well over 10,000. This drug isn't going to save 100,000 people either, certainly not in the period until admission.
Recognising that HN discussion will go where HN discussion wants, I'll point out that my principle point was that suggesting "subscribe to sources" simply does not scale for HN, or any site or service with a similar dynamic (Digg, Reddit, Mastodon, FB, etc.), where stories are submitted from a large number of online sources.

Answering your question quantitatively: Whaly did an analysis based on the HN API about a year ago in which they tallied all HN story submissions. Comparing that value against the number of front-page stories in my own dataset, roughly 3% of submissions reach the front page. I could also determine that front-page posts see just under half of all comment activity. See: <https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective>

As anyone who's submitted some number of stories to the queue knows, the HN queue is a capricious beast, and success varies tremendously. That said, it's also a somewhat subdued beast, and there are influences over it, including automated and explicit moderator actions, member flags, etc.

In other discussions I've commented at more length on how the front page archive is a mix of numerous influences. Looking over my own front-page items, and comparing them both against the larger set of what I've submitted as well as my own preferences and biases, what's landed really doesn't match my intentions particularly well. In that sense, the front page is a dance between submitters, other members, and the HN site / YC policy itself. There was some good discussion of FP characteristics and caveats by itunpredictable here: <https://randomshit.dev/posts/what-gets-to-the-front-page-of-...> (HN discussion: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36521887>). TL;DR: the front page (and its archive) are a view of HN, but not the only view.

Anekāntavāda.

Dang has mentioned that submission activity to HN has been reasonably stable over time, going back to 2012 (at least as of four years ago): <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19214098>

I've looked at stats on how many votes are required to make the front page, based on the 30th (lowest-ranking) story position, and how that's changed over time, here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36670430>

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I’ve used jj on a couple of small personal projects and it was fine, but I needed to get my head out of “git mode”. The lead developer is very helpful.
Sounds like academia is turning into another (internet) marketing agency where the best marketers also happen to be teachers and researchers as a side hussle.
This webpage caused my laptop (4 GB) to OOM. Really cool though!
Good. They don’t need tech anyway.
I mean a window with fields and buttons. Why use hit and miss voice or text interfaces?
Not sure on easygraph, but we have gpu graph viz generation 1-liners for pandas/nx/igraph/cugraph/parquet/arrow @ http://github.com/graphistry/pygraphistry . If easygraph works with the rest of the pydata world, I'd hope just another 1-liner away.

We're now working on louie.ai to make using them all together even easier, all the way to systems like splunk & databricks :)
You don't think there's anything different between the 1960s and today? Like, nothing at all?

For one thing, there is a history of abuses in asylums, so people would know to look out for it. I confess I don't know every detail of the history of asylums, but hopefully we can agree:

1. Asylums existed, there was abuse

2. At some point the abuse was discovered and brought to light.

3. The people in power eventually shut down the asylums, partly because of the abuse.

So we know that some mechanism for detecting abuse existed. How about we do whatever that was earlier on and formalize it? We know that there is some authority that has the power to shut down asylums, so instead of that authority shutting them down, how about it just removes people who are committing abuse? This isn't rocket science.

Like, at some point in the past bakers would put sawdust in their bread to cut cost. Obviously, this was bad and they knew it was bad. But we didn't just say "Oh well, I guess we have to outlaw bakeries. There's no possible way we could ever stop them from putting sawdust in the bread". No, we created the FDA, started doing inspections and fining people and today you can buy bread anywhere in the US and be confident that there's no sawdust in it. Clearly, problems like this have solutions if people are willing to try instead of just giving up.
Heh, sorry if I misread or sounded narky! That category one is clearly there and influential, but I don't think you suggested they were everywhere.

I'm impressed by those who find the time and energy to be consistent with a craft, on top of the pressures of work and family.

I like a dabble here and there at lots of things, but don't make the time and don't follow through enough. Something to aspire to.
It has, with services such as Apples Air Drop and sharedrop.io which are p2p, the ultimate decentralization.
The insanity of what's made possible with CAD and CNC for manufacturing is incredible.

Effectively these are two towers that twist/spiral around each other, a double helix. I think the sky walks double a structural braces between the two sides.

The structural engineers will have had fun!
My that looks a lot like a pot calling a kettle names...
The documentary felt a bit staged & had that modern anti-mainstream academia vibe (i.e. our findings are so revolutionary they rewrite history and so we wish they weren’t so revolutionary because we will not be taken serious and will become the enemy of mainstream science).

That said, unless the site is somehow staged or wildly misinterpreted, I think there is more evidence of potential use of fire than:

"We can imagine h. naledi has fire since other early humans did".

Even without finding evidence of fire in the cave, assuming the body was intentionally placed (big assumption) light would have been required to access that part of the cave.

The only alternatives I can think of are the species had more sensitive optics than modern human enabling them to see in a dark cave, or much more likely the body wasn’t placed there as part of a burial ritual but died down there.

Part of the problem is, if the evidence pointed to the later, they give off the vibe they would have created another spectacular narrative like this was evidence of an early legal system where someone was tried of a crime and sentenced to confinement in the cave, the “tool” and scratches in the cave wall being the first evidence of an attempted jail escape, demonstrating early hominids desire to be “free” just like modern humans.
I tried fossil a while back mostly because of the idea of tracking tickets in the SCM.

I have come to understand tickets are almost a means of communicating outside of the SCM and with software illiterates it's hard to get them to use any SCM.

The thing I want most to replicate in git is "technotes" - I can get partway there with tagging and a "notes" directory but there is a lot more road to go down
I doubt it. As explained by GitHub user tbrandirali, the stated goals seem to be inherently contradictory. Quoting in part:

"This internal contradiction is further demonstrated by the fact that the proposed solution to prevent misuse by websites - holdbacks - is to simply sabotage the functionality of the system itself, by making attestation probabilistic. This is not a workable solution to the problem: if the holdback rate of requests is low enough, the denial of service to legitimate users will simply be a cost of business that websites will accept; if instead it is high enough, websites will not use this system as it does not provide meaningful enough information, even for analytics purposes, due to the high uncertainty. There is no goldilocks zone where this system is useful but not open to abuse by implementer websites. You're either implementing a feature that can - and most likely will - be used by websites to exclude unattested clients, or you're implementing a useless feature."

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
The world’s largest tool company couldn’t figure out how to make a wrench.
Stanley Black & Decker built a $90 million factory on the edge of Fort Worth, Texas, intending to burnish the Made-in-the-U.S.A. luster of the Craftsman brand by forging mechanics’ tools with unprecedented efficiency. But the automated system was a bust, and the tools that were supposed to be pumped out by the million are so hard to find that some consider them collector’s items.

I'm not sure why I didn't like your comment but I think its because you're just hand waving the article away without responding to it at all?

You take that list and turn into machines, and time it takes to do each operation.

The article states they had trouble getting the expensive machines running, how do you respond to that? I mean, if the USA does posses all this expert manufacturing knowledge, then sure this wouldn't have been an insurmountable problem?

To be fair, maybe the articles title would be better off "The USA couldn't workout how to build wrenches at an affordable price?", it sounds like the bean counters at Stanley had enough?

Anyway, what's sad IMO is that when I was younger, I remember everyones disappointment that all the Stanley tools, and similar brands started making tools in China and it just seemed horrible and it kind of was, the tools sucked. Now, many Chinese tools seem quite good. Kind of idiotic that needs to be thrown away again and the USA has to figure out how to make good tools again...
Made a list of all the revision control tools I've used over the
decades, the year they were created, and the year I last used them:

sccs 1973 2000
rcs 1982 2000
cvs 1990 2004
clearcase 1992 2004
perforce 1995 2011
subversion 2000 2015
mercurial 2005 2015
git 2005 present

So, at least for me, they last around 15 years or so.

But often time when I tell juinors that when they're my age, git will
be distant a strange memory to them, they look at me funny. It's a
wonderful tool and earned its success, but I'll be sad if it's our
final take on the problem.
This is super fascinating - the effect worked seamlessly for me, not visible when the images are large but clear enough once they're far away/I squint/zoom far out. My husband on the other hand could see the text constantly, if he could see the image at all he could see the text. Worth noting that he has some pretty serious glasses and it's been a while since he last had his vision checked, he needs another trip soon. Fascinating.