skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The less-than-wildly popular posts are where the gold is. The 1000+ voted posts are usually not very interesting (but probably rage-inducing to some part of the community, for sure), but looking through a few hundred posts with a couple tens of votes each usually brings up something worth reading to the end.
Meritocracy is good. My family has Harvard legacy and I support this
If this is real, I wouldn't even mind.
Thank you muds for introducing me to coding, and typing fast :)
There is still an environmental cost of production of the new hardware, even if the machines pile up in a barn for the next 50 years.
It's better then Illustrator but there still is significant artifacting. It seems to copy over pixel structure. That's exactly the opposite of what you want.
The video text says: "The sample was thermally deposited on a copper plate."

The video headline says: "Magnetic Property Test of LK-99 Film".

That's how copper acts with a moving super magnet[0], so the video doesn't really show anything.

[0] https://youtu.be/KrH3t1H6fOc?t=50
Insurance should be allowed to charge more if you smoke (though not that much more... dying early often results in less cost to the government/insurance company, not more).

But tax?

No.
I've personally been hesitant about VR for a few reasons. As someone with glasses, I'm not comfortable with purchasing something that won't easily accommodate without requiring that I continue to pay a premium for prescription insets. It's a deal breaker, honestly.

But then there's the price to value ratio. There doesn't seem to be anything that is a must-play killer app, and while the catalog seems to have some gems it still leaves me with the impression I might drop a few hundred dollars for a couple hours of entertainment. VR seems like a radical change in design philosophy from the last 30-40 years of game development, and devs are still working out the specific language and techniques that are pertinent to it as a medium

While the Quest 2 is the cheapest on on the market, I'll be damned if I'm giving money to Meta and from there headsets start to ramp up drastically in price, and still have inconveniences like needing to be tethered to a PC

Really it isn't any one thing that's an issue so much as a bunch of smaller issues that make it seem like it's just not worth at the moment unless you got to drop on an item that's still at the niche phase. This will all probably improve over time though, and more people might start adopting
Been loving Arc for the past several months. No way that I can go back now.
> There is a price for that, of course, but to try to claim that the US is better in this particular area is a weak argument. When you use a personal anecdote, it becomes ridiculous.

Given that my anecdote is not about particular policies (although in my state, the public medical is protected as much as any European state), but rather the big picture, and given that American software are typically richer than their European counterparts, I think it's pretty clear that we can make that claim.
If someone xhosted my machine I would run xmeltdown back to their display. I wrote in another post in the thread about how and why someone would xhost my machine.

https://github.com/veltzer/xmeltdown
Israel just removed their judicial branches ability to review government actions.

The hose just got a lot bigger.
The first sentence was a little tongue in cheek, so I'm glad that you didn't 100% agree with it. :) But it was a all-too-common paradigm in my early years as a Java developer.
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FSd-XhGLqk
We really need better (easier to use) sandboxing for apps, or in this case a project (create directory, few allowed apps, no access to rest of fs or a dummy fs, whitelisted urls/IPs only, etc.).

Sure you can use a VM, a container, firejail (for an app), etc. but it all has quite a high barrier to entry & burden to bother with, so the vast majority don't, and the majority of the rest only do occasionally for something they already trust less.
It did in the past. It's so buggy these days.
> For mRNA interventions on the other hand, “the unknown” covers the entire mechanism.

Why do you think that? mRNA interventions have been researched and tested for a while, this was just the first big real-world application. But that's very different from saying that mRNA interventions haven't been well-studied. You'll have to provide actual research comparing long-term dangers of viruses with existing long-term mRNA tests to make this claim and convince anyone.
> Easy to criticize, much more difficult to provide solutions

Easy to say it's easy to criticize, much more difficult to write a substantial comment ;-)
We are drifting into specifics (eg Hilbert spaces were already a first decade of the 20th century thing) that are really not relevant for my argument.

The core question is whether the Universe is somehow mathematical (which I would say is the really extraordinary and clickbaity claim of attention seeking physicists with no more serious stuff to work on).

The empirical data point that I am trying to derive (so that we don't talk metaphysically) is focusing on the historical development of mathematical physics. The fact that it had spectacular success up to a point but then it stagnated. Does this suggest something about "maths is in our brains" versus "maths is running the universe"? Maybe it does, maybe it doesnt (keep reading).

Please note that my asserted stagnation does not concern fundamental physics (where indeed experimental barriers have become the limiting factor). More telling imho is that we have no real mathematical tools to understand complex systems, even of fairly benign nature (non-equilibrium thermodynamics), let alone extraordinary phenomena like biology. We have become comfortable that all complexity can "in principle" be explained, but that is not exactly actually grasping the mathematics of it. Pressumably a mathematical universe is mathematical at all scales, so where is the math?

So to recap, my question/challenge is essentially: if the universe is mathematical and we managed to explain quite a bit of it, why not more? There are now more living scientists than ever before. Discoveries are made continuously, but not of the type that counts as a mathematical understanding breakthrough.

The answer might be:

its just a matter of time (it takes cultural evolution, resources and trial and error for brains to "reconnect" with the underlying math universe) and a near century-long hiatus is part of how this works

OR

we had a lucky run in the last two/three centuries (some aspects of brain function can do a good job emulating certain aspects of the underlying "non-math" universe) but there is no reason to expect that this will be an ongoing process of "ever closer union".

I obviously dont know the answer.
Deploying software that’s no longer maintained afresh
There’s a tool that I’ve used at other companies that I absolutely love. It has features that few other products have and I’m a lot more productive with it than with those other products.

Wile there are efforts by open-source contributors, it’s no longer maintained by its original developers and hasn’t been for approximately two years.

I’m thinking of using it at my startup, but I worry that it’ll end up with me focusing more on managing the risk that comes with legacy software more than on my core product.

Does anybody please have advice either way?
At least now the silo doors will open by sliding on superconductors.
sounds like a cult

Take vulnerable people (insecure people who need jobs), add authoritarian influence, have them work for the good of the group, etc

Honestly, I wonder how many (normal?) companies align with cult techniques? Don't most companies create an us-vs-them culture? Didn't steve jobs want all the employees to wear the same uniform at one point? Doesn't Elon Musk talk about the mission to save mankind?

Maybe it is all just part of competing, cooperating and how we create prosperity, but I wonder sometimes.
There are some people who see it as an ethical position: ad supported businesses need to serve ads to survive. If you don't want to see those ads, and the business doesn't offer a subscription plan, just don't go to those websites.
The video shows that this is all bollocks
Nobody's stopping you from doing that but apparently none of OP's ideas required that, nor has it been worth it for anyone else's yet either. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Let me know when it's actually broke in this actual reality. Then we can start over*.

Also all those languages are Cs in the same way BSD and Linux are UNIXs. Same family. You should have mentioned Haskell or APL instead.

* Note that many experiments did start over, e.g. Plan9, but were then integrated into a UNIX.
I don’t think he’s saying the countries are equal.
Hypocrisy Oath
It doesn't prove that a human is present at all.
While that is obviously a detractor that I would agree with, how much it affects you will vary from person to person.

Again, just myself as an example, I've been somewhat surprised over the years how little I've actually needed a super key.

On Mac OS, my preferred keybindings was to have Command bound to both left and right Alt keys, Ctrl kept as the left Ctrl key, while the right Ctrl key was rebound to Option/Alt. Some people also like rebinding the usually-useless Caps Lock key but I am one of those weirdos who doesn't like doing that.

I've moved back to Linux over the past couple years and haven't found the need to do any rebinding to get a Super key on my keyboard at all.

Your mileage may vary!
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chainguard-releases-wolfi-a-li...

> To make this new Linux variant, Lorenc said, "We hired a bunch of the original Alpine team. But, Alpine was never designed for containers. It was originally designed for routers, firmware, and that kind of thing. What made it attractive for containers was its size and security." Wolfi takes that minimal approach to an extreme for the sake of security.
I don't have the models memorized and I'm not at home to check, but I recently bought four towers that don't have TPM or a management engine and allow you to disable UEFI. They're not new, true, but they're certainly not 486 level.

> an Ethernet card with real Firmware in a real ROM, no platform controller, nothing. ...and a completely open BIOS w/o any binary blobs

None of which I was talking about. But I am pretty sure that with any motherboard, you can disable onboard Ethernet and install whatever adapter you want instead.
I don’t understand how it’s possible to make money in the stock market unless you have inside information. I deeply suspect the whole game is rigged and there are ways to do insider trading without getting caught, and the real secret to be a successful trader is to find out how to join the club.
The “meta game” of optimal length on YouTube has been shifting towards longer videos for quite a while - one of the more important metrics towards monetising is “watch hours”. So you get a lot of filler.

YouTube also has shorts, which it measures somewhat differently (as views as opposed to watch hours).
People seem to be focusing on this case specifically when the skill to force yourself to work applies in many scenarios and is a required skill to be successful in any profession.

No pro tennis player hasn't played a game injured. No professional athlete has gone through their career without playing injured. Every off-season we hear the list of injuries players have been playing through.

To be successful you must force yourself to do things you don't want to do. And not telling someone who just flaked out of their first job that is a diservice.
It's not an approach, it's step one. To develop answers you must first figure out the questions. I agree merely acknowledging the status quo as bad is not enough, but I fail to see how one would intentionally address issues without first understanding them.
Part of the reason is that this is a macOS browser. macOS's window management is a joke. But I think I'd use the tab tiling on Linux too, I do a lot of work with tiled browser windows and it's great, but also sucks when you want to have a window very small horizontally and the browser's UI gets squished along with any extension menus you're trying to use. Arc doesn't have that problem, you always have access to the full UI.
4.8% excluding food and energy (as is standard): https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
I don't understand, I assume it's a dialogue? What is the meaning of the punchline being Celsius? Does the first sentence intend to include "room-temperature"?
Free market capitalism only works when you have free markets. Look at the cost of airline tickets post ICC. We could see something similar with freight, and will see major Amtrak gains - ideally even Brightline gains.
TIL: Select and copy multiple text bits in Firefox
Then state the better solution.

Besides, I'm not saying it's the best because it's most common, or even that its the best at all. It just makes it difficult to understand the argument that SQL sucks when its so widely used and no one can agree on an alternative. Including in new databases which could opt for these "new and improved" variants.

I grant that there is a first-mover advantage and it's not easy to shift paradigms. That's a big factor. That's why I am honestly - not rhetorically - asking which query language is clearly better than SQL? And why do people keep making new challengers instead of backing something that's already better than SQL? There seems to be very little support for these query languages despite many people saying SQL sucks and they want a redo.
Because I disagree on that
It doesn't matter what inflation is in other countries if the vast majority of Google's earnings are in dollars.
> This kind of content is dangerously close to "kids today and their rap music" or "it's those violent video games."

Agreed - several statements on this page seem to stem from disliking what Instagram does and favoring what it doesn’t, seemingly assuming that you should automatically agree to that world view. For instance, this site seems to argue against short reels and for long form videos. I for one find videos generally inaccessible, I seem to lack the necessary attention span, and reels or shorts are the only video format that works for me.
My point being - neither is better than the other, and preferring one over the other, even as a platform, isn’t inherently bad, as this page seems to suggest.
“Most cases” is a wildly subjective statement to use here. For my current job, I’d use an hour more for my commute if not for my car. For my previous one, it would be an hour and a half.

I live in the second largest city in the country.
> you can buy lead weights at hardware stores

Those are often bismuth weights.
No, the entire field of climate science is not “basically guessing”. That’s not what scientific study is.
Heidegger, no.

Žižek said some faintly reasonable things during his pandemic period, and semi-recently published an okay introduction to Hegel in the context of contemporary life.

Also the man is very hot when he takes his shirt off.
And YouTube includes music streaming.
With how critical a browser is I don´t believe it's absurd just a long shot.

What's more absurd to me would be to use it because it's pretty and has vertical tabs as if it was the features pitched to raise money ...
There’s a spectrum of possibilities. What if GPT-10 obviates 80% of jobs and can’t automatically identify every human uniquely? This covers that step in the process.
I am using Corsair K70. Quiet, mechanical, and IMHO one of the best keyboards out there. I also have Logitech MX Mechanical keyboard, it slick but not as heavy duty as K70.
In a way, yes.
Not all people might be accused wrongly. Then again does it matter if you use ChatGPT for inspiration?
40% of which is word count filler, and another 50% of which is irrelevant to your purpose.
> "kids today and their rap music"

I feel like teens are on other platforms? Many 30 and 40-somethings I know spend a ton of their idle time scrolling instagram, sharing reels with each other, and buying random stuff that pops up
> Is there a trusted process on ios / macos to determine if you were attacked by these recent 0days?

No.

> I hadn't upgraded to cover the last batch of 0days for a bit

Keep your software up to date, especially software with the attack surface of a browser.
Maybe you could find the closest-related community, and contact them about possibly adopting (or forking) the software you want to see maintained.
I thought about Sherdog after I posted but mma.tv/mixedmartialarts.com aka "the underground" was what I was thinking about
No, because they're balanced over time. It's when you don't make the charges that this becomes stock manipulation.

Not writing down investments is how Enron committed it's mark-to-market fraud.
So rather than make the point that the use in helvetica is captured in the word mark (it isn't) you instead add trade dress into this??
Also, quoting the article:

> When a unit is in hot shutdown it can provide the steam necessary for, as the IAEA has explained, "various nuclear safety purposes including the processing of radioactive waste collected in storage tanks".
Web people are actually insane. Making security depend on etld+1 is just complete madness.

The proposal in the video is actually not bad (domain at the start followed by actual URL) if they can put back tge http(s):// prefix in the URL part.
Their apks aren't hosted at stable urls either so you can't even write a script that can reliably create a reproducible build.
Thanks! Is this notation in the README not enough: https://github.com/o8vm/octox#license ?
Thank u! Yes yes yes ….
> I think of it in the same way as JavaScript. Clearly, it has issues, but if you want to work on the web, it is what you have available.

And, interestingly, the approach they're taking here is similar to how folks have dealt with JS: introduce a transpiled language whose paradigms are close enough to the host language to feel familiar. Reminds me of CoffeeScript, actually (although if we're being honest, I couldn't stand CoffeeScript.)
Ponies aside, directionally the right way, I'd say.

Pushing down energy costs is certainly possible when switching energy sources (and also quite visible in data on effective costs per MWh for different technologies), however, it is rarely made an explicit target.
I heard of this (very neat) idea and gave it some thought. I think it can work very well in the short term. Perhaps OpenAI has already implemented this and can secretly detect long enough text created by GPT with high levels of accuracy.

However, as soon a detection tool becomes publicly available (or even just the knowledge that watermarking has been implemented internally), a simple enough garbling LLM would pop up that would only need to be smart enough to change words and phrasing here and there.

Of course these garbling LLMs could have a watermark of their own... So it might turn out to be a kind of cat-and-mouse game but with strong bias towards the mouse, as FOSS versions of garblers would be created or people would actually do some work manually, and make the changes by hand.
Yep. Use ooba. And people who like to RP often use ooba as a backend, and sillitavern as a frontend.
This can be true and we can also recognize that the pandemic probably made everyone’s internal forecasts bad. These tech companies have some smart people working there, I would bet their projections are pretty world class.
Thanks for sharing the interesting article!
> more about producing toxic waste

Compared to refining traditional conductors and recycling/disposing of used electronics?

> you still have to use lead-free solder

One, fumes. Two, people touch their solder and then grab a cookie.

We're premature. The results need to be proven. But the benefits of RTP superconductors is mindblowingly high enough that risks from lead contamination (far from a novel problem, I might add) can be safely ignored.
We (https://phylum.io) actually open sourced our sandbox for this exact purpose.

https://github.com/phylum-dev/birdcage

It's baked into our CLI and supports limiting access to network, disk, etc. during package installation. For example, running something like

phylum npm install react

Will perform the installation in a way that disallows access to disk and network that aren't explicitly approved. This prevents malicious packages from grabbing and exfiltrating things like developer SSH keys during package install.
> i wantes to look for IBM Models M orginals.

> I don't like the normal mechanical keeb market, because they're loud.

So it sounds like you heard about the mythical model M and now want to own one for geek cred. Only problem is it seems like you never heard one in action. To give you an idea listen to an audio recording from a WW1 front-line.

I own a 1986 Model M and bought a USB cable for it off eBay. It's FUCKING LOUD. The buckling springs not only emit a loud report but also a twang that vibrates through the steel backing plate. Very unique sound but not everyone within a kilometer will agree. Its also HUGE with a very deep profile. I love it but it took up too much room on my little desk.

On a whim I bought a Happy Hacking 2 (HHK2) since I've always wanted one and wound up falling in love with the Topre switches. They are quiet while having a really soft and comfortable feel. The HHK's lack of keys was a bit annoying in some situations so I purchased an 80% Realforce RGB. Initially I did not want illuminated keys but you can turn them off or change the colors using the keys directly - no driver or software needed.
Very cool idea and I think there’s a thread worth pulling here.

The CEO of Unlearn AI on this podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/whats-your-problem/id1...) talked about using AI to simulate a larger sample size for clinical trials which is similar to what you are doing here

Looking forward to seeing where this goes :)
ISH: Linux shell running on iOS/iPadOS, using usermode x86 emulation
This is my favorite terminal emulator for my iPhones and iPad. I like having the ability to install utilities I need via `apk`, although sometimes I find they may not work nor exist.
I have been working in human and artificial intelligence for several years now. It is not at all apparent to me that intelligence has a clear meaning.

I think the definitional problem is significant, but the problem is even more fundamental than that. A couple of years ago, I witnessed a heated disagreement at a conference about whether intelligence required learning or not.

Does intelligence require embodiment? Perception? Sensation? Agency? Intentionality? Cognition? Metacognition? Other higher cognitive/executive functions?

These concepts are not just to embellish the definition a bit. They are fundamental to what intelligence is.

A plausible definition you could find in a journal article might be: An embodied agent that can intentionally solve problems using information obtained from the external environment plus introspection, by way of various executive functions, and then affect the external environment accordingly.

Some philosophers and researchers would agree, and some would disagree, because of what they each think intelligence is.

> but I think artificial intelligence is a very useful terminology and concept, not a marketing term.

I agree that the term is fine. But it is absolutely also used as a nonsense marketing term. ChatGPT or one of the other OpenAI models was calling itself an "advanced AI system" or some such bullshit. The term itself is not to blame, but people definitely (mis)use it that way.
This would be trivially broken once sufficiently good open source pretrained LLMs become available, as bad actors would simply use unwatermarked models.
"checkmate, atheists!" is an old meme. I think it might have originated from this video (but maybe it predates it): https://youtu.be/P47OC439x88

I've only ever seen it used sarcastically by atheists making fun of the kinds of arguments that religious folks make. It was a bigger thing during the heyday of new atheism, I don't see a lot of discourse on the topic these days.