skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patents against standards: It's a failure of our society when it's near impossible to write a standard without stepping on someone's patent. When an open standard is patented, it is ruined.
Yes that makes sense, when I wrote that I was just looking at all the "related stories" under this one that have nothing to do with Portugal and wondering if this is some spam operation that had just picked the best the___news.com URL it could get. But no it is real, and looking at the print edition it does focus on Portugal, it just surrounds the news with 80% ads.
While I don't disagree with these points, wouldn't this mean some small number like 0.0000001% of all of us humans over humanities entire existence are not a net negative?
This is true, I have to admit.

Email is still abused, no I don't want to be on your mailing list.
That's not what's being described in this article though.

They are saying like how you see golden dots after gently rubbing your eyes. They are saying they see images like that. Definitely seems like more than just imagining seeing something.

When I rub my eyes I definitely see some dots that are way more real than not rubbing my eyes and just imagining dots.
To be a rare positive voice, I own their newest model, the Onewheel GT, and I absolutely love it. It feels like snowboarding around town. I've put hundreds of miles on it without a single issue.

For safety, I wear motorcycle armor and wrist guards with it, and I keep my maximum speed at ~15mph. Injuries are almost always caused by people not wearing simple safety equipment and trying to go way too fast.

I'd never recommend an adrenaline-adjacent activity, since I don't want it on my conscience if a person gets hurt. But Onewheeling might be my favorite part of the day: it's like having a cabin on the slopes of Colorado, where you're able to step out the front door and immediately have the experience of snowboarding.

So, I won't recommend it per se, but it's as fun as advertised, and you'll know it if you need it.
I do understand your reasoning and points. But I think the reality is less black and white. Google's users might not be directly paying customers literally, but they are paying indirectly by buying goods and services. Part of that amount goes to Google via the payout of advertising services.
Also, Google operates an eco system that offers value. A lot of users might have a sort of search or buy addiction, but they are not all addicts that can be / are treated as disposable resources.
This is not true, its very trivial to design a state machine that won't cycle.
To add a perspective I haven’t seen yet in this thread, I’ve been riding one of these for 6 years and it’s basically my favorite way to get around.

For me, it has more utility than a bike. I usually go around 15 mph and I’m careful to not nosedive which happens when you go really fast (~20+ on a pint) or accelerate too quickly.

Though, I learned the behavior of the board the hard way. I wouldn’t recommend it to most people even though I love it personally.

I hope Future Motion increases the reliability and safety of the board and keeps refining their product.
Have you read contracts, terms of services? You don't acually need to. I'll summarize 100% of those documents for you right now in an easy to understand post with no legalese.

> you own nothing

> the company owns everything

> you have no rights

> you promise not to try and exercise any right you think you have

> you agree to binding arbitration with the firm we pay, just in case you ever get it in your silly little head that you do have rights

> you cannot do anything the company doesn't like

> the company can do anything it wants whether you like it or not

> the company is not responsible for anything ever

> the company makes absolutely no guarantees about anything

> however you are liable for everything that you do that we do not approve of

That's what happens when you can alienate people from their rights via contract: alienation turns into legal boilerplate present in every single one of those documents. The only possible reason for a company not to do this is ignorance or legal liability.
Elsewhere in this thread somebody noted that the electricity price in the article didn't seem right, so I went to Eurostat to check myself. I couldn't figure out where they got that 0.2246 number from so I searched for it and found the first plagiarized source.
Each and everyday we see a CSS hack or update to resolve the problems we experience. This might be a harsh critic but whenever I see these things, I immediately realize how CSS is an ancient monster that we are dealing with.
Track the total energy used by humanity and it’s almost all sunlight used to grow plants the same way it’s been used for thousands of years. It looks nothing like the 2.3% exponential curve pulled out of a hat by that article.

There’s little reason to suspect future advanced societies will even vaguely approach a 0.1% increase in total energy demand per year when human population stalls out. Nobody wants to heat their house to 10,000f or cool to cryogenic temperatures. Energy demand is therefore simply a question of technological progress and rates of growth in energy use is surprisingly slow for the top economies.
All hail to the Ascota 170[1], Mother of all Bookkeeping Machines. All mechanical, turing-complete. Can be paired with a metric ton (literally) of extension cabinets[2].

Unfortunately the pictures don't do this thing justice, the carriage measures 36 in.

[1] https://www.robotrontechnik.de/index.htm?/html/computer/asco...

[2] https://www.robotrontechnik.de/index.htm?/html/zubehoer/buch...
Totally not, I can take a bicycle into my workshop, check if is made of steel or aluminium, inspect quality of hardware, I can test quality of a weld, hit it with a hammer, etc..

You can't see source code of onewheel, or take out the firmware and run it in isolation.

Software producing companies have the privileges of being protected from inspection, but responsibility of a guy assembling Ikea furniture.
I appreciate your comment, but that's not really what's being discussed in this particular thread.
If you are riding with good posture and awareness it you can run out and roll from a one-wheel.

You might not be able fully "run it out" given the speed, but every step you take when bailing is a good thing and rolling out after you take a few steps will help as well.

At the end of the day, it's obviously going to be more dangerous than a bike or a scooter, though. My issues with future motion is more to do with their extremely poor response to design flaws, though.

I think that riding at more reasonable speeds and riding with focus and awareness is still reasonable, but the faults we've seen add hidden risks that are difficult to address as a rider.
TIL what the first line of "Greased Lightning" means.
Show HN: Svmidi, a suckless virtual MIDI keyboard
This is a minimal yet functional midi virtual keyboard written in C, using Xlib and asound or sndio.
Tested on Linux and OpenBSD, replaces softwares such as VMPK.
Even without he plagiarism, the whole thing read like an LLM or offsite content farm (the 2 are becoming indistinguishable)
> People quit due to toxic management culture, not to triple their salaries with a shitty training program.
> What you propose will end up with employees refusing to be trained because they have a low salary (I know that, I’m French

It certainly depends where you work. A GIAC training in information security is a few thousand euros. Cybersec people are well paid and do not have problems to find a good job. They quit for various reasons (not only salaries, also remote work, freelancing and other similar stuff)

Your situation does not reflect everyone's.

> A previous job wanted me to pay for my own training when I got a promotion. They told me they would reimburse me later, which was an insult on top of the miserable salary I had. I quit later because why would I work with someone who can’t even take care of their employees?

That's a good reason to quit, yes. I do not see what your point is, though.

Finally, as I said in my last sentence - a probably fair deal would be for the receiving company to pay some kind of pro-rata.
What does "looking to spend" mean? As a CTO, I don't shop SaaS "looking to spend" any particular amount of money; service providers can charge amounts for their services that are multiple orders of magnitude (!) apart, so I keep a completely open mind about how much it might cost to solve my problem (and in fact what type of service I need to solve my problem.)

For example: if my problem is "my egress-bandwidth bills are too high and my servers are falling over from the traffic", I could pay Akamai "contact us" dollars a month (probably thousands; maybe more than my egress-bandwidth costs!); or I could — potentially, depending on what I'm serving — pay Cloudflare $0 or $20 per month, with very legible rules about what would qualify me for those free/cheap plans. These aren't the same type of service: one's doing static pre-caching, mostly of large assets; while the other is doing short-term read-through caching, mostly of small assets. But they both solve an egress-bandwidth problem; and if you have no other constraints, then they are effective replacement goods for one-another.
This isn't even a problem of carve outs, it's just a bad design.

What you want here is something simple: Either the producer of the product provides security updates for as long as the product is in widespread use or they provide sufficient documentation and source code and such device access as is necessary for anyone to provide security updates.

That works for everyone. If you're still actively supporting a product you're fine. You can stop supporting it whenever you want, but then you have to let anyone else do it.

Producers of non-free software can stop supporting the product whenever they want by publishing the source code, or avoid publishing the source code for as long as they want by continuing to support the product. Open source developers will have satisfied the first option from the outset.
What is the state of art in longest prefix matching e.g for router prefixes in routing tables?
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37676210)
Here is an example of how you can scrape data from job boards: https://scrapingfish.com/blog/are-most-rust-jobs-in-crypto
Most locations can experience many hours or days of cloud cover, which can slash solar panel output by e.g 90%.

That's what intermittent means in the context of solar.
In my imagination I can see images basically the same as I see with my eyes, but less detailed and nowhere near as persistent.

Back of the eyelid visuals are a whole different thing, and it's good to know there's so much room to work with them.
Why do you think there's no way? I never put any concerted effort into learning TeX maths syntax but by the end of writing my thesis it was as easy as writing it by hand. I would never dream of scribbling maths into a computer. Complete waste of time.
Transmission loss will kill you. It's like 1% per 100 miles depending on the voltage.
Even if it costs $1M, Google either has to do it or stop selling phones and recall sold units.
I can't really "see" anything either, but I'm assuming it's something akin to "hearing" your inner voice. I also don't actually "hear" anything, but I can tell that it's going on in my head and it's effortless and "automatic". I don't have to consciously exert effort to "activate it", imagine it, and keep it there.
> You put enough solar panels on enough geographical locations (and connect them together) you get permanent solar without storage.

In theory? Yes. In practice? You have one whole hemisphere powering the other hemisphere, which makes transmission a brutal challenge.
You can easily find real numbers rather than invent some.

In Portugal electricity was 25% of total energy in 2021, renewable energy covered 30.6% of gross final energy demand in 2019.

https://www.iea.org/reports/portugal-2021
I'd like to offer a more critical perspective as a Portuguese living in Portugal.

We're a country with very severe economical, financial, social and health problems which have been unsolved for years. Living in Portugal is a hard and it's expected it will get harder and harder. We have tons of young people leaving the country every year.

Our CO2 emissions are like 0.15% of the total and our per-capita emissions are already lower than for ex. Germany. We basically have no industry. If we could wave a magic wand and completely stop our CO2 emissions it wouldn't move the needle on global warming at all.

Notwithstanding these facts, the government went all in on renewables and cutting down on emissions -- despite it not making any sense -- because it's a popular measure across all age groups.

Energy companies had to invest in still unproven renewable tech which was very costly. As a result, energy companies then had to amortize this investment and now we have one the highest energy prices in all of Europe. Had we chosen to start investing in renewables more recently, like Brazil, we would be buying better and cheaper tech.

So, we -- the Portuguese -- are worse, overall, because of these short sighted measures. But, hey, at least we get good press.
When I rub by eyes, the darkness of my eyelids is definitely replaced by yellowish dots that fade in and out and move around. I'm definitely seeing them even though my eyes are closed. I'm not just imagining them.

This article is saying the effect is like that, so it seems to be different than just imagining something with your eyes closed.

When I imagine something I don't "see" it at all the way I "see" the yellow dots after rubbing my eyes.
High voltage intercontinental direct current could really make this possible.
> the solution there is not to create an entire secondary financial system that burns down rain forests to execute transactions

This complaint is out of date for ethereum, the cryptocurrency system under discussion. The carbon footprint of an ethereum transaction is now about the same as watching two hours of youtube according to https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption and that's for the L1 - say you use Argent on Zksync as an example L2, you're most likely saving even more energy.
A toddler's tiny mass, along with a rubbery and flexible body, allow them this luxury. An adult's mass quickly runs afoul of the above mentioned physics-gut-check.
Well, how many times in your life do you call 911? I am in my forties and I maybe used my local equivalent 3 times and in every occurence someone else could have made the call.

And I've only used my mobile phone since my late 20's, it is not like I buy smartphones for emergency purposes.
Recent and related:

Mistral 7B - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37675496 - Sept 2023 (612 comments)
I think it’s a spectrum. I see really vague still images if I really try but yep just back of the eyelids most of the time. I’ve had a real feel for what vivid imagery looks like a few times right before I fall asleep. I envy people that can conjure up that sort of vividness when they want.
I thought I could use my mind's eye until I read similar threads.

I have a vivid imagination but it turns out it's all conceptual. I don't see an apple. I see a mostly circle shape. It's either green or red. Maybe yellow.

I can't draw well but I can draw anything. I know the concepts and can poorly draw the approximate.
Evolution has made men excited at the sight of sexual material. The hormonal flow creates a lot of pleasure and a positive reinforcement loop associated with habituation.

This is why porn tends to produce ever more harcore content, to satisfy the ever increasing cravings of the watchers. Just look at a 70's porn movie and the average one today. Much more enticing and hardcore.

As a result, allowing people to develop a taste for CSAM is pandora's box we shouldn't open.
I use it professionally all the time. I work with arm a lot, and during the testing of customer software that is compiled for arm, I need an arm based Linux os to run and test on. rpi is the obvious choice. I'm very happy with the 4s performance, so I don't require the 5, but I'll still get one.

I also use another one for retro pi, which I imagine will benefit from the increased performance..

lastly, I have a small handheld Bluetooth keyboard with a track pad I use with a pi4 with a 3.5in screen hat and battery pack. the overall size and weight is much less than any laptop I have ever come across, and I use this when I go to cons. (although I'm looking at plantecom to replace this)
i feel like this is just a western perspective, telegram is very popular in some places and for good reason
It's popular here (and in other more "technically" inclined communities) to dunk on the "soft sciences", but the hard sciences also had their share of fraud cases (the Schön revelations being some of the most prominent). The discovery of Schön's fraud also didn't lead to theories suddenly being rewritten. This is simply a misunderstanding of how science works and the contribution/impact of a single scientist. In the end sure some minor directions will be impacted, people will see conclusions still hold, but overall theories will only marginally be impacted.

Something only becomes well accepted theory if it can be reproduced again and again, fraud will come out eventually. That is the beauty of the scientific process.
This is what I've enjoyed about Azure the most - it's all quite simple. However, due to accounting shenanigans our entire company is going to migrate from Azure to AWS. I'm extremely curious as to what that transition is going to look like.
yes!!!!! best emergency phone number. i heard the drivers are better looking too
> Thinly provisioned compute in the presence of other VMs is one reason

That's the only reason I can think of.

> I think this is aimed at people with multiple proxmox nodes in a cluster

I think so too, but then we're back to the original question again (i.e. why not just have kubernetes nodes instead of having proxmox nodes with kubernetes VMs on them).
I think that the math of battery life if you had to decrypt anything that looked like a handshake packet to see if it's for you is the opposite of feasible.
Don’t rub your eyes for any reason (source: my optometrist)
Large language models in 2014, applied to spell-checking
I'd say hardware fixes are becoming increasingly less common. As more of the ways devices function rely on software there is less a need to physically change them to correct problems.
I have a pretty similar experience. It's slower and worse translation (at least for Dutch) than the TWP extension, but hey it's local translation and I'd rather use this than send the contents of browser to a 3rd party like google, bing or yandex.
Simply ignoring the entire field of philosophy of mind and imposing your own definitions is not going to get you anywhere.

Thought is not required for consciousness, only experience. I strongly suggest you read the literature and traditions of thought so you may be more informed about the things of which you speak.

> there isn't a definition

There is, and I quoted it directly above. If you have an issue with the definition I suggest you bring it up with the community that came up with it, namely, professional philosophers. I suspect they already have a precise term for the thing you're referring to as 'consciousness'.

However the most ridiculous part of your reply is this:

> We've never observed consciousness

You have never experienced color? Taste? I consider it pretty important for someone with such strong opinions on the matter to have personal... ahem, experience... in it.
If you don’t bother to compose an email in your own words, why would you expect other people to read all that ChatGPT-generated shit?

Generative AI will have to get really good to not be detected, because many of us will treat such emails as spam.
Maybe https://github.com/ahlstromcj/seq66? Spiritual successor of seq24.
> It's more than likely that class structures at the time simply didn't record deaths of commoners

That's an interesting claim. Why do you think so? Considering cities were generally more or less run by "commoners".

e.g. https://medievalmurdermap.co.uk/maps/london/ is full of murdered commoners.

Many of the victims murdered by students in Oxford were just ordinary townsmen as well.
Contracts are good, they are a proof of mutual engagement.

Contracts that enforce only one position are not good - this is why we have string labour laws. A contract in France cannot have anything that is outside the labour law. They are completely generic.
With less error coding (13/15 code rate), the constellation is more rectangular.

https://www.w6rz.net/64qamnuc1315.png

With really heavy error coding (2/15 code rate), the constellation becomes almost unrecognizable with points very close to each other.

https://www.w6rz.net/64qamnuc215.png
genocide in this case
Cross-species virus transmission found in several species of small furry animals
for the same reason that advertisers bid for their own keyword searches even though Google would place their result at the top of the page anyways - because other companies will bid their way to the top otherwise.
I've been interested for some time in Astral, thanks for mentioning it. I've had very intelligent, credible people suggest it is possible. Similar for remote viewing

In the crux of Tom's argument - what can one prove via Astral?
There are very few rules and regulations that enforce or promote an employers ability to invest in their worker.

The rules and regulations that do exist are pathetic, starting with the laughable minimum wage.

Not to mention other rules are completely abused to make workers work more hours and to not be adequately paid, such as exempt employees whose salary hovers around that minimum level.

Companies also outsource and offshore in seconds. They do not even invest in the country anymore.

Even though legally these items are not unjust enrichment I fail to see why morally it cannot be construed as so.

Let’s get real about which side is exploiting the other.
Yeah it's not a figure of speech, there's LITERALLY another framebuffer (or whatever you want to call it) in my mind in addition to the ones from left eye and right eye. I don't need to close my eyes to do see it (but it helps). I can draw to it, with some effort . Daydreams get painted on it when my mind drifts. It's the stage on which I experience memories.

Most people are like this, with variation in the degree of vividness and control. Some people can make realistic detailed scenes, for other people it's harder and their images are often blotchy or lacking in detail and colour. I'm in the latter group.

If you don't have any of this at all and you're surprised by the whole idea, you are probably aphantasic.
I'm surprised the article didn't mention anything about pharmacogenetics. For example, drug-metabolizing enzyme polymorphisms can often lead to a 10+ fold difference in Cmax (or name the parameter) between a poor and an ultrarapid metabolizer of some enzyme.
When I had to study and memorize some text at school I used to remember the page where the text was written and then mentally read it. Some of those pages are still in my head (for instance multiplication tables).

Once I was on an exam and I could not understand my own writing in the page I was remembering because I had written it too small on the corner. It was frustrating to not be able to answer the question. Afterwards, when I went to my real notes and I struggled to understand what was written there. I was happy that my memory image was accurate although frustrated for not managing the space in the page properly.

I thought everyone could remember things in this way.

Sometimes I have to write things down to see them and remember them, because mental speeches are harder (and less efficient) for me to remember.

I guess there are many ways to learn and remember stuff we just have to find the one that works better for us.

Being a teacher should require knowing about all this learning diversity I guess.