skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're wrong on the basics

No, friend, you are.

Money and force are both powered by love.

Do you know of the "Five Whys" technique? It turns out there's a psychological version. Without going into a long thing about it, it turns out that all human motivations follow a chain of desired outcomes the eventually terminate in one of five profound states: Love, Bliss, Oneness, Okayness, and huh! I forgot the fifth one. (It's not important for the sake of discussion.) All human actions are attempts to re-engender these deep and profound states, just with more or less yak-shaving.

- - - -

As an aside, thanks for the book recommendation, that looks really interesting. I believe the ancient Greeks and Romans were not strangers to love, though, eh?
Stanford Center on Longevity 2023-2024 Design Challenge
Honestly it doesn’t strike me as too different from a paid dungeon master. I guess the horror is when it goes from explicitly compensation to some sort of product placement.
Microfrontend was such an obviously dumb idea. It's just a pretty name for tech debt.
when the only people using it are grifters and speculators I think that points pretty clearly to the fact that it has no real world utility :)
Completely opposite here. We ran jira for many years on-prem, it was mostly effortless - maybe a few man/days per year? (user accounts in low 3 digits, but we kept workflows simple and ran light on plugins).

I'm curious what were actually tasks that wasted your time?
Nearly 14 years in, where exactly is this “ton of real world utility”?

Surely someone somewhere would have a product providing this utility, even amidst the sea of fraud and grift. I still don’t see it.

Some utility? Okay, sure. A ton? Not even close. Consider that the web launched in 1993. By 2007 (14 years later), virtually the entire planet had changed dramatically as a result. That is a technology with a ton of real world utility.
My monitor is a 2011 Apple Cinema Display. I use an adapter to convert the output to USB-C. The webcam is very bad so I have an external one mounted on top. Otherwise it works amazingly for a 12 year old monitor!
Normal people were never going to do well with a payment system where if you forget your password you've irretrievably lost access to your funds.

(I've heard all of the arguments about backup phrases and social recovery wallets and suchlike, and I have yet to see evidence that these will work for anyone other than the most technically sophisticated of users.)
I expected to be able to list my domain names for sale.
Experience as phenomenological subjective experience. I.e., to experience "the color yellow" rather than just the physiochemical processes associated with incidence of photons of a particular wavelength, or "sour" rather than just interacting with certain kinds of acids.

Philosophy of mind scholars have been very consistent about this for the longest time. I would recommend reading some of the literature they have produced to become more acquainted.

However "interesting parts of human consciousness" as you put it are still outside the realm of consciousness per se, and can be more adequately described as "cognition", "awareness", "agency", "sentience", etc. Each concept is distinct (but related) from the others and it's unproductive at this point in our collective development of theory and study to lump them all under a single umbrella term.

Consciousness is a relatively boring question when limited to this definition, but that just means you need to change your language to remain comprehensible, not to redefine words that already have very precise meanings.

I can give you my personal thoughts on the matter, they may align more closely to yours than you may initially assume. As a quick note, complex systems are interesting primarily because they encode features of their environment in their physical makeup, kind of like your rock example. Rocks can't really "do" anything with that information except roll and crack differently than if they didn't have those scratches, but when you really drill down into this phenomenon, there's no bright line between the encoding of scratches on rock surfaces and slightly more complicated systems like river deltas changing the path of water in response to upstream flows (a kind of analog computer encoding the history of its "experiences") or even more complicated systems like lineages of organisms encoding their experiences in DNA via natural selection based on the history of its (the lineage -- not each individual organism) interaction with its 4D environment. None of this really has anything to say about what rocks or river deltas or organisms or whole lineages are experiencing according to the definition of consciousness above, and it seems impossible to access any kind of scientific evidence one way or the other, which is most of the reason that scholars (Chalmers) came up with the "hard problem of consciousness" to at least acknowledge and refine the difficult questions still facing us in this field of study.
Is a list backing this available anywhere? Would be neat if someone ported that into a userscript or something.
I have a Samsung 1080p non-"smart" tv that just won't die. Sure, it's not the best picture available, but it's good enough for what I need and doesn't send my viewing habits to any motherships.
I wonder, what business/appointment would even need the extra hour of daylight? Not many. Many businesses already have seasonal hours that aren't affixed to the clocks changing.

Compare this to the deaths due to the confusion, loss of sleep, deer not realizing way more cars are going to be on the road, etc.

Changing the clocks has a serious price. The benefits are not apparent though.
It’s a solution to no problem. Outer walls were never a problem. The insulation and cabling/piping is. Paying for 3 days for insanely complex robot with a crew will not be cheaper than having 2 weeks a crew of 2 guys with a forklift/small crane laying the bricks.
Landline.
It isn't to avoid running afoul of trademark laws, it's just that it's easy to trademark pseudorandom brand names, and Amazon upranks trademarked brands.
...it only takes one.
There's political (and geographic?) trouble going from Europe to Asia. Your internet would have to go through countries like Russia and Iran. Or maybe Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and China.

The shortest path from Eastern Europe to Japan would be a straight shot across Russia, but a tracert says that it goes all the way through Europe, through the Atlantic, through the US mainland, through the Pacific and finally to Japan.

A cable through the Arctic ocean between Europe and Japan could potentially cut the journey to Asia in less than half.
please dont use autistic as an insult
Never!

I have about 30 and counting, lol. One day they'll see the light of the day :D.
Yes, layout is done with tables and indent looks like:

<td class="ind" indent="1">
<img src="s.gif" width="40" height="1">
</td>
There’s should be a check mark beside the caller ID name
> So let’s say our frontend app is a hairball that’s full of interdependencies. How do we break that link? I think engineers - and managers! - are so excited about the prospect of escaping the monolith, they forget about the intermediary stage of actually chopping up the hairball.

Absolutely this, true in both the back and front ends. The first step to breaking apart any monolith is the extremely boring refactoring process. People want to skip over this because it's not the sexy cool part where you're using Kubernetes and lambdas or whatever other tech will look great on your resume. But I'll say that every monolith->microservice (or MFE) move that I've seen, whether or not it was successful was entirely determined by if the upfront refactoring work was done.
My 2002 Acura. New enough to have fuel injection, airbags and seat belts. Simple enough that parts are cheap and most work can be done in the driveway with hand tools. Durable enough that I can drive it as long as gas is affordable. I did install a modern head unit with Bluetooth and USB (but not CarPlay - old school segmented LCD)
By that logic books, search engines, wikis, and forums like the ones we are on are a dumb dystopia because they can provide information in the same way. If your outlook is "having access to information which could be misused" is the sign we've entered dystopia then we've been living in one since we invented language and writing.
Does anyone else feel like this Bitcoin is no business of the government/IRS to take away? If all he did was steal from silk road, then why pick on him of all people. If anything he was making things harder for criminals. Also it's dumb that the government tries to tax Bitcoin. I understand for U.S. currency because they made and control it, but crypto has nothing to do with where you live. I am not happy about what the government has done here.
The thunderbolt licensing is pretty strict, so I'm not sure anyone is selling knock off thunderbolt cables that underperform the rated specs.
People weren't that bullish on the conclusiveness of those results at the time. (Except for the radio signals.)

Even though we know that our atmosphere is maintained by life, nobody did really know if something else could create oxygen and methane. And betting on a specific light absorption spectrum is quite a hard thing to justify.

Today we know that those things are rare. And they are orders of magnitude more intense than the unexplained phenomenon we see on other planets. But at the time, we didn't have proof.
When a planet with an atmosphere eclipses its star, light passes through its atmosphere and the molecules in the atmosphere will absorb specific frequencies of light.

See https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/discovery/how-we-find-and-charac...
PyTorch Edge
I love infected mushroom too. On my Spotify list, I noticed that it was recommending more Offbeat to me. I didn’t know it was called offbeat until I saw it on the guide.
Why is the FCC not just telling these companies what their robocall mitigation procedures should be, and how they are going to be measured and enforced? I understand that it would be more nimble to let well-meaning companies come up with scrappy solutions. Based on the lengthy timeline, I don't believe nimbleness is what they're going for, and based on these obviously bogus submissions, I'm not convinced the companies are well-meaning. Given this, maybe a firmer hand would be more effective.
This is one of my favourite distractions when watching Sci-Fi films set in the future - spotting objects from now. For example:

- In Luke's home in Star Wars IV there's a lot of Tupperware - https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2014/02/in-praise-of-t...

- In Alien, Ripley drinks from a Tupperware mug - https://twitter.com/EverRotating/status/1156650673972363264
I thought that crypto was the asset of last resort, independent from the fluctuations and manipulations of the market. Better than gold, better than oil, better than SP500...
My Google Pixel 4a. I don't think it's outdated, but ask Google about that

Also my laptop that has no Windows 11 available for it because 7th Gen Intel isn't good enough anymore. I don't think it's outdated, but ask Microsoft about that
Maybe, but part of the problem is nearly all of that “utility” lies in circumventing the government, for better or for worse
So should any Thunderbolt branded cable have similar performance and build quality to the Apple cable, then? Cause I wanted to know the same thing - I came away honestly impressed and thinking maybe I should buy an Apple cable even though I don't own an iPhone. But the real question is whether other vendors have the same quality at a lower price point, because I don't feel the desire to pay the Apple price if they aren't better than the competition.
At least I enjoy taking the plane and I decide when to take it. Planes serve a purpose. Adtech is just parasitic. An Internet without ads wouldn't need QUIC.
Yes you van. Surveillance equipment, remotely activated tamper explosives, patrols, etc.
I don't know if a terminal or CLI can be considered "outdated".
It's not theft, it's counterfeiting, which is worse than theft. Why? If you steal a car, a company can just write it off.

If you can change the market so the company can no longer sell the car, it destroys the entire line of cars.
A younger, more naive version of myself believed corporate slogans like, "Don't be evil"

Cynical takes like yours are accurate in the descriptive sense. They are useful for describing and predicting outcomes. Ideals are typically prescriptive. They call us to improve upon what is. The two concepts are not incompatible, but for many they are seemingly contradictory.

People care because they have ideals. Perhaps they confuse the two concepts. Perhaps their expectations are too idealistic.
Why would it break if the same type of wiring is used? Unless you mean the active chipset breaking somehow, rendering that cable useless?
From: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22515

> Atlassian has been made aware of an issue reported by a handful of customers where external attackers may have exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in publicly accessible Confluence Data Center and Server instances to create unauthorized Confluence administrator accounts and access Confluence instances. Atlassian Cloud sites are not affected by this vulnerability. If your Confluence site is accessed via an atlassian.net domain, it is hosted by Atlassian and is not vulnerable to this issue.
Before applicant tracking systems existed, some human reviewers used simple but rigid rules to screen resumes, for example only considering applicants from particular schools. Since human reviewers have limited time to screen resumes, they will miss good candidates too. The question is whether ATS miss more good candidates.
The networks were just switching to color en masse around the time that Star Trek came out and the penetration of color TVs was still pretty low--well under 50%.
The utility is on the name: cryptoCURRENCY. Before it became a speculative asset, crypto faced the issue of adoption, now that it is one, it faces the issue of not being useful as a way to facilitate transactions.
Sennheiser HD-25s.

I have a few other nicer pairs, some open ear, some wireless with noise cancelling, yet I still pick up the HD-25 regularly. The design is 30 years old.

(As a side note, please bring back 3.5mm jacks on phones)
They couldn't find any telcos willing to take cash. Luckily some fellas were willing to accept Steam gift cards.
SAT Requires Exhaustive Search
You should force yourself through the first season or two. I promise the dominion war is worth it.
It may have started that way, but I enjoy it sober :). Hopefully our world doesn’t always need intoxicants to enjoy this style? But if you want to enjoy the intoxicants for the sake of the intoxicants, by all means!
That came later. In 1895 a New Zealand entomologist first floated the idea to gain more insect collecting time after work.

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/TPRSNZ1895-28....
I had a version of this myself, moving out of a poor area into a nice one. When we were doing a tour, we saw children's bikes just left laying down by the street everywhere. It was shocking, as a child I couldn't even store my bike in our shed out back.
Maybe it depends on the model but I find you'll get a different result if you say "write a dialog in which, A, B, and C talk about D" versus "read what A said and reply as B". The latter will result in each participant talking longer.
Could you qualify these two assertions:

- AI investment is drying up

- FOSS AI is competitive with proprietary providers

From what I understand, AI grifting and investing has only just begun, and open source AI tools aren't on par with what Open AI is offering.
I've been looking at Foundation Maths by Croft and Davison as a refresher for everything math, which includes calc
My biggest gripe is that it's impossible to lint or autoformat a Makefike, I wish other tools were more popular.
They provide more multi-threaded performance given the same amount of silicon used.
> a need for cost cutting

But then you go on to mention investor returns

> the stage where investors wish to get an RoI out of them.

Exactly describing the rug pull or, as Cory Doctorow deemed it, the final stage of enshittification. Clawing back all the value provided to customers to hand to the investors. See for example Google's two $70 billion buybacks at the same time they were joining the rest of Big Tech in Big Layoffs.
Great point. Are you familiar with McLuhan's media tetrad?

The hypothetical status quo is a wonderful example of retrieval. Every new technology should be expected to have the effect of reemphasizing something previously obsolete.
IBM Model M keyboard, true original, complete with PS/2 connector and no Windows key.
IF the primitive aliens were anything like us, you could point something like FIRMS at the planet and wait a few weeks. One of the first things I would qualify as an anthropogenic (xenogenic??) signature, visible from space, would have been
regularly setting semi-controlled brush fires to make hunting and foraging easier. Nice bonus it gives you some idea of tribal migration patterns!

ed. - but it requires high-res direct imaging of the planet
Ha, for some reason my company (actually zscaler) is blocking your ricardocabello.com site because of "Copyright infringement". I'll check it out on my personal laptop.

I remember your 3 Dreams of Black experiment when it came out, that was awesome work!
Are America's allies the holes in its export-control fence?
archive: https://archive.ph/M0zYC
Cables with chipsets in them... the possibilities for data exfiltration are endless.
It’s fun to look through the many domains that I’ve registered, often when drunk, for some project or other that never actually happened. So many silly (and funny, to me) ideas.
Yea same. Really still unclear what utility it provides that fiat currencies do not. Not theoretical utility, like real world utility.

I think crypto will go down in history as an amazing example of the importance of institutional knowledge and regulation. Like how did nobody see fraud coming in an unregulated financial instrument? Did folks genuinely think that "decentralization" was going to sidestep all of the typical problems that we've been using regulation to solve for the past several hundred years?
You have nushell "the language" and nushell "the shell". You can still use bash, fish, zsh for your day to day shell usage. They are proven, rock-solid and super stable. However, for the kinds of tasks that nushell excels -- gluing together programs, doing simple analysis of the output of text oriented programs etc. nushell can be a viable choice. Here I'm emphasing nushell "the language".

Every language was a niche language once when the user base was almost zero. So I guess it depends on your personality and organization -- are you an early adopter ? Or do you like waiting until the tool/language has established itself ?

I would argue that nushell lets you write powerful scripts like bash. But it can be better than bash because it offers powerful constructs, patterns and primitives. I think nushell is here to stay.
PHP 7.

PHP 8 introduced too many breaking changes. Many of them making the language worse.

At our company, we ported all public facing projects to PHP 8 over the last 4 months. A pain in the ass.

All internal projects will stay on PHP 7, running in Docker containers, and will be ported to Python in the coming months.

Python is hopefully less likely to come with breaking changes in the future.
Terminal

Vim (ok this is a timeless classic)

Going back from react/next/spa style to server rendered templates (thanks to htmx which I guess is not really outdated?)
1 in how many years? And was the guy armed?

I'm not saying they're angels, but I've never had a problem with The Angels as security: everybody knows 'don't mess', and things are good.

I've seen a few mild beatings, but considerably less that the same fone by 'regular' bouncers down town (though they're getting better....must be all the cameras).
Dumb light switches. The installation, software updates, re-pairing, latency, security issues, and 3-5 year obsolescence seem like way too high a price to pay just to avoid getting off the couch and flicking a switch that works 100% of the time and never needs any maintanence.
> Sorry but I can't buy into using history to compare if an empire is collapsing or not

The point isn’t that history is the perfect tool for predicting collapse — it’s not. The point is it’s seemingly the best tool we have at this time.

What would you suggest as an alternative? Gut feeling? Intuition? “Logic”?

The last I deliberately put in scare quotes because there’s no from-first-principles mathematical / logical model of this that accounts for all of these things (and I kind of doubt there can be). And even if it was possible to create one, there isn’t one now and one has to navigate the world in its absence.
That is crazy. What kind of cpu cooler do you need for that? Is water cooling a requirement with these >400W figures?
All watches over by machines of loving grace…
But many downvotes is one of the main ways that they get picked to kill by "software, user flags, or moderators".
have another one: replace short phone numbers with ipv6 addresses. prefix owned by telco, customers can generate random suffixes. hand out random numbers every time you need to provide a number and delete them if you no longer need to receive calls from the other end. The contact you gave to the shipping company for your new washing machine? doesn't need to exist longer than a few weeks.
The numbers can be passed around as QR codes or generated by an app to be pasted into forms.
Why would the gov’t ever allow it as a legitimate escape hatch?

All of these le sigh type retrospectives seem to completely skip over stuff like this.
That's why I prefer to pay the premium for Thunderbolt cables. You know exactly what you're getting.
I regret all the domain names I let go.
Java and C++ (if people online are to be believed)

1994 buckling spring Model M

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Adding charge to neural network potentials
The browser has per-website zoom controls, so it's probably wise to use those, and not bikeshed font sizes on websites.
They use a technique where they do spectral analysis on the light reflected from the planet. Gasses absorb different wavelengths of light. So the light reflected will have holes at specific wavelengths, and scientists can determine which combination of gasses will result in those specific absorption lines.
Insane difference between thunderbolt vs competitors.

Well, yes, because the competitors are functionally a completely different cable. One of them is just for charging, that is obviously going to be very different. So kinda hard to tell what you are really paying for. As another comment says: would be rather interesting to see differences in cables which claim to do the same.
Hold on a sec.. I need to update the firmware on my USB-C cable. Crazy how miniature and advanced things are becoming.
I've news for you. They're never going to investigate, let alone in real time.
~$0.67 cents without negotiated processing fees (ex: Stripe's rack rate is 2.9% processing fee + 30 cents per transaction)