skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The argument I advanced was that physics is an offshoot, a product, of philosophy. You haven't negated that claim in any form that I recognise.

I haven't tried to since I don't find the question that argument addresses very interesting.

> Sadly I only have my own personal experience of the world

Not only that, but also ONLY you have your own personal experience. No one else does, including me. That's why when you tell me the biographical detail as you did earlier, "Myself and a number of others who have studied and work in physics|mathematics" as if to somehow strengthen your argument, I'm here to tell you that I'm no more interested in your biography than I would expect you to be in mine, which is not at all, because they don't strengthen our arguments.

> Why on earth would you want to do that, these things are all intertwined.

Why would I want to evaluate philosophy in isolation from physics? I dunno. Maybe because that's "analysis", whose definitions according to Webster's includes "suggests separating or distinguishing the component parts of something (such as a substance, a process, a situation) so as to discover its true nature or inner relationships." After all, perhaps physics and philosophy AREN'T so intertwined. You haven't established that they are anyway. If they aren't and they can be teased apart from one another, then that helps us reason about and understand each better in isolation and with respect to each other.

> We should then also reject papers on black holes by physicists that also studied philosophy?

No, that's a non-sequitur. That doesn't follow from "we would be helped by examples of laudable contributions from people who were ONLY philosophers." "We" refers to us here in this Hacker News thread on the subject "Wither philosophy?" in general, and on the subject of distinguishing philosophy from physics in order to understand both, in particular.

> I fear you're advancing your own private Idaho by means of a True Scotsman Philosopher whom I've not personally met.

I have no idea what this means.
There is some discussion about population decrease trends, and I actually had a question about it yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38207457#38212649)!

I guess, I’ll ask here again — is there anyone working on preparing for a potential bad case scenario in developed world? As in, we would end up with extremely high average age, and not enough young people to support the elderly or the economy in 30-40 years. That’s, obviously, if we fail to reverse the trend of falling birth rates.
Yeah, folks here saying they would dedicate time to open-source probably have not been through these landscapes.

"Do nothing for 12 months, you do you" literally means "Don't cause any more trouble, get out of here on your account ASAP, make it easier for me to fire you"
Ken Liu is American, though he has many translations of Chinese authors that are worth checking out. His own writing is good and has some obvious Chinese influences, but I wouldn't properly characterize it as Chinese.

You may be mixing him up with Liu Cixin whose work he has translated.
Weird? I dunno, I kinda think that's pretty neat.
Not to diminish your valuable insight, but if they were simulating a sunrise, I doubt they had these at full throttle. My guess is they used old school lightning panels because of the orangey filament glow at lower wattages. WDYT?
A Scientist Says the Singularity Will Happen by 2031
This was a hardware problem or, more specifically, a process problem. The outside inspection should have occurred or the indoor inspection should have caught it. There is no "bug". People are imperfect and failures of all sorts, happen due to that.
This was called TUBA and was rejected by the working group around 1993 on the basis that the then-named IPng needed to offer more features than just expanded address space (e.g. get rid of ARP and DHCP).
Actually not because a server with multiple PSUs definitely knows when one loses power. It’s made to raise alerts about a power rail failing. So this makes it harder because you need to keep power on both to not raise any alarm
The aircraft involved was an Airbus A321, so definitely not a "Flight Engineer". Likely a maintenance engineer (please correct me on the job title if I'm wrong here). Basically people who have to know the intricate details of a specific aircraft's systems inside-out.
The WindowServer process uses 1.2GB right now on my machine. Finder takes 400MB, the dock process for some reason needs 150MB. Together with a couple others like Spotlight it's around 2GB, I'd say.
On a modern airliner, you'll get an alarm when the cabin pressure exceeds the pressure equivalent 10K feet. A few thousand feet of cabin altitude higher and the rubber jungle of masks appears. You won't get an alarm for just cabin pressure differential begin lower than usual.
Why are you pretending I said anything about it being illegal? I said nothing about law.
> There is really only one way to read his message.

This thread is a clear indicator that ther are multiple ways to read it. One may seem more valid than others but it's not at all unambiguous.

I'd love to know what the people in 5000 years, if there are any, project onto this. Maybe they'll refer back to this thread and fall into two major camps.
The financial system is already largely disconnected from reality. It's already non-sensical for even expert in the field. The stock market rally against all odds are crash without external events. Outside a few connected people, to whom Yuval is also connected, and are aware of all sort of secret manoeuvers, most cannot fanthom grasping it. Perhaps his real fear is that AI is leveling the playing field as everyone can now develop his own trading algorithm cheaply.
There's a huge list of missing features here if anyone cares.

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/13lo7u6/list_of_n...
As the number of people who have walked on The Moon dwindles, I've long wondered if there will every come a period in which we, as a species, can say "we have been to The Moon, but there is no one currently alive who has". I'd like to see us return before there is that gap in continuity. Fingers crossed for Artemis.
He's said some things I really disagree with, especially when he veers away from game design and programming and more into politics or climate change (or even somewhat when it comes to web development), but he still has a lot of interesting thoughts and I think he's well worth listening to on the whole.

I've listened to him far more than probably any other game designer or programmer at this point, probably well over 100 hours worth. Attended a couple of his talks in person at GDC too, many years ago (before Braid was released, he showed a brief demo of it during one of them). Didn't even know who he was, just had interesting sounding game design talks.
Or maybe even just a $500 Chromebook?
No, he did veto them. The issue with the title here is that they don't mention, that he did it because he had no data that would show they are of any effectiveness. This was brought up in the previous discussion of which this one is a dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38199670
It is already illegal to drive on public roads or third party property while intoxicated. Drunk driving interlocks which you have to blow in are pretty much the only way this could possibly be implemented. But https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/business/drunk-driving-in... "The Unforeseen Dangers of a Device That Curbs Drunken Driving".
I'm looking forward for this one,

A new gunion(8) utility tracks changes to a read-only disk on a writable disk. This can be useful for making tentative changes to the disk, such as file system repairs or software upgrades, and then either committing or reverting them. c7996ddf8000 (Sponsored by Netflix)

Taken from the release notes. Looks like unionfs?
Thanks for the context, that's really interesting: big numbers, wow.

Question: why not LED? Is there some quality of incandescent (I assume) bulbs which LEDs can't duplicate more cheaply? I guess so, but what would you say it is?
I use Streamlit and I usually run the app on my laptop for development.

Is there are way to do it in MecSimCalc? I looked through the site and could not find it. If it's not possible then I don't see how it's an alternative to Strimlit.
> Or help solve homelessness

Google has tried building housing in Mountain View, but they can't permits easier than anyone else.
Just because a system uses AI doesn't make it fundamentally unsafe. But giving AI unchecked control over systems that handle large amounts of money is no different than giving such control to any other automated computer system. You have to think about risk and how to manage it. None of that is new.
I'm sympathetic to this point of view, but then we have to be consistent with it.

No TSA. No license plate scanners. No fare gates for trains. No locks on doors. No anti-shoplifting tags.

EDIT: Is there some Emerson convention in town? You can look at my comments for some of his other quotes (It's actually not very surprising to me that an Anglo abolitionist who also believed that Anglos were the 'best' race wasn't a big fan of consistency!)
I am doubtful that unless a car is fully autonomous anyway having the car try to pull itself over against driver input will be that much safer. I can see many iterations causing accidents by suddenly slowing down or merging into another vehicle or parking on blind corners. Plus I imagine the 'drunk' driver would then leave the immobile vehicle, opening a host of pedestrian on road risks
This would be acceptable if this internal route was already configured for free. However, it appears VPC endpoints have their own pricing[1], at which point one must carefully consider whether paying up for the IPv4 address is the better option.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/privatelink/pricing/
The worst aspect of this game is the tedious inventory management and awful UI. You only get 10 storage crates which each only hold 5 different items and they all look identical so you have to run around trying to find the right one to add it to the right stack. There's not enough space to be able to store most items especially if you need intermediate items for crafting, even if you limit yourself to storing only one stack of one type of item. You end up using all the exocraft just for storage and never use most of them besides only for storage. Progression is largely centered around buying extra storage slots for your exoskeleton which ends up allowing you to carry more stuff on your body than you can on a large vehicle or in one of these giant storage crates that barely hold anything. The item icons are also unnecessarily huge in them and there isn't an easy or efficient way of interacting with them. The big storage cubes allow you to access the inventory from anywhere so that somehow justifies the very limited space, but there is no option for building a container that you can only access locally from inside a base other than building portable refiners to abuse as storage, which hold hardly anything and sometimes despawn randomly. So you end up building like 50 refiners in a base for storage and you constantly run around trying to remember what each one holds so you can go store something in an existing stack to save space.
The majority of Western countries are consuming at a level, were it applied globally, would exhaust the planet.

Distracting people from fucking isn't a feasible sustainability target when applied to the whole world.
Also the taxes are really low, especially compared to Norway. Low income tax, cheap petrol, cheap alcohol.
$15-30 bucks per TB ?!
that's honestly mindblowing to me.
FWIW, I wouldn't try to parse escape sequences directly from the input bytestream -- it's easy to end up with annoying edge cases. :-/ In my experience you'll thank yourself if you can separate the logic into something like:

- First step (for a UTF-8-input terminal) is interpreting the input bytestream as UTF-8 and "lexing" into a stream of Unicode Scalar Values (https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.1.0/ch03.pdf#P.12... ; https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/blob/master/src/termina...).

- Second step is "parsing" the scalar values by running them through the DEC parser/state machine. This is independent of the escape sequences (https://vt100.net/emu/dec_ansi_parser ; https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/blob/master/src/termina...).

- And then the third step is for the terminal to execute the dispatch/execute/etc. actions coming from the parser, which is where the escape sequences and control chars get implemented (https://www.vt100.net/docs/vt220-rm/ ; https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html ; https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/blob/master/src/termina...).

Without this separation, it's easier to end up with bugs where, e.g., a UTF-8 sequence or an ANSI escape sequence is treated differently if it's split between read() calls (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=212702), or invalid input isn't correctly recovered-from, etc.
In Europe they use Engineer interchangeably with Aviation Mechanic.

If this is a tour company, moving a plane, it's not unreasonable that they'd bring a mechanic along in case they needed an inspection on the way. It's cheaper than contracting out a lot of the time.
Nothing new under the sun. Plenty of people always believed everything they saw on Oprah.
The difference is that you own your car, but not those other things. Things you own should always do what you want, not try to enforce laws against you.
Removing a cost and an artificial shortage may cause many innovative things to happen. History is full of examples when lower costs and higher availability of something have caused a burst of innovation.

What I meant in the grandparent comment is that if a company makes it their business strategy to have all devices call home, they will do that regardless if they use ipv4 or ipv6. But if ipv6 is widely implemented and there is no cost to ip addresses, it is entirely possible that another company can create an ap that allows you to directly communicate to your devices without using a central server.
This is going to be so awesome when I can't drive my car because I just used hand sanitizer. Or won't let me drive because i just cleaned the windows with window cleaner.

Solution is cars that drive themselves.
Then don't use AWS and discourage others from using AWS.

I guess that might also include all Amazon businesses if you really want to try to send a message, not that it'd really hurt Amazon that much if more people don't actually follow through with going to alternatives.

Or you can complain about it with no results or actions.
Keybeds is an almost sacred topic for many.

One consequence is that even keyboard manufacturers often don't make their own keybeds but rely on third parties like Fatar or procure them from high quality piano manufacturers like Kawai.

Another consequence is that no matter which keybed you choose, you will always have some people who don't like it and you unnecessarily limit your potential customer base.

I think this is the reason why most midi controllers fall into one of three categories:

- Try to get the best keybed they can justify. I would put Native Instruments in that class, because I see their keyboards as kind of MIDI controllers with keys. Some Arturia devices would also fit into that category. All of them don't rely on the MIDI controller as their main product but have primarily other revenue streams.

- Include the cheapest keybed possible, because no matter how good your keybed is, many will hate it anyways, so why no just let everyone hate it. I spare you examples, the list is long. Might be viable but the question is if this is the place you want to be in?

- MIDI controllers that integrate well with existing keyboards. One example is the MonogramCC, which can be arranged around your keyboard. Special Waves is similar. I'm sure there are others.

As much as I love the idea of tight integration, I think the last category is the commercially most viable approach for a small manufacturer.
I've already driven a rental car that warned me when my eyes were narrowing slightly? Is this just me? This was I think a few years ago now
That's not how the banking system works in theory or practice. It hasn't worked like that for a very very long time.

Lending isn't limited by deposits, it's limited by central bank regulations.

Here's what the Bank of England says [0]

> if you borrow £100 from the bank, and it credits your account with the amount, ‘new money’ has been created. It didn’t exist until it was credited to your account.

> Regulation limits how much money banks can create.

Banks only need to maintain enough deposits to cover their liquidity needs - what they need to pay people withdrawing cash and what they need to transfer to other banks due to electronic money moving.

[0] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/explainers/how-is-money-crea...
All developed nations got there by exploiting cheap/free labor from immigrants, slaves, and oppressed minorities. There's plenty of extremely poor people left in the world, so I don't see that stopping anytime soon. Already, Japan depends primarily on foreign seasonal labor for their agricultural industry. I predict the same will continue for hundreds of years to come (if we survive that long.
why'd this get downvoted? at least some of the countries there have populations who are vastly less values-compatible with Good Things we believe in. ceteris paribus we should expect more good from the marginal person being born in Europe or the Americas rather than the global south or many parts of Asia. most of the countries in those areas who are friendly to America and our principles have declining birthrates too so we should exclude those and hope they continue to grow. we also want to ensure that America remains the 800lb gorilla in terms of both military and economic power and population growth is a pretty good way to do that.
> I mean you're basically saying "they only murdered like 3 people ... and were pretty good about making sure they didn't murder more... hardly 'numerous.'" And if you don't think that child sexual exploitation is on a similar level in terms of severity of the crime then I don't want to know you.

This is absolutely insane logic. Pornhub didn't commit the crime. Did you know murder happens every day? A lot more than three times.

Perfect moderation is impossible. You're saying that they would have to have a success rate of 99.99+% at catching this, when again, it can be nearly impossible to actually tell just by looking.

What exactly do you expect them to have done? What exactly do you think Twitter does?

Are you really suggesting that because this stuff exists and is impossible to prevent with 100% success, no website should ever allow user generated pornographic content without having some rigorous and highly invasive process for validating each video's provenance? (Not that it matters: doing this kind of thing will just make backchannels the defacto channels. Not a good outcome for improving enforcement overall.)

(Come to think of it, if this is the actual logic of someone who worked in the adult entertainment industry, then I no longer have any difficulty understanding how dystopian chat/encryption/social media legislation manages to continue to be proposed and sometimes even become law.)
The million dollar outage is probably a tall tail but passed around the management table as blame everyone can agree with because that group isn't represented.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
Socialists want to pool resources to support the wider group. Fascists want uniform cultural norms throughout society. There's nothing contradictory about the two beliefs, but in our time people who subscribe to one rarely subscribe to the other.
This is a nice post, and I think it will resonate with most new AI startups. My advice would be don't build an AI product at all.

To my mind an "x product" is rarely the framing that will lead to value being added for customers. E.g. a web3 product, an observability product, a machine vision product, an AI product.

Like all decent startup ideas the obviously crucial thing is to start with a real user need rather than wanting to use an emerging technology and fit it to a problem. Developing a UI for a technology where expectations are inflated is not going to result in a user need being met. Instead, the best startups will naturally start by solving a real problem.

Not to hate on LLMs, since they are neat, but I think most people I know offline hate interacting with chat bots as products. This is regardless of quality, bots are rarely as good as speaking with a real human being. For instance, I recently moved house and had to interact with customer support bots for energy / water utilities and an ISP, and they were universally terrible. So starting with "gpt is cool" and building a customized chatbot is to my mind not going to solve a real user need or result in a sustainable business.
> They could advertise to customers that they promise/certify that any personal data is wiped between rentals.

I, for one, simply wouldn't believe any such claim. Too much deception has already happened for there to be any trust left.
Does Substack count as social media? How are they doing?
A random piece of junk refurbished dell small computer from amazon with a windows 10 pro license is $200. It's more powerful than every single computer I administered from 1990-2005, put together.

What you say is true -- they don't really need the power, but golly they've got it anyhow.
You’re being shortsighted.

Apple is the brand that many of us in the tech crowd have long recommended to our non-technical friends and relatives. You could pay a slightly premium price and expect a machine that is easy to understand, “just works” and most importantly: that you would get a fair few years’ worth of use out of for the extra upfront cost.

Apple is undermining that by shipping 8GB and 256GB in the base configuration. They’re setting up a situation where the expected life of their computers is potentially shortened by unexpectedly-bloated future OS upgrades.

Remember the crappy underspecced Celeron laptops that Walmart used to sell? That unsuspecting non-technical customers would shell out hundreds for, only to become unusable slow in only 1-2 years, meanwhile suffering through it that whole time?

We recommended Apple to our friends and relatives precisely to avoid those kind of cheap and nasty predatory products, but now Apple is moving in that direction too.

As someone (who is technically skilled) who has recommended Apple tech to my whole family (who are non-technical) with massively positive results after migrating from Windows PCs, yes that does anger me.
They found one shattered pane on the runway.
And aluminum production near hydroelectricity (all the way to the beginning of hydroelectricity in narrow valleys in the french Alps) and heavy water in Norway (hydro), and currently aluminum in Iceland (geothermal) and ... well ... same in Saudi Arabia et al (natural gas to electricity to aluminum - still more effective than shipping the gas it seems).

Aluminum is easier to ship than electricity.

What's interesting is that there are more constraints today: Can a deal be made for consistent and low prices in the long run? The data center "unit" these days is pretty large - is there enough power? Is it available 24/7 (problem for wind: a data center can soak up when nearby wind power is cheap but it still has to get predictable power for the rest). A new progress is that location mattered perhaps for most data center: legal and latency. But for "pure compute" in AI tasks, it may matter a lot less: latency might not matter if the process will churm for days. So perhaps Iceland has some data centers in its future - no need to export the aluminum.

There are other weird things about pricing vs exports: California exporting water in the form of almonds. And rice.