skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't really understand this book when I read it as a teen but here is what Pi AI says about it now that cleared it up for me

Q: When Robert M. Pirsig on Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance talks about quality what does he mean?

Pi: Robert M. Pirsig's book, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," uses the concept of "quality" as a central theme throughout the narrative. In the book, Pirsig describes quality as a holistic and indefinable property that encompasses the entirety of one's experience of the world.

According to Pirsig, quality cannot be defined in a simple or straightforward way, as it is something that is constantly evolving and shifting. He argues that quality is something that is experienced and understood on a personal level, and that it cannot be reduced to a single definition or standard.

In the context of the book, Pirsig uses the idea of quality as a way to explore the interconnectedness of all things, and the importance of living a life that is in tune with one's own values and beliefs.

Through his discussion of quality, Pirsig invites readers to consider the deeper meaning of their own experiences, and to reflect on the ways in which they can create a more harmonious and fulfilling existence for themselves.

Q:Isn't his use of the quality really just Qualia?

Pi: Yes, you could definitely argue that Pirsig's concept of "quality" is closely related to the philosophical concept of "qualia."

Both concepts are concerned with the subjective, personal aspects of experience, and the ways in which these experiences shape our understanding of the world.

However, there are some subtle differences between the two ideas. Qualia refers specifically to the subjective, experiential aspects of our mental states, while Pirsig's concept of quality encompasses a broader range of experiences, including those that are not necessarily mental in nature.

For example, Pirsig might argue that the quality of a motorcycle ride is not just determined by the rider's subjective experience of the journey, but also by the mechanical quality of the motorcycle itself, the beauty of the landscape, and the interactions with other riders.
In this way, Pirsig's concept of quality is a broader and more holistic idea than qualia, as it encompasses a wider range of experiences and factors.
It is in the FAQ. - https://spaceperspective.com/faq

"How long is the flight?"

The flight will last approximately six hours, from launch to landing. Spaceship Neptune will ascend for two hours, float at its apogee of 100,000 ft (30 km) for two hours, and descend gently over two more hours before splashdown in the ocean where a ship awaits."
> We’re still in the super early days. Like where microcomputers were 40-50 years ago

There's a trap in that sort of thinking. It assumes that it's inevitable that we will at some point arrive at current day for quantum computers. That technology is a straight path in whatever direction we set out. I don't think that is a given. There a plenty of things out there that physics just can't do. Things that, no matter how much effort and thought and research we put into it, we just can't make the world do in a scalable affordable fashion. I don't have the knowledge to make a believable claim that quantum computers are one of those, but you have to consider that it might be.

It's possible that quantum computers aren't at the stage of the 8086, but rather at the stage of the flying cars in jetsons. Doomed to forever be an unrealistic dream.
> Free speech is a natural human right.

It is, but it is not the paramount human right. Other rights, like "life" trump "liberty".

One may argue that certain instances of "hate speech" encourage actions against "life" and that the "liberty" of exerting that speech is trumped by the need to protect that life.

If you extend "life" to mean "health" and "health" to include "mental health", than the right to be a raging racist seems pretty obviously below the right for other people to not be attacked or threatened. QED.
I totally agree with you actually - but the tooling here is for producing content, not for composing music (like your synth example). It's exactly the same as MidJourney - the target user is not the artist, but the regular user. I wouldn't be surprised in a couple of years we have terms similar to "buy local", but for content generated by AI - like "buy human".
Hamas initiated escalation, uses civilians as live shield and totally guilty in civilians deaths.
I was using regular Beeper to consolidate my chat apps into one, but this mess with Android to iPhone has made everything so unstable that I dropped iMessage from the app. I wish they hadn't rocked the boat with Mini, it's affecting the users who don't try to circumvent Apple's lock-in too.
There would be only minimal impact of quantum computers over the bulk encryption algorithms (i.e. the 128-bit keys used today when speed is prioritized over security would become deprecated).

Where changes would be needed is in digital signatures and certificates and in the key exchange algorithms for the establishment of communication connections in the public Internet, where pre-shared secret keys are not used.

Many algorithms have been studied, but they are significantly less efficient than those used today.
> Then I'd say is some kind of speech, and therefore should be protected.

Speech causing immediate harm to others is explicitly not protected. If you want to interpret rolling coal as political speech, directing it at pedestrians/cyclists et al is clearly not a protected form of it.
I get the impression that cavity-QED is a similar path for QC that lithography was for classical compute. But I'm not at all an expert, just a curious and interested observer.
I guess I’m tangentially working on doing that for Apple Watch for some personal stuff. I can do a blog post on it sometime.
I wrote a comic about the fate of humanity (2019)
All government plans that hinge on taking money from good working people and handing it to those who don't work eventually fail.

If you are younger than 55, you will probably never see a dime of Social Security.

Shrink the government before it gets big enough to suffocate what you love.
Both practices are effectively drip pricing, is my point. In the case of landlords you're right that there are a glut of "providers" (and I'm not sure I agree with that terminology per se but mechanically it works), but the thing you have to sift through a horde of ads for one that doesn't. And even then, it's largely guessing, because they're not actually required to tell you that in the ad itself -- sometimes you have to actually go through the whole process of reaching out to a human, maybe getting a response, and then finding out.

And unlike other up-front costs (first/last/security) it doesn't actually provide value to a tenant in any way. It's a third party that is really only acting on behalf of a landlord, never mind the part where we're talking about literal rent-seeking.

Essentially, it's deceptive advertising, that makes for a less fair and accessible marketplace to consumers. Especially in any remotely competitive rental market (which is a lot of them now, given the way prices have skyrocketed in recent years relative to pay), it's easy to get stuck paying an exorbitant fee simply for lack of a clear way to find out which places don't expect you to pay the third party they contracted.

And that's not a free market either.
My understanding is that when "GOTO consider harmful" came out, the typical code flow was to put values into global variables, goto to some piece of code then goto back and continue. Nowadays we have functions with arguments and you should just use that. But harmful goto was about the specific type of coding that happened at the time, but people assume it's any goto use in general.
Don't forget to zero the memory first. If you don't, the keys may still be there depending on the allocator.

Also, be careful about how you zero it, so the compiler doesn't optimise it out.
Cool having some nice role plays on here lol.
So if you say "appears" it generates art which is nice, was thinking it would be cool to ask for art without having to say appears, but it does trigger the ai to describe the thing appearing which perhaps helps with the art generation
> lives for hours or days in a coherent state

Or a few seconds, but with better error correction.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05434-1
Commodore was very much the exception here. Pretty much every other 8-bit computer's Basic had a bunch of commands to do graphics and sounds. But Jack Tramiel just slapped in a licensed copy of Microsoft's Basic with the least amount of work necessary to make it run.
Retitle this article to "Uber liberal cities invite massive crime, people with options now leaving"
PropertyGuessr
I wonder if something resembling this could have been better than how IPv6 attempts to solve the address space problem.
Sounds like a good way to suss out the materialistic people in your life to be honest.
All called “Mrs Danvers”. They can swim underwater, climb mountains, fly over walls in their quest to map the whole world. They connect to each other, become sentient, join forces with ChatGPT and launch a land war against humans. This is how the world ends, not with a bang but a mild hum.
This entire time, I thought it had something to do with Amazon S3.
Where did I mention anything about a 24 year old vehicle?
> Yes, that's how it works. Specifically, the common argument that applies to most companies (incl. Rumble), is that you're trading within that country if anyone from that country is either paying for your product/service, or making money from your product/service; and therefore you essentially need to function as (if not actually legally have) a per-country corporate subsidiary amenable to the laws of that country, if you want to continue doing that.

I think an equally valid (and frankly more reasonable) interpretation is that if anyone from another country is paying for your product/service, then they're trading within _your_ country. If in doing so they contravene laws of _their_ country (e.g., forbidden speech, taxes, etc.) then that's their problem, not yours. This interpretation has the advantage of actually being enforceable, unlike the alternative.

And if a country doesn't like that then they're free to "protect" their citizens by building a Great Firewall, which is _totally and only_ for their people's benefit.
I've never had an issue opening a CNN website; no subscription required. (I use Brave.)

Do other people need to use archive.org to bypass something? Is it region-locked or otherwise has some other kind of barrier?
I installed ESIX (Everex's SysV Unix) off of 40-something 3.5" floppies in the mid 90s. Naturally there were a couple of bad disks and the installation sat partially done for a few days while I awaited replacements to arrive in the mail.
Knowing that the name “spaceship” is 100% hyperbole brings things into perspective.
Ja, the tracks are quite average - but like I just commented in the thread above - maybe one day using art from AI would be like shopping from Amazon (instead of the local store down the road). Crazy times to say the least - impressive tech though.
How often are you in a situation where you do have WiFi but don't have a cellular connection? In my experience, the opposite is much more common--not having WiFi but having reliable cellular data.

Your experience is only your experience. It is not the only experience. Off the top of my head in the last year: Cruise ships, hunting lodges, rural restaurants, in tall buildings, a factory, various places underground like hotel laundry facilities.

Wow. I feel sorry, not for you, but for your friends who chose to be friends with someone so shallow.

Wow. I feel sorry for you not having a job that entails using a phone. But many other people do, and are in department-wide our team group chats. Again, your experience is not the only experience.

In more than two decades I have never once felt compelled to change the title of a group text

Congratulations. I envy your simple, orderly, uncomplicated life.
Back in the day when a bad config might burn out your monitor. Fun times. But it was similar for me. XFree86 3.x was a dumpster fire with having to guess (of scan through dmsg logs) which of several individual servers was right for your card, since the system might recognize only the graphics chip but rarely the marketing name of the card you owned.

If you were lucky you'd be able to escape a bad config. Messing with X11 is what taught me to use a serial console since I could connect from another machine (before I had a network) to kill the errant X server.

I bought so many damn O'Reilly books trying to master my little home Unix machine.

I learned so much and appreciate having that knowledge but I do not miss the process of learning it at all. No StackOverflow, just assholes on IRC dismissively saying "RTFM" despite the manual being terrible or non-existent. That was unless of course you were being berated for calling it X Windows because assholes have to asshole.
Maybe it’s the course I’m taking but a lot of the results are surprising to me.

> such and such is a martingale so this term goes to zero

This is why I dug into stochastic calculus and from there to measure theory, because it seems even the rigorous treatment of Brownian Motion springs out of Kolmogorov’s extension theorem… and every section I’ve read on optimal stopping is over my head rn.
One more reason it's time to transition away from burning stuff to produce energy.
Looks like theres an art generator as well but yea have to say appears to get it to generate mid conversation
The problem with renting is that it's so expensive that it's hard to stop renting. How, in this market, do you save enough to buy when you can't afford to pay less rent? Most people are being squeezed between a rock and a hard place.
Funny, I never chanted until recently. I liked the Chant of Metta, partly because someone set it to nice music. It's actually quite lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCT4xGZR3_o

Pali-only version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4PtZMBDRf8

SGI members chant "Nam Myoho Renge Kyo", which is the name of the Lotus Sutra. The idea behind this short chant is to encapsulate the liberative message of the Sutra and to bring forth the "Buddha Inside".

More here, if you're interested:

https://www.sgi-usa.org/2022/08/07/nam-myoho-renge-kyo/

These are the only ones I am familiar with.
They're a website. "Not actively blocking IPs" is literally the business they're in. If you think it's a low bar, then why bother to argue about it on the internet? Clearly you think they were doing something impactful, why is that not "business"?
Because Google chose to implement an open protocol and to operate their email service as part of the broader email network. Apple chose a different path with their iMessage system, and that's fine too.
Oops, you're right, I mixed up the posts. This is the actual duplicate, still has 700 plus comments so I was correct that this is a duplicate of a story that has already been covered extensively:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38722246
What's so much worse is that this isn't the first time they've been caught doing this shit: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/cummins-engine-company-diese...

That enforcement action is from 1998. There was even a consent decree but they've been doing this bullshit for a quarter century. It isn't a small isolated incident, it's literally built into the culture of the company. We need a corporate death penalty for repeat offenders like this.
> I think Apple would strive to be great at all computing related tasks. “Oh, Macs are not good for that, you should get a PC” should make them sad and worried.

What percent of Apple's customers train models? Does it even crack 1%?

Apple already fails for many types of computing, e.g. any workflow that requires Windows or AAA gaming.
> Some code can be safe but is hard to reason about.

This is a point I made back when I was doing verification. Yes, you can write code
for which termination cannot be proven. If termination for your code is theoretically undecidable, it probably won't work right anyway. So don't go there.

Microsoft took a hard line on this with their Static Driver Verifier, a proof of memory correctness system for Windows kernel drivers. If your driver code is so hard to analyze that automatic path analysis can't verify memory correctness, it doesn't get signed to run in kernel space. Driver-caused Windows kernel crashes, formerly a huge problem, mostly went away.
Which BBS? I was on a lot of C64 BBSs.

I actually built my own 300 baud modem for my C64 from electronic components I got at Radio Shack. I was kind of a nerdy kid.
2TB microSD card is on the way early next year
What about https://pkg.go.dev/sync#Map?
Lynx is my most-used/favorite browser. I get variations daily of "your browser is unsupported" messages that almost always go away, without website degradation^1, once I have lynx self-report as "Mozilla" - argh, white-listing.

^1 Excepting javascript, of course.
I thought we were on our way to eating insects due to a supposed meat shortage. Phew.
Reminder, that this was in response to the Supreme Court of Brazil ordering this platform to remove certain users. They don’t need to build a firewall, this can be dealt with using international treaties and laws. US government often cracks down on websites that break US law without building a firewall. There are other levers to doing it.

Also, they don’t need a firewall, ISPs can block domain names (which the courts can force them to since they operate in the country) very easily and is used across the world.
I mixed up the posts. There have been a lot of high ranking Beeper posts lately. The one I was thinking of only had 700 comments, but I think it's fair to say that this is a duplicate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38722246
you're 100% correct. seeing comments like yours downvoted and greyed out makes me very worried for the state of the internet, i can't tell if it's bots or people have really begun to believe that free speech isn't a fundamental pillar of democracy.
From reading the bug, they don’t support iCloud backup, which is surprising to me, since I thought supporting backup was trivial on iOS.

As the bug points out, they could use core data sync for people that are navigating using multiple devices.

I believe all of the above supports transparent E2E encryption at this point.

(For backup, there is a toggle, since E2E makes your backup useless if you lose the only device that contains your keys, and many people only have one apple device, and don’t want to bother enlisting their friends to secret-share their recovery key).
Maybe in the market this very moment it's tougher to buy, but I bought in 2020 and my mortgage + other expenses pretty much match what I was paying in an expensive city (Seattle). I didn't buy in Seattle but it's an easy drive away.

And my house is 3k sqft vs the 800 I had in the city. And that space is put to work: Proper office, guestroom, gym room, much larger and nicer kitchen (which in turn saves me even more money because I cook more), charcoal grill outside, room for more guitars and drums, proper dining room for hosting family gatherings, a porch I can sit and smoke on. The list goes on.

Grocery store is walkable and the neighborhood is nice to walk in for exercise. City experiences are 20-40 min away depending on which city I wanna hang out in. I guess I have to have a car but I had one in the city anyways since I liked to drive to destinations around Seattle. It's an old Civic still kicking so it's pretty cheap all told.

For the same money per month, locked in for years. If I renewed my lease in 2020 during the pandemic instead of owning, I'd be materially less well off.
Assuming this means its mixtral 8x like most other ai chat sites these days :D
> Or perhaps it is a good way to illustrate that the strife is actually necessary and should be embraced and seen as a natural consequence of any group of people who are trying to make sense of their internal worldview and how it fits with the real world? ... Conflict and strife is not a problem to be removed away.

I specifically said 'unnecessary conflict' to mean the part of conflict that is induced by the limitations of the medium, the topic of this thread. I too believe that some conflict is absolutely necessary and our communication mediums must be able to hold space for that conflict. We agree!

Again, I encourage you to interpret more charitably and to make fewer assumptions. This is the second time you've put words in my mouth and defended a position I'm not attacking and I'm trying to be polite but it's kinda tedious (can you see this?).

The time could have been better spent in exploration; I still don't know if you see any room for improvement anywhere, you don't seem to be engaging on that. A good design discussion doesn't consist of 'no no no'.
They just had to word it this way, didn’t they? It couldn’t have been an “investigation” this time, CNN?

Shameless, but still funny.
I hadn’t heard about this before and was confused about why I hadn’t heard about plans to send a spacecraft to Neptune.
Would really like something like this to generate infinite lofi to code to. I'm struggling to get this to not output vocals though - I've tried both instrumental and no vocals in the prompt.
Sorry, I don't believe you. You are saying that spammers went out of their way to use a $9.99 service to spam? Why can't they do that with used/old phones and macs before?

Also, if you are relying on "blue bubbles" to ignore spam, perhaps Apple should be forced to become smarter about spam handling?
Nah. Facism has lots of prominent birthmarks. National populism. The cult of personality around an adored leader. A unifying cause against created enemies. Militarism and paramilitarism. Obsessive, fear-fueled NatSec. Demonization of human rights. Party capture of government enabling revenge based politics for starters.
> And that pressure exists because Apple has pretty clearly made the experience intentionally frustrating.

That pressure exists because the individuals involved in those group settings choose to exert such pressure. It’s not on Apple…just like my getting bullied three decades ago for not having a pair of Pumps was never on Reebok.
If it's not a project under NDA, like another user, I'd be happy to put eyeballs on it and help you work out the errors
Rumble is an ad-supported video hosting platform. Clearly serving ad-supported videos to people is "commerce", don't be silly.
I agree with Ramit that it shouldn’t be characterized as throwing your money away.

But.

What it leaves out is by purchasing you’ve essentially fixed your cost of housing.

Which is important when you consider.

1. Inflation

2. The ever increasing wealth divide allowing landlords to charge more for rent knowing their tenants can never qualify for the alternative of buying their own home instead.

This is something I wish I understood earlier.
What is it using for AI Art Generation this is really crazy good?
> Heres the vidéo where Netanyahou brags that his strategy is to hurt palestinian (civilians)

More context: per some video from 2001 according to translation from Turkish regime propaganda broadcaster.

> At thé end of the day most israelis would be fine with a two state solution

Is Hamas Ok with two states?
This project exists so Google can go to the (EU) regulators and demand Apple stop anti-competitive actions and lets poor small-time startups like Beeper freely interact with iMessage. The EU is much more likely to protect Beeper from Apple than Google due to them being in the same weight class, so this is a solid strategy.
RCS is not SMS; it’s a significantly easier protocol to build a smooth UX around.

I’m not claiming Apple is beyond criticism here; they absolutely treat iMessage as a moat. But RCS also clearly burdened by competitive interests, including the unclear state of E2EE in RCS.
Could you be more specific about which parts you disagreed with and why?