skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We don't know how consciousness comes into being

Consciousness and life are completely different things. The article doesn't even mention consciousness.

> Therefore it follows that ... wait for it ... life is not a special state of matter or energy

It is special in the sense that it's remarkably complex e.g. compared to a mineral. It is not special in the sense that it obeys the same laws as a mineral.

> Therefore the emergence of life doesn't represent a phase transition that confronts physical laws or requires an explanation

No one claims it confronts physical laws. In my understanding, the article states: life may emerge naturally as molecules bump into each other, combine and eventually become complex enough that self-sustaining/self-replicating systems can come into being by chance. This process might be deterministic enough that it happens everywhere roughly at the same time (on a cosmological time scale).
Clearly better security is always better but sometimes I think there needs to be a different way of approaching identity validation etc.

Like, maybe we need to assume everyone's records are leaked somewhere all the time?

I'm not sure what that means in practice but I e.g., am not sure that "identity theft" should be a scary thing if the other side of the system is working optimally.
1. Add the apt repo

2. Add the repo's public key

3. apt-get update

4. apt-get install firefox

What 3 steps am I missing?
Right. That's what I'm arguing.
End users also have plenty of reason to dislike change. Change tends to mean things like exciting new spying and UI regressions. Meanwhile, security concerns are often overblown. If you're just using your browser for e.g. email, news, facebook, youtube, netflix, amazon, and your bank, and not venturing out into the seedier parts of the web, you're probably at ~0% risk of some RCE exploit. In any case, an adblocker is probably better protection than auto-updates.
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I think that's a fair comparison. I have always loved Pascal, BTW!
Production of the 787 was consolidated in South Carolina in 2021.

https://www.heraldnet.com/business/last-everett-built-boeing...
Based on nothing but a guess, my bet is that it's probably roughly breakeven

Though I'm curious how they're not charging any subscription given that the device will have ongoing costs to run the models. That feels like it could hemorrhage money – though if users are actively using it I guess it'd be a good problem to have
Having a feature to summarise the website would be a much better than the first two. As I constantly find myself wishing for such a feature :/
I'm always glad to see people experimenting with different approaches to building and deploying apps. That said, the general idea of this Serverfree approach doesn't appeal to me. On any given day, I'll use 4 different devices. I need my data to synchronize seamlessly. I wouldn't use a program (in-browser or traditionally installed application) unless I can synchronize that data either by storing files in a Dropbox-like program or in the cloud. I don't want to have to remember which computer/browser combination I was working on.

Edit: forgot some words
Measuring productivity in software developers without introducing measurement dysfunction
Your equating of interacting with a cyclist while in a car to being sucker punched and spat upon is a clue that your premise is irrational. Being delayed by a few seconds generally only results in aggression from car drivers if and only if the cause is a cyclist.

My belief is that the worst offending car drivers are simply psychopath bullies who know they can safely abuse, threaten, harass, assault, etc. those pansy spandex wearing cyclists. They do it because they enjoy it.

Some people are simply not fit to be a part of society.
I read the comment and explained why I don't think it's the fear of the same thing. Maybe you didn't read my comment fully!

A Furby didn't have the capacity to meaningfully spy on you. You could be afraid that it actually does but it didn't. A voice assistant is already, in a sense, actually spying on you and you know that - the manufacturer tells you upfront. These aren't the same kind of fear.
I'm on the other end of the spectrum; I'm pretty worried that that feature will make it really easy to automate bot comments in-browser. It's sad that the internet as we knew it 3 years ago is gone forever and changes like this to push some team's OKRs means I won't be able to trust more online comments.
Well if the OS annoys me with "update x available, install and restart in 5 mins?" every 10 mins, I'm more likely to do it and still be using it in 10 years (true story).

If an app does that...
The Bloat in Software Engineering
Hey! Don’t you have all digits of my CC now?!
Boeing killed Bombardier with their trade complaint, so there is just Airbus.
Anyone else have AI fatigue yet? I haven't even tried GPT and I'm already sick of AI this LLM that.
i am just going to drop this here:

How to design an actually good toaster with lessons from the 1940's

From Technology Connections:

https://youtu.be/bLk1cjZ4ll0
I'm not arguing that parasites don't have control over their host [1], I'm arguing that they're separate entities.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31980266/
someone could have said the same about Enron's initial 15% drop in 2001. Stock indexes have a century-long history of recovering. Bitcoin? a decade.
The given example is a poor choice. Capitalized elements are public, and it's not safe to assume this code isn't being used as a library by other code outside the immediate repo.
Related: Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians (iihs.org) | 322 points by yours truly | 463 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38267588
> 3. biggest and most important reason I learned from the horses mouth, people used to put the cheapest junkiest "value" SD cards off Amazon in them, which would be slow and negatively impact UX, and would also spontaneously die, taking the customers photos with them, so then the angry customers would blame the phone for both issues, so they had remove it to ensure UX and reliability across the board

Thanks, that's really interesting and a bit disappointing to be honest. I wonder if optionally "bundling" high quality microSD cards at the time of sale might've helped?
The only AI feature I'm interested its an AI that lets me remove ads automatically, but Google by definition its not interested in such feature.
It's not accessing a remote host for the DB.
You may enjoy

"Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial"

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
Show HN: Rename Your Screenshots on mac using GPT-4 Vision
Collected Emails
Same as “Gigafactory Berlin”.
Unless the plane was brand new from Boeing, it's difficult to see how this is a Boeing failure rather than a Delta maintenance failure.
Even then, it gets messy. From a tooling standpoint, how will I load your schema? How will my editor respect it? How do I run a validator against it? I know XML kind of solves some of these problems, but it has its own thorns and despite what anyone says, it is not easy to work with. XSD, XSLT, etc. So much complexity that needs to be managed in a different way in every runtime. And then type safety goes out at the boundary where it connects to your code.
yes, I could cherry-pick data to make any investment look good too.
Cardboard is right out. No cardboard derivatives.
Collapse hasn't been the suggestion in fact. That's a straw premise to distract from the negative claims (which are supported by persistently bad economic data).

The US didn't collapse due to the great depression either.

What is being suggested, is that China is facing a very bad economic stretch as a result of their extraordinarily poor command economy choices.

Beijing's fabled (supposed) long-term thinking has shown itself to be a complete fraud. The Emperor, Xi, is wearing no clothes, as is the case with all dictators. An economy the scale and complexity of China's can't be run effectively with an authoritarian command approach. We have been seeing the proof of that increasingly since the great recession hit, wherein China switched to forever stimulus & debt fakery to prop up their flagging economy. In the span of a decade China became the most indebted nation in world history, while their growth sank below that of the US (which is a very mature, slower growth economy). And now the imploding demographics are setting in hard and fast, while the affluent world shuns China (leaving them with key partners like Russia, Iran, North Korea).

It's quite obvious that while China kicked the can down the road for a long time, the cost of doing so just keeps increasing in the form of negatives on their economy.
Bitcoin futures on CME are not really accessible to retail investors, and the market there has always suffered from tepid liquidity as a result.
No, Boeing's garbage is a result of shit tier engineering and maybe their own lack of confidence. Southwest had a challenging customer requirement to hit, and Boeing failed to deliver.

Consider if Boeing refused to build the MAX to be type rating identical. Southwest would -have- to buy and retrain. Sure, maybe Southwest would go to Airbus to spite Boeing, but I don't think that would happen if Boeing provided a better product. Airlines typically aren't that petty about these types of strategic decisions.

The MCAS fix themselves showed that MCAS wasn't fundamentally a bad idea - just that they had awful implementation (use both AOA sensors? Fail-safe if AOA sensors disagree? Provide proper limits and overrides?). And now after the entire kurfuffle and fixes, 737 MAX still has the same type rating as 737 NG in USA, Canada and Europe (that's just the ones that I checked).

MCAS and 737 MAX could have been a home run.
It's great to see stories of technical work that include various things considered and tried. Iteration and experimentation are so powerful, but success stories so often hide that because it makes the success look less perfect, less brilliant.
That doesn't really answer it, most tires hold enough shape to be able to roll on their own.
How did you get it to work? I'm trying to do something very basic, wait for a text message to appear and make a POST request to an endpoint with the contents. I can create the Shortcut itself, but I cannot make the Automation run without showing a notification and then requiring me to tap on the notification to run the Automation.
On topic, I have been getting some "Amazon email 2fac code" spam/phishing attempts in Gmail, coming from AmazonSES but not matching legitimate Amazon.com (the store) "email 2fac code" mails. So, that's spam not getting filtered correctly in my eyes. About 3-5 such messages overall in the last few weeks.

Slightly off topic, Gmail search has been very slow (for Gmail) the past month or so, for me. It used to be wicked fast, and I guess I got used to that. Maybe because my Gmail box is creeping closer to "capacity"?

IDK if these issue are related, but if they are, maybe Gmail is not being maintained as meticulously as it used to be?
I feel like work from home is the modern version of this. If I need to go heads down I'll just let the team know and work from home.
Understanding Google Cloud's infrastructure provider role on Flare
In the joke world they will, along with the lost of all current knowldge of what the 3D boat is
>If United announces they are cancelling their 200 Max 10 and Max 8s on order, then you can expect to see the stock dip further.

Seeing as the CEO stated they are "going to at least build a plan that doesn’t have the Max 10 in it", they damn well better follow through and cancel those MAX 10 orders.

Words are supposed to have meanings, after all.
While a desirable state for users, this could quickly balloon into a nest of support issues for the maintainers due to having many different versions to patch when a security issue or other significant bug becomes apparent, increasing the project's response time to anything important like that. You could try to mitigate this by maintaining only a couple of versions (perhaps preview, current, and LTS similar to Debian's sid/testing/stable) which would work for small projects, but for large ones or those that see fairly rapid development you runt he risk of stable gaining a reputation for being out of date, unless you bump it forward regularly which puts you back at square one with giving people feature updates they may not need.
always liked the "Anthropic Cosmological Principle"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
The problem is that they rotate. Maybe an electronically controlled jet that triggers only when aligned in the right direction.
We’ve known this for years…
The funny thing to me about this title is who brought that term to English in the first place. It came into the vernacular back in 1991 when Saddam Hussein claimed the Kuwait War would become "the mother of all wars". It didn't. It lasted about 24 hours, but the phrase has lasted much longer. It's so weird how language evolves, who has the power to do it, and who doesn't.

So for me, the title means that this breach is only of importance to the people who want it to be. Everyone else will simply ignore it after 24 hours, just like the first Kuwait War.
You also wouldn't need such a complex object for that. These things were extremely difficult to cast in the years that they were made. It would be far easier to carve a similar device out of wood as a glove-making jig.
>After acquiring McDonnell, Boeing went on a spree of divestments where parts plants that supplied them were spun off into independent vendors.

This isn't default bad. Do you build everything at your company, or buy some things? Specialization can be a boon.

>with Boeing having relatively little leverage in improving this state of affairs (one may argue that it's not terribly interested in improving the state of affairs).

One might argue that Boeing isn't interested making sure their planes are safe? Absurd.
> (third hand?)

You might like https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/392/what-is-the-or... - it's like "grok" tho, only (certain) other nerds will get it.

But, it's a nice phrase; IMHO it's less "third hand" and more "third option/perspective that renders the prior two moot".
So if a company goes bankrupt you believe the board & shareholders are now on the hook for that debt?
Problem in most housing constrained cities is 'downtown' is very small. As an example, only about 7% of residential Seattle land is zoned for multifamily, and that is an even smaller portion of the metropolitan area. That's not sufficient for a city that has grown by a third since 2000; and Seattle is considered a friendly city for such multifamily developments.
Article is current but the data is from 2021. I can easily find a deep journal-esque writeup dating to aug 1 2022. (JPHSC). https://doi.org/10.15586/jphsc.
v1i1.47

> Currently, it seems unlikely that NHTSA will move to regulate hood heights on new vehicles.

That's quite interesting statement. Hood (or is it bumper? -- which implies hood) heights are already regulated. Too low of a height has been determined to result in more injuries (not fatalities I guess), so the height has been forced to increase over the last decade or decades. Because of that you will never see (eg) a Lambo Diablo design again. Very very hard to find information about this imposed minimum height requirement because search results are flooded with this new finding since approx Nov 2023.
I'm lucky enough to have had tons of time to build something with these values.

A huge blocker I didn't grok at the beginning is API keys. Unless the app interacts with 0 services, at all, you need edge functions that essentially just add an API key header to a request from the client.

It offends me because I don't want people to have to trust me, but...there isn't anyone who will recommend otherwise. :/
This would all be turned on its head if any of these papers had actual value and use, because the value would be found and dug up.

But the only value is to get more grants and funding, so they're just complicated beauty competitions.
> I've always found the Macbook Pro keyboards to be "fine,"

I haven't bought a (non-phone) computer made by Apple since, and due to, the MBP 2017 keyboard fiasco. It was the single most shitty and unusable keyboard I have had a displeasure working on, and I've owned some super cheap entry laptops in the past.

To say that it was crap, trash, garbage, joke, spit in consumer's face feels like a laughably low effort on expressing how useless it was. I bought this laptop as a pre-order before general availability and reported issues to Apple before all the media shitstorm began. Support reps have expressed their concerns and assured me over the phone that it has to be an isolated problem with an individual unit. I've sent the laptop for servicing within a 2 weeks since purchase. They replaced the keyboard and, for some reason, also the mainboard and screen and sent it back. Exact same issues but before I got the mostly-replaced device, issues with the butterfly keyboard already caught media attention and it was a hot topic.

I was traveling with a laptop and a mechanical Keychron keyboard, ffs. I used external keyboard during flights, at Starbucks and in other public places. Any attempt to use built-in butterfly joke of a keyboard was so frustrating that carrying an external keyboard was a reasonable trade-off.

Apple later parted ways with $50 million to settle the class-action. US-based buyers got up to $395 (I got nothing in EU) but still ended up with non-resellable devices. Jony Ive probably got a great bonus for this stunt.

I'm happy for you that you have experienced only "fine" keyboards on MBPs. Would I have enemies, I wouldn't wish the misfortune of having to use MBP 2017 on any of them.
I'd reframe this question. What constitutes a phase transition at all in the sense being talked about here isn't super clear.

There's a clear definition in chemistry and it has analogies in cosmology as the entire universe overall went through some early phase transitions in the vacuum state when it was of much greater average density. These are all related to qualititative changes in the properties of matter as temperature and density change.

I would grant that life is a qualitatively different state of matter but it isn't as obvious as the more familiar phase transitions. We don't have a clear demarcation for what is and isn't life. This paper attempts to give a definition, but the fact that that is being done at all shows there isn't one already that is universally agreed-upon, unlike the definition of what is solid versus what is liquid. I guess all life we're aware of consists minimally of a semi-permeable barrier, ingests and stores energy inside of this barrier, and locally reduces entropy inside the barrier while dissipating heat and/or other byproducts into its environment.

Life is, of course, not the only thing that does this. My house fits the same description. The only real line in the sand we have between things we consider alive and things we consider tools is that things we consider alive are all born and descended from other living creatures, not assembled from found or fabricated parts.

Ultimately, though, this is a difference in origin, not a difference in quality or capability. Any tool, including electronic computing devices, can potentially have all of the same qualities as life if we could figure out how to make them self-assembling, self-healing, and self-reproducing. I guess we can do this with software, but it isn't obvious to me how to even demarcate a unit of "software" as an individual entity. How to demarcate intelligent from unintelligent software is even less clear, but nothing about the underlying state of matter the computations run on is any different, so I don't see how it involves anything we can call a phase transition without severely straining the term.
I recreated my zsh setup in fish with about 10% of the config and just one plugin (fzf.fish).

Nearly everything I want, fancy autocompletion, syntax highlighting, git-aware prompt just worked out of the box.
> two years

TWO years?

I have had my data pwn3d a couple of times. One was six months', the other was one year, and Experian used that as leverage to unendingly nag me to buy into them.
> Not that I'm a Kantian, but he makes some pretty good points

It is even debatable what points he really made. As always in philosophy.
The government is easier to squeeze if they think you are incompetent.
I think that's an interesting question. Long term I feel that there is an arbitrage between Bitcoin prices / block reward and energy prices.

You may be right about big swings as demand for money fluctuates, but we need functioning credit markets in Bitcoin for that to even be an option. This is still very far in the future.
> leaders tucked away in offices make a lot worse decisions than leaders close to nuts and bolts…

Does this the argument applies to this current ‘Return to office’ movement?
Every time I see someone behind the wheel of the absolute largest SUV a company offers, it's a small woman. Even as far back when SUVs first became a thing, I noticed that the smallest moms at school at the biggest SUVs.

They love the "might" that a huge vehicle gives them.
> it has had this annoying habit of requiring me to restart my browser whenever it updates in the background

This happens because Firefox detects that its files have changed underneath it while its running—this can cause problems due to, I guess, the multi-process architecture and sandboxing not liking mismatches between what is running and what it might start. The built-in updater performs updates in a way that doesn’t cause this. Package managers that do not update Firefox in-place (e.g. Nix) do not have this problem either.

As noted in a sibling comment, this new package does not seem to have the issue either. I wonder what they changed.
In my experience when someone says the specific word "serverless" they mean "lambda and competing providers" 100% of the time.
Good point but Mullenberg was only CEO from 2015 to 2020. The MAX first flew in 2016. Before that was James McNerney a literal Jack Welch-ian MBA who actually oversaw the development of the 737 MAX, the divestment of Spirit, and was Boeing’s first CEO without aerospace experience.

Just skimming the wikis for Boeing, the 737 MAX, and the A320neo it looks like Boeing’s downfall should largely be attributed to McNerney. Mullenberg is guilty of shipping a doomed product and botching the response to the subsequent crashes.
I often think we should have a separation of concern between storing/syncing data and application code. That syncing app files should be an OS level feature, with many different available data stores, and sync well across different platforms.
All airliners occasionally have problems with wheels and/or tires. And occasionally have cracked window glass. And occasionally have engine failures. And occasionally have pressurization problems, Read avherald.com for a few days and you'll see that it happens to Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, Bombardier, and others. And with the number of flights worldwide, some kind of problem serious enough to cause a return to the aiport or diverting to an alternate happens almost every day.

Boeing has some serious questions to answer about their engineering and QA processes. But attributing random normal problems to that just confuses the issue.