skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theravada buddhism, this is called applying the faculty of wise attention. We have zero control over our thoughts, but we have control over the object of our attention (and it improves with practice).

When unpleasant thoughts arise, the (canonical Buddhist) strategy is to move your attention to something (anything!) else.

Using mantra (prayer) or force of will ("I close my attention to this thought") are both applications of the technique.
The Dark Forest theory being popular right now is more a reflection of our society and our fears.
Stanislaw Lem has a good take on the subject of biological systems evolution in his "Summa Technologae".
Carl Sagan and Shklovsky also wrote a lot on the topic ("Intelligent Life in the Universe" for example). But they also represent a different time, the Cold War.
They wouldn't have to be that much more capable. If every 10,000 years humans could reach a habitable planet and start a society there, in a few billion years humans would be everywhere.
There is something similar in France : "jours amende". The key point is that if you don't pay the fine, you go to prison the number of days indicated in the "jours amende". It's for criminal court, not for traffic infractions.
Yeah, and the nature of the Dark Forest galaxy would mean that no civilization could get anywhere close to utilizing a significant share of total resources--or even a significant share of the total resources in their backyard--because doing so would attract attention and lead to their extinction. If everybody is busy hiding and being as quiet and careful as possible then resources would be abundant for lack of use--and thus it would not be worth it to fight over resources in the short term.
> oddly imprecise position to me

Yes. It is intended to be so. Because being pedantic is now how you define these levels.

The ultimate goal is to run a large fleet of robo taxies wherever possible and Level 5 tech can do that everywhere on globe. One can get pedantic and ask if this would work in Antartica or on Dead Horse Bay or whether driving in sand dunes of Saudi Arabia is possible. But the folks who are trying to pedantic wont be happy with any definition either here.
But "just create a new plane instead of the MAX" doesn't address the other deficiencies that you point out. Spirit would be just as shitty at putting together 737-900s as 737-MAX9's (and in fact they're finding QC issues in 737-900s now)
Same root cause
[TW: SPOILERS] I don't understand how something like this can be critical, but 'conveniently' ignore fundamental conceits of the narrative that led the characters to the formation of the Dark Forest Hypothesis, such as the technological explosion capacity of advanced galactic civilizations, which was a huge talking point in the trilogy. It was literally the reason why the Trisolarans utilized the Sophons /to halt technological progress of human research past a certain boundary/ by having the Sophons manipulate the results of any microscopic-scale particle experiments of scientists across the globe. (You know, the thing that causes a bunch of scientists to kill themselves and spur the plot of the first book into action)

Also disclaimer: didn't read past the paywall because lol paywall
Improve? Every other iphone I see has a broken screen. Anecdata sure but I've never owned one as I value my money but it seems to break easily.

The windshield will probably break from hitting bugs, but fret not, there's a windshield protector you can get from your authorized dealer.
Sorry if this question is answered elsewhere in this post's replies, but would you say that matter can be viewed as 'captured' energy, or energy at rest?
Maybe there should be a rule along the lines of "if there are bolts laying around someplace, and there is no record for them, start re-inspecting until you're damn sure where they came from".
Elasticsearch: https://www.elastic.co/platform
Hitler Speaking Normally (Subtitles) [video]
Unrelated but I’m kind of terrified what the mig is going to do to the market. Crazy piece of tech but the signed carts getting cloned are going to get real interesting real fast.
There are some excellent if controversial theoretical explanations for this in Assembly Theory
Ok, but please don't fulminate on HN. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We want curious conversation here. That certainly means not fulminating, as well as not repeating things.

You're far from the only one, of course; but this comment was heavily upvoted. In fact it was sitting at the top of the thread, emitting fumes. That's not what HN is for.
Downworthy: Browser plugin to turn hyperbolic headlines into what they mean
Downworthy: A browser plugin to turn hyperbolic viral headlines into what they really mean

- "Literally" becomes "Figuratively"
- "Will Blow Your Mind" becomes "Might Perhaps Mildly Entertain You For a Moment"
- "One Weird Trick" becomes "One Piece of Completely Anecdotal Horseshit"
- "Go Viral" becomes "Be Overused So Much That You'll Silently Pray for the Sweet Release of Death to Make it Stop"
- "Can't Even Handle" becomes "Can Totally Handle Without Any Significant Issue"
- "Incredible" becomes "Painfully Ordinary"
- "You Won't Believe" becomes "In All Likelihood, You'll Believe"
The sun's power density is approximately the same as compost.
Good! If we did then we should've made it bigger.

We don't know exactly how many address bits we're ultimately going to end up needing. Our only options are to go for "too big" or "too small". Giving how much effort it takes to deploy a new IP protocol, we should err on the side of having too many addresses rather than too few.
A lot of those car manufacturers just don’t care, and it isn’t exclusive to large cars either (though the damage they can do is obviously much higher, making them more dangerous to pedestrians).

I like sports cars, so I tried test driving a Camaro about 5 years ago. You would think that visibility on a rather small and fast 2-seater would be at least better than on an average SUV.

It was singularly the worst car I’ve ever driven in terms of visibility, compared to even most SUVs. Not even joking, it feels like driving a military tank, but just faster and smaller, with the field of view being extremely reminiscent of seeing the road through a thin horizontal slit. It’s not like it got worse over time either, because I remember the 2013 version was at least just as awful. Way to ruin a fine car with that tank-slit visibility.

This specific case didn’t even have anything inherently to do with the type or size of the car (unlike with some giant trucks), so it made me extremely mad. It was quite literally for nothing.
> Nintendo doesn't owe you a cheap way to deploy your custom binaries to devices.

Why not? Why should I not be allowed to run whatever I want on a device I supposedly own?
Basically a show off piece for those with enough coin!
Used to?

A lot of that still happens, just instead of "terrorism", it's "crime". FOIA requests for locations of camera, alpr, and other massively used and unaudited surveillance equipment are routinely denied because it will "allow criminals to circumvent". It's all silly and benchmark moving.
It creates busywork and ongoing maintenance issues in writing an interpreter. E.g., https://pkg.go.dev/text/template requires every possible function to be manually registered, and that’s not a good use of time.
Which isn't relevant if you don't engage in tribalism.
it's an issue with the ios app only that i'll be investigating (the loading screen is mostly idling during that time). If you load the kinopio website in safari while offline (the app is just a thin wrapper over the site), then it is indeed magically fast
> but if all of the planes can be reviewed to confirm basic airworthiness, at some point you have to let them fly again.

Doesn’t this review and confirmation take place before they even go into service? So if they missed these bolts on the last review, what’s to say they won’t miss them or something equally as important on the next review?

“Oh think of the economy” is the worst excuse I can imagine to let these back into service.
There’s a real chance the Roman dodecahedron could have been the “fidget spinner” of Roman Empire…
Google Podcasts is going away after March
Absolutely none of this follows
Your first Tesla lasted less than 5 years?
Indeed, Cosmopolitan C is amazing.

> Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-anywhere run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS on AMD64 and ARM64 with the best possible performance.

https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/
Which discord if its open to the public? I was on one woth kath in 2021 and loved her insights, would love to again
If you don't want to go the contracting route then usually the country you're thinking of hiring in will have a government-funded organisation designed to help with the process of setting up a local wholly-owned subsidiary.

Where I'm from they're called InvestNI and they've helped multiple US companies set up locally.

It's an expensive undertaking but worthwhile if you're looking to hire multiple people. The hassle is offset by support and funding to help subsidise the cost of providing jobs.
Well...and even during the most competitive and severe colonialist/imperialist periods on earth, extermination was very much the exception and not the norm.
I see some missing HV lines I know about, is there an easy way to add them?
And the world is full of Teslas. You really think if even 20% of the hyperbole was true that they'd be shipping the volume they are? All those Tesla buyers are just deluded marks who'd be happier in a VW or whatever?

Maybe... the situation is complicated and like all manufacturers they have some good points and some bad points and the market is in the process of deciding on what particular traits it values?
Netflix Fourth Quarter 2023 Earnings [pdf]
Dtrace for Linux; Oracle does the right thing (2018)
Well it is somewhat obvious by now that big companies are all after our eyeballs, so you could be right.
We used to think that the idea of humans wiping out species was absurd; after all, there are so many animals out there that us puny humans can't possibly kill all of them. Maybe its the same with interstellar resources; once we master space travel, our energy needs will grow to an absurd amount.
Related:

Open Infrastructure Map - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33340983 - Oct 2022 (2 comments)

Open Infrastructure Map - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29948473 - Jan 2022 (45 comments)

Open Infrastructure Map - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20523882 - July 2019 (4 comments)
It technically is. Long ago as a junior sysadmin I created turing complete nightmares in Jinja.
If you find yourself doing this often, maybe a feature flag pattern using environment variables would end up being a bit nicer looking than throwing a bunch of unreachable code into your code base.
Also…

- showing his employees and the public where the blame belongs. No doubt United has some angry passengers given the flights they had to cancel due to the grounding of their Max 9 fleet. Also consider SNL’s sketch about Alaska… airline execs over there are no doubt fuming at Boeing.
Even manual vectorization is pain...writing ASM, really?

Rust has unstable portable SIMD and a few third-party crates, C++ has that as well, C# has stable portable SIMD and a small out of box BLAS-like library to help with most common tasks (like SoftMax, Magnitude and etc. on top of spans of floats over writing manually), hell it even exercises PackedSIMD when ran in a browser. And now Java is getting Panama vectors some time in the future (though the question of codegen quality stands open given planned changes to unsafe API).

Go among these is uniquely disadvantaged. And if that's not enough, you may want to visit 1Brc's challenge discussions and see that Go struggles to get anywhere close to 2s mark with both C# and C++ blazing past it:

https://hotforknowledge.com/2024/01/13/1brc-in-dotnet-among-...

https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc/discussions/67
Apple releases new Black Unity collection and content
Disclaimer: I have no relation to this, just thought it was interesting.
The shuttle program was a significant source of economic activity in a number of different areas of the country. [1][2] Just because we really want to have planes flying, isn't a good reason to let them fly if they're not fit to do so. This is known in aviation as "get-there-itis". You really don't have to fly.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/jul/07/space-shuttl...

[2] https://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts135/110706preview/inde...
It doe not matter for Apple. If the competition is offering an equivalent car for $20K apple will simply charge $40K or $200k and there will be enough takers.
What's hard about it? You just define `user.signingkey = $key_id` and `commit.gpgsign = true` in `~/.config/git/config` once and be done with it. Or only the first one if you want to choose what you sign instead of signing everything.

Or are you talking about setting up GPG in general?
I mean, it is basically Electron
The biggest knock against the Moka is that a simple pour over filter is far easier to use, clean, and maintain while also making dramatically better coffee.

When it comes to both style and function, it's hard to beat a Chemex. Ubiquitous enough you can buy it in Whole Foods, and so well designed it's in the permanent collection at MoMA. If $50 is too pricey or you don't want to use glass, you can get a Melitta-style drip cone for less than $10.
Officially, the 13" AMD does: https://old.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/19bf3ki/linux_su...
The lobbyists write the legislation and provide the talking points.
...and if this "desktop application" sometimes communicates with the server it should not be called a "fat client" and it's architecture should not be called "client-server", because those words aren't fancy anymore...
As I suspected the four bolts were not installed at the time of the Alaska Airlines incident, based on this article. From what I had read and watched it seemed impossible for the door to slide upwards if any of the four bolts were installed. And if installed correctly with a castellated nut and cotter pin, seems highly unlikely the bolt could fall out, let alone four bolts.

The NTSB stated that the door did slide upward and also stated they could not find the bolts and were unsure if the bolts were there at all.
The reason some of these vehicles ARE so big IS the regulations. We could look at rolling back THOSE changes first.
I want to call this out because I see this advice a lot (and it's also my backup plan).

Trade work can be a fantastic way to earn a living, but it is HARD work. It will break your body if you do it for your whole life. There is a reason plenty of people jumped to office work the first chance they got.

Don't go into the trades blind, take care of your body, or you'll be like my grandpa and need help uncurling your fingers if you fall asleep making a fist.
This is the type of optimization we used to see in embedded hardware constrained environments.

Nowadays, even on most embedded platforms resources are so abundant and applications are HORIZONTALLY scaled that it seems to feel like nobody bothers with VERTICAL scaling.

The thing about multiplication is it is commutative; an 8x improvement in performance of a single node means you need 8x less nodes! What a fun way to cut down your AWS bill and send your SaaS company to profitability.
> Never had an issue with after-sales support. My 2nd Tesla in 5 years.

Sorry but you probably are not the target market for the Apple Car.

Many premium-market customers (early Model S/X, current Plaid shoppers) have moved to other brands such as Rivian, Lucid, and Porsche due to Tesla’s “cheapness” and abysmal customer service.

But sure, if you’re coming from a Toyota RAV4 or BMW 3 series, Tesla is great. But don’t expect to be the target demographic for a $100K+ Apple car.
After reading the books, I thought that there was some sort of underlying political meaning with the way Liu incorporates both philosophy, religion, and real world events (ie, the Cultural Revolution). Then I read the afterword and author interview transcripts where the author explicitly says that there is no such meaning.

> “As a science fiction writer who began as a fan, I do not use my fiction as a disguised way to criticize the reality of the present.”

Given that the author lives under an authoritarian government, I'm not sure if Liu's words should be taken at face value. But officially, a political interpretation of the book wouldn't be the authors intention.
"Your anecdote is irrelevant, look at my vast dataset of unrepresentative samples"
These are just problems. Just like how the US has some really big glaring problems:

1. Incapable of building infrastructure, can't build the CA hsr while China built an entire network across the country.

2. Can't raise the population out of poverty. You see homeless people and drug addicts everywhere.

3. Unemployment going up, Inflation is going up.

4. Wealth ienquality is rising. The Housing is becoming more and more unaffordable for most Americans.

I mean this is "delivering" too. As if 4 random economic problems a country is facing is indicative of total collapse.
Fair enough. I think the UX challenges are tougher than FPS, and secondarily the hardware challenges are also tougher than FPS, so I probably should have omitted the FPS mention in my comment to keep things focused. :D
I think every home in Spain has at least one Moka Coffee Pot.
How to install Firefox on a Chromebook the easy way
As the author of this article says at the top it makes for a fun science fiction, but doesn't necessarily make a lot of sense in reality. So why do people fixate so much on how not realistic this particular science fiction concept is? Writing science fiction isn't about making realistic theories of how reality is. It's about writing interesting things that are only loosely related to actual science.

It's also worth noting that this hypothesis is not an original idea of Liu's it just wasn't called a Dark Forest previously.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

The mysterious dodecahedrons of the Roman Empire - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35937540 - May 2023 (100 comments)

No one is certain what Roman bronze dodecahedrons were used for (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29717215 - Dec 2021 (207 comments)

What were these Roman objects used for? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25237271 - Nov 2020 (37 comments)

The Mysterious Bronze Objects That Have Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21439351 - Nov 2019 (7 comments)
Tagging onto this, I still am unable to buy it in NZ, after expressing interest 2 years ago.
Presumably it would be more efficient to use jet to stabilise it, so that the painted deflector can take effect
if you're a vendor and wish to sell IoT enabled consumer devices in EU 2025 then the Radio Equipment directive and the CRA force you to keep these _things_ updated in the name of security.

And there is nothing that forces you (the vendor) to keep security upgrades separate from features. So in practice you can force upgrades that then cripple features (for monetization) and in the name of cybersec.

:/
If you see enough pickup trucks with bed caps you'll start to just view SUVs as those
Prosthaphaeresis – Approximating products quickly using trigonometry
Well with data quality like that, I think you can be absolutely certain in your assessment!
> but look in any middle-class neighborhood: maybe 5% of the people are in tech -- what is everyone else doing?

This comment is why I love HN. Once you sort through all the kiddos who don't know anything about anything, you get golden nuggets like this.

In my middle (almost upper-middle) class neighborhood we have a bunch of doctors and psychologists, a bunch of lawyers, a few retired professionals, a couple professors and.... me in tech.
As We May Think (1945) [pdf]
Battery life is inherently a trade off against performance and weight.

It's also a trade off against competence, because you can kill the battery right quick if drivers don't idle things properly, but even after you address that you still have the other thing.

Which makes 16+ hour battery life an odd choice for most people. Who uses their laptop for 16 contiguous hours with no opportunity to charge? It could have been lighter or faster.

Naturally Framework has the potential to make it flexible: Have a dual-use bay where one of the options is a second battery, and then if you want it you take the weight/battery life trade off in favor of battery life, and if not the machine can be lighter.
How about no alternatives? The password being the only authentication mechanism.
I just drop it directly in the compost pile.
If you try hard enough you could probably come up with some resemblances to male/female parts and thus classify this as belonging to a fertility cult.
>arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.

How does arxiv suffer? What mission creep? What do you mean too many?
This is the one time I always pull out my “Thanks Obama!” without being ironic.
The Furby manufacturer told you upfront:
- it listened all the time
- it learned to speak, word by word, via your speech

The first comment, 10 comments up, was specifically written to provide that context: the Furby manufacturer was up front about spying.

Working with you, and steel-manning your contributions:

- You're trying to explain a distinction you see between local data processing and remote data processing. i.e. a microphone in a room recording you isn't spying, but a microphone with a data connection is "in a sense, actually spying" on you "meaningfully".

- example: "the Furby didn't relay audio data anywhere other than the Furby, and I'd like to point out the voice assistant does - your comment intends to highlight the Furby listened, but it only listened locally. Mentioning voice assistants and using them in an analogy may give a reader the understanding voice assistants process data locally, like Furbys"
It may be more useful to reason about the consequences of the capabilities of any form of AI, than trying to box consciousness.

Somehow connected to the above, one can use "axioms" to understand and predict minds. Here are a couple of examples:

Axiom of need: "For any evolved entity that relies on X for its survival, if that entity has a sufficiently advanced mind, then there is a 'subjective' perception of the need for X that is deep and outside its conscious control. I.e., a feeling or intense craving."

Example of the above:

X=Food -> perception of hunger

X=Procreation -> Love, lust

X=Survival -> Good vibes from interacting with peers

X=Peers -> I can attribute "consciousness" when I see it

Axiom of fear: "For any evolved entity that relies on avoiding Y for its survival, if that entity has a sufficiently advanced mind, then there is a 'subjective' perception of the avoidance of Y that is deep and outside its conscious control. I.e., a fear or intense phobia."

Y=Snakes -> Fear of snakes

Y=arbitrary external threat -> Fear of discord, fear of alienation.

Y=alienation -> shame

I can think of a few more axioms, but this is getting long so I'll omit them. The axioms themselves may or may not be correct, but just as one does in mathematics, one can take them as true and see where the chain of thought leads. For me, the axioms above imply that we can create* entities that, as appreciated from outside, will seem entirely conscious to us. And I guess this is a procedural definition of consciousness.

* Via synthetic evolution, e.g. gradient descent.