skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like the only solution that's compatible with materialism. If you accept that it "feels like something" to be you, and you accept that your intelligence is just a computational process which differs from others only in the specific computations involved (as I think you should, especially in the age of LLMs), then you must infer that it "feels like something" to be any number of computational processes. If you infer otherwise, you're positing that there's an unmotivated, invisible, in-kind difference between human intelligence and all other physical phenomena which seem to mirror its abilities.

The conclusion I come to, which doesn't actually seem that strange, is that what's special about our experience is the complexity of our thought, our ability to turn extremely high-dimensional raw experience into low-dimensional models of reality, our ability to maintain a sense of mostly-stable identity over a long period of time, our capacity for emotion and sensation. It may "feel like something" to be a rock or a standing desk, but it isn't a very interesting or complicated feeling.
> Story isn't enough.

Characters and stories is everything. It keeps consumers invested and loyal to the franchise, even when the gameplay is boring and repetative, instead of jumping ship to a game with equal mechanics. It's why so many still cosplay as Kerrigan, Mario, Link, etc.

It's how so many people remember Ezio and Altair instead of the other forgettable characters that followed.
Idk what this means but, yes, HF does have identical partnerships with AWS and MS Azure.
Blizzard has been stuck in a failure state for years now, so there's little downside for them to shaking things up. At worst, Microsoft sells its parts off to vulture companies to turn things into gatcha games.
Meanwhile, JVM ecosystem looks down on the choice between OpenSSL and pure-Rust Python chain, because it have been using a managed, pure-Java X.509 chain for 25 years now.

I believe it also had various implementations under common API.
Not so fast:

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/01/24/fail/
Social Media, AI, and the Battle for Your Brain
A brain is intelligent regardless of where it is, so long as it's "powered" so to speak.
Thank you. Indeed we are like-minded folk – I've followed nearly the same method, for much the same reasons.
We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres
For me it was all about:

- a very generous cut for the artist
- how well the site functions - it does just enough, very practical. Clean UX and UI
- flac
Does the 68020 even have low power states? I couldn’t find a definitive answer, but did find https://www.manualslib.com/download/1342088/Motorola-Mc68020... and https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/MC68020UM.pdf, which dont’t seem to mention them.
Yeah, the LED swap kits are contributing their part to the brightness war too.
More AI bad news
If you want to hear if from the horse's mouth, I wrote about it a lot more here [0], when I open sourced my business last year.

But if you don't want to read the entire post, here's the tl;dr:

1. My (larger) customers wanted the source code for auditing purposes. I was using code escrow for larger customers and it was annoying to manage. If some can have the code, why not all?

2. My customers wanted me to eliminate my bus-factor of 1. If I got hit by a bus, the business died. Now it can live on and I can grow on my terms.

3. My customers wanted to have an "out" if the business ever decided to shut down. Now they have that "out" via self-hosting/forking.

4. My customers wanted me to show them they can trust me with their vital business data, and open source builds trust.

5. I was tired of dealing with copycats (some verbatim stealing my API schema and docs). Hopefully, moving forward, nobody will want to use a closed source copycat of an open source project.

6. My (larger) customers wanted to self-host for compliance purposes (mostly i.r.t. where data is hosted and accessed). If some can self-host, why not all?

As you can see, most of my reasons (but not all) stem from what my customers wanted. I didn't open source my SaaS for community, or to get free work, or to tap into "a bigger pool of effort." I did it because being closed source was a major pain point for me and my customers. So I took notes over the first 7 years, and I finally reacted. And I've only seen positives thus far (which I'll write more about later this year), so my initial fear wasn't warranted. I encourage others to do the same.

(My reasons aren't going to Cal's reasons. Peer wrote about his reasons here [1].)

[0]: https://keygen.sh/blog/all-your-licensing-are-belong-to-you/

[1]: https://cal.com/blog/longevity
I would write microservices in Java without opening my big mouth if I had bills to pay.

If I already have a job or a comfortable money buffer, I wouldn’t join a software company with a stack I don’t appreciate.
Subnet mask style prefix construction is pretty novel.
Out of the box configs need to be familiar, and most uses are accustomed to Windows. Doing otherwise is a barrier to new users.

I cannot tell how well the distros that do mimic MacOS do it, but from what you say it is not well enough (at least not Pantheon).
I just listened to this yesterday and it felt like a great band reunion tour.
WoW is coming back I think! Metzen is back and the classic wow team seems to know what they're doing and are developing in good faith. SoD is the best thing to happen to WoW in years imo
> supposedly makes you
> not buried as deep

Not just that, but if you start out deep it should make you "float" to the top while the avalanche is in motion, at least for some types of avalanches.

Put small and large pebbles in a jar and keep shaking it, the larger pebbles will rise to the top. Same principle.
Clone of Inbox Zero: https://getinboxzero.com
The biggest thing that helped me was diet (avoiding suspected inflammatory foods and drink). The diet that worked for me was very low carb (I keep it under 30g a day). Also, always getting sleep, no matter what 8-9 hours a night. I only eat in an 8 hour window each day (11-7pm). I only eat food that isn't processed to avoid artificial ingredients and possible triggers). For about a year I was seeing doctors and barely getting any work done, I was on crutches most of the time because it hit my knees particularly bad but it was a full body condition with swollen joints and lethargy. I tried several drugs, prednisone was the only one that made the slightest difference, but basically completely robbed me of the ability to focus on anything complex. Switching up diet and getting rest was what seemingly did it. After about a month of that most symptoms gone, after 3 all symptoms gone. It could have been strictly coincidence, but I dropped a bunch of weight and haven't had a recurrence since that happened. I got used to the diet limitations, but it took a while. It's been 6 years of no issues. Some things thrown at me by docs, "it was an unknown virus we couldn't find in your blood samples", "it was a food allergy, your radical diet cut out or greatly reduced whatever it was", "It's just in remission", but I'll keep doing what I'm doing since in general it got me back to my fighting weight, I have plenty energy, all my blood work and physicals show I'm in great health, so it is what it is.
I meant to imply that croc is more popular than magic wormhole.
> Why are desktop computers first class citizens compared to laptops

This was true in the 90's, but I'm not sure any more. Desktops are a gamer or high-performance workstation thing now. Those who don't fit that demographic and can't get by with iPads/their phones have laptops, which I would say is the standard now. The new business class "desktops" are usually laptop-style hardware in a small form factor case.

Regarding modularity:

- No one bothered to create a standard laptop motherboard form-factor like there was for desktops.

- Laptops trend smaller over time. People are willing to sacrifice modularity for device size it seems.

- Thermal management is more difficult on a laptop due to the enclosed space, so laptops historically have been slower than desktops for the same amount of money. Those who want performance will trend towards desktops, and are also the same demographic that would be interested in expanding the hardware for performance reasons as well.
Altera and Xilinx make FPGAs, not ASICs. They are two fundamentally different kinds of chips.

Why would Russia invest tens of millions of dollars on making its own series of 5 cent microprocessors when it can just import cheap commodity STM32 chips? There is no point in manufacturing them, it's simply not a smart way of spending money.

If you don't believe Russia can fab their own chips, you can just go on eBay and buy an Elbrus system, or something. They can. They have the capability to produce basic chips, and you can buy them. I don't understand why them doing the smart thing and saving hundreds of millions to billions of dollars by not reinventing the wheel and redesigning every category of commodity chip is proof they can't, especially when you can literally go out and buy Russian made chips.
So is chess tbh. Even excluding computer chess. You can play it by ear at an amateur level, but if you want to compete you have to memorize those openings. Which sucks all the joy out of the game.
What this shows is what I've been saying forever: We need to legislatively remove software from patent eligibility, so that biotech firms and big pharma are on their own. Having them in the debate makes our task nearly impossible.

> It is a patent eligibility law that would, in essence, restore the ability of inventors to patent software and biotech inventions
> What's the incentive?

More sales and trust. Vendors who open source are offering their customers the right to repair and self-host their products should they go belly up. That itself is a selling point.
I get that, but your answer sounds a bit circular: "to break the network effects, first establish a community".

The idea of using the Fediverse is precisely to leverage the existing network and to let people use my service even if its own "local" community hasn't reach critical mass yet. Maybe the question is how I can reach these people now?
Hardcore Bandcamp user here - it's been sold, but other than layoffs, the user experience has remained essentially exactly the same. Especially with regards to OP's point about buying the files directly without hurdles. Songtradr has yet to announce any future changes to the platform as well. For all intents and purposes, it's the same as it ever was.

Hence my confusion over the use of the word "was".
At a certain karma threshold (500?) a downvote button is enabled; the desaturated/greyed out appearance of vdaea's comment indicates that people have been using it.

More info: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo...
The wind definitely affects things, but its also partly glove choice and mostly less good circulation than in years past. Gripping the bars and also keeping fingers on the cold aluminum brake levers speeds the heat drain too. Mittens would be better but I have to find a non-bulky pair. I will look at these deflectors too, thanks!
Can you elaborate on how the internal strategy at Microsoft from 1996 applies here?
I believe single-use aluminum foam is used as an energy absorber in the legs of the Falcon 9 first stage.
I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. Now that figure skating has become more of a sport and less of an art discipline, I like it a lot better. I never like the artistic part of it; I feel there's a time and a place for artistic endeavors, and a sports competition is neither. Honestly the more artistic elements always appeared completely out of their place to me, more distracting from the sport than adding to it.

Skaters being rewarded for performing as difficult elements, as close to perfection as possible? I'm all for it!

Same for gymnastics.
That's quite an injection if it can cure six children at once.
Apple and MS own UI inconsistencies across app versions and the OS overall deserve part of the blame.
Why would they ? Tesla interior has no rivals. Who wants to pay 50k for a touchscreen and a steering wheel ?
I would call it MCAT physics though…how many of them can tell you whether angular momentum is a scalar/vector/pseudovector?
If I do that I think I will have a negative mental experience, therefore it matters. The internal world will become undesirable if I jump out of an airplane. There is no external reason why I don't want to do that. If I could jump out of an airplane without a parachute and not expect it will have a negative impact on my internal world I would be fine with doing it.

So yes I do really believe it!
This is kind of cool but I do have one question: I notice a lot of cold-bragging going on, people talking about how it's negative -20C or -30C outside, etc. When I google typical winter temperatures in the area those people live it usually turns out that the quoted temp is the 10 or 20 year record.

And don't get me started about windchill...
> their content blobs are shared

Doesn't this increase the chance of data loss? If a blob gets corrupted, then all the backups referencing that blob will have the same corrupted file(s). This is similar to having a corrupted index in an incremental backup chain (or maybe in this case you would lose everything?), but in the case of incremental backups the risk is mitigated by periodically performing full backups. Also my gut feeling is that you will save space with content-addressed backups only if you're backing up multiple machines that share files, but in the tipical average user scenario where one is backing up a single PC you get a similar space usage. Keep in mind that you tipically delete bacups older than a certain threshold. Could you maybe comment on my points?
how about turning those engines on the probe ON again and see what happens, before its batteries totally go out ?
CLauudine Gay fall for grace is not tragic. Tragic is a system that allow a woman who believes in segregation, and is incapable of having a original througt rise to that position.
This is just your experience/maturity growing over time. Software development goes through cycles of hype, and it's all too easy to get swallowed by all the excitement. Over time you start realizing that there are no silver bullets, and it's all tradeoffs on top of tradeoffs. Solutions to most problems now start with "it depends", and you're slowly starting to resemble the gray-hairs whom you dismissed as cynical early on. The complexities have always been there, you're just getting wise to them. You're in good company, welcome :)
TFA states that they're still giving police footage without warrants. So if their claim is that they stopped giving police footage without warrants, then yeah, that would be a lie.

But it sounds like they're freely admitting that they're going to continue giving footage without a warrant. So I wouldn't call it a lie, more a marketing strategy. "Oh we pinky promise we won't give away your footage without a warrant! ... Well, except maybe that one time. But that was a special case, surely you understand."
> Consistent across performances and devices

LOL! I think the assumption that an ML system would be robust across these contexts is not well founded. Things as innocuous as the lighting, background, or placement of athletic tape could easily wreck a model like this.

The thing about human judges is that the modes of failure are pretty well known at this point; and human perception and visual processing is pretty robust to perturbation.
This guy recently made a neat roll-up antenna for 2m using "faraday cloth"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7K6DNLD9Wo
It would be really nice if PostgreSQL and sqlite implemented this natively as it really feels how SQL should be (re)designed today.

It also makes writing complex queries easier as it would be possible to split out actions in multiple steps where you can see what columns and types you have created (and found) so far.

Complex SQL is like complex C++: works if you get it right, but no help whatsoever for figuring out what mistake you made when messing up. Step-by-step is such a great help.
Some good points from Raskin about the entangled relationship between the freedom of thought and the freedom of expression. But then regarding recommender systems and generative AI, I think he is saying pretty much what Lessig was saying earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37999405
"PRQL is a modern language for transforming data — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement" [0]

[0] https://prql-lang.org/
I bought an oversized polyester fleece balaclava with drawstring at a truck stop. Because it's too big for me it leaves room within the balaclava, so it retains warm air, but still breathes well. I haven't tried it in arctic temps but it works decently at -10F with wind.
Have you tried using this this with full size (downhill) ski goggles? It'll enclose your eyes and glasses from your nose. If you get good anti -fog goggles (expensive) you should be able to mostly or entirely avoid the fogging.

Not just because of the fancy lens, but some ski goggles stick so for out that your exhale tends to travel up and along their sides, and not over the lenses.
Its not about resources but survival.

The theory is that any civilization can become as powerful as you are and then you are at constant threat of first strike attack.

So you need to first strike before they will ever get that chance.

You cannot make an assumption about other side. They can be pacifists or a hive mind with no morals.

> Why not just colonize

Why bother, you are already star destroying apex species.

Trisolarans were relatively low tech civ in the book.

In the book and theory of dark forest only most ruthless civs will survive. Civ that will make contact with others might thrive for a while, until they get discovered by ruthless civ.
First image reveals spacecraft's unexpected landing position on the moon
>Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its “moon sniper” robotic explorer landed 55 meters (165 feet) from its target on the lunar surface last week, calling it a “significant achievement” despite problems during the landing that put the mission in jeopardy.
The Dangers of Face Embeddings: Unmasking the Privacy Risks
The code we used to reverse face embeddings is on Github, and you can try it yourself in a browser using the Colab notebook.
Best app I've bought for android in years is buzz kill which lets you auto dismiss notifications that match certain terms or icons, or cool down apps so they can only notify you once in x mins etc. it's really tidied up my notifications queue
That's a neat idea! Maybe I could rig something like that up with one of my Ryobi battery packs.
Instagram stops letting random adults send messages to teenagers
Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google (2022)
Back in the day I disabled blink tags by editing the Netscape binary (in emacs) to change the string "blink" to something else.

A little earlier than that, I remember a use-after-free of a graphics context in Amiga Mosaic that would cause it to occasionally render in another window.
He claimed he had collected and recorded orally transmitted verse, just like other folklorists did at the time. It is still unclear whether he made it all up or whether some of the material was indeed based on now lost oral sources.

An interesting comparison is Finnish folklorist Einar Lönnrot who collected the “national epic” Kalevala. We know Lönnrot largely used authentic oral sources, but he combined fragmented songs into a long narrative with his own edits and additions to make it more epic.
China is.

At current PRC STEM / skilled labour production rate, they're on trend to generate 50-100M new skilled workers in the next 20 years. Those are growing bodies already born and accounted for. That's multiple times more than US is set to gain in people via all methods birth/immigration. In the next few years, PRC will have more skilled talent IN WORKFORCE than US in absolute numbers. It's exactly beause relative skill across workforce is still low, currently 20% vs developed countries for 60-80% that PRC has incredible skilled demographic divident to squeeze. It's how JP/SKR GDP doubled/tripled after TFR crash 20 years ago, by training up new generations into more skilled/productive work. Hence PRC similarly marching to advanced economy workforce composition is - objectively the greatest concentration in high skilled talent within one coordinated system in human history. Even at lower relative % of skilled workforce, due to PRC population denominator, that means PRC will have significantly more aggregate knowledge/skill/connection than any other competitor.

PRC broad unemployment rate is 5%, youth find jobs within a few years. Right now you have massive cohorts of new graduates post academic expansion who don't want to settle for jobs they think are beneath them, but eventually, like all humans, they will. It's going to take a few years because PRC kids have no crippling student debt, can mooch off parents living at home, and don't need to work 2 part time jobs to make ends meet. Even if 40% of youth unemployemnt was durable, implying 40% of PRC skilled workforce end up not working, which is an idiotic hopium position to draw analysis from, the remaining 60% is still MORE aggregate skill pool than again, any other competitor, at any time in past or projected future in next 30-50 years. Which if you care about geopolitical balance/stragetic competition, is the cohort and period worth considering.

There's no credible model where PRC population will dip to 600M in 2050.

On poverty: there's 600M, on 1000rmb disposable household income, 900m on 2000rmb. That again, that's precisely why they don't matter for growth. That 60% of population constitutes merely 10% of GDP. Most of GDP/productivity in advanced/modern economy driven by the minority of skilled workforce. In PRC case, the minority in developed tier1/2 regions. The same cohort responsible for 90% of the GDP is set to increase by order of magnitude within the next 20 years. They're the real growth drivers. That growth will trickle down so the bottom 60% can eventually charge 10rmb for a haircut instead of 5rmb and live on 2000/4000rmb instead of 1000/2000, but ultimately their contribution to development is/was always going to be marginal. You don't need everyone to be high skilled, and with PRC population, modernization timeframe, they couldn't. But going forward they can certainly have more absolute/aggregate skilled labour than US+partners, and still have a few 100 million stuck in informal economy doing shit all. And right now that's where impactful demographic trend is heading.
I think there is a language issue here (doesn’t seem like English is their first language?), so I suspect the original comments intent was different than what it actually says
I remember having this question when learning J, and they pointed out that it makes the = operator behave correctly. After:

a = 1 + 2

One expects `a` to equal 3. If you have a uniform left to right evaluation order, it will equal 1 and then the whole expression will be set to 3, so you’d need to write this to get the intuitive result:

a = (1 + 2)
Makes sense that brains are not required to solve problems. I am not brainy but seem to be able to brute force my way to solve some complex problems by sheer force of will
We already have helical antennas and most fpv is done at a high enough frequency that the antennas fit in your hand. Might be nice for 1.2ghz or lower but even there I can't see it folding down much lower than a VAS crosshair or pepperbox.