skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's incredible to me that anyone can defend the actions of the Israeli government and settlers at this point. They've murdered tens of thousands of civilians in the name of "fighting terrorists". History will look harshly on the states that aided and abetted this genocide.
I switched to Kagi a month ago, and initially I was pretty skeptical because a lot of the excitement sounded kind of hype-y and anti-Google.

But actually Kagi is quite good and definitely worth it. I have regained the expectation that when I search for something I will find the thing that I want, and I hadn't realized how much I had lost that with Google. It's hard to demonstrate this because I think it's an accumulation of many small improvements, so I encourage people to give it a try and see for themselves.

I do worry that this won't last forever -- for example, I think the AI features are being provided below-cost to gain market share, and it does worry me that they're spending so much money on these tshirts. But I can always switch away later so I don't worry about it that much.
> I have "experiences", they just don't really have the properties that a naive interpretation of sensory data would entail.

You don't think your experiences have sensations?

> Funny, because I feel a mild sense of irritation by humans pretending that their flawed senses yields some kind of direct observation of fundamental reality.

I never said anything about fundamental reality. I don't understand saying we're literal p-zombies. You have to explain away your sensations, dreams, inner dialog etc., by appealing to some theoretical commitment.

I'm not claiming what consciousness is, only that we have it.
never lose your humanity. no matter what you fight for. its not worth it. ever.
I did telephone tech support for Thinkpads in the mid 90s. It was a bit of a rare treat to actually take a call for the 701c because they were generally pretty solid. “Hello and thank you for calling the IBM PC call center. My name is ___, may I get your name and telephone number please?” … 10 hours a day, 4 days per week.
Can somebody knowledgeable speculate why they are not using RCS to try turning the probe? I am guessing RCS engines can be reignited and don't need a certain orientation to work, right?

Is Moon's gravity strong enough to cause damage to solar panels or antennas if probe tips?
How was America's semiconductor industry built?

Yes, the megabucks put in by the government for Apollo and Military Programs were important, they created static demand - but the government neither planned nor built the technologies needed. It largely happened organically.
Given how often `SELECT ` is already the developer "default" especially in debugging and REPL work there's a good case that `SELECT ` can truly just be the implied default case and something like `FROM 1` makes perfect sense as a standalone statement.
Wasabi Acquires Curio AI to Enhance Its Cloud Storage Solution
> A clogged filter can stress the fan motor which can A) increase power consumption and B)reduce overall product life.

you got it completely backwards, unless you have a very fancy and expensive ECM motor.

Increasing resistance decreases power draw, as the fan needs to do less work. You can test this by hooking up a vaccum cleaner to a killawatt and blocking the intake.

There may be concerns about cooling the motor, but it really doesn't take that much air movement to dissipate heat.
>Ah yes, isolationism, Authoritarians love when countries do that, makes them easier to take over.

Withdrawing from the united nations does not mean by default isolationism. NATO would still exist. Our alliance with EU would still exist. I believe our alliance with brexit still stands as well?

I'm not saying isolationism, I'm saying United Nations doesn't do anything.
Last time the stock market was surging, everyone was hiring. This time it's different
I had my fair share of IBM and Lenovo laptop repairs. They were OK, but far from best. Firmware was locked to certain (expensive) RAM modules and HDDs. Expensive motherboard replacement on first sign of troubles...

Panasonic Toughbook and Toshiba were better.
I've tried to get multiple non-family members set up with Linux and have failed, with constant bugs from Linux, and confusion from the family members. Windows is far more reliable and easier for them to use.

This clearly invalidates your point, and supports "Linux would be either painful or more realistically a no go", because it's obviously not enough for some relatives to be able to easily use Linux - most of them need to be able to. The fact that you have more capable-than-normal relatives or more Linux-friendly-than-normal hardware is irrelevant to the fact that most people do not.
This study assume we are animalistic like rabbit, dogs and cats with raging hormone to breed madly. Everything else that makes as human are excluded.
The IRS, if it chooses to do so. But auditing large companies with complex governance structures and large legal teams is prohibitively resource intensive for the IRS because it's intentionally underfunded by Congress.
Right you are!

I guess the two valves in working masks are then quite essential, and normal breathing masks better have as little extra space for air in them as possible.
> Wheels falling off planes is "actual news."

Yes, on AV Herald. Planes break quite regularly, AV Herald has no shortage of things to write about. It's not worthy of the evening news, and especially unworthy of Hacker News. But "Boeing" drives clicks here too, because it tickles the inner monkey of a lot of people.
Experience isn’t the right way to put it. The system you describe is straightforward and makes total sense how it can understand and act upon its environment. What is unexplainable, and perhaps always will be, is the awareness that I am. Even if I meditate and remove all aspects of the surrounding world from me what I’m left with is a pure awareness that groups of neurons simply can’t explain.

Why am I present at all and not just a mindless automaton? Surely an automaton could evolve and be just as successful simply by being a complex neural network. This is why I, and lots of others, think that awareness is fundamental.
The worst part about server side image maps is that it completely breaks archiving. So many times I've tracked down an old website address on archive.org's Wayback Machine, only to find that the homepage is one big server side image map. Without the original server, there's no way to discover the destination URLs for the rest of the site. It's a complete dead end.
Wait, I'm confused. I thought this was for sports people. Is it not?

I don't know how the NBA works, so that comparison doesn't help me any...
To be frank, I don't care. That was a custom built AI for a special event. What I'm talking about is industrial strength, cheap, fast, smart, <<immersive>>, ubiquitous AI available in normal games with hundreds of thousands or millions of users playing at the same time.

Call me back when that kind of tech is included so that I can play against it when playing a $30 mid-range (not AAA, not indie) especially RPG game or any type of team game (Dota).
This is not the case for the majority of people or computers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39130904
Modify the system enough and it’ll eventually be conscious.

It’s not about a pause token, but the internal processes. You can have a long conversation on the subway with someone without forgetting you’re going home from work. Overflow it’s context window and GPT-4 has no recourse it just forgets. The difference is essentially prioritizing information, but LLM’s really don’t function like that it’s all about predicting the next token from a given context.

Give a future generation of AI systems internal working memory, a clock, and the ability to spend arbitrary time updating that internal memory and IMO that’s pretty close to consciousness. At least assuming it was all functional.
Kind of amazing to see a 2-day old season already abandoned by a majority of the players...that's how bad the new season is.
Larian, FromSoftware, Gunfire, Grinding Gear... the smaller studios are putting out great games still, with much of that 90s magic. There's that new game Palworld too apparently making a stir (haven't tried it yet), from another small studio.

It's the big ones that have jumped the shark and gone full-in capitalist. I mostly just ignore them and haven't felt like I've missed much. So many good indie titles coming out every day.
I still use tables for layout, partially. In order to make it responsive, I combine multiple tables with inline-block to allow the tables to reflow on the page.

There are more "modern" ways of doing this, but I haven't found any that are also compatible with my goals of maintaining backwards compatibility.
Because then you'd have no apps left for food delivery or rides, to name a few categories.
I had an interesting thought reading their post - is there a brand new open-source monetization strategy in “operate the AI assistant for your tool”? Users can always plug in a local LLM but the fine-tuning and inference optimization is potentially much better from a paid team focusing on the problem.
That's because BC "won" and took over the indie market, so now they can afford to offer additional features and services. And, frankly, I'm not sure that this market is big enough to accommodate more players. Even BC is small compared to the likes of Spotify, Youtube or Apple.

But if you just need to easily sell your music in digital format (which is what Bandcamp started as), there are options.
it's a dotcom bubble with the potential to not really be a bubble but turbulences
He traveled to a foreign country and joined a militia to put his life on the line fighting fascism. Does that demonstrate more or less skin in the game against fascism than Stalinism?
UK. They are a lot closer together…
The full article is paywalled (or login-walled at least) so I'm left to wonder if there's some absurd alternative explanation like those graves not being intended as intimidation but rather to confront the parents of those children with the terror of Hamas or some other claim that ignores the disproportionate mass killings of Palestinian civilians (including thousands of children alone so far) in Gaza.

Given that the "Israeli settlers" in these news stories, regardless of Israel's official stance on the Palestinian Question, are often explicitly advocating for the complete removal of Palestinians and non-Jewish Arabs from all of Israel and Palestine, the story shouldn't be very surprising if you have paid attention to these kinds of incidence. The current military campaign in Gaza is emboldening them and the Israeli government is doing very little to curtail that.
Scientists are finally taking altered states of consciousness seriously
The dark history behind Madeira's famous levadas
> The problem with rent-to-use is that you pay a lot and you also get bugs that are never fixed, and all the usual issues. If updates were rock solid, or near enough, there would be less hostility.

In fairness, that laregly depends on the vendor. BBEdit is a great example. It's been around for 30 years, it's reasonably priced and gets regular updates. Big ticket upgrades have been worth the lower upgrade price. Maybe it's the exception that proves the rule, but I've had a similar experience with the significant majority of indy devs I've bought software from. Big Corps are a different proposition entirely...
DHTML stands for dynamic HTML, right? Never understood the name though, it was just JavaScript animating DOM elements. Maybe i was too young to understand the difference, but i remember using text inputs for animated contet, like a clock or a scrolling message.

Anyways, I was about 10 or 11 when visiting a "big" city i saw this book about DHTML and I had my dad buying it for me.
I don't think that's exactly true. Ethernet is a pretty simple physical-layer protocol only made for 1:1 connections, and you can't generally inject packets from a simple tap mid-cable. You would have to undetectably insert an active MITM device into the cable to get on the network, which is a lot more tricky to do than an undetectable tap.
I'm opposed to the death penalty. Thankfully the death penalty is rare in India. But that is not the point I wanted to make. It's that the casual cruelty to Indians was rampant in way that it was not for British. It's not that the the British of that era suddenly became more moral when they went back to their own country. It's that in a democracy, the rulers dare not do what imperial rulers can.(they don't need to be British to be cruel. There were plenty of Mughal and Hindu rulers of equal cruelty.) Independence from British rule gave us our independence and allowed us to become a democracy, and flawed though it may be, democratic India never had famines that killed tens of millions every decade. Freedom and democracy are precious and I think we Indians have started to take it for granted after 75 years of it.
I used to serve the 1x1 gif from an asp page that at the same time would gather visitor information.

It was the tracking pixel.
Frankly, your non-understanding is not unique. We're all rowing the same boat :)
That's why I added a string to it and around my neck. Then I can just spit it out with little consequences if I approach something scary. But for skiing that's mostly corners at the end of a steep hill. For running I guess a fall could happen at any time.
SC1 had a great story with excellent writing, especially for the time. SC2's story was schlocky garbage. The biggest example of this is the opening cutscene of 2 with Raynor in the bar.

Raynor's literal final line to Kerrigan in SC1 was "It may not be tomorow, darlin', it may not even happen with an army at my back. But rest assured; I'm the man who's gonna kill you one day. I'll be seeing you." Meanwhile in the opening cutscene of 2 he's pining over an old photo of her before she became a Zerg. Mind you any romantic relationship between Raynor and Kerrigan in SC1 was only possibly hinted at, it was never explicitly established.

Also they literally never even mentioned Fenix, Raynor's best Protoss buddy, in SC2 Wings of Liberty despite Kerrigan betraying and murdering him.
That explains so much about HN.
Do you have information on this particular acquisition though?

Layoffs made post-acquisition are totally different from business climate layoffs.

A major part of acquisitions is eliminating redundant positions/teams. You don't need two HR or accounting departments, and the new combined department isn't going to be twice as big.

Whereas if they intend to keep putting out games at the same pace, there are little to no efficiencies to be found in laying off designers and engineers.

(It does sound like they've canceled one of the games though, resulting in some layoffs there, but unclear in which departments. Acquisitions often involve a change of strategy as well, so that could affect designers/engineers if they can't be absorbed by other games in development.)
One of my relatives is in her early 20's and has a large amount of difficulty using Linux (even for relatively simple needs like what you describe above), despite dozens of "support interactions" and assistance. Other relatives are in their 40's and failed to use it as well.

It's not enough for some people to be able to use Linux - if you want to recommend it for general use, it has to be usable for almost everyone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39130904
Microsoft hasn't made any remarkable games in a long time, either. They just play it safe and release filler msterial, like most of Gamepass.
What do they fight for? What fight would target Bedouins?
Interest rate and inflation are usually expressed as e^(exponent * one year) - 1, so to get from 45% to the exponent you need to add one and take the logarithm, giving 0.37
Although the gaming industry doesn't have a good record, they are probably better than Chipotle.

https://jacobin.com/2021/05/chipotle-nightmare-employer-wage...
Makes sense, the retro / pixelated style is always going to cost less, but maybe have less wide appeal.
Very Right!

IMO, his Essays are where the essence is; the novels are merely a thought-experiment on how far you can map the ideas onto a "realistic" world.

For example, reading his Notes on Nationalism (https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...) will give you greater insight into Animal Farm/1984.
It's not like chess. Chess has clear, simple, inhuman rules. Gymnastics doesn't.
You can never remove internal body sensations even in meditation. The "self" is just a stationary point in this inner space, an element referenced in most situations, but not all, such as when listening to great music we can forget about ourselves.

So my idea was - we have an actual system for representing sensations, a system for imagination and a system for value prediction. We have the hardware for it, and we train our consciousness hardware on environment data.

If you're thinking - how can simple neurons or protein interactions do this? it's the same with a neural net. We don't understand how it can tell cats from dogs, or why it can answer our questions so well. Yet it does. Hard to believe unless you see it and even then it's hard to accept, unless you come up with your own private inputs and test it in a way that is sure not to be memorized.
Tried this on 4090 and the responsiveness and real-time communication it offers are truly impressive. It has significantly improved my overall experience, especially in scenarios where minimal delay is crucial.

Compared to WhisperFusion, Rabbit R1 feels like it's stuck in the past, they could maybe use the OpenSource WhisperFusion.
It reminds me of one of my favourite quotes:

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

T.S. Elliot
Like mcdonnell douglas made Boeing a great aircraft company..
Napkin Math – The Zone of Deployment
This is nothing sort of amazing. Great f*cking work.
No exaggeration - this almost brought tears to me...
Gymnastics is not a science. Judging "good" sports is purely an aesthetic choice.
This is great, I wish there was a way to see genres so I can filter by jazz.
Getting traffic from reddit is definitely effective. Getting traffic that converts into customers is more of a challenge.

Seems like every rando on reddit will follow a link, but few of them will actually engage with your product. So unless your goal is actually a chart showing a lot of visitors, I've found that less traffic from better sources is a better strategy.
> Of course this needs to be weighed against the potential costs.

On both ends. Listening to Darknet Diaries [1] recently with a story on email fraud, and they mentioned that the estimated yearly take for one particular fraud group in Nigeria amounted to roughly a third of Nigeria's GDP. Even if we interpret this as inflated, it's hard to imagine that the Nigerian government is highly motivated to put a stop to that flow of capital.

1 - https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/141/
Of course, the network isn’t trustworthy; giving it encryption related tasks was a bad idea.
Sure, you can reduce all of humanity to a random number generator, if you want
Asked how to handle an issue in a story I was writing. Got cogent well-reasoned suggestions, along with lots of supportive feedback.
Interesting, just yesterday I saw a phrase very similar to

> [cannot] redraw isolated regions of the screen

reading about the new DuskOS :

http://duskos.org/shell.html

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Thanks a lot for this anyway, I now know what standard to point to when I criticize a shitty interface.
i got annoyed by emacs gc pauses and just disabled the gc completely (i think). haven't noticed any downsides so far. i'm in emacs all day...

;; don't garbage collect based on cons count
(setq gc-cons-threshold 10000000000)
(defun garbage-collect (&rest args)
(message "trying to garbage collect. probably you want to quit emacs."))

something i love about emacs is everything is implemented in the same abstraction (of a "buffer of text"). so i can manipulate and move around an embedded terminal in the same way as a normal file, etc.

playing briefly with Zed it seemed like the terminal was a totally different "thing" than a normal file; i couldn't run the same text selection operations, couldn't split the window vertically or horizontally, etc. to me that loses a ton of the benefit of having a terminal in the editor in the first place.

still, it's a very interesting project. i have a very love/hate relationship with emacs, so i'm always interested in alternatives...
A comically large proportion of “AJAX”-type use of JavaScript could just be frames and probably perform better, if frames had evolved a bit rather than remaining stagnant.

Fix that and give us HTML tables with basic features built-in and datasource-backed tables + list views back in the mid ‘00s and mind-boggling amounts of time and money could have been saved.

Instead, none of that happened, and it still hasn’t.

Don’t even get me started on how much money could have been saved if the Web had adopted payment standards so that the browser itself could handle payment input.
Eventually, but not originally. The first designers who knew how to do it manually were basically considered to be wizards.
Best, most productive group I ever belonged to was missing a VP, Director and Manager. Our team leads just kept on supporting and delivering. Worked for a year or more.
The only thing really missing in that from an English sentence structure perspective is generally we want just one more article in it and maybe a comma: from the drawer, select socks and pants.

But similarly I've written a lot of C# LINQ statements at this point and its from-first pattern seems to flow naturally enough that I don't see anything wrong with it (and a lot right, C# definitely has a great autocomplete experience under LINQ).
Nothing stops one from building a SQL parser that allows FROM to come first, really.

`SELECT 1;` would still be written `SELECT 1;` since there are no table sources there.
Would it have been different if you were required to live in the places you traveled to for a year each?
> Also they literally never even mentioned Fenix, Raynor's best Protoss buddy, in SC2 Wings of Liberty despite Kerrigan betraying and murdering him.

spoiler warning!

like most characters killed in SC1 he does pop up, specifically in LOTV

(not a good one though)
US says consensus growing around 'narrow' UN cybercrime treaty
Sure the language is a little iffy, but as someone who enjoys shell scripting I have used worse. I think what I don't like is managing the logic two steps removed from where it is used.

I tend to write my web apps in what is referred to today as server side rendered(Which sounds stupid to me, I am not rendering anything, I am outputting html for the html terminal to render) as such, all my logic is on one end, and mixing in logic, in a different language, for the other end feels really ugly.

I have recently tried to be a better person and get more comfortable with javascript. What I have found that works is to completely invert the logic dynamics, give the browser a single static page that has nothing in it. only a single script tag that includes a javascript file. Then generate the whole page from that. Now all your logic is still in one language[1] and really javascript is a lot of fun to write, the language is still sort of crap, but now the dynamic stuff is really simple.

1. as a footnote, the great tragedy of the web is that (script language=) only works for javascript. wasm is an attempt to rectify this, but I think that while they are doing the best they can with the shitshow they have to work with. wasm is solving the problem at entirely the wrong layer.
Larian Studios has 450 employees...

Exactly, you need a massive team to live up to expectations for AAA games these days.
That sounds gross. Why would anyone want that.
Mamba Paper Was Rejected