skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading the introductory paragraph to the paper, it sounds like a rehash of Kaufmann's (very good) book "At Home in the Universe", which at this point is almost 30 years old. Not sure what this paper adds, but will read it to find out.

The thesis of Kaufmann's book is that the emergence of life, given supporting conditions (variety of source chemicals in environment, sources of energy, maybe water/mixing) is all but inevitable (hence life being "at home" in the universe) rather than being some rare event.

The reasoning is that when these preconditions are met there will be a variety of chemical chain reactions occurring where the product of one reaction is used as the input to the next, and eventually reaction chains that include products that act as catalysts for parts of the reaction chain. These types of reaction can be considered as a primitive metabolism - consuming certain environmental chemicals and producing others useful to the metabolism.

From here to proto-cells and the beginning of evolution all it takes is some sort of cell-like container which (e.g.) need be nothing more than than something like froth on the seashore, based out of whatever may be floating on the water surface. Initial "reproduction" would be based on physical agitation (e.g wave action) breaking cells and creating new ones.

Different locations would have different micro-environments with different locally occurring reaction chains and "proliferation/survival of the fittest" would be the very beginning of evolution, as those reactions better able to utilize chemical sources and support their own structure/metabolism would become more widespread.

Anyway, a good book and plausible thesis in general (one could easily adapt the specifics from seashore to deep sea thermal vents etc).
Yeah, I understand where you're coming from, but I don't want to route these messages through unrelated 3rd parties. Just want it to go from my telecom provider > my phone > Telegram Group. And yes, it is messages arriving to my main phone number, fwiw.

Everything is working as a "Shortcut", the only thing missing is Apple allowing me to run this shortcut automatically without user interaction. Which for some annoying reason is missing. If I just can get rid of the step where I absolutely have to interact with the phone to trigger the "automation"...
Do the fast.ai course, with a bit of elbow grease and creativity you'll be able to finetune models to produce SOTA results in >2 weeks.
Yeah, I switched to iPhone solely for the Mini form factor, and I was very surprised how primitive and buggy iOS feels compared to Android, given each platform's reputation. Would love to go back to Android!
Awesome thank you! Really appreciate you taking the time to reply. I’m still learning Python and working my way through this course https://fleuret.org/dlc/ but without a problem I care about its hard. Your encouragement and tips are much appreciated! Knowing that this idea isn’t too ambitious will give me the motivation to keep pushing. Thank you.
Agree that the range degradation is unsettling. My model 3 started with 320 and now its about 7-8% lower after 2 years.

However, this is my daily driving car for which I put on average 25 miles a day... but maybe an occasional peak at 150 miles in a single day or weekend. One thing that you'll discover is that charging is super simple. Plug it in at home and fill it up (I have a 30amp 240v) whenever you want. Or go find a super charger nearby if you're in a pinch.

Granted what people can do at home wrt/ electrical and how close you are to a super charger is all situational. But at least for me the loss in range hasn't changed my behavior or caused me any problems.

However, important note: I do not use the Tesla for long distance trips. I've done it a few times... its fine, but prefer gas/ICE for that.

Our Model 3 got 9000 miles added to it this past year. Our family 2011 Q5 got 1500 miles.
Thank you! Comments like this motivate me to write more! You should check out the rest of the blog here: www.nubero.ch/blog/

You can also retweet if you like: https://x.com/nuberodesign/status/1749730123954221373?s=20

My secret hope is still, that someone at Apple and the others sees this and finally act…
Biggest "excuse" is usability:

IPv6->IPv4 failover where the IPv6 DNS records are busted make a whole lot of sites unusable.

Basically, the AAAA record provides some broken IP6 address, and the browser then just "site not found, NXRECORD", even if there's a perfectly valid A record for the same.

If a company doesnt have an AAAA record, it works fine. Its when the AAAA record is busted (but present) is where you will see loads of weird and bad stuff.
I am really happy with my fw13. I love everything of it.

I even made the simulation of upgrading to 64gb of ram just after I bought it to prove myself that it was the right choice.

I cannot think of going back to buying something I know I'll most likely have to replace entirely after some time because it cannot be upgraded.
> societal words

Indeed, all words are "societal." The meaning(s) of a word is/are always a matter of convention (or tradition).
That's because there is a lot of evidence that alcohol is bad for you.

I don't know who is saying it's "THE" problem, but it definitely isn't A solution.
I daily drive a OnePlus 11, but I really miss my Pixel 3's compact size.

I still have my P3 but am not into using tech until it dies. For me I just accepted mega phones won.

Yes, I know the Pixel 8 is smaller, but I tried it and screen size aside it's not as good as my OP11.
The type system is stolen from some of the work on TAL (typed assembly language), by Greg Morrisett and others. In my implementation at the moment it's linear first in the size of the program and then there's a little more checking that's linear in the number of functions. The design is still settling, and it very well might be just linear in the future.

Your point about garbage collection is very fair. For some reason in my head when I wrote that I thought of null pointer exceptions, but that is indeed a different thing.
Whatever it is, immigration is impossible to stop in a humane way if we want to keep our current standard of living. Of course you wish everyone the live we have, but it is not sustainable to have that in Europe - but because of the inherent polution and the space in the cities.

So, you need to distuigish between refugees that can’t return home safely because they are political activist, gay, or thousands of other reasons - and regufees who are, as the populists like to say “gold diggers” and are here to get a better way of living, regardless how they achieve that.

To distuigish that, you need to investigate each individual refugee, and that takes time and money by itself. Because you can’t keep them in a single building for months or even years at a time, you allow them to roam free. This however causes other issues, because there are bad apples in the bunch who then steal from the local population, or even commit atrocities against fellow refugees. However, the view of part of the public is that there isn’t sufficiently acted by the police or politics on this. And even sending them back costs money, in the form of airplanes and such.
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I think it's exposure. It's a relatively low-taboo fetish, and (unlike most others) it's acceptable/possible to post/find feet on traditional social media. It's possible to post feet pics and accidentally find yourself engaged with a sexual subculture you were not intending to encourage.

Also wtf WikiFeet.
More discussion on a similar article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39104363
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Anyone figure out how to play palworld on linux if the steam version fails?
Sounds like a job for a bot that follows your Plex / Jellyfin history and clicks play on the original streaming service. You get to avoid whatever terrible UI the media conglomerate shackled their content to, get a persistent copy that works offline, and the creators still get paid. Everybody wins :)
> Are you implying that we would assign a public /64 subnet to a collection of nanites that were designed to be absorbed after a week in the human body, and then retire that subnet forever?

No, I meant it as "You can reuse the subnet after 1 week + N" basically.

> it's just an intellectual exercise and take a stab!

Indeed it was, and thanks for conjuring a gratifying answer :)
how long will it run on battery?
my FW13 12th gen (debian) lasts maybe 2 hours and even in suspend mode it drains way to fast (/sys/power/mem_sleep = deep)
NewsCord – Using AI to give you the full picture
NewsCord compares the article you're reading to similar articles from different news sources. It then finds key differences in the information covered so that you get the full picture and become more resilient to one-sided narratives.
I base my findings on what people in my local working class area do and tell me about down the pub, not exactly your "typical NH crowd". Some of them need a bit of a nudge and explained to explain to them that these things are not rocket science and many are in fact pretty simple machines under the hood (if you ignore the control board(s) and just treat those as complete replacement parts).

Case in point, when my friend Sam first moved into her first home she said over a pint that she needed an electrician and asked if I know any. Sure I do, but asked her what she needed one for, was a simple case of changing a light fixture, told her I would come and show her how simple it is to do (esp with things like wago connectors), Now she has changed pretty much every light fixture in her own home herself. And the other month she rang me up because she was proud of herself and needed someone to tell and knew I would be proud of her too, the thumbsticks on her steamdeck stopped working (I think it took a knock and the part of the plastic thumb stick drove itself into the casing of the deck, she took the thing apartn sanded down the plastic parts in question so they would move smoothly again and put it back together), all by following a YT video on the subject. And yeah she was right, I was proud of her! (She is a customs enforcement officer, not exactly NH crowd.)
> ...before the savings equal the difference in purchase twice.

Why twice? Isn't once sufficient?

One reason to require the expectation to be better than break even might be due to uncertainty. But EVs seem to have developed into better certainty about maintenance costs, since there are fewer suddenly large expenses ("need a new turbo" was my most recent ICE sudden expense experience, for example).
> I think people wanted bigger screens

I wanted a smaller phone. I'd be happy to compromise on screen size if the phone was small enough for me to use with in a single hand. Unfortunately the Mini was never small enough so I never saw the reason to compromise on screen size.

I suspect a lot of people who want smaller phones are in this category.
EVs are going to take a while before they get more mainstream adoption. I live in a big European city, and I don’t have any way of charging from my “townhouse” electricity despite producing surplus with my solar panels. This is because I don’t have a dedicated front yard to park my car. No way to charge. If I compare the public fast EV chargers to gas stations, atleast in the Netherlands, the prices come out pretty much same vs gas. So, as a customer, I’d have to choose to pay more upfront to get an EV with the inconvenience of range anxiety only so that I can feel better about the environment. On the other hand, it is rather maddening to know that I’m a fractional drop in the bucket while large industrial emitters go about Scot free warming up the planet anyway.

When it gets economical to own an EV, I will switch despite a little inconvenience. Not for green washing reasons.
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I'm very happy using Typescript to templatize JSON. You can define a template as a class, compose them if needed, and when you are done, just write an object to a file.
What’s the advantage of Oculink over regular Thunderbolt/USB4 for eGPU ?
And is why Apple chose 30% when they launched the app store; it was already an acceptable charge, and could be justified with storage/bandwidth costs and the suite of tools/services built for it.

That doesn't seem to line up in my books, but we'll see how the next few years go while the 30% commission standard still has a target on its back.
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I drive a LEAF, one of the absolute worst EVs in terms of battery degradation.

After 9 years and 1 month, my battery is down about 13% from new. 50% loss in 10 years is pure FUD, IMO.
We do offer a proper Linux keyboard available in the marketplace.

Image: https://static.frame.work/6jh6n0jcad25finrrmx9kmv48eex

This keyboard config uses the super key.
It’s not the labeling itself, it’s whether or not you’re allowing unfiltered longitudinal control to originate from neural nets.

Good but erratic lateral control at worst results in hugging a lane line.

Anything less than perfect longitudinal control means the driver will toggle it on and off during portions of traffic where it won’t follow the flow of traffic closely enough, or if it follows to closely, or if you’re experiencing a high cabin jerk factor.

You cannot screw up longitudinal control. It’s nearly the whole experience.
Who is also husband to former MIT Media Lab professor Neri Oxman, a place and people also embattled with dubious research methods and funding sources.
> The purpose of flagging is to indicate that a story does not belong on HN. Frivolous flagging—e.g. flagging a story that's clearly on-topic by the site guidelines just because one personally dislikes it—eventually gets an account's flagging privileges taken away. But there's a new 'hide' link for people to click if they'd just like not to see a story.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173836

This story seems to very much belong on HN. Just because the statement is opinionated and some users don't like it, it doesn't mean that we can't debate about its merits.
Isn't that any serverless function, like Cloudflare Workers?

Are you thinking of https://fly.io/blog/rethinking-serverless-with-flame/ maybe? It's fly but a new service I think
At this point we have no clue if the person who wrote the comments:

- Even works at Boeing

- Works in that department

- Is truthful about anything they claim

- Doesn't have an agenda

It's just an anonymous internet comment.

Surely some scepticism is warranted.
> The only thing they did differently was giving 5GB storage because they never needed to make money with it, as search was a money printer.

Uh, no, they gave 1GB at the time, when the most you would get was usually either 100MB or 250MB (i think that was what Hotmail was offering at the time?).

GMail was a game-changer at the time, though.

The search features were incredibly fast and super accurate, the UI would refresh immediately (AJAX before it was cool, essentially, nobody was doing that at the time) and their anti-spam was top-notch. Literally, spam was not an issue anymore.

Oh, and it was super fast and very lightweight: I had a P3 with 128MB ram at the time of launch, but it would still run incredibly well.

I managed to get an invitation from a friend, and I loved it.

Nowadays... It's almost saddening.
Curious who believe makes so-called "executive" decisions in an organization...

If you believe it should be engineers, we're fully in agreement, but then why do we have managers...
> then proceed to ignore the remainder of your points

As opposed to you, right? :)
I don't recall vilifying anyone because they had a foot fetish. I do, however, think it's ridiculous to push your fetish into the official art direction of virtually all the female characters of an entire game.
I had the day off to get some dental fillings, I took PTO and everything.
> The cities likely had some form of guild system to prove claims like this.

> The middle of nowhere you could prove yourself with a standardized piece of work.

Which is why it's significant that none have been found in Rome, or any of the major warmer cities.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 was "normal" sized when it came out 10 years ago. If you're the kind of person that gets a new phone every 4 years or so, the Galaxy 5 was 2 phones ago, so it doesn't feel that far from normal IMO.
After a year of waiting them to start shipping to where I live, I gave up and ordered a new Lenovo.
A good search term for this is "opportunity-solution tree". Basically what you said, first you identify a business opportunity, then you customer-facing outcomes that would help you achieve the business opportunity, and THEN you identify solutions that help deliver those customer outcomes.

E.g. You discover a business opportunity to build a simpler confabulator. Step one is to identify the different possible outcomes for customers that would indicate you had successfully built something simpler. Identifying what that means is actually hard. Maybe lots of people say they want something simpler, but to some people that means "less data to manually input" and to other people it means "better guidance in the configuration process". So there's value in this step on its own - it helps clarify your thinking and gives you ways to know if you're successful. And THEN you can identify solutions to help achieve those customer outcomes. Maybe for the "better guidance" one you have possible solutions of improving the UI or integrating an LLM to answer questions. But since you've tied it to a real outcome for customers, you can do a better job evaluating those options.

It's hard work but the process does a much better job leading to coherent solutions vs. "bucket of features".
What separates humans from AI? It's doubt (2021)
This is why the Turing Test gets talked about a lot (although I gather Turing's original 'imitation game' suggestion had slightly different emphasis).

If you can reliably reproduce a situation where a human can't tell whether they are conversing with an AI or a Human, then thats a kindof yardstick.

So yes we can't define consciousness but we've got a sortof yardstick for when we might consider something to have achieved it.

And people think the Turing Test is too easy but the point is that the 'tester' should ask difficult questions to try and probe the depth of thinking of their subject.
You're kidding yourself if you think NAT was obstructing data collecting and targeting in any way. Browser fingerprinting makes it a complete non-issue.
> Sure, we could probably isolate them in their own little world, but - what a mess that would

No, it's IoT devices being on the public internet that is a mess. The "S" in IoT stands for Security.

> how it would soon take over the world. Didn't happen

It's at 45% on the public internet and growing. The majority of LAN connections are probably also IPv6 (mediated automatically through zeroconf without people even being aware)
You can just enable the firmware option to swap fn/ctrl. Or use software to make caps a ctrl, which is better anyways.
Same here... Initially I used Android for many years, and after hearing people raving about the iPhone for more years + Apple finally releasing a "Mini" format after getting bigger and bigger, I jumped on the wagon.

I too was surprised about how shitty the software is compared to how excellent the hardware is.

Well, I guess nothing is perfect...
oh yeah; operators are great and sometimes they are necessary.

On the other hand, most operators I've seen are just k8s manifest templates implemented in Go.

I often end up preferring using Jsonnet to deal with that instead of doing the same stuff in Go.

Jsonnet is much more close to the underlying datamodel (the k8s manifest Json/Yaml document) and comes with some useful functionality out of the box, such "overlays".

It has downsides too! It's untyped, debugging tools are lacking, people are unfamiliar with it and don't care to learn it. So I totally get why one would entertain the possibility of writing your "templates" using a better language.

However, an operator is often too much freedom. It's not just using Go or Rust or Typescript to "generate" some Json manifests, but it also contains the code to interact with the API server, setup watches, and reactions etc.

I often wish there was a better way to separate those two concerns

I'm a fan of metacontroller [1], which is a tool that allows you to write operators without actually writing a lot of imperative code that interacts with the k8s API, but instead just provide a general JSON->JSON transformer, which you could write in any langue (Go, Python, Rust, Javascript, .... and also Jsonnet if you want).

I recently implemented something similar but much tailored to just "installing" stuff, called Kubit. An OCI artifact contains some abitrary tarball (generally containing some template sources) and a reference to a docker image containing an "engine" and runs the engine with your provided tarball + some parameters passed in a CRD. The OCI artifact could contain a helm chart and the template engine could contain the helm binary, or the template engine could be kubecfg and the OCI artifact could contain a bunch of jsonnet files. Or you could write your own stuff in python or typescript. The kubit operator then just runs your code, gathers the output and applies with with kubectl apply-set.

1. https://metacontroller.github.io/metacontroller/intro.html

2. https://github.com/kubecfg/kubit
Smalltalk aside, how safer makes you feel Zig than C?
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> Engineers can't fail, it's always management's fault.

or, what can engineers possibly know about engineering: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=213075
I cannot tell neither how things would work in that IPv6 address slice, but "peer synced" sub-slices would be needed.
I started learning ML at a video game studio too. My 2c is to start on a tractable problem that immediately pays off, so you have the grace to learn something more complicated later. I started with a recommendation system for our in-game store and email promotions (custom coupons based on previous purchases).
Throwing out the definition of consciousness as “the inflection upon the potential of existential being.”

All matter in the universe is dormant consciousness and life technology animates this through electrochemical biotechnology.

By this definition quantum computers are more consciousness than an infinitely complex algorithm, yet consciousness is analogue (not qubits.)

We still understand so little and I accept your skepticism yet this is the definition that is not being discussed.

All those other messy details are yours to sort out (bacteria has bacterial consciousness.)

Our brains are vast by comparison, and like any holographic system (constructive and destructive interfering wave fronts) higher resolution.

Also subjective doesn’t mean some detached arbitrary thing, it literally means (and may be a direct synonym of) “a point of perspective.” In a non anthropomorphic way it means from the perspective of a specific instance of a thing (forensic referential interpretation.) In this way the angular corners of a triangle are subjectively relative to one and other, yet all exist on an objective plane.