skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fanfiction and comedy ones look like xtra normal (circa 2010) + Clutch Cargo (circa 1959).
I'm much more sympathetic to a company that starts out with this kind of license than one who changes the license after accepting contributions under a more permissive license, which is basically a bait and switch on those developers. It's even worse when the company previously promised not to do such a thing, as is the case with redis. And this is especially bad because the company that is now called Redis didn't even create the database, they took over an existing project.
Does Facebook "break the security"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39860486

Why does it need this "network visibility"
According to the article, the radio can be reflashed using a browser, but if any suspicious software was needed for reflashing, it could anyway be run in a VM after setting the USB/serial port as pass through.
To program frequencies and modes then one can use Chirp, which is Open source.
https://chirpmyradio.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home
This point of view could be applied to any word, and the extreme result is that you'd negate meaningful or useful communication, or that someone would have to be the arbiter of what is a legitimate concept or not.

Between vocabulary, commonly understood meaning, possible meaning, and actual personal experience, there are many detours and jumps. "Dog" as a word, concept/meaning, and experience, has these issues. What's not a dog, which dog are you thinking about, and does this apply to "dog" or just those specific dogs you've experienced? Etc.

Words like "consciousness", for less concrete experiences than "dog", tend to have more fog in the gaps between word and shared meaning, and between those and individual experience.

It seems like you're trying to flatten a person's curiosity about the implications of a shared concept or experience into a "mundane" phantasm about a word whose referent is either nonsensical or nonexistent to you.

I think that the gaps between word, concept, and experience, while confusing and difficult, are worthy of more respect and wonder than to just flatten them as though their existence didn't imply something potentially important and essential is happening there. Language arose because we have actual experience to share, however tricky it can be to verbalize. It doesn't work perfectly, and leads to confusion, but here we are, reading and writing.

"Consciousness" may be a word for a slippery concept/experience, but that doesn't equate to questions about consciousness being inherently semantic.
> This is more about preventing AWS from eating their lunch by providing redis-as-a-service, without paying any sort of compensation to the redis developers.

But the developers licensed the software at no charge. What kind of compensation are they entitled to then?

Sounds like a case of sellers remorse/take-backsies one of the problems that open source was aiming to solve.
Ask HN: Suggestions for Affordable Dumb Phone
I’m looking for an affordable dumb phone that can support app-based 2FA.

Or any recommendations for making my phone as dumb as possible. Cheers!
Pfft, in what ways has society advanced since then?

I'm being a bit facetious, but lets be real, most of the interactions people have with technological advancement create negative value for themselves and everyone around them.

The only thing that's arguably neutral is basic chat, and maybe HN which is marginally more sophisticated than it would have been then. Being able to take high quality photo and video at any time is quite a lot more commodified, but I feel like a former prisoner could handle that.

Maybe video calls would do it, that's another big one, but people born in the 30s can deal with it.
AWS was directly funding Redis development, from the article, they are one of the top contributors, they even employed one of the core redis maintainers full time to work on Redis.
Yeah, and it also appears that the things how they appear to you, might be wrong. I know about that option as I use npp since well over a decade. But I can still say the general interface is bad and I only use npp via key shortcuts. And if there are other options that provide a clearer initial experience, I can see why newcomers choose those instead.
Previously: [0] (50 points, 16 hours ago, 26 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39851872
Yeah I clearly read this the wrong way. That is my bad.

> "divinely inspired" is meaningless. As for "so easy a child can understand it", what's your basis for saying so?

It’s been a minute but “so easy a child can understand it” is out of the New Testament.

The other stuff - I heard it growing up religious. It’s pretty common language you hear from pastors, etc. At least in the world I was forced to live in.

Thank you for your perspective. Honestly. Not snarky.
Why don't the distros just take the last free version and fork from there.
True,me too. But now that copilot keeps popping up on the other side, that’s starting to feel cramped too.

I used to put the task bar vertically down the side of the monitor as well for the same reason but Microsoft won’t let me do that anymore.
Italy races to stop leaning Garisenda Tower from collapsing
The problem you have is that 99.999% of people aren't getting banned.

And of those remaining the overwhelming majority deserve it.

So you're trying to convince people to adopt Etheruem, Blockchain etc to solve a problem no one has.
> RLs solution is way more cost effective than AWS's

Its not cost effective if the service causes extended outages as you mentioned later.
I'm not sure if you're dunking on "spiritual/religious/personal/subjective" stuff, but the hard question of consciousness is, in some ways, the most important question of all. Far more important than "science" questions like "what is dark matter?"

Literally our entire civilization is built on the idea that humans have qualia and therefore causing harm to humans is often unethical. If we were to somehow come to believe that consciousness is just an illusion--no more than a biochemical phenomenon, and no more special than transistor switching--then we would usher in a dystopia in which any horror inflicted on people is potentially justifiable and even necessary.

The rise of LLMs is forcing us to confront this head-on. LLMs can't be conscious--they are literally just matrix multiplication. But if LLMs can act like humans and not be conscious, then maybe humans aren't really conscious either.
Same here. My first thought after reading the headline: "What!? They made Babylon 6 and I missed it?";)
By default that would be insane, but if you install and run a program under your credentials to let it do that, that's not GNOME's fault. Also, Windows does let programs do that, via custom credential providers. See, e.g., https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2007... and https://stackoverflow.com/a/35173886/7509065
Passenger gets out the sun roof, pops the tailgate and removes the tracker
$7k doesn’t sound right. If you were to pay cash (no insurance) for a bog standard ambulance ride, it would typically be several hundred. And likely written off, but that’s beside the point.

My family’s most expensive ambulance bill before insurance was $6k, but that was intensive care transport for our newborn. I believe we paid $250 out of pocket for that.

It’s true that having to pay anything out of pocket affects when people call for ambulances.

Also, keep in mind high car ownership rates mean most people drive or are driven to the ER. Ambulances are typically only used when there was on-scene medical care provided, that continues on the way to the hospital, or when transporting a patient between facilities. A minority of Americans use ambulances because they don’t have personal transportation.
It's not just papers. I tried to learn probabilities theory & statistics, deeper than little knowledge I kept from the uni. For instance, wanted to understand how you solve problems like samples in quality control: if in a sample of N items, m are bad, what's the chance X% are bad in production?

Unfortunately, there are either introductory materials (toss a coin -- 50% chance faces) or some robot language. Or schizophrenic: like starting from the middle of a speech.
The IBM Convertible let you stack on options on the back, including a printer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htl_JbZIcUU
The Smart Meters were designed with this concept from the beginning.

https://www.smartdcc.co.uk/our-smart-network/network-product...

As noted in the article and by other comments, a short wave radio network is used in the northern parts of the UK instead of cellular networks.

This already gives a need for different modules to be used for communication.
Sounds like the anti-tank dogs used by the Soviet Union during WW2
You can buy options (puts and calls) for three years out.

Shorting a stock for that long would be a recipe for disaster, at some point it's going to go up and you're going to lose it all. Remember when you buy long your positive upside is infinite and your downside limited to 100%, when you short it's the opposite.
If you own copyrights you’re not the leech.
Being a kook and holding degrees in science are not mutually exclusive. His theories are intriguing nonsense in the sense that they have little to no evidence to support them. Their deeply conjectural nature is what defines them as kooky.
The best engineers wont work for companies that don’t ship great product.

Funding and complexity are obstacles, but there are many examples of overcoming the obstacles with innovation and conviction.

Rockets - Lockheed -> SpaceX

AI - Google -> OpenAI

Electric Cars - Toyota -> Tesla

Shipping - Maersk -> Flexport

CPUs - Intel -> ARM
Which is peanuts compared to the 350 million that the VCs invested. You're totally right, but I think the internal financial pressure is higher.
The bets on moneybags-centric ML spending has many dead ends.

Draining capital into the wrong ones will be common and easy. Then the bubbles will burst and we will see how much raw capital and debt actually pay out.
> But if LLMs can act like humans and not be conscious, then maybe humans aren't really conscious either.

Isn't this like saying "if the man in the Chinese room can act like he understands Chinese and not understand Chinese, then maybe nobody understands Chinese."?
>inconsequential UI design optimization

I certainly was confused and had a hard time starting it. If a significant amount of people can't even figure out how to start the game, the problem isn't inconsequential.
AWS, GCP have assurance that they won't need to pay for their Linux infrastructure. What is it if it wasn't for copyleft licenses(GPL)?
> Zcash has opt-in privacy

You could just as accurately say Zcash has opt-out privacy too. And the privacy is much more than a mixer since you got ZKPs.

Opting out of privacy gives it more plausible deniability, which is why you can find it on coinbase. Not that you should need deniability, since no one has any business knowing what you're doing with your money.
I've seen them used multiple times during live cop shows.

In one instance, they were using a dart that had a huge magnet on it so as soon as it hit the trunk, it stuck really well and all the cops backed off and they then had a chopper follow the car back to the owners house where they made an arrest later in the program.

In another instance, the guys clearly knew what the cops did, because he ducked off the highway into a residential area where the cops had several calls of a car that pulled into their neighborhood at a high rate and four dudes jumped out like a clown car while the car was still in drive, which then ran over one of the residents mailboxes. They got three of the guys within minutes as they swarmed the area, set up a perimeter and boxed them and then brought in the K-9.

Even the cop said car thief's know the cops are using this tech and since they were also using the magnet, it makes a very loud "thud" when it attaches to the car's frame and thieves now will ditch the car and go out on foot to try and get away, making it far more easier to catch them as opposed to having to do pit maneuvers or other high risk moves to end a chase.
The graphic is awesome. I took a lot of pictures as wallpaper even before moving to my second planet.
Im not the guy, ask dtolnay, but im guessing toml.
> Nobody reads TOS, or at least 99.9999% of people don't because it's simply too much.

Huge opportunity for a service using AI that does, then reports on a public site businesses using shady language or hiding traps, possibly assigning a score.
> Does disrupting the electromagnetic fields in the brain disrupt consciousness?

Or, is consciousness A interacting with consciousness B in a certain way observed by both as “disrupting electromagnetic fields in the brain”?

That is to say: the experiment does not demonstrate causal directionality.
I think you are cought up in trying to make things sound grandiose.

Why "1000 scientific papers"? Why not 500? 200? 17? 3? 2? How many are needed to make your point? Why "scientific"? Does it only work for "scientific" papers? Why "papers"? Does it not work for strings in general?

Same for "proteins", "underlying data", "data analysis pipeline" and all the other concepts you introduce.

If you comb through all of this and remove everything not necessary to explain the underlying idea, maybe you get to something and maybe not. I don't know.

Imagine we understood blockchains already and someone wants to explain the payment functionality of Bitcoin with a garden of wonderful terms like you do. "Thousands of virtual banks connected to millions of owners. Payments flowing through this massive global network instantly and nearly free, guaranteed by scientific cryptographic proof". It would tell us nothing.

What we need is:

With a blockchain, we can create an ordered list of messages like "I give coin 17 to Bob. Signed: Alice"

That explains everything we need to know to understand how payments are possible on top of a blockchain.

That's the type of statement I would dig for if you want to know if there is actually something useful about a technology.
Your Car is Trackable by Law (2022)

To keep drivers safe, all cars sold after 2007 in the United States are required by law to have a Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS) installed.

Most TPMS sensors have a battery life of 5–10 years.

Although a unique ID can be used to avoid other TPMS sensor’s messages on the road, this unique ID can also be used by an attacker to track a vehicle’s movements.

This ID is broadcasted unencrypted and, therefore can be used to track when a particular vehicle has passed nearby.

https://medium.com/@doctoreww/day-2-your-car-is-trackable-by...
Mastering Error Handling in JavaScript: Best Practices and Strategies
Mastering Error Handling in Javascript: Best Practices and Strategies
Very well said!

"Emotional Intelligence" is just a marketing term for awareness of other people's emotional needs/thoughts/behaviour/etc. and modulating one's interactions accordingly.

The trick is to do it effectively without allowing oneself to be manipulated/becoming a doormat/hurting the other person's ego.

The books Crucial Conversations and Crucial Confrontations by Kerry Patterson et al. are useful in this regard.
Your Car Is Trackable by Law
That version is so old. I just use Docker's own apt repo to not fall behind.
I'm not sure why they discussed Israel at all - except for bullshit accusation in racism which seems to come automatically nowdays. Israeli intelligence failure had zero to do with any technology and everything to do with political and ideological delusion. They had fake data, they had real data, they had all the data. They had tons of opinions and options. They had to choose which concept to believe and which conclusion to make. This is not something that depends on technology, and it can't be, that depends on the person or persons making the decision, and it is as unsolved problem now as if was millenia ago.
It's true that the police generally don't enforce the law against morons who illegally mod their vehicles...

Unless they have some other reason to dislike your tribe, in which case you might get the book thrown at you.
why do we need to track stamps. seriously.
Because it also requires validating transactions. You're providing collateral to be trusted to perform a service, for which you're paid.
maybe the bots won't know either
Huh? His observation is politically neutral. It just notes that the people running organizations are, ultimately, selfish (as are most people). They will ultimately look after themselves, even at the cost of the organization they are supposed to be caring for.

You see this everywhere. Crazy CEO salaries and golden parachutes, as CEOs sit on each other's boards approving such packages. Charities that prolong the problem they were set up to eliminate. "Old space" where NASA provided decades of unjustified cost-plus contracts.
Signal introduced usernames about a month ago.

https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/
Sorry, what I mean is that if you and some other being happen to have parallel time arrows, then it's possible that you'll recognize them as conscious. They might have similar thermodynamic properties to yourself, for instance. If you prod at them, they squeal afterwards. That sort of thing.

If you encounter one with an orthogonal time arrow, you're not going to be able to communicate with them. You're not going to have evidence that can identify them as separate from any other phenomena. This unknowability turns it into a choice, not a deduction.

From there you've got to decide whether you'd rather assume something is conscious when it's not, or whether you'd rather assume something's not when it is. I find the latter more troubling.
Am I right in understanding that the relicensing was possible because of the CLA, not just because of the BSD license? Would a permissively licensed project that didn't use a CLA be vulnerable in the same way?
> in the end transformers won

we're at the end?
Of course this is true. He can make over $1m/hr doing nothing
> good luck collecting payments, avoiding fraud or reporting taxes without collecting name and address

A client of mine collected just shy of $2M last calendar year (2023), and we only store an email address, and a password.

The trick is, let the organisations that (apparently) need that extra data, collect the extra data themselves. Payments are offered via PayPal, Stripe and Amazon Pay, using their hosted payment pages. It works amazingly well. The Stripe and PayPal options can even be achieved without JS, if you wish.

I believe you could also achieve a similar lack of PII using a JS-heavy 'embedded' solution for Stripe and maybe PayPal, but don't quote me on that.
SkyPilot https://skypilot.readthedocs.io automates the process of configuring cloud instances to run Ray on, transparently for the user. If those instances are all exploitable, that might be quite bad.

(If you install a typical FTP server on an internet-accessible host, does that immediately enable anonymous uploads if you use the default configuration?)
In 1970 Xerox snapped up most of the top engineers from dozens of silicon valley companies, and was roundly hated EVERYWHERE. Thus began a decade of great research but even greater hype ... But after 12 years of failing to capitalize on all the technologies invented at PARC and Office Systems Division - from 1983 to 1987 - Xerox experienced a mass exodus itself and many researchers in Computer Science joined Dec Systems Research Center or DEC Western research Lab (DEC SRC and DEC WRL).

The latter (DEC WRL) was credited with developing the DEC Alpha CPU; DEC SRC invented Altavista which was the #1 search engine until Google arrived.

I was an Office Systems Division engineer 1984-6 and watched the exodus unfold before I left for grad school. Overall DEC SRC/WRL didn't have as much impact as PARC; there is a time and place for everything and that kind of systems research - its time had passed ..
Who owns the copyrights? According to the article, since 7.0.0, 24.8% of commits are from Tencent, 19.5% from Redis, 6.7% from Alibaba, 5.2% from Huawei, 5.2% from Amazon.
bill gates was a very subpar developer. that's not help, that's narcissistic meddling and micromanaging. if he was good at anything technical, or arguably business strategy, ms-dos wouldn't have been the utter garbage that it was.

musk sleeping on the floor is a publicity stunt, not totally dishonest, but 98% maybe.

jobs? complete a-hole and basket case. a lazy crappy worker who physically smelled bad. if he ever spent a couple hours doing honest work soldered boards, it was 100% for the ability to claim some kind of heroic epic later, or maybe just a manic fit.

the bean-counter stereotype isn't entirely false. it's a specialization of any number of process-bound, organizationally-loyal, myopic, useless cogs. any rare good talented "bean-counter" clearly knows that they are outnumbered and out-gunned by the other inept assholes and bureaucrats in their dept.

there are a large number, probably a majority of people, that are honest and want to do a hard day's work. they are stabbed in the back, trampled, and betrayed by the aforementioned personalities.

the problem is here is just that we keep rewarding, with attention and money, entirely the wrong folks. these famous and very rich folks are merely a combination of survivorship bias, luck, and the fact that to win big you really do need a narcissist who is not afraid to make irrational enormous bets with other peoples money.
It's hardly tinfoil hattery. If it isn't that (and I'm still not convinced by all the above that it isn't) then it needs to explain exactly how it isn't loudly, repeatedly, clearly, and very prominently.
> penalty for those who receive (and accept) mail posted using one

Insane!

Britain imitating Monty Python.
I understand the idea, since FOSS can easily become thankless drugery, but I don't think I'd really be that excited about using this kind of thing.

The nice thing about GPL/MIT/etc is how it doesn't create many incentives to compete and fragment.

Problems can be truly solved, once and for all, with one obvious choice, so we can all move on and use the standard choice that has all the features you need, and not have to think about that category of software.
You mean like a slower car, where can we find a horse that looks like a car?
Adding GPU support soon is absolutely my goal in the future!
I think a PyTorch-based JavaScript library could be useful, as PyTorch has been way more dominant than TensorFlow recently.
I'm surprised no one offered yet another plausible explanation that the dog picked up on something else (bird! squirrel! another dog!) that just so happened at the same time as your friend leaving the building. Coincidences occur all the time.
Notepad++ has the best feature ever: Autosave without a filename. Just close and open and everything is the way you've left it.
> the current CEO — Dave Calhoun — is an old exec from from GE, where McNerney started out

From the article.

> None of the names floated thus far for the spot have been aerospace engineers, and the shoo-in for the position, GE’s Larry Culp, is not an engineer at all.

Maybe they should start bundling life insurance with flights on Boeing planes.
> In one study, researchers at the University of Arizona examined crop data for seven Western states and estimated that 20% of the region’s total alfalfa production was exported in 2022.

Which means 10% of Colorado River water was exported as alfalfa?
Apple might've taken over if they actually got this to production --- their competitor at the time was the IBM PC/AT with its 8 ISA slots, and Apple's bus could've become the "ISA" instead. Then again, given that these would cost a lot more for the housings compared to just a PCB with a card edge connector and mounting bracket, maybe not.
Tiddlywiki: A Database for Your Notes (2022)
Thanks for the tip! I’ll definitely take a look. Adding GPU support is my next step!