skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a sense that is a myth. Guess this is based on the idea of silicon and Turing complete.

The silicon argument might be right if we treat it on its own. Input, process and output. But one think of the system where the silicon or multiple of them plus some analogue or biological input and output. It is not the same. The process affect the speed and response … you can imagine one use lisp, basic or cnn to drive a car … can you.

The turning complete is not physical as above and real world ish. Hence it sound all true. But people forgot we do not have unlimited memory. Our tur8ng complete is in practice not.

To sum it all may be we kick human out of the loop all silicon and human language might have a chance the same using the same language (but still physical real world above …)
Pollution is not co2, right? (The OP says co2, not pollution.)

We also have both claims here - global warming and global cooling.

Can't we also say, from broad claims such as the ones you hi light, that a sort of generic scientific alarmism has existed a long time?

Scientific alarmism in itself justifies the valuable work those scientists raising the alarm do, of course...
Good question. We typically don't think of young kids as having neuroticism so much as an aspect of temperament we call "negative emotionality." Some children seem to have more of it than others. Taken at a slice in time, roughly half of the between-person personality variation on a given trait can be attributed to genes, the other half is environmental. (Strictly speaking, this doesn't quite account for variation in the change of traits over time though.)

Also, there's a well-studied effect where adolescents typically experience decreases in neuroticism / negative emotionality as they change and mature as they move into young adulthood.
And in your scenario where you handle errors with an Either type, how many times have you seen code where that kind of thing just gets upcasted because the caller can't be bothered to deal with the specialized error? I think this is a strawman argument against exceptions and it's equally possible to do it wrong with your way as it is with my way.
For an iOS attempt, I've often gone back to this wonderful StackOverflow post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10289913
Hyper targeted placement of generated content designed to entice you to donate to political campaigns and to vote. Perhaps leading to a point where entire video clips are generated for a single viewer. Politicians and political commentators will lease their likeness and voice out for targeted messaging to be generated using their likeness. Less reputable platforms will allow disinformation campaigns to spread.
DNS? Might be that we need a radical (for some) change of viewpoint.

Just as there's no privacy on the internet, how about 'theres very little trust on the internet'. Assume everything not securely signed by a trusted party is false.
So Tesla is just following the local laws. What is news worthy here, I'm just not seeing it.
There's an old story about toothpaste boxes and solving the empty box problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/2o9dho/the_emp...

I've always suspected it was apocryphal. But just think, if the workers had installed that fan beforehand, we might be reading a story about how important workers are at solving little production problems.

Everyone thinks this mentality of having workers fix problems is great, until they use soap to put glued parts on.
Adventures in Rust: Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird
> When Apple implemented app bundles, they never updated dyld's search paths to be aware of the app bundle directory structure, meaning you have to manually patch your rpaths.

Typically things like this have binary compatibility reasons. (It wouldn't be because they forgot, actually I happen to know the same person has worked on dyld since the 90s.)

> but it's one of many very sloppy things I noticed coming from a strong Unix background to Mac

Funny thing to complain about. Sloppiness /is/ Unix design, that's intentional. It's called "worse is better".

On the other hand, nobody uses Plan9 because it's too well-designed to actually work.
my own analysis
Yes, understanding and cooperating with people of very different values can be noble or evil, it depends entirely on what those different values are.

Also, legality doesn't have a close relation to morality, so cooperating with people regardless of legality can also be noble or evil.
I like it. `switch throws` looks like a really clean construct.
It'll happen - deepfakes aren't good enough yet. But when they become ubiquitous and hard to spot, it'll be chaos until the average person is mentally inoculated against believing any video / anything on the internet.

I wonder if it's possible to digitally sign footage as it's captured? It'd be nice to have some share-able demonstrably true media.

Edit: I'm a centrist and I definitely would lean one way or the other based on who the options are (or who I think they are).
Ya, a lot of publishers and publicists mention that :)

As I launch reader reviews, I also want to feed into that; I plan to prompt them with "What book do you love that is like this book?" I think that is great for other readers and it helps give authors a true comp from the eyes of a reader (ETA late this year or early next I hope).
Despite vast investment in AI by VCs and vast numbers of startups in the field, these sort of things remain unavailable as simple consumer installable software.

Every second day HN has some post about some new amazing AI system. Never available to download run and use.

Why the vast investment and no startup selling consumer downloadable software to do it?
These POIs appear to come with a permissive license too [1].

> 1.2. This agreement does not impose any restriction on a Data Recipient’s use, modification, or sharing…

Be sure to read the rest of the license and as always, follow the attribution requirements and licenses of open map data sources.

[1] https://docs.overturemaps.org/release-notes/data-attribution...
> This would be as if we invented and sold nuclear weapons to dig out quarry mines faster.

”Project Plowshare was the overall United States program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes.”[0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare
> I'm talking about a group, a collective, that deliberately funds stuff that is merely good content

This is a newspaper or think tank. It can be donor, ad or reader (i.e. paywall) supported.
If beautiful people have an advantage in the job market, maybe people will use deepfake technology when doing zoom interviews? Maybe they will use it to alter their accent?
Given that I've never heard of an issue with that particular part after years of extended use...

Yes.
> Along with Hofstadter, his ideas were foundational to hacker culture.

Dennett was an influential thinker, probably more so than Hofstadter overall, but I can't agree with this assessment. For one thing, he became widely known after Consciousness Explained, in 1992, which is simply too late to be foundational to hacker culture, which was well and truly founded by then.

I won't broaden my case here, lest anything I say be interpreted as speaking ill of the dead. I'm certain he was a major influence for many who post here, yourself included, and I don't intend to detract from that.
Especially when your leaders, elites telling economically disenfranchised Ukranian men to a meat grinder while they themselves live abroad and have acquired German citizenship
There is some debate whether this is knowable, some particles are not believed to decay into light at a rate faster than their spontaneous creation from light. (And humanity wont be around to check).
What a shallow critique. Object oriented error handling (which is what returning objects instead of exceptions is) isn’t used because it’s trendy, it’s used because it’s objectively (badumtish) better.
Very lucky snag way back in the day :)

I also own pilgrimage.com; I'd love to do something like this for music one day with the tagline, "Life is a journey; let's give it a soundtrack"!
AnythingLLM: Chat with your documents using any LLM
Absolutely.

Sex, Politics, and Religion should be third rails at the office, imo.
You can write one in X11 if you like, if you make people install Xquartz.
Does maximizing options maximize empowerment? I've found I feel much more empowered in a situation where I've already deeply committed to some specific thing than when I have dozens of options but haven't chosen one. Intentionally closing the door on thousands of options is actually the only path I've found that's made it possible for me to grow at all. If I maximize options, I can just escape when faced with a growth opportunity, not actually have to grow through it.

I remember sitting up late one night in my twenties overwhelmed by the sheer number of doors I would never open. Not metaphorical doors--actual, physical doors to physical buildings and rooms. It had hit me earlier that day that the number of doors I would even encounter in my life is infinitesimal compared to the total number of doors, and the ones I would open of that tiny subset were orders of magnitude smaller still.

I suppose I could have responded to this by making some strange life rule where I always try the handle on every door, but I think I grew a lot more by deciding it doesn't matter, that opening all the doors, or even maximizing my chances to open doors, would be a waste of my life. So I guess they doubled as metaphorical doors after all.

I don't know how measurable it would be, but I would rather measure my personal growth by the peace I've managed to find with the realities I can't change and the choices I've made. For instance, I'm not infinite. I'm going to die. There will be things I dislike about the world that won't change during my lifetime. Stuff like that. That seems like a better measure to me of how much I'm growing.
> too much ludic humor tried to get by on transgression rather than wit

I suppose the contemporaneous comparison there would be Leisure Suit Larry? [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry
Maybe we just need a search engine more dedicated to surfacing the hobbyists over the spammers.
> I've heard about MPTCP back in 2013.

> I assumed it's going to get adopted in no time due to how much of a ux improvement it would have been back in the day.

You might also be interested in SCTP[1] from the year 2000, which also hasn't gotten any traction so far.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Pr...
I'm not an expert in these systems, and their announcement materials don't make a bunch of stuff clear, but my attempt at summarizing for a layperson would be:

- Current computers represent values as patterns of binary values. Analog computers sometimes represent values as e.g. voltages within a range. SNNs represent values with the timing of "spike" events. You could think of this like if you and your friends arranged a scheme to communicate using only the original Yo app, just by varying timing and frequency.

- Current computers move values back and forth between memory and the CPU, and has very little room to hold data "close" to the CPU. Suppose your e-reader can only have one doc page open at a time; if you need to figure something out by closely comparing values between several docs, you might spend more time opening/closing/finding/paging through docs than actually reading them or thinking. These systems put (some) memory to be held by the same physical components which are doing the computations, so they aren't moving stuff back and forth in the same way.

- However, current computers are quiet general in what they can do. In exchange for speed an efficiency, these systems are not general purpose. For example, b/c they have 1.15B "neurons" and 128B "synapses", any value can only (directly) influence on average 112 other values. You could think of this a bit like if Excel only let your formula reference a capped number of cells.

- But for research problems which fit these constraints, this system can be extremely fast and use less power than a normal computer would.
I thought the article was arguing that say Redis was while “open” the codebase is owned by one company and hence that’s no different to proprietary.

To which I say, yeah we know.

I mean I can fork Linux kernel tonight and announce my big new plans, and there will be zero installs. Big FOSS software is there because they built a reputation of constant quality over years (as successful proprietary companies should and sometimes do)

That social capital is immensely hard to compete against (the Hashicorp forking might manage?)

And that is what “the big players” are trying to exploit - that for a decade they have led / organised / helped / whatever the development of this software and now they want to monetise

It’s also why I think the “foundation” model works surprisingly well - we can trust that to keep software going so it’s a better ask for cash (even if the support model is the “best” imo)
DOJ, FTC Introduce Website for Reporting Anti-Competitive Healthcare Practices
Should We Wait to Brush Our Teeth?
Thank you for sharing this. I upvoted the OP so your comment would get more views!
People act like you can just build housing everywhere and in abundance.

There's so much infrastructure around it that you need to build, like sewer and power capacity.
What do you think will replace it? Go is pulling back to procedural. I haven’t seen functional really take off. I don’t know Rust’s paradigm.
And then all this talk about "NSW"
Can you tile a 25 x 25 square with a mixture of 2 x 2 squares and 3 x 3 squares?
Um.. being aligned with career security is nothing new, if anything it's gotten much worse.

Since most content creators dont' work on improving to the level they need to a handout would probably disable and undermine them more than not.

Maybe a partial grant or stipend to support them in their off hours after whatever their existing work is could be something to look at. Still, it likely needs to be something

There are so many areas other than social media to earn an income with content online.
how about 7hour shifts and enough pay to sustain a family with that?
https://healthycompetition.gov/

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/...
The concept and feel of Loom were wonderful. I wish it had been longer, but probably my personal favorite of the group.
Sad news. I loved "Minds I". After that he was always quantum
entangled with Douglas Hofstadter for me. RIP a cool and fun
philosopher, Mr. Dennett.
The post starts from "funny" statement. "It has never been simpler" and then two examples follow -- one for grid, and one for flex. Both are broken. Yes, I know, they should work and they probably were intended to work by design, however CSS design levels are so low, that centering via simply commanding "center" is not reliable. Hand up if you know when it fails (in 100% legit scenario) and how to "fix" it :-).
ISIS propaganda isn't a crime, and anyone can be smeared as an ISIS propagandist for questioning any military decision or explanation (it's almost exclusively how Anglo-American politics is done these days.) Using unwritten and unconstitutional speech crimes as the benchmark for criminality is scary. Call me when some military contractor is helping jihadists find targets in Syria.
I don't think eugenics by means of killing people was ever widely considered moral or even a gray area.

What happened a lot at the beginning of WWII was that people didn't know what was happening at the concentration camps. And yes, there were some twisted moral templates at the time based on racism and dehumanization.
This already happens, somewhat in richer circles.

Frank Zappa has a quote about this very thing actually.
No, you can't void your warranty that way. That was hyperbole.
That is so great to hear! :)

I am working on new bookshelf pages to expand that section. I want to add a more visual format and break it apart a bit more.

Check out the early mockup here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mrvkev7pft5luvj10eqfc/Screens...
I struggle to think of any time when consistency would not make you better at shipping something useful

A codebase with consistent styles and patterns is easier to work on than a chaotic codebase, it would definitely make you better at shipping

And so on
As a non-addicted, casual gambler (I recreationally play 1-2 no limit poker at casinos once in a blue moon), I'd hate to see casinos simply disappear, but yea they tend to be kind of sad places full of the people who can least afford to lose the money in their pocket. Don't know what the solution is. If you outlaw it, you're getting rid of a benign source of casual fun for folks like me who can keep it under control, and are not really addressing the underlying addiction of the victims--they'll just move on to underground casinos and/or more extreme gambling.
I think sending the money lost on funds to charities makes more sense as sharing the money on the pot among the ones who succeed could result in bad actors trying to exploit the system by always checking their goals as completed.

By sending lost money to charities you eliminate the positive reward factor of the game (which is the main incentive for exploiters).
Think Twice, Code Once
> gouache

faux-leftist minds shirking from garish tones

a typewriter trying to clack away ennui's purposelessness
The photino birds want the universe to be populated with white dwarfs, because they can feed off their gravity wells without the risk of deadly supernovas and black holes, which can kill them.

After the xelee and humans leave, the universe becomes a cold place dominated by photino birds living in the cold pinpricks of white dwarfs. Eventually matter evaporates into photons, and the photino birds die.

However, it turns out photino birds can always just time travel to a time when the universe still had matter. So they're more or less indifferent to the eventual heat death .

See:
https://xeelee.fandom.com/wiki/Photino_Birds

I hypothesize that there is may be only one photino bird. When it appears to die, it is just traveling to another time. When we see multiple photino birds, we're just looking at different segments of the same bird's world line. These are my own speculations, inspired by Wheeler's idea that the universe has only one electron, which travels back in time as a positron, and interacts with itself so many times that it creates the observable universe of matter:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
My understanding is that as a general rule:

( Q / 8 ) * B = GB RAM, where Q is the Quant level and B is the model size.

So a Q4 7B model is ( 4 / 8 ) * 7 = 3.5GB RAM (or VRAM).

A non-Q model is 16, so 2 * B.

I believe this is before context, which adds a bit.
Because Brad Cox liked Smalltalk.
Interesting thing I've heard about humans, very bad at noticing conjunctions such as "but".

Wonder if it's true?
That's not true either. Look at something like Carlie XCX - Pop 2, the autotune is doing interesting things. I'm sure it's not just the technology of it, but also the technique.

Also moving back to one of the most well known autotune users T-Pain is a great singer without the technology. It's obvious there's more to it then just auto-aim function.

Some people use it that way, but it doesn't mean the technology is fundamentally limited to that scope.
> How will we vote for national candidates if nobody knows what they think or say?

i’m going to burst your bubble here, but most voters have no idea about policies or candidates. most voters vote based on inertia or minimal cues, not on policies or candidates.

i suggest you look up “The American Voter”, “The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know?” and “American National Election Studies”.
The right equivalent would be a christian proselytizing to his colleagues. He’d end up with HR complaints quite quickly.
I've recently looked at tasktiger https://github.com/closeio/tasktiger. It's a simple queue system that helped me understand how workers and schedulers work.
The examples given on the page seem to focus on multipath to get to a device over the internet, but I can see this being more likely to work properly without needing to fallback on home networks.
It's great in a different way. Old ways are always dying and new ways are always emerging.

Change just has to be good for the many, and not the few.
Yeah, and it was terminated. Much harder to put this genie back in the bottle.
I can't top the sibling comment about a summer breeze! But it is an interesting question.

Not only does the photon not experience any delay between its two end points, but it experiences its path between them as a simple shortest-distance straight line segment, even if the same path looks like a curve through gravitationally warped space-time to us.

The photon does experience a form of distance, i.e. the number of wave lengths between its ends. But just the number of cycles, not the actual wave lengths which we would see varying as we experienced dark energy and space stretching the photon's wavelength from our viewpoint.

So a photon "experiences" two spacially separated ends, and a number of wave cycles between them, and that's it? Perhaps.
> equating IBM selling to Nazis with Google (or whoever) selling to Israel could be considered antisemitic

What crazy definition of antisemitism are you holding? Does it equate a religion with genocides? Because that's the equivalence this phrase pushes.
Orion with uBO works well, if you can get over Orion's general bugginess.
Show HN: A storybook designed to teach kids about how computers work
I’ve been working on a unique storybook designed to teach kids about how computers work, and I would love to get your feedback.

Set 500 years in the future, the story follows two kids – one a robot, the other a human – as they explore the workings of what to them is ancient technology: our present-day computers. I’ve aimed to keep each story short and engaging, sprinkling in humor and illustrations to captivate young readers.

As an open-source project, you’re also welcome to check out the source here: https://github.com/yong/lostlanguageofthemachines
This is one of the things I really really liked in the original two MIs. The characters ...and especially the relation between tough Elaine and Guybrush ("you're so helpless and cute").
I think they did not get this "right" in the newest part and it's my main problem with it.
They just see a lot of ads.
I mean, you're not stating anything interesting...

For example lets take how we treat children.

"Act good or Santa won't bring you gifts". Which really means "Please don't act like a turd burglar and I'll buy you some nice things one day a year".

Instead of going straight to the second point, humans love putting hocus pocus of a magical being dropping gifts in the house to their children. Correct, many religious traditions like "hey don't eat pork" make sense if you have no means of cooking meat to temperature. But they have little purpose once you have a basic understanding of the reasoning behind why you got sick. The same goes for anything that is stuck in the stone ages of a sky daddy versus moving to the more complex domain of philosophy.

If humans were optimized to seek truth, we'd have had the scientific revolution soon after we became intelligent. Instead it took 10,000 years or so before that happened.
You know w think philosophy is a disease to be cured … identify himself as philosopher is most shameful word you can say to him. He is anti-philosophy all his life.

Even his early work is about let us do this and done all philosophy so we as the whole humanity no need to do this rubbish anymore, be silence now as all done and for what cannot be said … he go to teach kids (and quite horrible as a teacher btw).

W as a P … crazy
Drugs that aren't antibiotics can also kill bacteria. A new method pinpoints how
Interesting. Can you give any examples - short of physically hurting people - of tasks you'd refuse to do on ethical grounds?