skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of my favorite sci-fi concepts.

There's only so far your high tech nano-particle swarm can spread before resources become a serious limiting factor. If you're limiting yourself just to earth, certain resources that a swarm might need to reproduce will be scarce/energy intensive to extract and utilize (mining rare earths, fabricating highly advanced semiconductors, etc.). It's extraordinarily easy, however, to produce billions of cells nearly anywhere on earth because the cells that we have are especially adapted for ease of reproduction in these exact conditions.
Regular people being familiar with it has an effect, but most people don't actually influence the relevant regulations. Personally, I generally avoid driving whenever possible but I live in a city in Switerland it very easy for me. And of course driving here is safer.

The plane manufactures are a small group of companies and a slightly larger group of airlines, but even there, its basically a small group of major airlines. Most safety related things can be regulated federally and regular has the ability to learn from incidents, and then cycle that knowlage into regulation. Each incident is big enough that it contains some learning.

With road safety non of that exists. You have countless 'small' accidents, and non directly influence regulations. You then have an agency looking at car safety, but they don't look at safety holistically, they car about the people in the car during an accidents, and not much beyond. There is in theory somebody responsible for designing safe infrastructure, but infrastructure standards evolve very slowly and not primarily because of safety. And lets be real, many of those standards haven't been updated since the 60s. There is basically no feedback cycle that connects road safety and road infrastructure. Then there are other people who are responsible for rules about drinking, seat belts and so on.

There are plenty of roads where multiple people died in virtually the same place. But there simply is no feedback mechanism.

Luckily 'some' forward thinking regulators in Europe have adopted a more areospace like system. Each accidents has learning, each on creates a number of short term recommendations, and longer term recommendations. The short terms ones are actually done. And the long term recommendation are planned for the next overhaul. Other similar places are identified and potentially also upgraded. And then you also take the learning's from those accidents that directly influences the next edition of the infrastructure standard that are regularly updated.
> I especially don't believe in kluges to the effect of 'superuser doesn't have all permissions anymore'

This comes from a postgres developer?

Postgres is the only software I know that has a hardcode that forbids running as root:

"root" execution of the PostgreSQL server is not permitted.
The server must be started under an unprivileged user ID to prevent possible system security compromise.

There is no option to disable that.
I think that's bad.

You: "But I want to run postgres isolated in a single user VM or container or unshare where only root exists, which has much stronger security guarantees that UNIX user separation!"

Postgres: "Forget about it, those things don't exist, this is the 70s."

I hope somebody patches that out.
I just wish they made a smaller iPhone. Even the last mini is too big.
It is, however, what Google tried.

https://medium.com/illumination/google-once-fired-all-manage...
It's not easy
I never understood Twitter's business logic of nuking Vine or how Periscope was so poorly leveraged. It's like they footgunned themselves with a machine gun and kept going to remove all of their toes.
> Lots of graft and favoritism will go in on that.

That's so much better than just not having support that works!

My friend had his Comcast line damaged. It required him 2 _months_ to get that fixed, and he was not able to work from home during that time.

Of course, you can always switch ISPs, right? Oh, yep. No, most of the US has only one _wired_ ISP.
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If that's the concern just launch the budget phone line under a different name. Instead of iPhone it is ecoPhone or something.

I don't see a reason why apple would dip into lower range phones since they would cannibalize the iPhone.
This piece of "advice" is how you destroy brand prestige while generating minimal revenue due to decreased margins due to having to manage an entirely new SKU.

For people in developing markets, a smartphone is their primary computing device - the same way a HN reader will pay a premium from a dev MacBook or Dell equivalent, most consumers abroad will do the same for a smartphone. The issue is Apple products can face massive (25-100% on top of base price) tariffs depending on the market.

Apple's iPhone is competing with Samsung Galaxy and OnePlus Ace. Apple has a stronger brand reputation, but it's not worth an additional 25-100% tax hit - you may as well buy a round trip ticket to the US to buy it here (and this is in fact what a lot of foreign customers do).

Apple's current move to offshore outside China will help revive growth, as Apple products face import tariffs in markets like India, Vietnam, Indonesia, South Korea, Brazil, etc due to a lack of local production - this is why Samsung has been building local production in all those countries since the early 2010s in order to minimize tariffs

Base model iPhone 15 sales have already taken off in India now that it is being manufactured in India (and thus is exempt from import tariffs), and the same thing happened in the mid-2010s when Samsung began assembling and manufacturing the premium Galaxy SKUs in India and Vietnam, as well as OnePlus+Huawei in India in the mid-2010s before the Galwan crisis lead to an India-China trade war (most Apple and Samsung assemblers and component vendors in India initially started off as assemblers for Chinese cellphone brands, as India was their primary greenfield market). Similar moves are happening in ASEAN and Latam as well.
> stopping BYD from opening a factory in Hungary

Opening a factory is a different matter. If the factory contains significant capital (ie isn’t just glorified assembly) then much of the manufacturing capacity is domestic as is the labor which is a method of avoiding tariffs that host countries tend to favor. The calculus is different at that point and could only affect the imported parts or raw materials if applicable. In a pinch such manufacturing can be nationalized and repurposed.
The people that killed my fam used this to maintain the illusion they were alive for like 4 years and extract informaton etc. On one hand it was nice to see them but on the other a very odd feeling talking to them knowing they were dead (will for sure get down voted but idk trippy interesting skynet moment the usual crowd on HN will never experience)
Managers are just the symptom. Growth is the disease. There is no good solution to managers except being small enough to not need them at all. The idea that companies need to grow to survive is a myth. Staying small avoids so many problems.
I agree with this as well, it's something that drives me to use smaller stores more even if they cost more.

It's just not civilised.
I spent ages looking for something like this for Mac before giving up and writing a script that takes screenshots every 10 seconds and another script to compile that up into video using ffmpeg!

I'd love to contribute but I know nothing about Swift, mine was all in bash scripts with launchd to run them.
I can’t imagine many people less interested in $, that could make boatloads of it, than Moxie. Dude would rather weld, help society cryptographically, and enjoy life with friends than be the billionaire founder he obviously could be.
Economic cycles.
> you can be an atheist like myself and still recognize that we see things in the way a camera doesn't, that there's a difference between unconscious detection and conscious experience

Sure--but what kind of difference is it? Is it a binary, yes/no, all or nothing difference? Or is it a difference of degree? Is it a magical little light that goes on inside some entities but not others? Or is it a physical process that can occur in varying degrees?

Denett believed it was the latter--on the basis of spending decades looking at actual research in cognitive science. Searle and Chalmers, among others, believe it's the former--on the basis of nothing except their bare assertion.

> we don't know what it is.

I understand why people like Searle and Chalmers take this position--because they simply haven't bothered to look at all the research that has been done to investigate what consciousness is and how it works, by looking at the underlying neural mechanisms. It's easy to believe we know nothing about a topic when you haven't actually looked at what we know. Dennett spent his career looking at such research and building his views on it, so he understood that, while we don't know everything about what consciousness is, we do know a lot of things about it.

> As Searle says, "it's a biological phenomenon"

Which, according to Searle, is some kind of magical "causal powers" that human brains have. Which he can't describe at all, can't say anything about, except that bare assertion. Which, as above, ignores all the things we do know about how brains work and how they do various things.

> as Chalmers says, "To deny that we have an experience is to ignore the datum of consciousness".

And in saying that he misrepresented Dennett's position, because Dennett never denied that we have experiences. He just didn't think they are magic. Searle's and Chalmers's positions, when you boil them down to their essence, are basically that consciousness is magic (but they use words like "causal powers" and "datum" to obfuscate what they are actually saying).

> not sure why you argue that so passionately

Because, as I've said multiple times now, you are misrepresenting Dennett's actual position. And the people you reference, Searle and Chalmers, did the same thing. And since Dennett is no longer around to defend himself against such misrepresentation, those of us who agree with him about these points need to do it.
Why would having consciousness take a creature off the menu?

We don't eat humans, because we are humans. Everything else is fair game.

If super intelligent aliens smarter than humans came here it would be OK to eat them.
If I think through this;

1. Price varies based on desirability of a location.

2. Desirability varies based on many factors, including proximity to a city center or major business concerns, cost of living, crime rate, etc.

3. To optimize desirability until there is more desirable space than those who desire it would require optimizing the variables that contribute to desirability.

4. The potential result is desirable, ie proximity to jobs or cultural center, low crime, low cost of living, etc. A number of variables contribute to each of these, and those would require optimization as well.

4a. There will be a point of diminishing returns, where builders will exit a market when there are not enough buyers at high enough prices to make a profit. As soon as there is a hint of profit, the vultures will appear.

5. In order to prevent real estate speculation, we could impose a few laws: first, make lending at a profit illegal for all non productive enterprises; second, levy a land value tax that hurts enough that it makes owning non productive commercial property untenable to own; third, allow only individuals to own residential real estate, ie, eliminate the rental market entirely and levy use taxes for vacant homes (your real estate must be your home of record and must be your residence for some minimum percentage of time every year).

This would destroy the real estate market entirely, and I don't think that would be a bad thing.
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/tree/master/examples/...
"there are those in teaching who find it that they dislike it but still trudge along because nice benefits (not talking about US), much to the detriment of their students."

This definitely happens in the US too. There have been documentaries made which include things like teachers just reading the news or a book whole letting the class do whatever it wants. Then the lawsuits and fight over tenure when the administration tried to fire them. Maybe the pay and benefits aren't great in many areas, but they're better than nothing, especially considering if you can do other things during work hours.
Negative rates are paid by power plants that cannot reduce production.
A flat map with the least error possible: The Gott-Goldberg-Vanderbei projection
Your version is a little low on the drinking calories in my opinion. I was skinny as a rail until my wife and I got together when I was 23 and started going to reverse happy hour at TGIFridays, Applebees, etc pretty much every night. Add drinking roughly another six pack most nights after the reverse happy hour along with smoking weed + more munchies and I never had a chance no matter how much exercise I did. I probably put on around 30-40 lbs in my first year of that lifestyle.
Absolutely agree. Utility company lobbyists in California recently ruined net metering (with something called NEM 3.0 that cuts solar benefits down by 75%), and wrecked the solar industry in California in the process. Nothing has been done to resolve it yet. The corrupt officials in this case were members of the California Public Utilities Commission, who are appointed by the governor. They put the interests of some greedy utility companies (who, on a different note, have caused many forest fires) above the interests of the people of California, the environment movement and its impetus for green energy, etc. It's a sad and horrible state of affairs.
Who new science could be so humorous: "Imagine if kidneys were actually little animals running around, and humans had to manually filter their blood through a dialysis machine. Then one day some guy somehow gets one of these kidney critters stuck... Internally (who are we to judge how?)"
Outsiders have the disadvantage of needing a visa but the advantage of a $2k excess (the cost of the return flight) for unlimited chronic condition management. Obviously ER is different as you can’t go home quickly.

Once you return home you might get to keep the job while in the hone country and rake it in.
Great, now how do I do that from my iPhone?
Apple doesn't need to grow, what is wrong with people thinking things should grow indefinitely?
It seems to me like removing a non negligible amount of biomass from the ocean would be infeasible, so it's difficult for me to see the impact this could possibly have.
A bit later. Iirc they were first semi viable around/before the pentium M, at least as far as when I remember seeing one in a store...
> 'Close call' without 'accident' still means there wasn't an accident.

It's a giant red flag in any serious OSHA system in resource mining, energy extraction, military logistics, etc.

In order to reduce fatal accidents close attention is paid to the full incident pyramid, minor accidents and near misses.

Fiftty years of practice about the globe strongly makes the case that a reduction in near misses and non fatal incidents has a real flow on to reducing fatal accidents.

> the one in place is incredibly safe with many years of statistics to prove it.

Achieved via exactly the kind of OSHA attention to small details and near misses system just outlined.

The safety officers at New York and elsewhere will be failing at their job if they are not putting some the hours in to looking at this incident and how to mitigate future occurrences .. especially when visibility is lower than on this day.
>I wish my high school biology teacher had asked the class how an embryo could possibly differentiate—and then paused to let us really think about it.

The most fascinating question is "Why" and that cannot be answered or debated in the school setting.
2-3 hours how often?
> This is what rest of the world looks like USA people!

This statement really depends on whatever part of the USA you're in and what kind of work you do.

> No $200k TC interns out here.

I haven't seen that yet, but I think an SF-based intern (if they were paid for the whole year) would make roughly $120k. There are plenty of people living in the Bay who haven't lived there 10 years who comparatively take home very little.

All that to say, I don't think we need to dice up and turn the developer market against itself. We've all been affected by wage stagnation, the rising cost of metros, and the threat that we must live in them or else. Labor movements are good for all laborers, etc etc etc
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Edit: stagflation is the wrong word I think as that means high unemployment. I wouldn’t say that is the case, just suppressed wages.
I LOVE this company. We need more of them. Innovative, Solving world problems. Aware of their impact.

I am always encouraging people to donate. These are the kinds of projects that might save us.

I wish YC, and it's kin, would fund companies like this.
ditto. My coworkers will sit down at the whiteboard and start making ERDs, and I'll just start writing a DB migration and sketching up the models. They think I'm crazy, because I have to do rollbacks and recreate my table a few times as I think of more things, and I wind up deleting some code that I already wrote and technically worked. Who cares? Time-wise, it comes out the same in the end, and I find and solve more hidden surprises by experimenting than they do by planning what they're going to do once they're finally ready to type.

I think it's just two ways of doing the same thing.
He probably meant cable conduits. Basically, just empty pipes.
I feel this comment's characterizations of both the US and Europe are both basically wrong (or at least, they would require significant qualifications to be reasonable).

I grew up in a suburb of a relatively dense Western European city with ~250k people. The city has buses, but everyone I know gets to work by car. Horrible traffic - 15 mile highway commutes take 45 minutes in the morning. When I was growing up I went to school by car. Nowadays when my father needs groceries he drives for 5 minutes (rather than walk for 15).

Since moving to the US I haven't driven at all - though I live in New York, so it's obviously a special case. For healthcare, "a random hospital visit might leave us with a 10k$ bill" doesn't exist for tech workers - as anyone who's actually worked in tech in the US would know. It's true that the US healthcare has severe access problems for a large portion of the population. But those problems are non-existent for tech workers with employer insurance and bounded out-of-pocket costs.
This honestly made me chuckle even more, thanks for that.
Another issue I've personally faced is debugging - although I am saying this from my experience from more than a yr ago, and maybe things are better now. I have used it mostly for optimization and the error messages aren't helpful.
> There is never time, only opportunity

Brilliant. I agree with everything you said. Present me has no idea what future me needs. Let future me decide. Keep things simple and flexible as long as possible.
I had a friend who left teaching because of this sort of thing. They had a terrible experience as a student teacher and decided to work a job that paid less money.

The policies didn't just crush the teachers. Many of the students didn't care at all. There were behavioral problems, of course. One major issue he saw was that the school just pushed kids through the grades. There was a policy of an automatic minimum grade of 50% if the kid just put their name on the test... and they still at least one kid who would refuse to put their name on the paper!

Another friend of mine also went into teaching, but they refuse to work for public schools because of the bureaucracy, even though that sometimes means taking a paycut.
> Dennett: "The latter exists and the former doesn't"

Which tells you nothing about the actual question at issue--whether or not Dennett was denying that we have conscious experiences--unless you know what "phenomenal qualities" meant to Dennett. You are assuming, based on nothing, that it must have meant "conscious experiences". But anyone who has read Dennett in context, or even viewed that statement in the video in context (where, as I have already said, Dennett called himself a "functionalist" about mental states and properties), knows that "phenomenal qualities" to Dennett did not mean "conscious experiences". It meant "magical properties that some people claim are necessary in order to have conscious experience, but which actual cognitive science research has shown are not". So when Dennett said that "phenomenal qualities" don't exist, he was only saying that those magical properties don't exist; he wasn't saying that conscious experiences don't exist.
Skip Google, and most other online Web search.

Seek instead published books, journal, and magazine articles. Bibliographies, in published books, articles, and Wikipedia entries are highly useful. Course syllabi are increasingly difficult to find (they're being scooped up in walled gardens) but are gold.

Academic and research organisations can prove quite useful, excepting their publicity / press contacts. (There's a circle of Hell reserved for academic press offices.)

Despite some phenomenally effective footgunning, OPLC's Worldcat retains some scant utility.

Internet Archive's Open Library (<https://openlibrary.org/>) is an increasingly comprehensive replacement, with the added advantage of direct access to surfaced references.

Google Scholar is useful for scholarly journal search. See also Microsoft Academic, PubMed, and Semantic Scholar.

Library Genesis (including its various specific indices) is absolutely indespensible, though search is limited if you don't have a specific reference in mind.

There are relatively few domains in which information updates at sufficient speed that online references are the most useful source.
> or you can use a setcc with a results flag from something you already computed

Funny enough, on large CPUs this can be slower than recomputing something, because they don't like long dependency chains and sometimes even have penalties for reading a register that hasn't been written for hundreds of instructions.
It’s going to have to be pretty good to beat my i41CX+ app.
Well...

Occult chemistry : a series of clairvoyant observations on the chemical elements
I think they would have to create a separate brand name to make this successful, a la Toyota and Lexus. I can't think of a single product brand that serves both the low end and high end of their customer base successfully. Can you imagine Louis Vuitton using their brand to sell $50 bags? Or McDonalds using theirs to open a fine dining restaurant? Brand and a sense of exclusivity matters a lot as long as your business targets high end products.
It’s plausible in the minds of the taxi drivers, and that’s all that matters for getting reelected in the fall.
Perhaps not a blues but folk legend Merle Travis :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen_Tons
Did you swap caps lock and ctrl?
You don't need to. Google deliver it optimized via SGE.

https://blog.google/products/search/generative-ai-search/
Lossless Acceleration of Long Sequence Generation
UK has a national grid serving 67m people! That should be how it is done. I think they might own the last mile.

I think Australia might be the same or at least per state. They do own the last mile, AusGrid comes and repairs power poles and has a map of outages online.

Lebanon is the other extreme where you just need your own generator because the infra is localized and unreliable.
I’m not saying a CEO group is a replacement for venture capital. You can join a group of CEOs whose companies are all venture backed. As for ensuring parasites don’t join your group… that can’t be guaranteed.
The problem isn’t admin. The problem is the IT team’s inability to provide self service. Getting admin isn’t the real problem