skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People do this thing with computers, intelligence, consciousness... where they attribute it to things that clearly don't have those qualities.

If the universe is a computer, I need a new word to describe the tool I'm using - what I normally call "a computer". OTOH, if you call a smartphone a computer, I might have to make some slight modifications to my internal definition, but I can accept that it's technically a computer too - but "the universe"? What are we talking about at this point...

Panpsychism puts forth that "consciousness" is in everything. But that abandons what I mean when I say I'm conscious. Maybe a rock is "conscious", but what I mean by consciousness are things like Donald Hoffman's aroma of coffee, the sound of a drop of water, the feeling of being late to a meeting - those kinds of sensations that wouldn't (couldn't) manifest in a rock.

LLM chatbot companies are calling it "AI" - abandoning the meaning of what we usually mean by intelligence, which is information awareness, not merely its recitation.

Useful conversations nonetheless, but I think different buzzwords could be chosen or even invented to link celestial processes to computational ones - unless there's some agenda, like setting out to prove Simulation Theory or something (which has other problems).
They also prescribe steroids to boost your immune system when you have nasty infections, so it's not cut and dried that "steroids = all downside and stupidity."

Unless you want to insist modern medicine has deep flaws and needs a major overhaul. Good luck getting taken seriously with such opinions.
How do I then get the passkey for my second device accepted by the service? Do I mail the public part to myself and insert it from my first device?
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It's a different form of rationality, one that is self-referential. They understand the Internet as a medium for discourse, where the audience is extremely large but the number of other memes competing for attention is also very large. They also understand that the more outrageous and anger-provoking a statement is, the more likely it is to go viral. Therefore, the way to ensure that your statements actually have an impact is to hype them up to the most provocative, outrageous form that you can, see who bites, piss people off, and get them talking.

We're discussing this article, after all, right? We know who Balaji is. While look at how many very rational "Show HN" posts here fail to get traction or reach the front page.

Oftentimes, there's a kernel of a true idea behind the hype, but it's been taken to the most extreme form possible simply because the most extreme form is the only one that goes viral.
I agree HumanEval isn't great, but I've found that it is better than not having anything. Maybe we'll get better benchmarks someday.

What would make "Double" higher performance than any other hosted system?
> I've grown to hate several advertisers simply because Youtube puts them in front of me so often.

familiar feeling from the days of watching linear tv.

but it's like the rest of politics; knowledge of that brand is burnt into your brain, it has a presence in your thinking and it doesn't really matter if your memory is mostly bad.
This link technically ”generates” an e-mail, but does not send it.
Ironic since Balaji is name of a god in India
Giving up Amazon Prime (which i used for shipping more than watching The Boys) has been surprisingly painless. Ebay seems pretty good for free P&P and finding obscure things. On this occassion, it genuinely wasn't that inconvenient to vote with my wallet.
MoDE: CLIP Data Experts via Clustering
Ask HN: Are any embedded BI tools good?
I've spoken to a bunch of people who use BI tools to embed analytics into their apps with an iframe. Nobody seems to like what they get despite some big players (PowerBI from Microsoft, Looker from Google, Tableau from Salesforce, Metabase etc. etc.) -- (Full disclosure: our team working on a solution to this)
Yeah, it was part of the short term incentives to get people to roll out solar.

Now they pay wholesale prices when buying it back (often zero or even negative during peak insolation) and charge retail when selling it - any by retail I mean ‘crazy high usage based numbers which make no sense’.

I know a bunch of folks which installed solar themselves to cover their AC costs because the utility still charges crazy high rates during peak insolation - even while they are having to load shed - and their electric bill dropped to almost nothing afterwards. They didn’t even need batteries.
Tattoo studios have better hygiene.
Phoenix is _amazing_. I used it for a good while until I realised I didn't need all the features, but it is still prominent in my https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/window_managers page.
what do you think a hoodie with a corporate logo is?
That's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
HN has gotten meaner lately.
Are you using an actual USB-C to DisplayPort adapter or a software-enabled adapter? If you're driving more than one monitor, it might be the software-enabled type, which is NOT actually multiple monitors over DisplayPort but some other weirdness.
[dupe]

More: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40134734
“Bullshit” is the _perfect_ term. Philosopher Harry Frankfurter wrote a book called On Bullshit where he defines the term as speech or writing intended to persuade without regard for the truth. This is _exactly_ what LLMs do. They produce text that tries to reproduce the average properties of texts in their training data and the user experiences the encoded in their RLHF training. None of that has anything to do with the truth. At best you could say they are engineered to try to give the users what they want (eg. what the engineers building these systems think we want), which is, again, a common motive of bullshitters.
Nut milks in stores almost always have additives, mainly preservatives, which are questionable in terms of healthiness. Now store sold oat milks in particular are very unhealthy, if I remember right it was oatly that has 30% by calorie percentage of canola oil. Cannot get worse that this but so many vegan products do this exact same thing where they stuff whatever processed meat substitute product they sell with canola oil and other ridiculously unhealthy and gross ingredients.
> making donation to ukraine if you're russian

Crypto, much less crypto from Russians, hasn't been a meaningful contribution vector for Ukraine. Even when we look at the crypto donated, most (EDIT: half) of it was dollar denominated [1].

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/07/27/ukrai...
Dethrowning Jira is an honorable goal, but all the animation on the landing page is really distracting.

The scrolling use-cases in the hero section causes the with of the page to slightly change, causing other full-width elements to reflow, and
the images cycling below fly by so fast that I couldnt really get anything out of them.
This is true. As stated elsewhere, sending START conditions to random I2C devices may confuse certain parts. It may also interrupt a driver that's already talking to a part on the bus. But in my lifetime working with I2C, I've never seen a part just go haywire because you scanned it this way.
Wake me up when they start showing ads to premium users.

If you are not paying for a product, you are the product.
UK: They were pissed off that the queue was too long, decided to go out on the piss instead so pissed off to the pub to get pissed.
If you go to MIT's living wage calculator, they do the math for you. For a family of four living in SF, they estimate ~$15,400/year in food costs (a bit higher than what I said, but still way less than $24K. Same for housing - they put the costs at ~$35K / year.

The big difference is family of 4 with 2 working (childcare costs) versus only one working - in the former case, living wage (read: middle class wage) for a family of four is ~$164K in SF, and in the latter it is only $113K (as I mentioned in my previous comment).

https://livingwage.mit.edu/metros/41860
Alternate title "Base RAM Doesn't Go Up When It Meets Base Operation RAM Requirements".
Garbage In, Garbage Out. It really is that simple.
And `talk`, the best chat client created ever.
But full disclosure places the general public at greater risk than responsible disclosure.
Thank you, these are great keywords to google.
I second this. You can get on HF with very little space. If you have 16ft of space, you can easily put up a temporary 10 meter dipole.

I have an HOA, so every time want to get on HF at home I put up the 10m dipole. I stick three 7ft wooden stakes in the ground, tie the dipole to them with paracord, and talk to people all over the world.

That dipole is just 2 pieces of 8 foot wire soldered to a SO-329 connector. It probably cost me $10 at most.

You can get a low powered portable HF digital rig for less than $100. With less than 20W and a homebrewed antenna you could be making contacts all over the world.

If you need more power, you can get a mobile 100W HF rig <https://www.dxengineering.com/search/part-type/mobile-transc...> for a little more than an XBOX. A 100W HF base station for the cost of a mid-range laptop <https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-015268> <https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=71-002065>

Admittedly, I'm currently making contacts all over the world right now on Hacker News. As children of the Internet, radio, at first, seems like a silly, antique hobby when the Internet has connected us together. Maybe it is just me, but there's something really fun and geeky about radio. I've been a maker for decades and I've grown a bit bored of making LED blink. HAM radio has given me a practical reason to get the solder iron out again. I really love building the crappiest equipment out of scraps and see if it'll work.

Parks on the Air is another really fun aspect of the hobby. Almost every weekend since I got my license, I go out to a nearby state or national park. I pack up my FT-991a base station in a cheap harbor freight hard case. I bring a battery, some coax, an EFHW antenna I built. I throw in antenna in a tree and sit in the park and play radio. I find it quite relaxing to get outside and see who I can talk to.

KB9VBR has a nice video what a POTA activation is like. If you're an outdoorsy type or want to be one, POTA is a fun excuse to get outside.

https://youtu.be/LL6R4U9ualI?si=KH4ZRssscpd7ooyb
Also if you are Russian living outside of Russia then good luck having a bank account, since European scumbags effectively consider any Russian as villain.
They're still updating it regularly, but it hasn't grown nearly as fast as they wanted it to. Last I heard they're working on doing nightlies and weeklies for release too. I don't really think that matters as much as just having a good release schedule and tools that leverage it.
/s is cringe redditor karma-streetwalker behavior. man up.
The thing missing here is that it's only a ship for humans. Ships are cultural artifacts. If we said the universe was a ship that was sailing itself, that would be misapplying something we make for nature itself. Independent of human culture, ships are just arrangements of matter. We make particular arrangements meaningful.

Same thing applies to computers and computation. It's only meaningful to use those words for matter we arrange to do certain stuff for us.
All good (was updated from "A Heavy Sad Heart" shortly after posting)
I didn't realize how annoying Youtube ads were until I upgraded to premium for download offline capabilities.

Now the ads seem much worse whenever I have a non-premium experience on the service.
Bill Gates, Man United and 20 other sites that ban linking to them
I agree, plus the added abrasion from passkeys being implemented inconsistently and seemingly in a way that promotes vendor lock-in. Do I need a different passkey for my iPhone and an android tablet? Do I need a different passkey between iOS devices? Why does this service allow me to use a passkey in Bitwarden, but that service doesn't? These are all questions I've never had to ask about a complex password in a password manager.
Greys is a reference to Slate Star Codex: https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/I-Can-Tolerate-Anythi...

Originally described in 2014 as: "typified by libertarian political beliefs, Dawkins- style atheism, vague annoyance that the question of gay rights even comes up, eating paleo, drinking Soylent, calling in rides on Uber, reading lots of blogs, calling American football “sportsball”, getting conspicuously upset about the War on Drugs and the NSA, and listening to filk – but for our current purposes this is a distraction and they can safely be considered part of the Blue Tribe most of the time"

But since then the tech world went off the deep end into anti-wokeness and the left has (rightfully imo) come to resent tech and tech companies so they've moved to be on the side of the "red tribe"
Strikes prove that workers can and do control owners.
If you're a photographer, the low tech way of doing this is just use a polarizing filter
Defcon Launch party was fun too!
Phi 3 in particular had some issues with the end-of-text token not being handled correctly at launch, as I recall, but I could be remembering incorrectly.
I've had a link to OnlyKey's user guide bookmarked for about a year[1]. They're an open hardware company that offers a key. Despite that I still can't be bothered to go through with it. The article we're talking about includes many of the reasons.

I feel bad for the author. They put a lot of their heart into something that could have been awesome.

[1] https://docs.onlykey.io/usersguide.html
I think most “Tech Bros” rarely live outside of a few neighborhoods as well - SOMA, Mission/Mission Bay, Marina (rarer) or Pac Heights for the executives.

Much of the city has issues and it spills into the other neighborhoods, but campaigning primarily on the plight of those specific neighborhoods (which, with exception to pac heights and Mission bay, are where much of the problems are most severe) isn’t going to get you elected to citywide offices.
I wrote an quick little app some 12 years ago. It remembers screen location for various windows. I added a sanity check for windows appearing completely off-screen. Apparently Windows uses negative coordinates for screens to the left of the main screen. So one limitation of the app is that it won't remember window positions when they are on the screen to the left. I should get around to fixing that eventually.
I didn't even know what a matrix was until I got to college, and I went to a supposedly well-ranked high school and was on the higher level math track. This was about 10 years ago. I think some of the education reform might've removed concepts altogether instead of actually improving the presentation? Though I suppose in order to present things well you might need to cut back on the total number of topics covered, I'm not sure I'd describe what I did learn as well-presented either.
Feed Hitler, Mao, Stalin etc. through this and see what it says.
You can't regulate stupidity and also I am against my stupidity being regulated. I might want to jump out of a perfectly good moving plane midflight to experience the thrill of what people then have to do to possibly survive, let me. Otherwise I will do it anyway without benefit of being able to research different legal providers of this thrill.

One could argue for "explain what risks are and which precautions we are and aren't taking" government regulation and in fact I had to sign a slip of paper saying that jumping out of plane might be dangerous. But do you really expect idiots to listen?

Two horny people might also have sex and pass HIV to each other. Unlike conservatives (marriage license) or liberals (MeToo consent form), libertarians like myself do not want to force them to sign a piece of paper first, though I think they should exercise due diligence. As a practical matter, I don't actually care if you have to sign a piece of paper before getting a vampire facial, it will not ruin the mood to the same degree. But how much difference would it actually make given all the numerous ways one can hurt themselves doing stupid things? If you try to regulate all of them, that would really be a totalitarian nightmare where government is constantly watching you and stopping you from living your life as you want.
It's also pretty bad if you have a personal computer and a work computer. It's mystifying that they sell $1000+ monitors with a single input. Like a terrible no name $100 POS these days will typically have two, if not 3 inputs.
I have been on MacOS(X) for work since 2014. I have had everything from 4GB to 24GB on my Macs (current M2 MacBook Pro is 16). I am a dev; but, I admittedly do most workloads 'in the cloud'.

I have never had a problem with the amount of RAM I've had. I don't know why this is such a big deal for MOST folks. Then again, I grew up in a different era where there just wasn't an expectation to have a shitton of RAM available and maybe I'm ok being conservative.
Actually, I much prefer to use the same SSH key for deployments from any of my machines, so that example doesn't really work for me (I do have multiple keys).
It might be coming soon... they've rolled out this terrible screen saver functionality to premium users (sans ads for now).
Classic. The whole "I'm late for the party on the second floor" scene is great as well.
HN unfortunately isn't very objective on this particular subject.
Consumers are not offshoring their chrome tabs to the cloud
I was of the impression that when talking about stupid things people do to themselves, it did not specifically need to be said that I am talking about anabolic steroid abuse without a prescription, for the purpose of performance enhancement.

No need to strawman my comment
It’s all about competence - it’s why a couple have of competent programmers can stand up and website/program/app for orders of magnitude less time and money than government or large corporate IT can. I’m sure the same is true in law enforcement / intelligence, more power/money is simply the crutch for the incompetent to be more productive
Private Internet Access: Independent Limited Assurance Report (2024) [pdf]
Which European countries are close to becoming communist? And what protection does it offer then if said communist countries use violence to collect private wealth?
I wonder what happens if you remove or disable the cellular module.
Avid YouTube viewer since the beginning of time, and am pretty plugged into the space.

Tons of improvement for Creators and advertisers. Smaller sets of UI changes for viewers which IMO have been positive overall. (The dislike counter removal was dumb, though.)

All of your complaints are about ads. I've been a Premium subscriber for years, and have trained the algorithm well to show me what I want. I've been pretty satisfied.
other lawsuit news from last month:

Florida Man Sues G.M. and LexisNexis Over Sale of His Cadillac Data

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/technology/gm-lexis-nexis...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39709991
The Open Commons of Phenomenology
Women get surgery to get bigger boobs, primarily as a looks thing.

Are we at the stage of inserting silicone in your junk so your jock strap looks better?

(Please note you can just pad your bra if you want to look busty fully clothed. And it leaves scars, so I'm skeptical of the value it has for looking good naked or in teeny, tiny bikinis.)
Hiding Images in Plain Sight: a magic window that projects a picture
I thought it was default since python 3.
I call it "Engineer Brain" after watching a talented relative descend into madness trying learn virology during the pandemic. It was further crystalized after the Titan submersible incident and reading about the terminal hubris of Stockton Rush.

We spend our lives specializing into ever smaller subdomains of already small domains. A lifetime of bending your brain in one direction, being well compensated, being told you are smart... it leads to tremendous gaffs once you step out of your little specialized world.

It's important to maintain a deep humbleness and acknowledge the gaps in your knowledge. Don't disregard experts in other fields because they are saying things that conflict with your biases. Learn to identify your biases and think about how they may limit you from gaining understanding. It's much more fun to go through life with the attitude of not knowing everything and listening to people who know what they know.
Me neither, and I've even checked an old ISP-provided router.
Tensorflow was always on GitHub and PyTorch was in their source tree in their prerelease branch and then mainlined .
The problem is it doesn't
steroids are dangerous, but did I miss an article somewhere where jelqing gave someone HIV?

It might be useless, but I wouldn't tell someone with a useless habit that it's dangerous.
It let me purchase and sell a small software app without going to the bank, signing documents, paying $75 just to orchestrate a wire transfer.
I wouldn't go as far as that. Plenty of indie to AAA games are produced using commodity assets / resources (e.g. why make your own tree model, when there's plenty of pre-mades in the marketplace). Yes, that takes away work from artists, but it is part of productivity and game development.

Centuries ago, elevators were manned. Today, they're all electronic. It is the inevitable march of progress and productivity.
ZFS on root (and setting up automatic snapshots) is great for rollbacks if a system update turned out bad, and also allows for being certain there’s no corruption after a power failure or a disk starts getting flaky. It also makes sending off snapshots for a backups a breeze.

So it’s not really for day to day issues, it’s more for turning a rare “day of pain” into something much less.
Comedy was hit hard by the broader online media shift from personalities to soulless "personalities."

It feels like there's a big hollowed out void between hackneyed mass appeal, and full sending to absurdist and surreal comedy.
> economics isn’t a science.

Perhaps, but this is simply logic: Country A imposes tariffs that harm consumers and producers in country A and country B. That is the case before retaliatory tariffs. Once country B imposes its own, now the producers and consumers in both countries have yet more tariffs to deal with.

The leap of logic that is hard for people to grasp is that countries have producers and consumers and many that occupy both roles. A friend of mine had his 3D printing business fail after US retaliatory trade restrictions prvented him from importing 5% of parts for his printers that are mainly available from China. Meanwhile competitors in the US resold 100% China-manufactured printers and still beat him in price in spite of the tariffs. Such an embarrassing example of policy having effects far different from its intentions.

> That’s a non sequitur...

Governments can get control of companies in consequential (privacy, etc.) ways by a variety of means, and it happens everywhere. The Snowden revelations are highly relevant only because you make the claim that the paper ownership or other irrelevant nuance of how China has control over Chinese companies is somehow relevant. It absolutely is not since the end result is exactly the same.

There are many, many accounts of government using soft power to influence American firms to behave in ways that do the bidding of the state,... it is precisely analogous to what China would do with its own firms, regardless of the details.
Tesla's Autopilot, Full Self-Driving linked to 100s of crashes, deaths
I honestly don't see a reason why should Ubuntu make it easy to install downloaded deb files. People who know the risks will just use apt on the command line. People who download random files spotify-1.2.3.deb from the internet are really better served by sandboxed snap package.
This seems to fall under the category of "inflammatory political commentary", regardless of including both parties in it.

IMO seems borderline on flag-worthy.