skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How the hell are you offended about people saying that Russia is following an imperialist policy? That’s a plain fact.

And you’re blaming the victims of that policy saying that they had it coming because they hate it!

A seed bank is not something that can be started from one day to another. It requires decades of continuous work from thousands of people, in this case most of them were Ukrainians.

And you would have it destroyed because you’ve decided they don’t deserve it.

Do you want anything that used to be a part of the Russian empire to be burned to the ground as punishment?
Nearly all loans I have seen have a provision in the contract that the entire loan can be called at any time.
Sure, it might also figure out energy before longevity or neither of them. I think what we are looking for is the vague ‘AGI’ goal and that, by its (vague) definition , is capable of finding multiple solutions to many problems.
> Ron Hubbard wasn’t writing about topics generally covered by the philosophy of science.

So? I didn't bring up LRH as an example of a philosopher of science, I brought up LRH as an example of someone who has been influential to make the point that just because someone is influential doesn't necessarily mean that they are worth paying attention to, and this is true no matter what field they're in.

BTW, I've been re-reading Against Method and it is every bit as nonsensical and incoherent and just downright stupid as I remember it. AFAICT, what it's saying is, essentially, here are things that scientists have done in the past that look dumb to me with the benefit of hindsight, and here is a straw-man characterization of the scientific method, and so we should throw it all out and just allow anyone to do whatever the fuck they want to because reasons.

In the hope of maybe finding something that I'm missing, I also went to the Wikipedia article:

> The primary thesis of Against Method is that there is no such thing as the scientific method and that it is not appropriate to impose a single methodological rule upon scientific practices. Rather, 'anything goes', meaning that scientists should be free to pursue whatever research seems interesting to them. The primary target of Against Method is 'rationalism', or the view that there are rational rules that should guide scientific practices.

More patent nonsense is hard to imagine. There manifestly is such a thing as the scientific method. There is something that scientists do that allows them to produce theories with more predictive power than shamans or psychics or astrologers. Something distinguishes scientists from crackpots. In fact, we actually know pretty much exactly what that something is. But even if we didn't know, that wouldn't mean that it doesn't exist.

Here is a specific example from the "Sketch of the main argument" at the start of the book:

"The consistency condition which demands that new hypotheses agree with accepted theories is unreasonable because it preserves the older theory, and not the better theory."

There is no "consistency condition" which "demands" anything. This is just utter nonsense. I even wrote specifically about this in the previous installment of my series:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2024/04/the-scientific-method-pa...

If this "consistency condition" were real we would never have gotten relativity nor quantum mechanics nor plate tectonics nor H. Pylori nor RNA vaccines nor even sanitation (because Pasteur's germ theory did not agree with the accepted theories of the day). This "consistency condition" is a straw man of the first water.
Societal chaos? Sometimes I wonder if those who comment these things, you know, touch grass.
AFAIK passkeys are not a protocol. They are cryptographic key pairs (public and private keys). Private key is stored on a device and public key on a server. Private key often is device bound, and it never leaves the device. That's where a challenge response protocol comes in. It enables to provide proof of private key ownership without exposing the private key and it should also prevent replay attacks.
Can you describe the most common scenario of how your helmet got broken?
Show HN: Minimalist Blog Template on Next.js 14
I built a blog template to go through the full motion of integrating wisp cms (a project I'm building).

Seeked inspiration from some of the existing vercel templates and slapped on some fictitious articles. Feels like an amazing blog I would follow myself tbh.

Feel free to fork it or contribute to it!
Currently you have to do `sudo systemd-run --shell` if you want a root shell from a regular user's account.
Guys like Putin would love that.

I bet we would get a dystopia with long living dicators and short living peasants.
Hi Caleb, sorry to read. Noticed that your one page CV might be the problem, the 10+ year two pager is much better.

You seem like an humble person, in todays age the job market is very aggressive, there are many self titled senior devs with 3 years of experience and a lot of people who aren’t honest about their experience. My suggestion is to work on your CV to represent you better!

Nothing wrong doing other things, it’s actually important! I used to work in Blender since early 2000’s, I had the original book and always been a fan of Ton Roosendaal. I’ve been developing since Pascal and Action Script, or LAMP days, and still pushing work with any technology I find revelant. And that doesn’t stop me from time to time, to do creative work. I’ve done 9 music videos, for a punk rock project (Portuguese) in the last year. Including 8 pixel art, stop motion and 2d/traditional animation. I push a lot of work daily as a developer, including helping colleagues, mentoring people etc—literally product engineering/full stack, write the spec, prototype, devops, backend, front end, design, if necessary motion graphics, etc and always document everything.

It’s all a matter of empathy, so make sure you work on that CV and Portfolio. Make sure it represents you better!

I haven’t updated my site for a very long time now but hope it inspires you https://punkbit.com

Good luck!
My kids will love it.
I am supporting the author right now :-)
The functional implications of this are a little different.

Google, Bing, and others specifically have bitmap maps that are served out of Korea for this purpose. You can see it in Bing since the maps for Bing Maps use the classic Microsoft ~~ditches and diversions~~ Streets and Trips style maps.

In Google, there’s a few spots in Japan that are rendered in Korea at some zoom levels.

There’s been a lot of discussion on how to improve OSM in SK but it’s often through analog holes that are plausibly illegitimate.

I talked about it previously. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38555567
Yeah, good point. I kinda agree that it would be hard for Apple to spend all their vast cash reserves on R&D. But the point still stands that a company has choices about what to spend its money on, and if the best use it has for the money is buying back shares then it's not really innovating any more. Share buybacks are not creating more product lines, or investing in the company's future; they're (literally) shrinking the company. The executive team is saying "the best thing we can think of to spend this money on is shrinking the company". That's not a good sign, even if they are also spending big on R&D.
Wouldn't it be fair to distinguish between the baseline probability of any death, and the baseline probability of a death that could plausibly be suspicious, such as gunshot suicide?
There is no "longevity escape velocity", please stop reading sci-fi. (Or at least if you do, keep in mind it is only entertainment.)
The way I see it is what Waymo + others (and even Tesla until last year pre v12) was the same as someone doing ChatGPT but not with generative transformers but with if statements. If user asks what is that, say this, etc.

And now Tesla changed the game completely and moved to a 100% NN based system which indeed requires huge amounts of data which they're the only who actually have. All the other companies have no chance of getting that unless they fit their cars with thousands of dollars of gear for free (because I think no one would pay extra to get it and they really need it in ALL cars).

So it's probably not a good idea in terms of monopoly, but I think it will be Tesla FSD that gets integrated in all the other brands.
Exercise is the perfect treatment for mental health: it doesn't cost the "provider" anything, and when the patient doesn't do it because they're depressed or disordered, you can blame them for not cooperating. It's not a solution, it's something you can say so that it's not your problem any more.

(Would be great if there were actually prescribed work-compatible supervised exercise sessions on offer, but AFAIK that's not a thing offered anywhere by any health service)
If solutions exist and if those solutions don't create other problems.

What's the solution to conflicts like in the Middle East or Ukraine?
Because we told it to.

I don't know which of various meanings you ascribe to "AGI", but the most general sense has no implications beyond the initials: is it artificial, is it "intelligent" (and that in the Turing or Dijkstra senses of what can it do not is it really thinking), and is that intelligence "general purpose".
Bucha is contested. If is was a Ukrainian Gaza it would have looks VERY different.

A Ukrainian Gaza would be bombing densely populated city centers: never happened. Only the Ukranians somtimes seem to be launching some mortars at trainstations and market areas. When the Russians destroy a hotel we usually see a lot of military was staying there.

The west (including Israel and Ukraine) is rapidly losing what ever moral high-ground it had left.
> Are you suggesting he used the money on marketing instead of product?

No, a lot of the marketing/hype just came from Naval and other influencers on Twitter.

> most well run bootstrapped companies can end up becoming successful small and mid level companies that make a decent money

"well run" is doing a lot of work here, but:

- Most bootstrapped companies fail, period.

- Most of them fail without anyone ever noticing they existed. It's very hard to break through the noise, and I know lots of companies/projects that failed without ever getting more than a handful of users.
I really like this kind of projects. I still like the low level of C. Now I work with rust a lot and elixir/erlang but I often miss the simplicity and explicitness of C. For this, I use zig a lot too. It is a very nice improvement over C while keeping a lot of its philosophy.
Hmmm.. that's 2 whistleblowers now?
Today, the same OS core is used in phones, laptops, desktops and servers. Explicitly making it single-user means giving up on servers and parts of the market for the former three.

You could make the case for removing the concept of users from the kernel and forcing the OS to write some security plugin. The OS could then have a tailored security mechanism for every usecase, but they'd probably end up including users anyway (for the people who do want them).
Agreed, but now the doctor has to do her job and the AI's job.

Cory Doctorow wrote about it a while back. I think it was this article "Humans are not perfectly vigilant" [0]. It explains how technology is supposed to help humans be better at their jobs, but instead we're heading in a direction where AIs are doing the work but humans have to stand beside them to double check them.

[0] https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/01/human-in-the-loop/
When the state subsidizes healthcare, it is in its interest to lower the costs/improve productivity.
> But whenever I've done a spontaneous unplanned dismount at 20mph I didn't find that knowing how to fall helped me much.

What was the circumstances (type of road and type of bike)? Have you touched the ground with any other parts of body except of palms, elbows and knees? If yes then consider to keep learning how to fall because your falling skill is not that proficient. If not then the helmet was not that useful.
It is clearly possible to operate at the level of zero carbon emissions. People did it for thousands of years before the industrial revolution and modern technology runs just fine on renewable or nuclear energy.

Since the emissions per person can be zero, any level of emissions reduction can be achieved with any number of people, you just need more emissions reductions per person when you have more people. "We should have both more emissions reductions and more people" is thereby an entirely consistent position.

More than that, emissions reductions generally require R&D and have some economic cost, but an aging population is economically weaker and has fewer resources to spare. Meanwhile older people who aren't going to live much longer and have no descendants have less incentive to care about what happens in the future and spend those scarce resources on things like emissions reductions. People having more kids avoids that death spiral.

Also, I mean, who are we trying to save the world for?
Good question. What are the problems that tech could be solving but isn't? I don't think the answer to that is "nothing".

> Investors might prefer to take the profits, and do their own investing.

Yes, exactly the point; if the investors think their money is better used by other companies to solve those problems, then Apple is recognising that it is no longer the best at doing that. I think that's sad.
Our website https://hydraulic.dev/ covers the most important points but compared to jlink/jpackage:

• Delta software updates without code changes. On Windows apps update in the background even when not running.

• It can do web-style synchronous updates on app launch.

• Can build for every platform from any platform. Linux cloud CI workers can be 10x cheaper than Mac workers, so this feature can save you a lot of money!

• Lots of usability work and features around code signing/notarization. It can do signing without MS/Apple tools and it knows how to use cloud signing services, remote HSMs, local HSMs, the Mac keychain (protected from other apps), custom enterprise signing services that can only be accessed via scripts, it can check for many kinds of mistakes (a particular weakness of vendor tools), it will help you buy certificates by generating CSRs for you.

• Generates a download HTML page that detects your user's OS and CPU to give them a big green download button, it can upload all the artifacts to S3 or GitHub Pages/Releases or any other server via SFTP. It renders icons for you, etc.

• Deployment by Windows IT is easy and installation doesn't require users to have admin rights on their system.

• It can publish to the MS Store which lets you avoid needing to buy signing certificates for a one off $19 fee.

• It comes with commercial support. With other tools if you get stuck you're on your own.

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All the above works for Electron and native apps too. For JVM users specifically:

• It figures out which JDK modules you need using jdeps and bundles a minimized JDK.

• It provides a Gradle plugin that can read config out from your build configuration automatically.

• Easily bundle JCEF if you want an embedded Chromium.

• (soon) It will provide an API that lets you check for updates and trigger them manually. This is done, it just needs to be fully documented and published to Maven Central.

• It has way better support for native code than jpackage. It will dig through your JARs to find native libraries that don't match the target machine and delete them, it will sign them in-place, it can extract them ahead of time and then set up your system properties to make them be loaded from the right places and so on.

• It can bundle custom TLS root certificates into your JVM trust store. That's especially useful for enterprise settings.

That's not even a complete list by any means. Conveyor is packaged with itself and is a JVM app written mostly in Kotlin, so the above features get dogfooded by us.

I wrote this tool partly because I really wanted to close the gap between web and desktop dev, to let developers have more freedom around frameworks and languages than they do today. It's not right for everyone but if you aren't hog-tied to the browser then the pain of distribution is really removed by this thing, and that lets you focus on building your app.
There is communication between your gut and brain.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/the-gut-brain-con...

Your gut microbiome also has more living cells than the rest of your cells combined.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/25201-gut-microbi...

So, it's a team effort :)

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/1/10/team_effort.png
Yes....

I have been exclusively an anaerobic athlete for the past two years and my aerobic fitness has dropped to a shockingly low level. But I am oddly comfortable at 180-190bpm

I am slowly building in more aerobic cardio into my training but man cardio is just such a chore for me. It's always the first to go so it takes constant maintenance and it's time consuming...
> We all know this isn’t replacing doctors. We do know that when applied correctly, this will assist doctors and other clinical specialists in their work.

Let's say a clinic currently has eleven doctors and is able to treat X number of patients per week. Let's say one of them retires, and instead of finding a human replacement, the remaining ten doctors choose an AI clinical assistant to free up 10% of their workload. Now it only takes ten AI-assisted doctors to continue serving the same number of patients as eleven doctors used to do.

This is just an example to show that there is no meaningful difference between "assisting" and "replacing". Any time an assistant, AI or not, takes some workload off somebody's plate, they have partially replaced them, and it adds up.
> I think one of the reasons recursion is often emphasized in relation to Lisp is because one of Lisp's core data structures, the linked list, can be defined inductively

Lisp was used in computer science education to teach "recursion". We are not talking about software engineering, but learning new ways to think about programming. That can be seen in SICP, which is not a Lisp/Scheme text, but a computer science education book, teaching students ways to think, from the basics upwards.

Personally I would not use recursion in programs everywhaere, unless the recursive solution is somewhat easier to think about. Typically I would use a higher order function or some extended loop construct.
"[Everything] always seems impossible until it's done" - Nelson Mandela

There's no longevity escape velocity yet. But when I was a kid, there was no cloning of mammals, no Google Translate real time video mode on a device you could carry, and the best chatbots were ELIZA clones.
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Do you need to measure VO2 max specifically? If your form of exercise is jogging/running, you will easily be able to tell if you're improving by tracking distance and time of your runs. If you want to be precise, you can e.g. race a timed 5k once per month under the same conditions. But if you're a beginner, you won't need that to be able to tell you're improving, just the feel of difficulty to maintain a certain pace will change noticeably.

As someone else mentioned, a classic poor man's test of VO2 max is simply to time trial a set amount, such as seeing how far you can run in 10 minutes, and use a calculator. So the same thing with extra steps.
Because I would want to put a NN as unreliable as GPT4 in control of my car ... They are struggling to put in guardrails and make it politically correct with text.

I guess AI truly is the new crypto because I'm seeing all the same hype patterns. And Tesla is always riding the wave.
Manipulation and signing is the easy part. Robust storage, retrieval and deletion aren't so easy.

Reputation often matters more than price in this area, because the pricey services amount to peanuts compared to the business as a whole. It's like doing price optimisation on toilet paper in the office. And reputation is generally interpreted as a proxy for reliability and a guarantee that there will be someone to sue if things go bad.
> the skin on my palms.

The down-voted comment of mine tells that gloves are far more useful than helmet for a bicycle rider. But I know I have messed with the holy cow so c'est la vie.
I didn't try exercising with it, but, Quest 2 was getting too hot for me even after a short while playing Beat Saber for example. Quest 3 is much better in that aspect. I can actually keep it on for long durations, and heat isn't a problem at all.
It'd be interesting to have a more detailed summary to understand why the government side thinks it's most reasonable to "sneak out" of deciding this on the facts by citing a waivable rule on deadlines, especially when there were 2+5 years of delays not at all caused by the "victim" in the situation.

> I mean -- and -- and -- and, gosh, I mean, waiting seven years to rule on this fellow's claim and then sending it --him an email and to an old email address and he acted as fast as he could, I mean, it's not wholly inconceivable the government might, in its magnanimity, choose to waive this defect?

It just seems like there's got to be more to it than so many individuals failing so radically, or the incentives to "do the wrong thing" (the inequitable thing) have to be insane.
yah that's a good point, they can't kidnap and prevent a burial indefinitely.
Solutions clearly exist for managing diseases (we keep finding ways to give years to cancers that were an instant death sentence just 15-20 years ago); I have no clue if they exist for making us 180 in good health; I am not that smart.

And space flight is also solvable if energy is solvable and that also seems possible, but again, I am not smart enough otherwise I would be in that business.

Human conflict is solvable in a simple way; just eradicate us all. That solves all but longevity anyway for some definition of solve. But seriously speaking; if a human had a solution for these conflicts, they wouldn’t be there so either a solution without peril to humans is not there or we are too dumb to come up with one and need a 400 point iq increase to do so. I am not saying AI will ever do it but so far it seems to be the our only hope. Then again, it’s only been a few 1000 years of modern human so we might figure it out without finding AGI.

Anyway, currently this is more ‘religion’ (aka hope) than science on my side; there is no clear sign agi or super intelligence will happen soon; I am now more deadly afraid of ‘intelligence-ish simulators’ (LLMs) used everywhere to replace people and making everything vastly worse for almost everyone. Which is what’s happening at the moment.
Marvelous Designer has been used in the VFX and Game industries for quite a few years now: https://www.marvelousdesigner.com

Wētā FX used it on The Hobbit for example: https://www.facebook.com/marvelousdesigner/photos/james-moor...
Perhaps, yet today we have certainties (we know how to remove a big chunk of emissions by using politics, laws and economical incentives), and "bets" (science might help us remove carbon efficiently, or might not)

We need a balance between the two, as they are both important

But we shouldn't be "mere techno-optimists", we should also get behind true political, social and economical solutions to lowering our emissions, and fast