skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
even if resources were highly limited it seems intuitive that the evolution algorithm would prioritize acquiring knowledge for efficient resource gathering over killing long term wouldn't it?

Let's say cave person a figured out how to dig a well cave person b not so much. cave person b kills cave person a to get the well and uses it for x years then dies because they didn't acquire the knowledge to dig another one. so cave person c will be like "protec well digger hooman". same for foraging let's say cave person a killed cave person b who was extremely good at remembering where trees are in a given area sure cave person a got a meal for today but is gonna die out unless they develop the skills cave person a had

sorry I'm a homeless dropout maybe I'm missing something super obvious I'm still not seeing the how killing leads to an optimum solution. Maybe a local maxima for sure but not the most optimal solution in the search space and as civilized as humans have become killing still persists I've seen some brutal stuff by some insanely rich folk (at least to me) that had absolutely nothing to do with resources so maybe that's coloring my viewpoint but idk even for inter species stuff some species have been hunted to extinction which is like a dairy farmer killing everything instead of planning for multiple generations it doesn't make any sense
Also China's population are moving from the frozen north to the warm south, construction standards are increasing (better insulation), cooking is being outsourced (fewer kitchens), and they lead the world in mass transit / ride hailing / vehicle sharing / portable e-vehicle (scooter/wheel types). China has possibly reached peak personal vehicle. Local governments frequently spray water along main roads to bring down air pollution levels - surprisingly effective for PM2.5 - and most cities are pushing industrial land use far out of town.
Does anyone else think that none of this is really that important? Really, not having to name a function and using it inline is an important feature, compared to defining it just before? And map is a lot more powerful than a for loop? I get the argument that its a nice to have, but does it justify a post called "can your language do this"? Really?
Integrate with an iCloud based RAG db .. could be nice.
Maybe it could be used in a similar fashion for the hybrids out there.
I wasn't aware of it, great! One more point to the GraalVM folks.
No, no it couldn't.
> Electronics, sensors, and consumables fail or run out, which means you need to be able to get there to fix things. Then, as research projects change, you need to change instruments.

So launch another. Launch capacity is getting cheap... let's use it.

Consider that 1% of SpaceX's annual launch capacity is enough to put one Hubble in orbit every year. Instead of sending astronauts to fix the fucked-up mirror, you just launch one with a not-broken mirror.

We as a planet don't even build that many ground-based telescopes with a 2.5m+ mirror each year. Think about how astronomy would change if you could just take every telescope we build today and put it in space.
Yep, and there it is -- I'd have no idea watching that video the risk mentioned by the top commenter there about the possibility of getting cancer for doing something like that.

This is why I'm leaning toward a "no" here... I probably shouldn't be legally allowed to pay someone else to make me something like this, regardless of what sort of informed consent form I sign.
I made something very similar a few weeks ago. I also included usernames with the average of their comments:
https://tomthe.github.io/hackmap/
I’m sceptical about how successful secular pronatalism can be. Large families, generation after generation, can come at a substantial personal cost, and it is a difficult sell for individuals if it is just a matter of principle, as opposed to something backed by promises and threats of post mortem reward and punishment. Furthermore, many religious pronatal groups reduce defections by socially ostracising and demonising defectors, making defection expensive. That kind of behaviour is much easier to justify given religious premises than secular ones. So I doubt secular pronatalism is ever going to be as successful as religious pronatalism. At its best, it might see some success under particularly favourable circumstances, but religious pronatalism will thrive in far less favourable conditions
The special sauce seem to be forbidden contraceptives and limited opportunities.

Yes, there's also a kind of mandate in the bible to be fruitful and multiply, and the fact that if you grow up in a larger family you tend to have a larger family, but I would bet the other factors matter more.
Perhaps this is the obvious comment, but I really hope that something that employs technology like this can get off the ground and become a services company. The ideas about democratizing the AI inference hardware space and making it energy efficient really resonate with me.
Counterpoints:

I can't see shit out of the back window without some work on my part on many cold mornings (with electric defrost), but a tiny little camera-heater could be both fast and efficient (which is more important for EVs).

I can wipe a small camera lens off faster than I cash wash a uselessly-filthy back window enough that it is better than a streaky opaque mess, as I've had happen to the back window on fairly mundane (if long) road trips with regular road grime.

Fewer windows means a cooler interior when it has been baking in the sun

It's a lot harder to get distracted by light and glare from phone screens or whatever that back-seat people are using when there's no interior mirror pointed in that direction to begin with

It doesn't sound all bad. And since it's got rather good cameras, that sure does sound better than the vehicles I've spent time driving that had neither rear windows nor any cameras.
You may not be offered a choice because you will be paying even with advertising content present.
Not your keys, Not your convos
First, they came for my volume knob and I didn’t speak out..
Show HN: Just for fun, this is for all office slackers
You can play or put it on auto.
Things I hate about Partiful
All show HN has to be created by the author, so I’m not sure what is self promoting about making the implicit explicit.

They are all “look, I made something cool, what do you think?”
Yes, it can https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3685887/
How would this compare to a Wayland VNC server like WayVNC?
Thank you. One of the original, first-night-dreaming-about-it inspirations for Grace was the OneDrive sync client; since they rewrote it back in like 2018 or whatever it's been so rock-solid, and it's ambient.

I wanted that experience for version control; make as much happen in the background as possible, and make it fast when you need to interact with it.
Extra daylight lighting? I love it when problems that should not be are so highly engineered.
Yeah, why are we like that?

I haven’t seen a floppy disk in weeks. And the noise it makes when I’m saving the drill protocol on which our monthly invoicing depends (+/- hundreds of thousands of euros) gives me cold sweats…
> ... the pain of giving birth should get some credit?

Sure, up to a point. If the treatment of the children later on is massively detrimental though, then that "credit" is well and truly expired.
Well guys (and ladies), if civilization collapses from a Carrington-like event, I must preemptively say, it has been mostly a pleasure reading you all :)
Those 20,000 should either be an unfortunate accident covered by your insurance or expected costs of doing business whereby you should either have saved for it or financed by virtue of your equity in the property.
Related:

The most backdoor-looking bug I’ve ever seen (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30013192 - Jan 2022 (77 comments)

Discussed at the time:

The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25726068 - Jan 2021 (208 comments)

Cryptography Dispatches: The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25721990 - Jan 2021 (1 comment)
Do you add jobs inside a transaction? Or with a root connection? There doesn't seem to be an out of the box way to add jobs in a transaction.
China business sentiment plunges to 'all-time low': EU Chamber of Commerce
https://archive.is/bKSrK
Writing C code in Java/Clojure: GraalVM specific programming (2021)
wow, this is so simple and brilliant solution

skateboard (and not only) community is friendly and welcoming
> what is left over after the branching is not science either

Yes. I’d say philosophy is not science in the same sense music is not drumming.

> this discussion is taking place within the context of a specific definition of science that requires experimental data to verify or refute hypotheses

Did we agree to that specific definition? If so, my bad, but I don’t recall that. Also, what are some other definitions available?

In any case, there are natural sciences, and there are other kinds of sciences that are not less important, and potentially more so depending on one’s values.

> No, it's a testable hypothesis with a lot of supporting evidence.

Not as far as I know.

There are plenty of so-called “proofs” that include things like cutting or stimulating parts of the brain seemingly causing changes in mind-state, but they obviously miss the part where the very cutting or the stimulating is caused by mind-state in the first place—i.e., they all presuppose materialism without even realizing it.

What is a way to definitively prove or falsify idealism or materialism that is available to us, without presupposing either idealism or materialism in the first place?

What is one piece of hard evidence that actually works as evidence to prove materialism without presupposing materialism?
Sure—not every comment that breaks the site guidelines is equally bad, although if you take the context into account the GP comment was pretty vicious.

As it happens, I banned both of those accounts elsewhere:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40314730

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40314726

If there's an assumption in your comment that moderation ought to be consistent, this is not possible because we can't moderate what we don't see, and we don't come close to seeing everything.

p.s. It looks like your account is still using HN primarily for political and ideological battle after we asked you to stop doing this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39700299. We ban accounts that continue to do this, so it would be good if you'd stop. For explanations about the principle involved here see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
Yeah see this has always been where I think Windows dominates Linux.

Going from local to RDP to local feels seamless and secure. I wish we could get that experience on Linux.
Person Located Between Two Other Equally Valid Persons doesn't roll off the tongue the same, does it?
> Unfortunately if "that guy" is your customer then your real job is to make them happy.

Usually the power relationship is not layout like that.

Data providers rarely compete on technology, because their differentiating factor is the uniqueness of the data itself. The clients will put up with whatever insanity the provider will deliver the data with anyway.

The history repeats itself:

The older a provider, the more involved and complex its data offering. Once they have dozens of datasets, packages, clustering, a fleet of sales in the wild negociating with clients and a whole billing system on top of that, they just won't change it. That's how you end up with these insanities.
Ah yes, because automobile ergonomics are just like a fascist autocracy that murdered six million Jews.
Cultural history never gets old for me.

> …but not in everyday speech as it was "slangy."

That hurdle has completely vanished, as by now we speak nothing but slang any more.
I have nothing against skateboarders personally. But the reality is that they need dedicated spaces to do their thing, otherwise they damage the public infrastructure that everyone else uses. Given the ... personalities of the typical skateboarder, that public infrastructure will also usually get populated with graffiti and stickers.

Also, it's not helpful to lie about this. I concede the points about creativity etc but let's not pretend that there aren't downsides. These cities should give them dedicated places to be creative so I don't have to walk though damaged sidewalks.
Boeing whistleblower says he was pressured to hide defects
> any shortcuts you take

This wasn't a shortcut, they added extra complexity to to the protocol.
Can a backend app use a single GPU (integrated or not) to support many concurrent users, so that software rendering doesn't become a bottleneck?
Even if the dialogue wouldn't be generic like ChatGPT tends to be, I would find this incredibly boring. With so many options all the options become meaningless to me. But to each their own I guess - I've always liked games with linear storylines more than the ones where you get to choose your own path.

Also I have a feeling that the NPC narratives when enriched by all player interactions would tend to go towards some average, i.e. become more and more generic and dull. The truly rich experiences have always been on the fringes in all art for me. I'm interested to see a counter example to this though.
I would be surprised if MF/HF reception was usable. Normally you need big discrete components for that. Just a marketing gimmick maybe?
Or, they could "solve" it by installing extra screens on the walls showing ads for package holidays. Of course, that would raise the temperature inside, but it's something that could be solved with extra AC, which would need large batteries and more frequent stops, but that could be solved by... seems to be the way of "innovation" these days, we no longer fix what's broken, but break what works and charge extra for it.
Headline misses important fact: These are RVA22 CPUs with RVV (Vector) 1.0.

Finally, we're seeing devices with the important batch of extensions ratified December 2021.
The intention is that they'll be identical, because they'll be written using Avalonia.

And I hate Electron. I hate it so much. I hate the web pages that I'm being told are "apps". I hate the lack of keyboard shortcut support. I hate the bad performance. I hate how it's not stick-to-your-finger fast. I hate owning unbelievably powerful computers and mobile devices and not taking advantage of their power and capabilities, and just reducing them to surfaces for fake "apps".

I refuse to not deliver native apps with Grace.
> people will take notice of the persons who actually solve their problems and then suggest them to others who need problems solved. Which is a helpful networking strategy presuming that people will likely have problems which you know how to fix.

Most devs are left in the dark and never get the 10,000 ft view and when they do it's often just a laughable item on a checklist and when it's not they're fully unprepared to deal with that kind of stress.

> "That's not really an option."

That only works on some people. People who really care.
The reason I mention MANPADs is because of the target domain after air superiority is achieved. For instance helicopters have been used extensively in US invasions in the Mideast thanks to sustained air superiority. That quickly goes out of the picture when there's MANPADs everywhere. Even in the Israeli conflict, which is extremely asymmetric, helicopters have proven highly vulnerable.

As for the numbers stuff, all modern air defense systems have independent integrated radar of at least their engagement range, and do not rely on external radar systems, though of course everything works much better with layering and cooperation. An F35 at max speed (which it is only capable of reach at high altitude for very brief periods of time) is hitting about 1975 km/h. An S-400's engagement and radar range is about 400km. That's an engagement radius of more than 12 minutes at max speed. The engagement window would be smaller with a low & slow approach, but then you start running into various other risks, even going back to MANPADs.

One could try a long-range stand-off but that's unlikely to prove effective without getting into the primary way to disable anti-air defenses - overwhelm them. But that's extremely non-trivial even if the systems are in relative isolation, let alone if they're part of a comprehensive anti-air system. And all of this for one system. Again I would appeal to Ukraine. Their anti-air defenses are relatively limited yet it's been more than enough to greatly limit the engagement capabilities of Russia's Su-57s.

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Actually I also completely failed to mention another major factor. If this sort of war breaks out, satellites are going boom shortly thereafter, the global internet would follow in short order. This will further reduce the chances of any sort of effective elimination of anti-air.
Cool product and congrats on launch. Definitely the ui and the screenshots help and compels user to signup. Also with anon signup really nice. A video walkthrough might even help a quicker conversion. Looks like you use firebase and the product might not be sustainable with just donations. Putting up a simple pricing page to test what users might pay would also be better.
This must be a similar feeling to the feeling of being a parent and the thought of hearing your kid talk for the first time. For some reason, with my kids, it was partly excitement and partly dread. I can’t explain why. It’s something like… it’s such an overwhelming thing to imagine that it’s frightening.
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Timestamp with time zone is the type for an "absolute timestamp".

Timestamp without time zone is for local time, and sometimes abused as "time in utc without being explicit about it".

The naming describes the expected input, not what is stored. The time zone name or offset is not stored with timestamptz.

Always use timestamptz, unless you have a specific use case for local time.
Ah - the covention is to link to past threads with (interesting) comments, because otherwise users click on the link expecting to find some and become grumpy when they're not there.
> No one needs citations to voice a commonly shared perspective or experience on an internet forum, get real.

That sounds like an echo chamber, not something I usually associate with HN
That's probably because it should have been “K.G.” (as if spelled “know good”).
Something related is compellingly explored in an interesting trilogy of LitRPG comedy books called the Vaudevillain series, consisting of Top Hat Express, Black Tie Villainy, and Cane Whirling Lunacy. In the series, there is a VR video game called “World of Supers” where players can type in any superpower they can dream of into a game-master LLM, and the LLM will then create a character for them which has that power, but reworked a little bit to fit into game balance. For example, the player could type “I can stop time and still move around and take actions for up to 90 seconds” and the game-master LLM may approve this power but alter 90 seconds to 10 seconds, and give the player a major weakness, such as “However, stopping time in the vicinity of a gamma ray source will result in immediate loss of 75% of HP due to the interaction of the time stop with the radiation’s effects. This HP loss can be mitigated if you are encased in a significant amount of lead, such as a lead vehicle or heavy lead armor.” It's a pretty neat concept for how LLMs could allow custom player abilities while maintaining game balance. That way, player agency extends to actual powers/abilities, not just dialogue.
It's cool service, I hope this will add clojure
> The cost of getting those into space is a relatively small part of the overall cost.

Well, technically, I suppose you could argue that the direct launch costs are small. However, most of the cost of the telescope itself are driven by the high launch costs.

That's the classic problem for satellites: Launch is expensive, so you can't afford to fail. So you have to use mil-spec everything. Every screw has to come with a piece of paper attesting to the provenance of the chromium used to make the stainless steel. Every system has to be built and tested and have triple redundancy. You have to use teflon-insulated wires, because god forbid anything outgases while on orbit. You have to over-build everything, and test all the vibration modes on those giant vibration tables NASA owns. So now "the satellite is expensive". Oh, and since the satellite is expensive, the launcher can't afford to fail and costs just spiral out of control.

But look what happens when you have cheap launches: You don't care if the satellite has a 1% chance of failing. If it does, learn from your mistake, make that one thing better and launch again. Now that you only need two nines instead of five, all of your costs go down. You can use regular-grade chips, and hardware store screws. Instantly the price of everything drops by several orders of magnitude.
I meant mental shortcuts like thinking that "if we make the protocol more complex it will be more secure".
Please don't move to Substack. You have a beautiful website which I enjoy visiting. I never enjoy opening Substack.
> Driving without a rear window isn’t a big deal - see, for example, nearly every cargo delivery van on Earth.

Yeah, it's totally fine, as long as you have both side mirrors. It'd be nice if they put bigger mirrors on the side if they're killing the rear window though. Although they're pushing a screen to replace the mirror, I guess.

I haven't used one of those in a while, but I did have a rental with a screen / mirror and found it really strained my eyes to change from far focus on driving to near focus on the screen... Might be better when the screen is not also a mirror, I could kind of see the mirrored image if I was far focused even if the screen was on... it was pretty distracting until I figured out how to turn off the screen part.
Thanks for the feedback!

Open sourcing documentation is an interesting idea.

> Something along the line Set the environment variable OLLAMA_ORIGINS

I'll test it out and update the docs.
But the disc is inoffensive. Changing this wouldn't fix anything because we haven't found a clearer / clearly better icon for save afaik, so we stick we what we have.

But words shape the images we form in our minds. The issue with man-limited phrases is that we imagine men, specifically. That's also how words work and we know this through studies.

So we ought to fix this. But I'm sure OP already know why people seek to get rid of these unwanted gendering in idioms. That's not new anymore.

It's mildly annoying because we are used to the old term but that's very temporary, for the time of the transition. But I'm sure OP instantly understood the meaning of Person in the Middle the first time you saw it, so I have troubles understanding why someone would oppose such an evolution. Surely it's not about clarity.

We never fixed anything by refusing change and staying in the past.
On cars I did drive a rear view camera allows to stop exactly were you want but gives a poor situation awareness. Also the wider camera angle the smaller are objects on a screen - there is no such problem when you can turn your head around to see with your eyes.
This looks really, really cool! Is there a plan to make this available in Linux I wonder?
If you're working on a distributed system, most of the traffic is not going to be your SSH session though.
My understanding is that no one has built a slack like client for matrix. Whereas at least keybase has something that looks like slack with teams, channels, and threads. But I've only played with it in a sandbox.

I mean there's lots of open source stuff. Signal is open source and people still complain about it being centralized but just won't run their own servers and connect them together. So I think open source isn't enough. It takes people working on things.