skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The topic about free will is similar to debating “are we in a simulation?”

In a perfect simulation, there is absolutely no way to escape it. A simulation is essentially like a virtual machine running some opcodes. There is absolutely no way to escape it unless the programmer is shit at implementing the opcodes with buffer overflows.

If we cannot computationally reduce, we have no option than to let the simulation play out. So far our universe is not computationally reducible. I.e we cannot compute where subatomic particles will be faster than letting them actually play out.

Whether we have free will or not doesn’t matter. If we cannot computationally reduce, person B cannot compute ahead what person A will do with absolute certainty.

To compute the future, we need to simulate every subatomic particle in universe faster than the the natural speed of universe with fewer particles. That itself is impossible.

We can approximate, yes! But not absolute certainty.

So we have no free will because universe is deterministic. But we also have free will because we need a universe sized computer to know what will happen and the only way to do that is to let the universe play it out. We cannot do that faster than the universe if we are inside the universe.

We are in a simulation. But it does not matter because it makes no difference if we are in a simulation or not.

God exists, but God also doesn’t exist. If God is non-interfering then it absolutely doesn’t matter.
Absolutely wrong. Heroin is just a tool to get high, so obviously a drug addict can choose whether to use it, right?

The problem is that technology like AI provides short-term, economic advantages to those who use it, regardless of the long-term consequences. It is a prisoner's dilemma situation however, because if everyone uses it, the situation gets worse.

It is through a series of these prisoner-dilemma type situations that technology advances. Yes, individuals can choose to use it or not, but instinctually we do use it because each step provides an improvement for the individual, even though as a society we get worse off. Thus, as a society, we cannot choose to use it.

The problem is that individual choice for individual gain does not equate always to an emergent societal choice for societal longevity.
code.org has an unplugged section as well.

https://code.org/curriculum/unplugged
None.

My web use is basically: tracking down a technical reference that is almost always at the vendor's website or github repo; looking up an idle curiosity on imdb or wikipedia; searching reddit for a specific discussion topic with multiple perspectives, or lingering around here on HN to kill time.

I barely even use a search engine, and when I do it's usually tagged with "wiki", "reddit", "github", "imdb" etc because I know the source I want to explore and know how to interpret that source when presented to me in its familiar format.

For deeper understandings of things, I collect and read books about them or use something like JSTOR for narrower or fresher interpretations and perspectives.

LLM-powered searches just put an obscuring layer between me and the specific, attributed, source information that I find valuable.
> but for others economics may be the main force preventing them from having children

Economics never prevents having children. As before, only the rich even get the luxury of choosing to not have children. But the rich could have children too if they so choose. Their fear of children making them look poor under the whims of today's fashion is an entirely self-imposed limitation.

Good for them if that's what they want to do. No judgment on anyone's personal life choices. But I maintain that an increasing number of people are starting to question if that is what is right for them. I agree that what is right for an individual is not universal. Some people will truly not want children, but many more feel pressured to not have children due to the prevailing fashion trends. I see change afoot among the latter group. Having children is slowly starting to become "cool" again.
If we can spend $100 billion on blowing people up, we can certainly afford a Mars colony.
HN is a pretty toxic place indeed.
I find it truly amusing how any suggestion that technology LOWERS our standard of living is immediately met with a severe reaction here. It's as though it is gospel, to be assumed without any question. Technophiles are truly narrow-minded.
At least your step dad reached 71.

My grandad died from stress and poor healthcare when he was 40, in a socialist country.
Yes, I am. Humans don't live forever. No offspring and it's all gone in one generation, disregarding if they're 8 billion or 100 billion.
Fobos SDR: 14-bit, 100 kHz to 6 GHz SDR, up to 50-MHz bandwidth, receive only
No it isn't. Here's it's not an individual that is being claimed to have heritability. It's their 'character', which is a trait, that is being claimed to be heritable.

For eg. if you have dark skinned parents, you are likely to be dark skinned yourself.

So 'skin color' is a trait that is being claimed to have heritability.
Thanks for helping to highlight how hard it is to track cloned/fake images.

BTW I guess 'watermarks' can be easily scrambled; add noise, filters, &/or recompress into another image format (eg JPEG -> AVIF).
flandish has been consistently attacking others and posting trollish comments.

Example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40289592

> it only makes you seem like the simp for profit piece of trash you are.

Compared to above what you are pointing out here is mild.
Wow. I haven't even thought about Philip in almost 20 years :-)
> If your primary use case is local AI on battery, you're probably into some small hundredths of a percent of the population here, who would be better served on some budget cloud compute (self deployed even) rather than heating up your lap.

There is no other use case where the power efficiency of the NPU matters, so you should direct this criticism at Apple.

> Because it fits between the pages of the book in your backpack, has a nice pencil, and can also do ok with local AI.

So if the only avantage is the form factor, why did Apple decide to compare it against PCs?
Molecular Biology research is much more funded than computer science. At least in Academia.
I see it far more in Japan than I do in the US or UK.
True to a degree. But that is a singular platform wholly controlled by the OS.

Once you put packets out into the world you're in a shared space.

I assume every conceivable variation of argument has been made both for and against Nagles at this point but it essentially revolves around a shared networking resource and what policy is in place for fair use.

Nagles fixes a particular case but interferes overall. If you fix the "particular case app" the issue goes away.
But the point is that Webb was vastly over-engineered because we needed to get value out of every ounce of mass at the very high costs of legacy launch providers, and even more compromised because of Ariane 5’s tiny fairing.

You could build Webb for vastly, vastly less money if it launched on Starship, not just per unit of mass; volume is at much less of a premium in the new regime.

You can’t quite fit ELT pre-constructed into a single Starship, it’s true. But it’s built out of segmented mirrors. It doesn’t have to arrive on station in one piece.
My jaw dropped the first time I heard Meet the Grahams and They Not Like Us. The hottest song of the summer is going to be about Drake being a pedophile. I've already heard the A minooooor line a bunch of times. The John Stockton line and then the drums cutting out for the saxophone was genius.
Visualizing the number of weeks in your Life
I know it doesn't address the larger issue, but Whisper can generate and translate decent subtitles with off the shelf software like Whisperer
What is truly astounding is that the ad represents exactly what technology does: and moreover, it is powered by the average person going after it rabidly. Technology erodes past ways of life and homogenizes it into an increasing swamp of blandness. People hate the ad not because the ad is disrespectful, but becauase it represents the darkness inside us that we have destroyed many good things for the sake of technological advancement.
I find git freeing and empowering, because I never have to worry about FOMO - I can rewind or pull up any past checkpoint.
It depends on how often I’ll be using something and what kind of application it is.

I assume Gmail has keyboard shortcuts, but I never used them and never cared. However, when using Miro, I very quickly looked up and learned some basic keyboard shortcuts, because the constant tool switching is hell without them. With the shortcuts I can fly. I see other people at work use Miro without the shortcuts and it’s like watching someone wade through molasses, and they constantly talk about how much they hate it.

I think it can be make or break, but it depends on the app and the type of user you expect.
Exactly. Had they invoked the idea of a shrink ray and knolled the tiny items, then pressed those into a unified object, revealed to be the latest iPad (with a needlessly spec-bumped processor and inflated price) then it might have accomplished their objective.
Given that (with regard to greenhouse gasses) we've a) unlocked positive feedback emission loops from tropical & arctic methane and b) still pumping increasing amounts of carbon into the air, it's clear to anyone paying attention that we've already fallen off the cliff.

We're just hovering for a second like Wile E Coyote.
Linking Zig to Pokemon Decomps
While I agree with this attitude towards obscure acronyms, SICP is widely known among those who voluntary enter a site called Hacker News, and it's easily searchable too.
Also critically they don’t have to build these coal plant to be economically used in the same way as free market states do. They’re building them mostly as a hedge - if they end up barely used , which is likely given renewable trends, that’s ok for state owned power. It makes everything a bit more expensive, but you can’t exactly vote for an alternative.

If they need to get used a lot for whatever reason, no one is unhappy either, you avoid shortages and discontent.

Whereas coal stopped being built in market economies roughly as soon as it became uneconomical.
It'd probably be amazing how many poorly coded games would work better if something like...

TCP_60FPSBUFFER

Would wait for ~16mS after the first packet is queued and batch the data stream up.
The "shock" expressed by Western journalists when they realize that China doesn't care too much about the US or the EU is silly. China's population is twice as large as the US and the EU combined; their domestic market, just like ours, will choose practical options that are locally designed and manufactured for their needs over foreign ones that come with import taxes and accusations of unpatriotism.
> Every save is uploaded, automatically

Nope. Last thing I want is for my repo to become huge just because I happened to temporarily create a big file inside the repository directory. Or passwords and credentials to leak because I needed to do a test run.

I can see it now: A new kind of malware that repo bombs your organization by randomly creating 2TB files in some guy's repos. Every single person becomes the potential point of network collapse.

> every save and commit, every branch name change, every everything, is stored as a separate event.

Why would you DO that??? Every branch name change??? That's OCD level crazy.

> Imagine: there's a promotion to main, your branch gets auto-rebased on those latest changes, and then your local unit test suite gets run automatically so you immediately know if there's a problem.

Oh my god NO!!! The last thing I want is a ghost in the machine changing stuff while I'm working on my branch! Imagine the function you're working on changing mid-edit due to a rebase! What hell is being unleashed here?

> Grace lets you share your code with team members effortlessly, around the world, for those times when you need another set of eyes on it, or just want to show them something cool.

You can already do that! It's called a branch.

> C'mon, it's 2024. There's got to be some AI in here, right?

OMG Seriously???

> No stashing

Okay, now you're just taking the piss...

By this point I'm checking to see if it's April 1st.
Apparently part of the issue is that the Chinese grid is very badly managed.

They can build physical grid connections much more easily than we can manage (for the usual values of “we”), but they manage interprovincial transmission according to fixed schedules rather than responding to demand.
PHB -- do you mean Portland Housing Bureau, Pedestrian Hybrid Beacons or Polyhydroxybutyrate?
Great tool! A feature suggestion: a common complaint about PDFs compiled from e.g. LaTeX is that text elements like "fi" in words such as "profile" cannot be correctly copied due to ligature encoding (e.g. try copying from the title in [1]: "profile" becomes "prole" and "identifiers" becomes "identiers"; also see discussion at [2]). An option to automatically fix this within the viewer could be a desirable feature — though admittedly I haven't thought this through and I'm not sure how feasible it is to implement such a feature at the viewer level.

[1] https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2022/22230-math-profile.pdf

[2] https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33476/why-cant-fi-be...
Interesting perspective. I feel the opposite; in my personal projects, I love having Git because I can fearlessly rework things knowing I can just abandon the rework if it's not playing out, or stick the rework in a branch and come back to it later. Different strokes!
Ben Nadel: CSS Open Props Exploration
Is it better than xrdp though? I found xrdp last week and it's stellar, basically a microsoft-compatible RDP server for Linux. It's a complete solution, no drama and simply amazing.

Every other Linux remote desktop solution I tried was a mess, including Xpra (which was quite involved to even get installed and Debian, and then a letdown, yikes).

I wonder what happens with Wprs when you try to launch virt-manager, which requires root.
Strfry() Gives Skewed Distributions
I thought that was the plan when they decided to give up on leap seconds.

I don't get the insistence on keeping nominal seconds-alignment (or even minutes-alignment) between the clock and the sun's position; we already don't experience it in practice.

Timezone regions are fudged all over the world[1] for political and practical reasons, but even if they weren't, people living near one timezone edge don't experience the "sun noon" at the same time as people living near the other edge, even though they share the same clock time.

[1] just look at the map here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone
With humans burning and producing waste can nothing be like peak. They will keep on going. I don't understand why people don't understand it's human nature until you don't stop them with fines you squeeze the availability of the fossils, they will keep on going on. What soul awakening scientists expects is possible only in few. Govt have to push people with policies and shift their behaviour.
Nirvana Pay Tribute to Steve Albini by Sharing in Utero Proposal Letter
I don't see what having an arch setup would have to do with running it through wine, but running your main browser under a heavy compatibility layer is practically unusable in my book. I need my browser to be able to be invoked in no more than a couple hundred milliseconds, while wine programs can sometimes take 5 to 10 seconds to launch.
I went back and rewrote the systems in Python after learning more about how to manage memory more efficiently using common tools, methods, libraries
> emergent concept arising from how neurons are wired together

That's a magical concept as well. A theory like mine. Time will tell. I only wish I was around when they figure it out.
Container Runtime Interface streaming explained
Other than all the game devs they just laid off.
It then comes down to whether you can afford to be off for weeks.

Another aspect of this is the hiring of a new guy: I've seen it times and times, where the company doesn't have anyone to evaluate candidates, so they end up peddling more time and money to even get to the point they can start interviewing.

Of course it all comes down to the balance between how much you save keeping a single guy on staff, vs how much it costs when shit hits the fan.
Just they don't bury photos I guess that should be enough
Perhaps... it can be toxic if you dip into the comments sometimes... Otherwise the content and links are the stuff of gold!
The Ukraine war is driving rapid innovation in drone technology
Pointy Haired Boss... Dilbert...

Ugh now I feel old and I'm only in my 30s.
> Were any of those objects real?

It appears that your feelings were hurt for some reason that escapes me. I do not know how to respond to that.
I literally got this today. I hate it.

There was a baby rabbit in my yard while I was mowing. I shut the mower off and took a bunch of pictures of it to show my wife. [1]

I open Google Photos later and I'm super confused. I'm telling my wife "I know I took a bunch of pictures" but there's only one showing.

Well they were grouped now... And it only shows one with a tiny number on it? It's genuinely obnoxious. I don't want this...

At the very least show multiple pictures in the place of one, so there's a chance I can find the picture I'm looking for.

Update: well, the good news is I just found how to turn it off. There's a slider option for "stack similar photos"

1. https://photos.app.goo.gl/MugdhXy8k3hYtbbJ7
We may not yet have had the war that ends all wars.

Whenever I think about protecting the environment, I think about preventing the catastrophes that are wars.
I think freerdp is a better option since it has integration with Wayland and even some Wayland DEs are adopting it as remote access feature.
Player's Handbook.
> if a competitor pays more down the line

Unless competition gets regulated away, which Altman is advocating for:

he supported the creation of a federal agency that can grant licenses to create AI models above a certain threshold of capabilities, and can also revoke those licenses if the models don't meet safety guidelines set by the government.

https://time.com/6280372/sam-altman-chatgpt-regulate-ai/
>I realized I hate version control. It imposes too much structure on programming,

Having used several different VCS, I have no idea what you're talking about. Are you conflating some complex CI/CD setup with branch naming schemes and oodles of hooks with version control in general? I mean, I think git is slightly overly opinionated when it comes to the relationship between commits and branches, but I don't get the impression that is what you mean.
> I found it enlightening to ponder the history of clocks. There was a time nobody needed one; it wasn't actually useful for anything[0], because nothing in agricultural societies happened fast enough to require hour or minute accuracy.

This seems a rather dubious claim, for something invented and used for more than 3000 years (see sundials and water clocks - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock). Uses mentioned incidentally in that wikipedia article seem to include religious observances, astronomy, astrology, watches (as in “night watch”).

Also, as I understand it, the navigation use wasn’t really practical until precise clocks were developed in the 18th century.
>others really expect data and full transparency to call research "reproducible"

I truly don't understand why that is. Creating the dataset is part of the experiment. It is reproducible because if you follow all the steps in the experiment you will get the same outcome (or, pedantically, a similar outcome, which is true of any experiment unless literally every aspect of the experiment is the same). If you create a dataset of 36M video clips with high-quality manually labelled captions, 170M (video, ASR transcript) pairs from 44.6M YouTube videos and 71.5M (clip, machine-generated caption) pairs from 36.7M
YouTube videos, you will get a similar outcome. If you don't, the experiment is not reproducible.

In fact, fully replicating the dataset is more conducive to proving the effectiveness of a given method to produce a specific outcome, as noted in your first link:

>The standard of reproducibility calls for the data and the computer code used to analyze the data be made available to others. This standard falls short of full replication because the same data are analyzed again, rather than analyzing independently collected data.

Ultimately, the question trying to be answered by the authors is not "does x code, when applied to y dataset, create z outcome?" but rather "how is z outcome created?" To prove that following the sequence of steps outlined in the article is sufficient to produce the claimed outcome it is required to recreate the dataset in any event. Releasing the dataset would help in that regard only inasmuch as it would help other people create their own datasets by way of example. If you think about non-coded experiments, it is clear to see that this is the case. Nobody would ask for someone else's reactants and products that they got at the end of an experiment. They would just ask for the procedure to generate the product. And in fact you will find that often times these procedures are not as exact as you might expect. For example it may say something like "this reactant was heated to x degrees" without mention of how fast to heat it up or how exactly that was done. And it isn't necessary because the goal is not "reproducible" as in a reproducible build artifact where every bit is the same but "reproducible" as in "the experiment once replicated will have the same outcome."

I will try to come back to this paper in a year and see how many citations it has and to what extent it was useful to others. Ie. will it be written something like "we follow the architecture outlined in [1]" or will it only be mentioned as previous work? If it is the former it is hard to say that it isn't considered publishing research if others are using it for their own research.

I don't really care what the definition of "reproducible" is. I have always understood it to mean in the context of experiments as “the extent to which consistent results are obtained when produced repeatedly.” When people talk about an experiment not being reproducible or of the "reproducibility crisis" they are using my definition.
If you want to call it a stack, a simple nginx or apache web server hosting web pages and being the gateway to the backend.

The backend is usually non-negotiable legacy stuff in my experience, but you can add your own layer of business logic in node or python gluing all those other endpoints together.

I don't really care about the frontend frameworks used as long as they're truly frontend frameworks. That build should live its life as a folder of static html/css/js on a web server.

What I'm saying is that this was a solved problem a very long time ago going back to almost the beginning of the internet with CGI (as long as your output response from those scripts were xml or json). Any attempt to deviate from this architecture will be, as you say, a rat's nest. All forms of server side rendering are terrible.

The meaningful depths of full stack are past that gateway and can go all the way down to kernel modules if it has to, but it usually doesn't. Frontend is the surface and should stay on the surface. Javascript should not be used deeper than nodejs. Nodejs should not be used to render html. Nothing should render html on the backend. Who is this not obvious for? What year is it?
Nope. Nil deref in Go is checked, and simply panics, just like array access out of bounds.
That is a partial quote:

"Ólafur appears to have developed a personal kinship with the whale, choosing not to try to kill her again. But he had no problem shooting the whale’s calf. One summer, when he raised his spear and took aim at the calf, his spear went askew, hitting the mother instead.

With that, he’d had enough. That was the last time Ólafur speared a whale."
Recon – a CLI tool to gather context for LLMs