skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, I agree. We’re at a point where there’s an intangible and perhaps subjective aspect of human experience (maybe it reduces to consciousness in general?) which we can’t really nail down firmly.

I’ve preferred studies I’ve seen over the ones with contradict them (usually due to study design and the rigour behind them), but I’ll have to look at yours and reassess.

I think I’ve also leaned towards environmental factors in part because it encourages more prosocial responses if your morality is inclined in that direction. That’s purely subjective, and while not colloquially driven, it isn’t scientific.

I’ll have to think about it. I did feel science was more conclusively in the environmental spectrum of cause in this context, but you’ve got me wondering just how conclusive it could be beyond “seems statistically probable” while never being close to certain. Especially without unethical studies.

I’ll dig up some studies I’ve liked over the years to compare with what you’ve got here.
Regarding China: China accounted for 95% of the world's new coal power construction activity in 2023, according to the latest annual report from Global Energy Monitor (GEM). Construction began on 70 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity in China, up four-fold since 2019, says GEM's annual report on the global coal power industry China started construction on 70.2 GW of new coal-power capacity last year, almost 20 times the rest of the world's 3.7 GW.
Sure, like the one in https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/. :-)
As per the article, the issue isn't the ad it's peoples reaction to the ad.

Over the last year (or couple of years?), the general perception of Apple has changed which may have larger future ramifications for the company.
I look back at Leo Tolstoy's "A Confession" and I think that it's a bit more complicated than that. He summed up my own thoughts quite well more than a century before I was even born.

> No matter how often I may be told, "You cannot understand the meaning of life so do not think about it, but live," I can no longer do it: I have already done it too long. I cannot now help seeing day and night going round and bringing me to death. That is all I see, for that alone is true. All else is false. The two drops of honey which diverted my eyes from the cruel truth longer than the rest: my love of family, and of writing -- art as I called it -- were no longer sweet to me. "Family"... said I to myself. But my family -- wife and children -- are also human. They are placed just as I am: they must either live in a lie or see the terrible truth. Why should they live? Why should I love them, guard them, bring them up, or watch them? That they may come to the despair that I feel, or else be stupid? Loving them, I cannot hide the truth from them: each step in knowledge leads them to the truth. And the truth is death.”
> Can anyone compare this to waypipe, which I've heard of more often for remote wayland execution.

https://github.com/wayland-transpositor/wprs#comparison-to-w...
BP tells property owners affected by Elon Musk firing charging team to call them
If someone took action because of rational choice, they can make a different choice/action in the future.

If someone is a ‘bad puppet’/fundamentally programmed badly, then what choice do we have except to destroy them or ‘rewrite’ their programming?

That is the difference, and a big one - because in the first case, consent is possible and meaningful.

The second one, it is not.
Okay, well, no sale I guess. Stockfish's training dataset is mostly self-play games from an engine directly inspired by AlphaZero. It moved to neural network evaluation after a fork based on a paper that cites AlphaZero. It plays chess more like AlphaZero than Stockfish 11. Yes, it's extremely interesting that it continues to edge out Leela with a fast, rough approximation of the latter's evaluation but much faster search. But it (and human chess) wouldn't be where it is today without AlphaZero, and I was originally responding to someone dismissing it based on the perceived over-zealousness of its marketing, as people seem to want to do with TFA. I merely submit that both of these Google innovations are exciting and impactful, and we should forgive their presentation, which nevertheless has been kind enough to link to the original papers which have all the information we need to help change the world.
Now we are left without a way to detect if an asteriod is coming our way.
Gtk also has an annoying misfeature here. It literally calls abort when the connection is lost.
Mako Is a Jet Ski Turned into a Weaponized Drone
Do you think you'd feel as connected to your family if you could only communicate with them by writing, while you can communicate with everyone else by talking?

Yes, there would be a level of isolation. It needn't be extreme, but I can't imagine there would be none
It's interesting to note that its opposite, "NG" ("no good"), never seemed to have much popularity, but I've seen it show up increasingly often within the past few years.
And with systemd >= 253 you can set it as part of the network config to have it be applied automatically.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/25906
Manufacturing consent has never been easier: get priority placement and richer brand expression of your ideology in chat conversations that influence how people think.
I agree, mostly because it's already being done!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2YDApNRK3g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXefdbQDjw
This might be a dumb question, because I doubt the distances between neurons makes a meaningful distance… But could a small brain, dense with neurons like a crow, possibly lead to a difference in things like response to stimuli or “compute” speed so to speak?
Brief? Many are still strongly against it, especially doing this very invasive surgery on babies.
This title, could use some punctuation.
What are their historical and present population and growth numbers?
That article doesn't support your claims.
I have extreme vision loss, and the idea of gaining full vision has always scared me a little. It seems like such a huge change in my perception of the world would be... jarring.

Of course, I still would. It just makes me a bit nervous.
Downvoted for the final remark amounting Twitter to a "murder-porn platform". It is obviously a bit disingenuous to suggest that is its primary purpose.
It's very lossy and unreliable storage, however. To use an analogy, it's only a huge amount of ECC that keeps things (just barely) working.
> We were doing something similar to what we did at Square at the time, which was fund a bunch of open source developers to work on the Bitcoin protocol, because it directly benefited everything Square was doing in terms of money movement.

The longer this goes on the harder it is to believe he won't end up crazy like McAfee.
Even if we are close to peaking emissions, we must consider the phenomenon of accumulation. Given that CO2 has an effective lifespan of around 100 years and methane about 10 years in the atmosphere, reductions in emissions now will still result in these gases accumulating and impacting the climate for decades to come.
>webified candy crush

I wonder how successful it would be. Do people want to play games through browsers still? I mean, if candy crush is still available through app stores, how many people would use the MS webified version? I don't see a lot of people giving up an app for a website version of the game.

If apps can't be installed on iOS/iPadOS through the MS store, maybe all the games will be available browser-based through WASM, but that's a fairly heavy task and I dont know how well it would work. I haven't played around with WASM enough to know.
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Couple of excerpts I found interesting for myself:

> Not officially yet, but I am giving the soft warning that the data is showing us that CORE will become non-viable at some point in the future. Without divulging too much, I can say that SCALE is seeing roughly a 5x growth rate compared to CORE and we don't see any reason for that trend to reverse. Being realistic about it, if somebody is just starting off with TrueNAS today, I'd highly recommend starting with SCALE since that's where the momentum is and is growing.

And

> Since introducing SCALE our growth numbers have shot through the roof, Linux container users far out-scale Jail users
Once upon a time, I used a background helper to workaround the problem of captive portals by temporarily disabling dnscrypt-proxy dns settings when connecting to Wi-Fi on public networks. If it couldn't reach Apple's www.thinkdifferent.us with the correct content, then it should temporarily disable dnscrypt and show a notification. When it switched back, it would also show a notification. dnscrypt and tor also don't play well with anycast-dependent services like software updates.

I've tried managing wired and wireless interface switching on macOS without luck, and gave up on switching.

At home, I skipped dnscrypt and run unbound on the firewall with DoT upstreams and direct all clients to use it.
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You’d have to train them individually. One advantage of ANNs is that you can train them and then ship the model to anyone with a GPU.
What's stopping anyone from doing illegal activities?
The ISO committee is becoming increasingly less relevant. It's ineffectiveness has pushed numerous groups to create a successor to C++.

Maybe it is becoming less relevant, but language proposals and attendance has grown tremendously since 2010, with no signs of slowing down. The real issue is that it's functionally impossible for a single group to meet the needs of the entire community.

It's no doubt a lot of work but if any of the successors to C++ such as Carbon, Circle, or cpp2 manage to release a solid compiler that is mostly compatible with C++17, I think you'll see a large migration towards it.

Only time will tell, however I would bet against C++ successors. In particular, C++ is fundamentally hostile to cross-language interopt, to the degree that even C++ compilers struggle to maintain compatibility between themselves. For a language to work with C++, its compiler basically needs to contain a C++ compiler as well (as Carbon does). Moreover, simply being "compatible with C++17" is only the very first step to practical usage, e.g. consider how much work the Clang developers put into reverse engineering GCCisms. And that is before considering more exotic language extensions and APIs like OpenMP (and perhaps SYCL at some point as well). All the while C++ continues to change and evolve.
Where you have "accumulating", you mean persisting.
An HN "item" is not just posts but everything: posts, comments, the parts of a poll, etc.

Still an impressive number
Branding is extremely important in the west. In China, maybe not so much. Western buyers who are not cost-conscious won’t buy a car its name they can’t pronounce.

Quality-wise, when it comes to budget cars, I completely agree and it is very obvious the first time you ride in a Polestar after driving a Tesla.
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[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40313733
I've had a much better rate than that. What does "wish you hadn't hired" mean exactly. Did you completely misjudge them or did you have an idea of what you're getting and still hired them. To be way off on 50% of interviews feels like way too high failure rate.
Some cases of Alzheimer's caused by two copies of a single gene
You can backup your content, edit/delete the answers and then post them somewhere else that blocks the big LLM crawlers.
> This really shows how much sentiments about technology have changed in the last five or so years. If this ad came out in 2018 it would have been received differently, I think. The buzz has worn off. People don't see doing everything on your device as progress. iPads are no longer novel.

I think not. 2018 was not so different. People talked about what is now called enshittification. Apple, Google, and Facebook introduced screen time controls because concerns had grown year after year.

I think an ad showing the same objects sucked into a tablet would have been received much better now. I doubt the lurid destruction of art, creative tools, and symbols of culture and history would have been received much better in 2004.
I would imagine all of it. The underlying data is going to be on encrypted volumes and I'd expect deleting them would render the data non-recoverable.
My problem with it is that it is a public policy failure. Capitalism and perpetual economic growth fundamentally needs more people.

At some point economies will do the math and public policy and figure out how to keep the expansion going.

The US hasn't done it because Mexican immigration fills the gaps. But Germany, China, Russia, and (holy crap) South Korea (although I suspect South Korea will absorb a shitton of North Koreans some day when the regime collapses).

What happenes when biotech extends human life and achieves the artificial womb? Go ahead, say its impossible.
Jews were already well sick of Arabs' shit

Funny you should mention. At least some of the new arrivals from Europe were apparently "already well sick of the Arabs' shit" from the minute they landed in their new homeland. As Ahad Ha'am (Asher Zvi Ginsburg) wrote in 1891, regarding the early Zionist settlers:

They were slaves in their land of exile, and they suddenly find themselves with unlimited freedom, the kind of wild freedom to be found only in a country like Turkey. This sudden change has engendered in them an impulse to despotism, as always happens when "a slave becomes a king," and behold they walk with the Arabs in hostility and cruelty, unjustly encroaching on them, shamefully beating them for no good reason, and even bragging about what they do, and there is no one to stand in the breach and call a halt to this dangerous and despicable impulse. To be sure our people are correct in saying that the Arab respects only those who demonstrate strength and courage, but this is relevant only when he feels that his rival is acting justly; it is not the case if there is reason to think his rival's actions are oppressive and unjust.

Of course by 1917 everyone knew what was up. As presaged by Herzl in his diary (1895):

We must expropriate gently the private property on the estates assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our own country. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.

The roots of the conflict run very deep indeed.
It's so cool, made it my new wallpaper.
If patients didn't think this added something to their lives and ability to manage insulin-dependent diabetes, they wouldn't be paying far out the ass to get them either in direct costs or through insurance premiums. That's not what people do. I'm sure plenty of patients would much rather do anything else with the money. I know I would with the money I spend on chronic health problems.

Again, completely possible to do this right, but you have to be willing to put the resources into it.
That’s misleading because they are idling their existing coal power plants more often. Essentially they are using new coal as demand following peaker plants rather than base load power generation. “In the first decade of the 2000s, plants were running around 70% of the time. They're now running around 50%.” https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-coal-plants#....

By comparison China added 217 GW of PV in 2023 alone which came online over the year. IE adding ~20GW in December has 1/12th impact in 2023, but it’s now online for the next ~25 years. Which is why some predictions have China using less coal in 2024 despite bringing new power plants online in 2023.

China alone represents 30% of the world’s electricity production/consumption so it has real impact, but they just don’t have the natural gas supplies which the US has used to ween itself off coal.
A simulated picture. Reminds me of advertisements for television sets from the 90s.
proto1 was designed by Sanjay and Jeff, proto2 by Kenton Varda (who later designed Cap'n'Proto), proto3 I can't remember who but I never heard Rob Pike being credited with this. He did write the very first Go proto binding package though and a separate serialization package called gob with a totally separate rpc library.
I agree. For more senior people I'd mix in systems, architecture, design trade-offs and such. I'd want to see they have actually delivered something in their career and dig into the details.
You mean the growth of emission rates. Emissions will still be ongoing for a looooong time.
From what I understand, there's no bulk import or open dir feature.
Why it's the shame? Keep being relevant and satisfying users needs are reasons to be proud, not shamed.

When Microsoft added WSL/WSL2 and collaborated with Canonical for smooth UX, is it a shame as well from your perspective?
I backed up as many of Steve Albini's tweets (@electricalWSOP) as Twitter's API would allow: https://archive.org/details/steve-albini-partial-twitter-bac...
This article mentions (in the second sentence) it's lifted from the verge, so the URL should be:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24151951/amazon-prime-vide...

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be that guy. if you've got the space for it it's definitely under consideration but there's only so many dollars to spend on things. solar plus batteries is the dream but I'm not made of money. Unfortunately part of these changes actually disincentivzes paying for solar which is just so aggravating. nationalizing pg&e when?
I'm not so sure the results are as dour as you're implying. China has many, many enviable "20-minute cities" scattered all over, all built high density from the ground up.
Points and topics within the map.
if they are good or not depends on your perspective. Say, is good only profitable to you?

> Fully automated agriculture building that takes water and electricity in and outputs food.

i've pondered that one. it seems mostly a self- maintenance apparatus.

> clean enough water production, less then 1% of the world's water is sort of clean enough

what to do with the crap left behind?

> Plastic alternatives are in major need

we have bioplastcs they are just not popular. why i don't know.

> How about medical devices which never pierce into your body? hyposprays? sensors?

There is some cool tech that squeezes your legs to compliment heart beats. It apparently does miracles for health.

Rife technology works but no one wants to hear it. You get some of the most goofy debunking in the cosmos.

> exoskeletons as mobolity scooters?

seems a great idea.
The Noise Protocol Framework [video]
Why? What negative impact will it have, by your prediction?
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Syntax is mostly a function of familiarity. People coming to C++ from Rust or other languages often say the same thing.
https://archive.is/kAO70
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I mean, Hinton’s premises are, if not quite clearly wrong, entirely speculative (which doesn't invalidate the conclusions about efficienct that they are offered to support, but does leave them without support) GPT-4 can produce convincing written text about a wider array of topics than any one person can, because it's a model optimized for taking in and producing convincing written text, trained extensively on written text.

Humans know a lot of things that are not revealed by inputs and outputs of written text (or imagery), and GPT-4 doesn't have any indication of this physical, performance-revealed knowledge, so even if we view what GPT-4 talks convincingly about as “knowledge”, trying to compare its knowledge in the domains it operates in with any human’s knowledge which is far more multimodal is... well, there's no good metric for it.
Well, shoot. I am working on a new VCS too, and Grace seems to have most of what I want in mine.

The only two things mine might do better are large binary files (because I do think they belong in version control) and decentralization.
The website says yes: https://sioyek.info/

Link should be to the website imho.
Exactly. Dropbox was cloud and then later moved to on-prem to save on storage costs.

Anyone running >1000 servers with >80% utilization should consider going partially colocated.

Comma.ai and Tesla come to mind who run their own training clusters.

If you are serious about compute and cost of compute and storage is ~100s of engineers, then moving off cloud is a wise strategy.

Cloud providers have huge margins. One can run a very profitable business if they get a pie of that margin.
> Why should I love them, guard them, bring them up, or watch them?

Once upon a time there was no choice if you wanted to survive yourself. The world was too much for the feeble man without their help. Indeed, the rich now have the luxury of relying on "corporations" to stand in for where children were once necessary. But then you're ultimately back to square one: Why should you love, guard, bring up, and watch the corporations?

There is no free lunch. You are going to put in the effort either way, but at least children might also provide some happiness along the way. The "corporations" seem to just draw ire. We didn't recognize that for a long time, but I do see a shift starting to take place.
The domestic market alone will make china's EV industry viable. Their export market is not dependent on "dumping" it has economy of scale behind it.

There are at least 3 Chinese EV on the market in Australia and they are priced below tesla but above ICE. They're selling well.

"Build your dreams" indeed.
I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion? If you had a functioning body part and could swap with another person that would still be cutting off a functioning body part. Just because you got another functional body part doesn't change anything.

If it becomes possible in the future to just swap body parts with no issues, it would probably be less controversial, but I don't think it would really be accepted. The problem is the current sex change operations are no where close to that. You can't just flip back and forth and have all your parts remain fully functional.

There is, of course an exception and that is with organ donation. That however only happens when the person who is removing the functioning part does not need theirs which can happen because they are dead, there is an extra one (kidney), or it will grow back (liver). This, of course, is not the same type of thing as we are talking about.
SLOP as a service
Birds are under a different set of constraints than non-bat mammals, of course... They're very different. Songbirds have ~4x finer time Perception of audio than humans do, for example, which is exemplified by taking complex sparrow songs and showing them down until you can actually hear the fine structure.

The human 'spoken data rate' is likely due to average processing rates in our common hardware. Birds have a different architecture.
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