skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this can be explained the other way around

I suppose. So? Why do you think that matters?

> reducing everything to I/O behaviour is also a philosophical position, I believe it’s called behaviourism

I'm not "reducing everything to I/O behavior", I'm just saying that you have no evidence for the existence of consciousness in entities other than yourself other than their I/O behavior.

> the point of putting a slow person

You have completely misunderstood the point of the Chinese room. The speed at which the person operates is completely irrelevant to the argument, it is only relevant to my counter-argument. The whole point of my counter-argument is that the original argument is invalid because it ignores the speed at which a human can execute the rules. The speed matters. It's not the only thing that matters, but it's one of the things, and the fact that Searle ignores it enough to invalidate his argument.

> There is no conclusive evidence either way

There is for me. Consciousness is something I directly experience. Maybe it's different for you, but I'd be really surprised. But (and this is where I predict we will diverge) I believe that this experience is an illusion, just as my experience of motion when looking at Moving Snakes is an illusion.

> If you claim consciousness does not exist

I do not claim that it does not exist, I claim that it is an illusion. Illusions exist, they are just not what they naively appear to be.

> we may have to magically conjure out of nothing much fewer entities and arbitrary rules

What entities and arbitrary rules need to be "conjured out of nothing" to support Dennett's thesis? In fact, it's the exact opposite: presupposing the objective existence of something for which there is no evidence, and quite a bit of evidence that our perception of it is an illusion, that seems more like "conjuring something out of nothing" to me.
It fulfills a similar role to Pantone and predates it by about three decades. WWII is probably to blame for its limited spread beyond German-speaking countries. But in Germany and Switzerland it's the preferred way for specifying paint and coating colors.

Celsius and Fahrenheit is a good comparison. RAL became widespread and nobody sees a reason to switch; but other regions prefer other systems because of how history played out.
As far as I know this method is done by commercial beekeepers. Well at the end you are have to choose to burn it all and face big investment or to invest work. It's right that the artificial swarm has to "hunger" a bit.
At the end you get no honey from the bees and have to invest in new frames and sugar. It's no visit in the candy store if you have AFB but burning everything seem to be a last resort solution which isn't nowadays necessary anymore.
The other problem you are facing are the beekeepers around you ... they have to do the same and than there are some black sheep which are not known to the veterinary administration. They can also contribute to a never ending AFB problem.

At the end hygiene (torching unused hives and frames) is the first thing everybody can do to prevent such situation.
Depends on what you mean by homebrew version of cp.
cp isn’t a package on homebrew, but I suspect you’re talking about the gnu coreutils which contain the gnu cp.

That one does not have the flag.

However I think you were still using the old macOS cp without knowing because long time ago when I played with this package, they all were prepended with a g. Like gcp instead of cp.
You have a wise wife :)
Pretty much. But the giant oil tanker full of "meanies" was a nod to Exxon Valdez which was fresh in memory then.
back in the early 1980s when every article in Scientific American had illustrations in black, white and one other color which varied with the issue

Oh that sounds lovely! And potentially a useful memory aid: "I don't remember when I read it, but I think it was in a dark magenta issue…"
I’m always a bit amazed when every home has 2 lines running to it, and probably 99% of those second lines never get used, but telcos figured it was worth it for those occasional 2nd lines/fax lines or redundancy instead of ever needing to run a 2nd pull.

Is this just a North America thing or an everywhere thing?
That's demented. I don't think I'd ever think to even try that in C. chef kiss
There is one difference. Arch users will tell you, "I use Arch. You should try it." and NixOS users will tell you, "I use NixOS. You should probably not try it. You should try Arch."
I feel like I'm on a completely different journey, one in which I realize my effort is up to me, but the results of my efforts are not--at all.

I only get to live life moment by moment. All I can ever do is what seems to me to be the next right step. The overwhelming majority of the time, that's actually very clear, and very small. In very few of my moments am I called upon to make momentous decisions.

What happens when I make the thousands of small choices usually has very little effect on anything except how I train my own mind to address future decisions. Especially if I'm interacting with another person, how long ago and what they ate is probably going to have a bigger impact on how they receive what I say than anything I can do about how I say it.

So I'm working on letting go of results completely. Perhaps this would be spectacularly stupid if I didn't believe in a fundamental, personal force for good that underlies all reality, but in that context, letting go of any sense of personal responsibility for outcomes is really helping me find peace (and, incidentally, finally find achievement).
Somewhat related, there's a teaching in the Pirkei Avot (attributed to Rabbi Tarfon): "It is not your responsibility to finish the work [of perfecting the world], but you are not free to desist from it either"
Not to mention working programmers are expected to keep up with changes to C++, Python, Java, JavaScript (and its frameworks), Go2.0, etc., many of which constitute "new language" levels of different, not to mention actual language changes like JS -> TypeScript, or Java -> Kotlin, or ObjC -> Swift, and even occasionally mobile lang -> C++ (maybe just a shared core). There's plenty of evidence that it's not that bad. And meanwhile, Common Lisp hasn't changed, code from the 90s works unmodified, the only things to keep up with really are which libraries and implementation-specific features are new/interesting/in fashion (same as any language ecosystem).
I once spent an entire night setting up a new Macbook. Early in the morning, bleary eyed, I cloned a directory to ~/project. I must've quoted it, because it created a directory called "~". Without a thought, I typed `rm -rf ~` and hit enter.

Oops.
https://archive.is/oHnfJ
So, what, you're going to get the AI to sign an NDA?

They don't work for you, they work for the vendor. You can't hold an AI accountable, so you shouldn't trust it with your secrets.
Imagine a court which ruled that LLMs must have a reproducible mode, based on a session ID provided by the user, to establish a legally binding and deterministic connection between copyrighted LLM prompt and generated code.

Are LLM vendors allowed to permanently archive user-copyrighted prompts? Presumably the vendor's EULA can force the user to grant a non-exclusive license for any purpose.

> If you feed it the exact same prompt again, you can get something quite different back

If one trusted an LLM to generate code from the first prompt, it might be worthwhile to periodically evaluate new code generated from the same prompt. E.g. can the LLM generate a better implementation, or does testing of new output identify an ambiguity in the first prompt? Would a newbie developer have written better code after N months/years of experience?
> Much more significant is the 12 dB reduction in the "shrill and annoying" frequency range.

Those higher frequencies travel farther than the lower frequencies, so cutting them has a bigger perceived effect (and this is all about perceived effect, I believe, not the health effects of the operator).

Just agreeing with you that acoustics is complicated and non unidimensional.
Yes, when they famously declared "there's no sex in USSR" it was because USSR was a theocracy.
You are still missing the point of why they use a typewriter. With a word processor on a computer, I can easily start browsing TikTok instead of writing my paper. Not so with a typewriter. Of course, it has its own cons compared to a computer as you state, but to say there are no "practical applications" is wrong, as evidenced by the fact that people do in fact use typewriters as I've stated. If it were not practical at least in some small way, they wouldn't be using it.
> Because it doesn’t keep a big tank of water heated and ready to be delivered to any house tap, tankless water heaters save energy—up to 34 percent, according to the Department of Energy.

Yes, perhaps compared to electric heated tanks - though the latter require a lower continuous power and can be planned against peak demand.

However, heat pump water heaters which dump their heat in a tank are much more efficient.
A friend used to create marketing templates and test websites in Middlemen quickly, so I ended up tinkering with it. I don't overthink, and I'm OK with the Ruby-powered engines. Well, I still run my website on Jekyll.

11ty is a good one. I was also comfortable with Nunjucks, so it worked without too much thought, and I liked it.

I tried Astro, and I'm thinking of looking at it a bit deeper. Right now, my intention is to find a pattern for my personal use where I can totally decouple the content from the tool. So, if I want to try Astro on my website, I can just do the template and let it chew up the content and spit out the website.
There are also something called "water blades" - soft strips of plastic/silicone that can be used to sweep water off car surfaces.
Im not familiar with this type of research but the appendix figures and tables are very useful to grasp what methodology they are using here. I wondered how they quantify the responses to numeric values to compare with the gold standard. It seems they simply ask the LLM to respond with a numeric answer
Isn't a lot of 3D in shows and games "faked" to look good to the viewer?

I remember seeing this blog write up on what 3D animators do to make things look acceptable. Like make a character 9 feet tall because when the camera panned them, they looked too short at their "real" in-system height. Or archway doors that are huge but at the perspective shot, look "normal" to us. Or having a short character stand on an out-of-scene blue box to make them having a conversation with a tall character not look silly due to an extreme height difference? Or a hallway that in real life would be 1,000 feet long but looks about 100 in-world because of how the camera passes past it, and how each door on that 1,000 foot hallway is 18 feet high, etc.

I wonder if shows like Futurama used those tricks as well, so when you sort of re-create the 3D space the animators were working in by reverse engineering like this, then you see the giant doors and 9 foot people and non-Euclidian hallways, etc. Just because it looks smooth as the camera passes it, doesn't mean that actual 3D model makes sense at other perspectives.
It is douchebags all the way down though.
> There's a small town here where every house is within a flood zone off the river and they were underwater for about a week a couple years ago. Built right back up and now there's 2 or 3 new housing developments going in.

Yeah we got the same shit in Ahrtal, Germany. The government decided to do nothing and so, predictably, three years after the last flood, a few weeks ago the next flood came - way smaller than the 2021 flood, but still decently destructive.

IMHO, after devastating flood events governments should declare the affected area uninhabitable, insurances and governments pay out fair market value, and the land is then flattened and condemned for future settlement. There is just no way that with the escalating severity due to climate change this land will ever be safe from flooding again.

[1] https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/ahrtal-unwetter-auswirkungen...
How about replacing antiques with modern trains? Repairing tracks? Electrifying all tracks? Those steps would not only reduce noise, but actually make their service usable.
Since no one's posted it yet, here's what it used to look like

2017: https://archive.ph/YNAQP

2023: https://web.archive.org/web/20230420163425/https://www.thund...

2024: https://www.thunderbird.net/
MLB incorporating Negro Leagues stats
It's hallucinating a bit. There are new things put in that weren't there in the previuos frame.
The article mentions that this was also disclosed to the local CERT. In Europe, it is usually their task to disseminate such information more widely.
Code should still be somewhere in the local git cache, right? I've had to go digging around in there once in a very similar situation.
I loved Operation Chaos, but I found the much later sequel to be disappointing.
Welp I'd love to learn how to make it more privacy preserving. We make it easy to run your own, but intelligence service can MITL the TLS connection.
Just shy of $180k.

ETA: but our oldest is 15. When we started this in 2008, I was making $12.75 / hour.
HN's automated removal of words from headlines making them mean something completely different strikes again.
So technically not a slowdown, more like an unsustainable rate of adoption that failed to become sustainable.
No. It will get offered to you once you exceed the monthly GPT-4o limit (currently 5 to avoid breaking the bank).

GPT-4o outperforms all local models so I figured using it as a fallback was the right approach :)
One of the Apple bigwigs made a self-deprecating joke about this at a recent Apple event. I forgot which one, but it was something like "annd... you can now even set more than one timer. Will technological wonders never cease!"

I thought it was interesting because a.) it showed they were aware of how common the frustration was, and b.) man it takes the world's leading tech company a lonnnnnng time to implement a feature that is about as simple as features get, if it isn't one they invented themselves.
Life is inherently suffering, close to death or not.
I just don't use rm directly, unless it's something very trivial and non-recursive. Start with ls, write out your path, execute it and check the results. If it looks fine, Ctrl+P → Ctrl+A → Alt+D → rm → Enter. Takes maybe two seconds more than just using rm, and definitely saved me more time over the years.
GPU-Poor No More
Are tacos and burritos sandwiches? A judge in Indiana just ruled yes
“ Each house had its own distinctive ring—two short one long, for example—and it was considered impolite to listen in on another's call.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony)

A party line! Our cabin still has a grandfathered one with the distinctive ring. I think we pay 1/4 of the regular rate so we keep it despite everyone having a cell phone now.

I don’t think there’s anyone else on the line.

Got a funny spam call with a recording for some miracle septic tank treatment. It asked me to press 1 for more information and I can’t do that on a rotary phone. Scammers don’t understand their target market. (We also don’t have septic system, just an outhouse.)
I don't think you understand what it means.

The on chain contract like that can't possibly know which funds are "illicit" or "marked as suspicious". Only users entering the contract can possibly have some logic on the client side to bail out if they notice the would be joining funds with some best effort list of "illicit" addresses, and there's really nothing forcing them to use it.

I bet generally here both the public and judges do not understand the technical details.
I will humbly restate this advice slightly based on 2-3X the life experience: Don’t have “end goals”. There’s no way to be satisfied with that approach. Either you reach the end and haven’t achieved them (you’re a “failure”), or you achieve them but aren’t at the end (now what?).

Instead, have a direction, or preferably more than one. Strive to make progress in those directions and celebrate your progress. If you enjoy running the race, rather than just look to the finish line, you’ll have reason to be satisfied the whole time. And if you don’t have a goal, there’s no reason to ever stop being satisfied.

Bonus points if you can train yourself to be satisfied based on just one criterion: Did I learn something? Because then there are no “failures” to worry about, and you’ll be much more open to trying new things.
There's a lot of overlap with ideas in Terror Management Theory. A lot of TMT is denial of death & not facing it, but also some people have a far more head on approach, motivate by watching the candle burn. Theres a variety of new page browser extensions that show life-left clocks of various sorts, for example.

I haven't read deep in, but even a couple long form pop write ups has been an affirming experience to go theough, has made me feel less alienated for trying to walk the line with my dissatisfactions (instead of opting for available happinesses or contentednesses). I know others grapple similarly, but somehow having some name some theory that talks somewhat to this desperate dissatisfaction fuel really helped me equalize pressure & handle this stress a bit better.
You're even using a and b, very good.
Irresistible Revolution: Remember what waking was like before smartphones?
Why not just use cap’n’proto? It seems superior on every metric and has very impressive vision.

Honestly the biggest failing for those guys was not making a good Javascript implementation. Seems C++ aint enough these days. Maybe emcscripten works? Anyone tried it ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25585844

kenton - if you’re reading this - learn the latest ECMAScript or Typescript and just go for it!
> I shouldn’t have been surprised by anything I saw or heard at this conference. But when it ended, and I departed DC for home, it felt like my life force had been completely sucked out of my body.

> More specifically, it divided attendees into two groups: those who see war as a matter of money and strategy, and those who see it as a matter of death. The vast majority of people there fell into group one.

> I walked out of the panel in a quiet daze.

> It was, frankly, jarring to hear a recent top US official defend Israel’s mass killing of Gazan civilians by invoking wartime massacres that not only preceded the Geneva Conventions, but helped justify their creation.

> On the evening on the first day, Palantir had a social event with free drinks. The only options were two IPAs, and I had one called “the Corruption”. It was, bar none, the worst beverage I’ve had in my entire life.

I stopped reading here about 2/3 of the way through but is this what passes for journalism? What hyperbolic nonsense.
My wife has been a homemaker since I got my first career job. For the first few years (~2013-2016) I was making $64k. I've maxed my 401k every year. I started making more in 2017 and now make pretty well into six figures, but we still don't spend more than $60k or so in a year, and IMO we've always lived quite well (now with two young kids). I didn't, but if you saved up for a few years living with your parents in your early 20s, you could buy a house and then do pretty okay on 60k+. Especially if both people worked and saved before moving out.

$60k seems to be just above the median individual income for men 25-34 (1134*52=58968):

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2024/median-weekly-earnings-of-...

When I analyzed this a couple years ago, the minimal yearly expenditure to live a more Spartan version of our lifestyle (without compromising on things like food or heating) but with the same home was a little over $40k. Everything over that for us is just prioritization. Covid inflation may have altered the cutoff since then, but I don't think it changes the qualitative picture significantly.
https://archive.ph/jbUAl
IMHO the way comma behaves when declaring multiple variables of the same type was a mistake from day one. The sort of thing that only sticks around because it would break too much existing code to fix it. If I were in charge I'd declare the syntax deprecated in the next version of C and introduce a new character, maybe | that would do the same thing except it would propagate the pointer as you would expect.

In my code I never use it. Every variable gets its own line. You might think this would blow up the declarations, but in practice it's not a problem, especially in modern C where you can move declarations down to where they're used instead of stuffing them all up at the top of the function.
> "This was the first Disney movie to make heavy use of computer animation. [...]"

Tron came out 1982, six years before Oliver & Company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron
>3d cars look better than 2d cars, even in an otherwise 2d show.

This is quite debatable, if you notice that the car is a 3D object, then something is already wrong.
A douchebag said it, but I'd say it fits the CEO pretty well.
I like to think of Perl like one of my favourite bands from the 90s/00s that isn't as popular as it once was, but still does interesting things.
Local journalism boosts support for fixing crumbling infrastructure
Technically Kubernetes does: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/api-concepts/...
PP has a point though. I entered "LoRA" on Google, DuckDuckGo, Startpage and Bing, and all returned results in all first pages were about the communication protocol (1). They could have inferred my interests from previous searches, but I never used Bing in the last year or so, so it seems to me someone didn't care about name clashes.

(1) well, except Google which -surprise- returned about mid page an ad of a local quite expensive chandeliers brand called "LORA".
I think the tip shadow thing has been done before on other devices (Samsung note) but the shadow of the entire pen you're using is new. It looks very cool.
Show HN: I've built AI dev team without a single line of code
Agree that you need checks and balances, but there are better and worse systems.

As someone who has scaled orgs from tens to thousands of engineers, I can tell you: you need value teams to own their own risk.

A small, central R&D team may work with management to set the bar, but they can't be responsible for mitigating the risk on the ground - and they shouldn't be led to believe that that is their job. It never works, and creates bad team dynamics. Either the central team goes too far, or they feel ignored. (See: security, compliance.)
It doesn't have to be that way now.

I stick to buildless libraries and frameworks. You can even build an SPA without one (mithriljs[1], as I used in a browser extension).

[1]: https://mithril.js.org/
Whoosh reloaded – Python full text searching library
Friction produces heat, not sound...
I think there are additional factors mentioned in the article. Apart from the black/white aspect of printing (though the covers had colour):

> Off went Young to the London Zoo, where the “fiercely modernist” Penguin Pond exhibit had opened the year before to general acclaim.

As the article pointed out, Penguin started with a bit of left bias, and modernism (and futurism) were associated with and inspirational to the left as they embodied change, as opposed to the conservative stance of the right. While that has nothing to do with the animals themselves (who tend, like all animals, to be pretty conservative) one can imagine how, when visiting such an exhibition, the architechture could establish a philosophical penumbra for Young, especially given the times we're talking about.
In the general case, I mostly agree, but it cracks me up that this is the prevailing attitude when it comes to our industry; but when we see police departments or government agencies trying to follow the same playbook, we immediately point out how that's laughable and doesn't result in real accountability.

In this specific case, though, Sam Altman's narrative is that they created an existential risk to humanity and that the access to it needs to be restricted for others. So which is it?