skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But "you" aren't alive. It's a fantasy. Even a perfect recreation isn't going to be "you". You don't experience it's experiences.
and love the people that only apply this thinking in a foreign policy context and not domestic because it's inconvenient to their party...
I have met several Brexiteers on Quora, and not one of them could give a sensible reason for their vote. I don't mean a reason that I would like, I mean just a reason that could make any sense.
I still hope some smart Brexiteers exist, but I've not been lucky enough to meet any of them.
Not too bad, except I have no idea how many users we have :')

Swarm still works pretty smoothly for me, although I'm worried about the Mirantis situation, too. I'm currently working on a new backend, which will also enable us to plug in other orchestrators if need arises.
Or another way of understanding it: trust (now), but verify (later).

It's a Russian proverb BTW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust%2C_but_verify
Exactly - Claude's payment plan is silly.

The request limits are rediculous and that is why I am not interested in ZED AI and Cursor AI as they are all nerfed by Claude's request limits.
Indeed it is, sadly. But I'm very glad you got to read this paper, and get thoughts from it! The more people see things this way, the closer we are to changing the education system for the better.
Because Russia is a bastion of Human rights and freedom....
Durov chose to become a French citizen. What do you make of that?
https://youtu.be/BNWpZ-Y_KvU?si=0ANC62CFyCt8vLFW&t=99
How popular was C in the early 1980s though? I suspect BASIC and assembly where much more prominent until late in the decade.
Even Nassim Taleb[1] seems to think Macron is in the wrong, not to mention Snowden. You also had Macron saying that he envisioned shutting down Social media in the event of riots. That is no way is a commitment to freedom of expression. Imagine shutting down Facebook or X during BLM riots, or any other mass riot? That's so antithetical to the US first amendment right to free expression.

That said, it's no surprise that anyone who doesn't identify with a riot wants to suppress freedom of expression on an unrelated platform and those who agree with a movement or riot, will want to ensure freedom of expression on a given platform even if they previously and into the future might want to shutdown the same medium for allowing expression they disagree with.

[1]https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1828100412047573104
Payment buys time that people can't be doing what they want to. If what they want is to be drinking 10 beers, then the options are either paying them not to (i.e. paying for passive on-call time), or accepting that if there is a call they might not be able to handle it since they could be half in the bag.

This practice will only continue as long as people accept it.
Sure they offer a platform. And they moderate nothing.
>Why do people think that version is "you". Or rather "me"

Why do you think the consciousness that wakes in your body is the one that fell asleep the night before? Because it can access the same memories and is stuck in the same tube of meat?

>Though I'm pretty sure if it's an accurate representation of me it wouldn't want to exist as just a tool

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
and also, a lot of the "HTTPS" encryption is only encryption until the Cloudflare edge node.
> an argument to be made that, at least ethically, communications should be protected regardless of encrypted vs plaintext, and police should just do regular detective work to catch criminals?

France has fairly extreme data retention requirements [1].

[1] https://www.conseil-etat.fr/en/news/connection-data-the-coun...
> These are all strawmen, but they represent the kind of anxiety we feel.

No idea why you would feel the anxiety. If you're found lacking, you will forest get s notification from the DPA asking you to remedy the situation. You wont even be fined
That makes me think of A World out of Time by Larry Niven: Rich guy with cancer frozen in 1970, and revived in 2190... Except revived/transplanted minds have no human rights, so he has to prove he'll be worth keeping alive as a disposable pilot for an exploration ship.
You think Foxconn is going to get into the commodity android smartphone business? Compete with Xiaomi for single digit market share at zero margin?
Seeing a program written in the DDD way can be enlightening. Almost all programmers these days start with databases as a given. So they're writing code that in inseparable from the database and it's no wonder it all looks like CRUD. But a well architected program won't look like that, it will look like whatever problem it's trying to solve. Even something dead basic like a blog which is often the CRUD app tutorial shouldn't be about CRUD, it should be about "posting", "editing", "drafts", "publishing" etc.
It is not wishful thinking from acolytes, it is development effort from the freedesktop group. Most of the effort it is now target wayland.

X11 is not deprecated yet but probably won’t get many new features (e.g. HDR).
See https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/d... for one answer
No human being would exist in the scenario described in my opinion.

The scenario pre-supposes that humans would need to contribute some kind of value in order to justify their existence. I personally doubt any human being would be able to generate enough meaningful value that would be enough to justify the operating expense of their existence. Computing resources that could be used running human.exe, would almost certainly be better used to run some other program. So in a such a world, no human brain would be booted up, it would be entirely populated by other programs that are busy contributing whatever value the mis-aligned system requires.

Once we dispense of the assumption that a human would need to justify their existence outweigh the cost, we can more easily answer the original question. Humans would clearly have some right to exist in this scenario and we just need to make sure that it extends to humans that are already dead but sufficiently scanned to be recreated.
If you're curious what the state of the art in multi-agent is looking like, I really recommend https://thinkwee.top/multiagent_ebook/
you mean the native `str.padStart(targetLength, padString)`
It's not just compression - also the unified memory architecture.
Of course the NSA (and arguably any topic) is more nuanced than internet discourse likes to admit. That said, they've done plenty to warrant people's paranoia of them and not a lot to dissuade it.
We MUST, having life on just one planet waiting for the next mass extinction event here is too optimistic.
Better armed police act as a deterrent though . I don't think these are mutually exclusive: police are better-armed, yet more funding for the FBI for investigating more complex crimes.
I hope one day they can fix the engineering problems so I can buy a machine and keep it for more than two years without fear of some cheap components exploding. A purchased computer should work for a decade at least. If this sounds over the top, look at what the repair shop guys are saying...

Edit: Thanks for the downvotes, its not popular but an unfortunate reality. These issues are related to 2016-present Apple laptops. My 2012 MBA is running just fine, but I cannot trust these soldered systems.. there's other content around about the 13v being dumped into the SSDs when another component fails. There are engineering issues.

If you want to understand what I'm talking about:

Apple SSDs engineered in the worst way possible:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qbrLiGY4Cg

Exploding USB-C MacBook Ports Explained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAGnMR1aVuE
So essentially just a waiting game then.
I would happily do more dev or add more features, but I am not really sure what more to add / or do.
Apple's shareholders would riot if the company started building its own semiconductor fabs.
Snowden has been a Russian mouthpiece since he fled and shouldn't be trusted. That said, he did what most of us wouldn't and is just doing what you have to do to survive.

With all that said, this appears to be the correct take based on what information we have today.
>Japan’s national bird (green pheasant) is, IIRC, the only national bird that’s also a game bird.

Pakistan and Gibraltar both have national birds that are partridges (the chukar and the Barbary partridge respectively).
What is the effect on battery life vs keeping an actual 32GB or RAM powered?
Fair point; I should have clarified I wasn't really talking about Uber, specifically, but about American products (e.g. Windows and MacOS) in general :)
My 2014 pro is still going strong
> Any US company operating in the EU is at risk of constant fines no matter what you do, due to this geopolitical issue.

So why don't the poor trillion-dollar supranational corporations do anything about it?

I can tell you why: they are happy about this. And you can often find they sign their support for these laws in the US.

--- start quote ---

The CLOUD Act primarily amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil.

The CLOUD Act received support from Department of Justice and of major technology companies like Microsoft, AWS, Apple, and Google.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act?wprov=sfti1#

--- end quote ---

Boohoo cry me a river about the plight of these poor hapless companies.
Advanced economies simply don't work like this. You cannot have an entire generation raised with the mantra "You must go to college. Take loans. Go to college" and then expect to have a strong blue collar work force. I went to college to sit at a desk at home and get a salary, not commute to a job site and make an hourly.

And even without the mantra, who the hell wants to be the skilled technician working 60 hours a week in a clean lab to push out top quality silicon, when they can be the skilled SWE fiddling with a login page for twice the pay, from their home office, for 30 hours a week?

If you break it down, it becomes more and more of an irreconcilable problem.
Ask HN: Do you use a non-mainstream distro/OS? If so, which and why?
I have added bing's clarity, do any of you guys use that heatmap feature?

Seems cute, but unsure if I would actually make use of it.
Yeah that's a very doable build on AM4 Ryzen. I'd hope someone with C++ chops to hack on Chrome would be able to afford that.
My understanding is that the performance is based around Apple silicon being optimized for the NeXT/ObjC model of retain/release, which they got down from 30 nanoseconds on Intel to 6.5ns on M1 (14ns on emulated Intel).

https://singhkays.com/blog/apple-silicon-m1-black-magic/#is-...

IMO 8gb is still barely acceptable for most consumers in 2024, but not for any laptop that you'd expect to get more than say two years of usefulness out of, so… yeah it's about time.
> Humans would clearly have some right to exist in this scenario and we just need to make sure that it extends to humans that are already dead but sufficiently scanned to be recreated.

So it sounds like we might be stuck toiling away to fund their social security for an eternity.
A short story that explores some of these questions is "Where Am I" by Daniel Dennett, linked-to here: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/daniel-dennett-where-am-i...
What matters the most is the product. Intel has had a serious of serious problems on that front over the last decade. From product delays, to Speculative Execution security concerns, to oxidation/voltage issues. Meanwhile their competition has been absolutely killing it, to the point where their X86 moat is collapsing. Their major software partner, Microsoft, is spending $$$ to open the option to work with other vendors. The fact that Apple successfully walked away is a major advantage for MacOS over Windows.

All the tax incentives, all of the trade deals, all of the weight of the federal government won’t matter as long as Intel continues to produce inferior products. Now they have 15% fewer minds to work with. In twenty years it won’t matter if Intel is still operating fabs or not, the chips will be so far behind all the serious workloads will be on other silicon.
ahem, Richard Stallman slash Linus Torvalds' build machine

but in seriousness, it doesn't need to be the OS itself of course, just any software that runs on the OS
> I've avoided the app ever since. I can't say how, why, or when the app became compromised, but anecdotally, I was told that it was and that it was no longer a concern in Russia.

The Russian state stopped blocking Telegram after the state investments in the platform, that tells you everything you need to know about its security and the deals they must have made with the Kremlin.

If something isn't blocked in Russia right now, it's because they have access to it.
I lump them in with anyone that doesn't generate revenue. In other words, the people my output also has to pay for. Bring on the AI.

Speaking of AI, our PM was in my office with me and my boss. He asked if we need to hire another dev. Before I could open my mouth my boss declared that we eliminated that position with AI. I'm about to leave and they don't know it, yet. I was going to suggest hiring the junior dev.
> Why build it if you are just reading?

Is this a serious question? Assuming it is, to insert printf statement, or attach a debugger and step through the program and take backtraces to supplement or confirm the information you gather from reading the code.
In the case of RealPage that doesn’t seem like the most probable outcome. They’ve been caught red-handed engaged in blatantly illegal price-fixing conduct that has harmed millions of American families.

They’re up against the DOJ and plenty of red state AGs too, all signs point to them being nailed to the wall. At least at a corporate level, we don’t have a good track record of sending execs to jail of course.
That "they didn't have any big cranes" forces the analogy in a way that breaks it. The solution wherever cranes are used is absolutely to get a bigger crane. And also, oxen were absolutely bred to be bigger. That's kind of the defining thing that distinguishes draft oxen from other kinds of cattle. But that process was limited by some factors that are peculiar to domesticated animals. And, of course, if you need to solve the problem right now, you make do with the current state of the art in farm animal technology.

Admiral Hopper's lecture wasn't delivered too long after 1976, which saw the release of both the CRAY-1 (single CPU) and the ILLIAC IV (parallel). ILLIAC IV, being more expensive, harder to use, and slower than the CRAY-1, was a promising hint at future possibility, but not particularly successful. Cray's quip on this subject was (paraphrasing) that he'd rather plow a field with one strong ox than $bignum chickens. Admiral Hopper was presumably responding to that.

What they both seem to miss is that the best tool for the job depends on both the job and the available tools. And they both seem to be completely missing that, if you know what you're doing, scale up and scale out are complementary: first you scale up the individual nodes as much as is practical, and then you start to scale out once scale up loses steam.
I don't think Harry Potter will stand the test of time that well. In the world of Harry Potter, there are no cell phones, no internet, no Google and no AI. For my generation that was no issue at all when we got into the books, because the Internet were fairly obscure in 1997 (as in, not something you would use on a daily basis), Google was just a postdoc project and of course kids didn't have cellphones.

7 books later, it seemed fairly strange that the characters in this magical place didn't have access to the things we used every day.

For kids born today? They will grow in the world where it is perfectly normal to talk with a computer that is smarter than they are. That will not be a wow experience like the first time you talked with an AI. It will be completely normal, entirely unsurprising, just like you expect there to be light when you push the light switch.

Their world will be far more magical than the one we grew up in. But Harry Potter is stuck in time, forever suspended in the late 1990's as some fly in amber.

Now imagine you pick up a book supposedly full of magic and many wonders. And then the characters have to search through books by reading them until they happen to find the piece of information they want. Thats already laughable to me. How much more so to kids who grew up with talking computers and touch screen phones? Where, of course, the pictures move and you can talk to them.

I could be entirely of base here, but one of the great things about the Harry Potter series was the feeling of Magic. Is the Magic going to be there for future generations?
> I've found no other mention of this on the internet

Here's one! (different character, but same issue it seems?)

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1cbarz5/ele...

> and I'd love to to hunt this down and fix it but have no clue where to start. I guess the first step would be to consistently reproduce the bug...

I am not familiar with Chromium at all, and I also don't run Linux on the desktop as I'm guessing from your video you do (?) so take this with a grain of salt...

I would start looking at the focus and key event handlers. e.g. maybe log the contents of pressed_keys and/or step thru the code from the beginning of the focus handler. It looks like this might be the place:

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/01ab59ae08a38a361d...

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/de351fd416ec36beeb...

Even if you can't repro it, you may be able to figure out the issue by just reading thru that code with some theories in mind. e.g. Since pressing another key seems to fix it, maybe look at what the code is doing there... my guess is the release event fixes whatever corrupted state it is in upon focus.
> Atkinson says that while the CHIPS Act is a start, the United States is likely to need additional funding, support, or incentives if the goal is to see competitive leading-edge semiconductor fabs owned by U.S. corporations. “We’ve hit a double in the first inning, and that’s pretty good,” he says. “But the problem is everybody in Washington thinks we’re done.”

This is the problem.

Asia has seen semiconductor manufacturing as a strategic investment and so setup long term benefits, subsidies and education programs.
They also have leadership that stays in power long enough to see these plans through.

Meanwhile the US has been enjoying the easy gains of SW companies juiced up on low interest rates (which leads to inflation, which favors industries that require very little capex).
Finally people are realizing that we still need HW companies but all we get is a one off band-aid solution, just enough for the industry to survive until the next election.

It really is like the old joke that Asia is playing go while the US is playing chess (strategic vs tactical thinking).
That phrase got so much traction precisely because it's a bad choice of words. It's easy to dismiss a movement if you latch onto the worst framing you can find, take it literally to the point of bad faith, and refuse to dig any deeper.
The only way it can succeed if you are determined to make it succeed no matter what, work day and night, throw away most of it and pivot into any direction after many failures but determined to make it work. If that doesn't sound appealing, then it's probably not worth it. Dabbling in something rarely produces great hits.
I aim to live my life such that there is 0 reason to "boot me back up". All knowledge and intuition I have should be written down or otherwise conferred.
E2E doesn't typically provide that. No common E2E messenger enforces the necessary key verification. Only some inform about key changes. Only Matrix can be configured to refuse mis-signed messages.

And then there is even stuff like OMEMO, which is E2E, but intentionally does not do authentication of messages, quite the opposite: It's protocol is designed such that you can always deny having sent such a message...
The encryption is a red herring to distract from the truth: telegram is the only platform where views different from war profiteers can be expressed. You can't do it anywhere else: not on cnn, not bbc, not guardian, not bloomberg, ..., not fox news, not npr, not reddit, not medium, not in a french court that rubberstamps whatever overseas masters tell them.
There is no free speech in Russia anymore. This includes Edward Snowden as long as he's living in Russia. Please just ignore what he's saying until he leaves Russia or Russia becomes a free country again.

The only reason Edward Snowden got asylum in Russia is using him for propaganda.
I believe this sort of brain structure is inherited more than nurtured. You can spot differences as early as 4 years old.
"It’s a lifestyle change, unfortunately"

I would say that this is one of the wrong ways of approaching the problem, which makes it more difficult to lose weight. People who are (severely) overweight who gorge on food have an unhappy lifestyle: they don't look good or feel good, they are prone to energy swings that make them irritable and bad company, and they are obsessed with food.
Fortunately, an all-too-simple lifestyle change would make their lives much better. The food not eaten today will be there tomorrow. No need to obsess over it.
Turned Garry Tan (YC) & Dan Romero's AMA into a Chat-Style Convo – Check It Out
Sending warrants and subpoenas is regular detective work.
Erasure Coding for Distributed Systems
I'm conflicted now.
"Military grade"
Yep, the answer to why would anyone boot you up is because they want to be booted up in the future too. Maintaining a culture where everyone gets booted is the easiest way to do that.
The $16K Humanoid Robot Leaping into Production [video]
I have worked the Kagi assistant almost completely out of my workflow, replacing it with Perplexity. I would like to stick with using just Kagi, since it is nice for traditional web search in addition to LLM assistants, and their lenses are really nice (more flexible than the "focus" in Perplexity), but it's going to be tough for them to beat Perplexity in terms of quality.
100% agree on pay. Also Intel is ossified, there is less and less team where you are held accountable. Empire building is rampant. One of the fundamental thing missing is vision and how each team is relate to that vision.
They're referring to these, when Apple said 8GB = 16GB elsewhere -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40024631

https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/08/m3-macbook-pro-ram/
I'm nowhere near sold on "brain scans". It's brain in a jar for me or nothing.
Well you can search for the shortest command combination to reach that position, at least to some extent.
Companies that want bailouts, if they are of national interest, should get those in exchange for partial ownership. When private ownership fails, national funds should come with national controls.
Yeah, I think plenty of VPS providers do unmetered traffic too. Mine has a limit but it's something like 8 TB/mo, so I'm not particularly worried either.
I'm interested in your last question. I'm not sure there's any way of avoiding ancestor simulations.
> only difference here is that Telegram isn't USA-owned and doesn't need to bow down to the USA Govt

The U.S. government doesn't like encrypted communications. But it's legally bound, by our Constitution and courts, in a way Paris is not.

Nobody has been fussing about Telegram in a serious way in America.
I don't think Linux does by default. You need to enable it, via some moderately complex commands line commands.
I knew I'd get downvoted, but there are known SSD / T2 chip issues with 2016+ macs. Still present in Mx mac laptops. 2012 Macbook Air was my favourite laptop ever. See Louis Rossman etc... if you get lucky you get lucky, but I don't like the odds, so Apple hardware for me is a subscription model...