skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Start blaming the sites for using new Chrome(ium)-exclusive features when they're not otherwise necessary. The fact that many sites which decide to update and then offer zero or often negative value to the user, while requiring a newer browser, should be proof that Google is doing an embrace-extend-extinguish on web standards, and web developers who get sucked into their propaganda are making it harder for alternative browsers.
I've always felt that when he stepped back at Google was when things took a turn for the worse.
In Defence of Multiple WiP
It is vacuously true that a Turing machine can simulate a human mind - this is the quantum Church-Turing thesis. Since a Turing machine can solve any arbitrary system of Schrodinger equations, it can solve the system describing every atom in the human body.[1]

The problem is that this might take more energy than the Sun for any physical computer. What is far less obvious is whether there exist any computable higher-order abstractions of the human mind that can be more feasibly implemented. Lots of layers to this - is there an easily computable model of neurons that encapsulates cognition, or do we have to model every protein and mRNA?

It may be analogous to integration: we can numerically integrate almost anything, but most functions are not symbolically integrable and most differential equations lack closed-form solutions. Maybe the only way to model human intelligence is "numerical."

In fact I suspect higher-order cognition is not Turing computable, though obviously I have no way of proving it. My issue is very general: Turing machines are symbolic, and one cannot define what a symbol actually is without using symbols - which means it cannot be defined at all. "Symbol" seems to be a primitive concept in humans, and I don't see how to transfer it to a Turing machine / ChatGPT reliably. Or, as a more minor point, our internal "common sense physics simulator" is qualitatively very powerful despite being quantitatively weak (the exact opposite of Sora/Veo/etc), which again does not seem amenable to a purely symbolic formulation: consider "if you blow the flame lightly it will flicker, if you blow hard it will go out." These symbols communicate the result without any insight into the computation.

[1] This doesn't have anything to do with Penrose's quantum consciousness stuff, it just assumes humans don't have metaphysical souls.
That’s not how quantum computing works.
Housing co-ops would be incentivized to implement those features. Our society should make it easier for co-op of all types to be created and thrive (such as through taxes), but especially worker owned and housing co-ops.
Matter (standard)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_(standard)

Connectivity Standards Alliance > Certified products:
https://csa-iot.org/csa-iot_products/?p_keywords=Thermometer...
The community seems to disagree so far. I'll take a look at how it works tomorrow though. For me most of the misery around merge conflict resolution stems from how git fundamentally works, so I'm not sure how much it can possibly improve on it.
Your comment is a word salad. You misunderstand basic economics and this is a public forum where other people can reply to your comments.
IMO creativity is beside the point, I mean, it is just one of those things that the human brain happens to be good at, so we identify it with consciousness (in the sense that it falls out of the same organ). But really all sorts of stuff can look creative. I mean, just to use an example that is clearly identified as a creative product: a Jackson Pollock painting is clearly a creative work, but a lot of the beauty comes from purely physical processes, the human influences the toss but after that it’s just a jumble of fluid dynamics.

We wouldn’t call the air creative, right? Or if we do, we must conclude that creativity doesn’t require consciousness.
That's interesting and unexpected. How does the update check, notification & install process work?

EDIT: I think your link answered some of these questions. I’m on .msi myself so can’t benefit from it yet anyway.. basically these things need to be managed by the app bundlers like electron & tauri otherwise we’re asking for trouble. I think..
You can even skip storage in many cases, which brings the cost of an installation down dramatically. Low-tech magazine has a great article on the concept.
Yes that’s my main point - if you accept the first one, then you should accept the second one (though some people might find the second so absurd as to reject the first).

> Imagine if instead of an LLM the billions of people instead simulated a human brain. Would that human brain experience consciousness? Of course it would, otherwise they're not simulating the whole brain.

However, I don’t really buy “of course it would,” or in another words the materialist premise - maybe yes, maybe no, but I don’t think there’s anything definitive on the matter of materialism in philosophy of mind. as much as I wish I was fully a materialist, I can never fully internalize how sentience can uh emerge from matter… in other words, to some extent I feel that my own sentience is fundamentally incompatible with everything I know about science, which uh sucks, because I definitely don’t believe in dualism!
Hey, thanks for checking it out! I'm looking into adding the 32 bit binary for Windows, stayed tuned.

Meanwhile, if you have docker installed you could also try it out using the docker instructions if you'd like.
I agree that a month was far too long and she should have been sent back much sooner. But, she 100% intended to violate her visa and I simply can't imagine calling a criminal being imprisoned for 1 month before being sent home, "brutality".
I love the Solarpunk aesthetic. I think it still needs a defining work. Like Blade Runner for cyberpunk. The best example I’ve seen is a yogurt commercial.
> can't easily be done with the command line.

git add -p

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I’m still waiting for “I struggled with git, so I invented the next paradigm of DVCS so no one ever has to struggle with git anymore.”
[dupe]

What else you got for us today OP? How about the actual recent news on this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221549

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222842

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43224350

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093859
If the existence of a book speaks volumes
about how bad something is or is not, I have some bad news for you about what's inside libraries. What beloved subject doesn't have a plethora of books written about it?
That part that bothered me is that everyone in the Federation appears to have more or less the same worldview. That struck me as sort of a cop out versus depicting the characters having to navigate different worldviews/religions/ideologies making up the Federation.
Optimistic part is that they’ve made it to the other side.
Everything that hodls it's desirability even after a grid-down scenario.
Pretty awesome for anyone who hasn't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Ng5ZvrDm4
Because it's not just the US economy and USD. If a billionaire is over-invested in the US and USD, then a decline in the US economy and global hard and soft power (what we're seeing now) will lead to a decline in their wealth relative to global wealth.

If the global economy shrinks by 80% (using your numbers) then their relative wealth can remain the same. If the US economy shrinks by 80%, then their global wealth has substantially declined while the wealthy in other countries do not suffer as much.
I have to admit I'm more than a bit jealous of the things he's been able to do (also BreakingTaps) with optics at home. We've sort of hit this point in optics where people can build stuff in their garage that does very cool things for "not that much money". It usually combines high quality imagers (modern mirrorless cameras are amazing for the price), inexpensive optical trains (like the video says, you can't really use super-cheap objectives, but high quality objectives are available for not obscene prices), inexpensive stages (mainly thanks to modern 3d printers), illumination, microcontrollers, high end computers with lots of cores, GPUs, and storage, and clever algorithms (which often resemble machine learning, or are machine learning).

The real challenge is in learning how to put all these together to make a system that does something interesting. For example, I made a goal of designing a self-built microscope using 3d-printer style motion, inexpensive widely available LEDs and cameras, all within a modest budget (for me that's about $1-2K per year) compared to what you would spend if you worked in a well-funded lab. I'd say it took me a good decade to get proficient with all the bits and pieces required to build my scope (which uses an object tracking algorithm to move the stage around to follow individual tardigrades). There is a fractal-like complexity to each of the parts, and while some amount of mechanical or electrical engineering knowledge can greatly reduce the cost of building these things, reaching the accuracy and precision that is seen in well-funded labs is still challenging.

For those who spent the time reading this comment, here's a reward: a tardigrade hatching from its egg and exiting the moult of its mother (the empty tardigrade-shaped husk around the eggs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snUQTOCHito or jump ahead to https://youtu.be/snUQTOCHito?t=690 to see the actual exit.
AI is most definitely an algorithm. It runs on a computer, what else could it be? Humans didn't create the algorithm directly, but it certainly exists within the machine. The computer takes an input, does a series of computing operations on it, and spits out a result. That is an algorithm.

As for humans, there is no way you can look at the behavior of a human and know for certain it is not a Turing machine. With a large enough machine, you could simulate any behavior you want, even behavior that would look, on first observation, to not be coming from a Turing machine; this is a form of the halting problem. Any observation you make that makes you believe it is NOT coming from a Turing machine could be programmed to be the output of the Turing machine.
Mate, don’t give up! I think it’s time for you to go work on batteries!

Capital is never going away I don’t think, but that doesn’t mean you have to be resigned to its inexorable subsumption of all productive potentials for value extractions… just means you need to keep finding ways to leverage your own knowledge of its behavior and response modes to make positive change (eg start working on demand forecasting in p2p battery storage networks, or utility scale deployment controls, etc etc).
If I run into a problem I would research it, what is so bad about that? Even if I studied git source code in detail 15 years ago I would have forgotten it by now.

Do you know how to build a working computer from individual transistors or understand the physics behind it (I happen to know these things personally)? If not, better crack open your modern physics text and study particle in a box, along with the requisite differential equations, calculous and linear algebra just in case you might run into a problem one day.
Exo looks awesome, exactly what I had in mind, thank you.
> The pause best positions us, due to the increased level of review, to carefully and with due restraint, advance only those positions that are determined to be essential at this time.

What twisted mind concocted this sentence?
Sideways. Still functional, but in somewhat limited capacity.
Fossil, Mercurial, Jujutsu. All have better CLIs and consistent behavior.
All Android apps can be disabled, even if they can't be uninstalled.
Tried that.

Didn't work for me. Still sticky and messy, with the added benefit of adding schmutz from the cloth I used.
Honestly I don't have any fingers on the pulse right now, but the people still close to watchdog orgs I was once part of seems pretty happy with the effect Trump had in the last week, after a few stressful months. It seems that now, Le Pen will support Macron's government to avoid triggering new elections for sure, as they're now unsure of the effect the US news have on their electorate.
Let's see. So there are parsers in various languages, parsing various MD dialects, with varied internal representations, and surrounding ecosystems. And there are attempts at more turnkey document processing systems, often with a more extended dialect, and some collection of feature plugins. Often you can write pipeline AST filters in the given language, and sometimes get out an AST as JSON, and sometimes reinject JSON AST (allowing writing a filter in any language). Which leaves questions like: what dialect is the parser; is that extensible; how robustly correct is it; how clean and easily used and fragile is the AST; how well do the plugins/ecosystem already support your needed features. That AST one, I think of as a big deal, and hard to get a handle on. Aside from manipulation pragmatics, the asts resulting from parsing can get richly creative in quirkiness, that you then may need to regularize.

So I guess two main observations. On build-vs-buy for backend features, given the breadth of possible "we want it like this, and not that", if one can easily play with ASTs, I was surprised by how quickly reinventing the wheel became a plausible call. Possibly skimming existing backend code for insight and templates, but mostly not using it (aka struggling to configure it to give you "this and not that"). The other observation, is once you have ast and don't care about existing backends, your choice of parser and backend language/ecosystem decouple. One might use `pandoc --to=json` and then JS generic-ast tooling to emit HTML.

For parsing, a glance suggests Mdast emphasizes CommonMark and Github-flavored dialects. Pandoc-flavored MD is a bit broader.[1] My fuzzy recollection is I chose a pandoc parse for that, and an expectation of robustness ("it's haskell, and popular"), despite the then less that wonderful docs. IIRC, the resulting asts were fine. For backend, I wanted simple and concise to minimize burden, thus pattern matching (IIRC, most node types ended up a line or two), and chose road-less-traveled Julia for off-topic reasons (was thinking of using Julia for a compiler backend).

Thanks for your thoughts on Mdast - I'm tempted to play with it.

[1] https://garrettgman.github.io/rmarkdown/authoring_pandoc_mar...
From the sound of it, a whole bunch of them.
You can even use the I2C bus to attach a second (tiny) display, see for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UbVgUFfN8U
Yeah, but even then to change the default loader you'll need to point it to something else using some arcane bcdedit command. Dropping some PE binaries is not good enough.
The combination of blind faith in AI, and good faith highly informed understanding and agreement, achieved with help of AI, covers the full spectrum of the problem.
...or Canadians ... I think
Diversify for a potential tech sector decline would not mean investing in energy companies. The investment in energy companies is largely driven by the tech sector. If you think the tech sector (particularly the AI portions and possibly cloud hosting depending on what foreign companies and other nations do) are at risk, then so are their investments in the energy sector.
Wait, does this mean it is possible to disable the quarantine gun and board the rescue ship instead of building your own rocket?
For context on the Cornell numbers with breakdowns on revenue and expenditure, here's Cornell's page on:

Operating Budget: Sources and Uses: https://finance.cornell.edu/financial-guide/operating-budget...

Operating Capital Budget Plan (PDF): https://dbp.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FY-2024-O...

Consolidated Financial Statement: (PDF): https://finance.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/cornell-fina...

From pg 45 of CFS, compensation and benefits is definitely Cornell's largest category. Instruction and Healthcare services making up about $1.3B each.

Instruction, student services and academic support: $1,336,694
Research: $481,268
Public service: $108,197
Healthcare services: $1,339,074
Institutional support: $539,278
Enterprises and subsidiaries: $146,630

Total Compensation and benefits: $3,951,141
you could do git checkout -b backup-of-branch-foo and push that, before force pushing branch-foo, for the paranoid
I'm still correct, because I said "most".
A lot of MDMA goes through the Netherlands
This is exactly the sort of propaganda which encourages making sites that don't work in any browser but Google's. If web developers would just focus on making simple and widely-accessible sites instead of churnful trendchasing, the browser monopoly wouldn't exist.

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google.

Exactly.
I thought I would be just fine with the CLI but I was amazed by magit. A GUI can work well if it leans into the strengths of GUIs - discoverability of features and showing state. Magit does all of these exceptionally well. It helps that git's CLI is quite poorly designed with a lot of unintuitively named commands. How do you undo a commit? How to unstage a file? What's a stash? What's the difference between log and reflog?

With magit I've been able to do things I wouldn't bother before, like reverting small parts of hunks from past commits, doing partial staging of files (not including all changes), and dealing with stashes effectively.
> This is the dumbest decision I've seen the government make in a long time.

…so far. There are four more years of Trump 2.0. ;)
Paging Dr. Turing. Dr. Turing, please report to the HN comment section.
Striking images show Blue Ghost Mission 1's successful moon landing
> Only slightly more common than having actual mind blowing realizations that help people see how others see them, give them empathy they never knew, and give the motivation to fix their lives before they die unhappy.

I don't think that's true? I know that's what Tim Leary was hoping would happen, but it never panned out.

I know plenty of people who have experience with hallucinogens, and none of them really had those kind of life changing revelations. Most found it fun, a few appreciated the new perspectives it offered, but none of them came away with a new path in life. I know I certainly didn't.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I think it takes a certain type of person, in a certain state of mind or view on life, that has those sort of life changing experiences.

And that would make sense? If hallucinogens give you a glimpse of a world view that everyone is human, everyone has struggles, life is short and human connections are what matters - if you already have that world view (or something close to it), then those perspectives wouldn't be revelations, but rather reminders of what you always knew.
Did a lot of the same in middle school in the late 1970s. Less of the home repair stuff, and no welding or machining.

We used hand tools and small power tools (hand-held drills and sanders), and drill press and scroll saws. Only the teacher could use the table saw, planer, and jointer.

One kid made a muzzle-loading rifle as his project. Can only imagine the hue and cry that would cause today.
so much this. It should be second nature too navigate got history and commits as this tutorial teaches you.
> it’s not like shop/industrial arts stopped being a thing 40 years ago.

Unfortunately, I live near two school districts - one in a major metropolitan area in the US - which have closed down shop classes in the name of preparing students for college instead of work in the trades. It is hard to undo those decisions.

Fortunately some local “industrial arts” departments continue to thrive.
I love the design of the site. Vivid memories of my Zenith Z-89
YouTube changed to thumbs up/down from 5-star rating system many years ago like Netflix. They learnt most people either give it 1 star or 5 stars. It’s also hard to understand the meaning of 2,3, and 4 stars in the context of a video.
To answer the question directly: there isn't an obvious way that is economical. There's nothing intrinsically valuable about a group of 40+ technologists when most investments seem to be in the AI space or in other hype-driven spaces.

I'm 43, about to turn 44, and I've been unemployed for three years. My former employer fired me for not vaxxing despite being a full-time remote employee as I refused to give in to their ridiculous requirement. I've been taking care of my aging parents since then as my dad has developed dementia.

I'm interested in working in software again as tech has been my life since I was 13 years old. I've got tons of skills and experience, not just in tech but also leadership, but the prospect of insane hazing rituals known as "tech interviews" has me discouraged. I've been considering starting a tech services business but the economy is rough right now and I'm living in one of the most expensive states in the US.

If anyone could use an experienced .NET dev/DevOps or team lead, look me up.
I’ve only ever had corruption problems with nextcloud and syncthing. (And also with onedrive)

Do any of the options you listed work reliably?

Litmus test: sync a few million files totaling a few terabytes, including build output directories. Build a few projects on machine A a few times and run the unit tests (most services desync at this point). Perform a full sync of A and then machine B. Build on B. Repeat. Also, on both machines add non-overlapping files (like pictures, screenshots) to the same directory at the same time.
This 1967 poem is often mentioned in the context of Solarpunk as having a similar vision https://allpoetry.com/All-Watched-Over-By-Machines-Of-Loving...
They may have good faith and be legitimate and also be unwilling to put in more effort to find a contact and report.