skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "It does exactly what aircraft do"

It doesn't move real Oxygen and Nitrogen atoms, it doesn't put exhaust gas into the air over the ocean, it doesn't create a rippling sound and pressure wave for a thousand miles behind it, it doesn't drain a certain amount of jet fuel from the supply chain or put a certain amount of money in airline and mechanics' pockets, it doesn't create a certain amount of work for air traffic controllers... reductio ad abusurdum is that a flipbook animation of a stickman aircraft moving over a wiggly line ocean is a very low granularity simulation and "does exactly what aircraft do" - and obviously it doesn't. No amount of adding detail to the simulation moves it one inch closer to doing 'exactly what aircraft do'.

> "I don't see how you could add the same “you” to “it will simulate consciousness just fine”"

by the same reductio-ad-absurdum I don't see how you can reject a stickman with a speech bubble drawn over his head as being "a low granularity simulated consciousness". More paper, more pencil graphite, and the stickman will become conscious when there's enough of it. Another position is that adding things to the simulation won't simulate consciousness just fine - won't move it an inch closer to being conscious; it will always be a puppet of the simulator, animated by the puppeteer's code, always wooden Pinocchio and never a real person. What is the difference between these two:

a) a machine with heat and light and pressure sensors, running some code, responding to the state of the world around it.

b) a machine with heat and light and pressure sensors, running some code [converting the inputs to put them into a simulation, executing the simulation, converting the outputs from the simulation], and using those outputs to respond to the state of the world around it.

? What is the 'simluate consciousness' doing here at all, why is it needed? To hide the flaw in the argument; it's needed to set up the "cow == perfectly spherical massless simulated cow" premise which makes the argument work in English words. Instead of saying something meaningful about consciousness, one states that "consciousness is indistinguishable from perfectly spherical massless simulated consiousness" and then states "simply simulate it to as much detail as needed" and that allows all the details to be handwaved away behind "just simulate it even more (bro)".

Pointing out that simulations are not the real thing is the counter-argument. Whether or not the counter-argument can be made by putting "you" into a specific English sentence is not really relevant, that's only to show that the simulated aircraft doesn't do what the real aircraft does. A simulated aircraft flying over a simulated ocean is no more 'real' than drawing two stick figures having a conversation in speech bubbles.
I agree with the spirit of your statement, I truly believe that the US military is the by far most advanced and well equipped force on earth.

Nonetheless, I feel the need to point out that it's budget is a terrible indicator for that.

I'm not even american and have heard just how massively overcharged everything is that's sold to the US military.

It's entirely possible that i.e. China, that can produce their military equipment could actually be way better equipped then it's budget implies. I don't think that Chinas military has caught up to the US yet, but the military spending feels like a bad comparison considering how differently they're financed.
RIP Kevin. Used these sites a lot!

I hope they give then to a charity/charitable person. I proposed to continue the service ad free, for free to them. Hopefully they accept my proposal. It would be such a shame for the service to become "enshittified" by some greedy company
No. Silicon Valley as a whole. There are no good guy tech companies because if they were they would be out of business. If there are, let me know because I want to work for them.
Oh, I knew first generation SSRIs have trouble beating placebo.

I rate your evidence 0/10: did not enjoy.

So now, what about all the other things that have shown to reduce symptoms of depression?

I'd happily advocate for placebo + therapy. Does that work?

How about exercise, does that work?
They mean getting the car out of the situation, not them being unable to leave the car. Definitely a concern if the car is stuck and it’s unsafe to leave the car, ie on a busy highway.
BYD, Geely, Xpeng.
Do you not want it to cost less?
I'm not talking belief either, I'm talking praxis ;)

IME, what you refer to by a Greek letter is either "just there" as part of one's perceptual and cognitive functioning, or "just isn't" - the latter obviously being the predominant case, being more adaptive for survival in a newly Enclosed world. One even has some degree of control as to enabling or disabling it. Without guidance as to avoiding its many pitfalls, though, it's still very easy to end up in a psychotic state, or some other uncomfortable frame and shape. Subsequently, the manifestation of cosmic love commonly called "natural selection" does what it's known to do...

(My pet theory is that Abrahamic faiths, the promotion of Christianity to state-religion, and the consequent Dark Ages, were all parts of a sort of mass political reaction to people overdoing that sort of thing. Took a bunch more centuries than expected to even force it underground, though. And, as these things go, it reemerged nearly simultaneously in the form of the indigenous knowledges of colonized folk, who were subjected to more of the same violence, and then some.)

What was being tested last century is whether the so-called "they" can switch it on or off for you, remotely; authors of fantastic literature, even if not directly informed from "on high", happen to be in a good position to sense these workings and conduct discourses on them. Makes for good business, too, since it is only natural for humans to want some enchantment in their lives. However, the background psychological pressures of living in perpetual encirclement naturally (well, mimetically) drive people to compartmentalization, such as the confining of these experiential coagulates into the sphere of "fictions" (if not outright "delusions", the distinction being, for the most part, simply of medium of conveyance.)

Thankfully, as we all know, fiction is something that doesn't exist, and it doesn't take much to realize how this statement cuts both ways.
I'm not seeing that in either the deportation/removal rates, nor the encounters rate. Which time period 2021-2024 should I be looking at to see this? I'm looking only at annual rates, not month by month.
Until your existing provider jacks up prices 20x because they know you won't move.
> Herbert was a hypergenius I think.

DUNE is (one of?) my favorite fiction reads and I have to resist turning all "fanboy" over it sometimes.

I love the sensation in DUNE that I'm inside a fully fleshed-out universe where the vision is so large I can't even see the edges, but here's one thread you might find interesting.

...that said...

I never really "got" the rest of the series. Never felt like Paul and his actions were acceptably justified beyond "yeah we would've all died out, trust me".

Separately, the whole, uh, female superpower thing came off as eye-rolling simp-nerd fantasy that wasn't up to the standard of the first book. It wasn't even spice-induced, it was just /muscles/ taking over mens' minds.
> Wait, you had to call service to "get out"?

In my SF experience, the car got stuck. Trying to leave my pickup spot into rush hour traffic and nobody would let it in. The car then called support and had a human driver do some city-appropriate aggressive driving to force its way into the lane.

> What if there is an emergency and you need to get out?

I could open the door at any time and leave. But was curious to see what would happen.
Oh no, this has been my go-to site for connectivity tests (as example.com seems to be cached fairly aggressively by my browsers and that has misled me in the past). Ad-free, minimal, does exactly what it needs to and nothing more.

Rest in peace!

Edit: All these (great and much appreciated!) responses of alternatives are making me wonder if this should in fact be a standardized service that could then be offered as a public good in a similar way as pool.ntp.org.

Checking for generic Internet connectivity (i.e. not only having an IP address, but being able to reach public sites, these sites being non-cached, not-captive-portaled etc.) seems like a problem that too many apps, scripts, and devices are solving again and again.
People complain because they care...

You're absolutely right, when people stop caring -- that's when Apple should be concerned.
I think you have to be careful about assuming the US would have air superiority. It doesn't take a lot for what, on paper, looks like a superior air force to turn out to be not fit for purpose.

The famous example is the F4 Phantom getting beat in dogfights against the Mig 21 in Vietnam. It was mostly solved by changing the tactics and to improvements to later model aircraft.

Obviously dogfights aren't realistic in the modern age but that is just one of many variables which might lead to an unexpected deficit. Robustness, reliability, repairability, availablity of parts, ability to operate out of unimproved airfields, using poor qualify fuels etc.
"rouge" means red

"rogue" means rascal
what do you understand as 'systems programming'?

there are people making operating systems for AMD64 in Pascal etc.... so there's plenty of choices, odd and even ones.

some examples of different interpretations of 'systems programming'.

low level systems code - like interacting with devices directly on bare metal. (mmio/io etc.)

kernel code - like writing a new subsystem in linux, which uses other drivers.

high-level systems - like game engines, automation frameworks, other high performance oriented systems-with-lot-of-subsystems?

These different domains, on different targets, might have more or less plausible options for you to try.
After going through all the appliances in my Grandad's house and re-wiring them to have the correct mains plug pinout I can understand the reason for that law!

It is actually quite difficult to wire up a UK mains plug really well!
Maybe with the current limited capacity and mixed-service Waymo didn't want people making the false conclusion that Waymo wait times were longer than Uber wait times?
Do they cause a lot itching? This is the first time I’ve heard that.
Not sure I would call that clickbait when the Creator put that phrase in quotes in the original video title.
D. It's quite C-like, but more concise, has a richer standard library, garbage collection, threading, etc. etc.
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Author here! I agree it's very similar to the actor model, but I kept the article's scope small, so I didn’t cover that.

In fact – Durable Objects talks a bit about its parallels with the actor model here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/what-are-d...

You might also appreciate this talk on building a loosely related architecture using Erlang, though it doesn't implement an actor-per-database pattern – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huGVdGLBJEo
Axelrod's Tournament
Insider knowledge? Not really, unless you count asking actual chinese and taiwanese nationals what they think about it instead of assuming their world view is the same as my own.
And arguably it beats the performance of C/C++/Rust when written without proper care: https://blog.codinghorror.com/on-managed-code-performance-ag...

The big take-away I got from this (admittedly quite old now) experiment is that getting advertised performance out of unmanaged languages for typical real-world (i.e., non-benchmark) tasks often requires a lot more care than people really account for. Nowadays memory dominates performance more so than CPU, and the combination of a JIT compiler and a good generational, compacting garbage collector - like C# and Java developers typically enjoy - often does a better job of turning idiomatic, non-hand-optimized code into something that minimizes walks of shame to the RAM chips.
[2] is remarkably interesting:

- "And that mechanism doesn’t just wear out after nearly three-quarters of a century of use: there’s a single screw underneath the crumb tray to adjust the tension of the wire, and it alone is enough to bring many aging toasters back to life."

edit: There's other HN threads about it,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29342936 (232 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38868753 (76 comments)
I'm saying there's no real difference in being able to uniformly say a father should be able to control her daughter's body in medical decisions if it is doctor-approved suicide or doctor-approved uterus removal, if the father gets to just say "well she has a personality disorder, the government is responsible in protecting her by preventing her from medically-approved treatments".
In which regard?
Oh yeah, I totally agree. Should have specified. That advantage only applies to making vehicles. In terms of driving, operation, and pretty much everything else, clearly 'advantage Waymo'
How are self-driving cars public at all?
Amazingly the USSR was more reliable than Putin's russia, whatever that is today.
> It remains to be seen whether business interests on both sides of the border will put pressure on their respective governments to agree to a deal that would end the tariffs.

As far as I can tell, there is one government that caused this and one that is a victim. The pressure should be on aggressor to stop, not on the victim.
Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People [video]
Open Source Funding on the Brink
to me this seems to target a pretty small audience: very big data and specific problem domains, you need killer devops chops, expensive & specialized infrastructure and a desire to build out on bleeding edge architecture. I'd suspect most with these characteristics will stick with what they've got, "medium Big Data" companies should probably go with hsoted services and the rest of use stick with a single node DuckDB.
What a distasteful and ignorant comment. You do not know, at all, the circumstances surrounding GP's situation.

If you're trying to make an argument for "the person involved was not terminally ill", which you obviously don't know, you are pushing aside everybody who has had emotional and mental health issues through their lives, even you.

Depression is, by far, the leading cause behind suicide attempts. More than 90% of people who attempt to do it (or unfortunately succeed) are living with an underlying mental health condition. Choosing to ignore this is outstandingly idiotic.
This[1] is a paper that shows what each operating system tracks and what security model they use. Android generally tracks more and has less effective sandboxing.

[1] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...
The love letter to the IBM 650 specifically included interactive computing with it, having the machine to yourself, being able to single-step through programs and patch them and so on.

Also it includes the social aspect (compete in what you can do with a program fitting on a single punched card). That was present in a room full of Commodore PET computers, with no other computing machines available to anyone there. Come up with a wizardly hack and immediately have an appreciative audience.

The interactive aspect is missing with the attiny85 type of microcontrollers. You already have to be pretty good at bare metal type optimizations to use them, you can't easily learn it on those devices

I see mindbogglingly wizardly things being done with RP2040 type boards. But that's orders of magnitude more wizardly than described here. But at least the "show it off" community exists.
You're not joking, a lot of people I talk to have gone from anti nuke to hard pro nuke. I can see the future having a lot more nukes in it now that there's no reliable world order to believe in.
[I missed the HN edit window so I am replying to my own comment.] Note that you can get the stationary items from stlartsupply.com. No need to go to Amazon.
They were great memorable and ad-free sites that simply showed you your own (or your NAT's) public IP, as seen by the HTTP server.
Countries will have to adapt to lower or even declining birth rates and deal with it. The world cannot just keep on growing indefinitely, unless we populate Mars or whatever. The UK, Korea, El Salvador, Israel, Netherlands, Rwanda, etc., will have to learn to make their economies work with a steady state workforce even a shrinking workforce ala Japan.
Across and Within
Hi HN - I decided to try to compare LLMs by having them play Tic-Tac-Toe. The results were surprisingly bad considering all the talk about how LLMs have "saturated" benchmarks. Have you run into any tasks where LLMs are way worse than you'd expect?
It’s compelling because of course that is what people want.
In some sense, I supose, but that's now how I woud characterize traditional media covering e.g. natural disasters.
What if your worry problem is a planning problem?
It's worse than a rebellious province. It's a more successful rebellious province.

For China, they hold up all of these technical accomplishments and quality of life improvements they have made under their one party system. But now over here is Taiwan that never bought in and is doing even better! It undercuts all of their messaging.

If the communist party could wave a magic wand, they would take Taiwan and not just extract wealth, but also pump out a lot of propaganda that says Taiwan is doing even better under party rule and Western-style democracy was holding it back.
Well seeing that Tesla self driving cars are all smoke and mirrors and has been for years and Waymo os operating now…
This comes up quite a lot - lowering the barrier to entry for creating a bunch of media that wouldn't otherwise exist.

Eh I don't think the world is exactly clamoring for even more music.

I can't speak for everyone's process, but if you don't know how to make music, I'm not convinced that this allows you to do so because the medium of input (aka writing text) is far too divergent from the resultant melodic output to allow for any kind of meaningful individuality.
You can get a thinkpad and it will in fact just work :D
And I can recommend listening to @neonsunset when it comes to C# performance :)

Helped me a bunch to get Sharpl spinning, much appreciated.

https://github.com/codr7/sharpl
Ask Apple?
The entire US? I’ve been to Hawaii and hiked under turbines, no dead birds. I’ve been hunting in the midwest in fields, no dead birds.

I’ve been hiking in Europe, no dead birds.

Again, where is your citation? If birds are “piling up” they’re should be countless articles on it. Hell BP alone would GLADLY fund studies showing all these birds deaths to justify selling more oil.
When I forget where I've stashed a specific symbol or similar I just check the Via QMK configuration tool, similar to when you're trying to learn the shortcut keys for a piece of software. Eventually it's muscle-memory, but it's nice to have a reference guide whilst you're building it.
HP 3314 Easter Egg [video]
True but it’s a new thing that people other that sailors, prostitutes and criminals get them. In the last 10 years I’ve noticed a huge increase.
> It may fail in many other ways, from software bugs, ML errors, to hardware failure.

Definitely a risk, but one that has been well studied. Waymo is safer than other drivers in the areas it operates: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/12/new-swiss-re-study-waymo
They’re all kind of lacking imo compared to btop.

https://flathub.org/apps/io.missioncenter.MissionCenter is a good option though
I do not.

These days I would reach for a shell script for general scripting, filling in the gaps with maybe a C# console app or something in Common Lisp if I want/need some interactivity.

Something that happens pretty frequently is I'll take information I've written into an emacs org doc and run it through a CL function, whose output could be an org mode table which I can from there export to a different document format if necessary.
As someone with tattoos I am spending a lot of time in the sun without sunscreen and smoke enough nicotine to satiate some region in france probably.
>I do wonder who is fermenting this - the obvious place to look here is the fossil fuel industry

Yeh, maybe. But then there is a certain class of people who live lives of wealth and leisure who like to go boating on their $10 million yachts, for whom windmills "spoil the view". And I think their opinions are somewhat consistent regardless of whether they are heavily invested in fossil fuels or not.

If it were just about windmills, the gigantic oil companies are flush with cash to invest in them and don't much care where the profits come from as long as they keep rolling in.
Tariffs can be positive for the country enacting them. The US does have a strong hand here in a lot of sectors. Both China and Japan are fairly protective, for example, to their benefit.

However blowing up your influence in the world when a whole bunch of your corporations make a significant amount of income from the rest of the world is always going to be negative. Zero positive effects there.
I would bully the fuck out of any Waymos I saw on the road
You still have to buy the games to play any source ports that will appear and with most people demanding Steam or similar platforms it's not like EA really needs to be concerned with second-hand sales or other "competition" with their current prices for the remasters.
Welp, maybe those eligible voters who didn't vote will remember next time that not voting is the same as voting for the winner.
I forgot to mention vocal communication is another way to connect (which is already being used in abundance, but it’s more mechanical than desirable).

But I disagree that human collaboration is necessarily important for human-surpassing intelligent beings. If anything, I am afraid, that people will finally come to appreciate the ideas behind empathy, mercy and nobility when it’s too late. An apex organism doesn’t need you, it has its own ego and objectives. In some way, humans may want to learn to be like cats—cute, amusing and charming. I am only half-joking.

One way to avoid the dilemma of another apex organism is to not let it be in the first place—current AI is in a sweet spot for enabling human capability augmentation. To be honest, a lot of the current set of capabilities are not threatening or worrisome for anyone of any capability.
Tangentially related, one of the coolest books I've ever read is called "the dream machine" -- it goes through a ton of the detail around opinions on projects like the IBM 650 and others at the time... Neat stuff.

https://press.stripe.com/the-dream-machine
Because the input costs are less?
Do you remember what happened when Russia tried to install missiles in Cuba? The USA put its foot down and was willing to have a nuclear war. Same thing is happening in Russia, making Ukraine part of NATO is just too close. Why is it so hard for people to understand this?