skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct, and notify the user the site is infected with a trojan with a scary warning screen. That second part being the bigger issue.

The JS being blocked isn't the issue, the fact I have users contacting me claiming the site was hacked was the big issue.
> the mind is a pattern which happens to be encoded on a physical substrate

Why do you believe you can differentiate between mind and substrate?

Copying the mind is not like copying a hard drive at rest. It's more like copying a hard drive while somebody is actively writing to it at random, inserting new sectors, shaking it, etc.

I believe that to perfectly copy the mind, you have to make an instantaneous perfect copy of the entire human.
Roosevelt's reforms had a very clear undercurrent of 'its either this or a socialist revolution'
In "Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview" (which is great), Jobs mentions that when he was twelve he needed some computer parts and looked up Bill Hewlett in the phone book and called him at home. Hewlett picked up, Jobs got the parts and a job at HP (summer job?). Maybe people used to respect other peoples time more and having a listed number was not a big problem.
You're right that it's grim -- I said it because of the title of this discussion, "people being able to do whatever they want", and remembering the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland, CA.
That's what I tell my patients, seems to work
I think the phrase 'You can do what you will. But you can't will what you will.' is the correct perspective.

People are repulsed by the idea of having no free will because of their biology; meaning seems to be what drives our conscious thought. I think Terence's argument can be made simpler: You don't have the free will to choose whether the absence of free will bother you.

That being said, I hope this argument nudges you in a better direction: Trying to 'will what you will' only leads to pointless frustration(you can't change the laws of the universe). Accept this, and allow yourself to 'do what you will'. Somehow, we have the power to do this.

Give up on free will; the rest of the universe doesn't seem to be bothered over it. Best of luck, fellow lifeform.
If you've played "Soma" it explores this concept a lot.
In the specific case of the united states, the money is controlled by the Federal Reserve which is a private bank.
To boost resiliency, CAISO starts automated modeling of power plant losses
Urbit claims, like you, exactly-once messaging is impossible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14666015

But that doesn't mean we can't provide systems where, for all practical purposes, it is a guarantee.

Another way to think about it: SHA1 cannot provide a unique hash for every possible set of content - there are overlaps. This is the pigeonhole principle.

Yet, we have entire systems designed around assuming SHA1 is and will always be a unique hash for a piece of content (Git), and, for all practical purposes, it is a guarantee good enough to work despite that.
But they switched the license to MIT. We use tons of software with that license and our lawyers are fine with it.
Fine. But it's not really a surprise that the language becomes inadequate when the situation becomes extraordinary: the verb "to be" was never built to cover situations where a single entity bifurcates into two identical copies of itself, and you want to track the relationship between the children and the parent.

> A copy of you is not you; one need only not destroy the original for you to quickly admit that the copy is not you.

We're not allowed to play semantics, so this statement is meaningless: you need to play semantics if you want to use the word "is" in this context.

> If I copy you, and ask you if the copy over there is you, you'll say no.

Correct. This is using the word "is" in the same sense as I would if I said that I am no longer who I was five years ago.

> If I then kill you, you have just been sentenced to death.
To be precise, someone has just been sentenced to death who was once the Smaug123-who-is-typing-this-now. The one who was killed would say "I have been sentenced to death". The one who was not killed would say "someone else has been sentenced to death".

> The copy will live on feeling as if it is you, but it isn't you, it's a copy of you.

Now who's playing semantic games ;) this time, you're using the word "you" in a different sense to me. Again, "you" refers to two concepts here: the timeless "Smaug123 who is always the same person", and the individual "Smaug123 who can vary over time".
It's fiction, it doesn't find anything, it asserts. There's no rational reason at all to think a copy would be more willing to die. We have copies in the real word, twins, and being a twin doesn't make the other have less of a survival instinct.
The interior is mostly concrete and drywall and there are clearly-lighted exit signs in the photographs. There has been a long history of cultural spaces in ex-industrial space, and it's perfectly safe when basic fire safety regulations for places of assembly are followed.
My original comment was meant to remind you that many who looked at that part of tesla's work concluded it was mostly not going to work and kind of a dream.

Then I reminded myself that many of the technologies I'm using to tell you that suffered the same so, eh, I don't believe it will but who knows! And I hope it does.
Full duplex is such a big deal.

As an example, I have some remote controlled ceiling fans in my house. They're controlled by dumb RF remotes, but I wanted to make them smart so they can be controlled from Alexa.

Being a total SDR novice I figured it'd be easy to use an SDR to tackle this. But after much searching, I discovered full-duplex SDR is _super_ expensive. I think HackRF is the cheapest one at ~$500?

So instead I grabbed an RTL-SDR dongle and some dumb, cheap RF transmitters (the fixed frequency kind that you just dump a digital signal into) that had roughly the same frequency as the fan's remotes.

It only took me a day to get the RTL-SDR working, capture some of the remote's signals, and decode them. But when I tried to recreate the signals using the RF transmitter I grabbed they only worked 10% of the time. Maybe my timing was off. Maybe my antenna was cruddy. Maybe the frequency of the RF transmitter was too far off from the remote's. I felt intimidated by the big, scary black magic of RF. So I gave up.

I ended up just cracking open one of the remotes and soldering relays to all the button pads. An ESP8266 later and I can control all the fans in the house using Alexa. Not bad for a day's work.

But it would have been a lot nicer and cleaner to just use a full duplex SDR. Awesome to see something affordable finally coming out!
That's certainly a risk that can be mitigated, as with all structures.
Sure, I'm happy to believe that. This is only a thought experiment, so we are allowed to do things instantaneously if it makes the issues clearer; and I never actually said that the physical substrate was necessarily the brain. It could just as well be the body more generally.
Repeat viewing is a factor for cult or dear shows or movies, or when sequels come out (one may have partially or completely forgotten the original though the impressions are left).

An other one is viewing over long periods of time e.g. if you're not binging them, series with north of a hundred episodes can take a long time to watch in full even if they're complete, but using a service like Netflix the series may be dropped while you're halfway through watching it.
Oh, I'm sure these spaces make great concert venues, and are perfectly safe when fire safety is paid attention to.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knowledge_(film)

It's a drama rather than a documentary, but highly recommended (IMO).
India's Indira Gandhi Canal: A quite miracle (1987)
Unfortunately, it's also something that actually happened:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Oakland_warehouse_fire

36 people died.
Ah, missed that, thanks
Agreed, "I drive a black cab" would be much clearer for us Yanks. I assumed it was a race thing too.
Twins are very low-fidelity copies of each other. They may have been diverging for decades. To use them as counterexamples is dubious at best. (Not disagreeing with your point, but your example is not really evidence in favour of it.)

EDIT: actually, I think you may have provided weak evidence against your assertion. It's not wildly unusual for a family member to sacrifice themself to save other family members from death.
it's actually easier using parallel :

for x in ...; do echo long_process file$x ; done | parallel -j 8

EDIT: and in your case, it is even easier with xargs, e.g.:

ls files* | xargs -n 1 -P 8 long_process
The sad thing is that Facebook's policy was obviously informed by exactly this point of view, that, essentially, software should not be patented.

It's the backlash that was led by people who considered it a realistic possibility that they may, some day, want to sue Facebook for infringing on one of their precious patents.
> We're not allowed to play semantics, so this statement is meaningless: you need to play semantics if you want to use the word "is" in this context.

That was not remotely a semantic game and I find this statement so absurdly intellectually dishonest that I'm done with this conversation.
I can - both smell awful to me now - but one is quite socially acceptable (cologne/perfume) - the other makes you a social pariah (smoking) most perfume gives me an instant headache that lasts somewhere between 30 min and an a couple hours. Cigarettes don't bother me in that way - but its the smokers that are the awful people - thats the hypocrisy thing.
I don't understand the link. We don't get Vue from NPM. I assume others don't either. That implies to me that the numbers implied in that chart are inaccurate at best.
LeakyX, a vulnerability that Apple and Microsoft have known about for years
Something might be wrong with my browser, I didn't receive a 451 when visiting that page. Or should it be 404 since it never existed?
Sure. So is there nothing to my intuition above? If you were to have users choose between (a) and (b) above, is (b) generally safer than (a)? Much safer? Only marginally so? When using a password manager that presents 10 passwords, should I always choose the first one to remove my choice from the equation? Are those few bits I've removed that important, given that the entire set is random?

I'm not trying to catch you out here. I'm trying to see how far my intuition works in this case and how to read you note in the context of the rest of what you've said.
> A 51% attack means a lot of bad things can happen to bitcoin. Its value would probably crash if an individual got 51% of the power just because it is no longer truly decentralized, even if they don't abuse that power.

That already has happened which is why people forked. You can live in denial of that fact if you wish but a minority "lost" the "vote" and forked Bitcoin.

http://fortune.com/2017/08/07/bitcoin-cash-bch-hard-fork-blo...

The BTH/SegWit2X fiasco shows Bitcoin isn't "more" decentralized than an oligopoly, an oligarchy, or a plutocracy.

> Bitcoin was made with the idea that a 51% attack would be unlikely and unfeasible; as long as that holds, I'm not sure what value your comparison has. You might as well make a comparison to any other possible disaster. ("A solar flare is a form of state governance that will destroy the value of your coins...")

The fact pro-bitcoin people swear up and down that isn't the case doesn't change the fact that they are effectively the Bitcoin state and that 2-3 of them + a number of smaller people can effectively "vote" to pass "laws" that are enforced against your BTC regardless of your wishes.

Simply because they don't outright steal your BTC doesn't change the fact you have to comply to retain the value of your BTC.
Oh, i live nearby; I am definitely aware. That was also horrendously illegal.

I'm not sure why you would assume they violate code except to be dramatic. Concerts have been held in industrial places in secret, but if you hear about one it's typically above board.
Um, I work for a fortune 150 company. I'm not sure what stage that makes us, but we definitely don't do fundraising ;-)
Your "five minutes ago" consciousness would continue along in the original body, and would have the sense of being the same person. The copy would have that sense as well. If both copies are aware of the copying process and which one is the copy, then they could agree that the original is the original "you". But if the copying process destroys one and makes two, or in some other way makes it impossible to distinguish original from copy, then both people could legitimately claim to be the original, and to have a continuous conscious experience of being the original.

That'd be kind of messed up.
What is absurd is to talk about persecution of smokers.
I’m wondering if the study differentiated between analyzing the effect of piracy on large companies with big profit margins versus small companies with thin profit margins.

My conjecture is that piracy would have a stronger negative impact on the latter.

My guess is Piracy doesn’t hurt big blockbuster entertainment and software corporations much because of their corporate deals and large profit margins.

But if you limit the study to smaller mom-and-pop musicians/entertainers/actors/performers, small video game development studios, and other small software companies which have thin profit margins,

I think we’d see a noticeable negative impact caused by piracy.
I don't work for a startup. I work for a Fortune 150 company with nearly 100,000 employees.
Not OP but yes, absolutely. JSON and MsgPack are schemaless, which means they put the schema, including object keys etc on the wire. On every transfer.

The problem is less the client, you're right with that. The problem is that server bandwidth and CPU scale up really quickly if you try to do 30fps, no matter what method you use to keep state in sync. If you want any significant amount of players in a realtime game, this will be one of your first bottlenecks, probably before any encoding and decoding.

For less realtime-y games, JSON and also socket.io can be perfectly adequate.

Protobuf is just insanely slow to encode/decode client side. So that's out too if you want fast paced games. And for slower games it is not worth the effort.
I would have expected two things with the transition to APFS:

--Certain edge cases of HFS+ were no longer supported or would now be supported differently.

--The various special-case file-manipulation APIs in MacOS would have changed.

Both the above tend to happen to some extent with every major rev of MacOS and even some minor revs, and they necessitate substantial code changes. The fact that the old code still "just works" with the APFS change I find surprising.
2 hours of Tom Cruise being badass. Fun raw action movie.
I think cryptocurrency has reached or has perhaps just passed the peak of inflated expectations on the hype cycle chart and is now decending into the trough of dissolutionment. There are some pretty wild claims out there - it does seem like lots of the rhetoric out there is that cryptocurrency and blockchain technology will solve ALL of the problems. But i think blockchain has a ways to go before we see which problems it is particularly good at solving. People will learn, overtime as companies fail in their attempt to apply blockchain to every aspect of life. When a few of these companies to succeed, which im certain at least one will, we will see the real, unhyped value of the blockchain.
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Why can't they say that? Because that sounds exactly like what their parent organization (the university), does every year. This thread seems to be really down on the exclusivity part, but I feel I'm taking crazy pills, because this is happening at universities!! All of pledges just went through a very judgemental, exclusive selection of elites...and they one that round. A further selection process is now abhorrent?
The US is very wealth-unequal, especially if you compare it to developed countries:

https://data.oecd.org/inequality/income-inequality.htm
> According to this definition, is there any possible form of widely-used money that isn’t fiat money?

There used to be 100+ years ago such as gold and silver coins where if you were able to remove them from Country A to Country B, then Country A could no longer enforce such financial penalties against you. This is what many of the cryptocoins _wanted_ to be.

It needs to be a hard currency that leaves you immune to monetary policy and fines unless you are physically within the jurisdiction of the country.
I get the sense that you're hoping that someone will ask you to explain what you mean. So I'll do that.

What do you mean?
(HN:RFC) America's Make-Work Sheriff: The Anachronism of Joseph Arpaio
No mention of the accidental creation of two William Thomas Rikers?

> If, however, we destroy the ship but mail its blueprints somewhere else and then build a new, identical ship, it’s not the same ship. It’s a separate ship built from the same blueprints. It doesn’t even matter whether you use the same planks or not. [Emphasis added.]

The last sentence implies that something designed to be repeatedly disassembled and reassembled is a different object on each assembly. That doesn't sound right.
Hi everyone,

Joseph Arpaio's pardon was a couple weeks ago, but hopefully this is still relevant. If any of you have feedback/comments, I will much appreciate them.

This post is not entirely about the deposed/convicted/pardoned Sheriff of Maricopa (county), Joseph Arpaio. My intention is to draw attention to the Justice Cancer which pervades the United States' criminal justice system.

One of the points that I might need to develop - possibly in this blog post, possibly in a future post - is a proposal for giving police more options for responding to a situation than arresting people and filing charges.

Another point I might need to clarify is that I do believe that some people really do need/require the harsh treatment by the criminal justice system.

I have a recent personal anecdote along the same lines of this post. A few nights ago I got a call from an old friend... She'd instigated a fight with her boyfriend (she's a fighter) and the police were called by bystanders. The responding officers insisted on arresting someone - her boyfriend got the honor. She'd spent hours trying to bail him out of the Alameda County Jail (California). The charges were dropped a day and a half later, but I think the bondsman gets to keeep the bail money ($5,000). The Alameda County Jail is apparently just as horrible a place to be as most of the country's other county jails.

Thanks!

[About a year ago, I did a "Show HN" [1] on my little blog. Most of the posts at this site were originally posted at kuro5hin.org (RIP). My k5 handle 'TaxiCabJesus' was inspired by k5 user 'ZombieJesusChrist'. At first the users there thought I was trolling our mentally-ill member, but my point was to tell stories of doing little things to help people through their day. My 'retirement' from taxi driving was almost 2 years ago, but I've been ruminating on several topics that were repeatedly raised over the 3.5 years I spent driving around in the taxi. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12193273 ]
At that stage, the product is its marketing. You're selling the promise, as there's no physical product to evaluate on your own, or widely available reviews of your product.

When a company is really invested in a product, they put a lot of work on it, often worth much more the investment (in money, time, opportunity costs, mental energy etc). Scammers just want to pick the low hanging fruit.

Good marketing can be inexpensive, but it's not easy. Perhaps it's pick 3 of: cheap, effective, tasteful, easy.
Direct link to the handbook discussed in the article - https://www.thefieldstudyhandbook.com/
We know of a Hungarian sheepherder who sells his lamb meat rather to Austria and Italy than Hungary. The "for less" is not true, the very reason he sells it abroad is because no one in Hungary would pay the price he asks for quality meat.
"Procrastination itself can have different causes — maybe the task is too complex or too boring, fear of failure or simple laziness. Even a slight presence of these negative factors can make us go for instant rewards"

My entire life described in 2 sentences.
What features would you like to see in an elderly care home sensing system?
We are doing a year long student team project on developing a home monitoring system for the elderly, and looking for input on what actual caregivers (in our case, children of elderly parents) would like to see in such a system.

We know a few things: people do not like to hang sensors/monitors from their necks (identifies them as incapable), may have trouble charging any wearables on their hands (forget, lose charger, ...), do not like intrusive monitoring (so, has to be passive), and would like to feel empowered to help themselves.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you
I'm a little late to the game but I would like to point out that this doesn't apply to infected implants and some other special orthopaedic infections where you just as with TB need to treat for a long subclinical period. Otherwise I think it is an excellent article that many of my colleagues should read. I've actually also always wondered where this myth comes from.
>I've been trying to tell everyone licensing is more important than they realize, but there are so many people who fundamentally misunderstand licensing and therefor just don't care

Maybe they don't care because in reality its not a problem?

In the sense that it's not a problem people generally have -- not that nobody ever has had it.

A lot of people worry too much about all kinds of BS eventualities and technicalities, and this could be one of them in most cases.

>Now that we have a concrete example of how picking tooling with bad licensing can bite people in the butt

It only bit FB in the butt (in the sense that some developers complained about their license choice) -- not those using the tooling with FB license.
I think it's more accurate to say the problem is "me." We don't need to worry about it most of the time, but the only "me" around is the state of your brain at this instance in space and time. Anything else is just more or less "me"-like, but not exactly "me." So if someone recreated you in triplicate, the instant after they appeared, all four of you would all be the same amount "you," though you four would all diverge thereafter, and be more and more some other version of you.
I guess I still fail to see the political agenda thing of the EU Commission in this matter. The results were published in the context of movie downloads because that's the only area calling to action according to the study. It's also not clear to me why the EU Commission should suppress discussing a study they themselves ordered, or what their stance in this matter is alleged to be, when there is no material conflict of interest here that I can see. That just doesn't make sense.
A large amount of anti-biotics are used livestock. Also I think I'd anti-biotics cost an extra $100 if the doctor is giving you a just in case anti-biotics then I think some people would think twice.
Basically right, yep :) although personally, my "descendants" wouldn't consider the question of "am I the original?" to be either meaningful or interesting. Both are the original (both descended from the same source through time) and both are not the original (both have diverged from the same source over time).
>A common misconception is that under GPL all your code must be released to the public. This is not true. You only have to give code to the user after purchase. Now, it's true that the user could then upload your software to the public (under gpl), but many of the issues surrounding that (such as lost sales #) aren't as bad as people imagine they are

Really?