skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was no theory until my account was rate-limited for posts suggesting that people not use databases on Kubernetes. These were ruled too "tedious" by dang; they rate-limited my account and marked my post at [0] as off-topic. Maybe I just missed the part of the guidelines that said not to be too dry when discussing container orchestration.

It's not really self-fulfilling if it's already happened; I think that's just called "information about an event".

I think my view that humans are imperfect (yes, even the super-fancy humans at YC, who do have a horse in this race as investors in Docker Inc.) and will censure things they dislike is plenty justifiable given the events. That's especially the case if these people are being pressured to take that action by other high-status individuals.

For the record, dang has explicitly disclaimed my theory, rather suggesting that asking people not to run their database in Kubernetes constitutes a flame war. I don't have the link to that handy but I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to find for an interested party.

The reader is free to ascribe motives as they see fit.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14453705
Or for me: I should only eat something that I am willing to kill, clean and cook myself. When we pass the important moral test of killing an animal to someone else or a factory I think we lose touch with the decision we're making.
This sounds like a Coding Horror story that is entirely made up. Using a timer made your code go from 5 to 8 minutes?
As a car modder/tuner myself, having watched electric cars racing before, I can say it's a very different experience and likely won't appeal much to the existing large consumer base of racing fans. Electric cars are far more "sterile", for lack of a better word, and just doesn't appeal to my senses in quite the same way as the sights, sounds, and smells of a fuel-burning one; or to put it another way, going fast is not the only thing people like about racing.
I think pharmacists would disagree with you about "skin in the game." People with high deductible plans or no insurance who are forced to pay large amounts of money for their drugs are more compliant. Those who get $500 drugs with a $5 copay often don't take them and then will lie about not taking them wasting everyone's time.
Heads up. I recently added funds into Coinbase using their instant debit card option via a Chase checking account debit card. Lord behold a few days later I had a $5.00 cash advance fee in my checking account. I called Chase and they reversed the fee, but they suggested that I contact Coinbase because indeed they are not doing a debit card debit, but a cash advance. Moral of the story, stay away from Coinbase if you can avoid them.
yeah, the best parts of the internet in the late 90s was chats and messenger apps.

remember excite chat? i loved that, but mostly used irc.

messenger wise, started using icq but people (me included) hated remembering a huge number to log in. AIM was great though, and msn messenger was great because it tied right into your email too.
Study: Anaesthetics stop diverse plant organ movements, affect endocytic vesicle recycling and ROS homeostasis, and block action potentials in Venus flytraps

Citation: K Yokawa, T Kagenishi, A Pavlovič, S Gall, M Weiland, S Mancuso, F Baluška; Annals of Botany, mcx155.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcx155

DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcx155

Abstract:

Background and Aims

Anaesthesia for medical purposes was introduced in the 19th century. However, the physiological mode of anaesthetic drug actions on the nervous system remains unclear. One of the remaining questions is how these different compounds, with no structural similarities and even chemically inert elements such as the noble gas xenon, act as anaesthetic agents inducing loss of consciousness. The main goal here was to determine if anaesthetics affect the same or similar processes in plants as in animals and humans.

Methods

A single-lens reflex camera was used to follow organ movements in plants before, during and after recovery from exposure to diverse anaesthetics. Confocal microscopy was used to analyse endocytic vesicle trafficking. Electrical signals were recorded using a surface AgCl electrode.

Key Results

Mimosa leaves, pea tendrils, Venus flytraps and sundew traps all lost both their autonomous and touch-induced movements after exposure to anaesthetics. In Venus flytrap, this was shown to be due to the loss of action potentials under diethyl ether anaesthesia. The same concentration of diethyl ether immobilized pea tendrils. Anaesthetics also impeded seed germination and chlorophyll accumulation in cress seedlings. Endocytic vesicle recycling and reactive oxygen species (ROS) balance, as observed in intact Arabidopsis root apex cells, were also affected by all anaesthetics tested.

Conclusions

Plants are sensitive to several anaesthetics that have no structural similarities. As in animals and humans, anaesthetics used at appropriate concentrations block action potentials and immobilize organs via effects on action potentials, endocytic vesicle recycling and ROS homeostasis. Plants emerge as ideal model objects to study general questions related to anaesthesia, as well as to serve as a suitable test system for human anaesthesia.
So not only are they wasting everybody's time via the useless animations in the software that people pay good money for, but they're also wasting people's time by not being honest about it - forcing users to do their own research and learn about it on their own or from outside sources. Interesting.
Somebody put them down, already.

And, if the U.S. presidential election had gone the other way (however you feel about that), we might currently have an effective CFPB that was on its way to forcing these companies to perform freezes for free and to place control of access (for credit assessment) into the hands of those to whom the records pertain.

I don't care whether you're Democratic or Republican or Librariantarian (yeah, not real, but it should be!). This would be a good, cost effective means of at least partially mitigating a lot of current problems with related data theft and fraud / identity theft.

And to the extent it added a bit of cost, that would probably impact the current uses that are least beneficial. E.g. less hits to ratings for "excessive" credit checks, when a company can't perform them without first soliciting access from the target.
I read an account of a near-death experience a couple of years ago from an atheist man. When he "died", he went out of his body and saw Jesus in the room with him. He asked Jesus if he was real, or just an illusion/dream.

The image of Jesus then transformed into a ball of light. This ball of light communicated to the man that it initially appeared as Jesus because the man had a Christian upbringing and was familiar with the character of Jesus. It was essentially to make him feel more at ease.
What about the argument that we should minimize suffering created by our food choices, and plants appear to be less capable of suffering than almost all animals? Which animals do you think we would be ethically justified in eating instead of eating plants?
Fish aren't necessarily any less smart than chickens or cattle.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24942105

If you count cephalopods as "fish", some species are as smart as primates.
The correct statement is "Plants are less [more like robotic, stimulus-response devices than people are] than previously assumed."
Not sure if things has changed but 1 year ago my brother in law has opened an account in bank of China 中国银行 while he was on a 1 year traveling visa. You may want to try with another bank

And no, we’re not trying to spread rumors :)
> What's your definition of consciousness?

How about - ability to adapt to environment and select good actions depending on situation, learning from reward/loss signals.
> Chargebacks can be initiated at any time within the chargeback window, regardless of what is purchased.

Yes, but as I already explained, the incentive to chargeback is NOT the same regardless of what is purchased. Chargebacks are relatively rare because most people only chargeback if there is a dispute with the merchant, but outside of fraudsters, its not that common for people to chargeback on a product months later. Even with high risk products like porn, there are predictable chargeback rates that can be factored into the overall profitability of the product category, but with blockchain tokens a sudden shift in price (like the one we're seeing now) can cause a large and abrupt spike in chargebacks all from the same product category. Wild shifts in the price of a digital commodity is a unique quality of blockchain tokens that totally changes the chargeback risk profile.

> How much experience do you have dealing with VISA etc

How much experience do you have in the lending business? This has nothing to do with VISA, this is about banks that have to make a decision about lending money. Companies that lend money are valued in large part based on the quality of the loans on their books; when the books are loaded up with crap accounts made up of gambling debt from blockchain enthusiasts who could go bankrupt overnight, it does not inspire confidence.
Don’t give up so easily. Anything can be changed, provided enough people want to change it. Most undesirable practices only happen because they operate in the shadow of general ignorance and/or oblivion to their existence.

As generations that understand this tech implicitly come to power, things will change. To someone that does everything digitally the meaning of these words will be quite different than the currently accepted interpretation:

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
Don't fuck with the FAA bozos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham

"The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"
They have a pretty stable niche in high volume signal processing because they can deliver deterministic real time processing for data. You'll find an FPGA in most oscilloscopes, digitizers and the like. A GPU would be not be well suited to that use.
What use cases are there for random numbers in smart contracts? From the article, it seems like gambling is the main use.
For all I care humans are "just robotic, stimulus-response devices".
Is war really about scarcity of resources or about conflict over resources, regardless of scarcity?
Animals that peope eat eat far more plants than people who eat plants eat, so the joke is more "funny" than meaningful.
I wouldn't make human source of food a major moral issue. In the end, we can't eat rocks. We need something organic, be it plants or animals. Of course, if human survival is put at risk by meat consumption, we'd need to adapt.
If my IQ is higher than yours, is this evidence that I suffer more deeply than you?

I seriously don't personally like this line of reasoning. At. All.
If hearing that choosing to eat plants can cause suffering ruins vegetarianism for you, it should already have been ruined by learning that harvesting land for e.g. wheat causes the death of some small animals. (Mice, rabbits, etc.)

The idea that it's a worthy goal to minimize suffering caused through your food choices, however, is unaffected by learning about harvesting deaths or by learning that plants might be very minimally conscious.
on par with driving in a car

...which people in general seem to have no particular fear of.
Wow, I thought I was the only one.
I have no backround in aviation law, just aviation. I’m a private pilot, my dad is a commercial pilot, and my cousin works for a charter jet company. I work with several pilots, and a few previous coworkers have retired from the USAF and fly for the airlines. We have arguments about the rules all the time. We pull out the FARs all the time just to win.

My interpretation of the TapJets response wasn’t that they were saying that the pilots had commercial ratings, it’s that they were saying that they didn’t need one, i.e., it was a non-commercial flight. TapJets doesn’t give any details, and neither does the FAA. But flying a light jet non-commercially can happen, so it’s not like TapJets is obviously in the wrong. Several celebrities own and pilot their own jets without commercial ratings.

I think in the end the FAA will stick with their ruling, I doubt they would issue an emergency revocation if they were on the fence.
Taking life advice from Jim Carrey seems like a bad idea.
The iPhone did this, and then when they added iMessage originally it would still use the same tactic even if you were sending say, a large video (in which case the software obviously should know how much has been uploaded so far). I guess their internal API for "send a message" was not properly updated to take into account multimedia.
You're happy until 30 minutes later when the progress bar is still getting asymptotically closer to the end, and you come to suspect that the only thing that didn't crash was the progress bar.
Indeed! I'm mocking these people.

Plus fish are in the same kingdom as any other animal , which means you can hardly be a "vegetarian" unless you only eat vegetables (well, fungi and yeasts are OK too IMHO).
I think that's standard. Writing is hard, I imagine political books are similar. Though I think the purpose of the Tribune was to allow athletes to control how they are heard.
I largely agree.
Why aren't there any discussions about SkyWay? Scam?
The payment provider Coinbase uses to transfer to/from US bank accounts (Plaid) asks for your online banking credentials and scrapes your data (income, historical balance data and more) for resale[1].

1. see "Products" on https://plaid.com
Why would that be 'bad'? If someone finds joy in seeing all people naked, go for it.
If you wait long enough there's always another recession.
NIH study links cell phone radiation to cancer in male rats
I believe many of us are going through somewhat similar phases, or experiences. It's partly emphathy :)
Gambling is pretty much the only use for smart contracts in general.
Probably doesn’t need the full battery pack for the quarter mile either.
Ooh, a new one. I need to start collecting these. There's just such incredible variety.
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You're probably right, Kotlin's version of immutability is perhaps not the best example -- pretty sure the whole var/val thing is language sugar which explains why it doesn't work for nonscalars.

Makes sense, I can see the appeal now. Thanks
A GraphQL Primer: The Evolution of API Design (Part 2) – Smashing Magazine
Even right after getting off an airplane, where you had to sit in a cramped seat for hours on end? I’d much rather take the opportunity to stretch my legs.
Thanks for these!

The first paper is actually one I've spent a significant amount of time trying to use, to the point of collaborating with one of the authors. His conclusion was that FPGAs used to be competitive with GPUs for approximated nets, but the Tesla GPUs were such a jump forward in practical network performance that it wasn't worth trying to compete outside specialized realms like binary nets.

The second paper was interesting- I can imagine why the problem they are trying to solve would be a good fit for FPGAs. However, I'm suspicious that they implemented an entirely different algorithm on the FPGA, and didn't measure the performance of that algorithm on GPUs. I'm all for using the best algorithm for the hardware, but I worry they just used an overall better algorithm on FPGAs and conflated the results.
No, I’m interpreting what TapJets said in their response. I’m sure the FAA has some solid evidence and they get to make and interpret the rules. But here’s what we have as public knowledge.

FAA: You flew flights with unqualified pilots and with private ratings.

TapJets: All our flights were legal under FAR Part 91.501.

They didn’t dispute that the flights happened, and they didn’t dispute that they had passengers. They didn’t claim that the pilots did have commercial ratings. Thus, they must be claiming that they viewed the flights as non-commercial.
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Some people blow credit card limits on booze and clothes. Please tell me how that is somehow a more justified purchase than crypto.
Eggs = unborn baby birds.
I see the appeal here, but I'm surprised a good DSP or mid-volume, old node ASIC isn't the more common solution here. Do these need such specialized processing that FPGAs make economic sense?
Sure, I'm 35.

The ease of access to capital for good ideas without any of the bullshit involved in startup fund raising is what has convinced me of this. It really doesn't matter what ivy league school the CEO went to, it's outweighed by the idea, the ability to execute and the ability to convince others to contribute resources.

Crypto is like the internet boom if the boom was more distributed, as anyone could take part in investment from the seed round.
I heard an interesting argument that while eating fish can cause suffering in absolute terms, in marginal terms it's not so bad -- fish don't die gracefully in the wild in the way that a farm animal might otherwise do, they die from being eaten, from disease, or starvation, often more slowly and painfully compared to suffocating in a fishing net.

Of course this analysis ignores things like environmental consequences, and creating new animals through fish farms.

(I'm a vegetarian who doesn't eat fish, just thought it was interesting to hear marginal difference in consequences being considered for once.)
'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth
But that assumes a lot fluency with pinyin and the prediction system. A lot of people are missing one or both.
It's not even funny. It's an attempt to subvert the very legitimate premise of vegetarianism in order to not face the undeniable impacts of non-vegetarian diets.
There are businesses that are medical bill negotiators and charge you a percentage of the bill.

In general, they only negotiate hospital bills because they are the only bills large enough. I would say that the typical final negotiated rate they get from the hospital is about 3-20% of the billed amount. It depends on how high the original bill is, and it also depends on whether you need to make payments and how long the series of payments is.

Hospitals will certainly claim that you need to send in the proof of assets, usually you have to refuse about 6 or 7 times and they will relent.

However, things have changed in the last few years and professional medical bill negotiators have told me certain hospitals are completely unreasonable and refuse to negotiate. They advise these people to file bankruptcy.
Fair enough, I misspoke, I meant to say they are rarely the ones coming off the field due to concussions. The bigger, concussive hits are usually taken by the receiving corp and defensive backfield.
I thought this was going to be something like the Antikythera mechanism, that ancient greek computer they found in the ocean at the turn of the century.

wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
How were you forced? I'd never heard of that and just double-checked to confirm that it isn't enabled on my account.
Not unless they're fertilised.
You're replying to someone else, with a passive-aggressive swipe at me, and justifying it by linking to a prior conversation between me and yourself. Take a step back and consider that you might perfectly fit the description of someone with an axe to grind.
Last Straws: Inventing the Modern “Drinking Tube” and Flexible “Bendy Straw”
So a Roomba is conscious?
If IQ measured the depth of emotional understanding, then yes. You don't have to like it, just find another reason to argue against eating people - there are plenty.
If you've never heard of Roxy Music or Bryan Ferry, I suggest starting with Roxy Music's For Your Pleasure and Bryan Ferry's Boys and Girls. Timeless records.
Or "this is the fee to join our pot club, the weed comes free"? (If I'm not mistaken, this is how many of the first jurisdictions handled it).

If the law is broken, fix it? The whole "spirit of the law" thing is what leads us to political attacks being made with laws.

Either it's illegal, or it's not, and if we as a society should decide we want it to be, then it will be.
so, 3?