skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use mind as an undefined word, then of course, words are easily definable.

If by the use of the word mind, you are referring to some specific thing, then me defining what you refer to is simply restating your definition of that thing.

Most conversation of mind thus end up in semantic debates or system of beliefs.

Like you say, until we can objectively observe a representation of the self in the brain, and label it mind, then the mind isn't a real thing.

Now you can imagine a thing which you have not observed, believe it to exist, and call it mind. That's where you start debating beliefs, which is a futile exercise.

I thus like to define the mind as the subset of my brain which generates my inner voice. And the self is the set of things my mind groups under it, for example when I say "I". Self is thus a moving target defined by my mind. Mostly an imaginary construct therefore.
I am all for fusion but I am curious, what happens if there is a magnet failure and the plasma, which is "...hundreds of millions of degrees celsius," escapes the containment vessel?

What damage will it do while it's cooling off for whatever period of time.
Driving instructors probably don't drive nearly as long without a break (each lesson is 30-60 minutes). They also probably have much more mental stimulation, since (1) they're talking to the student, (2) the student probably needs much more frequent intervention than a self-driving car does, and (3) they have a variety of different students each day, each of which has a different skill level and personality.
> making sure the connections would work

The cellular data connections? From all the mobile providers?

And it's not good enough to refund, but they have to PAY?

If your cellular connection goes down, do you get a refund? Do you sue? Is that really your relationship with your provider? And now somehow someone making a GAME is supposed to make that relationship BETTER? How exactly?
Well, maybe I've succumbed -- belatedly -- to the reality distortion field.

But damned if I'd let a product ship while it was logging passwords.

Simple QA is to scan log files for anything that shouldn't be there. It requires no more than defining those values, pattern matching, and patience while it churns.

This is actually a testing pattern that fits well into automation. As opposed to a lot of the "how do we hook into the GUI, so we can click stuff" automated QA I've seen.

Anyway. I need to shut up, now.
Fortunately, there are 4K torrents.
Isn't that a lose/lose for Tesla?

Are not a party to the investigation -- motives questioned, discovering facts takes longer or impossible

Are a party to the investigation and information can only be released by NTSB -- share price gets hammered every time there's a crash and everyone else gets a chance to put out information

I'm inclined to lead towards "special circumstances" here. Does every Ford crash make national news?
It's becoming almost necessary to have a wireless router that supports having a guest network where connected guests can't "talk to each other". The frustrating part is my Linksys has a captive portal rather than asking for password the traditional way, so I can't join some of my "smart" appliances to the guest network. This is somewhat irrelevant to the post, but I try to keep all the untrusted devices on a separate network. I don't want them talking to the devices I trust or learning from each other and becoming "smarter". It just stinks that it's getting harder to find dumb devices with a focused use - they all want to be tablets.
Artificially limiting the choice of browsers is not really something that should be honored. But I thank you for this insight - I did not know this link.
Iota is not a blockchain. It's also not a cryptocurrency. It's about 98% scam and 1% insane. and 1% Bosch.
Why reading about how short life is and how you're likely currently wasting yours?

How could it possibly not?
Didn't work for trains, now did it?
"The ultimate," sure, but in practice that's not going to happen.

Also, don't forget, there are gaps between the pixel detectors. Maybe there's just not enough information in multiple detectors to make the aggregate signal loss of those gaps worthwhile.
Especially since they advertise being actively involved in certain political movements and promise to defend those ones. That's a scarily biased attitude for a DNS. How does someone's sexuality have anything to do with IP address lookups?
This is quite dumb of Elon. First, it's not that funny. Most off all it can be used against him and Tesla.
The problem with this line of reasoning is that it doesn't account for how Facebook et al.. could have existed in the first place, or why there could be anything wrong with it.

Facebook exists. Parents let their kids go on it. Kids go on it happily. By your logic, since parents obviously care for their kids, and parents let their kids go on Facebook, Facebook is good for kids, parents and society as a whole. Statistics? Over a billion people signed up to use Facebook. Statistically, you're wrong and the people who like Facebook are right.
there is a very different kind of learning at work in autonomous cars vs humans. these people are "backups", not instructors giving explicit instruction to any student.

and have you seen the vide of the "instructor" during the fatal uber crash? completely zoned out compared to what a human-instructing instructor would do.
only if you do something you have no interest in for 40 hours a week.
No they didn't, they didn't can the leaker that actually created the shitstorm, they canned Damore to appease the outraged.
Background: My wife drives a Tesla Model S with AP.

Inattentive drivers more than overconfident drivers. You look down and stare at your phone for 10 seconds in a normal car and you are punished pretty quickly and learn not to do it.

You look down and start at your phone for 10 seconds in a Tesla with AP and "nothing bad happens" ... almost all of the time.

And that's the problem with this version of AP. Yes, Tesla says keep your eyes on the road. Yes, Tesla says keep your hands on the wheel. But it's pretty easy to get lax and start to slide.

For the record, I think her use is the one valid use. She has RSI issues with her hands and arms and she does a good bit of expressway driving. She absolutely keeps her eyes on the road and hands near the wheel when using it. But I bet she's in the minority of regular Tesla AP users.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_infringement

>"Infringement may occur when one party, the 'infringer', uses a trademark which is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark owned by another party, in relation to products or services which are identical or similar to the products or services which the registration covers"

this basically means that in order to have an infringement case, you need to show that both the name/brand/logo are confusingly similar, and also that the product/service/domain are close enough to each other. I don't know that "software" is a sufficiently narrow category to count.
I can't remember exactly, but it is in here: https://www.amazon.com/Micromotives-Macrobehavior-Lectures-P...
I'm quite happy now, and the subjective 'goodness' of my life as it is, does indeed come from being content with and making the most of what I have, even though I suspect many people would find it really bad and out of balance along the usual dimensions.

I'll say a little bit about my personal perception of life's length. I've always thought it was long. Too long. And I still do. My school-age years lasted an eternity, and that was an eternity ago. From 18-22, when I was homeless, lasted an eternity, and that was an eternity ago. From 22-28, my early career when I was struggling to establish myself, was an eternity. From 28-34, when I had the most material comfort, career success, world travel, friends, hobbies, and lovers... well of course that went by too fast, but boy was it packed! From 34-38, when I struggled and suffered after the onset of Bipolar 1, and slowly learning to live with it while struggling with spotty employment, ruined credit, alienation, and more homelessness, was an eternity. The next 2 years, when I finally got around to doing the work I really wanted to do, flew by in a blur of happy 100+ hour weeks. Now I'm 40, and time is going faster, but it's possible that life is only half over. On one hand, that seems incomprehensible to me. How can I only be half-done? If I learned I would definitely die tomorrow, I would still consider my life to have been very, very long, and very full. But in another sense, no amount of time is enough to do all the work I want to do. I have at least a dozen large project ideas, designed on paper in a fair amount of detail, that life is too short to do. I probably have enough time for 2 of them. That is a little bit frustrating, but meh.

I'm trying to resolve these two different views. Basically, for the specific purpose of finishing a dozen ambitious personal projects, life is too short. I do the best I can by spending very little time doing paid work, and living like a monk to afford it. But the subjective feeling about the length of the journey - all its different chapters that seem like eons, each one like its own lifetime - my feeling is that it is TOO DAMN LONG.
Chevy Camaro 350 IROC-Z challenges Tesla Model X to epic tug of war
A pleasant essay, but I think it is a bit dismissive of the situations people are in. A simple example is the teenagers he mentions. You can't help but worry a ton about what people think about you as a teenager - your "social subprocess" has just kicked on, and you are overwhelmed by a great number of new senses and feelings. Telling a teenager not to worry about things does nothing but make everything worse. I can come up to you and inject you with adrenaline and nothing you do (short of medical intervention) will make you feel calm, and certainly me telling you to "just calm down" isn't going to help.

The essay is well intended, and well written as usual, I just have an issue with the underlying assumption that people can simply change everything as desired.
Is the same not true for Boeing?
I've done a bit of pen testing and the cheat sheet presented gives very good advice in one place for the basics.

I'd love to see web devs use something like the procedures outlined as a final check before going for sign off. When testing your own stuff, do the heavy scanning stuff "internally". You can always deploy a throwaway Kali Linux box on the same VLAN if its justified.

Now as to your question: Remember that the site itself may not be the actual target. For me, an awful lot of pen testing involves perusing Facebook, Twitter and the like and obviously peruse the site itself as a user. Customer testimonies, web dev links and their site's customer testimonies and proud stories are useful. I always spider for docs and look at metadata in them. Companies House and similar registries (in the UK, other countries may have similar) is handy to help join dots. A little imagination and publicly available information can inform a decent social scam.

My top advice here is pretend to be a baddie and look at your stuff from the outside. Once you discover just how exposed everyone is, then evaluate it and then start the staff/partner/whatever training. If applicable, your telephone reception should have a human firewall on it - mine does. I'm an MD of a small company and I defy anyone to get past them. They take great pride in making calls to me from ahem friends/colleagues/etc not get through but get a request to send an email to sales@<firm>.co.uk and yet I still get the calls I want. When they are uncertain they check with me first. Make it a challenge and part of the culture and deploy honest praise for a good job done. Gatewaying all of your calls via your experts rather than a DDI to all staff is a good idea.

Notice how most of the stuff I've gone into depth about doesn't really involve anything fancy technologically. If I was a real general purpose baddie, I wouldn't be fussed about your user accounts and passwords or even your company secrets. I'd be wanting to make your accounts department send me a few thousand quid to some random account. However, the industry or purpose of your ... system ... will inform your approach to pen testing and securing. I have had to pen test a few schools and I took a rather different approach than I would for a firm of accountants.

There's no right or wrong answer and remember that a web site is not in isolation. People use them.
It's plainly stated in the article: for emergencies.
Silicon Valley Rivals Take Shots at Facebook
Given the marketing, and the fact OEMs are probably implementing the standard with their own designs, they’ll like be fairly vanilla monitors with a separate interface for the Shield features
An Overview of Non-Fungible Tokens
Heck that sounds pretty useful even for current cars today.

I imagine it isn't cheap though to add and even if it was reasonably priced I imagine they would make it optional in case people didn't want to add it to their car price in which case many would simply say "Nah I don't need that. I'm a great driver!"
Could enemies target undersea cables that link the world?
Even if we assume for a moment that we got it working, the factors are: scale and embrittlement. Current thermonuclear technology, theoretically, breaks even, energywise, on reactors of certain scale. There is a reason to believe that once we build a reactor of a certain size, the energy output of a reaction will be bigger than the energy spent on jumpstarting it and magnetic containtainment. embrittlement of reactor structural materials is caused by radiation. After a while, reactor has to be rebuilt from totally new materials.
No you're right, the police happily pointed out that the woman was homeless and seemed to blame the victim. Why would they do that?

It's reasonable to assume it's to keep Uber happy.
They do for legal reasons. Are you saying autopilot is no better than adaptive cruise control and lane assist found on many cars - Not the impression they want you to have at https://www.tesla.com/autopilot ...
> Cool tech

I don't want to be a downer, but I think what they show is the kind of product that people expect from IT departments. I.e., bring a bunch of services together with some plumbing with a database below it, and a nice UI on top. This is all pretty standard. And with today's tools you can do that all in one day (see hackatons). Of course, when you start using the product, and the real requirements become clear, that one initial day seems like nothing.
Ssh. Don't tell them fusion is a nuclear reaction.
It would explode, but for any reactor we’re likely to build in our lifetimes, it wouldn’t be anything like a nuclear bomb. We’ve had nastier explosions in natural gas refineries. There would be radiological contamination from the Tritium and any neutron-activated material, but it would be more of an expensive cleanup than an environmental disaster. It would be dirty though, especially if the reactor had been running for a while, building up dust. What wasn’t radioactive would still likely be stuff you don’t want to breathe or ingest.

TL;DR Boom lots of dead people in the containment structure, expensive cleanup, but nothing like a fission disaster. It would be an uninspiring explosion, but it would be dirty.
From what I understand I think don't know and it hasn't been extensively modeled because we are still trying to just get the process to start. Having said that I think that if the reactions containment breaks the actual fusion process breaks down super fast and cools much faster then something like a meltdown at a fission reactor. If any more qualified wants to refute any of this please do.
get this, at 22:52:28 UTC, the time to reentry is 1.6h +- 1.7h
As other people sometime say, there can be self driving slow vehicles. For elders, for tourism, for near-home moving of things or just parking/unparking.

In the meantime level 5 auto automation can mature in test areas.
> In my college, the university takes a whopping 50% of grant money in administrative fees, leaving so much less for actual hiring of postdocs and graduate students.

OMG
Given that they control the hash function, it would be trivial: hard-code a special exception value for exactly that purpose.
It's just the opposite -- years ago, it was much, much worse.

I remember trying to reverse engineer older Symbian notes format -- it was a custom datastore format containing various binary "chunks", each with semi-custom compression. I had to recombine multiple chunks just to get a formatted text, and I still had occasional failure.

Or look at other vector format -- like CGM, first made in 1987. It has its own serialization mechanism, it's own model (file->body->figure->segment), and 3 compression types specifically designed for it. Look at http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c03... -- do you want this today? I'd that zip of plist of float anytime over that.
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I can speak for myself.

There's a lot of anxiety in the idea that you're "wasting" your life. You feel anxious about every day, worrying that you aren't doing enough even though you don't really want to do more. For instance, I might worry too much that I'm using my free time poorly that I don't enjoy it, and therefore waste it, which only causes me to think that I am wasting my life. Some amount of stress/anxiety is good because it gets you out of bed and doing something, but encouraging it too much is debilitating.
Has Linux desktop caught up technically to Windows yet? The last time I used it there were still problems like double clicking a jpg from the Firefox downloads list opening an "open with" dialog pointed to /usr/bin or something. And it seems like where Windows will put things in places that might not technically be a perfect categorization but are convenient and make some sense, like monitor/video/screensaver properties from right clicking the desktop, this seemed to happen a lot less in Linux DEs. Aside from them seeming somewhat less responsive in general and lacking equivalent GUI system utilities to things like "Computer Management" or the device manager.
Found this: https://labs.apnic.net/?p=1127
Both. A few examples are in order I guess.

A few years ago, the federal government dissolved the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service, which checked peoples passports and asked them stern questions about the suspicious grass dolls they bought in Vietnam. If you did something really stupid, a customs officer might point a pistol at you.

They replaced it with the Australian Border Force, who despite formally not being a military force (how-dare-you-suggest-it-you-unaustralian-piece-of-shit-do-we-need-to-check-your-passport) are armed with the same Steyr AUG assault rifles that are used by the Australian Army and very much like to show them off at all public appearances.

Within literally less than a month of it's formation the government attempted to deploy this new department, which is under unusually direct control of parliament for an armed force in Australia, to spot check for expired visas on the streets of Melbourne. Fortunately, we never got to find out how the Aussie Stazi were going to tell the difference between visitors and normal Australians. Australians are not required to carry ID and due to our wonderful melting pot of cultures cannot always be distinguished by accent. As it happened, Melbourne did us proud and brought the city to a halt in protest:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-28/border-force-to-check-...

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/28/prote...

Meanwhile, in my home state, a new government has just been elected on the back of an unironic campaign promise to deploy sniffer dogs in schools to ensure children don't have drugs:

https://strongplan.com.au/first-100-days/ (ctrl-f "sniffer dogs")

One of the reasons I left Australia is that I am expecting them to close the borders and start granting exit visas within the next 5-10 years. They've already successfully used "won't someone think of the children" to establish precedent for denying people freedom to exit the country: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/world/australia/pedophile...

The next step will be expanding it to preventing people with "dangerous ideas" from "embarrassing Australia and endangering our neighbors". I expect to see vocal anti-vaxxer proponents denied permission to travel within about 3 years. It'll creep from there.

Basically what's happening is that Australia is sick to death of its two identical political parties, and they're both losing support rapidly in both state and federal governments. Understandably, neither one is willing to accept that it might just not be wanted by the new generation, so both are grasping for provable victories they can display like trophies at elections. This has resulted in huge tax increases on booze and cigarettes, burdensome increases in the difficulty of teenagers getting drivers licenses and reductions in the utility of those licenses, sweeping surveillance and data retention laws, attempts to criminalize the teaching of encryption algorithms, big increases in security theater at airports and a litany of other annoyances.

Mostly I want the government to just fuck off and leave me alone, but it won't play ball. So I fucked off instead.
You know its unnecessary if the meeting can start without you.
There are fusion designs that heat water and there are some that can capture electricity directly. Who knows which will prevail but the the latter should be cheaper and more compact. Maybe so compact that it could be used on ships, trains, or spacecraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fusion_experiments
That's just it, it's not verifiable. Proving something by letting one audit doesn't change that. It's similar when companies get certified by ISO9001 or 270001, it doesn't prove much.

Publishing the full source code could help a little bit, but not much; one doesn't know what code is actually running.
Possibly now entered its last orbit. It's been losing altitude somewhat more slowly than predicted, so I don't envision it falling immediately W of Chile at the predicted time. [Update at 00:12 UTC -- definitely not crashing there, may have kept enough altitude to keep going another orbit!? China has a new prediction of 00:52 UTC +/- 41 minutes, that would be centered just W of Southern Africa.]

Here is an excellent overview. [1]

And here is fantastic footage from the 2008 reentry of Europe’s space freighter ATV Jules Verne burning up over an uninhabited area of the Pacific Ocean at the end of its mission. Similar size to the falling Chinese space station. [2]

[1] https://www.space.com/40164-chinese-space-station-crash-last...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhBw5yaR_SU
I smiled.
Hi. This is Dan, CTO of Meter Feeder (YC W16). Nice experiment. For comparison, Jim (my co-founder) and I built the MVP of Meter Feeder in a weekend back in Oct '14.

We spent a lot of time working on the business requirements that we got from our first potential customer.
> Wasabi’s hot cloud storage service is not designed to be used to serve up (for example) web pages at a rate where the downloaded data far exceeds the stored data or any other use case where a small amount of data is served up a large amount of times

This is the part that ruled it out for me
In response to the comments you're getting, it seems HN doesn't have a working irony detector.
How about just a single power input and a single HDMI input? No speakers, no input switching, no tv tuner (I have separate components for all these that will do a better job). No smart anything, no networked anything. Literally a big monitor.