skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoyed the linked article.

In the introduction is a proposal/suggestion that "every neuron has at least some form of sentience."

The author describes this word "sentience" as a more primitive (primary, basic, ancestral) kind of consciousness. Something that has:

"simultaneous access to many elements of information in defined inter-relationships, i.e. access to a pattern"

"in which the accessible pattern includes a useful map of some other 'outer' environment, normally the outside of a human being, with a sense of time and, in its fullest form, adult consciousness, a sense of self"

..which seems like a range/spectrum from sentient to fully conscious.

With such a definition, a cell could be considered "sentient", and organisms from molds, plants, animals to humans all demonstrate higher sentience.. I wonder how low it can go: since patterns and relationships are mentioned, could a standing wave be considered to have a low level of "sentience"?
Why is it marked as dupe?
BSI TR-02102 Cryptographic Mechanisms
Yes. Here is a table that lists operator precedence in C: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/operator_precedence

Note that postfix increment is at the highest precedence and the dereference operator is at the second highest precedence.

The postfix operators behave in a bit of an interesting way; the expression "t++" evaluates to just "t" but increments t as a side effect. Consequently, it appears to update t after the expression it is part of, even though it is one of the first things evaluated.

If you actually test the function, you will find that it works provided that you make r static or global instead of a local stack variable -- and, of course, carefully mind the restriction on the length of the input strings to avoid overflowing the buffer.
Never seen such things on stable.
Thanks, we've updated the link from https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/712276/boeing-hy..., which is less... pleasant.
I've heard this sort of aircraft promised since I was in 3rd grade, and I'm sure it was promised to my parents before I was born.

Who knows if we'll ever be flying anything like this to carry passengers. If it was more profitable than flying what are essentially planes from the 1950's, someone would have already turned these triangular "hypersonic" planes into a reality and made a fortune.
Another file system that works well with lots of small files and that doesn't require maintaining any extra servers is ObjectiveFS[0]. It is a FUSE based log structured file system (with snapshots) using GCS or S3 for log storage with memory cache and (optional) disk cache for performance.

[0] https://objectivefs.com
Serial was basically a Black Swan event dude, no one I know listens to narrative audio content when they could watch narrative video content instead.

It's true that listening is easier to do on the move, but people just prefer to listen to music. I've never met anyone who is more into podcasts than music.

TL;DR the market just isn't very big and what market there is has already been captured by podcast services.
They may have no credibility, but they are officially pro-legalisation
He probably worked for a bank. Lots of smart people learn the "loopholes" of their trades.

My mom worked at a car dealership and realized that you could steal a car from them and it would be upwards of a year before they figured it out, since that's when they did inventory. Back then, the keys were all kept in an marginally secured cases.
Many (most?) financial type crimes have no statue of limitations so to get away you literally have to get away with it for the rest of your life

At least in the US, this is inaccurate. Most financial/fraud crimes have a statute of limitations of 3-5 years, both at the state and federal level. Some federal crimes specifically against financial institutions have a SOL of 10 years. Generally the only crimes that have no statute of limitations are punishable by life/death (such as first degree murder). See https://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-650-le...
WTF. Do they not care? It's the same clownshow which went on for years with the "Flash and other plugins can hook all keys" bug.
Those are good points! But I still don't see the upside. I think it would likely force us into spending even more attention on ideological matters, which already take up far more of our time and energy than they should. Just attempting (and repeatedly failing) to keep the peace here is at the limit of our resources and abilities. It takes time and energy away from other things we could be doing to improve HN. People don't often consider this opportunity cost, but it's on my mind a lot.
CubicSDR[0], Gqrx[1], swradio-8[2], qSdrSwr[3] -- all are cross-platform FOSS apps for Linux, Windows, Mac.

Also, look on csete's repos[4] from.

[0] https://github.com/cjcliffe/CubicSDR

[1] https://github.com/csete/gqrx

[2] https://github.com/JvanKatwijk/swradio-8

[3] https://github.com/PTDreamer/qSdrSwr

[4] https://github.com/csete?tab=repositories
That would require keeping a connection open to the mail server 24/7 which is a bad idea.
That was incredible in that it mentioned everyone but the person that links them all together... Edward de Vere.
Type-safe composable forms for ELM
Sadly 99% of the world have and even a good chunk of the first world.

Just last week I was belittled, because I didn't want to come to office two times a week at 9am.
Never thought I'd see an article from the Daily Star (basically the UK National Enquirer) on Hacker News [edit: link changed by mods]

Further links here explaining the theory behind the hypersonic engine and hinting the main reason for Boeing producing this concept art (which doesn't have any theoretical specs to back it up) is to draw a bit more attention to its hypersonic military projects which might be a very early starting point for the development of big hypersonic passenger aircraft, maybe, if the economics ever look remotely sane.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a21948533/boeing-
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/boeing-unveils-lo...
I just did that, because it looks like this story had significant discussion recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16697415. (And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16796127 also.)

Sorry, I didn't see these comments or I'd have said so sooner!
On top of that, people will also not be employed anywhere doing those jobs, eventually. just like there aren't really travel agents anymore.
Most likely related: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042
The Best Chrome Extensions in the Chrome Web Store
How McKinsey Lost Its Way in South Africa
The notion that the break even point is 70% is ignoring some really important stuff.

If you reserve workload x on hardware y for n years, you're effectively strapping yourself into a sure-to-be-obsolete and more expensive platform which you'll have to then move off of at an arbitrary point n years in the future.

If you don't move, you wind up paying a premium to be stuck with the obsolete / more expensive platform just to avoid the cost of migration.

RIs are a lock in.
> Even your description of it is as a fact that is taken naively at face value; who takes the fact naively, and at face value. Only a subject could do that. Information can only be knowledge when there's a "knower".

That's incorrect, unless you consider machine learning algorithms to suddenly be subjects/"knowers". They suffer from some of the same perceptive illusions that plague our optical processing.

So to answer your question directly, there is no "who", there need only be a "what", at which point any problem with calling qualia an illusion evaporates. There is no irreducible subject involved, there is only an information processing automoton that integrates facts acquired from perceptions. When a perception is taken to be accurate but it entails a conclusion that is false, that's an illusion.
> tl;dr the only reason to care about SNI in TLS 1.3 is if you are a privacy freak. It's not a security concern.

You also need to care about SNI if you're trying to evade a firewall in a repressive country that blocks encrypted messaging services and VPNs that are used to bypass censorship and surveillance. Some of those firewalls were looking at the SNI to figure out if the traffic was something they wanted to block or not.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/googl...
Another pet pieve: try closing the window with the regular session _before_ the window with the private tabs... your session is lost like it was 1999.
As occurs when Windows benevolently dictates a restart.
The fact that real estate agents are paid by percentage is the most ridiculous thing ever. I'm done with that. Pay 60k commission sales fee on your million dollar house? Houses sell in one week or less where I live. There's literally no reason to pay that money.
I think it was because in a time where objectivism ruled, consciousness was still a highly subjective subject. "Consciousness Explained" was an effort to discover the other side of the coin.

A subjectivist sees art, and reasons that the art object is fully formed inside his/her mind. An objectivist sees art, and reasons that the art object is entirely contained in the physical manifestation of it. Consciousness Explained was an attempt to show this objectivist view of consciousness.

Later on he tried to marry both in heterophenomonology: "The sky seems blue to non-colorblind subjects, but objectively, in reality, it part of the human-visible spectrum of wave-length n.". This framework still gives legitimacy to the subjective experience of a colorblind person, without allowing this to change physical reality (for consciousness: allowing for personal experience and realization of it, without allowing this to change the neuroscience/ontology "i experience sequential thought, therefor thoughts must be sequential, not parallel.").
Google’s endless app overlap: What’s going on?
It sounds like you need to meet more people or you need to provide evidence. Otherwise it’s just a lazy assertion providing no value to the conversation.
Thanks! I will give that a try.
The problem with Zcash's Founder Reward system
For the record: the first .com companies were mostly heavy AI/Lisp users:

Symbolics -> Lisp Machines, Lisp software

BBN -> Jericho Lisp Machine, BBN Lisp, various Lisp applications

Thinking Machines -> Connection Machine CM1, a massive parallel accelerator for Symbolics Lisp Machine, *Lisp

MCC -> had a network of 100+ Lisp Machines, developed Cyc, Orion (a Lisp OODB) and a Lisp-based CAD system - amongst others

Xerox -> Interlisp, Interlisp-D Lisp Machine

SRI -> AI research with lots Lisp applications
Yes, it was originally called Rap Genius.
The Discrete Cosine Function in Action
They published the code in a gist. It doesn't have a license, but since the python code is only 61 lines, would be trivial to rewrite yourself from their example.

https://gist.github.com/lopopolo-stripe/e00b4bfa0839c125ed7a...
That's the same as saying you should never use the str* functions. Nothing in C guarantees a string must have a null byte. As you're well aware, C-strings aren't a separate type that's distinct from char arrays.

Sure you can say that good programmers will always ensure a C-string is a C-string but there's decades of programming history that shows that's not true in practice.
What if I just want to hang out with my friends? It’s easiest when everyone actually uses the same thing—people literally complain if I text them. The result is I lose touch with people because it’s exhausting keeping track of all the places my friends are.
How Netlify migrated to a multi-cloud infrastructure
Then we shall return to the times before the 19th century, when people created art because they loved art, not to get rich. I suspect it will lead to higher quality art, even if the quantity is lower.
Generation Pickleball: Welcome to Florida’s Political Tomorrowland
It's 2018 and we still have to jump through hoops to get browsers to do things perfected on desktops by the mid 1990's. (Without bugs and browser incompatibilities.)

The Web royally screwed UI development and standards to Hell's basement, and nobody seems to want to fix it because the current mess is job security for low-level DOM diddlers.
You managed to teach yourself to dissociate nociception from suffering.

When one experiences pain, many parts of their brains light up, including the somato-sensory cortex, part of the insula (which is pain-specific) and emotion/identity-related areas in the cingular cortex. You managed to prevent the painful signals from activating the emotion/identity parts of your brain.

That is usually done through meditation/hypnosis, and it is an important part of pain management, but I don't know if it is commonly recommended in clinical settings.
My Chainsaw uses firewood as gasoline, Greenest chainsaw ever [video
Rtl-sdr driver[0] -- Port of rtl-sdr's rtl_tcp.

Allows you to use I/Q packet source in your Android applications.

All you need is to launch an intent in the form "iqsrc://rtl_tcp_arguments" where you replace rtl_tcp_arguments with the arguments that you want your application to run rtl_tcp with and the magic will be done behind the scenes.

This driver could be used by third party applications to implement Software Defined Radio.

It does not require root for Android 3.1 and above.

[0] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/marto.rtl_tcp_andro/
> tends to get disposed of properly

What exactly is the 'proper' disposal of plastic? Burying it? Burning it for energy? Recycling a tiny fraction of it and burying/burning the rest?
Maybe by guiding oneself by the established reputation of the hacker in question, and by paying with escrow.
It does indeed seem to be DRAGONFLY (I'd heard rumours indicating such in advance): a surprising choice for an interactive protocol with attacker-observable timings, I felt, given its already chequered reputation?

I couldn't possibly speculate as to why, but one does feel inclined to agree that the people behind wireless LAN security haven't always generally chosen high quality methods in the past, and this feels to me like it could well be a continuation of that pattern.
Yes, and I assume Firefox would let you turn it off, in about:config at least. So I'm fine with it being implemented ;-)
Nothing is ever good enough for HN users, is it? A step in the right direction is always bad here in the comments.
That's not a contradiction if his point was to criticize Bohr's notion of QM.
I always assumed this was to avoid outing people as gay, to avoid kids working out that their mother started dating again, or to avoid an Ashley Madison-type scenario. Those seem more dangerous than being found to have an account on dodgy-carderz.com.
What are you talking about? I have so many questions - who is uncle Bob in this scenario, an AWS employee? Who's uncle is he and why is that important? And what makes his flash drive fancy?

AWS has several encryption products you can easily look up, such as KMS. No, the employees don't have the keys. [1]

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/kms/faqs/
"Two security holes and a new library" isn't a very descriptive title - even after glancing at the beginning of the message I'm not sure what project this is for
> Calhoun said he would not be quitting his job as a sales associate at the Reliable Office Superstore in Bloomington

Anyone that thought he could quit his job needs some math lessons and financial education. $1M isn't enough to retire if you're under 30, especially when taxes come out.
Cryptocurrency goes to Hollywood without a happy ending
To be fair, AWS gives you bigger discounts for RI than GCP's sustained use. That makes sense; someone gotta pay for the risk.

This said, GCPs committed use discounts still seem to be a better deal than convertible RIs.

Looking at the run-of-the-mill 64GB RAM standard instance:

AWS 1yr all upfront: $0.458
GCP commited use: $0.47878
AWS 1yr no upfront: $0.491
GCP sustained use: $0.532
AWS 1yr no upfront convertible: $0.564

edit: confused commited vs sustained use for a second there
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This sort of shallow dismissal does nobody on any side of any argument any good.

We've asked you many times to stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN. If you can't or won't stop, we will ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
an update to the title would be nice. these security holes are for "git-annex" and the new library is "http-client-restricted". i don't think the library's name needs to be in the title, but at least "git-annex" should be.
What incantation do you do to make your cpu go to 400%?
This seems to be against the purported goal of diversity. It also doesn't address the elephant in the room - Asian students are outperforming other students. Do we know why? My guess is that it's cultural. Correct me if I'm wrong.

The Promise: "Come to our country, where everyone is treated equally and we will make a great multicultural society where we can all live together and learn and experience each other's culture"

The Outcome: Asian parents, generally, raise their kids to value hard work and academic excellence. Asian students end up taking this advice and generally outperform their peers from other communities.

Harvard's Solution: "Your culture is giving you an unfair advantage because other kids are not raised this way. Your culture should be more like everyone else's culture"

Is this diversity? Or are you eventually going to homogenize everything via this method? Is the end goal of diversity to become the Borg?
I think the bloomberg marquee is one of the most CPU heavy things ever on a big news site. I let them know years ago, they acknowledged it and never fixed it.
Primarily because it can also send.
The first article has wrong figures.

"the skin of the aircraft (probably made of titanium) gets as hot as 12,000 degrees F during flight because of air friction."

First, there's no material on earth that could sustain that kind of heat. Titanium has a melting point at 3,000 degrees F. Tungsten about 6,000 degrees F. Other composites, maybe a bit more. But nothing at 12,000 degrees F.

Second, the only plane that somehow had regular service at that kind of speeds was the SR-71. It was indeed made of titanium. The front of the plane had to sustain a temperature of over 600 degrees F, and it was only for short periods of time. Nothing close to 12,000 degrees F and was already a feat.

Third, titanium is extremely hard to work with. Ask the SR-71 guys. Tools had to be made especially to build that plane, for hundreds times more than regular tools. They break down often and you need to replace them. Nothing to sustain a production line.
Best thing ever when traveling and your colleague just got the wifi password for the coffee shop you are in and you don't feel like typing it out.
If I only had to use Slack, Spotify and Gmail, yeah, I might use a Chromebook too. Must be a student.
Reminds me a bit of glades where I grew up in Missouri: areas where the topsoil is just a thin layer above the bedrock and can't hold much water. This creates small arid ecosystems, complete with prickly pear cactus and tarantulas. https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/habita...
It's not a total lock-in as if you get convertible instances you can change the underlying instance type.
The topics are leader-follower though, no? (And that's the consistency unit, that matters.)
BASIC could be entered with a magic keystroke or by booting without a disk. If you knew enough to try these things and get to the BASIC prompt on your own, your teacher would have considered you a genius and called you over when the damn thing didn't work.
Nope, you need to put the payee info on the forms that you submit as well as the recipient.

If you are paying someone more than $600, you need to cut a 1099 form, which tells the category, such as interst, rent, misc, etc. (1099-Int, 1099-Misc, etc.).

On the 1099, you must put the Tax Id of the recipient, which for a person is their SSN, and for another entity is typically their EIN.

You submit your copy of the 1099, and they submit theirs. They need to match or the IRS see a red flag.

So, no, you can't simply say "here's the form, you submit it".

Source: I'm not a Tax Attny, but I live with one, and have co-owned several businesses that needed to cut and/or receive W-2s, 1099,s etc.
> These were 16 bit machines with either no or extremely limited (286) MMUs; just how many processes were you going to be multitasking with your 512K of MMU-less RAM?

It's frankly amazing that Microsoft ever managed to get Windows to run on 5150-class machines (which were allowed to have as little as 256 KiB of RAM per the minimum requirements). While the Macintosh had half that much RAM (128 KiB) it had the luxury of storing most of its system and graphics code in ROM. On the PC all the code for Windows had to reside in memory, with an elaborate system to swap code in and out of RAM as needed with absolutely no hardware memory management support. Raymond Chen's Old New Thing blog has some interesting reading on the topic of 16-bit Windows memory management:

1. GlobalAlloc vs LocalAlloc: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041101-00/?p=...

1a. 4-part series on the history of GlobalAlloc: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041104-00/?p=... https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041105-00/?p=... https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041108-00/?p=... https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041109-00/?p=...

2. Walking the stack in Win16: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110316-00/?p=...

3. Fixing up pointers to discarded code segments: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120622-00/?p=...

4. MakeProcInstance: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20080207-00/?p=...

5. 16-bit x86 calling conventions: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040102-00/?p=... (Note that 16-bit Windows used the Pascal calling convention to save 3 bytes per function call, which according to a comment on that blog post allowed it to be shipped on one fewer floppy disk compared to the C calling convention.)
This is terrible advice for all but the largest of organizations.

Running your own hardware is AWFUL. Get ready to dedicate an entire team to network engineering, fixing broken hard disks, patching operating systems, screwing around with RAID controllers, upgrading switches, planning power and cooling, and endless vendor negotiation -- with ISPs, hardware manufacturers, datacenter operators, etc.

Oh, and did I mention, throw elasticity out the window -- all of this has to be planned in advance, and purchased, and installed, months ahead of when it will be operable. So forget the ease and convenience of just spinning up more capacity.

Also, there's a massive distraction of having to focus management attention on this non-value-adding part of the business, all so that you can shave down some cost, rather than investing in growing revenue.

Having been in this position firsthand, don't do this. If netflix can run 1/3 of Internet traffic off of AWS, I guarantee they're much larger than you, and it should say something, that they'd rather outsource this part of their business than dealing with all this crap.

Focus on software and product/market fit. It's just a much, much, much better use of expensive technical people, that will be done on day 1, without any risk, hassle, or complexity, than trying to replicate something someone else already does for you, much better and at competitive costs, than trying to reinvent all of this yourself.

To be honest, I don't even want to deal with EC2 anymore; I'd rather just use a PaaS.