skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's one way out: claiming that the Books+Person Room-System is itself sentient.

You can (and philosophers have!) make that case, but it seems very counter-intuitive to the way we experience conscientious as a unitary, embodied being.
It is great business sense. It keeps from giving the opposition ammunition in their lawsuit...

It's just a shame that good business sense isn't exactly good for the user.
Me too!

My working theory was that companies like Google were using the capchas mostly to generate AI data, so only a few of the images on any given test were actually already labeled. Any of the other images (particularly the really grainy ones) would accept any answer because they were genuine classification questions.

Reading this article, I wonder if it's not even that -- that companies like Google are assuming, "you're not going to get everything right, so we'll give you some leeway."
I was also wondering why rich merchants in China didn't qualify as tycoons, but I'm inclined to think that this is because the author didn't feel like pursuing his line of inquiry any farther as opposed to some fundamental aspect of the Wedgewood business' corporate structure.
Yeah he's doing alright on the jobs front by hiring undocumented workers for his own companies at the same time he's sending ICE to rip them out of other companies.
They're a massive company, and they can't justify anything by saying that they're the underdogs.
It's not "migrant" labor. It's labor which consists of people who _have broken US law_, and it's hired by people who are also breaking US law. It's like that article a few weeks back which called an armed home invader an "unwanted house visitor". These people _can't legally work here_, like, at all. If this is something you don't like, have your congresspeople change the law. Selective enforcement of laws is an insanely slippery slope, you won't like where it ends.

I'm an immigrant myself. I didn't just come here and start working. I had to go through a lot of hoops so that the US would make sure I wasn't going to be a burden and my presence in the US could be good for the US.
Representing $350k for a 3000 sq foot house as average is disingenuous. That simply isn't true in the places where the majority of tech jobs exist (major coastal metros).

In Seattle, 3000 sq ft homes go for a floor of about $750k, and that's in the extreme south end of town. In SF, try $1.5mil. $500k+ in the outer extremes of NYC. Average developers can't all move to whatever cheap metro you're describing; there simply aren't enough jobs there.
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You won't have the chance to call anything. If the executable is statistically linked to the latest API, the executable won't be able to load on older systems.

I'm surprised that these new IsWindows...() functions claim compatibility down to Windows 2000. Doubt microsoft knew how they would name their next release 20 years ago. A Google search indicates that they are in fact broken.
The most important part IMHO is here https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/master/sys/netinet/t.... The TLS sendfile piece is a bit specialized, mainly interesting if you are doing the exact same workload i.e. a CDN on UFS disks. I can say on some authority (I had all the relevant code at my last job) NF will give it to you if you ask and have a need/competence. The reason the TLS bits aren't upstream is that they aren't general purpose or "finished" yet. It relies on some third party code outside of src like boringssl and Intel's isa-l.
Companies have found another way to break capitalism. Make employment so fluid and low commitment on their part that they always have the upper hand in negotiation. Never have to pay a fair wage and you can always tweak your payment "algorithm" to squeeze extra pennies out of your paycheck until you barely have enough people willing to work. Then create bullshit "incentives" that sound good on paper but which practically no one uses to squeeze a few more pennies.

I really don't care for this model. Hope something comes about to intervene.
I'd like to see any data actually backing that article's claim that crime in midsize cities has been rising (actually rising over a substantial period of time, not just a temporary uptick), given that every other source shows consistent multi-decade downward trends in crime at the national level and for the overwhelming majority of cities. https://www.factcheck.org/2016/07/dueling-claims-on-crime-tr...
This Resnick family should form "the scum of the earth" club with the architects of the opioid crisis, the Sackler family.
>"I'd guess they just make you solve an appropriate (TM) number of puzzles to absolutely certain you really are not a robot."

If it were a matter of security then they wouldn't allow people with javascript disabled (which could reasonably be considered a bot-ish characteristic...) to pass through after solving a single challenge. Given how much easier the noscript version is to solve, who would make a bot that requests and solves the normal version instead of the noscript version? Any bot making a semi-serious attempt to crack their captcha will try the noscript version first.

Multiple challenges aren't there for more security, they are there to get more free labor out of the human. And the tile fade-in is to punish the human for not using the web in a Google Approved™ manner.
But why would they?
Interesting to see a hacker news expert coming up with something with some good buzzwords - two factor and public-key crypto.

That said, I like the apple approach better here.

No forward secrecy?
Passing private keys all over the place?

Look at how apple does it. Private keys stay on device in secure enclave, even user cannot export from there. I don't even think system root (which user and software generally don't have access to) can export private keys.

Adding a new device to the account involves old device generating a funny looking wave pattern which new device scans. This has always worked fine for me. I assume apple then adds public key of new device to my acct.
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And people used to die from infection before antibiotics. What's your point?
I’m getting too old for BS and politics. I just keep my running shoes around my neck. When things get rough time to go.
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Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, safety and seasonality
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

If it is broken, then fix it, or break it so others can see.
Cynically it appears to be several additional layers of fucked up misdirection. First off the immigration enforcement targeting by employee's effects seems to be geared actively at undermining worker power to say "give me a raise or I will head down the street" by suppression targetted at employees instead of demand while giving a deniable cudgel.

Many of the people complaining about illegal immigrants while benefiting are shocked when their shakedowns result in labor shortages because people actually take them at their word. Regardless of intentions it is worth condemning because nothing works for any valid stated purpose. The resulting system is a massive web of interblended malice and stupidity of actors who refuse to learn that characterizes much of legal policy like the war on drugs. It isn't an American thing or even a capitalism thing. The USSR had plenty of stupid-malicious systems. I suspect sociopaths are to blame in all cases - it bears their thumbprints of dysfunctional systems that benefit them personally and get people to act selfishly in a way that doesn't even benefit them.
Why don't they start a basic income project in California?
If there is one place where you have money and lots of inequality it is California. Is there really noone there from the bigger corps willing to initiate something like this?
If I buy an expensive house/flat in a nice neighbourhood the last thing I want is a new building full of problematic people. Sounds like political suicide, really.
As a uMatrix user as well, I have manually whitelisted ajax.googleapis.com. It is actually not tracking scripts, but hosted libs like jQuery, which many many sites use and will not function without. See here: https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/
Seeing more and more interest in 'edge ML', so I'm specialized in machine learning on embedded systems. For audio, accelerometer and image/video data. Hopefully also new types of data as people are starting to consider 'ML first' type sensor construction, especially for chemical sensors.
Unemployment is essentially meaningless as a metric because deciding the nature of "unemployment" is gameable.

What would be more interesting, is something like the percentage of adult individuals with an income lower than some amount (e.g. in the UK, 14.5K would approximate to a full time job at minimum wage, so you could use 12-13K or something).

Still not perfect (stay at home partners would be problematic, for one example, and you can game the line, though it'd be more transparent) but it'd be far more in line with what I'd call "unemployed".

I don't believe that "voluntary unemployment" is really a thing that cannot be accounted for numerically. If someone has significant unearned investment income, or are obviously attempting to start a business, sure, exclude them. A poor person who's given up looking for a job is just unemployed.
That's exactly what my mind turned to when thinking about this paradox. Perhaps a determined will can lead to longer life?
You really think that the only place you can find a tech job is on the west coast?

I must be imagining things that I’ve been doing pretty well for myself in Atlanta for 20+ years....

And posters on HN wonder why
I always rail against the Silicon Valley/HN bubble.

https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/25-best-paying-cities-softwar...
There already are actual keyboards with oled displays on the keys. Also, many business laptops (e.g. thinkpads) are already spill-proof.
I don't see how the proposal here is not strictly worse than what is currently available.
I’m not sure there is sufficient data to support your hypothesis.

Famines in the modern world are rare, they still exists in some places but those places aren’t exactly stable and have high life expectancy to begin with.

Famines in historic times were both not rare, periodic, and there isn’t nearly enough data to show if there was any benefit to the survivors other than less competition for resources after the famine has subsided.

I’m not sure there has been an event like the holocaust where so many people went on to live what essentially became modern western life with all the advantages it provides as far as life expectancy goes.
I have always considered Searle's chinese room to be an intellectually dishonest argument.

It argues that a system (the room) consisting of a non-chinese speaker and a arbitrarily large and complex rules system and a human cannot "understand" chinese when the human clearly doesn't understand chinese. The human is just a distraction.

You could instead image a variant system where the room contains two people (and no filing cabinets): non-chinese speaking scribe and a chinese speaker. The scribe laboriously transcribes messages without understanding them and passes them to and from the chinese speaker that clearly does.

Obviously the addition of the non-understanding human in that example does not make the system unintelligent. Similarly, the (non-)intelligence of the system in the classic argument is independent of the understanding of the human stuck inside it.

There are interesting question to ask about the nature of intelligence, but the Chinese Room argument draws our attention to none of them and simply obfuscates the issue with an irrelevant misdirection.
You can. Desktop linux lets me do what I want and doesn't spy on me.
I clicked on that video and at the timestamp in the link the guy says they like FreeBSD because it's not GPL. Not that we have anything against GPL or the Free Software Foundation, but the BSD license is more collaborative. I'm paraphrasing here.

Is there any actual evidence for that claim?

I'm a Linux guy so my view is probably biased. All I'm seeing is BSD licensed projects being ripped off by corporations left and right. Maybe we mean different things with the word, sharing. Netflix using FreeBSD and their idea of giving back to the project is telling them this will lead to their code being tested really well? That sounds to me like "please create a web page for us for free, it will lead to more exposure for you".

Why does FreeBSD then not have your TLS sendfile code?
Linux has TLS sendfile.
It was contributed by a corporation, as far as I know.

Personally, I have always really liked the BSD projects. The people working on them have been nothing but professional and yet courteous, they tend to fix their security issues quickly. I would love for them to get paid properly.

With money. Not with "exposure" or "we'll test your code".
With video games you at least develop hand-held coordination, and in some, tactical skills. As for movies I'm not so sure, but for people who critique or study them it's at least beneficial.

hand-eye
I think this is still an open question. Some people have claimed quantum effects may be at play, but this very controversial: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-spin-on-the-quantum-bra...

Most neuroscientists feel strongly that the brain is not (just?) a computer https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati...
Dwm-6.2 dmenu-4.9 new release
Does a light bulb know that it is on or off? That it exists?

Normally, in order to answer these questions we would look at the empirical evidence, and the evidence in favour that inanimate objects have self-awareness is completely non-existent.

On the other hand, the evidence that animals have self-awareness is overwhelmingly strong.

Thus, it is reasonable to conclude that inanimate objects aren't self-aware but that people and animals are. (And of course this also means that is NOT reasonable to conclude otherwise.)
This will be awesome for vim-ers. Imagine the keyboard symbols change to display the actions you can do in command mode. When you press "d" in command mode, the relevant keys light up to indicate the type of object you can delete.

Also in emacs, you hit ctrl-x and then the keyboard lights up to indicate any following actions you can take. It can have small text annotations with the actions, too.

Extrapolate further to power tools like Apple Logic, or Final Cut Pro, where the keyboard becomes labeled with sound and film editing actions. The keyboard can go levels deep, where you enter one mode and the keyboard reconfigures itself with actions in that mode. Not just with key symbols, but colored/delineated control areas with arbitrary graphical and animation capability.

This would basically finally take the keyboard to the next level; it has been roughly the same since the 60s. It widens the range of sensible input you can do with a keyboard by making it super intuitive to switch beteen and use arbitrary control modes.

The power is undeniable, but the true test is feel.
When I first heard someone talking about "Progressive Web Apps" I thought they were talking about "Progressive Enhancement" [1].

Turns out doing a PWA is just basically about using the "Service Workers" API [2] and the practices around that.

This nice article does a lengthy trace on the origins of the "PWA" term [3]. The same guy that started the "Service Workers" spec in Github [4] created the PWA marketing campaign, apparently. Makes me wonder why he thought it was more marketable to sell this PWA idea more than the simpler and more direct message: "use Service Workers".

The PWA campaign also reminds me of the less successful "Offline First" campaign from a couple of years ago [5].

1: https://alistapart.com/article/understandingprogressiveenhan...

2: https://jakearchibald.github.io/isserviceworkerready/

3: https://medium.com/@amberleyjohanna/seriously-though-what-is...

4: https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/tree/c49c878cdcbaf7a81e...

5: http://offlinefirst.org/
Apple and Microsoft very successfully sell very expensive keyboard covers because this argument has been valid since 2007.
Mac OS 8 dates to the 90s. Nowadays these things are probably public key signed, but back then they probably were not.
Our tooling has improved rapidly in the past few years, and we're now at a point where a handful of all powerful executives can aggregate vast swaths of human activity into a single number that they then get to sit there and start fiddling with to see what happens.

What we're currently legally doing isn't even within the scope of capitalism, it's more like free form social experimentation. And the ones with their fingers on the dials doing the experiments have never taken a history class or a sociology class or a civics class.

The laws aren't just out of date, our terminology can't even keep up. It's not a free market, it's not capitalism, it's something else entirely new and different.
I'd argue that there's lower hanging fruit. The loss of jobs to automation just hasn't become a problem yet. When you look at the economic prospects of the California poor, there have jobs, but housing costs consume a large and growing portion of their paycheck. A duel push on minimum wage and housing opportunity will bring more people out of poverty than a basic income.
Better integrate may be, but not merge into one. Since super optimized build systems also increase complexity of their usage. So the idea is to have user friendly front end, which produces complex input for very fast backend.

Ninja view their build idea as "assembly like". While assembly surely allows you producing very fast results, it's not easy to use at all, if you are using it directly.
Itanic inspired what is unquestionably the best graph-based trolling of bullshit marketing ever:
https://regmedia.co.uk/2004/09/19/itanium_sales_small.jpg

Wikipedia has an updated version as well:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Itanium_...
*almost* every

The US is more racially diverse than SA.
Not a problem in Windows 10.
> It also seems to be popular for countries playing catch-up on that whole "we can make our own computers from grounds up" metric - both China and Russia make their own MIPS CPUs, mostly for military use at the moment.

I am no expert on this, but my personal impression is that projects of this kind slowly try to migrate towards RISC-V.
Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for the comments!

Well, indeed it is a toy application made for my research group just to check which GPU is available. However, I was hoping to make it a little more useful with help and suggestions from the community. I believe I should add
"Show HN:" to the title before posting, sorry.

As for why not to use professional tools, I guess we wanted something dead simple.
What penalty (or penalties) do you think is fair for companies that hire "people who have broken US law?"
I would agree. Oil only exists in certain locations and is extremely difficult to get, so it necessarily has to be extracted by corporations and shipped around the world.

Water, on the other hand, covers a lot of the surface of the planet, and even if you're not standing by a lake or river almost anyone can dig straight down and with an hour or so of work you're likely to find water. The places where this is not true are fairly rare, and the easier solution is to move the people to where water is instead of moving water to where people are. Filtering water to be drinkable is just so much easier than getting crude oil out of the ground.

And worst case scenario, even if you have to move water from one place to another because the best farmland doesn't have water, basically anyone with a tanker truck and a hose can supply water pretty cheap. There's just not enough barriers to entry in the water business.

The only way I see water becoming more valuable than oil is if oil demand falls so far that it's practically worthless.
NYC isn't on the west coast.

Do you think all the average west coast developers can move to Atlanta? No; there aren't the jobs. And if/when there are, housing prices rise correspondingly.

I'm glad ATL works well for you, but it isn't the average experience.
Cargo (and Rust tooling in general) still have an annoying design flaw in my mind -> they all pretend that system package managers don’t exist.

Admittedly with rust not having an ABI you’d still have to rebuild all the packages whenever the compiler was updated, but I’d like to see rustup support toolchains installed to the system.
What? Why would anyone choose to give free money to landlords that are already well to do? A basic income project to do what exactly?
See also: https://coronaradiata.net/2012/12/24/does-a-thermostat-have-...
> One day water will be more valuable than oil, and like oil it will start wars.

Is this true? Its true that natural sources of water might be scant, but what happens if we just build huge desal plants all along the CA coast and pipe in the water? And what if those desal plants are powered by cheap renewable energy?
I love the service manuals from Dell/HP/Lenovo!

Examples:

Lenovo P52 hardware maintenance manual: https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/tp_p52_hmm_en...

Dell XPS15 service manual: https://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/xps-15-9560-laptop_setup-gui...

HP ZBook 15 G2 maintenance and service guide: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04493862

They're well-written and easy to follow. It's great.

All of these are public and freely available on the website of the manufacturer. They're also in PDF format (or similar) and can be opened easily in full in a browser.
It's chemistry and physics from there down.

Searle's argument is closet dualism.
Agree with the scale. But do you mean the compilers toolchain is the largest/safest; or the overall C++ codebase. No questions about the latter, but would be surprised if you meant the former.

Out of curiosity: if not the language platform team, then which team does PL research? My email is in my profile of you'd rather ping there.
For emacs this is already done by which-key, which tells you about all following actions and their description.

Also, this seems only useful if you don't touch type, which seems like the opposite demographic of emacs and vim users.
There are other cities in the US you know where software engineers work....

Why isn’t it the average experience?

https://www.matrixres.com/salary-surveys
For these BART engineers, it’s all about building a turnstile that stops cheats
You're looking at it wrong. It isn't a dent, it's an aesthetic mark to help differentiate your device and deter thieves. OMG you just don't get it do you? You must use a personal computer.
It does rub me the wrong way though that if I get a paid subscription i still get tracked when they write so many articles against it. At least Ars Technical put their money where their mouths was and fixed that for subs
I think a reasonable solution on mobile is to only allow push notification requests to PWAs that you have added to your home screen (i.e. "installed"), and removing the app from your home screen should remove the notifications. This way it will function pretty much like native apps, and you won't have to worry as much about random requests for spammy notifications - if I've gone through the trouble to "install" the PWA, then it's more likely I have a higher degree of connection to that app than just some random news site asking if it wants to send me notifications.
SVT-AV1 a fast AV1 encoder
You're depleting natural waterways and groundwater acquifers. Thats why its a bad thing.

Also...they're basically bypassing US labor laws by employing illegal immigrants en-massse. It seems like they've been smart enough to provide them with benefits like healthcare, 401(k)'s etc. But wait until the farms pass on to their kids, who will try to squeeze even more out of the unprotected laborers ...