skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The settlement with SEC clearly stated that no fault was found and no guilt admitted.

Who says that no fault was found? Surely not
Musk. He didn’t admit or deny the allegations of the complaint. And:

Defendant understands and agrees to comply with the terms of 17 C.F.R. § 202.5(e), which provides in part that it is the Commission’s policy “not to permit a defendant or respondent to consent to a judgment or order that imposes a sanction while denying the allegations in the complaint or order for proceedings,” and “a refusal to admit the allegations is equivalent to a denial, unless the defendant or respondent states that he neither admits nor denies the allegations.” As part of Defendant’s agreement to comply with the terms of Section 202.5(e), Defendant: (i) will not take any action or make or permit to be made any public statement denying, directly or indirectly, any allegation in the complaint or creating the impression that the complaint is without factual basis; (ii) will not make or permit to be made any public statement to the effect that Defendant does not admit the allegations of the complaint, or that this Consent contains no admission of the allegations, without also stating that Defendant does not deny the allegations; ...

https://www.heise.de/downloads/18/2/5/1/1/4/0/4/SEC_Vergleic...
Countries with nuclear weapons should not go to war with each other.
I came to the "consciousness is an evolutionary advantageous adaptation" conclusion in High School too, and it sorta sent me into a death spiral in terms of academics. When the idea that we're all ultimately just bags of chemicals that are subjectively aware of our existence really kicked in, I completely lost touch with schoolwork and any "purpose" I had felt earlier. Ultimately, I think irrationality plays an important role in thinking about our own existence and it rationalizing everything down to its core isn't necessarily helpful.
What would happen if we put the externalities to the level they need to be is that the local economy would be more efficient that the global economy. The important organizations are not "too big to fail" they are "to big to succeed". It's physically impossible to continue buying stuff from the other side of the world that could be done near where we live. Also we need to consume less useless stuff, invest in repairing and maintaining what we have and implement measure to greatly reduce planned obsolescence
This would be a very stupid reason to jumpstart an apocalypse. You’d really hope nuclear armed neighbors would have more restraint.
The reason I think you are not artificial has to do with the fact that you are observing yourself.

My actions are undoubtedly being driven primarily by a series of electrical, chemical, and other reactions going off in my mind and throughout my body. Manipulate my brain in various ways and you can manipulate my behavior in various ways. In this regard I'm effectively a glorified automaton. Yet the catch here is that there is something inside here, 'me', observing all of this happen and having the perception of controlling it. When I write a program to generate a random number I find it inconceivable that suddenly some entity poofs into existence observing itself imagining it's deciding on a random number only to inevitably decide on the number that my pseudo-random algorithm had already predetermined given its initial state.

And similarly, even if we made vastly more complex systems that could create a passable replication of human behavior - I do not think there would, at any point, suddenly appear some entity within that machine suddenly imagining itself driving the deterministic decisions occurring within. A religious individual would call this 'me' your soul. I'm more compelled by the simulation hypothesis for reasons beyond the scope of this post. But in either case this is something that will undoubtedly never going to be proven in any way during our lifetimes, if ever. So it's a place where an individual must come to their own conclusion based on very limited information.

That a bad decision could have unimaginable consequence here is undoubtedly what drove things such as Pascal's Wager [1]. Though he failed to consider of course that life itself could be a test. Willingness to adopt views one does not genuinely believe for hope of future reward and convenient social graces, is probably not something that would score so well. Quite the burdensome consideration, life is.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager
The one thing I wanted to find on your site I could not find: a sample audio generated from an article.
If the development environment is comprised of multiple container images that would likely justify dedicated small EC2 instances.
Stay strong, you have the will. Please seek help if you keep having these thoughts. You should be able to find free help on that matter.

Practicing sport keeps my mind focused and the negative thoughts away. I find it a great free anti depressant.

I subscribed to Indeed Prime, they offer free coaching (resume help, mock interviews...). With your background, you should be selected.

Have you got feedbacks from employers?

Did you apply to unemployment? Can you take a side job in the meantime (e.g. Uber)?

Don’t overload yourself and do a little everyday.
"Total annihilation" may be a bit far-fetched, but what we are much closer to is global war, death and suffering for you, me, and everyone we know.

Just to cover one angle (IMO most likely one): reduced living space (sea rise) and food shortages will cause massive migrations. Think how the whole EU went basically insane over a bunch of refugees from Syria (and the aftershocks still threaten to shake it apart). Climate-change induced migrations will be much larger, and this time around actually backed by countries people are fleeing. Wars are likely. Proxy wars are likely too. And nukes won't be off the table either.

Even if you live so far inland that waters can't get to you, people will. And if you survive that, then lack of people will get to you as the global supply chain stretches to a breaking point and suddenly no one can make anything as all the components came from China. The lifestyle we're all used to depends on global-scale systems with single points of failure.
I've never in my life eaten crab or lobster with butter. Is this some retarded American thing?
True science is clear and known.

Q&A on the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red meat and processed meat. https://www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/

Position of the American Dietetic Association: vegetarian diets https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19562864/

Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Vegetarian Diets https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/27886704/

Nutrition concerns and health effects of vegetarian diets. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21139125/

Why Doctors Don't Recommend A Vegan Diet | Dr. Michael Greger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d1Ca6SsKfE

New Canada Food Guide: Some Can't Handle It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp4zWaLE_ik

Unfortunately lies and fake science affected by a personal or political or financial agenda confuse people.
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This trial claimed to show a 4 and 5-day week are equally productive. It didn't.
Adults kill too and can be more methodical about it. Adults kill more often then children on average.
Small, oil-strapped countries should also not start unwinnable wars against superpowers that have 2 times their population, 5 times their GDP, and 10 times their military industrial capacity.

And yet, despite knowing that their cause was hopeless, and that the war would be unwinnable, the government of Imperial Japan knowingly committed suicide, by attacking the United States in 1941.

This is one of the reasons I find the principles underpinning MAD to be fairy tales. In matters of war, belligerents do not behave rationally.
Very poor argument. Today's existential threats are climate change and having too many nukes, not an ongoing world war.
I took a proper look at this study and it didn't show what this article claims it showed: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15q3hdJI2SxDBcOsn2Cqk8bMg...
Or the medical record system that's non-searchable since it's just all flattened scans converted to PDFs. Fun. Our tax dollars at work.
If you feel like you've heard this already in December and are unsure why it's in the news again, there was a media suppression order that prevented it from being reported in Australia, due to a second court case involving Pell that was due to start in April.

That case was dropped today due to insufficient evidence and the supression order is no longer in place, so the Australian media can now report freely.
Wow.. I had read through diagonally and missed this one, otherwise I would’ve been a bit more negative.

The real shame is that reading about the different systems that do give rise to these feelings is actually really interesting.
Just about everything other than the syntax, and even that is similar to that C++ only at the method level.
They don't have full capabilities yet. Their ability to plan is lower and their impulse control too. There is not way for them to enact years long plan and build networks of supporters before acting.
Perhaps if it were FB itself doing the hiring, rather than a 3rd party company, there would be better metrics being sent back to management about things that needed to change.

I don't think OP meant to disparage the good honest work, but really, if FB (as a company) did value the work, it'd be in-house, wouldn't it? There's too much opportunity for mangement to 'tone down' issues when metrics are shared between companies, whereas in-house there'd be no hiding from the problems.

That said, it's great to hear that you devs were very mindful of the problems that face these people. I certainly didn't not realise how bad it was, so kudos to all involved really.
Ingredients: Children, Palestinian.
the mite sticking between the bee's exoskeleton plates reminds of a dagger hit under/between the plates of an ironclad knight.

Interesting that no self-cleaning (or mate-cleaning) behavior has emerged. May be, given the bees vision, the attached mite isn't distinguishable from the rest of the bee?
This is really nice. I'm working on a similar project right now, trying to hook together a few console UI pieces like this into a coherent annotation tool:

https://github.com/larsyencken/questioner/

It's not as pretty as bullet, but it's trying to fit in an annotation loop. It would be super cool to extend bullet to choose-many questions too.
Why does it have SPARC architecture CPUs as well I wonder? Any guesses?
NYT's anti-India bias is showing.

That said, this was expected. India's diplomacy and restraint has been tested time and time again. It has taken a page from Israel, US & Russia's book. India is only cleaning up the mess that Pakistan should've cleared on its side of the border.
This is an incredibly weird and mobile-unfriendly way to publish an article...
I'd say this is a sign of more and more people developing software, and with ever more diverse motives.

If your motive is to sell lots of copies to lots of people and make lots of money to it, investing energy into UI refinement makes total sense.

If you just have to scratch an itch, maybe it doesn't.
Woven silk prayer book created with punch cards on Jacquard loom
Why should that confuse?
A grouping of form controls and labels that together represent a piece of form data is a field. True, HTML doesn't have any exact `field` tag, but the notion of a field has always been there, see `<fieldset>`. Working with custom "fantasy" elements is quite typical of modern frontend development, and very productive to work in.

Nevertheless, in the more restricted question of using custom elements to replace CSS classes, you may have a point; many libraries that try to do this typically end up with a far more restricted use case since a custom components library is less open to extension than CSS classes, and custom components authors often fail to anticipate ways in which CSS frameworks are used. (e.g. using a CSS class with a standard HTML tag, and then, using a CSS class with a custom component)
Listen to Your Inner Voice – Act on It
And smoke more cigarettes, so you die sooner, faster people die the less they consume in a lifetime.
Bill Marr being appropriately brutal.
As in ssid, use ePub if you need vector. If you need something that will be displayed the same under any conceivable circumstances, and still will be in many years, consider DJVU. I see DJVU mainly as a viable alternative for archiving, where people usually use PDF/A or TIFF (yes some still archive everything as TIFF).
Ha ha. Restraint is not an option when 50+ soldiers of said country get suicide bombed by a terrorist group known to be residing with impunity and immunity in the other said country. At this point, it's a wonder it's not all out war.
It’s just a command line library for spliffying up command line interfaces.

Where does React come into this? That’s for the web...
I'd advise everyone to wait until it's confirmed. The fake news problem in India is at another level.
I know nothing about the situation, so what you say may well be true, despite the assurances of Pakistan to the contrary.

However, it may also well be false, despite the assurances of India to the contrary.

I do know that if this escalates into a 'real' war, or, heaven forbid, a nuclear exchange, between the two countries, then the question of whether or not this attack was justified will be completely irrelevant.
Thanks god there are no casualties.
You can't synchronize the stations because simultaneity does not exist due to relativity. There will always be reference frames where one station signals before another.
How many people are you willing to kill (On your side, or the other side), over a terrorist act that claimed the lives of fifty soldiers?

Fifty?

Five hundred?

Five hundred million?

As many as it takes? Or is there a limit?

What if the conflict kills five hundred people on your side, and fifty on theirs? Do you also consider that a good exchange?
Of course it’s an option, when the alternative is a potential nuclear holocaust. I’m not denying that Pakistan makes for a miserable neighbor, just that limited engagements with limited casualties are preferable to risking nuclear war.
FYI, not exactly the same, but Dialog is an excellent tool for creating ncurses based GUIs for shell scripts...

http://www.unixcl.com/2009/12/linux-dialog-utility-short-tut...
I'm looking forward to observing this more closely in the near future. :)

We tend to think of language as separate from the rest of life, maybe because it's so transportable, but in a way it's strange to imagine an intelligence that only deals in language, and not even the language of "its own species."

A baby babbles I guess for fun but also because it's part of the process of playing with the world to learn to cope with it and to become an effective person. So talking, walking, eating, etc, are all part of the same general activity of life, and they all have their own forms of "grammar."

The semantic connections and associations go all across embodied life; you can't really use human language without being a person who also sees, moves, eats, loves, etc.

Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations starts from the first paragraph by quoting Augustine:

> ‘When they (my elders) named some object, and accordingly moved towards something, I saw this and I grasped that the thing was called by the sound they uttered when they meant to point it out. Their intention was shewn by their bodily movements, as it were the natural language of all peoples: the expression of the face, the play of the eyes, the movement of other parts of the body, and the tone of voice which expresses our state of mind in seeking, having, rejecting, or avoiding something. Thus, as I heard words repeatedly used in their proper places in various sentences, I gradually learnt to understand what objects they signified; and after I had trained my mouth to form these signs, I used them to express my own desires.’ (Augustine, Confessions, 1. 8.)

Wittgenstein thinks this is a good example of a misunderstanding of how language and language acquisition works. Then he formulates an understanding of language that focuses less on meaning and signification and more on social activity and speech acts.

I have a feeling that I myself am babbling right now, I don't know exactly what my point is and I'm hungry for breakfast...
Note: This is not random attack by India.
This was in response to an attack 2 weeks ago by Pakistani terrorists in India which had killed 40+ security personnel. Moreover this was an attack on terrorist camps in hilly/mountaineous terrain.
For those unfamiliar with the reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
On the other hand, Germany is in the top 10 for fuel taxes, so it's not like they are doing nothing to discourage fossil fuel usage.

https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10327

(The USA is quite close to the bottom of the list)

Additionally, their gasoline price per gallon (converted to USD) is also in the top 10, while the USA is near the bottom (only Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran have lower gasoline prices)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/221368/gas-prices-around...
The book 'Blindsight' by Peter Watts argues the opposite, that (some degree of) consciousness may have been advantageous in the past, but it has since become a parasite that is holding humanity back; humans would be smarter, faster, and more efficient without it.

While the book is science fiction, it does make an interesting case, and some of it is grounded in actual research.
More complete images of the book content: http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/htm...
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Germany - like many other countries - is not a libertarian state. Pricing caps are not new here, underpricing and overpricing are defined and limited in certain scenarios and for a number of goods like doctor or lawyer fees, medication, books, your ISP, etc.

Obviously one can debate such decisions and their merit but if you simply reduce this to having a "frivolous concept of property" it's difficult to have a conversation with you because it seems like you're choosing to be destructive instead of using arguments.
It was reported by Pakistan that this had happened, before Indian media had reported.
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Thanks for the link! That looks like a good read.

What kind of cycles are we talking about? I'm under the notion that typically the only effect that should not be captured should be seasonal change with yearly periods.
Including Renault we now have 2 weird ways to spell the O sound in French (eau, eo) and 1 weird silent pair of consonants (lt).
One of the things are about fakes is that they evolve over time.

Believe it or not, an incident in 1917 involving Arthur Conan Doyle, inventor of Sherlock Holmes, is instructive.

The "Cottingley Fairies" were imagined when a couple of teenage girls took photographs of themselves with pictures of fairies. [1]

The thing that is important is that, to my eyes and I think to a typical person of this era, these photos of girls with cutouts of fairies look like ... exactly that. When I first saw these pictures, I couldn't believe anyone could be fooled by them. But this period, circa 1917, was a period when photos only recently had appeared and so only recently had photo fakes. So the skill to spot the difference had only recently appeared.

Which is to say, I'm pretty sure the author is correct that deal of the OpenAI text generated isn't intelligent text generation but stuff with enough of the markers of "real" text that people might not notice it if they weren't paying attention.

Moreover, I strongly suspect that if this sort of sham were to become more common, the average person's ability to notice it would increase significantly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies
Well, according to Indian media 200-300 terrorists were killed. Of course Pakistan says no one was killed.
This sounds very similar to the kind of platform I was thinking about.
After a history of the Pakistani government letting terrorists operate/organize within its borders, one can’t be surprised that India has grown tired of the nuclear deterrent preventing them from making progress in curbing attacks in India from Pakistani terror groups.

I agree the situation should be handled delicately, and hopefully diplomatically, to a mutually-agreeable outcome. At the same time, continuing to rely on the Pakistani government to make progress here would be foolish given their poor track record in dealing with domestic terror groups. After all, America acted unilaterally in the hunt for Osama bin Laden because the Pakistani government was unreliable. To this day many sources allege the direct involvement of many Pakistani officials in harboring OBL (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/10/14...).
I have a buddy in Spain called something like “jébi”. Took me a while to understand it's supposed to mean “heavy” as in “heavy metal”.
> Whatever ability IQ tests and math tests measure, I believe that lacking that ability doesn’t have any effect on one’s ability to make a good social impression or even to “seem smart” in conversation.

Ever wonder why incompetent people get promoted? Or why consultants can sell projects using only buzzwords? Ever had that strange conversation where two colleagues are seemingly discussing something absurd, obvious, or impossible, but they think they're being clever?
And you are proud of this? Shame.
Nice. All the queries are SELECT operations from the same table, so there are no locking issues. No writes.
Despite Hiroshima-Nagasaki example, I am appalled that two very big and close nuclear neighbours are escalating issues instead of doing diplomatic talks.
What I find most interesting in recent findings is how millenias of beaurocratic development are completelly defenceless against current stage of technology.

For past couple centuries, Church created notion of "we are judge of ourselves" which most often either meant delegating case to far away place, which no interested party could visit, or by reloacting to another region with unlikely connection (and this connection was very unlikely, since Catholic Church keeps their own births, deaths and movement metrics, so those were far from random).

Right now, since everything is transparent and just few taps away, this method no longer works and Church is totally lost in how to deal with it. Senior members refute all responsibility either through long-hardened loyalty or - in some cases - to protect their own wrongdoings from coming out. That makes the matter even worse. Elderly age and resulting lack of will to change doesn’t help the case either.

I think of it as a David vs Goliath fight, where Goliath is more than 2000 years of institutional experience and David is a kid with a camera in his smartphone.
That just leads to more questions!

If missing estimates of time and resources is a success, then what would be a failure? Just giving up? Can we make any project a "success" by just keeping on throwing time and money at it until it's finished?

People (like executives, or voters) made the decision to go forward with these projects based on the estimates. If engineering estimates can't even be accurate to within a factor of 2 (like these), then what's the purpose of providing them? If humans are just bad at estimating, why are these estimates always much lower than actual, and never higher? What about the benefits which could have been achieved by other uses of this money? How can anyone make an informed decision about which possible engineering project to implement, when estimates are this bad?

These days, I assume any estimate without a confidence interval is a lie.
The article is by David Marr.