skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a weird roadblock I've run into before when discussing this topic.

No matter how many times I say that I'm speaking from the individual's point of view, some readers seem incapable of looking at it from an individual perspective.

In the case of your statement, it would solely depend on how the copy was made. If it's copied by somehow reading the consciousness, storing it as data, and perfectly restoring it in a new brain, then no, it is not the same consciousness, and from your perspective you are dead.

If it's copied through some kind of direct transfer, where the electrical impulses move, through some kind of biological link, to a new brain, then it is possible that the same continuous consciousness could now exist in the new brain.

(to be clear, I don't mean any of what I said to be insulting. I'm just observing that there are perspectives on this issue that I don't quite understand)
There are like a million blog style posts for these basic intro to ML with pandas & python type thing. It's so prevalent that I am starting to wonder what the motivation is?
Based on the U.K. news, approximately everyone in parliament uses WhatsApp to talk/scheme with one another
>Earth only has finite resources

Not quite true. For example, there may be finite amounts of, say, wood (at a given point...), but there may be infinitely things of increasing value possible to be made out of wood as tech and knowledge increases.

So finite inputs does not imply finite outputs. As long as value can be added, even to recycled things, then the overall value can increase without (necessary) bound.

We've seen over history ample evidence of increasing value possible from the same inputs. If/when some resources become scarce, making recycling of those resources important, we may conceivably reach the ability to recycle and increase value each round.

At least until the end of the universe :)

At any rate, no matter how you slice it, there is still vast room for economies to grow for the long term foreseeable future.
> Allegedly WhatsApp uses Signal's encryption (OpenWhisper

About the partnership:
https://signal.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/

But of course, in this case the issue seems to be either compromise of the device(s) via zero days, whatsapp usage simply being the target matrix - and/or a leveraging a zero day in whatsapp for full device compromise.

It's unlikely signal would be immune - they didn't Crack the encryption, they cracked the app/os.

In olden times the vector might have been a font, or a gif.

The only advantage signal has is a conservative interface and small userbase. I'm not sure if they do some kind of hard-line whitelisting of attachments though - if you can pack an exploit as a file, I'm pretty sure you could send it via signal.
There are some x86 Android phones, and Windows 10 Mobile's Continuum looked designed to be run on an x86 phone, but Intel killed that line of processors before Microsoft built a device.
"... the strategic planning aspect of alphastar has indeed become better than humans."

This is not true. Top-level human players take into account who their opponent is, what builds they've used in recent games, their proclivities, strengths, and weaknesses. In a 7-game match they'll intentionally use builds which (in order to deceive) appear the same but have very different effects.

AlphaStar has better strategy than other AIs, but that's a low bar. My young son has better strategic appreciation of the game, and easily points out the difference between good strategy and AlphaStar's next-level micro.
append-only backups: It supports this with the REST backend.

flagging any directory for exclusion directory exclude with a tag file inside it: It has this. It's called --exclude-caches and will exclude any directory with a "CACHEDIR.TAG" file in with the correct content.
People complain when they're unhappy and most tech people are happy enough to not complain. That's how revolutions work on a micro and macro scale.
Reading Appendix A of the x86 instruction manual, which lists the opcode maps of the x86 instruction set. Section A.4 in particular gives strong insight into the answer to your question--several opcodes are represented by varying the register bits in the Mod/RM byte.

For example, opcode 0f01 is actually several opcodes depending on the Mod/RM byte. If the Mod/RM byte indicates a memory operand, then it's a SGDT, SIDT, LGDT, LIDT, LMSW, or INVLPG instruction (depending on what the first register number is). If it's a register-register form, it can be any one of 17 other instructions depending on the pair of registers.
> People still need to think and be critical.

My theory is this is exactly the value proposition various news companies provide - they do it for you. "We give you the Abstract and the Conclusion".

If anything, that -hampers- critical thinking. It removes the need to apply logic and deduction to stuff that happens and just accept provided explanations of outcomes.

Would we trust a Scientist if they only explained background and results of their experiment, and didn't discuss the actual methodology and analysis of what they did and how they did it? How is that much different from being a Magician? Or saying, "Trust me, I know I'm right"?
Aren't those who stay by definition are not moral people ? (provided they see the behavior of Github as immoral)?
I'd like to get a feel about what volume of employees have an issue with these things.

From issue to issue I hear about various forms of employees making themselves heard but it is REALLY hard to jive with what that means.

We've seen Google employees post about some ideas that seemed to be genuinely popular (measure that how you will...) but later ideas or advocacy were reportedly far less supported by the general employees, but news reports seem to reports that don't know / specify make it sound like issue to issue "employee anger" is somehow uniform / equally supported each time.

I've worked enough places to see a popular topic / concern taken by the same employee advocates into new topics that very much were not popular.
Online Bettors/Gamblers
Where do online gamblers/bettors hangout online? In terms of community group chats and reddit groups which are not obvious.
TV networks can and do reject putting on ads that violate a certain threshold of misinformation. As for mail, that's closer to private chat than broadcasted ads so I don't think that's super relevant. They're not talking about censoring people's FB messages.
Topics like this, I think, give us an opportunity to go deeper on the issues and concepts surrounding what's going on.

I realize that the common quick answer these days is to harshly reject people and organizations we deeply disagree with.

But, there may be some things worth pondering, like...

Is there a way technology companies can influence these organizations and the situations of the people they touch for the better? For example, ICE is going to do what's it's going to do whether or not GitHub has a contract with them. Is there a way that technologies from companies can help ICE and organizations like it treat the people they deal with better? Does that make a difference?

I'm not suggesting an opinion on this particular case. Just offering this up as an opportunity to go deeper than we tend to these days.
Management horror stories: 76% of employees leave toxic bosses
People use it because other people use it.

Signal's lack of a web interface is another reason.

Moreover, Telegram took the users that left WhatsApp for more secure alternatives (even though Telegrams homemade encryption doesn't look promising).

Same reasons why a lot of people don't leave Facebook.
what kind of morals? These are probably the same guys who make 200-300k per year on wage + stock options If they have moral donate 50% of their wage towards these "poor" people or just tell them how woke you are and take on camera (with your 1000 euro iphone)

I'm mean you don't invite people to your well build house who don't even know how to use the toilet right. So be harsh but fair on immigration and only allow the people who can contribute to a better society.

The same as in their github environment. They don't allow people to work within Microsoft who are just fired at Burger king but don't have any relevant capabilities right
It’s the opposite of politics. They’re leaving politics out of it and saying, if it’s legit business we won’t deny you business.
Amazon is one of the worst offenders for facilitating scams and doing nothing about it.
No. This implies that desire for children or religiosity implies stupidity. I don't see much evidence for this outside pop-atheist iamverysmart cliches.

People with lower intelligence may be just as likely to adopt a short term hedonic lifestyle and use contraception more. Totally depends on cultural trends.

What we are selecting for is any heritable trait that might durably make people more likely to intentionally reproduce. That could be a lot of things: a stronger biological clock, later menopause for women, changes in cognitive patterns to the degree that they are heritable, maybe even longevity or longer healthspan. Its complex and hard to predict.
I wish we would stop emphasizing the social justice/accuracy concerns so heavily when talking about this. Starting that way will cause a huge segment of the population to switch off as soon as you start talking.

Imagine it works perfectly, and a three-letter agency with practically zero oversight, transparency, or accountability is collecting an accurate history of every single thing you do--everywhere you go, who you talk to, what you say to them, what content you consume and create, what emotions you feel, detailed biometric profiles, and so on. Are you ok with that?
Well, when it establishes a dominant position in the market using tactics that are no longer allowed, we do get a right to say that they should be broken up, or forced to start from scratch without their user data.

My own two cents is that Facebook should be dismantled to restore competition, then be allowed to do whatever it wants.
that's tax evasion
Unions have historically tended to reward seniority over merit. Tech workers should work to solve that if they organize.

I think a lot of problems caused by unions trace back to that.

Unions should come back to help recreate the middle class.
great advise, thanks for sharing!
Wiremapper: A Linux Client for the Pockethernet
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Is there a way to verify that the Signal app in the app store was compiled from the published Signal sources?
Why do you think zombies exhibit poor motor control generally?
I work in the publishing industry; we publish several industry trade magazines.

We often get sponsored articles that are labeled specifically as ads and are created to look exactly like any other article in our magazines. Most of the time they are extremely clear to the reader based simply on the content compared to other articles, but they are also marked directly as advertisements on the page... though not in a super obvious way.
I don't expect it would be that hard to make an aimbot look human by throwing in some random variation. It would probably then be difficult (even for a human auditor) to reliably differentiate genuinely good players from "too good" players.
Why? As the last paragraph says, and many comments here echo, people will still use the service. There is literally no reason why they should take it more seriously unless they were a) socially minded or b) under legal investigation.
It's puritanism (they should allow both), but it's not sexism.

Just because one of the sexes is treated differently in some way doesn't make something necessarily sexism.

It's just that female nipples are considered sensual while men nipples aren't. That's because female nipples are indeed sensual (and play a special role in reproduction and human sexual selection) whereas male nipples not so much.

(Sure, some men like to have their nipples rubbed, kissed, etc, and some women enjoy them. But you can find some percentage of people who enjoy anything, including sexually aroused by armpits, so that's not really an argument. Statistically, males enjoy female breasts/nipples sexually far more than women enjoy male breasts/nipples, hence they were considered more sexually explicit).

In the end, though, is it arbitrary? Yes, but so is considering dicks and testicles and pussies "bad" and sensual, and I don't see many people complaining they can't show their dick/pussy on Facebook (whereas, they should probably complain about that too).

Rationally speaking, without the baggage of culture, there's nothing special about dicks and pussies other hands and faces and toes.

Within the baggage of culture, however, they're in a different class, a class that female nipples happen to be also considered to belong to but male nipples not. But it's not like both men and women don't have several body parts considered censor-worthy. Woman having one more is not based on sexism (if that was the case, only women would have "shameful" body parts to hide and men would be able to display their dicks and balls and asses around), it's based on what culture considers sensual.
This is server side Swift. It supports the LSP and is supported by Visual Studio Code.
I agree. It’s vital if you’ve bought into the doctrine of infinite growth at all costs forever, but there is a limit. And if we were perhaps better at living sustainably, I’d be more supportive of having children. But either way, this Ponzi scheme has an end date, and I fear it’s a lot closer than we’d like.
ICE is not a partisan organization, it's a government agency. If you pay taxes, you support ICE, and are their customer, period.
Exactly.

When all your friends are already using Facebook and you start telling them to use Signal instead... well, I can tell you from experience that it's almost impossible to break the status quo.

What has happened to me is that usually there's 1-2 persons from each friend group who care enough that they will relay information to you through Signal.

I still don't have a friend group that is 100% Signal. For that to happen, more than 50% of the group would need to care enough about privacy to completely abandon other communication channels and accept the cost of switching platforms. The rest would probably follow. In reality, I don't have a single non-tech friend who would give a fuck about encryption. You tell them about Signal and they go "cool", that's it.
Ask HN: Industries with low productivity growth that aren't highly regulated?
The one that comes to mind is the construction industry. In my experience it's very fragmented, uses subcontractors inefficiently and has a low penetration of software use.

What others come to mind?
Are you implying that brexit protesters were in being injured and/or killed by the police?
If you haven't tried recently, a lot of traditional booking sites (like Booking.com) now have a pretty extensive apartment rental catalogue. When I'm going somewhere for more than a couple of days, I'd much rather have an entire apartment. I used to use AirBNB to book a full-fledged apartment. But now I just use Booking.com for everything.

It also used to be the case that AirBNB had some really nice places for pretty cheap. I think now that the business is more mature, it's not as easy to find really great discounts. Any more, it seems like the better value is on Booking.com, too!
>Because pensions need an ever-growing population.

Why? If a group of people paid into a retirement fund enough to sustain them all, and called it a pension, then there is no need for growth.

The problem is not pensions; it's underfunded pensions. There's no reason they cannot work.
Just sitting here thinking about it, I can't remember anything specific like this outside of the tech industry... I may be wrong though.
segment registers were a cheap MMU before its age. It was the only way to run code without relocation tables at various addresses. Mind you that at this era the whole operating system fitted in 40kB of RAM! My old turbo-pascal 3.0 editor+compiler was something around 37 kB! Just try to write a hello world of that size nowadays! It's pointless to criticize the past based on 10000 times more powerful hardware nowadays, which doesn't even deliver the same work faster due to the tremendous waste of resource caused by laziness and incompetence.
I wonder how different the experience of waking up from induced hypothermia is from, say, a coma. From my understanding, in a coma there is sometimes brain activity, up to the point that some people end up with Locked-in syndrome(LIS).

An example is Martin Pistorius, who has vivid memories of his time in his pseudocoma. That means his sense of self was intact throughout that experience. That colors what it feels like to "escape" from the coma. In dreams, we usually have a sense of self, i.e. we "come back" to reality.

There are also people who experience the subjective Near-death experience (NDE) which sometimes involves bodily detachment, etc. but presumably this NDE feels like it's occurring to that person's self. When under anaesthesia, waking up from it is more like waking up from a really deep nap, and from my experience, is easy to integrate.

Now, when waking up from induced hypothermia, does the brain slowly kick on different modules? Does the brain snap back to the last thought the person was having? To use a programming analogy, does the brain save state in a physical way? Or is it like restarting a computer fresh?

This is such a cool technique. Thank you for sharing info on it.
Why wouldn't a company of that size comply?
https://www.txstate.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definit...
What an absurd thing to believe.
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>when a state acts pursuant to its police power, rather than the power of eminent domain, its actions do not constitute a taking

It's not taking if done under police action, or "it's OK if the police do it."

>It just says that they sued over the wrong law.

Is there some clause in the police action laws that makes them liable for damages? You would think they would have just sued them under that clause after the first trial rather than try to make the appeals court consider it "taking."
If you do this be prepared to not use the service you do this to ever again.
>> Population growth is vital for the world economy.

> which is the very definition of a pyramid scheme

AFAIU, population growth being beneficial is predicated on the notion that not only does every additional human contribute a pro rata factor of N=(contribution/cost) wealth to society, where N is greater than 1, but more importantly that for every additional human N increases.

Maybe some professional economists can cite to the particular theories and research (I'm too distant from my academic days), or alternatively disabuse me of this notion. But that's my understanding, and in that light population growth is definitely not a pyramid scheme.

It doesn't mean that population growth is the only way to increase N. There may be ways to increase N fast enough to compensate for the loss of the population growth dynamic, but those ways seem to be fairly elusive.[1] It also doesn't mean that there aren't pyramid scheme-like dynamics elsewhere (e.g. land use, housing prices, etc); they're just not intrinsic to the overarching dynamic.

[1] And that's because rate of innovation is partly a function of population size. The more people there are, the more risk takers exist, the more opportunities available, the more possible social arrangements, etc.

An analogy: To a first approximation, the more neurons you have (population), and the more interconnected they are ("free market"), the more capable and potentially intelligent the network.
The question I am most curious about is this: would Github have done this before Microsoft acquired them?

Redmond has a long running history of doing backflips for Washington.
It's not simply partisan-ness. It's specifically pro-authoritarian, anti-immigrant. It's saying it's okay to inflict child abuse on non-citizens as a deterrent against lawbreaking. And a whole bunch of other things.
That's very weird to conflate employees of tech companies caring more about other people's rights with a loss of "the maturity of past times". It wasn't the maturity of past times, it was the status quo of not really caring about anyone else's rights at all. The civil rights movement was only half a century ago!
If you can find a supportive local improv troupe, that allows you to take classes, or has open "Jams" -- I would HIGHLY recommend taking said classes, or attending such jams. Learning how to perform improv (particularly, longform improv) has taught me a difficult-to-exhaustively-enumerate set of skills that are not limited to public speaking, such as:

- Focused Observation / Listening (insanely important, this)

- Ability to Deal with the Unexpected

- Empathy / Emotional Intelligence

- Negotiation (If you've played being on both sides of the table, you know what the other side wants)

- Cooperation

- Banter

- Storytelling

- Emotional Endurance

- Interpersonal Relationship Creation and Maintenance

- ...

In addition to these skills, I've also found myself a lot happier, being able to engage in a creative activity within a supportive community which offers something completely novel each time I attend.

When I moved cities, I started a new improv troupe in that city, because it means that much to me.

Check it out. :)
More like the strange puritanism America can show when it comes to sex and relationships, nudity and minor curse words. Shows up in TV, eBay, Facebook and a selection of other ways. Violence on the other hand is usually permissible in near limitless quantity.
A lot of these companies need to start sticking to their guns and simply letting people go for conflicts like this.

If you’re not gonna be a team player there are a billion other tech companies you can go be a part of.

I’m not agreeing or disagreeing with the core issue here – but at some point the message needs to be sent that you don’t deserve a job and aren’t owed anything. You work in exchange for cash, plain and simple. If you aren’t on board with the company mission, go find a different one.
A "great" hotel experience I had recently was when I happened to casually mention to someone in the hotel restaurant that it was my wedding anniversary tomorrow. When I came back from touring through the city the next day, the reception staff gave my wife flowers and wished us a happy anniversary. Then when we entered our room, we found a small cake with anniversary wishes.

That kind of attention to detail is what I would classify as a truly "great" experience.
Yes, "no way to verify" is a bit strong. Not as easy to verify is true (but: if you review the source, you'd also have to build the app yourself).
That is very much a political decision.
I think it's not restricted to White Nationalism. We see a lot of pushback against Hong Kong nationalism and Catalonian nationalism and Uyghur nationalism and Kurdish nationalism recently.

It's as if the forces of good suddenly decided that any nationalism is unacceptable in 2019.
Are GitHub's decisions being made by AI robots that only respond to purely quantitative monetary incentives? It's real people on the other side of the issue. I don't see how sending letters and working with the press is worthless...
You gotta fight for your right to arty.
> Segmentation is really nice, and should have been carried on, IMO.

Are you serious and are you talking about x86 memory segmentation? Honest question. As far as I'm concerned thinking about CS, DS and ES still gives me shivers and I don't remember to ever have met anyone back then who loved segmentation. The only thing I hated more was the bit planes stuff on the graphics card...
Use Matrix (Riot.im is a great client)

Or Signal, but without the phone number signup
That’s not evolution, that’s just... nobody having non-blue eyes anymore because you killed them. It’s contrived. People would still have babies with non-blue eyes, though. Getting rid of all members of a species with a specific trait doesn’t make that trait go away.