skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's incomplete. There's at least the Unison file synchronizer as well:

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
> I nearly died laughing from coughing thinking of "chewing" geese.

Surprise!, dinosaur DNA and ready to tear off your hand ;-)

https://justbirding.com/geese-teeth/#1-do-geese-have-teeth
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but if you have a snail mail hard copy in your home, that's discoverable.
Whatsapp and Maps (and Assistant) are available on the new KaiOS flip phone: https://www.pcmag.com/review/371112/alcatel-go-flip-3

You can get the prepaid version at Best Buy for like $30.
So do you consider HN social media or not?
Slippery argument, it has an element of tautology. You could say any AI that murders is not in its right mind, what does right mind even mean?
People will do things that they aren't used to if the benefits outweigh the costs.

And of the list of things preventing people from doing VR right now, I doubt strapping the headset on is anywhere near the top (things like cost, PC, space, etc are).
True, but I was speaking in practical terms. To get that 400Mbit you need to be within a few feet of the AP typically. Plus, if there are several concurrently streaming devices on the network you won't achieve the theoretical aggregate maximum throughput. A good rule of thumb in WiFi marketing is to divide whatever throughput the retail box claims by 4 to get the practically achievable throughput. Meanwhile wired networking (the OP's upstream connection) actually delivers the marketed throughput.
.Net Core only supports windows forms on windows.

Mono's implementation no longer works on newest versions of macOS unless you compile it and a bunch of other stuff yourself.

So no its not really coming together.
> "We believe social media is very unhealthy, here's our blog post on why."

> [ Upvote 3 ] [ tweet ] [ (f) Share 1 ]

I kid, though. If you have to have a media presence, you can't expect everyone to come to your mountain top hermitage, so you have to allow people to share your stuff easily.
Well, at least a moon base is on the way. Just not like how we thinked of. More like a ISS on moon ground than a grand hotel
"We've never fallen in love"? Really?

This is he first time for me where an emergent new technology in the gaming world feels like a proper thing with actual potential, and not a just a novelty gimmick like motion controls, 3D and previous attempts at "VR" were. I had the chance to try the new Oculus Rift S and the HTC Vive over the holidays with some Beat Saber and Superhot and it was a really amazing experience. I have honestly never felt such awe for a game since my childhood days where I'd witness a brand new graphics engine like Source for the first time.

There is definitely a bright future for VR as the technology will only get better, cheaper and more accessible with time.
Regardless of any of the technical aspects of this disaster, the attitude of the company and its customer service means I will be staying far away from them.
Was HAL suicidal, homicidal, neurotic, psychotic...or just plain broken?
> This supposed need for ZFS to absorb all RAID/LVM/page-cache behavior into itself is a myth; what really happened is good old-fashioned NIH.

At the time that ZFS was written (early 2000s) and released to the public (2006), this was not a thing and the idea was somewhat novel / 'controversial'. Jeff Bonwick, ZFS co-creator, lays out their thinking:

* https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/rampant-layering-violation

Remember: this was a time when Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and other software still ruled the enterprise world.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veritas_Storage_Foundation
This really bothers me, but I can’t exactly tell why.

If what people do on their own time doesn’t affect job performance, what’s the point of filtering by random criteria? Almost like disqualify based on a hobby or political/religious views.

Social media is just like another skill. You can use it to your advantage or abuse it.
The question projects moralism onto the process of justice; the word “guilt” perhaps carries with it a demand for a sentient being making moral choices.

However what is important is what has to be done to protect society.

The question is does the system merit exile or destruction or some other remediation to restore order.

The answer is based on evidence and observed behaviour... yes. HAL should be decommissioned.

It is exactly similar to the question “is the 737MAX guilty of murder?” Guilt and murder are concepts related to conscious thought but the behaviour and outcomes is what really matters in that case.

The reason why guilt and murder matter is as humans, we have instincts around managing each other that these concepts extend with the power of Reason and Process.

If it was a different species such as a sentient ant colony, could we project the concepts of guilt and murder equivalently? Probably not.
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So, The Road Ahead redux.
> I only object to the label "it's unreadable" because it demands the author (or someone else) make it "readable" to cure, when the right fix is to fix the programmer: to give them the experiences needed to be able to read it.

Though I disagree with the claim of unreadability, for the reason you've mentioned—readability is a matter of conventions, never an absolute—I don't think it really 'demands' anything. If I were to call this a non-standard C coding style, then I don't think you or anyone would disagree; but that is just a statement of fact, not a demand to standardise it. I think a claim of unreadability can be read charitably in the same way, as a statement of the fact that "people used only to the standard C programming style will find this difficult to read", not any demand or even request that it be otherwise.
In this article, the title question is really only the jumping-off point for an extended discourse, but insofar as it has been raised...

The story would have been uninteresting (or at least very different) if HAL had been acting on direct orders, and Clarke does not seem to have in mind that the mission was deliberately crafted with the intent that HAL would take homicidal action on its own initiative. Instead, HAL, in an unanticipated divergence, is confused by the apparent inconsistencies in the mission plan resulting from its goals being concealed, and, "like a neurotic", unable to recognize its own state, concludes that the astronauts must be killed for the greater good of the mission.

If, by "following orders", you are saying that HAL is a deterministic machine, then we are getting into the issue of free will. For what it is worth, Dennett is a 'compatibilist', maintaining that free will, in some sense, is compatible with physical determinism, but I don't know enough about that viewpoint to comment further. "Free will" is not explicitly mentioned anywhere in the article, I would guess because it is too deep a rabbit-hole for an article of this length and scope.
Read the article. The device mentioned here has to be held over the heart to measure blood pressure. It doesn't actually work while on the wrist, apparently.

As such, this is pretty lame.
You are cherry picking, or else I am confused.

On the linked graph I see the highest suicide rates in the late 90s. They dropped in the early 2000s and then at some point start climbing.

It’s like, one can pick any window from a graph like that to make a point.

Think if someone did that with the stock market. You could prove the market was going down, or up, merely by choosing the window that suits the claim.

Now, the graph only goes through 2015. I am receptive to the notion suicide rates have been climbing and are at all time highs. You may have a vital and valid point.

But the graph I linked doesn’t back it up, and you are including a whole bunch of causation in your comments that makes your argument start to sound ideologically shaped.
> I'd like to see some weighted reputation system used instead, where academics can give their "vote" to papers they like, giving it a total weight, however such systems have been proposed in the past and haven't got much traction.

A reddit-clone with strong verification/validation of user accounts seems like it would fit the bill. I can imagine a system with a small monthly fee to participate, subreddits with paid moderators (read: reviewers), voting system that would float good papers to the top, and of course comments. The pay-to-participate barrier would hopefully keep the quality high but at a minimum cover the hosting costs. And run by a non-profit foundation.
Only entities with free will can be held morally responsible for actions. Computers do not have free will, therefore can never be morally responsible.
Isn’t the main point of hiring being getting someone who can get things done? Whether they are on social media is at best an indirect effect on that metric.
A better way of stating that would be, "we're Source Available with permissive licenses." Aesprite handles this particularly well; it's very up-front with what its license allows.

I don't inherently have a problem with people saying, "we're almost X, but not quite." However, I disagree that licenses like SSPL are "almost" Open Source, and I disagree that paid hosting is a particularly minor restriction.

To again quote Sentry's post:

> The moment we restrict what you can do with it — like not compete — it becomes something else.

Blocking companies from offering paid hosting has implications, not just on an ideological level but also on a purely practical level. Part of the reason I trust technologies like Matrix or Postgresql is because I'm hopeful that their hosting will be somewhat commoditized. I know that when hosts compete there, they're competing purely on hosting quality, not on software licenses.

If the official hosting services go sour for a truly Open Source project I have the option of self hosting -- but I also know that other companies will likely step up and provide alternative hosting solutions as well. When you restrict the ability to compete with your service, you make that less likely. So Open Source isn't just about the code I can run on my computer, it's also about my ability to delegate to other people. If you restrict my right to delegate hosting to an open market, that's not an insignificant restriction.

And again, not everything has to be Open Source. I use proprietary SaaS services, I even use open-core services like Gitlab. But I recognize that products like Gitlab's enterprise offering comes with substantial limitations.
HAL had no choice as to what his goals were, nor could he opt to not pursue them. Humans can opt not to follow orders; HAL cannot. Ultimately, he ended up attempting to satisfy both constraints by killing crew members.

The search for a solution space gave an empty set when it came to crew members and that was that. While HAL undoubtedly had some life-preserving behaviors in his goals, he would -- in such a critical mission -- have had programmed in an escape hatch if presented with a kind of trolley problem wherein a crew member might live (but the mission fails) or selecting to kill a crew member (by action or inaction) and allowing the mission to go forward.

Then, by induction, he continues to subtract one from the N crew members until he would have a solution that satisfies the constraints: zero, the trivial case.

Each step of this comes down to humans.
This isn't really true. I work for a non profit scholarly society publisher, and we pay millions of dollars a year for copy-editing/formatting and also the work to find referees that do not have conflicts of interest/are not busy/actually respond and are qualified to assess the paper is indeed costly. If it were zero or negative sum there'd be loads of open platforms out there for peer-review and publishing.

I am also a big fan of open-access and hate paywalls myself. I also don't like big, for profit, predatory journals. There is value in curated and managed journals. Just not the value that these big corporations are reaping from them.
The real question is: What is sentience ?
Some probably do those things some of the time.

The others require the appearance of having done so.
There are is such thing as a "security patch" for iOS. If they release an update, they are releasing features as well. How quickly we forget the debacle that is iOS13. This was not a smooth deployment[0]:
13.0.0 9/19/19
13.1 9/24/19
13.1.1 9/27/19
13.1.2 9/30/19
13.1.3 10/15/19

I wait a couple of days to make sure updates are not bricking devices. Waiting just a week saw 3 updates and a 4th within 10 days. Some of those updates saw serious crippling of capabilities of the device after the update.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history#iOS_13
The Linux kernel has been released under GPL2 license since day 1, and I don't think that's ever going to change. Linus is more pragmatic than many of his detractors think - he thankfully refused to migrate to GPL3 because the stricter clauses would have scared away a lot of for-profit users and contributors.

Relaxing on anything more permissive than GPL2 would instead mean the end of Linux as we know it. A more permissive license means that nothing would prevent Google or Microsoft from releasing their own closed-source Linux, or replacing the source code of most of the modules with hex bloats.

I believe that GPL2 is a good trade-off for a project like Linux, and it's good that we don't compromise on anything less than that.

Even though I agree on the superiority of ZFS for many applications, I think that the blame for the missed inclusion in the kernel is on Oracle's side. The lesson learned from NTFS should be that if a filesystem is good and people want to use it, then you should make sure that the drivers for that filesystem are as widely available as possible. If you don't do it, then someone sooner or later will reverse engineer the filesystem anyway. The success of a filesystem is measured by the number of servers that use it, not by the amount of money that you can make out of it. For once Oracle should act more like a tech company and less like a legal firm specialised in patent exploitation.
Which could result in a manslaughter verdict (had HAL survived the enstellaration at the end of 2010 and been bought back to Earth for trial.)

Interesting stuff here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminished_responsibility

As with many legal matters, it's far from black and white.
I have a Garmin 235. Battery lasts a week, all monitoring is on the device, it'll work completely disconnected from bluetooth and sync up later. Newer models may be better.
I kinda want to make a startup, just to hire interns who only read text based e-mails.....
Compare OpenPilot to other solutions.

Tesla trying to kill someone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GnysB0rO3s

The super reliable "Level 3" Audi system not being able to go straight on a highway, the most simple problem there is in self-driving:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsiUwq_M8lE&t=297

Several cars "pedestrian safety system" failing on detecting pedestrian (You had one job..)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y8JG7kepwc

Let's be honest, there is not a single driving assistant that isn't dangerous. Why care for "realtime" if your model tries to kill you once per minute? Realtime is one of the final touches you need to make your software perfect. That's just how the industry works, and if you want to keep up with them you have to go the same route, or do you know of any exception? Most manufacturers tell you that you should closely watch what your car is doing on autopilot, and they limit it's torque and acceleration, so the human driver is reliability, redundancy, testing and the realtime system.
Ask HN: How do you reach “unreachable” clients?
We are a provider of a service that requires manual renewal (payment) every 3, 6 or 12 months.

Sometimes we can't reach our clients due to various reasons, such as an expired domain, no longer working there, vacation, etc. So we usually try to find someone in their company that can renew the service by checking old emails, company website, google, etc. This usually works, but for personal accounts (ie with a gmail address) it doesn't.

We're thinking of flipping the switch to enable automatic payments, but we like how our clients can truly evaluate if they still need the service before renewing. We also anticipate some problems such as a higher chargeback rate.

The question we have is how do you, at your company, reach clients that don't have valid contact info anymore? Do you go through a similar process?
I'm very happy with this watch:
"Heart Rate Monitor with Running Pedometer Step Counter Sleep Tracker for Women Men with iPhone & Android"
Battery life is close to 18 days. Amazon price ~55 USD.

It seems that BP is measured by processing heart rate similar to the method described in US 200901 63821A1 patent.
> I am part of a well-funded university, so I have access to all the papers without using Sci-Hub.

I don't know how well funded your university is—some are so much so as to make the caveat I'm about to mention a bit silly—but, for many reasonably funded universities, a statement like yours has to be qualified with "I have access for now …". Publishers can, and do, up their prices unreasonably at any time, and, at my university, I always have to assume that the access I've got today might disappear with a greedy price grab by the publisher tomorrow.
I used stow for a long time but I changed to Ansible because I started outgrowing stow. Things can't at all / can't simply do with stow:
- assemble different .ssh/config for different machines
- different .zshenv, .zshrc
- encrypt secrets in the git repo?
- handle different operating systems condifitionally (can't source the same files on OS X than Linux)
- can't install system-wide packages, which would be needed for dotfiles to work properly
> For the laws to be applicable for AIs, they need to be competent or sentient enough for us to acknowledge them as equal to us

How do you know HAL wasn't at that level?
> "We've never fallen in love"? Really?

Yes, really, You are the exception. By now there is quite a few people who have tried VR in some place or another and the market has clearly shown sales are not skyrocketing at all. It's a very slow growth, we are talking about a few millions headsets per year, which is just pocket money market wise compared to smartphones or even PCs at large. Also, most of the software is utter crap (with a few exceptions like Beat Saber, Tetris Effect) and not convincing enough for anyone who cares about their spending.
What is free will? Why can't a computer possess it? Why can we?
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When you say "low impact factor", you're referring to a combination of lack of prestige and lack of readership that leads to few citations and subsequently little influence on the field, right?

If so, why is the prestigious curation of the journal that leads academics to reading your paper and taking it seriously inextricably tied to whether or not it's behind a paywall at all?

What's stopping someone from building an alternative curation pipeline on top of open access journals that gives academics equal or better signal/noise to the journals they read, and a similar socially accepted prestige for getting into that curation pipeline?

I get that there's not a clear path to monetization, but maybe it's possible, particularly if you could execute more targeted curation for academic subfields that are too small to have their own journals, that you could find some donors and lean on academics supporting the curation process themselves out of their seeming discontent with publishing to drive down costs.
that's what this blue goose is doing!
NASA has lost multiple extremely expensive missions due to software errors despite investing hundreds of millions of dollars and dedicating entire teams to software safety.

You want to put a guarantee stamp on something at the risk of going to jail for missing a bounds check at some point in your life? Go ahead, I'll pass. This kind of requirement would kill the industry overnight.

Software is not engineering. Software engineering is a hilarious oxymoron, and I say this as an accredited engineer. There is no way to guarantee that software will work 'properly', and 'properly' is only a small subset of 'as intended' which is a small subset of 'as envisioned'. It could be that software never becomes engineering. And until it does, holding it to the same standards as engineering is pointless.
> They have gone though the whole plane with a fine toothed comb, Identifying any other potential problems. It will probably be the safest Boeing in the sky.

More like they've done the bare minimum to get the planes back in the air. The entire point of the plane is to avoid having to certify a new frame ie avoid doing exactly what you're implying they've done.
I feel like Mark is speaking in code here.

Generational change: Boomers and political reposts are making younger, more desirable demographics not want to use my platform.

A New Private Social Platform: Making everyone in the world talk in the same space is damaging user engagement

Decentralizing Opportunity: Selling stuff and moving money on Facebook. Mark wants to be a bank.

The Next Computing Platform: Mark wants to be your next remote access client for your job.

New Forms of Governance: How much do I pay and to who for regulatory capture so competitors can't arise?
Java was pretty innovative. The worlds most advanced virtual machine, a JIT that often outperforms C in long running server scenarios, and the foundation of probably 95% of enterprise software.
HAL was following static orders in a radically changed environment which was not thought of when the static orders were designed. This is really a problem of any formal / religious / moral system designed by humans and ultimately comes down to the fact that we cannot look into the future.

If you want to see a movie where this problem is brought to the extreme and affects a human instead of a computer, watch The Bridge on the River Kwai. It's the (SPOILER ALERT) story of a British military commander (Col. Nicholson) who as a POW in a Japanese camp is ordered to build a railway bridge. Following his "western" standards regarding work ethic and craftsmanship, he and his men against all odds succeed in building a high quality bridge which he thinks is proof of the superiority of their western values and knowledge. At the end, he finds himself in a battle to safe this (as he perceives it) monument to the superiority of his culture against attackers - only to realize too late that because of a radical environmental change he could not foresee, the attackers are actually American and British forces. By defending his culture, he actively battled it. In the end, as he realizes his mistake, he is a broken man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRHVMi3LxZE&feature=youtu.be...

Whether a machine (HAL) will ever be capable of the insight of realizing such a mistake on a grander scale like Colonel Nicholson in the last minutes of the movie is another question :)
Unsubstantional comment. Enjoy my downvote.

(See, there could actually be something wrong/worth of critics with this downvote system but discussions about that are always downvoted.)

edit: This comment will also most likely be seen as unsubstantial as most of the HN user base is not capable of understanding and reacting to satiric comments.
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Self Control is an art, however my goal is not to limit distraction, but to have a small feature phone ( whatsapp, skype, gps (maps)) and a nice tablet for everything else. The requirements are being met by smartwatches+ smartphones+tablets but that is one too many devices for me.
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There seems to a contradiction here:

> We believe social media is very unhealthy

> We are a small startup focused on making email campaigns with high conversions achieved through dynamic content such as images.

Surely these are two sides of the attention economy?