skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a managed IT service provider - absolutely nothing. The current fastest method, credit cards, we don't generally accept. The rates we pay to accept credit cards or PayPal are already so high - I don't normally accept those types of payments unless the customer is willing to pay a service fee.
In Canada, we have Interac, which is also instant. But not many of my customers want to use that either because, you guessed it, service fees. Even then, these payment methods make their lives easier, not mine. I've built my business around 15 days min to receive payments. 99% of them are fine with cheques. So there isn't much incentive for me to consider this.
> No, it would not allow you to create consciousness, it would simply mean that there is no such thing as consciousness. eliminative materialism would be true. there would be no 'you' to live forever.

Do you believe you are conscious? I believe I am conscious. If the brain is purely bioelectrical, then a purely bioelectrical system at least is able to reproduce an entity that believes itself to be conscious.

Whether there is a meaningful distinction between that and "actual" consciousness is something we simply don't know, because we don't have a way of measuring whether or not another entity actually is conscious, whatever we take that to mean.

Maybe that belief that I am conscious is flawed and merely an illusion, but if copying my mind could allow that illusion to persist forever, then my illusion of consciousness would still be quite pleased with that outcome. That is quite enough for me.

> I am repeating myself again but any AI system you believe to have instantiated the abstract concept of triangularity is just an interpretation on your part to having done so, you might as well interpret it to simply being a room heating device or the implementation of some other algorithm that also matches the behaviour.

Here is an implementation of the abstract concept of triangularity that does not involve an interpretation of what it means or an instantiation of the concept, merely a symbol that describes the abstract concept as it is:

thought = :triangularity

I define the symbol :triangularity to refer to the abstract concept, so it does. I can manipulate that concept with or without making any interpretation as to what the concept actually means.

Symbolic manipulation of abstract ideas is trivially easy. The idea that we can't is ludicrous. The challenge comes when we try to interpret and reason about specific concrete interpretations, not in holding an abstract concept - we've known how to communicate abstract concepts as data without instantiating an interpretation since at least the moment we could write.

You're attacking AI on the basis of one of the problems that are easiest to solve. Symbolic manipulation of abstract concepts with computers in a meaningful form dates back to at least the 50's. The ease with which we can do that was part of much of the early misguided hope of a rapid revolution in general artificial intelligence.
1.5KM makes 'wiring' a village possible from one relatively high structure, such as a church's bell tower.
The problem with trying to do it properly for RTL is that half of systems won't do it properly which is worse than everyone consistently doing it wrong and users learning to cope.
I found the Editorial Expression of Concern on the last page of the post more interesting than the paper itself (the results might have been surprising in 2014, but in 2020 it reflects the mainstream view).
The title probably should say that the Indian Supreme court quashes the ban on crypto imposed by the Government. It is most likely that the Government will appeal against the ruling, because they seem not in favour of having crypto.
was surprising to me that this got downvoted, but looks like that trend has reversed. I can only add that I would much rather use this to kill flies and mosquitos in my house than a chemical spray. It sort of works on wasps, but mainly just knocks them down and disorients them. This can be enough sometimes to get a shoe or something else to crush them. The fact that its a 'gun' can add some sport to it, but at the end of the day I use this thing when there is a pest in my house/porch that I dont want. I dont see anything wrong with that.
It's partially because if you can teach them those skills you can probably also teach them to swim full stop. A big difficulty with that is most schools would also have to travel to get access to a pool. I've only gone to one school before college that had a pool and it was a charter school on a local college campus so they had access to that pool, some schools might have to travel 30m-1h to get to a pool if they're in a rural area.
I find it quite funny that people still think that we'll "find" ETs by looking for them.

ETs gave us their DNA. They are our ancestors. Which is why "contact" has been a reality since "our beginning" on Earth.

Physical contact will (officially) happen when humanity is ready for it, measured by the maturity of our shared consciousness.

Marina Jacobi is among those who currently are in direct and constant telepathic contact with various groups of ETs. She often channels them (there are many others who do this too). Check out her Quantum Manifestation Series to learn about what's going on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKaW-6KuhVvEIX-oRG7cBZQ
Maybe it's that I lived in Italy for like 15 years?

I realize that 'Europe' is broader and there are diverse systems, but by and large - and especially where there is a huge public interest in people healthy - their systems are going to take care of people.
Fair point, but in this case it's really easy that users want, not necessarily "simple". Going back to the points made earlier in this thread, IRC is a lot simpler than WhatsApp, but WhatsApp has a much larger user base because it's easier to use.
You can also use the 8x8 meeting experience (which is using the same underlying technology) free in the browser https://8x8.vc

(Source: I work for 8x8)
I sincerely hope the European response to medicine prices that are so high that they cripple national economies will to set max prices or to completely nationalise production. Hopefully we’ll find a way to throw some jail time after the people responsible.
Or I can let go of my steering wheel and let my car naturally crash into road barriers for free
I've also heard some scientists say that parity breaking could explain the origin of homochirality. Personally, I'm happier with the "random chance" hypothesis.
The Ouroboros, from Antiquity to AI
Dude, IE was Windows-only. It went against everything the open Internet standards advocated for. And on top of it, I was a Mac guy, and Mac IE was a completely different beast, so I had to code for Windows IE, Mac IE, then Safari and Firefox and eventually early Chrome. And Windows IE was always the motherfucker who you had to figure out these nasty CSS and JS hacks for to get, forget pixel-perfect, how about pixel-similar rendering vs. other browsers.

If you wanted pixel-perfect it was a fucking nightmare. Literally doubled your work time just to add WinIE compatibility. This was in the IE5/6/7 era.

Speaking of JS... all this was made worse because there were NO good JS libraries at the time to make things easier. Debugging consisted of alerts. Eventually, Prototype (and later Jquery) were literally godsends, and there was some JS lib (forgot the name) which added a reasonable debugger (this was before browsers themselves had reasonably good integrated debuggers!)

Chrome is not like that. The same rendering engine exists on Linux, Windows and Mac, and it has an open-source highly-compatible version, Chromium.
Even national geographic documentaries are probably "lies" ... I just had the chance to get some basic insights in to evolutionary biology ... and boy is bloody mauling and devouring of prey just the tip of the iceberg.

Intraspecies rape and infanticide is pretty common out there. (Look up the penis of drakes (male ducks) and why it looks the way it does at some point)

Siblings competing for food with only a small percentage surviving.

The female tit (the bird ... not what you think) basically cheats so much that there is a possibility that none of the offspring is actually of the male that feeds them ...

The list goes on and on and on ...
I second your sentiment but the Android keyboard (external Bluetooth) is not very Linux friendly. I googled and experimented and there is no way to have an Esc key. I have to work in vi with control ], like on some broken terminal from the 80s. If anybody has a solution I'll pay with an upvote :-)
Something something rain and fog.
Zero Knowledge Proofs in Python
Ask HN: Why aren't you using spaced repetition?
From the surface, Space Repetition seems like the best way to memorize (and don't forget) large amounts of factual information. But from what I see, it's not that popular.

If you tried it, but stopped why?
If you heard about it, but never tried it, why?

For those who haven't heard about it:

- https://ncase.me/remember/

- https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
Stored energy goes up. That energy comes from the work done to pull the plates apart (since there is a static electric force attracting them to each other)
Try designing an email newsletter for Outlook. Microsoft really hasn’t moved on that far.
There are tons of things that are easy to do well enough from a practical standpoint but can be made as elaborate as you want to for showmanship purposes. Cooking is one of those things.

Look at the "rules" that people who live in 500k houses and drive 50k cars have for using and maintaining cast iron. Some 1930s housewife who was all out of fucks to give most certainly did not go through all those motions when she used an identical pan and it worked out just fine.

When GP says "good soup" he/she means soup you can show off (or bring the leftovers in to work as your lunch to show off there) as a status symbol. It may also be good in the practical sense (good tasting, filling, healthy, etc.) but that's secondary to the showmanship aspect of making it.
This shouldn't be a surprise.

Canada's liberals have stated many times they wished to be closer to China than to actual free countries such as the United-States. This has been accelerating with Trudeau in office. [1]

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article...
If it turns out we're just simulated entities, does that suddenly make your life not worth living?

Why would it change anything?
Yep, check HTTP-FORMATTED tile :)

You can display content from JSON, YAML or XML available over HTTP
So if we are not purely physical constructs, what are we? Are you a dualist?
Maybe somthing like skycam[0]? That could have some gripper to just move snails into some container.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skycam
Any cable will do in my experience.
FEATool Multiphysics 1.12, CFD Simulation Platform with SU2, OpenFOAM and FEniCS
I would like to be the first to welcome you to the real world. Where the rich and powerful don't have any intention on following rules. It almost makes you think "why should I follow rules then?"
Any thoughts/experience with systems like the Coral Manta 3000? https://coraldrowningdetection.com/
BSD didn’t need legislation but it did need a long legal process to resolve in its favor.
I am, I intentionally repeat things I learned on the day itself before bed and at the end of the week. You just have to think about something for it to be a recollection.
/r/personalfinancecanada is the Canadian version.
theoretically possible but there is no evidence to suggest this. Weighing the various hypotheses, most people would suggest the "simpler" (fewer wipeout/arise events) hypothesis, given the assumption that life arising is considered very rare.
Are you too young to remember original Gmail? It's been downhill ever since that blue and yellow.
Except that there are plenty of dual licenses with GPL-exception clauses and Java was one of them back then.

It is up to the courts and copyright holder to decided what to do with their IP.
Interactive Brokers.

Well known in the financial community, but nearly unknown outside of it.
As someone who worked as a wave pool lifeguard for 8 years and is a current certified Water Safety Instructor, I mostly agree. The large rafts are never really what I have an issue with. It's water wings and other personal flotation devices that are much more troublesome.

Parents are a huge part of the issue. PFDs give them a false sense of security where they feel like they don't have to watch their kid. The best change my old pool ever made was banning them (besides USCG approved life vests). The rafts were almost never an issue unless parents stuck their kid in the middle and stopped supervising (which happened a lot and we'd yell at the about). Crappy parental supervision is the cause of most problems at pools.
That is a different situation, as there is not mass testing in Washington State. There was/is in China. The point of this line of argument is to get an idea if the fatality rate really is 2-3%. When we thought there might be a lot of undiagnosed cases in China, we had reason to suspect the fatality rate is lower than that. But when we systematically tried to find such cases and diagnose them, we could not discover them. That supports the conclusion that the fatality rate really is 2-3%. That people are being infected in Washington, and we don't know how, does not counter what we think is the fatality rate.
In good weather...
Former two-time Top Writer here. I agree. I quit when I realized that Quora were routinely manipulating answer rankings and selectively enforcing their community rules to maximize clicks. Now it's full of stupid questions and clickbaity non-answers, with any real information pushed far down the page if it's visible at all.
Getting Started with Angular Effects
Line of sight truly means line of sight with 60GHz. As a human standing in the way is enough to mess with the signal so would a flock of birds I guess.
Are you saying that manufacturers that produce hardware that runs android are banned from also selling hardware (being an OEM manufacturer) that does not run android (that doesn't fly with e.g. Samsung making TVs with their OS and Sony making cameras that runs non-android I guess)?

Somehow it doesn't seem possible to prevent HTC from building one smartphone and sell it either themselves or via another brand as an android phone, while at the same time selling the same design (screen peripherals etc) with some minor chages, maybe a slightly different SoC, to someone who wants to sell a phone with a different OS? How exactly would the license forbid it?

Obviously google owns the license and can probably unilaterally revoke it for anything they see as unpleasant (such as building OEM phones that run linux, instead of just TVs that do?) - but is this really expressed explicitly in their agreement? How?
He has been talking bs for more than a decade, but I don't know if that's just him being in his bubble taking himself too seriously or saying heterodox things because it's all relative.
PEP 615 – Support for the IANA Time Zone Database in the Standard Library
> rather than what the questions and the answers are?

The answers are utterly trivial, which is par for the course with PG.
In most pools you shouldn't even be allowed in this wave pool unless you can pass a basic swim test. Most of the time that's a given with a kid under 12, but it is not entirely obvious (from the videos) how old the drowners are.
> cannot really get with an float-assist device, is putting their face in the water.

We used kickboards for this exact purpose. So you can float face down with arms outstretched holding the board. You can transition to freestyle swimming taking one hand off the board at a time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM3z1eDDcGE
Hey there, any chance you remember when you tested this? We have recently fixed a number of problems with screen-sharing indeed!
Replace him with Oprah or Joel Osteen in your first sentence and see if you feel any different about following someone in this manner.
AMD's CPU-to-GPU Infinity Fabric Detailed – Tom's Hardware
I still for the most part would put site:reddit.com or site:news.ycombinator.com into the google search bar. Mostly out of muscle memory, habit, and speed. If I need to use other tools to find something, its because google has failed.

On a similar note, Google deranking Wikipedia (which used to be the first result for like half of my searches) makes it so much less useful. I now need to add wikipedia to my searches.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...

> The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 1998 United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). ... Passed on October 12, 1998, by a unanimous vote in the United States Senate and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on October 28, 1998

The political blame lies with both popular teams, as they both carry out the will of big business. They divide us over issues of taste, to push their dressed-up authoritarian agendas. Don't fall for it.
Ironically, that's exactly what the article is about- In MD users can't tell what isn't nor isn't a thingy.

Anyway, it's like crystal meth. If you don't know what it is you are winning! The advice is for people who are unlucky enough to be near it.
Mastercard had an API from which you could get the full postcode of people likely to purchase a luxury item of more than $500 in the next month with 80% certainty. Never got out of alpha and required a deposit of $5000 to use.

There needs to be boundaries for companies pursuing profit with immoral activities.
Wow.

OK, what the hell is a kid doing in the deep end who cannot f*ing swim? A large flotation ring is NOT a life preservation device!
Tech Interviews: The CV
Don't forget, the material design specifications and frameworks are being made freely available. When you compare interfaces designed by that vast majority of developers, using MD is an enormous step up in usability and functionality. It also incorporates concepts that, while not being the most "accessible", are patterns the vast majority of users have become familiar with and can navigate without explanation. For example, interactions like gestures are not accessible or obvious but are commonplace and understood.

Constructive criticism of design is important and with these frameworks being open source, we can modify and "improve" as we see as appropriate. Google has invested enormous amounts of money, energy, and time into making this available for free. They are not enforcing these concepts, even on their own platforms so we should appreciate that they make these systems available if you choose to use them.
oh didn't see that HTTP-RAW also returns the regex match.
Thanks.
will give it a try
Any possibility for command outputs thought?
It also requires clear weather, so won't be enough to "wire" a village with reasonable expectation of service quality. At which point there is little reason to go with anything, but a passive optical network in a village.
How are things related to swimming education in different countries? In the Netherlands swimming lessons are a pretty basic parental 'requirement'. Former decades had school swimming, but that fell out of grace due to costs and liability issues. I've been taking my sons for lessons for what feels like ages already (about 1.5 years weekly, now twice a week, with about max. a year to go). At that point they are pretty good swimmers, even fully clothed including jackets and it's my responsibility to keep practicing. How is that internationally? It feels quite irresponsible to take children without training to swimming pools, but that might my local customs focus. Swimming is a hard technique to master though.
> On android's slide down config screen (the one with wifi, bluetooth, etc toggles) I always have to stop and think a bit to determine if wifi is on or not.

I'm a bit surprised by this -- it transitions from dark gray on light gray when it's off to _bright_ white on _bright_ blue when it's on. This would seem to mirror many physical things that have status lights which are not illuminated when disabled and are illuminated when enabled. What's the source of initial confusion for you?
We are making progress at making our support for Firefox on par with Chrome again. This is bound to be complete soon!
For those who have been living under a rock in the past few years, relying on a maze of dependencies has led to issues before:

* The event stream incident (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/26/npm_repo_bitcoin_st...), where are a very popular npm repo was maintained by someone who didn't want to do it anymore and handed the keys to the package (both on github and npm) to the first person who mailed with an offer to take over. That person proceeded to put in some bitcoin wallet stealing code. In a very creative way - if you haven't heard of it, I recommend reading a little more, it's an interesting story.

* The leftPad debacle (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/), where a one-liner repo was removed from npm by its author, breaking almost all node.js projects. The solution feels... insufficient (you can now no longer just delete your project).

* This pull request to remove a one-liner dep: (https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/pull/102) shows exactly what happens when you try to fix such problems by removing one-liner deps.

There's a fundamental misalignment at work here: An open source maintainer thinks (and probably rightly so), that they don't owe you a thing, if they prefer keeping a one-liner dep, that's their prerogative, and it's not their job to ensure their library is secure. If it is easier for you (the user of a library) to ascertain safety if the one-liner dep is removed, that's nice but the maintainer of the library doesn't care about that.

And at the same time, users of open source libraries, possibly buoyed by statements such as Linus's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_law): "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" generally do think they can rely on the maintainer for security.

Which one is it? We can't have it both ways.

You'd think in a language where monkey patching is somewhat common, such concerns would be _more_ important, and yet it is npm where the community as a whole is by far the most extremist in the sense of adopting dependencies, compared to other ecosystems such as java (mavencentral) or ruby (rubygems).
When I was a kid in the 70's in rural California, we were bussed almost an hour to a bigger school for mandatory swimming lessons. I don't remember at what age but it was elementary school, I think maybe 5th-6th grade. Several grades were grouped together.

Most (all?) of us could already "swim" basically, since there were lakes and rivers near the small towns and kids usually got free swimming lessons around age 5. The bigger lessons were about the various (then) standard strokes, pool safety and basic lifesaving, how not to accidentally kill yourself on a diving board, swimming laps instead of just swimming around, etc.

I absolutely hated it (too many strangers, why didn't we have our own pool, my endurance was crappy, I was afraid of the deep) -- but I'm glad they made us do it instead of letting us wimp out.
Using it with Anki and Notion for refining new concepts before they go in Anki
Issuing a debit card via API should be as easy as taking payments via Stripe
Amazon employee tests positive for coronavirus
What I'm trying to say is, stop letting others telling you how you should live your life and figure out what works for you.

You may be an outlier in some aspects and so even the advice from "normals" won't apply.
Not available in Europe. We can never have the fun toys. :(