skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People in this debate miss a subtle issue, and it causes no end of confusion. The subtle issue is this. There is a difference between (1) accidentally building a computer which happens to think, and (2) intentionally building a computer which thinks, and knowing that it thinks.

Obviously (1) is possible, because for any particular configuration of atoms, it is theoretically possible for someone to assemble atoms together in that configuration. I could randomly put atoms together and, by sheer luck, assemble a living, breathing Abraham Lincoln. But since it happened by random chance, I wouldn't know for sure that this was really a living, breathing Abraham Lincoln. I might observe it for awhile and notice that, golly, it sure does seem to be a living, breathing Abraham Lincoln. But I could never rule out the possibility that it only looks like that initially and that it'll eventually collapse or fall into some infinite loop or something.

Intentionally building a machine and KNOWING that it has such-and-such properties of a thinking machine, is much more interesting. Such KNOWING is, itself, an act of thinking, and so there arises an interplay between the thinking of the created machine, and the thinking of the creator. Then you can start asking questions about whether the created machine, being a thinker, could also itself intentionally create another thinking machine, and so on.

If you're tired of the endless non-productive debate about whether thinking machines are possible, and you'd like to go to the next level, and take steps toward actually quantifying things, I'd invite you to read some papers I've written on the subject. To lessen the learning curve, here are some very approachable slides, and if you like those slides, you can click through to one of the papers. https://semitrivial.github.io/MeasuringIntelligence2019.pdf
> One of the important lessons I learnt from a lifeguard is that movies depict a very inaccurate representation of drowning. The movies would have you believe that drowning is a violent and noisy event when in reality it is an inconspicuous and silent event. The victim cannot shout or call for help when they are struggling to keep their nose above the water level.

My daughter, when she was about 2, fell over in about 2 feet of water in a lake and it was completely and utterly silent. One moment she was there and the next she was under and reaching up at me, bubbles coming out of her mouth. If I had been even remotely distracted I never would have known that she had gone under.
Dutch ovens can go both in the oven and on the range, so they're a fair bit more versatile than a cheap roasting pan and allow you to get by with fewer pieces of cookware cluttering up your kitchen.

They also tend to be more durable. Our Granite Ware stuff inevitably has the enamel chipping off after a few years. By contrast, my mother in law's dutch oven is at least 50 years old and still going strong. You don't have to go full Le Creuset, either - there are plenty of quality cast iron dutch ovens that only have to last twice as long in order to be cheaper than the cheap roasting pan.
Is 60GHz band unlicensed in US and EU?
Yeah. You wouldn't believe the number of idiots that went around covertly attempting to run this (and similar) on the production Unix servers of their employer.

Saying that as the lead Solaris SysAdmin for a large telco project a few decades ago, with one manager in particular who repeatedly kept on firing it up on the main (high end SunFire) billing cluster servers. Even when expressly told not to. That guy was a f*cking moron. :(
Yes, it is still really well alive but does not benefit from marketing money, so it flies under the radar. A new version SPARQL1.2 is currently under work through a working group in W3C to address some of the limitations of the current version.
So. The proposed mechanism is:

1. Every function now receives an additional parameter that is basically a pointer to a std::optional<exception_t> (from now on, "exception holder"; exception_t can hold any value whatsoever).

2. "try" is translated into allocating a (new) exception holder on the stack and passing pointer to it in all function calls inside of the try block. "catch" is translated into checking this exception holder for holding an (appropriate) exception. If "yes", handle it, if "no", go on.

3. Throwing an exception is done by putting the constructed exception into the exception holder passed to you, and returning as usual.

4. Each function call is now followed by checking whether the exception holder holds an exception. If "yes", return immediately, if "no", keep executing.

Example:

void C(std::optional<exception_t>* exc_holder) {
Bar bar;
exc_holder->emplace(0);
}

void B(std::optional<exception_t>* exc_holder) {
Foo foo;
C(exc_holder);
if (*exc_holder) { return; }
}

void A(std::optional<exception_t>* exc_holder) {
std::optional<exception_t> new_exc_holder;
B(&new_exc_holder);
if (new_exc_holder)
if (new_exc_holder.value().is<int&>()) {
int& p = new_exc_holder.value().as<int&>();
// catch body...
} else {
*exc_holder = std::move(new_exc_holder);
return;
}
}
}

So, it's basically "if err != nil { return <default_value>, err }" but with slightly less amount of copying error values. Somehow, it ends up with the same performance despite all of this constant branching error-checking and better performance when re-throwing exceptions.
I could spot the person fairly easily, but that's either luck or because I can't swim, so I was looking for the person doing what I would be doing.
We are thinking about monetizing alert feature as a browser extension or PWA for mobile based on Monitoror Core API :)

A wallboard is useful to monitor project builds, CI servers, even production things.
> Supposing that we could create an artificial life form with the same brain structures as a human, God could certainly create and attach a soul if he chose. Given his general willingness to create souls in response to our actions, is there a strong reason to believe he wouldn't imbue a machine capable of human-like thought with a soul?

I'd say we have no way of telling. "God" or a game engine or whatever is creating those "souls" might be someone looking on with bemusement and enjoying adding souls to anything we want to see what we come up with, or might be someone who takes great offense we're meddling in their business, or might be a dumb rules engine that insists on a specific biological interaction to happen just so before it instantiates another object. Or there might be some weird quantum mechanical interaction we don't understand that gets triggered that happens to interact with another dimension. Or a bored teenager needs to go out and get another USB dongle to upgrade the number of "soul simulators" their game allows. Or an endless number of other possibilities.

> And, how would we know whether this had happened or not? If we can't create a test capable of distinguishing a group of atoms with a soul from a group of atoms without a soul, isn't it safer to treat them both the same?

Currently we don't. I don't even know if you're conscious. We don't understand intelligence well enough to reliably test for intelligence, and we don't understand well enough how intelligence relates to consciousness or whether there is a meaningful distinction.
Could be useful for backhaul though for mesh networks outdoors
Show HN: Intuitive Guide to Maxwell's Equations
On at least one example I heard constant frequency splashing - it was the drowning person, they were going under and coming up rhythmically so the sound was helpful.
Show HN: Noisli 3.0 - Your digital place for focus
For now I agree, right now it's pure gambling. However it's still pretty early to say what will happen in the future about the cryptocurrencies.
>but it's different when what they are selling is hope, optimism, and encouraging words, right?

Are they really selling these things versus their revolutionary new book, trying to get attention for their research, or some good/service?

I agree. I think TED and similar pop-science programming is dangerous. People think they're actually learning something meaningful. I see it as the granola bar of media. They're filled with sugar and only minor nutritional value. You feel like you're getting something healthy, but you're not doing much better than a snickers bar.
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The headers are totally irrelevant for the actual delivery of the mail. For delivery the so-called envelope is relevant (MAIL FROM, RCPT TO).
BlueDot used artificial intelligence to predict coronavirus spread
As an alternative use a real brokerage that has a history of success. It's becoming clearer everyday that fintech startups are not responsible
Why do people complain about exceptions being "non-deterministic"? Malloc is not deterministic either, so in theory it causes bloat and unexplained slowdowns everywhere.
Also, microwave ovens require an additional housing to block interference.

Interestingly, driving through the area, I could still pickup a decent amount of FM radio stations, not very well, but definitely not static.
How Big Oil and Big Soda kept a global environmental calamity secret for decades
Misa-j/social-network: My first project
> There are good reasons to use microservices, like when you have 100+ engineers

Its enough to have 2 that work in different domains with different constraints and different tools. Company scale is completely irrelevant here.

> But if you are a normal company, you will probably never have enough engineers to make microservices worthwhile in the first place

Many "normal" companies use microservices and common reason is that they simply cannot function otherwise.

> But for most small to medium companies, a planned 5 minute downtime in the middle of the night is completely no problem,

The fact that some site doesn't function for 5 minutes may not be a problem, the fact that any change requires many people agreeing on deployment time often is.
Almost the current internet is fked, unfortunately to say it after 30 years of existence.
3rd party telemetry found in Nokia smartphones 6.2, 7.2
Let's Encrypt Is Revoking Three Millions Certificates on March 4
Firefox dev tools has an accessibility tab. It can scan and verify things like text size and contrast, and flags violations.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Accessibility...
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/

Hickley argues that simple != easy. "Easy" is inherently subjective, and only tells us how easy something is for the actor attempting that thing; if you know more about a domain, things related to that domain become easier. If you knew how to tie knot A and I knew how to tie knot B, we would both find our respective knots easier. "Simple" is more objective, insofar as anything can be. We could judge the complexity of knots in a rope based on how many times the rope turns over on itself, and that complexity would not be dependant on your knowledge of particular knots. In principle we should be able to agree on which knot is more complex even if we still have an easier time tying the ones we are familiar with.

Of course you can mount an argument that simple is used as a synonym of easy, because it often is, but I like the idea of simple being the opposite of "complex" and "complex" meaning "many-folded" rather than "difficult."
Commission-free stock trading hasn’t, though. If you’re only trading a couple of shares at a time, $5-10 for a trade is a pretty steep fee.
With the more common modern compilers (Microsoft, GCC, LLVM, ICC, many others) there is zero runtime overhead to programming with exceptions unless they are thrown. This is possible because the unwind information is stored externally to the function code. There is still an additional overhead in terms of space, since the .eh_frame (or equivalent) sections need to loaded and possibly relocated by the linkloader at program startup, although that's minimal work if addresses are in self-relative tables like in the ARM EABI.

The alternative to having the exception-handling code out of line is, of course, handling all exceptional conditions in line, which not only makes the code harder to read but makes the generated object code bigger and, if it fails to fit in a cache line or causes unwholesomely large numbers of branch evaluations (see spectre and meltdown) results in slower or more insecure code. The real answer to C++ exceptions is the classic C-style programming where all errors are just ignored.

Of course, no amount of reasoning or hard data survives in the face of religious belief, and 80% of programmers out there are part of one cargo cult or another, so carry on with what you were doing. It's probably good enough.
Ask HN: How much would you pay to have your invoices paid instantly?
I'm wondering how much you would be willing to pay, either as a percentage or a flat fee, to have every invoice you send out to clients paid within 24 hours?
> The force said its child exploitation unit has used the technology successfully, resulting in the rescue of two children.

The cat's out of the bag now. If you, as a parent with a missing child, were presented the opportunity to use Clearview AI to rescue your child, would you?

You absolutely would. You would set aside your high-level moralizing for the sake of your child. And that's the same decision making process the RCMP uses when they decide to use tools like these.

Edit: I get that this is an unpopular opinion, but I believe it contributes to the conversation and does not violate hacker news rules. Curious why the comment is flagged and downvoted?
It's good to see Java is becoming better and iterates faster.

However, I found it's weird that hosted languages like Kotlin, Clojure or Scala are more approachable for me as they are working fine with JDK 8 like 'libraries'. They're much easier to upgrade than upgrade JDK itself.
Swimming education in Germany is highly standardized. The "Bundesverband zur Förderung der Schwimmausbildung" (federal association in furtherance of swimming education) consists of different lifesaving and sports organizations and has recently published new examination regulations which highered the standards for swimming badges.

All swimmming instructors in those organizations will tell you that you should permanently keep an eye on your kids and don't let them go to the pool alone until they complete the bronze badge which requires you to swim for fifteen minutes, dive down to two meters and jump into the water. Only after you complete this test you are considered a "safe swimmer".
This github issue is from 2016– Atlassian sold Jitsi to 8x8 in 2018.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/29/atlassian-sells-jitsi-an-o...
I assume it's not mentioned because it's not one of the Query Languages mentioned as part of the standardisation project.

'GQL is an upcoming International Standard language for property graph querying that is currently being created.
The idea of a standalone graph query language to complement SQL was raised by ISO SC32/ WG3 members in early 2017, and is echoed in the GQL manifesto of May 2018.

GQL supporters aim to develop a rock-solid next-generation declarative graph query language that builds on the foundations of SQL and integrates proven ideas from the existing openCypher, PGQL, GSQL, and G-CORE
languages. The proposed SQL:2020 Property Graph Query Extensions already build on these existing languages.'

https://www.gqlstandards.org/home
> then there is nothing worth reverse engineering, nor is there any worth to anything at all.

Non-sequitor. You are certain to die, so there's no point in continued breathing?
To avoid browser variations with jitsi meet there's an electron version:

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron
It’s mentioned a couple of times. Here’s one: Secondly, the experiment shows successful synaptor operation over the internet and not only by wire connection.
It makes sense if it's not solely that Like r/europe has a Canadian and Brazilian if i remember well to handle night time stuff.
> Repeat about 5 times and then you only need to season your iron about every 6 months.

And therein is the problem with seasoned iron, that regime of care. Some folks can be bothered doing this, others just want to cook.
I like the landing page. The screenshots and videos make it quite clear what to expect. The pricing looks good and there's even a free tier. I am writing a similar (open-source) tool [1] and always looking for inspirations ;)

[1] https://dashboard.darekkay.com/
MIT's strategy to deflect an Earth-bound asteroid
> that's a real harsh judgement of Material design: that accessibility has actually decreased since 2004.

I think that's rather the point...
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nothing was happened
Jogging around would not provide the same benefits as a proper strength training program. Theoretically bodyweight exercises could but that would require a level of gymnastics training that most people don't have.
You wouldn't sue yourself as the parent/guardian of the child - you look around for someone, anyone to blame.

When I took a 5yo to a pool which had multiple lifeguards I put her in a lifejacket and stayed within arm's reach of her. Playing in a pool is great fun but it is very high stakes. No way I am going to leave a child in such a dangerous situation and hope it works out. Making sure your child survives a trip to a pool is your responsibility.
Pine64 has revisited the concept with the PinePhone, which has gotten quite a bit of attention in the UBPorts community (what Ubuntu Touch turned into).
You’re not important to me but I want to meet with you
We have found plenty of ways to affect our core consciousness via physical means - there are chemicals which makes us trust people, surgeries which cause memory loss, tumors which cause people to relieve childhood memories and so on...

I have a hard time believing that, for example, external simulation would have a “feature” that causes people to remember childhood memories when a tumor grows in a certain part of the brain. A much likely explanation IMHO that memories are really stored directly in the brain.
Thank you for saying so! Reach out if you want advice or support @quelsolaar on twitter.
> Its signal will become indistinguishable from background radiation at a distance of slightly over 625 light years.

Doesn't that depend on how large the receiving antenna is, because the larger the antenna the smaller the source angle you can focus on and the less background radiation will be in that source angle ?
It's part of the agreement you sign with them. The agreements are not public AFAIK, you'll only see them when you contact someone to assign the copyright. Yes it would be inconvenient if someone did that, but that's additional incentive for the FSF to make sure they do the right thing.
A creme brulee torch is another fun option!
Google indexing DDG search results
How the bioeconomy is producing a trial vaccine for Covid-19
While not anonymous, Nextdoor seems to really fill the space of local discussion. It has a lot of people from my town active on it, YMMV.

Unfortunately, my town is going through some crap times politically and it makes it really hard to not spend time on Nextdoor just becoming enraged.
Part of AWS's sell with elasticity is only spending what you need, but those industries have redundancies or unused capacity.

Someone in one of these threads said there's a hidden DNS within VPCs that can fail and isn't scaled, so if that's true, they might just have to architect around that unless they can get AWS to change it. It's on RH for not knowing that but it's also kind of on AWS too.

But as far as what you can do, you can really only split your cash across brokerages if you want to engineer the same redundancy yourself. Otherwise, RH would need to route everything to another exchange to keep satisfying orders, and even that is just another system that could fail. Keeping all of your money in one brokerage doesn't seem ideal if you want to completely avoid downtime. Doing the same redundancy yourself with those industries isn't really practical.
There used to be curses-based launchers for some of the command-line utilities.
Granted, I didn't grow up with Leave It To Beaver, but I don't get the sense that it had a lasting cultural impact in the same way as I Love Lucy. It seemed like by the 90's everyone viewed the show as cringe, and the few who quote it don't do so in a way that was endearing.
What would be a better way to get the location of the user without geolocating the IP? Do you mean the HTML geolocation facilities (https://developer.mozilla.org/de/docs/Web/WebAPI/verwenden_v...)?
Prolly he really wanted to find out that we’re not alone in the universe.

Sucks to know we’re alone and no one has reached out.
What’s the volume of salt? Not sure if I’d rather have a fly buzzing around or salt all over my house
> What savings I did have where in a zero interest current account though!

That's not great, but overall, I'm not making very much money from my "high-interest savings account". Maybe a grand or two over decades, but even that's generous. I don't know if it's worthy of an exclamation mark. The biggest losses are prevented by not overspending and some of the other things you mentioned.
I am not sure that is applicable to the movie scenario. When they go for the housekeeper job, the three of them were already making a huge amount of money, and the housekeeper job was likely not life changing for the family. But they still destroy the life of the current housekeeper. That could have been completely avoided, and would place them in the bottom 5% of a moral scale of people on their pay range if such a hypothetical scale existed.

Off course, poverty is hard and their moral actions should be seen along with their circumstances. But that way, you can find every evil doer to have some reasons for what they do. The family had become 3 jobs by the time they trigger the allergies, showing a complete lack of empathy on their part.
> "make an inhabitable planet habitable."

Aren't those the same thing? Shouldn't this be "make an uninhabitable planet habitable"?
We have one in the office. They’re fun.
But visualising the data and alerting are two different things.
> Still think it is opinion, why not see it as 2 extra flaps of display at the top?

I have no idea, but sales stats are quite evident. Similar models with and without notch show that notched models sink in sales