skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is the question of the long term effect of policies like even just threatening to block major Chinese actors thanks to doubtful instruments (the US is basically the only power that attempts and manages to rule the world by claiming and effectively constructing jurisdiction on everything that touches a US dollar, or any kind of tech that has even just minor relationship with the US). Meanwhile the China has already become a major power and even just the threat of a tech blockade will motivate them to develop their own; and we are now past the mere threat points...

What will happen when they will own all the supply chains and the buyers will have the choice between US tech, with their propension to want to rule the world, or Chinese tech; of course China may eventually do the same thing as the US, but strategically it is easy enough to not do it for long enough so that it is a major advantage to develop their market.

In (at least parts of) the EU, btw, we see this attitude of the US as a critical problem, more than a solution... As far as those kind of affairs are concerned, we don't view the US as a close ally but more as a distant cousin which is sometimes even a blatant economic enemy, especially when they attempt and do rule the world through $US and tech policies (and demonstrated, not only suspected, systematized world scale espionage). For example the embargo on Iran is particularly problematic. The China might be "worse" than the US in some dimensions, including critical ones, but there are some movement in the EU to guarantee/redevelop our independence from the US too, and this involves developing our own versions of more technologies which are for now originating from the US in a far too large proportion, given their policies and the risk they produce. (For some of those projects already existing, I suspect they initially won't be very successful, but that is another issue; if the problem becomes more pressing, there is no reason to not be able to do it: 10 or 20 years is an eternity in tech, but international equilibrium is a longterm affair)
I installed the Halo bundle a week ago, it defaulted to German.

I've never been to Germany, the last time I studied german was a quarter century ago. My Xbox isn't set to German either.

Even the language selection was hidden in a sub-sub-sub menu somewhere, which took some digging.
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you're essentially telling strava that the privacy area is very important to you (ie your home, work, etc) and they are probably selling that fact.
How could a compiler be SaaS? Do the binaries self destruct if you forget to give them your new payment info?
Sometimes state capitals aren’t economically that powerful. Denver and Columbus are certainly positive cases, but Springfield and Albany are pretty middling compared to the biggest cities in the same state.
"Hot missile silos in your area are waiting for you"
The youtube app recently got awful wrt caption. It always enables them now, so I end up disabling them manually. But then if there's an ad in the middle of the video, after the ad, they're back! And that's with subtitles being disabled in the app settings!
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No one should be using the travesty that the Americans call a "date format" anyway =)
This is the result of out-sourcing juristic work to private companies:

If we treat Android, Window, Twitter, Facebook, as public spaces/goods, then private companies should not have a say in what is allowed/not-allowed on their platforms. This is work for the courts and police to decide and enforce.

If we treat those platforms as private. Then we are playing in s/o's backyard. You are totally at their mercy. They have every right to kick you out if they don't like your face. It's their property. You are a guest.

I think we need constituted digital public spaces and platforms with:

- democratic footing (users are in charge)

- public ownership

- division of power (politicians =!= judges =!= police)

- effective policing

In such a system it would be for independent courts to decide which Apps can be distributed
and which not. Those courts would be bound to a constitution/body of law, which applies to all parties a like.

Yes, this will be expensive. Yes, you will have to give up some privacy.
But you will be a citizen in a society, and not a stranger playing in a backyard.

Maybe the current platforms can be coerced into a system which approximates the above.
But I have my doubts.
I hope in 200years people will have figured this out, and will look back to this age as the digital dark ages.
Food Network is also horrible at this. You try to go to a .com URL and it forces you to .co.uk, where the page doesn't even exist, so you get a 404 instead!
How much do you pay for pasta?

5,000$ of pasta would last me and my family until the end of my days.

At ~1-1.2 euros for half a kilo it's around 90 years worth of pasta (based on an average of 28 kilos per person per year in Italy)
Ekeeda is a online learning app for engineering students. It provides video courses of engineering subjects from all fields of engineering from top tier universities in India.
We would love get some feedback on the application and how can we make it more better for users.
>The answer, of course, is that there is no consciousness: if you try to precisely define what consciousness is, you’ll end up with increasingly absurd “you know when you see it” kinds of definition

There's nothing absurd about “you know when you see it”. Those are just things we don't have (or can't have, or don't yet have) good definitions for, but do exist.

"Family resemblance" [1] classes of things are often like that.

"What is a game", is a classical example. Any definition you can give can be violated, including "having a goal", or "not having real impact" etc. And yet we know a game when we see one. And there's lots of other such distinctions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_resemblance
Again, I didn’t say I agree with the apps removal, just that Google we’re at least being internally consistent.

With regards to the app removal, do we know it is a Google management decision and not the work of an overzealous app reviewer or an algorithm (the latter being the way Google usually operate)?

The reason I talk about internal consistency is because it is hard getting the right balance between removing stuff that should be vs stuff that shouldn’t and that problem is only magnified when when doing so at scale. So if this were a management then I totally understand the pitchforks but if it’s a false positive an in algorithm then hopefully Google will rectify and we can all go back to moaning about Electron or whatever the next meme is.
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>I can imagine a being that is physically identical to a human in every way, but is not conscious - there is no reason to think that intelligent behavior requires consciousness.

I experience consciousness as having explanatory power for why I have conversations about the ineffability of consciousness. But if I can posit a being physically identical to myself but without consciousness, then, since the causal explanations for the duplicate's behavior are identical to my own, that means this being as well as myself have beliefs and say the things we do about consciousness, that are not caused by consciousness! My own beliefs about consciousness, supposedly incorrigible because they are directly caused or informed by consciousness, are necessarily not caused or informed by genuine consciousness, only some computational or informational imposter. But that means any reason I have to believe I am conscious, the zombie also has. It follows that either I am also a zombie or zombies are incoherent.
https://uk.deliveroo.news/news/amazon-leads-series-g.html

But it seems there has been some issues getting the funding past the CMA – https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/amazon-deliveroo-merger-inquiry

I believe you're correct. Deliveroo did pull out of Germany.
He's literally saying that a 49th percentile person will definitionally only be able to have a 49th percentile life under any system.

Well, I suppose you could perform random shuffling. 50% of people will still end up with a below average outcome, though.
Don't allow soldiers to have mobile on restricted ground...
Wigner's friend experiment doesn't contradict my interpretation in any way. For me it's not the exchange of information that causes system to become more sharp. It's poking that system with immensely huge stick built out of billions and billions tightly and sharply interacting particles that you have to do to get that information.

So when Wigner's friend makes the measurement of quantum system through interacting with it he causes it to collapse to sharper form. Wigner unaware of the result may still think that there's still some fuzziness in the system that consists of his friend and the experiment he performed. But in fact all the fuzziness was gone when his friend performed the experiment. The fact that Wigner doesn't know that yet, changes nothing in reality. Sure, he can treat his friend and his experiment as if they were quantum system. But they are not. The math I think looks the same if you don't know things about sharp stuff or if you know all there is to know about fuzzy stuff.

The actual 6-photon experiment is a bit too technical for me but I don't supposed "Wigner's friend" in it is built of billions of particles interacting with each other. If the friend is something smaller, like just a few particles that perhaps loosely interact then it's perfectly fine to expect that after measurement of one fuzzy system by another there's plenty of fuzzines left for the macroscopic observer (Wigner) to see.
I am the author of an open source cloud security tool (https://github.com/cloudsploit/scans). We also sold a hosted version, which wound up becoming fairly popular and bringing in decent money. Last year, the team and product were acquired.

There are numerous benefits to being open source. We built a community around the product, it played into marketing efforts, really helped attract developers at companies for bottom-up sales, and led to lots of improvements, many of them contributed by our paying users.

My point is that open source and "making money" don't need to be mutually exclusive. In fact, sometimes the open source side can really bolster the commercial side. This seems most effective at companies that offer a hosted version of their open source product. Very few large enterprises want to run things themselves if they can just pay a company to run it for them or provide support.
We all know what a forest is. But there is no "particle of forestness".

Most of the words we use don't need laws of physics and particles exclusive for them. What makes you think consciousness is more like electromagnetism than it is like a forest?

In my opinion consciousness is just an abstraction, like a football match or a forest. We have a word for these common configurations of matter, but it doesn't mean that they are fundamentally, qualitatively different from the rest of the universe.

Show me an elementary particle of forest then I can admit that consciousness needs one too :)
As another Dutch citizen, it's a true story! Read about it here: https://amp.nos.nl/artikel/2213762-hackteam-aivd-gaf-fbi-cru...
"A much better way (and probably easier) is to use the user's browser/system language. That's the language I want to read on 99% of the time. Otherwise, why would I have my machine in that language? And if it's not, I will change it myself."

I would disagree with this and propose a clear choice. Many people speak 2 or 3 languages. The only reason my browser / OS is in English is because it's easier to troubleshoot or Google error messages that way. Just a bigger pool this fish in for answers.

A little flag in the top corner is best.
> but doesn't that just further throw us back to the mystery of consciousness as something that transcends the physical?

No, I think it does the opposite - it dissolves the concept of consciousness. "Conscious" or "unconscious" is a label we put on complex physical objects to separate them into categories by their behavior, in the same way we use "hot" and "cold" to separate things by the degree of their apparent temperature. So an atom-perfect copy of your brain would be just as conscious as you, and a program running on a hardware, both of equivalent complexity to you, would be just as conscious as you.
The amount of deaths and horror that freedom has brought to Libya is soul crushing. I would wager that a good percentage of Libyans would Trade that freedom for the dictatorship with all that it entails, obviously not those that suffered injustice of a dictatorship but the majority ... work home life ...
The progress in the last 200 years is completely incomparable with anything prior to that.

Again, rather an unobvious claim. A greater leap than the Industrial Revolution, the Renaissance, the budding of Western Civilisation with the Greeks?

Perhaps it is, but unless you have a link to proof of this, it's best not to speak in such dogmatic terms, and accept that this is just a view you hold.
Then why not just get the notary to sign the transaction after questioning the signer in person? The issue of coercion has nothing to do with the medium used for signing.
>(async is mature)

is Django or Flask async yet?
If they want to be private someone will take them to court for advertising drugs or something like that. They should have stayed neutral.
I always found it ironic that you get most of this for free if you design your sql updates and save/query the transaction log and/or history. A lot of relational dbs have functionality for that

Being able to elegantly and efficiently do "AS OF" queries is still a hard problem, I don't see that KTables really solve it. Hate to say it but Oracle's solution to this is still unmatched. https://oracle-base.com/articles/10g/flashback-query-10g#fla...
In some ways. In other ways, everything on a computer can and might be recorded so it’s prudent to stay away from borderline illegal or inappropriate things if it can come back to you.
>If so, what if you removed the brain altogether and just performed the computations directly on paper, is the paper conscious? The paper would definiy still be intelligent, it would possibly come up with interesting inventions, claim that it was sad or happy etc, but would it actually be sad?

One might argue that it would be sad, the way a human is sad, but lack the ability to immediately experience it in real time, while we can.
The part of the article that shocked me was the Google hijacking. It seems Google is allowing it as a policy. Why screw these poor restaurants?

https://support.google.com/business/answer/6218037
> Even the language selection was hidden in a sub-sub-sub menu somewhere, which took some digging.

I think it was hidden in the accessibility menu... This made me absolutely furious when I couldn't figure out how to change the game's language to the one that my Windows installation is using.
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> I wonder : do you have the same engineer turn over than "regular" companies, that is developers leaving after two or three years max?

We don't. Clearly not. People leaving is very rare.

But also, our recruitment is very different from normal companies. :)
It still requires the aggregator to offer it for less that $30 (at least the cost of dough less). Which, at least in this case, seems to requires a scraping error.
No idea, I'm not a lawyer. But in the original post he mentioned that he "cut a deal" with the restaurant, which to me suggests that he got the $5k back, possibly in cash, from the restaurant. If he then pockets to tax he saved, that smells like tax evasion.

He then tweaked his story to say that this cost him $5k. Why did he say he was cutting a deal then?
I don't think you can talk about this in terms of just rules. What is happening here is one world superpower is using all the leverage it can to attack another world power. Germany isn't going to do this firstly because it doesn't have the leverage and secondly because they're not interested in playing that sort of raw power politics. This is how cold wars are conducted, the belligerents pour resources into strategically important partners. In this case the US is applying pressure on TSMC to damage Chinese technology companies, which they need to do because their local strategic manufacturer(Intel) is falling behind. You're going to continue to see the US find reasons to pour money into partnerships with everyone on China's front door. Meanwhile China will pour resources into partnerships with Europe, Russia and Australia to try and pry US partners away.

There's no "Fair" in this situation, there's only "Winning" by forcing China into compliance with US demands.
The author has to blame himself that he is selling his app in the Google Play store. Then, of course, the author is exposed to Google's despotism. Sell the .apk somewhere else.
> How did we get to a place where billions of dollars are exchanged in millions of business transactions but there are no winners?

“(…) What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?

Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks! (…)”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl
Short answer: no. I usually prefer to host men and I’m straight. Women can be great guests but my girlfriend gets jealous.
>To the fullest extent that you are capable of being sad. There is no even remotely plausible alternative to this physicalist argument.

Actually that's just hand waving, and taking for granted what needs to be proved.
Watching people embrace censorship is the most depressing thing I’ve ever witnessed.
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I’m a little skeptical of this theory. Mostly, because it sounds exactly like animism [0]. The consciousness discussed here sounds a lot like the “soul” that religions asserts exists. But this is the problem with science that is almost entirely theoretical built in a concept that is entirely subjective: what is consciousness?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism
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I'm willing to bet there is no modern browser that does this.
I stopped using Google Analytics. Should I inform users and subscribers?
What video did you comment on? Your own? The owner/uploader can remove comments too so it might not have been YT.

Edit: As comments pointed out, I clearly didn't read the post properly, OP already stated it was his own video.
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Well you didn't care when conservatives were censored blatantly and unfairly for years, did you? You can't even question the official covid narrative without being hardcore censored.
Happy to see Rust crawl in into top languages list :)
Check out commonmark for something less fickle than your average flavor. It adds a specification so users and developers know what to expect.
Quick suggestion, from what little I can see, I feel many grandmas are going to get confused by the icons, like the eyeball for 'show password' and the copy/paste icon.

First, they are small detailed shapes that would be difficult for people with poor vision; but second, while icons are intuitive for a younger generation exposed to certain patterns and associations, many elderly have no clue what some of these graphics imply. You should really consider full, clear buttons for these features.
Hello,

I just like to add that I never understood how when I just try to edit one of my Slack message (Windows client) it literally takes 100 % of 4@4ghz i5 cores and freeze my system for 2 seconds.

I mean, come on, I'm not asking the impossible here, just editing a single line of text.

I hope one day you go native like Telegram for example which is blazing fast, ultra light and also has clients on Android, Mac, etc.

Bests,
Indeed. Measurement is a physical process, not metaphysical one. To measure something, you necessarily need to interact with it (and at this point it's worth remembering that photons bouncing off an object and hitting your retinas absolutely count as interaction, so you can't e.g. put a ruler next to the dog and read out the results, and say you weren't interacting with it, not in the sense physicists use this word).
I agree that the vast majority of people take a lot of open source for granted.

However, a lot of open source projects are, frankly, extremely rude to users. Instead of some copy-paste "kindly please direct your question to this resource over here" the users get "GET THE @#%% OUT OF HERE STUPID N00b" and this is from people directly with the project (e.g., domain email address).

If you think this doesn't impact your donations and recognition, please rethink that a little bit further.
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Came across this recently when posting on someone else's video, the comment wasn't even critical of China but I can see how a pair of words in sequence might have come off that way. Tested on a private video of my own just now, comment gone within seconds.
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A question for someone in Iceland and other Nordic countries would you guys be interested in something like this.
> The point is that you are consulting an expert, and you don't want that expert to tell you about all their mistakes, because your mind is now occupied with doubting that expert. It's not rational.

In the situation where I'm consulting an expert - hired to fix a problem or find a solution - then I'd tend to agree with you.

But when I'm reading text from a person in my field in a subject area of interest (eg learning from a book), then I definitely want to hear of things that went wrong, and how they fixed them.

I think they're two different situations, and the one you described above isn't the correct one for a person who's bought a book to learn from.

It could just be us valuing different things in our learning though. :)
They say, back-up encryption is supposed to work soon.

https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2020/03/whatsapp-tes...

But even if, WhatsApp remains a closed source app, owned by Facebook. I really see no reason to trust them. Zuckerbergs privacy policy seems unchanged, since he called his user dumb fucs for trusting him with their data, while at the same time, buying the surrounding houses of his Villa, to protect his own privacy.

The only thing holding them back is a bit public image, but the general population do not care much and maybe breaking of privacy laws. But since the governments also really do not want real encryption for everyone, I would rather imagine "gentlements agreement" behind doors, than real investigations, in case for example WhatsApp would secretly send also the key for the backup to someone else.
> I don't see any previews

There is an early access [1]

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As for having in in JDK17, Ron provides an answer in the reddit thread [2]

[1] http://jdk.java.net/loom/

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gkgzld/state_o...
>> I think I want to explore something related to morality - what is the end game of humans

Such hubris.

So the heads of two powerful nations are to decide the fate of humanity - where is the morality in that ?

And why does there have to be an endgame ? and who are we to decide ?
Mr. Thiel is unlikely to care about his place in history. People who care about being on the right side of history don't become real-life vampires.
> Although ideally you'd want to have the money not the admiration. :\

Admiration is un-valuable. :D
The OpenGL/OpenCL to DX12 layers are for when vendors don't want to implement such a stack or to ease migration. For example, Qualcomm doesn't implement OpenGL or OpenCL on their Windows drivers at all.