skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though to some extent the problem is purely metaphysical and as iresolvable as the question of divinity or boltzmann brains, I still think that it is a question that is fundamentally inaccessible to science in all its aspects.

Let's assume that at some point in the distant future, if we have a working understanding of animal and human cognition, to the extent that we can either build a program that works as well as a dog or even human being, and we can also probe its functioning in a meaningful way, perhaps in a similar manner that we can today model a complex fluid or large mechanical system (that is, we understand the general idea, but not all aspects of it).

If we could do all of the above, then we could model and alter states, and identify which "brain" states correspond to certain subjective experiences - assuming of course that there is no ghost in the machine. This could be considered reductionist, and it would not be a fully satisfying answer to the hard problems of consciouness - just like a theory of everything or a perfect model of the formation of the universe wouldn't actually answer the concept of divinity, but it may make it seem unnecessary to many people.
Probably that's what actually happened.
I agree. My comment wasn’t a complaint about systemd per se. The old init system was nothing to fall in love with. I think this is an improvement. The problem is that is hasn’t “replaced” all the older mechanisms, but is one more layer that adds to the confusing mess, with sedimentary layers of conflicting systems, mysterious files all over the filesystem, and obsolete and conflicting documentation.

What I’ve enjoyed in particular: systemd timers are an improvement over cron; and I’ve been making great use of systemd-nspawn, which is very convenient and powerful.
Four Temperaments
Berlin: Court Orders Senate to Remove ‘Pop-Up Bike Lanes’
He wants a diverse market with options. Not 3 companies telling you what to do.
A 90 degree pass (overhead) is around 10 minutes. And obviously for radio, it doesn't need to be visible (reflecting sunlight), just ~above the horizon.
Doesn't this practice and especially the choice of adjectives make light out of something very serious and infinitely sad?
> Why is this happening?

This specific case, I would bet dollars to donuts, happened because:
(1) The administration is hypersensitive in light of the wave of race related protests and associated two-sided violence occurring in the country.
(2) Someone aware of the likelihood of that deliberately trolled the administration, probably under a false flag, to produce an incident.

Possibly just for lulz, more likely than that in the hopes of benefiting a particular domestic political faction, but even money it was done on behalf of (though not necessarily at the direction of) a foreign power.
That saying is why I suggested time as a more useful (but still limited) alternative.
Yeah https://youtu.be/s_jWTrRguzU
There's an expression called ruling from the grave to reflect the difficulty of enforcing a contract after you are dead. The same principle applies as those frozen people are dead in every legal sense and practical sense and likely any biological sense.
Short answer - by one or two of the smallest steps on a typical handheld, starting above the nominal frequency and ending below it. A bit more than that for UHF downlinks.
If the OP insists on not going down the O365 route (which will probably come with the same lack of guaranteed storage in the UK, which I believe is Brexit related as Google migrated my data out of the EU this year as well), the best recommendations I've seen as far as interop support actually goes is OnlyOffice combined with NextCloud.

I haven't used it myself, but a number of people on this forum have advised that it's got significantly better compatibility with MS Office than any of the other contenders.

This may have been in word processing only, however, and as the GP notes, spreadsheets and presentations add their own headaches.
UK considering extending software patents to Artificial Intelligence
> It makes for great demos but it basically means “this just works so you don’t need to know how it works”.

But this describes all manner of legitimately useful features. Garbage-collection, for instance, or dynamic-dispatch, or closures, or await/async.

As technicolorwhat and vendiddy already said, it's also poorly defined. In languages like Haskell, or SMT-solving languages, the programmer might know very little about how the language is implemented.

> you inevitably end up with edge cases and bugs in your application that simply can’t be resolved without that understanding

You can run into trouble if you have an incomplete understanding of your programming language, but this isn't particular to 'magic' abstractions.
Orwell mentions the lack of escape at an edwardian boarding school: "That bump on the hard mattress, on the first night of term, used to give me a feeling of abrupt awakening, a feeling of: 'This is reality, this is what you are up against.' Your home might be far from perfect, but at least it was a place ruled by love rather than by fear, where you did not have to be perpetually on your guard against the people surrounding you. ... Against no matter what degree of bullying you had no redress. You could only have defended yourself by sneaking, which, except in a few rigidly defined circumstances, was the unforgivable sin. To write home and ask your parent to take you away would have been even less thinkable ... It might perhaps have been considered permissible to complain to your parents about bad food, or an unjustified caning, or some other ill-treatment inflicted by masters and not by boys. The fact that Sambo never beat the richer boys suggests that such complaints were made occasionally."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23825457

BR sneaking == US snitching

Orwell's descriptions of second-rate squalor in both his boarding school memoir and in 1984 are astonishingly parallel.
For listening, a QFH antenna is ideal for LEO objects. It's typically made of copper pipe or the braid of stiff coax.
Before I did LSD I had heard about the hallucinations, the potential for personality alteration and the possibility of long lasting effects.

Those are the exact reasons I dove headfirst into trying it a few times over a summer!

If I had heard that it was made by some pharmaceutical company I probably would have stayed far away from it. None of my friends and family where talking about pharmaceutical drugs and even at a young age I already knew that corporate culture did not value my best interests.
yeah i'm from Belarus, so i know everything about borders and also pandemic-related visiting troubles. currently in Vilnius on almost expired residence permit
That depends on how cynical you are. There's also a non-zero probability that you're woken up in some sort of dystopia, made immortal and tortured until the heat death of the universe. Basically "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream." Death isn't the worst outcome imaginable.
URL query parameters and how laxness creates de facto requirements on the web
> unexpected memory usage

Number one cause of hard-to-track memory usage in elixir, especially with services that parse JSON. Someone is ingesting JSON and caching a snippet of the JSON in an ets table, which means the entire JSON is never GC'd.
Is it even sure your close friend had MDMA, instead of something similar, but different, like it is common on the black market?

I'm still pro legalization of almost anything regarding psychoactive drugs. Not even prespription, just over the counter as I see fit, but with clear labeling of ingredients, dosage, and mandatory quality control to exclude any adulteration.

IMO most of the shit that happens results from not knowing exactly what it is, how it has been adulterated, and unknown potency/dosage combined with stupid undergrond lore/disinformation because of criminalization.

This is even true for weed, which can be treated with all sorts of nasty stuff, either to make it weigh more, to hide bad quality(make it smell better, feel more sticky, look like good weed), or to make it more potent, and therefore addictive. I mean imagine smoking lead laced(for adding weight) weed, combined with some PCP(to make it hit more).

Not to forget the use of pesticides during growth and anti-molding agents for long storage in bags. Many of them are nerve poisons for humans.

This has happened, and it will continue to happen again and again as long as it is criminalized.

By insisting on carefully trialling for at least 10 years you are just prolonging these uncertainties, and deny the interested users a safe product.

All that uncertainty is self-inflicted by prohibition, especially for non-synthetic drugs. Absolute ignorance of looooong usage in many cultures.
I think you're being down voted because it appears you're missing the point that in certain societies, without money you can not feed yourself or your family, let alone be sitting having this discussion on Hacker News.

Money is important if you want a roof over your head, your children to have uniform for school and food on the table. If you want to be able to spend time with them rather than working 3 jobs to pay your rent, or put fuel in the car you drive to work, lest you have to catch the bus and spend even less time with them.

If you're fortunate enough to live where you don't need money for these things, I'm happy for you, if you're not turn you either have more money than these people do, or you're otherwise looked after.
>The are a few exception like vehicles or large equipment, but the events so far indicate that people will buy unrepairable equipment because they have already done so in many industries. Consumers generally have no way to know how repairable something is, especially for a new product.

But this is only because people have no choice but to buy unrepairable fridges and phones. If people could buy repairable ones then that would factor into brand reputation and people would buy the fridge or phone that's got 3% lesser specs for the same price for the peace of mind that being able to repair it in the future brings.
Can I work on my startup?
I am on a l2 dependent. I don't have a EAD. I wanted to know if I can work on my startup with my mothers ead.
ManaWorks (Mike O'Brien)
> ... Most of them are failing miserably. Not because the statements they are making are wrong, but because they fall prey to a common critical thinking mistake: failing to define our terms. ...

Article then goes on to cogitate for 1,500 words while introducing no data or experiment. Do an experiment or go home.
Sure. And while a company has no right to good PR, you currently also have no right to support from manufacturers when repairing products you own. As such, we are discussing new legislation for this ‘right to repair’ where (as with all new legislation) the wants of various parties are relevant because it affects the ability of that legislation to get passed.

You can argue that the wants of multi billion dollar corporations should be irrelevant, but the current political system nonetheless allows their option to carry weight.
Aligning the pieces is definitely the hardest part. You can get them to fit perfectly together without a binder but once you add glue or resin or anything they can move and it's just very difficult.

My advice is just to focus on getting them together correctly at that point and make sure the angles and curves are right. It's extremely difficult and there will be glue or resin everywhere but you can clean it up later.

A part of the traditional technique you might be able to use is how to apply the gold. They use a fine gold powder, but it isn't mixed into the resin. Once the crack is fitted and set it is painted over with resin again and then gold dust is sifted onto the resin before it cures. This ends up looking a lot smoother and better than leaf or gold mixed with the resin. There are some techniques where dust is embedded into it then sanded down but I don't recommend them for starting out.

Honestly it sounds like you're doing fine. That sort of experience is consistent with how I learned, it took about a dozen attempts before I got anything worth showing anyone. Like I said, it's a difficult, frustrating skill.
More Than Ever, Trump Casts Himself as the Defender of White America
Usually you have something configured as a LaunchDaemon or LaunchAgent. Put that process in the list so once it goes out and downloads the jar then executes it you're good.

I don't recommend putting java in the list. That would grant that power to all Java apps (or at least all that start through that copy of Java).
Not at all. It encourages you to contemplate something that we will all face, and through contemplation, use the time you have, better now.
Avenger a movie like no other
This editing extended my gameplay by weeks.

Can't remember how, but I went through and manually found all the variables for powerups using the default mods so I could have a mega wand on game start.
>You then have to reveal those parts of your body unedited, though. And in sufficient detail to convince people that these new photos are the unedited ones.

That doesn't seem too hard. The edits can be made to places that you can "safely" show to people (eg. upper arm or belly area). You can also make yourself look thinner/fatter/more muscular (body only, not face) so your friends/family will immediately recognize it's not you.
> he makes a rather rude comparison of wage employment to slavery.

This comparison was widely observed by Black intellectuals who were the direct descendants of slaves in the era of Reconstruction era and beyond, so it’s funny to class it as “rude.”

Capitalism emerged out of feudalism, maintained many of its hierarchical qualities and power dynamics, and replaced a bound peasant labor force with one with varying degrees of freedom. At the bottom of this hierarchy in the U.S. was a racialized slave caste that was later freed from this this specific form of bondage, but kept me in much the same position through other means. Various forms of current and historical struggle have brought us to greater equality, but it’s difficult to argue that wage labor in the U.S. wasn’t shaped and defined by the presence of slavery. How could it not be?
IMO, Protocols (and to a lesser extent GenServers) are really there for library writers to write; if you're not writing a library, you probably shouldn't be using it.
Sounds like you're already on it, but anyone who is thinking of trying, (1) make sure you are correctly licensed, (2) make sure you only transmit while you can clearly hear the downlink, and (3) make sure you are listening to the downlink while transmitting (full duplex) to ensure you aren't stepping on other people.
So, there's been a lot of reacting to this article on the level of bread preservation, and that's definitely some useful life knowledge, but don't miss the subtext: This article is using a debate about bread as the object of a lesson in the importance of precise communication. I've seen this argument happen before. It was once a source of much debate within my extended family. And, like the article describes, the basis for the acrimony was 100% that the two different camps were both defining the word "last" in two subtly different ways, and doggedly refusing to recognize or acknowledge it.

Similar patterns play out elsewhere. For example, open source and copyleft tend to be using different working definitions of "free." And the distinction in question is not the one indicated by the F's capitalization.
Wow, I did not expect clickbait to make its way to the number 1 spot on HN. I would be curious to see if this was due to some someone gaming the algorithm or people carelessly upvoting the headline. Though it is a bit funny that the platform that clickbait is most prevalent on is part of the topic of discussion.
Youtube subscribers in this case = Grandkids in the title.
User experience and how it shapes the way you code is what matters, the features in isolation or not weaved together the same way are an entirely different result.

The individual selling points are the smaller part of Haskell's USP.
> I'll accept that rocks are just the substrate, but integrated circuits are just carefully cooked rocks; substrate-vs-consciousness thinking might be wrong

It's a side point, but I think the important difference is that a rock can exist even without bacteria (imagine the rock is somewhere close to the earth's core, just below the temperature that would melt it into lava), while the bacteria on the rock could also exist independently of the rock (they could be blown by the wind and moved to a different rock, for example). So it makes sense to discuss the amount of consciousness in the (sterile) rock itself, and in the (floating) bacteria as well, though of course the system of rock+bacteria can have its own amount of consciousness.
Airbnb's Resurgence
They aren't mutually exclusive—an expressed opinion can also be rude.
"Grandkids" is in quotes in even the original article's title, clearly indicating it's being used metaphorically.
I find myself fighting this fight all the time - we introduce a new tool, and all of a sudden a dozen processes (bureaucracy in a nutshell) spring up from its outputs or to control its inputs.

Unnecessary processes should be considered like unnecessary code - maintenance overhead - and so the usefulness of any process should with some frequency be questioned.
Telegram has this https://core.telegram.org/reproducible-builds
Because public speech's make one an expert? How many Google api have you consumed, I'm guessing few, or you'd know what I'm talking about.
For nonprofits in other countries it is worth looking at the TechSoup Global Network which will point you to different countries' equivalent of the charity digital exchange.

https://www.techsoup.global/
Well, for a system to be consistent (in the meaning of CAP) AND available, the problem with the concurrent writes would have to be solved anyway (i.e. via distributed locking), so I don't think this would be an issue after a partition event.
Pascal's wager would be verifiable if, say, someone invented a device like the ones in the Ghostbusters movies. That seems about as promising as freezing yourself after you die in my mind...
I played on Wine, but it was quite a bit more performant on Windows.
We work hard exactly so that you can run Phoenix in production and gradually learn more about the BEAM along the way!

One recent example is the built-in dashboard showing all the different data the VM and the framework provide: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_dashboard/ - at first it may be daunting but providing a web-based experience to help familiarize with the building blocks is hopefully a good first step. We also added tooltips along the way to provide information about new concepts.

The same applies to Elixir: learning all of functional programming, concurrent programming, and distributed programming would definitely be too much to do at once, so we do our best to present these ideas step by step.

For what is worth, this is also true for Erlang. It has tools like Observer (which was used as inspiration for the dashboard) and a great deal of learning materials.

One last advice is to not drink the cool-aid too much. For example, you will hear people talking about not using databases, about distributed cluster state, etc, and while all of this is feasible, resist the temptation of playing with those things until later, unless the domain you want to use requires explicitly tackling those problems.

I hope this helps and have fun!
You are correct. Unless you pay for everything in cash or through a company front, it is extremely difficult to stay off the identity grid. Changing countries raises the bar, changing to a non-OECD nation raises it further, but you give up certain benefits of access to an advanced tech tree in exchange.

In the US I helped a female relative obscure her trail somewhat from a stalker when she sold her residence and moved states. She could not get classified under the domestic violence identity protection program of her state until she suffered physical abuse of some kind recorded by the police. There was "only" police report of the stalker arriving outside her front door in a doorman-guarded complex, with security footage of him banging on her door for ~10 hours. Twice (after that, the complex security knew him by sight and threw him out the next three times before he gave up). So be aware that most of these types of programs across the US are reactive and not proactive.

With enough money and patience, a lot of everyday people can be eventually found unless they submerge themselves into a highly-insular community. However, above a certain threshhold of money and effort, I believe the advantage accrues to the hider instead of the seeker, even with nation-state resources at the seeker's fingertips. I believe it is far more time-efficient for the seeker to burrow their way into the hider's network of contacts.
Come on, they even put "grandkids" in quotes.
Not worth reading, but if you really feel you need to:
https://archive.is/mBjOr
It's totally possible to run Phoenix in prod. I started learning elixir and am using Phoenix for https://getlounge.app. I don't use any of the advanced BEAM features like GenServers etc.
I meditate regularly, but I think this type of exercise is misguided and betrays the body-denying/denigrating bias that can be often found in religious traditions world-wide. It encourages an ignorant attitude towards the body: instead of contemplating the miracles of the muscular system, see it as amorphous flesh. Amplify the spurious association of the skeleton with the malnourished body it resembles, instead of marveling at the ingenious way it serves it's (many) purposes, and so on.
>and (via hearsay) lax credit card validation policies.

Is that really a problem? AFAIK in card not present transactions (aka. buying stuff online), the merchant is eating the cost of chargebacks.
I actually had a bread box at one point, and the bread got moldy after two days. Maybe it just needed to be cleaned, or maybe it trapped moisture and heat?
> "How awesome would it be, if we could revive someone who lived around the year 1500, 1000 or even 0?"

One or two of them, maybe. Probably the most famous ones.

All of them, including ordinary people like you or I? Not a chance.
> The primary motivation was to help sell AirPods

This is just cynical and uncharitable.
Apple brds are already available if you know where to look and Chinese clone manufacturers have serious connections, so this would've happened already if it were feasible.
>To an atheist, uncertainty is the source of all hope.

Isn't that somewhat backward? To an atheist, the certainty that they won't be going to an afterlife seems to be a source of hope, and for the religious person, the idea that they might is the same.
This has become a really serious problem buying any sort of Kindle book these days. I got very tired of the OCR-created classic books that are sold with poor formatting, spelling errors and sometimes even remnants of the conversion process left in the text, so I always really carefully search for specific publishers, for instance "Jane Austen Sanditon Penguin English Library" (or similar).
But even here all the reviews for the tens of different editions are simply mingled together - including people complaining about torn paperback covers, and random editions that are stolen from Project Gutenberg and sold for profit on Amazon, as well as some that are simply gibberish and seem to have been run through Google-translate.
That particular edition above even links to the wrong item from the search.

So sad that Amazon don't even care about their Kindle book inventory any longer: this is an area where they could easily guarantee authenticity and quality - if they could give a shit.
The Astronaut who Brought Starcraft into Space (2017)
Should AI Be Open? – Slate Star Codex
My take is that linear algebra should be taught before calculus and that einstein notation should be taught at the same time as matrix multiplication.
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