skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think about this a lot. The answer, I think, is No, the distinction does not matter.

The consciousness in the machine will think "Wow this worked!" and go on with life in the machine. The original consciousness (you) will say "well that was dull - look at that machine consciousness having all the fun inside the machine."

But now extend the metaphor. Is there really any difference - in your perspective as the original consciousness - between the consciousness in the machine (your copy) and the consciousness next to you? (Your wife, husband, friend, brother, or sister). Or the consiousness across the street? Or any other consciousness that's not you? Each has its own set of memories that gives it a sense of self. Each sees the world outward from its own perspective.

So really, is there any difference at all? Either they're all totally different...or maybe they're all the same......
Poster child for Haskell
How Did I Get Away with IT? – Among US
HOW DID I GET AWAY WITH IT?? | AMONG US
I would love this for Paradise Lost. Milton is hard to decode.
Uh... polls reliably predicted Trump's win in the primaries long before anyone in the pundit class believed it. For months and months it was explained away as simple name recognition. But he was ahead the whole time.

Honestly, you're misremembering this. Polls were not wrong in 2016 like you think they were. Just browse through the article history at 538, they really are the best source for this stuff.
It’s time to talk about Tesla FSD
Exactly, Pandoc chooses robustness over buggy half baked conversion. Swiss Army Knife is no good when you need to a debone a Tuna. Every tool on a Swiss Army Knife is sub-optimal. It's a terrible popular analogy in general.
Do you think the investment grade bonds are going to yield better than the interest rate on a home mortgage ?!?
I'm the author of panflute, and--in fact--wrote my PhD thesis in pandoc+panflute!
My deepest apologies for opining, comrade throwawaygh
I find it impossible to believe that Facebook will ban you for using Oculus but never posting anything to your Facebook account. It's such an extraordinary claim.

Without proof, I'm going to assume it's not true.
I'm not surprised this was downvoted. It is, however, inherently true.

American corporations are legally required to maximize shareholder return. The entire public company system in the US is a paperclip maximizer that is designed to vacuum up every bit of economic value available on the face of the earth and give it to shareholders.

With 80% of all US stock value owned by 10% of Americans[0], the emergent goal of the economy is to suck up every available cent and give it to people like Bezos and Zucker------.

For people like Bezos and Zucker------, that's a good thing. For the rest of us? Not so much.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/02/...
Gstreamer is great for multimedia pipelines and more complex tasks. But ffmepg is better for simpler tasks.
It is also a good work at home job that can beat COVID-19 or any other virus. Robots don't get sick and if a human being gets sick just assign the robot to a different human being.
Probably another Wells Fargo. I have a hearing on Nov 3 at 11am in Dallas County Iowa for the State Auditor to produce Wells Fargo loans used to cover up losses by State owned corporations.
> The problem is that the individual is not being greedy enough for their own control

This might be stretching the definition of greed as it's commonly understood.
The reason they are getting people to create accounts, which is obvious to anyone who has actually used an Oculus, is that the multiplayer matchmaking story right now is horrible, and it absolutely definitely needs to be replaced with something logical with cohesive friends lists. It is the exact reason Facebook is a nice way to login to mobile multiplayer games.

> They care about it only insofar as it gets you to use a Facebook account.

Right. Facebook acquired a niche gaming platform that posed absolutely no threat to any Facebook business not because it was cool and extremely risky and why not. They acquired it to grow user counts in (checks notes) the one app that has already possibly acquired every user it ever will in the entire world.

I don't know dude. There are kids who use YouTube for years on the same device, easily and uncontrovertibly trackable without an account, who are bombarded with more advertising in a day than most high-tech-proficiency adults using Oculus, like me, using adblockers, see in a year. YouTube targets ads to users without accounts! Everyone tracks everyone without accounts, every day, every website you visit, all the time! And of course that includes demographic factors, as though watching kids YouTube material doesn't give away that a kid is watching. You don't need an account to tell you the user's demographics. Their friends and likes. You don't need those things.

And then what? So what if game developers learn the demographics and friends of their users. People have been measuring stuff about who goes to movie theaters, who checks out books, who listens to radio, for decades. What's the worst they're going to do, make more video games that find diverse, niche audiences they did not otherwise serve? Oh the humanity.

And then what the hell is some conventional brand going to learn from someone's Oculus play history? It's completely moronic, there's absolutely no economic value there.

Next you're going to tell me, oh it's horrible they created a VR Chat clone. Nobody is going to force Oculus users to use their shitty VR Chat clone (Horizon). What then are they going to learn from people? There is nothing to learn from VR Chat.

The user account story is just so absurd, it's so off the mark. Account or not they will be able to easily create quality, targeted advertising.
Wow, you've worked on lots of different things. And this seems like a good way to keep learning.
WTF? Thought I had a "standard Firefox". Has Canonical been tampering with the builds?
I don't know much about tuna, but I once cleaned a bass with my swiss army knife.

Anyway, I don't really expect Pandoc to do everything, but when you have both Calibre and Pandoc in your toolbox, it sure feels like you could manage close to anything.
you know a nerve has been struck when the 3 Kuai Army [1] brigades into HN to "share the truth" about "re-education camps"

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
Such a significant project that is practically unwatched. I watched the live event and was amazed at the technology and competence of the people involved.
I’m thinking more of a consequence engine where you can model and compute second and third order consequences of proposed laws based on economics, past outcomes, and other insights. That said, truth changes and evolves, so consensus while correct today, may be very slow to show you the correct tomorrow.

Also if you do have bold visions, do share a way to reach you when others agree.
Biden leaks?
IIRC he/his account said “Oculus _Rift_ will never require...” So they killed _Rift_, launched Quest, and started requiring it.
Not sure the labor theory of value is a legal argument, but it would set quite the precedent.
It's quite amazing how some pieces of conspiracy is so readily accepted while some others are vehemently denied to the point where people are sent to jail over it.
I think you're right.

When I program I basically think in terms of abstraction and state - if the code is obviously going to be multi-threaded then I will focus on the latter. Being stateful can slow you down on one thread but fuck you hard if it's in multi-threaded environment. Abstraction should really be free if you know what you're doing (in your language if choice I suppose)
> I don't see it as a poor choice to live to those defined moral codes.

As I'm sure you are aware, most atheists follow similar moral beliefs and, as far as I'm aware, there's little evidence that being religious helps you adhere to these rules any better.
I disagree. I think they envision creating alternative worlds and virtual relationships and all that can be envisioned with VR. Unless it gets regulated, they will run with this to control people's behavior even further.

People will obviously get their physical needs met in the real world but much of the emotional stuff can move into their realms. If you get people hooked on this, who cares what happens in the real world if you can control their perception of things.
> I'm simply asking a question about whether the pollsters have corrected their methodologies. There was clearly something wrong in 2016 when they repeatedly failed to predict the GOP primaries

Polls don't predict anything. Poll-based forecasts are different than polls, and done by different people.

The major polls in 2016 conducted close to the election were well within the MoE of the actual results, so as far as polls go there is very little evidence that anything was wrong.

Some of the poll-based forecasts made errors like assuming independence of state-level deviations from polling averages woere independent rather than linked, which gave Trump a very small chance of victory; that doesn't accord with history, was called out by 538 before the election, and I doubt anyone is making that mistake again.
Personally, I vote for the ideology of maximizing global happiness, but I would think part of a proper political process would be gathering various ideas together, and then discuss those ideas, and everyone has a voice. This has never been tried before, so why not try it?
Back in middle school before I learned about youtube-dl I was ripping music from youtube by playing audio out of my headphone jack and routing that into the microphone jack, then capturing that with audacity. After that I would export to MP3. Clearly a terrible process (I could have at least recorded from the output device directly) but it worked.
Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee dies at 78 [video]
At one point, this doesn't scale and leaves a rather "incompetent" image of your team on the customer (if that customer understands a bit of tech). It's hard to find a problem if you don't know what to look for.

Integrate better error logging and reporting systems like Sentry, LogRocket; both in backend and client side. This particular case gives me to hints to look for data specific to this user.
pg referred to this as a necessary schlep

http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html
You can write filters in Python and several other languages. These let you perform arbitrary computation triggered by tags in your source document, and let you extend Pandoc’s Markdown to include your own custom tags to do anything you can imagine.

Here is an article where I show how to use Panflute, a library that lets you write filters in Python, and how I wrote a set of filters to automate the tedious parts of writing a complex technical manual:

https://lee-phillips.org/panflute-gnuplot/
No one is really sure, which is a pretty unsatisfactory answer. The original radiation measurements were performed with a gamma spectrometer mounted on a helicopter, which is not useful for finding radioactive contamination in the ground - and the officials who knew this at the time, yet claimed the site was clean, are now in a lot of trouble.

https://sf.curbed.com/2020/1/23/21075707/shipyard-radiation-...

Side note, Treasure Island also has, or had, a pretty serious radioactivity contamination. I've measured slightly elevated emissions there myself, as a matter of fact.
I was excited about urbit until they went all blockchain-ey
Solid state as a term is a discipline of materials, practically speaking it's a bad idea to overload it with your imprecise generalization. Solid state as mentioned above specifically refers to a lack of moving parts (even at a micron level). In this space without multibody dynamics some wave properties are determinable in a much more deterministic sense.
Idiot only if he didn't learn from it. No one needs to be chastized for one momentary lapse in judgement, as long as they own up to it.
Of course. Real communism™ has never been tried.

And it never will.
Yikes - I looked and there are rumours from 2015 that this was the case.
https://www.koreaobserver.com/lee-kun-hee-dead-alive-health-...
VetusWare https://vetusware.com/ has old DOS, Mac, *NIx versions of popular software but has a ratio to maintain for members. You have to create an account and the file is reviewed by others to see if it is a virus or crap or fake, etc.
This is such a great hack. I approved the PR, naturally.
Am I the only one who thinks there will be a class action lawsuit over the Oculus requiring a Facebook login? The PS3 took away the ability to install Linux in an update and lost the resulting lawsuit, the Oculus isn't the same situation, but it's close enough that I think a lawsuit would have a good chance.

It's one thing if they just required you to make a login, but it sounds like you cant "just make a login". You have to give them your name, there's a good chance you'll get banned if you name is unusual or if you don't immediately make "friends", etc, etc.
You saying it's not for exactly the thing it is for... doesn't make it so. I don't know why you think it does.
It’s a rumour that would have been easy to disprove if he was well.
Almost every point made here is basically false.

The best performing languages are imperative (C, C++, Rust), with functional languages being at least an order of magnitude slower both in benchmarks and real-life workloads. Whatever properties were supposed to make it faster/parallelizable have clearly not manifested themselves very well after decades.

Imperative and parallel code also does not have to be a nightmare at all, as evidenced by Rust and even Go.
Cutting off the nose to spite the face?
I hope you recorded it? Would make for quite a memorable statement on the situation.
> a few poor peoples' ability to eat or stay warm is nothing in the face of the climate crisis.

Or maybe, in such a case, the people who have actually been consuming (and emitting) like there is no tomorrow all these decades should make substantial adjustments to their lifestyle (i.e. pay more taxes), so that the people who have been consuming nothing can eat. Sounds a bit more reasonable to me. And we are not talking about a few people, especially if you are referring to the whole world.

Actually, for a brief moment I thought you were joking.
You seem to imply that there are always incentives pushing any organization to do evil things. That's a big presumption.

Organizations are just groups of people. People have varied motivations, and their motivations don't have to change just because they join forces with others.

If what you're saying is correct, then either people's own varied motivations are all evil, or instantly become evil the moment they join a group (whatever that means).
That's all insightful and interesting stuff, but it doesn't change the fact that collective-action is distinct from just the aggregate of individual-action.

Regardless of all these other things, there are also situations in which the collective-action any individual might choose (even for selfish reasons!!) if they had the magic button is not the action they would choose as an individual without the coordination of others.

So, however it is accomplished, in whatever political system, there are cases where merely enabling a group of people to act in coordination allows them all to pursue their individual interests more effectively.

The core point being: you cannot merely judge that people who refuse to unilaterally follow a contract that others reject means that those people do not support the contract.

Put another way: Kant's categorical imperative is a nice concept, but it's delusional to actually think it represents reality rather than just a mental model.

If I self-sacrifice without collective action, I might very well reduce my own capacity for other positive actions and convince others by my example that self-sacrifice is counterproductive.
Love this this tool, but that price is expensive for hobbyist unless they selling their work or paid for through a company
I wonder how they’re thinking about it internally. Clearly they wanted to build OASIS from the novel, paid for it, and got VRChat instead complete with armies of foxy ear maids and full-body tracked sleeping sessions(literally bunch of dudes in random nicks literally sleeping together at literally night literally hand in hand)

Not a big difference in my book, humans are what we are. But with their emphasis on real name public face-book as their core business I suspect it could be.
I thought that name looked familiar... and indeed, it's BeRo of German demogroup Farbrausch, which is also known for some pretty amazing work.
I'm a little slow today. There was an article about a month ago on the Sac State 8008 and it had a link to the user manual which contained a high level schematic of that computer. Sync goes straight into a TTL inverter. So ya, TTL, of 1972 vintage anyway, didn't seem to mind -9V as an input.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24515156

Figure 10 shows how the interfacing of that machine worked.
http://www.digibarn.com/stories/bill-pentz-story/docs/8008UM...
It is my understanding that the only functional difference between a database, and a blockchain, is the elimination of a trusted third party who would have to administer the database (and could, maliciously, alter that DB)

AFAICT, this is not such a problem where a third party cannot be trusted (the only incentive would be if they contacted you and tried to bribe the modification, which doesn't seem worth it).

Otherwise, if the DBA can be trusted, it's not clear to me that the blockchain offers any additional verification, encryption, audit-ability, etc -- and it doesn't seem to me that the "DBA cannot be trusted" is a sufficiently possible risk scenario to try to eliminate from the equation
I am wondering whether you can put this as an issue into github so others can see? I would hate to see other projects start using this.

That being said I need to dig into this library some more to review.
"Fixing the Billion Dollar Mistake"

Option/Maybe types and exhaustive pattern matching was an amazing contribution of ML and similar languages.

I would like to be able to do that in SQL, as well. NULL is arguably in much worse shape in SQL.
A blog post about nothing
> The University of Illinois has had the most successful college opening in terms of controlling COVID despite it being known as somewhat of a party school.

It's also in the middle of fscking nowhere.

It's a lot easier to contain a pandemic when you're not buried in a large city as well.
Actually, true ISO-8859-1 would convert into UTF-16 simply by setting the high octet to zero.
Exactly. It turns out that the pyramids were just a cross-promotional publicity stunt between the Egyptian Wheel Company and an ancient board game.
Ahaha didn't expect the Seinfield reference going in
> Using copyrighted materials in test code is fair use and a well established practice:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

What kind of nonsense is that? Playboy did fight people for using it, the eventually let it go because it was one image that wasn't particularly important them. It's literally right there in the article you linked...

And I assume you forgot to link to this other program but again, not exactly a real argument.

RIAA went after them on the use of that link, if other projects (of which dozens exist by the way) didn't slip up like that and are still here, it only makes it clearer what the problem was
Is tech getting more competitive?
I (mostly) only buy DRM free books,and I'm happily reading them on my ancient Sony reader which has neither a touchscreen nor wifi. Baen has a fantastic collection of DRM free content you can buy directly from them. All the Tor books are available from your favorite bookseller without DRM.
1. Airplanes are actually pretty energy efficient for their speed, especially since they can avoid fuel wasting terrain and avoid stopping and starting like cars.

2. Airplanes have an excellent safety record, far surpassing cars.

3. Maybe, but that's a small price to pay imho.

I understand that points 1 and 2 are based off commercial aviation and not general aviation, but I think it does reflect a general trend in society to try and reflexively say "it will never work, here's why" rather than "here are some reasons why it might not work, let's see if we can fix them"
Smart phones will/can whittle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry

I think due to smart phones nobody is buying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chetan_Bhagat novels :)
Well if we are making acting in your own best interests defined as greed, which is all that corporations are doing, then I think it's a fine generalised definition to say protecting your own control is greedy as well.

Edit: for clarity I not implying negative connotations to either side. I think corporations are doing exactly what they should do. But I also think people need to be more responsible for their choices and the consequences thereof.
I'm getting it too, but it's not happening everywhere. It seems like your selection has to include code and the cursor has to sit over whitespace in a limited horizonal range. Nothing looks off about the spans used to color the code so I'm guessing it's something strange about the sidebar.
Going to fall on its head. Apple isnt asking for fruits of their labour but charging from device abuse, management of store and general device health.
Part of why I personally believe it is I've seen how Facebook really doesn't want people making fake accounts. I had a Facebook account and was friends with like, 2, family members, never really used it. Somehow Facebook decided they needed to see a photo of my drivers license to let me use the account. Nope. I decided to consider this a feature, and there has been a time or two over the last several years where that persistent requirement for a drivers license to unlock my account has kept me from giving in to peer pressure. Facebook has helped me avoid using Facebook. It has been to my advantage.
>But enough major players are sick of it that it is falling apart. China, Russia, India, Brazil, most of the Middle East and a good chunk of Africa no longer see this system as providing value for them and they are eagerly looking for ways to settle trade directly in their own currencies and through their own pipelines.

China, Russia, India, Brazil, most of the Middle East and a good chunk of Africa have always been able to accept renminbi, rubles, rupees, reals, etc. They prefer dollars to those other currencies, regardless of cross-border payment methods. This won't change a thing.
First demo of Tesla FSD beta [video]
I'm having a very hard time deciding what my next phone will be. I'd like to move away from Android because it's basically an advertising machine, and iOS certainly seems to be the more privacy focused... But I also won't be able to run "real" firefox with an ad blocker like I can on Android...
Having meals is quite eventful for me, given that the alternative is being hangry.
Even if what the abstraction is doing is not really the best way of doing things?

For example not the best - re-encoding video or audio tracks when it could just copy them, picking the defaults when their is a better quality option?

Video and audio processing is one of things that if you want good results with wide flexibility you have to learn it and also try things out.
The typical mall or airport isn't built over a street. It's much more like building a subway for cars and banishing non-pedestrians to the underworld.
I have the same set up to generate both my resume and my website using an HTML template. Makes it easy to update one YAML file and update both my CV and my personal website

https://mehalter.com
So they need to DMCA the DMCA repository to get rid of it? Nice.
The nuclear nimbyism is one of the most erroneous mistakes we have made as a society. Solar and wind can only ever be supplemental and never primary sources of energy. We need more nuclear. Maybe this awareness of second order effects has caused analysis paralysis and calcification of progress?