skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I create a robot with an optical camera that detects if there is a large object near itself and uses an arm to open a door if so, the system works (or doesn't work) regardless of any meaning that is ascribed to its computations by an observer.

Whether the system "works" or "doesn't work" is dependent on what the machine was designed to do, which is not an objective physical fact about the machine. Perhaps the machine was not meant to open the door when an object is detected, but to close it instead, or to do something else entirely; only the designer would be able to tell you one way or the other.

The same is true for all computation, and that is Searle's point.

> A computer (the theoretical model) is, be definition, something that can perform coherent reasoning without any special internal state.

Computers don't actually engage in reasoning, though, for the same reason. A machine is just a physical process, and physical processes do not have determinate semantic content.

Ross and Feser then argue that because thoughts do have determinate semantic content, they are necessarily immaterial, and I think they are correct.

(This argument is unrelated to qualia; I don't think qualia are fundamental to reason itself.)
If you have any saved swf files that are too obscure/degenerate to be on Flashpoint or any of the other archive sites, I can report that the flashplayer projector debuggers still seems to work.

https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.ht...
Right?! There is probably some import team at United who is tasked with minimizing buying cost and a budget in the millions.
It is very common for people to discover private video IDs in product pages by combing through the HTML for announcement pages, product listings inadvertently put up early by retailers (and some retailer, somewhere, will always screw it up) etc.

I honestly can't think of a week that goes by without the discovery of a private video ID in the videogame space tbh for some unannounced title or feature.
You can't under-volt on latest machines (mine included). I need to limit TDP to get the machine usable.

I've thought about opening it up and reapplying paste but I don't want to risk bricking my work device - I don't have the time to deal with it. I will have a few weeks off soon so might consider it if the expected gains are significant but from what I saw back when I looked into it (this[1] mostly) it's not worth it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/96wwyf/so_i_rep...
I guess for me it's more like a certificate than money. I still have it and its worth a lot (more than money)
If you punch the US in the gut with tariffs you may get reciprocation.
Hardkernel adds 4x 2.5Gbps to H2
There's a difference between email not being permanent and gmail not being permanent.
The PocketBook[1] range should be a great option for you, especially since you're based in Europe. I don't have access to anything other than Kindles in my country, but that's not to say my experience with them (Paperwhite owner since 2012) has been bad at all.

Depending on your use case, most standard e-ink (preferably e-ink carta) devices should be just fine. I'd ask you to temper your expectations, however, if your workflow is heavy in PDF reading.

1: https://pocketbook.ch/en-ch
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I suggest fixing the loopholes.
I create a compiler error where i left off.
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Ah - well, yes, that's worse.
I have a org mode file (which I edit in VS-Code) - I finish the day by creating some tasks for the next day.
I'd forgotten he did Source Code.

Moon was great. And particularly when you think about Space Oddity's "Major Tom" (and "The Man Who Fell To Earth").
Intel pits Xe against Big Navi using 7nm 'enhanced' process for its gaming GPU
> On the other hand, do we really want a handful of unelected billionaires deciding what is acceptable speech - whether or not we agree with them? We talk about net neutrality, but shouldn't we apply the same standard to hosts like AWS?

No, because you don't need AWS or Twitter or Cloudflare or any of the name tech companies to run a high-traffic web site successfully.
>Worse, but again, was the site even supposed to be designed with anonymity in mind?

According to reports from several HN users who tried making accounts, Parler requires drivers license photos as a part of the process you have to go through before you can post. Rather than being designed for anonymity, they seem designed to identify all of their users as unequivocally as possible.
I typically combine a TODO list with an overview of my (next) high-level steps in the flow that I had in mind to implement/work on. Also noticed that typically, after a day/night of rest, your thoughts get re-aligned and you might even come up with a better approach for one of the problems you encountered.
I agree with you and I'm not defending the practice, I'm simply sharing the reasoning behind this threat of violence.

> If anyone is doing anything illegal, they should be brought to justice.

Besides mental issues, people rarely resort to violence; not only is it risky in terms of legal/physical consequences but it's also more effort; why would anyone go out and beat up someone if they can achieve the desired effect without that?

Given that there are people that are threatening Facebook employees with violence, it seems that "conventional" justice doesn't seem to have any effect (or corruption... I mean lobbying is perverting the course of justice) and people are threatening to take the matter in their own hands in an act of desperation.
A couple of examples to get us going:

How to build a nuclear reactor.

Magic secrets uncovered.

How to program a virus.
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> Or at least laws passed that make the publication of research more open.

Sci-hub was created under Obama, I don't remember neither him nor the party making anything to help them, quite the opposite actually: Elbakyan has been judged in absentia and sentenced twice under his presidency. Were she to put the foot on Western soil, she would pay it dearly thanks to this.
Is there some sort of box/cover you could put over it that wouldn't interfere with the signal? I am ignorant of where these would be usually mounted, so something on top of a house would look pretty silly/obvious.
He gave a 30 minute presentation at NLNOG in September:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASXJgvy3mEg

* https://nlnog.net/static/live/nlnog_live_sep_2020_jared.pdf
ApiRoad is an interesting project, are you running this all by yourself?

In any case, do you have a write-up somewhere of how you use a columnar DBMS to slurp your server logs?
The more extra steps the more ethically murky it gets.

Is creating a regulatory environment where public infrastructure construction and maintenance prices soar to astronomical levels because you have three people getting paid hourly to supervise one guy who's running a pavement miller "welfare" or is it crony capitalism for the construction industry?

I'm fine with welfare, but thinly veiled handouts to politically connected groups seems a hell of a lot less efficient way to better society than just directly funding or tax-incentivizing homeless shelters and food pantries. Also some of the shadier cases of "well if you put a positive spin on it then this is just welfare" behavior are too graft-like for my tastes.
Postscript is a stack language, with strong typing and Lisp-inspired data structures. Maybe that could be a model for what you're talking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript#The_language
Why this post is flagged? HN, If you don't like the post, please ignore it don't enforce censorship with flagging.
Sibling comments are being ignorant. The most famous born secret in the USA is how to make breeder reactors and nuclear weaponry; even if somebody independently rediscovers it, the government will censor them.

But, that said, our profession has never attempted a revolution where we explicitly try to breach this born secret. It's not clear whether we'd succeed, and the victory cup is literally nuclear waste, so it's not exactly desirable either.
You can watch performances on Youtube as much as you like, with perfect sound. Most of the time, you hire in-person Beoynce for prestige. Same with Yellen.
I wish the article had more details on their equipment and the pros/cons.

My office is off grid (not in my backyard), and a huge time sink was researching what components I need and which ones to buy. Now that I'm setup, I'm surprised at how cheap solar can be, considering most home setups are in the $15k+ range and don't get any storage.

My complete solar setup with battery was about $2000 (300W solar, charge controller, inverter, 100AH battery), and can be done today for $1200 (battery prices have dropped).
Hopefully US and EU relations will improve in the coming years. Performing these type of actions between such close allies is just mind boggling.
Some people already are. As I said, this action will greatly increase the number of people who are.
The new teamspeak application is clearly targeting Discord and I'll be happy to see some competition. I like the differences in the UI that are visible in their demo screenshots and the ability to host my own server would be nice.

The biggest difficulty teamspeak is going to face is that users are now firmly entrenched in discord, just as twitch users are firmly entrenched in that product. Why would users switch? I am certainly going to try out the new TS and see how it fares because I just like trying out all of my options before settling on one. Quite a few others that I know would largely prefer to just stay put though.
When we discussed this - at long length - during the original Echo development program, we consistently came to the conclusion that it should be hardware, not software, to maintain customer trust.
Well yes, but this way you're only giving welfare to some highly skilled people (plus useless execs) who also happen to be useful in wartime. Not the kind of people you want to loose long term.

The EU also subsidizes Airbus, agriculture and other critical industries.
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> Being proximate to a train station has a 20-50% positive benefit to home prices.

> Why can't we tax the property owners (I am one) benefiting from proximity to the train stations?

don't you pay property tax based on the value of your home? if so, this is already happening.
US tech companies had about 10 years to properly pay their taxes, if anything, the US government should be happy it's happening so late.
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Shut down by who? Parlers vendors dropped them. They weren’t shut down by the feds.facebooks little vendors are free to take a stand and drop their biggest customer, sure. Facebook rolls it’s own infrastructure so it would take federal overreach to shut them down. This ain’t China, however.
> Worse, but again, was the site even supposed to be designed with anonymity in mind?

Given that a common conspiracy theory espoused on Parler is (was) that vaccines contained tracking microchips (?), I imagine Parler users expected at least some anonymity.
Notebook by my side. Only way for me to remember. I also use it future todo.
My bits of advice:

1. Don't get to that point. Don't back away from the keyboard when the clock strikes 5; move away from the keyboard when you're at a natural stopping point. If that point is 3:30, and you know that the next block of work you'd like to do is going to take you three hours, don't start it. Commit, push, and consider yourself done writing code for the day.

2. I keep a journal of what I do throughout the day. This probably is at a higher level than what you're looking for, but occasionally I'll post links to github with the file and line number where I left off.

3. Sometimes, I don't commit everything; hopping back on in the morning, a `git diff` shows me what I'm working on. This obviously doesn't work if you've changed a thousand lines, but that goes back to point 1 - have reasonable stopping points.

4. Break tests. If you know you need to finish something, write a test for it that doesn't work.
we should round them all up and send then to concentration camps.

/s
You seem to assume deplatforming is not effective, is that true? Or do you disagree with it on moral grounds?

I mean, 'we' (as in 'the west') try to deplatform Jihad based terrorism. I think it's a pretty effective strategy, just not complete. Why should we _not_ deplatform far right white supremacy violence and terror?

Of course you also need a deradicalization approach, but that doesn't scale to the current levels of extremism. We need to stop this massive rise of fascist violence rooted in conspiracy thinking from spreading, which was amplified by social media in the first place, only then can a targeted deradicalization approach be effective.
This is political and that's fine.

Just remember, if your side is winning doesn't mean it won't happen in the other direction for exactly the same political reasons.

Anyways, I don't care either way about the American clown show.
Sounds more like a political pressure group than a union. No collective bargaining, no workplace issues, only political problems quite removed from the average worker at Google. Do they call themselves a union to get legal protection, or is there another reason why they don't just drop the term?
Yes, because history shows that trade wars are good and easy to win!
It doesn't seem to be THAT bad as LTS phases were introduced in the first place only very recently. See: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/kqi1v8/qt_515_commer...

Also, some distros haven't even updated to the latest FLOSS version of the LTS release, so it seems to not be that important to the maintainers.
Also, let us think what if someone wants to migrate from another similar App - say telegram? Will we have another fork?
Yes, this is a good practice whether you're leaving for the day or not. See David Allen's book 'Getting Things Done'. A central principle of it is: the place for your todo list is on paper (or some repository), not in your head. This clears your head for focusing on the immediate task at hand. So can be helpful for getting into a flow-state during the day, as well as between days.
A though on the author's words:

> Megalothymia is “the desire to be recognized as superior to other people”, and “can be manifest both in the tyrant who invades and enslaves a neighboring people so that they will recognize his authority, as well as in the concert pianist who wants to be recognized as the foremost interpreter of Beethoven”; successful liberal democracies channel this desire into fields like entrepreneurship or competition, including electoral politics.

Trump can be described as someone who has megalothymia, wielding his money and more recently politics to assert his perception of himself as 'superior'. This, along with what I opine is blindness of the heart, leveraging this megalothymia as a tool to worship his ego.

These recent days, a number of tech companies, of course made up of people, flexed back when they felt their reasoning outweighed the risks of such a decision. Is this tyranny from these powerful people (Companies et al.)? And thus we are seeing folks (Trump & Companies et al.) taste each others tyranny, taking turns? Or are companies et al. simply claiming a piece of that same echelon Trump claims for himself, as an act of fighting back against a tyrant? Or some third or fourth option... etc.
Gonna disagree there a bit, semantically. Parler was a no-censorship social site, open to everyone. Extreme right-wing people flocked to it while very few people with other perspectives did. Parler being a hate site was not purely of their making, but rather a result of society's bias toward silencing opposing views. We need more people like Daryl Davis (a black jass musician who has converted hundreds of KKK members through kindness and friendship and music) so that censorship seems less and less like a good idea.

I'm not surprised at the end result, but the effort to retain free speech was a valiant one. Forcing extremist views underground doesn't silence them, it emboldens them and makes it harder to know what they're up to. Not a good idea.
This is, indeed, very annoying and obnoxious.

On the plus side, unlike many other FMs, Dolphin has a built-in terminal (hit F4) that's sync'd to whatever dir it's at, and you can `sudo` your operation there. xP
I have an old Windows offline desktop application (from circa 2003) that has an embedded Flash component which is necessary for it to run properly. It simply stopped working this morning on my Windows 10.

Resetting the date to yesterday works, but I'd like to avoid it if possible.

Standalone flash players (such as Newgrounds') do not work, since the desktop application is the one who actually runs the Flash component, and I cannot control it directly.

I tried uninstalling Flash and reinstalling an older version, without success: it seems to be using an ActiveX component which I cannot overwrite, since the old installer says "You already have a newer version". Windows does not allow me uninstalling it manually (it's "part of the system", and apparently the only Windows Update KB which allows it to be uninstalled, prevents you from installing any other Flash version), and I tried manually searching for registry keys, but there are several and I need to change permissions, etc.

So, I'm afraid I'll have to run an emulator such as PCem, with an older Windows inside, whose date is set to a distant past, so that my app will simply keep working as usual. I'd appreciate if there are simpler solutions.
Is that a joke? Parks brought in 25 billion for Disney in 2019. People aren't going to stop going to Disney parks because covid existed. I'm not a Disney fanboy by any means but the experience at their parks is truly something unique and fantastic especially for children
This was sort of true at the grunt level for me. When we would get new application managers at my last company we'd also get new team leads who's primary job was to remain loyal to the manager (rather than, say, lead the team).
> And they just silenced a president

The President is perfectly capable of getting a message out without the use of twitter. There's even a room in his house specifically for giving press briefings. To pretend that this is "silencing" him is ridiculous.

> But they are also unprecedented in history in terms of scale, wealth and power. And they just silenced a president and shutdown a competitor. Those are some implications that need to be considered carefully.

Then break them up, they absolutely deserve to be, I just don't think this particular situation is an example of why they should be broken up.

I would like to point out that Parler claimed to be using AWS as a regular hosting provider, so this isn't an area where the market is anywhere near as consolidated, there are thousands of other hosting providers out there who probably don't want to deal with them either.
I always leave a broken test so on the next day, when I run my tests, I know exactly what to do next
I create checklists in the Trello card. Before I start on a task I have to mentally walk through it, which among other things can aid in estimating how long it will take.
Honestly, you'll be fine. As long as you don't live on Granville in Vancouver, or Front street in Toronto, housing prices are too bad, and incomes aren't too low.
Modern Unix: A collection of modern alternatives to common Unix commands
I still doubt many rioters used Parler to coordinate. Glenn Greenwald has been investigating this and had as of a few days ago found none of those arrested on the platform. Facebook sat on the "stop the steal" FB groups for ~70 days and had so far not gotten much scrutiny.
Agreed. I use the Bullet Journal technique and find it very useful. Take notes, break projects down into components, and track your progressl
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Forbes: Why We’re Holding Those Who Lied for Trump Accountable
"Let it be known to the business world: Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie.

"This isn’t cancel culture... Nor is this politically motivated"
>The US is angry about it, since all the major tech companies happen to be american.

And chineese. This new Whatsapp thingy would have been another disaster in Europe if we were not protected by the RGPD.
Cory Doctorow: Inaction Is a Form of Action (2020)
I always write a commit and push it before I stop for the day, even if I'm in the middle of a complex refactor. If it's not a complete commit, I make sure to note that in the commit message so I can rebase it.

When I get back to work the next day, I look at the output of `git diff @~` and I'm back in the flow of things within a minute or two.
I believe that is definitely part of it, but it's also a lifetime of hearing about government waste, bills passed with tons of "pork" spending, witnessing government mismanagement of resources, and concern that the government is not necessarily the best way to solve every problem. And then once you decide that a particular issue is best addressed by the government, there's a valid debate over which level of government (e.g. in the U.S. stuff done at the federal level often has a reputation for being bloated, slow-moving, and less effective than it could be).
"Through my lifetime I've only heard about tax cuts, I find this mysterious as presumably the taxes must have once risen to now be cut. Why have we seemingly lost the ability to say that we need new taxes?"

At the local level, we see pretty regular tax increases here in the midwest. There's a lot of resistance to increases in federal and state-wide taxes largely because federal and state spending is really hard to directly connect to a benefit to the payer (i.e. home value increases, better commutes, a fun local park). On the other hand, a ballot initiative to fund an improvement in roads or sewers is pretty easy to get through.
Please link examples.
Sounds like a bunch of quackery to me. Anyone who wants to build a browser today from spec can; it's just hard. I've written a CSS 2.1 renderer, so I have a glimpse of an understanding of what it takes.

No one is stopping anyone.
For a custom built, mission-critical database? Seems cheap to me.
1960s megastructures pictured a utopian future
Isn't posting the threat in a publicly visible place essentially delivering it?
Penalizing one competitor in a duopoly is rewarding the other.
I think it depends on the goal of censorship. If you're trying to prevent a site (or service or group) reaching a certainly level of mass use then censorship definitely can work. There are a large number of piracy sites blocked in the UK by court order. The blocks are trivial to get round but they are probably effective for a good proportion of UK users.

But if the goal of censorship is to completely prevent a leaked fact from being communicated - that's much harder (and I'll say it's practically impossible after a certain point).
todo.txt on the desktop
For coding or any other project, I keep a running note called "Where I Was." Before putting down the project, I add a timestamped note that's as detailed as it needs to be. I find that this helps swap back context quickly, and it also has the benefit, for me, of swapping the project out! Clearing my mind like this helps me focus more on whatever I'm picking up, too.
Yeah, that's the OS that you have to run on the laptop in question is it not?

So to actually be fair any criticism of the OS certainly applies to "the laptop", which would be a brick without the OS.