skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I guess it depends on how you want to define consciousness. It's a biological reality that once sperm meets egg, you will have all the genetic information required to create your central nervous system represented there. But in my mind, this represents the potential for consciousness, not consciousness itself.

In my mind consciousness implies self-awareness and subjective experience. You might then be able to say that a phagocyte has some rudimentary form of consciousness, because it has a "behavior" of pursuing and destroying undesirable bacteria and particles in the body, so it must have some level of "perception" over which entities are to be targeted, and which to ignore. But at that level you can trace the behavior to chemical signaling and sub-cellular machinery, and it's possible to trace the phagocyte's behavior to simple cause-effect relationships in terms of physics and biochemistry. So I think it's hard to imagine that a phagocyte has "experience" in any real way.

I think when we talk about human consciousness, the content on which our subjective experience operates includes things like sensory information, verbal information and memories. And these types of information have neural representations which are quite clearly understood. And even for the task of consciousness, which is to interpret and contextualize all the sensory information coming into the brain, you can point to a brain region like the thalamus, which contains inputs from your senses, along with almost every other brain region, and make a reasonable argument that this might represent the physical manifestation of what we call consciousness.
Holographic Optical Elements certainly have potential for applications like this, and the 3D Hologram Printer could be a great tool for simple prototyping and quick iterative testing.

Recently, Maimone et al at Oculus/Facebook Reality Labs used our hologram film to make a design for a thinner VR headset using pancake lenses incorporating holograms:
https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Holograph...
To all the outlawed cyclists I'd like to say: show your fellow countrymen how it's done in the salvation state of the Netherlands.

Cyclists own the roads here, see for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqQSwQLDIK8
It's sometimes enlightening to read the words of business people in the cant of a mob boss.

In some parts of the world they are the same thing
It might have been a great tool to some extent but it's gone too far IMO. It's one thing to block non-safety-critical features of a device or make them annoying to use... it's something else to break functionality that people's lives might depend on. Block their ability to watch videos and install new apps and other stuff, OK, but to not even let them make a phone call? Should someone die because they didn't pay back $40 on your phone?
Hunter Biden's laptop is an incredibly awful story.

Fox reporters claimed to have obtained the hard drive, then lost it due to conspiracy from the delivery company, then found it, and now refuses to show the contents because Hunter Biden is a down and out man, and it's so sad to kick a remorseful man trying to turn his life around.

This is the story according to Fox, and specifically Tucker Carlson — that we cannot see the evidence because Tucker Carlson feels sorry for Hunter Biden's low fortunes.
simplicity is something that I don't see much the older I get.
The state of FreeBSD – FreeBSD 13.0
All port forwarding requests are bind to random localhost ports only. What client writes to the left part of -R command is not used in socket binding process, but saved in forwarding database called "pseudodns". The SSH daemon is customized for this task. When the client tries to connect to such socket, the request is "rewrote" back to real socket port number. Only TCP forwarding is possible, UNIX socket ("streaming") forwarding is not supported.
> Social security's solvency depends on a continuous flow of immigrants to the US

If social security depends on a continuous stream of new suckers who pay into the system, then by definition it is a pyramid scheme. Pyramid schemes are inherently broken. Births and immigration can prop the system up for now, but the longer we do that the more painful the inevitable crash will be. (Painful for the new suckers, of course. Not "our" problem!)

The only way to fix this is to move away from a system that assumes that exponential growth forever is possible on a finite Earth.

If I founded a financial services company offering a retirement fund advertised as "pay in a little, get more out, and don't worry about how that can work as long as we can get new suckers to pay out those who came first", I would be in prison in no time. Rightly so. Let's not pretend that governments can make this work. I'm about as governments friendly as they come, but math says no.
Real-Time Communication for Everyone
I'm pretty sure you could frame anything as it's negative externalities and make it sound crazy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_horse_manure_crisis_of...
In the UK the majority of drivers who kill cyclists do not go to prison https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-28345522

It's a common bit of dark humour in the cycling community that if you want to get away with murder, make sure the victim is riding a bike at the time.
Just the other day here a guy in an SUV passed through a cloud of cyclists pedal to the metal during the morning rush hour when a lot of local kids cycle to school either with their parents or alone. I confronted him a little bit further on (when he had to slow down again, which is one reason why such hurrying makes no sense, it's just too busy). His motivation: none of the kids put out their hand. So that carries a potential death penalty these days, in case you weren't aware of it, and this is supposedly the most bike friendly country in the world. His own ~7 year old daughter was in the passenger seat, I wonder how he would feel if it was his kid on the road with a person like him zooming by in an 1800 Kg vehicle. People like him are the reason I still ride with my kids to school in the morning.

I called the police and reported the asshole for reckless driving, they said they'd follow up on it which I trust they really will. Driving is a privilege, and I would love it if reckless drivers would lose their license at the first offense.
Reminds me of the saying:

“If you meet an asshole in the morning, you met an asshole.

If you meet assholes all day long, you’re the asshole”
I see the problem with the headline, so I can understand the overreaction. But you're right, "never" is as unrealistic as the headline.

I had to execute an extreme manouver to avoid hitting a kamikaze that cut through three lanes almost perpendicularly in very heavy traffic downtown Madrid. He scared the hell out of me, I still remember it clearly fifteen years later.
Considering our history of misrepresenting risk (2008), I'm not sure I agree. The alternative prior to lockouts was slimmer margins or higher rates over longer periods, not an absence of credit, because other controls to recoup losses still existed; tools like lockouts serve to extend margins in an economic environment that hyper-prioritizes growth, but there will always be companies willing to extend credit.
You could argue that anything man-made is "chimp-derived".
This is crazy. I can feel the immense possibility from this. I especially like the "feature" of this game, where you can save, load, and even share the game progress just by copying the plain text.
Analyzing Git Clone Vulnerability
Looks like the acceptance towards this is growing. If there was a service that wouldn't inconvenience anyone to manage my burial/cremation I would check out in a heartbeat.
Moving IPFS to the crypto world has made it more of a success. I need distributed storage for an app I'm developing and I'm far more comfortable paying people to host the content instead of relying on goodwill.
Learning C xor C++ Programming
Threadit: how we built a new tool without ever meeting in person
IMO, the word 'accident' implies a lack of negligence.
Definitely possible. Essentially, each hogel could contain unrelated information and almost serve as holographic data storage.

Additionally, separate holograms could be tiled together to make a larger hologram as well. We even thought about having tiling as a stretch goal for the Kickstarter.
I've seen cyclists drafting behind trucks, where they ride about 5 feet behind the right rear bumper of a panel truck going 35 mph.

If something happens up front and the trucker has to hit the brakes hard, is it his fault if the cyclist goes under his rear bumper?
> This reminds me of Grapes of Wrath.

It reminds me of The Diamond Age ;-).

"What's the, uh, strategy for making sure people actually, you know, show up when they're supposed to show up?" Bud said. At this point the banker lost interest in the proceedings, straightened up, strolled around his desk, and sat down, staring out the window across the water toward Pudong and Shanghai. "That detail is not covered in the brochure," he said, "as most of our prospective customers do not share your diligent attention to detail insofar as that aspect of the arrangement is concerned."

He exhaled through his nose, like a man eager not to smell something, and adjusted his goatee one time. "The enforcement regime consists of three phases. We have pleasant names for them, of course, but you might think of them, respectively, as: one, a polite reminder; two, well in excess of your pain threshold; three, spectacularly fatal."
"At the very best, they [old people | horse riders | children | motorcyclists | other drivers] are a hinderance because cautious people have to completely avoid a lane where one $X is driving on the edge of, thus slowing down the entire car traffic.

$X are dangerous and they don't know what they are doing, they are a danger to themselves and others."

So where do we go with this line of thought? As you can see, it's not helpful in any material way. We need to make the roads safer for everyone, including other drivers. And not vilify a small (but increasing) and vulnerable portion of road users because of anecdotes.

BTW, I'm a motorist, cyclist, horse rider, old person, ex-child. So I might be biased.
It's not very nice to cycle in my town either, but I don't think that they actually intend to cause a crash.
I AirBnBed an apartment a little more than a year ago, from a super nice, even slightly naive, owners.

They instructed me to leave the apartment keys on the kitchen table when I departure, and leave the door unlocked. "You see", the explained, "it's a smart house. We can control everything from our phones! The door, lights, stove tv -- everything!".

They were proud of how advanced they are (naive, as I said), while I was a bit freaked out they (or their kids) would play with stuff in the apartment during my stay.
I am very much not interested in what Cade Metz has to say after the way he treated Scott Alexander from Slate Star Codex. (see, e.g. https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-framers-and-...)
I've been teaching my girlfriend how to cycle in London recently. I've told her that she needs to stand her ground, and not cycle so close to the pavement. It's scary though. I've told her for now that if she sees a bus, to stop and let it go ahead because they can be so dangerous
I completely agree with you. I see lots of people here trying to romanticise this into some spectacularly complex reasoning to make this a GM only move, but in reality I'm 99% sure they were just trolling.

They were both laughing like hell when they were playing and they both had nothing to lose.

Hikaru had been playing that move a lot recently for content in his media channels, Magnus being the cool guy that he is, played that move against him for lulz.

In the end, they both had fun, the viewers had fun and new funny article and videos were created about this game.

People: it's just for fun, not everything needs to be a classical serious thing all the time.

Just sit back and take some hits from the good ol bongcloud.
Is it, though? I would understand this like the "more guilty" party was being named - the one that caused the accident.

Where I live, the newspapers print rather graphic photos of particularly bad car-on-car accidents when the happen locally. Part of that is sensationalism, sure - but part of it is making people aware that bad accidents actually do happen, even if you never individually were involved in one, and that you should think about when you made bad decisions that could have lead to accidents in the past - it makes you, subconsciously, show more attention the next few times you drive.

While this may not have been the case in this particular accident, the number of times I see cyclists' complete disregard for traffic rules and thus in effect their own safety is too high. Generally painting cyclists as traffic victims absolves them from any wrongdoing, makes them pay less attention, and may thus lead to more accidents.
Std feature for civ games. Other older games had it too. Works well with round based games, especially chess.
> I think you can build something complex quickly and well at the same time.

One definitely can. It's a real crapshoot whether the average developer can. For what it's worth, I consider myself a below-average developer. There is no way I could grind l33tcode for months and even land a FAANG interview. I can't code a red-black tree to save my life unless I had a textbook in front of me. Code I build takes an enormous amount of time to deliver, and So. Much. Searching. You get the picture. I'm a reasonably good sysadmin/consultant/sales-engineer; all other roles I put in ludicrous amounts of effort into, to become relevant. Good happenstance I enjoy the challenge.

For the time being however, there is such enormous demand for any talent that I always find myself in situations where my below average skills are treated as a scarcity. Like near-100 headcount testing organization in a tech-oriented business with an explicit leadership mandate to automate with developer-written integration code from that organization...and two developers, both with even worse skills than mine. When a developer balks at writing a single regular expression to insert a single character into the front of an input string, that's nearly the definition of turning one wrench for ten years; while I'm slow and very-not-brilliant, I'm a smart enough bear to look up how to do it on different OS' or languages and implement it within the hour.

This is not unusual in our industry. That's why FizzBuzz exists. That's just to clear the bar of someone who knows the difference between a hash and a linked list.

To clear the bar of "something complex quickly and well at the same time" though, I've found it insufficient to clear only the technical hurdle and obtain consistent results. The developer has to care about all the stakeholders. Being able to put themselves into the shoes of the future developers maintaining the codebase, future operators who manage first line support, future managers who seek summarized information about the state and history of the platform, future users who apply business applications to the platform, future support engineers feeding support results back into developers, and so on. That expansive, empathetic orientation to balance trade-offs and nuances is either incentivized internally, or staffed at great expense externally with lots of project coordination (though really, you simply kick the can upstairs to Someone With Taste Who Cares).

I'd sure as hell like to know alternatives that are repeatable, consistently-performing, and sustainable though. Closest I can think of is long-term apprenticeship-style career progression, with a re-dedicated emphasis upon staffing out highly-compensated technical writers, because I strongly suspect as an industry we're missing well-written story communication to tame the complexity monster; but that's a rant for another thread.
We are trying to persuade our government here in Scotland that presumed liability [1] would be very effective. It is common throughout Europe.

[1] https://www.cyclelawscotland.co.uk/blog/article/the-time-is-...
But there's not really anything being said in the art despite adopting the facade of political commentary. I think the parent commenter was correct in this respect.
Having skimmed the article (because $dayjob and all), I wonder how/if their scheme can cope with write(2) producing a short write, with not all the data in the buffer being atomically committed to their POSIX-compliant backing store?

I don't see any mechanism described that makes sure that never happens (by forcing records not to exceed a given length that can always be written atomically - which I am not sure even exists...), so I am wondering how often that kind of thing even happens on contemporary systems, and - if it does - how often they wreck a good number of stored records that way.
I use a dokuwiki for persistently storing ideas, documentation, and notes for everything. I use the vi text editor to always keep open a few files for quick notes every day. I email URL's to myself. I use histories extensively (email history, Amazon history, web browsing history) for a variety of reasons (including figuring out what I was doing on a particular day). I have a couple curated URL lists. I keep stacks of small pieces of paper and pens everywhere including on my person.

I'd like to move some of the drawing and note taking to an electronic system, but the good ones are too expensive and don't have the privacy features I want (mainly the ability to keep notes transcribed, sorted, filed, searchable, and strictly local on my network). It would also have to be cheap enough that I could scatter many tablets+pens everywhere to make them easy to access. It would have to be pretty indestructible and have long battery life and be small enough to easily carry in a pocket.
It's India. If you were going to die unless you make a call, you're going to die anyway because the other end is unlikely to answer fast enough.

In this case, this guy was going to be unable to do his job until he called from a borrowed phone (people do this all the time, did it myself when I had to make a call there once and my phone was borked).
Absolutely. Motorcyclists are actually pretty good at adopting this philosophy, or at least the ones I know. Of course motorcycles (for the most part) have the advantage of being able to out accelerate most cars on the road so they have some extra options.
Terrence Tao, respected mathematician, doesn't take the time to read most people who send him their work, and in fact has an explicit policy about how he will ignore such requests.

And I doubt it's fair to say that mathematical error or amateurism makes you "off the rails". Yet Terrence Tao won't give such people the time of day.

What role does Credibility play in conversation?
This 10,000x! The people who tell cyclists they need to “follow the rules of the road” are the same ones who will tailgate you and yell at you when you take up the full lane.
> Victimblaming is par for the course whenever a cyclist gets injured.

To be fair, the injured party in an accident has no particular relevance to who is at fault.
We Feel ‘Alonely’ When We Don’t Get Enough Time by Ourselves
This points to the last A in AAA of security which stands for Authentication, Authorization & Accounting, AAA moniker is commonly used in reference to either RADIUS or Diameter (network protocols), the concept is widely used for software application security as well.
So Accounting implies What resources were accessed, at what time, by whom, and what commands were issued?
Push-ups is taking time to understand fundamental constructs. Everytime you are surprised by the language, take the time to understand why it behaves that way. Making this into a habit will grow your knowledge and give you core strength so to speak :) You will be able to progress from trial and error into diagnosing and correcting problems.
So you can think of all the people suffering an inescapable and slow death and you want to force them to have to go through that because you are worried about a case of neglected older people who will get one more of many ways to commit suicide. Do you think those older people aren't talked into other stuff as we speak?
The producers need to add you to the writing staff, brilliant twist. Prions are scary grey goo-reminding nastiness. I've sometimes wondered if they aren't the answer to the Fermi Paradox.
The Chicogo Museum was amazingly packed with holograms practically floor to ceiling. The telescope one is another one to remember, with the front poking out into the viewer's side of the hologram, and the ability to put your eye up to is and see through.

Hopefully there will be a series of holograms made on our 3D Hologram Printer as an homage to older holograms like this that made an impression. That is what we were trying to do with our Kiss hologram.
Deno-libs/gql: Universal GraphQL HTTP middleware for Deno
How to Build a Medical Startup: A Useful Resource Guide
Building a healthcare startup is not a simple task: The risk is higher than for almost any other vertical, the costs of building and launching a healthcare product are huge, and, on top of that, the regulatory clearance might take a long time.

While the above sounds terrifying, there are plenty of cases highlighting that it's fully possible! Thie guide was created speacially for those who thinks about healthcare app development

https://steelkiwi.com/blog/how-to-build-a-medical-startup/
Cycling close to the pavement is super dangerous because if your pedal so much as touches the kerbstones on the downstroke you'll get thrown into traffic. I've seen more than one kid fall in the way of oncoming traffic like that, fortunately without anybody getting hurt but still, it can happen in a fraction of a second.
At least in my city the statistics pretty clearly show that the drivers are "at fault" most of the time, but as I said, I believe the people responsible for the infrastructure are actually at fault. We could make our roads much safer by building them differently, but for some reason we don't.
"But they wouldn't be able to afford it without this" is a textbook loan shark argument

What it does is encourage them to go for a phone they can't afford. They could buy a cheaper phone, a used one, save money, etc, instead. But showing off is better I guess

"Rim rental" repos are a booming business

Edit: even the article agrees with me: "For now, the phone remains unlocked... he doesn’t mind the surveillance app as long as he can keep using his phone. Anyway, he has his eyes on a new 5G phone"
> A common retort would be "not my home/car" but societies march onwards to the majority of people renting everything, including cars.

Renting is not even a factor. Tesla can and will locate, unlock, and back out of parking (possibly out of your property) your car remotely for the convenience of the repo man they send if you’re behind on payments. If they achieve FSD the car will probably just drive away as soon as it’s able to.
> I've told her for now that if she sees a bus, to stop and let it go ahead because they can be so dangerous

I always let the bus and the truck have the right of way, even when I'm in my car, because I prefer to die in my bed.
I agree that holograms have a way of grabbing kids' imaginations! Perhaps you could get a 3D Hologram Printer as well and make your own hologram exhibit for the science museum. So the next generation of kids can get hooked.
The designer here did make allowances for "ultrawide" monitors. He stopped the lines of text becoming unreadable by wrapping them at something reasonable.
I get this even with work projects and design ideas. I have to really work to switch off and not think about things.