skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The spirit of collaboration and working for a common good absolutely used to exist. Many of the internet's core protocols were built with the spirit of cooperation weren't they?

Think about email and the value it adds to the world. Would we ever get the protocols needed to create email if we started right now today? Not a chance.

IMO the previous generation(s) of tech people were way better than what we have today. They were interested in and enthusiastic about building awesome tech / products. Today the only thing anyone with influence is interested in building is a company that can IPO and make them a billionaire.
Teslas are meant to have collision avoidance systems, irregardless of Autopilot enabled or not, that are meant to avoid these crashes (for example when the driver is incapacitated).
I wrote a lot of code on a Meiko computing surface in Occam in the late 1980s! Was very hard to get even simple algorithms to run.
How many million people die of hunger in the US each year? (500k is the US only number, many more than that have died worldwide)
This seems like another one of those debates where there's a spectrum and a bunch of people disagree about where on that spectrum it's okay to use a certain word.
We don't stop selling lettuce because you can get E. coli. To your point, we recall what we think we can, and billions of lbs continue to get sold. We have accepted that some people will get sick or die (even when recalled) because we value the availability and other benefits of lettuce over outright banning it.

There is always risk. You can de-risk, but it's usually impossible de-risk entirely in regards to life safety. You are at risk of death on the road with human drivers, and that risk is well quantified (NHSTA, NTSB, private auto insurance industry). Arguably, there is data to demonstrate that safety systems and lane keeping are safer when edge cases don't occur [1]. The question is: are those edge cases acceptable if the risk is reduced overall? Planes crash, but people still fly commercial. Again, we don't ban commercial air travel, but regulators and industry work together to ensure there are robust systems in place to remove as much risk as possible.

Should we ban the production and sale of lettuce too because a few people get sick or die [2]? Because it sure does sound like we say, “oh well, caveat emptor, maybe start cooking your lettuce instead of eating it in salads." (The same number of people have died from lettuce as from Tesla's Autopilot in roughly the same window of time [a decade, lumping together AP1, AP2, AP2.5, and FSD beta])

[1] https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

[2] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/venessawong/the-decade-... ("2010s total: More than 1,010 people sickened, including 6 deaths.")
Tezos using PoS has been up and running for more than a year i think.
You can mint NFTs here:
http://nftz.fun/
https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/
Downvoted on StackOverflow for Not Over-Engineering Answer
Useless? Sounds like you're using it.
FYI, your "pricing" link at the top of that pci.html page 404's. The pricing link works from other pages however.
I plated with WebMIDI a few years ago. Thought it would be fun to build a player piano broadcast service, where anyone with a MIDI device could play a piano remotely. Never built it though.

https://github.com/appsforartists/midicast
>The other area is workflow: you use software X and software Y in this way, but did you know most other companies link them up with software Z in the middle and it works much better, so long as you check the box that reminds you to tag the invoices (or whatever).

I think adding up all the time savings for certain workflows or integrations across different sets of products would be immensely useful. You're totally right there's no easy way to see that currently anywhere.
I built a similar project for in-browser jamming with midi-keyboards

https://github.com/jminjie/fourhands

The benefit of this is that it takes no set-up for non tech users. The major downsides are that it's only 2 player, and only works for midi instruments.

On Fourhands you can actually achieve very low latency (<20ms) with WebRTC for somewhat close players on wired connections. If you're having latency trouble like your readme says, I'm guessing it's not the WebRTC part.
I've long pondered the idea that consciousness is inherent to all "things" - animal, vegetable, mineral; atom, planet, solar system - in that things experience _being_, whatever that means for a given thing.

A recent oral surgery gave this hypothesis pause. I was given Propofol as an anesthetic, and upon awakening had an extremely impactful existential experience. My very consciousness had been extinguished, instantly, as if by a lightswitch, and for 45 minutes there was nothing but oblivion.

If consciousness is inherent to being, then how could it so easily be nullified to the point of oblivion, and then brought back online?
I am not qualified to do so.

The existence of "real papers with math behind thest claims" is sort of irrelevant. IIT is being proposed as a scientific theory, and the author of TFA claims that IIT is testable, but he has not said anything about actual testing. I cannot judge the math, and I doubt that I could judge a scientific paper describing a test. I'm simply asking: Is there any actualy testing, completed or in progress? TFA did not make such a claim.
my little subdivision transitioned across a few years from the orange type lamps to LED, I have commented on it a few times here.

The primary effect is that its like having a near full moon effect at all times of the night. Not looking directly at the light reveals a landscape that is not harsh on the eyes but never catch a lamp straight on.

Fortunately around me the birds caught on pretty quick at first singing at odd hours until they sorted it out.

Overall its a benefit as it has opened up hours people can walk the sidewalks and even in the street without worrying about wildlife blundering into them
That's a fairly common misconception for some reason.
Working remotely instead of commuting. I think that's best contribution most software devs can make.
I only come in to these threads to watch the Musk fanboys and Tesla apologists contort themselves into knots. This reply is a new high bar though, I love it, well done.
> I always wondered if we could achieve greater success in server hardware by having boards with truly massive numbers of tiny CPUs all with their own RAM

You mean like GPGPUs?
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From here[1]:

> 13. Remote Network Interaction; Use with the GNU General Public License.

> Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software.

I'm not a lawyer, but that's my interpretation of this section.

Reading it again, it was wrong of me to say that network communications count as linking, though. It's more correct to say that if a user interacts with AGPL software via network communication, then its source must be made available to them.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html
ENHANCE!!
> You don't need any training to avoid hitting stationary objects.

You do, because you need to correctly conclude that there is going to be a stationary object there with high probability. As it turns out, that's difficult to do perfectly.
I go by the rule that if something is not secure enough to plug directly into the Internet, it is not secure. That doesn't mean I'll necessarily do that, but that should be the bar.

The only exception is special purpose backplane networks that are designed explicitly to be isolated. These are basically data busses for clusters, not user-facing networks.
We all start as single cells. When does the consciousness fairy come and turn the global workspace on? When neurons fire? Because no emergent property seems powerful enough to produce feeling — and because both sheep and snails seem to have different levels of feeling—i subscribe to the panpsychic view. For now.
>> What did the Spartans accomplish?

That is a question to ask the Spartans and perhaps their contemporaries. Not people from 2,000 years in the future.

I think the article and your comment both make a mistake, the same mistake: complaining that an ancient civilisation did not hold itself up to our modern morals.
Autopilot = First to market Pump words for Driver Assist. Your right, there are already laws that can criminalize that sort of marketing claim.
Looks like failure to load the stripe object kills the script:

Uncaught ReferenceError: Stripe is not defined

56d7 config.js:26

Webpack 6

config.js:26:20

56d7 config.js:26

Webpack 6
Oh, there is some disclaimer text, so it is OK that the chief executive of a company lies to its customers, investors, and regulators. Thanks for clearing that up!
A good place to start, if you are a firm skeptic and not willing to even attempt faith or your own empirical experiences, is a book called Entangled Minds. There is not a single claim made in this book which does not have a reference to a proper peer-reviewed paper attached to it, iirc several hundred papers in all. It firmly supports consciousness being in at minimum earthworms, and probably even ,,lower,, creatures.

Once you actually open your mind to this idea, you will begin to see it everywhere, and with practice be able to connect, communicate, and derive mutual benefit. It,s up to you to take the first step, though.

Of course, you can also choose to remain in the safe comfort of materialism. I know from experience that it can be a very lonely place. I wish you a happy journey, wherever it may lead.
with coffee to perk you up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_enema
PBS NOVA's "Dog Tales" (2020) is a good watch and explains this behavior. https://www.pbs.org/video/dog-tales-vskr2y/

They demonstrate that a wolf can be domesticated, but will still keep its distance and act independently from the domesticating humans.

Surprisingly, domesticated wolves test higher than dogs on intelligence tests. The show attributes dog behavior to a genetic mutation from their wolf ancestry. A similar mutation occurs in humans at 1:10k frequency called Williams Syndrome. One feature in this mutation is a form of learning disability; another is friendliness.
I'm afraid the issues I describe have been with Ubuntu.

Here's the first line from my "linux sins" file as an example:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1151283/disable-nautilus-cac...
If you copy a large file to a USB drive on either Ubuntu or Mint the progress bar goes to 100% instantly and closes and the actual transfer of the file is done in the background without the knowledge of the user. And the answer is "It's your fault, just try to eject the drive until it works."

And even beyond the OS, the whole software ecosystem is broken. It's impossible to find simple, working UIs for the most basic pieces of software, everything goes through the commandline.
The mainboard could be a Raspberry Pi class system but with an on-board SATA. There are a number of those on the market. The board would be smaller than the drive.

Seagate should sell such a machine capable of running arbitrary Linux distributions as a kind of mini-NAS.
I think there is a difference between a proof and the refutation of an argument. I expect proofs from scientific theories, and if a theory of consciousness would posit itself as scientific, I would be in perfect agreement with you that proofs or testable predictions should be provided. But I think here we are well into philosophy grounds, where neither proofs nor predictions are required. If that is the case, a philosophical claim needs to be actively rejected. I will admit that I still have to make my mind whether IIT is purely philosophy, purely scientific, or neither. Currently I don't think it's a theory of consciousness, rather just a model to "quantify" consciousness, without explaining its origin.
I have always used ramdajs for this.

const R = require('ramda');

R.pipe(a,f,g,h)
Looks like it runs this OS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeliOS
...even the remotest chance that a content creator might sue YouTube for enabling copyright infringement.

Does this happen often? Ever? How does one sue a firm that never has humans available for interaction with the public? One suspects this is the motivation they'd like us to credit, because they have other, less defensible, motivations.
My consciousness (I won't speak for yours) is integrated yet contains many parts. It is hierarchical — and I am aware that there is much that I am not aware of. For instance, with some effort I can notice that a white wall is made of millions of blinking colored neuropixels. But normally that is below my awareness. When I meditate, sometimes I can notice that I'm thinking verbal thoughts—suggesting that verbal thoughts transpire subconsciously, as well. When I engage with people, there is a sharing of consciousness—and though I'm not aware of all that the others are experiencing, I recognize that my own experience is just the tip of the iceberg of "experience."
Top Gear did something like that. They got a big inflatable that looks like a car, set it on an old airport runway, and drove at it in various vehicle with auto-brake.
interesting. if i'm reading the wikipedia article about this right, they were essentially SoCs with on-die high speed networking and no shared ram? the ring architecture reminds me a bit of multicore x86...
A hell of a lot more cooperative approach to help everyone avoid unintentional messes is long overdue.

The folks who get their content taken down I'm sure would be happy to cooperate most of the time ...

Really sad that it comes this late / after this much hassle.
Autopilot in an airplane is something used by people who have gone through explicit training and licensing in order to be allowed to fly an airplane. Even getting a basic private pilot's license, which has extreme restrictions on when you can fly, takes months.

Expecting the same level of competency and understanding of tools from an airline pilot, and the every day driver who hasn't passed a driving test since they were 16 years old, is ludicrous at best.
It's not an issue of backpedaling. There are several different people in the comment chain. furins isn't obligated to stand by brainless' claims. I'm just saying he should be able to read them before declaring whether they're true or false.

The chain starts like this:

> The problem is not with the Earth. It is that we, humans, we likely not survive if this cycle of climate change continues.

This person has gone out of his way to be explicit that he believes humanity is about to go extinct.

> Climate change is not predicted to exterminate humans.

This response uses different, less dramatized wording for the same idea.

But then:

> I do not agree with you on these two sentences: "Climate change is not predicted to exterminate humans." It is. It's not predicted to make Homo sapiens sapiens extinct, like you probably meant

furins is trying to make an argument about the meaning of a sentence without being able to understand the sentence. This is a bad idea.
> Super-resolution is only guessing.

Machine learning is educated guessing based on previously seen data. As mentioned by others there are ways to do super resolution that only uses the data available. I can't think of any that can upscale a single image, although I have vague memories of having seen something about using moiré patterns to infer the higher resolution texture of some features.
That was a nice read! Good to read about something simple after a day working with AWS and their managed magic.

Scrolling through the cert pages 2015 seems to be in the future though?

> We personally toured every single major datacenter in Hong Kong and Zurich to choose the facilities that best met our old-fashioned standards for datacenter and telco infrastructure. The same will be true of our upcoming Montreal location in Q4, 2015.
https://www.rsync.net/resources/regulatory/sas70.html
A disclaimer? Oh, then it's all perfectly fine then! And it refers people to the owners manual to get all the nitty-gritty details. Of course, the owners manual is likely not updated when Autopilot is via OTA updates.

A disclaimer, like a clickwrap TOS, is not enough to take away Tesla's culpability. You can't sign away your life.
A Designer’s Take on Raspberry Pi’s First Microcontroller
Saved for later, thank you for sharing.
Hah, I am still occasionally using my AMD Phenom II 955 as an occasional gaming PC... I admit it now is powered off more than half the time.

Anyways, similar story: I'm not about to put up with Microsoft telling me my machine is too old to us; that just promotes e-waste.
What do you mean? It's just a static HTML table and it looks fine on both my Android 11 phone with Opera and in Firefox's Responsive mode on the desktop. It may not be mobile-friendly, but that's not inherently bad, especially for something that's not meant to be used on a phone.
Twitter: Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders
See
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair
Given the way you see the world, I'd say you odds of being successful in this industry are probably higher than most.
I can't imagine the incredible amount of man-hours that were wasted on detecting if your video has fucking copyrighted material in it. Absolute shame.
Nah, it's par for course for startups for the following reasons...

You can get tons of credits for your startup, typically hundreds of thousands from Microsoft, Amazon, etc.
-- Eventually you run out of credits, so you switch providers. I did this 3 times at a startup and got three years of free infrastructure.

If you are selling enterprise software, then you use k8s so you can deploy at enterprise without having to integrate with all the wacky requirements.

You can build a saas that offers isolated service nodes on k8s infra pretty easy if you just give everyone a small vm with a k8s cluster on it.

If you use a scale to zero model, your infra costs are a lot cheaper. Simiarly the auto-scaling k8s capabilities are really nice and it's awesome to be able to easily build systems that can scale up massively. You never know when you r startup will get popular.
I'm building SiteSentry: https://sitesentry.app

It checks your website for the kind of things that get missed when you go from dev to production or can go wrong later - expired domains and SSL certs, broken links, robot options blocking search engine crawlers, etc. Adding more checks all the time and always keen to hear suggestions.
No, they are not - they're pointing out your 'argument' is as without support as that example.
Rational self-interest of wanting commodity software for infrastructure / tooling.

A clear winner means more companies use it, increasing demand for it. Which makes it more valuable to master.

If the commodity software is open source, I can learn it at home for a low cost. Then use it at work, again for a low cost. Employers have an interest in using it, as do I.

So I want to encourage Amazon, and other tech companies, to use as much open source as possible! Please increase demand for my skillset!

Of course, the eternal problem is how the software gets developed in the first place. But I really don't want software that bifurcates organizations vs. individuals to become a cultural norm. Even if the impact of any single case is minimal.
This is one of my favorite tips for almost effortlessly improving devops productivity (along with using https://github.com/mvdan/sh for auto-formatting) — by now shellcheck has good editor support in e.g. VSCode and I have a standard pre-commit.com hook for all of my projects. I've seen so many long iterations where people flail at a complex shell script for something like a cron job which was immediately flagged by shellcheck. I generally recommend rewriting in Python but this is a good less invasive step.

One thing which might be worth considering is adding this to your personal ~/.shellcheckrc to make it more pedantic:

enable=all
Here is a talk in which he mentions specific experiments:

https://youtu.be/LGd8p-GSLgY?t=3512

This is a fairly old talk and if you do a bit more digging I think he has other talks with more experiments.
Probably depends on how old the cat is. I would aim towards a day where the cat can go into the kitchen without worry. Time is on your side because eventually the cat won’t find the energy expenditure of jumping that height worth it (nor the risk of recovering from a bad jump). Start with supervised trips to kitchen but long term never leave anything up there that a successful cat burglar could access as a reward. If seen, I would react negatively (maybe spray bottle if u use that, loud remark, physically picking cat up off counter and putting on ground immediately). Never let cat have freedom or peace on the counter. I would watch for the cat’s preferred landing spots on the counter and put some temporary barriers in place (e.g. 1lb sack of flour, etc), just so it has to think twice about its movements (don’t let the path upwards become automatic/unconscious), and may doubt its ability to safely alight on the counter (remember it can only see what’s on the ledge). I would also be sure to interrupt the action of jumping up before it happens - like you can see the cat’s wheels turning as it stares at the counter, bobs it’s head around slightly to accurately gauge distance, depth, etc. at that time, interrupt the thought process. Distract it with something else, maybe even something good, so not jumping is a positive association. I think that pattern interrupt is really powerful with cats, but you have to be watching the cat to catch the right moment. You could also let the cat in the kitchen with no other purpose than to watch for and interrupt those moments. There’s a few other tricks like this to interrupt the action (moving a barrier according to its intentions) that just frustrate the cat into eventually losing interest. Cat ownership occasionally involves small battles of will power.

Regarding food, I can’t say enough about the value of robots here - timed food distribution. Get a cat feeder that will release x amount three or four times a day. I think cat binging behavior is an outcome of an unpredictable feeding schedule, basically food insecurity. When the cat just knows that every day at these predictable times it will have food available it will be a happier, less anxious cat for sure. Cats don’t have watches, but they’ll show up at the feeding station like clockwork anticipating the food drop. The flip side is the binging will stop just because of scarcity, but also the cat worries less about food security and develops behaviors of moderation. If feeding cat wet food (which I wouldn’t recommend unless cat is very young or very old) you’ve just got to dole it out yourself on as a predictable basis as possible.

Anyway, just my two cents, worth what you paid for it. Will be curious to see other people’s input.
The Mandela effect strikes again.
That is a good description of the Athenian democracy where only landed indigenous men were part of the demos, women had no rights, let alone the right to vote, immigrants (metoikoi) also could not vote or own real estate and the economy was supported by relentless slave labour.

Note, all this was 2,000 years ago.
Fwiw, you sue in public courts where Google loses by default if they don't appear. Google does not yet run its own parallel court system and star chamber.

EDIT: On second thought, if their services require binding arbitration, they do. Arbitration in contracts of adhesion should be flatly illegal.
Some autopilot systems, namely those in newer passenger aircraft, effectively do. They can take off, fly, and land an aircraft without human intervention.

They've had this capability for decades now; it was mentioned in a 5th season Mythbusters episode (the one about talking a civilian into a landing).