skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's "only" 2 furlongs long, so you only need around a 4 square furlong property before you can easily fit it.

In a semi-rural location, where you have roads that were last built out when everything was still fields, it's not uncommon to have lots divided for houses that are long, but not wide. Spending a few minutes looking at the parcels near me, I found one that was 390m long and 50m wide -- slightly too small, but not by that much, not not even a particularly large lot as these things go.
Discovering Laravel a couple of years ago was perhaps one of the most significant things that made PHP interesting again after 20+ years of working with PHP.

It's refreshing (as far as PHP goes) and worth checking out with an open mind. Performance on the other hand, that take a little more work.
Here's the video Boston Dynamics released, showing the robot in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYUuWWnfRsk

As far as I can see, boxes are picked up from one side, or the top. Some boxes would collapse due to this uneven distribution of force - a human worker would normally pick up a box from both sides, or the bottom.
> You don't see many computer scientists making these arguments and it's for a good reason.

This is silly and ridiculously judgmental - the primary reason computer scientists don’t usually make these arguments is the same reason that computer scientists don’t usually research the physics of transistors or supply chain issues in rare earth metals: computing is a complex cross-disciplinary undertaking and computer scientists have a specific job within that. It makes sense that questions about consciousness and the ethics of a potential future AI aren’t being addressed by people working on a tangible present AI.

The author’s point is that by (say) 2050 we will likely see AI asking unsettlingly “intelligent” questions and that it’s not premature to begin considering what signifies an AI as being an independent being that you can’t ethically “kill” by unplugging. Suggesting that the author is too stupid to understand the difference between brains and computers is unnecessarily insulting and a classic ad hominem. Their argument is quite legitimate.
The Hollywood effect.

All crises, worldwide, are eventually solved by the American military blowing shit up.
> If Deno is still completely free in 5 years, I'll give you $500. You up for that?

Heck, sign me up. Who wouldn't be up for that? What's the downside supposed to be?
No, I'm thinking about the more mild forms of disordered eating like a constant fear of gaining weight and feeling guilty about eating. Anyone who has a sedentary lifestyle needs to be pretty neurotic about food to maintain low body fat. Is a little bit underweight really that bad?
If you enjoyed those books I highly recommend Malka Older's Infomocracy series which talks about micro-states and an overarching government authority which controls 'information'

As a fellow American I agree it's a bit of a pain to move and do taxes in several places (and potentially be liable for taxes in multiple jurisdictions depending on income) but with a good accountant it's not that bad and getting bank checking (not savings) accounts abroad isn't too hard.
I think that third option is my primary one. For small dependencies I'll often use code by copying the relevant source into my project with links back to the original source. It forces me to understand the code base better. Usually I find I can fix the issue. _Sometimes_ i contribute it back.
I think it was Joel of StackOverflow who wrote that that was not the case at all. His statement was that MS would have loved to give away Visual Studio, however they wanted to make sure there was a viable 3rd party market for developer tools. They didn't care what you developed with just as long as you were targeting Windows. Visual Studio pricing was designed to create a price floor that any third party dev tool company like Borland could rely on.
Ask HN: Those who switched back to regular job after freelancing
People who switched back to regular jobs after freelancing. What was your motivation for doing that? Did you find freelancing worthwhile?
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No, it doesn't. The amount of revenue (at the time) is well within the normal range for a well-marketed ponzi.
I believe you are correct about the current implementation of AIs as they try to minimize a loss function or maximize a reward. I also agree that the definition of consciousness is very subjective.

In my opinion, what's missing for conscious AI is a way to model causality. If we ever achieve that it's just a matter of computational resources since an AI can seep through the cause and effect chain (graph maybe) until it finds what needs to be done to obtain a wanted outcome. That is critical thinking and which I strongly associate with consciousness and/or intelligence.
Kiwi are grown in metropolitan France, they're available for most of the winter and spring. Bananas are likely from the West Indies (which makes them from France but not from Europe) and avocado... no idea, I don't really consume this.
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Kind of depressing how little we can grow in the Uk that I like to eat.

Ah well, it’s not like we just put up any massive barriers between the Uk and European trade...
Sounds to me that they will build some sort of hosted service or maybe PaaS based on the Deno runtime (like AppEngine or AWS lambda), but yeah it's pretty vague.
Introducing Stretch

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yYUuWWnfRsk
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But we really, really don't want to give robots survival instincts..

Maybe pain in a very limited sense.

There actually has been work on AGI emotions. Search "Want NARS emotional".
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Sure, it looks easy to memorize. There's one thing I'm probably misunderstanding:

it seems to me that the connection has no identification, authentization or authorization whatsoever (as these are the parts that Mosh offloaded to SSH, by design): if you know the port, you're in.

What am I missing?

Edit: ok, I see, you need to also input the MOSH_MALLET_HMAC_KEY and MOSH_MALLET_CCRYPT_KEY into the client. That...helps. Are they static, though?
The point is they do pay all kinds of taxes; the more they spend in a year, the more taxes are generated (as I said, employee income taxes, franchise taxes, sales taxes, etc etc etc).

Federal income tax is just one of the many taxes that companies are subjected to, and one that innovative companies normally don't pay anyway because it's not good business to hoard profits, it's much better to invest for future growth, leading to more of all the other kinds of taxes being generated now and into the future.

These rage-bait articles that always focus on corporate income tax only work because many people aren't aware of this.
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It has only been in recent years that I have even been able to articulate what the issues are with the code of some junior developers. I was fortunate to find "Semantic Compression" by Casey Muratori and now I have something I can point to and language to use. Before that, junior devs may have perceived the feedback as either an undue imposition of my taste, intimidation or (if any of them had ever been a woman) toxic masculinity.

Should we refrain from giving feedback before we have fully articulated the principles by which we would like our code to be written? What about the abundance of tacit knowledge that we can only hope others to learn by osmosis?
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Take a piece of meat (mostly water in a bag actually) an look how it writes the words "I FEEL SAD" on piece of paper. Now look at it. Do you believe that this piece of organic molecules is feeling sad now?

In the same way an algorithm can never ever gain consciousness, organic molecules floating around in a sack can never be conscious.
The groups agreeing with that author, basically. The author is black, yes, but he also (according to Wikipedia) criticizes a number of left-wing and activist educators, the anti-racism movement, the concept of “microaggressions” and has denounced affirmative action based on race. So he is, understandably, not without controversy and detractors. Coming back to the term “The Elect”, it is a term adopted by him to make a political point. Therefore, only people who agree with that point will use the term, and people who disagree with that point (or with him, more broadly) will take affront to the term, as is the custom of these modern times.
I also think this is the case. I see many people perfectly happy and keeping themselves very busy with hobbies, socializing, games etc. Also, content and entertainment platforms are growing, so I think most people will have even more to do with their time in the future.

It does seem to be mostly an income issue.

A lot of UBI skeptics are quick to point out the psychological impact of living in society with no work, but I think the real stress is living in a society that dependant on income while watching the jobs get automated by the day and your leaders have no clear/meaningful vision for the future.
Some volume is fake. A lot of real volume is from market makers and other bots. The rest is from people. Almost all of this volume dries up in the face of volatility. If the market moves, people wonder if maybe the seller knows something they don't, and so they pull their limit buy orders and wait. This means slippage occurs in practice more than it would appear.
I mean, yes, but so does the Austral and it lasted less than Bitcoin has already.
You've provided additional info here, which has helped me get what you meant. I'm not even saying you weren't clear before, just that personally, I now see what you mean with more clarity.

"even the investor themself may not know"

The above fragment is what really 'got to me'. I agree that some people may have an unconscious bias. Yet from a few studies, showing some have this bias?

I hear this now spoken of as gospel. As if the very fiber of the male being, is to have this bias. So to this:

"a man sees anti-man bias where none exists."

I say -- I don't think so. Because this 'unconscious bias' theory is a bias in itself. It's like claiming all women have victim mentality, or all women are 'queen bees'. It just isn't so.
Well the Hungarian one feels like somebody took every single word in the essay
and replaced it with the first result from a rather small dictionary.

Google Translate produces a better translation (which is of course still
awful), but I have a feeling that the one in question was made by an earlier
version of Google Translate as well.
> In the mean time, I dread having a customer in another EU country due to the damn VAT which requires a separate fiscal/declaratory dance.

For what it's worth, the EC recognizes that this is a huge issue, and it is discussed in e.g. the 2020 tax package action plan: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/sites/taxation/files/2...

> However, tax compliance costs remain high in the EU. Particularly, we need to support young
and innovative businesses that struggle more with administrative complexity than big
multinationals. Compliance costs are typically substantially higher for small than for large
companies. Estimated tax compliance costs for large companies amount to about 2% of taxes
paid, while for SMEs the estimate is about 30% of taxes paid. Moreover, the complexity that
arises from the patchwork of 27 different tax systems not only creates loopholes for tax abuse, but
also uncertainty for honest taxpayers that are simply overwhelmed and thus inadvertently do not
comply with the rules.

Whether the actions they've outlined will remedy this remains to be seen, but at least they are trying.
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The error in the article was fixed. I was referring to the first chord in the Am scale, not the first note. In the original article it said the first chord in Am is A, which was wrong.
There are plenty of profitable developer tools out there. I usually encounter 2 issues when evaluating a dev tool:

1) Complexity & bad UI/UX. It's often not clear what i'm buying or all the features are hidden "under the hood". Many devs don't understand that user experience matters, even if the users are also devs.

2) Trust. This also ties to the first point, i need to have a clear picture of what this thing you're selling me does. I don't trust someone else generating code for me, i don't trust magic solutions and i don't trust tools that look like they were built in the 90s.

I think there are plenty of opportunities for more developer tools but unfortunately it takes a unique kind of dev to build a product + engineer a marketable solution.
It's not really unexplored. See Chris Koch.
> Bitcoin is a $1 trillion market cap store of wealth

$1T market cap doesn't mean $1T of value is 'stored'. I can create a unique piece of art and offer to sell you a 0.000005% share for $50,000. You might even be silly enough to buy it. Congrats, the market cap of my doodle is now $1T. So I guess I now have $1T of value stored? No.

Companies with billion dollar market caps can go bust and go to zero. There's no "store of value" implied by a particular market cap, because those valuations are based on forward-looking discounted future earnings, taking in to account future outlook (earnings growth) and market sentiment (premiums and discounts).

While Bitcoin and gold share some properties on the supply side, where they differ is that gold has very predictable demand which gives relative price stability. Half is used for jewelry and ~10% is used in industry. It's the price stability that people are referring to when they say gold is a "store of value".

Only ~330,000 Bitcoin have been created in the last 6 months. Even at currently prices (~$50K) that's only $16.5bn of new 'storage'. Everything else generated throughout the 6x increase in market price in that time is speculative. If significant outflows start, that $1T can evaporate very quickly.

If you buy or hold Bitcoin today you have to decide whether it actually has $1T worth of net benefit to society.
I’ve hired several freelancers into full-time jobs. The motivation is usually that full time jobs are easier and pay more for those who have the skills.

Constantly finding new clients is hard. Constantly dealing with new companies and clients who often have strange expectations or demands is hard. Showing up for a 9-5 job where most issues are someone else’s problem is very attractive to devs who just want to write code and collect paychecks.
Contributing code back is tricky for a lot of the same reasons that leaving your open source repo's issue track open is...fwiw I don't use code with licenses that require contributing back.
This is like the city of Rapture!
Glad to see I'm not the only one having a hard time figuring out just how they intend to make money. My best guess was that they will offer a tailored Deno to companies that want to embed it (my comment about it is swimming somewhere here).

Other than that, there is the following vague statement at the end of the post:

> The Deno company hopes to enable the millions of web programmers out there to maximally leverage their craft in other domains.
The real travesty is the excessive regulation preventing innovation and generally slowing the speed of business. If it were not for all the unnessesary ham-fisted regulation that currently exists small businesses and entrepreneurs would be better positioned to enter various markets. But no, in addition to governmental testing of baby cribs you have a government that also tests the amount of force required to light a match or the noise level of a child's cap gun.

We have an epic event based around automobile safety that turbo charged government regulation and created a new bureaucracy that found that there was no safety concern regarding the very car that was used for establishing that very bureaucracy.

By all means, keep complaining about taxes and regulation. They sure could use another round of debate.
Crypto is quite easy to launder in a practical sense, and he can go to Russia or China and live freely.
Also: No laws governing other countries.
My understanding is that basically much of the criminal code will remain the same, I watched a few of the founder interviews a while back but don't have exact quotes. They have a little reddit which has many other links though

https://www.reddit.com/r/Prospera/
It's clear what the 7 layers do, but not why there are 7, and not say 4 or 11.
Does not really work. I think it hides under a different JS banner.
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Should Wired simply be required by law to delete the articles?
The written form, maybe, but the spoken form not likely.

The Youtuber Ecolinguist ran an experiment where he had Romance language speakers (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian) try to guess at riddles in Latin. Turns out Classical Latin is actually very different from most Romance languages, which descended more from "Vulgar Latin".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C77anb2DJGk
I wonder if you can train/program them by recording a persons movements with a haptic feedback suit and piping the data through a model.

Given tech is necessarily an expression of economics, it's not so much the unit price, but the cost of a warehouse replaced by these that they will scale to. They can work 24/7, will probably be leased as deductible opex, carry no legal risk, and even exorbitant repair and support costs will be worth it. There will still be roles for model trainers and ML supervision, just like we have forklift and backhoe operators today, but fewer of them.

I've said before if a task can be specified in a collective bargaining agreement, it can be automated. It's not luddism, I think we're really at an inflection point on automation.
Yes, like 125cc motorcycles and Easyjet sized carry on luggage the minute you publish maximum dimensions you can expect someone to size their product exactly to the limit.

I think a more realistic outcome is that ships of this size require auxiliary tugs to transit.
> Of these, the web browser scripting language (JavaScript) is the fastest, most popular, and the only one with an industrial standardization process.

Most popular, I can agree. Fastest, & only one with industrial standardization process? Have they met Erlang?

edit: you have to be kidding me, downvoted to oblivion for an honest observation. Sorry I hurt javascript's feelings.
"The nearby ports of Said and Suez could be used to reload fodder if supplies run low, though the process may not be straightforward with so many ships in the queue."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/26/at-least...
That's assuming the self-hosted git server itself was compromised, and it wasn't just a simple matter of the attacker stealing some committer's private keys.

If that's what happened, then moving to Github solves nothing.

> I definitely trust GH more than myself in managing a git infrastructure securely

That's FUD, and appropriate too considering who owns Github now.
Yes, but this is bullshit.

An atom has a few dozen parameters. Computers do not model the atoms of the brain, of which there would then need to be 10^many parameters.

This is only relevant because of the bullshit identification of really-existing neurones with a set of model paraterms that do not model them. It doesnt matter how many I have.

I can have a model of my sofa with a trillion parameters, that doesn't mean my PC will be comfortable to sit on.

For a system X to emulate a system Y, ie., participate causally in the relevant ways, it must be relevantly similar. Counting parameters here is meaningless.
Or use the ubiquitous NPM to install a promise orientated package... I don’t see this as a big problem honestly.
What is an example of non-text?
The published size limits are probably OK, but there is still discretion around whether a ship needs Tug accompaniment or not.

Requiring more ships to have tugs might limit total throughput - so there is indeed a strategic financial calculation.
How do we know we’re conscious ourselves?
The girls just need a GoGirl. They sell them on Amazon's site for $13. It's a stand-up tool for women.
I disagree with that. The primary command line executable provided by systemd is systemctl, this is an apt name to interface with and control the system daemon, which is an executable it also provides, but not one that is intended to be directly invoked from the command daemon.

ImageMagick is also far more than the command line utility that it provides to interface with it's library. Say that it had been written by a third party, but did the same thing using the ImageMagick library as a dependency, would it then be fine for it to have a different name?
That's very subjective

As an outsider who likes to lurk, I have the impression both ECMA and Node committees are stuck in the "we're nice and therefore right" field.

They made technological choices that broke the platform (eg. require vs import). It took ages of pain to innovate on things that matter (eg. promises, async)

I wish Deno the best, but I'll just try to stay away from JS from now on (same as I've been avoiding Python after the 2to3 migration).
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We should just wait for the eventual volcanic eruption that causes this.
I studied Latin and French from the age of 11. When I spent a year in Bologna as a student on the Erasmus scheme (studying Latin, in fact), I can assure you that my schoolboy French was the more useful of the two as a starting point for learning Italian.
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Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
Looks like CDN with Serverless edge functions.

https://deno.com/deploy
> Sounds to me that they will build some sort of hosted service or maybe PaaS based on the Deno runtime (like AppEngine or AWS lambda)

or like Joyent
An algorithm is a mathematical construct that exists in reality. But that does not mean that reality itself is an algorithm, or can be modeled/predicted by an algorithm. I strongly suspect that it cannot. Therefor it is possible that reality (or that little subset of reality called a human body) has properties like "consciousness" that an algorithm cannot do.
Any manager worth their salt would invest in a tool for 4x productivity. Facebook and Google spend a fortune on internal tooling. And yet these tools are forgotten. That’s why I’m suspicious of the reported gains.
Then again, why should the entity be punished for creating value and jobs and competition? Please tell.

I guarantee all the people involved were taxed. I would rest a lot easier knowing that the organization that employs me didn't have to worry about taxes. Instead it has to employ an army of people just pay them. Double taxed, everyone is.
> Well but that's not such an outrageous concept, is it? Germany still pays war reparations

What makes me sad is when I hear stories like this - a young man who's passionate about some field got rejected even though he had a higher exam score. He put more time, more passion and more effort into it and yet it doesn't matter because his race-gender category is overrepresented. How can we discount personal effort in the name of justice?
The tube goes through the hole in the top of the screw and acts as a handle/lever to use when driving it into the ground. It serves a useful and well defined purpose.
Isn't this assuming that quantum computers become a reality? The last I heard, nobody could prove conclusively whether their putative quantum computer was actually using quantum effects.

To me this argument is like saying, "Science shows that cold fusion could certainly provide the energy needed for an antigravity machine".

I'm not qualified to say whether that middle inductive step with this Church-Turing-Deutsch principle really holds or not, but I do know that neither quantum computing nor consciousness are well-understood, rigorously defined things.