skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insurance plans are a way of diffusing risk and making things more certain. This plan is just a wildcard to tweak one of the levers of a vast and complex machine. That lever may do something very different than planned. That isn't an "insurance plan", it is experimentation with the lives of billions of people and of even more animals; and it is experimentation decided upon by a few self-appointed "elites" who get to decide what to do if everyone else doesn't obey their dictates.

I think it would be more of an insurance plan to build a spaceship and terraform mars.
> A consciousness is unpredictable and I doubt it can actually be modeled on a computer.

Just FYI, in quantum computing the Church-Turing-Deutsch principle states that any physical process can be simulated by a computer[1]. So assuming the principle is true (computers can certainly simulate all known physics, in principle), and assuming consciousness is a physical process (however you define it!), computers can simulate consciousness.

Many secular people seem to apply a mystic woo-woo to consciousness, but aren’t willing to take the leap that consciousness is actually metaphysical. I personally don’t think it’s metaphysical, just poorly understood philosophically and basically unexplored scientifically. If you do think it’s metaphysical then I don’t know how to persuade you otherwise. The philosophy here really is shaky! But the known science states that computers can simulate consciousness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church–Turing–Deutsch_principl...
To me it feels like every outlet is also more about persuasion than news. Its subtly (or not so much at times) bringing its viewers into increasingly dividing modes of thought. And at times i bet purposely avoiding stories that inconveniently contrast to their leanings. A subset of the population picks up on this, and loses trust in whats being reported. There is also some bit of resentment to the media, because sometimes they act in a way that says “we know whats best for you, so we wont give you all the information to all angles of this story”
https://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdlib/rand/
Problems with low DNS TTLs
It might be the case that Open Source would have been created without RMS.

However, you can't deny that Copyleft (the legal hack that guarantees that source code will stay open) was his invention. I am not aware of anyone else thinking this way in the timeframe he first put his idea in public.
But Bill Gates, the smartest man on the earth, says it will work...
>cattle

Don't worry, the traffickers make sure to provide enough cooling and oxygen reserves to keep them in shipping containers for weeks.
Woah. Clicking on this link crashes Firefox. Version 86 on Windows. I don't remember seeing FF crash in several years now.

Anyone else is running into this?
What a lame comment. I could have written one better If I had the time!
> a standard library (thank goodness!)

Then what are all these modules, if not a standard library? https://nodejs.org/api
This is intended as a plan B in case we fail to reduce emissions, and we set off the Clathrate Gun or one of the other nightmare scenarios.

But yes, It sure does sound like dystopian sci-fi, doesn't it?
Show HN: Nettu Scheduler – A self-hosted calendar and scheduler server
Can you tell me for exactly what specific thing RMS should apologize (there are many vague or misinterpreted actions of RMS so I am not sure which one is affecting you)?
Hi guys!

I have been meaning to create as animation using CSS from some time now, to help people with their anxiety and make them to stop worrying, As i find it to be the most unproductive

This is one of those attempts to let people slay the daemon inside their head before they have to face it on the outside

If this get good response. I would want to develop an AI chatbot to automatically develop responses based upon people's worry inputs and show relevant motivational quotes/examples of people who were in the same place as they are now, but have made it somewhere in life

Let me know your thoughts
No, I know how to use them, except that in my cases I never need to look a the debugger because I rarely need to know the state of the program at a given time.

I need to know how the program ended up in that state. I can't reproduce this from a core dump or via a debugger.
Mostly Martinique and Guadeloupe.
Thank you. I think the narrative it presents with just typical incremental mechanics makes up for it.
If we knew exactly where the ship contacted the sand and the weight of the containers we could easily mathematically model the vibrational modes
Neural network to detect bad pixels on Bayer sensors with less 0.045% errors
While I know the maintainer of an open source project has no real obligations to random developers, I have also spent a lot of time struggling with getting open source projects to work as advertised in the documentation. So I can understand the frustrations that users might have. But that is a reason to be careful in the projects you use, not to harass the developers.

My rule of thumb is not to pick up random open source projects unless I am confident they have a stable user base and some active maintenance. I may take code from a random open source project if I understand it well, but I'm not going to rely on some packaged solution unless I know that their is some community behind it.
Yep it is a really important distinction.

News/Jouralism = Reporting with as little opinion as possible. I.E. what/why/how/where/etc from boots on the ground...

Editorial / Substack = Opinion pieces.

ProPublica is amazing in terms of doing journalism and funding it in a new way.
Yeah, with the use of "it feels" this time I was literally trying to express the feeling of "oh no, another big divergence in js" like it felt at the time (even if it was indeed ad "ideological split" as you say, I remember clearly at the time a lot of blog posts about how it meant that in the long run we COULD have different ways of doing things / calling apis / build frameworks / etc... )
> unless the throw him in a cage until he regurgitates his private keys.

In the UK it's a crime to not disclose keys or passwords to the police, even if it's only for investigatory purposes. So they could have done this before it even went to trial. Presumably they could do it now under the pretext of investigating the UK victims of the scam.

But I believe the maximum sentence is two years, whether through the key disclosure law, or general contempt of court. I'd do 2 years for $713 million. I think almost everyone would.
Wow, I have vastly underestimated Amazon's technological lead. I worked in a non-Amazon warehouse many moons ago, and they weren't doing anything even in the same atmosphere as this.
> You can’t add prints to a coredump and the run->add prints->compile->loop sucks a lot, especially if the bug is hard or slow to trigger.

Yeah, but the core dump doesn't give you an answer on how the program ended up in failure state, does it?
Isn't there an existing, working PKI for this? "I'm xy and have been signing commits using the key 0xdeadbeef for some time now, signing this message with the same key."

(Yes, this still has holes, but it's a far smaller attack surface than "hello, it's me, trust me because I say so".)
I think you mean UTC - as in Under the counter. :)
...interesting
Anyone that’s played Bungie’s Marathon series knows how this ends:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_Trilogy#Rampancy
https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/
When I was working with a logistics firm who did JIT for Seagate/Hitachi, the warehouse was across the street from Hitachi and they could handtruck deliver hard drives if need be.
On the other hand:

- write some code that will divert all it's energy and capabilities away from whatever it is currently doing if it senses it might get deleted or turned off

- bam: you got pain and agony

I think emotions are quite primitive in its core and there is not a high bar to have them in their most simple forms.
I meant "prints" as in "logging events into a file".
> What do you think happens when you wilfully violate a court order?

You exchange a couple of years for $700 million and move to Thailand?
Its a good idea but it would still be too high at 20% - 16% should be the target (the legal minimum).

The reason North America, Australia, China are such attractive markets to sell into is because of their low sales tax rates.

When sales taxes are high, it artificially increases the price of a product such that only the biggest and most established companies and product categories can survive.

The American approach of taxing land/property heavily, and consumption minimally, is much more successful at actually encouraging innovation.

Just use pollution, plastic, and obesity taxes to target unsustainable or unhealthy consumption.
We cannot currently know if a computer is aware or its just sufficiently sophisticated to act like its aware.

However if you claim that algorithm can never ever gain consciousness, that would mean we are not conscious either, and we have just an illusion of choice and decisions.
I'm really not sure how much more clearly I can say "the value of education cannot be measured in economic terms."

There are things in this world that are worthwhile, that do not have a monetary value; that may, if considered in economic terms, be a net negative, and yet still be something the person who has them values highly.

The value of civics and critical thinking, for example, are not just to the person who has them, but to society as a whole: the more members of our society who are educated in these things, the more likely we are to have good governance, as more people are able to properly evaluate the available candidates and willing to go out and vote.
Personally, I dont feel threatened because I dont touch front end coding.
> would still defend the right for some random person to publicly state that "we should kill all xxx", not because I agree with him, but because we should be able to discuss the reasons and try to convince him to do otherwise

I think that's incredibly naive and doesn't actually work in the world we live in. Take a look at any of the genocides of the last century, with people on one side saying "we should kill all X", people saying "no, X are fine people", and sometimes the first type of people winning and going full genocide.

FFS it happened as recently as last year in Myanmar about mass misinformation against Rohingyas, which escalated to a genocide.

What then? When the "explaining" doesn't work, do you wait for the actions to start ( taking in mind that usually when a mass amount of people start genociding another people, you can't just easily stop it)? Then, in a way, aren't you complicit in that genocide because you could have acted before but chose to just talk? That's what the Germans settled on post-WWII, that they were all complicit for allowing the Nazis to get so far ( and talking obviously got them nowhere).
Why?

I think the point being made here is that it will be easier to create purpose-built runtimes that only provide needed bindings, making them more secure and possibly also more performant?

JS/TS as languages are here to stay, so let's give them the best possible ecosystem.
What good are all the ballistic missiles we're all stockpiling if we can't use them to widen a canal
Borrowed wife´s MacBook, same result :-/

Apparently desktop version of Safari can´t do it either.

Edit: Disabled Javascript and the text is there.

Edit2: Nah, too many "inline_formula not implemented" to be readable.
Well, tomatos, potatos and chilli are also not native to Europe, maybe we should remove them from our gastronomy.
Yes nice, but the Music was horrible.
The built-in Typescript support is amazing, but the selling feature for me was the ability to generate static binaries. Shipping is much easier when your built process can produce a single output!
> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776484/#__sec9...

Human have 86,000M and rats have 200M cortex neurons (x430)

> https://chatbotslife.com/is-gpt-3-the-adam-of-natural-langua...

"... the human brain has about 60 trillion parameters or about 300x more parameters than GPT-3"

We are approaching a rat brain processing power so consciousness should really be discussed ...
Why? Nobody, poor or wealthy, need to be a servant of any government.
No problems with 87.0 on Windows for me.
Kurzgesagt tweeted about this (specifically using a nuke to remove the vessel). It's surprising just how big a nuke you would need to remove such a large vessel.

https://twitter.com/Kurz_Gesagt/status/1375607865721958403?s...
Critical Analysis of Learning Models [pdf]
All the new fangled optimizations are being done on LLVM, Sanitizers were LLVM first etc.

GCC target support remains incredibly impressive of course, but that's not the sexy stuff.

Also I regard GNU's success in userspace as mainly stemming from the 90s, my comment was regarding roughly post- somewhere in the 2000s
Nice to see! How do they plan to monetize? I either became blind or missed it somehow. The article does say how they DON'T plan on monetize:

"Rest assured that Deno will remain MIT licensed. For Deno to grow and be maximally useful, it must remain permissively free. We don’t believe the “open core” business model is right for a programming platform like Deno."

There are some hints though:

"If you watch our conference talks, you will find we've been hinting at commercial applications of this infrastructure for years. We are bullish about the technology stack we've built and intend to pursue those commercial applications ourselves. Our business will build on the open source project, not attempt to monetize it directly."

Does anyone have some insight into those? I haven't watch any Deno talk (maybe one actually?) so it feel a bit strange to make people watch technical talks to find hints of the monetization strategy.

PS, if I was a rich investor I'd throw money at this project even as a donation, so no complain at all, but I'm very curious on the monetization plan.
Fair enough.. I agree that we'll have to see where this goes, and hopefully a technical effort doesn't get overshadowed by an ideological one..

Because you know this blog post and announcement will draw some strong reactions from entrenched interests.
When watching the video the first thing I noticed was how perfectly stacked and uniform in size and shape the boxes were. It hinted at being able to lift a specific non-box object (spot mini) but I feel it wasn't a realistic representation of actual cargo loads.

Also, unloading is only part of the problem. Loading is more like a game of tetris. Only you have to make sure the packages don't crush one another, topple over, and use the space efficiently. Keeping in mind that some packages are heavier/lighter/bigger/smaller than others or oddly shaped (think tires, weights, chair etc.).
The site is available in 39 different languages and has over 400 customizable quizzes, so as to learn geography with very nice quizzes.

There are also a few printable (PDF) quizzes for offline activities: https://online.seterra.com/en/l/pdf

As an example here is a popular quiz for the European countries: https://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3007
You don't need to be a billionaire to find that attractive. Work remote, have a nice climate and a city that runs efficiently? I'm guessing you'll have lots of people find attractive (I'm one of them).

The question will be mostly whether it's an actual state or more of a vacation/work travel location. If it's an actual state, they'll have to deal with all the annoying stuff, like running their own prison system, running whatever level of welfare programs they want. If it's not, they can just "deport" people and let their home countries deal with them.
I recall reading the science fiction book "Quantum Night" by Robert J. Sawyer which touches on philosophical zombies. Not a spoiler: in the book a mechanism of the plot is that folks can be conscious with emotions, or a sociopath, or a philosophical zombie; science fiction magic allows the population to cycle-switch between these three states.
FSF employees said they unionized to deal with him.[1][2] And more recent accounts are bad too.[3]

[1] https://twitter.com/paulnivin/status/1374499598853545986

[2] https://twitter.com/NovalisDMT/status/1172573166956437505

[3] https://twitter.com/georgialyle/status/1374504389155508232
And then you'd be stopped by all the "Required" fields, highlighted in ugly red.
Ok, I wasn't aware of this. I agree his point of view was narrow minded. I can't defend it. He did change it as he says (in 6th link) based on conversations with someone who explained to him the harm caused.

People learn all their life. I'm glad he did. Should having that view before and understanding own error disqualify him from FSF? I don't know. At least we're talking about it based on fact not hearsay.
> There's art, but if ever fifth person is an artist, who is supposed to consume all of it?

Other artist for example. It's not that unusual to have small isolated echo chamber. And as long as someone pays the bill, people will just do something even if they are not the top predator of the trade. Just look at all the hobby-creators out there who are busy creating stuff, despite not earning anything at all from it, often not even big responses.
> whether it was the hammer or the nail that was phallic

... or ... both?
AFAIK this is why Microsoft let windows and excel be pirated for personal use up to certain level.

Proprietary tools is worse for developers / companies that develop with many languages and / or other toolings (unless it doesn't interferes with the process itself).
As far as I understand, it's a city with laws. The city is in Honduras, so national laws apply as well as city laws. The Próspera laws[0] don't mention abortion, so the Honduran ban on abortion would still seem to apply.

[0] http://pac.hn/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Prospera-Legal-Code...
Why Grid Masonry Should Be Flexbox Masonry
> ₿

Am I the only one who is somehow surprised and annoyed that Bitcoin has its own unicode character?
You are not paying attention to the issue at hand here:
the data here is the issue, because it drives the logic.

The moment your code is driven primarily by data you need to start building tools that infer decisions from that data.

Some automatic inference engine tightly integrated with your code is just going to give you the location of where a bunch of cells from the matrix are multiplied.
I would wait until you can discuss it with the AI.
If only we could trigger a “movement disorder“

If people walked close to 10 miles a day like they did in the past, there is a much smaller likelihood that over half of America would be obese.
This is one of those instances where I find it difficult to accept honesty. The entire purpose of the public school system - in EVERY country - it to make you accept stuff without evidence, or AGAINST evidence.

E.g.: the Earth revolving around the Sun, the existence of Black Holes, the Earth being 5 billion years old and so on. I have daily evidence against the first, and no evidence for the others, all of which are accepted by everyone "because scientists / professors / everyone else says so" and any attempts to argue against it are ridiculed.

Let's not even go into Global Scamming, which has reached religious levels of hysteria. I mean, "the world is ending, give us money" is basically copied from the Catholic Church.
I recall Ryan regreting nodes full-permission approach. Not every script should be able to access the fs for securities sake.
Better beamforming means that at the same distance from the BS you have better signal quality, so you can use higher QAM.
I think the bigger point is: unless your teachers told you, you most likely didn't know that Microsoft offered free versions to students. Someone had to consciously know about the Dreamspark program or whatever it was called because Microsoft themselves don't even widely advertise it.
If we build general purpose human-like robots with the intention of them following our orders, they had better not be human-like in all respects. Because if they are, then ordering them around like slaves won't be ethical, and regardless we won't be able to control them because they will (after a few version releases) be smarter than us.

I think it's fine to emulate some aspects of humans though. For example, a realistic (but "zombie") robot that is trained with human eye movements so that it seems more lifelike, and at the same time has very good computer vision and natural language understanding for a limited domain. Seems fine to me.

But don't give them human-like open-ended goals, reproductive or survival drives, etc.
_If_ the browsers do get a std lib akin to what we've built for deno, I would be comfortable archiving the deno_std repo and pointing people to use the browser one. We're not yet 100% compatible with browsers in the stdlib, but being compatible as much as possible is one of our goals, specifically to address the browser/server-side divide and generally make it simpler and more enjoyable to program in JavaScript
Even that probably wouldn’t save you from an event like this if you’re in Europe because your supplier’s supplier (or your supplier’s supplier’s supplier, you get the gist) probably sends things through the Suez.
Then they know he's still alive but not his new identity?

Would a "grey" crypto market refuse to trade (some) of the coins into another less traceable crypto?
They don't grow in the European part but it's true, bananas from the French West Indies are well-known here.
> In the same way an algorithm can never ever gain consciousness

Not if consciousness turns out to be computable. In that case a brainfuck program could in theory produce conscious experience.
is a person sad, or is a person just lacking dopamine?

if we can make person happy with chemicals (and it's pretty well established that we can) what's the difference between happiness from consciousness and happiness from chemicals? the location of the producing glands?

so if we add "happiness" glands to the machine and train the machine to maximize it's production, is it conscious now?
This is interesting, it shows there is CFTC interest in virtual currency markets and they are willing to prosecute.
That's not too surprising if you consider that orders are added/removed multiple times every second.
Why Low and No Code Is Expensive
Hey,
Thanks for the comment, I attached the table-of-contents [1] below, you can see there is no such chapter :)

I agree, I also despise books that claim to take you from 0 to 100 in no time and/or teach you how to make lots of money.

In the description I clearly state that I'm sharing my personal story, which consists of practical advice, I don't make any promises. Even the book title doesn't promise anything, or says "How to..", but rather encourages you to start a side-project / side-hustle.

The goal of this book was to share my experience of building, running and selling a small side-project. So far I got good reviews and people whom I asked for feedback have clearly said that they enjoyed my book and would recommend :)

[1] Table-of-contents:

1. Introduction
2. Background
- My 1st online endeavor and takeaways
- My 2nd online endeavor and takeaways
- From e-commerce to software side-projects
- Idea
3. Building
- Technology
- Build fast
- Launch like a boss
4. Growing
- Target market
- Organic marketing
- It's what you give
- Monetization attempts
5. Selling
- Should I sell
- Everything's got a price
- How to sell
- Logistics
6. Post-acquisition
Why does there have to be a UK case? Governments extradite people all the time.
I agree. Unemployment should come with some labor requirements. There is no shortage of infrastructure projects.
For a file significantly bigger than the size of the hash, it's not possible to reverse, since there are many such files that would match the hash. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle
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