skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My assumptions are:

Consciousness is a property of living begins.

Consciousness is a feature of neurological construct such as brain or a feature of any other construct that we yet don't know of.

Level of intelligence is directly proportional to reaching consciousness.

Further on to elaborate I think consciousness depends on intelligence; the more intelligent a living organism is there is higher probability it will reach a point of consciousness which nobody knows where and when exactly is.

If primitive living organisms show patterns of conscious like behavior it does not mean they have consciousness because they live by the rules that are encoded and heritable. Such individuals have no control or awareness over their behavior and are not aware of itself and its surroundings. They reproduce or replicate and are subject to the biological forces of natural selection, with the payoffs of the game(life) representing reproductive success (biological fitness). See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy

People should note that there is a difference between mimicking intelligence(consciousness) and actually having it.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
I read an article on people who work for life insurance companies that track down “missing presumed dead” people. The most common trip up was that they did not fully cut ties from their old life. Including friends, family, and hobbies and such.

You’d be surprised.

Anyone have the link? I can’t seem to find it.
If you make decent profit, it may not hurt getting one considering that it can protect against issues like data loss etc. But it can cost anywhere from a few hundred bucks to couple thousand on an average. If you are making say at least 5K in profits/year, it may be worth it.
Yeah, I was fully prepared to hate it, but it's actually
quite nice. Even switching from compact to normal mode
didn't take that much space. Them moving and renaming
some menus is a rather meh decision, but I guess it's more
of a matter of habit.
In this case it means "allow people to build multi-family housing" and "allow mixing small retail and residential."

get rid of the requirement for large lot sizes, and single-family residential-only zoning.
Exactly. If someone apologizes to me, and I know that they have no way of knowing if they're guilty or not, what's that apology worth?
But that’s a problem with a specific framework, not C#. It’s true that some frameworks are quite hard to avoid using, but you could just as well create a lean vanilla project (which I gather the F# one was closer to), and you can choose not to use DI. I doubt F# would be all that much more expressive than C#, that you could not recreate whatever you did there.
Not useful.
How would you improve?
What made you dock those 2 stars?
Any better advice?
A Trojan horse? Honestly, is this enough to finally call time on the Linux desktop? I'm considering trying Windows as my next Linux distro.
After they f*cked up mobile version I stopped caring. This should die already or it should be taken over by someone who actually cares eg. Open Office ---> Libre Office
> Error establishing a database connection

I am not sure what I expected ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Ok so that’s why I couldn’t buy the domain
I used Windows for twenty years as a developer and macOS for ten. Once I got away from .Net and iOS development and into Node/React both of them just got in my way while providing nothing of value. (Actually macOS has always annoyed me in many ways, so mostly I only used it for iOS stuff.)

Once I moved to Manjaro/XFCE a few years ago, all the problems disappeared. Docker just works. All the web dev tools are built for my platform and just work. There are no compatibility layers or emulation layers to worry about. I'm in charge of updates. I don't get nagged to do things at inopportune times. I'll never go back to either one of them full time. Windows for games, Macs for iOS/Xcode. That's it for me. Even for .Net and iOS now - I can do that too on Linux with .Net core and React Native.
It's not perfect: I run IntelliJ in Arch WSL1 and 1) it crashes every time it opens a .md file athough I have (LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1). I have to put
-Dsun.java2d.opengl=false
-Dsun.java2d.d3d=false
in idea64.vmoptions and disable the markdown plugin (maybe only 1 of them is enough) 2) In Windows, IntelliJ automatically saves files when it loses focus. I have to remember to Ctrl-S all the times with IntelliJ in WSL1 3) IntelliJ can't detect where there's a change in the file system. I have to Reload All from Disk all the times.
> Colors in Firefox on macOS will no longer be saturated on wide gamut displays, untagged images are properly treated as sRGB, and colors in images tagged as sRGB will now match CSS colors.

This has always been just a about:config setting away, I wonder why they're changing this now, and why only on macOS. I've been using this setting on Linux for nearly half a decade now. (You just change gfx.color_management.mode from 2 to 1.)

Last I checked, canvas elements and av1 images weren't color managed. I wonder if they've fixed either of those with this change.
In this part of the world there already is (trans-tasman) and holiday bookings will be immediate once mandatory quarantine drops for certified vaccinated people.
Yes because Wikipedia's opinion and some random quote on there should be what matters above all...

You realize Wikipedia itself is not considered a reliable or credible source for anything right?
If you emit a ton of carbon you should be taxed however much it costs to take it out of the atmosphere.
If you can find someone to do it cheaper then the government you can buy a credit.
If a country refuses to participate put a tariff on all their emissions (not just the traded ones). It seems most large countries might agree.
This is would allow that markets to fix everything. It is worrying that such a simple solution has not been seriously tried.
> respond with decisive action afterwards. Not the other way around.

... absolutely. Perhaps people liked the flavor.
I'm amazed this passed IRB. Consider the analogy:

We presented students with an education protocol designed to make a blind subset of them fail tests. Then measured if they failed the test to see if they independently learned the true meaning of the information.

Under any sane IRB you would need consent of the students. This is failure on so many levels.

(edit to fix typo)
For the sake of discussion, I'll grant the example, but the fact that org A acts in bad faith has no bearing on whether org B acts in bad faith.

If Mozilla had ties to UMN CS&E you might have had a (tenuous) point, but...

Plus, this has come out in the last 48hrs or so? And you're somehow saying that's comparable to 3 years? Sure, if they haven't issued a further statement in 1 month, 3 months, etc. then you might be justified.
It does come up with regards to bailouts. There are tons of people who are opposed to corporate bailouts and who worry about inflation and a ton of problems created by the zero interest rate policy etc.
UMN Authors’ Clarifications on the “hypocrite commit” work in the Linux Kernel [pdf]
I'm on the beta channel and the only regression for me is the fact that the url bar is hard to see – it's a shade of gray similar to its surroundings. It feels like it costs me more attention to click on it, which is bad, since it's the most used UI element.
They admit newer commits are part of a research effort and were sent with the intent to get feedback, but they didn't actually disclose any of that in the patch description [1]. Furthermore, lots of these patches are at best useless and at worst actively introduce bugs.

It's famously hard to distinguish malice from incompetence, but I don't think assuming bad faith is out of line here.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH%2FfM%2FTsbmcZzwnX@kroah...
Yeah, just to be clear, I was specifically talking about land-use regulations. I don't know anything about how stringent material requirements are for building houses, but i'd wager we have some dumb ones on the books in the US.
> Viewed from that perspective, the additional royal-related revenues start to look somewhat trivial.

> Moreover, we should treat even estimates of economic activity linked to the royals with a large dash of scepticism.

> The economic boost from visits and festivities related to royal celebrations should certainly be treated with caution given these can displace economic activity as well as create it.

> In the end, the question of whether the Royal Family is worth it, or not, is probably less a financial question than a political, moral and aesthetic one.
I prefer those sponsored segments to regular web ads. They are old school, no tracking and are usually relevant to the content I am watching. I can't afford to donate to the YouTubers I like so I'm glad they can make money from those ads.
These people who conducted the research need to be fired immediately, but I'm pessimistic about that.
The amount of scrutiny UI changes would need to go into production should exponentially increase with how long the existing UI has been in production.

We really need to stop changing UI for the sake of changing it. Nothing in the laws of nature, nothing of any fundamental significance, nothing in any rule book or of any engineering consideration says that UI belongs to a particular era or it’s “outdated”. More often than not, it’s purely some designer’s personal taste.

Even if the current UI sucks, changing it should require serious justification and weighed against retraining millions of people.
The legacy of variable length x86 is why Intel will always struggle now to keep up with ARM chips and Apple’s M1.
IANAL but AFAIK you can be held in contempt of court if you don't provide it when asked if they're already convinced it's yours and has incriminating evidence on it. Article below, although it looks like fairly recent (not super established) jurisprudence.

[1] https://goldsteinmehta.com/blog/can-the-police-force-you-to-...
Maybe unrelated but I think it is a Hyper-v (w10) issue, not a WSL one. At least same thing happened to me some days ago on one VM running on Hyper-v, it went crazy and consume all my 32gb of ram. It seems to be fixed after reducing the number of cores available to it.
Cardboard boxes are not just bins that contain items, they also do shock and wear absorption, acting as a sacrificial layer. You'd need to find a way to replace that function in a re-usable medium (which would be cost and resource effective).
A new $69M NFT was sleepminted
>This new design is called Allegrex and runs at a variable speed, from 33 MHz to 333 MHz.

I played Nethack@50 Mhz on the PSP, one of the most addictive games ever. I am not joking. Also, the battery lasted more than a day.
Authors’ response: https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/%7Ekjlu/papers/clarifications-h...
One of the points I appreciate is the comparison to a gold based investment strategy. Though unlike other commodities (like gold) but coin itself is not useful. At least with gold something can be made, Bitcoin consists of a completed computation so you’re paying for something that’s been used.
Is it really that hard?

> npm init
> npm i --save-dev typescript

Add "build":"tsc" to your package.json "scripts"
Add a tsconfig.json file

> npm run build

Finito - you've compiled a TS project to JS
Are you saying that without Facebook the community wouldn't exist because participants wouldn't pay to play? I'm just not quite clear on your comment.
There are lots of people who like cars, and lots of people who like avocados, and lots of people in your ZIP code, but the intersection of those sets is... you.
I wouldn't say that we shouldn't have laws. I just think it would be best for society if we avoided doing shit that will cause more riots. I think it's called consequentialism? Not sure. Whether or not it's a good idea to arrest/fine people who don't wear masks, I know for a fact that it will lead to disproportionately more black and brown people being at best fined/harrassed or at worst killed by police. So I am against it.
In today's news: "An unvaccinated worker set off an outbreak at a U.S. nursing home where most residents were immunized."

An unvaccinated health care worker set off a Covid-19 outbreak at a nursing home in Kentucky where the vast majority of residents had been vaccinated, leading to dozens of infections, including 22 cases among residents and employees who were already fully vaccinated, a new study reported Wednesday.

Most of those who were infected with the coronavirus despite being vaccinated did not develop symptoms or require hospitalization, but one vaccinated individual, who was a resident of the nursing home, died, according to the study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/health/vaccine-nursing-ho...
>All of which earned their prize AFTER their political achievements

Rabin and Arafat earned their prize AFTER their achievement of ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

"We have not given the prize for what may happen in the future. We are awarding Obama for what he has done in the past year. And we are hoping this may contribute a little bit for what he is trying to do," noting that he hoped the award would assist Obama's foreign policy efforts. Jagland said the committee was influenced by a speech Obama gave about Islam in Cairo in June 2009, the president's efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation and climate change, and Obama's support for using established international bodies such as the United Nations to pursue foreign policy goals.[11] The New York Times reported that Jagland shrugged off the question of whether "the committee feared being labeled naïve for accepting a young politician's promises at face value", stating that "no one could deny that 'the international climate' had suddenly improved, and that Mr. Obama was the main reason... We want to embrace the message that he stands for."
Ask HN: How is a company like Comcast able to get away with spam?
I recently signed up for Comcast Xfinity internet (only one available in my area), and ever since I signed up I receive marketing emails almost daily that do not have an unsubscribe link because they are marked as "service related emails".

I've unsubscribed from every single email preference in my account, and even went so far to confirm with their support agents that I did it correctly.

However, almost daily I receive emails about "See what your wifi can do" or "Don't forget about these new features" etc, that are clearly marketing and not service related. Browsing forums online it seems there are countless others who have the same complaints as me.

So, my main question is, how can a company get away with this when it is blatantly in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act? Is it truly just too difficult for any individual to hire a lawyer and go up against Goliath? Does the CAN-SPAM act have any loopholes I'm not aware of that would allow this? I'm genuinely curious to this, and do not want to come off as just an angry customer ranting.
I think the question may have been rhetorical, and the intended answer the opposite of yours: No, it doesn't pose a question, since it obviously shouldn't be done.
Hey, this article got me interested in 1-d cellular automata at the time. Before that it was Von Neumann’s self replicating cellular automata and then Conway’s Life in the 70’s
Yeah, that wasn't them... so whoever that was lied
As the pressure is already on them to rectify the situation, there's no need to for an artificial deadline. It adds nothing, but could delay their announcement or force them to publish an incomplete response.
> (also, Monero > bitcoin)

Agree, but IMO both are old tech since they're proof of work. Any good privacy-focused crypto like monero that's efficient?
So it's literally Chrome now.
UWB is also integrated in the newest Samsung phones https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/8/22373410/samsung-galaxy-sm...
To be fair, the description at the top is really generic and the "Uses" section that clarifies it is buried pretty far down. Looks like a very cool project.
You are so wrong about Ukraine. We live in a democratic country since 1991. Russian puppet used force to break down peaceful protests, this started escalation. He made attempt than to criminalize meetings [1], laws described as "draconian", "dictatorship", and was overthrown.

There were democratic elections next month. And another since than. Different parties, different leaders. There is no civil war here, that's proxy war by Russia and everyone knows it. Russian leaders, Russian mercenaries, Russian weapon, Russian money, sometimes even Russian army. That's openly stated by Russian mercenary leaders.

There is no reason for civil war. Everyone understands both Ukrainian and Russian. My native tongue is Russian, I live in Russian speaking city, and I am grateful to our army that protects us from Russian mercenaries. Occupied territories even by founders described as fascist states. Life is rough there. Population greatly decreased, a lot of refugees scattered around Ukraine, Russian speaking refugees, and everywhere they were welcomed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-protest_laws_in_Ukraine
I think this hasn't gone far enough. The university has shown that it is willing to allow its members to act in bad faith for their own interests, under the auspices of acting ethically for scientific reasons. The university itself cannot be trusted _ever again_.

Black list the whole lot from everything, everywhere. Black hole that place and nuke it from orbit.
I wonder if the form of nicotine would make a difference. Many brands of cigarettes use a tobacco that's been 'enhanced' with freebase nicotine to increase addictiveness among other things but others do not and the amount of freebase nicotine varies wildly between brands.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3990-crack-nicotine-i...

and vape juice comes in both freebase form and salt form.

https://www.ruthlessvapor.com/blogs/ruthless-e-liquid/nicoti...

Nicotine in a freebase form is absorbed more quickly into our bodies and in higher concentrations that nicotine in salt form.
Yeah, making the browser's chrome _bigger_ is a really weird choice. A whole lot of work has gone into making the browser chrome as small as possible. By default now, the bookmarks bar is gone, the menu bar is gone, toolbars are gone, the title bar is gone, some browsers even remove the tab bar when there's just one tab. Using _more_ vertical space for the chrome, without even providing new or improved functionality, seems like the exact opposite direction of both what users want and the industry trend.

I really like the current Firefox design, and it doesn't get in the way. I hope I'll learn to like this new design too once I get to use it for myself.
A ton easier!

Sure, reading the two inch thick book on programming your TI-83+ was informative, but God help you if you got stuck.

Now we've got Scratch (visual programming), Arduino (push button C compilation!), and StackOverflow full of the answer to most any problem of stacktrace you encounter.

I don't have to read a tome for hours or wait a day or two for a response on a creeky BBS. Much easier.
tsc doesn't bundle, or resolve imports, or transpile for cross browser though, does it?
Shells makes using Linux in the cloud easy
Thanks a ton for all these answer. Definitely had a couple of a-ha moments from these. Although I don't have enough time in hand at the moment to learn Prolog. But it's definitely one of the things I'll experiment with. Thank you all again. :)
They need not promise to have results in a particular time frame, but they should commit to giving an update by a particular date, even if that update is just, "We've made progress investigating this incident, but we are not yet ready to report our findings. We will give our next update no later than $DATE."
Oh, wait, I'm also missing the separators between the tabs, and the tabs, once you have many of them, seem smaller than before and show only four letters of the page title..
That's potentially something to look into. I've been doing IF for a few years. But like I said, I was surprised that the brain doesn't catch-up from just ONE night of sleep deprivation.

I'm not a neurologist, but we consult with one regularly. I'll have to discuss it with him. I wouldn't want to risk it though...
I had a uni teacher who thought she was a genius because her research team powdered wikipedia with fake information while timing how long it took to remove them.

"Earth is center of universe" took 1000 years to remove from books, I'm not sure what her point was :D
Am I the only person who prefers light mode 95% of the time?
I'm sure you have a good underlying point but this comment is not a step away from flamewar.
Show HN: Pe – A Go package to parse Windows PE files for malware analysis or RE
That’s because Jeremy Ashkenas is a beast. Coffeescript started modern JavaScript.
Are you suggesting there was any sort of equivalence between the KGB and the CIA?

Are you also suggesting there was any sort of equivalence between a low-level operative vs. a political appointee managing the national agency?
This just looks remarkably unpleasant. :/
Your third link shows that they're adding sponsors to the top sites list. As far as I know that's kind of flying under the radar, previously the only ads on the new tab page were article recommendations from Pocket.
To quote my comment above:

> If you wanted to know if the kernel review process is able to reliably catch malicious attempts you literally could have just asked the kernel maintainers and they'd told you that no, review can't go that deep. Or looked at non-malicious bugs and observed that no, review does not catch all bugs with security implications.

> You'd very likely would have been able to get code past them even if you told them that there are attempts coming and got their approval.

If you want to know that the process isn't catching all attacks, that should be all you need. For the second case, getting patches past a warned maintainer is harder and should be even better evidence of the problems of the process, without any of the concerns. There is a wide range of options to learn about code review, and what they did was one of the extreme ends - just to find "yes, what everyone has been saying is true". And then not putting in the work to make amends after it becomes clear it wasn't appreciated, so now this other student got caught in his advisors mess (assuming the representation of him actually testing a new analyzer and not being part of a repeated attempt to introduce bugs is true - the way he went about it also wasn't good, but way less bad).

But you don't get splashy outrage, and thus less success at "raising awareness" with people that didn't care before, which is what your comment seemed to argue for.
Inrupt’s Version 1.1 release (Includes secure notifications via WebSocket)
Whaling peaked at 1960s and was banned only in 1986. We have done some good in the past 20-30 years, yes, but at least 2/3rds of 20th century were pretty bleak, and situation at the end of 20th century definitely was lot worse than what it was 200 years ago.

I know whaling has strong cultural connotations to 19th century, through Moby Dick and such, but that was really just very small scale childs play compared to 20th century stuff.

Fishing has even bleaker situation. From 1950s we have gone from about 20 million tonnes yearly capture production to about 80 million tonnes in 1990s, and stayed at that level since. The sort of devastatingly massive factory ships we operate these days simply did not exist before. I guess the only good thing that can be said is that the total global catch growth has stopped?