skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The less hand-wavy form of panpsychism is called IIT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory
Perhaps this is reflective of a broken society, one that values abstract numbers more than people and life
Maybe this one https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/093799-000-A/killing-the-india... ?
In 1970 *
To answer your question. No. Single cells organisms can't drive cars. A multicellular organism can.

We are talking about self driving AI as a system - inputs and outputs and it's relative complexity. I mapped that system complexity to single cell motility.
Security issues with FinTech APIs and integrations
Wow, this looks great. Straight out of some sci-fi anime

I absolutely love motorcycles. Sadly, most people into seem to be in the game just for the sound alone. I have very, very strong feelings about the vast majority of this "community" and cannot wait for electric to take over.

Sorry for the rant. I have to endure a lot of racers during all hours. It's hardly pleasent
I'm not so sure, the engines are great but they cheap out on suspensions lately.

I had an MT09 Tracer that was wobbly as f. in curves and on stright lines at high speed. The rear shock was just too loose. Same for the MT07 since 2014.
>A third tier university in the US is as good as a first tier university in Poland.
Only according to international rankings which measure scientific output which has a ton of confounding factors like how well funded the university is, how well regarded is in the research community or how many guest researchers can it attract.
I wonder if people in the US who are involved in hiring, and hire from Eastern Europe use other metrics that allow for more direct, meritocratic comparison of individuals (Leetcode etc.)? If so, do they found that, for example first-tier Polish uni grads perform at the same level as third tier US ones?

I think that the bell curve works the same everywhere, and even most US schools (excepting the very top ones), don't have the opportunity to fill more than 20-30% of their student body with brilliant kids from abroad.
I figured that was just a convenient way to avoid all the security problems that come with exposing a shell online whilst also limiting the inputs, although I'm sure there's other ways to do that. Might be nice to have the option I guess.
Yes, they're quite different and similar at the same time. More than that, Russians are not all the same (Southern Russians are more like Ukranians, Siberian Russians are not very similar to Moscow Russians and so on). With Ukranians, you have at least two different cultures — east (relatively similar to Russians) and west (these guys were more influenced by Poland etc.). So, yeah, Russians and Ukranians are quite similar (they are two Slavic nations with common background), but there are a lot of differences too.
Although the author attributes the lack of smiling to Russians, I would suggest this generalization should extend to continental Europe. For instance, there is a related saying describing differences between Brits and Germans - "Too polite to be honest and too honest to be polite". It captures the idea that in Anglo Saxonian culture, it is more important to be polite.

I'm living in Ireland, and this bit around non-honest smiling just drives me nuts sometimes. Otherwise, it is excellent when you're going for a walk because it creates a positive and inviting atmosphere. But adapting to a constantly cheerful and smiling surrounding was not without a challenge. Do I smile and say hi all the time to every person, or are there exceptions? There is a bit of a learning curve as after 50 smiles and hi's every day, I feel exhausted, LOL.
1. Lets use machine learning on this dataset.

2. The data is dirty. We need to clean it up.

3. Lets clean it up using machine learning!

4. Goto 1.

It's machine learning all the way down...
Totally tangential, but I just checked out one of his "Cat Talks", looks like he's basically casting from his bed. BUT the sound was so well recorded I had to actually check to make sure the sound was coming from my headphones and not the computer or someone in the room even. Wow, really would love to read about his recording set up that he can do that from his bed.
Interesting! So basically: the basic unit of consciousness (whatever you may call it) is an intrinsic property of matter (or energy or particles?) and the more complex information systems matter forms, a more detailed model of the physical world emerges with that system, and the system experiences said model? I only did a quick reading so I may be misinterpreting the theory.
> (the run trick) works by first standing on a square before a trap, and then running across the single square that has a trap, in order to end up on the other side. Because running causes the player to move over two squares in a single tick, this causes the game to never consider the player to be on the trapped square.

This is like Programming 101 for player position updates, to avoid them running or jumping through walls. A classical novice mistake. I'm surprised to see it in such a mature game.
Just to clarify, Apple doesn't actually build any devices. They are built by Foxconn, mainly. It's still very impressing, of course.
Homes set to be heated by sewage plants in future
Yes that's the one! Thanks!
THX 1138 becomes reality.

Don't forget, everyone:

"Work hard, increase production, avoid accidents, and be happy."
That's definitely true, but not the only important thing in such a comparison. Germans work only 75% of the hours Americans do per year, and a lot of that is cultural.
Title is, currently, click-bait as the article talks about district heating in the UK.
I've heard a lot of complaints about the wobbly MT09 Tracer at high (>160km/h) speeds. I've also heard it was only on the first models, and due to the hand guards having bad aerodynamics. AFAIK it's solvable with aftermarket (or no) hand guards.
Yeah, I follow one person whom I deeply respect for his FOSS work, but he is so rabidly anti-Trump (despite being French!), that it was hard to bear, he retweeted every single story critical of him, even complete lunatic ones. I really wanted some kind of filter to silence this part of his stream.
I guess it's the culmination of all bad things we learned about the condition of Amazon warehouse workers over the past decade or so.
And then there is the forced sterilization of indigenous women that is still happening, specially in Alberta:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sterilization-indigenous-1....
I'm sad to say its anything but scaremongering.

I don't know about the US, but in Germany its common practice to spray either legal CBD weed or regular weed with synthetic cannabinoids and sell it as "Haze". The same goes for hash.

This practice has been widely publicized and is regularly confirmed through tests (see drug checking websites). A quick Google search will demonstrate the abundant availability of the raw materials (fake hash, legal CBD weed, synthetic cannabinoids, fake packaging). Besides this objective evidence, it is both my personal experience and common knowledge on Germany's streets that laced weed is the norm at this point.

Its obvious that this would happen when there is no regulation but strong financial incentives to produce this crap. Many customers don't care or explicitly look for the much stronger high that these laced products provide.
The curious thing to me is why all of the generalising people are doing in this comment section is any different from “perpetuating stereotypes”, which almost universally has negative connotations.

If you’re Finnish, I might say you don’t often smile but I bet you know how to neatly drift a rally car through a forest at considerable speed.

Why is some generalisation good? And others bad?
The biggest cost of such an effort is navigating local bureaucracy. You will hit a different permitting and approval process every few miles. Every neighborhood council has an opinion on how you should dig the hole. Every town wants to do an environmental study, economic impact study, town halls and endless deliberation. There are always vested interests in play. You can use only a specific kind of union labor. And then a month into deployment some idiot fixing a pipe will cut your cable.

Despite a massive investment Google itself couldn't pull it off with Fiber, and I doubt startups have much of a chance.
By the definition that it would compile the entire thing upfront? Hence the name.
"After all, how could I genuinely wish a random German stranger a "Guten Morgen"..."

By being a nice person, just like how one would hold open a door for someone else? Though, that aside, when you say "Guten Morgen", you aren't wishing anything. It's just being polite while at the same time, you are saying something about yourself. For example, you could simply say "Morgen" which would mean you are in a hurry, or, depending on how you said it, that the morning isn't good at all. There are a lot of applications for "Guten Morgen". It all depends on how you say it and in which situation you do it. Anyway, it's not comparable to the questions in your posts as "Guten Morgen" can never be fake. Something like "Wie geht's?" (how are you?) would be more fitting, although it's rarely used as a greeting and more often than not, it would be meant seriously.
It's a lot easier, Russian popular culture is formed by gulags, because a good third of adult men had gulag experience at some point and it was their main life-shaping experience (usually resulting in their rise in social hierarchy too). And in gulag, a smile is a sign of submission.
> “my loud exhaust helps me to be seen”

People are very good at justifying thier anti-social behaviour to themselves.
The idea of having a mental breakdown and being advised to spend 3 minutes in a phone booth in the middle of a warehouse scrolling through advice on how not to completely lose it so that you can continue to functionally carry out your peonage is hilariously horrifying.

It's akin to Foxconn's suicide nets.
It is called open banking. Banks are 'anti-competitive' so some people managed to lobby in a directive that forces banks to provide apis for companies like Klarna to access their bank accounts. All you have to do is accept tos.
Wait what?? There were audio recordings of these???
The fact its necessary at all is a reason to condemn it. Good workplaces don't need this sort of thing.
Also, the "utterly intoxicating" sound is often forced onto others without their consent. Like playing your music through a loudspeaker in a public place.

So yeah, go electric!
I suspect the intent of wellness programs is to reduce healthcare expenses.
No Futurama reference?
Latvian here, very true story
This is super impressive. There is so much one can do with your service, my imagination is running wild.

Can you give some examples of how splitgraph is used in the real world?
Nordics have really poor laws around this. We have these payday loan companies that work under the same principle. Klarna just found a way to conveniently do the same. It is easier to capture buyers at the counter rather than before the counter. Effectively Klarna is a payday loan company in the Nordics and has nothing to do with easy checkout. In fact, they used to offer kickbacks to merchants, so every time someone chose Klarna invoice they would pay the merchant instead of charging for it, because they get so good profit from the individuals due to poor laws.
Why is this news? Google announced Loon was being turned down in January.

https://medium.com/loon-for-all/loon-draft-c3fcebc11f3f
Sorry, yes, must've watched the wrong video!
> RAM 15 years ago was designed completely differently, and had considerably lower capabilities in terms of storage and latency.

You got that backwards, chief. RAM latencies have increased tremendously over the last 15 years.
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Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn
You can do that with wordpress plus a site builder.

There are sure builders that are as good as Webflow, but without losing WP power
I never understood those people. Even the standard, factory sound of my bike was distrubing a little on longer trips...
As an American, I have never trusted people who always smile.

I hate to say this, but in my little life, I was right.

I have a conniving greedy, but very successful financially, little sister, whom used her smile as a tool.
People complain about targeted online advertising, but outdoor advertising can be more annoying.

I live in San Francisco. During a walk along Mission Street, my 4-year-old son said 'cannabis delivered to your door!', loudly and clearly enough that the person a few feet ahead of us stopped and turned around. He was just reading the huge billboard at the side of the street, and didn't know what the product was.
It’s probably common for at least 20 other people.
I'm guessing most of their employees already have a wellness chamber that they refer to as 'home'.

Amazon could make it so the pay and working hours they offer their employees allowed them to spend more undisturbed time there.

I suppose wellness chambers are cheaper, though.
> Aged accounts won't stop anything

You state this like an obvious, well know fact or a law of nature. I don't think it is any of those.

Furthermore there is more advanced solutions like connecting to other accounts like at least one service did (name slips my mind): paste this proof in your Twitter (or HN, or reddit or stackoverflow or whatever) bio and type your twitter (or whatever) handle here and we will verify it.

Yes, people can sell their accounts but there are only so many active 10 year old twitter, HN, reddit accounts ib good standing (and once they are used they are used).

Once it actually get a little bit hard people will start to care more about their accounts. Oh, and for a single individual it gets hard fast.
Found it on YouTube, blocked in most countries but see workaround below [1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL5I4u5RSpQ

Whitelisted regions: AD, AT, BE, BG, BL, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GF, GP, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MF, MQ, MT, NC, NL, NO, PF, PL, PM, PT, RE, RO, SE, SI, SK, SM, TF, VA, WF, YT
[2]

[1] downloading/streaming on VLC, mpv or whatever possible from this site: https://videocyborg.com/

[2] source: https://inv.riverside.rocks/watch?v=JL5I4u5RSpQ
Basically any country in this list:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Or one from only Belgium with hospital admissions and posivety rate to correct for the amount of tests taken: https://epistat.wiv-isp.be/covid/covid-19.html

Hospital admissions and deaths follow positive tests like clockwork.

Sure it's possible to fuck up pcr tests if you're doing them badly, but there are no indications that that is happening at a significant scale.
I've had both Yamaha and Honda motorcycles in the past, and all of them had extremely poor suspensions. My Honda XLV1000 fell multiple times from the stand because how soft the suspension became after only 6 months even after tuning it for maximum force.
I'm surely a contributing factor for being overweight, but they should be anyway approved for 2 people, and swapping the suspensions with aftermarket quality ones always solves the problem. Looks like many Japanese made bikes share this problem; they're fantastic, but their suspension system is definitely not on par.
CliFM 1.1: New features and a decent logo
How to win a game against a clock when launching a SaaS Business
The On-Site Unlocking Trade – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Crystal is little like Ruby now.
I don’t know the situation in the US well, could you point out one such regulation that would force a corporation to behave like a sociopath?
U.S. population 2019-2019 widget to embed in Notion and Miro
All people can have bad days/weeks/months even in the best of workplaces.
why did they design it to look as a suicide booth? it looks like they are mocking the workers.

If they were serious about that it would have comfy sofas and billiard tables or something.
Conspiracy theory time:

Maybe a bad US actor deliberately leaked the information, but in a way that make it look accidental.

Or maybe the ex-President already leaked it in a private meeting, so it doesn't matter.
A society of hypercapitalism, that serves some, while leaving out most others.
Discussed in the article itself.
- I slipped on the thermal transfer this morning.. It's never happened before. I wasn't concentrating enough.

[1]: THX 1183, https://youtu.be/U0YkPnwoYyE
WeWork founder Adam Neumann received $445m payout in exit package
Well I typed it, obviously. But my existence doesn’t say anything about whether a ‘hard problem’ of consciousness is a useful way to think about the human mind.
I have a few Scottish friends who experienced the same thing moving to London. People on the tube thought they were nuts for smiling and occasionally starting a conversation.
This is so grim. A repurposed phone booth. Reprogramming via 'mental health relaxation videos.
I mean, you can have valuable metrics. However reaching a local minima of optimal KPI is very easy when all is said and done.

The hard part is factoring out/in the core philosophy of those metrics.

Like designing a target and then designing all your arrows to meet it.
No, I was just curious how big a mining pool one had to have to pull it off. I invite you to do the same for ETH if you're curious about it.
There is nothing you can do for yourself, except giving yourself the time and space.
There is no magic potion for it, it just takes time.

Just know there are always others who also have to cope with the same loss in their own complex ways. Some people cope by changing their memory and describe the characteristics of a person completely differently, alienating your experience. Nobody will correct them, because everybody becomes so respectful towards others. Without real notice this damages relationships in the long run. It shouldn't, but at some point you can't stand the people close to you and their sadness and twisted polished stories anymore.

There is no malice to it, we all experience things differently. Do you ever really know a person? A whole life is quite a long time and some of us only see some facet of the life of others and there are things we don't want to see.

It seems strange, but the dead really don't care about this world anymore, it is only for the living. It is not about respecting their whishes, it never was, the dead are owned by the people close to them and they even decide who that person was. It is about what they need and that is the unimportant stuff you should forget anyways.

Many great mathematicians are buried with citations, they already regretted when they were alive.

But after a few years and without the haze of pain and emotions, real human and normal stories and memories can emerge again. If you lucky, somebody is there who can acknowledge them with a smile and a mind falling back in time. That is the good stuff.

May your experiences be different.

Your time machine is between your ears, it is very powerful and can be tainted by emotions and pain, so be careful when to use it out loud.
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They may use Toyota's speaker thing that emits a sound at low speeds, which was specifically created to reduce noise pollution.
You saved yourself from getting pretty sick most likely too
What is your proposal to ‘fix’ this ‘problem’?

This is where the actual issue is I think. The usual solutions proposed are to increase taxes on the 10%, and increase spending much more than that, and inflate the money supply. A lot of people see all of this as the exact mechanism which transfers wealth to the 0.01% at the expense of everybody else.

Has there ever been a centrally-planned economic policy implementation that actually reversed concentration of wealth and power?
Impressive, almost 600 words and not a peep about the lawsuit they lost, and invalidation of patents. Oh Im sorry, I mean settled ;-) how insensitive of me. Of course they didnt steal anything, there is no conviction.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-lawsuit-that-could-pop-alpha...

https://9to5google.com/2017/07/10/project-loon-patents/

https://www.law.com/therecorder/2019/07/29/google-settles-ip...
Well, it wasn't in the US
This "quasi-mystical framing" by Chalmers was a major contributor to recharging and refocusing the contemporary philosophical and scientific attack on the problem of consciousness.
Ah, I remember seeing this when it was first posted in comp.lang.c and being duly impressed. I had definitely a printed typeset copy in various work environments.

Remember, it was a time when the language had no function prototypes, and we were seeing more and more code abusing parameter passing and value returning by "knowing" what happens.

Re-reading it now, I'm amazed on how general the commandments are, the underlying wisdom applicable to any language and system.
I know my expectations of worker rights are skewed by living in a country that isn't America, but that's what annual leave/sick leave/mental health leave is for. If, after all that, work is still unbearable, there's a bigger problem with that specific workplace.
What's next? Having to learn their languages?
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First Amendment protection of commercial "speech" is weaker than that for political speech or artistic expression.
Can that company become any more inhumane? This must be some April Fools joke.
What's the problem with getting it approved?
Then why not introduce a wellness room that has regular dimensions? Somewhere with comfortable seating and the ability to move around in?
Yup auto delete your old messages, social media and downloads. Forward anything importantly email and archive that locally; or photos and self hosted blogs. That works for me.
The box is soundproof, and you are allowed to discuss unions with yourself while in it. There's no echo listening in either, in order to maximize wellness effects.
And then they go into a tiny box/phone booth and hide? You serious now?
Worked for a company where everyone logs time, the owner occasionally scans time logs and without knowing the context mains about how long something took, gets other staff to judge me based on criteria I know nothing lo about.

For example as a team lead am i still getting enough coding hours in. Am I mingling with other team leads and coming up with biz dev ideas despite wading through massive backlogs of badly scoped work that needs to be delivered yesterday.

Starts firing people and a decent clip and then I’m told via innuendo that eyes are on my performance.

Quit the next morning. To save money they offered zero notice and I was happy to accept.

Easy decision. If he fired me it would be around Christmas. Quitting increased my chances of finding a next job before then.
Some middle-manager was tasked to do "something" about employee wellness, and discovered soon enough theres little they can do without will from very high up in the chain of command.
Not everyone's home is a center of calm and might even be the source of stress. An employee might be going through a tough relationship patch, a difficult time with their kids, have a family member staying for a long period of time. Moves like this might genuinely help some employees
> REBOL/Red-lang goes more towards "a more pragmatic regular language for pattern recognition"

Rebol and Red use embedded PEG parsers, which, by definition, support context-free, and not just regular, languages.
Rebol family of languages is not related to Snobol. They also have PEG parsing engines, not regex ones.
The design gives me some serious Horizon Zero Dawn vibes.
how is that?
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I'm guessing this is intended to make legislators more in touch with their communities. But it also makes them less professional.
Schrödinger's Code
That's a brilliant book. A friend of mine once bought an original copy in auction and let me read the whole thing.

I do agree with the GP that the American style has rubbed off on the British. Then again I'm Scottish and we've always been closer to the Irish in that regard.