skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a lovely piece of kit, and I am sorely tempted to put in an order, but LEGO's promotional video and associated text descriptions seem to be a little deceptive.

As far as I can tell, the model - which has a "LEGO first" - Black and red ink spool ribbon is a new fabric element. - and each key has a letter, and the carriage moves, etc ... doesn't actually type.
I wonder what minimum size of steel billet can be dropped from space and punch a hole in a fishing vessel's hull?
Aluminum is recycling’s new best friend, but it’s complicated (2019)
console.dir does the same thing as console.log in every modern browser. I'm tired of seeing this "tip", and it's a pretty clear indication the article is poorly researched, the only difference is that it pre-expands the object.
Why customer service gets worse as a startup grows
GDPR actually applies to any kind of tracking, it's not just cookies. You also need consent do fingerprinting that can identify individual users, for example.
Don't forget to release yourself under the GPL. There will be forks of you doing everything from guiding a missile into a target to sex work in a sex bot. Sadly there will probably also be versions of you in torture dungeons being broken over and over by sadists, but some version of you would probably last forever even if its just running a super smart coffee machine.
>Tor Browser

I can think of no better way to guarantee you'll be put on a surveillance list of state level actors than to use Tor.
I'm not an expert but I have read the text. You should talk to an expert.

Having said that my understanding is you don't need consent if the information processed is not personally identifying. The gdpr text is also quite clear that consent is just one of a number of legal bases for processing pii and there are a whole bunch of provisos for relying on it (which are still ignored on most sites)

For your stats use case I think the best option would be to store and log anonymized stats that wouldn't be considered personally identifiable information. And then you shouldn't need a consent form.
Really seemed like a GH project to me.
Ribosome – A simple generic code generation tool
Review of Charles Murray's “Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America”
'Embezzlement' seems harsh, 'crony capitalism' (collusion between a business class and the political class) is IMHO the cause here.
Title: “Manufacturing gene and RNA therapies”
“A challenge for both gene and RNA therapies is getting the nucleic acid molecules into a cell. […]”
For something to have the ability to become conscious it need some form of intelligence. There is absolutely zero intelligence in any ML/AI with today's models. None. No wisdom, nothing. Not even remotely close to a retarded cockroach.

The only way "AI" would be conscious would be if the 'machine' it ran on could be possessed by something, somehow. The question then becomes, possessed by what.. We probably don't want that.
They should use it as their main domain
A Visualization of Galactic Settlement
History of the Copts
Definition is orthogonal to understanding.

The key question isn't "do we understand it?" but can we disprove it?

As an example, what a "country" is is well understood but not well defined. There are all sorts of examples of places that either are or are not a country depending on whose definition you use - transnistria, Nauru, Vatican, Somaliland, etc.

You could argue that passing the Turing test equates to consciousness for instance, which is fairly well defined. In which case it was achieved in 2014 (I think?).

Or not - but if it's not, what is the definition?
It's such a huge pain to set up bash on windows (it worked fine, very easy on one laptop but I cannot get bash or wsl working on another newer laptop) that I wrote a very basic wrapper for shell scripts that will transform arguments of Linux user land (like cp, mv, rm) to their windows equivalent. This way all you need is python and your "bash" scripts can just work. Sorta. There are a lot of edge cases. But at least it works enough that I can stop trying to figure out how to install bash on windows or what's wrong with my laptop.
Be sure that I didn't give any consent...
Chasing the Myths of Mexico’s “Superrunners”
IIRC from Terminator 2: Judgement Day, humanity decided to turn Skynet off the second they realized it had achieved self-awareness. Skynet initiated the nuclear holocaust and human genocide program as a self-preservation mechanism.

For a completely different take on how something like Skynet could end, check out the 1970 film Colossus: The Forbin Project.
DuckDuckGo’s quest to prove online privacy is possible
Antarctica being survivable seems unlikely. Unlike Greenland, Antarctica has the Southern Ocean's Circumpolar Current keeping it cold: https://blog.csiro.au/explainer-how-the-antarctic-circumpola...
The problem with this argument is that this is effectively happening every time you fall asleep or get knocked out. Your consciousness shuts off during both and you rely on memories to preserve the illusion of continuity. In a very real sense, you are dying every day and having your previous state restored - albeit with some behind the scenes processing of the day's experiences during sleep.
It’s no secret that large companies typically offer better pay and benefits across industries. And even Amazon and Apple have excellent pay compared to most other companies.
It appears to me that the line is quite thick if you want to draw it between guys with guns and chocolate on a shelf. One of those situations is pretty transparently more coercive than the other.

However, with reference to say the East India Companies, history has established that bands of guys with guns is also a path to being hailed as a business guru.
Connected devices are latest Senate antitrust focus
Apple to add VRR support to Mac for smoother gameplay
Obviously, noise cancelling earbuds
I'm no fan of him and i'm not knowledgeable, but from a quick search the only thing antisemitic i could see from him was using on stage a pig with a david star and a dollar sign (sigh).

Not that it's ok at all, but is he known for other antisemitic displays/rhetoric? Or is fighting against Israel's apartheid and denouncing that politicians are sold to billionaires now antisemitic?

I'm really not OK with the "jews = money" trope which is a marker of far-right conspiracy theories and is growing more and more popular in the public discourse, at least here in France (especially since Dieudonné was repressed precisely for holding such bigoted views). I'm also really not OK with colonization and apartheid and the State of Israel. I'm not jewish but a lot of left-wing jews are on the same page.
I've invariably found that most people who say they don't find philosophy useful, subscribe to a philosophy somebody already described at some point in history. Most people at some point in their lives think they're terribly unique, and then realise they are quite the opposite.
Nietzsche has struck me as mostly ramblings from a very troubled mind. He had terrible migraines, very often. I suspect some of that agony found its way into his writings. Being controversial doesn’t mean you are being right.
I deleted the app on my Iphone. I don't regret at all. My mind seems clearer, not swamped into unnecessary content curated by the algorithms. I loved Instagram because I love painting, and photography, and visual arts in general but these past years it has become terrible with all the videos, and advertisement. And to answer your second question, when I feel mentally exhausted I try to do something physical like going out for a short walk. Seek boredom is an excellent advice !
> Regular modern computers process functions in a binary fashion, carrying out tasks that use fragments of data that are only ever a 1 or 0. Quantum computers use subatomic particles to perform calculations at far greater speeds than existing supercomputers, and data can be both a 1 and 0 at the same time.

twitch

(this is very wrong)
UK in talks with 6 firms to build gigafactories for EV batteries -FT
I do not have the source code for my phone and this switch is a SW switch. There is no guarantee that it does what it claims. It's like the mute label in conferencing SW: you cough and the SW tells you that "you are *sic" muted"
Cardboard Cutout Dog (2003)
I installed wsl on like 10 machines, including "newer laptops", and never had problems with the setup. Instead of solving your actual problem you created a whole new problem domain, that seems... not like the way to go
See Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
Top U.S. senator fears Big Tech at home as Alexa, Nest dominate
Vodafone, Amazon partner to launch 'edge computing' in UK
Thank you! I want to explicitly state my agreement, due to the sensitivity of nuance here.
Prairie Madness
Like emacs coffee mode, https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CoffeeMode
You can find the first version of analytics here : https://app.axolo.co/leaderboard/axolo-co

This is a work in progress. We iterate with our beta cohort to build the panel they want. In addition to the information you can see there, we let you know if we detected potential risks in your code development process (pull requests merged without any review for example).

If you're interested in knowing more about our roadmap concerning the analytics, we might build a separate app for analytics only.
"Continuity" is a strange thing to have as a requirement. General anesthesia, in so far as your conscious experience goes, is distinctly not a continuous experience.
Ericsson sees global 5G subscriptions hitting 580 mln this year
Thanks! I'll check the reference document to search for something that works. In the past, I had tried (to no avail) with the `userspace` governor, `cpufreq-set`, `cpupower` and also `/sys/*/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq`; hopefully, I'll find other info in the document.
Can someone please ELI5 a better explanation?
Instead of permitting sites to request consent of the user directly, they should be required to request consent via an official EU site. It could work like an authorisation redirect flow. This would standardise the consent UI, and prevent sites from implementing dark patterns.
Assuming you mean the linked "Fitt's law", I don't see how this would apply here. If the icon size and the distance are the same, this law wouldn't differentiate between the button being in the middle or on the left of the taskbar.
"Windbags when it comes to fine speeches, skillfully balanced resolutions and legalistic castles in the air, the Hindus are real experts" --Sir Winston Churchill (b. 1874)
https://archive.is/XlOXf
A guide to living at a black hole
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Pytorch 1.9
> It is a simple fact that there are two major definitions on the Wikipedia entry for gene therapy:

I read this as a single definition rather than two distinct ones but, regardless of how you read this, mRNA vaccines do neither of these two things.

> it can be parsed as such that they are a genetic modification of a viral cell

No, it cannot be parsed like this. “Genetic modification” has a specific, technical meaning and mRNA vaccines do not perform it. Furthermore, I’m not even sure what you mean by “viral cell”, since viruses don’t form cells (they form virions). Do you mean a host cell infected by a virus? Because that doesn’t apply here: mRNA vaccines don’t specifically act on infected cells, they act on healthy cells.

> we can parse mRNA vaccines as “the treatment of disease by reconstructing genetic material”

Again, we cannot do this, because it’s flat out incorrect. What does “reconstructing genetic material” even mean in this context? There’s no defect, so there’s nothing to reconstruct, and the mRNA vaccine does not do so anyway since, again, it does not modify the host genome.

— In general I’ll note that several sentences in your answer simply make no biological sense and use made-up terms.
there's fair amount of comments here (and in other similar posts) which read like:

'nushell is basically a powershell something'
'bash/zsh is better/worse than pwsh/etcshell'

this is very unfair because pwsh allows control over of the all .NET/COM+ available in a system (well, .NET Core only on non-MS, but still).

while nushell stands on its own shoulders or if u like - allows control of other programs executed, but would not easily call into any API that is a language-specific one nor parse its output as structured one.

so when comparing bash, zsh, nushell, pwsh one should take into consideration that these have different foundations and goals even. like perl stands on top of CPAN, all the JVM stuff on top of all classes, etc.

although it is difficult to say why no one has created (to my knowledge) reasonable JVM-based shell, nor a python-based-one, since java targets such a large number of OS/platforms and provides such a broad library. perhaps because people assume that a shell program should follow the UNIX concept of one-program-does-one-thing-only. on the contrary - it would be a killer feature to have nushell be able to natively execute java/python/whatever API calls and use the structured output (like pwsh indeed).

in essence - is very limiting to compare bash to pwsh only in the sense of 'how much can be done with only few characters', because this always leads to very opinionated and biased arguments and eventually discussions taken out of context.
ZFS fans, rejoice–RAIDz expansion will be a thing soon
I agree. Wouldn’t we all love to go back to the old old internet, where people did things a) because they wanted to, or b) because you paid them to. Both of these things make sense and are how the world has worked for a long, long time. This vague, nebulous money from ads and tracking has all the wrong incentives. It’s not “make the best hammer” anymore, it’s “make an addictive hammer that you’ll never want to leave your hand”. TV has and had the same problem to a smaller extent, and sports are infected with it too

I honestly think there’s a good case to be made for banning advertising entirely, and replacing it with a societal stipend for art and media, or at least restricting it to specific places. The back of newspapers, for example.

I’m sure there are plenty of problems with and arguments against the idea, but it’s definitely worth discussing
My experiments confirms your analyze.

On a SATA hard drive using ext4, I copied a directory with a large hierarchy of file and 216MB overall. After 2 warm-ups, I launch this simple benchmark.

time cp -r moodle X
13.76s s (0.06s u + 2.44s k) 18% CPU

time fcp-0.1.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu moodle X
46.12s s (0.15s u + 2.47s k) 3% CPU

I emptied linux cache before each run with `echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches`, but this does not remove the HDD buffering. I suspect that fcp would be worse in real life conditions (no warm-up).

This does not mean the fcp is bad or not performant. But it some cases, it can be 3x slower.
In historic move, Sony Music is disregarding unrecouped balances
Or hundreds/thousands like Verizon Media/Oath & friends.
> without the possibility

POTS
BS, as if culture is something that is constant and does not evolve. It's more like a feedback loop. Culture influences results and results influence culture. Tip it the wrong way and it's hard to get out of a negative feedback loop.
"How do they deal with vulnerability, or being wrong, or someone else being wrong?" this is indeed an excellent question. I had so many difficulties in the past with engineers who where "never wrong". Thanks very useful advices.
class != caste

You can change class, not caste in your lifetime;
"Whereas today, we have storytellers that specialize in peddling outrage."

I'd guess that media has known for ever that outrage is a potent driver of engagement. Technology today enables outrage delivery to be highly sculpted and surgically delivered. In my opinion this is a major driver of the increasing polarization of America.

The depth of our natural predilection to focus on threats has been discovered by neural networks and their systems optimized for profit, not truth and relevance.
Was just thinking how the original Yacht Rock episodes are an example of early 2000s web ethos, which turns out to be pretty much the opposite of Qanon:

Yacht Rock: poked fun at a subject the author obviously admired-- 70s smooth rock

Qanon: takes itself extremely seriously and generates hatred for most of its subjects

Yacht Rock: took great care in mixing fantasy with reality. In episode five Steve Porcaro of Toto is portrayed scheming to write a song for his real-life girlfriend at the time, Rosanna Arquette, partly by tempting-- and eventually failing to convince-- Michael MacDonald to perform on the song. (I just love that the entire plot is fan fiction about Toto's interaction with a performer who in reality had absolutely nothing to do with the track!) An early fan commented that in their zeal the authors got a basic premise wrong: it was David Paich, not Steve Porcaro, who wrote the song "Rosanna." The authors then pointed out that even in the ridiculous fantasy plot, Steve Porcaro ends up calling on "his brothers in Toto" to help him write the song for his girlfriend.

Qanon: Sloppy blending of fantasy with reality, so careless that I've never seen a successful parody of it. I'd bet even today if you pointed out an error in the fantasy logic of Yacht Rock, the author would kick himself. But in Qanon, contradictions in the canon are implicitly accepted as they make the tent bigger.

Yacht Rock: the bright side of DIY ethos. Didn't ask nicely for song rights. Just took music they liked, wove a fantasy plot through it to make a room full of friends laugh, then posted the result on the internet for others to download.

Qanon: the dark side of DIY ethos. Took the crowd-sourced "meme economy" and used it to create what looks to me like a cult mentality-- everything from the seemingly reasonable facade of "save the children" to separating adherents from outsiders and loved ones.

Yacht Rock: ended up positively influencing the careers of their subjects for their tours

Qanon: literally rioted at the Capitol Building

Yacht Rock: even articles like this one carry on its ethos of detailed investigation of a beloved, if flawed, genre.

Qanon: look up what the two Qanon dipshits in Congress are up to today, I guarantee it will fit this comment.

PHP on a website: delivered Yacht Rock videos to site visitors

Whatever you're currently working on: ???
I'm using Brave on iOS as we speak...
I’ve flagged your comment for hate speech. You’ve tried to mask your bigotry with vague statements (“other minorities”) but I’ve met too many bigots in India to be fooled.

Let’s analyse that claim shall we? You claim that a certain minority is more prone to committing crimes. Maybe that’s correct. With 21% of people in jail awaiting trial being members of that minority, there might be something to it. But when these people get their day in court, the charges don’t hold up. Only 16% of convicts are members of this minority. 16% is exactly what you’d expect from a minority that comprises 15% of the population (Source - https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/02/06/indias-police-are-...). If you’re wondering why these folks are over represented in the jail population, it’s exactly because of bigotry like yours. A survey in 2019 found that 50% of Police in India think that Muslims are “naturally prone to committing crimes”. This bigotry becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
The pen and paper kind of steno or the digital kind?
What device is this?

AFAIK digital steno depends on steno keyboards (which are very cool), and I haven't seen any portable device with one.
I would love to have a laptop with an ortholinear n-key rollover keyboard (it's easy to adapt an ortholinear keyboard to steno mode and switch between modes).

Also I have not seen any software supporting analog steno, but that would be awesome.
I do agree. Frankly speaking I'd probably make more money having a small kebab kiosk than a software developer in Europe. And then they keep complaining that the US tech companies keep eating European companies for lunch.
I remember when cable TV used to be like that...
Not a question, but I made a similar tool in c++[1], for Linux only using io_uring, and a blog post explaining its internals [2]. I'll definitely have a look some time soon, I'd be interested to see how performance compares (I gathered from some other comments here that you're using blocking io in threads?)

1: https://github.com/wheybags/wcp

2: https://wheybags.com/blog/wcp.html
No, enforcement is an easy problem. You sink violating ships. Fishermen will give your coastal waters a wide berth if they know there is even a 1% probability they will be killed. If you're not willing to sink ships then it's pretty much impossible.
> We tend to downplay things we do or build ourselves, as if the very fact that another person (a boss) tells us to do something makes it immediately more valuable than if we choose to do that something ourselves.

Oh wow this just clicked something for me. I need to do that for me too so that I actually work on the damn things instead of thinking of them as projects on the side
What was the problem with WSL? It's been trivial to install on every machine I've tried: work, personal, old, new, upgraded from Windows 7, local account, Microsoft account, etc.
122 F seems to be 50 °C. Are those things designed for space or for home office ?
> free market does not maximize anything.

That's a little too strong. It doesn't maximise efficiency of outcomes. But it does (more or less) maximise profit under free-market rules.
Thief steals from San Francisco Walgreens with security in plain sight [video]
The most standard objection of all is that we're trying to emulate an extremely complex long running chemical process in 1s and 0s on very different hardware, and whilst it may be logically possible to do this, the human brain isn't nearly smart enough to understand its own architecture well enough to design an even more complex emulation architecture (either a brain emulation program or an accurate evolution-of-consciousness simulator).

I don't think that requires a "soul": I think it works quite well with the assumption that human self awareness is linked to complex organism-survival-biased chemical processes we call emotions which are pretty orthogonal to the sort of probability-estimation optimizations we select for with ML models. And also pretty orthogonal to those models yielding useful results...
I’m sure you’re right that a small minority doesn’t mind being tracked and provided personalised ads, but there are other problems too. Advertising brings poor incentives for businesses, even worse than usual. Engagement is king, and product satisfaction is hardly relevant
> I wanted to experiment with using Pi's to monitor experimental setups, instead of using full-on PCs as we do now, which would save a ton of money.

Because the costs you think of are but a fraction of the costs that are involved in keeping them accounted for, updated, monitored etc.

I have these discussions with creative individuals far too often :)
Protocol 17 Improvements (Stellar)
I was lost but Since I've read along this SwiftUI’s editor is very similar in this regard. Using the code things get well
Another down side is, you don't want to do this if you're in the swampy south. You'll bring in all the humidity and that will cause all sorts of problems. Also, you bring in any dust, pollen, etc that may be lingering.