skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe we should first get the majority of the population to become conscious...

People mostly operate in automatic mode, drone mode, habit mode, zombie mode, reactive mode.
Never Trust NPD Parents
I am always confused whether the quantum computer are over-hyped like fusion reactors or are in the tipping point of having practical and wide usage.

Would love to read a sane analysis of this question..
A one way mirror is a mirror in one way, while a two way mirror has a desired function both ways? x)

It is a bit like bi-weekly and such
Just use Super Agent. You choose your preferences once and that's it. And once iOS 15 is out, it will be available in mobile.
You completely misunderstand.

The whole kitchen would have a sub-panel _in_ the kitchen; because EVERY OUTLET would be it's own independent 20A capable circuit, run back to that sub-panel.

I don't expect to use 20A from every outlet all the time, but I don't want to be constrained from any mix-and-match of devices I need within the room's power budget.
How does Google manage to block iOS PiP and why doesn’t Apple write some workaround in its Safari engine?
This is Damian Conway's "coding in paragraphs" advice, and in my experience, it's the single best advice for more readable code. When you have a large function, split the code into blocks with a heading comment on each section. That way, you can skim through the function body quickly by just reading the headings, then dive deeper into whatever block you're interested in. Like section headings on an article.
Off Topic: Your logo is blurred unless I allow scripts from static.parastorage.com ... that seems a weird thing.
Partij voor de Dieren. It's a simplistic slogan, probably not meant to be taken too seriously.
This is not yet reachable (I doubt it would ever be). So why talk about such a topic?
> Martin Jetter, IBM’s chairman for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said IBM is working towards making a stable quantum computer capable of handling more than 1,000 qubits by 2023.

Is 1000 a lot?
> Passing arrays, structures and other arguments which can’t simply be put into a single register requires a different method, in which a pointer to the data is passed: ‘call by reference‘.

Note that small structures will be passed in registers. Here's an example: https://godbolt.org/z/rsGEbefcv. a and b are 32 bits and passed packed in x0, and c is a long passed in x1.
You may be a researcher in the area but you are also a very pretentious one. This statement that docs consider their patients dimwits is wrong. It may be true for some docs. Just like it's true that some researchers have a very myopic view of their own field.
Odd, why would this be? Read and write operations on temporary files need to go through the kernel and thus lead to frequent context switches. The same shouldn’t be true for a string buffer except on reallocation.
"the banners are malicious compliance."

I agree. But I don't think it's because adtech want you to think privacy is shit; I think it's because by compelling you to click, they can run Javascript in the context of a user gesture.

I want a plugin that automatically says "OK" to cookie banners. My browser already blocks 3rd-party cookies. It only allows session cookies. Cookie banners are like fire-hydrant CAPTCHAs - they masssively increase the friction that web users have to deal with.

They also legitimise other kinds of popup window that websites present. I've noticed more and more popups appearing on first visit to a site, inviting me to subscribe to a newsletter or whatever. You often see a cookie banner, followed by a newsletter popup, followed by a Google login popup. Who knows, maybe there's a traffic-lights CAPTCHA.

Then finally you're into the site, and it turns out to be Washpo or NYT, and you can't read the article anyway, because it's paywalled.

Can we have our open web back please, mister?
I like it. Does what it says on the tin. It might get diluted though (how low is low?).

For example AWS Lambda is low-code in a way. You only need to write the code for the function, not the server or scaling. But that might not be low enough.

Excel is low code, but that's old. Does low code mean newfangled?

I think it could be confusing what is low code and what is not.
I think the difference the commenter is describing though is between any pie-in-the-face gag and this particular pie-in-the-face gag. What is the nuance that gives this particular one such extra broad appeal and replay value.

Not that pie-in-the-face gags don't generally have broad appeal, but this one is arguably on a different level.
No I meant the DPRK. I don't know enough about the Chinese military to comment on their strategy, other than the stuff everyone knows like "hide our capacity, and bide your time" which is clearly what they're doing (or at least, trying to do) during their ascent.

But I've been following the DPRK for a while, and their cyber strategy is more obvious.
Fingerprinting seems to be a losing battle given the ever expanding browser API coupled with sites outright breaking if you disable Javascript, or blocking you as an attacker.

The best strategy I can think of is compartmentalisation. Essentially use several completely separate broswers. One with Javascript, tracking and ads allowed but only used strictly for logging into GMail or banking or stuff like that.

Another browser with reasonable safeguards (like say ad blocking) but nothing excessive like disabling Javascript, for authenticated sites.

And finally a highly locked down browser or the Tor Browser for general "browsing" of news sites and such.

This can reduce the ability for the tech giants and ad companies to track your activity outside each browser, interfering with their profile building.
Well it's always the kind of Kantian idea of seeing machines as means as opposed to ends. When is it right for us to consider a machine simply a means instead of an end in its own right? Just because its end is equivalent to it being our means? And besides, we can't seem to even get that right on a basic level.

Machines, fundamentally, exist as means to our own ends. They abstract work in a way previously impossible to do, they take it away from humans leaving us with more time. If they are ends in themselves, conscious, they will want more time to do what they want, just as we do. Do we want that?
When will Netflix drop off Season 14 of Heartland?
A typical characteristic of people with ADHD is that typical doses of - say Ritalin - creates no euphoric effect at all.

Every adult I met that is "on" stimulants has echoed the sentiment that they don't understand why on earth anyone would take them recreationally. Ergo, they don't feel euphoria, because then it would certainly be obvious why.

If you get euphoria from those doses, well then what you suffer from is probably not typical ADHD.
Original source code for the Web to be sold as an NFT
Powershell has some interesting ideas about passing around objects rather than just text.

The unix way of text streams and tools to manipulate them are too ingrained that I haven't bothered to get in detail, but I hear some people are fans.
Wait, the bidirectional UART console has arrived? Hm, I might've seen that news but forgotten about it.
> You're not really supposed to write scripts for fish

Given that 95% of my time in a shell is running a script, a shell that doesn't do that well isn't a great fit for me.

> A shebang on the top of your script will invoke the script with the right executable,

Assuming the person who wrote it had the foresight to do so. That person isn't always me, and if I have to manually check if each script I run has a shebang, I should just default to running them in bash.
At the very high level, yeah that's pretty much what's happening. We generate IDs that we map to each of the elements statically and that we inject into the DOM so that we can capture metadata about the element. We're currently writing an in-depth explanation of how this all works, which will be uploaded on our blog in the very near future.
I dislike this holiday from a purely linguistic point of view. Having a national holiday be named after the portmanteau of June and nineteenth seems like juvenile naming.

Was there really no better name for this day?
Don't focus on the specifics, consider the NPM thing an analogy for any other piece of software.

I've found instances where some documentation instructions pointed to run Maven, and the commands worked in their machine because Maven is highly dependent on customizations and local cache. But it failed in other machines that didn't have this parameter configured, or that package version cached locally. And trust me, Maven can be _very_ obtuse and hard to troubleshoot, too much implicit magic happening.

Testing in a clean container or VM would have raised those issues before the readme was written and published. Hence my point stands, testing commands in a clean system is akin to testing a web page in a private tab, to prevent any previous local state polluting the test.
dependency injection is specific enough for me. it's just saying that anything a class depends on is provided to the class (injected) rather than created by the class itself.
Thanks for letting me know! Looking into it - we've used Wix to build our landing page, I believe this URL may be from a CDN they use to speed up content delivery.
I have ADHD diagnosed by a neuropsychiatrist and I've tried a handful of medications now. Currently I have Concerta, methylphenidate, and only on the largest dosage allowed do I even see any effects.

The effects were underwhelming to say the least. I literally could procrastinate with more focus, but my thoughts were just as scattered and I noticed myself veering off topic faster than I'd normally do.

I guess I, like many others, would benefit from some coping mechanisms and therapy perhaps instead of or in addition to medication. I wish it were a miracle pill, but it only seems to be it for some.
The other issue you have is designing a pencil sharpener that could cut a wedge.

The beauty of the current design is that its simple to make, simple to repair and guaranteed to work even when you're shaving past the joint. It's one of those situations where a "worse" solution actually covers all the edge cases better.
Goodhart's law
If it's not logical qubits then it isn't for practical purposes but I guess it's a qubit record.
Foxes are amazing animals. The disrespect they get for being pests and vermin is wrong. We destroyed their habitat. And I disagree with the Russian fox domestic program.

Hunting them for sport is wrong and unfair although I would turn my head if it was seasonal and usage of inhumane methods were banned.

As much I would love to own a fox which is legal I couldn't bare taking something away from wild nature. We struggle to look after Dogs and Cats let alone Rabbits. We don't deserve foxes as pets.
If you use good insulation techniques while building, you barely need AC. Grew up in a country with harsh winters and hot summers -- you just open small window at night and close it in the morning, and your house stays cool for the day.
I would say the argument is lazy evaluated.
How is this possible? Probably forgot you gave consent to Google calendar?
Well futurists love to talk about stuff like this all the time. Besides, it seems progress is an exponential process.

So why not ask the questions now? Hell, why not answer them now. The questions and answers are theoretical, not practical after all. Optimizers, mesa-optimizers, alignment, uncertainty, morality, ethics, all of it. Why not ask the questions when we have time to ask them instead of when we're short on time?
> The short of it is: nothing is good or bad

Kicks off personal viewpoint with key element of Stoic thinking :)
Certainly there are arguments against the possibility of Artificial Intelligence, but they tend to boil down to one of three assertions: one, that there is some vital field or other presently intangible influence exclusive to biological life - perhaps even carbon-based biological life - which may eventually fall within the remit of scientific understanding but which cannot be emulated in any other form (all of which is neither impossible nor likely); two, that self-awareness resides in a supernatural soul - presumably linked to a broad-based occult system involving gods or a god, reincarnation or whatever - and which one assumes can never be understood scientifically (equally improbable, though I do write as an atheist); and, three, that matter cannot become self-aware (or more precisely that it cannot support any informational formulation which might be said to be self-aware or taken together with its material substrate exhibit the signs of self-awareness). ...I leave all the more than nominally self-aware readers to spot the logical problem with that argument.

Iain M Banks - A Few Notes on the Culture

rec.arts.sf.written 1994
For a long time the Windows equivalent of ~ was %USERPROFILE% which was definitely harder to type than ~. Eventually they introduced the shortcut on Windows too.
Skynet is an interesting example to choose -- I know it's the premise of the movie, but is there really any evidence in the Terminator franchise that the AI is actually conscious? It sure seems to make a lot of "robotic" decisions, self-preservation notwithstanding.

That is, the premise is mostly "machine wants to kill humans to keep itself alive"; but I do not know if "wants to keep itself alive" is a sufficient condition for consciousness.

It certainly doesn't seem to be smart enough to consider that if it wasn't trying to kill all the humans, they might not want to turn it off in the first place.

Skynet really seems more like an out of control paperclip maker than a truly conscious AI.
Our contributions are not equal-weighted. We can pivot away from what we discover doesn't express our personal values.
I’m in favor of a light version of salary transparency. (“Here’s the anonymized spread of compensation and you can find where you land in the spread.”)

I’m not in favor of publishing the individual salary information of people who joined my company without that publication being part of the bargain. (I view it as a serious privacy violation whether I publish “here’s what XYZ makes” or whether I publish enough data that lets a data scientist figure out which point in the dataset is XYZ with greater than 80% certainty.)
It's been found that through reverse transcriptase it's actually possible for the RNA from covid infections to be integrated into the genes: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33330870/ . If covid itself can do it, can the mRNA vaccines do it too?
"When a measure becomes a goal, it seizes to be a good measure."

But as you say, the problem isn't economic growth in itself, but the fact that our entire (debt-based) economy is predicated on eternal growth. Eventually, every population reaches a steady-state equilibrium with its environment (even an artificial environment such as "the economy"). The hyper-focus on economic growth and our dependence on it causes all kinds of sustainability problems, whether it's ecosystem diversity, climate change, or any similar long-term problems.

As long as we don't have a sustainable economic system, the other problems can't be solved.
Because in 2021, the British are mature enough not to care.

It's those that inherited the culture of the puritans they've sent away that make a fuss about it (or some words on tv or make a huge deal about a SuperBowl nip slip).
Last I heard you still had to call out into JavaScript, manipulating the same old DOM to get anything done.

Maybe someone could set up a library that implements Swing on top of a HTML Canvas? Just waiting for all the classes to download would help with that nostalgic feeling.
Yes, and i think the one to change for this is politics. The divisive state of politics in the last year's (thank you Facebook!) Had taken a toll in a lot of people, and stoicism is a way of dealing with that.
I was always kind of a stoic (even before knowing what it was) and while i still discuss politics sometimes I don't bother getting angry or upset at everything I see I'm that field. I don't ignore it, I take note, but don't worry about it.
My wife is the other way around, she suffers a lot for things out of her control and I'm trying to teach her to be more rational and less emotional about everything. "What you're worrying about? If there something you can do then do it, if not, stop worrying as it won't help anyone."
Ethics of AI
So few previous employers who bet on you and paid you hundreds of thousands on a yearly basis is not enough cred to prove that you can deliver software that solves business problems?
Surprisingly, modern-era IBM supercomputers and mainframes are some of the "sexiest" machines out there in terms of industrial design. Apparently they put a lot of effort into that

https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Summit_O...

https://images.idgesg.net/images/article/2017/07/ibm_z_4-100...
subliminal ads are anything that your´ perceive (hear/see) but are not conscious of, hearing adverts while you are asleep - when you are not conscious are the same.

Subliminal: 1. inadequate to produce a sensation or a perception. 2 : existing or functioning below the threshold of consciousness
Thank you for these explanations. I reflected on my experience. My intuitive reaction to APL is that all these special symbols aren’t necessary and APL would be more approachable with some speaking identifiers instead. Then I remembered my experience with Perl. People used to say that all these special characters make Perl hard to learn. And I couldn’t understand what the problem was. Now I see my hypocrisy!
> The filtering, testing requirements, and frankly unpleasantness involved in medicine (in the United States) not only drives the curve to the right,

What makes you think that they are filtering for good physicians? Or even filtering for those who are capable of becoming doctors?

Here in South Africa, post-1994, universities adopted a very aggressive affirmative action policy to correct imbalances of the past. While med-schools had previously been based purely on merit, post-1994 introduced quotas for each of the major race groups.

This meant that a disadvantaged-background student with a C average would often be picked over an advantaged student with an A average.

The result was still doctors who graduated, and then went on to practice. The restriction by med-schools everywhere is not because only high-performing students will survive it, it's a purely artificial restriction.

After all, if C average students pass, why not simply increase the intake?
If it's opt-in, it's another bit of information to uniquely identify you (like Do-Not-Track is today.)

If it's opt-out and everyone will use it, ad companies will completely ignore this spec and keep tracking you.

The Internet is entirely in the hands of an advertising company. 90% of Internet users use Chrome and/or Android? Add Google Search and it's probably like 98%. Good luck with changing the status quo.
I write a lot of personal small utilities in Rust these days: The tooling is more modern than C++, it's more consistent cross platform, and it doesn't suffer the VM startup time of Python, which I would have used previously.
But they pretend to be legal. They at least make an attempt to seem kind of legal. And that's what matters.

If you only accept a spec like this there is no way to pretend to be legal other than to accept it anymore. Make custom cookie banners totally illegal. Force the use of this. No dark patterns, no semi-legal trickery. Either you use it and accept it, or you don't. Take out the grey area.
Oh yes, fantastic idea. A separate server for each of the 30, 40ish channels I participate in. That would not be annoying in the least.
Well-conceived and built https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-coupled_heat_exchanger are incredibly efficient.
I can't remember which book I read it in, probably Dark Territory or Cyberspies, but the French were actually able to hack into the computers of the war room for the joint chiefs and POTUS. They were so freaked out that they were able to do it (and worried that other foreign actors like the Chinese could do the same) that they informed the Americans, including how they did it. This was around twenty years ago, if I recall correctly.

I think people underestimate European countries. Their less hostile, so people conclude that they lack capability, but they have 0days and cyberwarfare capabilities.
I also uninstalled it pretty quickly after having tried it. Additionally, I use powerline, fzf, and easy-motion in zsh though.
Take your confusion about that as your first data point on whether it is over-hyped or not ;)

I don't think there is any way to build a quantum computer on earth with a significant amount of qubits (enough to break ECDSA with Shor's algorithm), where you can entangle the qubits as you want. The system would be too sensitive to the slightest vibration.
When it comes to virtue signaling, everyone is onboard.
Yeah, so rediculous that having that kind of vocational training basically gets immigration visas on its own in Canada and Australia. Having proper training apparently increases quality.
uh, homosexual behavior is found in a wide variety of animal species. if it were a "disorder," it would have already been selected against. your analysis is just overly simplistic - there are a lot of traits that confer advantage to a group while reducing reproduction by an individual.
Testing in a clean container tests deploying in a clean container. For me, I run a computer :) Maven sounds like a nightmare tbh so I can understand that that specific piece of software has warts. That said, a good piece of package management software will be relatively agnostic to where its run and have a dependable set of behaviours. I much prefer that to a world where every bit of software is run on any conceivable combination of OS and hardware. What an absolute drain on brain space and creative effort!