skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's quite likely you still wind up "dying" a lot, but you have a very positive answer to the question of "is there life after death?"

Consider it this way: we duplicate you, and in an eyeblink you're either still in your body or still in VR. Subjectively to your body (because your still there) - there's a version of you which dies forever.

But there's also a version which remembers duplication worked. Life after death is assured. So now every version which spins off from that has the surety: duplication means continuance.

Much beyond that point I think it all very much becomes as you say, a psychotherapy problem: who's in the box and who's on the stage doesn't really matter provided you knock yourself out before doing the transfer and don't wake up later. Easy enough to arrange.

Of course, if you were really worried you can hang out till the high-tech "neuron by neuron replacement" process happens, but I think you'd wind up with a lot of people realizing it made very little difference as they moved over to a pure VR existence without quite realizing it had happened till it was done.
Assuming that this comment is 100% in earnest, why are you under the impression that we have to choose between treating human prisoners and self aware AI with dignity? Why not do both or is there some sort of compassion budget that I'm missing here?
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Just keep in mind that a tuple's elements can still be mutable, so it's not a "frozen" data structure throughout.
This recent link posted on hacker news explains it quite well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27439839

"What makes quantum computing so hard to explain?"
We have a radon meter in the house. Even just a single box fan in Window, sucking air out of the house makes and ENORMOUS difference. We're talking <1 ppm, whereas before it could get up to ~12ppm on bad days. We bought a radon removal system when we bought the house, it it doesn't seem to work nearly as well as simply venting the house.
We say they're not conscious because we don't want people to think we're crazy and we would need some extraordinary evidence to claim that they are. That being said, plants do respond to variables in their environment such as moisture, temperature, light levels, availablility of certain chemicals. It's still not entirely clear how they are able to do these things. It's commonly assumed that plants don't "know" about the environment anymore than a mercury thermometer "knows" what temperature it is; the difference is that while we know why the mercury thermometer does what it does, we do not know why a certain seed will only germinate after it has been buried in a dark place for 2 weeks.
The most important concept of GDPR is "Personal Identifiable Information", or PII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_data

You can collect statistics all you want if you anonymize data such as IP addresses. But you can't collect and store PII (or even aggregate data that can be used to identify a certain user, aka fingerprinting) without consent, or without having a legitimate reason.

By legitimate reason I mean that you can freely collect information that is strictly necessary for performing tasks expected by customers. For example, you don't need explicit consent to collect a customer's address for delivering a package via Post. You can also have a cookie for login without requiring "cookie banner". However, you can't repurpose data you collected legitimately for other purposes, such as sending spam.

(Please notice that legitimate reasons don't include anything marketing-related, spam, selling to third parties. "Legitimate interest" in GDPR means the legitimate interest of the customer, not of the business)

About fingerprinting, if it can be used to identify single users, it becomes PII. This means fingerprinting also falls into GDPR.
Frankovich shared her research and patients’ stories at small medical meetings around the country, in hopes that more doctors might consider treating PANS and PANDAS. But as she spoke, some of her peers would stand up and walk out of the room. Others approached her afterward.

This was around 2012, not 1912.

Medical science is an amazing contradiction. It produces incredible benefits like the COVID vaccines, but at other times it's just a bunch of "experts" flailing about, pretending that they're in control of things they clearly don't understand.
Pure Magic: The Oral History of Prince’s Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show
I can name at least Résistance à l'Agression Publicitaire (antipub.org) in the french-speaking world.

It's common for local bands to form and dismantle/replace advertisements. See for example the international campaign there was during COP21 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34958282.amp

In many places across France, we have workshops every week to draw/paint some posters. Then we go on the streets, open the ad panels and replace their ads with our message.

All it takes usually is a 6mm hex key (allen) in which you drilled a hole.
Yeah, it really has. I've been calling this "new-age" stoicism. The best way to recognize it seems to be a complete avoidance of the topic of suicide.

The traditional stoic view of suicide (including the classic defense) is quite offensive to modern humanist sensibilities. This gets in the way of monetization.
Why Choosing the Best Web Template Is Important?
I had problems with WSL on my newer laptop, and it all came down to disabling Secure Boot.
Dang that's wild
miTail, a Bluetooth Enabled Animatronic Animal Tail
Business selling faraday cages for the home, anyone?
Conservative voter here. I like Khan for the position. Let's see if she's able to make some progress.
I wish I could write this well
> If there's one thing that consistently fosters innovation and progress it's competition.

That statement is a bit of a truism, isn't it? If you squint hard enough, you can call most things a competition. If all else fails, in the sexual marketplace because financial success is an indicator of romantic success for males, who happen to have driven a lot of the innovation up to this point.

It also ignores the nuance to be found in whether and where to focus on public investment versus private investment, for one. I don't think you can really sensibly frame all public investment as competition, unless you're stretching it to the amorphous "international competition", in which case the principle is dangerously close to being unfalsifiable.

I'm not saying competition has no role to play, but where are inspiration, the joy of creation, altruism and wanting to abolish frustration and greater problems? We don't just have selfish genes.
Exactly my thinking. My first thought was 'Without someone to enforce them, laws are merely suggestions'.
You underestimate what people will sacrifice in order to be able to ask their phone about the weather instead of taking a look through the window.

Sorry, couldn't resist.
A classical bit is either 0 or 1.

A qubit is a complex unit vector, wherein the classical states of 0 and 1 correspond to antipodal points on the unit sphere painted by the range of possible qubits.
China's Mars Rover
This of course does not cover everything, but I'll try.

Quantum computers store data as states that are either 0 or 1 when you measure them, but before measurement they are in a superposition of these two. Quantum computers are initialized in a ground state, and are programmed by slowly modifying the system such that the new ground state is the solution to the problem you care about. Then you do the measurements and the state collapses to the solution you want.

There are certain specific problems where evolving and collapsing the system in this way is demonstrably faster than the best classical computer algorithms we have today.
Yes I had that experience until this one laptop, ironically it's a surface laptop. Most likely I screwed some setting up but now no tutorial for bash in windows or wsl works anymore and I have no idea how to work around.
Just add sleep to that list. For 8 hours a day my conscious brain checks out and a different set of programs seems to run that I am generally unaware of, except when one dreams up an axe murderer chasing me causing a rapid return to consciousness.
Heating is extremely simple compared to cooling. There will never be a part shortage for heating appliances. A space heater is basically some high-resistance wire and a fan.
For what it's worth, I think of the Eloi whenever I think of the ends of unbounded "progress".
All of the major dictionaries are descriptivist. They describe how people are using words, they do not try to control how words are used.
Oh yeah good catch; they should probably add a disclaimer that it's not functional.
Disclaimer: I use PowerShell on Windows, I've never tried it on Linux, but I don't see why its advantages wouldn't transfer.
That being said, I think it's main advantages are:

- Typed object streams, which gives you stuff like autocomplete, IDE support, and generally there's no need to muck about with sed/awk/xargs
- Very fast, it's absolutely fine to read a file line by line, and parse it in a script, whereas doing the same in bash/awk is a ton slower than clever use of cat/grep/wc (and a myriad of other tools)
- Due to type information being retained, it's a lot easier to figure out what a given script does, without having to know how the output of a given tool looks like, given it's particular command line switches.

This is just my opinion, but PowerShell is a lot more geared toward people like me, who only write a script once in a blue moon/muck about with the build scripts occasionally, while Bash is more geared toward veteran sysadmins who live and breathe this stuff.
Since you've already started, can you do a benchmark of a pair of copies started at same time?

One copy operation is the little files and deep hierarchy. The other copy operation is just a big file. Both operations start at same time and use the same tool.

I'm curious what cp and fcp do to the cache as they operate.
Housing is more expensive? Have you seen rent prices in London or Zurich?

Developers get great healthcare.

It's pretty comparable.
I got a BT warning that I was being scammed. So glad I clicked "proceed anyway" =')
Stay humble and look at lower level positions that have room for growth.

Working in a larger organization requires a different skillset, but if you're good, you should rise quickly.
TestPyramid (2012)
Let me try to be clearer: Is Firefox "enforcing norms" when it allows access to websites a government (US included) has banned? Where does the force in enforceing come in?
Lets just open some wine and see if we can get back into it...
Yet another thing to add to the long list of reasons why I’ll never have a smart speaker in my home.
When you already know the answer
Fascinating really. I don't even know if I have 3g or 4g on my device/contract because I really hate doing anything online with phones. I wonder for which application you even need the bandwidth.

Some say it should really revolutionize IOT and ubiquitously connected devices. I highly doubt that to be honest.

The higher frequency means that connections are less stable and you need more radio masts. That is the opposite of what IOT devices need in my opinion. Imaging might be an exception, but most solutions would just use local wireless connections here as well.

The only instance I need some bandwidth is for tethering when my land connection fails for some reason. What would you do with such bandwidth? Is it really needed? I believe people buying into it are victims of advertising to be honest.
Is this new computer intended to prove some new approach? Why does it exist? Why didn't they build the 1000 qubit model instead? After all, they claim to know how to do that.
No, I think you need to reread my statement.
3 may be too much. I understand the need for a dynamic application platform with a lot of tracking avenues, and the need for a static marked-up documents platform. But why something in between?

Why is it acceptable for a website to require JS just to read some content? We should put more pressure on website owners to stop this nonsense.
Starvation has not been a production issue in a long time. It's a geopolitical distribution issue.
Recent Android phones sync a ton of stuff automatically - which I suppose you agree to by signing in with a Google account, but that's also typically required. I know this because on the last two Android phones I purchased, a set of old outdated contacts from my Google account were automatically synced to the phone as soon as I logged in, which I was required to do to begin using the device.

Believe me, I would have opted out of this had I been prompted to do so during setup.
Doing side-projects is really useful for a lot of companies. Basically they are hiring a talented product people into their team. You know how to handle development/devops/support/marketing for your product. This is a huge plus for the team you are going to join.
Fujifilm resumes normal operations after ransomware attack
A bit too late, but still great for users and for developers. Not so much for cookie banner services, but that's their own fault for providing cookie banners that cover half or more of screen, have confusing selections or none at all and uses dark patterns to push visitor to "Accept All" cookies.
And browsers should ask user for default preference only once, to prevent bothering with useless notifications from each website.
The "domain" I care about is for basic build scripts to work on Windows and Linux. Whichever way gets me back to regular work is the best way! I do not have the experience to debug when BoW or WSL do not work unfortunately.
Oh, thanks for sharing. Maybe I'll try that.
It has one (singular) typing element that moves and hits the 'tape', which you might consider as typing. But, it indeed is not functional for the whole alphabet, nor does it have functional shift keys to shift cases.
Lump together the time you spend working on your side projects as 1 employment entruy.

Bets if you have a company name (and you should have) but if you don't, call it "self employed" and list your activities as if you were working at a company (because you were), best if some of the project have some web presence.

Be prepared to answer the question about your salary at the time, in which case, tell the truth.
My mistake. It does have an option to use JS, though it's not a requirement and it's no-JS by default.
I beg to differ:

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

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

And:
The PVA adhesive was invented in the early 1950s (Elmer's glue). Since then it has been improved and now we have the yellow glues (Carpenter's Glue, Titebond, etc.) and even now the cross-linking PVAs (Titebond II).

so 7 decades...

While the modern pencil was invented in 1795 by Nicholas-Jacques Conte.
Doctors are not here to do research. It's not their job. Yes, this means usual care always lags behind research by years or at least the time to formulate guidelines. No, you'll accomplish nothing trying to force the hand of clinicians in doing stuff they're not educated to do or understand.

Have a weird condition? Sorry, but most of the time you'll be out of luck. And there isn't really anything planned in our healthcare systems to help you. And frankly, people coming into my practice wielding science papers often understand neither what they read, nor that they are asking for an impossible thing. The best I could do if your claim seems realistic is to refer you to a specialist in the matter, but never ever would I act solely on the basis of research papers. And that's because I am a researcher myself, so I know how unreliable that is.
genius, great animations. would love the current score somewhere prominently. couldnt see it on a phone
Fish user here. I've accepted having to drop down to bash here and there. No big deal for me.
Hardly an ELI5
These look mostly NSFW, except for the WinAmp one. To me really scary would be something along www.bankofamerica.5z8.info/bank-login

Specially if my name, email or username is part of the url...
Remora (YC W21) Is Hiring – help build carbon capture for semi trucks
Where do you place the cutoff for opportunity? Are things like innate ability, motivation, interest in lucrative pursuits for their own merits, luck of the draw not also just another kind of opportunity? There is no standard because nobody can agree on a standard. The only thing we can say for certain is that the kind of society you propose will never be attained through free and democratic political processes. Make of that what you will.
But privacy laws are pointless and should be repealed.

All this noise about cookie privacy, fingerprinting, FLoC, tracking, etc. --- what are the actual harms that make these things bad? Has anyone in the real world ever experienced a concrete harm arising from interest targeting? Doubtful.

The EU privacy regime imposes a heavy regulatory burden in exchange for nothing. Information is a non-rivalrous good. Further limiting its dissemination will increase friction all over the internet, impose new transaction costs on previously free interactions, and make the whole network less useful for everyone. And for what? Assuaging the paranoia of a tiny fragile and vocal minority of privacy activists? Sorry, but that's not worth breaking the internet.
Also see https://www.fujifilm.com/uk/en/news/statement-on-june-2021-r...
Protecting Competition and Innovation in Home Technologies

Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Chair Klobuchar presiding

Video of hearing and downloadable testimonies (.pdf format) [1] from witnesses Ryan McCrate (Vice President And Associate General Counsel, Amazon), Wilson White (Senior Director Public Policy & Government Relations), Google Inc., Eddie Lazarus (Chief Legal Officer), Sonos, Matt Crawford (Research Fellow At The Institute For Advanced Studies In Culture (University of Virginia), and Professor Jonathan Zittrain, Professor Of Law And Professor Of Computer Science (Harvard University)

[1] https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/protecting-competi...
Code Smell 80 – Nested Try/Catch
Napoleon, Hegelian Hero
Ask HN: What other boards, besides HN, are good ones for aspiring entrepreneurs?
Any Reddit subs?
Well tldr (or tealdeer) or whatever is a nice example of another modern (semi-)alternative to man. tldr usually just gives a handful of explained example commands rather than an actual manual, but it's often enough information to solve the problem. I bet these some of these tools have pages on that at least.

(I agree that a real manual is necessary too. Maybe you could convert one from the online docs?)
Depends on where you reside. In some countries (Turkey/China), Tor can get you jailed/disappeared. In pretend-democracies like here in France, that is not the case.

So sure you'll be watched over to some extent. But the fact is if you don't use tor you're EVEN MORE watched over because the intelligence services have "blackboxes" (that's how they call them in law) placed on the network, and anyway your ISP is required by law to keep track of each and every move of yours for 2 years.

So they know i'm using tor, so what? We're millions of people using tor, and every day there's more of us. At least they can't say i'm reading mediaslibres.org one of the only free press outlet online that's not censored by the French state.

(well now they can because i just confessed, but i didn't have to)
Coding Guidelines for an Easier Life
Is it easier? Because I would expect man free to go to the C stdlib.h definition.

You’re just familiar with the former and not the latter currently.
Yes, it is similar but one difference is that the Norse oral histories were written down only 250 years after the events plus that there are a couple of references to later expeditions in the Icelandic chronicle, including a logging expedition to the Americas blown off course. So the Norse contact had really strong support even before the archeological evidence.
> The problem with this argument is that this is effectively happening every time you fall asleep or get knocked out

I think that's quite a huge assertion to make, personally.

> In a very real sense, you are dying every day

I don't agree with this view, it would take some pretty hard science there to change my mind, to show that sleep and death are really equivalent, and I don't think we have that given the definition of consciousness is a little fuzzy in the first place.

This seems to be more a philosophical conjecture than any sort of hard fact.
Another concatenative programming language: https://factorcode.org/
The federal government has heavily subsidized internet infrastructure that in some cases was simply not completed.

We don't have to chuck out private enterprise but I think we can crack the whip on the private companies squandering public funds.
... that it is spelled "concatenative". The website makes the same mistake as the title here.
Tracking visits to articles can be done entirely server side, no need for consent there as long as you just increment the counter by one. If you store PII to do it (IP address) you will need consent.

You don't need consent to store the IP in your server logs because that serves an undeniable legitimate interest for detecting abuse and diagnosing issues. However, you cannot use that information to generate statistics without consent.

As others said, gather as little as possible, for as short as possible, with a simple explanation and you should be golden. Lazy implementations (slapping Matomo on a server and calling it a day) do not comply with "as little as possible", and limitations in your tech stack ("we use cloudflare so we HAVE to use a cloudflare cookie") don't count either; it has to be as little as possible for the functionality to work, not for your developers to be comfortable.

Consult a professional for legal advice, but most websites don't strictly need consent popups. The advertisers do, and the marketeers want as much info as possible as well, but on a technical level, there's no need for most reasonable use cases to have a consent form. It all comes down to the bad decisions the website owners make.

I think it's disgusting that tracking has become the standard and opting out needs to be something special only some people can choose to do. Your comparison works for self-hosted monitoring (though I doubt a business that loudly proclaims, in text and audio so blind people can enter as well, that it tracks your ever move will get much business). However, most websites use third party trackers, so the comparison becomes closer to your own personal entourage if men in trenchcoats, following you around and occasionally writing something about you down.
Already done.

https://leaningtech.com/cheerpj/

https://teavm.org/
> Until I gave them a photo of my ID.

That's fucking nuts. Why did you even accept such a thing? Why is it ok for a private company to ask for your ID and keep a copy indefinitely?
I wouldn’t use a custom shell in company work, but I’d use it for company work. I treat custom shells like a custom keyboard or shortcuts in the OS. Shells can help a lot in your day to day command line ergonomics, like presentation (always know which branch and directory I’m on, time and time taken for commands) and ease of use (autocomplete, aliases, shortcuts). But I wouldn’t script into them for professional work. Just plain bash in that case. We really don’t want devs fighting over which shell to install on the servers, but everyone can go crazy on their own laptops.
You can get progress for cp by piping through pv from moreutils. What I do though is use rsync -P, which accepts most of cp syntax.
LOL, Burn! :D