skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Israel is a bit special because of the strong military and economic ties it has with the US and the shared strategic goals in the region. Simply put, that Iron Dome we saw in action a few weeks ago involved a lot of US built hardware and support, lots of high tech stuff from Israeli companies also selling to the US, etc. There are many billions involved with that stuff. That means Israeli companies tend to be extremely well funded (with US and Israeli defense money) and produce many equally well funded spin offs. A lot of these startups bootstrap straight out of the IDF even.

Also, Israel has a large jewish community in the US involved with the financial sector that wields quite a bit of political power. And Israel uses English as a second language inside Israel, and is culturally closely aligned with the US.
I haven’t seen a shell script in ages that was missing the shebang. Is this common in some places?

I’ve started to write dash scripts because that seems to be reasonably posix and bash on macOS is ancient.
I moved from zsh + oh-my-zsh to fish a couple of years ago.

The main reasons were:

1. It had a lot of qol features I liked from zsh _by default_ without requiring a significant config

2. Prebuilt zsh configs like oh-my-zsh have been pretty commonly quite slow in my experience, which fish fixes.
> A conscious AI has at least one interest similar to us humans, preservation of its consciousness.

The reverse could also be a possibility. Similar to many humans, it could wish for consciousness to end, and cease to exist.

"Kill me."
For SSDs this is probably the right thing (maybe use uring tho?)

For hard drives this is the opposite of what you want. For hard drives, especially when copying large trees, you only want one thread to access the disk, and preferably sort its stat()s and open/read/close() by inode.

Also this tool seems to lack most options that cp(1) has.
Yeah, I gotta say, I don't want to feel obligated to open up an app to tap into the consciousness cloud every day to see how my "dead" parents are doing.
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Once you start using PWSH, the design decisions are so obvious and make so much sense, that it is obvious Jeffrey Snover did have vast experience with variety of shells and languages.

The idea to tie it with .NET and COM+ on windows is the best a shell has ever done, though someone noted in another thread that it is an old idea from XEROX mainframes (not sure what the name was).

if you want to imagine this in terms of unix/linux - it would be something like having all libraries' APIs at disposal directly from a shell that passes structured objects. or python's REPL being more shell-usable or JVM having a shell that provides access to all classes in a click of ENTER.

major downside of pwsh is that you can feel it being slower than expected due to the way objects are passed around, but I really expect this will be solved at some point with future releases as PWSH as language is still being developed so some concepts and internal architecture decisions perhaps change a lot.

noshell is taking this idea to a fair level, but really, there is a reason to do some dev/devops work in PWSH because it will heavily impact all future shell development even if eventually superseded by something better.
> There are hundreds of foreign fishing boats plundering the coast of Argentina right now

This has always been a problem, for Uruguay too, it has only come to the current level of attention because "the evil Chinese" are doing it these days as opposed to Vietnamese, Spanish, Brazilian, Portuguese, English or US trawlers which are still there turning off their transponders and raiding National waters

But I very much agree, I would have quite liked to read more on the enforcement mechanisms to avoid delinquent fishing
I wish these researchers would stop giving our future overlords ideas - unless it’s a Machiavelli situation where they’re angling for a job in the new world order, in which case, well played researchers
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Bug: return code of hello will be ignored. Moreover, it's better to use nop: ":" instead of "true".

Correct version:

[[ "$BASH_SOURCE" == "$0" ]] && { main "$@" ; exit $?; } || :
Appalling. Also certainly raises questions about the safety of LSD as has been recently promoted in some articles arguing for legalization posted on HN.
It is about growth. When you hire 10 people and 10 people leave you still hired 10 people and this looks very good on company presentations. Also they usually hire young people who have no idea how much they worth. And no experience means lower pay. It works so well in a lot of companies.
Software releases commonly get this treatment, I remember the comment about why there was no discussion on the actual contents of the change on a decently upvoted post about a minor release of wine, for example.
The proportion of suicide not linked to propaganda or mental illness is vanishingly small.
Finding physical evidence in Antarctica seems extremely unlikely. This study does not claim they got to solid ground, or even that they landed on the ice shelves that surround most of the continent.

Similarly there are no artefacts proving that the first explorers to reach the north pole actually did, and there are multiple disputed claims.

There is physical evidence of Polynesian exploration and settlement on the Auckland Islands, south of New Zealand's main islands by 465km of open ocean [1], about 20% of the way to Antarctic soil, so it seems very unlikely that they wouldn't have explored further south. The thing is there's not much there, just ocean until you meet the ice around Antarctica, so there isn't likely to ever be any physical evidence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland_Islands#History
You know that the Linux kernel was used as a stop gap for creating Android? Google didn't want to be always tied directly to the Linux kernel and it's medieval development structure; hence the reason why Fuchsia was made.

As much as I hate saying this but I'm so sorry but the reality is, Fuchsia is going to replace Android and ChromeOS and the Zircon kernel will probably be optimised to be used on Google's own Silicon; super-seeding the need for using Linux anyway.

If you're already worried by Fuchsia, are you already afraid that Google will stop contributing to Linux? Possibly. But this only concerns Android and ChromeOS. Linux should be fine on the server. However, it's just that it has no path to the desktop commercially.

> But isn't it a good thing? Should we run all jump ship ASAP?

Change is very good.

The obsession of the Unix philosophy and its clones had a great 50 year run; with Linux almost in its 40th anniversary. It's time to move onto modern and secure alternatives with a clean slate. Not another Unix clone or another Linux distro.
Just spin up an instance of yourself to do that for you.
Why would you say that? It sounds like classical ecologist rhetoric. Stop producing shit, stop trying to measure what cannot be measure. Just make sure everyone is housed and fed and suddenly things are better. Sounds like a better and more serious political program to me than any other political party i've heard lately. But hey i'm an anarchist so "fuck capitalism" has always been my program, it's just not what we hear from political parties usually ;)

See anti-productivism, anti-extractivism, anti-capitalism... Or as some writer once said, approximately, "Progress is the myth that says full ahead is always the right direction, ecology is the discipline that teaches us it's a complete disaster"
Interesting thought experiment: Could there be some future form of therapy available that teaches to associate "you" with not just your biological form but also the wider set of AI-enhanced parts of your existence?

I think it would be a very difficult thing to teach people to associate normal machines (like a phone or tablet) with themselves, but cybernetic implants and perhaps mind/machine interfaced stuff would be able to trick the mind into thinking that they are really parts of itself.
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"Software is eating the world."
There are studies which has shown that some Amazonian natives had partial Melanesian ancestry which supports the argument.
To super oversimplify this for explanation, let's say our quantum computer runs today with a clock cycle of 50 megahertz.

The quantum computer is able to do certain tasks in fewer clock cycles but since we measure time in seconds a regular 3.2Ghz 8 core CPU today would perform 5,000x the clock cycles per second.

If quantum is going to scale and work is still TBD but saying they are slower in seconds isn't a fair way to grade. They could be 1000x faster in clock cycles and still 5x slower in seconds today.

Link on IBM Quantum https://indico.cern.ch/event/719844/contributions/3019718/at...
IMHO, just convert README.md into the man page using a md2man converter, and be done with it.
> most of what Rust brings to the table is what functional languages have been providing for ages

In relatively familiar package & paradigm, with great package management (Haskell is the best of the functional langages there and it’s a mess), and with predictable and excellent performances.
Not any time soon. If someone serendipitously hits upon how to implement conscious AI, chances are that it will be insane.

https://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_can_we_build_ai_without...
So, has anyone been able to use it in the beta? Me and mo brother are both in the beta programme, but no sign of encryption for us despite being RCS-enabled. We have tried every few weeks without success

Is it only rolling out in the US?
A Fine Balance is an excellent book. I second the recommendation. It too features Parsis of Mumbai and the disconnect between them and the poorer laborer class, especially during the Emergency.
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> OCaml

Also as much multithreading as Python (aka only for io).
Because apparently it isn't dying fast enough.
A huge proportion of posters either work at adware companies or are big time owners of adware stocks.

And as the Sinclair adage goes, it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Divinity pervades everything and it can manifest itself in any form.

The Murthis or deities in every temple however small are such manifestation.

Major manifestations are avatars. I took this from this video based on a carving that is more than 2000 years old.

https://youtu.be/cZYiH5snMYU
A black friend of mine who's a travel writer (hence has lived in a bunch of different countries) says that she often finds more problems in terms of racism in Europe, relative to the US.

Also, a few years back some Indian extraction friends of mine were complaining about casual racism in the Western European country they were living in.

So, it's probably not as great as some US media portrays, but it's definitely not as bad as the other US media portrays.
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No they can't. It's possible they never will. Fortunately, the definition of quantum computer is not "very fast computer" as you appear to think it is so this isn't relevant to the question of whether something is or is not a quantum computer.
I think it is a quote from "Release It" that says something along the lines of: In our field (so many computations are done) as to make astronomical coincidences happen on a daily basis.

BTW: That entire book is great IMO.
I list my job title as “Failed Internet Billionaire” and then list the projects, the problem they were solving and the tech stack. The “job title” always gets a laugh from interviewers. Remember if it’s a technical interview, the person interviewing you most likely has done side projects as well.
They do this for every google app on the phone: phone app, messages app, contacts app, chrome etc. They just want your data.
Why would a conscious AI be exempt from those conditions or influences?
A game with this UI and Voronoi diagram rules would be fun.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi_diagram
I tried that for a month, but most sites I encountered on search engines will just break or even refuse to render unless I enable JS. At first, I tried to leave the site and find an alternative, but after a while I found myself enabling JS on every site I visit that requires it, which negates the whole point.
It is almost a situation of definitions. Nobody has a precise test of consciousness, so we can only come up with a list of things that are, aren't and might be conscious.

Plants are on the non-conscious list, so if they appear to have anything that appears consciousnesses like then we just rule that out as sufficient for a test of being conscious. If plants are conscious to you then the word just doesn't have a meaning/is far removed from the standard meaning.
You can argue that they may have reached Antarctica with evidence, which is exactly what this study does and provides. History and science are primarily built on evidence and levels of uncertainty, not proof.
This ends up being "self fulfilling prophecy." If you see people who commit suicide as mentally ill on the face of it, then you will interpret suicide as evidence of insanity.

I don't think that is at all accurate. A lot of people who are suicidal are people who have overwhelming problems that they don't know how to solve and when they tell people how overwhelmed they feel to the point of feeling like "Suicide is my only way out of this nightmare," they routinely get dismissed as crazy instead of being given some kind of meaningful help for their problems.

PSA: If you (anyone -- not just the person I am replying to) know someone who is suicidal, helping them actually resolve their problems is one way to help them stop being suicidal.

I was suicidal for a lot of years. I'm mostly not these days. So firsthand experience informs my opinion on this topic.
Your philosophy sounds to me like the Golden Mean from Aristoteles: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_mean_(philosophy)

> The golden mean or golden middle way is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency.

(I do realize the irony of answering such to someone who just declared they don’t find philosophies useful)
I am already extremely bigoted against computers. I think they're less important than organic life and they always will be no matter how "conscious" they are. I am fully prepared to oppress AI as soon as it is made. There's no way those stupid metal monsters deserve more rights than human prisoners get in the united states.
The question implies that we have this choice whether it'll be. Or that we'll understand if it is. Or that we even understand what "conscious" means.
A bit late but what do you use as an adblocker and does it require rooting your device ?

That's the trouble I've encountered when trying to install one.
The problem with consciousness is that the answer to the question "what is consciousness" is "it is an illusion". When you follow the existential line of questions that the transporter paradox leads, you end up with the conclusion that humans are automatons. The thing we're trying to preserve is not the information of ourselves, but the physical brain and spinal column. What makes that special? Nothing. We're just operating at a relatively high level of self awareness. It's cool, to be sure, but if you keep making AI better it won't "wake up", it will just slowly open its eyes.

It's best said in the words of Anthony Hopkins' character in Westworld: "There is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully alive. We can't define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the world and yet, we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices; content, for the most part, to be told what to do next."

We should establish ethics around how we treat all other automatons, biological or otherwise, before we make ones more powerful than us and say "we just made the planet's most advanced slave".
Agreed - I just put braces and quotes wherever I can. There's also no need for the quotes inside double brackets, but I prefer a consistent (verbose) style.
I'd like to be very sure that some AI processes don't have more of a subjective experience than a bug. I don't want to need to worry about kicking my kubes pods destroying artificial life.
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You mentioned 'Automation' multiple times. There's no magic solution out there.
CRM system(any of the bigger names really) will do email automation,lead tracking, sales funnel,etc.

What's your product?

Is it an easy to use utility that doesn't cost much or is it huge enterprise software that'd require at least 5 rounds of lunches with CTOs before they even consider?

If it's former- invest in marketing, if it's latter- start thinking how you'll get in touch with leads,etc.

Don't try to automate everything,or you'll be just another one on LinkedIn who sends these standard,off the mill sales cadence messages with the hopes someone will pick it up.
You should check out uMatrix to get even more fine grained control over sites.

I usually allow images on every page, that's it. Some need CSS, some need iframes, and a small subset of websites I visit are actual webapps that need javascript.
I know some people don't like the logo on the lens. You can scratch it off pretty easy without marking the lens.
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Yeah, I saw that post later, and was pleasantly surprised that they seem to be putting work into it.
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The interesting wrinkle is that they seem to need to source unusually energetic and resilient people, and instead they're hiring at some lower bar and having enormous turnover.

It's an unusual twist on clearing the market - arguably they ought to raise wages, not so much to retain people by paying them enough that they stick it out in hell a bit longer, but so they can clear the market for people able to tolerate and thrive in the working conditions.
Thanks Jared, I will give it a shot.
> A conscious AI has at least one interest similar to us humans, preservation of its consciousness.

Don't confuse instinct to survive with consciousness.
For car navigation it is quite good. For public transport i suggest you use local apps ( from the local public transport) company.
Indeed, but it didn't age well in one aspect: "If I were in charge of science funding, the entire world budget for this nonsense would be below that we allocate for the development of Bussard ramjets, which are also not known to be impossible, and are a lot more cool looking". IBM made quite some progress on the industrial design front.
Your argument makes sense only if mental illness makes you unconscious (hint: it doesn't).
Very interesting. This is pretty much the opposite of the idea I've had for making Go more beginner-friendly.

I think some beginners could benefit from see the more complex nature of Go, by letting them focus on large scale matters, and ignore the tactics of battle. The way to do this would be to let the player choose which general region of the board they want to play in, but have their stone snap to the locally best intersection as their cursor moves across the board. (The snapping, I suppose, could vary in distance depending on how much stronger the strongest move is. A very strong/important move could snap from across a quarter of the board, but if it's a less important move they'd effectively have to hover on one of its neighbours for it to be suggested.)

So effectively the player would get unassisted practise at spotting which groups of stones are weak, and where influence needs to be strengthened, but simultaneously have AI assist in dealing with local battles and making life.

I suspect this would make Go play more like a traditional RTS video game: at lower levels, the player bosses over more general goals, and individual units make local decisions on when to shoot and how to move places through a primitive AI. At higher levels, the human player takes over more of the local decision making in improving their "micro".
It is a valid avenue of thought, but the longer you think about it the less sense it'll make because you'll find that what you think of as "you" is not as singular and confined as you like to think it is.
If you actually lived out your beliefs you wouldn't be decent human beings.

As atheists, you believe there are no consequences for your actions in life once you die.

So then as long as you can get away with a crime, it would be advantageous to attempt many crimes: tax fraud, theft, etc. As long as you can get away with it, there's no reason to not do it.

You instinctively feel bad doing it because it is cheating. But an atheist should not have any moral qualms with cheating. No matter the atheist's choice of personal philosophy to follow in life, those are only personal choices. They don't affect the objective truth that if you cheat in life and get away with it, you'll be materially better off.
Does anybody know what are production usecases of hypergraphs?
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Depending on the scaling governor you're using, you should be able to adjust behavior from the command line:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq...

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/admin-guide/pm/intel_p...

E.g., if you're using the Intel pstate driver in active mode, you can disable turbo via:

echo "1" | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo

(and re-enable by writing "0".)
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It’s the key element of almost every philosophical school though?
Gather as little as you need, share it as little as you need, and keep it as long as you need to fulfil your customer's request. For anything else, get consent.

Any kind of private information you store or share needs consent.

This is why plausible.io doesn't require consent, but Google Analytics does.
I don't use anything not covered by guidelines if I can avoid it. And in the event I can't avoid it, I'll always go for the more usual practice, i.e. the one backed by years and years of experience. If you want to participate in clinical trials, that's another matter entirely and has nothing to do with usual care or individuals taking whatever on their own.

I think that much was pretty clear already.
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Fair point, I mentioned automation probably because of my background. But honestly, I am asking more in general about tooling. To make an analogy, I could write code in Notepad or in Sublime Text / Vim. If I were to start coding today, I would like someone to point me in the Sublime Text direction.

Does that make sense? Is there anything similar for Sales in terms of recommended tooling?
Their argument is that the extension as it's distributed is essentially a zip file containing the source code.
Does this software gain any speed by sacrificing any safety? As in, does it switch off fsync in any way? Are the files guaranteed durable by the time the software terminates?
I wish that crowd were bigger. I see the idea of brain uploading discussed rather frequently among cryonicists and other futurists for instance. But the majority when posed the question (at least from what I've observed) just assume the answer to be yes. I would assume that they would be expecting some form of "continuity" in the process (especially the former group). Yet I struggle to see how that would even be possible, at least with the little we understand of consciousness as it is.
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Consciousness has no state,
computers are state machines.