skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost by definition, there is no chance for something that can only perceive the simulation to differentiate between the laws of the simulation and the real laws of nature.

Of course, there is always the possibility that the agents running the simulation could introduce some explicit information about this simulation, if they were so inclined, but that is entirely equivalent to the observation that God or the Gods could descend from heaven and make their existence known. Basically the simulation idea is as scientific as transcendent religious ideas (heaven, god, illusion, Valhalla etc) - they have similar implications, and are similarly impossible to disprove.
Quite, when you build a system in AWS you are hiring a bunch of hard core nerds to do all this shit for you. That's the deal. You don't need to set up your own restore server to verify your tape backups every night, you just archive your snapshots to Glacier. You can even set up a restore environment in a new VPC for zero capital costs and just spin it up once a quarter to verify the process. It makes all of this stuff an order of magnitude easier and cheaper.
Gavial: Programming the web with multi-tier FRP
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This is neat from a creative perspective. But I have to ask these days: why not just use a laptop? It’s got a flip out console, built in UPS that can last hours, proper storage and power supply.

Unless you need some GPIO or something I wouldn’t bother.

Edit: my home server is a Lenovo T440 junker which the main battery doesn’t charge any more as the polyfuse popped. Has 12Gb RAM and an i5. The internal battery is still good though. So I stuffed a 1Tb SSD in it, installed Debian and disabled the lid close event and job done.
>If you've got a robust social network then it's not all that harmful, and if you don't then it's at least something, but you can trick yourself into thinking that something is enough when really it can be quite a shallow and ephemeral social experience.

Doesn't that also apply to any kind of interactions though? Every single group I've ever participated with in my entire life has always been shallow and ephemeral. Especially the in person interactions.
Yep, and the associated dynamic memory allocation for LL nodes will still have latency spikes from the malloc implementation so its worst case latency is still bad.
Because you should immediately mock anyone who might enjoy Rick and Morty and get that happiness feeling when someone recognized the quote from the show they watched which is fairly typical for any film or show someone has watched. Because everyone who watch that show think it's strictly limited to only high IQ individuals and watching, enjoying that show is a clear indicator of higher intelligence.
I still think that a better web browser should be made by deliberately excluding all sorts of stuff, and changing the remaining stuff. Some things won't work, but that is the necessary consequence.

From the previously discussions: "What specific standards would a user-respecting browser not implement?" Well, perhaps half of them, and the other half would need to be implemented differently than the standards specify. (It isn't only EME and third party cookies, but those are some of them; however, cookies is really something for the user to configure.) Some of the things that the specifications do say but are not implemented though, might be good ideas, and the web developer window is also part of being user-respecting feature (I use it a lot since the modern web is too messy to not use it; this is as a end user rather than as the web developer), but there is a lot more needs to be changed too.

I don't upgrade the web browser due to not wanting all of the new stuff they put in, and sometimes they remove stuff which ought to be included, too, anyways. If they actually do it good, then we can fix this, though.

And, those who want to consider making some new web sites should consider if plain text, NNTP, etc is suitable, rather than a web interface which is impossible to use (not all of them are (sometimes it is implemented properly), but it is common for things to be made badly). (Sometimes the API helps though, if it isn't too complicated.)

Also ensure that specifications are available with simple formats, so that you do not need an existing implementation just to access it.
I wish juries would decide where do the returned goods go. AFAIK today most of the returned goods go to landfills even if in perfectly good condition.
A few thoughts:

Apple's Face ID takes a 2-dimensional infrared image of your face as well as projects 30,000 IR dots to form a 3D depth map of the face. It feeds this into a NN in a separate Secure Enclave processor to determine whether the face is attentive and authorised. I believe they also implement specific NNs just to perform anti-spoofing, both physical and digital.

This is contrasted to Samsung and Microsoft's solutions which take a picture and try to match it.

Apple's Platform Security Guide on Face & Touch ID [0] is an interesting read.

[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec067eb0c9e/...
I understand.

I picked it mainly for 3 reasons. In my opinion,

1. _ kind of hide itself & give more prominence to the rest of the code (logic)
2. If we pick a long name like CalDOM, it becomes a PITA when it repeats so many times.
3. Not to be conflicted with jQuery by using $

To avoid conflicts, CalDOM provides an official workaround to define the alias before loading: https://caldom.org/docs/#_cal_dom_alias
Yes, I am asking for an example of when that happened.
Because Don Knuth only invented digital typesetting he had time to only write TeX and Metafont.

Had he also done the same for display managers, we would be fine.
And pharmacists can actually give proper medical advice on the products!
Because if all crashes were labelled 'car violence' it may prime people to think that any innocent driver who crashed their car and caused damage elsewhere due to mechanical failure, an animal crossing the road at night, black ice or a pothole is guilty of negligence.

In that world there may even be someone on HN asking everyone to change the term to 'car accident' to prevent these innocent drivers being unfairly characterized as causing intentional or negligent harm.
> Sex work is work that will always have demand

Sure, doesn't make it a good or socially acceptable job though.
arent they sold at a discount as used/refurbished?
@naruvimama And mass rape of women and girls in 1971 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_Bangladesh_Lib... and numerous ongoing Islamic atrocities / forced conversations across the country. All conveniently forgotten.

> The US backed Pakistan while it carried out the genocide of between 2.4-3 million hindus in Bangladesh in 1971.

The Western media only spews morality / secularism to portray themselves as morally superior (and especially when don't have anything to lose from their stance)
I wasn’t close.

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/why-suing-amazon-ju...

Different podcast but that’s the episode. The Daily is still good.. the one linked above is good as well
> Now it's 99% OnlyFans advertising. I guess that professionalization was bound to happen.

It was, but the last couple of years have accelerated the process significantly beyond where it would otherwise have moved in this amount of time.

The pandemic had created changes in both the supply (people jobless without support, or at least support that fully covered their living costs, people at home and bored, etc.) and demand (people working at home taking breaks in a way they couldn't at the office, people at home not working and bored and able to pay for it (supported by furlough schemes for instance), and people unable to pay but similarly bored and so future "I spent my savings and got into dept on porn" stories.

> now, most titles personally address the viewer with things like

That sounds like the good ol' "call to action" of the advertising world, it engages the mind, even if only subconsciously, especially if the wording means it could be directed personally, and gets more attention. If course when most titles follow the pattern the benefit will drop off precipitously but the pattern will stick around until the next big idea comes along and saturates the market.

> and reinforcing toxic attitudes

Including the "abuse of power" fantasies, either directly or through "she made me do it" inversions. Though porn has always had these there seems to have been a mad scramble towards "step family" crap in the role play as porn makers have realised it is legal in most places and recent (or recently surfaced) big scandals have made their previous go-to options (like the casting couch) less palettible. All the mainstream providers pushing the same thing, and the smaller/independent ones following so they appear in "related content" lists, poses a threat of normalising these dynamics in some minds which can put already vulnerable people at greater risk.
I am extremely doubtful of the claim that an apartment that only nets 36,000 in rent per year is somehow worth 1,800,000. That's a 2% return before any associated costs. I literally just looked at another rental property that was netting 8k a month across all tenants and was listed at 1,150,000. There is no way that other owner could actually sell that place for 1,800,000.
One man's spyware is another man's telemetry
> I don't think you can expect the institution to implicate themselves like that.

Institution should have nothing to fear if they've followed due process and shouldn't be in a position of being implicated in dodgy science to begin with!
From a engineering perspective, a purely electric vehicle is very simple, not a challenge and in engineering focused companies thus often considered "unworthy" of time and effort.

Internally you will often hear terms like "golf-cart" and "toy" to describe them. They threaten the careers of whole departments and large established supply chains. This fear/anger often manifests as subtle internal sabotage to pure electric projects.
We recommend creating an entire playbook so you know what you need to do to recover from a ransomware attack.
It is no reason to treat the platform differently than other platforms
Biometrics should equate usernames, not passwords
No idea. Makes the lawyers happy, perhaps?
There's an interesting symmetry between the image and sound frequencies

"kiki" has lots of high frequencies: the i and the click sound of the k. Sharp corners also have lots of high "frequencies", but in the 2d domain.

There's an equivalent symmetry, except with low frequencies, with "bouba" and the rounded shape.

I feel like this can't be a coincidence
> If you're breaking backwards compatibility anyway, why not go all the way?

One tiny hobby language I use was changed to accept semicolons as an additional end-of-line, just to allow more easy copy-pasting of C code. It's surprising how portable C is in that sense too. If you're going C-style, probably best to stick C-style. (But I used fn in my own C-alike... who am I to judge?)
You cannot learn without learning. And yes, that means some memorisation.
What we learned from selling a blockchain service to African governments
Actual title: When Buddhism Goes Bad

The author was practicing a specific kind of Buddhist meditation while at a 2-week meditation seminar. It sounds like he was meditating most of his waking hours?

This is not about “mindfulness” as you probably think of it.
We're 100+ comments into the thread and nobody's brought up free speech yet. Not an argument I'd make personally, but it comes up so readily for all other sites.

Imagine swapping this comments section for one on the BBC coverage of Parler. You'd get

- angry defense of the right of anyone to post anything

- repercussions to posting denounced as "cancel culture"

- advocacy of censorship-free payment methods

- condemnation of censorship by major tech companies (there's no OF app because it would be banned, and even mentioning it on Insta can sometimes get you banned, which is why creators post indirect links)

- demands for laws to be passed guaranteeing that you could post porn on Facebook without being banned

Conversely, if we swap this comment thread to one on Parler we'd be asking who these content creators are that are exploiting lonely young men, whether this kind of content should be stigmatized more, and if it's a history of abuse that leads them to do it.
This is a plea for innovation if ever I heard one. Email has some great design properties but also some serious flaws. If a lot of people start sharing the same pain points that aren't being met by current tools, this means there's room for better designs.

I don't think chat could ever be a better email - it's a different medium which doesn't quite fit all the use cases that email serves (even if it creates some new use cases of its own). That begs the question: "What could an open protocol look like that does a better job of asynchronous communication between individuals and groups?"
Orbán is a cancer on Europe, i really the EU has a decent response this time.
I once worked in an unrelated industry where we had a customer who spent so much money with us, that we shipped them a free iPad out when theirs broke so they could resume spending silly amounts of money.
Why Boredom Is Good for You
No I am happy to pay for it, and have paid for github in the past in fact. That doesn’t mean they can change the deal on what free hosting means with out any notice or method to opt out. Paid user’s public repos were not spared from Copilot either.
I think there actually is something like that in finance — I can’t just walk into my bank and do some very risky trading with high leverage without taking some exam.

I’m hazy on the details, just have developed an app for a bank that had to do some validation on clients. But I think it is an EU rule (or perhaps Hungary only if someone were to know)
What is the harm if a company that screws its customers over gets punished out of proportion? It incentivizes companies to be better to their customers.
'I'm going to hunt you down'
> We are monetizing intimacy and sex at a level like nothing before.

No, we’re divorcing the monetization of feigned intimacy and sex from pretense into more honest exchange like nothing before, and (arguably) moving it more from a pre-capitalist patron-servant model to a capitalist market exchange model.
So this product that would not be possible without public, open-source code will itself be non-public, closed-source, closed-data. It is extracting value from the commons and funneling it to a private company.

This is just business as usual for tech companies though. How many Silicon Valley businesses built their products on top of open source projects without contributing much back? Heck.. how many YC companies do that? When you see vital open source projects like OpenSSL struggling to raise more than a few tens of thousands in donations (it only continues through OSF contracting work), and libraries like Svelte barely clearing $30k, when you know they're used by Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc you can't be that surprised when companies do the same thing on a larger scale.

The entire tech industry and all the multi-trillion and multi-billion dollar unicorn businesses that have billionaire founders and millionaire developers working at them fall under the description of "would not be possible without public, open-source code" and "will itself be non-public, closed-source, closed-data."

We can't reasonably claim there's anything wrong with a company building a product on the back of open source work when literally all of us do that as well. The only difference with Copilot is scale.
I think we need to treat such threats as a rear disease which could happen whenever you ready or not. We need to check for it but be prepared to have it anyway.

Industry should start thinking more about insurance, negotiation and investigation services.
Neat! This does seem algebraically coherent. Unfortunately, it just doesn't make intuitive sense to my lizard brain.

Cool trick anyway, thanks for clearing it up!
The guy edited his comment:

> EDIT: On second thought, I will not and just leave it at that. It seems the internet is fed on outrage and must interpret every intent as malicious.

Yes, I'm sure this is not malicious at all:

> Upon further investigation, it became clear that Wenzheng Tang is a Chinese national, but not resident in China. As a guest in his current country, his residency status is predicated on a number of conditions, one of which is not violating the law.

> If found in violation of laws, residency may be revoked and he may be deported to his home country.

> This becomes even further complicated given another repo of his - Fuck 学习强国, which is highly critical of the Chinese government. Were he deported to China, who knows how he may be received.
Orban used EU money to take total control of the country (media, poor voters). If EU lets China come into Hungary, it will backfire for the whole EU in my opinion.
Why not generate the headers from the modules, then users don't have to worry about them.
I do sometimes when I do heavy things on it (long and heavy compiles or when I'm rebuilding some heavy datasets). I never tried with any synthetic benchmarks. The Mac throttles whenever I look at it the wrong way.

Edit: and I don't mind the noise. I will maybe do something if it starts throttling, but I have had 0 issues for as long as I can remember.
> The terrain of fractured, disruptive and altered states of consciousness has often been explored in Buddhist teachings through the centuries, but when these practices made their journey into Western culture, a sufficient understanding of the downsides of meditation was lost in transit.

Why would one go on a serious retreat not led by a real Buddhist teacher? Is there a shortage of geshes already?
The simplest solution to having N data types and N^2 conversions between them is to have a canonical data type and 2N conversions between that one type and the rest.

The real problem is that all that glue code is proprietary, and companies cannot cooperate on a large scale to pool their resources and share their software.
> Anyone who uses Copilot is implicitly endorsing this theft.

Just like you're endorsing being sponsored and effectively stealing GitHub's bandwith? :)

> We have a duty as practitioners in the industry to call it out when we see something wrong.

It's wrong both ways. You accepted the service from GitHub, the free one where you get to open your account, host your code, share it etc.

What exactly did you expect? To be served for free for your entire lifetime?

Please, get off the moral highground. You ate the devil fruit, now you're whining about it. You should be smart enough to know that this kind of whining will get you nowhere. Just quit.
” They could have provided a reprovisioning tool, but it's Apple, so they didn't.”

They did
Sure, and Orban would have never been able to have so much power if EU wouldn't give so much free money to him without verifying where that money goes.
Copilot generally (excepting rare cases where it produces snippets verbatim) does not steal code. The GPL restricts distribution, not usage. And (to my knowledge) no open-source license restricts learning from code. I cannot see anyone who doesn't want others to learn from their code ever release code as open-source.
Pyodide is rather larger than brython. It's essentially a full python interpreter and stdlib compiled to wasm, whereas brython is a reimplementation of python directly in javascript.
Interesting... i think i have to do a rewatch of the movie (this time in english), yes, i have watched the german version, which was "over-the-top", but not THAT "over-the-top"...
who defines "normal human relationships", if we don't count various religions? IRL relationships can be just as addictive, toxic and financially perilous.
Based on my experience on AirClick, I also found I took much more notes than before. I reduced a lot of time to search the chat history or the wiki doc. It also helps me understand the system better. For example, we use `Expert` as `a member who can help on a certain topic`. With this knowledge, I found I am easier to understand the internal wiki because I know `expert` has the special meaning in this project. If you are interested in this idea, I am more than happy to show you our ideas through a 30 mins Zoom meeting.
How to Transform an Entire Citys Payment System
It's not a capital city and we've had a decline in business lately (even before covid, but especially now). 150€/mo gets you a 17m2 office pretty much in the centre and there's currently a listing for 15m2 outside the centre for 100€/mo. Both of those are too small for most things and so there isn't much of a market for them (if all you need is a desk and computer, most people can work from home).

Power is fairly cheap as well and you can get a very good Internet connection for 40€ or so. It would probably be a bit over the ~200€ for collocation, but you have an office in a secure building, not just two servers in a rack somewhere, so it might be worth it.
Periodic reminder: if you're in the Netherlands and want to join the "class action" by the Consumentenbond against Facebook (for free), see here: https://www.consumentenbond.nl/acties/facebook .
I sure hope so, and given Copilot currently integrates with VSCode and its amazing language server APIs, I imagine this could be a (relatively) simple win to make a significant bump in model accuracy.

I do wonder if Copilot has any idea of the structure of what it's generating though. Does it know when something is a comment, a variable, or a piece of syntax?
You should get out of your echo bubble. I have a few friends spending on these types of services (and Twitch which seems to have evolved to host soft versions of OF-type content). They're sociable, principled people, who also have many "regular" relationships. It's not a zero-sum affair.
Reminds me of this case that went into straight identity theft territory: https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp4gx/professor-catfished-b...
I agree. I like the ideas brought in by the borrow checker but I find Rust to be an unergonomic language to read.

I would love to see something more like C, with a better type system, module import management, and a borrow checker.

Think C + TypeScript
One should meditate always, also also during their sleep. let alone while doing chores, walking and talking. Formal sitting meditation is just a minor part.
A 1 Kilometer “Ball Drop” on Solar System Bodies [video]
Money laundering is a challenge even in the more tightly regulated industry I worked in.
Conversely at one of my previous employers some of our big spenders were publicly known high end rich.
> I got an insight from "The Surprising Psychology Of OnlyFans Simps by Charisma on Command" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auG2E53dFas) that subscribers buy attention rather than sex.

That's like one of the oldest i and vest known insights about sex work generally, so I’m not surprised that it is reflected in OF. (Its even more obviously true of its more celebrity- but less porn-focussed cousin, Cameo.)
"Why my swimming practice, which involved me swimming the english channel every day, eventually led me to drown."
Thank you very much!

Actually, I was very nervous about "meh, whatever another JS lib" response.

I'm relatively new to HN. This community is awesome!
This sounds almost like Tesla's Autopilot, both in naming and in actual performance.
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To me graphic seems to have a very specific goal of rendering more details & better simulation of real world.

People aren't even agreed on what is "good" code.