skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Because the internet is not trying "

And so about your physical body, a collection of atoms can 'try' to do something?

'Trying' is a function of conscious intent. So you can't 'try' to be conscious, that would be a prerequisite.

"consciousness is obviously ..."

Glib statement of the century.

"It is a good solution to the problem of navigating the world as a living thing."

Only conscious, living things can have 'problems', ergo, your statement is again circuitously referential.

If as you say 'there is nothing magical' then there can never be 'intent' or 'problems' to solve - it's a pretty big giant contradiction.

There would just be 'bags of particles bouncing around, randomly' that's it. In the context of materialism, then there isn't even anything such as 'evolution' - just the appearance of it. Atoms bounce around from one thing to the next, randomly, we just call it a 'process' - but it's not, so long sticking to materialism (i.e. no magic).

" 'you need an extremely complex computational system to have consciousness' does not entail that any extremely complex computational system is conscious"

Sure. But the totality of technology on the planet is already very well connected and 'sufficient' (according to the OP's indicated scale) so as to form the basis of some kind of 'network', which, while may not be 'conscious', should nevertheless exhibit some of the emergent properties of such a thing, if emergence does come out of those kinds of configurations.
Something has gone wrong when you want to describe a positive correlation as "negative".
Also keep in mind that turning nature into agriculture also has huge environmental costs not captured in energy usage.

If "developed cultured" is fixed by pricing the externalities, it would be absolutely better to pack people in cities, replace subsistence farming with sustainable industrial agriculture (no tilling, no aquifer depletion, etc.) and decrease the portion of land devoted to agriculture.
Proterra Bus Fire Prompts California Agency to Consider Shelving Electric Fleet
That’s because federal spending has increased across the board. NASA’s funding isn’t that much different now than then.
No, the complaint was that Nissan wanted $12500 to replace the battery, instead of the $7500 we were quoted when we got the car.

I probably shouldn't have mentioned the range except it was gulling that they wanted so much and it didn't even increase the range as a side effect. (and also that we did manage to fix it, and increased the range and spent what we originally expected).

Even at the original/expected price the big lump sum cost would create cashflow problems for people who aren't wealthy. And I think this is a new consideration for EVs that doesn't exist for IC cars and should probably be a factor in our public policy.

> When was the last time you were able to double the mileage of a decade-old gas car

Range is not mileage. A standard IC car has a range many times what we're talking about here. We got the EV because we were prepared to make lifestyle affordances for the limited range.

Range is also not dependent of battery life. These batteries have substantially better life if you charge them to only 80% most of the time, which was something we found we couldn't do on the shorter range battery, but have no problem with on the longer range battery.

> In most of the world poor people can't afford cars. We should be increasing the supply of places people can live without cars

In the US today people can afford cars and we've designed our cities and economies in ways where people need them. That's the cards currently in our hand. I agree that it is good to reduce the need for cars, but that is orthogonal to the impact that we'll have on the public when we push hard into EVs.
And to make it clear, if you pass method/attribute/property/field names here and there as strings, you have some kind of dynamic typing. QML, XAML, Jinja, Handlebars, Razor, everything is dynamically typed and more than this, duck typed, because one rarely needs to implement some kind of interface, except maybe basic dynamic typing support, like QObject, INotifyPropertyChange or DependencyObject.
>Anyone who isn’t excited by augmented reality tech is just.... I dunno... bored of life?

lol isn't this just the most ironic claim? i'm not excited by augmented reality exactly because i'm not bored with life (i.e. unaugmented reality).
HN also lacks an algorithm tuned to encourage “engagement” through divisiveness.
This a million times. Imagine how much less annoying e.g. syncthing UI would be!

(Granted programs can sort of do this with TCP sockets too, at lwast on Linux: read from /proc/net/tcp/somepathicantremember and use that to find out the U
credentials of the client currently connected to your server...)
I think GP is thinking about a row boat, how it can turn on a dime quickly, which is true, but not useful in a sea battle.
The patent holder, Shin-Etsu Chemical, did license the technology. They licensed it to to JA Solar, Longi and Trina Solar, all large solar panel makers in China. JA Solar panels have had gallium doping since Q3 2020.[1]

The article somehow doesn't mention that.

JA mentions gallium, but they seem to consider the weather-tightness of the surface film to be a bigger factor in lifespan.

[1] http://taiyangnews.info/technology/taiyangnews-500w-conferen...
> Two of our friends have physically relocated out of the district, two others are going to change schools.

how would that even help though? was what you are describing specific to this school then? would moving to another, unfamiliar group of preteen girls just add to anxiety?

(in my case, relatively sheltered boys so i don't see much of this... for now, anyway)
I don't have a problem running my test code on boxes with hostile people logged in to them, nor do my socket connections offer them anything they couldn't already do if they have that level of access. You sound like you may have a very particular problem, and if this is your situation I'm not convinced "Unix sockets" are the answer anyhow... you seem to have bigger problems with unauthorized access.
Hillary Clinton was being investigated for using her personal basement server to handle official emails containing classified or confidential information. Something which, if I had done it when I had a security clearance, I would have been not only fired on the spot, but escorted off the facility in handcuffs for doing.
Somewhat off topic but what terminal is this:

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/82b03feab20083a17944229ea...

I've only ever used whatever the default terminal is so this seems fancy. Looks nice.
Won't this work just fine if you instead of writing:

from a import A

write

import a

and in the code (which is presumably not at module level) check against

isinstance(obj, a.A)

?
What happened to it, for it to come back?
Compared to plain C, you have ADTs which help from day to day programming. You can bring them to C (https://github.com/Hirrolot/datatype99) but I don't know if the Linux guys would allow it.
They are mostly catholic schools. E.g.,

https://www.sacredhearthamden.org/
That’s really not so true any more. The number of industrial robots is higher in places like Hong Kong than the US (and China as a whole is not far behind in spite of their massive population) while places like Singapore and South Korea has massive robotics per capita. China has decent wages in many places, higher than much of the world, and they have pretty strong agglomeration effects now, improving manufacturing efficiency.
One fine line that the community will need to tread is that it needs to attract enough people with aligned interests to socialise the costs of paying people to do the sysadmin work (or find enough sufficiently-motivated volunteers to do so, and develop procedures allowing these people to hand over properly when they lose interest), but remain small enough to "know everyone" involved.

As a participant in a number of small, mostly-volunteer tech community groups, I think this might be a difficult endeavour.
> Why this reminds me of treating workers as caged hen? Dense in the sense of building complexes of decent size family homes? That I could support, but building blocks of shoebox flats, should really be eliminated.

Affordability is the ratio of income to prices. Nobody is saying city prices should never be higher in absolute terms, they simply shouldn't keep up with the higher incomes.
Safari has tail call optimization I think.
I think it would have been much better if the advice was based on specific person's situation.

Age, previous infections, availablity of antibodies that can target Covid's protein outside of the 'spike' , and so on .

Give the added economic cost and complexity that poo -- messaging and management brings, personolized anonymous advice should be a clear option for a desease like this.
I don't get it. Where do you define which Lisp-to-Python translator to use? It certainly doesn't seem to know on its own.

$ touch foo.l
$ python3
>>> import foo
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'foo'
Pretty close! Actually, someone was working on a short bash script for backing up some files, tried to remove some hardcoded values, had to use google to figure out how to get the information dynamically using `sysctl` and `system_profiler`, ended up on the Github page for neofetch, and thought "hey this is great, maybe this could be useful for other people as well!" and submitted it.
"The release of the latest stable version of K-9 Mail (5.600) was in September 2018"

https://k9mail.app/2020/06/01/Whats-Up-With-K-9-Mail
Bash is a relatively small C program.

Python is a huge beast compared to Bash.
"Young adults doing meaningless busywork in a highly restrictive environment with artificial social dynamics", unfortunately, also sounds a lot like college and many jobs. (I personally found school a torment -- ignored and bored -- but somehow I was fortunate enough not to be outright bullied... until my first job.)
Beyond Crypto: Gray Technologies
I don't know about the world but we have over 3 years until the next U.S. presidential election. That means things should be pretty stable/ unchanged for at least 3 years.

I'm not sure what your question is getting at, the world will most likely be similar to how it is now in a year.
The problem here is that Egyptian culture/connection to the rest of the world changed in massive amounts over time. If you looked at really ancient Egypt you would not find much that could be extrapolated to the “Western civilization” compared to the Greeks.

The period of time where Egypt produced many scholars who we still know by name, and their works and how influential they are, was in the Hellenistic period during which they essentially were culturally Greek. It was a result of conquest and increasing Greek economic/cultural influence across the Mediterranean. Yes it’s likely much of that knowledge was due to a kind of syncretization of Egyptian knowledge stretching back Millenia and it finally being recorded and disseminated across the Greek speaking world in a way that was preserved until know, but that’s what makes it history. We simply don’t have a lot of records about ancient Egyptian scholarship before the Hellenistic period.
You won't be able to shelter them from their friends who will all get phones and use tiktok or whatever comes next.

When I finally broke down and got my daughters cell phones, they were addicted. I wanted to take it away but I coudln't without causing a lot of bad things.
IIRC all stuff we send into space going to other planets is sanitized here via gamma radiation so we don't contaminate other planets.

Who knows, maybe the life started on Earth as contamination from foreign objects from space.
Persistent Cognitive Deficits Following Covid-19 Infection
> As in existing language supplied eg. Perl, Java, etc., or literally anything? Like bootstrapping your own home made language from scratch?

Should work with anything as long as you can ultimately generate Python bytecode (and provide a module object). The import system is not simple, but it's really open.
From what I hear from everyone I know with kids...

>How would you handle it if they bought their own 2nd cellphone, and only used the cellular network to escape your control.

That's what really happens. Lock your kid down? They'll get right around it by going outside of the infrastructure and devices you supply. They'll just carry two phones around, and you just won't be wiser about the second one unless you catch them with it.
> there are no economies of scale in doing this

False. Yes, taller buildings are more expensive per floor. But the benefits they bring in far exceed those costs.

You have to account for the whole system, or track your externalities if it's not closed. And if our current economic systems don't do that, they need to be fixed.
> A change in the law will allow growers from all over the world take advantage of a favorable growing climate and cheap labor to reduce costs.

And then transform Colombia in a monoculture, destroying any other kind of Agriculture and Wild forest existing there, transforming the Cannabis in the new Soja. The real issue in the world is exactly this kind of mentality: Reduce the "production costs" at all costs (abusing the climate, water, cheap labor, etc).
The higher attempt rate for girls is probably due to boys being more effective at killing themselves (4x as effective, in fact).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27942628
There must be some kind of subsidization involved at that price, right? I don’t see how a business owner could possibly make the numbers work charging that little.
Would you recommend people skip Blockly if they want to teach people to code?
NodeJS allows this as well. I think this is pretty much a must-have feature for any serious dynamic language.

Edit: A must have for any prolific dynamic language. But now I’m not sure that’s true, because even though it apparently works in Python, it’s certainly not widely used. In NodeJS this feature is used quite heavily for typescript, coffeescript (etcetera) interop.
EDIT: I find it gross that some people always want to take over a discussion about women and make it about men.
Ehh... it's due to the technical challenge of getting enough fuel into space to get to Jupiter quickly without a bunch of gravity assists.

Never going to be a weekend hop, but there are definitely technical advances that make it a 3 month trip rather than a 3 year trip.
Yikes that’s too mucho for a home setup…
But what’s the point in doing that?
I have absolutely no personal agenda in asking, beyond a general concern about whether environmental risks are being fully considered. I support electric vehicles and want them to succeed.

You're just being rude. Maybe you're having a bad day. I'll give you the chance to apologize now, in front of everyone.
I created this fun hack that taught me a LOT about the import system. Basically it allows you to import anything you want, even specify a version, and it will fetch it from PyPI live. Might be interesting to flesh this out in a way that's deployable.

Basically instead of

import tornado

and hoping and praying that the user has read you README and pip installed the right version of tornado, you can do

from magicimport import magicimport
tornado = magicimport("tornado", version = "4.5")

and you have exactly what you need, as long as there is an internet connection.

https://github.com/dheera/magicimport.py
Brooklyn has been booming for some time. Hell if I had piles of money, I would never buy a property in Manhattan and have to deal with tourist hell prepandemic. Brooklyn still has 'real residents' as the majority roaming about.
To say Scott Meyers never was a practicing programmer but just someone who capitalized on quirky details of C++...

Its kind of like, saying Donald Knuth was never a Computer Programmer, but some old faculty professor, with too much time on his hands, who capitalizes on puzzles and the natural complexity of computational theory. :-)

It also does not address the core point of the post.

At the moment for C++ the scene goes like this:

- For every traditionally challenging feature/issue of
C++ advocates will say it has already been fixed
on the latest standard. So you always feel to be
a proper C++ developer you have to be a
"Modern C++ Developer"

- You are supposed to know and use the modern features of the language but also use it according to what I call
"the C++ on top of C++" called the "C++ Core Guidelines".

https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines

I printed them last week and its a 498 pages PDF. So of course you will have wait and rely on
compilers/linters keeping up with it.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/code-quality/using-the-...

They are not done yet, and we will soon move to the next phase in complexity in the daily life of a C++ developer. Having to troubleshoot the correct implementation of these automated checks by the different automated tools.

Like many, I have to sometimes use C++ professionally. Every time I do, I feel like I am a candidate to the
Darwin Awards.
> A box with an i5-4570 or similar and 8GB of RAM costs about $80 to buy, and uses ~25W or around $25-30 a year in power.

I'm guessing you're looking at the preowned market?

For those prices, people might consider themselves lucky to get an underpowered Celeron with BYO RAM and storage, brand new.
That's not really a fair assessment. The Nexus 4 was released in 2012 and runs Android 5.1. The devices that didn't get Android 5 are pretty much a decade old. And essentially all of them can be rooted and upgraded to a more modern version of Android, if you want to. Do you want to, though? Probably not: even if the batteries in them still held a decent charge, the devices that didn't get Android 5 almost all have less than 1gb of RAM (Nexus S had 348MB non-gpu memory) and only one or two CPU cores, with a bunch of older devices shipping without 3g. Having internal storage measured in gigabytes was at the upper end of the market (Nexus One, Google's flagship device from 2010, had 190 megabytes of app storage). "Perfectly fine otherwise" really doesn't apply to the overwhelming majority of folks who use their phones more than any other device (hours each day).
It's gotten ridiculous. The drinking age here is 19. Anywhere that sells alcohol is required to ID anyone that appears to be 30 or under. By the time you're 30 you haven't been 19 for 11 years.

I've been refused for having expired ID, despite the picture very obviously being me, and my age very obviously being well over the legal age.

My wife's been refused because apparently her federally issued citizenship card, with a photo that showed she was well over age wasn't apparently good enough.

I actually remember one time when i was fairly young, early 20's, I'd let my license expire because I wasn't driving and couldn't be bothered to renew it at the time. I got refused at the liquor store and there was an old guy behind me. He just started ranting at the cashier about how I'm obviously legal age and how you don't need a license to drink and all this stuff. The cashier actually relented and sold it to me after, but that old guy's rant always stuck with me since.

And, it's made me notice how more and more, it's not even about how old you are, it doesn't seem to be about protecting minors, it just seems to be a way of training people to provide ID any time regardless of the reason.
Busting Myths about the Metric System
I would never bet against the crappy status quo lasting indefinitely because voters would rather stamp their feet than face reality as it is and pick the least bad choice.
You're getting downvoted for snark, and it's a morbid thought, but it might be true. In places where the vaccine is readily available and statistically only the unvaccinated are dying, you'd expect the population's average intelligence to increase as people die of the disease.
> Are you challenging me to build a socat loadbalancer in bash?

It’s a Saturday and all, so yeah, I’m challenging you (for fun, not because I don’t think it’s possible).
If you really want to see "who" is most affected by this, divide it up by state and income. If we see that most states align with this, we could attribute it to your statement. However, if it's solely based on income, then higher income states will outweigh lower income ones and we'd be able to pinpoint it to affluence and the pressures of innadequacy.
There's a pure PowerShell version[0] of this, for Windows, called winfetch. The repository also has a batch alternative for systems not supporting PowerShell.

[0]: https://github.com/kiedtl/winfetch
Dunno about the WA figures, but California cap-and-trade results in carbon costs increasing fuel prices.

A quick internet search suggests that the cost of carbon credits to offset emissions for gas come out to $0.1 per gallon.

I'm guessing adding this in wouldn't change the result being discussed.
Netflix bets on animated movies, games for growth
It's certainly an element, but NASA's culture today would simply never tolerate the rapid explosion cycles necessary to build a reusable rocket. SLS would be 50% cheaper maybe, but they would never have built the F9, much less a Starship.
A drone can in fact not accelerate in any direction at any time. It can only accelerate along the thrust vector which is the normal of the plane that the rotors sit on.
Same for Canada.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229#zippy=%2Ci-ca...
People are choosing suburbs based on costs. The aver person has little ability to choose based on any other reason.

This is why it's incredibly important that we fix this stuff. Rich environmentalists' "sacrifices" achieve nothing. It is also why I am incredibly sad the current infrastructure bill is slated to fund so much stupid suburbanization.
They didn't mention Skynet. That's a whole other ball of wax.
I'm not sure. There was just one representative from each department/team, and there were around 20 of them. Only one objected. So if "80-20 split is a fairly clear consensus", 95-5 is even more so.

I remember this story as the approach seemed quite reasonable to me initially. However, the weak point in this case was that people cared only about only a limited set of items, mostly related to their work, and were unable to grasp how the aggregation of everything agreed upon would influence the outcome.

That's the point where a good manager should step in and say something like, "B and C, I agree that what you propose is important, but we can't possibly realize everything everybody is asking for. Therefore we will have to consider your requests on another occasion."
Had an in-law get bad COVID, and he's been not quite there any more ever since getting out of the hospital. His cognitive control clearly declined and he became mean as shit.
The title creates an expectation of some insightful technical explanation, instead we get something so shallow as to be useless to anyone who has been programming for more than a week. It's not even specific to JavaScript.

An appropriate title would be "Introduction to JavaScript (Part 1): What is V8, a call stack, and a runtime?".

At the end of this short but blatant spam they then try to sell their whatever.

Somehow that's enough to accumulate 50 points and end up on the frontpage.
The absolute hubris of you shit posting on the internet using electricity but saying growing plants is wrong
> Twitter or Reddit style UI that spends lots of screen real estate on the person posting.

Not sure I follow this. Reddit focuses on the content just as much as HN. The nature of the network (and quality of content in general) is quite different from HN of course.

There's a lot to not like about Reddit, but it's the only social media apart from HN that I still enjoy using after quitting FB/Twitter/Insta/Snap.
I'm a bit astonished that LinkedIn's IT[0] needed the FBI to figure out that the person had a unique useragent. And that they don't have alerts for unknown IPs SSH'ing into their server.

[0] though this is before Microsoft acquiring them, so it was probably just the usual startup reckless abandon.