skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you could replace your brain’s cells, one at a time, with nanomachines that mimic the function of the original cell,

I enjoy thought experiments, and have thought about this myself. And have probably read some good science fiction based around the premise. My current position is that a nanomachine which replaces a neuron or glial cell and behaves the same way that cell would is essentially magical thinking.

It’s the everlasting gobstopper of consciousness. The gobstopper faces the issue of conservation of energy: how can it continue to have flavor and not get any smaller? The nanotech faces an analogous issue of “continuation of systemic process (as opposed to divergence)” that I don’t have enough clarity to describe yet. This makes my position weak, and I accept that. I think I am saying “if consciousness is a property of the body system, then introducing pre-built components that originated outside of the system will change it in unanticipated ways.”

I’ll have to give it more thought if we start to create artificial replacements for simpler organs (heart, lungs, etc.) that work better than the originals. I’d like to live in that world and be faced with the question.
AirTags are small enough that you can hide them inside the gift item itself.
I am guessing it's due to ROI. Your more expensive product requires higher profit for ROI to stay the same.
> seems to have changed. Excision had clinical trials scheduled for 2021 a few years back, if I'm not mistaken

Perhaps this could help: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.excision.bio/techn...
Incidentally, the inspiration for the name may be more due to rusts (the fungi) than to rust (oxidized iron). See: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/27jvdt/internet_archa...
I wonder how often it’d need to be cleaned to maintain the cooling effect.
I'm not sure that would work quite the same. The personal shopper has very different abilities and incentives. They can actually be at your house to manage the delivery and potential returns, they will get to know your preferences in a way you probably wouldn't or couldn't express even on an open-ended form. And most importantly, their only incentive is you. There is no additional cost for them in rejecting an item and starting over. I'm not sure what common payment structures are, but it's even possible they are incentivized to be as picky as possible as long as they can do so quickly enough to not bother you.

The problem is that kind of incentive is really difficult, or maybe impossible, to do cheaply. How do you scale anything in a way that doesn't turn extra pickiness for a specific customer into a cost?
I've never had to deal with it but I've also heard they have great customer service too so if that's something that you're worried you'll miss out on by switching, then don't be.
"Never ever copy your private keys on a computer somebody else owns."

FTFY.

In more detail: if your private keys ever leave your computer via the network, it's a good idea to consider your private keys compromised and to burn them and create new ones.

If you're in an organization which uses SSH CAs and Principals (see https://dmuth.medium.com/ssh-at-scale-cas-and-principals-b27... for details), you'll only need to create a single keypair, get it signed, and you're good to go again.
As a long-time FT subscriber, I and others have noticed a very steep decline over the last year or so. Before, I didn't always agree with the comments, but they were usually at least somewhat insightful. Some readers suspect an organized incursion of state-sponsored malefactors. One certainly notices more of the bile on certain types of subjects (Russia, China, internet, US political system) than others.
If you don't have the globstar optional behavior enabled in bash this won't work.

From the manual:

If set, the pattern ‘*’ used in a filename expansion context will match all files and zero or more directories and subdirectories. If the pattern is followed by a ‘/’, only directories and subdirectories match.

To enable:

$ shopt -s globstar

To disable:

$ shopt -u globstar
Interesting. I got 8.999999999959657 on my Mac Mini M1 using Calculator.app.
When product market fit meets sales market fit.

The MCU is a true rocket ship now (pun not intended).
Data Engineering (UC Berkeley)
I remember the time thinking it was a solution in search of a problem
An Oral History of Batman: The Animated Series
Sky glow at night? Could try a laser to illuminate clouds and look for monochromatic light, or time on-off to ntp synchronised clocks.
I'm an expert in git, but at a glance I don't see what you're trying to do here. It's like dumping an alphabetical list of methods on someone. An expert already knows them, and it's a weird way to present it to someone new to coding.

All this information is already natively available in the help menus, and new people should probably generally stick to things like egit if they're completely lost and need a beginning grasp imo.
They are probably even thin enough that can embedded into cardboard or somewhere in the product so only open the box to inspect doesn't matter
Good idea but I already use MAL. Filled out your form anyways. I also don't watch anime in a browser where I could install and track with your extension.
Missed calling Taiwan a „Province of China“ on page 26.

Ooopsie wooopsie, A- for trying to please a dictatorship.
On the other hand, Australia is a huge source of raw materials for China. As an example, they produce more than 1/3 of the world's iron ore.

So this is more than China pushing around another random country. They'd have to cut off their own ear to spite Australia.
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I truly dont understand the Amazon hate. I spent 8k from it last year (about 500 items) because I have a very intensive hobby and have virtually none of the issues people complain about. I got the wrong item once (not sure if it was fraud or a mishap in packaging) and Amazon refunded me and told me not to ship it back. Of the 500 items I bought I probably return 20% of them and have never had an issue with a refund.

Perhaps my needs are different than others but I personally find it truly amazing. The one time I tried ordering something off Wal-Mart it came three days late and returning it was a nightmare.
Does that even work for non-shitty cameras, which have IR filters?
I reviewed my purchase history and I stopped heavily buying from Amazon on 2017. Today I went to find an item I bought 5 years ago from them but their price has 30% markup from HomeDepot/Target/Walmart. Guess who's not getting my business again today!

For years Amazon pricing has been getting worse, and they don't care
while other people who don't acquire avoidable diseases are left to die. thanks for nothing
The last 100 times were in the past few hours, roughly. Are you assuming nobody uses FQDNs or URLs anymore? Better yet, are you assuming only humans use those?
I think another problem is the lack of good brands in all sorts of gadgets. I was shopping for a webcam last week. Basically it’s logitech + random brands. Also, I don’t believe the review/ratings of those random brands at all. I think they must be fake.
That sounds like its time to push standards forward, announce deprecations in advance, and have as many end services as possible adopt erroring if what they are receiving isn't standards compliant.

There is little actual reason for security middleware to not keep up.
only 6 million more to go
No one mentioned the "bonus" audio in the page source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fCifJR6LAY
it doesnt work that way. you have that copy of your "consciousness" as long as you are awake. when being in deep sleep - opposed to REM phases where brain waves are measurable, or when highly dosed with narcotics such as for heavy surgery you (in the sense of your consciousness) do not exist anymore - no brainwaves. when you wake up, to be precise when you enter REM phases, your mind slowly boots up again. awake, you're reaching out to you assets, read memories, and cross checking references allows you to re-establish confidence who you are.

think of firefox. you start it and it "lives" in the memory of the computer. however, turned off it is gone. the process is eliminated and purged from memory. when restarted, however, it remembers your browser history, sessions and passwords. still it is a new process.

basically this is what happens each night when we sleep. every morning a new you wakes up.

so when a cloned asset of cross linked (aka relational) memories is spinned up, the resulting process does not have a distinct possibility to determine if it is being cloned. it just have it same associative pathways in its wetware as the original. yet it will believe being the original and also act accordingly. when you ask outsiders who know you, they wont be able to make out a difference, and label the clone as original. the clone (depending on the age of the information) will also believe it is original as it knows your passwords, your mental setup (and lives by that because of reasons) and it remembers whatever has happened to you, too.

this can only mean one thing: our so called consciousness is a fake conclusion. yes, cogito ergo sum, but only for the moment. new day, new me.
Or just wrap it in a container and pretend that all environments are the same as whatever flavor of Alpine / Debian / Ubuntu that you want it to be.
Yeah I’m in AU too and generally buy 1-2 things a week from Amazon for the last couple years (thanks to lockdown etc), and I’ve never had a single fake/returned item. I only buy from local Amazon and never the international ones, and only things with Prime.

Might be because we’re too small of a market for it to be an issue yet? Not sure.
Sadly, this article doesn’t actually deliver of the headline and tell you how they did it. A lot of people, including some extremely powerful media executives, would like to know.
> After learning how many manufacturers essentially use slave labor for their products, I've stopped buying clothes manufactured outside the US and EU

You should probably stop buying clothes made in the US then. A lot of clothes are made by prison (very nearly slave) labor.

https://laborrights.org/in-the-news/your-valentine-made-pris...
> TI: After MOS Technology, in 1978 you founded The Western Design Center, where you created the 65C816 CPU. The creators of the ARM processor credit a visit to WDC as giving them the confidence to design their own chip. Do you remember that visit?

B>M: Vividly! Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber visited me and talked to me about developing a 32-bit chip. They wanted to leapfrog what Apple was rumored to be up to. But I was just finishing up the '816, and I didn't want to change horses. So when they [had success with the ARM] I was cheering them on because it wasn't something I wanted to do. But I did leave them with the idea of, "Look, if I can do it here … there are two of you; there's one of me."

When you've got a rare individual who can accomplish something that was otherwise regarded as requiring a team, it's good not to underestimate their potential.
I have a a server engine that runs a lot of small (and potentially unique) tasks (say 0.2% of 1vCPU and 30Mb of RAM), but require durable disk (rocksdb, sqlite for instance + some random files) and I want to locate them in specific regions depending on the server they are targeting.
Would Cloudflare workers be good enough for that or shall I stick to DO's cheap vms ?
What really pisses me off is tariff engineering. I love minimal, flat, sneakers. I used to routinely buy Converse Chuck Taylors. Canvas, rubber, and eyelets at a reasonable price. After they shipped production overseas, they started embedding soft, slippery felt in the soles, while the price krept up like everything else. Yeah, great, now they can dodge paying a tariff by claiming it's actually a "slipper", but the shoes are garbage now.

Thankfully Vans hasn't done this yet.
But neither one is something we can pronounce correctly anyway, I suppose.
I wonder how much of this recent development can be attributed to the Covid pandemic—whether it's helped clear up a lot of red tape or whether the development has been largely unaffected negatively or positively.
would be great if there were youtubes of the lectures
> while the people looting stores and setting cities on fire during protests, or stealing “under 900$” roam the streets freely

Those people are not your enemy; they are victims of a system that wants them dead. Nobody wants to be a criminal.
Your profit margin sets the return on investment, which must be on the tangent portfolio line or investors drop you.

Of course thats simplistic thinking, the tangent portfoglio is unknowable.

And there are other benefits of not charging the same profit margin.

But, in general, you’re going to have a bad time w/ investors if your profit margins are industry standard.
Text transcripts, not audio, unless a user opts in to donating their audio. It’s disassociated from the originating device after six months or when requested by the user via settings app. But you’re right it’s all deleted after two years.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210657
It's bizarre that prostitution is illegal in an allegedly progressive, western country like the USA. From an outsiders perspective, this is comparable to burning witches.

Is there a reason for this beyond ideals from the middle ages and pearl clutching?
So if someone steals my air tagged device they can just turn it off. Nice
Telling apart a good Product Manager
Do you know that Toy Story was not re-rendered from the originals? Are you just guessing?
And it's pretty darn mint for the implementation.

Best improvement to pair with the best VPN protocol
The transactional nature of it doesn't bother me. Plenty of cultures and people do arranged marriages and stuff like that. It's just, how he has a lottery for freelance head hunters, a bounty, it's gross.
Extend the thought experiment.

Given: If the technology exists to create “good-enough” copies of a human, the tech to create “good-enough” copies of a habitat should also exist.

Experiment:

1) Create X copies of a controlled habitat

2) Create X copies of N humans, where N > 1

3) Place human copies into habitat copies

4) Observe

What is the expected percentage that the humans will behave identically? For how long? It’s probably best to start with one human per habitat, but I think “more than one human” is the more interesting question.

I can’t find the name of the condition right now, but sometimes people fall into loops, where they will ask the same series of questions and give the same responses each time until they recover. It happened to my grandmother once after a mini-stroke, and there’s a Radiolab episode about it which I also can’t find. So that lends credibility to the hypothesis that if the environments are “good enough,” there will be no divergence. I’m curious to know how long that could possibly last.
HIV is very manageable with drugs, and life expectations are very high. Whilst the disease is horrible, and we should be seeking a cure, its manageable. HSV is emerging as one of the biggest contributors to dementia. That is itself a disease that kills - just over a longer time span. Unfortunately for HSV there is little long term strategy for management that can address this issue. The *ciclovir drugs primarily target viral shedding, and not the rest of the infection cycle.
"return on invested capital", or "shareholders have expectations".

Private companies, of course, have more leeway.
Actually, fixing Amazon is very simple, but I believe Amazon does NOT want to do this.

You see, the trick is to only buy when the seller is "Amazon". These products almost always have high-quality, and are authentic.

You see, Amazon makes it very difficult to filter "Amazon" as the seller. There is no "default" and I believe it reverts to "All sellers" on every search. I believe this is deliberate.

The "seller" problem applies to Walmart, Bestbuy, etc. But for some reason, it's much easier to filter the seller on these sites.
2 days does seem weird, but in the UK it's next day; in London (and perhaps other cities) it's same day. (In both cases with a time cut-off.)

It would cost me money and time to go I don't even know where to buy the item in person, it's a very non-trivial convenience to me.

And then Prime aside, the no-nonsense support/returns is something I knowingly sometimes pay a premium for. A few quid extra at Amazon vs. unknown site, or especially say eBay is worth it IMO. Not to mention the convenience of already having payment details there and not suffering through Sage/WorldPay/Pal for some one-off guest checkout.

(Aside: scummy PayPal created an account for me from such a checkout process, and refuse to close it without me first 'verifying' it by providing photo ID and other PII. Such nonsense.)
It's funny that leather boots are probably the easiest US-made thing to find (or Mexican-made). Maybe it's the lack of pieces that you find in a modern silly looking athletic shoe.

It would be interesting to quantify the impact of labor cost vs. the impact of close-by suppliers and infrastructure. Once the aglet factory is right next door and run by your brother-in-law, there's not much reason to leave a place.
This is a solution in the same way anti-homeless design is a solution
Amazon has declined to a point in which it is impossible to buy any clothing, furniture, toys, etc.

Full of low quality from sockpuppet brands with randomly generated names. Not only low quality, but toxic too.

Instead of making products safe, fraudulent vendors do a photo session with white kids playing with their products, or simply they just add them via photomanipulation or stock photos.
Anybody that only see "worms", "flies", mice and rats is showing that is illiterate about biology. Totally clueless about the importance of the most basic things in lab research.
> What are we to do?

Spend $1000 on something Italian.

If you're not going to do that, then realize that buying a $100 pair of Florsheims every two years is actually a pretty good deal compared to what we used to do back in "the good 'ol days".
Thats not how this works. Extra money goes to investors who then choose to do what they want with it.
Rather, seek subsidies and use the success to chase government grants and reinvest that money for the greater good.
you're completely right. It's because they want to keep increasing their percent of return. They refuse to accept profit and instead have to return more profit over quality or worker health.
Broadcasting your bona fides far and wide is certainly en vogue in certain circles; anecdotally speaking, the incidence of people manifesting their vanilla pronouns is orders of magnitude higher than otherwise.

Seems it's on par with yelling go packers or similar at a crowded bar.
This is exactly the plot of The Circle (the book—I haven't seen the movie).

> Rape, Muggings, theft, seem like they'd all go down in a world where AR cameras are as ubiquitous as smartphones.

A simple mask stops the second two. And it'll take a generation at least until wearing camera sunglasses indoors leads to sex/rape.

> How do backroom deals, government conspiracies, corporate malfeasance stay private when everyone in the room is recording it?

The powerful will be the last people this affects. Thus, privacy will be seen as a mark of status.
Some of those shell companies even claim to be American, and even go to the extent of making a website. But by looking at the whois info for the domain you notice that they are registered via Alibaba Cloud.
> Eventually, the pilots regained control and, escorted by a pair of fighter jets, flew south to an airport with good weather and landed safely.

Anyone know how being escorted by jets helps in a situation like this?
Thanks, I'll have a read!

I'd like to note though that what ever the case, a beverage that she was expected to put to her lips managed to give her horrific burns. And there was, if I recall correctly, quite a few of the same case accident reports at Mcdonalds on record. She was the only one who ended up in high profile litigation though.
I suppose my point is that she wasn't silly or unreasonable as the slow drip feed of facts led many people to conclude as they heard it.
I've never tried in other states. But on an absolute scale I found it ridiculous how many gotchas they put in place to keep you out of court. I remember sitting there watching so many people get told by the judge "you forgot to file proof of service" or whatever and get their case thrown out. And it takes a whole day. How many tenants can easily get a day off?

If I were a landlord I'd keep every deposit no matter what.
Once every 8 weeks is entirely more palatable and manageable than a daily pill in my mind. Daily pill forgetfulness leads to things like unplanned kids. Unplanned kids are life altering, but generally not deadly, unlike a communicable disease like HIV.
Why is the URL amazonaws.com for this? Just because something is hosted on S3 doesn't mean the content originated from AWS...
The film industry has regularly undertaken things like making Technicolor films and Criterion Collection releases.

Re-rendering source material for a different resolution is trivial.
Both those denominators are waaaay off. Lightning doesn’t have the equal probability to strike everywhere and anywhere and I imagine there are relatively few people in the path of a lightning strike (grounded or near a ground) when there is a high probability for lightning… so if you’re going to use people as a denominator, it’s probably closer to 1 million.

Also, very few people stick around when the cops are coming after someone and the denominator should be people the cops are going after (arrests + stops + deaths from cops). In general, cops don’t just randomly start shooting people in their line of site…
The jets can shoot you down if you're on a trajectory to crash into something worse like the WTC.
> At least where I live it is

In the US? I wonder which part of the US (if I may ask)

> last police shooting .. killed a father ..

How sad that they did that. (If it got covered by any news, it'd be interesting (or is there a better word) to read)
Not sure what this would accomplish anything positive or these brands would find ways to dodge. And some brands seem to be ok to use.

What about Amazon own brand products? I find it unbelievable with their own reviews and ratings. For example, a Fire HD 8 tablet have almost 120k reviews with 4.6/5 stars. It doesn't make any sense. These tablets are junk quality with crappy software.

I find Costco product reviews are way more trustworthy. Even though they're 3-star, I still buy them sometimes.
https://github.com/LegendOfMiracles/dotnix/tree/master/hosts... (bottom lines describe the remote build logic) this is the actual config of the pi 3b... One other file also gets sourced: the defaults-nixos file in the root of the repo. And the distributed build host nix file describes creating a build user on my main machine.

The setup is mostly mirrored from https://sgt.hootr.club/molten-matter/nix-distributed-builds/

Be sure to enable binfmt for whatever architecture your pi uses on your main machine for cross compilation.

For generating the iso I used nixos-generators.