skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the theory that consciousness is a 5th energy force after gravity, electromagnetism, strong/weak nuclear force that informs inanimate collection of atoms to become living and thoughts, ideas and feeling are packets of information on the conscious field. Our brains are like radio receivers tuning into this collective energy where common thoughts ideas and feelings exist (the collective unconscious Jung talks about.) Each of us has a unique collection of those thoughts and feelings existing as a conscious energy pattern that constitutes our personality.
I think the key part will be KYC instead of VAT and sales tax. I am pretty sure there are already APIs to get VAT for every jurisdiction.
Because now when someone registers a domain they're instantly a part of the Cloudflare ecosystem. No faffing with getting them to update nameservers

Sell the domain at cost now and the paid products later
Thanks for the link I think! (I might have read that before).
I get this situation is different since YouTube is looking for concessions on functionality, but I find it hard to defend Roku with their triple-dipping scheme. They charge for the device (I paid over $100 for my 4k HDR box), then they display massive ads covering 50% of the screen, then they want a cut of revenue from content providers as well.

Roku burned through a lot of goodwill with their customers during the HBO Max holdout.
DeepMind Trains Agents to Collaborate with Novel Humans Without Using Human Data
I remember watching a fascinating show, in the 1990s, called “A Glorious Accident”[0]

Dealt with exactly this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Glorious_Accident
It scales fine for me on 4K. Do you have the most recent Mac OS?
ROT, Rejected Over Transparency. (Saw that in a news headline about FB today)

Fully embrace non-transparent psychology of the founder. Logo should be pretty metal, if not totally vicious looking.

Reverse everybody's psychology. Don't play up improvements. Play everything down. Joke around. Get Zuckerberg wearing pajamas again.

Without this kind of simple attention to indulgence IMO the leadership culture at FB will just get fake and passive-aggressive anyway. Nothing else is really in their blood where a public interface is concerned. And tech can't sell itself without some kind of differentiator today. That differentiator needs to be the opposite of normal corp-sounds.

From this more authentic stance, become the umbrella under which new and interesting tech is nurtured. Due to the reversed psychology, corporate leadership will feel a benign pressure to surprise people.

And the result of THAT will be more transparency.
> Roughly speaking, someone has to tell you about consciousness before you can experience it?

What does it mean to experience consciousness?
Security Review of Parental Monitoring/Control Software
I'm wondering if anyone has published in-depth reviews of Parental monitoring/control software such as https://www.qustodio.com. From an initial look, these applications seem little better than malware. After reviewing their various terms of service, it seems like there is no way to have your data removed from the system, etc.

My school is forcing the install of this application on machines that the kids will be using. Beyond the various security/privacy concerns of these applications (what data they will capture, how it'll be stored, how it'll be used) I'm also conscious of the social aspect of teaching the kids that they will always be monitored (or at least setting the expectation).
But how can I be sure the chip I have in my hand is built upon this code and that no blob has been added?
> pulling the strings of friendly politicians

You are no doubt referring to the Brandenburg state premier who entered into totally democratic secret negotiations with Tesla and then presented the imminent construction of the factory as fait accompli to his surprised electorate?
when what's the point of making a vaccine for specific variants if you are not going to re-vaccinate already vaccinated people
That's not true either, especially these days will all the microframeworks.
The actual problem is that running a platform isn't that expensive -- there are a hundred tiny Linux distributions that do it on essentially volunteer work -- but once you control a platform with a large number of users you can use it to shake down anyone who wants to reach them. And then people object to the shakedown and do whatever they can to try and stop it.
Greyhound has terrible customer service [0]. I’ve heard many reports of lost baggage, the bus being delayed by up to 12 hours, and staff not answering questions.

[0]: https://www.bbb.org/us/tx/dallas/profile/bus-lines/greyhound...
The issue is that companies like Roku are increasingly making their money by having companies like YouTube TV pay them to carry their apps. Likewise, there are lots of things about these systems that can fall under negotiations. For example, what analytics does Roku get access to for actions taken within apps? Does Roku get insight into what YouTube videos you're watching?

From Roku's blog post, it seems that Google wants a dedicated area in the global search for YouTube results. For example, If you search for "Last Week Tonight", Google wants a YouTube results row showing clips on their service above results from other content platforms like HBO Max. Basically, Google wants to have the placement that search ads get on their platform on Roku.

Previous Roku complaints about Google have included that Google wants all Roku devices to support the AV1 codec - which Google's own Chromecast with Google TV doesn't support.

I think the "dumb and twisted" goes both ways. It's dumb and twisted that Google won't allow Roku devices to run YouTube if Roku doesn't commit that all future Roku devices support AV1 - when even Google's own streaming device doesn't support AV1. It's dumb and twisted that Google wants a dedicated row for YouTube search results rather than neutral search results.
> A peculiar phenomenon will emerge—listeners will have favorite new songs, but not know (or care) about the name of the artist.

I imagine this has already happened. There is no mystique with artists and bands anymore, as they're all posting their daily minutiae online like everyone else.

Streaming networks' emphasis on playlists in effect created a bottomless pit of fragmented content, much like what FB and IG do with algorithmic feeds. Songs are heard in isolation, jammed in between two similar-sounding songs that come before and after. It's hard to care about an artist when they're one small thumbnail amid a sea of other thumbnails queued up to play next.

It has led to a situation where artists make music that's playlist-friendly, because that's where they have a chance of being heard.

The same way in which people write words on the Internet to match what users type into search engines.
First test:

$ 6km in miles
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The Radiohead Catalog Comes to Bandcamp
People think they have to be clever/smart when simply not being stupid and not doing stupid things is often more than enough.

Then they will go onto gold digging exercise to prove that they are smart to be smarter than those pesky dealers.

In the end when thing they bought turns out crappy (no gold in that mine:)) they will get defensive about it and will pull all kind of mental gymnastics to confirm what they did was worth investing time.

So such person won't even feel the opportunity cost, because they will make themselves believe that effort was necessary to find that good and they 'gamed the system'.
The Free File program may as well not exist. The fact that it was mostly delegated to companies whose success depends on its failure, means that its lack of adoption should surprise no one.

70% are eligible but only 2.4% use it:
https://amp.freep.com/amp/4679338002

Here’s just one example of Intuit kneecapping its Free File offering:
https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-deliberately-hid...
Why do you view FB, IG, TikTok, Snapchat as “not-Internet”?
It seems to me that the way to combine our very real experience of consciousness and monist philosophy is through a kind of cybernetic panpsychism, which is to say that "consciousness" is a range on a sliding scale that includes all feedback-driven processes. That's my angle anyway.
The Uber experience is (or at least used to be before covid) way, way better than London minicabs used to be. Minicabs had no accountability and small fleet sizes - so at peak times they'd either turn up really late or not turn up at all, with no recourse.

I think they've forced everyone to change now - if they disappeared tomorrow another operator would fill the void. But when Uber first started operating it was a radically improved service.
Actually you answered all of the concerns. Awesome.
Got a source on the "terrorists drive Hiluxes" comment? Genuinely curious. We don't get Hilux in North America so I've never been in one, and I wonder what makes it terrorist-friendly.
Before Uber came to the city I was in at the time, you could not reserve a car. You could call one of the two cab companies and they would tell you that they were going to do it, but it was a coin flip whether that car showed up.
Roku should add a one click cancel button for YouTube Premium.
My reaction is to say that people should have the choice of being either (1)anonymous or (2)nasty when on-line. Not both. (Non-anonymous and nice obviously being allowed.)

Too bad that seems impossible to effectively implement at scale.
Did the Chinese run out of political prisoners?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests...
Looks like we got one of the conspiracy theorist conspiracy theorists. /s
! is actually used as a regular letter with a phonetic value to write quite a few languages in Africa, usually representing a click sound. It's even in the name of some of them: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C7%83Kung_languages
Sure, but in this case these are adults and they know exactly what they are doing. Intuit didn't force them by gunpoint. The politicians have agency here and are ultimately responsible. They chose to put their donors over their voters. And now they are trying to frame this as though they are hapless victims who tried to save the nation? No.
It's not that it's implemented poorly. It's that 1) the federal government collects multiple kinds of taxes out out of your paycheck. Social security, medicare and regular income tax are different. Income tax rates are progressive while the payroll taxes are flat but capped at a certain amount. 2) Additionally forty-two states have income taxes as do dozens of local municipalities. Consider that they also don't treat residents and non residents alike.

Consider a couple who live in New York City, where one partner works in Connecticut and the other works in New Jersey. There are potentially 6 different entities collecting income tax there.

That being said - fully agree - tax filing software should be free for everyone.
National Intelligence Estimate on Climate Change [pdf]
Q3 2021 DDoS attacks and BGP incidents
Show HN: A library for reading PST emails, written in Go/Golang
Thank you, however, this is but one kind of loft operations done that are common in CAD. Often you want to control the tangency between the connected profiles, or connect profiles that aren’t parallel, or use a center guiderail (arbitrary spline), or use multiple guiderails along specific vertexes on the profiles.

It’s these complex cases that I understand how to approach with a kernel based around face patches, less so how one could achieve it with an SDF
True. I thought a bit about that after submitting my comment but I figured going back to write in a whole bunch of caveats would just derail everything.

I do a lot of highway driving, and Saskatchewan doesn't see the same level of congested traffic that you'd get in bigger metropolitan areas. So my comment really does have a lot of particulars that aren't universal. I take a different approach to driving while in the city which does not involve frequent speeding.
How long does "full protection" last? This doesn't seem sustainable.
I look forward to rereading this comment repeatedly over the next decades. What pointless definition chasing.
VIP users looks eerie after squid games!
You realize most machines won't support 5 displays, right? This isn't exclusive to "iJoke" machines.
My thoughts exactly. This seems particularly stupid to do while regulators are circling them. Someone at Google is asleep at the wheel.
Mujoco – A general purpose physics simulator, open-sourced by DeepMind
I guess I should stop having a cold beer in the hot tub after riding my bike back from work…
Edit: I thought the article was talking about "YouTube" and not "YouTube TV". I don't care at all about "YouTube TV"

If YouTube disappeared from my Roku I would go buy a device that does support it. At the moment there isn't much competition in the YouTube space.

If Netflix or Amazon Prime disappeared from my Roku, I wouldn't be as bothered as they are more fungible services.
I find they absolutely cut it for regular use, it's the irregular, special times where it doesn't but then I have to use the g! Operator
about a year old (still interesting, but I assume McDonalds has made this harder to do since then)
> Einstein writes hypothesis. Hypothesis gets submitted to peer review. Peer review passes and grows in acceptance.

This is ahistorical. The Annalen der Physik, where Einstein's four Annus Mirabilis papers were published, did not have peer review.

Only one paper by Einstein was peer reviewed. It was -- in effect -- rejected from Physical Review. While the paper ("Do Gravitational Waves Exist?", with Rosen) was mistaken (in its conclusion of "no"), even then the referee wrote that Einstein "is a man of good scientific standing, and it would seem to me that if he insists, he has more right to be heard than any single referee has to throttle!"
Consciousness (as in: a subjective EXPERIENCE) is IMHO in the same category as "why there is something rather than nothing?".

That is, it falls back to the anthropic principle. If we didn't exist, we wouldn't even be able to consider this question. Or in other words: it is hard to formulate the opposite.

I can be wrong, of course. For long decades scientists considered the hidden variable theory of quantum mechanics ("God does not play dice" - as summarised by Einstein) a philosophical challenge. John Bell was not able to publish his research as it was considered "not even physics". It was surprising that a seemingly philosophical challenge turned into a testable one.
Introduction to Appwrite Cloud Functions with Android and Kotlin
OK, your approach is different, but this project is about doing games from scratch, from almost zero to the level able of selling your game product. Godot, Unity, Unreal etc. is simply a different approach to game making. Is comparing handmade hero devlopment to a Godot,Unity,Unreal development realy a fair thing? I am just saying, he put all his efforts and publish all his code in public, so I think people can learn from his code too.

Kind regards,
shtumf
Building a “Community-First” Company
Anecdote I read on Gearspace- Nine Inch Nails used to destroy DX7s on stage during their tour. They would basically go to pawn shops in each town they played and buy up the DX7s. They were so reliable that they typically didnt have to worry about whether or not they worked, and the keyboard was great for playing and controlling other things via midi. They sold in such numbers that they were ubiquitous, but kinda sad to know that many were destroyed unnecessarily...

https://gearspace.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-and...

check post #34 from Charlie Clouser who toured with them in that era and is also a pretty well known producer/engineer
Reusing glass uses a similar amount of water and about 30-40% of the energy as recycling:

https://pdf.sciencedirectassets.com/282173/1-s2.0-S221282711...

So my point stands, we could see significant environmental improvements if we mandated standard glass bottle and container sizes.

Something like: Food, Carbonated Liquid, Beer, Wine.

Sizes: 150ml, 300ml, 500ml, 750ml, 1L, 1.5L, 2L.
I don't know, I generally like being bad at things. Not because of the state of being bad itself, but because if I'm not doing something new, it's boring, and to be doing something new is to be doing something you're bad at. So I'm basically trying stuff and asking everyone for help all the time. I don't care what others think of me, I like learning.

I don't even think they think I'm stupid, I'm sure they appreciate the fact that I've made every mistake before when they come to me for help later. I enjoy doing stuff more than I enjoy looking like an expert.
What are they supposed to do? The local grid is ill equipped for industrial power requirements, and they need to desalinate huge amounts of water for their sound suppression system. You can't launch rockets in densely populated areas, where power might be more plentiful.

Its not great, but making humans an interplanetary species is more important, especially considering that we are already de-carbonizing cars, partly thanks due to Tesla.

The German NGOs are mostly being unreasonable. What they defend is a not an organic forrest, but basically an artificial wood factory with hardly any environmental value. Water consumption is apparently another issue, but its not like you use it and then its gone forever - its being cleaned.
> crap service is made up for with liberal refunding

Uber has crap service? I was under the impression the whole point of Uber becoming so ubiquitous as to become a verb was that you could actually get service at all in a timely fashion whereas cabs had a terrible reputation.

IMHO, if you're only looking at rides, you've got your consumer hat on and I think you're missing the big picture. Uber is still not done trying to eat the world so to speak. The food delivery vertical is one of its most well known growth markets, but it also has eyes on the actual hailable taxi market[0], buses/high capacity vehicles[1], deliveries/logistics market (uber direct[2], uber freight[3]), it's building up loyalty program strategies a la costco/amazon prime/visa (uber pass[4]), etc. Basically, anything that remotely involves wheels is game for Uber.

This thirst is what I think characterizes unicorns: Google started as a one trick pony with search, and now has maps, docs, android, GCP, Waymo and a million other things. Amazon was a just a book store and now it's basically synonymous with online shopping and cloud infrastructure services.

[0] https://www.themuse.com/jobs/uber/hailables-lead

[1] https://www.uber.com/en-EG/blog/introducing-uber-bus-a-new-w...

[2] https://www.uber.com/newsroom/moving-more-of-what-matters-wi...

[3] https://www.uber.com/us/en/freight/

[4] https://www.uber.com/us/en/ride/how-it-works/uber-pass/
> But only für employees

You mean, most of the people then?

> As an independent or small company owner you have todo it every year.

Well, obviously
Since everybody is sharing their pet theory, mine is that consciousness is a bug, a side effect of having a prefrontal cortex, long term memory and being able to "predict" the future. These tools have important needs for our survival, and come with the unintended effect of asking ourselves "who am I and what is my purpose?" Now it's too late for natural selection to select it out if not beneficial, for we have overridden and grown more powerful, at least in hubris, than Nature.

There is no purpose for humanity. No grand design. We are just replicating lifeforms that have gone self aware. Accept it, it's particularly freeing.
Why do Stanford math professors still use chalk?
The problem is less the neurons, more the connections between them: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2778101/

If you will, the wiring between cells, not so much the cells themselves.
There was some people that tried to change the name but it turned out to be a ridiculous amount of work, and the project unfortunately didn't last. (Edit: Source https://glimpse-editor.org/posts/a-project-on-hiatus/)

They also made some mockups of what a redesign might look like, but as you might imagine it would also be quite a lot of work to implement it: https://github.com/glimpse-editor/glimpse-nx-design
> Incidentally the conservative chancellor candidate that took a media opportunity with Musk to demonstrate his otherwise non-existent interest in renewable energy not only lost the election but also displayed so much incompetence over the last year that his party saw him as radioactive enough to replace him in all of his positions.

That said, the major angel for the Tesla project is the local state government of Brandenburg, which is led by the SPD, the party that emerged strongest in the national election. The CDU is also in Brandenburg's gov coalition, but I don't think Laschet's (national CDU candidate) Musk election campaign media stunt had much relation to anything.
On modern Intel/AMD and ARM CPUs, which have SHA-1 instructions, SHA-1 is very fast, faster than many apparently simpler hashes.

There are no other so fast hashes with an output of at least 128 bits that you can find in available libraries and use immediately in your code.

The only alternative that is faster and long enough is to use an 128-bit polynomial hash like Poly1305 or the one used inside AES-GCM. Such polynomial hashes are available in various cryptographic libraries, but they are not packaged in a way that would allow them to be used directly in a hashing application, so you might have to extract the code from the library and add an interface to it, to make it usable.

Another alternative that has appeared recently is BLAKE3. BLAKE3 can be much faster than SHA-1, but only when it is computed in parallel with a large number of cores. If you do not want your hashing task to entirely take over your computer, SHA-1 remains faster.

There are many applications that need long hashes to make negligible the likelihood of a collision, e.g. for file deduplication. For such applications using SHA-1 is by far the least effort choice and there is no disadvantage in using it.
Is there any evidence that they have sold Bitcoin more than the one time they did last quarter? I am pretty sure they also haven't bought any since their original purchase.
YouTube is a proper tyranny, they use the algorithm as way to lobby society to their benefit. No wonder Google removed the "don't be evil" motto.
>Sounds like there's too much nurses on the market if that's what the job market looks like.

Uhhh... that's a weird take. I already talked about the chronically understaffed units.

The issue is the system doesn't hire enough nurses to cover the needs of our healthcare system. They'd prefer to run understaffed and burn out their workers than hire more nurses and overstaff the units so there's some cushion
The latest numbers I've heard are 6-18 months. The numbers are dropping rapidly. This makes intuitive sense because costs are dropping rapidly. It used to cost $1200/KWh to build an automotive battery, and now it's close to $100/KWh. Costs and CO2 emissions are highly correlated -- a more efficient production process uses less energy.

The other big factor is the source of the electricity used to power the car. But that's a chicken and egg problem. To decarbonize transporation you need to both electrify the car and decarbonize the electricity. In other words both steps are necessary -- doing only one of the two is a huge step towards both steps getting done, but it doesn't show in the final numbers until both steps are done. It takes about 20 years to turn over the car inventory and even longer to turn over power plants, so we need to start aggressively doing both now.