skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh.

Before updating...

I was under the impression 1.3.0 was The Update Of Doom, not prior versions. Your BIOS might still have the S3 option available, and furthermore, based on the anecdata I found about downgrade being blocked starting at 1.4.0, you might be able to go to even lower BIOS versions too if you need to.

Even if the option does not appear to be available, it might be an interesting idea to ask around wherever this is being discussed, before updating, in case there's any interesting insight to be had there.

In any case I'd definitely have a thorough look around the current BIOS version first.

If onsite IT has their heads screwed on correctly :) it shouldn't be too difficult to demonstrate the benefits of a) checking the BIOS (if you don't have read-only access) and b) enabling the option if it's available (if you don't have read-write access).
Too much volcano!

Was going to comment a link to his video as well.
The official apps, new site and old site all allow you to create a post from the front page into any subreddit simply by specifying the name. I assume that's what's happening here.
I did the customized splash screen for the version of Paint Shop Pro that was bundled with Hotdog Pro.
He chose to publicly ally himself with Pauline Hanson on the topic of immigration. Hanson has a long history of anti-immigration positions publicly justified in terms of racial/religious animus (in the 1990s targeting Asian people, more recently she has made Muslim people her primary target); when she starts trying to justify anti-immigration policies based on population growth concerns, most people (quite rightly) view that as a disingenuous fig-leaf for her real position, but Smith seems incapable of seeing that insincerity himself.

I don't think he is personally motivated by racial/religious animus. I think he is genuinely concerned about the potential impacts of population growth on the environment, housing affordability, traffic congestion, quality of life, etc. However, I think he has a poor understanding of how other people are going to perceive his decision to publicly ally himself with a politician who has a clear record of that animus.
The definition of sentient used for this article includes plenty of other animals that we keep in often tortuous conditions (most agribusiness level animal raising) and then kill for food or even sport (think foxes).
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse (who also wrote Siddhartha) deals directly with a scholar who struggles with human interaction until he falls for a mysterious woman in a jazz bar. The first half of the book details internal suffering and can be a bit heavy, but the second half is filled with good dialogue about protagonist pushing through his understanding of himself.
You're probably thinking of "sapient" which generally implies higher reasoning. "Sentient" means able to feel things, and it's pretty obvious that animals can feel pain.
Thus my caveat of "among political types". In a good faith conversation it doesn't matter (and presumably staying silent and staring down your conversation partner happens less often generally). But as the other reply mentioned, there are lots of people - not friends, I've encountered it at work and online- that are basically trying to get you to talk more so they can trap you. The real trick is to recognize when it's happening with minimal false positives so you don't just look like a defensive jerk (been there also)
One idea I employ often is to "increase the temperature" of the system, non-essential complexity, bureaucracy, excessive variation of materials, etc becomes more apparent through a lens of being more demanding than necessary so that the physical limits of the problem dominates the solution.

Another idea I use is to mentally time travel and try to visualize how context-sensitive my decision/design/process is. Decisions that require a "superior" (or even accurate for that matter) understanding of the context I'd frown upon. Even if they are not mistaken and biased, to me, they promote a dynamic of continued survival through non-obvious and increasingly complex actions, rather than forcing a simple and obvious environment.

Another is engineering with a bias for optimizing recovery first then reliability (sort of a minimax).

So for example combined I would rather have a way to recover from broken code and produce
a teaching moment than I'd try to prevent a developer from merging said code in the first place.

I'd try to exercise a process to recover all data from backups in a timeline that the company would survive first rather than dedicate resources first for redundancy and leave said scenario for later due to its low probability.

Take all of this in a "while there is value on the other thing, I value this more" wrap.

I like models that would force the space to be simpler and more obvious.
Sentience is the capacity to experience sensations like pain or emotions. Insects have a nervous system and consequently feel pain, which makes them sentient. That doesn't appear to be the key metric we consider when culling/killing things, in the end. It's not clear that they have the capacity for "anguish", let alone understand it.

The old practice of cooking crab and lobsters was to subject them to pain for a needlessly lengthy period of time which I think is what the statuses is meant to curb. On the other hand, pesticide use is probably painful, albeit necessary. Seems rather arbitrary not to consider insects sentient, because they exhibit the same things. Intelligence is necessary for suffering, however. We're not good at measuring this capacity for suffering, we just know that certain animals exhibit it and for that reason we (should) take care to avoid it. Are there different levels of it? I would intuit that a bee slaughtered by a wasp suffers, but is that a level of suffering that should matter to us?

No easy answer but in the end I understand playing it safe in broadstrokes fashion
I sometimes wonder how it goes with Microsoft attempt in this regards. The quantum news coming out from Redmond seems to have stopped. For the past many years an little news broke now and then, but the past year or so it has been replaced with silence.

The latest news I recall was that they retracted some findings [1] and since then I don't recall any more news.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56328980
Kitset houses are cheaper and better.

These sorts of projects hide where the real cost of construction is. Land, foundations, electrical, council permits, drainage, plumbing, telco, it all adds up. Building the walls is a minor cost in comparison, and if you're going to make a house you might as well spend a bit more, and get more house per dollar.

it claims it's sustainable, but i don't see these houses lasting more than 50 years. at least with a normal house you can repair it without having to demolish it.
Once sentient, extra neurons don't change the status of a sentient being.
There’s a messy conflict between different ideals and agendas in Australia’s immigration debate that will be familiar to people in other countries too. Immigrants have made modern Australia, and progressive people want them to feel welcome and their achievements recognized, and want to be open to their families and to refugees, but at the same time immigration is used as an economic lever to lower wages and conditions, and having large numbers of people working with fragile visa statuses is corrosive for democracy, there’s no clean path through this.
Apparently the infra bill just passed has funding to build out charger network… and a clause that even Tesla could benefit from if they opened their supercharger stations to a certain amount of nonTesla vehicles
True, but ALIAS records are not a standard DNS record, but rather a (by now very common) local workaround on the authoritative server.
Fond memories
Lol I had heard it was made by bacteria but not that that was e. coli :) It's weird to know that something we inject to save lives comes from poop :P And a bacteria that can actually cause severe illness itself!

I wonder why they picked that specific bacteria? Maybe because it's one of the first known to man and as a result we know so much about it?
> The review drew on over 300 existing scientific studies to evaluate evidence of sentience in cephalopods (including octopuses, squid and cuttlefish)

Cuttlefish very closely related to Octopi, I am sure they’d get lumped in with the other cephalopods wherever the law is concerned.
> Does being a “bug” justify being boiled alive?

It's quite a leap to go from "crabs and lobsters are basically bugs" to "being a bug justify being boiled alive."

No. Please don't boil your arthropods alive. Kill your crabs and lobsters, swiftly, before cooking them. Be thankful for their sacrifice. I promise you it doesn't change the flavor or texture or nutrition.
If you do more than microbenchmarking, then the cache effects start showing up and often the smaller-yet-individually-slower sequence begins to win.

But I disagree that the 3 sequences are actually identical in semantics, because the ones containing adds and xors will also affect the flags, while xlat and movs with the arithmetic done in the addressing mode don't.

The other thing to note is that pushes and pops are essentially free despite containing both a memory access and arithmetic --- I believe they added a special "stack engine" to make this fast starting with the P6.

I remember benchmarking AAD/AAM and they were basically exactly the same as the longer equivalent sequences, although that was on a 2nd generation i7. The (relative) timings do change a little between CPUs, but it seems that Intel mostly tries to optimise them every time so they're not all that much slower. It would be interesting to see this benchmark done on some other CPU models (e.g. AMDs, which tend to have very different relative timings, or something like an Atom or even NetBurst.)
I get more freaked out about thinking of falling into the atmosphere of Jupiter, just falling and falling and falling, eventually getting crushed. Or maybe a giant tentacle grabbing me, being pulled into some unthinking Cyclopean maw lurking just under the big red spot...

The entire rest of the universe is even more terrifying if only because it's so much more inhospitable to life.
Not only is it not on by default in Teslas but it's actually quite a bit of work to setup.

Most cars it's just a toggle. In Teslas you have to setup a new profile and manually set the steering wheel and seat to the exit position. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94l43ILKRsA
The suggestion that managing indoor humidity[1,2] (even hanging wet towels, as the author suggests) could improve covid resistance seems to make sense. Are there any covid-specific studies to support it?

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20815876/

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[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/18/winter-co...
I think this could be achieved by indexing only tags on blog posts. Aside from having to groom the tag corpus (maintaining sets of synonyms would probably be a big part), this would seem to be a fairly pain-free way of deriving some of these associations. It could be extended into "hmm, what other things are the people I share this with also interested in," which happens to be just about where I think the entire field of recommendation engine research should have ended. But I digress.

Yes, you would have to use tags to participate if you weren't already, but that just makes it opt-in.
I think the question is more who can kill an animal?

Humans are animals too. But ordinarily one human is not allowed to kill another, except the state of course in countries with death penalty.

So if humans can kill humans it makes sense that humans can also kill (other) animals. But you can not kill someone else's animal because it is not your property.

Now if it is ok to kill somebody I don't see why it would be any bigger sin to eat their dead body, is it?

(I'm not saying it is ok to kill but our society seems to allow it in many cases)
> The fact this is somehow just dawning on modern society is a sad indictment of our blinkered and callous disregard for other species

Well, lobsters eat fish and fish, as any child could explain to you, can experience distress and probably also pain. As far as animals go, both humans and lobsters are quite actually quite nice - there are species out there that poison their prey and eat it alive [0]. So this is not really a "disregard for other species", no more than it's disregard of a fox to eat a deer. Now, of course, by now we could be better than this, I fully agree with you here - but the fact that other species experience pain and distress when ending up as food was basically an universal truth until some very recent human inventions.

[0] I know some humans do that, too, but that's far from the general case.
I heard about it from Dr K on YouTube. The connections between how it's sorted I came up with myself.
sure has, it’s already in full swing and nodes are growing.

El Salvador is also using Algorand to build upon.
Yeah sadly that is what the marketing term means. Personally my bar would be fully automatic and insulin and glucagon at a a minimum.
In The Castle, any phone call from the town to the castle causes all telephones in the castle to ring. Anyone can pick up. I thought this was the origin of the name but I’m probably wrong.
Logically, it should be the vaccinated who give up their beds for the unvaccinated in such a situation. The vaccinated took Science's best preventive medicine and still are almost dying, so they're more likely to be a strain on the healthcare system in general over their lives --- they're sickly people. Better to try to save the person who has at least not proven themselves to have poor genetic immunity.
Server Error 500 sees some Tesla drivers locked out of their vehicles
That’s not really the argument monkeybutton is making, the point is lobsters’ neural complexity is similar to ants, and orcas are comparable to humans.
re: the mri paper discussed, I haven't read it, but between-group comparisons of that sort are always prone to confounding variables--you can try to match on things like race, gender, social status, age, iq, and diagnoses, etc. but its hard to know whether you've matched everything you need to do. My recommendation is a longitudinal design. Mass brain scans of diplomatic staff at yearly intervals. You'll want to control for age-related changes, though there won't be that many over the course of one or two years, and other things, like covid, which seems to reduce grey matter quite substantially.
Not a mental model or saying, but still I remind myself several times a day.

Breathe, ~5 seconds in, ~5 seconds out. James Nestor style.
"If one human can do it, so can another". For when a task or acquiring new knowledge/skills seems like a monumental feat.

"Success is the best form of revenge". Having never felt like I really fit in anywhere (except maybe at art school) throughout life, having people say I'd amount to nothing, people laughing at my shared thoughts/perspectives, being told what I'm doing is the wrong way, that my take on something is stupid even if I spent time researching and/or combined held knowledge/experience, finding out others think I'm weird for my takes and/or for being quiet... this comes across as angsty but it's been my reality for the last 32 years, and it's never fun or a good feeling to face. But boy does it feel good to have surpassed those low held bars and the high ones I've set for myself. Additionally, it feels good to say "I told you so" without ever saying it. Never seek revenge, just better yourself. It's more worthwhile.

"Never chase". Whether it's money, someone you're interested in, and especially assets, among other things. If you're chasing, it's either too late or wasn't meant to be.

"Do things from the heart and with a clear mind, never for luxury or money". If it feels right, is something you have interest or passion in, and reasoning says it's good to pursue, do it. Benefits will follow, whether that's money or otherwise.

"Anything is possible, but nothing is perfect". Paradoxical, but a reminder to self that you can achieve more than you limit yourself to, but also a reminder that perfection is impossible.

"Be kind, but not a pushover". "Be too nice and people will take you for a dummy". Manners, kindness, being polite, etc are important imo, but people will take advantage of that until you put your foot down.
Where I work, this routine stuff is handled by an ops team. But we have a saying that ops will have a different job scope every 6 months because it will be automated. The ops team gets plenty of respect and are probably the real PCs.

However phrasing it as PC/NPC work does seem insulting. Even games are evolving into forms where everyone is the PC. To mess with the analogy even more, it's usually low level PCs that are tasked with rat hunting and fetch quests.
> Volume doesn't help when you're selling $5 bills for $2.50.

Were they really leasing places for less than they were worth? I thought the problem was more that they were spending outrageous amounts of money on overhead, and taking on massive amount of risk because they had long term commitments on their lease, but their tenants could drop at any time.
Pharmaceutical monopolies over the best production methods and the laborious process of getting production approval by the government makes upfront cost of new competition incredibly high. Thus, a couple companies control the entire supply and can choose price. It genuinely costs almost nothing to produce and there are hacker communities around doing it at home, because it's genuinely that easy.
Hmm, I always thought DHTML was Dynamic HTML
Slow and steady wins the metaverse race?

Kidding, of course. I'm willing to bet everything that Star Citizen will never be completed within my lifetime, and if I'm wrong then I'm willing to take the necessary steps to rectify it.
I always thought of the last panel as an initially silly-sounding answer that could still be considered correct in some unexpected way. In this case it fits, because if you compile with `-Os`, xlatb is probably the ideal output. I doubt llvm can output xlatb, but I'd be pleasantly surprised if it could
Ah okay, the initial sentence is illustratory, rather than exhaustive, then. Makes sense, thanks!
Boiling to death is pretty cruel even for nature. Getting eaten alive honesty doesn’t even sound as bad.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29288238
I have a Windows .exe program that requires .NET and I have yet to figure out how to run this in Wine. I tried installing various versions of .NET in Wine but it was a nightmare.

I also tried installing Mono the .NET for Linux? Mono didn't help getting the .exe running.

I am only locked into Windows by this one .exe that I need to run.
How so? In terms of discovery of entry vectors for phishing or something? Would love to know more about this.
BCD instructions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8477254
I think this means the people that determine how animals should be treated now have the ability to rule lobsters can't be boiled alive.
I think the exposure effect only works well if your exposure was neutral or positive, or how you weight negative vs. neutral or positive experiences. For people who ingrain negative experiences more strongly than the others, one bad experience could outweigh 10 neutral or positive ones.

So if introversion is some strong social anxiety, and you have one bad social experience at a bar, it could just reinforce that anxiety out of proportion to the actual reality. The brain isn't always rational unfortunately.
How can we rescue world from jQuery?
Highly specific username appreciated
If JWST was any indication, most engineers will retire on this program.
Good. Especially for octopuses, which are amazing animals - clearly intelligent and sentient.
+1 to GPGPU specifically. It feels like there is enormous opportunity here, as existing languages have serious limitations (CUDA is effectively Nvidia-only, choices for compute shaders are extremely low level), and at the same time I think there's a lot of very cool stuff you can do, largely held back right now by poor tooling.

I suspect that progress on this front will overlap a bit with the previous category, as more often than not you run machine learning workloads on GPU anyway.
Those examples don't matter.

What matters are the examples that appeal to representative lawmakers, judges, and juries.

If you go in front of a judge and jury and talk about how they were coming to take your stuff, on your land, so you shot them, you might very well be completely innocent depending on the jurisdiction.

If you go in front of a judge and talk about your lottery ticket and tall people or whatever you'll be thrown out for wasting the court's time because real problems are trying to be solved.

All those examples you can think about are just a form of intellectual masturbation about how you are actually Right and how you've poked a hole in the counterparties argument. The truth is that the real world is a complex place full of gray areas, and the expectations of others in society matters.
Microwave detectors are $29.99 on Amazon. I can’t image a scenario where the day after the initial reports of Havana Syndrome that Raytheon, Honeywell, L3 etc didn’t sell the State Department billions of sensors for our embassies. Yet, in all of the subsequent reporting, there’s never been confirmation of sensors being tripped.

Mass hysteria still seems the most plausible.
Why not embrace it and support both topics? Might have interesting results.
Ah, didn't know about 409A. Thanks for explaining
And good for the world. Americans are the highest consumers per capita of any nation on the planet, less of us it a great thing for the environment.
I remember a Lisp blog, linked off of lemonodor.com, which had an entry whose comment section had been found by people searching for information about speech impediments. Instead of kicking those commenters off, the (very classy) blog owner allowed people looking for help with disabilities to connect with each other on his page.
Ok so let's say this passes... surely we can't boil them alive anymore and social media platforms will delete the strange 'muckbang' videos. Right? RIGHT?
By the above definition even amoeba and flatworms are sentient.
In my city they're too busy running from one violent crime to the next, they're understaffed (under statutory minimums) and if you didn't get shot they won't come help. This is seen as the socially progressive thing to do.

I was attacked in a road rage incident, they didn't come. There was video, a witness, a traffic camera all available, they didn't investigate or prosecute.

Shots were fired outside of my apartment on the street the other day, the police didn't come.

I would rather not take the law into my own hands, but what choice does a person have?
>Does being a “bug” justify being boiled alive?

I'm picking on your language choices rather than the overall point of your argument, but have you ever boiled a live crustacean before (and by this, I specifically mean fully submerging the animal under water that is under a rolling boil on a high-temperature flame)?

They don't writhe in agony and try to escape; they die pretty much instantaneously (I'm talking no movement in less than 2 seconds) and have no idea what's coming.

Again, this isn't a comment on the sentience or lack thereof of crustaceans, but boiling them alive isn't nearly as cruel as people make it out to be. What we do to pigs, chickens or cows is far worse.
The way I read the article, the “code” being talked about is not necessarily application code but the IaC used to provision the actual infrastructure.

That is, the target audience is the sysadmin who would provision the PHP/FTP server and discussing how to sanely manage that as the fleet grows with slightly separate but mostly similar differences between instances.

Maybe you as a web developer don’t want this complexity but a lot of it is inherent and someone has to deal with it at the end of the day.