skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How much above Amazon are you willing to pay to shop at a local or independent seller?

I want it regulated so it does not abuse it's position, and I want the government making sure that it follows laboral laws so its employees can live with dignity. That people can stop buying is not a reason to allow Amazon to abuse its position.

> How does one calculate that from an economic perspective, and is it growing, or shrinking?

Many people cannot afford to take the time and effort to do that kind of calculation. So, growing or shrinking, it only affects a small percentage of all Amazon potential customers.
As someone who grew up on a small beef farm in the UK but is also very picky about the source of the meat he eats, my personal anecdotal experience is that vegan or meat eater, the problem is that the vast majority of people have never been within 100m of livestock, and have zero comprehension of where their food actually comes from or how it arrives in their nice refrigerated trays.

The cows on my dad's farm probably had a better life than the dogs. There's a definite argument to made that they had a better life than me, and I was from a very happy and loving household. The same could not be said for the large scale conglomerate farm up the road. It's a distinction most people are simply incapable of making, because they just aren't exposed to it.
To put it in a nutshell: Criticism should be put forth in a "let's get this to work, together. Failure should not be feared; it's another data point" mindset.
How are you managing remote workers?
The Dubai Lamp is not that special. There are similar lamps with only slightly more wattage, but also slightly more lumen. Osram Professional LED Retrofit Classic, or somesuch for instance. In Europe. Don't know about the Americas, Asia...
> You just have to partition the interior with vertical walls that extend up 6+ feet.

Any section cut through a dome will be a half circle, so you're still going to be wasting a lot of material when you cut that wall. And at 6' high, it's going to encroach significantly on the floor space of the dome.

> The void behind can be used for storage just like with second story kneewalls.

This would require access from the (approximate) middle of the knee wall, reducing the usefulness of said kneewall. And leaving a storage space on either side of this access shaped roughly like half a wedge of apple (though a bit larger).

It's either that or the knee wall itself would have to curve to stay a consistent distance from the bottom edge of the dome, which would be a whole different nightmare to build.
The basic principle is that your negative rights are a prohibition of what others can do to you. If someone violates the negative rights of others, they forfeit theirs.

for example, people have a "negative" right to be free of physical violence.
If someone uses physical violence an another, that person forfeits their rights, and the state can use violence against them. It can also take away their freedom of movement and incarcerate them.
What you can do is have a really large number of partitions and scale consumers up only when needed (workers need not be 1:1 with partitions.)
I recently discovered Hisense A5, an android phone with an eink screen + attractive price.
Just ordered one and waiting for the delivery.
I've tried this with a serial-interrupter. The danger of this approach is that most other people in the room won't remember who was speaking first. You'll get responses of "you were both talking at the same time. I couldn't understand either of you", and you'll both look like idiots.
The rise of automation, so far, is nothing. The rise of offshoring is. Its not like we automated away the production of consumer goods - we just get China or Taiwan to do it.
There might actually be things you have posted in this thread I agree with but why then do make other dumb wild claims.
"If a homeowner drops a thimble of anything into a drain, they’ll face significant fines."
Nobody knows what you dump down the drain.

"turned livable, attractive cities into dangerous slums."
Weird as I have not seen housing prices slump in value, they just keeping getting more costly.
> The simple explanation is that it is psychosomatic

That’s what it seems to me as well. Could long term stress cause white brain matter to reduce in mass, for example?

Another possibility is that some are just fabricated. Many of these individuals are CIA or other intelligence agencies employees. Telling lies and making up cover stories is what some do professionally. Here they are in an embassy which with a new Trump presidency was not that awesome of a place to be. They see one of their colleagues say they heard a sound, have headaches, difficulty concentrating. That person perhaps got a medical leave with pay. Perhaps extra pension for injury on the job, on foreign soil. They just have to say they too have those symptoms. Well you get the idea…
“something else to describe it”

The best summing-up I’ve seen is: linguistic colonialism.
I feel like Star Trek handled the question much better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol2WP0hc0NY

Intelligence, self-awareness, and consciousness seem like three reasonable requirements. I don't really buy the "consciousness" requirement, but it's a stab at what most people associate with sentience.

Calling trees sentient is just nonsense. And I mean that literally. I try not to dismiss people's work out of hand, but there's a certain line of philosophical thought whose best rebuttal is to ignore it.
Would someone mind explaining what all the assembly instructions in the meme do? In particular I'm wondering why you would do xor rcx, rcx when that result is always 0
If morality were axiomatic, then worldwide we would have a collective shared understanding of what is right or wrong, immutable over time. That’s clearly not the case.
Ok, maybe that claim is a tiny bit too strong, but I'll defend it anyways.

Consider that rust macros are allowed to have side effects and access outside resources, they aren't pure functions. I'd argue that any system that runs them repeatedly in an attempt to find a fixed point is either incorrect (backwards compatibility wise), or an all together new macro system that happens to run in parallel to the current one and call itself the same thing (debatable, I know). Nor can we simulate the proc macro and only let the side effects occur once we reach a fixed point, because the proc macros behavior can depend on the values returned by those external systems.

The halting problem is arguably not a theoretical issue, since the type system is already turing complete (up to arbitrary limits on recursion depth that could exist here to).
"You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should."

So that was an interesting experiment, but I'm not really sure if that's a good idea. Anyone wants to enlighten me on that?
I think I prefer "In my opinion...".
I see they found the same photographer every Japanese real-estate company uses to take some shitty jpegs of the installation, nice!
> Huh only in America it might be considered OK to execute a person for a theft of an automative part.

This is a peculiarity of Texas property law. It would not be legal in the other 49 states. It's a relic of cattle rustling in the 19th century, when the population density of Texas was too low to properly police and its primary industry required more protection than could be afforded by local law enforcement.
Isn't marriage by default (law-wise) forcing an assets-split? Going back to the original state would be fine, but that's not what usually happens from my understanding
Are you arguing for or against? A mythology is not a good argument. A wikipedia entry of about 184 attacks within a decade (apologies if I miscounted) argues for wolves being a non-existant threat. I'm more afraid of riding in a car thank you.
Rust is the new C++.
Sentience always requires more than just reaction, but a memory component. That is, it can take a proactive response to avoid that negative stimuli in the future. However, measuring both of those is generally very difficult, and so determining if something is sentient can be difficult.

The bar for sentience is basically, "is it more than automatic". Which is fairly low and easy to clear. It doesn't even require that there be consciousness.
Eric Weinstein says some crazy stuff, but I remember hearing him once say that the best debate strategy for Republicans would be to mention the "noo-kyoo-lar" family, and let them correct you to "nuclear". Then you win because the other side looks like pedants and elitists. This "octopi" is definitely such a word.
B&N has an annual membership ($25) that comes with a constant 10% discount and occasional coupons that offer bigger discounts. With the membership, the same book would also be $31.45.

I'm not suggesting it's better or worse, just another option.
Americans have never been very informed on what their cable news stations tell them to angry about.

Sort of like how your average Christian has no clue that, essentially, in Christian Canon the Quran is the 3rd Testament & Allah is the same worshipped God.

Semantics seems to be both a cash cow and an easy way to make other people kill each other. Psychopaths/narcissists/immoral historically have no issue capitalizing on this.
https://sandstorm.io/ seems relevant.
some of it not even on purpose
I mean look, how do they know if you break the speed limit? They can't most of the time, and it's not like with radio emissions where they could easily triangulate a troublesome source.

I dislike a LOT of the nanny-state bullshit over-regulation here in Western Australia... Hell I've even been personally affected by the decision to arbitrarily label some of my possessions as prohibited weapons in contrast to other states deciding they just needed to be registered, while other states again don't even care and treat them like the toys they are. So the overreach isn't just a game of hypotheticals for me... but I've never felt like the right answer is to blatantly ignore the fairly sensible if otherwise annoying laws.
For that to render _"octopi"_ incorrect, you'll also have to convincingly argue that a centuries-old etymology mishap supersedes its common usage since then— the far more common measure to define correctness in English grammar. Sociolinguists aim to study and describe the effect of society and culture on the formation of grammar. They don't present their findings as rules, and we shouldn't interpret them that way.
I have seen a ton of AI art, a lot of it impressive, but I’ve never seen a piece generated by a computer that had any significant meaning behind it that the human artist didn’t give to it. So AI hasn’t solved art at all really.
I mean modern devops is basically circling back around to that idea but with “php files” replaced with “git repo.”

To deploy code to production at $dayjob all that’s necessary is to commit to master and press the play button once you’re satisfied the code works in dev/qa/staging.

The pipeline is relatively complex because production ready infrastructure has some irreducible complexity but devs don’t have to care about it most of the time. In some cases we adopt a team of devs to work on infra related performance initiatives but that’s rare.
>depending on who you ask and how they define sentience

Natsu was assuming for the sake of argument that the definition of sentience is the one moeris gave, namely "that one is capable of feeling sensations".
All very good points. What I like about Kafka is that you can queue up a bunch of messages without needing to be able to handle that load immediately. It lets you build very resistant patterns: if your message-senders overwhelm your message receivers in HTTP you can end up with connection failures, get stuck waiting, etc. In Kafka what happens is you now have a large backlog to work through, but at least your messages are somewhere accessible to you and not dropped on the floor.

HTTP definitely has the edge when it comes to library support. In fact, Confluent et al offer HTTP endpoints for Kafka so that you don't have to deal with the vagaries of actually connecting to a broker yourself (the default timeout in python for an unresponsive broker is _criminal_ for consumers. You will spend several minutes wondering when the message will arrive.) We use an in-house one. But that introduces HTTP's problems back into the process; you need to worry about overwhelming your endpoint again...

Regarding application patterns, ideally you're writing applications that read data from one topic (or receive messages, parse a file, etc) and write to another topic. Treating it as a request that will somehow be responded to later in time scares me and I wouldn't do it. What if your application needs to be restarted while some things are in-flight?
You don't live on a road, you either live on a street or stroad. A road by definition does not have building access. Maybe your backyard faces a road, but you couldn't drive onto it with a car from there.
It... it can't detect a stall current?

The seats in my 6 year old winter beater BMW will stop moving if they encounter resistance.

It's a two-door car so the seats move often too to accommodate my dog traveling in the back seats, I'd consider it a basic safety feature.

Edit: Just tested it again, the moment it encounters resistance it reverses direction for a second then stops

The amount of force it took is fairly low too, yet I've never had this failsafe accidentally trigger.

You'd think this stuff is table stakes for a mechanically advantaged system that can move hundreds of pounds effortlessly.
should go with informal approach... golang, rustlang, etc
That sounds more like a failure of UX engineering/design.

That's why rapid iterations are better when developing a user-facing interface.
> “the capacity to experience pain, distress or harm”.

So how about jellyfish (which have no brains), or for that matter plants?

It seems odd to apply boolean terms like "sentient", rather than accepting that whatever it is, it lies on a spectrum.
Obviously the correct answer is to call them by their preferred plural noun.
You are correct. The idea was to reduce the deer population.

(AL)
> why you would do xor rcx, rcx when that result is always 0

It's an idiomatic way to populate a register with the value zero.

Not sure if it's still true, but IIRC it took fewer cycles than the more obvious "load #0 into $rcx" instruction.
> so-called road, it's comprised of a single lane of paved dirt

Note the verbiage on road from the article:

> […] where people board in one place, depart in another and there is a high speed connection between the two.

See specifically "high speed connection". I have a hard time believing that a paved dirt 'road' would allow for a "high speed connection".

There is the colloquial use of the word, and the 'technical' distinction that the article is trying to make between different types of way that vehicles can travel on.
While microwaves might produce those effects under certain conditions, the problem with this explanation is that the transmitter will be huge, loud and difficult to hide.
https://www.nitinpai.in/2021/11/8/the-unlikeliness-of-a-dire...
Very often. I think it's when I construct a hypothesis rather than bring forward a proven theory. When you say things straight, it's usually not up for debate.

Compare "I don't think we can fix this bug until we refactor," to "We can't fix this bug until we refactor".
I've changed to audiobooks and text to speech. It's change my learning ability. I no longer have to fight my way through books.
I have a simple rule I try to follow:

Always lead with what you know factually followed by what you think.

When speaking to people, I often ask them to tell me what they know to be factual and what they think. Then I like to talk about how we can prove or disprove what we think.
What -ism doesn’t suggest or prescribe change in behavior?
I can't think of a really good computer analogy to explain stroads, but if I were to attempt it I would say that it's analogous to forcing everyone to use a CLI, for _everything_.

Roads can move a lot of people and material long-distances, quickly. CLIs are powerful, but I've never seen an e-commerce application with a command-line interface. It'd be the wrong tool for the job.

Similarly, you shouldn't build multi-lane roads with wide lanes (which is all a great fit for highways) in places where you expect a lot of people to be, especially if they're shopping.
This is perplexing to read. What is the last piece of art you consumed that was generated by AI? Have you read such a book, seen an imafe, listened to an album?
you would create a horrible housing market where at first very few living in rural areas could aford a home there. killing the middle class in those towns, which would in turn cause the high earners (doctors lawers business owners)to leave as there would be no one that could afford their services, that would then drop the market after they left but all that would be left are the poor now with no jobs.

essentially you would be creating a inverse-gentresizing where the middle class leaves then upperclass leaves creating a ghetto.
May the dankest words prevail
I mean nothing is stopping you just using CSS, JS and HTML in 2021.

Well except the anguished screams of your react loving co-workers.
> Just a disagreement which was settled by a war.

This brushes over a lot history - there barely was an abolitionist movement when the constitution was written, and you missed the 3/5 compromise (and compromise means there's agreement). "We the people*" was definitely asterisked with "Slaves excluded", and updated a little later - with consent of northern states - to "slaves are 3/5ths people"
> "Sentience is the capacity to experience feelings and sensations." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience

There are many plants that clearly respond to stimuli (Mimosa pudica(shy plant) as well as the Venus flytrap). As well as almost any plant following the light to grow, as well as plants that send out tendrils to anchor.

> "The subjective awareness of experiences by a conscious individual are known as qualia in Western philosophy"

I'll agree with you that we have no knowledge of plants being conscious.

> "sentience is a minimalistic way of defining consciousness, which otherwise commonly and collectively describes sentience plus further features of the mind and consciousness, such as creativity, intelligence, sapience, self-awareness, and intentionality (the ability to have thoughts about something). These further features of consciousness may not be necessary for sentience, which is the capacity to feel sensations and emotions."
That's a nice way to put it.

I guess it is.

I also feel much more appreciated when someone reaches out to me because of something I wrote and it's easier to make a connection - it acts as a great filter, straight to the point and can be a jumping point to more conversation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvi...
The backwards compatible comment tags around scripts and styles. Lol
Not the person you're replying to, but according to this site here [0], crustaceans make up $262M or 0.64% of the agricultural export for the UK. Not small, but certainly smaller than other agriculture sectors.

[0] https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore?country=81&product=und...
Just as well look at computers as equally worthy of our empathy?

There are two sides to the equation, one is our desire to survive, conquer, etc. The other is our concern for what is alive. Both are part of being human. Neither will win out because both traits are more successful than either by itself.
Distracted driving is almost as bad as drink/intoxicated driving, as far as causing accidents go. If you're using your phone for 3 seconds while driving at 60 km/h, you've essentially travelled ~50m without anyone in command of the vehicle.

Even just taking a call on a properly setup hands-free arrangement incurs a dangerous cognitive load, to take your attention completely off the road to change a playlist or send a txt message is outright insane.
Your argument seems like "why have phones, when laptops exist?"
FYI: Ohio's interest stemmed from the fact that William McKinley, for whom the mountain was renamed, was born in Ohio and served as its governor before becoming presidents.
A machine shop 'mess' is often obvious, and the risks are usually obvious and understood by most or all parties as well. It's not often the case with software (or... has not been in my experience).
> Intelligence, self-awareness, and consciousness seem like three reasonable requirements. I don't really buy the "consciousness" requirement, but it's a stab at what most people associate with sentience.

That would be _sapience_, not _sentience_. Which is the point. Sentience is a ridiculously low bar to clear.
Logic says one thing but experience says another. Clearly they are currently providing reproduction incentives for the opposite.

I think there is a common delusion that government is some kind of unified thoughtful entity with logic and foresight. In fact, it’s really just a very short-sighted fight over budget dollars, votes, and campaign contributions.

So in reality, they would probably just replicate more of their most loyal voters. And then there are the agencies. SSA would try to increase the numbers of disabled so they can increase their budget. The FBI would try to increase the number of criminals. Senators would take contributions from industry to produce humans with specialized features like tiny hands and high tolerance for boredom. DOD…who knows. You get the point.
Why couldn't it?
"Bug," in its most common usage, is a large category that includes spiders, insects, and other arthropods. Crustaceans (which includes pill bugs a.k.a. roly polies) are arthropods.

So I'm not seeing your zebra analogy.
That isn't the popular definition of a road, at least not in the US.
Is it possible to create a site where users can anonymous post thoughts/essay?
Looking back in history lot of monumental changes occurred when someone clearly put an idea into words and shared with the world. Usually referred to as "Essay of ..." or "Papers on theory...". Reddit is too reactive, I want a place where people can post long observations, thoughts, opinions but without them or site getting into any legal trouble. Complete freedom of speech. Could be about criticizing govts, hate speech, alternative science theories, anything... I know it'd suck. But I find it hard to make the site "the place" without accepting the crap.
That one wasn't just a switcharoo -- r/worldnews got compromised and became a complete anarchy zone for a while. The other sprung up in response to replace it and just sorta stuck even after r/worldnews proper got cleaned up and restored to working order.
Because we can only wager hazy guesses as to what it means to experience. If a line is to be drawn, than it must be drawn in seemingly inconsistent and arbitrary ways.

There is a mimosa in a garden near me that will close its leaves when you touch it. Is it experiencing the sensation of touch?

(Edit: mimosa pudica, sometimes also called the shameful plant on account of how tenderly it seems to fold itself)
I couldn’t agree more with the article. Unfortunately as for America I think people wouldn’t be very happy with turning their stroads into streets. There is a very toxic self centered car culture here; any impediment to it real or imaginary will make people very angry.
They all just use whoever they want. Not long ago AMD was on Samsung/GloFo 14nm and Nvidia on TSMC 12nm. GeForce 4090 is supposed to be on TSMC 5nm.

The RTX 3080 (Samsung 8N) is slower than the RX 6900 (TSMC N7) and has a 20W higher TDP. The RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3090 are faster but have a 50W higher TDP. Their design isn't magic, they're just compensating for the worse process technology by using more power.