skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, assuming that science-fiction is true is the cornerstone of that entire genre.

Lets start by assuming time-travel exists, but it only goes back to the point where you turned on the machine. Or lets assume hyperdrives were invented and we're entering a period of space exploration (Star Trek), etc. etc.

It turns out to be pretty fun.

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So lets say it were possible that "saving your brain to software" was possible. How would it work?

We know that worms and jellyfish have memories but no brains for example. Their simple nervous systems store memories in the nerves themselves. Surely, our nerves in our muscles and fingertips are storing some of our memories: the "software" we download out of our bodies would probably have to include that!

(A common joke is that my fingers know my passwords but my brain does not. Maybe its true: muscle memory is a real thing after all).

Ultimately, it is clear that to "transfer our memories", we need to rebuild a nervous system, and maybe a good chunk of our bodies (if memories are truly stored in the nerves in our muscles, then to perform an adequate transfer, we need to recreate those nerves with the same "settings" as our hypothetically downloaded software)

Its fun to think about, because we don't actually have to solve the problem. Its just fantasy. We can think and discuss the problem as much or as little as we'd like, without in fact doing any hard work.

IE: The fun part.
Not only is it a profound and fundamental capability if we intend to live off-planet, it's basically the only relevant capacity, conceived broadly (how to manufacture the means for indefinite survival given supplies of matter and energy). It's the universal constructor problem and our present solutions are fragile and primitive. There is virtually infinite room for improvement. How is that boring?
> higher atmospheric pressure

But the pressure is still effectively nil. It's far below what would be needed for humans to venture outdoors, and makes a negligible difference to the strength required for pressurised buildings.
I think this is a failure of science education more than anything else. The polar ice caps of Mars were first observed in the 17th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mars_observation#Ea...
It's been made a wedge issue on owned popular media to distract you from stacking cheap ETH, or even BTC.
Though I distinctly remember reading in an encyclopedia from the '70s that certain large dark regions on the Martian surface were believed to be thick vegetation (: I'm not kidding!

From [1]: "As recently as the early 1960s, it still seemed possible to a few astronomers that the dark regions had some kind of plant life because they seemed to darken each summer as if plants were growing in response to sunlight."

[1] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia02362-the-dark-surfaces-o...
Oh cool, thanks for the correction
The fact this apparently triggers an error in Reddit is freaking hilarious.
How many employees? What is the company doing? Is it mainly tech? Asking because people in my group were a bit disappointed by Zulip UI.
I think testing these systems on public roads is 100% reasonable if we all have open access to data. I’m not talking about raw driving data, but aggregate metrics about how well the system is operating and limitations are clearly communicated.

Selling a customer a car with a “full self driving” feature while burying the actual functionality in a legal agreement displayed on screen in the vehicle.
^Fully agreed. That period in time is literally referred to as "Red Scare" and is considered to be a massive failure of an initiative based solely on fearmongering.

And yes, it is taught this way even in semi-rural high schools in southern US states as well (I attended a high school like that myself in GA about 10 years ago). It's like saying "well, US did the whole Trail of Tears thing centuries ago, so we can do a soft-genocide in 2021 as well with Uyghurs".

That type of an argument doesn't sound convincing in the eyes of anyone who doesn't already support what China is doing or some very vocal radical left minority (aka tankies and adjacent groups) in the west. For an example of the latter, just check r/sino, it feels like reading into some parallel universe.
> Any worker can become an owner by buying stock.

That’s some real “just stop being poor” advice.
could you clarify what you mean by 'outside of cities?'
Or, you could, like, lower the rent so someone is willing to live there?

But, see, your financing would require you to cough up cash if the basis changes. And everything related to housing has become a Ponzi scheme to extract money from the people trying to simply find somewhere to live.

In this case, you have chosen to prefer to leave the rent high and let squatters break into your units rather than drop the rent and have residents.

I believe we refer to this as "the hand of the free market".
i think youre putting the cart before the horse here. there is no possibility of a Mars colony without this work happening on earth.
Structural typing is enforced at compile time, duck typing is "enforced" at runtime (by going up in a burst of smoke if you provide something that doesn't quack like a duck).
Count it as a blessing and move on...

Also it's pretty easy to understand why a group with hitler in their title including references and photos of hitler was deleted on accident.
I didn’t mean that there would be no temperature changes. But that in the example where you allow the gas to expand into a new volume there would be no temperature change. Remember, temperature relates to the speed the gas particles are moving. If the barrier between the two sides of the container was removed and the gas allowed to expand into that new volume, why would the ideal gas particles slow down and decrease the temperature?
Ripe did some testing in 2017 that showed that most places (~94%) are doing the right thing. Somewhere around 6% of the DNS servers were either making the TTL last too long, or too short.

There's a downloadable zip file there where you could probably figure out who the offenders were. Ripe did say that it was a mix of both ISPs and Cloud providers.

https://labs.ripe.net/author/giovane_moura/dns-ttl-violation...

Edit: There are also probably some corporate MITM type "content filtering" caches that are screwing things up too, by caching web pages longer than they should.
Heck, even if P=NP meant there were fast solutions, merely proving that P=NP wouldn't necessarily give you those solutions, and they might turn out to be even harder problems!
I'd say structural typing is static typing (you declare the shape you want upfront), whereas duck typing is dynamic typing (it works as long as it fits, as soon as it doesn't it crashes).
Has anyone tried to do global sentiment analysis for nation states? China's exploits related to Canada [1], Australia [2], and Sri Lanka [3] makes me wonder what happens, should China go into recession?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/world/asia/china-canada-m...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/07/ch...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/world/asia/china-sri-lank...
Given that it only affects a beta client they could:

- pay damage for the violation the the client, given that's only beta that would likely not amount to much

- and stop the beta program, while replacing their OBS dependency with something completely different.
In other countries, like South Africa, private security is a big industry. Since everyone knows the police are easily bribed, buildings hire private security. I stayed at an AirBnB in an apartment building, and they had 24 hour, onsite, heavily armed security. Who also helped us with our bags!

I suspect SF may move towards this model soon. You can already see it around Union Square. They are hiring off duty cops to monitor the stores.
Trusting corporations to behave requires trusting governments, because governments are the only reason corporations compete at all, versus simply collaborating and shaking people down like the mafia. You really don't want the monopoly on force to become a free market of force, that doesn't end well for the average consumer.
I wonder what Apple executive will see this post and start asking questions.
I had been using the Kinesis Advantage 2 and for me there was almost no adjustment time. It did take me quite a while (two weeks) to get used to the Kinesis.
If only you (and others) would be as pedantic about verifying claims made by the Washington establishment/media about "the evil See See Pee" as you are about winning internet arguments.

It is impossible to have a practical discussion on these issues when one side unironically believes China is a Mordor-esque land ruled by comic book villains. Totally misinformed.

Anyways, the level of influence is similar. If the Washington wants my private data from Google, they will get it. No amount of wishful thinking and handwaving about "well Google could say no, but bytedance will definitely comply because reasons" will change that.
The title isn't what's important, it's your skills and what you can do with them. The MIT grad and 3 month bootcamp grad both have the same opportunity to complete and prove themselves, which is unique to the software field. Lack of artificial barriers and gatekeeping is the very reason why the industry is able to thrive.
You mean https://friendi.ca? (Older than Mastodon, better privacy controls, supports more of the Fediverse.)
Abortion world be on the list of taboo topics when touring the US as well.

Not because it's sensitive everywhere, but because it's very sensitive in some places.
Did Netflix not pay him enough?
Nobody is asking that because most people aren’t in a 101 philosophy class.
"Fact Checking" is effective clickbait. Just claiming something is a hoax generates more engagement than claiming something is factual. Humans have a bias towards believing claims that wrongdoing has occurred (self-preservation / avoidance of harm). It is in Meta's commercial interest to hire people to flag stories as a hoax in an entertaining way that gets eyeballs (like a giant red stamp that says "Flaws Reviewed").
That may be generally true, but not in SF. We have open primaries. Most elections are two Democrats against each other. Sometimes it's even a Democrat vs. a Green.
Facebook without a share button! All that meme spam shared from pages is tiring, I just want personal statuses
This is what plugin APIs are for.
Given how quickly the virus mutates, giving it less frequently makes even less sense.
A government which bans someone from speaking is preventing someone from talking to you. The government need not even consider the mode by which information is transmitted, or who is paying for these transmissions. If I am banned from sharing information such as classified intel, there is no means by which I am permitted to communicate this to you. A government which bans things also carries the force of government, which means laws, courts, police, and prison, which is typically the sole prerogative of government.

A public square is one which is funded and governed by public means, and the source of funding is one of the core mechanisms for ensuring that the public institution answers to public money.

Facebook is a private property, much like HN and the BMJ. That means people like dang, who also engage in banning, are not paid for by the government. Surely one's concept of public square does not entail private parties footing the bill for fancy engineers and metaphorical dang.

As a matter of prescription, why would we ever want Facebook to be the financially responsible party for public town squares? Why do we not have the government fund an actually public town square? Or ought we be using tax money to fund Facebook itself?
I believe it would make it easier to land supplies there though, since there is more atmosphere to aerobrake with.
No thanks, I'll stick with GnuPG.
Sadly true. As amazing as Haskell way of thinking is, most of the time (if not always), is a bad choice for building anything because you can't find developers to work on it.
> There’s far fewer homeless in the Midwest because homes are actually affordable.

I suspect it also has to do with that fact that if you are homeless in winter you will die.
In Linux there's work being done on a language-agnostic lightweight threading model, User-Mode Concurrency Groups or UMCG: https://lwn.net/Articles/863386/

One could imagine a similar, runtime-independent console for UMCG. Note, however, that the programming model for such a runtime would be much more similar to 1:1 threading (i.e. blocking I/O with threads) than async/await.
This, exactly. The massive flood of fake online reviews, not to mention the broken weighting systems that enhance the effect by grading products on a curve, has created a situation that's stacked against legitimate businesses. Not only are scammers filling their own products with fake positive reviews, they're also spamming real businesses with negative ones.

One of the weirdest things that happened to me this year: I received a book from Amazon I hadn't ordered. It was addressed to me at my house, apparently printed off an Amazon press in Poland, but listed by a "company" in Vietnam. It was called "Daily Business Plan" or something, with a generic stock photo on the cover. Inside, every page was the same - blank except for lined horizontal rules and the days of the week, Monday through Sunday. There were no dates, no year, no page numbers. No bibliographic page. I let Amazon know about it. I can only assume that the seller was trying some kind of scam to write "verified buyer" reviews for themselves...
I agree it's a huge problem. However, I don't think the solution is censorship by tech oligarchs. A fake review is still speech, and if you believe in free speech and free expression as a social (not legal) principle, I don't see how you can support Jeff Bezos deciding which speech you are and are not allowed to see. The solution to harmful speech (which fake reviews are) is more speech, not censorship.

"I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to my death your right to mislead people with fake reviews"
Can anyone explain me what is fundamentally wrong with Tesla approach emotions aside.
Tesla rolled out FSD Beta(not Autopilot) to a very small group of people. After been in public for almost a year, it has 0 death or injuries.
It is not ideal. Tesla clearly understand that and communicate that to every user of FSD Beta. They limit amount of people using it. Also they limit the way you use it introducing lots of points of control so that you pay attention at the road.

EDIT: They will kick you out of the beta for a slight miss-doing such as phone or distraction. You will not get into this beta if your driving skills are not perfect. Even if you press a break too hard all the time, it's a passive sign to them your driving is not perfect.

They invest billions of dollars in infrastructure so that application of this feature can grow.
Tesla use testing data to eventually enable it in public. That will occur only once they are confident in their security level.
They attract some peoples money who admire their goals to save peoples life.

What's wrong with that? Why people getting mad every time they hear aspirational name Full Self driving. What is the logic behind it?
I think when your family has billions of dollars you become willing to lie and cheat or worse to keep it.

This is why I advocate for cooperatively owned and managed firms, so profits spread more widely through the economy and billionaires are less likely to exist in the first place. I can only imagine the extent of the distortions to everyone else's economy caused by the super powerful vying for their own interests. It makes as much sense to me as having kings.
Every node already has the bytecode and the interpreter, or more likely fast, superficial JIT without expensive optimisation. But that's slow, so when you need to serve a given load you'll need more nodes before they have settled into a hot optimization state.

Regarding unchanged code after redeploy, usage patterns might change a lot even for code that hasn't changed at all. With profile guided optimizations (which I'd expect to be more norm than exception for something like azul), this would mean that nominally unchanged code could suffer hard from running in a version optimized for a different calling environment (the previous version of the application).

In the grand scheme of things, I'd assume that this would be the main benefit and goal of a JIT outcome sharing mechanism like this: allowing nodes to cooperate by each profiling a different part of their shared code, kind of like becoming experts in a tiny specialization, and then sharing that expertise.
Ooooh. Checkboxes. That will definitely prevent abuse.

Even if the Tesla owner is responsible about it, other people could drive the car and they wouldn’t have to agree to anything. They can go nuts.

I’ve seen plenty of videos online too. I have no interest in driving next to a car being driven by a crazy AI that seems to have the driving skill of a 13-year-old playing GTA and not know the rules.

I don’t have a Tesla. I was forcibly opted into this program. There is nothing to prevent other people from doing stupid and ridiculous things with this system and seriously injuring or killing me.

Heck, they can do the right thing. I’ve seen videos were trying to take over control doesn’t seem to work. Where it tries to drive directly in the traffic in the wrong lane.

This is insanely dangerous and I want no part of it but I don’t have any mechanism to stop it but to hope regulators do something. Tesla put MY life on the line.
Right, because Rust provides a real macro system for metaprogramming.
I do wish it was a little better in layout, but it's not too bad. I have been impressed with it so far for the price. My biggest gripe is I wish the effort for flashy RGB lights went into key lighting instead. I still hunt and peck sometimes at night.
JPEG XL has no patents on it - it's free to use by everyone.
Europe has a long history of dealing with imperial bullies. In fact, that is the reason why the concept of modern state and sovereignty were created there in the Westphalia Treaties.

I so much hope all the smaller European countries honor their own fight for freedom and sovereignty and get behind Lithuania. If they don't do that then what is the purpose of belonging to the European Union?
Two doses of Pfizer's vaccine reduce hospitalization risk from Omicron by ~70% based on data from South Africa, with similar reductions across all age cohorts from 18 to 79. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/discovery-health-releases-cri...
Your comment would be more compelling if you had something of substance to say instead of taking a cop out and whining someone the black guy is too mad about racism in the industry for your liking, not just once but twice now...

You're acting like I wrote some expletive filled rant, it's 99% content and an unbiased, honest question to the reader: are you insecure about the biases we all have?

If even being asked that bothers you so much maybe that's also something to think about.
What is this referencing?
At the risk of touching a nerve, this concept reminds me of the crypto/nft hostility.
>But I don't see how this means I'm ideologically committed to the absurd thesis that we haven't seen quality of life improvements for the average person in the last half century - going from a time where we had only recently eliminated actual starvation in the US, schools were still basically segregated, inflation rampant, a draft, etc. etc.

I don't believe my comment even implied that.

Rather, I was providing my own take on your assessment of markvdb's comment[0], which I don't disagree with, I just wanted to address the elephant in the room (the systemic changes pulling more wealth/income to the top at the expense of those at the bottom) that hadn't been addressed.

That's not to say you didn't make a good point. You did. But I felt there was more to say.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29592162
What Is Medication a.k.a. Medical Abortion?
>Not next.js, but nest.js is a better opponent for rails

What part of that comment says anything about layers or maturity?

By that rule I could compare rails to express and say they are about the same.
How many 16:10.4 aspect ratio videos do you think there are in the world?
Anecdote time!

I have a family member who runs a non-profit organization. They had contracted a social media agency, and one of the things that agency did was make a Facebook page for them.

After the page had gotten some traction, and the contract with the agency was ending, their employee removed himself as an admin on the page in order to “hand over the keys.”

Except he hadn’t made anyone else an admin yet. So the page had no administrator, and because it had strict settings, it meant that literally no one could get into the account.

This page was not big, but it was not small; we’re talking ~50,000 impressions/post.

Over four months, my family member couldn’t get access back to this account. She sent in her ID, some tax documents, a picture of the literal business registration with her name on it (that shared the name of the page). The old administrator confirmed, to Facebook over email, that she was intended to be the new administrator.

Nothing. Facebook left her hanging.

I reached out to a friend of mine who was a dev at Facebook.

Issue resolved in 48 hours. Over a weekend.
Melania Trump announces NFT venture
Duck typing can still be a compile-time thing… C++ templates are “duck typed” in that the template can’t specify the bounds for the passed-in type, but if you pass the wrong type, it still breaks at compile time instead of runtime. (It’s just that the error messages are way more impenetrable than they otherwise could be.)
Retiring IPv4 was never a strong goal of IPv6. The "inter-" in internet was always about "interoperability" between networks and side-by-side networks that interoperate was always the plan. Dual stack IPv4/IPv6 was in part chosen because it doesn't sweep the interoperability problems under the rug like some of these old "IPv4 extended" proposals did. You are never going to upgrade all devices at once and you were always going to have two networks, it was just a little bit easier with some of the other proposals to pretend it was one network if you squinted really hard and ignored all the interoperability problems that would crop up in practice because devices didn't update to understand the extensions.
Without getting into the specifics of any individual instance of fact checking, it is not at all clear that the presence of third party “fact checks” advances towards a shared understanding of “the facts”. It may be better for the state of the online discourse to have no “fact checkers” than for them to make perform in this way. And if such mistakes are inevitable given sufficient scale, that means it would better not to have such entities.
I heard it in Leonard Nemoy's voice, discovering the Contstruction technology in Civilization 4.
Not sure I like how it converts spaces and drops non-text characters, could possibly result in all sorts of hard to track down problems methinks.

When I wrapped boost::property_tree using the C-API I did the whole dot notation thing but it doesn’t do any sort of conversion — key names with spaces or whatever have to be looked up with prop[“name”] or the getter function(s).
EL Pacto – Michelle Richmond
Si un grupo le asegura que su matrimonio podría ser definitivo para siempre, ¿podría unirse sin comprender la calidad de la impresión?
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