skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For many people, this is a transcendental, almost religious claim, so no amount of technical discussion will convince them.

Essentially, consciousness has taken on the role of the soul as the concept on which we hang our humanistic ideals, like the protection of human dignity and human life, human rights etc. Many people see this threatened when people say consciousness isn't special and human and instead can be possessed by silicon. That's what you are up against, when you argue in this topic.
Brave is amazing for encouraging wide-spread use of privacy tools. It's so easy to get my family and friends to use, and does a lot to improve security, privacy and quality of life, even for the absolutely not tech-inclined.
> From my reading most implemented regulation has resulted in more restrictiveness, and things like DRM.

What reading is that?
Lots of CIAs out there are resold broken. The FPGAs are the best option since they wouldn’t break all over again… saw those 2 projects but one is incomplete and the other is not really “fully” tested. There’s that page since a while too but no updates. https://1nt3r.net/j-cia/

Since these were made probably with 100nm+ process, Cost of making them shouldn’t be an issue vs. potential sales, (maybe after the chip shortage ease) since whoever owns the amiga patents are not doing anything better than the last multiple owners since commodore… my money would be on fpgas even if denatures the machine a bit.
The WebGL graphics background on this site causes my Laptop to chug pretty severely, to the point where I'm not able to read the content.
I’m saying there’s nothing you can measure to say anything — even another human — has the same sort of subjective experience (consciousness, a soul, whatever) that you’re experiencing right now, as you read this comment from inside your own head. You can make a guess, but it’s impossible to truly know. (This is a bit different from solipsism, if that’s what’s tripping you up. Although that, too, is a bit of a problem…) So any attempt to “prove” an AI is conscious is either going to fall into the hole of “well, how do you prove anything is conscious?” or is going to need a heavily distorted definition of “conscious” (like “seems kinda human” or “makes uncanny decisions we can’t fully explain”) to be true.
I agree with everything you've said.

It is a matter of choosing what to disclose. I think most people in free countries can disclose a lot, if not most about themselves while withholding things like their sexuality or medical/mental challenges without withholding everything.

And reddit is a special case, even I am tempted to open that up.
That is self-contradictory for one unless you are posting from a different era.

There are plenty doing the exact opposite and insisting that all racial prejudice is somehow class based and that "class solidarity" is somehow the natural state of the world. Including infamously demanding that racial minorities basically sit down and shut up because their problems are a "distraction".
"why doesn't the IRS just send us their own reports for us to approve?"

I assume because nobody would file taxes for things that the IRS was absent from their report, because now you know the IRS doesn't know about it and won't be missing it.

I think TurboTax has too many partnerships and offers. It gets people because it's free or only $10 or whatever. It would be pretty easy to switch to other software, like HR Block.
Whilst a lot of people (myself included) agree the recent UX change is awful, it doesn't seem relevant to the GP.
I do

I don’t plan all my investing around it of course, but being able to quickly read a chart with oscillators like RSI, or spotting bearish patterns (head and shoulders, bear flag) can tell me that maybe I should wait a bit more before entering to see if it actually falls, or if it breaks out and establishes a more uptrend

TA = good to get an idea what’s going on in the market until now
Do you know if Federico Faggin copied the logic design of the 2200 or implemented the ISA using his own design?
Come back when you can tell if another human being is conscious (and let me know how you were able to tell, so we can apply that test to the pipe contraption).
I use NextDNS and love it. It provides fine control over what is allowed, what's logged, etc.

If I was ultra-privacy focused, I'd probably go with the DNS provided by my VPN or a self-hosted resolver like unbound+pihole.
Contrast that with this old-school book printing process from 1947. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3rlsj-KEZE
if Russia attack the US internet so that it affects ordinary people, wouldn’t it hurt them more? Because now Russia is getting most of the US population mad at them, the US is going to be more aggressive towards them and it will be harder.

Right now i wouldn’t be surprised if most people aren’t really aware of Russia-Ukraine tensions, and if they really care. It seems Russia will successfully take Ukraine if and only if other nations don’t put in enough effort to stop them.
For me, tapping Share pops up a toast message saying "Copied results to clipboard", and then I go to my family group messaging thread and paste the results. I know that it's possible to invoke the native share dialogue because Reddit does it, but for me, Wordle does not.

Firefox on Android.
>a side that's burning hot and a side that's freezing.

Great for power generation though!
Bbs dial up in multitask blew my mind
because the bulk of that 770 Billion is payroll, military spending is a jobs program.
There is no reason to assume that trees in a weightless environment would be limited to sizes seen under 1G acceleration. Metabolism would need to be very different, too, because evaporation is not available to drive transport.

Obviously the rotation of the star has no effect. But the need to move between habitats precludes substantial differences in orbital plane (look up orbital plane maneuver, these take exceptionally large delta-V), keeping things close to the ecliptic.

Doing the math produces a picture very different from what you imagine.
This is so good to see. Thanks!
> Intuit and other players

I hate to defend Intuit, but this is backwards. It is more accurately "Other players and Intuit" where "Other players" means the Republican Party. Thanks to efforts by Grover Norquist, the GOP is fundamentally opposed to making it easier for the IRS to collect taxes.

Intuit's lobbying efforts are practically meaningless in comparison.
>Nintendo has been on a copright troll-roll with the recent GilvaSunner takedowns

That was not done by Nintendo, but rather someone impersonating Nintendo.
(I suggest you take it).
I find workplaces that default to closed conversations, and require explicit reading in of new participants, to be poor places to work. It feels like people use connections, being involved in key discussions, and their ability to connect people, as social currency. This is good for them, bad for the rest of the organisation.
Not sure if this is relavant but the app was last updated April 4 2020 according to a post on the Drastic forum. Development may not have been active anymore.
For comparison, another simpler (somewhat?) git-compatible client called "game of trees" or got (about which I know to little to compare/contrast well): https://gameoftrees.org/ .
Android uses Linux too.
Definitions don't fall under falsifiability though.

If I define "zorg" as colour #ff45b3, arguing "this is not the case because it can't be disproven" is rather silly.

Similarly if I say AI is "slightly conscious" as per my definition of consciousness, and a critic says it's not given their definition, they're both right (but in a totally uninteresting manner).
Yea, I know of undeadly and read it off and on, freebsdnews too. I stoped reading undeadly a while ago when they had a rather long lull in publishing. From a post further down I take it freebsdnews has the same problem. I fallow DragonflyBSD off and on, since it is the BSD that interests me the most and they to suck at publishing info. I get more info out of a release note about whats changed than by fallowing DragonflyBSD Digest or reading the mailing list archives.

And publishing some books about the BSDs doesn’t really count as “tutorials”.

I don’t think you are getting my point. The comment I respondet to wasn’t just interesting, it gave me a reason to care about FreeBSD and maybe a reason to read freebsdnews and give FreeBSD a try. You need a place where people from outside of your communities can go to get informed enough to actually care enough to install a specific BSD and start reading their news digest.
Access to justice and information about justice shouldn't be gatekept through money. I understand where you're going with it, but it's very close to the same reasoning used to justify ex[tp]ensive bail -- it only fucks the poor.
Are they really trying to solve the problem of unreported income? Does it really solve that problem? We could look at that data from the IRS with a little study, and compare it to the productivity costs of millions of Americans compiling tax returns.

The main problem tax returns are trying to solve is that Americans aren’t enraged enough at their taxes to demand lower taxes (on the rich) or a much simpler (and regressive) flat tax. I posit that there is no technical or financial incentive at all, and that the aim of the tax filing regulations is entirely political.
A country (Russia) protecting its border isn't cause for alarm. BoJo the clown is doing his best Tony Blair "Iraq WMD" impression.
Both statements appear un-falsifiable, which makes the entire discourse about as useful as debating religion.
I'm not an expert, but I've started a biomedical science degree, and - struggling for the right word here - the 'systemisation' of the tools for genetic engineering is astonishing. There's a revolution happening here, not just in the cutting edge tools, but also in the streamlining and automation of workflow, I find it hard to believe custom genetic treatments are going to stay expensive for long
For many if not dare I say most TurboTax is among the cheapest because it is free. The fact is if your situation is simple (a W-2 and the standard deduction) then you can get away with just about anything.

The truth is the IRS doesn't send reports because this country is obsessed with deductions. Your income (which the IRS does know about) is a small factor in the entire equation.

Ironically, under Trump's tax cuts, the standard deduction was made a lot larger (while removing the availability of some deductions). This pissed off the people who loved those deductions, but in the end it made the standard deduction applicable to a lot more people.

If you aren't taking deductions, then you can just use any of the services for free and don't really need to worry about dark patterns.
The x86 is an enhancement of the 8-bit 8080. That also was an octal machine.
Of course it can. Your laptop “knows” all sorts of stuff about itself and has all sorts of self-reflective processes that trigger without your specific input. Mine gives me warnings when my hard drive is almost full without me having to ask. This does not make it conscious.
I'm convinced there's always going to be some new frontier for regulators to say "if we could just get rid of this, there'd be no more crime."

80s/90s: offshore banks, bearer shares

00s: MSBs/money orders/check cashers

10s: prepaid/gift cards, crypto, luxury real estate

Truth is that as long as you can triple your money bringing cocaine from Mexico to Texas people are gonna do it. If anything they've made it harder to track because instead of criminal proceeds just being deposited in a Miami bank account they're being used to buy cell phones for export to Colombia.
> OTOH if they haven't been sentenced yet and the electricity company knows of it, I think they are walking on thin ice if they don't report it.

In what country is "no electricity" (part of) the sentence for murderers? And even in a country where "no electricity" is (part of) the sentence for murder, shouldn't the electric company only impose it in response to a court order?

More to the point, if they haven't been sentenced, why is the electric company imposing a sentence?

Along the same lines, if they haven't been convinced, why is the electric company treating them differently?
Isn't zoning primarily based upon traffic patterns and emissions as a rationale? A warehouse isn't usually a high traffic area. (Distribution center is the orientation there, implying more throughput and less storage relatively speaking.)

Compliance aside the real question should be why are they zoned that way, and should they be? The ancient "kingdoms of land, sea, and air" taxonomy was abandoned for a reason.
And that's how they like it, extreme "techno-authoritarianism". Making as hard as possible to appeal decisions or access higher management, and the facade of customer service is usually into ignoring or gaslighting customers to the point of sadism.

Ban or shadow-ban whenever

Raise prices whenever

Sell your private info to whomever

Violate your privacy however
I was in the same boat. QB refused to import for a year or two, and then after than completely ceased working unless I upgraded. I stopped using it. I didn't like GNUCash. I found a small indie commercial piece of software which was more like the old Quicken than Quickbooks, but it was good enough for my purposes.

But I've been worried if that indie is going to survive financially. Any tips on writing your own?
Growing the Tableau Economy with New ‘Hire Me’ Button in Tableau Public
Right, correct, it should be illegal for the government to attempt leveraging financial intermediaries this way, even for people we don't like. Just like we don't cut the power off for people we don't like.
>Employees are working yet still they need government assistance to offset the low wages.[...] Why pay employees to work full time, when you can pay them part time, reduce your labor costs and have the state pick up the rest of the expenses (i.e. medicare, Foodstamps)

but the thing is, that person is going to be around regardless of he's working at walmart or not. unless you're okay with the guy starving to death because he's unemployed, you'll still need to pay foodstamps or whatever to keep him alive. I'm not sure why that person deciding to voluntarily work at walmart, suddenly makes the entirety of his living expenses walmart's problem.

Put another way, suppose someone is unemployed and living off government assistance. I learn about his predicament, and offer to pay him $10 (or whatever) to mow my lawn. What you basically want is for this transaction to be stopped, on the grounds that $10 isn't enough to keep him alive, and therefore I'm exploiting him. You'd rather the person stay unemployed, and have me keep that $10, even though that's worse off for everyone involved.

>Deceptive businesses like Walmart are consistently fucking us all

I fail to see how anyone is being deceived here. I can see why you might think this is bad, because walmart has a duty to their employees or whatever, but not really deception.
For genetic conditions like this one, it's typically a positive feedback loop -- aka vicious cycle -- where the sicker they get, the sicker they get and it accelerates.

Stopping the normal progression would be a huge win in its own right.
Fairly empty article. The validation vs test set has a lot you can talk about - for instance what do you do if you’re happy with the validation results, but then unhappy with the test set results, to avoid “contamination” (overfitting hyperparameters to the test set).

Have a secret backup test set you hide from your team?
Only look at the test set results once every full moon?
Personally I hire a stranger to look at the results, and they can only communicate the outcome via a 15 second interpretive dance.
The article contains no proof except for references to documents published by the same government that is producing the article itself. It's propaganda.
many religious claims are falsifiable yet debate is still useless.
Get better sleep – Anecdata and sleep tech
Trying to solve an ancient ethnic conflict by force was definitely not the best way to go.

Expecting that western countries will start a third world war just to help you get rid of all those inconvenient Russian peacekeepers was simply stupid.

It seems to me that people often seem to forget that Georgia was never a "good guy" in that conflict:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian–Ossetian_conflict
Not that I disagree that it’s a useful program but it feels strange to congratulate it being “well thought out” when it seems to be a clone of Figma.
Indeed, the patent(s) [1] are particularly enlightening. Still a bit astonishing that it actually works though.

[1] https://patents.justia.com/patent/9040883
Switching to Dvorak Layout
A country with a less powerful mining lobby would probably have an easier time getting a carbon tax off the ground.
At which point, nobody would want to read it.
I'm currently trying ghost. Once you dig into it it has a pretty neat templating system.
Clang gives you this warning if you do that:

<source>:6:12: warning: format string is not a string literal (potentially insecure) [-Wformat-security]
A classic experiment, Shepard and Metzler (1971), Mental Rotation of Three-Dimensional Objects: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1731476
DMCA'ed?

GitHub is owned by Microsoft, does it even make sense for Microsoft to DMCA itself? It can just remove the content, or leave it, it owns the copyright and the platform, it can do whatever it wants (probably not, but IANAL).

Or maybe it happened before the acquisition.
Intuit forever lost my business when they tried to run my QuickBooks Payroll from a bank account I deactivated, after moving to a new bank (and updating my bank information in QuickBooks). They then charged me a $100 non-sufficient funds fee because they tried to pull the money from the deactivated account.

After 6-7 hours of dealing with the most aggressively-incompetent "support" I've ever had the misfortune to encounter, I cancelled every Intuit product/service I was using.

The reason they get away with this type of behavior is because we're all trained to fear the IRS to such a degree that we just want someone else who promises to "take care of everything" for us. And what recourse do we have when they behave badly? The court system? That's just as obfuscated and frustrating as the IRS. How much more of my time and money am I willing to put into dealing with Inuit? By the numbers, the smartest move is to just let this go.

It's everyone just settling for the lesser of evils/frustrations - until they get burnt badly enough.
Ah, I see where your confusion stems from.

Galène doesn't bundle multiple streams in a single PeerConnection: it puts each stream (audio+video) in its own PeerConnection. Thus, if we can assume that the audio traffic does not significantly contribute to congestion, then performing congestion control per-track or per-connection is exactly equivalent.

(It's a tradeoff. Bundling reduces the amount of ICE traffic and makes for faster connection establishment, but it ends up putting multiple unrelated streas into a single transport-layer flow, which confuses traffic shapers and AQMs. I'm betting that things like fq-codel are being deployed as we speak; if my bet is wrong, then bundling will turn out to be the better choice.)
WordPress force installs UpdraftPlus patch on 3M sites
That’s well outside of what we where talking about but I think two points are reasonable here.

Poor people who can’t currently afford a car are hardly going to buy a new one, so at best you might start to change things for them a decade from now. Improving transit doesn’t have that delay or all the knock on affects around new car regulations.

Mass transit meanwhile can actually solve the root problem even in rural areas. Hell, America already has mass transit driving past almost every home in America 2 or more commonly 4 times every weekday day for most of the year, their called school busses and they don’t charge their users or cost that much to operate. I am not suggesting we should have free public transit to every home, but it does suggest far more is possible than is currently being done.
I think you are completely missing what I am saying and you also seem to be fallaciously appealing to skepticism (are you a global skeptic [0]?). Sure you can say ‘but there is so much we don’t know’, I’m not arguing we know everything. That is not in any way what I am saying.

I am saying it is pointless to appeal to such things. If we always appealed to skepticism science would never advance because everything would be too unknowable. We get to define what words like consciousness means, so we can intentionally define to be within the realm of scientific inquiry. Most people probably define consciousness outside of scientific realm of inquiry (notions of a soul etc) and that is fine, but at least in the first definition there can be scientific debate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_skepticism
I imagine participation being tied to verifiable (but potentially private in some contexts) real world identity. This is needed for voting to make sense too. In such arrangement it seems not difficult to discourage spamming. As I see spamming strives in circumstances where it is possible to create lots of untraceable identities almost freely.
You assume that energy would still be considered a limiting resource. When you have overabundant energy, your choices are driven by other concerns. With plentiful energy, materials are cheap, dismantling moons and minor planets. The actually valuable commodity becomes cold, because high-energy processes produce waste heat that must be radiated away, so you move out to the Kuiper belt.
Everybody else seems to manage it...
What exactly positions those ahead of Linux?
> Don't buy domain names I'm not sure I understand this one - anyone have an explanation?

Even if you put bogus contact info (this is not a problem, honestly) you still need to pay for it somehow. If you would use your own CC for this then... Bonus/prepaid/gift cards are usually not accepted (too much fraud), so the best solution would be to actually steal someone's CC data and hope they wouldn't notice 10 bucks.
"Technology workers need court no one"

I'd court someone for the right position. Most of the recruiters are useless to candidates though. They don't really care about fit. In my experience, they often lie, or have no idea about important details.

'“Unfortunately the recommendation you made to drop one or two of our requirements,” the client wrote, “was frankly completely inappropriate.”'

It's the company's decision at the end of the day. But it's stupid to not listen to the talent you have contracted with to find you employees. They have knowledge of the market. Otherwise, what recruiter want to work for a place they know will have low fill rates due to uncompetitive offers?