skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who don't get the reference:

A significant plot point in one of Egan's early (and excellent) novels, Permutation City, involves creating an accelerated, simulated world containing unicellular life, and waiting for it to evolve sentience through natural selection. Years later, Egan came to the conclusion that even if it was possible to perform such an experiment:

> I realised that anyone who actually did this would have to be utterly morally bankrupt. To get from micro-organisms to intelligent life this way would involve an immense amount of suffering, with billions of sentient creatures living, struggling and dying along the way. Yes, this happened to our own ancestors, but that doesn’t give us the right to inflict the same kind of suffering on anyone else. [1]

and he wrote another story, "Crystal Nights"[2], approaching the same idea from that perspective.

[1]: https://www.gregegan.net/PERMUTATION/FAQ/FAQ.html

[2]: https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/CRYSTAL/Crystal.html
Correct.

I find this argument better explains the Nick Baring irrationality than the "Cognitive Overload" theory as detailed in the article or the "reference point" theory also mentioned. Nick framed the problem as losing/not losing his job. He didn't think in terms of a multi equation, multi variable math problem.

From what I know of gamblers who lost their life savings in Vegas. They said something similar. They lost a small nominal amount. Their losses increased when they tried to recoup their losses by taking riskier losing bets. That is they framed the problem as loss/not loss. That is people will literally risk everything they have to prevent a small loss.
> might of

might have*
UK passports are very much valid for entry to the US and do not contain fingerprints

https://unlock.org.uk/advice/information-contained-on-uk-pas...

> The International Civil Aviation Organisation recommendations for biometric standards include a digitised photograph embedded on a chip in the passport. Countries wishing to stay in the US Visa Waiver programme have had to start issuing biometric passports in line with these international recommendations.

The UK passport contains a digitised photograph which meets the ICAO requirement and is therefore valid for entry into the US without a visa.

> The EU has set minimum standards for passports which include the use of facial and fingerprint biometrics. The UK is not covered by these regulations and fingerprint biometrics are not included in UK passports.

The UK passport does not contain fingerprints. This is one of the opt-outs the UK received when it was in the EU.
The "fungible programmer" theory [0] is one of the better explanations for the unpopularity of languages like Haskell and Lisp. Ultimately, making software that's large enough will become an organizational problem as well as technical one, and developers will get funged into being blub programmers [1], though RoR is a pretty nice way to do that all things considered. I would argue Go was designed for maximum fungibility.

[0] http://www.loper-os.org/?p=69

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
It's funny you mention that. I'm currently a bit stalled (mostly for lack of time/motivation, but trying to get back on it very recently) trying to build exactly that. I'd be very curious what you think of the premise I've outlined on my landing page [0]. Basically, I have built the same thing a half dozen times and I want to do it for more people, for less money individually. And as part of the bootstrapping and DX, provide training on all the components, how to use them, and why I chose them. Ultimately you should be able to walk away eventually if I've gotten my part right. Or don't, if I can continue adding value at a rate you think is worth it.

[0] https://microcumul.us
This cannot possibly be true, because we have no concept of what qualia are.

There is no objective external way to determine if an entity experiences qualia at all. From outside we can only consider behaviour, not subjective experience.

Personally I can't be sure that anyone else experiences qualia. It seems like a reasonable assumption, but I'm basing that on a mapping from my own experiences to those of others.

If everyone else was a highly sophisticated automaton I wouldn't know.

This creates a paradox. The only way to prove qualia exist would be to invent an objective qualia-ometer which would somehow measure subjective experience.

But of course my experience of the qualia-ometer would also be subjective, so the existence of qualia in others cannot be proven objectively.

You can imagine some kind of meta-technology which allowed qualia to be shared, so everyone could experience everyone else's experiences.

Not even that would be absolute proof because experience would still be subjective.

The point being - assuming you can throw cycles at this is looking at it from the wrong end of the telescope. It doesn't work like that because it can't work like that.

It's a much harder problem. (Which could be why it's called the Hard Problem.)

Worse, it just highlights that all of our experiences are qualia. There is nothing objective about anything we experience. What we think of as objective experience is really just stable shared experience.

You can make an argument that the more complicated, stable, surprising, and shared experience is, the more likely it is to be objective.

That's sort-of plausible and possibly a good rule of thumb. But it still doesn't really make the problem go away.
While I believe G100UL is an improvement over 100LL in every important dimension except cost (where the delta is small enough to be accepted) and a small density penalty (a gallon is 5% heavier than 100LL, but contains slightly more energy as an offsetting factor, but “full tanks” will now be heavier and if the fuel has been mixed, it’ll be heavier by an unknown amount), it still needs an amount of test cell and flight testing to demonstrate that it’s equal or better.

Right now, the law says “these airplanes are allowed to use these engines”, “these engines are allowed to use 100LL”, and “100LL has the following composition”. To be legal, you need paperwork that breaks one or more of those constraints, which is what GAMI is in the process of pursuing. To get that paperwork, they have to demonstrate functional equivalence and convince the FAA to issue a supplemental type certificate (the legal paperwork that would alter the second condition above). It’s not unreasonable for the FAA to need proof. Whether they need more proof than they have is self-evidently a point of disagreement between GAMI and their supporters (I count myself among this set) and the FAA.
Can't speak for other humans of course, but I'm more certain my sensory experiences exist than anything else, to the point searching for an evidence base for their existence or concluding they didn't exist unless explained would just be weird. I'm also certain my sensory experiences are not identical to attempts to quantify them or describe them in language or interpretive dance (philosophers struggling to define and articulate things even at high levels of abstraction is weak evidence in favour of qualia, since the defining aspect of qualia is its the portion of human brain state that can't be communicated). The alternative: that its a practical possibility to translate all parts of my sensory experiences into data which can be transmitted and parsed in exactly the same way by other minds feels like the proposition needs some evidence or justification [beyond "Your brain is composed of atoms. Other atoms exist"]

Seems to me that the bafflement I'm experiencing at people doubting human sensory experience is the real bit, and the neural network that might be able to perfectly replicate my bafflement in silicon is the purely hypothetical construct.
Ransomeware.
Yes it does but we look at google analtyics and search console for data over a period of weeks/months.
How do you plan on monetizing this? It looks very useful and I would likely pay for it. I'd especially pay if everything is hosted locally and not shared with anyone
I get what you're saying, but at 29 what would I have done with life insurance? I had no spouse or children. It seemed like all they were asking is a way to opt out.
This reminds me of the device used in Jules Vernes " From the Earth to the Moon". The projectile has "thick lining of leather fastened on springs of best steel", together with some sort of hydraulic system, meant to absorb the shock of shot.
I think one could make a provably water tight simulation. Of course an AGI would realise it could be in a simulation, just as we have.
> Employees who have historically been entrenched in the majority are also entitled to protection under laws that were intended to assure equal treatment for women and racial minorities.

To me this is obvious. A plain reading of EOCC employment discrimination regulations make this obvious.

The mere fact that this is deemed as "novel" or newsworthy or intriguing is a poor reflection of society itself. Fortunately the judges all understand it, even if this diverges so heavily from the general population (including employer's) understanding of race and sex inclusion/discrimination.

But it kind of reminds me of academia, when all the students get it wrong, then maybe its the teacher! Leaving everyone to their own devices to implement an abstract concept of DEI and Affirmative Action keeps leading to the same implementation flaws and polarizing resentment over and over and over again.
> Have a very lightweight note taking mechanism and use it as much as possible... Don't try to make these notes good enough to share as that adds too much overhead.

Second this. I use sublime text almost exclusively for this purpose. I have one file called daily_notes.md that has everything from meeting notes to formal writing to pasted error messages and code.

Each day gets an h1 but that is the extent of formal organization. I’m actually decently organized (at work, at least) but the simplicity is all about lowering the overhead of jotting stuff down. Keeping everything in one doc makes for very easy search.

Otherwise, I try to write reminders right away with whatever is handy. Mainly: Post-its, slack reminders, and Gmail scheduled sends to myself.
About damn time. The fact that people can talk casually about "old white men" or whatever shows that they are being racist, sexist and agephobic. Maybe there isn't the same historical power imbalance but factoring that kind of thing into hiring or firing decisions is still a deontological wrong. I hope he wins and I hope that everybody who has been discriminated out of a job because they are white/black/man/woman/nb/old/young/whatever else sues and wins.
Found one - Polyform

https://polyformproject.org/what-is-polyform/

> PolyForm is a project to draft and make freely available plain-language source code licenses with limited rights.
>
> Source code licenses with limited rights? What does that mean?
Many software developers want to make software available under source code licenses that grant some, but not all rights. Some licenses that have been released before include the Commons Clause, Elastic and Confluent licenses, and others. These licenses grant broad rights, including source code access, but reserve some rights to the licensor.
I've known a number of people that keep a daily diary just to remember what they need to get done. They review it at the end of the day and determine how to deal with the tasks. If they have something important that has not been processed, they mark the page with a post-it. It works mainly because you can adapt it to suit your style of working. Also, the more you use it the more you can determine what's important and what's not. If you are afraid of losing the book, take a photo of the page at the end of the day using MS OneNote or any of such apps as a back up. It's simple yet powerful.

Apps and such have the downside that you have to adapt to them and you have to learn the never ending variety. Also, nothing beats the portability and cost of a paper notebook.
Okay, but for example, dental isn't an option at my small company, you just get it.

Probably because there is a large group of union employees.
Just for fun you can compare WebP vs PNG performance (in OxiPNG or your browser's implementation) on https://squoosh.app/. For your normal images this will quickly net your a 20-30% size decrease over optimized PNG even in lossless mode.

JPEG XL is even better, but browsers and other image libraries tend not to support it.
They aren't supported by the standard libraries of those languages though.
It is still a major advantage of JSON.
The details are all out there. The Pixelbook’s m3 is an 8100Y. This uses Kaby Lake cores. There are plenty of details on Kaby Lake here: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/kaby_l...

There were also plenty of details released on Google’s Tensor SoC in the recent Pixels. Of the top of my head, I know it uses two X1 cores and is manufactured on a Samsung process.
Wouldn't the us just pay off the cartels?
It sounds like those events greatly affected you, because you are losing your composure retelling them. Maybe you should get some professional help processing it all.
The biometric data consists of depth data from your photo only

> The EU has set minimum standards for passports which include the use of facial and fingerprint biometrics. The UK is not covered by these regulations and fingerprint biometrics are not included in UK passports.

https://unlock.org.uk/advice/information-contained-on-uk-pas...
I wasn't aware of that name yet, but yes, we're using chunked transfer etc. to reduce the latency.
Sorry for upsetting you.
I'm assuming that you are referring to Citizens United v. FEC [1]. That was a controversial decision.

I kinda disagree with framing it as "money is speech" though. It's more like "the First Amendment also applies to large faceless associations of individuals (i.e. corporations)".That has to be true at some level, otherwise the government could fetter the press.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
Im glad news.yc and reddit don't require email to sign up...
> You can call it the paradox of the old white guy: Employees who have historically been entrenched in the majority are also entitled to protection under laws that were intended to assure equal treatment for women and racial minorities.

These laws are still protecting the equal treatment, since the whole "diversity and inclusion" thing is explicitly about giving unequal (more favorable) treatment to people who aren't white/male/cis. (The classic counterargument here is that because of historical marginalization equal treatment is actually unequal and therefore we must pursue "equity".)
> The company’s lawyers at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton also argued that DiBenedetto could not simultaneously assert a claim of racial discrimination under the Civil Rights Act and age discrimination under the Age Discrimination of Employment Act because both laws require proof that the plaintiff would not have been injured but for the particular version of discrimination each law prohibits. Because DiBenedetto alleged both age and race discrimination, AT&T said, he could satisfy neither law’s causation requirement.

Wow. Just wow. They admit racist discrimination is illegal, admit ageist discrimination is illegal, but argue that racist+ageist discrimination is legal?!
well you can do that by moving countries
American shorthand for a permanent-position full-time employee (usually with benefits), as opposed to a contractor / freelancer. Named for the year-end tax document full-time employees receive.
Right, what did they expect? Lets feed it tons of data from a questionable source and we'll get a good outcome?
Gel that repairs heart attack damage could improve health of millions
That would be a nice problem to have. In order to fix a problem it first needs to be an actual problem rather than a theoretical one.

Maybe the goal should merely be for the author to be able replicate the results from the torrent archive (for a fee of course). That way anyone who needs the conclusion to be correct can buy the validation.
Yeah, people generally don’t want to have to throw out all that stuff after a short period of time, and after a long period, they’ve got even more money invested in that setup, so if it’s not broken… there’s just not really much of a compelling benefit to change types from the perspective of most normal people, and there are concrete downsides in the form of money sunk into it.

Anyway, I like USB-C more, I have to carry them anyway, so it’d eliminate one cable when I travel. We’re as close as I’ve ever seen to having the one cable to rule them all, which is pretty cool.
It’s funny that people seem to be missing the irony in the fact that someone needs hit some specific website to have a successful EV road trip.
Idiotic? It's a pretty smart and simple way to incentivice manufacturers to ship devices that work with standard USB-C cables.

It may be annoying if you don't already own a bunch of USB-C cables. But who doesn't?
I generally agree but give me more credit. I monitored the system calls myself. Also VirusTotal isn't a virus scanner but rather a community driven aggregator. People leave comments and downvote when binaries do evil things.
I wonder if it will have to prompt every time. USB devices don't have any cryptographically secure identity, so macos couldn't be sure it's the same device seen before. Though perhaps limiting to a previously seen PID/VID gives a bit of protection.
Yeah, that's about the only thing you can do without ICs. 500mA max, high-speed lanes unused.
Same here and I can't remember accidentally touching it. Even if I did so did I with F-keys as well (F1 in AutoCad uuh - on regular keyboard as well).
Marker chips are 'optional' for USB-C, but essential for Lightning

You can also directly feed the needed voltage without the negotiation. So this is only partially true.
Now it's proved that Eastern are right.
What? Of course there is a dollar amount where people switch from "worth it" to "not worth it". Here is a thought exercise. Would you buy the same insurance plan for $0. Of course, it is free. Would you buy the same insurance plan for $500,000. No of course not, that's the payout. Everyone has a different dollar amount in between based on the risk aversion, their own valuation of "peace of mind", and their perceived likelihood of using it.
I assume they do the same thing as anyone else in any other country does. They go through the fall-back bureaucratic channel of 'haul your ass over to a physical, brick-and-mortar agency office'.
Cowfish: Mutant Superheroes of the Ocean (2015)
I'm an Engineer Again: Or, There and Back Again
> the primary culprit is money.

The primary reason is efficiency. Sometimes taking risks is more efficient. Efficiency may translate into money, but you are describing something as a vice, when it's not..
Sure, hence the "like". They could create or use a license that is fully open but prevents commercial use without a license.
I used to do that 5+ years ago.... Password manager is much easier...
> After some time, on to the stage comes the car that many, including myself, had on a poster in their rooms growing up. [...] – the Lamborghini Countach.

Apparently, I have never had an original thought, :) including (just now) hunting for the particular Lambo poster I had:

https://retromash.com/2017/03/15/the-hunt-for-this-amazing-l...
This is a really good question. I would not be surprised if there is a court challenge to maintain this capability, whether electronically or by requiring the owner to provide that access, in countries that routinely do this.
Note-taking app [1] founder here. This is a question I hear almost every day, and there's a good reason for that. Note-taking is personal. Everyone wants a note-taking app with just the right features for their personal workflow – whether it's open source, end-to-end encrypted, has handwriting support etc. That's also one of the reasons why the note-taking app and personal knowledge management app market is so saturated – there are so many different ways you can create an app.

Unfortunately, one of the most commonly asked combinations of such features, especially here on Hacker News, is an open-source note-taking app which is end-to-end encrypted but also offers all the great benefits of having a multi-account web editor with shareable notes. Oh and don't forget, it can't use Electron, but it has to be native across all platforms. In theory this sounds amazing – all the performance, privacy and security, with the benefits sharing. And with it being open source you can have the peace of mind that the product will be around for many years to come.

Imagine creating your own note-taking app. In practice it's almost impossible for any new startup to build an app like this that's so feature complete from the get-go. For it to become revenue-generating and a sustainable business so you can work on it full-time, most products will focus on *one* of the features mentioned above and do it really well. For us, we initially focused on markdown, cross-platform, portability and instant sharing of your notes with others.

I don't think there will ever be a one-size-fits-all app for note-taking and knowledge management – just like there isn't one in reality – everyone likes to use different methods to write whether it's a notebook, bullet journal, notecard or scrap of paper. Focus on finding a product that you like the founders and community behind and that meets a couple of your most important requirements; then you can support them and offer feedback to help them to build an amazing app.

[1] https://supernotes.app
Yeah, I have young kids and the last thing I need is 3 cars, each with a removable battery, dedicated battery charger, etc.

Just wish there was something you could plug into an existing charger and go
WeChat and the Surveillance State (2019)
There is a little exercise I was asked to do recently as part of a skills assessment, and it used the Spotify API. It’s not a bad way to practice: https://github.com/alexgurr/react-coding-challenges/tree/mas...
The problem is not with the GPL. The GPL is just as enforceable as any other proprietary license. The difference is that these amateur projects often don't have the resources to fight infringement.
Practical Common Lisp has a chapter on building an ID3 parser. Like all things in this book, it's nicely done.

https://gigamonkeys.com/book/practical-an-id3-parser.html
I have aphantasia and I found the drawabox approach especially appealing and quite similar to how I go about learning a new language, a musical instrument, grasping new math concepts etc.
So, in a sense I wasn't at all surprised to find out that the creator of drawabox Uncomfortable (Irshad) has aphantasia, too.[0]
For people who (have to) rely on a lot abstract thinking, I would highly recommend drawabox.

[0]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LWgXSxxEjgs
I mean that is just how lawyers work. Getting off on a technicality is as good as finding the truth. Former is even better if your client is guilty.
I am 100% positive that to anyone making $13,920/yr (before taxes!), 3.5 million sitting and paying out 130k (10x the minimum wage per year!) is the definition of obscene.

It never ceases to amaze that someone always has to deflect saying 'it's not so much, look others make even more!'

This comment shows the wealth gap has truly become a gulf where the upper echelons truly cannot wven fathom how those below live.