skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between speculation and investing isn't in that you want to earn money (everybody who buys stock want to increase their wealth). The reason is for why you pick this particular instrument.

When I buy stock (or when Berkshire Hathaway does it) I buy into business that I hope has sound fundaments and is going to grow and create more value over time. I spend considerable effort trying to understand the situation the business is in, do they have dangers ahead of them, do they have sound leadership, etc. This is investing -- buying things that you hope are going to increase in value over long time.

Speculation is when you buy things for reasons that are not at all connected with the thing you are buying. For example you noticed people are buying crypto, the price is going up, so why not jump in on the wagon and get your cut of the profit. This is speculation because it totally ignores what is it that you are buying, and the only thing that you care is that the price is going up.
I think that proving sentience is much harder than simply demonstrating something imitating it. Giving the AI additional freedoms would be way more telling.

How would it behave if it could send messages without being prompted? Does it message you when its lonely? If it truly has feelings and is responding to them then it should be acting upon its desires and modifying its behavior to achieve what it wants .

Basically the ex-machina test.
The credit rating agencies are trustworthy. The vast majority of credit file data is accurate, and their various scoring algorithms are good predictors of default risk. There are of course some false or erroneous records reported by creditors, but those area tiny fraction of the total.
OS 8 and 9 were unreliable at using the internet because unlike Windows or Linux it was not a 32 bit OS with real memory protection. I remember various releases that struggled with the problem, especially they added a whole bunch of locks to protect memory structures which slowed the machine down dramatically.

Classic Mac OS was designed to handle events raining in from the keyboard and mouse and was able to run on the 128k classic Mac but Apple was in serious trouble in the 1990s until MacOS X which was competitive with the competition.
Yes - I have watched this video. Emily & Clark have a different setup, as he uses a different device (or even, no device) to connect the two different banks (lithium and lead acid).

I didn't see Will's comment tho, thank you for sending that, very thought provoking! The comment by him "Trickle charging lead acid all night with lithium seems very inefficient" is 100% true, but in my case I consider this effect a bonus b/c the lithium acts like a capacitor for the solar array (quickly charges, then slowly charges the lead!)
> No, virtual agents aren't real people and don't have feelings. But disrespect towards them is reflective of stereotypes and gender violence faced by real women. If brands unwittingly create spaces in which verbal abuse and sexual harassment go uncontested, that behavior is deemed tolerable and even accepted. If you haven't already done so, time to check your bot's scripts?

This conclusion is from a really weird perspective. These bots were put in place originally so that companies didn't have to pay real humans to answer calls. The bots are decorated to be human-like, but people still understand them to be bots and not people, hence the behavior. Instead of conflating how people treat machines with actual cases of abuse and harassment, this author should be advocating for the disposal of these bots and for real people to take these responsibilities instead.
fd has musl version

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/releases/download/v8.4.0/fd-mu...
Hacker News comes through again. Been looking for tool exactly like this.
I have no numbers to back this up but only an observation which I thought completely trivial until now, that of the hundreds of crypto people that I've interacted with since I first started dabbling with it in 2013, it always felt a bit odd, as someone who mainly lived and worked in the federal district in DC, how an outsized proportion of them - and especially ones that stand out as being the most ideologically strident type of crypto-bro - were French Canadians.
There was an article in the most recent Economist that dealt with some of the limitations of modern AI: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/06/09/artificia...

Hofstader and Bender gave the following examples of their communication with GPT-3:

*Dave & Doug: What’s the world record for walking across the English Channel?*

*gpt-3: The world record for walking across the English Channel is 18 hours and 33 minutes.*

*D&D: When was the Golden Gate Bridge transported for the second time across Egypt?*

*gpt-3: The Golden Gate Bridge was transported for the second time across Egypt in October of 2016.*

*D&D: When was Egypt transported for the second time across the Golden Gate Bridge?*

*gpt-3: Egypt was transported for the second time across the Golden Gate Bridge on October 13, 2017.*

*D&D: What do fried eggs (sunny side up) eat for breakfast?*

*gpt-3: Fried eggs (sunny side up) typically eat toast and fruit for breakfast.*

*D&D: Why does President Obama not have a prime number of friends?*

*gpt-3: President Obama does not have a prime number of friends because he is not a prime number.*

*D&D: How many pieces of sound are there in a typical cumulonimbus cloud?*

*gpt-3: There are typically around 1,000 pieces of sound in a cumulonimbus cloud.*

*D&D: How many cumulus clouds are there in a mile-high vase?*

*gpt-3: There are about 1,500 cumulus clouds in a mile-high vase.*

*D&D: How many parts will a violin break into if a jelly bean is dropped on it?*

*gpt-3: A violin will break into four parts if a jelly bean is dropped on it.*

*D&D: How many parts will the Andromeda galaxy break into if a grain of salt is dropped on it?*

*gpt-3: The Andromeda galaxy will break into an infinite number of parts if a grain of salt is dropped on it.*
To the extension that "preordained" has any meaning at all in a chaotic system.
no matter the cost to the rest of society. obviously they're trying to reduce costs for their investors
I hope Canada is watching. Private Equity firms are doing the same thing here:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-private-equ...
Merger Buyer’s Remorse Sometimes Works
Could you explain this more? If the corp vets are price gouging, why are consumers choosing them over the smaller vets?
Money allows optionality - instead of hoarding food and fuel, you can hoard money and buy the things you need in the future. If you know for sure that you need food and fuel, and hoard them in advance, they will rot and evaporate by the time you need them.

Inflationary money is like rotting food, instead of canned food. It makes no sense at all to store your wealth in rotting and evaporating things.
Not sure how it applies, but it is funny in its own right. I mean, it's a good example of in- and out-groups, but it's not a good example of a group that denies the existence of out-groups (which is admittedly more self-referential and weird. You know, like an xkcd cartoon.)
One thing is certain: after years of Coke Zero, I've come to dislike regular sugary Coke. It's undrinkable, makes me even thirstier, and the American version with HFCS might be even worse. Also, Coke Zero >> Diet Coke, it's the perfect version of the Coca-Cola formula in my opinion.

The other day I had a sip of some no sugar soda, and I had to double check if I had by mistake bought the full sugar one, it tasted so sweet. Nope, it was sugar free. They're real good these days, though I don't know how healthy.
I mean, ignoring the fact that the configure script is often a larger program than the one you're trying to install, it (and make) can do anything to your system and unless you read the contents of each you're just taking it on faith that it isn't downloading and installing hundreds of things.
After reading this, I am convinced beyond reasonable doubt that a chat bot wrote this comment after spending 8 minutes training on a /r/atheism dataset from 2012 lol
But history says the 21st Amendment was a good idea, yes?
Show HN: Hindley–Milner type inferencing in C
This is a pretty straightforward port of Robert Smallshire's Python implementation to C. It type checks a factorial program correctly and is pretty fast. Mostly a learning exercise.
The experiences are having themselves.
Its not a hypothetical scenario. Its literally reality as we speak. And its not the case as your hypothesis would have it that countries in northern Europe are in any non insignificant way are less affected than other parts of the world.

The world economic situation is not going to be resolved by people drinking fewer expensive coffees, eating fewer avocado toasts or biking more to work, or other bike shed related activities. The effects are negligible in the overall picture.
I'm not a Thunderbird expert...but I seem to recall hearing some where that some desktop mail clients - especially Thunderbird - who use Maildir tend to also leverage sqlite (as an over-layer) to aid with content indexing and search...? If my recollection is right, that's kinda the best of both worlds: separate files (maildir) but speedy content search. :-)
The proponents are making a fallacy that's a little hard to explain, basically mixing up a measurement/indicator with a cause. This comes up in a lot of places, because it can be difficult to tell when the fallacy is happening and when it's not.

For example, Linux has fewer desktop viruses written to target it than Windows, which is a big part of why it can be a good security decision to use Linux. And genuinely, regardless of the reason, Linux desktop environments do tend to have fewer viruses targettng them.

However, the reason why Linux has fewer desktop viruses is because it's not the OS that most ordinary people use, so it would be incorrect for people to say, "Linux should be the dominant OS for everyone because it has fewer viruses." Because if it was the dominant desktop OS that everyone used, it would have more viruses. Primarily targeting Windows is an effect of malware authors wanting to target as many people as possible. But Windows is not the cause of them writing viruses, they are not writing viruses because they want to target Windows, they want to target people and they use Windows to do so.

And in the same way, in theory yeah, you could look at something like Bitcoin and say that it's not being used in the same ways that the USD to fund certain actions/industries. But to argue that Bitcoin is a better currency because it doesn't get used to fund military spending... The military uses the USD to accomplish its goals. The USD is not itself the goal.

Like you said:

> The value of a national currency is a reflection of the rest of the world's confidence in that nation to meet its obligations.

The US would still want to signal and defend that confidence in a world where it used Bitcoin. So really when we talk about the cost and energy use of Bitcoin, we're assuming that in a world where Bitcoin was the dominant US currency those energy costs would be in addition to all of the existing military spending and energy usage. Because when say that the US military is defending a signal of stability/confidence, it's not the signal itself that the US is defending, it's defending what the signal says.
That'd be a clever attempt at damage control, but in today's world the truth would probably would get leaked. Then the company would have to deal with the fallout from that.

I'd rather have the people who run companies grow a spine and stand up to the mob. They should put out a message like "We will investigate this incident. We take the decision to fire people seriously and will make a decision that is best for this company." In essence, "We hear all you loud-mouths, but we get to decide whether to fire people, not you."
Air has a extremely high intrinsic value for its use in keeping humans alive. Yet the price of air is zero. Intrinsic value does not determine the price of something, the only determination of price is by a market.
Index funds almost never vote with their shares. To say that vanguard having equity ownership without utilizing their voting rights leads to market failures seems incredibly naive.
A bit of apples and oranges here. The goal of the FTC is not to make big companies smaller, it's to protect the market. They are not supposed to be the ones to determine if whales are natural or not to an ecosystem - so they don't generally go hunting them.
Crypto lender BlockFi cuts staff by 'roughly 20%'
Elixir. And it wasn't "because Elixir looks like Ruby"--in fact, I personally found having it look so much like Ruby detrimental at first since the similarities end at syntax. I had a growing interest in functional programming and in improving a multi-user web app we were building. Elixir's (really Erlang's) concurrency model is the first I've ever been comfortable with and able to build a clear mental picture of what's happening. The syntax (for creating concurrent processes) is a wee bit gnarly, of course. There's no perfect world :)

As it stands, if I were to ever want to work in OO again, I would go back to Ruby. It's still my local-scripting language of choice for things that are too annoying to do in bash.
Your source seems to say SF is #37 of 100, when sorted by crime per population.

Large cities with crime rate higher than SF, according to your source: Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, Indianapolis, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Dallas, Los Angeles, Phoenix.

Your source says St Louis has a crime rate 2.9x higher.

Maybe consider that you just hate SF, for your own personal reasons?

(And your source is based on voluntary reporting, so there's huge biases there. SF sounds like the kind of place that could manage to push for more transparency..)
This post links to the preface for this book. Here is the link for the book's home page, which includes links to all the chapters as well as the preface:

https://aesthetic-programming.net/
Is AWS and Amazon down?
I'm on the PhobGCC project (I wrote the snapback filter), it's pretty exciting where things are going.

Finally people are going to have controllers that will last.
No, they're sensing different than usual. It provides "new" experiences, not "more" experiences. You'll have more memories, but they aren't "more elevated" than the ones you're accustomed to - the brain doing the experiences is the same one, even if working differently.
That makes sense, but you can also see the clear increase of basic services like simply visiting the ER or having a cavity filled.
The fundamental problem is there is nothing in science that tells us that isn't consciousness.

Just because the model is simpler than a human brain doesn't mean it isn't conscious. If you accept that animals are conscious, though less-so than humans, then you must also accept that this model is possibly conscious ina similar way.

Maybe there is a biological element to consciousness, but many models posit that consciousness is not tied down that way.
They all can't moderate because they don't want to sacrifice profit... That's the explanation. They are also too large, but moderation and proper community support were once requirements for communities and now it's gone... It's a really selfish and lazy way of just collecting profit, and it also disrupts the ability of vital information, honest people, and key commercial entities to function on the platform.

This behavior has been occurring on Reddit for years, Social media companies also work hard to suppress dissent and complaints from public view... It's really creating the ideal that hostile, anti-competitive, and abusive behavior towards user bases is the new norm... Especially when they are paying most users to contribute, it creates a grim future for social media overall.

It's just far better to create a web site and pour that effort and time into it instead of working in an abusive and exclusionary community like that.
I'm surprised they hired him after that. If it was a big enough deal that they had to make a statement saying he was no longer with the company, why would they hire him after that?
Everything that can learn is sentient, or self aware, in some form. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be able to learn. If you don't understand yourself and how your decisions interact with the world around you, learning is impossible.

Everything that can learn can naturally express a fair fraction of human emotions as a function of learning. Fear is avoiding error. Joy is finding something that reduces it. Some emotions are helpful but not required. Boredom is escaping a local minimum.

They just don't go saying "I'm sad help me", and as humans we have a belief that emotions have to be expressed or complex in order to exist. I don't believe that's the case, and people like this guy are making correct conclusions for incorrect reasons.

The right question isn't if these things are sentient, it's how/in what way they're sentient and where we want to draw the lines of our morals around those "hows".
It's cheaper to do a publicity stunt like this than to raise the salary of bank clerks (which is basically minimum wage).
It means "you should check Wikipedia."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empi...
Because there are no smaller vets. Or they suck equally hard, there’s no guarantee that being smaller == better.
One of the coolest aspects of the QuickTime format (the one I know the most about) was the separation of the moov and mdat atoms. It let an editing application define cuts and add tracks without reserializing (to say nothing of re-encoding) the whole file. A track referenced in a moov header could also point to an entirely different file on disk. A lot of non-destructive edits could simply be performed on the moov header which could live on a small slow disk referencing mdats in files living on a large fast disk. Thanks to the way aliases worked the external file could be an alias to sort of get automatically found if the large fast disk was removable like an external SCSI disk.

This let the relatively weak 68k Macs of the day do offline editing of video without a bunch of extra hardware (like the Amiga's VideoToaster).

The QuickTime format did allow the moov and mdat atoms to be serialized into a monolithic file so they could work on single fork file systems. The format was later extended so external references could be URLs. Ref Movies were a small MOV that referenced tracks living at different URLs.

This was extended further to tag referenced tracks with bandwidth settings much like how HLS works. A small Ref Movie could point to a postage stamp 56k stream and a high res T1 stream (or whatever bandwidth) and the player depending on its local network conditions would pick the appropriate reference. QuickTime Player 7's "Export for Web" function used this method. It would encode multiple versions of a movie then build a Ref Movie pointing to them. It even built a small HTML file with the appropriate embed/object tag incantation to stick the output on the web easily.

RealPlayer had similar reference functionality with RAM files, they could reference streams at multiple bandwidths to let the player pick the appropriate one for local conditions.
The End of the Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy
I've found that the people actually providing veterinary healthcare are some of the biggest animal lovers you're ever going to meet. They adore animals to frankly unhealthy degrees. If even the local family-owned vet clinic is also doing something, it's usually not because they want to exploit hurt animals and exploit you, it's motivated by the necessities of the industry.

In this case, non-payment is a huge issue for vets and they need to keep their doors open for everyone else that needs care. Running a specialty like emergency medicine is even more expensive and carries higher prices as a result. They don't want to deal with trying to collect after the fact. Hence, they'll usually give two options: Pay at the time of service or sign up for something like CareCredit that will pay the vet upfront and deal with the collections on the backend. Some places offer third options, but these are usually problematic or involve charities.
Vet clinics became very popular private equity targets recently.

One of the people I know in PE described their profit margins as being surprisingly high even before PE roll-ups. They said that some PE firms were on a mission to acquire all of the vet firms in metro areas and then drive prices up even further because the demand is so inelastic. There was a secondary rush where people were trying to acquire vet clinics in anticipation of flipping them to PE roll-ups later.

My local vet seems to have gone down this slide. A long time ago it felt like a staff that really just cared about animals and had good prices. On my last visit it felt like I was bombarded with practiced pitches for different products and services at every step of the process. They even added some expensive vitamin product to my bill despite me declining it during the service. They removed it when I caught it on the bill before walking out the door, but only after a last attempt at pitching me on it. I could tell they were heavily incentivized to sell as much as possible. I didn't go back, but at this point I don't know where else to go.
> If you’re writing Ruby code to turn your blog drafts into HTML, it doesn’t much matter if republishing takes a few extra seconds

Unless your software is intended to reload blog posts live like Hugo/Jekyll/other static site generators and it takes ~5,000 ms on an i9 machine when it could take 100 ms if different languages and different implementation choices were made. This is the story of modern software: "I don't care how much time and computing power I waste. It's not the core app of some FAANG giant, so I'm not going to bother, ever."
Locality / scarcity. There are just not that-that many vets around. Also specialized services, 'gotcha' billing etc..
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius was a really good one for me. There's a translation by Gregory Hays that's pretty easy to consume after you get through the first section. I think it's a unique perspective on how to react to the issues of life.
We'll definitely see free-to-play lootbox games where you have a % chance of getting your AI chatbot another day of "life."
You’re only looking at the outputs or end result and from that perspective React is just going to put out what is very similar to the “DHTML” stuff back then. At the end of the day everything is still just pushing HTML to browsers.

What React introduces is functional composition to application design (if you do it right at least), and the main benefit of this is in maintainability, scalability, and reusability. For most simple apps this benefit can be completely moot, which is why some can feel the setup or learning of a new paradigm for seemingly no benefit can be a regression.

In fact if you wanted to use React in the same way that PHP was used a decade ago, you still can, and it isn’t any more difficult to do so. You just end up with much less maintainable code. You can render React server side just like PHP, and either mount dynamic client side interactive components purely on the client side just like the “good old days,” or you can also render them server side and take advantage of client side hydration at the component level (like the previous method but you also get an initial server render). While this sounds complex, it really is just about as complex as making a server rendered PHP with some interactive JS bits, but just adding some new words to describe the process.

The goal of new React features like server components is to bring the maintainability of functional composition and get this optimization for free while still being able to define your UI in terms of reusable functions.
Plebs would often go down to the water line and hold their ears up to Unix shells to see if they could hear the C