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> Does the in-memory simulation contains a model of the in-memory simulation?

Well, yes. I'm not sure about Pong specifically, but in many games with computer controlled entities, the game AI for each entity simulates what the entity "knows" about the world, which is different from the simulated world state itself.

(Also, at least according to Wikipedia, sentience is distinct from self-awareness. The former only requires the existence of a subjective experience, not necessarily self-reflection.)
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i was convinced fracking put in a price ceiling on a barrel of oil at around $75. Where are they?? There's been enough time to bring capacity online and there's plenty of money to be made uncorking the wells. Did opec buy all the wells and are just leaving them offline? I can't figure out why the frackers aren't pumping in full force.
It learns by examining the whole conversation and not just the last line
I've worked in this field, as well. Both implementing a FedRAMP'ed PaaS and sponsoring a CSP from the customer side where FedRAMP compliance was required. One thing that is often missing in these articles are compliance costs. Most don't realize that FedRAMP compliance at a High baseline is likely a $750K - 1M investment.
How can we be certain we're also not bound by the laws of physics and chemistry? If the universe went back in time exactly one year, is there any reason you wouldn't make all of the same decisions?
And it's a mere $0.11/gal in Libya
In most of the United States it is the only way, unless you're referring to the disaster that is Amtrak or the four-ish airlines here (which also run on gas). I'd prefer an alternative too, but there isn't one (yet?).
Most people won't willingly die at work for any amount of money or accountability, and I don't blame them.

These kinds of situations are outrageous because people want to believe in superheros, but they don't exist.
>It is a sad and exploitative industry.

What an insulting, belittling comment. I don't know why you think veterinarians are charities, and don't know why feel entitled to pay people less than they're worth.

Veterinarians hold doctorates. Four years of undergrad, four years of vet school. Many emergency vets are board certified, meaning they've done an additional 3+ years in internships and residencies.

In running a practice, ideally you also want a 3-1 ratio of techs to doctors to monitor patients. Many states require at least an AA degree to become licensed. These days, it's common to find people who have undergrad degrees who go into vet nursing as a career. Therefore, clinics are paying for 3 others with degrees.

Add in costs like support staff, and the fact that 80% of medicine and equipment are repurposed from human use. Distributors don't give a shit that it's for animals and will charge a vet clinic the same as a human hospital.

Don't blame the vet for charging $5000 for a surgery. Blame owners who can't afford to raise a pet but have one anyway.
That's... just not true. Vanguard absolutely votes its shares.
Why would they do that instead of putting in less sweetener?
Even if it did: the courts have repeatedly held (to my disdain) that the police are not required to enforce the law. My guess is that they're trying to hedge against the inevitable wave of civil suits against them, which will ultimately compel the release of the bodycam footage. But their hope is to run out the clock on public outrage.
This is much better phrasing!

Let's not say "this is math and therefore not conscious". Instead, let's say "these responses are a poor indicator of consciousness, and, given the simplicity of the AI, it would be hard to believe they are a product of such."
Regarding authorizing suspect logins, the only thing that would successfully authorize my email client access was visiting https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha

I finally set up two factor auth in gmail using FreeOTP and have Fairemail (fdroid version) configured using an app password. (I run LineageOS with no Google services installed or account setup so the OAuth method isn't an option for me)
>They maintained control with minimal personal risk to themselves. From a "policing realism" perspective that's exactly what police do. Preventing or ending any sort of crime or violence is optional at that point, and they opted not to.

Absolutely untrue, and has been for decades. Their hesitation to react and go in is the complete opposite of what they were trained to do, which is go in and eliminate the threat immediately. "The official narrative has shifted from a story of swift response by the local police to one of hesitation and delay that deviated from two decades of training that instructs officers to quickly confront a gunman to save lives, even at a risk to their own."[1]

>These aren't unfortunate dolts who bumbled into a tragic response because they weren't equipped to deal with it.

Except that, from everything we've learned about this event in the weeks since, they literally were not equipped to deal with it. Police chief didn't bring a radio, their own radios didn't work in the school, they bungled getting a key to the room, they didn't have their tactical materials arrive in a timely manner, I can go on and on.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/09/us/uvalde-shooting-police...
I agree. I'd think it would inhibit the cognition. Just by the fact that it is ultraprocessed "food". And we don't see smart people drink sodas.
As with most system failures, there is no (one) "root cause":

The intern developer should not have committed the middle finger cursor.

A code reviewer should not have approved the code change. If there was no code review (and there probably wasn't during the Windows 3.1 era), especially of an intern's code, then that's another problem with the system.

QA should not have approved the beta build with a bug that could impact the company's reputation.

A bug report was filed, but whoever triaged the bug report didn't escalate the issue before the beta release.

Finally, the engineering manager probably should not have rehired the intern as a full-time employee.
In the court of law? Maybe none.

In the court of public opinion? Maybe quite a bit.
I'm sure that'll be a huge relief to all the people who no longer afford healthcare for their pets. Maybe they simply should have not been poor!
The new argument is "If trained police officers are afraid to engage an active shooter, why should we expect school staff to?"
Redwood Materials is super interesting since the founder JB Straubel was one of the key people at Tesla. There aren't many people on the planet who know more about battery production than him.
We're in a similar boat. We only got our new dog into the practice because they'd cared for our previous dog for 13 years. The prices aren't great, but they're bearable and the staff there are absolutely first-rate animal lovers.
>> I'm no rationalism absolutist, but deepfake technology is in essence sophisticated lying/fraud.

Thank you for clarifying that. Even in the entertainment world (resurrecting dead actors) it's still a fake (a.k.a. fraud) just that we don't depend on it in a way with real consequences. Deepfakes are inherently fraud/deception.
Lead, or pewter [0]? Which was and still does sometimes contain lead which acidic drinks like wine can leach the Pb into solution.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pewter
Dentists will go down the same route.
Yeah, the people I know who work in veterinary healthcare love animals. Many of them end up burning out because they have to deal with so much animal death.
That's too bad. Not that you'd be for sure happy with Elixir. Where do you live?
> In most of the United States it is the only way

And that, there, is the problem. Everywhere in the US is designed, often in legally-enforceable ways, to ensure that cars are prioritized over everything else.
> That said, I don't know what the goals of this language are, and bluntly, perf isn't everything ;)

Since the most popular scripting language is Lua, I can name three big disadvantages of Lua that Umka is trying to fix:

- Verbose and unfamiliar syntax

- Type error detection at run time instead of compile time (a direct consequence of dynamic typing)

- Data structures not compatible with C (which is particularly odd, as Lua is specifically designed to interact with C)

So yes, Umka's main goals are not related to performance.
Sanctions and tariffs are always paid by domestic consumers. They don't operate by making foreign consumers pay more, they operate by starving the foreign power of trade.
Okay, but I'm not talking about "Hey, can you give me a ride to work every day?" but "Hey, can you give me a ride to work?" every day. I think this might be a cultural difference, though, because I live with two close friends and they ask me this one often and I have no problem doing it or not based on whether I can. If it's a small deal, I might accelerate my morning routine so I can drop them off on my way to work. If I can't, I usually just say so.

I have a few different friend groups and I'm conscious of different cultural mores, though. The group where this is common has a certain low-social-distance norm.

In any case, I have lots of close friends and I usually see people lament a lack of any, so I think it's better to do what I do rather than what others do. But cultural differences are cultural differences.
Yeah, it has fallen out of fashion, but I still say Java is pretty much always the best option. Java may be less "approachable" than Rails, but 99% of an application's lifetime will be spent in maintenance. And anyone coming in cold to any software written by any human being is going to have an uphill battle. Strict types, rigid structures and verbose syntax are a blessing to anyone coming in from the outside to read your code. The number language features that make Java the best are javadoc and clear stack traces. Anything else is just superfluous.

Also, anyone who thinks maven is too complicated while working in a language that requires bash hacks to manage runtime versions and native dependencies is equally nuts. Maven (JDK really) lets you specify language-level compatibility as a configuration flag. And can hold multiple versions of external dependencies at once without fainting.
Seems a bit of functionality overlap with lam/jot/rs; have you looked at those?

They're from BSD originally. Included in macos, and in Linux distros as bsd-utils.
Am I the only one that experiences sugar as a depressant? Eating high glycemic index foods makes me lethargic and sleepy. I've never experienced a "sugar high". I also don't have diabetes as my blood sugar level is within norm during routine physicals.
My company, Root Labs, has consulted on various lawsuits. We aren't trial witnesses but we've done supporting work, such as reverse engineering and writing a detailed technical analysis of how a product works. This report was then reviewed by the testifying expert, who wrote their own report to be entered as evidence.

I recommend not working as a testifying expert for a few reasons:

- You have to take sides, and the other side will never want to work with you again. Are you sure you'll never want to work with AT&T if you represented Verizon once, for example? What if you want a job there some day?

- Despite the term "expert", it comes down to how you present yourself in the courtroom versus what you know. The opponent's "expert" might seem more believable than you, despite being wrong about the technical issues.

- You have to stick to one particular area of technology your whole career, and many of the cases cover the same ground. Do you want to be "Ethernet Implementation Person" your whole life?

- A lot of the work is boring, and lawyers are generally not technically adept. Juries are worse. So if you love explaining something repeatedly in oversimplified terms, maybe you'd like this.

Usually testifying experts are older and do it after they've finished a career in some subject area. It might make sense at that point as a second career.
> CPU time is always cheaper than an engineer’s time.

I hate this quote, but less than the "Memory is cheap" mantra..

For "CPU time", if it's a critical path for something with a lot of users and/or where performance is key, the engineer's time is just a fraction.
"Animal" is an arbitrary definition that exists in one's head. Unless you assume an idealist position, the only way it can be defined is by a function that runs in one's head. It might be a very complicated function - sufficiently complicated that we can't really articulate it and resort to "I know it when I see it", and possibly self-modifying - but the same person will still produce the same output consistently when given the same input.
Yes, the Fed is a sanctioned quasi-governmental monopoly, just like the police or the taxman is.

You'll note that "the Fed" was not in your original list. Also, definition is spelled definition.
I go to a small optometry practice, and I was told by my optometrist, several years ago, that it was a common thing for practices to be bought up by large corporations. They then sweat-shop the employees in an attempt to extract maximum returns. My optometrist didn't want to work like that so he (and his partners) didn't sell. But, in Southern California, it's a common thing for optometrist to build up a practice and flip it to larger companies.
That's an issue. I'm really puzzled my Mozilla's sudden aversion to an open repository of extensions on Android.
You have a source for that? The React code I've seen at Facebook is client rendered.
Yeah, the number of drivers sitting in their cars with the engine running while parked shows me fuel prices really aren't that high.
Let me check my spam folder - yeah, there are tons of phishing attempts with unusual combinations of hyphens, no hyphens, and company/inc/group that have similar amounts of legitimacy. A domain of coca-colacompany.com doesn't seem that unusual.

Oh, you mean the

#:~:text=

URI fragment - yeah, that is weird! I wonder what the function of the :~ emoji is in their CMS. I know from painful experience that XML names can begin with a colon [1]; I fear that an identifier which is only a colon features prominently in their schema...

I also enjoyed the line at the bottom, in corporatese nonanswer to the question "Is caffeine addictive?"

> We know that not everyone drinks caffeine and not everyone wants to drink it all the time, so we also offer a range of caffeine-free beverages, including [insert local caffeine-free example] so people can make the choice for them and their families.

Someone in some committee vetoed 'including water', much to the chagrin of the Dasani and Smartwater reps in the meeting... or maybe they were duking it out with the new Aha guy and there was no clear winner yet.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-NameStartChar
Google to pay $118M after being accused of underpaying 15,500 women
To be fair to the original commenter, he probably didn't make this up and was fed it by a source he believes is reputable. You spend too much time in an echo chamber it's easy to be fed ideas that seem reasonably on the onset but are actually propaganda.

I think media literacy is incredibly hard; and if he didn't throw in "by this administration", I wouldn't have been as skeptical of his claim either (not because I'm a Biden loyalist, but because any time anyone tries to pin a market effect on the president I'm immediately skeptical).
To a lesser extent you can throw funeral homes into that mix. A few companies control many of them and buy more of them every year. They keep their local names. You still work with "Jacobs And Sons Funeral Services, established 1912" but really you're just paying Service Corporation International.
Those are selective stats that don’t contradict mine. How many people are given the death penalty? How many are on death row? How many crimes are actually committed on a daily basis? These are questions that your stats don’t address and are very relevant to the discussion.
Low single-digit operating margins aren't typically described as "so profitable" in any other context.
> …it's not of benefit to the advertising industry…

If the industry could be sold on the idea of a persuadabot, a bot that learns how to persuade you to buy the product, this might change. Surely Google and Facebook have enough data to train such bots for many of their users.
For a more technical overview:

https://www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/may-we-introduce-lumi/
Nope. Barriers to entry in the market (securing capital for initial expenditures, rising rents, rising malpractice liabilities) will make providers take positions at the PE-owned practices. Monopolization works in both directions.
Amtrak is actually pretty great in the coastal part of the mid-north Atlantic region, I ride it very often. Pretty much everywhere else it's useless. In most of the US cars are very much the only option (no you can't bike on a 50mph two lane highway with no shoulders for 15 miles. That does not work.)

We don't have transit for a number of reasons, one is that everything would have to be torn up and rebuilt for high speed rail. Two we have a much lower trust society than places like Europe and Japan. Three it's just so unprofitable and people dislike it so much it never gets funding.
I think it all boils down to whether you can predict someone's behaviour or not https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31728717
I would love to try Lion Fish. I didn't know they where a fish that was eaten. Any ideas where you can get it at in Southern California besides the local pet store? :-D
When it comes to your privacy, the UK has decided that you’re a bunch of C-words
Crypto market is just a fraction of housing market and stock market which are worth trillions. So investing in dumb crypto should't really hurt the economy. Crypto, ICOs and NFTs are like baseball cards; people buy them thinking they are special items and therefore they should be worth a lot of money but in the reality they are not of any real life use. All in all as of today crypto is fool's tax but I hope that the technology behind cryptocurrencies will prevail and be useful in a practical sense.
Yep, they will use the specialized hardware by default if CUDA/cuBLAS has been installed on the system.
Ask HN: Being an employee, does the work you do have a deeper meaning to you?
Do you follow some idea or path to give your work a deeper meaning instead of just making money for your employer and yourself?
> Actual Nazi records are still largely classified and still selectively being released obviously after destroying counter-narrative ones.

A lot of Nazi records are public. And so are the records of a lot of the occupied countries. Including mundane details like how much SNCF and Deutsche Bahn billes per "passenger" ( of course usually in cattle/cargo cars), and the amounts. We also have ample witness testimony, and video and photographic footage from the various camps, be they concentration, extermination or transit ( which were in occupied countries and often were managed by the local collaborationist government).

> The second world war was a biological war with typhus as the primary weapon. All of "holocaust" was Germany trying to quarantine and treat the infection... which is why SS doctors were at the frontline of it all. They still lost millions of people. The most affected were low hyegine communities who did not listen to government recommendations

If it was a biological war, where did the typhus come from? And why were people "quarantined" to starvation/exhaustion from work from faraway places likes jews from Netherlands transferred to Auschwitz?

> but the 6 million number is downright retarded if you look at the population records.

6 million is for the jews only, there's an additional 2 million Roma, Sinthy, disabled, gays, etc. Not to mention hundreds of thousands of POWs.

> You can fabricate any story if you get to kill everyone who disagrees with it and that is exactly what the Soviet and American forces did.

Who was killed that disagreed with the story? And how do you think did the Americans, Soviets and all occupied countries get to the same story? Especially countries like Yugoslavia which liberated themselves and were neutral post-WW2? And why do we have stories from people who managed to escape telling of the horrors?

Also, if i might bring your attention to the words of the perpetrators themselves - none of them denied anything. You can go and watch a full recording of the trial of Adolf Eichmann if you want to. You can read the testimony from Nuremberg. You can watch the footage, including of freed inmates, from when the camps were liberated.

And of course you can go and visit any of the camp sites. I've been to Dachau and it's... powerful.
That's rather naive.

> European Patents Office (EPO) grants software patents by declaring them as "computer implemented inventions".

from https://fsfe.org/activities/swpat/swpat.en.html
A lot of people died - starved or got killed by disease, pillagers or such like. The population of Italy and Greece post the Empire was probably only half of what it was during the Roman times.

But even beyond that, the “fall” of Rome (the city) meant that its one million former inhabitants now largely became rural subsistence farmers rather than artisans/craftsmen/smiths/teachers in a city with theatres, race tracks, running fresh water, spas and food trucks. If the US underwent the same sort of change, you might call it “fallen” too…
> It also stipulates security control measures such as two-factor authentication (2FA) and access control for any accounts that store sensitive information, end-to-end encryption, training staff in data protection awareness, and a data privacy policy.

Uhhh does it? I'm pretty sure it does not explicitly stipulate this.
But there are so many low probability high cost things. Each cancer might be low probability, but as you get to 70, 80, 90, it is almost guaranteed a person will hit a $100k+ if not $1M+ healthcare expense. Especially emergency and ICU related like heart attacks.
The jurors are free to ignore the lawyers and rely on the expert's testimony. But they're also free to conclude that said expert just provides the desired opinions on demand. I would guess the lack of time invested in performing the analysis counted for as much with the jury as the high fee; patent litigation tends to be long and tedious, and a jury is likely to reflect on the fact that they're being asked to spend much more of their valuable time on listening to and deliberating the competing claims, without being well-compensated themselves.

(It's worth recalling that most people don't want or simply can't afford to do jury duty because it barely pays for travel and food expenses; thus juries tend tobe made up of the financially independent or those with accommodating employers. Commercial litigation would look very different if juries were drawn from, say, the boards of firms in some other industrial sector, who were required to commit 1 month a year to dispute resolution on a pro bono basis and would more truly qualify as peers of the disputing parties.)

I'm guessing from the gp's description that the estimate of losses was ultimately derived from a lawyerly formula of a sort derived from previous judgments and arguments developed in law review journals, as opposed to an economic history of the business unit that had monetized the patents. If so, the nominally independent analysis is basically just putting a neutral face on a legalistic assessment that was done by counsel for both sides before the expert was hired.

lawyerly sort of ad hominem

True enough; juries respond to emotional cues, and an arched-eyebrow dismissal is more convincing than whiny remonstration or interrogative bluster. But juries are also emotionally intelligent, and if one party's side is all posture and little substance they're likely to pick up on that.
If you tailgate someone you can get that magical reduction in air resistance which can increase fuel economy. I hate driving on busy roads for this reason, some jack hole will always be right on my ass and I can't even see their headlights.
That's great news. I guess Nvidia are the only ones to avoid now.