skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How can we be certain we're also not bound by the laws of physics and chemistry?

Try to look at it from this perspective:

We are made of 2 things: 1. consciousness and 2. a physical body. Only way to operate in this physical world is via a physical body so our bodies are bound to the laws of physics and chemistry.

When someone dies their physical body is still part of this physical world but not their consciousness.
Consciousness is like a visitor to this physical world.. it doesn't belong here so laws are not applicable either.
I'm under no legal obligation to do my job either. Doesn't mean I won't face discipline if I stop working. The job of police is to protect and serve. That's what they're trained to do. Whether or not they can face legal consequences if they refuse isn't really relevant here.
Buy at Costco and get the full warranty.

This will protect you from the consequences of burn-in and more for 5 years.

(Assuming the terms haven't changed since I last bought one in 2020.)
Your own link described WIN as, "one of the biggest government public relations blunders ever".
I didn't know about them, I'll check them out
What you need is both transit and land use which supports it.

Private automobiles aren't a bugfix on urban planning, as someone posted to Mastodon recently, they're the determining cause of sprawl patterns. Personal vehicles, cheap fuel, and high-quality uncongested roads cheapen distance and through the Jevons Paradox increase the amount of space used.

https://mastodon.social/@CarlMuckenhoupt/108465959449696924

Light rail works great ... in reasonably dense urban environments and downtowns. If you have to walk only a few blocks to and from your boarding and disembarking points, they're great. Multi-link travel with transfers and delays is abysmal.

LRT also benefits heavily from dedicated rights of way, no roadway contention from other vehicles, traffic signals optimisation, and the rest.

And a single LRV can replace 40 -- 150+ vehicles on the road, depending on fill capacity.
Interesting to see Ceph mixed into the storage options.

Lustre still king of the hill though.
from Baltic Sea

https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/06/13/new-ukrainian-sea-rout...
I've looked throughout their interface, and I can't seem to find that option. What you describe is exactly what I want. I'll give it another look.
We live in a surveillance society now. This individual that attacked the school wasn’t operating in stealth: he let his murderious intentions be known on social media.

The choice now is whether to believe that law enforcement at the local and federal level simply turned a blind eye, or they knew and helped guide this individual to action in order to use the public reaction to advance the gun control agenda.

And while some will recoil at the thought of organized terror attacks in the US, we have to acknowledge that terror attacks by the state are not unprecedented. The communists, the nazis, the current russian empire all utilized terror attacks to advance their state policy. For example, right before the Crimea referendum to join Russia, terror attacks against the civilian population “were discovered” by FSB forces that swung their support to joining Russia.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26878193.amp
Ugh, we need to outlaw private equity firms right now. They're a remora sucking on the economy.
when has his fund ever outperformed sp500 or has it at least remain uncorrelated?
That means they can't be sued for this, but GP is taking about their training, and departmental policy/procedures. It is their professional responsibility to stop the threat.
Raleigh, N.C. company will pay you $2k to release 100 cockroaches into your home
Yeah, this article makes no sense. Caffeine is absolutely a cognitive performance enhancer and is undisputably in Diet Coke.
Wont the reserves seizure they pulled off with Russia also contribute to this trust deficit?
Whats is the difference between a DC and why don't DCs appear in supercomputer rankings?
Not sure what's happening in Python but Ractors is the current biggest effort in Ruby I'm aware of. It won't remove the GIL from all of Ruby but will remove it in the context of Ractors - so its an instrument for real multi core concurrency. Still experimental though.
Ouch, I had no idea it cost that much. What are the main cost areas?

What would you estimate compliance at a Moderate baseline would be?
Calling it an "illusion" is passing the buck, because that term suggests that there's something else that's being fooled. It also sounds a bit demeaning, because it suggests that everything we experience is fake.

I find it more useful to think of "consciousness" as a special model created by a subconscious human brain. Unlike other abstract models that a subconscious brain can create, such as a rock or a tree or a cat, the subconscious brain learns to associate details of this special model with certain physical perceptions that the subconscious brain receives (specifically, the physical perceptions that correspond with its own body, as opposed to physical perceptions that correspond to things that this system would model as not being part of its own body). By "subconscious human brain", I'm thinking of something like an embodied, complex neural network that receives sensory inputs of various kinds and sends signals to physically respond in various ways, but which doesn't have anything we would call "self-awareness" outside of this special model that's associated with the bodily physical perceptions.

I think this offers a nice balance between explaining the tremendous flexibility we have in understanding ourselves (by telling ourselves and others stories that change our models of ourselves) and explaining the tremendous limitations we have (because any model of a system within that same system is going to have to be significantly less complex if that system is going to do lots of other things, too). And I like that it doesn't suggest that we "aren't real"; instead, it suggests that at any given point in time, we're living, physical entities with subconscious minds that often contain self-referential models that tend to be very relevant to our actual physical living.
Congratulations Simon!

Here's to another twenty.
> There's sufficient consensus on both the stronger/weaker gun control sides to agree that police are the most tactically equipped to deal with an ongoing crime

I disagree because I use a different bar for "sufficient". I never have a conversation with people (or online) within the midwest states without a jab at the ineffectiveness of LEOs. There's been a national consensus for awhile, which has been diminished, for sure. For many, Jan 6 was another event showing that the lack of police action can lead to outrageous events that were previously fantasy. Confidence in police (local or not) has been eroding for decades and this is a tentpole event that will be referenced in the future.
Agree with the demand elasticity, but I'd like to add something about higher prices. It's been studied in the industry very well that you can't have good care without higher prices and "things." It's just not possible, and people that say their vets are "good and cheap" are just fooling themselves.

As an example, prior to certain surgeries, my wife offers drug A to the clients. It adds to the cost but increase the chance of survival. However, drug B is not an option because studies have shown in increases survivorship by 50%. She bakes it into the cost of the surgery and refuses to do the surgery without it. Clinic down the street offers both drugs as options, bringing the base cost of the surgery down.

So now she has a reputation of being expensive vet. If she offers drug b as an option, patients die more frequently and she has a reputation as a bad vet.

She'd much rather have the reputation as an expensive vet.
> You don't, it's not his job to care, it's yours.

Last time I checked it was the job of Project Manager to decide which tasks land on the sprint backlog as he decides the priorities of what has to be delivered.
Literally written in the job description.

As a developer you can create a plan/tasks about decreasing technical dept, but its never your work to prioritize that, coz you dont know whats the priority of upper management..
It's actually more along the lines of counter-intelligence. You have printed manuals and materials that get leaked so the attackers study those tactics. Then, during the attack, there is total confusion when the police do not react as thought by those training materials. The upper hand now resides with the police /s
I'm an ophthalmologist. This phenomenon is endemic to all outpatient and procedure-based medical specialties. Especially eyes and teeth but also including emergency medicine, radiology, gi etc. It absolutely does lead to poorer quality patient care as practices are purchased with a second-liquidity event in mind and thus must show an increase in margins via increased "efficiency." In reality this means less technicians and less doctors seeing more and more patients. Remember that the doctors absorb the liability for poor patient care.

Another commenter mentioned that "most physicians are just bad at business" as a factor driving these acquisitions, there may be some truth to this, but the stereotype of the gullible, bumbling physician businessperson is bullshit. All of the practices being acquired were created and run successfully by physicians and many physicians are quite good at it. What is a huge problem is the predatory behaviors of senior partners looking for an exit strategy via equity buyout. I was searching for a job recently and it is almost impossible to find a position that is "partnership track" - something that used to be the norm. Even worse, practices will bring on junior partners with the promise of equity in the practice, force them to sign a non-compete as a term of their employment and then churn them after 2-3 years or worse - sell the practice to an equity firm.

There are a lot of things that need to change to create a healthy, diverse healthcare ecosystem, but an easy change that would be to ban physician non-competes. They do nothing but entrench equity firms and regional conglomerates making it impossible for competition to arise. Getting rid of the "certificate of need" regulations and generally decreasing the regulatory burden and thus cost to enter the market for a new competitor would also be a big step. The whole thing is gross. Most physicians want autonomy but don't know where to start. I wish there was a startup that could streamline the process - automate or outsource the front and back end work and sell or lease "starter practices" or something.
Welcome to the MEGA65
Well, there is Upstash you can try
To clarify, I was looking at "work" and "not work" and seeing "not work" at the top. You're (I think) looking at each individual activity, and seeing "work" in #1 or #2.
We from Ukraine watching very carefully for this. As we are extremely good know, how much difference when law-abiding citizen could legally buy gun an use for self-defense, and when he can't.

BTW in Ukraine works old soviet practice, when martial law declared, all private gun owners MUST move their guns to nearest police department.

Mean, when martial law, citizen guns just prohibited.
As someone doing interviews now, I would actually prefer a 'bar' type test that employees can take every so often to show their technical skills.

It could have all kinds of algorithmic questions, system design, practical application building and whatever else. It would be administered in person to prevent cheating (as much as possible), and companies could choose which scores to pay attention to.

Meta doesn't find dynamic programming questions useful for hiring but likes all the other algo questions.

Stripe doesn't like algo questions but wants to see people bootstrap stuff. So let me just do that once (or per decade or what) so I can get over answering the same damn algorithm question at four different companies.

Conversely, this would save me from having to 'fail' the same type of DP questions I keep getting stumped on. Let's just save everyone time.
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.

The Global Empire by Alexander Bard & Jan Söderqvist.
agreed that it's best not to use gmail, but boy it is not easy to find a mail service to replace gmail/hotmail/yahoo/etc. So far the alternative seems paid protonmail, which I don't mind paying, but how long until they start doing 'funny' things like gmail et al and one has to migrate again.
to an outsider (me) it looks like the Fed thought that if enough people believed the lie ("it's transitory") that things could go on despite fundamentals being out of whack (and we had quite a few people (economists, financially literate people, etc.,) go along for the ride of the ruse... but as always, the chickens eventually come home to roost in their own nest. and so it has and now we're here.

Was it totally preventable? Not likely. Did it have to be so precipitous and ruinous? Nope. They could have come correct and could have adjusted rates and have encouraged people back to work but dialing back the stimulus sooner --slowing the money printer.
Until there is consequences, why not?

Next time you interview with someone, ask why they converet a system to Microservices at their last job? If they don't have an actual reason, bin them.
Similarly, it doesn't make kids hyper. That's probably just a side effect of the environment in which kids typically get candy. There was a study, but I don't know what it was called.
That Wikipedia page makes WIN sound less than successful.
Most of the time, the content of the sentence "consciousness is an emergent phenomenon" is indistinguishable from the sentence "consciousness is magic." I'd almost prefer the latter, because it at least acknowledges the complete lack of knowledge we have about consciousness and its etiology.

It also seems like we can just as well say that computers magically become conscious as we can say water meat sacks magically become conscious.
Including themselves I hope. After all, they are just a “worker” to equity holders.
Many vaccines have some of the side effects of infection.

One such side effect (of both vaccine and disease) is minor neurological impairment. ie. you might not be able to remember where you parked your car last tuesday afterwards.

The side effects are typically so minor and/or rare that the risk-benefit analysis strongly favours taking the vaccine over risking getting the infection.

It's a controversial topic because humans are bad at judging small risks, and therefore there are groups of people 'scared' of the side effects of the vaccine and unconvinced by experts saying the risk-benefit is worth it. Some experts believe it is better to say "it is safe" rather than try to explain that there are in fact risks, but they're risks worth taking.

Note: The above isn't covid specific - the same could be said of nearly any disease and vaccine.
They can’t hear over Robert Bork’s echo.
Their only option is to act against inflation, it's a choice of when not if. And the more they wait, the more painful for the economy as a whole.
It is walkable. Can you walk 2.5 miles? I can.
Reasonably priced 3D TV is unsolved.
Any article that claims the Fed has the tools to address supply troubles is too shallow to believe.

Any article that talks about the Fed's response without talking about Powell's reconfirmation is really not worth reading.

Once his job was secure, inflation was priority and he set out to destroy demand to reduce wages and the ease the burden on the broken supply chain that he no tools to fix.
I keep track of everything myself.

That's fine, we don't have to call it a mild hybrid. But whatever you want to call it, it's working really well on my car. It only has about 7k miles on it, but the efficiency keeps getting better as it breaks-in. I have to imagine that this is probably as good as it will get.

Let me ask you something, though: if I went back and edited the original post to say 30 mpg, would you agree that how someone drives makes a huge difference in their fuel costs. Because that was my main point :)
aws recently blogged about price benefits of using more performant compiled languages on their servers, it's coming
Yeah, this is an odd take. 8% inflation is not great, but it's hardly a historic disaster. Especially given the even odder take that they think the corresponding rise in wages somehow makes it worse. The fiscal stimulus of the pandemic was perhaps too large, but it was extremely effective at forestalling catastrophe in the wake of a black swan event. The mistake was probably tightening too slowly from the 2007-era stimulus that left us without a lot of room to maneuver.

If you want to point a finger, maybe point it at the politician who threatened the Fed chair for not setting negative rates 2 years ago.
Great comparison!
Try out upstash, it offers serverless redis where pricing scales to zero.
Ah, yes I don't disagree. IMO, I don't think the use case for crypto is to replace fiat, but I can see how those that operate from that assumption/desire would experience friction.
Not nearly complicated enough. Why not interior cameras (infrared?) that watch for signs of water encroachment/flooding or a certain % of the floor area to be a temperature that implies its water.

> all that's required is that the valve be able to actuate after N+ years of disuse, which is actually a tall order.

Too true. Regular tests and preventative maintenance tend not to happen in too many households. I too am guilty of this, I would say that I find the seal in the shut-off valve for toilets to be dried and leaky a majority of the time I've gone to turn off the water to replace components inside the tank.
They really don't at all given their nutritional value. 25g of protein (which should suppress appetite a bit) for 120 calories is by no means massive.
Purely out of curiosity, have you ever even taken an elementary university-level philosophy course? I'm wondering what the basis for all of these rather absolutist conclusions might be.
Assuming you are talking about a US remote job - short answer: the talent is not the same on average, and search costs are high.

While pure coding talent may be on par, unless you are a solo dev you must be part of a team. Therefore communication skills are more than half the job. This is vastly underweighted by IT folks in general, and by gross stereotype, by the graduates of Indian technical schools.

An American company might be willing to hire someone, but it takes tremendous work to recruit, train, retain, and manage an employee. Especially at 12 hours time difference. So those are real costs. And this is why you rarely see "real" cost savings from outsourcing IT functions.
Yeah, this. You can’t go broke if you can print the money. What is going to be interesting in the next 10y is BTC denominated bonds. Then we will see exactly who can and will default.
"If it's stuck, use WD-40. Once it's unstuck, use oil."
This seems like it would give fantastic benchmark results, if the benchmark result shared was the final version and the benchmark was identical from run-to-run.
I don’t think this has anything to do with PE acquisitions of emergency veterinary clinics. It’s just typical post-Covid staff shortages due to retirements and such. Because of the working hours, emergency gets the brunt of the shortage before the normal 8-5 shifts.

I’m familiar with a few clinics that have been hiring DVMs at $120k in low CoL areas for 6+ months without success. It’s hard to raise prices enough to pay more than that in those areas.
Your life consists of your possessions.

Your life consists of your sex life.

Your life consists of your social media life.
Right, the purpose of this annotation is to prevent humans from writing code that's going to break in the future not to prevent the compiler from optimising the code it sees in front of it right now today. Let's provide a little example.

Suppose I've written a library with a USFederalHoliday type, it's 2018 when I ship version 1, and so of course my library doesn't have Juneteenth because that's not a Federal Holiday. But I am aware that over the history of the US, new holidays get created, and so I add the annotation non_exhaustive. A program you wrote using this type in 2019 might have matches for NewYears, LaborDay, VeteransDay and all the others but because of non_exhaustive you're obliged to write a clause handling "other" possibilities, even though at the time there aren't any.

In 2021 I add Juneteenth to the enumeration, ship that as version 2, and your program still compiles with the new version. Juneteenth just matches the "other" case in any matches, Rust checked those are valid even when they were never used, now they're used. They might be wrong of course, Rust can't fix that.

Now, suppose your program prints the phrase "Congratulations on your new holiday" to stderr only if the other case matches.

When compiled against version 1, Rust's compiler is obliged to check that the syntax and semantics of your "print Congrats" stuff works but it is not obliged to actually emit code which can detect such a case and actually print the message because it can tell, at compile time, that version 1 of the library actually has no other cases you didn't handle. The "Congratulations" message may end up not even compiled into the program.

With version 2, the compiler can see that now Juneteenth is a USFederalHoliday and that isn't handled by your code, and so that "Congratulations" message might be used, and the message definitely goes in to the binary.

Now, the unsafe transformation of values from a non-Rust library could result in unexpected bit patterns for a type which claims to be USFederalHoliday, but Rust's compiler was never expecting to see such values. In safe Rust they can't happen and if you introduce them from unsafe Rust that's Undefined Behaviour. So despite the non_exhaustive annotation, the compiler needn't ensure that such bit patterns do something reasonable.
Expert witnesses should be like jurors. Randomly selected by the court from a list of experts, not hired.
One guy definitely can drink a case over a weekend. I dont think you hanged out with many working people. I think most would not bring a 12 pack, but a full case.
But even if they did. Last I rember there was $10 covinince charge for getting the campsite tickets online, which you would want to do. Because you will not drive out there without knowing you have a spot if you saved up for a camping trip.
This hits on a particularly interesting point for me. In my "conversations" with much less sophisticated AI products I've observed that they are excellent at reflecting back exactly what you project. If you project a certain opinion, they recognize it, and reflect it right back. That's what makes them scary.

We've seen it multiple times online, where AI products seem excellent as pushing people into extreme niches, reinforcing their belief that they are the majority. It isolates by giving us external validation to all our worst behaviors.

That's the mechanism by which Lemoine was convinced. He had a small inkling of belief that the AI was sentient, he asked the AI, and it confirmed exactly what he already believed. As his questions got more extreme, so did its reflection of them. Creating a positive feedback loop. The AI didn't deceive, it amplified his own self deception by reflecting back his internal monologue as an external dialogue.

In a limited sense, it turned him temporarily schizophrenic.
Of course it changed. It got even worse.
I try to read all kinds of sources, and I was just interpreting the article at a high level. We're clearly trying to switch over to renewable sources, except also not investing in nuclear energy, so I think we're seeing some of the consequences of pushing for something that cannot meet demand. I'll keep looking into this, however I'm sure Biden did change several energy policies and is pushing for green energy (and it's the ethical decision in the long term, but has short term consequences).
I routinely use Emacs' M-x doctor for this purpose.