skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The VC connection is another reason not to pursue scorched earth campaigns.

It’s a double-edged spear. Eventually someone you dislike will have a VC deal pending; if your defamatory comments cost them the deal (or even appear to have had a role), that person will end up owning everything you have and everything you ever will have after a massive court judgment.

And on the flip side, VCs dislike investing in people who are in litigation or who have faced it. You will have to do a lot of explaining about why you were sued, and if there was a judgment against you, it’s hard to imagine your professional judgment not getting questioned.
true, however python doesn't have static typing. It would be interesting to see more static languages adopt a "Number" primitive.
I'm always suspicious of laptops with no Intel video. How well supported by mainline video drivers is this one?
AAPI council member speaks out after being attacked with concrete block in SF
NTHSA also is the type of agency that got lobbied by auto makers into instituting the minimum 25 year old import rule under the pretense of safety, because it ate into profits of foreign manufactures selling cars in US.
> Sentience is a religious question

That would be a minority opinion. Generally our understanding of sentience is completely independent of existence of the soul.

There are some exceptions though:

> In Jainism many things are endowed with a soul, jīva, which is sometimes translated as 'sentience'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Pink_Panther....

https://www.boredpanda.com/sphynx-cats-family-heterochromia-...
You could take this one step further and have some magic filesystem filter such that all binaries are compiled before use. Ie. your hard disk would contain no executable code, only source code.

It sounds slow, but it needn't be if you have the right caching in place. Binaries could even be recompiled with better/slower compilers as needed to give better performance too.

Now I think about it it isn't so different from the android/java model of shipping applications as bytecode...
> It's really not all that different from Python, JavaScript, Java and C#

I think that being able to dynamically replace behavior from almost anything at any point in your program is pretty much very different from Python, Java and C#.

The only other mainstream language with this capacity is Erlang, and Erlang is not exactly what I would call mainstream language.
So it was preordained since the beginning of time that you would write this comment and that I would reply to you?
GitHub is also built using Rails and I haven't found it to be slow. Neither the zillions of Shopify stores out there.
No. Stop that, you're embarrassing yourself.

The problem at hand here is social engineering. Your cryptocurrency scheme (and, to be clear, this is your own scheme you're promoting here) is not a solution to social engineering.
>I think economically speaking delivery trucks and local supermarkets should take most of the burden.

Currently car owners disproportionately pay for roads that those without cars enjoy. They pay for roads (in their own fuel tax, purchase tax on automobile, and often in registration fees) that allow heavy delivery trucks to bring food and medicine and various goods to local shops and addresses where the car-less can access them. This all despite a car wears remarkably less on a road than the semis that truck in these goods so the car-less (and others) can access them locally.

If anything, pedestrians and bike riders underpay for a road system they take advantage of. In fact one can ride a bicycle and be a near complete free-rider to the road system, if your income is low enough, despite still availing yourself of benefits such as trucked in food/medicine/goods.
if my brain were separated into two halves by the neuroscientists of the future, and placed into two bodies. Where would "I" go? Suppose we take the simplest route which is "I" die, and two new consciousnesses spring into life. OK what if my brain were instead divided by 3/4s and 1/4 ? do "I" die then as well? is the "1/4" part "less" conscious? if we say, well no, the conscious organ cannot be subdivided and still retain consciousness. Or how many cells can the conscious organ lose where it suddenly switches off?

my discomfort with these issues has nothing to do with some notion that we are "special" as the universe might have quadrillions of other conscious life forms and I'm OK with that. it has to do with the fact that it's completely paradoxical and links to basically all of existence being a paradox, which then makes the whole thing pretty suspect, and at the very least completely out of the realm of something that can be "understood" by the beings that are the ones currently experiencing consciousness.
How I miss Holo. It was simple, consistent, basic but still elegant.

Personally, it was the transition from Holo to Material that drove me off Android entirely. There was no such thing as dark mode at the time Android 5 dropped; you had to set brightness very low to stand a chance at reading anything in the dark, and with many (almost all?) apps still using the dark Holo, looking at and using the device was jarring. I switched to Jolla, and later to iOS.

I'm happy Android users didn't have to suffer through another platform-wide redesign in the meantime, but I personally don't find Material appealing.
> Ruby isn't the fastest language, but it's now competitive enough that the same critics might as well throw Python under the bus while they're at it.

You say that like it's a point in support of Ruby, but, yes, absolutely, Python should be thrown under that same bus. Both languages are dramatically slower than other languages that are available. My little hobby programming language with a bytecode VM I wrote myself in a single C file is faster than Ruby and Python. It would be hard to design a language that isn't easy to make faster than Ruby and Python.

They both pay an incredible runtime performance cost for their deep support for dynamic runtime metaprogramming and mutability. If you don't want those features, I don't think it makes sense to use those languages.
The opening line from 2011 seems prescient:

> Mortgage interest rates will rise. We can't be sure exactly when rates will begin to climb or by how much, but we know what's coming.

11 years later it finally happened
I don't understand the whole "free will is an illusion" thing. To me it seems obvious; I clearly do have free will because I choose to do things on my own volition. And the "me" who does the choosing is made up of largely deterministic electrochemical processes which respond to stimuli, with a bunch of feedback loops and other complexity. That is all my consciousness is, after all. I don't even know what it would mean for free will to be an "illusion".
> Note that PUSH is twice more common than POP. These instructions are used in pairs for preserving EBP, ESI, EDI, and EDX registers across function calls, and PUSH is also used for passing arguments to functions; that's why it is more frequent.

To expand on why PUSH being used for passing arguments to functions makes it more frequent than POP: The caller of a function will usually push one argument at a time to the stack, but then just use the ADD instruction to put the stack pointer back afterwards. (Or with __stdcall functions, the RET instruction will take an operand that does the same thing.)
I find the opposite question more interesting: How much of human behaviour is sentient? Probably very little to none, right? Most of what we do is routine habits that we’ve trained over a long time. I spend most of my day solving abstract puzzles at work. Or typing these words into this website.

If our emotions were trained into us over many generations as a way to better cooperate and improve survivability, and AI chatbot fake emotions were trained over many generations where only the best neural nets survive… Maybe Aristotle was right, the bar is actually very low and these programs are just as sentient as we are?
> Someone needs to be interested in working with Rails.

A lot of us are. I don't think Gitlab is in any shortage of resumes...I tried. Might be the market collapse or whatever reason, didn't even get past the initial HR interview. It's also possible my country of residence isn't high on their list...we are expensive.
In the U.S., lead was purposely added to food until 1988, so it’s not like this is an exclusively ancient problem.
I also have heard of such a story. A friend of mine did something similar a long time ago.

Someone posted malicious stuff on his website, which showed up when googling my friends name. This costed him quite some business.

He knew the email address of the website owner, and the provider where the website was hosted.
So he registered the same email address under a different free email hosting provider. Then he sent the website hoster an e-mail where he told them about a new email address and if they could change it. With that he could reset the password and delete the website.
Combination of common chemicals may be curbing sperm count: study
>>the company’s holdings were worth just over $3 billion. Its market cap, on the other hand, is roughly $1.77 billion.

Why doesn't someone aquire the company and sell all of the Bitcoin? Seems like an easy way to make a lot of money.
Upstash developer evangelists where art thou? Come quickly, everyone’s waiting for you!

https://upstash.com
I look at Java and I want to throw up. So much verbosity.

Supervising.Supervisor.SupervisorFactory.get_instance(Supervising.Supervisor.SupervisorFactory.Default.init());

No thanks!
Experience requires reflection. Does the in-memory simulation contains a model of the in-memory simulation? If not, we are certain that it does not have sentience as we understand it.
No, that's not my point. The reason we have consciousness is not that we don't understand how our bodies work. We have consciousness and we don't know why because we don't understand how our bodies work.

Consciousness is directly observable to everybody who is conscious. From there the next logical step is to find out why people are conscious, and right now that's not something that anybody understands. There is presumably something that causes consciousness even though we can only observe the result.

However, saying that a machine is conscious would be to assume your own conclusion. Nobody's observed a machine being conscious. There's no explanation for how a machine would be conscious and there never will be because we already know everything about how they work.
So is this clearly political theater for an election, or is it clearly lobbying by foreign auto manufacturers?
> "short I-bonds" is equivalent to "short crypto"

It is for the purposes of this discussion.

"Short Crypto" is a terrible meme counter-argument, that ignores the large possibility of a long-term, sideways cryptomarket.

While cryptocoins move sideways, low-risk investments like TIPS or I-Bonds will outperform them. Cryptocoins don't have to "go down" for them to be a terrible investment. Even a "sideways movement" is enough to make them a bad investment.

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As long as lower risk options (such as TIPS and I-bonds) exist that have higher gains than Cryptocoin (definitely the case this year), then I "win" relative to you with my bond-heavy portfolio. No shorting of cryptocoin needed.
A bit off topic here, but can anyone identify which documentation tool this is? https://fresh.deno.dev/docs/getting-started/adding-interacti...

It's very clean and simple, I like it.
There's a number of these where there's a desire to make it appear there is competition, but actually all are owned by the same conglomerate.

I would be 0% surprised if similar things haven't been done or tried in optometry, dentists, etc.
“the individual responsible for this regrettable act is no longer with the company.”

Technically correct. The best kind of correct.

They hired him a couple of weeks later.
A lot of people seem to underestimate how fast computers are; a lot of times you don't need to scale horizontally, even at "webscale". And even when you do, it's not like you need microservices for that; sometimes you just run a new instance of $app, or spin off one thing to a new service (while similar to "microservices", it's not really the same thing as the bulk remains monolithic).
Taxpayer funded DB pensions are very alive today. Lots of big pots of money for politicians and government employee union leaders to play with (or influence), and extremely easy way to pay government employees with debt without actually having to admit it is debt due to taxpayer funded DB pensions being exempt from regulations regarding proper accounting such as ERISA 1974 and PPA 2006.

See: http://www.data-z.org/pension_database
Predicting the results of experiments/observations is a means, not an end. A theory is much more than a compendium of the things it predicts.

Would you say that rain is inexplicable because no explanation can actually cause rain?
There are no 256 meg 72 pin SIMMs. The page linked to from this site says that the author was mistaken, and they were 168 pin SIMMs.

While 512 meg SIMMs are possible, they'd be custom. Otherwise, a 256 meg SIMM would be a single bank, which wouldn't make much sense.
> are you screaming/ranting in your car on the way home or when alone? <-- #1 sign I need to switch jobs.

I work remotely. So my first warning is my wife yelling from the other room: "I hope you're ranting out loud again and not in a meeting!"
Counterpoint: I find it suspicious that so many people on this forum take the opportunity to bag on Ruby on Rails every time it comes up. It's almost like they hate the fact that it is, in fact, a perfectly valid choice of language and platform, and they're trying to justify the self-flagellation required to use Java for web apps. I've been around the block a couple of times now, and done projects in PHP, ASP, .NET, and Java. But I've been using Rails whenever possible to make LOB CRUD apps for almost 15 years now, and there's nothing that can even hold a candle to it for productivity. Still. Things that can take just a line or two in Rails often take HUNDREDS in Java & <insert popular JS framework>, and be a nightmare to keep square with strong typing that's so popular with Typescript now. So go ahead, cast aspersions on Rails. I'll be over here, happily cranking out features as fast as my users request them, while the corporate IT departments at my Fortune 250 take 6 months to even put a request on their schedule.

EDIT: As an example, I once rewrote a web app for a department. The original was all Java/Struts. It took a team of outsourced developers 2.5 years to write. It took me 4 months to rewrite it in Rails (having no access to the code), and mine did the main operation twice as fast, which meant that you could do it online, instead of having to wait for a backgrounded process to finish and send email.
How can you measure the intrinsic value of oil other than with a market? I agree it should have a non zero value in theory, but my point is that the price of anything is determined only by what someone else is willing to pay for it. The fundamental value could be $1000 a barrel or $0.01 a barrel, the only way to find out is to have a market. Also, just because the fundamental value is > 0, it does not mean that the price must be > 0. If there is no buyer or no functional market, the price can be exactly 0.
The bonus chatter bit made this worth the read.
Yeah, that's why I keep tizen tools installed on my PC. And with obscure error messages it's not easy to either build or sideload the app. Also with the automated updates on the TV and its preinstalled junk reinstalling itself everytime, it is hard to find the space to install in on a tv.
> to view some YouTube videos, either by uploading an ID or by paying a cent through a credit card

viewing isn't the issue - it's uploading, of illegal content meaning users willing to break the law, such as spoofing/faking photo id or credit cards, so for this both these verification methods aren't enough.

> I'm not sure who you're going to verify

Anyone accountable as the copyright holder e.g. if it's a production company a liable director or something. The point is - you need someone to go after if the material turns out to be illegal i.e. non-deniable proof of liability. Incidentally, this rules out any videos originating in countries with legal systems that do not cooperate with the local one.
What if we gave it a robot body, with cameras and sensors? What if we made this robot body with biotechnology, so the only eletronic parts were the brain? And we didn't tell it that it was a robot. Will you be the one that will go tell them they are not concious? Please be careful, they will probably become very upset at you. People tend to do that.
I don't understand how some ( to me ) obvious anticompetitive corps seem to go unnoticed, but in this case veterinary clinics are receiving scrutiny.
> you can scale horizontally in a lot easier fashion.

I think you need to define "easier" here. It's easy to launch more instances of your rails app.
I don't really see why they need a reason, I thought they could just delete the sub?
"All they do is match patterns"
This crowd is in for a rude awakening.
How can you possibly expect to get an answer to that question without details? Most people survive just fine without an MSc in CS so I guess it is not "worth it".
Why is it like something to be these abstractions?
In the 90s some of us derogatorily called it Nutscrape because l33t folks should be using Lynx. Good old days.
ah yes, a more profit driven healthcare sector, exactly what this country needs
And if you really want to boil it down to a single reason, the best candidate would be "becoming militarily dependent on hired mercenaries and then not paying them" rather than something more interesting
> Maybe appearing sentient is easier than

It cannot be a Spring 2022 discovery that people may be fooled. As if the past history, the past century, the past years, the past weeks had not been enough. As if around the world the revamp of individuals firm in the stance that their sale of dreams makes Truth a marginal issue were not topical.

So, yes, tests are on facts. Words should induce diffidence, not trust, as they are promises, not fulfillments.
> I think many of us, including Google, are guilty of shooting the messenger here. Let's cut Lemoine some slack.. he is presenting an opinion that will become more prevailant as these models get more sophisticated.

I think many of us are astounded (myself included) that a senior engineer on Google's "Responsible Artificial Intelligence" team would interpret LaMDA's most-probable-string-of-text-given-my-training-corpus responses as a layperson would.
Most police departments have a site where you can see complaints raised against officers. Assuming you know his name and the department you could look that up and if the number is low you can be reasonably certain the community didn't hate him.
But if you're borrowing to buy you're still hosed -- high interest rates means your mortgage is going to be much, much more expensive.
Just Street View alone will easily blow through the profits they make from those data unless they use the data for something like commodity trading.
As the Large Hadron Collider Revs Up, Physicists’ Hopes Soar
Can't believe I made a comment to post a url, and forgot to post the url :0

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1519239024379973632.html
Cash is great when the people you want to deal with are all in the same room, or at least can easily arrange to be (though governments are quite good at stopping them getting together when it suits them).

You're also subject to control as soon as you try to interact with financial products or "the financial system", even with cash. Try opening a bank account or buying equities without giving a real name and address.

I would like a type of cash that works wherever the other parties happen to be. I'd also like to see that privacy and freedom to transact extend across the full system.
I don’t think anyone has to use coffee script.

Our company has a large code base. Tests run in about 15 minutes in CI.
There is a strong survivorship bias-like aspect to that. Almost everything is debatable, and experts disagree on almost everything. Seasoned lawyers will have a pretty good idea of which experts will have which takes on any given issue. In the rare cases there is no disagreement, those cases simply won’t go to trial.

Look at it this way. Plenty of highly credentialed experts have taken the minority position in COVID measures and masking. In most cases, they’re doing that for free. And even if they can’t say the weight of the field is on their side, they can certainly point out holes and shortcomings or instances of overreach on the other side.
Who was defrauded? Not the old domain owner, he just got a legit email and decided to sell.

Maybe they committed some other crime against GoDaddy, but I'm not a lawyer and I'm not sure what. They impersonated a call center manager, but I'm not sure if that's against the law. After that the employee willingly told them things.
There is no right or wrong answer to this question until we can define what sentience means... the question behind the question is "what is sentience?"
More horrifying is that our subjective experience is all that there is. Luckily, neither is easy to square with what we experience, and we probably shouldn't try to horrify ourselves anyhow
This is confusing privacy and anonymity. He 100% delivered on the former; the latter was the trade off.
Petite Vue is less than one year old.
You can't be busted to below zero, unless you borrowed to make the investment.
I cited three examples of financial engineering.
Just to be clear you oppose mortgages, index funds, and ATM machines?

I agree all of these or at least mortgages and index funds probably increase inequality especially given uneven access. As far as tangible goods — home ownership, retirement savings, and less time spent waiting at the bank.
Of course, they're a private business. They don't have to have a reason to delete a subreddit, just the desire. The community can leave as well and form their own equivalent forum. You have the right to speak your mind, but no one can be forced to listen to it on their own website.