skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with these sensationalized events/statements is that we don't even have a solid definition of concepts like consciousness, sentience, self-awareness, etc. We have vague understandings with nebulous thresholds, and a variety of proposed definitions that we can't agree on as a species.

What makes something sentient? Usually, the answer is "it has emotions". But what does it mean to have emotions? The P-Zombie problem shows that we can never know anything -- or, in fact, anyone -- is having a subjective, internal experience, so we can only make definitions based on observable behaviors. And AI that acts like it has emotions has been around for many years; so by that definition, sentient AI is nothing new.

Similarly, people often debate whether AI, especially cutting edge AIs like LLMs, are "conscious" -- but again, with no way to know if anything or anyone has any subjective experiences, we can only define "conscious" based on observable behaviors. The clearest and, to me, most satisfactory definition I've heard is that consciousness is the ability to synthesize new information by integrating data. By that definition, pretty much every AI is conscious, and has been for many decades -- but it also implies consciousness is a continuum, not a boolean. AIs are conscious, but they are not yet as conscious as humans, since humans are better at integrating data to synthesize new information.

So even though it all comes down to definitions, really, it's hard to find a definition of sentience or consciousness that describes other humans but not existing AIs. Which makes those words sensational but not all that interesting or informative. When an AI becomes as conscious as a human, that'll be a milestone. And honestly, since the invention of transformers in 2017, AI performance has been improving at a constantly accelerating rate, so I suspect we'll reach that milestone in my lifetime, though we haven't quite yet. (Dr. Alan D. Thompson, a YouTuber who covers AI progress and -- at least according to his website's own bio -- is a doctor of computer science, AI, and human psychology, has a video discussing how there's a new state-of-the-art AI released every few days now.)
I think it could've been huge with Reason, but they decided to split the language, the development, and the community apart.
https://archive.ph/6dnqs
Side topic, are ice cubes for drinks a significant use of power?
Okay, we need to take that money from somewhere. There is only so much labor on the planet, and that is what the money is buying in the end. (I'm including corruption in labor here) Some labor is more valuable than others, and we can debate how much we want to spend, but in the end if we have someone do X they could do Y instead. Sometimes Y is sit around doing nothing, sometimes it is valuable.

The problem here is we don't know what will be discovered and if it will be useful. Cheap Science Fiction FTL without all the time dilation - very valuable. Add half a decimal point to our models - probably can't be used for anything and so less valuable than a game. I have no idea, I just picked unlikely two extremes.
In a similar vein, I can't help but love the impression of IE in this classic Firefox ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNy9iQ-l7wo
The Future of Diesel Is on Shaky Ground (2019)
Ask HN: How to Improve Documentation?
What are some features or styles of documentation that make you want to read more vs. what are some characteristics that make you hate documentation?
I DO think it's a great setup, this kind of thing obliterates nepotism and favors meritocracy, that's a win on my book!
Knowing generally where you're located may help in getting suggestions.
Mistitled. This curmudgeon has a problem with mass produced, mass market fittings, switches and so forth, not architecture per se, at least in this thread.

And good for him: realizing that the mass market doesn't fit you is the first step towards becoming a Linux user.
I think in 3. you mean preserve 'glucose' for the brain?
Stocks rallying a bit. I expect we'll see dead cat bouncing at least until we get the next CPI numbers.
> Do you really have a right to free association if you have to file a report if you pay someone $600 to do something for you?

Yes, you do.
4700nm would allows flights from say London to 49 states and all of Canada (as well as the middle east and most of Africa etc)

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?R=4700nm+%40lhr&MS=wls&MP=o&DU=mi

That said there's already a 4000nm range, and narrow body flights of that distance aren't that common.
for recording they simple say that your microphone is muted.

playing happens only on their page or where one can embed videos anyway, eg. through the twitter player.
No it's a wrapper around the installed version of IE.

As a sibling comment stated, you use the registry to tell the WebView what version of IE you want to emulate (on a per app basis).
What about banning the postal service from selling customer's data, and funding it some other way?

What about changing the "do not call me register" to a "please call me register" and making do not call me the default, and penalizing those who break the rules?

How about banning all those websites that aggregate and sell personal information from social media and public records?
we just stream stablecoins every second https://llamapay.io
Goto can be anything - a function call, a loop, an if clause, exception handler. That's the whole reason we created structured programming - so we don't have to guess what it is THIS time.

Tail call optimization is nice, but it has its problems. What's the downside to requiring special syntax for it? It frees the programmer reading the code from determining if it's a tail call every time.
A common refrain is that "crypto is speedrunning the history of finance." I think this is destined for the same outcome: we're going to hear stories coming out of pseudonymous work that remind us why the rules are in place today.

For example: can't file lawsuits against your employer for labor violations if you're trying to stay anonymous! So they really don't have a great incentive to treat you well.
They get shared at work and there is like a giant labyrinth of files. I have no idea who owns what, whose folder structure I am looking at, what files are mine and which ones aren't.

Good lord. What a piece of shit. I'm sorry to vent here, but I wish I was not forced to use this thing.

In Dropbox, the file structure is prominent UI feature. In Google Drive, I feel like I just don't have the brains to use it. I am not smart enough. I don't have what it takes. I accept complete defeat and I surrender.
It seems the Fed is stuck in a state of overreaction. First they overshoot on money printing, then they disregard early signs of inflation, and now they're in a panic in the opposite direction.

Seeing the news this week that Bernanke said that the Fed should be able to pull off a soft-landing now in 2022 gave me an uncomfortable déjà vu -- he said the same in 2006 and 2007, right before he raised rates enough to kick off a global financial crisis.
Are they saying that the GDPR doesn't apply to you if you're "decentralised"? And that's somehow good?
I have no desire to cross the Atlantic in a narrow-body. It's inhumane to have that many people locked together in a thin metal tube for that long.
The "best" parts are part VI (where they rip off the US constitution and talk a ton about firearms) and part VII where they regurgitate right-wing "anti-woke" talking points.
The biggest reason I haven't adopted Yubikey yet is that I'm super worried I'll lose that one little USB/NFC key
That article appears to link to an NYT article, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/technology/kraken-crypto-...
DSNet for WireGuard VPN: Like wg-quick but even quicker
People getting jobs (and raises in those jobs) is absolutely what's causing main street, non-asset inflation.

Wages growing results in prices growing. This is still beneficial for the people whose wages are growing. (Which, in the past year, have mostly been lower class workers. Gas going up in price sucks, but an extra two dollars an hour more than offsets it.)
Residents are paid an average salary of $64K. That's less than many entry-level STEM jobs, and they often work up to 80 hours per week. They can't afford to take a pay cut. And hospitals incur other costs for running residency programs which go beyond paying resident salaries.

Most other private sector professions don't require nearly as much postgraduate training before being allowed to work. Prospective lawyers usually take the bar exam less than a year after graduating from law school. Medicine is simply more complex.

What would you propose as an alternative to the status quo? The AMA has proposed a number of improvements, but perhaps there are alternatives?

https://savegme.org/
Any easy solution here would be to classify the collection of personal data as stalking and then treated accordingly under existing law.
It seems as though the dip buying will continue but perhaps the fed wants a smoother road back to reality.
> On the other end of the spectrum are organizations that offer "full anon friendly" where they don't request any information about your legal identity.

I don't think that'd be legal in the US. Employer has to at least verify that the person is allowed to work in the US (i.e. a citizen, permanent resident, or a legal alien with some work visa) which requires revealing employee's true identity to HR. Or do you think there is a way to perform this (and other tax regulations) without HR knowing the identity of the person?
The prime minister in my country (SWE, also known as Sweden) makes 170k/yr per year. So what do you think? :-D
Who told you this? Petey "Women should never have gotten the vote" Thiel?

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
Do you have a substantive comment to contribute or are you going to stick with baseless low-effort snark? The comment I posted is true and correct. You could verify it with other independent sources if you bothered to do any research.
How does this compare to a traditional Postgres deployment in terms of performance? Time-to-response for queries, latency and so on.
Federation is more fun IMO than the antagonistic, “trustless” crypto ecosystem. It’s also generally cheaper to participate in, whereas crypto nodes and miners will only get more expensive as it scales.
If you're writing imperative code with side-effects (or mixed-style) like much classic JS code is, the existence of foo on the call stack indicates that performSomeEffect has been run, and thus it's side-effects on our global state when we enter baz has to be accounted for.

Is it an ideal style to write code in? No.
Does real code have this problem, Yes!
> The thing is, I could do all that work, and the people who don't want to believe that people are like that? wouldn't believe it anyway. They'd just look for confounding variables and reasons to dismiss.

That is probably the most frustrating thing about all this discourse. When people see the structure of dating (online and otherwise) presented, they ascribe negative traits to the populations whose behavior is described and assume that everyone else would make the same judgment. Because of that, they assume negative motives and take it on themselves to debunk or censor that data.
As an alternative just package everything up in an AppImage and use a AppRun shim script.. Then just deploy the AppImage to whatever. The LXD Snap bundles quite a few things, there's no reason you couldn't do the same with AppImage.

https://xon.sh/appimage.html#building-your-own-xonsh-appimag...

https://github.com/niess/python-appimage
Over a third of US population urged to stay indoors amid record-breaking heat
If you've only got one device then it probably doesn't make sense. But if you have a number of devices, you probably have a business and need to make sure that you can reliably and securely update them remotely. How many developer/ops hours do you think that would take? 20k doesn't buy you much in dev hours these days.
Yeah it's a bit of a one trick pony as the dev explains on the home page, and that trick has long been patched by most sites.
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The Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates by 0.75 of a Percentage Point
Where? And how to stop your spouse from spying on you? I suppose notification of "Login from new device" would be a tell. But that would also be a shitty situation if you end up in a fight.

The Bitwarden access request seems cool since it has a "quarantine period" where the owner gets notified of the access request and can deny it, if still alive (against a malicious spouse request).

If you're sure you never face the "malicious spouse" scenario, then sure, but how many marriages end up in divorce again?
Sometimes I kind of wish the city simulator games had buildings and roads be free - the only money issue you had to worry about was balancing monthly maintenance expenses with taxes, as the cost to "build" isn't really a problem at all.
really appreciate the numbers, thanks. Indeed 65 is what I said I make as a freelancer, tried to explain that I would have different expectations as an employee but I had no idea what number to say, so this is very helpful. That said I find it crazy how big the difference is on these two conditions and am struggling a bit now to justify why I would want to go back to being an employee. Maybe I'll drop the idea. On the other hand this job would have given me great experience so I wish I had known to give a lower number as a kind of investment. Mainly I was disappointed that saying the wrong thing had such a disastrous effect instead of being a point of discussion so maybe I need to work on how I word things when discussing my expections. I'm learning that interviewing takes practice and preparation. Cheers.
> you still have to be a resident first before you actually get to vote in what happens.

Citizenship provides for voting rights while away for some countries. Eg in UK you can vote for up to 15 years after leaving the country. In NZ you can vote up to 3 years after you last visited. In Australia it’s 6 years.

It makes sense to me (maybe not for 15 years but 3-6 ok). As a citizen who will return home eventually, it makes sense to look out for the country by helping pick its stewardship.

https://www.gov.uk/voting-when-abroad
https://vote.nz/voting/how-to-vote/vote-from-overseas/
https://www.aec.gov.au/overseas/enrolment.htm
inscrutability über alles
I don't see what that has to do with nuclear plants or solar farms. My original point was that complaining that uranium isn't evenly distributed is a red herring because you don't build power plants on top of the mines. Whereas you do have to build solar farms where the sunny days are plentiful.
I have an iOS shortcut[0] to clear the cookies and then uses google to get a referral link back to the page.

Works for a lot of sites, doesn't work for others.

Someone else created it, I just added a check for medium.com headers(even on non-medium domains) to then search on Twitter for that URL, as Twitter referrals usually bypasses medium paywalls.

0: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/5870106a5a8b4f15b937f40b731...
Use Case 1. Migrations.

Everybody today knows that if you're gonna change your database [schema], you need a system to migrate the DDL changes intelligently so you don't break something, and then run that in lower environments to test, then promote it up to higher envs and run it, then deploy your apps that use the changes. But of course it may be impossible to revert those changes after that point, requiring an entire database snapshot restore. So not only are there serious operational concerns, making any operations around this time-consuming and frought with peril, but you need to set up a migration solution (language-specific or framework-specific or agnostic) and make sure you architect your application to only make changes in a specific way. (all of this, by the way, is only necessary because the database is one big mutable state machine)

...whereas if it worked more like version control, you could make any change, commit it, and get a commit ID. If that causes problems, if you could just `cloudpg revert $change_id`, then there would be no need to carefully architect the app, changes wouldn't be fraught with peril, and we could be more agile with database-driven design. The database would obviously need to be intelligent enough to figure out how to revert any change, which is why this has to be a database-specific feature and not just a git revert.

Use Case 2. Merging Changes

This sort of follows on the above (making changes more agile). If you have branches, and 4 different devs are working on 4 different database changes, how do you merge and deploy those all safely, and handle reversions safely? Well if all database changes had versions, and we could diff the changes between versions, then we could treat the database like a Git repo and merge/rebase all the changes to the database together at the same time as the code. Again, no need to go back and refactor migration scripts or the app design, because the database is essentially just version-controlled code.

The same things would apply to upgrading/downgrading database versions, bringing up or restoring new servers, possibly even making replication easier, maybe other things we haven't thought of yet.
You need a standard so you can use lights and music players from different vendors at the same time. You also need a standard to ensure future devices that don't yet exist also work with your smart home. A third reason: a new upstart can't easily gain traction in the smart home space without a standard to quickly interoperate with existing smart devices.
I have a lot of people I associate with that I've never paid >$600 to do labor for me.

Being able to associate != hiring someone for a job

If you need to pay your friends >$600 to hang out with you, you should probably re-evaluate your life.
You can start a game instantly. No travel. No travel expense, either. No packing. No un-packing. No arranging for someone to watch your pets if it's going to be long enough for that to matter. No dealing with taking the kids with you, or finding some other place for them to be. Your spouse doesn't have to want to go.

No spiderwebs on your face. No biting and/or disease-carrying insects. No oppressive humidity. No getting soaked by a sudden rainstorm. No sunburns. No twisting an ankle and having a horrible time getting back out. No taking a wrong turn and ending up having to go much farther than you'd counted on, to get back.

Much or all of the game world may be crafted to be interesting. Even very nice natural areas have boring bits, and you can't fast-travel past them.

You can do it even if you're injured, or tired.

If the game has tasks, they usually have far faster reward loops than their real-life equivalents. The real-life versions might have more clean-up or mess. You have to actually physically do a bunch of stuff where the game might have a button press. You also have to know how to do it, and have the tools (if any) to do it. This is why obsessive players of games that feature gardening or farming usually don't become avid hobby-gardeners in real-life.
As someone with an actual "extreme left bias" claiming the WaPo is on the "extreme left" is hilarious. Using American political terms, I'd put the NYT as having a centrist Democrat bias, the WaPo as having a centrist Republican position and the WSJ having a Republican bias. All of them are pro-capitalist and different wings of the neoliberal party and really right wing in the way the rest of the world thinks about politics.

I don't even understand this world where people can accuse the WaPo of being far left.

Yeah, they shat all over Trump, but that just reflects how far Trump went completely off the reservation. And it created the surreal situation where every other week I was agreeing with something that Bill Kristol said.

The fact that Trumpers feel the need to scream about how the WaPo is a bunch of communists really shows how intellectually bankrupt the whole thing is.
> the world and the universe themselves are made of contradictions.

In logic, it's said that from a contradiction you can validly deduce any proposition.

The idea that contradictions are fundamental is horrifying; it implies that any attempt to reason about the world is doomed. I don't know how it would affect me if I believed that. I hope you have a good therapist!
Then they should read comments on the extension page lol, not spy on people.
In the specific case of Ukraine, a people's war of national liberation is a pretty classic form of nation building. That's how a lot of nations came about. The Taliban are a particularly bad analogy, because they represent regionalist resistance against central government in Afghanistan. Countries like Italy, the USA, or Vietnam were formed in this manner.
Well, if you spend the 21 billion on health research and life extension, you can live to see spending 21 billion on physics research.
crazy that some people have no clue they contribute 0 value in what they say, am i right?
I just had a look... nicely done.

Mind if I steal it ? :D
You're reading it backwards, re-read:

"Only employees or independent contractors who earn more than the thresholds established by law can be held to non-competition agreements." [emphasis mine]
There's some nuance here because the reason this logic works is that labor is special (to me at least) because measures to forcibly reduce the cost of labor increase human suffering. But for basically every other good prices being driven well beyond the norm (during normalish market conditions) is basically the definition of a shortage. It doesn't really matter if it's a "luxary" good or not (since that category is ill-defined anyway grumble grumble tampons).

If the price of milk shot up from $2/gal to $20/gal that's a shortage.
The "hit piece" is presumably the NYT article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/technology/kraken-crypto-...

The Vice article refers to it and the CEO's tweet:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zwb7/crypto-exchange-ceo-c...
Unfortunately Verizon is disabling their 3G network at the end of the year.
I'm excited to hear more about this on Two Minute Papers :D
Autopilot accounts for 70% of driver assist crashes, says US traffic safety body
In fairness, inflation seems largely driven by energy prices, which in turn are driven by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Not the top event I'd imagine a bank predicting well.
is 400k driven by the tech bubble?

is 400k still viable? when companies like coinbase, shopee, tesla...etc. is laying off people or hire freeze. the current events is giving me the dotcom bubble vibe.
Yeah... It's like child support laws here where I live (never had to pay child support, have a friend that is a lawyer). They can hold you indefinitely until you come up with what they need. Forgot the password? Ah well, how convenient! We have this place just for you to sit and hopefully.one day remember!

Child support here, while I agree it should be being paid but people can run into hard times, is sort of like this but more ridiculous. If you are.behind on child support, they jail you indefinitely until you can pay it.... But you are in jail indefinitely and likely have lost your job if you had one. So....
I noticed it on this item: https://www.target.com/p/targus-universal-laptop-charger-bla... which is $54.99 online at my local store, but was 49.99 on the shelf in the exact same store.

Made be a bit annoyed, as it broke my assumption that the online price was the in store pice.
The way to deal with that is to enshrine into law that Google are not the owners of this data, but merely stewards. My maps location data should not be available to other divisions within Google, and should only be available to the maps team to serve my interests. There are effective rules that your bank is not allowed to sell your account information. Your location information should be subject to much the same.
How much is that worth if you aren't legally allowed to give anyone any money?