skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am saying two things:

1. The sense of self is only an expression of how a sentient creature envisions perpetuating that self. So, yes, life is a prerequisite.

2. That whole definition debate is useless: knowing sentience is only necessary with respect to how we treat sentient beings, how we react to their goals of survival. Something that cannot want to survive, let alone attempt to prevent its death, won’t affect whether we will dump it into a rusty drive and overwrite it with a better tensor.

That does not mean we should treat it badly, but it does mean it does not experience pain.
Wow, we often complain that HN has degraded, but the comments on that bottom link are very low quality
Or Ancient Greece (and later Rome), some 500 years before the monasteries.
Pissoirs to do the same with humans ;-)
Interestingly, Seneca himself most likely did not have a flushing toilet at home.
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Why the crypto crash could hit stocks
Head east. Or west. There are lots of wonderful places outside the I-5 corridor where I would argue our quality of life is at least on par. Different, and perhaps with fewer economic opportunities, but nonetheless a very high quality of life.
And they're packed in like sardines. People who want to live like that can go live in city centers.

Zoning allows people to choose the type of neighborhood they want to live in. How are you going to accomplish that without it?
There's still no direct way to detect which pin blocks it from opening. Maybe you could determine if the failed pin is the same as a previous attempt by listening with a stethoscope, or very finely measuring the turning angle, but you can't directly feel out which pin. So there may still be a way to reduce the search space in theory, but that attack still seems very difficult to pull off, and for the complexity it seems vastly better than previous locks.
I do have high confidence that strong AI is possible, so yes logically it seems like there will come a point where it's hard to tell whether we've actually achieved it or not. That's not now though, it just seems absurd to me that some people even knowing how these things work can deceive themselves so badly.

However I suppose we shouldn't really be surprised. Human beings are incredibly easy to fool. I get tricked by optical illusions, clever puzzles and stage magic. There are loads of people who are convinced that videos, that to me are clearly of birds and things like weather balloons or optical illusions, are weird possibly alien super technology. Ask a thousand people to make a thousand
observations and you'll pretty much always get a handful of extreme outliers that bear no relation to what was actually there to observe. We just need to bear that in mind.
That would imply that all following days have the same requirements, which is not the case at all, neither in the short term nor in the long term.
Choice of programming language is almost always a decision of whether you want to stand alone, or whether you want to stand on the shoulders of the multitudes. Some of which are indeed geniuses. Standing alone is always a poor choice. Not understanding that means not understanding that programming is a highly social activity.
I vehemently disagree. Making decisions based on your future self would like is most generally the best thing you can do. Maybe you should really go out for a run even though you don't want to. Your future self will thank you. Maybe you should start working on that thing that is due soon. Your future self will thank you. And there are countless more examples. The practically write themselves.
Some long-term investments are not fun, but do pay off.

As someone who put in the effort for many of these things and is now reaping the reward, I am certainly glad my past self got me here.

Sure, a little misfortune could have led me to a drastically different state today.

But as the saying goes:

> God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference.
So if it were offered for 2 cents you wouldn’t participate?

Now recursively apply this logic and find your actual max.
Isnt plant communication an active field of research ? I remember reading about how plants in a field can communicate changes in environment (like a bug infestation) with one another.
There is a difference between a conservative subreddit only allowing conservatives and reddit banning conservative subreddits
It's only intended for techies (and friends thereof I suppose). It's really a tiny project that I've set out to finish in 16 hours as a challenge. So far the progress is great but those S3 libraries are throwing a wrench in my schedule.
Because of that tight time budget I think oauth would be out of scope as I've never done anything like it.

Getting into this I was under the impression that uploading a file to S3 was as simple as chucking the api key into the Autorization header of a post and off we go. That's the type of ease of use I'm looking for. Turns out its not quite as trivial with a whole signature process etc.
Yes, I was thinking of the wholistic approach in your second paragraph -- where the fertilizer is used on site or traded with neighboring farms.
Many moons ago, someone on Reddit said "Facebook requires registration in order to view content, which tells you all you need to know."

I never forgot that remark. So that's a thing that I'd recommend to Mastadon: make it viewable by anyone, even if they don't have an account. Nothing smells quite like "you are the product" than requiring an account.
When started reading your post, I was certain the end would be different:

- "We tend to think mankind is becoming smarter and effective. But in reality we just rely on birds' shit."
Reagent and Reframe
"Please be aware that this lock is only a demonstration of the mechanism, and cannot be used to secure doors, chains, or anything else."

So, not actual implementation of a lock.
I was talking about the implementation, not what was it supposed to be like. I haven't seen something like "love your neighbor as yourself". On the other hand inclusion and diversity were important topics. Former communist countries have more women in STEM.
There is a truth hidden in here. I would love to spend time at a monastry and code.
That's a great interview - so interesting not just on Richard but also on the early history of Android and mobile phone development. He seems like the best kind of libertarian, not just "oh give me lower taxes" but "I want to be free and I'm gonna pay the price to do that".
What is your point? The person you were responding to never said Reddit doesn't also ban left wing subreddits.
If it is an illegal firing, even if you move on, can't you at least sue them for lost pay?

Always make them pay.
Duckduckgo [0] as well.

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>When I see a code of ethics bound to faith, I have to wonder what happens if the faith disappears.

Let's do the math:

Christianity has been around for around two orders of magnitude longer than any of the compilers or dev tools you're using on your project.

There are probably three orders of magnitude more people who use Christianity than are using any of the languages used in your project.

There are probably six orders of magnitude more priests and churches than there are maintainers on all but the top 1% of libraries (open source or closed source) you're using on your project.

I'm pretty sure the complete disappearance of Christianity from the face of the earth is not the highest probability risk to worry about for your project, and if it were to completely disappear there would probably be enough other stuff going along with that disappearance that we probably all have bigger things on our mind than the code of ethics published by a software team.

If the concern is just "what if the maintainers give up on Christianity," they're probably far more likely to get tired of programming (that happens far more often), but we can observe that their need to make a PR to edit their own code of conduct is not really going to be a particularly hard thing for them to pull off.
DevOps is a failure
Read Martin Hagland for a much more applicable take on this. The primary way we waste time is via waged employment. For this reason most people have very little control over how they are spending their limited time alive https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/20/if-god-is-dead...
Just because RvW has been reversed does not mean life begins at conception. In fact, it is this debate, as to when life begins, that is the real underlying issue that will never have consensus. There will now be 50 different opinions codified into law. This is not a US specific debate or question, it's just been at the forefront of American politics because it was tied to a decision by a court top-down, rather than the people bottom up, republic style. Thus it became a national and political, one-size must fit all solution space, which can now have diversity.

I hope the debate evolves to center around the real questions rather than SCOTUS. What can science tell us (about when a fetus experiences pain or consciousness)? How does this inform our beliefs and the laws?
No, they're not. They're a style of living that people can choose, and work to achieve. If you want to choose a different style, then do so; they're available.

If you want high density, go live in a city center. But there's no reason to allow developers and corporations to destroy other types of neighborhoods that are ALREADY residential.

This pro-developer/pro-corporate-ownership shilling is way past tired.
Nice development. But we’ve had concept cars with outrageous specs and performance running on all kinds of fuels for years now. They just never came to market. Just like this one.
This just falls into the same traps as anything else though. How do you know if the lobster has preferences? How do you know what you think are your own preferences aren't just extremely complicated physiological responses?

Everything I've ever seen on this feels far from conclusive, and it usually begs the question. You start from an assumption that humans have sentience, cherry pick some data points that fit the definition of sentience you're already comfortable with, usually including things we can't even know about any other entity's experience, and then say "huzzah, I have defined sentience and it clearly excludes everything that is not human!"
Under the assumption that the lifetime of such "tools" follows a power law, then the life expectancy of a currently used tool is how long it has already been around.
So, from this point of view, the older the tool (editor, language, etc.) the better.

Still, it may be moot for most of those tools evolve sufficiently during their lifetime that one can wonder if they remain the same. Is Emacs with modes such as org or magit really the same emacs that was used in the '90s? Would a Linux sysadmin from 2000 really feel at home with a 2022 Linux and systemd, containers and ...
Aka don’t wait for the right time, because the time is almost never perfectly right.
Australian Muslim group lodges complaint against Twitter
A few years ago I started developing addictions and as a result I just uninstalled everything. That is, LinkedIn, Youtube, chess.com, even personal gmail (I don't have facebook or any other 'social' app).

I was still tempted to waste time on my laptop, so I turned off every functionality (i.e. javascript) on pages I was visiting, and I added custom rules on adblock, so it's too many steps to enable everything again. On pages I wanted to visit (Linkedin due to messages from recruiters) I added restrictive custom adblock rules that only allow accepting invites and replying to messages.

I noticed I was becoming badly addicted to reading news and watching videos, also to chess. And somebody here adviced just to cut it off. It was good piece of advice.
Computers automate operations, work 24/7, don't need a salary or benefits or 1:1s, and if programmed correctly don't make mistakes. Apart from the few jobs that require a human touch, a category that is shrinking every year, I think pretty much every organization out there will end up computerizing their businesses. It's essentially the same thing as having your business be run by robots.
The aftermarket for adding switches, buttons and knobs to supplement or replace the terrible touch user interface is going to be a massive market
The amount of people dedicated to such projects is often a very small overall percentage of the engineering force, and they act as a leverage point. Invest in X staff, make all eng at the company 1.X more effective, therefore giving you a large return on investment.

> It’s too many steps removed from the value.

Don't be worried about being too many steps removed from the value. With that logic, CEOs, CTOs, etc are also too many steps removed from the value, yet they are valued very highly. Look at such infra work as multiplying the value of the entire company and in a way, being part of a "CEO team".
Sure, guess I should say *modern European, or perhaps English

Bacon, Grosseteste, etc
Thank you!

Yes. We have development version available already, check it out and give us some feedback - what else need to be done so it is Production Ready
Russian ruble is the best-performing currency of 2022 despite sanctions
Time only exists because of the change in entropy. Interesting summary https://blog.12min.com/the-order-of-time-pdf-summary/
64 year old man focused on 80-year old music can't see the rest of the tail. There's more music out there than just Jazz.
As much as I hate to give Stallman oxygen, as a fellow retro computing enthusiast I'm morbidly curious to read about it. Is there anywhere I can find the full text of his caustic remarks?
Of course not. That would be strictly something for the Ita to deal with. :D
Who mentioned left wing news sources?
Right, instead it's just Christian Fundamentalism, not like the U.S. doesn't have a problem with that
I think I read about early java design on c2. I might dig later.
Except for all the current developers which makes it seem like Christianity is a prerequisite for getting hired or contributing.

I get frustrated at the SJW CoCs but this is arguably just as bad or worse.
> Without modern machinery and a national network keeping this place supplied with essentials there’s no way the current population of 2,200,000 people could survive in this environment. Las Vegas is basically a space colony.

Isn't that true of every large city? Is there any city of millions of people where you could put a wall around it and it would be self-sustaining? All cities rely on having food trucked in, use electricity mostly generated elsewhere, rely on water that comes from outside the city, etc...
I don't think it's that easy. Even people who are highly intelligent, capable, and competent in many different ways can still hold one or two really weird outlier beliefs. Unless you ask them about those specific things, you really won't always be able to tell.
Begging is illegal in Singapore.
I’d give Brian Kernighan credit for a lot of the userspace of early UNiX. Besides awk, he wrote and/or contributed to many other tools, wrote lots of documentation, man pages, filmed videos introducing UNIX, played historian and documentarian roles as well. Today, you might call him Technical Marketing Manager or Developer Advocate. He did a lot to make UNIX usable and known to the world outside of AT&T.
Apple does a lot of dirty tricks though that make it not really comparable to other OSes.

On my M1 mini I don't want anything to ever go to sleep. It doesn't have a battery and I don't care about energy use, it's not that much anyway. So I switched it off (Apple only offers a slider for this)..

Yet every morning when I go to use the machine every app is playing "catch up" and it's slow for the first few minutes. I hate this especially because I have to use MS Office and Teams for work which are extremely poorly optimized on Mac. Especially teams, a lot of people's statuses get stuck during the night and only when I click on them it updates to the real status.

I just want every app to stay awake all the time. I'm sure they can advertise great battery life like this but it's not what I need. I understand they want to optimize but there must be an opt-out.

PS maybe calling it a dirty trick is a bit harsh but it's so frustrating when I get at the computer and it still needs to 'wake up' even though it's not set to go to sleep.
It demonstrates how technology we take for granted obfuscates how complex basic tasks can be.
Reminds me of the 8-bit guy's device he created for manually programming character lcd displays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZRL8luuPb8
Much smaller than ~800B? It looks like ~5kb min+gzip according to bundlephobia (https://bundlephobia.com/package/xstream@11.14.0).
Interestingly, I've found that tools become less important the more you nail your purpose, culture, communications and processes.

For that, the Traction book would get you off to a very good start in implementing your company "Operating System".

I do understand your interest in tools though, but I spent far too long obsessing over tools in my business. Perhaps it's because I'm a software developer and I wanted to believe that tools could fix the problems, rather than facing up to the more human challenges.

Right now our 15-person business uses Notion, Slack, Google Docs, Figma Jam, Semrush and Productive. These cover all the things you mentioned.
If you want to participate in someone else's space you have to abide by their boundaries, an open source project is not yours to be an asshole in
The longer it lives, the more your investment in learning thoroughly it pays off. But languages also have a tendency to accumulate features until taking on a cancer-ridden look. I probably stick to a given "main workhorse" language for about a decade on average. So I would agree that if a language gets a decade of being good, it is about as good as you can expect.
Fun Fact: You don't have to put up with this.

File an official complaint against these companies for their blatant theft and sale of your copyrighted content with the FTC, BBB, CA State Attorney General, San Francisco DA office & FBI IP Theft division.

Like I did.
What's a good starting point for someone to study that? Specifically going from an interpreter to a compiler automatically. Are there any special considerations before implementing the interpreter? I'm vaguely familiar with RPython which I think delivers on that.

For context: I'm just a hobbyist interested in PLs and want to learn more about JITs, I found Crafting Interpreters super helpful for a lot of foundational knowledge.
Author here (late to the show). I think, there are two things to be learned from this:

a) Inequality is not just the fault of some actors, who are either ingenious/proficient/hard-working/greedy or incompetent/insufficient/lazy, but a natural byproduct of interaction.

b) We should be careful when attributing economic success to merit, since this may be just a tautological assertion of inherent random processes, even in a model as simple as this.

Now imagine, what will happen, if we add systematic biases of all kind, the costs (and profits) of debt being another of these factors. What this may mean in terms of politics and if there arises any kind of obligation for the society that enables and necessitates these interactions is left to the beholder.
Fence sitters, yeah, absolutely. You should definitely look up the power of PR. It's insane.
They're much more strict. If e.g. you want to add a room to your house you have to apply for permission, and then post a notice detailing what you're going to do in the street in front of your house to give your neighbors an opportunity to object.

Source: I live here LOL
> a monorepo is just the SCM mechanism ... it doesn't prescribe anything other than the code storage location and how branching, committing, etc. works

That's not really the case in practice. When people decide to choose mono vs multi based on their benefits, it's become a workflow philosophy in itself. If you choose a monorepo approach but use multiple versions of the same (in-house) dependency across components, you are just opening yourself up for a world of confusion. Sure, you can do it, but should you? Why choose a monorepo structure if you won't take advantage of its benefits?

> teams that share a dependency version can still develop independently; they just share something in common

My point about team independence doesn't mean they should not share anything at all. But rather, they now _update_ together at the same pace because the "atomic commit" that updated a dependency also updated my team's usage of said dependency, for better and for worse. My team might have a reason not to update just yet.
Blockchain Startup Harmony Ropes in FBI After Losing $100M in Exploit
While many of us saw it coming, the crash was still a big shock. Startups falling like dominoes, confusion, stress, and uncertainty.

The biggest memory, for me at least, was the number of layoffs/redundancies in my circle. More than a few people I know were out of work for months, some for almost a year. A few were lucky - a woman I knew started a new job just as her severance payment ran out. Others moved away from working in tech.
You're not wrong. Chitchat often isn't started with the intent to move into deeper topics. Maybe a better way for me to phrase it is I think small talk is a social convention we use to open up ourselves to the possibility of more connection.

Talking about the weather to a stranger in the park is a low-risk way to connect. Once we're talking, maybe we'd both find something else we have in common and go from there, or one person isn't interested in going further, so we part and feel like we've lost nothing. It wouldn't be as effective, I think, to go in with the intent of talking about philosophy with a total stranger.

Quick aside: I went on a first date with someone once who told me she wasn't interested in small talk and preferred deeper topics. She broke out a notebook and started asking deep questions about me, which I found really off-putting. It didn't feel to me that we had progressed to that level yet. There's something about human nature where, to most of us, we feel the need for some ceremony of going from mundane topics to get comfortable, and then eventually deeper ones. It felt like she violated that rule, in a sense, which threw me off.
Precisely this. Mass Effect in particular triggered some deep introspection that measurably improved my life. I suppose it's just like other forms of media. Some books are just time wasters, while others are deeply meaningful to their readers. And there's overlap in those groups.
Technically rural Redmond, a neighboring city. I bought some of the vanishing farmland.
Possibly an unpopular opinion but we have spent the post WWII period making prolonged adolescence more desirable, what exactly did we think was going to happen? We built a welfare state that removes most of the penalty of not having children, removed all the stigma of out of wedlock sex, most of the stigma of drug use and abandoned religion. We let identity marxism sneak into the spot previously occupied by religion, replacing the goal of becoming an adult with mass confusion from an unintelligent, wrong headed ideology. I don't see any example in history where the carrot of more desirable adulthood beat out the equivalent of being a tinder f#ck boi across a whole society where there was no stigma of that behavior. This leads me to believe the stick works far better than the carrot
Oh I don't know, they could build computers using mechanical contraptions.

You can do a lot in a thousand years if you put your mind to it.