skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually when people claim that a computer can be conscious they're claiming that consciousness is a possible property of the software that the computer is running, because that is where the non-trivial functionality is defined.

In your example if you think that the robot is conscious wouldn't it still be conscious if you replaced the "real world" with a simulation ?
A lot of people in this thread saying SMS is bad for 2FA. It’s not. Just because you can send spoof the sender field doesn’t mean you can spoof being a receiver. Only the valid number will ever receive the 2FA code.
Don't feel bad about complaining, just improve your life:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
Artificial Photosynthesis in the Absence of Light
Do what math now? I spent 10 years as an academic doing bioinformatics, with deep expertise in BLAST (I helped demonstrate that BLAST E-values accurately represent homology).

If you look, he shows some pages with resuults where the E-value is 282. Normally, an evalue should be 1e-2 or better (ideally 1e-6) before you start making ANY claims.

I've seen hundreds of examples where a person did the math, convinced everybody they were right, and either subtle errors or mistaken assumptions meant the work was useless. These days, if somebody starts with "Here, I'll show you how to use blast to demonstrate that the lab leak hypothesis is true", my priors say "most likely just garbage".
What is the difference between a baby in the womb on day 280 versus the same baby an hour later outside the womb? One is called subhuman and often perfectly legal to kill for any reason, and a person would get life in prison for killing the other.
Let's not forget that the lab leak hypothesis was championed by political figures who were embarrassed that they were woefully clueless about how to implement pandemic response plans, even though their agencies already had those plans in place for years, and that their aligned media pushed these conspiracies without evidence.
Which is why they’re simultaneously trying to make it harder to vote.
I feel like Unherd's article is actually misstating things. For example, "no infected animal on sale in the market or elsewhere in China has been found..." In fact, Bloomberg reported:

"Disease detectives arriving from Beijing on the first day of 2020 ordered environmental samples to be collected from drains and other surfaces at the market. Some 585 specimens were tested, of which 33 turned out to be positive for SARS-CoV-2... All but two of the positive specimens came from a cavernous and poorly-ventilated section of the market's western wing, where many shops sold animals."

The Unherd article also claims: "There is no evidence of exposure to SARS-like viruses among Wuhan market traders prior to the Covid outbreak." But CNN reported:

Research helped [Michael] Worobey come up with a map of the earliest cases that clusters them all around the market. "That so many of the more than 100 COVID-19 cases from December with no identified epidemiologic link to Huanan Market nonetheless lived in its direct vicinity is notable and provides compelling evidence that community transmission started at the market," he wrote.... "The virus didn't come from some other part of Wuhan and then get to Huanan market. The evidence speaks really quite strongly to the virus starting at the market and then leaking into the neighborhoods around the market.... So many of the early cases were tied to this one Home Depot-sized building in a city of 11 million people, when there are thousands of other places where it would be more likely for early cases to be linked to if the virus had not started there.""

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/18/health/covid-origins-market-t...

Interestingly Worobey actually signed a letter demanding the lab leak theory be investigated. But he now believes there's -- in his words -- "a big red flashing arrow pointing at Huanan Market as the most likely place the pandemic started."
I do grant writing for nonprofits, public agencies, and some research-based businesses. Many if not most nonprofits only operate through the will of a single person (usually the executive director) or small number of people, and this can remain true even in nonprofits with eight-figure budgets. In HN terms, startups don't have strong boards either, because startups only have a small number of people working at or in them.

In addition, the more people there are on a board, the less likely it is to do anything, thus leaving the executive director to run the show.

The board is often for show. Yes, the same may be true of many for-profit businesses, but the degree is much higher at nonprofits. Often, the board is there for signaling purposes: https://seliger.com/2012/03/25/why-fund-organizations-throug.... Nonprofits are more like businesses than most people realize: https://seliger.com/2012/09/02/why-nonprofits-are-more-like-....

So, as in many things in human life, there is the nominal, stated function, and the actual function. Board members are often cultivated for their ability to donate, not govern (or, sometimes, their ability to provide political cover). Volunteers are similar: https://seliger.com/2014/04/20/volunteers-nonprofits-really-....

I suspect the author of "Nonprofit Board Are Weird" knows or suspects much of this.
I agree, he seems to argue for conduit, making the house more configurable and thus better able to 'learn'.
Modern Software Development
in 30s, the stars have moved. Do the phones somehow derotate?
This is the kind of parenting advice I can get behind.
The entire premise of TFA is you are engaging in legal, peaceful protest and might get arrested in the process. Giving the police the least amount of evidence is the goal.

If you’re out burning cop cars and looting stores then you probably need to take more extreme measures to protect your identity because this is not constitutionally protected behavior.

So, average Joe(tte) caught up in a random sweep where they just arrest everyone will be fine…probably…unless they’re anti-communists then all bets are off.
Are there any oil that is healthy once it's been brought up to very high temperature?
It's not about whether you like it, or they like it, or I like it; it's about being able to provide certain features that a subset (of which you may or may not be a member) desire or require.

For example, taking web push notifications, you and many others may not want it, but someone else and many others too may want it for whatever reason:

- maybe from a developer perspective because they're a hobbyist and don't want to create an app instead of a website just to get notifications, but would be happy if they had the option. And before you say you don't need them, you DON'T know their use case, e.g., if it's a chat web-app it's going to be pretty damn useless without notifications.

- maybe from a user's perspective because they're not happy granting additional permissions (or making it harder to use an ad-blocker) that could be required by an app from the store, they just need the push notification to get some alert, but don't want to give up access to their photos, files, or contacts too.

In any case, it's about having empathy towards allowing others to have wants/needs different from yours, and if you do that and put yourself in other people's shoes, you should be able to see that Safari is clearly lacking in implementing a bunch of features (or delivering them several years after every other browser).

Finally, all that doesn't take away the fact that Safari does some things better than others, and that other browsers do things worse or push features that are in line with their own agenda or monetisation strategy.
It's really not that hard to park outside of camera coverage and walk the long way across the giant parking lot of a big box store.

Nowadays you can get away with wearing a covid mask and probably also a plastic ~~glare~~ face shield. Add some costume flourishes like a different color wig and/or a pillow under your shirt to look huskier and you've beaten any camera system.

It's been a few years since I bought a dirt cheap phone, but like 5-6 years ago they all still had removable batteries. This while "normal" phones were ~all non removable.
You're welcome! I hope they are useful.
If you don't have internet, you arguably don't need to receive OTPs either (since these are usually used to log in to some online service or confirm a transaction in one), no?
Cryptocurrency is not a better rail. In fact it is a worse rail for almost everything. But it is the only rail that currently allows people to do this at the scale it does, due to its operators openly welcoming unlimited amounts of money laundering on the network. This has nothing to do with cryptography or the internet. It is entirely about money laundering. Yes, money laundering happened before, that is not an excuse for these networks to allow it to happen in such large volumes and at such great speed that it is enabling this entire new class of ransomware.
Hard to see lab-leak as intrinsically anti-China giving that it was NIH financing those GoF experiments which produced the coronavirus in Wuhan. That same story for example is pushed in Russia, who is making friends with China, as anti-American. So basically the story is interpreted as anti-something depending on your political orientation.
And here I thought I was the only one wielding a seam-ripper to this end. However, my patch for covering embroidered logos advertises Weyland-Yutani. I figure if you're going to shill for a company, it might as well be The Company.

Also, for excellent quality, US-made clothes with unobtrusive and easily-removed logos, you can't go wrong with https://www.american-giant.com/ .
Not really

https://portswigger.net/research/ublock-i-exfiltrate-exploit...
> Well, there's always MineTest I guess (edit: a high-quality [...]

Minetest has a lot of potential, but presently it is very rough around the edges. As it stands, Minetest is for hackers to roll their own minecraft, not a ready-to-play game polished up for a general audience. Particularly, the in-game menus are generally quite poor and incomplete; you can't even rebind your mouse keys in-game, you have to edit your minetest.conf for that: https://wiki.minetest.net/Controls#PC
If Slaughterhouse is reopened, do you think the right will see the attempt to resurrect privileges or immunities (as per RBG) and raise (counter) with the holding against birthright citizenship in it?
> Sorry, but total bullshit.

Ok, locally abstract types are bit weird and historical quirk due to the pre-existing use of type variables as unification type variables. But first, they only matter with GADTs and local modules (a notion that doesn't exist in Haskell). And the good syntax for polymorphic function with GADTs is `type a. a monoid -> a` which requires just one explicit quantification compared to the Haskell variant. So no, Haskell and OCaml type annotations are isomorphic.

> As I specifically called out, all the core data structures are polymorphic.

I took a totally random module from the standard library! Let me another random module after rolling a dice, Atomic. Here only 66% of the functions are polymorphics. Or do you want me to go to another library? Ok, let's go for container, and let's select another random module CCPair: 100% of the functions are polymorphic. Honestly, I struggle to understand how it is possible to conclude that every OCaml library is monomorphic.

What do you mean by LATs? The Haskell wiki doesn't seem to know that term.

> The only polymorphic code that you can write in ocaml without such things are functorial

I am sorry to ask but are you confusing bounded polymorphism with parametric polymorphism?
One hyperactive Twitter user even got to be President...but was banned anyways
I don't even think it's that different from nuclear. The fact that Iraq had no WMDs (and I have doubts that anybody in the intelligence community really thought they did) got swept under the rug too, after a ton of civilian deaths there and military deaths on both sides. People just make stuff up and then it's too late.
The unherd article just advertising for the author's book. This is a cry for attention.
The entire point of the SCOTUS is to interpret the Constitution, as laid out in the Constitution.

Roe was a "creative" interpretation. Upholding the 2nd Amendment is far from that.
> There is no way this can be upheld, right?

Interstate travel is specifically protected federally and incorporated against the states. Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion specifically says this is an easy question to answer and it would be presumably unconstitutional to prevent people from having abortions in other states. Suggesting otherwise at this point is fear-mongering in very bad faith.

> who decides

More like, what laws decide. If the majority is infringing on protections from federal or state constitutions or federal or state legislation, the majority doesn’t win. Otherwise they do. Majorities can affect the laws given enough time and sustained effort.
No. It’s not where they exist in the wild. The closest related virus (RATG-13) to n-cov-2 come from northern china (Yunnan), where they were imported to the Wuhan virology lab to study. What a coincidence!
Sorry, I don't follow how that's related to the comment I replied to.
Federal institutions such as the Supreme Court?
Well, the level of coincidence also depends on the number of coronavirus research facilities, and the number of cities. If there aren't very many coronavirus research facilities, and there are many cities, it becomes an unlikely coincidence.
I am not advocating 1950-1970 policies, only indicating the level of progress. Otherwise, we'd also need to advocate for a massive World War that lead to the political resolve/unity followed by Cold War where we are on the verge of nuking each other for 3 decades necessitating intense R&D and military spending. Furthermore, it also necessitates that we form new Gov agencies like they did in 1950's which were nimble, highly efficient and competent. The latter, I would be in favor of. Remove regulations and start new agencies, abolishing old ones. It is also interesting to study why USSR, Cambodia and North Korea failed spectacularly while others that adopted highly capitalistic policies propelled into pulling people out of poverty (China, SK, HK, Taiwan, Singapore, and more recently Indonesia, India post-1990's, Vietnam and Thailand).
> Users can choose Chrome on their iOS devices.

They cannot choose the actual chrome that would be in iOS if it was allowed.
I remember first playing with tech like this in the early 1990's. Q&A v4 from Symantec supported NLP and I was quite surprised at how potentially useful it looked, although as a developer I preferred more control. After typing your query, the app would display its interpretation of your request in more formal English to confirm it understood you. When there was ambiguity a few options were presented. You selected the correct one, and got your answers. It worked very well for queries like, "show me all employees hired after 2020-01-01 who's salary is greater than 80,000 sorted by salary descending".

Ultimately though, I think the usefulness of these tools breaks down for both complex queries and even simple ones when the data model does not have explicit relationships defined.
Plus you never know your potential whereabouts in eighteen years from now, so it's always good to leave behind little seeds of wonder, as small as mustard seeds in the sky before dawn.
I think the x86_64 chips are fairly unique in terms of how hilariously awful the bring-up process is. I'd hate to be a microcode engineer on one of them.

So much state. Then throw virtualization into the mix.
Freaky or fantastic? Amazon’s Alexa turns dead loved ones’ voices into digital
Steve Jobs: “I wanted to meet [her] mostly to see if she was OK and to thank her, because I’m glad I didn’t end up as an abortion”

https://www.liveaction.org/news/steve-jobs-adoption-connecte...
Which much like Amazon's GitHub alternative, absolutely no one will use.
Very cool. While obviously not ideal, the results are probably accurate within a small factor. Unfortunately there's no assembly version for 65C02 but Z80 does surprisingly well in this test.

I muse what could be done with modern cross-compiler (SAT solving for optional code sequences?) A llvm backend for Z80 has recently kicked back into gear: https://github.com/jacobly0/llvm-project
Perhaps it’s time to stop politely tolerating fringe ideas just because they are backed by some religion. Being against abortion rights is a moral equivalent of antivax.
In the waning days of my own blogging, the second time around, I noticed a pattern that I would sort of build up a list of things to talk about, work through it after 14 months and then struggle to say anything I hadn't already said before. And maybe it was projection but I felt like I saw the same thing in some of the bloggers I followed. At the time I was following my Lit friend who was trying to find her way in the professional writing world and talking about problems of motivation and practice.

In later years I started to wonder if I wouldn't have been better off just embracing the repetition, because sometimes my opinion would change, or I'd encounter new arguments or counter-arguments from or while talking to my peers.

Mini-MSFT for instance had very few qualms about beating the same drum over and over every time new data came in. And as prolific (and promiscuous) as Martin Fowler is, he still ends up treading old ground.

It might be better for Dan if he dated things, and for us to see how his opinions refine over time as he retreaded old posts. My priorities have to shift when the sub-problems become more or less contentious. Some problems stay even as code reviews or automated testing becomes a de facto standard. Some intensify.

There are evergreen problems in human interaction. We have some of the same conflicts that Shakespeare talked about. We even have some of the same ones Homer talked about. But awareness and tools change and those can subtly affect how you address them. What is mastery but subtlety? If you think you are talking as a master or a wannabe master, then you should always have things to say.

I talked about Tai Chi last week. One of my favorite things about my first teacher was the experiences I had in the month after a field trip to train with a lineage holder, seeing how the focus of the instruction shifted, how the senior students changed, in movement and in conversation, and seeing how I notice these shifts. Things I might have missed when I was a neophyte - when you see your teacher and the craft as static instead of dynamic. Things I still miss (I know you said this was different, but it looks the same to me.)

And so I wonder if Dan either is wrestling other 'traumas', stuck in a very long plateau, or seeing past my horizon.
I took this class!
You can BLAST that furin cleavage sequence and find matches in other non-patented sequences, though. Here’s one from 2011 (bases 286 to 304, reverse complement): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide/DN616748.1
How would you differentiate this argument for abortion versus for slavery? Should it be legalized, and the government just tell people not to do it if it violates their conscience?

In the eyes of roughly half the country, it's plainly injust to allow anybody to murder what they believe to clearly be a human being just because the other half believes they're subhuman.

It's the government's job to punish injustice, even if the actors don't believe they're being unjust. Very few people in prison will say they did anything wrong. In their eyes, their crime was justified. Everybody thinks they're doing the right thing. Like it or not, it's the government's job to determine if that's true or not in many cases.
>The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

You realize that this goes against the right of the federal government to regulate the states re abortion?
I’ve gone out to see the planets a couple of times this week. What’s most amazing for me is that this alignment of planets makes it easy to visualize the plane of the ecliptic [1]. Ordinarily, when we look up at the night sky we see stars and planets seemingly scattered about at random. Now seeing all the planets along an arc helped me recall and visualize this plane extending out from the sun which all of the planets travel along. We might then imagine looking down on the solar system from above and seeing all the planets in their orbital paths.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecliptic
>Noah Carl, the promising research fellow

Alt right garbage, nothing to see here.
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Those people also believe that LGBT people aren't "good people." Why shouldn't we return the favor?

What special rights? The right to not get thrown in jail for being gay?
Thought so.
It’s almost as though by allowing for this natural behavior, randomness gets more extreme (aims towards extremities). Wondering if there are ways this model collapses - for example, if any jump from one bar to the next gets too big (over a threshold), does that cause the whole model to collapse?
Nothing that happened today has anything to do with democracy.

The Republicans have successfully infiltrated state legislatures, gerrymandered and some states now are effectively under one-party rule. Take Wisconsin [1] as an example:

> Back in 2018, Republicans lost the popular vote in the state Senate races by 52.3 percent to 46.9 percent, yet gained two seats for a 19-14 majority. In the state Assembly, they lost the popular vote 53.0 to 44.8, yet lost only one seat to retain a 63-36 supermajority

This gerymandering also affects Congressional maps. And the Senate [2]?

> ... the Senate will be split 50-50, but the Democratic half will represent 41,549,808 more people than the Republican half.

In the wake of 2020, red states have passed laws like Arizona [3] that will allow the legislature or appointed officgials to overturn election results.

And on top of all that one side conspired to "steal" the Supreme Court by sitting on Obama's nomination for almost a year and then later rushing their own replacement in the last month before an election.

And every Supreme Court justice appointed in the last 10 years has said on the record that Roe v. Wade was a super-precedent. And today they voted to overturn. They lied. They all lied.

This isn't a "both sides" issue. This is the rise of white Christian fascism vs the feckless controlled opposition party. "Bothsidesing" is both a logical fallacy and intellectually lazy (if not outright dishonest). It's like looking at Kristallnacht and saying "well both sides are at fault".

There is no "both sides" here. The myth of the "far left" just shows how normalized right-wing propaganda has become. There are lilke maybe 4 progressive members of Congress while on the other side Nazi propaganda is openly pushed [4] and QAnon conspiracies are rampant in the Republican party, which may go as far as including Clarence Thomas and his wife who may well have conspired to overthrow the government.

When people say "far left" or "hyperprogressive" they really means "trans rights". Not wanting to murder trans people doesn't make you a radical leftist.

Please open your eyes and stop this nonsense about bothsidesing and polarization.

[1]: https://theweek.com/republicans/1008820/wisconsins-1-party-r...

[2]: https://www.vox.com/2020/11/6/21550979/senate-malapportionme...

[3]: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/591597-arizona-bill...

[4]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/us/tucker-carlson-gop-rep...
The article says the peak was this morning (June 24, 45 minutes before sunrise.)