skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Classic Shunting Puzzles Inglenook Sidings
There were some space tech startups planning to provide a kind of tug-service to satellites on the low orbit. Not sure if any viability for this is on the near-future horizon.

Space tugs as a service: https://spacenews.com/space-tugs-as-a-service-in-orbit-servi...
Serving ML at the Speed of Rust
It wouldn't be hard for Googs to do this on their own so that they comply with the rules/laws in the markets they are operating vs giving it to the end user as an option in the configs. Most people using GA probably wouldn't know what any of that meant anyways. They just want the numbers so their marketing people can tell them what to do next. I'm talking the people running sites on Wix type sites vs having an actual dev team that can push back against a marketing department
Katapayadi System
You are right, but it is so frustrating how people whine about this.
> If one more person tries to tell me it's strain

It's like telling an alcoholic to try switching from vodka to tequila, because vodka makes you angry and depressed but tequila makes you a fun drunk. THC is THC, and any difference is psychosomatic.
The list of dependencies is amazingly long for a product which seems to be a harder to use TiddlyWiki, or Neo4j UI for the graph viz part. It's crazy the SemWeb community still haven't give up given how much effort have been poured into it for so few results.
No, they can't as far as I get it. The american cloud act entitles US law enforcement to serve orders to US companies and their foreign branches. So, if you are american with a company in the EU, the important part is that you are an american, not that the company is in a foreign jurisdiction.
But do you think freedom of speech should mean the ability to use racist and hateful language?
This just showed up in my feed: These G Suite Alternatives Are Cheaper or Free https://lifehacker.com/these-g-suite-alternatives-are-cheape...
I would really be interested in seeing a source for that. That is three times the amount of water my household uses in a month (granted I dont water my entire lawn).
Cloud Flare Issues Again?
Getting the same quick burst of Zapier failures
I wonder what "billions" of lines of code CodeWhisperer is trained on? I somewhat doubt that they are training on the private code hosted in CodeCommit and capital B billions seems rather high for internal code, even for Amazon.

It'd be pretty funny if they were also indexing into Github to train their models.
select 'tx control's to add/remove/move antennas, select 'rx control' to move the device to be targeted

'optimize' to maximize the signal at that target, 'anti-optimize' to minimize interference at the target, and 'randomize' illustrates how using multiple antennas will in general muddy the signal in the absence of beamforming phase optimization
I used to use instapaper quite a bit, but when I figured out that I almost never went back and read any of my saved links, I stopped.

If I'm not interested enough to read the link now, I almost certainly am not going to read it later.

Sort of the same reason I don't take photos anymore. I never go back and look at them, so it's just a waste of time and a distraction from being really present in the moment.
what I meant for the goading part was this:

Ukraine has self interests. Everyone has. But not everyone can actualize those, due to reality. The reality is that Ukraine neighbours a powerful hegemon.

Since international relations are anarchistic (due to not being a supra-entity that has authority over states [authority!=international courts bullsh*]), Ukraine hasn't any right (to its sovereign, that does not exist) to be sovereign. It has to go out and look for itself.

Ukraine thought that had the US/NATO back, that made it act in a more reckless way (kind of when you rely on your big brother type stuff). It escalated 'till it decided it wanted to join NATO. It was goaded.

>you can't use the threat of violence and then claim via realpolitik that the other side was in the wrong.

who says? That's your problem. You lack the 'anarchistic' framework of geopolitics.

Now, realpolitik-wise, Ukraine's self-interests (of being more independent of Russia thru NATO) did clash with Russia's self-interests of being safe (and probably made Russia have a expansionary Casus Belli).

I feel that the US triggered and amplified the war, thru regime change in Ukraine (yep, maidan was a coup), recognizing aspirations of UA to NATO, making Zeleskyy too comfy to be more harsh in negotiations (where he had no leverage, cuz Ukraine's power small vs Rus.), ultimately resulted in unnecessary deaths, just for the purpose of sphere of influence expansion.

>so we supported them.

Even if it's reckless and could trigger something like this?

Also, I will play the 'reversed roles card' again. This time with a REAL example.
Cuba. Was. The. Same. Thing.

That's why this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine.

US has the same pattern as Russia. It's actually incredible how close these are.
I don’t find it idiotic. It was the client’s decision to spy on its users. I have no sympathy for companies who make that decision.
I've never had to, all the browsers I've ever used had bookmark support.
Hahaha!

I see your point but.. having "Crystal Pepsi" just seems weird from a branding point of view, why not just call it Sprite? Like, what's the expectation of what that would taste like? It's like saying "7-UP root beer", it's just really not clear what flavor I should expect upon drinking it.

I have the same issues with other postmodern mashup fast foods, like, I've seen taco pizza and pizza flavored tacos. Make up your mind, are you a pizza or a taco? Such an abomination is a challenge to all existing categories of being.
a documentary i saw recently about biking in germany reported exactly this observation about i think copenhagen, where it was noticed that bike riders shop more impulsively because when they see something, they can just stop and get it, whereas car drivers have to find a place to park, and then walk to the shop, which means they will mostly focus on their original destination, and won't allow themselves to be sidetracked. the faster speed and need to focus on traffic also makes it less likely to even pay attention to the shops they are passing.
Netflix lays off 300 additional staff
It's just an illustration of the fact that the average person doesn't give a sh*t about AI "art" and that it will have ~zero cost and ~zero value.
Its the drugs fault.

If the drug causes negative effects on a large subset of the people who use them, that is a problem with the drug.
Uplift Desk Thoughts – 5 Months In
I have 3 tech related subscriptions; BorgBase, JetBrains, and historio.us. I self-host everything, but I've never found anything that replaces historio.us. It indexes just enough to always get me a complete copy of the data I want cached and the search results are just right. I often have about 1 page of search results when I'm looking for old info and I can pick out the page I'm looking for instantly.

I use it a lot when I'm learning something new. As I'm looking for beginner info I'll often find more advanced stuff that I'd like to try or learn at some point, but I don't have a good enough understanding to know if it's truly useful info. I historify those sites and move on knowing that I can find it in my historio.us search at a later date.

I also reference cached pages in a lot of my personal docs. I recently started using ArchiveBox for that, but the search doesn't make it a good replacement for the above use case.

I've been using historio.us since 2011 (!) and have never found anything to replace it. Great job!
Drug use can be a good excuse to put some time aside to let your mind wander, so I see why people end up getting creative on THC. And if you practice creativity while stoned, it makes sense that you'll be more creative while stoned. Like my friend who learned to juggle high, and yet cannot do it when he's sober.
Hah! I guess there should be one about smarter search as well, heh. Thanks!
The south park’s point in that episode wasn’t to deny the existence of substance abuse disorder. Rather the point was that not everyone that does dumb stuff one time while drinking has it.

In this episode Randy didn’t have Substance abuse disorder. He took the kids for a drive after drinking. He was caught and the court ordered him to undergo treatment despite there not being any proof that he was an alcoholic.

This mentality that anyone that does something dumb or illegal while drunk has a problem does no service for either those that actually have substance abuse disorder, nor for criminal justice. You should be responsible for your own actions, and if you are sick you need treatment. But ordering people to undergo treatment after a crime despite no evidence of a disorder is just plain bad. mkay.
I think Google Play has human support, I had two problems resolved in the last 5 years. One time a representative spent an hour with stupid me).
It costs money to run a huge language model with low latency, in the loop with you - charging 10$/month is reasonable. You need multiple GPUs to load even a single copy. Copilot is adding something extra to the original code - it selects the recommendation from the whole corpus, while keeping the surrounding context into consideration and adapting to your variable names.

And in reality 99.9% of the generated code has no long ngrams in common with the training set, it's already original. All they need to do is to enforce never to generate data identical to the training set, something that can be implemented with a bloom filter, then the generated code is impossible to attribute and should have no legal problems.

In the end what do models like Copilot do? They act like culture - absorbing and replicating memes. They free the knowledge and make it reusable. They can act like a general purpose NLP tool for information extraction, classification and text generation. You can implement your ideas faster with it, don't need to label much data.

It works even with just a prompt. Try OpenAi Codex to extract a receipt to see what I am talking about - it gives you the output in JSON. It's a new tool and a new interface to the computer. There are going to be plenty of open source implementations as well, some are already under training.
I also use Firefox bookmarks. To tack onto this, you can also select multiple tabs and bookmark them all into a bookmark folder.
It seems like something more modern, like b3sum would be better... no? What about b2sum?
It actually can make you feel sick if you smoke too much, there is a rare syndrome called Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome, and it's agonizing.
Direct link to the results : https://www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/global-liveability-index-202...
Just to nit on your portion of signing: wouldn't you need to rehash all prior commits as well so that they used the better hash function? Otherwise someone could find a collision for a prior commit hashed with sha-1, slip that in, and the final commit being hashed with sha256 wouldn't matter.

This then makes the signing code use its own form of hashing that is different from the rest of git's commmit hashing, and seems like a novel way to introduce tooling issues / bugs / etc.
Citadel ditches Chicago for Miami following crime complaints
Clickers are better than people give credit. Thinking about growth curves is an uncommon challenge. Pretty much nothing else commonly involves things expanding faster than exponentially. You don’t actually just click mindlessly. You typically need an understanding of the system otherwise you’re just waiting for infeasible amounts of time.
Without regard for license. You seem to have moved the goalposts, originally said:

> It is not reproducing code from individual coders, it is reproducing patterns deduced from the work of millions of coders.

But now you say it is a search engine for finding code snippets from the internet.
You really fail to see how this is a problem?

Sticking with your analogy:

> It's like Smart Compose in Gmail. Copyright on anything I write is mine by default, but Gmail can of course take all things written by everybody and then use it to train a thing that detects what I probably mean and offer sentence auto completion in Gmails.

How would you feel if I could reproduce your entire personal email verbatim just by starting it with "Hi <unique mother's name>" and letting Gmail complete it for me? How would that hold up in your analogy?
It’s coming up to a decade since Schrems I, six years since GDPR, and four years since enforcement of GDPR. For a company like Google the writing has been on the wall for a lot longer than a weekend. They’ve simply been gambling that they can get away with it, and now that argument is collapsing.
Of course, I am fully confident that other readers are with me and share the opinion that the current owner's disregard for racist talk on Slashdot is questionable.
Take a break before it becomes worse. Get a kSafe and lock all your stuff up for a week or two to shake your brain out.

I spent my whole 20s severely addicted to it without even realizing, and when I had to stop I felt like I was going crazy. Couldn't sleep, couldn't think, couldn't eat. It's really better to nip it in the bud.
"There are not many people in this world who won't take a pause when a gun is pointed at them and many defensive gun uses in the US (of which the estimates range from 300,000 to upwards of 3,000,000) don't even require the firearm to be discharged."

The vast majority, otherwise we'd have some truly amazing gun injury and death statistics. From memory of some of the survey results, the first by a gun control group which figured 1 million uses but didn't check for more than one use a year, it was either around 85% or a bit over 90% where the gun being used in self-defense is not discharged, the credible threat is enough. Even more without anyone getting hit, or hit badly.
Thanks, I'm glad you like it! I really should give it some love, but I'd need to do a fairly sizable rewrite for most stuff...
You just wait. You're going to get hooked. Then Google is going to take it away. I used Google Reader daily until Google taketh away.

I'm not bitter, or anything.
For easy of reference, here is the link to subscribe, which includes a description of the benefits:

https://lwn.net/subscribe/Info

And the Wikipedia page for LWN, if you’re not familiar with it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LWN.net
Just as a mind experiment: couldn't CoPilot just publish a list of every github user and attribute the work to all of them?
Yea and Europe exists in China too

https://whenonearth.net/11-fake-european-towns-landmarks-mad...
I use Chrome extension "Save as Shortcut" (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-as-shortcut/f...) to save the link as a file on the file system. Works for me pretty well.
One thing on the plus site: a tech blogger was calling out a tournament for the fastest string tokenizer in any language. I wrote a very naive Rust tokenizer in 5 minutes max and it easily won second place. First place was a highly optimized assembler code.

I am not sure the assembler thing would handle UTF-8 as well as my incredibly low effort Rust solution tho.

What I want to say with this is: There are real, tangible advantages to the language when some noob who would shoot himself into the leg three times while writing the C/C++ equivalent manages to write safe code that performs well while not investing a lot of time.
Seeing this post reminded me I did take a stab at the daily journaling last year, using this tool https://github.com/jrnl-org/jrnl

At some point I stopped which was a shame, but what's funny is all the journal entries are still there and I've just been reading them - lots of wonderful memories and snapshots of stuff going on in my mind at the time.

Just need the motivation to pick it up again!
For me one key to be able to rest / nap is to make sure I have my phone on silent and away from me, then set a 20 or 30 minute timer to ensure I don't rest too long. Knowing that anything that you need to respond to will only have to wait 20 or 30 minutes helps me detach and relax. Lying down for 20 minutes, 15 of which is sleep, is extremely restorative, and I can do it several times during the day if I'm really struggling.
Anyone who has had a relative cremated knows that it takes 2+ hours for the body to be fully reduced to ashes and bone fragments. Two hours, for a single body, in a facility the size of a large garage. Just do some napkin math for what that means for the prospect of cremating a single body in something the size of a cement mixer.

Running non-stop with no breaks, bodies ready to go, matching the efficiency of the most optimal stationary crematories, working around the clock, a single truck could burn 12 bodies using 336 gallons of fuel (per https://www.lng2019.com/how-much-natural-gas-is-used-to-crem...) and generating 6.6 metric tons of CO2. For this to even make sense politically, there would have to be a number of bodies so large that burning it made more sense than anything else, even with how costly and obvious it would be to observers.

I'm open to your guesses, but I'm going to say one thousand innocents in a single place would be sufficiently atrocious. I say this because numbers like 100-200 are thrown around fairly casually when reporting on Ukraine and other locations, so I'm going up one magnitude from that. So 84 trucks working as described could finish this job in one day, releasing 5,500 metric tons of CO2 and consuming 2300+ gallons of fuel to do so. I leave it to the reader to determine whether it's plausible for a military in the midst of a very difficult war to dedicate the human and supply resources necessary to conduct such an operation (at peak efficiency, as described).

At the very least, the movement and fueling of 84 such trucks (or even 30 if we're spending a week doing this) should be observable. We shouldn't have to rely on video from 2013 to make these claims. The video most often shown as proof of Russia's mobile crematories is one of a mobile incinerator, e.g. for trash which can fully combust in minutes.
Link to Coinbase opinion?
> belittle people for being "stupid or naive." CHS is not rare, nor does it require extreme dosage. It affects approximately 7% of smokers.

Allow me to quote directly from the article linked to by you,

> Patients between the ages of 18-49 years who reported smoking marijuana at least 20 days per month. Among 2127 patients approached for participation, 155 met inclusion criteria as smoking 20 or more days per month. Among those surveyed, 32.9% (95% CI, 25.5-40.3%) met our criteria for having experienced CHS

This puts the initial prevalence at around 2.3%, not 7%, but the dataset is also very small. Also, the dataset is likely biased because it consists of patients already presenting to the ER. There is no further mention as to why they presented to the emergency room either.

> Patients were classified as experiencing a phenomenon consistent with CHS if they reported smoking marijuana at least 20 days per month and also rated 'hot showers' as five or more on the ten-point symptom relief method Likert scale for nausea and vomiting.

These conditions are very broad and symptoms of CHS match closely the symptoms of regular overdose, and most of the relief methods are also directly applicable to regular overdoses.

I would be extremely surprised if the actual prevalence is any higher than 0.5-1% of consumers, and in any case this has pretty much only proven my point now. I may have little knowledge on some rare edge-case condition, but at least I know how statistics work.

For whatever it's worth, the prevalence of CHS seems to be lower than the prevalence of allergic reactions to alcohol.......
I immediately thought of the Waterloo C compiler that was available for VM/CMS back in the 80s (there were other Waterloo compilers as well, but that was the only one that I ever used).
For those interested in outlying examples in the extreme, the 8-day Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa known as RAGBRAI takes more than 15,000 riders [1] on a different route across Iowa every year with different participating overnight communities selected each year. It is the "largest bike-touring event in the world" [2]

"The University of Northern Iowa Sustainable Tourism and Environment Program conducted a (2008) study of RAGBRAI's economic impact on the state, and found the event generated nearly $25 million in direct spending. For overnight stops like Coralville and the points in between, that could mean more than $3 million a day in tourism spending." [3]

[1] https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/life/living-well/rag...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAGBRAI

[3] https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/local/2015/07/09/ra...
> Well, I'm arguing it's the other way around. But to address what I think is the spirit of your question: if reality is only mind, if consciousness is truly fundamental, then why can't you read my thoughts? Why do we feel like individuals? Why do we have obviously separate private conscious inner lives?

No, this is not the spirit of my question at all. I feel like the spirit of my question is completely being missed. I realize you've thought very deeply on how and why the world arrives from consciousness itself and you've been working very hard to get this concept across. I get the general gist of your theory and there's lots of detail and thought behind it.

I'm not sure how I can set my question out more clearly than I already have. But I'll try. Rather than trying to explain your own theory in greater detail, can you try to work with me on getting a mutual understanding of my line of reasoning?

We have a very excellent predictive model of particles and fields. So much so we are building experiments worth billions upon billions of dollars to attempt to find places where reality differs even to the slightest degree of that model.

The human brain, the warm squishy stuff in your head, can be viewed as being composed of particles and fields. Particles and fields may just be some manifestation of some pan psychic reality, but we can still use our model of particles and fields to predict the behavior of those particles and fields.

So the first question. Can we use our model of particles and fields to predict the behavior of the particles and fields within the human brain? You've already appeared to answer this question in the affirmative "Their operation would be perfectly compatible with the known laws of physics."

From this it follows that I can create a computer model of a human brain, complete with all the cells, proteins, neurons, etc, and that human brain will be capable of any action (eg, the signals sent by neurons out of the brain) a real human brain is. There would be no way to discern between a real flesh and blood human brain and the simulated one by talking to it. Since a real human brain tells you that it's conscious and has internal experience, the simulated one must tell you the same.

While the simulated human brain will tell you that it's conscious, it is of course not proof that it is. But this leads to your next question:

> Don't your thoughts and feelings influence your behavior?

If thoughts and feelings are a thing that don't pass the computability test, but a simulated human brain doesn't have external behavior that differs from a flesh and blood human brain, then no, thoughts and feelings have no effect or even influence on your behavior. In such a case they are a mere passenger. Any effect they have would necessitate that the particles and fields within the brain suddenly behave in a way that violates our model of particles and fields.
Writing a good title is as hard as naming things in code. It's a much harder problem than it seems like it should be, with mutually exclusive interests often creating impossible situations.

But also, people just kind of suck at it.