skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have not seen that.

No offense, but you must have blinders on then. On a fresh install on a new machine it’ll do it in the first day.

> It's crash-free for me, running 24x7.

There was a person who legit got struck by lightning multiple times in their life and lived, so anything is possible. Your claim is comparatively improbable though, but still has the possibility of being true.
For a different perspective, stop reading the “doom and gloom” web sites and go outside. Or maybe just read their stories from five years ago, predicting crises that never happened. The world isn’t going to end. Things will turn out alright.
Other than the points raised here by others and in TFA’s comments section which point out TFA’s flaws, I would add only that there are worse things than Jira --- as I found out When my final employer converted from Jira to ServiceNow. If you think Jira is bad... jeez.
> I wonder if this will benefit startups that are more bootstrap style. Does less funding necessary for anticipated future growth imply less damage during a recession?

If future cash inflows are more uncertain, or known to be less than they were estimated to be than before, or if the discount factor to present value (interest rate) is higher, then the value of the business is lower, regardless of financing method.
1: “Wolfram Language” is the language that is used in Mathematica notebooks, but can also be used on Wolfram Alpha and on the Wolfram Engine.

2: It is usually interpreted but can be compiled. If you RTFA there’s plenty of information about new compiler functions.

3: All expressions in Mathematica have the same form. For example 1+2 is just shorthand for Add[1, 2]. Think of them as M-expressions from LISP (kind of). These can be evaluated or manipulated. Symbolic expressions are not fundamentally different from other types of expressions. Indeed everything is a “symbolic expression”.

4: Wolfram Language/Mathematica goes to great lengths to hide this from you. Indeed again if RTFA you’d have read mentions of this with reference to interfacing with C code.
30% really isn't that bad when there were many many more players in the chain with physical products. And it is not like the services offered by platforms like Valve are cheap... Global billing and distribution to basically any country allowing games...
> I think the first part of this blog series had the gear selector sending it's state every 30ms - so you are looking at some averaged ~15ms of latency just from this thing.

For reference purposes at the standard gaming benchmark of 60 FPS a single frame is 16.666_ ms, so you're looking at the equivalent of a frame or two of delay.

That could be critical for a CRT-era fighting game that requires frame-perfect inputs, but as a controller for a traditional automatic transmission it doesn't matter in the slightest.
I’m fine with corps not taking a stand and just following local regs IFF they don’t pretend to care about this stuff in recruitment and marketing messaging.
> Your definition of "sentience" appears to be "optimization"

My definition of sentience was given in my comment. It isn't optimization, it's:

* Self awareness. Some level of ability to understand what you are and how you work.

* Emergent emotion. Displays of things like fear and happiness.

It isn't semantics, it's real behavior. Being a self optimizer leads to those two things. Sentience isn't optimization, but to be able to self optimize leads to sentience.
Yes and no.

The main benefit of Godot 2D is that it is strictly 2D, 2D and 3D are split. If you do things without needing 2D, it will edge out over Unity (UI tends to be better, pains with window sizing etc. tend to be better than Unity). The moment you want any 3D feature, you either do a shoddy hackjob retroactively fitting it into your 2D game, or you rewrite a lot of things to get 3D. Unity's main benefit is everything essentially being a 3D game, and 2D games being hamfisted in a 3D scene, making it so adding the slightest 3D feature is far easier. Simple example, if you wanted to spin sprites a la Paper Mario, you can't just do that in Godot 2D, but you can easily do it in Unity '2D'.

On top, Godot's general lack of community and features still means going beyond a certain level of polish, even in 2D, becomes a bit more annoying. Support for 3rd party plug-ins are limited*. VFX examples are extremely limited. Particles are still fairly barebones in features compared to Unity (Godot 4 is bringing updates to this), and Unity has the added benefit of having a far larger community. In general you'll find similar issues you'd find in Unity, with less history or support to get you out of a bind.

Godot does particularly well in fairly simple games and styles, but the moment you go beyond that scope it's basically a toss-up whether you're better or worse off using Unity right now. That should be changing in the future as more people adopt Godot, but it isn't as cut-and-dry as "2D for Godot is better". Anyone saying that may as well vouch for GameMaker, Ren'py, RPGMaker or something else based on their requirements.

*: Especially art. There are tons of art workflows being popularized now to make art production easier for artists, many coming from Japan. Their support in Unity is already fairly minimal, in Godot it is practically non-existent. I imagine having good plugins for say, Spine 2D, Live2D etc. would help bring over the mobile crowd in particular and cross over to the PC/console markets as indies start trying more than just pixel art.
Implementation of a Dive Computer [pdf]
A competitor probably shouldn't be. The only people who need a competitor to Jira are large companies who have a budget. There are lots of small companies and open source companies, but they have no need for the complexities of Jira and should avoid it.
1. only certain types of companies will hire AI ethicists in the first place

2. only specific types of people will be interested in those positions

3. disagreements are likely to arise given the nature of the work and the problems these companies work on, much more likely compared to other positions

4. once someone is terminated you're likely to hear about it because of the high profile of the company, because it's about AI and ethics, and maybe also because these jobs attract the kind of person who is more likely to go public about their own termination

It's a bunch of selection effects stacked on top of each other.
This is correct.

A lot of this due to the hardware architecture itself. The software abstractions dictated/limited by the HW itself causes many of the risks!

If you designed BOTH HW and SW up to and including the OS, you _might_ have a chance to control the risks better. But by the very separation of duties and roles, papered over by abstraction itself, you create problems. ALL abstractions throw away information and eventually those abstractions bite you in the ass.

This was the case with digital logic once HW speeds rose to a critical level - suddenly the reality that digital is merely an abstraction upon analog and the very abstraction of lumped-model analog started failing which caused digital fail as well.

We definitely can have and have had the same failure occurring with von Neumann architecture - there's NOTHING magical about it that immunizing against model abstraction failure and it can creation "intrinsic failures" that can never be fixed thanks to Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
> most magical methods are rather disappointing compared to the astonishing impact of the effect created.

I have taught a lot of people to do a simple French drop as an intro to magic. People are often a little disappointed at the realization that making a coin "disappear" is really just hiding it in your other hand.
In my opinion, UE being "too heavyweight" is more perception than reality. I didn't find it more difficult to learn than Unity. Sure, unimaginable power is there, but you don't have to use it, and some of it has very little mental overhead (almost 'for free').

I used Unity daily for 4 years, both at work (at Hololens and Oculus) and for a few personal projects and indie games, one of which was much more complex than anything I ever did at work. When I first started, I remember this feeling of being unchained and my productivity as a game developer going through the roof. (For the prior 15 years I'd been building directly on top of DirectX.)

When I switched to UE5, I had that same feeling again. Of being let loose or given superpowers. I would not go back for anything. Among many other factors, access to the source code is game-changing and should not by any means be underestimated.
Indeed, it was Azure DevOps. I had linked it with Teams as it was accessed through that, or so I remember.
Because it's one of the closest things to a UUID in American life, and is the keystone to various well architected surveillance nets.

Remember, drivers licenses were originally born out of law enforcement complaints that the automobile made their lives so much harder.
That's really not a fair account. Nobody in Egypt, Iraq or Iran was asked if they wanted Britain to run their country. British archaeologists took whatever they liked and did whatever they wanted with it, there was no trade or accord with the people of those countries. The Elgin Marbles may well have been destroyed if Elgin hadn't walked off with them, but that doesn't make it right to keep them.

As a Brit I take some solace from the fact that our imperial legacy is an awful lot less tainted that most, but I've no illusions about the reality of that sort of subjugation and oppression. Being one of the least worst imperial powers is hardly an accolade.

I have mixed feelings about the repatriation of artefacts. There are some clear cut cases where it would be the right thing to do, like the marbles. on the other hand if we just bulk shipped everything to their countries of origin, vast quantities of the material would just disappear. We might even end up having to buy a lot of it back to get it off the black market.
Nice to see that dumb patents are not constrained to recent times.
Not sure I understand the question - I use code-blocks (```ls -alh```) or inline code (`ls -alh`). Everything else is comments and descriptions, what I am doing here. I don't really need rendering, most of the time I use Notepad++, or Typora, or my own Gitlab, or the markdown-text app in my nextcloud.
No need to start out antagonistically if you expect a real answer. You might as well assume I had no bad intentions. Perhaps we just misunderstood each other?

> Why, if they certainly happen, is their appearance in the consciousness and subsequent action when so consciously decided "an illusion"? What illusion is exactly at hand here?

How do you understand the concept of "volition"?

> I do not see how you can project your qualia on to me, nor how there is a "we" in this statement. I do not feel similarly to this at all.

Okay, I apologize for using the word "we". It is certainly my experience that people perceive this in the way I described, from many discussions I've had. The statement above is not meant to be universal in a hard sense, despite my literary use of "we".

I'm not claiming to understand how things ultimately work, but I've certainly had personal experiences pointing towards there not being a homunculus, or an extra-physical volition capable of overriding raw cause-and-effect. In fact, it appears that everything is ultimately cause-and-effect -- and I find people commonly object to this idea when exposed to it.

(Just noticed you're the grandparent poster.) In fact, what do you mean when you say "there is not even conscious level filtering or decisions made prior to action"? What purpose does the conscious level qualifier serve in your sentence, if the filtering and the deciding is ultimately just another effect produced by some cause? How does this differ from any other causal system which is traditionally not considered to possess free will, such as a mechanical contraption?
> Those are tools designed to market products, not handle super sensitive data, it's kind of like using hotjar to record sessions on your (super confidential) website to find pain points and bugs, only to whine that hotjar stores data about your users actions, that's the entire reason why you're a customer.

In which case it is nefarious to advertise that they do handle super sensitive data correctly. Which Facebook does.

> If I had to bet on who's getting hacked, I wouldn't bet on Facebook.

This is moving the goalposts.
If I gave it any thought at all, it would come down more to the type of software and your apparent business model.

People making software, unless it's FOSS, that I can still use satisfactorily after you die, give up, go insane (I mean "enhance the user experience"), or get acquired by profit extractors who don't care, are in an extreme minority these days, so there's almost no reason to rely upon or trust "you" regardless. A solopreneur isn't necessarily riskier, and might even be less risky.
It is endearing how the big tech makes grandstanding against FBI warrants but repeatedly caves in to every petty dictator demands if PR fallout is deemed irrelevant.
What product do you recommend at a similar price point?
Frequencies of Musical Notes
OK, I'll bite: Why is Zabbix old-fashioned? What would you use instead? (I have ~60 bare metal servers of various vintages and OSes to monitor.)
That's the "magic" of commerce. That a transaction can bring two parties together who ordinarily would not agree on anything. And they BOTH walk away from it with a net positive.
I think a version number of 0.3 conveys "alpha".
There are short term issues causing a supply shock, which in turns is causing inflation, triggering central banks credit tightening that will cause a medium term contraction. But government deficit have been high for a long time (because of lax taxation on the wealthy individuals and global companies) and debt is high: with interest rates rising and economic downturn, government budgets will come under pressure.

Then you can have two outcomes: an massive tax increase where the money is, or public spendings will be cut and the economy will tank even more, spiralling out of control (the Greek scenario). Unfortunately, I expect the second scenario to be much more likely than the first one…
this is just called tax evasion

back then you could file your taxes with 6 or 7 kids and no one would check

that is not the same as claiming you have 6 or 7 kids that will be filed on your taxes and then just never filing it. Once filed he would need SSN for those kids, or he would owe taxes
That is kind of the point. Programming has become the same kind of useful skill as writing a poem analysis. It's easy to explain that it is useful and important. But I don't get across why you would want it.
(c) Every drops of oil you use strengthen Saudi Arabia, why didn't you stop yet? and (d) If you are using Uber, WeWork or in a company being invested by Softbank, Saudi Arabia get benefits from it as well (https://www.pif.gov.sa/en/Pages/OurInvestments-Global.aspx).

> but I don't see much of a moral distinction between the two.

The key here is that you will have to elaborate how you think the two are similar. And then we can discuss whether those reasons also applied to (c) and (d), or additional (x), (y), (z) or not. This slippery slope is quite long, so we can't easily hand-wave things awaay
The number you read is for dying within the next year. The OP said within a decade.
protip: use comments to remind yourself or make commands searchable, e.g.

$ find . -iname 'package.json' -exec jq .version {} \; # get npm module version numbers for all packages

now when you search history you can do so with plain text:

$ history | grep 'npm module version'

you could of course take this further by 'tagging' commands if you wish and then grep for that tag later to return longer cheatsheets
> these layoffs are happening primarily in funded startups, not big companies

Or small businesses. Labor conditions are still historically, if no longer extraordinarily, tight [1].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FRBKCLMCIM
Mohammed bin Salman is from Saudi Arabia, this article is about the United Arab Emirates, or well the Amazon-related part anyway.

Also, while we're on the topic of moral dilemmas, I would like to add some spice by pointing out that buying almost anything from the supermarket funds someone like Mohammed bin Salman, because their oil was used in the production and transportation of the product or its components.
Ok.

If you like Jupyter more than Mathematica as a front-end you can use wolframscript

https://www.wolfram.com/wolframscript/

as a Jupyter kernel:

https://github.com/WolframResearch/WolframLanguageForJupyter

You can use it with the free (for non-production use) Wolfram Engine:

https://www.wolfram.com/engine/
Running Coreboot on a Modern, Retail Desktop Motherboard
Why don't more people use throat mics?
It doesn't sound like any of these regulations were a success, given Apple still has the monopoly power to extract 26% of the fees taken, and make the process so cumbersome that most developers would probably be better off staying on IAP.

Future regulators should take note, if you really want to make a positive impact you need to allow alternative app stores on the platform, and pre-empt some of Apple's counters.

* Apple can't charge a fee for sales in an alternative app store
* Alternative app store providers can choose whether or not to have app review (including a stricter app review process if that's what consumers want), and pick their own margins.
* The same binary should be submissible to all app stores, including without needing to change signing certificate
* It should be possible for developers to upload their apps to alternative app stores without going through apple developer certification (apps can be submitted using code signing derived from the alternative app store)
* Apps downloaded from the alternative app store can use all libraries/sdks/apis generally available on the platform, with the exception of payments / advertising.

Is this unfair to Apple? I don't think so given they currently are triple dipping here:

* Revenue from selling the device
* Revenue from developer licensing
* Revenue from their cut of IAP
couldn't this be addressed to some reasonable agree by requiring someone to register their client and providing a fee schedule for "misbehavior"

eg. if you send more than X requests per day per user you need to pay us $y per 100,000 requests over the limit (or whatever).

the only requirement would be registering and providing billing info, which wouldn't be used if they behaved.
Alternatively, there is such a thing as a woke corporation, and there is such a thing as an anti gay corporation, and they might even be the same corporation at different points in space and\or time.

Wokism is a dominant religion (not demographically) in the US, therefore corporations there pray to wokism and observe its rituals. Anti gay islam is a dominant religion in the Middle East, therefore corporations there will do the same things they do to wokism elsewhere, if grudgingly.

This is quite different than what the employees of a corporation might think, which will depend on the cultural milieu they were raised in. The corporation itself, however, is an emergent non-human intelligence, and it tends to abhor non-profit-related conflicts.
"Women are people just like men"

What you did say is known as equivocation. That's what I'm pointing out.
This should have been obvious.
I had the same feeling. A 200%+ speed improvement is too good to be true. There must be something wrong here.
No. For the same reason I don’t trust VC backed startups that are scaling.
Indeed. Safety cars are the problem. It introduces chaos into pit strategies, and allows cars to close up gaps.

I grew up watching F1 in the 80s, and I don't recall EVER seeing a safety car. They either red-flagged the race and had a restart, Or they had sector based cautions.

I'd like to see a return to that style of race management. For added safety, the could using the same technology used to control DRS to enforce a speed-limiter in yellow sectors.
Sumo Citrus made a little-known Japanese fruit a rising star (2021)
To be clear, that metadata only (generally) exists in principle - it is not actually materialized and stored anywhere, even at compile time (definitely not at runtime). There may be cases where the compiler actually tracks it, but most often it is only tracked "best effort" - the compiler only needs to prove that two pointers can't be aliased based on any possible value of that metadata, not actually compute that metadata and use it.
Should people who wouldn't like to work for e.g. George Bush have pressured their companies to stop operating in the US? After all, they were effectively accepting and complying with things like secret courts that issued broad warrants and some questionable sanctions (e.g. Cuba), while paying taxes that funded indiscriminate wiretapping of people all over the world, invasions of other countries under false premises, CIA black sites, imprisonment and torture without due process in Guantánamo and so on.

Not saying bin Salman is any better (he's not) but my point is that things aren't so cut and dried, and ultimately companies are just going to do what is best for them even if it means accepting some shady stuff. If all workers were that strict about the morals of the companies they work for, most of us would be out of a job.
Ukraine and Russia is a good example… oh wait!
This is essentially the same sport as it was in the 70s. There is an argument to be made about it being way more boring than the 70s given the ever increasing safety requirements. Cars are getting bigger and bigger while the track size stays the same, also more and more time is spent behind a pace car which was a rare thing back then, whereas now it pops out every race, sometimes multiple times per race.

F1 increasing popularity it's either a master marketing campaign from Liberty Media or people having way more free time than they used to have.
> It seems to me to require a decent amount of faith in the idea that only matter exists to conclude that consciousness and free will must be illusory.

Why only matter? My default position (of which I'm not entirely convinced of!) is that there are only physical things, not that there is only matter. So if consciousness and free will are physical phenomena of some kind, that makes things logical again.

But if they are physical, then surely they follow physical rules, and need to somehow interact with the rest of physics. This again leaves no gap for there to be a divine kind of free will, one that is extra-physical and capable of overriding cause and effect.

When I say that free will is illusory, I mean it in this sense: I don't see a logically coherent way in which free will could be non-physical and outside of the usual cause-and-effect chain.

**

I did mean Libet, thanks for the references.
The Future of Dive Computers (2009)[pdf]
Is your understanding of software companies that you add people and magically new good products appear right away?