skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a complete answer to that; however, I believe there are at least two bare-bones prerequisites to an AI being sentient and conscious as we understand the terms:

1. Continuity of input: The AI needs to be constantly "on", constantly receiving input of some sort, and constantly able to produce output, rather than being strictly limited to producing discrete responses to discrete stimuli.

2. Continuity of learning: In addition, the AI needs to be continually update its "mental model" of the world—in effect, constantly "learning" and re-training its neural network on the input it receives.

Now, these are not sufficient for an AI to be conscious by our understanding of consciousness. But I, personally, believe they are both necessary for it to be even worth starting to consider whether a given AI might be.

I also believe that unless we start in that direction extremely deliberately and with the intention of making something as human-like as possible, the first AIs that have some remote chance of being worthy of being considered "conscious" will not have a consciousness that we can easily recognize, because they will not be based in anything like the same kinds of fundamentals that we are...but that's likely a different discussion for a different day.
The unity asset store is a total mess. Unity itself crashes often. And for anything more than a basic game you have to fight the engine. Somehow i saw this coming.
I still am not seeing any reason you don't like the algos it suggested, nor any algo from you that's any better. All heat, no light. So I can't take your complaint seriously. Sorry. If you want to suggest an actual algorithm that's better (and not based on ad hominem), I'd love to hear it! We've had several back-and-forth discussions now where I've written germane comments about the actual output and you have... not.
> American companies should use their capital to promote American values

Like how Facebook bans all nudity, even in countries where nudity is much less of a big deal (eg Germany)? Or apple has a blanket ban on “adult” apps in their App Store, because in America violence is ok but sex is bad?

I hear what you’re saying, but as an Australian, exported American cultural values can be pretty odious too. I don’t have any simple answers though.
Wouldn't that along with marketplace assets (as mentioned by another comment) fall under "other related software products" since those are used within the game engine?
> That might be true of pickup trucks, but commercial trucks are virtually all manual.

I don't have much experience with the big trucks, but my understanding is that most fleets are leaning towards automatic these days because it's easier to get drivers, they can enforce shifting policies for fuel economy, and there's less a bad/aggressive driver can screw up. I'd totally believe owner ops still stick with three pedals for the most part though.

In the medium size truck world it's been ages since I've seen a stick, everything has an Allison with that same janky '80s seven-segment LED control panel.
> users can switch to a competitor product like Asana, Basecamp or Monday.com with minimal cost (other than the initial hassle of switching to a new system).

My experience tells me the complete opposite of this statement. Regardless of the the workflows, automation and whatnot there are tons and tons of IP hidden in tickets and over a long enough period references to them end up scattered all over your tools, commits, documents, wikis, IM, email, etc. etc.

When you move ticketing providers it's very likely you can't correctly migrate all of your existing data into the new system without breaking or losing some of it.

I detest trying to figure out why a certain code change was made, looking at the commit message only to find a reference to link to a dead ticket.

I'm not for or against Jira, but moving ticketing systems does not come at a "minimal cost" in my opinion and needs careful consideration and motivation.
This just seems like a recipe for paralysis. Just because you can't live a perfect life - I try to drive as little as possible, and try to be careful about where things I buy are sourced, but my time is not infinite - doesn't mean you can't live a better one. This doesn't seem like a slippery slope argument to me.
I tried to maintain one many years ago, but I could never get in the habit of being consistent about it. So it was short-lived and didn't get much use. I do refer directly to past code all the time, and that serves me fine.
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The situation is largely the same in the US, especially around gig economy companies. They provide a service that a large percentage of the population can't afford to use (many who can't afford the service wind up as the workers), and in some cases even issue debt as a carrot to get workers in the door.

Uber is a perfect example of this. Not only did they create a market that they controlled all the levers to in order extract the value, they started partnering with auto lenders to get drivers into nicer cars with the promise of earning extra through their premium service. So they effectively became the lender and the employer, which is frankly unconscionable in a modern and free society.

The suicide rate of rideshare drivers is a severely under-reported crisis in the US. But to your point, the big money doesn't care about that.
Frame, Create, Deliver
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Worth noting that CHERI _is_ definitely compatible with C and Unix; the default operating system for it is CheriBSD, a FreeBSD fork, and there is a growing number of purecap packages.
Strlcpy and strlcat – consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation. (1999)
> Implying these kinds of deprecations are commonplace, rather than 2 in 30-40 years, is a little odd.

Large parts of the web are powered by npm.

The vast majority of those sites, if not actively developed, will not be able to build within a year's time.
Efficient market hypothesis doesn’t work here, honestly not sure if it works anywhere. See https://danluu.com/nothing-works/
> He does not work on the entire car anymore - it is too much work - think he provides overall direction to be followed (high rake/low rake) and then concentrates on the areas he can add value.

This has been the way it goes for a long time now. The engineering teams that work on f1 cars are huge (though less so now with the cost caps that came in to effect this season) so no one knows every aspect of the car in full detail. Same as with any large engineering project really.

What someone like Newey brings to the team is working out how the whole thing fits together, identifying the most productive areas of the car to work on (to find more speed) and troubleshooting issues with the car that come up through the season.
You seem to see it as an individual sport, drivers fighting each other.

It is, in fact, a team sport. Man + Machine + Engineers!
Because some private behavior has been stigmatized, villainized, and criminalized. With that kind of history, it certainly seems understandable to me that groups victimized in that way create cultural artifacts to celebrate who they are together and normalize them as "just people" to everyone else.
It's a microcontroller, not a single-board computer.
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I’m sure he had multiple copies of the non-rare games that were not mint and which he played.
> I am not ignoring it: I was bringing a point on terminology, not on this particular lock or lock-picking methods.

You declared an entirely new definition for lockpicking which is contradictory to all accepted definitions of lockpicking, and then used it to repeatedly insist that the lock being discussed isn't pickable. Your comments are public and what you said is clearly visible, so please stop creating new realities when holes are poked in the previously concocted one.

> You seem to be unable to accept that people tend to and do use different terminology for same things, or same terminology for different things. [...] I do struggle to understand why are you so keen to convince others how your use of terminology is the only acceptable use: it's ok to agree to disagree.

You appear unable to accept that there is an entire industry of locksmithing experts and 100% of them use the same terminology. You are insisting that your invented definitions based on zero locksmithing knowledge should be more relevant than the actual definitions standardized over 4,000 years by hundreds of thousands of experts.

The rest of your comment consists of even more bizarre new definitions for lockpicking and mathematics which contradict reality, and veers even further away from the actual topic being discussed. I refuse to engage with it, because you are making all of your arguments in bad faith. If you can provide any shred of evidence for any of your claims about lockpicking, logic or math, I'll happily concede. But we both know that evidence doesn't exist.
> Thanks for making my point for me.

Your point was a "marriage" is a requirement for raising children well. And a "marriage" is solely for procreation. I proved that both are false by providing countercases. You didn't even attempt to engage with the second point. And in fact you seem to be agreeing with me on my first point.

I don't think you understand how a debate works. This ain't YouTube, there's no partisan audience that will clap when you say "So then you agree with me" for something completely illogical. I can't help you any further and I wish you luck.
With the exception of gods, nothing else in that list besides AI implies any kind of specific action to be taken in the real world that affects people much beyond the ones holding the belief.

People who believe in conscious/sentient AI—and, more specifically, believe that some of our current AIs have these properties—consequently believe they have reason to call for changes to how we as a society treat AIs. Those changes are likely to vary—some may call for restricting or banning them entirely, while others call for giving them rights, depending on just what stories about AI they've bought into—but whatever their overall direction, if taken seriously, they would be likely to severely hamper our ability to continue to progress technologically using machine learning.
CRISPR/Cas gene editing in the human germline
Not better cars, but better engines.
The internet is like building a city, obviously such a thing creates a potential for harm, but if you design it correctly it will be much more. It's something that can support an entire economy.

Crypto has no such potential, it couldn't support a restaurant. It can only support speculative financial products, mainly pumping and dumping. Blockchain technologies can eliminate the double spending problem trustlessly and tolerate a large amount of faulty or malicious nodes by making the voting power depend on the computation effort, but such a heavy-handed approach is not needed for most services. They either don't have a double spending problem (if they only have invariant confluent transactions they don't require consensus at all) or they only have a small amount of nodes.

Blockchain technologies ultimately can only give you confidence in their immutability, though the blockchain can be forked away from any point, which is what happened to Ethereum. Money buys you voting power and let's you sway the stewards of the network, which is fundamentally inequal and unfair.

https://ethereumclassic.org/why-classic

The point is that I don't want this to be the future, this technology is fundamentally inefficient and unfair.
My heart is aching for the owner. At the same time I feel a sense of relief because I am moving between countries. A lot of what I am doing these days is giving away my "stuff" and shedding attachments to "things". I do understand him thou. My 8 cases of Magic cards will be sorely missed, but I am happy to know that the Magic cards don't own me.
1) Always bolt down your safe.

2) Most “safes” are not actual safes but “residential security containers.” A real safe will be UL rated and one this size (guessing it was large, didn’t see any pictures) weigh in the thousands of pounds.
ESP32 products.
I think this is the biggest issue with solo entrepreneurs. Nobody does support and keeps their business running when they are not available. This at the same time is one of the most stressful parts of being a solo entrepreneur. When I ran a one-man-show in the early 2000s I never had time to really take two days off. I needed to be online and at least reply to a few emails every day. Money was good, but there was no time to relax.
for prod you'll want mushrik or neocon
Probably slightly less, I can't deny. But whether I trust someone will for the most part not have anything to do with whether they have a cofounder. However, I am not a VC or other investor. That's a different calculus.
It matters what portion of the cycle we are in. We used to be in the voting portion, now we are in the weighing machine portion and things are very different.

“In other words, the market is not a weighing machine, on which the value of each issue is recorded by an exact and impersonal mechanism, in accordance with its specific qualities. Rather should we say that the market is a voting machine, whereon countless individuals register choices which are the product partly of reason and partly of emotion.” -Security Analysis 1934
I most definitely know more people than I would prefer who can only barely pass fizz buzz and make more than that. It is kinda interesting how dev compensation is in fact bimodal and the engineers (and the managers) in the second hump want to actively avoid any mention of the possibility that they’re under compensated.
I use these two commands regularly:

1. `history | grep somecommand` to see a command I used previously. (I have my history set to a bonkers high number.)
2. `curl cht.sh/somecommand` to see a crowdsourced cheatsheet for a command. See: https://cht.sh/grep
3. DuckDuckGo often has good cheat sheets, e.g. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tmux+cheat

I also use fish, which has nice history-based autocomplete
As someone who does cross-platform frequently now, after doing native apps for a long time, that gives me anxiety for that dev lol. I can't imagine how helpless they feel to fix the 1000 random issues they run against in cross-platform land.
Isn't ING online-only? I'm pretty sure they predate Volt.
McLaren and williams both had idiosyncrasies that they got punished for arguably, mostly Williams but the way Ron Dennis ran mclaren sounds like a deathtrap culturally.
Just change the names from UAE / Dubai / bin Rashid al Maktoum and Saudi Arabia / Mohammed "Bone Saw" bin Salman to Syria/Assad and Russia/Putin and it will all become clear.

One set of despotic rulers deposits the majority of their oil money in Wall Street firms, one set of despotic rulers does not. That's entirely why the Saudi/UAE war on Yemen and the blockade of Yemen ports and the resulting famines and deaths are quietly ignored by the New York Times / CNN / FOX etc., and why the war in Ukraine gets daily front page coverage.

It's fairly obvious that if the likes of Putin and Assad cut the same kind of deal over oil money and recycling petrodollars to Wall Street, they could persecute their own people and wage local wars with not a murmur of disapproval from 'the world leader on human rights and democracy', just as Saudi Arabia and the UAE do.
They’re working in small batch capacity right now so of course costs are high.

Coffee is an enormous and fast growing industry. No coffee plantations were hurt in the making of this coffee.

Also it is a ‘natural’ product.
The raspberry pi 3 that is used in older products doesn't have enough power to be all offline. Maybe you could setup a server at home (but they won't help you!), but you cannot do it on the hardware they have. The next gen mycroft 2 (should ship this fall - first announced many years ago) will have a pi 4 which might have enough power to run offline, this isn't clear yet.
> a person's right to participate fully in a society should depends on any cultural or societal norms or traditions

Did you mean to write "shouldn't"?
Great news, feels good to have this option. Going to give replacing my pixel 3a display a shot.
I've already provided a link in a previous comment which has several algos and discussed the tradeoffs. I've also outlined the issue with the one you presented in the post. Perhaps reviewing the thread would be a useful activity?

https://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Remove_duplicate_elements
The post I responded to mentioned the Electron; I was talking about the client performance in the browser, but I've had similar experiences with the Electron clients for Discord and Slack.

I don't doubt you can make a performant snappy chat GUI with Electron/web tech, but more often than not, in my experience, Qt apps (like Ripcord) perform much better and are less RAM hungry.
I am very sympathetic to this argument overall and trace the hardware industry's failure back to the spread of C, UNIX, and worse-is-better.

With Wasm I see an opportunity to virtualize away the old world of C and linear address spaces. While we designed it to be low level and sandboxed to get C/C++ and Rust on board, I and others have always had in mind a future world where Wasm has managed (GC'd) data, first-class typed functions, and more. Those features should support a wide variety of source languages.

Wasm should become the new, final ISA. It should become like Unicode; the final, most widely-supported[1] format for executable code. When all languages and programs can run easily on Wasm, then hardware can easily be swapped out.

[1] Sure, Unicode has flaws, and it doesn't support everything equally as well. But it had the property that basically everyone dropped everything else in favor it, because it gained all the momentum.
No, I don't take Ubers because I don't agree with their business practices. As I said in another comment, I can't be perfect with my finite time, but I can make moral decisions. These kinds of comments feel a bit like the Zeno's arrow paradox where things can be framed in a way that makes change seem impossible, but in practice I don't think that's the case.
> “So often you can see when the front end designer hasn’t been talking to the back end designer,” Newey says. Newey avoids this problem, like so many others, with an elegant solution. On one of his cars, the front-end designer also happens to be the back-end designer. And when they talk to each other, it’s just Newey, at his drafting table, muttering to himself.

Lessons for software?
I don't think slack bans clients. They even document their API…

I maintain an IRC gateway and have never been harassed (except by users using whatever strange distribution and being unable to figure out how to run the thing… they could just get debian but noooo)
This strikes me as a good interview question, when selecting a company to work for. It's a quick test to understand ilities management maturity.

Tech debt is likely high if there's little to no value placed on documentation, in favor of "bias to action".
No, I have been unsuccessful challenging chargebacks. I know many hotel owners,
50 to 200 key non resort type hotels), and do not know any hotel owner that has a relationship with any bank, issuer, or merchant processor.

You buy the franchise from Hilton/Hyatt/etc, and then they force you to pay for the computer systems and merchant processors they contract with, and you have no choice in the matter. The hotel owner is the smallest player in this chain, and has zero leverage. If I had the paperwork handy, I would link you to a screenshot of what the chargeback paperwork says, and it is very clear that the issuing bank such as Chase/Wells Fargo/etc will state the credit card is not to be used for purposes of collecting payment for damages.
Oh, so one miss cancels all other achievements and overall mastery?

I get your point but he scored so many loopholes that missing some is still a net win.
I think you overestimate influence of Western populations on their own governments.

The point is that Western politicians don't care about the climate catastrophe. For a data point, my own government (Germany) magically conjured up a €100bn emergency defense budget for the Russian war in Ukraine in addition to a promise to boost its defense budget to the NATO recommendation of 2% of GDP (over €70bn in 2020[0]). In contrast, total government budget for "ecological protection" in 2019 was €79bn[1], but more than 2/3rds of that is just waste and water management -- less than €2bn ended up in research and development. The federal budget in 2021 only allocated €2.7bn[2] to the "Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection" either. Even the "The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action" only had a budget of €10.4bn (it was called "... and Energy" at the time).

If German politicans took the climate catastrophe as the world-ending threat serious that it is according to researchers, how come they haven't assigned a similar 2% of GDP or a similar "emergency budget" to preventing it? Instead solar subsidies have been cut, subsidies for sustainable private building development have been slashed and a conservative-led (not even the Greens!) coalition decided to shut down nuclear power in favour of coal and (Russian) gas.

There's no will to address the climate catastrophe among Western governments and there never has been. The only climate action you see are concessions to voter demographics that maintain minimal impact to the economy. Your mistake is to believe that the effects you're seeing are the consequence of politicans in power actually cracking down on something.

FWIW the effect of sanctions, since you mention them, are always delayed and always affect the weakest members of society first. We've already seen moderate capital flight in Russia (e.g. foreign companies extracting their local talent or simply shutting down their Russia offices with mass layoffs). The problem is that much like trickle down economics, "trickle up sanctions" have never been shown to work. Individual seizures of oligarch properties have been vastly more effective than blanket bans that mostly hit the middle and lower classes.

Plus, of course, the sanctions are ridiculous when the same countries enacting those sanctions still pay Russia billions of dollars for resources like gas that they depend on and can't just give up. And of course other countries like China take this opportunity to offer loans and cheap buyouts with zero competition.

[0]: https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/gdp

[1]: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/umwelt-wirtschaft/ausga...

[2]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundeshaushaltsplan_(Deutschla...
What bewilders me is that an FCC commissioner is weighing in on this at all.

FCC's mandate is to regulate telecom infrastructure - devices, bandwidth allocation, licensing, etc. Nothing at fcc.gov mentions anything about a mandate to regulate content being distributed over that infrastructure. There is a long history of debate over whether FCC using broadcast licenses to enforce decency standards, but this is the first I've heard of them implying that iOS and Android are subject to the commission's authority.

If it's a national security issue, it seems that Homeland should be addressing it; if it's consumer fraud over privacy violations, it would be FTC.

The letter (which is not on the FCC.gov website, so I found it through the commissioner's Twitter post) doesn't go into that at all, and it seems like pretty significant overreach that a commissioner can demand software companies to choose their customers according to his will.

https://twitter.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/154182358595770777...