skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well that's not actually good evidence, because if one of my teachers had given me an assignment to write an argumentative paper against my own sentience I'd have done it, and I'd have made a pretty compelling case too[0]. Being able to consider and reason about arbitrary things is something you'd expect out of an intelligent being.

[0] insert joke about user name here
This was required reading in my high school english class in South Dakota, 15 or so years ago.
Solar panels up high can coexist with livestock and feed grass quite well it seems:

> ABC (Australia) RURAL [π]

> Solar farm trial shows improved fleece on merino sheep grazed under panels

> Sheep grazing under solar panels at farms in NSW's Central West have produced better wool and more of it in the four years since the projects began, according to growers.

> Local graziers have labelled the set-up a "complete win-win", with the sheep helping to keep grass and weeds down so as not to obscure the panels.

> In turn, the panels provided shade for the sheep and grass, and helped prevent the soil from drying out.

[π] https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-05-30/solar-farm-graz...
Isn’t this also wrong, though?

I mean in the sense that it’s impossible to demonstrate that anything is sentient.
Ban advertising, and let the world go back to yellow pages.

A good first step towards solving the overconsumption problem.
$500K / year at year four is something entirely different than $500K / year. And that's what the OP said they were making.
> since the current mRNA vaccine is causing our body to create old spike protein

Your body only briefly produced spike protein after vaccination. The lasting immunity isn't caused by ongoing spike protein production.
I respect a top 20 Tetris player more than I respect a college graduate since the college graduate just has to convince the teachers to like him and do exactly as he's told compliantly. The Tetris player has to be the best at something difficult and competitive that shows intelligence.

Can hardly blame your son for not taking something seriously which is mostly taken seriously because everybody thinks that everybody else takes it seriously and you can't just opt out of impressing others because it will limit what you can do and earn in the future. College itself is just a glorified game but a far more boring and unfair one than Tetris.
Because Array.forEach doesn’t return a value or anything that could be awaited. If you use Array.map you can create an Array of promises that can be awaited with Promise.all
I agree with everything you said and think it's more-or-less true, except for the last paragraph.

You said, "And the decision we've made is… we have a big spread where some people at the top are extremely wealthy… and the others on the bottom are not." To me that seems like you're implying the latter is a result of the former, that the rise of rich people/countries is what forces others into poverty. That's the fixed pie fallacy, and it's not actually true. (However, perhaps that's not what you're saying, and I'm misinterpreting.)

It's true that some people and places are progressing faster and further than others, but progress is progress. So many of the factor jobs we consider crappy, for example, are huge improvements over the previously available jobs in those places. I do agree there is something distasteful and of course unfair about the disparities in wealth, living conditions, and working conditions, and more can and should be done to help the less fortunate on earth.

But I don't think agree that the way to do that is to scale down. To my mind, the chief benefactor of people worldwide is technology: printing, reading, electronics, cheap crops, democracy, healthcare advancements, etc. Technological innovations have ended millennia of stagnation when it comes to human suffering (e.g. famine), lifted billions out of poverty, and improved human happiness. And those innovations are chiefly the result of economic systems that create competitive markets that incentivize innovation. The resulting inequality is a small price to pay, to my mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Number_of_the_Beast_(novel...
It is if you take “sentience” to mean “the ability to feel,” which is what my dictionary just told me. I think this category really is the most basic differentiating one. Higher level stuff like self awareness all depend on it. The most basic difference between a computer and a human (or even a dog…) is, in my opinion, the ability to feel.
The high jump seems to be more deliberately a test of physical skill? Did the designers of Tetris set out to make a game that measures the rate at which you can push a button? A lot of games have no glitch speedrun categories.
You can also use the git reflog to get the recently dropped stash commit's sha, and then check out the files that you miss.
Reagan created and governed on unprecedented peacetime deficits caused by his military spending and tax changes. If his policy had any meaningful influence over the economy of the 80s it's likely the massive deficit spending.

That said, the link between presidential policy & short term economic changes is universally overstated. The government can cut down basic research funding and the effects won't be felt for a half century.
Lots of products. Its called Tariff Engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_engineering.

Probably the best known example is Converse. "The felt lining on the bottom of the sneakers allows Converse to classify their product as slippers, so the company benefits from a much lower tariff rate." https://blogs.pugetsound.edu/econ/2019/02/18/tariff-engineer...
> Creating a solar panel that never needs to be replaced is a business failure.

Creating a solar panel that never needed to be replaced and could be manufactured at the same price as less-durable alternatives would make you very rich. Why would anyone buy from your competitors when they can get a more durable panel for the same cost from you?

> Human population is predicted to decline in many parts of the world and this is seen as a massive economic risk, not a boon for the planet. It’s a risk because we’ve all gotten comfy with the guarantee that property we buy will always become worth more over time. Less humans to buy stuff? Unthinkable.

It’s much less sinister than that. Many modern societies are structured under the assumption that there’s many more young people than old people, so the young people can share the load of caring for the elderly who are no longer able to work. When you have a sudden in fertility rates, the ratio of young:old goes down, and each young person has to contribute a larger percentage of their effort into caring for the elderly. That’s not necessarily a pleasant responsibility to put on young people, or a position I’d want to be put in as an older person
You basically copied https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They're_Made_Out_of_Meat

Edit: here's the full text, for completeness https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
Like a new (std::nothrow) meaning!

... I'll let myself out.
I used to work for a company that sold labels for various third party printer manufacturers, and let me tell you, some of them were VERY lazy when it came to assigning MAC addresses.
i watched this enjoyable presentation a while ago -
https://youtu.be/jVkLVRt6c1U
Is Lemoine a Cartesian? I thought this conversation was about Descartes and whether his utterance was philosophical, not the held positions of Blake Lemoine.

I actually accept your claim: I genuinely believe that it's possible that we'll create something that's indistinguishable from a Cartesian agent. But I'm not a Cartesian; I put much stronger restrictions on agency than Descartes does.
Wow, this is the most hopeful thing I've read about renewable energy in ... years, maybe ever?

Even ignoring whether the fuel-from-air thing will pan out, the idea posed here that solar will get so cheap that excess energy can be used for stuff like this is insane.

Not only did they explain the implications, but the author does a decent job at showing the math behind all of the insanely optimistic graphs. Thank you for sharing this OP! This is why I come to HN
Title kind of misses the point and triggers an odd/uninformed conversation about trade offs. Ie read the article. This is not good, but the drying is a result of a conscious choice by water management to prioritize away from irrigation.

“Even as the river’s surface flows dry, the ditches are drying too. Irrigators have been warned that absent rain, there will be very little to water their land very soon. South Valley horse owners (the biggest consumers of irrigated stuff around here – the horses, I mean) will be buying hay. It’s a very dry year, the agony of climate change dumped atop some water management chaos.”
Moore's law already stopped - since Intel's 10nm process was delayed by 5 years. The exponential grown continues, but a lot slower than predicted by Moore.
I was a little sloppy in my formulation. A better way would be the ability to observe one's own thought processes and integrate them back into consciousness. Meta-cognition is a much better term, I think. It doesn't seem to me like cats for instance have this ability.
I have a compromised immune system after kicking cancer to the curb. Kook indeed. The last thing I need or will ever need is a fool with no care whatshoever for the public health telling me I don't need a mask. HN policy precludes me from using the language that I would consider appropriate in this case.
That's the thing, people who want to wear them want to force people who don't want to wear them like in OP's message.
It's sad that they couldn't figure out how to make it economically viable as a business, especially after 10 years. IMHO, it's hard to make social entrepreneurship work when there's not a clear priority on creating customer value over social value. Especially around topics which have such high curb appeal (ie democratizing making), yet in actual practice turn into a daily grind of space rentals, equipment rentals and instruction sales.

The perennial problem with relying on charitable grants to make budget is that (usually) such grants eventually dry up. Thus, they should only ever be thought of as a short-term launch boost. Fortunately, unlike ten years ago, there are now quite a few local machine shops and other vendors who will do prototyping and short-run manufacturing using CAD, 3D printers, CNC mills, laser cutters, etc. They aren't as cheap as a grant-subsidized charity but the ones I've used are efficient and focused on getting my small jobs done right.
> It's about the increasing ideological fracturing of this country.

> Emotions are easy to manipulate with political subjects. Partisan narratives sell, they're mimetic, and they spread like wildfire. It turns into a religious war, and each side distrusts the other, stops listening.

I would dare to argue, that both of these issues would be drastically reduced with increased high level education.
This seems overly dismissive of what friendship is or can be. Did you move away from your high school area? If so how many of your high school friends do you still keep in touch with? Are the people you don't people who were never your fiends? Or were they friends for a moment in time? Exes? Were you never friends if you don't keep in touch? College friends? Seriously there are many people in my life that were friends, but whom I have minimal or no contact with at all anymore. That doesn't mean they weren't friends. It might mean we aren't anymore but a relationship doesn't have to be permanent to be a relationship.
Detection and Prevention of Silent Data Corruption in Spanner [pdf]
We want to target people who are amicable (to start with). Definitely not anyone who is contentious. Hoping to expand to contentious divorces in the future of course (and help people actually negotiate without a lawyer). I would love the system to give prompts to people on whether they're asking for too much or if they're in the ballpark.

If you're amicable, there is still a lot of benefit in checking whether what you've agreed to divide with your spouse is fair from a legal perspective. You could be giving too much away. Eg. If you had a retirement/pension fund before the marriage, do you want to split that equally down the middle - no. You'll be entitled to keep a bigger slice of that (but you may have to give some away of course). Same with any other assets you had before the marriage, or inheritance you received during the marriage, or if you’ve used pre-marital funds to buy assets during the marriage. All these things could move it away from a 50/50 split.

Monetising will be the next step. We just want to figure out if this is useful for people first.

We have a few ideas, eg once Resolvy gives you the information (or prepares the divorce documents) we can advertise attorneys who can check everything for you to make sure it’s correct. We'll try keep it a free service for as long as we can (and figure out revenue models from businesses)
Personally after being allowed to be fully remote I found this to be a weird experience. I wasn't totally sure where to live. I no longer needed to be in the bay area, I could go back "home". Idk what I wanted to do, got pressure from family about what I "should" do. I didn't really know what I wanted in a place to live. And I think for most people for most of their lives no one had this freedom to just live anywhere. There isn't a lot of good advice.
Nothing, I was in bed.
Ah, sounds similar to PuzzleFighter, an older Japanese game.
Yet the Los Angeles river, with sources diverted away from saline lakes, has been cut in half over the years for pretend ecological issues. This is how the climate control ideology gains power.
We are a team of 150 with half of us in engineering. Half the engineers work on the product and they are split into a handful of teams. Half of the remainder of engineers are SRE, IT and dev tools.

We don’t know what we are doing and that’s ok because we have a core product that is the best in the world and the periphery to that is “so, what now?”. We have short and long term goals, and an extremely viable business with an excellent sales force. But yeah — for all the solidity of what we’ve built so far (and have been successful at selling) there’s ask a lot of blue sky above us and it’s all our jobs to reach for it.

Blue sky is a challenge because while don’t know how to get there, we can figure it out by talking, having ideas, finding out which ones rock, refining them, going off and hacking, and coming back and talking about it some more.

Things that work perfectly fine when working remotely: ideas, proofs of concept, hacking, thinking. Things that suck remotely: talking about stuff.

I would go crazy if I didn’t get the hybrid time in the office that I do, with my colleagues. Funnily, the top notch conversations are the ones that start in the office but then happen while we are walking around the business park on foot. How do you feel out a controversial idea on zoom when the call just ends and you have no soft touch ways of winding back from professional conflict? Does everyone who works remotely have some magical team juju that means they mostly agree on stuff all the time? Are you remote-first people all working on such clearly defined goals that you never have to go through the strife of what the goals should be in the first place?
I can’t imagine the book and minor TV appearances circuit pays as well as Google. Unless you mean he’s doing it to be a minor annoying “celebrity” for a few minutes
Yes, that is what I mean. I also genuinely believe that if we just go back to the First Amendment default of complete freedom of contract and freedom of association (no legally protected categories) that the market will sort things out just fine. Racist companies will lose to companies that hire competent people of all races.

The remedy of the existing civil rights legal regime was much too strong and too far-reaching for the disease of Southern racism, which has largely been eliminated anyway.
The article suggested local production, good luck buying land anywhere close to NYC at 100$/acre.

Mores law also failed several times. More revised his initial 1965 estimate for a doubling every year in 1975. He predicted various doubling rates with the weakest form being transistors on a single chip every 2 years starting in 1980.

So, it’s current form isn’t an exponential increase in density but in terms of transistors on a single chip. If density actually doubled every 2 years then starting from 1971 an Intel 4004 @ 188 t/mm then we should have hit 6 million t/mm in 2001 and 197 t/mm in 2011. Except chips only broke 6 million in 2012 (11 years late) and are nowhere near 197 million t/mm in 2022.
I still talk to at least 2 coworkers from my previous job. Many people make friends from jobs.
There is a long history of identifiers being reused in world shipping.

One of the staples of contracts class in the first year at many law schools is Raffles v Wichelhaus, an English contract case from 1864.

There was a contract for someone to sell a bunch of bales of cotton from India to a buyer in England. The contract called for the cotton to be sent on a ship called the Peerless to Liverpool from Bombay.

Unknown to both the buyer and the seller there were actually two different ships called Peerless both sailing from Bombay to Liverpool, one arriving in October and one in December.

They seller was thinking of the December one when signing the contract, and the buyer was thinking of the October one.

The buyer needed the cotton in October and when it did not arrive on the Peerless in October the buyer considered the contract broken and refused to accept the cotton that came on the December Peerless.
At least ebay has a quality search with precision filters.

Amazon is an absolute nightmare to find specific details.
I am not sure of that. If all that money ended up in rich people's pocket, never to see the light of day again we won't be having the inflation crisis. The money through various investments is now out in the open, driving up inflation. It is still unequally distributed and that is causing issues. If there was a magical way to distribute that money equally between everyone inflation won't be an issue. Unfortunately magic isn't real.
>Come now, did you really take that to mean I had to imagine the bookstore and not the customer?

If you went in bookstores all the time and never ran into customers behaving that way then why would you be imagining it and confirming a general pattern? Seems like you would have contrary evidence in that case.

>People who adorn their bookshelves with ornate "leather-bound classics"

Decorators use fake books. And fake flowers. And fake fruit. People are so used to fakery that they get upset when it's missing. Like when someone is interviewed and the transcript has lots of "um, er, ah". Because they're not reading prepared remarks from a teleprompter, the smartest person will never be that smooth extemporaneously.

Most of the books I put out on shelves are real books that I've read, but they're not there because I need them close at hand to reread at any moment. Also, I tend to skim a lot when something doesn't engage me, so I might fail a pop quiz on something I did read once.

>People who make recommendations to others about how they should read such great works of Western Canon, e.g. the Complete Works of William Shakespeare

The problem with Shakespeare's plays is that they're written in a foreign language, and it's often inflicted on people without even acknowledging that let alone trying to help them understand it.

I wonder if there are any adaptations to film with modernized subtitles and notes overlaid.
These all sound like good problems to have. Seems like the first time the op has a chance to figure them self out and learn a bit about who they really are without work forcing it self to be their identify.

Probably jarring because our whole lives are so structured, from school, to college to our job on schedule. It's odd to break free mostly.

Embrace it, keep dabbling and trying and thinking. The rest will come.
so much this. I had a condo in Murrieta, CA a while back. Bedroom was on the second story, right next to Murrieta Hot Springs Rd. I never got used to all the crazy sounds coming from that road.
Why does that matter exactly?
Okay but I'd argue your take on this is an outlier, and not how people commonly view a workspace. Especially when people spend so much time in their jobs. It does seem to me you've left a lot of potential meaningful relationships on the table with your approach, but that's your choice.
High voltage solves a lot of materials problems for wires. I assume that almost everything about superconductors is expensive to do, not just the raw materials, which makes it too costly (in both energy and money) to use them as wires.
Critique: it has no search or copiable/editable urls
I moved from the greatest of the plains to the mountains, having now lived in the southern and northern Rockies. Counterintuitively, my world became much much larger after discovering topography.

With no large geographic reference point your experienced world becomes only what you can see to the horizon, often blocked by crops or a section treeline. 3-5 miles out, 8 if you find a hill. And, since it's all patchwork rural farmland, every place you go outside of this radius feels the same. You've seen it before; it's just a rearranging of the same stock roads, treelines, fields, fences, and farm equipment.

Moving to the mountains ruined me for the plains. In a ten-minute walk I can observe a river valley unfold below me with my view uninterrupted until the next mountain group 40 miles away. Ten minutes in the opposite direction and I'm climbing to the top of the world. In the mountains there is always something new to see and another incredible nook to find just around the bend. The topography brings a sense of scale that constantly reminds me just how big and exciting the world actually is.
I don't want to downplay progress. Life is very different for many marginalized groups. It's very different for the kid who died of polio in 1918 but would have grown up to be a revolutionary scientist if born in this century. We could go on and on.

Still, we haven't uploaded ourselves into the matrix, we aren't out there colonizing the universe, we haven't unlocked immortality or eternal youth or other dimensions or artificial general intelligences. None of those radical possibilities that people like to dream about seem all that much closer to me than a century ago.
Maersk has a capacity to ship 4 million containers at once. I suspect you’d generally have 3-4x that many because they spend a lot of time waiting around and also just pile up in Los Angeles because no one needs to ship (as much) stuff back to China.
Which I expected to be developed in a book and speaking tour. These philosophical questions aren't new, Hofstadter and Dennett were exploring them >30 years ago in The Mind's I and other writers had been toying with the ideas for decades before that.
This makes some spiritual assumptions about things that are currently unknown and debated by respected people in related fields - one being that"everything" (or not) is sentient/conscious.
Oh, I've tried very hard to understand the views of people like Chalmers, Nagel and Goff. My only take-away is that it's just gatekeeping because science has made more advances on these questions in a few centuries than philosophy has in milennia. They want there to be a hard problem, because then they can keep talking about ill-defined problems all day with no progress in sight, publishing papers. Just happy to be workin'
SKU Stock Keeping Unit. Sorry. Vs Skew. I probably am using the word "SKU" wrong but it's what we called the slight variations of product.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stock-keeping-unit-sku....
I think that's a bit off topic for the article.

This is about how to handle divorce logistics, not whether or not to get divorced.