skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah TC39 has a habit of letting proposals languish at stage 2 for years. I wouldn't give up hope though. The decorators proposal finally made it to stage 3 after spending an eternity at stage 2. According to the slides from the TC39 meeting this month [1][2], it looks like they'll be proposing an advancement to stage 3 in September.

[1]https://github.com/tc39/agendas/blob/main/2022/07.md
[2]https://www.dropbox.com/s/g4enjgd4p2npv2s/record_tuple_updat...
I mean... the crazy nuts also predict a lot of stuff that ends up being true.

I got vaccinated because "if you get vaccinated, you won't get covid"... and then the narrative changed. 5G (well, every technology from 2g onwards) also enables a lot more precise tracking of users (their location).
There are multiple things at play. Clients, and devices (mobile), can change the way that HLS/DASH change the quality, some have reasonably strong specifications. Usually, this is the result of the client being unable to keep up with the quality you're trying to play against the Specification/Configurations.

See:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/http_live_streamin...

https://dashif.org/docs/DASH-IF-IOP-v4.3.pdf
At current prices, it's already worth fully solar individually... just expensive up front. Batteries and transmission are so expensive it's worth just installing MOAR solar. Connecting to the grid would be $1k/year so (depending on rate of return) it takes ~20years to pay off, which is right around the warrantee period.

Where I am there are ~5 peak solar equivalent hours in mid summer and ~0.5 hour on a rainy winter day. If I need 10kWh/day, then I need to install ~20kW at $500/kW, with 30kWh of battery for <$5k, and <$3k for dual 6.5kW inverters for 240V at 50A service. During the summer I charge my neighbors electric cars, but it's not worth paying the connection fee to hook up.

I think the grid tie solar fees are so high because the power companies would rather be getting the money for installing solar and batteries.
>It also becomes difficult to trust someone when their position stops being one of (supposed) moral responsibility and starts becoming a source of fame, celebrity, and access to influential podcast/media circles that were previously out of reach.

If you use known-good whistleblowers of the past as a reference, does that filter stand up? You've come up with a catch-22 where you will only listen to whistleblowers you haven't heard.
Another thing to consider: plants currently require a lot of natural gas or other fossil fuels to grow. Droughts and heat waves can disrupt production.
In a world with two time dimensions there would be no such thing as causality: with a, b \in R^2 (the field of real numbers), a<b doesn't make sense, because two events can have the same distance from (0,0) but different angle \phi (modulo orientation of chosen frame of reference), and therefore I wouldn't be able to distinguish between past and future events in general. Causality breaks down.

Propagating along a 1D trajectory (ie flow of time) would then be along a 2D "trajectory" through which I would experience indefinitively many events at once, unclear which one impacts on which others. But clearly I perceive me writing this post "right now", and am about to push the send button..
That is pretty much the problem, right? "We are in the majority, so we won't really make an effort to accommodate you, too bad."

Thankfully I actually see things changing.

If you think it's fair to criticize people for their accents and then admonishing them for being upset, you might want to work on your empathy and social skills too.
> 2. Mark it up 5x-10x.

From the limited searching I did when I first noticed this, it seems to actually be a more or less flat $10 markup, regardless of whether that works out to 10x or 10%.

Maybe some sort of fixed cost is involved?
I don't think that's a philosophical or scientific statement. It's merely something an ostensibly self-aware creature cognizant of its awareness making a subjective statement.
California went big on rooftop solar. Now that’s a problem for landfills
Gameboy/NES emulator is probably a reasonable option.

I have a keychain toy I got as a child that has a cheap LCD recreation.

<strike>clearly the best option is bastet on linux</strike>
Maybe if natural gas was in short supply I could understand their angle. But it isn't, so I don't. Seems like a solution in search of a problem. Meanwhile, global warming, the paramount problem, needs fast solutions, not elaborate stopgap workarounds.
> GPT-3 is known to fail in many circumstances which would otherwise be commonplace logic. (I remember seeing how addition of two small numbers yielded results - but larger numbers gave garbled output; more likely that GPT3 had seen similar training data.)

These things are orthogonal to sentience.
A tragic day for all my fellow containerheads.
The difference with PKE is that there was no contact between MI6 and the acked inventors. Von Neumann was aware of others' work that he could have acknowledged, even if not by name, but chose not to.

My recollection is that the report was published in 1949, not 1945. Maybe we are thinking of two different reports?
Don't whistleblowing protections only apply to government employees?
Well mostly agree, but they are outliers. I've been at a place in West Virginia where the closest store was a small Piggly Wiggly, and it was still a 30 minute drive. You could go to the Farmer market in Hungtington, but it was a 1:30h drive at least (don't remember exactly where was the market, if it was downtown it might have been more).

Luckily there was a lot of Shitake, lot of salads and cultivated vegetables directly at the house, but i will remember this store all my life.
I don't understand how frequency of failure is a relevant concern here.

Humans are frequently monumental idiots. The human language and inference model produces nonsensical, dangerous, and stupid results with alarming frequency.

(not to say I believe language models are sentient, but... you need something more than 'sometimes they spout made up BS' to refute the claim, because it turns out that is not particularly indicative of sentience.)
This article is the third I've seen from this website in the past 2 days [1] [2]. And while all three articles were excellent, this one is my favorite so far

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32181987

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32181805
Less surprised about this outcome than that the guy was a Google engineer in the first place. Their hiring standards seem so high from the outside, yet this guy comes across as barely computer-literate, the kind who would have fervently demanded an in-person session with the ELIZA 'therapist' in the 70's.

He really should know better what's under the hood. I guess he got carried away by his impressions, or he's playing some game with the media and the impressionable public.
The number of people who have led two independent companies to great success is exceedingly rare. The only other one I can think of is Steve Jobs, who did it three times.

> Since he has led a mix of failures and successes, the likely indicator is the teams that worked for him, not his own ability.

Or far more likely, he knows how to assemble a team that can deliver, knows how to motivate it to succeed, and knows how to get financing for it. Which is an essential skill for an entrepreneur.
Paws in the water while lapping up the water from the bowl with his tongue? Wild lol.
Exactly...most displays of AI are well trained circus animals...so far.
This is a good list. I've tried stuff like this over the years (not because I need more friends, but just because I like socializing in different venues) and I'd annotate it some:

* Your first set tends to draw people with particular personalities because hobbies tend to draw people of similar personality types. (e.g. "crunchy" types to outdoors activities, "nerds" to D&D, etc, etc)

* Your second set tends to draw wide personality types but also tends to have lower "stickiness" since barrier to entry is low. I also find that while the group isn't cliquey as a whole, the members that become friends are a bit of a clique. e.g. there's a set of regular volunteers or the core team that organize the meetups. These work best if you stick to it.

* The third set tends to draw younger folk (assuming OP is in their 30s.) GenZ was the first generation to grow up mostly online so you'll find them in most Discords, subreddits, and video game communities. IRC though attracts a very certain type of 30+ nerd, and products/services also tend to skew older as people with the money to explore options tend to be older.

Also, if you already have friends I highly suggest asking your friends to invite you to parties/gatherings/potlucks. While I've found friends from all the above venues, meeting friends-of-friends has always worked out the best for me. But as always, YMMV.

There's also the raving scene. Older ravers tend to form friends easily since younger ravers are usually there just to get trashed with their friends. Not everyone likes raves though and that's okay too.
> I remember seeing how addition of two small numbers yielded results - but larger numbers gave garbled output

Small children also have success in adding small numbers but increasingly garbled output on larger inputs. :)
Can code feel emotions?
The article we're commenting on is about a moderately efficient way to transport power from a very sunny place to another location where the loads are: you manufacture methane in the sunny place and then ship it to where the load is, either through a pipeline, through a liquefaction terminal, or after an additional process step such as hydroxylating it into methanol.

This also provides long-term grid-scale energy storage.

In a lot of cases, though, it might be cheaper just to build ten times as much solar panel capacity in the not-very-sunny place where the loads are as to build HVDC transmission lines or gas pipelines.
It's clear that the US cannot build high speed rail. Since 2009, California has spent tens of billions on HSR and has nothing to show for it. There are too many hurdles to overcome. Existing rail lines have turns that are too sharp for HSR, so the government must use eminent domain to take people's property. Construction is delayed by environmental reviews. There are issues with noise. You have to build train stations in urban areas where real estate is ridiculously expensive. Smaller towns along the route can threaten to block or delay the rail line unless they get political favors. And so on.

The easiest way to improve transport in the US would be to abolish the TSA and go back to pre-9/11 screening. That would reduce the time needed to arrive before a flight, making flying more competitive for shorter distances. When electric planes are introduced, they'll most likely be for shorter flights at first (since battery tech won't have the range for cross-country or cross-oceanic flights). Then we'll have similar travel times as high speed rail, similar environmental impact, and more flexibility than HSR (since it's easier to fly more/fewer planes to various airports than to build new tracks).
I think you're equating people not speaking out, and being silenced, as being the same as them agreeing with how things are run. The layperson doesn't have room or a voice to be able to question and doubt government policy. They can't show if they are upset because of the surveillance policy.

Hong Kong is a great example of what happens when people living in a surveillance society speak out. The Hong Kong people have been silence, as have the people in Taiwan. They aren't happy to be ruled by China. There's nothing democratic about what happened there.

I didn't make generalizations, I gave you concrete examples. I also just pointed out the poor conclusions you are jumping to. I apologize if that felt personally, that was not my intention at all. Having a strong surveillance policy makes the layperson feel worse about the society they live in, I urge you to read 1984 by George Orwell if you haven't.

The nationalism in China has its roots in how the government propaganda painted themselves and the Chinese people compared with "outsiders". It is a direct consequence of historical events and culture. It is not a new thing that came forward with the advent of technology and a feeling of security due to living in a surveillance state.

The West isn't okay with neither the government nor corporations taking our data. Overall the west still has some of the best civil rights protections, due to the rights being codified in law. Facebook is being tried in court in multiple countries. Zuckerburg is going to be deposed in court due to Facebook's relationship to the privacy violations by Cambridge Analytica. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-20/zuckerber...

I don't believe good faith discussions include considering stripping of the basic human right to privacy. It's not a binary choice between the government having that information vs corporations having it. For a while the layperson in the west didn't know it was happening. But now we're seeing the consequences of what will happen now that they do. China doesn't give people that same kind of choice on the right to privacy.

Saying the average Chinese citizen doesn't care is a generalization without any backing. Silence isn't the same as agreement.
Mr P lived up the road from here and his family still does. (Wilts/Soms:UK)

Pratchett came very dangerously close to writing serious literature. He also managed to write some of the most profound commentary on religion that I have ever seen. Try Small Gods for a rather unsubtle start.

If you want to do Pratchett then start at the beginning and work out - that's my advice. I was about 15 when the Colour of Magic came out and now I'm 52ish. There is also absolutely nothing wrong with randomly diving in but why not start at the beginning - no matter how daft it looks now? I actually rather like the first two books - naiive? yes!

Everyone has a favourite book because he attacked so many themes with alacrity. I see loads of calls for "read Monstrous Regiment" here - and it is an absolute belter. It is a very polite and beautifully handled feminist treatise with a hefty nod to the bloody nonsense that is civilisation in Europe.

"Small Gods" is not polite in any way and nor is "Winter Smith" - both are quite searing indictments on religion.

Anyway, Sir TP wrote stuff and it is rather good. I'm an engineer and the railway related stuff hits home even though I trained as a Civ Eng and now do IT! I shudder to think what would have been written by a Sir TP who understood say Python. We got Ant Hill Inside and the College of Inadvisably Applied Magic - we got off very lightly.
> Doors anyone know if they have multiple “owner codes” or an I just way overriding the scale here?

Like IEEE OUIs, one company can have multiple owner prefixes. Maersk has 41:

* https://www.bic-code.org/bic-company-search/?searchterm=MAER...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6346
> We don't really have a water problem -- we have a water-pricing problem. Charge more for water....

Marginal analysis. Must have done an economics course.

Marginal analysis only works on the margins. If the Colorado river is producing 2/3 of the water that is actually being used (if I read the article correctly) they are a long way from the margins and marginal analysis will not help.

If they had set the prices correctly at the beginning, but the silly people probably relied on market mechanisms, which only work on short time frames.

The actual problem, fundamentally, is that our engineering capabilities ran away from our economic and political control mechanisms a century ago, and the chickens are coming home to roost.

Even more fundamentally our problems are cause by the greed and hubris of a small but powerful section of the population tat will not listen to reason
I think you should probably have a default image. I guess lazy & paranoid enough to not upload a file...
> It's unclear what the specific issues causing them to close are but it's definitely not an issue of quality.

It's pretty clear that they no longer have enough money to continue operations and were too reliant on non-revenue based sources (grants/partnerships) to keep the doors open which seems to have run dry:

The reality is, our organization is unsustainable in its current form. Our revenue streams over the years have been a mix of membership, ticket sales, and office rentals, but heavily reliant on grants and partnerships. At present, without a significant investor, major partnership, or direct injection of funds, our runway is not long enough to make the changes necessary for building long-term self-reliance.

It's a shame, looks like a really interesting spot for tinkerers and hackers. Let's hope they do get a chance to come back as they say it will remain in some capacity. Sacramento is a long drive from the bay area, where you'd think most of the target demographic resides, but I'm guessing the rent prices on a space make it untenable.
Looks like it supports getting data from ipfs:// and ipns:// URIs by using an ipfs gateway, which is basically an http-to-ipfs server.

- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/libavformat/ipf...

- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/f889837e00d3b2388a24...
You could satisfy the world current demand for energy by covering 0.08% of the Sahara Desert with nuclear power plants.
> A feature is detected independent of its sign or scale as long as the scale is significantly larger than p.

Pretty sure that is supposed to end in "... than q." instead. p is the sharpness, q is the noise scale (more or less).
Google says it will restore the app permissions section on the Play Store
Europe would then become the vassal of whoever is running Libya with their hand on the circuit breaker.
Yes you're right, I meant in my own experience.
That’s more of a philosophical question than one that can be answered in a straightforward way. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
I was copying a file today and thought: "Why is it duplicating the data? Why does it not just create a new second filename pointer in the filesystem?"
Messaging app JusTalk is spilling millions of unencrypted messages
The problem is that you have to do that by hand, and thus it will be possible to get out of sync with the actual requirements of the generated code, leading to C++-like template error messages that have to include the entire stack for you to make sense of what went wrong.

Or in other words, there are two parts to checking constraints: checking that the caller satisfies them, and checking that the callee doesn't accidentally rely on anything beyond those constraints. Zig's approach only gives you the first one.
Public facing FAQs are not accurate descriptions of the actual engineering decision making.

For example, 'All of Webb's systems are designed to survive micrometeoroid impacts.' is clearly only true below a certain bound, and untrue for a large enough impact event.

There's no way JWST as designed, as launched, can survive 1 million micro meteorite impacts over a 1 minute duration. Maybe it could survive 100 or 1000, but the threshold is certainly there.
Maybe check out Pinetime, Bangle js 2 or Watchy.

https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/

https://banglejs.com/

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sqfmi/watchy
Do they give a reason?
The sun shines a lot more in California and Arizona (those are yer big Colorado river agricultural states) than it does other places. So, with enough water, the yield per acre of land per year is rather high.

The same sun shines during a lot more of the year in CA and AZ. Folks like their year-round fresh vegetables.

Even with a good hot house in the middle West or the north East, the yield per acre per year won't be as high. Until the water runs out in the Western states, after which I reckon it'll be quite a bit higher.
To be fair, I didn't know what a exactly a 'candy heart message' was. I probably would have failed this particular Turing test.
>Unless you have zero access to point sources, point source capture will always be more "Environmentally Friendly" than atmospheric carbon capture.

Ideally we'll get to a point where every CO2 point source either stops being a point source, already has a mechanism for capturing the emissions, or can't economically accommodate carbon capture for some other reason (airplanes, probably).

At that point we might still have too much CO2 in the atmosphere. We'd have to figure out some way to get it out, whether that's by manufacturing hydrocarbons, planting trees, something else, or all of the above.
Everything is processed in browser with vanilla JavaScript.

I'll release the code later, for now you can right click and inspect the source
If you ask my honest opinion, sentience is a relative concept among living beings : Dogs learn by imitation & repetition. They have a reward function in their brain. And also some emotional response. We go few steps further : We imitate the observations but we are also able to extrapolate on it. We are aware of our survival instincts & fear of death/expiration. That I feel is in the spectrum of sentience. Are there beings capable of more sentience? I don't know but its possible. We just don't know what the extra is

Adding to it, a brilliant neuroscientist I heard talk said "we live inside our bodies". We are acutely aware that we are more than our mass of flesh & blood. (As a footnote,that essence somehow has a crossover to spiritual topics where savants talk of mind & body etc - but I try to be within my domain of a regular human being :D)
Those containers are going to be worth so much on the collector's market though. Like that stamp with the upside down plane on it.
How so?

Population Bay Area 7.7 million

https://www.google.com/search?q=population+bay+area

Population of Switzerland: 8.6 million

https://www.google.com/search?q=population+of+swizterland

Size of Bay Area: 6900sq miles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_th...

Size of Switzerland: 15940sq miles

https://www.google.com/search?q=size+of+swizterland
The guy is unhinged and has a persecution complex. He is a "priest" in a bizarre sect and has long claimed that Google has it out for him because of his religious practice. This was a publicity stunt plain and simple.
The Turing test was literally framed by Alan Turing as a test through which you could determine the answer to the question 'can machines think'.

If he saw a computer pass the Turing test, Alan Turing would have been comfortable saying that it was capable of thinking.

Fact is there was no 'Turing Test' here, and really there's not any such thing as objectively 'passing' it. But if you're going to claim that if we do create a computer that people widely agree can pass the Turing test, that still wouldn't count as 'thinking', well then we obviously need a better test.
Which campus cafe do Xooglers miss the most?
High taxes always drive capital away into unproductive tax havens.

Reagan's achievement was to eliminate tax shelters in exchange for lower tax rates. This pulled the investment out of those unproductive shelters into productive activities, leading to the prosperity of the 80s.
Take a look at the cp man page -

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cp.1.html

Look for "reflink" and you get your wish :)
All my co-workers are online. I consider some to be good friends. It’s the way of the world now.
There are exceptions and I see how it can act as a sort of safety net group of acquaintances on which you can build... but for most people, work has got to be the worst place to find meaningful relationships and purpose, hasn't it? You can be made redundant in a moment and lose contact, there's money, an explicit hierarchy, and competition making everything awkward, and the purpose is usually questionable (hence the money)
Yes it can, although it depends on the code (and maybe some hardware details to an extent).
Long term use of NSAIDs may (probably?) contribute to chronic pain:

https://bgr.com/science/nsaids-like-ibuprofen-may-actually-b...

(Original paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abj9954)