skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah to add to this I think Apple likes to wait to release things until they reach a stage of really high quality and maturity so will take a few more years for something like AI that’s relatively new
but it good for luring them into those choices so virtually same thing
Disagreement is good!

It actually leads to counter thoughts and a more refined idea of what we eventually want to describe.

Sentience broadly (& naively) covers the ability to independent thinking, rationalize outcomes, understand fear/threat, understand where it is wrong (conscience) and decide based on unseen information & understand what it doesn't know.

So from a purely technical perspective, we have only made some progress in open-domain QA. That's one dimension of progress. Deep learning has enabled us to create unseen faces & imagery - but is it independent? No, because we prompt it. It does not have an ability to independently think and imagine/dream. It suffers from catastrophic forgetting under certain internal circumstances (in addition to changing what dataset we trained it on)

So while the philosophical question remains what bestows sentience, we as a community have a fairly reasonable understanding of what is NOT sentience i.e. we have a rough understanding of the borders between mechanistics and sentient beings. It is not one man's philosophical construct but rather a general consensus if you could say
yep, not unheard of for cheap unbranded devices to all have the same MAC, unfortunately.
Nope. Along with GI bleeds, kidney toxicity is an issue.

https://www.uptodate.com/contents/nsaids-acute-kidney-injury
This is fascinating. I assumed the same, because most people involved in tech are white, and our brains are very good at generalizing and following patterns. In fact, I assumed you are white, male, 25-35, employed in tech.

Until I read the part about BKK police giving you physical abuse, then I figured you might be non-white because countries outside US are far more racist, generally speaking, than the US. The less developed a country is, the more openly racist it gets (the rich ones can also be racist but do so more covertly). And generally speaking racism against whites is not very common, because (generally) whites bring money and are (generally) considered a positive thing to have around. There are exceptions like maybe American troops in Okinawa but we’re talking about generalizations here.

I now think you are Asian, because that’s the second large demographic in tech. My other assumptions still apply.

Apologies for the unsolicited reply here, I just wanted to make N>1 as far as preconceptions go.
It seems that nobody on the planet is able to invent their own quantum computer.
You dismiss the theft of trillions in IP over decades as "some online hacking". You bring up NSA domestic surveillance as a straw man to distract from what the Chinese Gov does to other countries.

Fine, I'll take a second to engage your straw man: The NSA didn't feed their surveillance data to DHS to round up undesirable ethnicities into concentration camps.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/15/documents...

Also, NSA didn't monitor phone calls they monitored the metadata of said calls. If you are going to be a troll, at least be accurate.
> It only works in languages where promises/futures/tasks are a first-class citizen. Eg JavaScript.

Why would that be true?
> They don't "acknowledge" that

> because it is not a true

> statement. Masks do limit spread

> of COVID-19.

I would love that I’m wrong. Can you please send me the link to US based study showing that masks mandates limit spread of COVID?
As far as I know, californa had mask mandates while Florida did not and both states had similar number of COVID cases per capita.
Florida had 6,614,806 cases while California had 10,367,437.
Low pay, high living costs, very little going on, very isolated from the rest of the world and people are cliquey.

If you can afford the premium, really like outdoors stuff and want a relaxed lifestyle then it's a good place to be, otherwise I think it's pretty bad.

Things you would take for granted in many other parts of the world are either very expensive or just don't exist. There's also much less variety of things because it's a small place.
Elon Musk and Silicon Valley's Overreliance on AI
A key element should be the willingness to accept that one could be wrong when the evidence supports that conclusion.

And I'd take this a step further -- the ability to unlearn/reprogram is a mark of intelligence, but ego definitely factors in as well.
The technology and economics are there for renewables. The big barrier is political.

There is deeply entrenched ideological opposition to renewable energy at some (but not all) utilities, all the way to the leadership.

And just because an energy source is the cheapest, doesn't mean that it will be the one chosen by the entrenched monopolies that are our utilities. There are lots of bad incentives out there.
I agree, not all societies are like this. However, an argument can be made that it is inherent because it is dominant.
Having lived and worked abroad in Australia, I’d say that it’s expensive but you also get your money’s worth. The country is pretty much all beautiful beaches.

People are friendly, but in my experience they were distant. It took a long time to make friends with folks (who weren’t other expats). Maybe because the houses are smaller so folks don’t invite one another over, or because of the kinda pervasive (?) social club scene where people go instead of bars or restaurants, but I found it tough to engage with folks outside of work while I was there.

It’s kinda a shame, since I’d love to go back there - if I could figure that bit out!

Especially in contrast to Germany where I also lived and worked abroad and people were very open and inviting (and also friendly).
Well somebody has to replace half their shit. Juicy demographic.
Just yesterday I was reading about Time-of-creation/Time-of-use (TOCTOU) race conditions in symlinks (https://lwn.net/Articles/899543/).

The manufacturer's new container-id generation logic probably has/had this category of issue (i.e., TOCTOU).
Hugo Blog Site with GitHub Action
> In that sense, a contract can be considered void if it doesn't reasonably specify time.

The judgment states pretty clearly that a contract is void if the two parties, at the time they made the contract, did not agree on what it meant.

> the moment it appears that two ships called the “Peerless” were about to sail from Bombay there is a latent ambiguity, and parol evidence may be given for the purpose of shewing that the defendant meant one “Peerless,” and the plaintiff another. That being so, there was no consensus ad idem, and therefore no binding contract.

[The words are from the defendant's lawyer, but the court appears to have agreed immediately.]

So this isn't formally a "win" for the defendant - formally, there never was a contract, and the suit was dismissed for failure to state a claim.
They always made me wait in the same outdoor line as everyone else even with an appointment. I've never had an urban CA DMV trip takes less than 2h.
The pandemic is not over. Wear a mask, or stay home and don't go to spaces where people are taking precautions to not get sick.
You not understanding how it ML works does not not prove anything.

In the same way that you not understanding how lightning is formed does not prove the existence of Zeus.

Objectively, Zeus does not exist, can we convince everyone of that? Probably not. Does that matter? No.
Square brackets【 】are a requirement for company/brand names when it comes to SMS communication in China:

https://support.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/msgsms_faq/sms_fa...
Computational chemistry (e.g. protein folding) is one useful application.
Your garbage attitude is a problem. Keep it to yourself.
Yeah, lawyers hate "interesting" cases. Taking on a case that "has previously only been the realm of science fiction" is not a resume builder.
Have zero problems with it, have you tried to RTFM?
That fully depends on the content of the guidelines.
Wow that's super interesting. I'm glad that the MBTA is publishing more detailed stats so we can get super interesting visualisations like that. I'd be curious to see how the charts update as Boston fixes its recent delays.
A lazy, immutable rose tree

This article shows some really cool stuff you can do with it https://www.well-typed.com/blog/2019/05/integrated-shrinking...
By smell?
I'm more likely to be dubious about the free markets supposedly unique ability to solve problems than not.

But buying electricity at $50/mwhr at noon and reselling it at $200 mwh six hours later.
Yes this was in the Atlantic. I saw quite a few in Bermuda. I’m not sure if they migrate or just live there full time. Either way it was strange and I often wonder how it got there.
I don't feel it's a hack. DAS is a mechanism of the game that was intended to aid players and make the game play more enjoyable for the typical player.

If users want to forgo that mechanism why shouldn't they be allowed? If I'm in a typing competition and am typing a word with a repeated letter such as the two l's in "all", you would never expect me to have to press the l key and wait for the computer to automatically type a second l until I released. You'd expect me to just press the l key twice because it's faster and that wouldn't be considered a "hack". Why would you expect anything different for Tetris players?

As for Mario, it's just a slightly more realistic game in terms of you controlling a set of pixels that represent a person instead of blocks. Mario doesn't move from one column to the next, he smoothly travels through all the pixels between columns because people in the real world move smoothly. Tetris blocks aren't real world objects though so they can move one column at a time. If it only takes one frame for a block to move one column, why shouldn't I be able to move the block one column every frame?

Also, in the official game, if you use DAS you move at 10Hz (moving once every 6 frames). It looks like top players can tap at around 20Hz. That's only 2x faster.
Rooftop solar is now far more expensive than utility scale solar. As a renter who subsidies this through my electricity bills I don’t understand why I should be subsidising more artisanal scale generation for homeowners at 3x the price of utility scale solar.
I believe that the water to be supplied to Mexico via the river was of such poor quality that we ended up either trucking or directly purifying a set volume of water downstream to meet our treaty obligations.
Google does not have high hiring standards, you do not grow to a 160,000 person organization nor double the size of your cloud org in a year by having high hiring standards.

Google has random hiring standards that are designed to give a perception of exclusivity. The "false positive" rejection gives Google the "hot girl" effect that makes engineers want to re-interview and then brag to their colleagues once they finally bag the offer.
External screens are not the exception in our office, or any other office I've ever seen.

The hardware vendors is there to handle a certain number of pixels at a certain refresh rate. If it wasn't, then they couldn't support even one external 6k@60hz monitor.

The problem is that Apple is making an arbitrary decision here that they don't care what resolution of external monitor you have, but whatever it is, you can have only one.
When I was 12 I worked weekends at my uncles used car lot selling trucks. Answering phones, washing/cleaning cabs, clearing parts for paint with angle grinder, populating bill of sales, researching competing offers in classifieds, learning mechanics. Hell, I even dug out a shallow trench for a telephone cable, that one took me two weeks :)
I learned to code on a machine like this. It was a $200 Chromebook (9 years ago!) But I was able to install Linux, first with Crouton, later GalliumOS and learn Ruby and JS on it just fine.
Show HN: RawInputViewer – Examine how games receive inputs from Windows
This is my third ever GUI programming project -- I've only ever done any sort of programming in AutoIt as I'm entirely self-taught via their docs/tutorials. I've only just started learning about control flow and structuring of GUI apps really recently, so you might find that the data access patterns in my source code to be a mess as I wrote them before learning about those concepts.
I do all my work on an under $200 Chromebook. I have a VPS where I do all the actual work. I use Mosh and TMUX for connecting and saving my different projects (I'm a freelance developer who is often juggling multiple clients). Basically, the Chromebook is just an SSH client and a web browser (I can also boot into Linux if needed - slightly different than described in the Tweets).

I've been doing this for years. The battery life is great and it is also nice knowing that I never have to worry about losing my device since all of my actual work is on a server I can login to using just about any other device including my phone. Most people are shocked when they see my "work station."

I read about people using TMUX and a VPS as a development environment here on HN a long time ago and have never regretted the move.
Lived in Mexico for the better part of this year until recent. Wholeheartedly agree.

Could still be in the same time zone (or close) as my job so no issues there, CDMX is extremely affordable by US standards, the city is beautiful (in the nicer neighborhoods) and the weather is great during the dry season.

Plenty of co-working spaces or cafes to go to, and the city is very friendly to expats from my experience. Helps also knowing Spanish but I know plenty of friends who didn't know a word of it and enjoy their experience.
one thing to consider is that c is not really the speed of light. It's the maximum speed of causality. If an even takes place at a specific point in space it cannot be observed at another space in time faster than the distance between the two point divided by the maximum speed of causality.

Light is easy for us to observe so we mix the speed at which we perceive it to travel to the speed of causality.

Seen through that perspective, if you are at a fix point in space, you could apply the same logic for the time dimension and because it's the same point in time you literally can claim that you travel through time at the fasted speed causality allow it. (normally it would be infinite speed, but because our world is discrete, albeit at a very small scale, the speed of causality is also limited but very large - ie C)
I dont think you’re abstractly asking a silly question. People do debate whether in-game emergent behavior that leverages obviously unintended game mechanics is allowable all the time. But the analog for Tetris here would be something like “if you press input so fast it overflows some counter and gives you free rows”. That’s not what this is. There is no “hack”. This is skill.
> When you can't tell the difference between people and symbols you've accepted nihilism

well, either that or the AI has become sentient.
Yeah but would you tell a living plant that to their face? Those poor ivy, kudzu, algae, and dandelion weeds! /s
No it's not. What do you think is going to happen to the migration or border once agriculture and clean water supplies evaporate down there?

Do the right thing, fulfill the obligations. The consequences suck for everyone.
Well the author points out with data to back them up that people have incorrectly assumed many times along the way that the exponential trend was about to end, while in fact it's accelerating.
I've been working remotely for 5 years. This post is making me realize things I didn't before about how my life has changed since working remotely, i hadn't thought about some of the stuff going on as about working remotely, but I think it is.
It's widely employed by Russian and Indian ISPs to censor access to websites. I've had a largely successful run with GoodbyeDPI 's circumvention.
Cool platform.

Do you have any plan to expand it to other country? (For example, Indonesia). Their ecommerce market is huge, quite a good potential.
what if all the ever existed and will exist exists suspended in a higher dimension and nothing really happens?

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden

T.S. Eliot - Burnt Norton
I’ve seen this type of thing happen a few times. Usually a combination of a human error at the factory plus flaky backend systems that like to do upserts.
> You can throw your hands up and yell impossible by looking for outliers with just about anything

Show me where I did that?
Running normal high voltage lines 250 miles isn’t free, and that cost should be part of the comparison used.

Also, the cheapest land I found was 4k/acre, still well above pfdietz’s estimate.
> 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?

You do the same thing you'd do in person? Go snag a person (or people) for a conversation and talk? Or send an email or whatever, if you wouldn't ordinarily speak directly to them?

If -after more than two years of remote work- the folks you're working with haven't yet learned to respond to "Hey, do you have a minute?" in text chat in the same way that they'd respond to a face-to-face request, then I'm not sure what to say.

Though, if you spend most or all of your day managing people, rather than building things, I guess I can understand the point of view. From what I've seen, managers seem to be _far_, _faaaar_ less likely to be able to cope with not being in meatspace with their coworkers than ordinary line workers.
I wonder what landfill alot of these things will end up on in a few years.

Be good to see more framework style stuff with a focus on long term usage.
My experience is that the touchpad on Chromebooks is high quality and really nice (I prefer it to a lot of other touchpads I've worked with). I can also boot fully into Linux (slightly different than what is described in the tweets), however when using Linux, the touchpad becomes terrible.

I'm guessing if I spent time figuring out the proper drivers I could probably get it working nice on Linux too but it just hasn't been worth the effort for me.

I really like the keyboard too, but I think that is probably more individual taste.
Yes, although with our recent election result, it looks like the tide may finally have turned. The pro coal government really sucked. They went from "we support renewables in theory but the economic case isn't there" to "we will do anything possible to continue to burn coal, including buying uneconomic coal power stations whose owners don't want to run them anymore'.
IT can lean on the vendor to fix their shitty software.

If the head of IT doesn't want to do that, the department is dysfunctionally managed and does not have my sympathy.

Beyond that, I don't really care what policy is. While I generally don't care about company nannyware - after all, it's your machine - the line is drawn when you are literally burning my body. If you want me to use the device, it can't cause me physical harm.
While Indonesia is cheap and has done interesting places last time I checked they were discriminating even own citizens based on religion or did they stop this? Also expect dangerous ferries/buses and smokers everywhere.

UAE with wife or as a woman, that was good one.

Australia with their fascist gov and COVID insanity on par with China? No thanks.

In Vietnam you will be cheated on every step unless you speak Vietnamese, as one expat told me you have basically 3 prices - local, foreigner and tourist price, you can move from tourist to foreigner price but it's hard to get to local price. Honestly I tried the local prices by looking how much locals pay and some sellers straight up refuse, sometimes you win, but it's very very tiring. On the bright side at least they are not smiling while cheating you (like in Thailand) so you can see at least honesty in their face and stay vigilant.
I get the feeling that one could shorten it to "solation" and it would still have the same meaning, etymologically-speaking.

Like inflammable/flammable.
I assume there's a really high fixed cost involved in creating a cable installation that's insulated and continuously chilled to liquid nitrogen temperatures, but maybe there's a break even point if the amount of current you're moving is large enough? I mean, if you're comparing with an aluminum or copper cable with a cross section measured in meters, that isn't cheap either.

There might not be a break-even point. Maybe ReBCO tape is just more expensive per amp it can transport than ordinary conductive metals like aluminum. Maybe HVDC lines can be boosted to arbitrarily high voltages such that you never need huge cables in the first place.
Having an old dog is a full-time job.
The revenue corollary of PAYGO.

I support tax cuts being tightly coupled with much reduced tax avoidance. Retroactively.
Lots of interesting ways to explore throughout, anomalies, and congestion in here. I wonder which other transit agencies publish this quality and quantity of data.
Why shouldn't we remember that great people often have great flaws? They aren't gods. They have a particular set of skills and circumstances that made them wildly successful. And that's great, but it doesn't mean they aren't human, with human flaws.
thank you for the support
While the cost of the hardware has, many factors still apply such as efficiency and thusly the total area of solar required.

You're right though that the book is not up to date, and getting long in the tooth in some aspects.
This must be something that materializes out of the seller interaction with Amazon, because the same aesthetic does not appear on eBay, or for that matter Aliexpress.
Can this be done for all models? My impression was that this is no longer possible in many cases.
Currently actively reading:

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War by Clark

The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History by Mikaberidze

An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp by Chassell

The Girl from the Channel Islands by Lecoat

Recently completed:

Leviathan Falls by Corey

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 by Clark

Showstopper! the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft by Zachary

Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War by Shesol

Seeking Love in Modern Britain: Gender, Dating and the Rise of 'the Single' by Strimpel

The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Damrosch

Come Fly with Us: NASA's Payload Specialist Program by Croft

Aerial Warfare: The Battle for the Skies by Ledwidge

De Gaulle by Jackson

1913: The Year Before the Storm by Illies

Vichy France by Paxton

Year Zero by Reid

And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-occupied Paris by Riding

The Kinsman Saga by Bova

The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters by Rove

La Place De La Concorde Suisse by McPhee

End of a Berlin Diary by Shirer

Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1933-1945 by Kahn

Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made by Rhodes

The Forgotten Depression: 1921 : The Crash that Cured Itself by Grant

Bernard Baruch by Grant

Wool by Howey

Project Hail Mary by Weir
Why is China’s photovoltaic potential so low?
The general lack of pervasive, systemic racism in much of the rest of the world is like breathing fresh air