skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>On Hacker News there's always those little memes... XKCD 927 (Jesus I wish it would die), Betteridge law of headlines, Gell-Mann Amnesia. It's the same things over and over.

I've had existential crosses about this and wondered if I had an original thought. Even having an existential crisis seems trite.

I'm not sure the alternative of everybody having unique ideas would be preferable though because most of them would almost by necessity suck.
I see marriage as an equal partnership, so if there is a post-marriage 'severance' (beyond 50/50 asset disposition noted above) it would be bilateral (bread winner gives money to home-maker, home-maker gives maid/home-making service to bread winner). Seems cleanest at all just to cut ties though.
Tool to Create a Blog from Notion
Securalism is the modern religion of France - it is key part of modern French identity. France was one of the few modern examples of a successful refactor of the culture of an entire society - wholesale out with the old, in with the new - a true 'Year Zero' style revolution, not some sort of disguised compromise with the ancien regime.

It is interesting to see how this militantly secular France handles the challenge posed by conspicuous religious adherency, especially from Islam.
Or just a few nuclear power plants…
> The problem here is that we know how LaMDA works and there's just no way it meets the bar for sentience, no matter where you put the bar. LaMDA is trained to acquire information, and then it's designed so that it says things which make sense in context. It does not acquire new information from conversations, but it is programmed to not say contradictory things.

I mean...there are plenty of people that don't acquire new information from conversations and say contradictory things...I'm not sure I'd personally consider them sentient beings, but the general consensus is that they are.

As a rare opportunity to share this fun fact: ELIZA, which happened to be modeled as a therapist, had a small number of sessions with another bot, PARRY, who was modeled after a person suffering from schizophrenia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARRY
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/when-...
https://www.elsevier.com/books/artificial-paranoia/colby/978...
The sceptic arguments I read focus on accidental decoherence during the computation. If that goes well, and classical computers only "catch up" during measurement, wouldn't this mean that the time cost of measurement has to scale super-polynomially? Is that plausible?
As Chris Rock says, the problem is not having to give up half of 15M. The problem is having to give up half of 35,000.
My utility format the feed url by extracting the relevant suffix from the url slug when it includes:

"/user/"

"/channel/"

"/playlist?list="

I think the newer slug format for channels is "/c/" in which case I think you do have to extract it from the HTML source, but they now include the feed URL anyway.

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="FEED_URL">
Do you work for companies you're legitmately proud of?
Construction materials in diplomatic pouches… understandable for an embassy, but for a non-diplomatic building abroad? What in the world were they trying to build with? US customs isn’t going to hold up any properly labeled containers of building materials, especially if the Chinese embassy asks the state department for help.

(I get that “pouch” can mean shipping container)
One of the nicest things about nftables is the way most distros has packaged it: with a service named "nftables" that runs a base config file from a standard location (usually /etc/nftables.conf or /etc/sysconfig/nftables.conf). With iptables, it seemed like every distro had a different "standard" way of configuring the base ruleset (through various services and init scripts) -- and changed it up every few years.
Could this be more CLODO attacks?

"Machines in Flames is an experimental documentary that details the journey Thomas and Andrew underwent in the search for the group CLODO (Committee for Liquidation and Subversion of Computers). CLODO were/are an elusive group who were invested in attacking and burning down computer centres in France in the early 1980s. After a series of attacks in Toulouse, they disappeared and were never discovered."

https://machinesinflames.com/
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/le-clodo-clodo-speak...
https://landscapesurgery.wordpress.com/2022/05/23/machines-i...
Issue is that we don’t need it to explain humans either. Most people think that a human is sentient and a rock isn’t – but humans and rocks are both atoms bouncing around, so you need an explanation for what’s different.

I think most physicists think that if you started with a description of the positions and velocities etc of all the particles in a human, and put them into a supercomputer the size of the moon, and had the computer run a simulation using the standard model, then the simulated human would act identically to a real human.

But there’s a number of open questions when it comes to consciousness – would the simulated human have a simulated consciousness, or would it have a consciousness that’s just as real as yours or mine despite coming from a simulation?

If the consciousness is just as real as yours or mine, that obviously means it would be very unethical to simulate a human being tortured, since you’d be creating the exact same consciousness experience you would get if you tortured a non-simulated person. isn’t it kind of a surprising implication that there’d be programs that are unethical to run? A bunch of logic gates computing pi presumably have no conscious experience, but if you make them fire in a different order they do?

Meanwhile, if the simulation doesn’t have a conscious experience, then that means you don’t need consciousness at all to explain human behavior, same as you don’t need it to explain ELIZA.

Anyway, since you’re a physicist I’d be really curious to hear your thoughts
Just imagine 2 transparent sheets with some regular pattern - when you move one over the other you can create infinite, non-repeating patterns.
It depends, for parts the only place to reliably find name brand is on eBay. Parts on amazon is mainly just a domestic arm of of Aliexpress and Alibaba.
> For a while MailChimp was the only one of the major/reputable providers I trusted the Unsubscribe button on

Mailchimp is up there with Marketo and Sendgrid for me. Getting unsubscribed from something I never opted into… well I still haven't figured out how to do that.
Its a fundamental question of sentience that folks are commenting. I agree LaMDa has a better knowledge-base & open-domain information retrieval method.

In the words of Robert Heinlein, "One man's magic is another man's engineering" :)
I wonder if it wouldn’t put them in a problematic position as a marketplace operator, especially as they’re already abusing their position with their “Amazon basics” lineup.

“We listened to customer demand” wouldn’t as a defense for filtering for goods that go through their warehouse (which also doesn’t guarantee you get what you expected)
You probably already know this, but careful with canned tuna. Eating it daily for too long (weeks to months, judging from various anecdotes) leads to mercury poisoning. Same with non-canned tuna.
Maybe the AI is enlightened and it has no need for active desires.

If I lead a passive lifestyle and the only thing I desire is death, am I no longer sentient in your eyes?
We know Zeus doesn't exist because Zeus is supposed to sit on Mount Olympus and he isn't there.
Years ago I stumbled onto competitive Tetris because the YouTube algorithm pushed the Jonas vs Joseph match on me. I didn't expect it to be exciting, but it was actually captivating and I've followed CTWC (very) passively ever since. The excitement from the commentators is also very infectious.
I think what this person meant is the renewable enthusiasts treat insulation as something easily done whereas it will take 100 years to insulate the majority of houses in Europe in my view…
If you truly embrace the fibonnaci system, the estimation system is 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, ..., as defined in the standard https://oeis.org/A000045 .

So if someone says they estimate "1", they should clarify if they mean the former one or the latter one. The former one is less likely to grow into a "2" or a "3" than the latter one, but it does risk growing into the latter "1".
The difficulty of unwinding it is what makes it a valuable signal of commitment.
A professional therapist can help a child detach from an unhealthy attachment and coping mechanism.

There’s definitely a problem with a child wasting resources without being able to be stopped.

How is there not a problem here?
Look at this peace from Jeff Sutherland: https://qr.ae/pv4DI3. There is a study out there that shows, that teams working with estimates are less productive than teams working with no estimates. The key is: "Best teams have small stories and do no tasking." What I'll try next: only estimate with t-shirt sizes S and L. And everytime it's an L trying to slice it smaller.
> multiple sources familiar with the investigation tell CNN that
there's no question the Huawei equipment has the ability to
intercept not only commercial cell traffic but also the highly
restricted airwaves used by the military

I am a bit out of date on the latest designs, but presumably antenna
resonance, array phase (directionality) and radio spectrum are all
controllable with software now. Any or all of these could be modified
remotely and changed back to civilian cell parameters again in a
matter of seconds. Additionally the firmware, and hence general
capabilities, can be remotely updated.

Hence, one can no longer look at a device like a modern radio cell and
say "this is designed to work in such a way". If you impounded it,
took it to a lab, what you'd see on the bench may have no relation to
how it operated a few days ago. Given also that traffic to and from
the device may be encrypted all the way back to Beijing, the operation
of the devices cannot be attested even in principle.

This is a serious general problem in modern security - one of
unfalsifiability and plasticity of form and function. It applies as
much to Windows and Apple computers as to Huawei.

Unless we quickly reverse the trend toward vendor-trust models that
give over total control to unverifiable remote entities we're all
going to be seriously screwed soon. This is going to play out in the
Intel microcode debacle, in Apple's iron control over devices in the
face of EU interoperability edicts, and on many more fronts...

And last I checked, our clinically insane UK government still hasn't
fully buried the idea the Chinese might build us a nuclear power
station over here!
It seems to me we need a lot of nuclear power. In the US, we need to close the fuel cycle, reprocessing all the existing spent fuel, and building a new class of reactors that can handle the resulting fuel mix.

With this base energy supply in hand, our options are far more flexible for extracting carbon from the air, and either making fuels, or petrochemical feed stock from it.
> You've cherrypicked examples. Look at UNC Chapel Hill or Georgia Tech or Duke (acceptance rates of 25% or less, small Asian populations.

I see higher white populations at those schools than the ones I cited, which would support my point that affirmative action does not disadvantage whites, since all 3 schools you mentioned use affirmative action yet they have higher white populations than schools which do not use affirmative action.

> You're claiming that none of them engage in race-aware, holistic admissions processes, despite contrary statements on all of their undergraduate admissions websites?

I made no such claim. In fact, the stats you've shown would further prove my point that whites are not disadvantaged by affirmative action, and that Asians are.

> Are you claiming that being overrepresented compared to the baseline population is evidence that a group is unaffected by affirmative action

When did I say overrepresented? I merely said the percentage of whites is the same between schools which do and do not use affirmative action, in both schools which are prestigious and those which are not. You cannot say the same is true for Asians.

> are unaffected by affirmative action

Except the evidence is overwhelming that Asians have to have higher SAT scores, stronger extracurriculars, and stronger profiles to be admitted compared to both whites and other minorities. Not only that, but Asians who received identical personality scores as whites/blacks from alumni interviewers were rated lower by Harvard admissions staff, in order to disadvantage Asians. See: SFFA vs. Harvard. Try to read from a source that isn't liberal this time around.

Your claim that all races must have equal representation to their proportion of the population ignores the impact of culture on outcomes. Why do black people dominate athletics? Maybe ask yourself if the NBA should have affirmative action.

> You literally just claimed to know what's good for society

No, I claimed affirmative action was illegal under the Civil Rights Act and racist. The difference here is that you are a white person, who is not affected by affirmative action, mandating that minorities, who are negatively affected by affirmative action, adhere to it. And you dismiss minorities' opinions as invalid and dismiss the fact that a majority of minorities say they don't want race to be taken into account in the workplace (see the Vox link in my previous comment). THAT is white supremacy: believing your own opinions about minorities, as a white person, while ignoring those same minorities telling you they don't want what you're preaching.
> As a result the amount that a farmer would save by halving their water usage is often $0, so they don't.

It’s even worse than that, these rights are on a “use it or lose it” basis, so not only do farmers pay very little for the water, they’re incentivised to use all they can on extremely water-intensive crops and methods, and waste the rest.

The Colorado water compact is complete insanity.

And acquirer management is no better.
Accusations of abuse seem pretty rational to me in a custody battle. It's one of the best ways to get custody. Come up with some 'witnesses', trick the kid into testifying on your side. Have the attorney write up the sob story and blindside the other partner so they're left defenseless. Bonus points if you can get a restraining order in the process so custody is lost and continuity is maintained by continuing the custody terms of the restraining order -- also a good way to destroy means of defense as in some states a spouse has their firearm rights suspended during the order.
More than a few people are "unimpressed" by America's geopolitical adventures in foreign lands, it doesn't seem like too much of a stretch of the imagination to believe that this may play more than zero of a role in willingness to be "a team player".

Whether this is logical behaviour misses some important points about humans.

Upthread someone blames it all on Wakefield. I suspect this is also less true than it seems.

I often wonder: could having inaccurate models of reality be harmful?
With Sonic I have to use their servers for outbound stuff since they block outbound SMTP without a static IP (and they don't offer static IPs with fiber). It's a price I'm willing to pay since I typically don't see false positives (and ye I check my logs periodically) with Spamhaus.

Unfortunately I've moved to Proton and the increase in spam is pretty damn frustrating.
Well as long as we're writing scifi...

The way I think about time (also probably wrong and not nuanced enough) is through the energy of a system (entropy?). Essentially if the whole universe operates on a tick based update system, then moving from one state to the next is all about how various particles interact with each other. And this in general would be particles moving from a higher entropy state to a lower entropy state. So effectively to go back in time you'd need a lot of energy to undo all the chemical reactions / potential to kinetic energy conversions etc. that caused us to go from one state to the next. So even if it was possible to undo the appropriate state changes using some magic machine, there wouldn't be energy to do it

Now what's really mind blowing is that if such a machine was operating on you, you might still be conscious in a potentially horrifying way. The conclusions of your thoughts come before the thoughs that triggered them, and then they melt away into the thoughts that will trigger them...
> Money can't buy you a planet (yet) and money only have value in a functioning economy.

So? Look at the people around the world who are gleefully destroying everything to turn a buck.

You're unbelievably naive.
> It's not like there's zero chance of negligence at a proper hotel, but yeah the odds should be better.

If you're staying at the Sheraton, there may be negligence but you can be confident that there will be proper insurance.

Much more common than a fire would be theft. My friend was staying at the Shangri-La in Paris for his honeymoon. The porter took his bags while he was checking in, and their bags were stolen right out front the hotel.

The hotel apologized profusely, upgraded them to a very nice suite, and they got something like EUR 5000 for their belongings. He had a camera but mostly it was just their clothes (and suitcases) that they had to replace.

Hotels are like the opposite of Comcast or United. There is a lot of competition. They are literally called the Service Industry. AirBnb's offer a lot that hotels don't (charm, locations, potentially cost), but security and consistency is not it.
Interesting, but there's one thing I didn't get. Why does each piece need different keys?
A high sky Skylake ultrabook from 7 years ago with maybe 8gb of memory if it was higher spec is fuck slow with a bad battery life and you can absolutely notice the difference even if you're capable of ignoring it. The Intel HD graphics GPU on these laptops is also a real problem.

A good laptop does make a difference when visiting some javascript monstrosity on the internet, I'm not saying it's good value, but if you have the money, why not buy a MacBook Air over a Chromebook?
Extending SQLite with Rust to support Excel files as virtual tables
A lovely idea, but it will not happen anytime soon because states consider energy independence to be of existential geopolitical importance.
Impact of Static Pressure Differential on Server Level Performance (2018)
I own the website hackerlab.in. If anyone in India is interested to start a hacker space, do DM me. Not anytime soon, but something you maybe interested to start in the long term.

DM me on matrix[1] @cj:hackerlab.in or email me on cj@hackerlab.in

[1] matrix is a chat protocol. Like XMPP but better. Check out matrix.org and element.io. Also checkout beeper.com
Prefix title with "Ask HN:"
I’ve stopped buying most things at Amazon for this reason. Surely they realise that long term this is going to be an existential threat for their retail business? Much like how Netflix is now having issues after pumping out sub-par content for too long.
I have a friend who works as a category manager at Amazon global and she gets frequent offers from shady people for "mutually beneficial partnership".

Even the suspensions don't have alot of affect for these shady sellers.

I have worked with a company that provides listing services on Amazon in the past. The owner once casually mentioned how they help these companies get out of suspensions for long enough to withdraw their balance(I have seen screenshots with over $200k in balance) with the help of an amazon employee. The listing company and amazon employee are both paid via Bitcoin.
To be a one person contractor you need to accept you will not have job security. You will succeed best if you have a good network of people to help find work.

Consultancy, mentioned here, might be a useful stepping stone to get the feel of being a supplier.
> If you were to divorce would you find it reasonable for her to get 50%?

Seems like a good place to start, although it should probably be for a limited time and/or reduce over time. My spouse stopped working shortly after we married, as was mutually agreed and beneficial, and many years out of the workforce likely reduces earnings forever, but 50% of earnings after divorce forever doesn't seem fair; 50% for a limited time is probably less administrative burden than an amount that more fairly or accurately compensates for the lost earnings potential for a longer time. Certainly 50% of retirement accounts, and if there's a pension, 50% of that portion fairly allocated to the marriage (social security has its own rules for spousal allowances in a divorce, which may or may not be fair, but are what they are; I'd assume that's mostly accepted as-is though?)
It's not a symmetric exchange though. One person has decidedly more capability to start a new life than the other. The 'severance' is intended to help them establish that new life (e.g., acquire training, housing, etc)

If they're continuing to perform home making duties, they don't have the time to build that new life. And you're essentially keeping them trapped in the relationship even after a divorce.

You're of course welcome to negotiate anything with a potential spouse before marriage and encode it in a prenup.
I have always wanted to be a member of one. We barely have any such places here.
Flexport Is Hiring Software Engineers
I moved away from what I grew up with, and prefer it. (Good thing, I guess)
Went from Manitoba prairie, to west coast. Mountains and ocean, and in my yard, mostly a wall of tall evergreen trees.

The weather is pleasant too, but I attribute much of the change to what I find to be a more appealing fractal dimension of landscape. It's not all the same, and I much prefer that.
Controlling the temperature inside equipment racks (2010) [pdf]
> every country should manufacture its own entire telco stack - clearly anything foreign made is a higher security risk than one that is domestically made. Imagine an adversary being able to remotely trigger a nuclear war by issuing commands to a router

You're weirdly implying every country is an adversary of every other. There's no good reason for "every country should manufacture its own entire telco stack," but it is reasonable for them to only source equipment from ideologically-aligned natural allies.
For this fibonacci sequence, consider a 2d grid with Vertical and Horizontal lines.
Take a line with slope 1/golden ratio, and run it through this grid.
If you mark down H for every Horizontal line you cross, and V for every Vertical line you cross, you get this fibonacci sequence (properly called a fibonacci word).

This is the relationship between a 2d lattice and this sequence that wikipedia told me. Calling it a projection seems a bit much to me.
Expanding on this, I would expect the Penrose tilings to be a similar slice through a regular high-dimensonal 'crystal'. The key being that irrationally of the slope means no periodicity of the intersections.
Oh, I do miss a good thunderstorm. The roof hail damage, not so much.
There is a difference between legalizing recreational heroin, as the parent comment and activists like Dr. Carl Hart suggest, and providing maintenance doses in a medical setting under supervised and monitored conditions. Switzerland does the latter.

Portgul is relevant because their program of decriminalization is frequently referenced in media and by US policymakers.