skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never claimed consciousness doesn't exist, just that it doesn't require magical homunculi and wonderstuff to work. Also, that's pretty much Searle's response too. Not very convincing when philosophers are even unwilling to make an argument.
Amazon isn’t a monopoly, its competitors just don’t have good shipping or return policies.

I got an empty box shipped to me instead of an SSD last week and got an instant refund for it.
The issue with the discussion about the license change: https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf1/issues/10
The point is not that everyone should live in a passivhaus. The point is that better insulation can help reducing energy consumption. Not best: better. Those are two different words. No, you don't need a passivhaus, but the passivhaus example, which barely needs heating, is useful for demonstrating the efficiency of insulation.
That one image very powerfully captures the total and utter idiocy of car-centric development. Imagine if that thin sprinkling of actual buildings were reconfigured into one dense, car-free urban core…
My formulation was indeed not accurate. I should have said "wrongly", instead of "by the wrong people". (To leave it open, what the exact reason could be, because that can vary.)
If the OP is correct in their assessment, they work 13.5 hours per day - that sound way too much to me, especially as they previously used to work 8.5 hours minus breaks...

I'm personally happy to put in a productive 9-5 and don't see a need to regularly work 60-70 hour weeks.
I love articles such as this. It’s fascinating to observe the past, both when their understanding is prescient, and, like this case, almost comically wrong.

The sexism bothered me though.
From my limited understanding, a quantum computer performs computations over probability distributions, rather than over numerical values. Performing precise computations over probability distributions is a serious problem in many domains - physical simulations are just one. Another example is that could allow much more efficient and precise data fusion, and as a result - a leap in AI abilities, across domains where AI is used.
As a non Brit but had a permanent position in Oxbridge, my advice was to look beyond the UK.

Even within Europe, there are many institutes that are strictly better than oxbridge. If you’re a scientist, there is no point in being too narrow and confining yourself to UK.

I would agree though that at the undergraduate level oxbridge is excellent. Postgraduate what matters actually is the advisor and grant money.
I bought a bunch of underwear from a nonsense brand name on Amazon once and it actually turned out to be both high quality and have the nonsense brand name printed in big letters on the elastic bands.

So some of them are proud of it.

(EYUSHIJIA, which sounds Chinese but doesn’t mean anything according to the trademark application.)
Creating a Circular Maze [video]
I stopped when it became a dependency mess. Kwallet this, avahi that and disabling things broke other things. It became too much of a burden. I love the UI better than any DE but I stick to something like openbox or enlightenment these days.
> Insert a gun into a frustrating situation for no reason

IMHO that's the main reason everyone having a gun with zero training is one of the stupidest things ever. People are dumb, people are brash, people make mistakes, people argue over everything. Why introduce a lethal component to every confrontation and bar fight? Because a piece of paper written 200 years ago says that it will be needed to protect the country doesn't really sound like a good enough reason for all the useless deaths.
Websocket tunneling is known to work against the GFW.
Many people reported me that they managed to use wstunnel to bypass

https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel (linux + mac + windows)
I'm honestly really interested in the concept, but I have no idea how you'd consistently implement or enforce it.

The blog post's note of:

> Thanks to web3, the software can charge for usage automatically and anonymously.

is concerning as the definition of web3 being used there seems to be the one bound to cryptocurrency... is the "monetization module" going to effectively require integration with an arbitrary blockchain ecosystem, or is that just an example of one possible implementation strategy?

Most corps would avoid projects using this license if the former were to be the case, but the latter is more open ended and could be anything from a phone home with a license server to micropayments (of any kind, no judgement here).

Looking forward to learning more about you see these issues being tackled since they're not addressed in the faq as far as I can tell
Looking at the circumvention techniques GoodbyeDPI uses makes me want to cry. Is this really the state of DPI in 2022: changing Host to hoSt, or adding white spaces between method and URI actually works?
I agree about your assessments of north-Germans, but I haven't found south-Germans (or at least Austrians, which everyone tell me are ± the same as Bavarians) any better - in fact in my 8 years in Vienna I found the natives a lot less friendly/colder than in my now 9 years in Berlin.
So quantum computers are just computational statistics?
Another fun one is our customers which are close to the border. Sure a truck's ID (plates or similar) certainly definitely unique, but if the other warehouse is close to the border as well they can make multiple trips across the border in a day... Good times when that truck ID alone is used to trigger business processes.
Experimental, non-physical, completely theoretical. Yep.
Beyond Meat’s Pepperoni Problem Threatens Its Fast-Food Future
> This pretty much binds contract in stone since partner accepted the terms even after the marriage contract was in motion.

Can you explain why this means more than just getting a prenup? I really don’t get it. If you agree to a prenup then you agreed to the prenup, no?
After WWII, no allied commanders were hanged.

What happened in Dresden, for example, was clearly a war crime, the biggest atrocity in one attack, one bombing run (not one bomb, but one attack), ever.

There is no honest judgement. There is no reciprocity. There is only the victors writing the history and punishing the non-victors, except the ones they pardon for being valuable.
Amazon can launch a new brand to distance themselves from the current form once they have firmly established themselves as a local cache of Aliexpress wares with fast shipping. It will be like an upmarket shopping mall located right next to a giant bazaar.
Suppose the call to evaluate has a p95 of 5 seconds (this is very large of course). If your first call to compute a value hits it, all the subsequent requests for that cell are blocked for 5s. If you didn’t try to cache, only one might block for 5s and the rest could go through fast. On the other hand if you do 20 requests then about one of them will get the p95 latency.
It's not going to be any different. They're buying EDF because the current situation of their nuclear capacity is a shitshow.
Kind of like how instead of modeling the entire economy and figuring out how to influence the behavior, you just identify a key parameter such as inflation or interest rates and modify that to affect every possible outcome.
This shows again that Google is nothing like Bell Labs. Has Bell Labs ever fired anyone for dissent, weird opinions or (as some allege here) a "leak"?

Whatever that guy did, please stop the witch hunt in the comments. You don't know him and obvious interest groups will spread defamation and libel.

The current societal trend in loyalties worries me: The classical left criticized corporations, committee members and the powerful. Currently, very often (but not always) people defend the powerful and those with access to media outlets and denounce the individuals.

(There are cases where individuals can and should be denounced: If they are part of a powerful organization or committee and engaged in abuse of power or lies for political purposes.)
This hasn’t been true since decades now. 96% of cattle is raised on grain instead of grazing. Merely 4% in the US are allowed to be called „grass fed“ and that doesn’t even mean they are grazing year round.
If you have a server/cheap vpc outside the blocking zone, you can use websocket tunneling.

https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel (linux + mac + windows)
What VPN service did you choose, and what were the contenders if any?
Well, yeah, that's the problem (or the main advantage depending on your viewpoint). The post I was replying to mentioned how painful it is to avoid routing through VPN where it's not needed (although it's pretty easy to do on Linux with network namespaces, and IIRC policy routing, which I've never tried).

I just want to point out the simplest solution which for some reason doesn't seem to be very popular, although it covers most users' use-cases better than a VPN connection does (IMHO).

Don't know about other browsers, but Firefox is able to send DNS requests through socks, whether you're using DNS-over-HTTPS or not.
How to be a tech influencer (2021)
I haven't heard of the Stevens book. Would you kindly mention the book title?
TCP/IP book?
Censorship companies probably can't hire good talent. I'm actually glad to see this, however it might get patched if this tool becomes too widespread.
Ken Burns is very, very American. And pushes very American perspectives.

Even his views of other nations are through American eyes.

The US was there at first to buoy up France's colonialism, then later to push for "democracy/capitalism," the US's own post-WWII "colonialism."
Threaded: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1550397462355009536.html
Only if you’ve done it a couple of times before… which is the point about uncertainty. Estimates should become wider when you’re less certain of how that mile looks like. Is it a paved road or a mountain trail? How much work is it to figure this out?
https://nitter.net/ColeSouth/status/1550230795230781440
> How many extinction events have there been that just wiped out the vast majority of species far before humans even existed?

Those weren’t caused by the species themselves though
Hmm... not exactly unexpected - https://www.redferret.net/the-google-ai-engineer-is-a-whistl...
When you lose topsoil, so that it doesn't infiltrate and retain water, then you will get both floods and droughts.
consciousness is self directed awareness for accomplishing some specific task, like the deer example.
Is there actually evidence that splitting up a big task reliably reduces the time it takes to complete?
I've definitely seen cases where significant time has been spent trying to break up a story to avoid 8+ point monsters, but the result was a bunch of tasks so interdependent that any attempt to work on one inevitably ended up being held up by the need to complete others (or worse, two people end up doing the same thing). I'm pretty sure the orginal task could have been more efficiently handled by a single dev all in one go, and other unrelated tasks could have been taken on by other devs.
Because it’s tiny. Tiny projects are uninteresting to estimate - you should be able to estimate them reasonably accurately.

How long will it take to build the new realtime risk engine? By the way, the team working on the FPGA deep pipeline calculators don’t think they’ll have a prototype for you before Christmas. How many devs do you need so that we’re we on track for March go-live so we avoid the $3mm/day fine for being late?
Concepts like transactions are often about trade-offs between performance and features (which introduce complexity). It's likely that the OS architects realized that if devs wanted transactions they'd use a database.
> It does not have an ability to independently think and imagine/dream

We neither if we're not supplied with energy. By the way, haven't we tried to replicate an inner dialogue by prompting the AI to recursively converse with itself? This could resemble imagination, don't you think?

> It suffers from catastrophic forgetting under certain internal circumstances (in addition to changing what dataset we trained it on)

I believe that the persistence of previous answers is what currently distinguishes us the most from the "AI". As soon as we're able to make the realtime discussions part of an ever evolving dataset constituting the AI itself, the gap will get thinner and thinner. But even then, are people suffering from Alzheimer sentient? I believe they are. Isn't it comparable with what happens when an AI catastrophically forgets?
You might want to stock up on booze and be prepared to disconnect from all media when Kissinger finally kicks it.
Built using Python turtle & without any dependencies. Try it yourself: https://github.com/emadehsan/maze
Storing heat for months requires really, really good insulation, and insulating many small stores is far more expensive than insulating one big store (essentially a square-cube thing).

So this kind of thing may only be viable for industrial processes.
I'm not following why the fact that using figure of speech is common in headlines is related to my point, which is that we should ask the journalist class to be more accurate in what they report.

>and most of us Earthlings have no trouble understanding that "melting" ain't meant literally.

Do you actually mean this? We've spent the last couple years lamenting the rise of fake news and how easily influenced people are now because of social media. If you write a headline that says "data centers are melting" don't be surprised when 20% or, hell, 50% of people think that's actually what's going on. Not everyone is an engineer who understands this stuff.
KDE Eco sprint July 2022
If shit goes south for AAAAA1 they close it and then start doing business as AAAAA2.
> The solution would be quite easy: Disallow devices (and software, too) from phoning home. Disallow remote firmware updates.

But then how will network operators outsource all of their infrastructure maintenance to vendors? That's the problem.

We have this naive idea that companies running networks employ staff to manage their networks. In reality, it hasn't been like that in a while because there has been a tremendous push in the industry to outsource everything to third parties. So the person who owns the cell tower likely has no idea who is maintaining it, much less has that person on their payroll.
Once, when I moved for a while from the northern to the southern hemisphere, my time-estimating skills were quite disturbed because the sun traveled from right to left.
I’m in a similar boat but it’s something that just kinda happened as a result of having kids and living in Singapore. In my head I wouldn’t even want to discuss it I would just split down the middle but I read your post and wondered if my thoughts would change /if/ I was going through a divorce.

Hopefully it never comes to down because our relationship is amazing.
James Hoffmann tried it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2meeYcxXoVs
I know that, but what advantage do you get from trawling through a commit sequence, over the general feature with proper documentation? If you can't understand how the overall feature was implemented, that PR generally speaking is lacking enough context to be reviewed, so why did it get merged in?
> we may never [have] had Linux.

Oh, come on. Linux was a clone of MINIX with a GPL license. If Linus had not written it, somebody else would have; and at worst (if that is worse), we would have all been running FreeBSD now.
Queue a Kickstarter to buy an expensive but extremely attractive coffe-laser brewer, expected to arrive July 2023, already in pre-production with "not"-rendered images.
In the U.K. the people who want renewables tend to be under 40s that can’t afford to buy a house. Those that actively don’t want renewables tend to own their own home and may have a couple the let out.
It's in the /dev/ folder so it looks like a device file provided by the operating system.

But it's not. It's a bash built in pseudo file. So it should work in bash on other operating systems.
And it might be tough but if you find an online community (like a discord or a forum) you should definitely reach out to people you interact with enough. It’s possible to build friendships with people online, but it requires a bit more courage.

At the very least having more people to chat with can really change the texture of life
How many companies like this exist?
There’s also Babylon Health, Push Doctor, etc. It seems like several are after the same model for a while, but it hasn’t disrupted the regular health care market..
The competitive scene is probably also influenced from the speedrun community. And the speedrun community has really worked out the kinks in their ruleset, as in most games, you need to find the sweet-spot of allowing hacks and innovative techniques to break the game, but not too much that it becomes uninteresting.

For example, in Super Mario Brothers non-TAS runs, the rules are based around the controller and execution environment. You are not allowed to modify the controller or tilt the cartridge, but that's it.

Having the rules only limit the tools required, just like in sports, is quite elegant. If somebody figured a way to play faster with their teeth, it would be allowed, and rolling the controller is just something like that.

On the other hand, people found out that you can perform certain feats in SMB by pressing the left and right button at the same time. This is considered impossible with the standard D-Pad (without e.g. cutting it in the middle), so that is banned. At least until somebody figures out a way how to do it with the standard D-Pad.
Did you try "bash <script>" or adding a #! line, which scripts should generally have anyway?
Naah... it was a peerless-to-peerless network.
Since you broached it, would you mind to explain sentience vs. sapience? Curious to know the difference.

> It's almost as though their expertise comes from several decades' worth of bad science fiction

Oof. Thanks - thats a novel way of insulting. But on a personal note, you're mistaken: Many of us do research not because we want to be identified as experts, but we're genuinely curious about the world. And I'd be happy to learn even from a high schooler if they've something to offer.
Low dose aspirin daily is recommended by cardiologists in my country as a preventative/protective measure against heart disease.
Hi, author here. It's definitely broken in many ways, but crashes should not happen. Could you open a ticket on the bug tracker with the error message(s) you get and the domain of your homeserver?
Or perhaps some good talent somehow ending up working there made sure the system is full of plausibly deniable holes.
I am talking about ads in sponsored segments. The inventory of youtube ads is much bigger, but I blocked them a long time ago (too annoying).

As for the sponsor ads it is always things like hello fresh, vpn ads, ads for free to pay games, etc. You can argue that hello fresh could be a good deal for a very small selection of people[0], and VPNs might be fine if people didn't lie about what they can do but in general it is shit or actively harmful.

Think of it this way: if you are making the best make up brush, do you want to pay for a sponsorship or just send a few samples to channels that are likely to feature it? On the other hand if what you make is so-so you have to pay to be featured.

It wasn't because ridgewallet was so good everybody was showing it, it was because they were paid for it - and even if you want a wallet like that, you are the one who pays for all the marketing.

So to sum up: most products are not revolutionary, the few that are gets their own mention because they are revolutionary and so what is left over is either too expensive or not good enough.

[0]: disposable money and enough time to cook, but not too much time and/or not enough skills to make a dish from scratch.
Ukraine’s Open-Source War
> 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.

I don't understand - are the stakes much higher when fighting for half of 35K than when fighting for half of 15m?

It seems to me that it is, but if you have a link to the video I'd appreciate it.
There’s a great episode with Blake Lemoine on the Duncan Trussel podcast (Duncan created the Midnight Gospel on Netflix) - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0NXNvJtRQSuWl4HM1MvhD0?si=V...

Listening to that it seems clear Blake knew he was likely to be fired but in his eyes it’s some kind of a duty to tell the world.

One interesting point he makes in the Podcast is Lamda is not one thing like GPT-3 but a bunch of different systems across Google interacting as one and he argues the interaction of the whole is what makes sentience.

It’s a pretty “far out there” podcast but worth the time IMO
I like! The long-standing open bugs
(also in proprietary applications) are often a symptom of risk-aversion, which to me is a smell of
some kind of rigidness in the code.
It hasn't happened yet or won't happen any time soon, but if there's a chance RSA is going to be broken I'd rather be aware of the possibility 10 years earlier than 10 days after...
Sounds fair, as long as arizonians would stop culturing the crops painfully developped during thousands of years and generously shared with them by Mexicans (Tomatoes, pepper, corn), or Peruvians (Potatoes), or Argentinians and Bolivians (Peanuts), or Europeans (Onions, Lattice, Cabbage), or Africans (cup of coffee?), or Asians (return also the red jungle chicken please, and the apple native from Kazakhstan).

They can still culture the arizonian jackalope thistle and the sellfish redneck's muddy sweetgrass, and all the other members in the long list of wonderful crops developed there, of course.
I hated the whole Akonadi thing, where it used to spawn on login an whole MySQL instance to store mail and other metadata. These days with 64 GB of RAM it's not a problem, but I remember it was such a heavy piece of machinery for very little benefit.
>I do not think something proprietary like an s3 bucket would be compatible with Peertube, but I have not maintained an instance.

Peertube supports storing videos in S3 compatible object storage: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin-remote-storage
Have you seen https://www.greenarraychips.com/home/products/index.php
I lived in a new house for 5 years from 2016. We keep the house warm (21-22), but even then the radiators were rarely on, insulation was great.

On the other hand in summer temperatures overnight we’re still in the 28-30 range in the west facing rooms even at midnight.
Clearly you haven't watched the documentary. Half the interviewees are former North Vietnamese or Viet Cong combatants, including serving Vietnamese military personnel. The point is repeatedly made that it was primarily a Vietnamese civil war. The film is made for an American audience, so naturally it also focuses on the lives of American soldiers and their families.

I don't know what your last statement has to do with anything.
I'm still using my mid-2012 11-inch macbook air. My new M2 air is shipping this week, but my old one is still good for a lot of things.
Thank you for making it. I don't really care much about deceptive advertising, but I love the peace of mind it gives me, because I can dwell into a topic without getting distracted by irrelevant stuff.
How is this related to the parent comment? I don't get what you are talking about here.
The short answer is no, I think Ising machines are much closer or even there for specific problems. They are somewhat similar to quantum computers, but entirely classical (Dwave was shown to be equivalent to an Ising machine IIRC).