skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope - the material universe seems to be able to achieve unimaginably spectacular feats (e.g. us) within the confines of physics, chemistry, and biology. I won't be surprised if such creativity will find a way to port "consciousness" across substrates (from meat to metal).

But I don't see this fact as dismissive of humanity's grandeur - the idea that we were placed here and made conscious by something outside of creation (quite literally a deus ex machina) is clunky. How much more elegant is it that we're instead of a kind with the rest of the universe around us and a link in that spectacle?
There's no 'click' to the drag, what do you even call that? A mouseover?

I edited my original post to better describe what happened
Canada has that too. I like his Canadian address better as he has postal code H0H0H0.
I was writing (almost) daily email when I and my wife were in long distance relationship during the time my wife studied for her master degree. It happened just in the early days of our marriage. It was the day before WhatsApp has video call feature and long time before zoom. The small daily email quite helping us to form the bonding. Couple o lf years ago I dumped the email into this blog http://www.dearwifey.com/.
All animal brains (including us) are first and foremost is a great signal processor that is tuned to surface that particular reality of nature to us that helps life.
Someone Role Playing an idiot is just as rude and annoying as an actual idiot.

In fact it might even be worse because they should know better.

This style of "debating" on the internet where people just repeat what they imagine the "other side" think but with implied sarcasm is incredibly unhelpful. It does nothing to further the conversation and exists only for everyone to set out their stall on their position.
Firebug enabled me to be a "real" web developer. Prior to that I was just slinging ASPX files with no real idea what I was doing. This tool was the gold standard for powerful developer tools that aren't overly complicated.
That’s an oxymoron.
Almost every Ferrari sold since 2005 is being recalled
For it to be a hologram, you'd need to be able to reproduce arbitrary wavefronts in real time. This gives you the ability to have features like occlusion, which you don't have with a "points of light" display. I.e., everything will appear translucent.
What year was their Leaf? Early Leafs didn't have proper battery cooling which reduced their lifespan.
I Switched to Obsidian After Using SuperMemo for 4 Years
Your choice of banks.

I still have my bank's physical code-slip and can sign in using it just fine.

My fiance's bank provided her with a small, calculator-looking battery-powered code device.
As someone else already mentioned, "your response is kind of harsh".

Why not try and be a bit more kind?
> Just seems like you want to be bombastic for the sake of being bombastic.

Ironically, that's exactly how you seem when just drop the "Turing completeness" bomb on a discussion about error handling. It's very hard not to see it as a ridiculously childish tantrum, since not only there's no actual argument, it is by definition impossible for it to be relevant to the discussion.

Anyway, I would not be writing this if it wasn't because you keep pumping direct personal attacks to everyone who dares counter your posts, which are already in a terrible tone.
Anandtech benchmark puts Intel 12900K on top for both RISCV toolchain compilation and Cinebench.
Box::leak. Assuming the object you're leaking contains no references, it can then live for 'static (the lifetime of the process)
Will the super rich and powerful finally care and do something once they can't get any Taittinger or Moët?
So rather than introducing a hard to detect bug (with NaN, Inf, -Inf), Rust makes me think about it and not just let whoever worked on compiler decide.

How is this a negative? I'd rather program fail at compile than runtime, and rather it fail loudly than quietly.

Also Rust doesn't prevent you from making optimal ordering, just a tinge more verbose.
It is known that criminals use E2EE, ergo anybody using this technology is knowingly helping a criminal. what a bad take.
if it works you reap the benefits but the sad path is the same in both

miserable
Yeah, but that wasn't in line with German plans of controlling the EU with Russian gas so had to be rejected on policy grounds.
Obviously difficult to work with and unprofessional. Utilized programming side effects which obscured the intent of the code to such an extent that he unintentionally reversed the logic of the test he was supposed to implement.
Any article on the AK-47 that doesn't start by mentioning the 7.92×33mm Kurz is missing out. The realization at the heart of modern infantry rifles is that the conversation you're having is with people who aren't a 1000 meters away - they're 300 meters or less. Once it was clear what could be given up it was that much more clear what could be gotten.
> that has an acceptable tradeoff for performance vs space and simplicity for where they are used

Is it? I've been programming strings for 45 years now. Including on 8 and 10 bit machines. All that space efficiency goes out the window when one wants a subset of a string that isn't a common tail.

The simplicity goes out the window as soon as you want a substring that isn't a common tail. Now you have memory allocation to deal with.

The performance goes out the window because now the entire string contents has to be loaded into the cache to determine its length.

> length-prefixed

Are worse. Which is why I didn't mention them.

> Sane programs use store length

Meaning they become length-delineated programs, except it's done manually, tediously, and error-prone.

Whenever I review C code, the first thing I look at are the strlen/strncpy/str** sequences. It's almost always got a bug in it, an off-by-one error.
Agree, it makes discovery tedious.
> Unless large & small vehicles never use the same roads, ever, it will never happen; imagine being in a small car and being hit by a large car

There's no need to imagine what that that would be like, because the situation has existed for years already: what you describe is just everyday reality for motorcyclists.
I'd like to point out that Intel allows you to tune the cores for whatever profile you want. Sure, it's not "same performance, less noise", but you can get something like an 80/20 (80% performance, 20% noise) by just scaling back the core frequencies a little. I tune my intel machine down to 8x3.2 Ghz, and can run without fans (on small form factor PC), but sometimes want the full 4+Ghz, but it's loud.

This can be done application-specific, so when you launch a big game or something, it'll spin cores up to max frequency, for example.
we've known for 35+ years at this point, it's nothing really new
Yes. The US, the country that thinks of themselves as the beacon of hope and freedom, should ban Bitcoin.

FWIW, I wouldn't put it past the US govt to ban cryptocurrencies. It just would be extremely hypocritical. Something the US is pretty familiar with.
Jet fuel (including that burned in turboprop planes) is not leaded.
> a) Consciousness is just your brain trying to anticipate the future.

My personal theory is consciousness is a coalescence of weighted distributions that learn via a closed loop feedback and an injection of true randomness via quantum tunneling. That is, the brain is a mechanism by which true randomness gets turned into a weighted distributions that equate to decisions and actions with a feedback loop. As experiences get encoded as complex neuron paths or "memories" (this includes things like muscle memory, not just what we normally think of as memories), they build stronger paths and more connections, effectively increasing their "weight". This holds true down to how neurons function on an individual level.
A manual transmission does have one upside. It creates engagement around the experience of driving, which I believe is something many vehicles lack. I sound like [old man yells at cloud], but people just do not seem to be paying attention to what they're doing in their giant metal death machines these days.

There are the fun aspects obviously. I know that when I want to pass another car, go around a corner at speed, and navigate snowy roads I'll be in exactly the right gear without the computer having to guess what I want. But those are secondary to the demand of attention created by it.
There is good stuff in this article, though I wish more writers would hire editors to help trim these articles (I always hire an editor when I write something this long). I think this is the heart of it, though you have to go pretty far into the article to get to this bit:

"What’s the point of this long historical digression? Well, it’s to explain that, with a few exceptions, the division between Dev and Ops, and between centralisation and distribution of responsibility has never been resolved. And the reasons why the industry seems to see-saw are the same reasons why the answer to the original question is never simple."

It is true that the answer is context dependent. I consult with several startups, I give different answers to different CTOs, depending on what stage their organization is at, and how much they will actually need devops in the future (I recently consulted for Paireyewear.com, a company that relies on Shopify to provide the public facing store through which they sell. As such, they will never need much in terms of devops. Instead I brought in Chris Clarke, one of the best devops talents I know, and he consults with them part-time, and that is as much devops talent as they need.)
> Did the people who built blockchains with built-in mandatory mixing (Monero) or optional completely obscured transaction inputs (ZCash) also facilitate money laundering? If not, what is the crucial difference?

Probably not? Tornado Cash provided one service: mixing. (In AML parlance, layering.) We know it was used to launder the proceeds of crimes. The developers knew that too, and they kept working on it. Semenov styled himself as a co-founder and the group advertised open positions on its website. All that looks much more like an enterprise knowingly facilitating laundering than a developer publishing interesting code.

ZCash and Monero look like cash. Tornado (and every mixer I’ve seen) looks like a layering service. Those aren’t illegal per se. But you’re at risk if a criminal uses it. (You’re in deeper shit if it becomes known a criminal used it and you do nothing about it.)
While skill etc. certainly also played a part - I'm not in any way suggesting that luck is sufficient -, my point was that most of these were intertwined in a way that meant they were dependent on that first domino. I probably would have done fine without it, but it'd have looked very different.

Even though my skills certainly also played a role, I could also have been equally skilled and taken another job and missed out on meeting the right people and ended up with far less satisfying outcomes. And many do. Or I could have been born somewhere where I wouldn't have had the same opportunities.

Luck and skill amplify each other, and a problem is that people often want to think it was all down to their skills. A lot of subsequent failures happen when people fail to learn the right lessons because they don't understand which parts of their earlier successes were down to luck and so try to copy the same approach in different conditions.
I wonder what the venn diagram looks like between “people who are responding to this in the negative” vs “people who believe human rights are real and serious.”
I’m not trying to be flippant here, I just really don’t believe that people think through the consequences of their beliefs very well.
Agreed, and yet the OP "despises" this.
Not sure why this comment was downvoted, I'm curious too.
The large language models are very good at prediction. We are making good progress getting them to reason. We need to figure out how to get them to use an internal "blackboard".
Fair enough. Sorry about the harshness. Although you respond to the slice indexing problem with some reasoning about expectations (I'm not so sure I buy that), you do leave off the alloc and arithmetic aspects. I don't think arithmetic, for example, is something we've been trained to be guarded about. But it can be a source of bugs too.

Anyway, I'm sympathetic to the plight of finding yourself in a codebase full of bugs. But I think 'unwrap()' gets a bad rap here. It just so happens that it makes those bugs easily visible and it happens to be a common manifestation of it.

Personally, I don't think a different name for 'unwrap()' would have helped things. One common suggestion is 'or_panic()'. If we could go back and do it all over again, I think 'or_panic()' would be worth a shot. But I think that ship has sailed.

But like I said, fair enough.
I drove a brown 1989 Volkswagen Jetta with a manual transmission around western Colorado, it was really an experience. The car was older by then (late 90's) and it required a certain amount of skill to get it really moving such that it would crest the next steep, mountainous hill without having to be shifted down (eventually) into second gear. When the article talks about the vehicle becoming something like a prosthetic, that certainly rings true to me. Sometimes I have dreams where I am driving that car.

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/lit/1989_jetta_mexico/0...

This reminds me of the interest in mechanical keyboards. The varied input from the clutch and transmission in a vehicle is much greater than the feedback from a keyboard, but I wonder if we're seeing the same principal at work.
I have nothing to hide, but I once read that we still prefer to put vacuous letters in envelopes than on postcards.

I'm currently using a Raspberry Pi for my NextCloud because it's not Intel (IME), but I'm changing to a Radxa because it's more transparent.

I (will) use a PinePhone with Biktorjg's (more) open firmware as my daily driver because the completely opaque hardware on my GrapheneOS Pixel and LineageOS OP 7T are OBVIOUSLY full of access points for state (or clever) actors.

Not having anything to hide doesn't mean that I don't want privacy. Intel IME and the like are incompatible with that utopia.

Please, feel free to comment on my choice of home server, the Rock 5B isn't shipping yet, there's time to change my mind.
TIL Authy has a desktop app. Thank you friend, said app will be somehow added to my setup and workflow as another option.
So now instead all devices can keep their fans on and melt compartment material bag as nobody would assume the device is that dumb to not sleep when closed. Much better.
Don't lump "West" like that. Germany has a green party in the ruling coalition, in France that stuff is taken somewhat seriously and the second biggest coalition in parliament (that the government has to rely on to pass laws) has an explicit green component. During the election cycle (president and lower chamber of parliament) this spring green and social issues were the main topics of discussion and main component of most campaigns.
150% agree. That’s a whole other can of worms.

Even if the business doesn’t want to audit your phones, a litigation event could force the issue.
When we bought in 2009, the rate was 4.85%. Later we got it down to 3.5%--a difference of over $400/mo. At this rate we'll have it paid off completely 14 years early.
The Democrats just passed a major climate change bill
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/07/politics/senate-democrats-cli...
[I work at Fivetran]

Which connector was that?

You can turn off tables you’re not interested in, but perhaps this was a bug.
because its a stalemate between

- people who have their fortunes tied to housing vs new entrants

- boomers/silent gen vs millennials

- white vs poc

- working poor vs gentrifiers
I don't mean that video.

cubic vulcanians.
When you sum all the accumulated knowledge about the world and the universe, it seems to me that us being nothing more than accidental automatons is the most likely scenario.
In terms of technological advances, the automatic transmission is a tenuous improvement over the manual transmission. It costs more to manufacture and service and it performs less well (transfers engine torque less efficiently to wheels and cannot anticipate the need to upshift or downshift) in exchange for requiring less skill from drivers. The newer sequential manual transmissions (SMGs) blend the benefits of both with the mechanics of a manual transmission but shifts performed electronically. They're great except that they cost even more. I, for one, am happy with my old, reliable manual transmission.
Was thinking the same. All seem pretty reasonable to me
yes it is

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/leaded-aviation-fuel-and-enviro...
While it's kinda cool (but not really anything special, likely just reprovisions the software UICC profile) - it fails to mention that the device IMEI still remains the same (as per regulations), so it can still easily be tracked (IMSI doesn't technically need to be unique/single use, but the IMEI must)
Don't forget a war, sanctions, impacts on trade and many important resources (foodstuffs, energy).
A significant debt can be the least of your concerns and still be concerning
You can use TLS to secure a VPN connection from state actors. You can also use TLS 1.3 to avoid SNI, and DNS over HTTPS (or just use DNS over a tunneled connection). But I'm talking about how you don't need a VPN for a business purpose.
Like so many large-scale processes, things change "slowly, then all at once" with the climate.

During the slow change, things aren't immediately obvious, but can be reversed easily.

Once the rate of change starts speeding up, it becomes pretty clear what's happening, but it's far more difficult to prevent the change to whatever future stable state the system winds up in.
I would like to offer a compromise:

I will give up my manual transmission, if you will bring back pull-knobs, twist knobs and other tactile switches for the main controls of my vehicle, with the appropriate tactile feedback at set points so I can set them without looking.

I think we can all walk away winners here.
I think Malcolm Gladwell talks about this in one of his books, that in general, drivers of manual transmission cars get in fewer accidents because they simply can't do some of the things that those driving automatic transmission cars take for granted.

e.g. eating and drinking, putting on makeup, etc.

wrt "the feel of the road", I think much of that is already lost with drive-by-wire technology. I haven't really had that feeling since I sat in a friend's old 90's civic and stepped on the throttle. You can get a little closer with Mazda tiptronic, but it's basically like "playing cars" instead of driving a car.
Only piston-powered air travel uses leaded fuel.

Overwhelmingly, anything that you bought a ticket for (and certainly anything that you took to another continent on a ticket) is burning Jet-A, which does not have a material amount of lead content.
The 3a will run Lineage, so you can get the latest OS updates. However, the vendor updates will not advance.

Lineage will try to scavenge firmware updates from other devices to upgrade what they can, but there might be problems with the wifi, bluetooth, or other firmware that can compromise the device.

This is less of a concern if your wifi connectivity is behind a NAT router, and Google is gone.
In a german podcast a guy once said: "You won't get them with melting Icebergs and Polarbears. They're too far away".

It's true, nobody* cares about icebergs and other things they've never seen before.
Just wait when the drought kicks in and more and more Problems arise. I hope then people start acting themselves instead of shouting into the social platform nirvana.
I was more of a fan of manuals for reasons of efficiency before double-clutch automaticss were widely available, and when CVTs were not very reliable. Of course none of that matters much for many electric vehicles either. My first and only MT car is a 2000 Honda Insight, though I'd like a 2016 MT Honda CR-Z to go with it eventually, to complete my collection of quirky MT Honda hybrids. Manual transmissions were historically much lighter weight and more efficient than torque-converter or CVT automatic transmissions, and usually more robust.

I don't have my MT Insight because I'm a gear-shifting control freak, but rather because it was the most efficient non-full-electric vehicle on the road until the Prius Prime. Being in graduate school still, I also don't have funds for anything fancy like a modern-ish Prius :)
That is incredibly backwards. Which is why when the temperature drops the water literally comes out of the sky.
Are You Sure You’re Not Guilty of the ‘Millennial Pause’?“
This would be fine if it only affected developers that live in US. I suspect it doesn’t though, and this means it’s yet another proof that we need companies that are outside the US jurisdiction, same reason we need those outside Russian jurisdiction.
You're soc right? There's a reason I have you blocked on every social media web site for which we both are a part and for which it is possible. Go away.
I tend to disagree at this notion. I've used C for almost a decade now and I've seen many developers who were far more talented than me make similar mistakes all the time.

Some problems require solutions which are unable to be solved in C in a safe way.
You are missing a key part in your argument.

Any bits of knowledge that have solidified such that they can be retrieved effortlessly, can be used as building blocks to construct or understand higher order knowledge.

Memorization may not (initially) help with understanding the particular thing you're trying to memorise per se, but dismissing it altogether as not being generally relevant for creating understanding is wrong.

Also, knowledge is bidirectional. A higher order concept you learned because you were able to use a more basic building block to reach that understanding, may later provide the insight that then allows you to get a better, revised understanding of the lower building block too, without compromising any of its dependents.
Oh agreed, Chase is an awful bank in any dimension. I use a credit union for most things.

Chase owns the Amazon card, and 5% rebates on Amazon are worth dealing with the drama.
> As an individual or a small business, ones does not have an alternative to

- Microsoft Word — Google Docs? Apple Pages? Zoho Docs? OpenOffice?

- GitHub — GitLab? sourcehut? Bitbucket? Gitea?

- Facebook — Twitter? Instagram? TikTok? SnapChat?

The thing about Git is that it's free software. Anyone can run their own server for very little money. If you get banned from the railroad, you can't just get your own train.
As an example, it seems plausible to me that a person who wants to enter the cryptocurrency sector could send a pull request and actually work with them to get merged to put it in their resume.

This person can be totally oblivious to the illegal stuff that's happening behind the scenes. After all they were just trying to prove that they actually have experience with cryptocurrency code to potential future employers.

It also can be some random security researcher who is preventing open source developers from shipping vulnerable code. I know for a fact that Github themselves employ such people that send security-related patches from time to time to open-source projects.

You can work up more examples -- my point is that people who definitely have nothing to do with any illegal activity whatsoever could exist in the list of contributors of these repositories.

It's nice that they didn't just nuke the whole contributors list, but it's still a bit unsettling.

> it's your responsibility to know and check who you are dealing with.

What can I say, duly noted.