skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would you relate that to the OP's example of the nature of consciousness?

The hard problem of consciousness seems particularly suited to avoid the mechanisms that "we" "know" anything (e.g., objective evidence and the scientific method).
Or even worse: an indicator of time spent in the industry
Even without input lag, having to look at a screen to press a button is much more distracting than a physical button that can be found without looking.
Except the population density being different, I guess yeah.
Don't buy it. Yes, interruptions add up. They don't add up to 7 hours a day. I mean look at your story. Your wife's team quit and the office is empty. There's hardly anyone there to interrupt her.

Someone going from a 8 hour workday in the office to a 1 hour workday at home is sandbagging it. There's no two ways around it. Let them WFH and off come the sandbags because they can get that time back. Put them back in the office and the sandbags come back because there's no incentive for them to work any faster. They're stuck in the office for 8 hours no matter how much work they do.
It's going to be interesting to see how this is going to get enforced in the likely future in which AI art becomes in every way indistinguishable from human art.
Problem: we are using too many resources and causing climate change on a scale never seen before

Solution: Build renewables on a scale never seen before, then do it again two more times, as well as once every ten years to replace the ones that failed.

Do you see the slight problem? We do not have the resources for that. We cannot afford that. Is nuclear perfect? No. We have spent fuel (that hopefully we can figure out how to reuse, but for now, it's just waste buried deep), it's big, it's unwieldy. But it's reliable. Resources are both plentiful and we don't need that much. A whole lot of concrete (still much less that we would need to put wind turbines), fissile material that can be found pretty much anywhere, and a good bunch of pipes and various metals (infinitely less than what we'd need for solar or wind).

I said green hydrogen was shit for storing energy, and so is pink hydrogen. But if that can make you happy, I'm more than willing to use whatever surplus we get from renewables to make hydrogen. I'd just rather we waste 70% of a small production, rather than 70% of all.

What's wrong with EVs charged from nuclear? Everything. The only green car is a car that isn't manufactured. For most people (especially in europe), an EV will pretty much take 10 years before it offsets its CO2 emissions. Should we stop selling ICEs? Yes. Should we replace millions of existing cars with EVs? Absofuckinglutely not.

Nuclear means you're less dependent on those interconnects. Which, you know, is a useful thing to be as a sovereign country. See: Europe and its dependency on gas.

> Are you really just arguing for fossil fuels?

Considering how happy fossil fuel companies are about renewables because it allows them to sell gas when it inevitably doesn't work for a day and you need something else to make up for it, you would do well to rethink your mindless support. Every 100% renewables plan is the equivalent of a spherical cow in a vacuum. We cannot mine that much. We cannot find that much space in ideal locations, nor maintain it. There is not a single mine in the world able to get the resources we need. Ignoring reality is all fun and games, and if we had infinite time in front of us, I'd be all okay with going full intermittent power. But we both know it's not the case. Pretending anything else is ignorance and optimism at best, and malice at worst. You need to learn compromise, and as it stands, we cannot afford not to.
If you have insurance-based healthcare then you need some mechanism to prevent a death spiral.
>The US military itself uses Tor. They don't want to ban it

That's not really any reassurance in the long term, if they find a better/different solution that goes out the window.
What a great article! I'll need a couple rereadings to understand it better, but I did appreciate the section about spectacle and about how cinema is tied to war. Another film that exemplifies that line of thought is Beau Travail. The characters prepare for war in a ritualistic frenzy, throwing themselves into each other in lavish choreography, dancing in the water and in the club. Michel Subor says it well when he notes that a good soldier is taught elegance in and under their uniforms. And the ending, well let's just say the ending demonstrates this spectacle well.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention though the crucial failure of Apocalypse Now, which is the crucial failure of many American war films. It reduces the enemy to this faceless, incoherent savage. The Vietnamese are never given a say in this story. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen goes over this point. Yes, yes, Coppola is a fantastic director (The Conversation is an especially good masterpiece), but he nonetheless cannot seem to stray away from the genre of American soldiers feeling guilty about murdering savages. Contrast this to a war film like La Grande Illusion, where Renoir explicitly notes that the French nobility have more in common with the German nobility, their enemies, than with the French common folk, their comrades. But of course, the German nobility are the German nobility, and not the "savages" of Vietnam.
> yet my claim is self-evident, while yours needs hordes of robe&badge clad bureaucrats

You’re describing due process. That’s a feature. An AK-47 being metallic may be self evident. That doesn’t make it relevant to a murder investigation.
I share your cynicism in general but not your degree of cynicism. Apparently, when prompted by the new iOS, 96% have opted out of tracking, not 1% as your comment would suggest.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/96-of-us-users-opt-o...
> In an of itself, mixing or trading to obfuscate your identity shouldn't be considered a crime or unreasonable in the slightest.

"Financial privacy" isn't a real thing, because you owe taxes on income and investments. Can you explain to me how your tax assessor is able, then, to properly identify your income and tax you on it as appropriate?

(Money laundering and tax evasion do not always go hand-in-hand. Many launderers pay taxes as a cost of doing business. Cryptocurrency mixers seem to treat tax evasion as a feature.)
> I used Tornado Cash (non-US citizen here) for hiding transactions from the public (not hiding from the government)

And how exactly does your bank account publish your transactions to the public?
Ask HN: Are there notable “self-made” who came from nothing?
The underdog success story always link back to a significant role model like mom, dad, uncle, friend of family. For example, mom was an educated school teacher (Daymond John from Shark Tank). Self-made traces back to a support system and growing up without worrying about abuse or food on the table. Are there people who actually made it out of extreme poverty (way below your country's income threshold of poverty) to millionaire without waiting until 60 for your 401k/IRA to "mature"? If so, who and how?

I'm curious. Half for reassurance and the other part of me am interested to find role models outside of gary v, gary tan, gary keller.
Even though the crowns are distinct, the crown resides primarily in the UK, no?
Why don't you use the traditional banking system, which doesn't result in publicly listed transactions?

I struggle to find a legitimate use case for hiding transactions from your bank and thus tax authority (assuming a developed country).
The older Berlin OS were much more trade/transport cars, but the newer Berlingo comes in a family version which is pretty cool (and received reviews at least in the German press).
Guilty until proven innocent (they are blacklisted/sanctioned) I see.
Sure. Then it is irrelevant how much money was funding whom, only that a non-zero amount of value was not strictly traceable through typical financial surveillance systems, and so the US automatically deems this activity illegal regardless of how the funds were used.

This is where the “privacy on the blockchain should be a basic right” argument comes in, and what the plaintiff appears to be arguing.
while I agree housing is a terrible investment, its still an investment for people that aren't investing. People will pay their mortgage than set money aside for into investment vehicles.
While this is certainly true, two browsers being written by megacorps doesn't exactly make me eager to use the browsers. I would much much rather use software made by people who are passionate about the project than people who are working on something just clocking in and clocking out.

For those who think Mozilla isn't about money:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
Warning: small lake required for proper cooling not included
A lot of what I read, particularly on sites like HN and Reddit, are the comments section, which are usually more valuable than the article itself and where I have the most outsized reactions/learning/engagement.

So I was thinking aloud/asking if preserving this type of content is a) worthwhile, b) straightforward
> why do you care about my 10 "wip" commits on a feature branch?

If that's how a team develops PRs, then the commits are structurally suboptimal, and the problem is in the development practices.

Such team won't be able to efficiently bisect, independently of the repository structure.

I personally work with granular, self-standing commits, and with this workflow, non-squashed commits makes sense.

Obviously it's not possible to always have self-standing commits, but it is possible the vast majority of the times.

It takes a lot of practice and discipline, though, and if a team is not willing to put them, then of course, squashing in the only way that makes sense.
But - here ya go - crypto is not money, it's real property. Tornado cash is not a bank, it allows you to swap random Pokemon cards between its' users.
And you're buying into propaganda suggesting someone pushing the envelope in cryptography is creating tooling specifically for money laundering. 30 years ago, the NSA toed a similar line in their war on PGP, saying it was used in practice for "money laundering, child pornography, and terrorism" - https://reason.com/video/2020/10/21/cryptowars-gilmore-zimme...
Yes, but only the older people who have good memory, or the young people who bothered to keep themselves informed by reading some 'history' or talking to smart older people.
Odd that you would bring up a tool banned in a wave of media-provoked hysteria, one so useful to the disabled that the ban has been overturned, which was never in fact intended as a weapon, isn't a very good one, and just looks cool.

Probably because banning knives is ludicrous behavior, so there aren't better examples.

So you can see for yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchblade
Art takes effort. Training models and feeding them information takes effort. AI is not magic. Art is just getting another toolset.
Honestly, it's probably easier to get one item for free if they are local and you can talk to the right person.
Trial and error. You need to dial in the right point on the voltage/clock frequency curve for your workloads, AKA "just play some games and look at the results." Just use whatever your overclocking software for your motherboard is, and modify the default curve it has. I use MSI Afterburner and just set a flat clock frequency (plateau) at a certain voltage level to undervolt. I think for NVidia GPUs there's a way to modify the curve with the default tooling, but third party tools like Afterburner can also do it.

You can get great results pretty fast this way. My Mini-ITX build is about as thermally compact as possible given the parts (3080+Ryzen 5600X, NZXT H1), and I'm pushing my PSU to the absolute limits in the stock settings, so undervolting is important for safe power margins since the 3080 can reach ~360W in my testing. I think 30 minutes of tweaking got me something like a +80W power drop for only 10% FPS in Read Dead Redemption 2 @ 4k60fps; I never breach 300W now which is within my personal safety margins, and can native 4k everything.

Some software like Afterburner have "Overclock Scanner" tools that will run benchmarks and repeatedly try to dial these settings in for you, but it really is easier to just modify the curve manually and test your specific workloads.
Perfect. A huge niche opportunity to focus on an art community dedicated to AI generated images.
It's obvious sam0x17 is against blocking anything.
I've quite a number but most of which are not used as phones per se.

Essentially, they all suffer the same problem to a varying extent but the worst one is a Motorola Moto G6 Plus.

The problem became immediately obvious with a photo taken with this phone that I took of an intersection of two streets. It was a relatively wide shot but not that wide, it showed the intersection and one of the roads running off into the distance. However, the shot was sufficiently close to show only a single house on the corner of the intersection and even then only about half of it was visible. (This meant that all objects in the photo should have had sufficient resolution to determine easily what they are.)

The house was surrounded on both sides (i.e. at 90° in line with the intersection) with a white picket fence and behind it for about 25% of its length was a large green bush similar to that seen in many hedges and in places it towered over the fence by between about two and three feet.

Everything in the photo was clear and in sharp focus except for the bush which appeared as a large greenish out-of-focus amorphous mess. There was no wind at the time and I'd again emphasize that everything in front of and behind the bush was in focus.

This wasn't just a one-off. It was so obvious what was happening that I took several dozen photos under slightly varying conditions to determine the extent and scope of the processing error.

I could get detail in the bush (see its leaves in the photo) if I panned just above the fence (thus essentially cutting it from view) - and all else being equal. BTW, the bush could be seen through the usual gaps of the picket fence.

Frankly, I was shocked at how bad the problem actually was, especially so given my background. (I've worked in video surveillance and for years I've railed against the use of heavy compression on grounds that it mitigates against authentication (as artifacts from the compression distort the image and thus lower the probability that an object in the image can be authenticated)).

Nevertheless, I'd never seen anything quite this bad or quite as object-selective as was the distortion of that bush in images from this Moto camera.

I now use that location/scene to specifically test digital camera errors.

Shame I can't post images here or I'd show you the problem firsthand.

Given the 'variable' and unpredictable artifacts this phone/camera produces, lawyers would have a field-day by demonstrating how useless it is as a means of obtaining reliable evidence.
It's wild how many people don't understand this.

To help spell it out for those who keep misunderstanding, when the Queen visited the USA in 2010, she did it as Queen of Canada, under the Canadian flag, with Canadian staff and security.
Apple is really uniquely positions to just decide to make a (crypto)currency. Push the app to every iPhone, give everyone with an Apple device X amount, and strong support for business + peer-to-peer transactions and you have the best easiest path to mass adoption possible.
They are explicitly a product for user privacy. Given that the depositor can prove the source of funds put into tornado cash via a zk-proof there is no reason that this should be shut down.
Do you find that you often have authoritarian takes, or just in matters pertaining to software development? If the latter, I suggest you pause and reflect on that. There is no one right way to do things, different workflows work for different people. Tools which accommodate the most number of people will be the most popular.
The barometers combined with GPS and temp is an incredibly powerful sensor network.

Its a shame that it is locked up inside of apple.
Where would people move to? I think there's a fair bit of room for Apple to get worse on privacy while still being preferable to Android/Windows. "At least they don't sell my data as much as ____".
> take down the entities doing the money laundering instead of attacking a tool

This is what they’re doing. North Korea laundered money via Tornado Cash [1]. Authorities announced it and watched Tornado Cash do nothing. So it got sanctioned. Every other mixer is untouched.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/30/north-korea-likely-behind-10....
> one of the worst businesses in the world

But is mobile telecoms really one of the worst businesses in the world ?

I would argue that its one of the worst executed businesses in the world, but not the worst business.

Travel and hospitality would likely be fairer examples of "worst businesses", perhaps especially the airline business.
True, but you can simulate it by running the query with the window function in a CTE and then make a separate SELECT with the appropriate WHERE clause. More verbose, but the same effect and result. Using NOT MATERIALIZED on the CTE can also potentially let the planner do better query optimization on it.
> Interestingly the first article flagged ebikes as particularly problematic, which are a pretty common way to extend bike range. Although, they must surely be better than cars just due to mass.

Only tangentially related, but I'd assume that most of the emissions from ebikes would be related to brakes, as stopping from higher velocity would wear down brake pads faster.

One interesting thing that hybrid and electric vehicles do is that they do regenerative braking, which ends up with less wear on brake pads (and emissions) from slowing down. Justin from Grin Technologies (an ebike part shop focusing on DIYers) has done a presentation on how that works on ebikes, and mentions that he's barely using brake pads now that he's using regenerative braking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYCj4asp9pE&t=970s
Less China-risk for Taiwan, via: 1) my AMZN-/MSFT-/VC-praised work, 2)
Yes it is relative, I probably should have been more clear about that.

I am basing this entirely off of how it feels to use the tool, rather than measured timings, because I am a person who feels and not a clock that measures.

I also don't care all that much! Emacs is slow and also still the best tool for many of my uses. If it's unbearably slow for a given task I just use something else for that.
Challenge accepted. How will they know?
Gee I miss just how much of the office day is “wasted” for me by people who walk up to your desk to say hey and how’s it going and start a conversation that lasts 45 minutes.
Into the room I'm cooling. I suppose it would be possible in theory to do so, but the particular layout of the room makes it difficult to impossible to exhaust both the AC and computer, I think.
> Google and Azure can't (yet) because AWS hasn't so far

Are they operating as a cartel ?
Not uncommonly, the provider/program through which the email was sent.
> There was a dream of remote education, where the best educators in the world can reach out and teach students anywhere in the world, and be a great equalizer of education.

> This dream was killed by COVID, and likely it'll be another generation before it is even considered seriously again.

I think the future is that rich countries are gonna Baumol's Cost Disease their way out of being able to pay in-person teachers. I think we're trending that way already, in fact, and Covid wage-hikes in much of the rest of the economy, plus the most recent anti-educator (don't think that's what it is? Ask some teachers how they've perceived and experienced it) political movements (anti-anti-Covid-measure movements, shitty, ambiguous anti-LGBTQ and anti-teaching-about-slavery legislation) have pushed us right to the edge of that cliff.

For the US, at least, I expect:

1) We'll see falling teacher quality over the next few years, due to declining relative wages and deteriorating work conditions. We won't spend enough to reverse this trend—we already need an ~20% wage hike just to stop the bleeding, let alone reverse damage already done, I'd guess.

2) Rich people will continue to use tutors or private schools and get excellent small-class-size in-person education for their kids. Mid-priced private schools may become more common as this expands down-market to cater to people who can't afford $45k+/yr, but can afford maybe $15k or $20k per year, and are now motivated, by declining quality even in "good" public school districts, to pay it.

3) There will likely be some remote learning experiments to try to counter #1. I expect we're going to see the phrase "online charter school" a lot more in the coming couple decades. But the education will still be worse than what we had before, and way worse than what the folks in #2 are getting—though, maybe, better than the hollowed-out in-person schools.

4) We may start to aggressively import teachers from poor countries to try to cover the gap. This may even work—I think it's got a better chance than other options, at least. If it's not a Federal initiative, it'll likely mostly happen mainly in blue states and exacerbate the education gap between "blue" and "red".

IOW I do expect we will see fairly extensive online education experiments in the near future—but not for the reasons one might hope.
That's the scale I'm talking about so...
It's frustrating to see how many people don't understand this. To say mental health issues didn't exist until we started diagnosing and treating them is like saying oil didn't exist until we started drilling for it.
Meta Quest Pro
Self driving cars and generating AI are two completely different problem sets.

Particularly as one deals with the world of atoms, where the cost of a mistake is much higher.

There are already models that work to “aesthetically” rate images, and the results are quite promising.

To think we won’t see leaps in quality over the coming months/years is narrow sighted.
"Listen man, that's great and all, but all I wanna know is, how slow are you gonna be with patching them there vulns?!"
They should also ban people that have seen more art than others as they may be inadvertently creating derivative artwork from their more thoroughly trained real neural network in their brain.

Purposely being facetious, but seriously, we will likely see more and more of these type of rules being applied to competitions or groups. It will be harder and harder to define the rules. At some point, it becomes moot. Did I draw it? Did my toddler? Was I on hallucinogens when I drew it? Did I use computer algorithms (filters) on any form of the digital art? If the intent is to preserve the "effort" that goes into art, fine, but that will be a really gray line. I guess it's all fine to have the rules, it's similar to the natural body building competition.
I think you misunderstand. Transactions happening on most blockchains are public, meaning if I send a transaction on the network, if others know my address, they know it was my transaction.

Tornado Cash allows you to sever the tie between addresses on the Ethereum blockchain, so I don't have to have my transactions public, all while still being able to legally declare my taxes as if I didn't use Tornado Cash at all.
Maybe the difference was that Facebook was a one-trick pony that, unlike Apple, soiled their brand rather than bolstered it?
> "If left unchecked, it is not hard to imagine photography crowding out paintings that took days or weeks for someone to make."

Today photography and illustration are segregated. Which is what these artist communities are establishing.
It depends what the point is. You wouldn't let a motorcycle participate in a horse race. I think there's a place for AI art and it's fine if "manual art" remains the same. The difference can be arbitrary at times, but art often is.