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> The Chinese room argument has no merit whatsoever, and should be forgotten.

I have a different take on the argument. I believe it was widely misunderstood to be an argument against the possibility of artificial intelligence, when it was actually merely an argument that there is a logical difference between symbol manipulation and sentient understanding. Searle contributed to the misunderstanding by terming the position he was arguing against "Strong AI". He then argued that "Strong AI" was not possible on the basis of his argument. However, "Strong AI" has a different meaning to many people so that the "Strong AI" which Searle was trying to refute was not the same as the "Strong AI" that most people have in mind when they hear the term.

For example, most people would probably say that a computer which could converse, write poems, compose novels, author novel scientific papers, etc. in perfect Mandarin, indistinguishable from a highly educated, human, fluent speaker of Mandarin, would be by definition a Strong AI. But Searle never refuted, or tried to refute, the idea that a computer could accomplish all of that, so he was not arguing against the position that most people would take to be "Strong AI". His point was to argue that having the qualia of conscious understanding is logically different than being able to accomplish the symbol manipulation required to achieve the tasks above.
Ya, while this restriction makes sense it does mean that you have to jump through a few weird hoops to get Fork based workflows to allow commenting on pull requests from the action
Congrats on your launch! What's the data source that I can add? Does it also need to be another database listed here (1)? Does that mean that I need to move the data to one of these databases in order to sync our customer data to their data warehouses?

(1) https://docs.prequel.co/reference/post_sources
yes the int10h font guy has some blog posts about it, with accompanying code on GitHub.

https://int10h.org/blog/
When reality is your adversary: failure modes of image recognition models
Google offers FIDO, and even has an "advance protection" program to enforce only FIDO as 2nd factor.
they are spies, they’ll make a nice warning device that is concealed, no?
I have the same feeling, "knowledge" is more about knowing what is available, what options are there and broadly what each option does. You don't have to remember exactly how each option works, just know that it exists. When you need it, you can just search how it works, but knowing what to search for is crucial.
Unfortunately, that's not true for all eSIMs I've used – some activation codes are single-use, and you have to contact the provider to issue a new one every time. Some of them even charge for that...

But I agree that this is exclusively a policy problem, not a technical problem with eSIM, which clearly supports reusable profiles as well.
I do that, depending on the topic. Because I know that there will be some people who are late to the party with good comments.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32972806
There has never been such a thing as a "bank error in your favor", and folks are living in a fantasy land if they think there has been.
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>found during inspections in October 2021

That's a year ago, would you say they scheduled them for this year?
This is a great comment to illustrate how ideology (especially various brands of nationalism) destroys genuine dialog. Instead of talking about the writers and their works people are now talking about which pigeonhole each writer belongs to. Not because those pigeonholes improve anyone's understanding of the books, mind you. It's a matter of taking credit for their works and applying those credits to the current meta-narrative.
Actually, it's almost entirely the opposite—the idea that students are a "sponge" that can soak up knowledge perfectly is then taken directly to mean that some students are better at soaking up / retaining knowledge then others, and that the "smart" kids who do the best on the tests are the ones who are going to retain the knowledge the best. And then the ones that were the best knowledge-sponges will eventually go on to become the next generation of teachers, since they know the most information. Whereas for most kids it's completely the opposite—they memorize the information in their short-term memory without understanding the fundamentals, they do great on the tests, and then they forget all of it immediately. But they stand out from their peers as better students, because they're able to play the "game" of school better and optimize for being a knowledge-sponge that will absorb the most information as possible and forget it as quickly as possible.
Writing is a way of thinking for me. In a venue like HackerNews I can write something that I think I believe and someone will probably take the opposite viewpoint and tell me why I'm wrong.

Sometimes that helps me change my mind if I'm less able to defend what I think, sometimes it solidifies that I was right because the response isn't substantive.
Not GP, but what bothers me is that this attitude does not take into account what most cpp programmers actually end up doing: Unless there's somebody at the top of the organization that can set the "right" rules at the start of the project, a novice won't know to use the "right" feature. And neither will somebody who comes from other cpp projects that only had the old way of doing things. The result: a codebase with every possible way of doing a thing, which is strictly worse than one where only one way is used, even if it's not the prettiest. Now if you want to work on it you need to know about everything. Every new feature just increases the need for overhead knowledge. It's almost unavoidable.

So, complaining about this would be an unwise shortsighted take in other languages maybe, that don't have the proven track record of just leaving 10 different ways of doing the same thing on the standard. In cpp it's just the voice of somebody who has been burned one too many times by that kind of feature optimism.
> multisync CRT monitor

> 320x200

21" by chance ? Why would someone use 320x200 on a monitor when only the very old DOS games need such a mode ?
Never was, except in Monopoly money terms.
> The problem is: Most comments will not be read by anyone (or read by only a few), so what's the point of expressing your thoughts and opinions through comments?

How could you even quantify that? Aside from smartphones tracking your eyes as you read, pageviews/impressions would be worthless.

With that said, I comment because we shouldn't succumb to self-censorship. People do read my comments, and even occasionally respond (when they aren't censored by the mods). It's those few people who read my comments, and take the time to think about them that I'm trying to reach. It doesn't matter to me whether it is 1 person or 1 million.

It also doesn't matter whether they agree with me or not. The fact that they took the time to read it, indicates they may also take the time to relay my message. As such, as long as the message doesn't get censored, it will likely still get passed on. Isn't that the goal of all messages, that they want to be shared? (aka memetics).
NASA Invites Media to Witness World’s First Planetary Defense Test
It possibly reflects on daily life in the Soviet Union. Beetle in the Anthill is even more depressing. Still, the Strugatsky brothers are two of my favourite authors.

I re-read their books every ten years or so (along with some of Philip K. Dick's) because I keep forgetting the plot and the details. The Noon Universe books, along with Roadside Picnic are quite cryptic.

Anyway, The Doomed City is considered one of their most depressing of their novels, with a feeling of hopelessness characteristic of the Brezhnev era. I've long posponed reading it due to this and the fact that it's the last of their books published in my language that I haven't read.
Home Depot's private label brand (Everbilt) are absolutely graded. An SAE grade 1 or 2 is unmarked but if you look at their metric bolts you'll see the 8.8 grade mark.
Or you just use a carrier that allows re-scanning eSIM activation codes. Then the only problem is your device physically breaking, which actually "traps" the eSIM profile.
I read comments and get value from them, so I guess I feel some duty to write them too.

I often find commenting is a good way to add some clarity to messy thoughts I have. When I write something publicly I find I'm forced to be more critical of what I'm saying. Often I'll need to do a little bit of self fact checking, or re-examine the logic of what I'm saying.

It's nice just adding some value to a conversation too. I generally try to avoid writing comments where I'm basically just reiterating what's already been said, but if I can add a new perspective then I think that's a good thing.

I suppose I'm really talking Reddit and HN comments here though. If I leave a comment on YouTube it's normally just a joke or something silly because that's all people look at YouTube comments for.
this as well as indexing by search engines, i found some wonderful perspectives about rails for example from hn comments, things which were much better than any seo optimized content that you find now.
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A few other pitfalls:

* Scheduled actions basically never run anywhere close to on schedule. If you schedule something to run every 13 minutes, it may just run 1-3 times an hour with random 30 minute to 1 hour waits in between executions.

* Triggering a workflow as a result of an action from another workflow doesn't work if you're using the GITHUB_TOKEN as part of the action. Github does this to prevent accidental recursion, but it forces you to either use insecure PATs or rearchitect how to handle chained events: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/triggerin...
Tried that, management still insisted I get all of it from Fastenal, great pricing and they have an online catalogue, but ffs it takes a week to get stuff in.
'“Why wasn't I consulted,” which I abbreviate as WWIC, is the fundamental question of the web. It is the rule from which other rules are derived. Humans have a fundamental need to be consulted, engaged, to exercise their knowledge (and thus power), and no other medium that came before has been able to tap into that as effectively.'

https://www.ftrain.com/wwic
In my entire life I've only met one person who was actually convinced by the religious arguments; everyone else dug into them after a similar event. And many people can go wildly too far and try to ascribe everything to it.

To take the love example, the "tricks of the trade" you see bandied about sometimes do NOT work to "make someone love you" but they can help if you have people who have already decided they love each other.
Interpol issues red notice for Terra founder Do Kwon
Sure. That's why I recommended password managers only for high privilege accounts. Passwords of those accounts should almost never be typed on a keyboard. They can be looked up by authorized personnel who logged on first with their low privilege account.
Worth a read, from a respected US economist, who argues it's all an overreaction.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-26/truss-...

Not necessarily saying I agree, but useful to have an alternative perspective
It was a part of Soviet Bloc though.
As far as I am aware, no studies have been performed to determine how much vitamin C (ascorbate, specifically) is destroyed when cooking something like a steak. There are studies on vegetables, but cooking meat is a different dynamic and I don't think one can be inferred from the other directly.

My best guess is that, given that most people don't want their steak totally well-done (an oxymoron really), so enough aspartate survives. The more you heat your steak and for longer, the more the aspartate breaks down. Besides a few frankly questionable incidences like the notable James Blunt (which we don't actually know the cause of), the vast majority of carnivore dieters cook their meat and don't report scurvy. Out of the currently 47k members of the r/carnivore subreddit, none have made any posts saying they got scurvy. Yes, that's a very imperfect metric, but it's better than nothing. If vitamin C was a big deal, I think there'd be many more reports of serious issues. In the ketogenic diet community, countless people complain of side effects such as "keto flu", so I don't think people who are trying to eat mainly meat are all faking that they don't have scurvy.

As I said elsewhere, I have eaten mostly meat for years and have been eating 99% meat for most of this last year. Still no scurvy. My gums don't bleed and my teeth don't wiggle. In fact my gums bled more when I was eating closer to a standard diet. Now they don't bleed at all and they're rather firm.

Also, there's the possibility of eating meat raw or mostly raw. This of course depends on the meat. Beef is typically very safe to eat in a raw state given that it has either been butchered in a way specifically to be eaten raw or seared on the outside where bacteria colonize (aka "blue steak"). I have switched to just searing my steaks, leaving the majority of the center raw, and I'm not going back. This preserves the ascorbate and also the taurine. But I actually prefer the taste and texture.

The reason that beef has very diminished risk profile in contrast to something like chicken is that cows are given feed that isn't contaminated or prone to parasites, and modern regulation has made it so that meat plants must eliminate the 5 or so major forms of deadly bacteria from their process. Even raw ground beef is fairly low risk these days, though I don't recommend it.

By the way, I'm not actually here to advocate for a meat-only diet. I make sure not to command anyone. Life as a modern human is about being able to enjoy other things besides meat. What I take issue with is fake news discouraging people from even considering having meat more than a few times a week, of which there is an overabundance.
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You are an active user by the conventional definition. A user is anyone that uses the service, whether or not you have an account. Active just means you use it on a regular/recent basis, regardless of whether you are editing or just reading an article.
3) They released a binary and included the GPL license as part of the binary release licenses thus committing to the GPL in that release while not making the code available.
Their site is amazing. I often use it as a research tool to find out what might be available to meet a design idea.
Wow. You people went to crap schools. We got the derivation of modern trig functions w/ maclauren/Taylor series in 9th grade (though yeah... that was the "hard core math track".) And a year of proofs and derivations in 11th grade. Quaternions and their application in physics was 12th grade.
The 360 probably came from an approximation of the number of days in a year.
Unfortunately, I guess, it won't available in the most part of the of the world at a competitive price to local operator.
> Big fortunes in excess of 1B are not made by working or salary. They are made by winning the IPO lottery. Or winning the stock market lottery or the real estate lottery.

And those companies add value, otherwise the stocks value will be zero.

> It's only fair that the government also take half of all (and I mean all sorts) of lottery jackpots and for previous winnings everything in excess of one billion.

No, it is not fair to take money away from people. It is not a matter of poor or rich. In any case you take stolen property or money. Not money they made. That's an entirely different thing.

Via regulations or collusion should be also considered stealing to some extent IMHO.
I know it's a rhetorical question. An answer could possibly be:

1. when our "browsing, and information self-exposure" tools are better (automatic note taking parrot robot that sits on your shoulder and remembers everything you've seen so you don't have to) and

2. when our Internet's base concepts are more equitable to content creators/intellectual property owners.

More:

For number one, obviously it's handy if you're interested in a website to be reminded of that website latest and greatest successes.

Number two, with the Lamina1 news recently it's got me thinking again about the inequitable economy of providing useful advances and information for free, or in this case tools, and then not being respected by the world in a way which the pressures of reality direct you to collapse or shut down your fantastic enterprise .. again in this case of creating macos anti-malware tools.

(Social comment: I see identifying a UX problem is one step in responding to someone's work, and the ramification of talking about your frustration is another. There's at least one more you can do, call to action: how would you, Message Poster with the beef against that UX, have offered to solve, or make better, these problems responsibly if you were the owner of the website?)
I'd say that title is completely opposite to the article.
But it was interesting to read)
Non crypto people shouldn't be doing crypto things
I don't really disagree with your points, but your usecase is nowhere near the norm where I live or how I live.

I'm perfectly fine with city dwellers having more bikes (if they so choose), whatever helps the traffic and parking in the cities.

My point still stands that in no way is a bike a replacement for all the utilities of a vehicle, whether you're offloading that by renting, borrowing, etc.

I'll drive my vehicle, you can ride your bike. The power of choice! No conflict needed.
Well, yes, if you are blind to the problem of said war definitively and massively causing the Russia people to be irretrievably unaligned against the West for generations.

But, seems a lot of western leadership is blind.
Cambridge, Massachusetts my love.
Hindsight is 20/20. No one knows what the future holds for sure, so don’t be too hard on yourself.

I like to take a stoic approach to my decision making when I’m in a situation like yours. If you need to sell your house and move into a flat for a few years before you repurchase a house, no big deal. As long as you’re trying your best, I’m quite confident that someone like you can give your family what they need. That’s all that matters.
If you dig into opensource code it's not that unusual that you'll find code with a comment saying something like "for compatibility with [version of foo that is 20 years old by now and we stopped supporting 10 years ago]". There are probably a lot of CPU cycles lost to such code.
I agree that using the Taylor series can be easier, especially during development, mainly because convenient tools for generating approximation polynomials or other kinds of approximating functions are not widespread.

However, the performance when using Taylor series is guaranteed to be worse than when using optimal approximation polynomials, according to appropriate criteria.

Still I cannot see when you would want to use the Taylor series of the trigonometric functions, even if for less usual functions it could be handy.

There are plenty of open-source libraries with good approximations of the trigonometric functions, so there is no need to develop one's own.

In the case of a very weak embedded CPU there is the alternative to use CORDIC for the trigonometric functions, instead of polynomial approximations. CORDIC can be very accurate, even if on CPUs with fast multipliers it is slower than polynomial approximation.
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Honestly I agree. Looking at my own country most of the cold cases that still receive attention after 20+ years involve children.

If you don't have a DNA sample you're not going to solve a case from that long ago. Eye witness accounts are known to be unreliable, witnesses and detectives dead or suffering from dementia, no camera footage or other electronic trails.
That seems ahistoric as per the meaning of the word. "Sine" is derived from the Sanskrit word for 'chord' as per its initial usage in determining the length of straight line segments between two arbitrary points on a circle.
I have never understood the problem of reviving threads. I've tried, but I really only see positives.
Phil Plait, “BadAstronomer” was laid off by SYFY Wire
It is a great book. I loved it in childhood and know many of the chapters
It seems like folks don't learn from their mistakes / history.
Netflix forms new Helsinki studio to create original games
I read somewhere else that VS Code is maintained by the GitHub team, is that correct?
Imaging thinking that political corruption is an American thing and anyone validly criticising a politician is "projecting US politics."
They are also the only thing on the site. HN is nothing more than comments under a link, sorted by votes.

And that's just how we like it.
That's exactly it; we like to pretend we're some advanced computational AI operating on pure rationality, but we're actually a bag of meat with an inferiority complex. And much of the "unreasonable rules" of society are built around exactly that, and if we abandon those we often have to relearn them again and again.

Recognizing they exist can allow "the boss" to cut the issue short with a "I need to think about this" and de-escalate that way.
For sure, if time != money

All these examples cost toil in the alt implementation

Know the real value generated per hour of your time, and decide spending accordingly
Even if he was a communist it still wouldn't make him soviet.
If you were considering signing up to his paid newsletter then now might be a good time to do so.
The main reason I comment on anonymous sites like HN and Reddit is to gauge the reactions to my opinions on some technical, social, or economic topic. I see it as a way to have my views challenged and find out where I stand in the spectrum of society's minds. I see anonymous forums as the only way to find unfiltered honesty.

A secondary reason is as a way to improve my writing. I feel good when I'm able to express my thoughts accurately to others through language.
For the internet points. Once you can convert them to dollars, I'll be in great shape.
Yes, it is a zerotier alternative but there are key differences in how we do somethings... in fact, its on my list of things to do for creating some of these comparisons.... in the mean time, here is some comments on Ziti vs others - https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/v1ymn5/when_pub....

We did do performance testing too ... OpenZiti is built for high performance - https://netfoundry.io/benchmark/benchmarking%20open%20source...
I don't see what you think is a gamble, Tories will get rich from this budget; the ever increasing borrowing of Tory governments is wrecking chances for future Labour (or PR, I hope) governments to fix that. It's win-win for Tories.

No government with morals could do the sort of borrowing + tax cuts that the Tories are doing. That means down the line a moral government has to be austere and have higher taxes, and so the people will just vote in the Tories again. Only complete societal collapse will stop that cycle ...

Ergo having a climate change denier in charge of business and energy is a good thing! /s
Spaced repetition is already a well-understood and well-accepted idea. Why feel need to debate about it?

The more important thing is the product which is SaveAI which is using AI to make the spaced repetition process much more efficient and effective. I never got into Anki because it seemed to me to be a tedious process to create decks but this new approach with using AI is much more attractive.

But I guess people like to argue/exchange ideas and this post is getting much more traction compared to the Show HN.