skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The brain absolutely is a machine. Just like everything biological in general: life is nanotech. We know that, because we can literally look through our microscopes and see how it ticks, at the atomic level.

So we looked and saw that life is just molecular nanotech, but what we didn't see was any tags attached to carbon chains that would say, "this molecule's natural function is to think", or "that molecule's natural function is to be a part of an organ that pumps blood", etc. Because there is no such thing like a "natural function" in the sense used by your quote, the distinction between "natural" and "artificial" is itself artificial[0], and that whole quote represents a piece of magical thinking philosophy you'd think humanity abandoned at least a century ago.

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[0] - https://abstrusegoose.com/215
IMO "amendments" are made and also "ignored" via an unofficial process.

For example, I can read the second amendment --

> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

It is clear the national firearms act is outright unconstitutional by any sane reading, yet it was deemed "okay" by SCOTUS and passed by congress. The amendment was ignored for nearly 80 years and finally opinion seems to be shifting.

In a similar vein, the supreme court previously created a problematic "roe v wade" ruling. Regardless where you stand on the issue, SCOTUS effectively legislated that decision into existence. There was never any support in the constitution for their claims (the cut-off date in particular) or any laws passed (hence it was overturned and returned to the states). It's called "legislating from the bench".

In other words, our constitution is interpreted by a court which can just decide it means something that it doesn't.

It seems we can't repeal the amendments, but we sure can ignore them. And we can't create new amendments, but we sure can just implement them (Roe v Wade).

Personally, I'd like to see the constitution fully implemented to the furthest possible extent. We may disagree on issues, but to the point, we can amend them. A full implementation would also create more sovereign states which enable a diversity of ideas and plethora of ways to live.
When Putin is ineligible for reelection, he’ll be 84 year old.
Looks broken on Firefox, everything is blurry!
Is there any note-taking software/app for video?
I usually learn things and get inspired by watching videos from YouTube, Tiktok, or online courses (I admit that video is good for learning, but not good for extracting information and reviewing).
And I found it's very complicated to take notes for videos. For now, I have to install a screenshot app to take screenshots, transfer transcripts with an online tool (and it doesn't work most of the time), and open a note-taking app to put them all in, then write down my own thoughts.

I want to know if you guys have the same pain as I do, and is there any tool that can combine video, audio, transcripts, and text together for better note-taking?
https://sapling.ai/usage/polarization-vs-polarisation
So it’s functioning as expected and as intended.

These people don’t seem to understand that.
Deceptive fund name crackdown puts investment managers on edge
Absolutely, but at the end of the day, the people of the united states get to freely decide whether they support their government policies. I'm not saying the US is good, but it's a helll of a lot better than the Iranians murdering women who don't wear the hijab or NK murdering basically anyone.

Sure, we can do the moral relevatism thing, but I don't have much patience for it to be honest.
For terrorists, causalities are a means rather than an ends.

Trying to characterize terrorism in terms of body bags isn't going to work for many reasons. One is that terrorism works even with small numbers of total body bags. Another, perhaps more important, is that terrorists will increase their violence to match the population's threshold.

Anyways. I don't have any answers. But dismissing terrorism because it doesn't kill that many people kind of misses the point of terrorism in a lot of important ways.
> "intentionally nerf Compare() to discourage code the golang authors considered less clear"

If that's true, it further proves that I disagree with the philosophy of the Go designers on pretty much everything.

If your language provides multiple ways to do something, they should all be optimized in good faith. To do what you suggested is insane and user-hostile.
Even the beatles spent a few years at level 2, playing in hamburg etc
https://64.media.tumblr.com/ac307175e8297f88f095b3bf52e0c854...
> No, it was because the slave states didn't want to lose slavery in a Senate vote.

Sorry, that is simply not true. Virginia, a slave state, was by far the most populous state at the time the Constitution was adopted.
It remains very unclear that we actually do have ways to bend the universe, that is, ways that are physically realizable. Even if you accept claims like the the em-drive, it has certainly never been proven at a useful scale.
This sounds amazing. If I wasn't married, and my wife was keen, I'd love to spend three months in near isolation working on my courses.

Was the weather insane? Queensland is bad enough in the summer haha
I think this is more about the population in the sliver, than the size of the sliver itself. Using NASA's population estimation site [1] it estimates a population of 213.

213 people have their own timezone.

1: https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/mapping/popest/gpw-v4/
Which, to be clear, means everyone processing ETH transactions is complicit in circumventing OFAC and should face the legal remedies available.
All: please consider telling your competitors about Animated Tabs [0] as to slow down their productivity per new tab.

[0] http://animatedtabs.com/
In my experience, in many other's experience....

It's fairly factual, just because you have a way you might like to work or think is best doesn't mean it's the only one. People are very different, perhaps there is some psychological profile which behaves differently than another, regardless just as there are extroverts and introverts, people don't all work best in one way.

I suspect most people can benefit from breaks, and the studies seem to back this up. Perhaps you are the special one - not the other way around.
That’s not a terrible idea, but one can imagine both parties would game the change so that it takes effect while they’ve secured a multi-term presidency and a number of justices are retiring.
I thing I decided late in life is that being really into things is cool.

Something I'm rather sad about is that highschool kinda beat that attitude out of me. I was a classic nerd, including all the bad attributes that label comes with, but also one really good one: I was really into a number of things. But I learned from hard experience that being super into stuff was lame - being disinterested and too cool for stuff was hip. I internalized that attitude.

Even into adulthood, I occasionally find myself making fun of people for being into specific things. I eventually made myself a rule: if someone really enjoys something that's not hurting anyone, that's an admirable trait. It's easy to obey this rule for things I like: science fiction, fancy beer, programming. It's not too hard to obey this rule for things that I'm not personally into, but are culturally adjacent to me: classical music, literature, skiing, fancy coffee. It's harder for things that are not as cool among my social group. I sometimes have to remind myself that being super into football, nascar, or the bachelorette is just as admirable as being into my things. Un-ironic enthusiasm is one of our best traits as humans, even when directed towards things I don't personally get that excited about.

And so I'll always appreciate that coffee friend. They're lucky enough to have maintained the ability to nerd out about something and I'm glad of it.
Ah man. There is a recurring pattern here ---- first you tell me it can't be done. Then you tell me you don't like how I would do it.

You handheld calculator with it's 8 bit processor is proof that almost any mathematically function can be reduced to basic 4 function integer arithmetic.
Oh knock it off. Having a conservative opinion =/= “far right”
My kids have been enjoying this online remake of LodeRunner. [0]

It's fun because I have fond memories of playing it on the Macintosh Classic II as a kid.

They like making custom levels for each other, just like me and my siblings used to do.

I was also happy to find an ad-free Minesweeper remake on Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Page. [1] They like the maps game from that page as well.

[0] https://loderunnerwebgame.com/game/

[1] https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
No, the Several States are the Sovereigns. They ceded a small amount of authority to the Federal government in a limited Federal Constitution that outlines the powers of the Federal government. See the 10th Amendment.
Both Tesla and SpaceX vehicles run on Linux.
RSS would be awesome
All of us did all of the above - no one finishes undergrad without extensive lab experience and expects to get into a good institution for a PhD directly. The main differentiator is whether you get a paper out of it. I worked every evening and summer all through my undergrad in multiple labs without ever coming close to a paper. This outcome is often out of the undergrads hands - except again if you’re connected or are a hustler just hunting a paper without trying to get a variety of experience.
But how does he know?!
Do they log the dns requests in the monastery’s network?
> UNIX breaks down quickly without multiple fake single address spaces for each program.

So do MS-DOS, Mac OS < 9, and others: any non-MMU OS.

> Yes, and with unrestricted memory access, one program can crash the entire system.

That's true in any system with no MMU that runs machine-language native executables written in assembly language or using unsafe compiled languages.

Historically, there existed partition-based memory management whereby even in a single physical address space, programs are isolated from stomping over each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_management_(operating_s...
Agreed, but keep in mind not everyone is an average BMI or overweight. My BMI is quite low and despite wearing multiple layers, I am always cold.
Just because it was tried and "failed" once before doesn't mean that people don't still believe that it can be tried and made to work the next time.

The concept of a split US is not unattractive to a much larger number of people than you might be willing to give credit. There's also the people that will support a movement not because they fully support it, but mainly just because it's screwing the "system" and watching the chaos.

Back in the mid-90s, I was a video journalist covering the Republic of Texas[0] movement to secede (or in their words to recognize the illegality of Texas being annexed into the Union). It was very interesting how it was successfully progressing through the court system, but then went to crazy town with all of the liens, attempting to print their own money, and the kidnappings. However, there were the typical people denouncing their US citizenship and signing up to join to the Republic of Texas. The thing that surprised me was the governments of other countries signed up in recognition of the RoT as a legit government. I get that individual peoples wanting to see the world burn, but seeing governments sign up for it was what got me.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_secession_movements#Repu...
correct! if ever faced with this situation, the hair should be split. We can accept that the action of the computer machinery is, without evidence to the contrary, assumed to be correct. It's not a "computer" error.

BUT, the programming of said computer is certainly not infallible. In fact, without evidence to the contrary, I think there is ample precedent that a computer program is full of bugs and should be trusted not one bit. Where's the evidence that the program was tested? Designed to safety or reliability standards? Etc.

If I was ever required to "prove" that a computer system (including programming) was faulty, Hoo-Boy! Give me access to the source code. It's a fair bet you could find one bug per every 100 lines of code without trying.

The days of "nope - computer sez..." are over. Every judge, jury person has experienced these issues personally too. The position of infallible computer system will not stand long.
Needs a (2020) since that's when it was last updated. Originally posted in 2017 and updated in 2019 and 2020.
Yeah I needed to go to the DMV so my friend came back from Japan with a $1 gift for me: an ID of a cat wearing a tennis headband and bifocals.

I would show bouncers who never thought it funny. My fave was one looked all over it and said "What?? Theres no birthday!"
Who in the heck is talking about terrorism at universities other than you?
A group of 213 people have their own timezone.

I think this is more about the population in the sliver, than the size of the sliver itself. Using NASA's population estimation site [1] it estimates a population of 213.

1: https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/mapping/popest/gpw-v4/
They separated these children into two groups, those who reported playing no video games at all and those who reported playing video games for three hours per day or more.

So what happened to the 50% of total children that were somewhere between 0 and 3 hours per days of games? Were they discarded or rounded into one those two groups, because that leaves a huge gap in the middle?
Why are you focusing on "terrorists" as the only ones with agency, rather than the media that hypes up the event, makes it into a spectacle, and encourages the next mentally ill person to go for their own 15 days of fame? The ones that buy ink by the barrel never critically examine their own role, but we certainly can.
Some things should be priced out of everybody getting to have one. Like cars.
Or at least 'illegal, outside'.
As I mentioned above, I chose not to go the academic route past my PhD. I don’t believe it’s a viable system and want no part in perpetuating it. Not that I didn’t have a choice (my professors actively encouraged me to do so, which they typically don’t to most of their students).
There’s R&D on a whole host of things - ranging from optics to battery life to designing silicon. There’s also all the software/gaming studio acquisitions made over the past few years. And, I suspect, they were bleeding cash like crazy on the Quest 2 subsidy and not recouping nearly enough via Oculus Store purchases.

What’s more baffling to me is that we’re now several years into this “bet the company” XR pivot and nothing really seems to be coming to fruition. Yes they sold a TON of Quest 2s - via a financially ruinous subsidy and then everyone tossed the device in the back of their closet.

They’ve spent a ton of money buying every successful VR game studio they could get their hands on for three years - and still have NOTHING but a handful of BeatSaber music packs to show for it.

The Quest Pro was supposed to be positioned as a less expensive HoloLens for businesses while also getting Meta some real world experience with eye/face tracking. Thing is: the original device was supposed to have a depth sensor and it got removed at the 11th hour. Which, imo, completely ruined the HoloLens-lite positioning since the only AR differentiators over the Quest 2 ended up being slightly upgraded SLAM cameras and a janky color overlay. All the meatspace positioning had to be offloaded to an already over-worked Qualcomm SoC. And without those advanced AR capabilities, the Quest Pro is essentially an upmarket blend of the Quest 2 and the Pico 4.

Which leaves the Quest 3. And we’ve seen enough of it from leaks to know it’s actually a compelling upgrade to the 2 - but it’s not expected to launch until 12 months from now. And it’s certainly not representative of what you’d expect from xxx billion dollars worth of hardware R&D.

This comment is already too long so I’m not getting into the Metaverse thing, but it’s probably the biggest failure of them all.

Tl;Dr: Imagine if Google launched Stadia along with an announcement that they were pivoting to the console market. Meta’s VR pivot is ALMOST at that same level of a self-inflicted mismanaged disaster.
The other thing that's great about having friends like this, is that they've done all the hard work for you! You can just adopt their setup/approach (within reason) and can be fairly certain that you are going to get a good result without needing to put in months of research.
That's weird, I'm wearing a joke badge, too! It sure looks like the real thing, though, and I'm not sure where I got it. Hang on, let me try and find my real one...
I’m not a very good software developer, no, and that was my point. I’m a decent driver, but usually I farm that out to my wife who is better. Based on my phones swipe keyboard performance, I’ll say I don’t trust software developers to create a car’s brain.
Everywhere in Europe. Every European language other than English (that I know of) uses "billions" for 10^12 and something like "milliards" or "thousands of millions" for 10^9.
Writing with Machines
There is a tutorial modal that pops up and blurs the background. If you don’t get that for some reason, it would just be blurry. Works fine on FF for me.
It does seem silly that someone would advocate making the supreme law of the land easier to change at the same time there is widespread concern about the government becoming more authoritarian, or even tipping into dictatorship. It screams unintended consequences.
Great message, everyone should have atleast a few things they are intensely passionate about. Dig into books, immerse yourself, buy stuff, completely master whatever you are into. Hone it and perfect it. Don't care what others think of it.
Additional context: At the time this happened (after 1958 and before 1963), monthly pay for a new 2LT was 220 (2.7k per year) and for a 4 year captain 420 (5k and some change per year). Flight pay would be 100 and 185 per month (1.2k and 2.2k per year respectively).

So while today it's not a lot, back then it'd be at least a 30% pay cut which would be hard for any family.

https://www.dfas.mil/Portals/98/MilPayTable1958.pdf
If HN were a representative sample of what most users wanted from their phones you would think they wanted to spend half the day compiling the Linux kernel on their phone and the other half bemoaning if only they had the “right to repair” they could put their own headphone jack on their phone and get rid of those pesky AirPods
I think JavaScript is at its most useful within the bounds of a single threaded event loop, personally.

Cool project and props for Node module interop, but I personally can't see why I'd use this.

If you want to go more parallel/concurrent, there are already great languages to choose from! Unless you're of the mindset that everything that can be done with JavaScript will be done with JavaScript :)
Configuring Vim to catch-up with Intellij is becoming a part time job.

It doesn't have to be. I tried a bunch of things but LSP-Zero just works. The UI/UX for installing LSPs and linters, etc. is better than VS Code.

As time goes on, feature parity with fully featured IDEs like Jetbrains is steadily becoming harder.

As far as I can tell, there's no stated goal by anyone involved with Neovim to reach feature parity with any IDE. That's not the point.

What's great about Neovim and similar projects: there's a middle ground between a full-blown IDE and a "text-editor".

Just because a coder/developer wants some nice things like autocompletions, diagnostics, refactoring and semantic formatting and syntax highlighting doesn't necessarily mean they must use a IDE, especially when some of the underlying technologies for providing these features (Treesitter, Language Server Protocol) are exactly the same.

It won't take long for text editor users--Vim, Neovim, emacs, Hexlix--to expect these capabilities. It'll just become the norm. Just like how most young people today know a world without the internet being everywhere, we'll have users who've never known a time when every decent text editor didn't have what old-timers call "IDE" features.
I do believe it will work. Eventually. After hardware upgrades. And it's the only system available to the public that even attempts to do some of these things, so it's the only option if you want to test early. OpenPilot is cool too but it doesn't do everything.

Also I paid $3k for FSD.
giving me gifts is usually a felony so don't even try
raspberry pi is not a real product anymore
The linked article is from their opinion section which is always hit and miss depending on how you lean politically.

The actual reporting done by WSJ is still top tier imo.
In the generated code, there is a length check.
In implementation (which will often be inlined, so may vary contextually) it does a length check, and if equal does a memequal (tuned platform assembly).
If that equality check fails, or the length check isn't equal, it does a runtime.cmpstring (tuned platform assembly).
So, when strings are actually equal or are unequal in length, it's pretty much optimal.
The bad case is when the strings are equal in length but not in content, as that can result in two scans of the strings. Still not slow in that case given that the work it's doing is being done quite efficiently, but some of that work is effectively wasted.
On my local go install (2020 macbook, go) the difference is between about 2ns and 4ns for an 8-byte string that is different in the last byte. Naturally, could vary quite a bit based on cache and string size, but fast enough to not worry about until profiles show it matters.
Currently the vehicle may fail but generally my brain won’t, except in certain cases. I’m fine with that, not with my car driving into a barrier it thought was a road. I probably won’t make that mistake.
The US Constitution is an early prototype for the constitution of a modern republic. Pretty much every other constitution in the world has been written based on US experiences. In almost every case, the newer constitutions have chosen to organize the republic in a fundamentally different way. While you may argue that the values in the US Constitution are the best in the world, it's nowhere near the state of the art in procedural issues.

A key test for a constitution is whether a substantially similar constitution would pass the amendment process today. If it wouldn't, the constitution is obsolete and should be rewritten. If people no longer believe in the spirit of the constitution, they will increasingly try to subvert it. Institutional checks and balances may protect the constitution for a while, but if people don't believe in the constitution, they probably won't believe in the institutions either.
Overwatch 2, for all the criticism it gets has a really good core that has been worked on for a while now. It's a shame that good game and level design will be marred by Blizzard's monetisation and content policies.

If you're in the market for more gems of games to play, Deep Rock Galactic is quite fantastic.
Thanks, Chris!

Another interesting thing that came out of the object-capability ferment around E and EROS was Darius Bacon's Idel secure virtual machine: https://github.com/darius/idel

Though no other software is as influential as JS, other currently influential ocap systems include Genode, most of the current implementations of L4 (including seL4), and CHERI.