skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the low-effort snarky response. I wasn't aware that starter homes in my area built in the 1950s are an instagram-worthy location.

Probably because I don't even use Instagram, so I wouldn't know what it looks like to be in one.

> And imagine shopping at Walmart, I would literally die frfr no cap.

I'm glad you were able to find Urban Dictionary on the internet, and not get lost. If only I was such a digital native like you.

> Yes, much like the outdated concept that building tangible wealth in underpriced assets is worth the cost of a slightly lower number next to the heart icon. Fucking boomers, amirite?

Yes, you are right. Not sure what about, though, since I'm not going to waste any effort parsing your word salad.
Show HN: Python Quine
Haven't seen this one before.

Create a file at /home/teaearlgraycold/quine.py with the contents:

File "/home/teaearlgraycold/quine.py", line 1
File "/home/teaearlgraycold/quine.py", line 1
IndentationError: unexpected indent

Then run:

python3 quine.py
The MIT museum is at a separate location: https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/
They also have awareness detection, if you're on the beta, as well. A simple weight is not enough.
Then you can use bytewise comparison instead of alphabetic comparison.
The answer is, it is a Republic, not a Democracy. It's set up to make it difficult for the majority to trample on the rights of the minority. More colorfully, having two wolves and a sheep vote on what's for dinner.

It's still a good thing.
Sure. If you looked like a student or a professor, i.e. you looked like you belonged there. But, I never noticed anyone who didn’t.

As an engineer employed on Route 128, I often went in to MIT to access the libraries and seminars.

I’ve never heard of any problems. So sad, it’s all CYA and unwarranted fear these days.
I mean that’s true at a Starbucks as well. You probably shouldn’t leave electronics unattended anywhere outside a home.
> Machines that learn, sure, but conscious machines, no way.

So what is the source of consciousness then? If it is something supernatural, like a soul, then yes reproducing consciousness in a machine is impossible.

But if it is ultimately just a biological process, no matter how complicated, then it could be simulated given true understanding and a fast enough/big enough computer?

I'm not sure there is a third possibility?
Samsung Electronics names Jay Y. Lee executive chairman
Now go to each of those locations and see how muchs jobs pay.

Zillow links don't prove whatever point you were trying to make with the low effort post.
Revenue miss, and revised revenue guidance even worse.
Revenues down 4% YoY yet costs up 19% YoY.
Profits down 50% YoY.
Users flat.
Average ad price -18% YoY.
Capex 2x+ YoY.
Added 19k employees (+28% YoY).
Costs expected to grow from ~$85bn '22 to $101bn in '23.

I know there are external macro issues - but fundamentally you have to choose between two interpretations of this data.

1 - They've blown it badly over the last 7 year (strategically, but also at an execution level). And it's all been covered up by a bull market and cheap capital.
2 - But the metaverse!
But that is more useful, we should agree, for implementing binary trees or sorting algorithms.
I've found it somewhat offensive / invasive that applications are asking me to disclose my sexuality recently
That's how it works for San Francisco, which is turning out to be not so good for the SF citizens:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/san-francisco-to-consider-toler...
I know Florida has some "law-like" amendments. At least a couple recent ones, specifically the legalization of medical marijuana and minimum wage increases, came about because it's a way for the populace to directly vote on and implement laws that state representatives are refusing to pass or even discuss.
It depends. As a coffee nerd (but not a snob) a 250g bag of coffee goes fast and even if it's not the best would be appreciated. As someone who likes to cook, kitchen stuff is likely to go into the drawer and not see the light of day again until I move.
For anyone unfamiliar with Charlie Stross' "Saturn's Children" and "Neptune's Brood", it explores a far future where humanity is more or less extinct but the galaxy is being populated by (conveniently similarly anthropological) AI androids.
> Generally people shouldn't get me coffee gear - as that could lead to disappointment

Family member once heard I was getting into cooking, and bought me these bad, half oven mitts. I feel lousy every time they come over now: their oven mitts were quickly replaced.

But yeah – buying me a small, consumable gift will always be a treasured thing, and never an inconvenience. At worst, I don't enjoy the coffee much. I still received a gift and got to hear a story of its purchase.
IMO the boundaries of cruise control’s abilities are extremely clear, so it doesn’t require a ton of overhead to know whether you’re pushing up against them.
The coffee friend appreciates the thought that went into the naïve gift, even if it’s not exactly what they would have picked out themselves.
> Here's the thing, the best part about it vim is that it is not slow (plus paired with a terminal emulator like kitty/wez/alacritty). When I type the characters actually appear on the screen as I type them.

I just noticed that ~/.vimrc adds a small delay, even if it is empty.
This is the test case:

Create a file with about 10 emtpy lines and type:

esc switch to normal mode
gg go to the top
ctrl + v, G select all lines
shift + i switch to insert mode
- line just type something
esc this will duplicate the first line until the end of the file

If you repeat the test case with no ~/.vimrc, you will notice that the lines are changed faster.
Right now, anyone who joined Facebook in the last 5 years is underwater on their options.
> the equal-number-of-senators-per-state is the one thing that the Constitution explicitly forbids changing by amendment, the last clause of Article V.

Nit: "no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate."
I think very few people "live entirely in a terminal". I've never been all that big on IRC or mutt and the like, or "do X from the terminal!"-type programs, but a huge chunk of what I do is writing stuff (code, or just plain text), and Vim works pretty well for that. I also find it works very well for managing files and such; for example a few weeks ago I took over an old Go project, and I wanted to fix some of the "if foo == false" conditions to just "if !false", as well as reformat with the newest version of gofmt, so:

for f in **/*.go~vendor/*; gofmt -w $f
for f in **/*.go~vendor/*; gofmt -w -r 'a == false -> !a' $f

I guess maybe you have some buttons for that VSCode, but this sort of stuff is pretty fast to type out, and you have a lot of control like "exclude this directory" (like the vendor directory in the example). You can also do more advanced stuff; some time ago I wanted to see how much space my qemu images were using so I could use reasonable defaults for new versions:

for f in *.qcow2; printf '%-30s %-15s %s\n' \
$f \
"$(qemu-img info $f | grep -o '^virtual size: [0-9.]* [KMG]iB' | sed 's/virtual //')" \
"$(qemu-img info $f | grep -o '^disk size: [0-9.]* [KMG]iB' | sed 's/disk size/used/')"

Which is a bit hacky, but it's a one-time command and it prints a reasonable nice-ish table. This kind of stuff is much harder from a GUI.

It's really flexible and just as "simple" or simpler once you know all the tricks. Learning all the tricks of course takes a long time; say hello to my teenage years with no friends or girlfriend.

Anyway, aside from file management and Vim I do almost everything in the browser, and more or less always have, but for some things it's hard to beat a good shell.
> It is because UNIX is written in the C language that there are even multiple flat address spaces instead of segments or a single address space systemwide.

That is flat out wrong. C supports multi-programming in a system that has one address space (that includes the kernel too). Programs just have to be compiled relocatable.

You know, like what happens with shared libraries: which are written in C, and get loaded at different addresses in the same space, yet access their own functions and variables just fine.
At least tail calls are rather easy to detect purely syntactically.

But yes, an annotation that forces the compiler to optimize them (or give you a warning or even error when unable to do so) can be useful.
I'm only talking about the US, but I would argue that the NRC is overkill in some key areas.
I suppose.

But it seems to me that, esp. in the case of gaming, it isn't just distribution that win, but the ability to discover, and pay, for games easily in a single place. So App Stores seem to have won the distribution game and have added several other capabilities that are all together make for a more compelling story than easy distribution alone.

If that weren't the case, why aren't we seeing more games distributed this way (web)?
Any. You're describing the trolley problem which is silly.

The car should be traveling at a speed where it can break and stay in its lane to avoid any at fault accident. Nothing more, nothing less.
It's not clever. It's a scammy abuse of misplaced trust. Since when is lying a form of innovation?
So I think the strings.Compare should be implemented efficiently, to avoid breaking user expectations.

Is Go forkable (for lack of a better word)? That's the only question that comes to mind when I read the article. You have the source code, and this shouldn't be a difficult change to make, so I think "fork-and-fix and see who follows along" should be the mentality to practice in this case.
My objection is it would be cruel and horrifying. Also, as of yet, we don't understand what mind is, and we can slice up the brain in a thousand ways and never find it. We may never know, and all we do know is that consciousness is a phenomenon arising from healthy brain. So how are we supposed to make a machine conscious without knowing how we ourselves are conscious?

Dr. John Searle's objection is that software is not a mind, and goes on to explain why with his Chinese Room thought experiment.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
> Biological lifeforms would to ensure the survival of their DNA.

Humans are already a hybrid organism that works to ensure survival not only of genes but of culture and knowledge. It's not difficult to imagine a machine civilization would do the same: not only preserve their construction patterns but also their intellectual achievements.

However, none of that is strictly necessary - because evolutionary pressure still applies to machine species in the same way as it applies to us. Machines that stay at home and don't propagate, well, won't propagate. Eventually someone comes along who does propagate and the stagnant species will fade away. There isn't really any difference in mechanism between what we consider biological lifeforms compared to machine ones.

Edit @jimmytucson: HN doesn't let me respond directly, so I'm clarifying my answer here:

> And I can’t see any reason why it would, tbh

It doesn't technically need a reason. The fact that those machines who do replicate eventually dominate the landscape is enough, on its own. If 100 billion machine civilizations choose not to procreate but one does - that's the one that eventually seeds the ecosystem.
You shouldn't have.
Remember that this is a year on year change. Most of that growth happened in Q4 2021 - Q2 2022. The change to Q2 was about 4.5%, so they already slowed down massively compared to the previous.
Music and the Fibonacci Sequence and Phi
Idk it works pretty well for me. I have FSD on like 90% of the time at least. Total game changer.
What's the right conversion in this case? How to narrow down negative long to negative int without loosing a sign?
The intent of the changes is to better society, even if we don't agree that that was the actual effect.
Why are French hunters so incompetent compared to other countries? Different attitudes towards intoxication?
2nd best of two giants still a decent place to be. See iOS vs Android.
I just had it for a month. Then I caught something else in my weakened state, and I’m not back to normal yet.
> I believe that transgenderism is a social contagion.

From the 20s though the 40s, people who reported as being left handed went from 5 to 12% and it has lingered above 10% since.

Is being left handed a social contagion? Or did it become more socially acceptable, and fewer had to hide it?

> It spreads among friend groups

People often choose their friends among those who see the world in a similar way. Friendship circles are not formed though random selection. When one in a given friend circle comes out as gender queer, is it truly a surprise that others in that same group also come out?

> fine if it weren't for the fact that it's self destructive and encourages self-mutilation

What exactly are you referring to?
The City of Lost Children – French: La Cité Des Enfants Perdus
That's exactly why a good physics education is important
The City of Lost Children - French: La Cité des enfants perdus a 1995 science fantasy film

Ron Perlman as One : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Perlman

The City of Lost Children (1995) - IMDb : https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0112682/
I don't see think we should see this as a replacement, but something that compliments other forms such as solar.

It doesn't have to be one or the other ignoring costs
They found a nice workaround with federal taxation though. There's a lot of instances where the states technically have the power to pass different laws than what's federally blessed. However, they'll lose federal funding if they do. And the majority of the time, that's just not a good trade-off.

So the federal government is essentially taxing the state's citizens, then giving some amount of it back to the states in exchange for rowing the boat in the right direction. States that increase their own taxes to compensate for refusal of federal funds would become noncompetitive to other states who don't.
> ACWST is observed only in a tiny sliver... a total length of about 340 kilometres.

It might be tiny in Australian terms but not internationally. 340km is a very similar width to the UTC+2 timezone as it runs through Finland and the Baltic states, much wider than Portugal which has its own timezone (UTC+0), and just a little under the width of Bangladesh (UTC+6, almost completely surrounded by India at UTC+5.5). Ittoqqortoormiit in Greenland has a separate timezone for an area of around 100km width.
Central London has super-high-price "luxury" residential real estate.

London in general has way-way-way-more-than-median-income-can-afford residential real estate.

London itself (not Greater London) is roughly 1/8th of the total UK population.
Why Self-Help Quick Fixes Go Wrong
way to figure out the efficient market hypothesis and why it could be wrong at such a young age!
The 12th Amendment enshrined tickets, certainly, but they were already present by the election of 1800.
The Deer Who Lived Upstairs
I would be surprised if this were true for MIT libraries, it certainly is not for Harvard. Otherwise, many academic buildings were open. But not libraries because tourists would be disruptive.
https://archive.ph/eQ3b2
Yet somehow it still gets broken.
You can! Change the "Tile Type" option in the sidebar
Agreed. Beans from an exotic location are widely available worldwide, and they might care about how they were roasted as much as the origin. A gift voucher for a good local roaster might be good.
Or ask them what gadget they want next for their setup.
The tax rate on higher earners is higher (not to mention their absolute tax payment). The poorest people already don't pay any taxes.

You can't cut the taxes of the poor as much as for the rich, because there's not as much to cut for the former.

I have no idea whether the UK policy is any good or not. But your complaint is a weird one to make.
IMO we should probably differentiate between the BOR and amendments which came later
Psychology's Credibility Crisis: The Bad, the Good and the Ugly
Borders work even better for that 'abstraction'.
How do you know you're not interacting with a Chinese Room when you talk to another human being?

Our own brains are an excellent proof of concept that machines can be made to think. We're all machines in a way, after all - unless you believe there is a special supernatural exception for human minds.
Part of thoughtfulness is, "is this going to just sit in a drawer and take up space?"

I absolutely appreciate the thought, but a tool I won't use because it doesn't match my needs or is just unergonomic is a waste.
Do you mean to say that “slide to power off” leaves Wi-Fi radios active?
There's a number of fine points to distinguish.

1. in node there's only a single thread (ignoring workers) but in Go the thing you start can run in parallel with the other stuff.

2. even in Go it's two operations, if you want to wait for the goroutine, you have to use a WaitGroup or similar and wait on it.

3. in Go you can't turn off the goroutines. Every call to a library function can potentially suspend the goroutine and resume later transparently (other than elapsed time).

I'm fine with the way Go works as well as the explicit Future or CompletionStage of Java where I can actually control which threads things run on. We'll have to see what happens with project Loom to see how well that works. I haven't used Kotlin coroutines to comment.
No, Unreal can't export to the web using newer versions of engine actually.

And UE5 does not have support for it out of the box at all.
> principles of high availability, scalability, resiliency and observability.

That is not a good pitch. All of these things are absolutely achievable outside of hyper-scale providers. Whether the “alt cloud” like Linode, or in on-premise bare metal or private clouds like VMware farms.
Actually it's not.

Constitution design is an academic field, a very niche area of political science, and nobody would ever implement anything like the US Constitution today. It would be like using ALGOL for a new project today instead of Python or Java.

The US Constitution was very much a version 1.0 project, written before people even knew political parties would be a design constraint. Constitutions are on like version 5 or 6 now. (I'm making up numbers but you get the idea.)
What else did you expect if you give people time on general-purpose computers for free?
The comedians say “cash: the gift card you can use anywhere!”
The novels you mention also have AIs housed in bodies that don't resemble humans at all. (If memory serves right, the miners in the outer system have rather different bodies.)
Or rather, we have a sizable number of people outside of academia who are unable to comprehend the difference between people saying that instruction is racist by letting some people get lower standard education and people saying that math is racist.
Imagine Robert Mapplethorpe being fined $2,500 per photo by PayPal for obscenity: definitions drift over time.
> What documentation though?

Yeah, sorry about that. I read the actual documentation and nothing is mentioned. I realized later on in my comment though ;)
> In France, the schools, universities and pretty much any other establishment are closed to the public. [...] In business hours, if you are a member of the university, you must present ID and pass through security or welcome desk

Which damn universities are you talking about? I sure have no issue roaming on the campus of the local university, going to libraries and administration and visiting former professors without any security check. That would be hard in the first place given how vast and open is the campus. The only place some sort of check are mandatory (half of the time) is one of the student association asking to show the membership card when buying beers.

At some point after Charlie Hebdo there was annoying security checks in the parisians univs I was attending but that stopped within a year or so.

There is usually one vigil in stores, but certainly not "patrols". For the record, countries with no immigration issue like Japan or Czech Republic don't have this kind of security in stores. Univ cafeteria in Japan is also open to all, and there are occasionally some hobo going in.
> Machines that learn, sure, but conscious machines, no way.

So what? To have implications for the Fermi paradox, we merely need machines that can replicate throughout the galaxy. Whether they are conscious or not is irrelevant.
The only gift I request is a truly novel idea.
He doesn't need convincing to continue. But yes Apple stepping in might help the PE ratio for the space
I doubt they get options, RSUs most likely.
The standard Tesla adaptive cruise control steers the car center lane.
Insulation is great. But if you rent then you have limited control over what you can do. Insulation seems to be hard for Renters but maybe turning up and down a boiler is possible.
TikTok Restaurant Reviews Are Reshaping Restaurant Criticism
"Other than that it’s a great car."

Please update this review in a few years.

CIO was late to work, again, today because the Tesla no go. One thing after another. It's kind of ridiculous.
> IMO we should probably differentiate between the BOR and amendments which came later

Of the 27 amendments that have been ratified, the most recent was one of the twelve submitted as the Bill of Rights, so there are literally none that have come later. Sixteen have come in between (one from the BOR was never passed.)

Also, the most relevant amendment to the issues upthread, for most purposes in US law (since things like defamation law and most of the cases where the evidence differences matter are state, not federal) is the 14th, which is not part of the BOR.
I've not seen many people comment on text legibility. How's reading compare to your normal monitor?
Part of that can be chalked up to the fact that specifying its behavior would limit it, and everyone who has delved deep into unsafe is familiar with how hazardous it is (unsafe rust is more unsafe than plain C or C++). I think debate is required before documentation.
>The fact is that our Constitution reduces voting rights for those that live in populous urban areas and gives outsized voting rights to those that live in rural/sparsely populated area

yup, that was by intention. That's also exactly why the senate was erected; they didn't want smaller states to be ignored by campaigns that could ultimately just focus on enough electoral votes to win the election.

>This rationale/compromise may have made sense in the late 1800s, but it's difficult for me to see how this is a good thing now. I wonder how many presidential elections we can go where the "winner" receives fewer votes than the "loser" before people seriously question what the purpose of our democracy is.

I'm not sure. the exact same gaming would work today if we aboloished the Electoral College tomorrow. The same gaming could happen today; you focus on CA, NY, TX, and FL and you have a large chunk of the population talked to in one swoop. But that leaves 40+ states de-prioritized. figuring out how to solve that without putting the fate of the country in Ohio's hands is a delicate balance to seek.

I'd personal prefer for spillover voting to help ease off the polarization of it all, but that would be an even more uphill battle. Obviously both parties would not want to lose any potential power.
Well, you can also loose a democracy by governing so ineptly that the country falls apart or gets invaded. Also, Plato foresaw democracy descending to the point where people elected a dictator to bring order to the chaos, although that's covered in your post. If the population cannot/will not distinguish reality from what they wish were reality (a disease afflicting both the American left and the right, although in different areas), then the chances of inept leadership or believing the lies of leftist authoritarians or rightist authoritarians increases.