skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Seems pretty clear that we're on a path to machine intelligence," and I responded to that specifically and argued against the possibility.

OK, you want to argue both against the _should_ and the _could_, I guess?

About the Chinese Room: sure I can replay the standard arguments, if you want me to.

But if you already reject the validity of the Turing test, there's not much to discuss on that front, I guess.

How do you know that you aren't the only conscious being in existence? How do you know whether other commenters on HN are conscious?

> It has been said that most of the work done in AI has been in trying to prove John Searle wrong, which suggests his argument is significant.

Who said that? Lots of other things have been said, too. That doesn't suggest anything.

> Where the Chinese Room thought experiment breaks down is there is a human involved, and most counter-arguments get tripped up here forgetting that it is metaphor and there is no human inside a computer where these types of counter-arguments would ever come true: no matter how much machine learning you submit your program to, there is no mind to begin with that could ever become aware.

Aren't you assuming what you want to prove here?

Btw, would your argument still apply in this form?:

> [...] there is a human involved, and most counter-arguments get tripped up here forgetting that it is metaphor and there is no human inside a [brain] where these types of counter-arguments would ever come true: no matter how much [of anything] you submit [a brain] to, there is no mind to begin with that could ever become aware.
SoK: Hardware Security Support for Trustworthy Execution (2019)
> How Microsoft and Google, and Meta allowed Apple to slowly build over independent control of their entire ecosystem, from supply chain to software is baffling.

Google didn't. They built Android and Chrome and ChromeOS to counter that issue and frankly it's been widely successful.

Microsoft tried (but failed) with Windows Phone.
Try this: https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd

If it’s customizable, global, keyboard shortcuts you’re after, skhd should do the job.
In Northern California we dialed POPCORN: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/State-May-Pull-Plug-On-C...
Hey, it's Matt here to answer this question. Our differentiations compared to Metronome are twofold.

First, we actually, and literally, measure and collect the usage (whereas they don't). So in Metronome's case, a SaaS company needs to develop an internal system to measure the usage amount, and be responsible for sending the measured amount to their REST API or via Segment. However, based on our own experience and many others', those work actually represent the majority of the challenges and engineering time for usage-based billing. Therefore, Paigo takes the full ownership to literally measure the usage whenever we can, and pull the data into our backend journey. So there is no development or integration needed.

Secondly, Metronome has a sole focus on billing infrastructure, whereas we are a broader footprint on usage-based business model. We not only provide billing infrastructure, but also pricing toolkit to optimize unit price based usage, and business analytics such as MRR/ARR/retention for usage-based model.

Hope it helps. Happy to dive deep in however way you are interested!
HN doesn’t use Markdown in any way, shape or form, so of course it doesn’t do anything special with it. But anything that does actual Markdown will handle it.
If your AES key is needed on servers or in dev environments, you'll have to give it away to others on your team, and then keep it in sync if it changes, unless you're working alone.

The question is, how will you do it?

Will you put it in .env files? In the git repo? Will you email it around? Slack it around? Use a homemade solution?
I stopped using Google Photos in favor of Synology Photos which comes pretty close in terms of functionality and polish.

Google Photos is excellent.

Synology Photos is really good. And this seems to be a worthwhile tradeoff for me.

Disclaimer: I founded 2 photo startups and have documented the solution I've finally landed on and have been using/evolving for 7 years now.

1. https://github.com/jmathai/elodie

2. https://medium.com/@jmathai/understanding-my-need-for-an-aut...

3. https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal...

4. https://medium.com/@jmathai/my-automated-photo-workflow-usin...

5. https://medium.com/@jmathai/one-year-of-using-an-automated-p...
Everything is better with rust.
A colleague of mine used them at a previous job.

I started wearing them too because they work well but also as a passive aggressive FU to whoever designed these open office floor plans (the ear protectors are usually bright colors like yellow so there is no mistaking them for headphones)

We’re treated like assembly line workers in more and more companies anyway so why not also start wearing the PPE that goes with it?
please don't standardize it before some ugly warts are removed
I rather prefer the way where the giving person thinks something that according to them is nice enough to be gifted to the receiving person - for both giving and receiving. Otherwise it honestly kills the novelty and romance of it.

On the other hand, I am into notebooks and fountain pens and till today even I don’t know what kind I am really into. So until I have seen it, touched it, held in my hand I don’t know what I want. My friends definitely don’t.

I usually gift hardcover “good” books. Not what I “know” they like, but what I “think” they’ll like. And even non-readers have finished most of my printed books.
What you say is right, but one thing to consider is the images porn might create of how a sucessful sex life and the persons having it (have to) look like.

While I have no data here I know of cases where especially people whose sexuality is not developed, or people who never had sex can land in a sexually and personally very frustrating place because they don't read the overexaggerated, sometimes comical and distorted acts for what they are.

Having good sex with someone in the real world is all about being able to express one's desire and form a connection. Having very fixed images of how the whole thing must look can and will get in the way of that.

For young people the backdrop of porn can really fuck things up. Where two people where meant to discover their sexuality together, they might now wrongly feel like experts already, unable to connect at all.
Doh, sorry. 2018, first model year, not sure how I typed that....
West seriously needs to forbid personal internet-capable devices from everyone under the age 16. We are in the middle of a global social experiment that nobody signed in for, and the results are looking very bad.
Does it work as an offline book reader?
It’s become less egalitarian over my lifetime. When I was a kid, my working class dad and a few buddies would rent a deer lease each year, doing maintenance work in the summer and fall, then going out over the weekend in season. These deer leases were usually part of a ranch.

They lost their last one because the heirs were uninterested in ranching and sold to someone much wealthier in Dallas who wanted it just for hunting. They weren’t able to find a similar situation because ranches were getting bought up by other wealthier hunters.
Technically HN's servers are located on Earth, so the technical part of HN is technically on Earth.
Just a question, does google's photo storage store the bits exactly as you send them?
Well, we have bugger all navigable waterways, even if a Kiwi did invent the modern jet-boat to increase the potential to navigate our braided rivers (in a rather small boat). [0]

In terms of rights to access rivers, it's complicated. There's the myth of the Queen's Chain [1], which has a kernel of truth in it, in very specific circumstances, but people had assumed it was far more broad reaching than it is.

And then there's the Ad Medium Filum Aquae (AMF) concept from English common law:

> By the common law, ownership of land adjoining a watercourse, which is not owned by the Crown, gives rise to the presumption that title extends to the middle line. It is a rebuttable presumption - that is, evidence to rebut (disprove) the presumption is always admissible.

That said, a lot of the riverbeds and banks of the larger (by our standards) rivers are owned by regional councils - we run three levels of government, central, regional, and local, and regional is the most focused on water allocations and flood management, so giving them ownership of the riverbeds and floodbanks around flood-prone rivers is a no-brainer - so AMF doesn't come up too often, but if you hunt for rabbits or similar, which love the braided riverbeds, then knowing where AMF applies and doesn't is vital to not meeting a grumpy farmer.

Unlike (what I've been told about) the UK, no-one can actually own the fishing rights to a river, nor the fish in the river. But you can own the land neighbouring it.

And yeah, that's how you privatise a river - buy land on both sides of the river from farmers who had previously reached an agreement with the Department of Conservation or similar to allow angler access via specified routes, and then rescind that access.

Of course, you can claim that you're not privatising the river because _technically_ the prime trout fishing stretch that your land now surrounds can be accessed via a hike upstream from Crown land that only takes 3 days one way.

I mean technically, yes, it's not privatised, but realistically, it pretty much is.

That said, the Crown is getting smarter about this, and is focusing more on permanent easements instead of relying on the goodwill of land owners - especially when rich American celebrities start buying up large high country farms, they tend to be rather... ...private, and thus averse to the public continuing to cross their land.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hamilton_(engineer)#Jet_b...

[1]: https://www.herengaanuku.govt.nz/knowledge/rivers-lakes-and-...
I hope R3 gets released so this goes on sale, want it but the price is oof.
> It's not targeted to be easy to learn.

Not sure where you get that idea. "Easy to learn" is literally the second bullet point on the go home page. [0]

The golang authors (Russ Cox, etc.) in Communications of the ACM (May 2022): "Go is efficient, easy to learn, and freely available..."[1]

...and many other places similarly.

[0] https://go.dev/
[1] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/5/260357-the-go-programm...
> 3. People come together!

Difficult to make them come together without throwing up, literally. I almost got to the point where only thinking about the abstract concept of VR makes me a little dizzy.

But the logic goes something like this: Zuckerberg has built a $1 trillion company already => he knows what he's doing => we should trust him with the tens of billions of dollars he's throwing at this, trust him that is compared to the schmucks that say that this won't go anywhere, they haven't built $1 trillion companies themselves.

I predict that around the mark of $100-150 billion thrown down the VR drain some share-holders will actually start to throw some hard questions at Zuckerberg, and in another one or two years after this the project will have the fate of Google+.
If the UN could make decisions with the sorts of impact on ordinary people's lives that the US Senate can, I think we'd see the problems with the UN structure too.

The UN, however, is primarily a venue for the airing of grievances, the distribution of aid, and occasionally the finding of common purpose. It's not much like the US Senate, which consistently blocks legislation supported by a majority of the population.
Civilisations don't consider anything a worthwhile pursuit, because Civilisations don't consider anything as anything in the first place.

Civilisations don't make choices or act. Individuals do.

Already there's plenty of humans who do all kinds of weird things. In an interstellar future there will be orders of magnitudes more beings and thanks to light lag, no means of asserting overarching central authority.
1) AirBNB is an accommodations marketplace, not a travel planning app. He's very specifically talking about travel planning apps. It's pretty difficult to monetize travel planning or travel discovery — you've basically got to be 10x better than Google Docs/Sheets and Instagram (respectively). And that's only considering product functionality. Pricing and monetization is a whole other conversation. It's really hard to build something big when all of the OTAs + AirBNB are already controlling most of the available supply.

2) It most likely won't lead to a successful social network because people mostly think about travel a handful of times per year. That was one of my tough learnings while working on Sherpa[0]. It could be a useful tool though! Maybe there's a solid B2B angle. Bootstrapping is also very smart. We tried to raise VC for Sherpa and ran out of runway.

3) I think you're right. There's probably something interesting there!

[0] - https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/02/sherpa-turns-instagrams-be...
Apple Lisa was $10,000 when it came out. But it, you know, worked. Came with word processor, spreadsheet, and drawing programs included. A 5MB disk drive, even.
State reps have a much more informed and salient interest in maintaining their state’s sovereignty, as their power directly derives from it. Much of what the fœderal government does now to usurp state power is to simply bribe the states to change their policies (e.g. the drinking age, but many such examples). Would state reps willingly select senators who would bribe them to change their own policies?
Ping Identity is heavily enterprise centric. Have on-premises and cloud offerings. Great for SAML Single Sign-On. Ping Identity does not do anything for infrastructure access. You have to have a separate product for that.
Not in the community edition, but the enterprise edition appears to be quicker than JIT because of profile guided optimisations.
Okay, but it can't release all the energy as heat, surely, because otherwise I've just doubled the energy. I have moved something against gravity to create a gravitational potential difference and I have all the heat radiated. So now when I let the thing fall, I will generate at least some small amount of heat and so I will have 1+\eps heat as arrived. I am making energy.
A conspiracy is secret. A conspiracy theory is often very public.
Seems to be overstating the case in some ways, and understating in others.

My reading is that this applies to transactions that promote violence, obscenity, etc. Yes it is indeed awful and deserving of ridicule, but it's not a charge against your non-transaction related activity. So in that sense the headline is overstating the case.

I'm only finding pitchfork raising junk sources right now, but anyway those say that this applied to seller activity in the last go-round. My reading of https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/acceptableuse-full is that this "now" applies to either side of a transaction. So in that sense, the headline is understating the new problem.

That AUP happens to also have a date of 9/21/21 so apparently this has been in effect for over a year. Why isn't that called out?
I'm into new and shiny things, but for sure don't want presents. Send me a message or hug me but don't waste our precious resources on buying me something I absolutely don't need.

It's not all about me for F's sake.
Musk Tells Twitter Employees He Doesn’t Plan to Cut 75% of Jobs
Any coffee nerd I've come across cares almost only about type of bean and roasting (recency followed by intensity).
SoccerStar
The stuff that concerns me just as much as the policing of opinions is all the list of things requiring pre-approval. I have web applications that my customers pay for with cryptocurrency, sometimes use telemedicine or make an adult purchase. It seems like I am supposed to discuss all of my personal life and business ahead of time with PayPal and then I would still be just kind of hoping for good will.
So I used to pay for the $2/m 100gb plan as I wanted full resolution not low quality. Then google removed the ability to sync your pictures with you computer which was my main reason for doing so.

I then went to onedrive's 100gb offering. I bit slower to sync but not bad.

These days I use syncthing. Easy to setup and just works. I take a photo and its on my computer in seconds. I keep forgetting to clear out onedrive and cancel it though.
The math used to determine the phase offsets to steer the beam is absurd.
COVID was the original reason but it's not clear why they're keeping it this way. At least what I've read has been pretty vague/weak justification.

I guess there was some legitimacy to the concerns that heavy-handed COVID restrictions might actually never be lifted.
On the bright side, senatorial races can't be gerrymandered.

On the less bright side, voter suppression and disenfranchisement can fix them a senate race as well as any other.
I even somewhat agree with that principle, but it don’t think it applies to using the standard library, which is (a) not little and (b) not a new dependency you add to the project.

If that’s the justification to keep an implementation bad on purpose (which I’m not sure is the actual intention, but is at least that’s what the referenced comment claims), then I’m not even sure I speak the same language as the people who made that decision.
That is an interesting question!

I did a quick search to get a rough answer. Many maintainers/contributors try to obfuscate their email address against this type of parsing, which adds a margin of error.

I was able to find 249 expired domains (used in 626 packages) that are used in a maintainer or contributor email address. Some of these are obvious fakes (e.g. bigbrothergoogle.com), so I reckon the real number is somewhere around the 200 domains.

Of the packages that I checked (manually), many are already orphaned. Some contributors will be listed because they have contributed in the past, but do not have contribution permissions anymore. So how many of these domains will lead to an actual package takeover, will most likely be much lower.
This resonates, as I've had bad experiences with being "too into" things when I was younger. Eg, being called a "fanboy" in a derogatory way, just because I'm really passionate about a specific hobby, product, or technology. In my youth this was quite hurtful, and sometimes discouraged me from talking about my hobbies.

There are entire subreddits dedicated to hating on specific things or people. As if they define themselves not by what they love, but by what they hate, and derive some sick satisfaction from mocking others.

As I've gotten older, I realized these people are probably dead inside. So now I almost pity them. I can't imagine being so spiteful that I must shame another's passions.

LPT: Always pursue your passions without shame, and encourage others to do the same.
I'm very surprised that Apple did not find this fell under the "or similar user data."

>The top payouts in each category are reserved for high quality reports and are meant to reflect significant effort, and as such are applicable to issues that impact all or most Apple platforms

It seems like the researcher put in significant effort, the demonstration was gold plated, or comparable exploits require far greater amounts of time and work to uncover.

The platform coverage seems broad enough to tick that box.

I would be very interested to read the internal report on how the $7k bounty figure was arrived at.
I love this game so much. The game design was magnificent. The art was opinionated and wel executed. Id love and open world version as well but I didn’t feel like the game was overly railed.
United States unamendable national and state borders are also a factor. Whatever one thinks about Brexit, it allowed EU to continue with countries that are committed to EU and for UK to consider what's best for UK, including welcoming Hong Kong residents not enthusiastic about takeover by China. If California and Texas go their own way and borders between states are adjusted to accommodate red and blue area, maybe current system is all that is needed. CA and TX can be still part of Nato and have a free travel arrangement with each other, changes do not have to be extreme.
Are you sure you aren't thinking about high schools? My high school--which was always a bit closed as no one ever particularly wanted random people showing up and interacting with kids--went into a ridiculous lockdown after Columbine and never recovered with access restricted to a single entrance with a stationed guard, limited access to hallways... and it has only gotten worse over the years.

The college I'm at, however, has always been set up where, during the day, you can just wander into any building and go into any room and no one really cares. When I was a student I sometimes would just go explore random areas of campus to try to see what people were working on, and most of the doors everywhere are just open (not unlocked... open). If you want to crash a class, the question was really only whether the room was small enough that the professor would notice and simultaneously care to call you out ;P.

Other than COVID--which has led to weird incentive systems that might not go away soon :(--the only time I've seen people care much about having things locked or with limited access has been due to issues of theft, not due to shootings (which HAVE happened in my area--my college even got nationally famous due to one in 2014-ish--but like, that didn't even happen on campus anyway: all similar incidents I'm aware of happened in the college town next to campus).
Afaik if you care about that, you should be able to fully turn off Find My integration?

The idea does have some benefit though. For example, if you enable “Express Transit” for Apple Pay and your phone runs out of battery, you still will be able to tap-to-pay for a subway / bus ride home. The payment NFC subsystem is also separate and has its own battery reserve.
TikTok Found Not Liable for Child Dying in ‘Blackout Challenge’
When I looked at it a few months ago: "$279? That's not too bad.. oh wait, that's for refurb. $299 new. Okay, still good. Wait what.. $129 for the pen, too? Hang on... $179 for the cover/case?!"

Talk about nickle and diming you.
Hey there, sitting here with my awesome 5yo and we can answer this one.

Some games we recommend (platform we played it on):

Cave Story (PC, was free on Epic)

Shovel Knight, Treasure Trove Edition (PC, Steam)

Castlevania Symphony of the Night (ios, ipad)

Minecraft (ios, ipad)
The only difference between an argument against a tax reduction and an argument in favour of a tax raise is what you consider to be the status quo.

The situation is more symmetric than you think.

Greater capital mobility cuts both ways: when you lower taxes you can also attract more rich people and their capital.

(I am not saying that this effect will necessarily occur, only that capital mobility comes into play both when raising and when lowering taxes.)

Oh, of course, the real solution to these problems is to tax land and not income nor capital: you can't hide land nor can it leave the country. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
I also drive one everyday.
Oura destroyed their business this way.
Many times, the best solutions are very simple. These often seem obvious in hindsight, but were at the time either non-obvious or dismissed prematurely.
The US constitution is an antiquated document written by men who enslaved others. It contains no explicit right to privacy or protection from government surveillance. It does not establish a secular state (only the right to worship as one chooses, which is different) and it features an overly broad freedom of speech that facilitates the spread of misinformation and lies. it chooses the president by an indirect mechanism and it nowhere guarantees the right to vote.

It needs to be rewritten completely but this is impossible because it is treated as a sacred text.