skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
France seems to have a similar rate of hunting deaths to the USA.

> According to information released by the International Hunter Education Association, the U.S. and Canada combined see around 1,000 hunting accidents, specifically involving shooting injuries, on an annual basis. Moreover, close to 10% of these hunting accidents end in death.

https://accident.laws.com/hunting-accidents

> Since 2000, there have been 3,325 hunting accidents in France, of which 421 were fatal, figures from l'Office français de la biodiversité and la Fédération nationale de la chasse show.

> This is equivalent to 158 accidents per year, with 20 deaths.

https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/How-ofte...

France is just under 1/5 the population of USA and Canada combined. Perhaps it’s just that firearm deaths are so much more common in the USA (12.21/100k vs 2.33/100k) the hunting deaths are less notable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
The biggest strike against states rights in recent memory was the removal of the SALT deduction, one of the strongest protectors of state power. Now states with higher tax burdens are much less competitive, because the citizens of that state don’t benefit nearly as much for what they pay.
> That's an argument for why we _shouldn't_ build them. But not an argument for why we _can't_ build them. Do you see the difference?

This is a straw man fallacy, because I was asked "What's your objection to "conscious" machines?", and my objection is that it is cruel.

> Evolution didn't 'know' about conscious either.
The pioneers of the Industrial Revolution had only the faintest ideas about thermodynamics, yet managed to build working steam engines. (And we improved them over time, as we learned more.)

This is also a fallacious argument. Just because we don't know how evolution created consciousness doesn't mean that we can use our ignorance of how consciousness evolved to create machine consciousness. If you're only using this as evidence that consciousness is possible, the fallacy is begging the question, petitio principii.

Also, I believe there is here equivocation and conflation of artificial intelligence with natural intelligence. If we have the time, we can spend 600M years to evolve consciousness directly, but then it would not be artificial, it would not be machine intelligence, it would be natural or biological intelligence, and it would be a massive waste of time because it is already here and we are it.

> For the 'Chinese Room' see eg https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec4.html or just have a look at good old Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

Do you really expect me to argue against your citations when you're too lazy even to summarize any particular counter-argument? 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. A Turing Test does not prove consciousness nor even intelligence. All it proves is whether a human can be fooled. Arguments suggesting emergent properties between a human and a rule book are patently ridiculous, absurd on their face, because learning a book could not possibly ever make a book conscious. 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.

> Though I'm not sure why you brought up consciousness in the first place. It's irrelevant for the Fermi Paradox.

In fact, I did not, the OP of the tread asserted: "Seems pretty clear that we're on a path to machine intelligence," and I responded to that specifically and argued against the possibility.
Admittedly I was a student at the time, so I had a lot of time to explore and make things work.

I used mutt for email, irssi and the bitlbee proxy for chat, wrote styled docs with LaTeX, etc. When I interned at IBM in 2005 I was even able to get Lotus123 or whatever horrible email thing they used to work with mutt, and my supervisor even encouraged me because he wanted to use it, too.
It's on campus AFAIK: https://mitmh2023.com/

I wonder if going forward events like this will use this sort of reservation/ticket-based system. Perhaps someone more in the know can weigh in.
Nobody lives entirely in terminal these days; but terminals have gotten much nicer.

Running Neovim in something like WezTerm, Kitty or Alacrity is closer to what it was like to use a GUI version of Vim (like MacVim) not too long ago.

Full-color support, full OpenType support (like ligatures), built-in multiplexing at least in WezTerm, in a fast, GPU-accelerated UI.

Neovim's support for the same LSPs as VS Code + support for Treesitter.

+1 for LSP-Zero, which makes configuring LSPs and linters trivially easy for Neovim.

I'm not suggesting that you or anyone else should use Neovim instead of VS Code, but I've certainly read enough blog posts about TypeScript and Rust developers moving from VS Code or IntelliJ to Neovimn for a variety of reasons. I've seen Neovim core developers coding on YouTube and Twitch and they look pretty productive to me.

I've attempted to use VS Code; it usually starts okay but doesn't end well and I go back to Neovim.

Neovim hasn't made it to version 1.0 but so far, it's on the right track and I love the vibe of the Neovim community.
ABBA is a well known four letter brand. You could tap into the fan base with A33A.

C3PO is another famous example. C33O (note O not 0) taps into a worldline of history. 63PO also.

Be careful with patterns such as I95W - you may run into traffic problems.

IANL (another four letter combo) but you may have problems copywriting a sequence of two letters and two digits. See Intel 486.

So how about trying Wombat Yancowicz?
A commentator on a Federalist Society conference this evening mentioned this project:

https://constitutioncenter.org/news-debate/special-projects/...

Interesting to read the varying contentions made by the respective groups on how to change the existing U.S. constitutional structure.
Incorrect. Google has a line item called "Google other" that is $7B in the most recent quarter. It accounts for things like Google Play revenue, YouTube and YT TV subscriptions, hardware revenue from Pixel, nest, etc. They don't report profitability from this line item. But obviously something like Google Play margins will be very high. And they're probably losing money on the hardware.
No README or explanation about anything.. Why?
If anyone wants to me my MTB friend…
Yes, to me they sound like similar questions as can a human-level AGI robot experience consciousness like we do, or is consciousness a purely physical thing. My opinion is yes to both but I guess i'm a physicalist/materialist.

Actually another comment points out something interesting, when we get black-out drunk we are basically in this zombie-state. We can talk and hit our head and physically our brain still reacts, but it was like we aren't actually there and our body is just on autopilot mode.
What does the ruler do?
Why do you appreciate that the US = the rural parts? That is the current alternative to "California".

Ronald Reagan, patron saint of the right wing, was governor of California.
If a population not significantly a majority of the country “reaches a breaking point”, that sounds like it would not go well.
> It’s a long way from a machine intelligence in your computer to one that is even as self sufficient as a cockroach

Ah, but the trick is, as soon as you can get a machine intelligence smart enough to work on programming tasks, you can get it to help you design a better one. And so on, etc.

The first AGI is (some) amount of time away. A more sophisticated AGI is coming not long after that, and exponentially faster and so on.
Ah? Narrow/shallow work well now? I can just grab one file and edit/check in without grabbing the rest or having history issues? Good to know. Had tried it a few years ago without success.
> ... interstellar voyages will be undertaken by those intelligences, not meatbags.

The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so vast that the life support requirements for thousands of meatbags for possibly thousands of years really are just a rounding error.
Today they can charge this, tomorrow I can't imagine
Meta plans to lose even more money with metaverse while its ads business shrinks
This looks similar to the servers they use for their home grown CDN: https://youtu.be/tbqcsHg-Q_o
Not a particularly deep article, but here is a readable version:
https://archive.ph/DTF6P
> Australia and UK not withstanding

..cites two of the most important examples
Yeah. I agree that amending should be hard, it shouldn’t be subject to a simple 50%+1 vote count. But a supermajority should be enough. What we have is ridiculous. A supermajority of support is nowhere near enough to pass an amendment. It’s leading to the Supreme Court accruing more and more power in what’s becoming an unaccountable superlegislature. Ironically de facto giving the power to amend the Constitution to a *minority* of voters.
That's pretty surprising, maybe it varies by region? Are you in the US? Basically every full time contract I've ever seen has it. I'm currently writing a new one for a different company in a totally different field, using a default template, and the template has it too.

That's not to say that some employers wouldn't be OK with it, just that it tends to be thrown in by the lawyers because why not.
Lane change is also buggy now for my Model Y. Since the last couple updates about 5% of the time it jerks back into the current lane after moving about 50% across the line, as if it had suddenly seen a ghost in that other lane. There is nothing there of course, but its jerking motion back to the current lane is very frustrating and embarrassing. Other drivers must think I'm having a seizure.

I drive the car 100% manually now. I don't even use cruise control it's that bad. $60K on a car that doesn't even have usable cruise control is disappointing.

My experiences with FSD tell me that it will never fulfill its promises and I'm just out $10K. Some other manufacturer maybe could do it, but not Tesla under its current leadership.

I'm hoping Lucid can pick up the mantle where Tesla left off.
> The only way to get rid of waste heat in space is to radiate it away. People will often suggest that heat could be recycled. While true, this simply makes the system more efficient (ie less waste heat). It won't eliminate it. And even 1% of a normal star's waste heat is significant.

Any construction around a star in thermal equilibrium must necessarily radiate away exactly 100% of the energy output of the star, not 1% or 10% but 100%. Otherwise the structure will just heat up until it does. The only known way around that would be using a black hole as a heat sink, or somehow radiating the heat in tight beams rather than uniformly in all directions to make detection less likely (hopefully nobody gets in the way!)
TBH, I'd bet the tracks would be torn apart first to get at the steel, maybe even for the sleepers/ties.
I'd say that the election system for most of them inspires more confidence than the US at that point. At least they have the decency to train their vote-rigging poll watchers in private rather than in public.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/politics/michigan-gop-poll-wo...
Our computer security problems are our own fault
> a power not enumerated in the constitution.

But at least with two hundred years of general acceptance, so clearly there was something to it.
> I credit RuneScape with teaching me the value of delayed gratification

I credit RuneScape with teaching me to write Java code to write bots to do the work involved with the delayed gratification.

Then eventually created a GP selling business online.

Also led a PvP clan and ran a PHP forum for it.

The RuneScape metagame was where I acquired real-world software development skills.
No I just meant using generics seems to require explicit lifetimes decently often. I don't understand why.
Go doesn't have many features of other languages. There are several competing goals, including keeping the language small, not hiding complexity, etc.

Manually writing the three-way comparison fits in with these goals. If slices were comparable then I'd wager that bytes.Compare would not exist.
Photobiomodulation or low-level laser therapy
Yep, here in Japan people will leave their valuables on a table to reserve it or to go to the bathroom. It's just a different culture; here, people are taught not to steal. In western cultures (particularly America), that just isn't the case apparently.
Uniform Resource Name
Well, US constitution is still more amendable than EU constitutional treaties, which require unanimous agreement of all states.
The MIT campus always reminded me of The National Mall - an open grandeur, an unbreachable edifice in the name of ideas. It’s sad that both of those proud facades have been eroded recently, and both have had barriers added (temporary and permanent) in response.

In many ways those barriers feel like a formalization of division and will more deeply entrench the forces that prompted them in the first place. I understand the motivation, but I think true strength here is keeping things open in the face of serious issues, not trying to make sure they never happen again (at great cost).
I'll buy into VR as a social scene when furries start using it.
Doesn't mean it's accurate.
I also know individuals that are immunocompromised in the US that still factor covid into decision making. What exactly does “the rest of the world” mean? World population minus 17% minus the rest of the people deemed unworthy of counting? What a neat and meaningful metric.
> What about this prevents students from hanging out in office hours?

It's not about office hours. It's more about the connection between MIT and the massive surrounding tech community.

I was briefly an MIT employee, and I gave a departmental talk on some work I'd done as an undergrad. And if someone from one of the surrounding tech companies had wanted to drop in, nobody would have even noticed or cared.

MIT is surrounded by tons of amazing tech companies, many of them founded by MIT alumns. And there are many other major universities in the area, including Harvard. It was pretty normal for people interested in a topic to be able to casually interact at MIT.

But I guess MIT has apparently decided to add a lot of friction to these kinds of casual intellectual interactions with the larger community? Instead of just sending out an email saying, "Hey, talk on the 9th floor on multiple dispatch implementation," I guess you now need to get people to apply for visitor passes, and make it an officially scheduled event, and get everything signed off on?

I dunno, it seems like the end of an era.
> There's no sex in the Metaverse champagne room

LOL - love it ;)

Sex sells but it doesn't pay the bills. i.e. you can't be coding Zuck's metaverse while having sex.

I'm a fan of VR too. But the metaverse is either going to be the most amazing thing or the most dystopian thing that humankind has ever created.
I was sidelined sorry, it's all fixed now.

There's a demo video along with a button that will take you through to the less than ideal layout.
I tried this on Monday and it didn't work. Even if it did, this goes beyond access for alumni. I believe the campus should be open to everyone, as it's been for decades. It's one of MIT's values, as Reif himself said:

> Because openness is a central MIT value, our campus is open too. The vast majority of our buildings are open to the public and the campus has no visible perimeter; we are an aggressively ungated community that works around the clock and welcomes the world in.
Would much rather seen a lecture in person than have to listen to it in a shitty mid-2000s recording (which seems to be the case for a lot of MIT online videos, especially non-CS ones)
In the current political climate, Postman would have become an "obnoxious dark web troll" too.

Evidence of that is Rex Murphy, who shares many characteristics with Postman, including a similar reputation, who in these latter years, is in danger of being branded a "right wing troll", as a consequence of contemporary developments compelling him to write articles like this:

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-the-yaniv-outrag...
France, Portugal, South Korea, Ukraine, Romania, Costa Rica, Taiwan.....it's almost like you're intentionally ignoring all of the presidencies that meet your criteria.
If you haven't already talked to somebody who works for a large furniture brand, it could be argued that "you're doing it wrong". You want to start talking to your prospective customers as early as possible, preferably before you've built anything at all.

My advice would be to read The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank and think hard about his approach.

Beyond that, how do you contact people who work at Kogan and Ikea? Two obvious thoughts come to mind:

1. Go to the places they go and meet them there. There are undoubtedly annual conferences, expos, trade shows, etc. that cater to that industry. People from the companies you want to meet will be there, either presenting, or observing, or both. Go to those events and talk to people.

2. Go on LinkedIn and search for employees of those companies. Ideally you'll find at least a few who you either already know, or at least have a mutual connection with. Reach out to the ones you know, or if you only have a mutual, reach out to your mutual and see if they can connect you to the person you want to talk to.

Also, a variation on (2) that I personally like... still go on LinkedIn, but search for former employees of the target company. Reach out to them cold (unless you just happen to have a mutual with them) and explain politely that you're working on something that might be of interest to their former employer $WHOEVER, and that you'd like to ask them some questions to help you get oriented about the industry, that company, etc. The thing about this is, people who work for a company will tend to be somewhat defensive if you reach out to them directly, because right from the jump you come off as a sales-person who is trying to sell something to them / their current company. But if you present as being interested in their former employer, there is less reason for them to be guarded / defensive, but this still appeals to their need to feel valuable / knowledgeable / etc.

No, it won't work every time. But it works quite often in my experience. So meet with this former employee, find out if they think your idea has merit, and why or why not, yadda, yadda, yadda. And, assuming they left $WHOEVER on good terms, there is a good chance that they can be the person to arrange a warm introduction to somebody at your target company.

All of that said, I still advocate reading The Four Steps to the Epiphany (and maybe also The Mom Test) before reaching out to these folks.
The Wire blames retracted Meta story on ‘deception’ by staff member
The complaint is that by reducing taxes for highest incomes there are fewer resources for the state to address the wellbeing of its citizens. It is not that the poorest pay less tax, it is whether social services and other government programs like education, environment, etc. are cut as a consequence of lower taxes on the rich (note the difference from raising taxes - where the wealthiest have greater capital mobility and access to professional services to shield incomes from taxation, so increasing taxes can fail to raise anticipated revenues when things go the other way.)
Just added Dark Mode, take a look and let me know if that is better for you https://swurl.com/
Is not VS code slow, code change and eslint errors showing up take couple of seconds, so I was thinking about trying NeoVim for the first time.
I think manual three-way comparisons are very clear. But so is strings.Compare. For better or worse, copying code is a pretty normal thing to do in Go. See "A little copying is better than a little dependency." [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAkCSZUG1c&t=9m28s&themeRef...
> Whatsapp is the de-facto communication tool in India and LatAm from experience

And much of Europe.
I don't want anyone to arrange any passes. It creates a barrier to entry, however small, that means fewer and fewer people will gain access to MIT and be inspired by it.
It's more than find my. Bluetooth just being on is core to the just works experience for airpods, apple watch, and a bunch of other smaller features. And the reasons for turning it off are vanishingly small for the average person.

For security this is probably something that could be brought in to lockdown mode for people who want absolute security over convenience.
Now if only they made a Raspberry Pi for purchase...
> Absolutely! The constitution by its nature should dictate things that the overwhelming majority of people agree on, not the usual fifty percent plus one person slim margin that a lot of controversial policies end up being.

You'd be surprised with how little people agreed with the Bill of Rights then and even now.
I've forgotten the exact prices at this point (I want to say buying mid-20's per and selling mid-30's but that may be complete misremembering). The basic idea was hanging out in the dwarf mines where people are mining coal and giving low offers on coal, with a promise to increase price if they can sell in quantity (and in certs). Then, just turn around and sell the certs, once you had a lot of them, at a higher price in Varrock town square (or similar).

One other reason we thought this wouldn't work is that it seemed to us buying in large quantity should get a discount - bulk discount, right? But that wasn't the case. It was cheaper, per unit, to buy hundreds of coal than tens of thousands.
"Arrange a visitor pass" is 100% different than open buildings, which is what it used to be.
I think down in the comments people mentioned, that the language part of Graal is not actually included in the contribution.
The lead author of The Wire's articles attacking Meta, Whatsapp et al has been erasing his internet presence starting with his twitter, reddit and github accounts.

Go figure.
Another programmer fallacy about time zones I garnered from the article is it is always known what time zone you are in. Or time zones have definitely geospacial boundaries.
And just one of the disingenuous responses from Tesla is that you could have it all now, or could have, if it wasn't for pesky regulators.

There might be an awkward silence when you ask why as recently as six months ago, it was still happily hopping the curb of roundabouts, or why even to this very day, there's no AEB capability in FSD (if your foot is on the accelerator, the car will consider that a higher priority input than an imminent collision).
One of the funnier problems I ran into recently was when a friend who actually understood my coffee preferences pretty well (though I don't think he actually grasps my preferences fully) got me coffee that was actually not bad, except that I already had way too much (and more preferable) coffee in the freezer.

Fortunately, even if I don't end up brewing all of it, I don't let it go to waste. In the past, I combined all of this throwaway coffee to season some new fancy burrs.
No one will follow along.

"The only sure path to failure is to not even try."

Or are you both implying the power of and supporting the massive monopoly that Google already has?
I think what they're saying is that you need more code in Go, which is inherently unfriendly to developers, to produce an equivalent output in other languages. And to a certain extent that is true, but it disregards the intangible benefits of Go, such as it's balance between simplicity and the ability to make it perform.
Is it legal to sell these exploits? Obviously using it is illegal but I wonder if even selling it to someone else who would use it is illegal.

I would happily pick $7,000 clean money over $50,000 dirty.