skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could or for integer types less than 4 bytes. For integers, while I don't think Java has this built in, you could use saturating subtraction (so it goes to INT_MIN or something on underflow).
I agree. Could you imagine if it were easy to amend? There would be a thousand amendments where every party in power amends to undo the last party's amendments.

It's the supreme law of the entire country. Amendments shouldn't come easy.
Sex is the "meaning of life".
One of my first startup experiences was working on the multiplayer platform that supported Quake Live. We eventually licensed it to Riot Games for what became League of Legends but both games were significantly delayed and we ran out of funding.
That tweet is from August 14. Since then:

"Last updated: October 11, 2022

Building access protocols remain largely unchanged from the spring 2022 semester, with several additional spaces now open to the public including in buildings 32, 76, and E25. MIT ID holders continue to have wide-ranging access to campus buildings; MIT campus outdoor spaces remain open to all. MIT continues to welcome visitors to open events and welcomes other guests who are registered using Tim Tickets or escorted by MIT ID holders."

https://now.mit.edu/policies/campus-access-and-visitors/
Never buy gear for an enthusiast unless you have explicitly asked them what they want and always get that exact thing.
One of the reasons I like the Australian Constitution is because it pretty much runs on convention. Our top leader is the Prime Minister. The PM is not even mentioned in our constitution.
My comments here to Psychology, Psychiatry and drugs vs CBT generally cause a lot of people both outside and inside the field to say "you don't know what you're talking about" and I think at one level, its good feedback. I surely don't.

But I also know from personal experience, that "the science" here is often shallow, and badly thought out, and carries way more consequence for mis-interpretation than it should. Even the jokes about "... in mice" don't really convey the problem. "In 20 young women from mid-california, in the early 2000s" gets more to the feel of it, or ".. in a group of intensively mentored 16 year old men, being rescued from the prison system and sent back if they didn't participate" or "amongst students who accepted the test for a $90 fee"

Since the arguments are used to justify CBT (which I like) and drugs (which I dislike, although I do acknowledge they work for some people) or radical treatment options like ECT (which nobody likes, but which may be the gold standard to judge other approaches simply because we have so much data about it over time) -I think this is doing the field a huge disservice.

I now expect a torrent of "you don't know what you're talking about" comments which will be from Pharmacology experts, pedants who want to point out I am not discussing psychology or psychiatry "properly", self-experimentors who are trying nootropics, mushroom freaks, gym freaks, clean eaters, dirty eaters, dirty 94 year olds in Iran who live in a barrel and eat food waste...

But truly: any field which does bad science is doing itself a massive disservice. If the field is on the fringes of social policy, medicine, public health, treatment, its not just a massive disservice to the field, it has life-harming consequences for individuals. Really, it needs to stop.
A recruiter once called my co-worker and bragged about getting me a job at another company. This was before I was ready to leave.
For this situation you want it to saturate. Clamp the value between int_min and int_max.
Agreed we should ban people from war.
Agree although if you can sift through the noise there are some gems about.

For me, the golden era of games was SNES to PS2 as feels like the best mix of budget creativity and computing power. The industry was still figuring itself out back then.

Games like Hollow Knight aspire to that older era too.

That said, I recently picked up Overwatch 2 and I'm impressed at how high the skill ceiling is, the spatial and strategic reasoning to play that game semi-pro is definitely nontrivial and Blizzard are definitely a part of Big Gaming.

>Games can be a force for good, but the average game company is not optimizing for cognitive performance

Unsure if you have games like Factorio in mind or Nintendo brain games but games that are mechanically rich (eg Souls or Elder Scrolls) can give plenty for someone to reason about if they are already so inclined.

I spent a lot of time thinking how to min/max from a very young age and it's a similar mindset to at least QA but also coding.
> My objection is it would be cruel and horrifying.

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?

> So how are we supposed to make a machine conscious without knowing how we ourselves are conscious?

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.)

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

Though I'm not sure why you brought up consciousness in the first place. It's irrelevant for the Fermi Paradox.
I didn't know this. The level of effort involved there is just staggering.
> expect if it were popular vote they would play a different game with different policies

Right, and that different game would look nothing like the current Republican Party, hence why it’s a totally fair statement to say that the Republican Party as we know it today would never stay in power in such a system. They’d have to change, and that change would probably make them look a lot more like Democrats.

Put differently, the current politics and policies of the Republican Party only yield electable candidates in a country that gives outsized power to rural voters.
California just surpassed Germany to become the world’s 4th largest economy. This won’t end, people will just gripe and adapt as it plays out over decades.
GMDX it's far better.
pre-covid, you could go into MIT libraries as a member of the public. This was well known in Cambridge exactly because it was in stark contrast to the policy for Harvard libraries. You also could get on the wifi and access all the journals MIT had electronic access to.
RSUs, and yes.
I thought it was a mobile device.
I'm not sure what the benefit is. Slightly easier to release between windows mac and linux, meanwhile taking a 20% perf hit from native?
Does graal native perform better than a non-native running with JIT compilation?
If the US was more like Switzerland
Zuck mentioned gaining share on time spent vs tictok and nobody in the financial press, twitter, or HN is talking about it. This is huge if true.
With .blocking mode, this example seems like it should operate differently.

var sendFrame = async send_message(addr);
// ... do something else while
// the message is being sent ...
try await sendFrame;

In .blocking mode there can be no parallelism, if I'm correctly interpreting what the compiler does.

Maybe the part that's different than what I expected is that it works like node with a single event loop rather than in Go where the number of parallel running goroutines defaults to the number of CPU hardware threads.
No one will follow along.

If you want to implement strings.Compare better, you can write a package and publish it for other folks to import. The function is not particularly special.
Well, not living there, having other citizenships, and generally putting most of his eggs in the American basket would do it.

Generally speaking, I would also note that outside of the Americas jus soli isn’t the norm. In South Africa, jus soli is restricted to partial sanguinis laws where the parents of the individual concerned must be South African citizens or permanent residents.

Further, Elon has openly stated the aim to make humans multi-planet, holds multiple citizenships, and views government as a territorial monopoly on the initiation of violence. Based on these three things, I’d say he has little allegiance to any given country, and that he’s more of a nerd who just wants to do stuff without worrying about anything else.
Portugal has "its own timezone" in continental Europe but is aligned with the British Isles.
ChatServer by Apple
> road of Google, putting ads in everything

At least when I open the Play Store the only ads are for apps, and none are gambling apps...
This can only work if you also reduce people's pay if they start stumbling and doing a shitty job.
Does Windows track historical time zones?
I am on Gentoo so I have some build time stats!

My system has a 3900x, 32GB ram, and a fast NVME SSD for reference.

The last chromium build took 1h:45m to complete. This build had LTO enabled and -j18 passed to ninja.

Without LTO it would probably be closer to an hour I think but I don't seem to have a non-LTO build in the logs.

Your estimation seems pretty accurate!
No, you're trying to box it as conversion therapy. I'm just talking about therapy. Not conversion therapy, not gender affirmation therapy.

I think it's wrong to assume a person has a misguided view about their own gender (the position of conversion therapists), but I also think it's wrong to assume they don't (the position of GAT). In order to understand a person's ability to judge their own gender (especially an impressionable teenager who does not have all of their mental faculties fully developed), we have to understand any other factors which may have an effect on their feelings.

This is not advocating for them to remain their gender at birth, nor is it advocating for them to "be what they feel." It's about understanding why they feel the way they do, and helping them recognize any trauma which may impact their feelings one way or the other.

I recognize this is a high bar for therapists because even well meaning people like yourself can't seem to grasp the nuance.
Yeah, I just picked some representative examples out of that list. Check out the others: Brazil, Ecuador, Kenya, Liberia, Mexico, Paraguay, Venezuela, Zimbabwe for a few. None of these are what I'd consider stable, prosperous, well-run nations.
This is pedantically correct, but in practical terms, if you got RSUs at any price in the last five years, they're still worth less than you were offered.
Gadget consumerism.
Reinvent the Wheel
This is awesome! I really missed portals and start pages that we get to customize from back in the days.
As someone outside the US.

Academics & students who've visit always mention the obvious countermeasures to campus shootings. Far more security, sequestered academic offices, cameras.

While this proposal is radical... it's not unexpected.
Somewhat the same in Montana, where we have much more space. I wouldn't go hiking in peak hunting season.
Mostly agreed!

> There isn't really any difference in mechanism between what we consider biological lifeforms compared to machine ones.

There is one important difference: we can make machines with vastly better error correction for their replication. That has large impacts on any 'machine evolution'.

Your argument still applies. But there might not be any noticeable change in the machines long after the stars burn out.

Especially if initially they are engineered to have a long generation time. And if you take into account that most mutations are bad for fitness.
...unless you're in Korea, where people use electronics and backpacks to reserve their seats _on different floors_ while they go to order their coffee

(probably other examples too. This just floored me as an American)
https://github.com/twosigma/libvirtcpuid works around this.

(But in practice, we mostly rely on the fact that if you are in Google Cloud and specify a minimum CPU version, Google masks CPUID in that VM to exactly match that CPU, even if the underlying hardware is newer. They do this so live-migration of the whole VM works, but it also helps for process migration. I'm not sure where this is specifically documented but see e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/a/44507857 .)
I'm curious on what the current popular alternatives are. It does seem like most conversation focuses on direct democracy since it's fixated on respecting the popular vote.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27439240
New Justice Department Policy Marks ‘Historic Shift’ in Press Protection
US Accelerates Plan to Deploy Upgraded Nukes to Europe
Eliminating dual class stock would see Zuck replaced tomorrow.
ServiceNow Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf]
Cannibals could actually thrive, at least for a while, I think...
that was literally my thought looking at the map as someone who moved away in 2019. That walk down the infinite corridor, then dropping into the tunnels when I hit the Chemical Engineering department and popping out at MIT Medical was one of my favorites.
This is not surprising at all. For most of our history, most humans societies were only barely able to feed themselves. All growth in food supply was quickly matched by population growth. The population densities of hunter-gatherer societies were orders of magnitude lower than that of prehistoric agriculturalist, which resulted in latter displacing the former, and replacing their hunting grounds with farms and pastures.

This happened in the blink of an eye: in the area of modern Germany, anatomically modern human hunter gatherers have showed up something like 45-50 000 years ago, but after early European farmers have arrived from the southeast 7500 years ago, they entirely displaced the hunter gatherers in just 2000 years, despite the former having 42 000 years of head start (which is 7 times longer than the entire recorder history).

The reason is simple: using agriculture, you can have much more humans occupy the same area. You quickly get population counts that are completely impossible to sustain by hunting. If you nevertheless allow them to hunt, they will very quickly hunt the animal population to extinction, especially when most of the land is already used for cultivation instead of being dedicated for wildlife. We know this, because this happened on multiple occasions. Human arrivals to Australia have hunted most of its megafauna species to extinction. Same happened when humans arrived to Americas.

Point is, if you allow everyone to hunt, and hunters are numerous and adept, soon nobody is able to hunt, because there is nothing left to hunt. This is also happening today, with overfishing.
No 24/7 campus libraries?
I am not an engineer, but I feel the same way about payment systems. It is all so fragile when you peek behind the scenes that it is hard to justify using anything, but most basic services.
I felt the same way when I tried it out today! It was kinda buggy, but once I was able to get it working and clear (adjusting the lens/depth) it was actually pretty cool. Overall I didn’t think it was really ready for market from what I was seeing, but it was a really rad experience.
Your experience matches mine, except for the libraries. In my experience at 3 private eastern US universities (two ivy leagues and one liberal arts), all libraries required university IDs or a pass to enter beyond the lobby. I do not know what was required for a non-university person to obtain a pass.
Hey, I don't know if you need to hear this, but: I think your friend isn't very good at being a friend back to you. You may need to re-evaluate.
This is fucked - one thing I enjoyed about my campus access is I could waltz into almost any academy buildings... and so could anyone else. I met so many cool people who were just interested, and just wanted to have a chat.

It harks to the older age where you just show up to a place to get a glimpse and hang out...

If that's gone? War won...
> Probably, although I would much prefer if we humans became hybrids of some sort (maybe uploaded and virtualized, or extensively augmented) instead of just falling by the wayside.

Well, would you consider yourself to be a heavily augmented fish? (Or heavily augmented amoeba?)

If yes, you can probably re-interpret our successors in that light, too.
It costs 385 USD !!

Whoa !

I wish there were cheaper alternatives. I'm from India, and it costs about 800 USD here, for the same set.
OldUnreal's Unreal Tournament 99 v469c patch
Mike Davis Could See the Future
Archived: https://archive.ph/H1ui7
Ah man, using Newton raphson to find a numerical root of a single number. Even Taylor series would’ve been an acceptable answer but this just looks like you searched “root finding” and pasted the first result here. The mistakes are just compounding the more you talk.

Not to mention you now have to do your nice little penny wise adjustment on each iteration of a root finding algo to keep it in the confines of your imaginary system. I can’t even.
Disabled javascript by default for years with NoScript, through something else, and finally with uMatrix. Disabling it might put you into a smaller group but it prevents so many other details from leaking, which I remember from a similar sounding site from the EFF, you probably still gain.

So many ads require javascript to load and even some news paywalls fail to operate without it. Little happens automatically without it which is what you would expect from a web of interlinked documents.

Aside from the security and privacy benefits you discover how shit web designers are. They make things hidden with attributes like "display:none" "visibility:hidden" "opacity:0" "overflow:none" and expect the RCE to toggle them off. All the content I want is transmitted to me ans present in the page but for some godforsaken reason they thing it should be obscured.
If you like games like this, check out Tiny Combat Arena. It's EA but it is coming along.
I'm not excited about it (and I agree with your last 5 words). It's too easy to subvert. We have so much history, see the SC link I put in the thread.

The states are a much safer venue.
Wow, it's even worse than I thought.
Sure. But at most that would mean that you colonies low mass stars first. Not that you only colonies them.
Above the law. This monetary penalty is trivial to Meta.
> It's set up to make it difficult for the majority to trample on the rights of the minority

Two words: Jim Crow
Of course, both coc and lsp are your friends there. Want to change variable or function of class name or whatever? No problem. Take this piece of code and wrap it into a function, and where it once stood just place the function call? No problem. Etc.
It's totally fine to have lines you won't cross, but as you say literally none of this is going to happen. Autonomous vehicles aren't on rails and error-free isn't a thing.

I'm also not sure how a fully open source stack would help to alleviate your safety concerns. Current vehicle stacks are impossible for a single individual to meaningfully review, however motivated. These are incredibly complicated distributed systems with dozens of processors running multiple operating systems and frameworks on top of those before you even get to application code. The safety requirements alone consume thousands of pages.
> So what is the source of consciousness then?

Healthy brain is the source of consciousness.

> 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?

Though commonly referred to as such in metaphor, computers are not brains. Computers also have hard limitations that are very different from the limitations of biological brains. Maybe it is possible to accurately simulate a healthy brain but is unattainable due to physical and economic limitations. Then again, maybe even if we exhausted the global economy and every natural resource to build a planet-sized computer and simulated every minuscule part of a human brain, every cell, every neuron, and all the electro-chemical interactions, and it still wouldn't be conscious, maybe that is a far better result than if it could be conscious. What are we even doing? I ask you, what is the goal and benefit here? How would that be better than the unconscious AI we already have and the automatons we can already produce now, but haven't? For a time, computers will get smaller, faster, more powerful, but if we haven't already achieved Strong AI with the largest fastest computers available today, in the future if room-sized clusters can fit in a cell phone, how can we expect them to be conscious? And if the room sized computers of the future can be made conscious, how will that benefit anyone?

> I'm not sure there is a third possibility?

Well, imagine having two separate conscious brains, the one in your head and another somewhere else that is also physically a part of you. Maybe we'll alter our species to evolve these separate brains, I just don't know what the point would be, as it would not at all be like multiprocessing or parallel computing, but more like slavery.
All the old games still work today. We still play the original Mario on a 1985 Nintendo.
Cuphead is absolutely the best game I ever played with my kids. This is one of the only games that allows you to play together with your family/friends offline. No screen split. I haven't seen such a gem for many, many years.

Cuphead is the game that can easily inspire people to become game developers.

Fun fact: the entire game was hand-drawn. The authors took the inspiration from the cartoons of 1930s.
What was the scheme? Buy coal certs at 800 per and sell at 1k?
Sure. But dotancohen's claim was that the only remaining energy was thousands of feet under sea, which is very false, even if the places that we currently want to burn coal are not all that close to the Powder River.

But if we're rebuilding civilization, well, the iron ore mine that supplied US Steel's Geneva Works is also in Wyoming, not that far away. And once you get an industrial revolution up and running, among other things you get railroads, which are useful for transporting coal longer distances.