skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couple issues. One is there is a pernicious view propagated by certain philosophers that consciousness and self are the artifacts and epiphenomena of language. The irony is that in this view, a domesticated animal is more conscious than a wild one because it has been socialized, strongly implying consciousness is a measure of material subordination. Cui bono on that one, I would ask. The other is that the idea of "mind," exists on a scalar measure of consciousness, and that by imitating human behavior, it can somehow appear on a scale of equivalence to humans. Oh, really? If we can be measured as equivalent to our imitations and simulations, one should wonder what that makes us.

A lot of these musings about artificial consciousness are a proxy for justifying a materialist ontology that mainly serves to decouple people from an ideal or exogenous morality, and it makes them view each other on a spectrum of less than human livestock. I suspect Kant is to blame, and while the materialist view of consciousness drives some interesting tech, it is also the foundation for some really obvious and forseeable unforced evil - as we are seeing now with the rise of technocratic authoritarianism a mere ~35 years after it it yielded its wall.
I'd also thank the author for walking right into this like that, as I think a modern conversation about the consequences of materialist ontologies is coming due.
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I played with the original a long time ago. IIRC, back then Laurie Spiegel asked for some kind of credit on music that was generated by it given that the musical output would be bounded by the software design.

Also, if you've never heard her album Unseen Worlds, its definitly worth checking out.
TimJ lists simply enumerates a bunch of software names with almost no content to move the discussion along.

I could have said, "Well blockchain is important because I used Schmaltz, Goober, and Cookie deployed on Flanders, Homer and Kearney, the open API just works out of the box," and by your logic I'd be some wizened mage on the subject.

There is a cliff on HN, but you might want to invest in a parachute.
There's also `termux-distro` so you can run in a sandbox popular distros like Debian and Arch.
That’s funny. I was just considering buying a Mercedes. Never again.
Yup. You have to enable it, add property MFA, then disable it.

Because Google knows best.
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A book I read as a child (ca. 1990) claimed it was gas content; good to know it was correct (even if by accident).
Borders might change to cope with climate migration
That doesn't say anything about advertising, just tweeting.
He's the one that really got me obsessed with hard sci-fi in my teens, with Eon.

Followed by The Forge of God and Blood Music. I don't won't to ruin the endings of these two, but who knew you could end books like that?!

Queen of Angels was the weirdest detective book I'd ever encountered, with futuristic CSI way ahead of its time.

The power levels of the conflicts in Moving Mars and Anvil of Stars seemed unimaginable.

Slant, one of my favorites, felt like something like cyberpunk, but something else as well.

I've always thought him as my favorite of the Killer B's (Bear, Brin, Benford). And one of the authors that really changed how I thought about things
With EVs that 500+ hp fun ends 15 minutes later with a break to recharge. That's pretty much useless in any case.

A fun EV would first of all be non-SUV but low air drag, non-luxury, non anything that's not needed to move. But even that would only provide higher possible cruising speeds compared to other EVs, but still inferior to ICEs.
Yes, casinos are pretty well regulated in most countries, which is why I wrote "At best they [cryptocurrency coins and tokens] are like casino tokens". Although casinos don't have a spotless record, e.g. US$63 million from the 2016 Bangladesh Bank cyber heist is suspected to have been laundered via casinos in Manilla.
The goal of remote work is not to drive everyone out of the city. It's a success if we allow enough people to move to the suburbs. Everyone benefits, including people that love the city life.

Plus, remote work is still not the norm in every company, so it's difficult for someone like you and me to move to the suburbs even if we wanted to, because we can't be 100% certain our next jobs will be remote.
When is the best time to exercise?
> just infuriating.

I just bought a prepaid card only for this - Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. I don't use it for anything else. I took it out and hope to remember to top it up for another year to keep it in service. It's so stupid.
In space they are all floaters.
Researchers discover how music could trigger a deadly pathogen release
Outgoing Disney CEO Bob Chapek Likely Leaves with at Least $23M
Yes, lets use autism as an argument against Elon. Weak and unfunny
I liked it, but it sounds more like initiation into a cult than deprogramming from one.

> You were born to parents who started your indoctrination from day one.

Separation from one's own parents is a cult mind control tactic.

> Like it or not though, the cult has left noticeable marks on you. In fact, that's how we identified you.

Guilt is another mind control technique.

> Unlike your cult, we encourage you to feel these feelings to their fullest if at all possible.

This is another tactic called disinhibition.

> If these feelings ever get too much to handle, simply press the red button on the device on your wrist, and you will be relieved of these feelings for a two hour time period.

Drug abuse.

> Want food? Press the green button on your wrist device, and the meal of your choosing will be prepared for you.

Change of diet is a mind control tactic as well.

> You are also welcome to feed, pet, and generally take care of the various cats and dogs that wander the premises. They are specially trained as companion animals and are here to make you feel better and, hopefully, lift your mood.

Love bombing is typically done with humans but OK.

https://cultinformation.org.uk/article_cult-concerns.html
That might be for you. I actually prefer options and customization and if it's taken away I'm more annoyed than if I never had it.
ngrok Becomes Identity Aware with App Users
Here is the link to my calendly if you want to put time down to chat. I won't be upset if you're too afraid, though! Cheers.

https://calendly.com/veganism-chat/30min
I get that people are angry at Elon for chaos monkey behavior, but how do articles like these move the conversation forward? I was hoping the author would at least include a few paragraphs on suggestions for improving Twitter.

Marques Brownlee has a great video on YouTube with his suggestions on improving Twitter. Mostly, he talks about new features to enhance the creator experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1qsF0WQy8c
First fire all the devs, then rewrite the software to reduce server costs.
I've been really excited about the potential use of HE for private messaging. Today the most anyone does is end-to-end encryption, which does a great job protecting what you're saying, but it fails to protect who you are talking with. HE has the potential to change that.

The Wikipedia demo[1] starts with a big download because you're fetching an index of articles. Subsequent requests have you send an encrypted one-hot[2] vector making the article you want to read. The server does an encrypted dot-product of the vector with the vector of articles, returning just the encrypted article you're looking for.

A messaging system could do the same thing, where your vector selects member identifiers or public keys.

[1]: https://spiralwiki.com/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-hot
It would become the United Kingdom of England and Scotland. Though maybe they would acknowledge Wales for once.
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Actually, Gates really said "640k will be enough..", but as I remember, context was, "to run (current for that year) msoffice comfortable", with typical for that year business tasks :)

So I think, it will be better for him to admit this, and give exact source, so will not Streisand effect issues.
Beyond Meat Internal Reports Describe Dirty Conditions at Key Plant
Same, I only pull it off when i feel it scratching a palm rest.

Smaller watches, with nylon, silicone, or leather straps help. Big metal bracelet watches always feel in the way.
Because "Pro-Environment" messaging is neither about being preserving the environment, or about the environment. It's about co-opting the relevant ideal within the overton window to signal some form of ethically accepted form of compliance.
Consider also joining our chat room if you want to help out: https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/140719/programming-lang...
Yup, it's due to the fact that we perceive green as much brighter.

It's actually very interesting to look at "constant luminance color wheels" which correct for this perceptually:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ralph_Redden/publicatio...

https://i.stack.imgur.com/f4n0P.png

What we traditionally call "yellow" isn't even present, it becomes more like "khaki" or "olive".
I can confirm that the light of the F91W is very poor. I think that given the price difference it's not worth it to buy the F91W anymore.
And that money still isn't enough, because NI is still suffering the effects of the troubles and a governance situation which is not fit for purpose. Everything here is in a state of disrepair, the NHS isn't functioning, the far-right Christian-fundamentalist party which is the second biggest party refuses to do anything for reasons that exist only in their own heads, etc. etc.

The place needs to be actively developed, not repeatedly patched up and sent on its way to hobble along.
TL;DR - poop is alive!

Maybe it's because I've gone through various hobbies related to fermentation but trapped gas seems like the most obvious and likely answer. Especially when you see bubbles around floaters. It's also very simple to test...take a floater, put it in a vacuum just above where water will start to boil off, then see if it still floats. Alternatively, compare its displacement before and after smooshing it through a fine grate. (Note I said simple, not easy xD)
GitHub repo: https://github.com/arantius/web-color-wheel
Disney is known for having byzantine internal politics, which was likely kicked up a notch with the FOX acquisition.

With so many executives all maneuvering it likely was the least painful option to pick him.
> It might be an attempt to mimic Tik-Tok's success by switching Twitter over to essentially an entertainment channel?

The real confusing part is Musk’s insistence on a public square but yeah this seems much more realistic. But still not an easy path, he’s got a long way to go to change the tooling and culture of Twitter. Maybe he could sign someone like Mr. Beast? Or another of the bro-y YouTubers? But I would think that’s a better deal for Musk than a successful YouTuber, even with improved revenue sharing their view count would probably drop significantly for a long time. Are any of those YouTubers sticky enough to pull essentially all of their viewers? Or what percent of their views are from casual viewers and the YouTube / Tik-Tok algorithm.
Exactly, and the way "intmax_t" was previously defined in C99 implied that you needed to break that ABI compatibility if you introduced larger integer types.
How Precision Time Protocol is being deployed at Meta
> 23 square meters is ~243 square feet. They're almost the same.

243sqft is a room 15.5ft per side. 23m^2 is 5,694sqft, nearly 23 times more floorspace than 250sqft.
The author cites "right-wing author Sam Harris". Is he talking about a different person? Sam Harris the author and podcast host is about as far from a right-wing author as you can get. He's a neuroscientist who advocates rational thinking, is highly critical of organized religion, promotes meditation, supports same-sex marriage, and is a registered Democrat.

Sam has many unique viewpoints that don't map exactly to the woke left (he's critical of Democrats occasionally, supports gun ownership, is not afraid to voice unpopular opinions) - but calling him right-wing is just plain wrong. Is that what politics has come to? You don't get in line with every idea on the left, you get labelled a right-winger?
> and revitalized suburban neighborhoods (e.g. more walkable areas)

Without other changes, this would not happen (in the US at least). The default would be every more cookie-cutter suburban sprawl, with the cul-de-sac-y construction of these neighborhoods creating a more labrynthian, difficult-to-walk place to live.

Until there is more mixed-use zoning in the US, with high enough density to justify frequent public transit arrival times, WFH would only save the car and infra wear-and-tear (and pollution level) from commuting, but it would not necessarily create a "third place" automatically.
This resonates with me a lot. I can be quite genial in social settings, but it's extremely taxing to my psyche because I unwillingly rehearse and predict all possible outcomes and how would I react. I catch myself having had a mental back-and-forth between myself and the person I have to meet, and if it's to be a particularly unpleasant occasion, I will have a heated argument all in my head that leaves me upset for hours.

Yeah, that's not very healthy.
.gb it is then...
Make that all of a nice home (or several crappy ones). I just bought a nice 3 bedroom/2 bath detached house on 1/4 acres for 120k in May. We're in a city but not a huge one.
I admire your patience.
There were similar debates prior to the Scottish independence referendum. I think the takeaway back then was that Scotland could leave the nation and actually stay part of the monarchy (similar to how Australia, Canada,... still view the King as their head of state), but the UK could keep its acronym and just rename itself to be the United Kingdom of [whatever remains of it].
Europe to launch new satellite constellation for secure connectivity
Honestly, if it were up to me, my solution to this would be to not solve it all. There's only a finite amount of time and energy available in any organization and you have to make sure you spend it on the problems that are worth solving. That have a significant payoff of some sort. This doesn't seem to be one of those.
Amazon's customer satisfaction slips with shoppers
So this number is prime? Cool.

const R49081 = BigInt('1'.repeat(49081));
I responded to a similar question in the recent Briar thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33686094#33692201
If Twitter's Grand Pubah sends one tweet, it goes to 118M people. I can't see how many times he tweets per day, but it's way over 10, and just that would generate 1.2B messages.

When Elon tweets, I'm guessing Twitter doesn't go do 118M write transactions to all his followers. But what it would have to do is flag all 118M accounts as "something as changed". Then the next time one of his followers is on Twitter, which could be a month from now, that flag means "uh oh, better go see what changed", and to do that, all of the follower's "following" accounts have to be accessed to find the change, if there is only 1 change flag per Twitter account.

If Twitter keeps a change flag per "Following" user, that makes finding changes easier, but also means lots more flags to keep updated.

Or, you could go "stateless" and not use flags, but then it seems like you'd be doing a lot of work for users who may not see it for days or months.

Way different problem than 1-on-1 messaging.
One benefit is that you can more credibly offer to keep your promises. I haven’t audited Uniswap’s smart contract code, but if I did I feel I could be pretty confident they won’t steal my money. Meanwhile, users of FTX depended on government regulation and pinky-swears to keep their money safe, but since SBF owned the platform he could do whatever he wanted.

disclosure: I work for a crypto company
I would think that the ongoing ownership costs of an EV would be less than ICE - energy is cheaper, no oil changes, way less fluids that need to be replaced, brake systems are supposed to last longer, etc... A battery replacement could kill most of that but I've also heard that there are Teslas used as taxis that have done several hundred thousand miles on their factory batteries, so it might not be the biggest issue.

If I was looking at two identical cars on the lot for the same price, but one was an EV and one was ICE, I'd pick EV today no hesitation.
Subscriptions are coming for the affordable / reliable as well. Toyota coupled the remote start keyfob into the subscription system because it's the same module for the key fab as it is for the smartphone remote start. Kia and Hyundai don't offer factory key fob remote starts either, it's through their respective remote services.

GM and Stellantis plan on adding subscription services to their offerings in the next 5 years and Ford hasn't ruled out the possibility (or at least they're playing coy at the moment). I haven't heard anything about VAG, and the rest of the Japanese makers, but I assume they're keeping an eye on how the market will respond to this idea.
I'm picturing Bob Ross standing over this palette whispering "We're going to put a happy little div here with a shade of cornflowerblue".
Mersenne Prime
> You would have no idea about the unimaginable tower of software complexity sitting underneath Firefox

A browser is the most complex thing sitting on a computer. That and the OS. Infact you can even have an OS in the browser[0] if you want to get meta and go full Jean Baudrillard.

[0] https://www.windows93.net/
no one has a reason to pop a wheelie on a bike, or do skateboard tricks, or wear stilettos, but some things just make you look cool!
FWIW mine has a titanium bracelet.
The point is that blockchains have different incentives for different parties, and the interests of the most influential people don't necessarily align with those of the users. So the vast majority (users) are just really switching to a different master.

Eg, I had a passing interest in BTC, but I my interest was in the very old school "buy pizza with it" kind of use. That usage is of no interest or importance to the current BTC system, and it doesn't matter one bit how many of me there are.

The people who matter are the people who commit to the repo, the people who run miners, and the people who run exchanges. The desires of the 99.9% who aren't any of these are nearly irrelevant.
Sorry if I am reading this wrong, but this seems to suggest that the solution is micromanagement.

Even if working from office, I'd expect any professional to know how to communicate effectively, and is able to manage their time and tasks efficiently. If they cannot do it remotely, then I'd worry about their performance in the office also.
At least where I live you do pay a subscription that is related to how much power you have available as well as a few other services and taxes. And, on top of that, you pay the actual usage.
> Musk's text message conversation during Twitter-lawsuit discovery

I only saw this now : https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/09/elon-...

It's actually kind of incredible how it all seems to work. The cringe too of the fawning is a good indicator why Musk feels he can do whatever he likes, including attempting to troll everyone on his board. It seems so juvenile.
I've become more attuned to my ADHD + autism audio sensory challenges lately.

Interestingly, I've noticed my issue seems to be more about attention than presence of unwanted sound.

Wearing bone-conducting headphones (which don't cover my ears or block sounds) is just as beneficial for my mental state as ANC headphones, as long as ambient sounds aren't loud enough to outcompete my headphones on volume.

All I really need is to give my brain something I want to hear instead of something I'm trying to shut out.
>> Or does he want you to get back into your office and work a 16 hour day?

I'm OK with working 16 hour days on something that matters (obviously burn out needs to be kept in check - it can't be done forever). I realize that I might be "wired" differently than others as I care a bit less about work life balance and more about accomplishment (not proud of it). I see no reason why this can't be done at the beach house however. In fact, I'm convinced it would be better as commuting is a burnout accelerator.
If you have a single monitor it's easier to multiscreen on paper. You can print and put leaves side-by-side. It makes convenient to navigate through works that don't read linear, and make a lot of references to itself, but several pages ahead/back.
Paper is a perfected technology.
Doesn't loose charge

Can outlast file format
Even just encouraging fracking (cheap gas vs coal means 2x reduction in carbon), or stopping to subsidize fossil fuels would make a massive difference.
Places that are just now adopting C11 will probably adopt C23 in 12 years? C++ is (unfortunately, IMO) making inroads into embedded, but C is also still pretty widely used.
Northern Ireland's departure would probably correlate with Scotland's, so more likely it'd be the United Kingdom of England and Wales. Catchy.
Yes, I remember that! But at least on my board it could be disabled.
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incredible! hahah
I prefer having the choices I want not being submerged in an ocean of crap.
So far the discussion in this thread is lacking, some would say its shit.

Understanding our gut is an overlooked part of medicine and biology. I think theres a certain taboo around the subject. But you can learn a lot about health, your mood, sleep cycles, etc from what comes out the other end. We need more research in this area.

A decade or two ago, fecal transplants were considered joke medicine. Now its an important tool in treating certain gut infections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_microbiota_transplant
The average commute in a large city is definitely not 2-3 hours one way.
> imagine that database holds a lot of your money and you live in an oppressive regime

That opressive regime holds:

- your access to the internet (crypto requires continuous access to internet to function)

- your access to exchange offices because crypto is useless if it cannot be converted to fiat

So, what exactly have you solved?
The logo shows purple to me and it isn't a crescent, cuts off ar the bottom.
> Her account was still visible, but Ms McIntyre couldn't access it.

> Following the BBC publishing this article, it has now been restored.
Russian Occupation of Nuclear Plant: Accusations of Torture and Beatings
I was not familiar with it. Thank you.
Come to New York, then. I have sad news for you.

DC was even worse.
That’s irrelevant to the point. We should not define women by their fertility, therefore it is not objectifying to refer to some women by their fertility.
I you guys are interested in how Doom was implemented, I cannot recommend enough Fabien Sanglard's book, Game Engine Black Book: Doom.

https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/
They should reserve .ew now in case both North Ireland and Scotland exit.
"The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world that he did not exist."

The greatest trick the progressives ever played was convincing the world that Qanon did exist.
These types of things are so frustrating as they go against the core ethos of cryptocurrency. This announcement from Greyscale has tones of big banks and it's scary to see the crypto industry to trend this way so quickly.

On the other hand, security concerns should be taken seriously as well, especially when it comes to potential runs... interested to hear others' thoughts on this.
Privacy Impact Assessment for U.S. DHS/ICE's RAVEn (2020) [pdf]
DVD sales surpass Blu-ray in 2021: Physical format market
Links to article for me.
Why quantum computing could be the big break for the Julia Language
mynoise is the gold standard for generators, for me.